Midnight Pals: The First Omen
Arkasha Stevenson: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the first omen
Stevenson: things about to get real catholic here
William Peter Blatty: yes.. ha ha YES!!
Stevenson: and even more italian
Lovecraft: Lovecraft: oh uh i don't like that
Stevenson: it's about a moribund religious institution forcing a woman to carry a baby against her will set against the political violence of the years of lead
Alex Garland: why you hafta get all political
Garland: why can't people just make nice films anymore
Stevenson: see the thing about my film is
Stevenson: it engages with the moment
Garland: oh but i prefer a film that doesn't engage with the moment
Garland: hey has anyone here seen adam sandler's you don't mess with the zohan? what a tour de force!! [chef's kiss]
Stevenson: so this american woman goes to rome to become a nun
Stevenson: but what she doesn't realize
Stevenson: is how incredibly italian everything will be
Stevenson: and also its the 70s, which is statistically speaking, the MOST italian time period
Stevenson: like things are SO italian
Lovecraft: [sweats] they can't be THAT italian, right? i mean, it's just
Lovecraft: just a little bit italian right??
Lovecraft: right???
Stevenson: it's smoking nuns level italian
Lovecraft: [sweating intensifies]
Stevenson: but even better, so catholic
William Peter Blatty: yes, yes, i like it!
Stevenson: there's gonna be this one irish priest-
Blatty: that's me
Blatty: that guy is me
Stevenson: and his accent is SO thick
Blatty: that's my OC now
Stevenson: you know what the omen really needed, though?
Stevenson: hot hot devil sex
Barker: that is true
Barker: the omen DID have a severe lack of devil sex
Barker: i noticed that when i watched it, kind of a glaring oversight actually
Stevenson: well, don't worry
Stevenson: we rectify that in this version
Stevenson: we're gonna flash the devil's dick
Blatty: whoa you can't flash the devil's dick!
Barker: yeah, that's right, you really need to linger
Barker: we all want a good look at that
Barker: like, how are we supposed to see anything when you flash it so fast?
Frank Belknap Long: oh it's nothing special, it's just a bad dragon model 57a Willowtongue ® the Ent, 2017 Alt-Porn award winner
Barker:
Stevenson: now we are retconning a few things about the omen
Stevenson: for example, this time damien has a mom
Stevenson: instead of being birthed by a dog
Barker: oh but that was dean's favorite part
Dean Koontz: i wish my mom was a dog :(
Barker: kid just really loves dogs
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“The effect of this cannot be understood without being there. The beauty of it cannot be understood, either, and when you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”
— 📚Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer // 🎞 Annihilation, Alex Garland (2018)
Trying to read more fiction and the Autism and Queerness and Transcendent nature of these books truly has me in a chokehold. Like there’s something so liberating in The Weird, the eco and the body horror, the undefinable, The transcendent nature of area x ugh
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Annihilation - Alex Garland 2018
The Last of Us - Craig Mazin 2023
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I feel like so many critics are angry about the Civil War movie 'not taking a stand' but I think that misses the point. This was not gonna be a movie about "this side good, that side bad". On the ground, war is hardly political. The 'looters' being strung up ("knew him in high school, he barely talked to me, now he does"), the two soldiers pinned down by a sniper with christmas background music, Jesse Plemons' character picking them off one by one, the Global Relief Fund camp, etc. This wasn't necessarily about (American) politics, why the civil war broke out, or how the various alliances came about. This was about war on the ground, on the streets, the role of journalists in showing that, are they complicit or not, how much must you sacrifice for the money shot, is there a 'right' meaning we can draw from their images?
To me it was actually a very effective and thought-provoking anti-war movie. (Also the cast and cinematography were both phenomenal.)
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Back covers illustrated by Eric Nyquist for the eco-fiction and sci-fi trilogy The Southern Reach (2014) by Jeff VanderMeer, whose award-winning first volume (Annihilation) was adapted for film as Annihilation (2018) by Alex Garland, starring Natalie Portman.
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I hate Alex Garland so much it's unreal
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