that word does not have a remotely appetizing connotation for me? It's like, conjuring up a dusty log cabin for me. I imagine the food in this cabin to be of the hot dogs and beans variety, and I would still not want it to be called "rustic"
A dear filmmaker friend of mine recently congratulated me & said "you have achieved what 95% of filmmakers never achieve - you have actually made a film."
My directorial debut The Battle for Kyiv premieres in London in less than 48 hours, and I can't wait to share it with you.
edit: THIS POST BREACHED THE CONTAINMENT OF THE TARGET AUDIENCE, "28-YEAR-OLDS WHO SAW THEIR FIRST ANIMES IN PIECES ON YOUTUBE DURING THEIR TEENAGE YEARS." PEOPLE WHO WATCHED SAILOR MOON WHILE SIPPING APPLEY JUICE IN PRESCHOOL I'M SORRY I GUESS THIS ONE ISN'T FOR YOU
Rhaenyra heard these terms in stony silence, then asked Orwyle if he remembered her father, King Viserys. “Of course, Your Grace,” the maester answered. “Perhaps you can tell us who he named as his heir and successor,” the queen said, her crown upon her head. “You, Your Grace,” Orwyle replied. And Rhaenyra nodded and said, “With your own tongue you admit I am your lawful queen. Why then do you serve my half-brother, the pretender?”
Munkun tells us that Orwyle gave a long and erudite reply, citing Andal law and the Great Council of 101. Mushroom claims he stammered and voided his bladder. Whichever is true, his answer did not satisfy Princess Rhaenyra.
Russian troops attacked the Saltovskyi district of Kharkiv at night, hitting the territory of a psychiatric hospital. One of the patients was injured: glass shards cut her head.
- There is blood on the pillow in my room.
- It's okay, Valya, you're not going to worry about the pillow.
- Valya, how are you feeling now? Are you okay? Doesn't your head hurt?
- Do you have many patients?
- Yes, 51 people, the nurse says.
- How did they react to the explosion?
- They ran out into the corridor, well done, lay down on the floor, were scared, screaming. It is very difficult for them. They fell and hugged each other. Even...
(I'm translating this and I'm on the verge of tears)
- Didn't you have time to take them to the shelter?
- No, there were two hits at once, they just made them lie on the floor. It was a psychiatric hospital, so we didn't have time to get to the shelter...
At the time of the shelling, there were 60 patients and five staff members in the medical building. They did not have time to move the patients to the shelter: the first strike occurred less than a minute after the air raid was announced.
Twelve villages and towns in the Donetsk region were attacked by russian troops on 26 April, damaging about two dozen houses and administrative buildings, the regional police reported. Five bombs were dropped on the village of Novooleksandrivka.
Photo: Donetsk regional police, head of the regional military administration.
While I slept through the alert, my region was under attack.
During the air alert, which lasted in the Lviv region from 03:58 to 06:02, our region was hit by cruise missiles of various classes and "Kinzhal" air ballistic missiles. Three cruise missiles were shot down by the soldiers of the "West" military group. Unfortunately, there were also hits. The enemy attacked two critical energy infrastructure facilities in Stryi and Chervonohrad districts. Fires broke out on them. The State Emergency Service units quickly extinguished the fires. There is destruction.
Life support systems in the region are operating normally. But only last night, the occupiers attacked energy infrastructure facilities in Dnipropetrovs'k, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Lviv regions.
It is difficult for the power system to maintain the balance of production and consumption. We need to help, - Lviv OVA.
In the morning, the enemy attacked the residential sector of the city of Vovchansk in Kharkiv region - SES.
The body of a deceased man was recovered from the rubble.
❗️At 13:00 russian FPV drone hits a truck near Vovchansk. A 52-year-old civilian driver was injured.
He was hospitalized, and his condition is serious, said the head of KHOVA.
Russian military shelled Stanislav, Kherson region. A 21-year-old woman sustained a concussion, blast, and brain injuries. She was provided with medical assistance, the CMA reported.
The consequences of tonight's attack could have been much worse without our air defense forces. 21 out of 34 missiles were destroyed.
6 out of 9 X-101/X-555 cruise missiles;
6 out of 8 Kalibr cruise missiles;
1 of 2 Iskander-K cruise missiles;
8 out of 9 X-59/X-69 guided missiles;
0 of 2 S-300 anti-aircraft missiles;
0 of 4 Kinzhal missiles.
A warehouse of control and correction modules (CCMs) for bombs in the Krasnodar region was damaged in Russia. It happened at the Kushchevskaya airbase of the Russian Federation.Video footage from the site of the attack shows burnt and damaged UMCMs. russian media reports that the attack also damaged aircraft, but the number and extent of the damage are still unknown.
In addition to the airfield, the drones attacked a refinery and other facilities in the Krasnodar region.
I saw such a cute picture near my house.
Be like these two, supportive of each other. No one but us will understand our common pain and fear.