And I do not feel bad for it. *evil laugh*

Review: The Machine Murders

Synopsis: A Dubai balloon festival is attacked by the worst social engineering exploit the world has seen. A prime moment to be working for Interpol. Manos Manu, an Interpol data scientist, arrives in the United Arab Emirates to solve a series of impossible murders that have shaken the Middle East. Interpol’s Singapore back office has proven world-class, with a machine learning team of the…

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DARK THRILLER TAEL ERA

Kim Taeri as Go Sanyoung

Revenant (2023)

Purple

11.08.21

This is the story of the day the sky burned a fierce purple. A colour otherwise docile, calm, accepting, and welcoming, lit up the sky in an eddy of hues, for it is the quiet ones who snap the loudest.

The sky burned purple, somewhere halfway between the calm contentness of blue and the rage of red. One flowed through another until neither were recognisable anymore and something unheard of beckoned in its place.

You would think that a crimson sky would hurt the most, that pure, unadulterated rage, would be the most painful shade to scream at you; you would think that, and you would be wrong. Pure rage can be acclimatised to. You get used to it. You see the red sky for long enough and slowly you begin to forget that it can be blue. That it should be blue.

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The sky glowed blue. It glowed a wonderful hue of blue, a perfect image of the calm, welcoming waters below. The flowers, the smallest of the smallest shrubbery, all shimmered in delight, welcoming the breeze that tickled them silly. The world worked in blissful harmony.

But as with all good things, it was short lived. The harmony of blue began to be wiped out and replaced with the rage of red. It poured into every crevice, every cranny, every open receptacle, usurping blue's reign.

In the end, they both lost who they were. War changes people. It transforms and concocts them into something else entirely, and the sky, the sky is no different.

Thus began the reign of purple. Purple, which glowered with anger and menace far worse than red would ever have been capable of. Purple, which took everything good in the world and stripped it bare until it wasn't. Until it was no longer good nor bad, it just wasn't. A non-state, unable to comprehend purple's harshness, choosing instead to run away, to escape purple's darkness.

From that day forth, the sky shone blue only within the confines of unconsciousness, when the mind is free to roam the lands of the past and comfort. But, as with everything, there will come a day when that too will fade. When the past tries to reach back and only finds purple skies. That will be the day the sky ceases to exist and the ground crumbles.

The day hope evades even the realm of dreams will be the end of time.

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MOVIE : REPTILE-2023

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i dont think i will ever be over dragon age 2. like. bioware made an epic fantasy story about a chosen one having to save a country and stop the apocalypse and then they made the second installment of the series be about the sociopolitical climate in ONE city through the lens of a family of refugees fleeing from the war of the first game and just. made it about political tensions and class dynamics and the influences of living in a church-mandated state and the growing tension over an occupied piece of the city and political killings and interpersonal conflict and power and its story is ENTIRELY character-driven. it has easily the most iconic set of companion characters. the premise of living through a story told over the course of ten years and knowing from the start that something really bad will happen in the end was so fresh and exciting. the fact that the acts really built on top of each other andhow much the city changed over time. and the game was so mature in terms of the topic of fighting against oppression in so many ways (im usually generous and say that the short development time left some things a bit wanting), and as much as some people say that the game treats mages and templars as being equally bad, i don't think that that is actually true about the game and it very earnestly tries to grapple with some pretty complex political dynamics.

and then the game completely flopped financially and was almost universally hated for its queer themes and its sympathy for "terrorism" and a lot of the things that stemmed from basically having no production time at all and then the studio just made another epic fantasy story about a chosen one that has to save the world from the apocalypse

Huntress by Karina Kantas

Review: One of Us Knows

Synopsis: From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching comes a riveting thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer—and the ghosts of her past. Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash…

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Alan Wake 2: Old Gods Of Asgard - Herald Of Darkness

fall out boy tarot cards

the lovers | love from the other side

death | thriller

the moon | get busy living or get busy dying

the devil | my songs know what you did in the dark

the sun | love from the other side

the stars | so much for stardust

Animal 2023: The Bollywood Film That Will Blow Your Mind

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Time to Read Animal 2023: Bollywood’s Dark Thriller of Revenge and Redemption Animal 2023 is a film that will shock you, thrill you, and make you question everything. It is a film that explores the themes of revenge, violence, and redemption in a realistic and gritty way, but at the same time, it is important to note that there is a debate about the film’s portrayal of violence, with some…

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ABDUCTED, A Kate Pomeroy Mystery: A Sneak Peek!

ABDUCTED, A Kate Pomeroy Mystery: A Sneak Peek!

ABDUCTED, A KATE POMEROY MYSTERY SNEAK PEEK AT… CHAPTER 18: DAY SEVEN I WOKE IN a strange room. The cot I’d been sleeping on was now replaced by a real bed with two real pillows. I was covered with a soft comforter, definitely an improvement over the stiff sheet I’d had before. I was still in the dark and as I glanced around the room, I noted that the windows, or more accurately portholes,…

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