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magicalgirlsandcerulean · 4 months

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Shibusan was also selling Boueibu merch in August, including Ikaho collab merch until the end of September. Details here.

September 17th was Nanao's birthday. If you wanted this cake + cupcake set + macaron set in time for the day, then it should have been preordered until September 10th. This came with a bonus badge with the same design. The cake (which comes in 2 sizes - size 4: diameter: 12 cm, height: 5 cm and size 5: diameter: 15 cm, height: 7 cm) is in chocolate/chocolate cream and sponge/whipped cream varieties, with strawberries or yellow peaches inside for both (customer's choice), and the design is printed on to a sheet. The ink has a chance of running if you aren't careful. There are also Atsushi (preorder deadline: September 28th), Taishi (preorder deadline: September 29th), Kyotaro (preorder deadline: November 21st), Io (preorder deadline: December 10th) and Yumoto (preorder deadline: January 19th) versions. The cupcakes have a diameter of 8.4 cm, a height of 6.5 cm and come in a set of 4 - the cream on the cupcakes has matcha (green), chestnut (yellow), strawberry (pink) and chocolate (brown) and you can choose between black tea and orange peel/chocolate chip flavours for the cupcakes themselves. The macarons have a diameter of 4.3 cm, a height of 2.3 cm and come in a set of 6 - they come in strawberry (red), pistachio (green), orange (yellow) and chocolate (brown) flavours.

There are also Christmas cakes + macarons (preorder deadline: December 17th if you want it by December 24th) and Valentine's Day cakes + macarons (deadline: presumably February 7th) which come with badges (2 possible designs, 1 can badge that matches the design of the cake you chose). The Christmas cakes only have strawberries, as opposed to the strawberries and yellow peaches of the Valentine's and birthday cakes. The cakes only come in size 5. The badges are 54 mm in diameter. There was also a 5% discount applied to preordered Christmas cakes between November 6th and November 12th 2023.

The Shibukawa collab finished in September 2023. The crepes and drinks sold well. The collab page doesn't exist anymore, but there is a message from Shibukawa City: "To all the fans, thank you very much for coming to Ikaho time and time again. Look forward to the day we can hold another collab✰."

There was an online lottery on sale from October 20th at 12:00 pm - November 6th 2023 at 11:59 pm (all dates/times JST), with items estimated to be received in mid-January 2024. 1 attempt was 880 yen (tax incl.).

For said online lottery, if you won the A prize (probability of getting: 4.1%), you could pick which of the 2 fabric posters you wanted:

The B prize was a set of acrylic stands (probability: 13.8%, random out of 10 different kinds):

The C prize was acrylic keychains (probability: 20.5%, random out of 10 different kinds). The Anime Bako account (which is posting these tweets) recommends attaching them to a bag when you go out:

There are also D prizes (1 of 10 random square can badges, probability: 27.4%) and E prizes (1 of 20 random Polaroid-style cards, probability: 34.2%):

On January 1st 2024, the Boueibu official Twitter (X) account wished everyone a year overflowing with love and happiness. Please remember the Boueibu series this year too.

(Update: In terms of fruit, the Christmas cakes only have strawberries, while the Valentine's Day cakes have the choice of strawberries or yellow peaches.)

#boueibu #binan koukou chikyuu boueibu love!#Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu Happy Kiss!#anime merch #boueibu hk #anime collab #(There is a slight difference in wording between LOVE! and HK cake tweets so I've put an example of both in the post.)#(“Yoroshiku onegaishimasu” is still a slippery phrase I see... /slightly annoyed)#(When I said I was going to be thorough this time I meant it...)

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anjael · 8 months

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TLHOD SECRET SANTA 2023 - SIGNUPS OPEN

Yes, it's that time again!

As always, even if you aren’t participating, I’d be very grateful if you could signal boost by re-blogging! I’ll also be cross-posting to my Twitter *here* so RTs much appreciated if you’re on there ~

What’s a Secret Santa?

For those who have never done a Secret Santa before, the way it works is you submit a gift request, which goes into a pool which is then randomised. The randomised requests are then handed out to the participants.

So basically, its Mystery Gift! Everyone draws/writes a gift for someone. You won’t know who it’s for, and you won’t know who is doing yours! Then at the exchange, the completed gifts are handed out anonymously to whomever they belong, via email.

Sounds good, where do I sign?

Send your email applications right here! -> [email protected]

What do I write in my application email?

1. Your name / tumblr tag / most used social media - a link to your blog would also be helpful so I know who you are and can contact you if emails are not working or something. A link to examples of your work (art tag, etc) is also appreciated!

2. Preferred gift rating. NSFW requests are totally okay as long as they are not offensive/racist/sexist but if you’d like something NSFW, please also provide a SFW alternative request as not everyone is comfortable producing such content. If you don’t mind receiving NSFW but would prefer not to submit it, please tell me and vice versa.

3. Your actual request! If you prefer shipping/non shipping, please include this in your signup email. Please try to word your request so that it can be filled by either an artist or writer, if possible, as your gift-giver is randomly assigned!

Examples of requests (just for reference, there’s no required format):

- something with your fave pairing / a particular scene

- an AU you’d like to see (please provide some details)

Your requests don’t have to have any particular theme, request whatever you like!

4. Whether you would be able to pinch-hit (fill an extra gift if needed).

5. Whether you would like to remain anonymous to your gift recipient and/or on the master-post of entries (which will be posted up on Tumblr a few days after gift exchange)

———- DEADLINES ————–

Applications Close: 29th October 2023, 00:00 GMT

Prompts Sent Out to Participants: by 1st November 2023, 00:00 GMT

Gift submission: 20th December 2023, 22:00 GMT

(Please submit your completed gifts to [email protected])

Gift Exchange: 22nd - 24th December 2023 (TBC)

———- RULES/GUIDELINES —————–

- Don’t be a butt. (generally the best rule to live by)

- Complete the gift using your MAD SKILLS, be it drawing or writing fanfic! If you have other cool magic abilities like animating, you’re welcome to use those too!

- Please submit completed works only. Your gift should be fully coloured if it’s art (unless you are specifically doing a monochrome / inked piece), and properly formatted, spell-checked and at least 1,000 words if it’s a written piece.

- For written pieces, google doc links/word documents are fine for the email exchange, but if you want me to include your fic in the tumblr master-post please bear in mind you need to post it somewhere link-able such as AO3.

- if you are submitting NSFW art, AO3 hosts art too and can be a good alternative to tumblr/twitter restrictions.

- Please don’t post any completed gifts on your blog before the gift exchange date!

- if the deadline is approaching and you know you won’t be able to submit your piece in time, please tell me as soon as possible so I can arrange for someone else to fill your assigned prompt.

- if you’d like to remain anonymous, please tell me (there will be master-posts of all the submissions a couple of days after exchange)

- I’ll be tracking the tumblr tag ‘tlhod secret santa 2023’.

There’s also a Discord group - please let us know if you’d like an invite!

#tlhod #lhod #the left hand of darkness #tlhod secret santa 2023

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klappert-art · 6 months

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1-10 ink-tay-bers (scanned)

although the last 4 were done in November lol

Did the first 6 in October 2019, done in more than 3 days/picture. Crammed the last 4 in 2 days in November 2023 ha...ha.

#taylor swift #sketch #there's a little bunch of people who've been following me in 2019... they should know this is my best post of that year LOL #...it's been 4 years ago...#typography #traditional art #art #artists on tumblr #fearless #speak now #red #1989 #reputation #lover #folklore #evermore #midnights

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arttsuka · 6 months

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October is over so here is the post that has links to all my works from October 2023 (I tried for inktober but low high-key failed).

Under 'inktober' I've put only the works that are fully (or mostly that is) ink.

If you see something twice that means it fits both categories I guess.

Inktober

Day 02

Day 04

Day 07

Day 09

Day 10

Day 12

Day 14

Day 18

Day 20 (unnecessary feelings but this time it's drawn with ink)

Day 21

Day 23

Day 24

Day 27

Day 28

Day 29

Day 30

Day 31

Spocktober

Day 01

Day 03

Day 04

Day 05

Day 06

Day 08

Day 09

Day 10

Day 11

Day 13

Day 14

Day 15

Day 16

Day 18

Day 19

Day 21 (more unnecessary feelings, Spock edition)

Day 22

Day 23

Day 24

Day 25

Day 26

Day 28

Day 29

Day 31

October drawings (that fail to properly be in the other categories)

Reigen's birthday

Day 17 (ye I failed day 17 in every aspect :( )

Unnecessary feelings

Gojo

So, I made 17 for inktober, 24 for Spocktober and 4 other drawings that don't fit either.

As you can see, I didn't follow any schedule, maybe next year.

I hope everyone enjoyed these and happy rest of the autumn (because it's still November pls let it be for a few days it's not Christmas yet)

#im not exactly sure how to tag this #thats all for inktober 2023 #October 2023 #inktober 2023 #spocktober 2023 #text #technically is links to fanars but whatever #i hope everything works

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twwpress · 7 months

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Weekly Press Briefing #68: October 8th - 14th

Welcome back to the Weekly Press Briefing, where we bring you highlights from The West Wing fandom each week, including new fics, ongoing challenges, and more! This briefing covers all things posted from October 8 - October 14, 2023! Did we miss something? Let us know; you can find our contact info at the bottom of this briefing!

Challenges/Prompts:

There are no open challenges/prompts that we know of this week. Do you have a challenge or event you’d like us to promote or know of one we’re missing? Be sure to get in touch with us! Contact info is at the bottom of this briefing.

This Week in Canon:

Welcome back to This Week in Canon, where we revisit moments in The West Wing that occurred on these dates during the show’s run.

Season 1, Episode 4: Five Votes Down aired on October 13, 1999.

Season 3, Episode 1: Manchester Part I aired on October 10, 2001.

Season 4, Episode 4: The Red Mass aired on October 9, 2002.

Season 5, Episode 3: Jefferson Lives aired on October 8, 2003.

Season 7, Episode 3: Message of the Week aired on October 9, 2005.

Photos/Videos:

Here’s what was posted from October 8 - October 14:

Amy Landecker posted an edit of Brad by Twitter user @schiff0rd.

Josh Malina posted a video of Nathan Salston playing Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, on piano.

Josh Malina posted a thoughtful text post about the war between Israel and Hamas.

Josh Malina posted photos of himself and Bradley Whitford (and one trolling him) for Brad’s birthday on October 10th.

Marlee Matlin posted a photo of herself with Piper Laurie in memory of her after her recent death.

Peter James Smith posted a selfie from Screamfest.

No Context BWhit: October 9 | October 10 | October 12 | October 13 | October 14

@twwarchive: October 8 | October 12 | October 13 | October 14

Editors’ Choice:

Here are a handful of fics with cozy, fluffy, or funny fall vibes! Some are here for the first time, some we’ve recced before, but they’re all fun reads for this time of year. Please feel free to reblog with your own favorite cozy autumn reads!

How Pumpkin Carving and Twins Lead to Practice by mdrgrl1 [archived by westwingfanfictioncentral_archivist] | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | Josh and Donna spend the day before Halloween carving pumpkins and babysitting. Not Quite Pumpkin Pie by fictorium | Rated G | No Pairings Listed (Gen Fic) | Complete | Another retreat to Manchester, another... incident. I Knew You by jeaniecregg | Rated G | C. J. Cregg/Toby Ziegler | Complete | A cozy Saturday in the West Wing has CJ reminiscing about her past with Toby. 31 Days of Halloween by sam_writes_fics | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss, Abbey Bartlet/Jed Bartlet, Josh Lyman/Sam Seaborn, C. J. Cregg/Toby Ziegler, Josh Lyman & Mallory O'Brien, Zoey Bartlet/Charlie Young | In Progress | 31 individual Halloween themed ficlets revolving around everyone's favorite senior staffers. Chapters will be posted once a day, every day, for the entire month of October at 4pm EST. Enjoy. absolutely smitten (never let you go) by JessBakesCakes for fairwinds09 | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | Josh feels all the air whoosh out of his lungs when he sees the teacher standing on the other side of the door. She looks at the group standing outside her door, puzzled for a moment, until her blue eyes lock with Josh’s. Her blonde hair is tucked neatly behind her ears, and pumpkin earrings dangle from her earlobes. She’s wearing a copper-colored fall sweater, adorned with leaves around the collar that match her bulletin board. Her ID badge dangles from her neck, one of those ink pens in a bright, funky color clipped to her lanyard. “Miss Moss,” CJ says. “This is Mr. Lyman from the high school."

Due to tumblr character limits, this week's fic updates will be reblogged to this post momentarily!

#the west wing #tww #tww fandom #tww fic #josh lyman #west wing #donna moss #cj cregg #sam seaborn #toby ziegler #tww fic recs #weekly press briefing

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bvannn · 7 months

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Weekly Update October 20, 2023

So unfortunately I didn’t get a whole lot of work done this week due to exhaustion. I’m hoping I can do more this upcoming week, although some personal matters may get in the way.

I have drawn 3 more inktober drawings which are waiting to be bottle inked. I am hoping to get them done tonight but I may go to sleep instead and do them tomorrow. I have also sketched out 2 more goretober and one more cringetober drawings, but I would need to line and color them. I am hoping my workload for this weekend won’t be too bad so that I can actually get those done and more started, but no promises. I could cheat and combine them, since a few are similar, and a few even appear on both the gore and cringe prompt sets, like hanahaki, but ehhhh.

TRGA I am also still behind on but still working hard at. I ended up only getting Jon’s 1-4 animation done right before writing this update, as I had underestimated the length of the shot, and the messiness of the cleanup. Also I completely forgot to animate his hands, and had to struggle with drawing some hand positions, but it is done now. I will begin on Emile tomorrow, hopefully I can keep it up alongside general drawings, since I’ll have to keyframe him for the next few days which should not be as time intensive. I will anticipate faces and cleanup for long shots taking longer in the future, so I can schedule accordingly.

I did a bunch of really good work on music early this week, and should I get time this weekend I may take another crack at bass patterns, which would be the next step. Im really proud of what I have though I really just need to commit to the project, but obviously I have spread myself thin due to my workaholic nature. It’s still okay, as long as I can keep priorities in a row.

This upcoming week I’m going to try to get myself back together physically. I am going to rest, classwork, TRGA, Drawings, and Music in that order of priority, hopefully.

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sunnydaleherald · 7 months

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, October 15

Kyle: Come on, we're gonna check out the Hyena House. Lance: But I think it's off-limits. Kyle: And therein, my friend, lies the fun.

~~The Pack~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Dead End Plots, part 6 by Melme1325 (Buffy/Spike & Xander vs. Riley, NC-17)

Eclipse by EllieRose101 (Buffy/Spike, G)

A Vampire's Handshake by JayeMaru (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

She really came back wrong by cmduhura (Buffy, Scoobies, FR21)

Collide by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, collection rated R)

Autumnal Shorts, part 15 by VeroNyxK84 (Buffy/Spike, collection rated R)

Surprise! by scratchmeout (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

[Chaptered Fiction]

Colonial Bride, Ch. 16 by Feanix88 (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

Ties to the World, Ch. 27 by The Danish Bird (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Presumably Dead Arm, Ch. 23 by tragic (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

A Love That Defies Space and Time, Ch. 21 by Spikelover4ever (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Edge of the World, Ch. 4 by Dynamite (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

Destiny or Choices Made? Ch. 15 by charmed4lifekaren (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

A Marriage of Inconvenience, Ch. 18 by all_choseny (Buffy/Spike, R)

Amara Time, Ch. 2 by Joan963z (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

The Transfer, Ch. 1 by Blackmysteria (Buffy/Spike, R)

Once More With Feelings, Ch. 1 by Spikelover4ever (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

LA After Midnight, Ch. 4 (COMPLETE!) by MayhemManaged (A-Team crossover, FR15)

With Sprinkles, Ch. 31 by dogbertcarroll (anime crossover, Xander, FR15)

Shall We? Ch. 7 by Ginger (Buffy/Spike, R)

A Place in the Sun, Ch. 33 by honeygirl51885 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

A Place in the Sun: Epilogue by honeygirl51885 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

A Marriage of Inconvenience, Ch. 17 by all_choseny (Buffy/Spike, R)

Use It or Lose It, Ch. 4 by Dynamite (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

[Images, Audio & Video]

6.09 «Smashed» You know this moment 😏 by lialivingart (Buffy/Spike, worksafe if your coworkers are unfamiliar with canon)

Ink drawing: The Master (in Spooktober Day 12 to 15) by philipreadart-blog (worksafe)

Drawing: Buffy and Angel by chxrcasm (worksafe)

furry angel arts by fblckt (worksafe)

[Reviews & Recaps]

the wolf 359 writers understood the main principles that made buffy’s writing work. which I would say are... by all-seeing-ifer

"Halloween" analysis by linkspooky

Entropy S6 E18 (Buffy and the Art of Story Podcast) - Lisa Lilly

Episode 108: Spiral – Myth Taken: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

Emma Caulfield also brought it in the audio drama by oveliagirlhaditright

Mothman's Buffy Rewatch: Season 2, Episodes 2 and 3, "Some Assembly Aquired" and "School Hard" by mothmansweddingphotographer

Least favorite jokes? by sadhungryandvirgin

Does anyone like slayers? I've seen some negative posts. Wondering if any positive? by ji1288

Slayers is disappointing (Minor spoilers up to episode 5) by speashasha

[Recs & In Search Of]

Any fanfics where Angel and or Spike get to the age where they become like The Master & Kakistos? by suikofan80

[Fandom Discussions]

[A theory about what the Council told Kendra before sending her to Sunnydale] by buffy-targaryen

Discussion of Giles in "Slayers" by girl4music and confusedguytoo

[Redacted] was never a romantic pairing I would have ever thought of... But now that I have it [in Slayers]... by girl4music

Re: Spike for the character bingo by kitkatt0430

There’s the scene back in the crypt in 5x14 (Crush)... by winterlovesong1

Let's remember the moment when Faith stepped into Buffy's life by pugzillarex

If Buffy went dark like Willow, what would stop her? by pinenutty23

I feel like the mom from The Witch would have been a compelling villain to bring back by cre8ivemind

Between Willow and Buffy who do you think Anya liked more/felt closer to? by SafiraAshai

Who would swear the most if they were able to? by young_fire

Favourite guest appearances you recognised from other shows by Sea-Medicine-411

[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]

James Marsters & Juliet Landau's Hal-Con 2023 Schedule via dontkillspike

Slayers' Audible star James Marsters didn't think he'd get another stab at Spike - UPI.com

Submit a link to be included in the newsletter!

#btvs #buffy the vampire slayer #angel the series #slayers: a buffyverse story

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kylesvariouslistsandstuff · 1 year

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Where Is The Next DreamWorks Movie?

Looking at all the official American slates for Universal Pictures, it would appear that DreamWorks Animation is released only one picture this calendar year, and that would happened to be a seemingly-untitled TROLLS sequel. The third overall, of course.

What is not known is that DreamWorks actually has a picture coming out this year, before TROLLS 3 debuts in the autumn. An original picture, at that. Apparently, the plan behind closed doors is to release one original movie and one sequel every calendar year. So far, we do know that DreamWorks intends to release KUNG FU PANDA 4 in the late winter of 2024, but nothing else is on their schedule besides that film and TROLLS 3. Not even a placeholder, you know, the sort of "Untitled DreamWorks"... The other animation studio that operates under Universal, the ever reliable hit-makers Illumination Entertainment, have MIGRATION set in stone for 12/22/2023 and DESPICABLE ME 4 inked for 7/3/2024. Nothing beyond that, though they do have various pictures in development. There's also, curiously, an untitled animated feature release from Universal set for 2/8/2024... Is this a DreamWorks movie? Likely not, if KUNG FU PANDA 4 is opening in March of that year. Two that close to each other? I don't think that's happening. Illumination? Maybe. A February release would be new for them... It could also be... Since Universal now owns the rights to this particular movie franchise... The next LEGO movie... After all, THE LEGO MOVIE and THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE opened in February to much success, THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART - sadly - not so much. Maybe KUNG FU PANDA 4 takes that February slot and abandons March, with the 2nd DWA title that year opening in the fall.

Anyways, I'll get on with it... There's stuff out there that confirms this... DreamWorks' next movie is a picture about sea monsters, it's titled MEET THE GILLMANS. It's on a Universal slate from Switzerland that pegs it at 6/30/2023, it's also been mentioned in various European marketing and promo stuff. There's concept art and images floating around the webs, too. The movie exists, yet it doesn't... Now, it's one thing to start a marketing campaign a mere four to five months before release. After all, Universal/DreamWorks did just that with THE BAD GUYS this past year and that film - budgeted at roughly $80m - did rather fine for itself. *But*, we knew the film *existed* as far back as 2018, when DreamWorks optioned the book series for a feature adaptation... There has been no formal announcement whatsoever with MEET THE GILLMANS. Only through tiny out-of-the-way scoop sites that I've never heard of and the title appearing on staffers' LinkedIn profiles and resumes. One of the hosts of the podcast Fine Tooning, without naming the movie, says it's coming out prior to TROLLS 3... Which, by the way, is actually called TROLLS BAND TOGETHER. Universal has yet to disclose that to the American public. The Swiss slate seems to indicate that TROLLS BAND TOGETHER, currently scheduled to release 11/17/2023, will open in mid-October instead. Which seems smart, because the current date puts it five days before Disney Animation's celebratory centennial musical fantasy WISH, which is sure to be the inverse of STRANGE WORLD and will make a good amount of money.

Curiously, 6/30/2023 puts MEET THE GILLMANS very close to... Pixar's ELEMENTAL, Sony's ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, and Disney's live-action/VFX-heavy LITTLE MERMAID remake... Until addition to a ton of blockbuster tentpoles.

A little while back, the original plan was to have an original picture open 3/24/2023. This was back when PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH carried a 9/23/2022 release date, and THE SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE was set for Christmas 2022. MARIO was pushed to 4/7/2023 to coincide with the opening of Super Nintendo World in Universal Studios Hollywood. So that put PUSS in the Christmastime frame, and also made MIGRATION - ahem - migrate to Christmas 2023. GILLMANS has, rather covertly, taken MIGRATION's original intended summer slot. Or so it seems...

But why not mid-March for MARIO? Or better yet, March 10th? You know, MAR10? It's not like March is really stuffed... Like, does a SHAZAM! sequel that's kinda meaningless now in the grand scheme of things and a DUNGEONS & DRAGONS movie pose any kind of threat to the freakin' Super Mario Bros.? I think what could've worked well was having MARIO make March its domain, while MEET THE GILLMANS could open in late April - much like how THE BAD GUYS did - and get the jump on the family competition from LITTLE MERMAID, ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, and ELEMENTAL.

I don't believe in family films and animated films "cannibalizing" each other at the box office, but options are *slim* when it comes to affordability. If the average American family hit the flicks four times a calendar year back in 2014, think of how many times they can manage now, especially in the post-outbreak times we're living in. Ya know? MEET THE GILLMANS presumably cost around the same amount of money the previous string of DWA titles did (PUSS cost $90m, BAD GUYS about $80m, BOSS BABY around $82m), so not too too much is riding on it. If anything, I'm more worried about the Pixar film making back its presumably astronomical budget than this movie, but it'd suck to see another DreamWorks movie tank. Maybe there's no need to worry and they know how they're going to ride this all out...

That being said, it would be nice to know about the movie in question since it's less than half a year away at this point.

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xtruss · 1 month

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The Vicious Things Republi(Cunts) Have Said About Palestinians Since October 7

“The Costs of Saying Things That are Undeniably and Horrifically Dehumanizing Toward Palestinians are So Low.”

— Prem Thakker | April 4, 2024

Boak Bollocks Senile Oaf Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Michigan, speaks during a House Republicans news conference in the Capitol on December 6, 2023. Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Michigan Republi(Cunt) Boak Bollocks Senile Oaf Rep. Tim Walberg recently declared at a town hall that the U.S. “Shouldn’t Be Spending a Dime on Humanitarian Aid,” in Gaza. Instead, he posed, “it should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”

After the shocking statement went viral, his office tried to soften the blow. It provided a full transcript of Walberg’s comments to CNN, which reported that Walberg had also said that a similar logic could be applied to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Defeat Putin quick. Instead [of] 80% in Ukraine being used for humanitarian purposes, it should be 80-100% to wipe out Russia, if that’s what we want to do.”

Walberg then attempted to walk the comment back in a statement, in which he said he was not suggesting that nukes be used to end either war. Yet there’s no denying that he invoked horrifying instances of the U.S. dropping atomic bombs in reference to Gaza — just the latest vicious, warmongering statement by a Republican lawmaker since October 7.

While Walberg’s comments received a fair amount of critical media coverage, the response from his congressional colleagues was muted — underscoring a stark double standard in the public treatment of those who advocate for Palestinian rights, and those who dehumanize them.

Members of Congress like Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.; and Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., have long been pilloried — and even censured — by their colleagues for speaking out against Israel’s brutal treatment of Palestinians, while the media class has spilled boats-worth of ink on bad-faith interpretations of the progressive Democrats’ statements. Republicans who belittle, or even encourage, Palestinian suffering have typically generated no such equal, let alone proportional, response.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries did not respond to questions about what party leadership is doing in response to lawmakers’ callous comments about Palestinians, especially as the death toll in Gaza continues to rise.

Yousef Munayyer, a political analyst and senior fellow at the Arab Center Washington DC, noted that the cost of misspeaking — or having comments misconstrued — on Israel is unparalleled.

“The social and political costs of stepping on the taboos of saying anything that could be even possibly misconstrued as antisemitic are so high,” Munayyer told The Intercept. “And yet the costs of saying things that are undeniably and horrifically dehumanizing toward Palestinians are so low. I don’t know of a double standard as extreme as that on any other issue.”

Republi(Cunts’) Hunger For Violence began just days after Hamas’s attack against Israel on October 7. “We are in a religious war here, I’m with Israel,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., declared on October 11, in an appearance on Fox News. “Do whatever the hell you have to do to defend yourself. Level the place.” (Graham later said that no amount of civilian casualties in Gaza would prompt him to scrutinize Israel’s conduct.)

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., echoed Graham’s bloodlust on Fox in mid-October. “As far as I’m concerned, Israel can bounce the rubble in Gaza,” said the senator who famously called for the Trump administration to sic the military on protesters at the height of the George Floyd uprising. “Anything that happens in Gaza is the responsibility of Hamas. Hamas killed women and children in Israel last weekend,” he added. In the months to come, Israel would go on to kill over 25,000 Palestinian women and children.

In the House of Representatives, Republicans have taken glee in fantasizing about Palestinian suffering.

On October 11, Ohio Rep. Max Miller lambasted Tlaib for planting a Palestinian flag outside her congressional office. He refused to recognize Palestine as a state, calling it “a territory that’s about to probably get eviscerated and go away here shortly, as we’re going to turn that into a parking lot.”

A few days later, Miller’s colleague Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., took the unusual step of donning the military garb of a foreign country in the halls of the Congress — wearing an Israel Defense Forces uniform he earned while volunteering for the country’s military in 2015. Shortly thereafter, he introduced an amendment that would slow down humanitarian aid to Gaza. “Any assistance should be slowed down — any assistance,” Mast said in a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the bill. “Because I would challenge anybody in here to point to me, which Palestinian is Hamas, and which one is an innocent civilian? … It should absolutely be every effort made to slow down any perceived assistance that’s going there.”

Mast later tripled down. “I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of ‘innocent Palestinian civilians,’ as is frequently said,” Mast said on the House floor. “I don’t think we would so lightly throw around the term ‘innocent Nazi civilians’ during World War II.”

In late January, when asked about the babies Israeli forces have killed in Gaza, Mast responded coldly: “These are not innocent Palestinian civilians.” Confronted with the idea that Israel has destroyed more infrastructure in Gaza than was destroyed in Dresden during World War II, Mast said, “There’s more infrastructure that needs to be destroyed,” repeated the line, and promised “there will be more that gets destroyed.” Finally, he vowed to do everything he could to stop the government from supporting the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. Mast described the creation of UNRWA as “moronic”; last month, Congress voted to defund the agency for a full year, even as a widespread famine looms over Gaza.

In late February, Tennessee Republican Andy Ogles vilely dismissed protesters who took issue with their taxes going toward killing children.

“I’ve seen the footage of shredded children’s bodies — that’s my taxpayer dollars going to bomb those kids,” a protester said.

“You know what, so, I think we should kill ’em all,” Ogles responded. “If that makes you feel better.”(His spokesperson later claimed to The Tennessean that he “was not referring to Palestinians, he was clearly referring to the Hamas terrorist group.”)

The protesters cited Israeli forces starving women and children, killing over 300 health care workers, and “sniping Christian women in churches” as war crimes. Ogles, however, instead responded only to being called an “AIPAC zombie” with “Death to Hamas.”

In early March, a flustered Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, also of Tennessee, yelled at a Palestinian American protester from Gaza, who has now lost over 100 family members in Israel’s war.

“They are not guilty of genocide,” the Republican said of Israel, which the world’s highest court and a U.S. district court have both said is plausibly committing genocide in Gaza. “You can tell the Palestinians — I will never support them!”

“I am a Palestinian myself,” a protester responded.

“Then I will tell you, I will never support you,” Fleischmann screamed back. “I will tell you to your face: Goodbye to Palestine!”

After Months of this Behavior From Republi(Cunts), not one has been censured by their colleagues, not one has been savaged by the media for days on end, not one been cast as a poster child of the virulent anti-Palestinian racism flowing through American institutions.

Meanwhile, last year, Jayapal was pilloried by Republicans and thrown under the bus by fellow Democrats for suggesting that Israel — which has for decades committed human rights abuses, engaged in land dispossession and home demolition, and maintained separate systems of law and a militarized police state against Palestinians — is a “racist state.”

Jayapal walked back her comments after the pile-on, singling out Benjamin Netanyahu’s government for its racist practices instead. Still, Ogles and his colleagues Randy Weber and Jeff Duncan filed a resolution seeking to censure Jayapal for what they said was antisemitism, though the resolution did not name a single instance of Jayapal saying anything negative about Jewish people.

The attacks were familiar. Tlaib — the only Palestinian member of Congress — was attacked last year for supporting an event raising awareness about the Nakba, the series of events beginning in 1948 that led to the mass displacement of Palestinians. The smears massively escalated as she was censured — with the help of 22 Democrats — in November, after she criticized the Israeli government and called for Palestinian liberation.

Omar, likewise, has been subject to constant scrutiny by her own party for her criticism of Israel, accused of antisemitism for allegedly singling Israel out — even though she has been a consistent critic of other human rights-violating governments, from Saudi Arabia and China to El Salvador and Russia. Those attacks paved the way for Republicans to boot her from the Foreign Affairs Committee last February, after they retook control of the House.

“Democrats too often are willing to go along with what are obviously bad-faith smears against other Democrats, whereas Republicans simply don’t give a shit. And that creates this situation where you can easily bait Democrats into this issue repeatedly,” Munayyer said. “That’s a choice that Democrats are making, and they don’t have to make that choice.”

That’s not to mention the Democrats who have made anti-Palestinian remarks themselves, from Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Ill., accusing a Palestinian American of “trying to kill every Jew,” to Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., discounting the death toll of children killed in Gaza. Beyond Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman’s continued insistence on supporting Israel’s mass civilian killing campaign unconditionally, he has repeatedly dismissed and mocked protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza or mobilizing voters against Biden’s Gaza policy.

Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, said that the question of acceptable language on Israel and Palestine often comes down to whether the orator is supportive of Israel or not: “It’s never really about what any of them say.”

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maiji · 5 months

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2023 art year in review! Full reflections on my Pillowfort.

The artworks are:

January: I Could Look At Buildings All Day, Taiwan Tuxiang series - pencil crayon and ink

February: Shining Red Sun - ink and watercolour

March: Sweeping, 1 small quiet somewhere - digital

April: narcissus, haiku ink series - fountain pen ink

May: Shì yīnghuā háishì hǎitáng huā? / Is it cherry or crabapple blossoms?, hua series - digital ink

June: Sekkyou no Koushi no Kao, Nubatama wa Oujoshinai - digital

July: lotus, haiku ink series - fountain pen ink

August: book of yi, 1 small quiet somewhere - digital

September: fight / flight part 3, YYH North Bound - digital

October: autumn sun, haiku ink series - fountain pen ink

November: fight / flight part 4, YYH North Bound - digital

December: bǐ'ànhuā / red spider lily, hua series - digital ink

#2023 art year in review #art year in review #art by maiji/mary huang

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Title: Best Friend Temptation Series: Montgomery Ink Legacy #4

Author: Carrie Ann Ryan

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: October 30, 2023

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The Montgomery Ink Legacy series continues with a forbidden romance between two best friends and the woman they both crave. Ford, Noah, and Greer aren't ready for what happens next.

I fell for my best friend long before I knew what that meant. Only I know he'll never love me back.

He's stuck in his head and his past demons and can't see what is right in front of him.

But when Greer loses her home and needs a place to stay, both Noah and I know the only place she belongs is with us—in every way possible.

Now I'm falling for both of my roommates and trying to keep the people I protect safe.

Only someone is coming for them, and I can't stop the inevitable fall.

I just have to hope that we made the right choices and that one day soon Noah and Greer will finally see who we can be.

Before we lose it all…or I finally walk away for good.

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Carrie Ann Ryan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of contemporary, paranormal, and young adult romance. Her works include the Montgomery Ink, Talon Pack, Promise Me, and Elements of Five series, which have sold millions of books worldwide. She’s the winner of a RT Book of the Year and a Prism Award in her genres. She started writing while in graduate school for her advanced degree in chemistry and hasn’t stopped since. Carrie Ann has written over one hundred novels and novellas with more in the works. When she’s not losing herself in her emotional and action-packed worlds, she’s reading as much as she can while wrangling her clowder of cats who have more followers than she does.

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