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filmnoirsbian · 1 year

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Hi !! I was wondering if you had any book recs/favorite books? Things that you think of as inspiration or just plain like? Genuinely curious. <3 im in love with your work btw i spent the other day binging your patreon

Some favorites that deeply impacted me from a young age up into teenagedom: the Animorphs series by K. A. Applegate, Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, Oddly Enough by Bruce Coville, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Little Sister by Kara Dalkey, The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede, The Tale of Desperaux by Kate DiCamillo, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury, the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, Piratica by Tanith Lee, the Inkheart series by Cornelia Funke, His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman, Holes by Louis Sachar, The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg, Shizuko's Daughter by Kyoko Mori, The Sea-Wolf by Jack London, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech, Criss Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins, Everything on a Waffle by Polly Horvath, Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan, The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg, The Iliad and Odyssey (allegedly) by Homer, The Táin by many people, Harlem by Walter Dean Myers, Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan, The Wall and the Wing by Laura Ruby, The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein, The Hainish Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin, Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis, The Ethical Vampire series by Susan Hubbard, The Howl Series by Diana Wynne Jones, the Curseworkers series by Holly Black, The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, Android Karenina by Ben H. Winters, An Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson, Beloved by Toni Morrison, A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman, the Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson, Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente, World War Z by Max Brooks, This is Not A Drill by K. A. Holt, Fade to Blue by Sean Beaudoin, Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Crush by Richard Siken, Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo, Devotions by Mary Oliver, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Some favorites read more recently: The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey, Engine Summer by John Crowley, Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff, The Princess Bride by William Goldman, Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix, Reprieve by James Han Mattson, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn, Kindred by Octavia Butler, Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi, Station Eleven by Emily St. John-Mandel, The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib, The Refrigerator Monologues by Catherynne M. Valente, Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica, The Girl with All the Gifts by Mike Carey, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, She had some horses by Joy Harjo, Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón, The King Must Die by Mary Renault, Books of Blood by Clive Barker, Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, Cassandra by Christa Wolfe

Plays: The Oresteia by Aeschylus, Electra by Sophocles, Los Reyes by Julio Cortázar, Angels in America by Tony Kushner, August: Osage County by Tracy Letts, The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco, The Trojan Women by Euripides, Salome by Oscar Wilde, Girl on an Altar by Marina Carr, Fences by August Wilson, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Sweeney Todd by Christopher Bond

Graphic novels: The Crow by James O'Barr, DMZ by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli, Eternals (2021) by Kieron Gillen and Esad Ribić, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and John Higgins, My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris, Maus by Art Spiegelman, Tank Girl by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett, Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Through the Woods by Emily Carroll, Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

#watchmen is difficult to recommend on account of the misogyny but beyond that it really did change my life lol #asks #an open window #book recs #also i know technically eternals isn't a graphic novel it's a comic run directly related to the avengers and such at large BUT #it is sooo so good and u don't really have to know much abt what the avengers losers are up to in order to understand it #i didn't include any other favorite comic runs bc they require other things to be read for context. ur welcome.

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Hi <3 No obligation to answer, I know dw lore is really convoluted and there's a lot of expanded universe material, but you've mentioned a few times that you think the War Chief is the Master. I'm also a War Chief/Master truther because I think that makes the contents of The War Games more fun and interesting (& also could count as another time the Master got the Doctor killed <3 romance <3) but I wanted to know if you had more reasons/examples from canon that supports that idea

anon i’d be delighted to talk abt the war chief!!! he’s My Guy <3 and (dare i say it?) possibly even one of my favorite incarnations of the master. i’ve got lots of quotes for you under the cut, but to give a short summary of So Why Do People Think the War Chief is the Master, Anyway?:

the war chief was introduced in the war games, written by malcolm hulke and terrance dicks. (dicks, it should be mentioned, was also co-creator of the master, with barry letts.) when hulke & dicks novelized the serials colony in space, terror of the autons, and the war games, they dropped several hints that the war chief and the master were the same man. so, the creators of the characters were the first to suggest a connection between them.

but, i hear you cry, didn’t dicks go on to write timewyrm: exodus, which shows us a future incarnation of the war chief that isn’t the master? yes, because the official editorial line for the vmas & vnas was that the war chief & the master were two distinct characters. this caused more than one writer that personally believed them to be the same to write otherwise professionally. however, i think dicks still dropped hints linking the two despite this editorial limitation.

and what about magnus, the guy who’s well-known in current fandom as the “academy era” version of the war chief? conceived of by gary russell, magnus was originally written as a young incarnation of the master, not the war chief. in flashback, goth opera and invasion of the cat-people, the character of magnus is a young master. so why did russell retcon his own character in divided loyalties to be the war chief instead? he did so out of respect for david mcintee, who had recently written a different backstory for the master in the dark path, using the name koschei. despite divided loyalties’ portrayal of magnus and koschei as separate characters, it actually in large part serves to conflate the two further, due to said retconning.

in faction paradox lore, the war king is a version of the master (i don’t need to make a post on that, do i?) that also was once the war chief.

and now we’re really getting murky canon-wise, but craig hinton’s rejected pda time’s champion (ultimately completed & published after his death, by chris mckeon) explicitly depicts the war chief as an incarnation as the master, as well as reasserting that magnus was the name the master used at the academy.

even with all this Evidence, i’m like you, anon — i just think it’s Fun. i mean, just look at the guy lmao. if you can’t see the way that future incarnations are riffing off him, idk what to tell you. and ultimately, it just makes the most sense to me. three & delgado’s first meeting doesn’t really strike me as a First Time Seeing You Since You Left kind of affair, but the way two & the war chief react to seeing each other? and the conversation they have abt it…? yeah. love it.

the ‘70s target novelizations

doctor who and the doomsday weapon (aka colony in space) was the first novelization to feature the master, and was written by malcolm hulke in 1974. it begins with a scene that doesn’t occur in the tv story, where a senile old time lord tells his apprentice about the theft of two tardises by a pair of time lords now calling themselves the doctor & the master:

“There have been two stolen, you know.” The younger Time Lord didn’t know. “By our enemies?” he asked. “No. By Time Lords. They both became bored with this place. It was too peaceful for them, not enough happening.” The old Keeper smiled to himself, as though remembering with some glee all the fuss when two TARDISes were stolen. “One of them nowadays calls himself ‘the Doctor.’ The other says he is ‘the Master.’”

if there have been only two tardises stolen (at this point), then where does that leave the other renegades we've seen on tv? well, the answer to that is that the target novelizations were meant to be self-contained, without prior knowledge of the show needed or past episodes taken into account. it’s easier and cleaner to present the doctor & the master as the only two renegades. except the older time lord continues, and a little further on says:

“There were tens of thousands of humans from the planet Earth, stranded on another planet where they thought they were re-fighting all the wars of Earth’s terrible history. The Doctor” — he interrupted himself — “I told you about him, didn’t I?” “Yes,” said the young Time Lord, now used to the old Keeper forgetting what he had already said. “You mentioned the Doctor and the Master.” “No, it wasn’t the Master,” said the old Keeper in his confused way. “The Master never does anything good for anyone. He’s thoroughly evil. Now what was I saying?”

despite the self-contained nature of the novelizations, the events of the war games (which had yet to be novelized, when this was written) have occurred and are specifically brought up in relation to the doctor & the master. what does ‘it wasn't the master’ mean? the keeper’s confusion leaves it open to interpretation, but the fact that it’s brought up at all is quite a hint.

terrance dicks then wrote doctor who and the terror of the autons in 1975. additional info is added to the scene between the doctor and the time lord who comes to warn him about the master’s arrival on earth:

“As a matter of fact, I’ve come to bring you a warning. An old friend of yours has arrived on Earth.” “One of our people? Who is it?” The Time Lord pronounced a string of mellifluous syllables — one of the strange Time Lord names that are never disclosed to outsiders. Then he added, “These days he calls himself the Master.”

he uses the master’s gallifreyan name first, as if the doctor doesn’t know the name he’s now going by yet. then, we’re given a description of the master, including:

Already he had been behind several Interplanetary Wars, always disappearing from the scene before he could be caught. If ever he were caught, his fate would be far worse than the Doctor’s exile. Once captured by the Time Lords, the Master’s life-stream would be thrown into reverse. Not only would he no longer exist, he would never have existed. It was the severest punishment in the Time Lords’ power.

which brings to mind the war games, as the punishment described here is exactly what the time lords did to the war lord & what they would have done to the war chief, if he hadn’t died/escaped. and, speaking of that escape, the doctor asks:

“Is his TARDIS still working?” “I’m afraid so. He got away before it could be de-energised.” “Then he was luckier than I,” said the Doctor sadly. He had never really got used to his exile.

unlike the doctor, who was unable to get away from the time lords at the end of the war games, the master was ‘luckier.’ this could, of course, mean a more general escape from the time lords by the master, but i’d say all the hints here are pointing in the same direction.

in 1979, malcolm hulke wrote doctor who and the war games. the first conversation between the doctor and the war chief is slightly changed, and again it’s reiterated that there have only been two tardises stolen. first, the war chief teases the doctor about who he must be:

The War Chief took the Doctor into his private office just off the war room and told his bodyguards to leave. “Now,” he said, “a traveller in a time-space machine. There is only one person you can be.” “I had every right to leave,” said the Doctor. “And to steal a TARDIS?” The War Chief smiled. “Not that I am criticising you. I left our people too. We are two of a kind.”

and later, he summarizes that their empire (their empire <3) will be secure because, again, they’re the only two with stolen tardises:

“Now I understand,” said the Doctor. “It’s my TARDIS that you want. But surely you have one of your own?” The War Chief smiled. “No more mine than yours is really yours! We are both thieves, Doctor. Yes, I do have a TARDIS hidden away. But are not two better than one? While I rest and enjoy the spoils of victory, you can patrol our empire. And I shall do the same for you.” “Our empire?” “We shall rule the galaxy without fear of opposition,’ the War Chief said confidently. “For we shall be the only two who can travel through both space and time.”

this (very romantic imo) proposal is also, of course, very reminiscent of delgado’s ‘half-share in the universe’ proposal to three.

timewyrm: exodus by terrance dicks

in 1991, terrance dicks wrote a vna, timewyrm: exodus. in this novel, the war chief appears as a botched two-bodied regeneration after his death at the end of the war games, called dr. kriegslieter. no mention of the master is made. as i said before, i think this is down to virgin’s editorial policy, and i think there are hints connecting the two nonetheless. like when the doctor realizes who kriegslieter is:

And behind them, aiding them, manipulating them, giving them the time technology they needed, the Time Lord renegade who called himself the War Chief. Or, in German, der kriegslieter. “Well, he couldn’t have spelled it out for me much more plainly,” muttered the Doctor.

like, c’mon. it’s just classic master shenanigans to have your alias be an extremely obvious translation of your name. and then there's also kriegslieter’s plan, which is to steal the doctor's body to use as his own (complete with sexual innuendo):

“Once I have wrested from it the secret of the TARDIS, your mind will be of no further interest to me. But your body…” “Please,” said the Doctor, looking embarrassed. “Ladies present.” “We are both Time Lords, Doctor, our brains and our bodies are compatible. Regeneration therapy is far beyond the War Lord’s scientists, but even they can manage a simple brain transplant.” Kriegslieter studied the Doctor with detached, clinical interest. “To be honest, it isn’t the body I would have chosen but it’s infinitely superior to the one I have. When all this is over Doctor, I shall be you — and you, or whatever shattered gibbering remnant of you is left, will be me. Appropriate, don’t you think? A crippled mind in a crippled body…”

how many times have we seen the master do that? maybe only once when this book was written (in the keeper of traken, of course) but at least three more times since then, by my count. in addition ‘we are both time lords’ is an echo of both two & the war chief's conversation and three & delgado’s (in the mind of evil, the claws of axos, and colony in space).

kriegslieter also calls seven ‘my dear doctor’ throughout, which is not a quirk of speech that the war chief has been ever shown to have. i can't claim it's unique to the master, but i think there's a certain history there. (did you know ainley says it five times in one 50 min long serial?)

magnus, as the master

as said before, the character of magnus was introduced in comic flashback, which appeared in the doctor who magazine winter special for 1992 and was commissioned and edited by gary russell (& written by warwick gray). it depicts seven and benny viewing a scene from the doctor’s past, where two old friends, thete and magnus, are at odds.

magnus was, at the time of this comic's creation, meant to be the master. there is no connection to the war chief in this story. which is why when goth opera, written by paul cornell, is published in 1994, magnus is the name used for the young master when listing out the doctor's school friends:

“That was when I was young and wild, Doctor. My contemporaries and I grew up to take our responsibilities seriously.” “Ah…” The Doctor nodded. “Unlike my year. I begin to see.” “Yes.” Ruath warmed to her subject, sipping from the goblet. Her eyes never left the Doctor’s. “Mortimus, the Rani, that idiot Magnus. And you, Doctor. All graduates of Borusa’s Academy for scoundrels.”

and, in 1995, when gary russell wrote invasion of the cat-people, he again used magnus as a name for the young master, referencing the master running out of lives far more quickly than the doctor by the time of the deadly assassin:

Polly smiled. “I’m glad you’re completely recovered, Doctor. You had us worried, you know.” “Regeneration’s a tricky thing,” he said. “And it was my first one. Always the trickiest. They’re supposed to get better as they go on, so long as you don’t flitter them. Always used to say to my academy chum Magnus, ‘Magnus,’ I’d say, ‘Magnus, don’t throw old bodies away like you would a suit. They don’t grow on trees.’ Or something like that. Never listened though.”

when gary russell wrote divided loyalties in 1999, he followed mcintee’s lead in using koschei as the name for a young master, and instead retconned magnus a younger war chief, showing the two of them interacting during the doctor’s academy days — the final nail in the coffin of our lil theory, right? well, all i’m going to say to that is that all the academy era stuff we see is actually a nightmare the fifth doctor is having. so who’s to say he didn't dream his best friend as two different people? (he forgot which one of them killed a guy with a rock, after all...)

the war chief king

in the book of the war, the 2002 faction paradox ‘encyclopedia’ edited by lawrence miles, the entry on the war king states:

His personal assistant notes that his office is brimming with official business, but devoid of decoration. The only concession he makes to sentimentality are the components of a hypercube, twelve white squares stacked neatly on his desk. Its significance is unclear, but it’s thought to be the War King’s last remaining link with his unfortunate past.

the very first use of a hypercube was, of course, at the end of the war games, when the second doctor called the time lords in. if that's not concrete enough for you, the war king spells it out even more clearly in the 2021 audio sabbath and the king:

THE WAR KING: I have failed to introduce myself. I am— ah, but as we have just seen: names have power. I do not think I shall grace you with one of my true names, Sabbath, no, not yet. Let’s see. The Deathless? Oh, let us not get ahead of ourselves just yet. Chief and Master, Minister and Magistrate, President and King… I have been many things.

time’s champion

and finally we have time’s champion, originally written in the '80s(?) by craig hinton, completed and published by chris mckeon in 2008. first, we have mel stumbling upon a corridor of portraits in the tardis:

Her first impression was that the Doctor was at the end of a long, thin corridor. And then she realised what the corridor was. An art gallery, the length hung with paintings, from the doorway to the far distance. As she started padding silently along the corridor, she looked at the paintings, and saw they were all portraits. Portraits painted in a variety of styles, from photo-realistic to impressionist, and everything in between. And she recognised some of the subjects. […] Moving on, Mel had hoped for something a little less depressing, but it wasn’t to be. The atmosphere had changed again: it was still cold, but a sterile light was now bathing the area. Then she realised why: the sterility, the coldness — trademarks of the Time Lords. This must be the Doctor’s own people. Pride of place was given to the Master — or rather the Masters: the familiar, music-hall villain in his velvet penguin suit had been captured in all his melodramatic glory, but there was also a suave, older man, his eyes radiating a fierce, evil intelligence wrapped in charm, next to which was positioned the portrait of a young, satanically handsome man with long, sharp sideburns and a thin, beard-length moustache, whose hand vainly clutched at a strange medallion hanging around his neck, as if clinging to the only power in his possession. And then there was an image of the cadaver, that rotting corpse that Mel knew was all that remained of the Doctor’s oldest friend and oldest enemy, animated by nothing but pure malice and spite.

the description of the ‘satanically handsome man’ is obviously the war chief. and then, the doctor remembers events from his past:

The night time vanished into the shadows of light, as new images, all familiar, threw themselves past the Doctor’s eyes: his tedious years at the Academy, his rise in the Time Lord hierarchy, his flight from Gallifrey, the early years of his exile, the planet of the War Games and his reunion with the Master, the lost years of imposed servitude to the Time Lords, all his memories and so many more impressed their way across the Doctor’s vision, even up to the moment of the present day. Then, abruptly, the vision ended. The Keeper began to speak again.

his reunion with the master occurs during the war games and precedes his exile (which is when his meeting with delgado’s master occurs). and magnus is once again used as a name for the young master:

The Doctor and Benton managed to glimpse him as he raced past. He was young, with a curving moustache and a dark, haughty face accustomed to obedience but now shadowed and twisted by fear. He ran onwards without even pausing to acknowledge their presence. He seemed desperate to outrun something. Moments later, a group of well-armed and uniformed men rounded the corridor and also hurried past the Doctor’s party, following the fleeing man in their wake. Steadying himself against the cool stone wall at his side, the Doctor watched the squad pass, recognising them as members of the Chancellery Guard, but clothed in armour and dress from the long departed era of his days in the Academy. The Doctor paused, wondering where he had seen that face before. “Magnus?” the Doctor whispered. Benton stepped over to the Doctor. “Who was that bloke those boys were chasing after, Doc? He looked a bit like the Master.” The Doctor gazed into the distance. “That he did, and for good reason.”

#the war chief #the master #doctor x master #dw #academy era

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denmark-street · 1 year

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Casey Bloys, chairman and CEO of HBO and Max content, declined to comment on Rowling’s views when asked how they may affect the ability to find talent for the series.

“No, I don’t think this is the forum,” Bloys said. “That’s a very online conversation, very nuanced and complicated and not something we’re going to get into.”

“Our priority is what’s on the screen,” Bloys continued. “Obviously, the ‘Harry Potter’ story is incredibly affirmative and positive and about love and self-acceptance. That’s our priority — what’s on screen.”

In terms of the TV series, Bloys stated simply: “[Rowling] will be involved. She’s an executive producer on the show. Her insights are going to be helpful on that.”

He continued: “The TV show is new and we’re excited about that, but, remember, we’ve been in the ‘Potter’ business for 20 years. This is not a new decision for us, we’re very comfortable being in the ‘Potter’ business.”

News of a show based on the megahit book series first leaked on April 3, but details have now been confirmed.

“Max’s commitment to preserving the integrity of my books is important to me,” the author said in a press release announcing the show, which noted that the series will be “a faithful adaptation” of Rowling’s seven “Harry Potter” novels. “And I’m looking forward to being part of this new adaptation which will allow for a degree of depth and detail only afforded by a long form television series.”

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav said the “Potter” series will not preclude any other projects set in the wider Wizarding World franchise.

“We’re free to do anything we want,” Zaslav said. “In some areas, we’d need to do it with J.K., in other areas we have full ability to move forward. So this is a full deployment on the Max platform of ‘Harry Potter.’”

Later in the Q&A, Bloys addressed the potential budget for the “Harry Potter” series, comparing the scale for the show to that of “Game of Thrones” and “House of the Dragon.” In short, the budget will be “whatever it takes to make a quality show,” Bloys said.

Max will produce the series in association with Brontë Film and TV and Warner Bros. Television. Executive producers are Rowling, Neil Blair and Ruth Kenley-Letts, with David Heyman, who produced the “Harry Potter” film series and the “Fantastic Beasts” movies, in talks to return.

The next task is locking in the show’s writing staff and Bloys confirmed those discussions are in the early stages.

“We have been trying to be very close to the vest,” he said, nodding to the fact that news of the series leaked on April 3. “But we haven’t gone out to agencies yet. We have our own internal process where we’ve been thinking about people, but we have not wanted to go out into the world saying, ‘Who do you have?’ But now that the news is out, we will start.”

#kinda based of him tbh #hp on max #rowlingblr #Casey Bloys

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thedamn3d · 2 years

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#dave vanian #david lett #the damned #goth #gothic #music #goth rock #punk rock #post punk

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kon-igi · 5 months

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Leggere @autolesionistra mi fa lo stesso effetto di ascoltare Yanez di Davide Van De Sfroos, che pare una paragone lanciato a bomba contro la giustizia ma il fatto è che lo seguo da tanti anni e i suoi rari ma ben piazzati interventi mi hanno fatto riflettere che la vecchitudine nelle ossa si sta facendo sentire tutta.

Malinconica paranoia mista a sognante disillusione e certe volte mi chiedo quanto abbia senso il concetto di 'invecchiare bene'.

Che si invecchi con più o meno poliartrosi osteofitiche è giocoforza una legge di natura, proporzionale alla bontà del DNA ereditato e a quanto ci siamo voluti bene prima, però mi fa un certo qual effetto si presupponga la necessità di sforzo o fortuna, senza le quali la mezza età sembra essere immaginata come la discesa a capofitto di Fuga da Atlantide a Gardaland.

Ok che i bimbi crescono e le mamme (e i papà) sbiancano dal terrore di quello che li aspetta, però al netto di tutta la stanchezza ribadisco che la mia capacità di ragionare e di sentire non è mai stata così chiara come adesso.

Ed è tanto chiara e omnicomprensiva che tra lei e voi si frappongono subito così tanti dubbi, al punto che faccio fatica a restituirvi il senso delle cose e mi perdo nella paura di essere frainteso e di sembrare il tassista che se fosse lui il presidente del mondo avrebbe la soluzione a tutti i problemi.

Io ce l'ho la soluzione, per tutto, ma se non riesco a convincere nemmeno la mia compagna figuriamoci gli altri 8 miliardi di persone.

E quindi vanno bene i dubbi, al punto che qualcuno addirittura mi ha accusato di non riuscire mai a prendere una decisione netta... e a ragion veduta!

Io non ho più voglia di prendere decisioni, visto che questo implica fare la cosa giusta evitando quella sbagliata e a parte due o tre concetti di basilare etica umana sono arrivato alla conclusione che più una cosa è assolutamente e graniticamente giusta e meno tempo impiego a cambiare idea in merito.

Dio abbia pietà degli uomini con un sogno solo! - devo aver letto una volta dentro a un Bacio Perugina (o in un biscotto della fortuna) e ora, dopo milioni di cose lette e rilette, sentite e risentite, sempre sugli stessi argomenti di contrapposizione e predominio a scapito di altri, io voglio rilanciare con

Dio, sempre che tu ci sia, salva i miei coglioni, sempre che io ce li abbia ancora attaccati.

Buona notte e ci vediamo nella luce.

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sixties-doctor-who-stan · 8 months

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It feels weird that Terrence Dicks only died in 2019, like a lot of his contemporaries (like Malcolm Hulke and Robert Holmes) died decades earlier and even Barry Letts died in 2009.

Was watching the Terrance Dicks tribute on the Season 8 Blu-Ray and was shocked that he had Doctor Who figures in his house! Not just Classic Who, he even had the Anne-droid and a Kerblam! robot (Kerblam! came out in 2018!)

Was also surprised that Frank Skinner was presenting and not Toby Hadoke (since it’s usually Toby Hadoke)

It was an interesting tribute, I didn’t know there was a place called East Ham.

And I think his writing principles were something to admire (“don’t turn a late writing day into a no writing day” was my favourite)

His sexism was mentioned a little bit but is mainly just a “humorous” anecdote. I don’t think they NEEDED to dwell on it, btw, since this is a tribute but maybe treat it a little more seriously?

I do think he was an important figure to Who but the fact he lived much longer than other writers and interacted a lot with fans definitely makes him more “familiar” to fans than someone like Robert Holmes or especially David Whittaker (who were equally important writers — even if I personally don’t like a lot of Holmes’s writing)

This is a bit of a ramble but just my thoughts I guess

#terrance dicks #doctor who #classic who #blu ray

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retisonic · 5 months

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25. Squid- O Monolith

A Squidet hívják poszt-punknak, art-punknak meg még tuti egy csomó minden másnak. 2021-ben volt egy elég jó lemezük, amit bírtam eléggé, meg úgy általában a kritikák is. Viszonyítási pont lehet náluk a Black Country New Road meg a Black Midi, de nekem főleg a Talking Heads, ami eszembe jut. De tényleg, így amikor hallgatom, akár ezt a lemezt, akár az előzőt, mindig életem második munkahelye jut eszembe, a hévízi Napsugár Hotel (az első a keszthelyi tejüzem volt havi 3 900 Ft-ért). Mindjárt mondom, hogy jön össze a Napsugár meg a Talking Heads, és a Squid. 1991 nyarán dolgoztam a Napsugár hotelben londinerként. Ez egy olyan szálloda volt, ami két épületből állt. Volt egy limitáltan menő épület recepcióval, ahol szolgálatot teljesítettem, és ahová az osztrák, svájci meg német nyuggerek jöttek, és volt az egyáltalán nem menő szövetkezeti épület, ahová a magyarok jöttek. A magyarok nem nagyon jattoltak, szóval nem is nagyon segítettem nekik, meg nem is jártam át oda, csak ha nagyon muszáj volt. A szálloda igazgatója Keszthely későbbi szoci polgármestere volt, aki akkoriban munkaidőben német szinkronos kung-fu filmeket nézett az irodájában. Fun fact: a 2022-es választásokra a semmiből visszatért függetlenként, és elindult harmadik erőként! Szerintem ebbe kár volt pénzt ölnie a Fidesznek, mert így mittudomán 68%-kal nyertek, a mutatvány nélkül meg győztek volna 66-tal. Keszthely egy elképesztően szomorú, vérfideszes város. A 2002-es kampányban az egyik amúgy ilyen halál szerény gimis tanárnő leköpte a sétáló utcán kampányoló Szili Katalint. Mondjuk ez így utólag elég vicces. Na de vissza a Squidhez. A Napsugárban egy fiatalabb kollégám volt a recepciósok között, a többi mind vén fasz, a szüleim ismerősei, volt osztálytársai stb. Ez persze vicces, mert most csináltam egy gyors matekot, és arra jutottam, hogy kb 40 évesek lehettek, én meg most vagyok 47. Na mindegy, a fiatal kollégával szerettem a legjobban együtt dolgozni, egy alter prototípus volt, és állítása szerint Magyarország legnagyobb David Byrne és Talking Heads rajongója (egy korábbi posztban szerintem említettem ezt az arcot), így munkaidőben kurva sok ’Headset hallgattunk, és 15 évesen én meglehetősen IDEGBAJOS zenének gondoltam. Nem utáltam, csak sokszor zavart, hogy van egy ilyen jó téma, és akkor hirtelen bejön valami kakofonikus, disszonáns rész, amit akkor úgy éltem meg, hogy ELBASSZA a számot. Na, és a Squiddel kapcsolatban is hasonló élményeim vannak, csak ma már nyilván nem azt gondolom, hogy na ez a szám el van baszva úgy ahogy van, amikor átvált egy nehezen dudolható részbe. Ennyi a nagy összefüggés!

Már az első lemeznek is témája volt az elidegenedés és az embertelenedés, itt az újon ez hatványozottan igaz. Lehet, hogy ez egy ilyen önbeteljesítő lemez, de én a legjobban akkor szerettem hallgatni, amikor esténként magányosan a Füredi úti lakótelepen sétáltam amíg a gyerek karatén volt, és akkor tényleg mindent elidegenedettnek és embertelennek láttam. Szerintem ez a lemez egy verőfényes normafás sétánál is ezt hozná ki belőlem. Mondják, hogy változott a zenekar hangzása az első lemez óta, de nekem kb ugyanaz a hangulat, csak a számok lettek kicsit hosszabbak és összetettebbek, meg a színvonal lett egységesebb. Igazából az összes szám tök oké, valamelyik azért okébb a többinél, egyedül a harmadik szám, a Siphon Song, ami szerintem túl vontatott, meg is töri kicsit a lemez lendületét. Sokkal jobban működne lemezzáró dalként, de arra meg van egy sokkal jobb, az egyik kedvencem, a meglehetősen hosszú és hülye című If You Had Seen The Bull’s Swimming Attempts You Would Have Stayed Away. Aki szereti a Talking Headset meg ezt az új poszt-punk vonalat, annak nyugodt szívvel ajánlom ezt a lemezt, meg úgy általában mindenkinek, aki, mint én, imád sötétben, ködben panelek között mászkálni.

Kedvenc számok: Swing (In A Dream), Undergrowth, The Blades, If You Had Seen The Bull’s Swimming Attempts You Would Have Stayed Away

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