western-series

[limber urchin]

only took forever

[sage remnant]

Callback to WoR btw

[limber urchin]

oh i guess i thought it was to WOK

[sage remnant]

So does any mental health struggle

[sage remnant]

WoR part 1 || they try to get the tattoo and it fails to stick multiple time in his head in around ch 6-7 ||

[limber urchin]

WAT theory ||I've gotten curious if either Kaladin or Dalinar are going to die. Or both. Since this is the end of the first half of the series and Brandon is being funny with suggestions.||

[limber urchin]

oh yeah I definitely remember this. I guess I thought it was in Way of Kings though.

[sage remnant]

Okay your reactions are similar to mine. This is gonna be fun

[sage remnant]

TWOK ends with || Dalinar giving Kal the cloak and then them eating stew as free men for the first time... ||

One thing I always loved about this series is || Every book has so much ramifications and such increase in scale and power level in short duration while being organic.
And the progression is very small and very high at the same time || until RoW

[limber urchin]

WAT early ||I have a strange feeling I'm about to get a Kaladin and Szeth buddy cop movie. Right after I got Die Hard in Urithiru. Brandon is paying homage to the 80s. ||

[sage remnant]

Oh wait lemme send a fan art pre WaT which I had really loved

[limber urchin]

I'm kind of very impressed that Brandon can (Stormlight up to book 5 early) ||Keep me on my toes with new revelations each book after I keep thinking he's exhausted all his options.||

[sage remnant]

RoW end

Your comment reminded me of this fanart

[limber urchin]

HAHAHAHA

holy shit

amazing

[sage remnant]

Truly goda

Man I should catch up to OP. Haven't read it since WaT had released

[limber urchin]

BTW I have come to accept ROW ||Shallan and Adolin are definitely to be together. I don't know if Kaladin will ever find love, but I hope he does, poor guy. ROW made me appreciate Shallan and Adolin's relationship much more. I still have nitipicks I'll probably never get over with the love triangle and other bits, but I accept where things are now.||

[limber urchin]

Don't worry, with OP, you only missed like 3 chapters

[sage remnant]

For me it was kinda sealed when
|| With Kal, both were making the others conditions worse.
And 4 paragraphs later, Adolin comes and with him being himself, improves Shallan's state for the time being. || OB

[limber urchin]

Ah I see where we differ then!

one sec

[sage remnant]

That was very believable and it worked for me

[limber urchin]

OB ||See, I kept thinking Brandon was doing that classic trope of turning enemies to lovers. But no he just played the whole thing straight. Adolin and Shallan were really as simple as Jasnash hooking them up and pretty much most things just kind of going right; in fact, I don't know if they experienced a single serious hiccup; even Adolin at the end of ROW didn't feel serious with him trying to tell her to pursue Kaladin.||

[sage remnant]

OB || I mean, doesn't really need hiccups.. ||

[limber urchin]

No, it doesn't. I just like drama.

[sage remnant]

RoW || Not when both have serious shit to deal with 😭 ||

Ohhh and

WoR || What had you thought of "shat on shardplate" ||

[limber urchin]

loved it

[sage remnant]

😭

So real

[limber urchin]

Up to ROW ||I find Shallan and Wit the funniest characters.||

[sage remnant]

Blessed

You know what I really hated about RoW

|| It didn't have 100 pages of Syl, Hesina and Lift making jokes ||

😔

That trio would be so chaotic

[limber urchin]

that's a good point

[sage remnant]

I could eat up 1000 pages of just that

[limber urchin]

WAT early ||I like Hesina and Syl together||

[sage remnant]

WaT early || Lift teaching all crass jokes to Syl.
Hesina then taking it further while trying to do the opposite ||

Would have been so fun...

[limber urchin]

ROW ||Anything with Dalinar and Lift were great too. she's good at giving him a good ribbing.||

[sage remnant]

|| Never trust a guy with tight butt || RoW

[sage remnant]

OB

[limber urchin]

wow someone did that haha

[raw gate]

[median nova]

[modern lichen]

ultimate x-men issue 13

caught back up to all the ultimate marvel books and absolute dc books

started absolute flash, really good first issue

awaiting absolute manhunter now

[crimson lance]

Abs mm looks to be the most promising book from dc in a while its insane

camp is the most interesting young writer in comics rn id say

[white smelt]

What’s mm

[sage remnant]

Martian Manhunter prolly

[near echo]

Absolute Mr. Mxyzptlk

[limber urchin]

@sage remnant and @copper phoenix I forgot an important question I wanted to ask the other day regarding the WAT prologue as well as very early in the first Mistborn book ||So, Thaidakar. Is he like some deity from the Mistorn universe? I'm only asking because when he was described in the prologue to WAT Brandon described him as having a spike through his eye (but only one eye) which sounded eerily similar to the Steel Inquisitors of Mistborn (but I think it's both of their eyes). So, like, is the Vessel containing the Shard that is Thaidakar originally a Steel Inquisitor who obtained godhood just like Taravangian did when he killed Rayse at the end of ROW? ||

Keep in mind I've only read the first, like, 1/4th of the first Mistborn book.

[crimson lance]

Absolute martian man hunter

Total redesign of the concept for the absolute line by a team of really talented writer and artist it looks really promising

[sand cypress]

WAT prologue/mistborn || These questions are hard to answer without spoiling but I will try to my best. Yes Thaidakar is from the mistborn series but they are not a Vessel for a Shard. Thaidakar is a unique individual with unique circumstances which are not particularly necessary to know for WAT but it is explained in the mistborn books. You are thinking along the correct lines with the eye spike. ||

[limber urchin]

i'm so smart

i get a cookie

[sand cypress]

[copper phoenix]

wat prologue/mistborn || alls I know is that he got a peak arc and you should read it ||

[cursive venture]

Severance Season 2 finale ||WHAT||

[modest canyon]

Normal People ep 7 ||I cannot with this toxic relationship between Connell and Marianne why does it remind me so much of high school||

[wooden swift]

@fair echo

[fair echo]

https://tenor.com/view/sanji-duck-smoke-sanji-duck-sanji-one-piece-yuujistic-gif-15297231387971638634

[inland dagger]

hey!

yes, ive seen blue eye samurai s1

just mind blowing series

[sage remnant]

WaT end + Mistborn || Fucking Sando is gonna spoil its Kelsier in Interlude 1 anyway ||

[potent zenith]

White Lotus is just a crazy show

[potent zenith]

you can always still talk about it! Someone that has watched the show you're watching will see your comment and could reply

[modern lichen]

i liked blue eye samurai but i dont like euphoria

[limber urchin]

WAT up to chapter 16 and Mistborn early ||Did Brandon just spoil me a little on Kelsier? He wasn't a lord last time I read. ||

[sage remnant]

Dude missing the bigger implication here...

[limber urchin]

explain

[sage remnant]

did you finish reading that interlude

[limber urchin]

Yes

I thought you meant in that passage I posted

[sage remnant]

WaT Interlude 1 + Mistborn || That Interlude p much spoiled Kelsier is Thaidakar ||

I haven't read Mistborn either after b1

[limber urchin]

Yeah I had already started to wonder if that was the case.

[sage remnant]

Where had you paused Mistborn again

[limber urchin]

like 1/4

early as hell

i've already had the ending of the first book spoiled by Brandon himself

[sage remnant]

okay then

You are gonna realize a lot of things in OB and in this point if you reread these after reading even Mistborn b1

[limber urchin]

He really loves his Stormlight ||Cosmere stuff.||

[sage remnant]

They aren't really that eggregious

As in doesn't really affect the main narrative

[limber urchin]

Yeah I don't think it affects the narrative too much, but I guess maybe you can get spoiled slightly on another story.

[sage remnant]

Like I haven't read other cosmere (other than MB book 1), but I don't think I missed anything important to the main story of Stormlight

[limber urchin]

I've only read the early portions of Elantris and Mistborn's first book.

[sage remnant]

If you had read like half of Mistborn, there was a really fun sneaky mention that Brandon had pulled off in OB

alas...

btw || Adolin and Kal farewell ...|| WaT part 1 end

[limber urchin]

WAT ch 16 ||Last thing I read was Adolin and Shallan discovering what a shower was and then her and her group theorizing how they're gonna fight back against the Ghostbloods.||

[sage remnant]

WaT ch 16 || Thoughts on Passionspren... ||

[limber urchin]

WAT ch16 ||naughty naughty smutspren smh, my virgin eyes||

[sage remnant]

WaT ch 16 || Discovering Shower and immediately inventing shower sex. Classic human ||

You are gonna enjoy Part 2 a lot. have fun

[modern lichen]

i fucking miss severance so much already

[limber urchin]

hands you the other Stormlight books

[modern lichen]

not yet

i'm reading other stuff now

https://x.com/HollywoodHandle/status/1904054798237745370

The Hollywood Handle (@HollywoodHandle) on X

Kevin Feige is reportedly concerned about The Russo Brothers directing the upcoming ‘AVENGERS’ films following ‘The Electric State.’

He plans to closely oversee the project, ensuring the script is just right and everything stays on track.

(Via: @DanielRPK)

X · Mar 24, 2025, 6:16 AM

[raven badger]

Yo Harsh in which comic does batman meet robin

[tawny parcel]

LOL

[limber urchin]

@sage remnant Forgot to ask a small question WAT up to chapter 16 ||Is Jasnash supposed to be asexual? It feels like that every time she talks about her sexual relations with Wit.||

[sage remnant]

yes

[limber urchin]

ok gotcha thanks

[shrewd sigil]

Mistborn WoA reread/era 1 all ||noticing all the little tweaks Ruin was making is fun||

mistborn era 1 ||and adding alendi being short aswell||

[copper phoenix]

mistborn era 1 || I'm glad mistborn was my intro to the cosmere ngl I feel like its the perfect starting point, for example the way the books establish the greater cosmere is a lot better paced than his other books. You have a direct confrontation with a vessel but only after many books fighting the mystery of his shards power. Unlike in stormlight for example where you straight up get gods PoV chapters lmao. ||

[mild seal]

hey you sanderson people, whats a good book to start of his?

[copper phoenix]

stormlight

I mean depends on how you handle not so great writing

because if ur tough you can start with mistborn which is a rougher read but imo is a better starting point

but stormight is his best work by a large margin

and arguably the center piece of the cosmere

[mild seal]

I'll trust your first recommendation

[copper phoenix]

you should trust all of them

[young compass]

lol

[shrewd sigil]

finished well of ascension, gonna try to get through hero of ages quick and hopefully not get pulled into era 2 aswell so I can finally start the stormlight reread soon

[shrewd sigil]

stormlight is a good start yeah

[proud fiber]

why would four hundred thousand words per book be a good start lmao

[copper phoenix]

because we aint bitch made

[proud fiber]

D:

[copper phoenix]

its like I said before you can pick a shorter but rougher book or you can straight up go for his magnum opus albeit longer

I know some people who really cant handle mistborn and I cant blame them tbh

[proud fiber]

what was their problem with it

for context i finished era 1, and im 30% thru stormlight 1

[copper phoenix]

usually pacing or dialogue

personally the fights didnt really do it for me

even tho I love the magic system but I remember spending most of my time wishing the fights were shorter

and thats cos Im a sucker for his magic system

the fights in stormlight are much much better

[proud fiber]

Yeah i havent gotten to any major fights yet but i hope thats true

sometimes when reading, mostly after the first mistborn book, i found myself thinking "oh thats clever" at a lot of parts but id rather be so absorbed that it just happens to me

[copper phoenix]

stormlight is just better in every objective aspect

I love mistborn but I wouldn't pick it over stormlight in a billion years

[proud fiber]

Yeah, it seems to have more balanced character dynamics so far

like for mistborn i was of course hooked by|| the zero to hero aspect which ended in the first book, and i was entertained in the later books but it had to work harder to sell me on the overall world. I was mainly attracted by the characters themselves||

||since thats the eyes through which i see the story, i dont really give a shit about any prophecy||

[copper phoenix]

mistborn || the characters are awesome for sure, especially my goat sazed ||

[proud fiber]

||what were your thoughts on his crisis of faith in the last book?||

for me its one of those "oh thats clever" moments i felt more like an outside observer to

[copper phoenix]

mistborn era 1 || its one of my favorite parts and then it led to the big pay off once his ascended it was just chefs kiss ||

[proud fiber]

ah

Perhaps my brain just has trouble investing in worldbuilding heavy series

for one piece also, it was more like i loved the characters than the world itself

Still is that way to an extent, though my perspective has changed a lot over time

[copper phoenix]

its fair

stormight has his best characters of all his series too btw

cant wait until you fully meet them

[proud fiber]

Yea fosho

its not just the characters, the structuring of low-to-high is genius

like to ||Shallan, Jasnah has to become her entire world whereas the first time shes name dropped in the war camp is mid-chapter and completely casual||

||and Sadeas is just a political rival to Dalinar, and on the other hand a reprehensible tyrant to Kaladin & them... Like it paints these dynamics really well||

its flourishes like these that really sold me more on the world than Mistborn, because its not just good-writing its great writing

[copper phoenix]

stormlight is like brando basically taking everything he learned from all his other works and putting it all together

[proud fiber]

Mm

[frank rivet]

Anyone watch The Rookie ?

[outer tulip]

I'm binge watching the first 21 seasons of Big Brother...only on season 2 😦

[hazy radish]

Mistborn era 2 ||do you still like him now he’s harmony? ||

[copper phoenix]

mistborn era 2 || hell yea even tho he isn't done much and I'm only know finishing last metal lol ||

[hazy radish]

Mistborn era 1 ||would love it if the One Piece was a trap like the well of ascension ||

[hazy radish]

Mistborn era 2 ||I really like the ending there||

[primal mason]

I listened to so many Sylvester Stallone interviews for the Rocky movies that I practically know the origin story of the first film beat by beat now. 🧐

[shrewd sigil]

mistborn TLM ending spoilers ||the final chapter with the callback to the prologue, then the 7 epilogue chapters.. Brandon cooked hard||

still can't decide if I like era 2 or stormlight more

[frank rivet]

Daredevil Born Again Ep 6 - || now that what im talking about, what a great episode with the Muse, great parallel with Fisk at the end ||

Daredevil Born Again Ep 6 - ||this shit went so hard
https://vxtwitter.com/captaincupkicks/status/1904719546738483208 ||

[sage remnant]

Structuring of low to high?

[sage remnant]

I can't see how fights were long in Mistborn

Except ig || Rashek Vin fight but that was cuz it was like 3 rounds || MB book 1

[proud fiber]

Have you read the spoiler'd part of what I said

||Low: kaladin middle: shallan high: dalinar. In terms of character perspectives. And then that assassin guy but he hasn't shown up much so far||

[sage remnant]

Only read MB book 1 so didn't want to risk seeing MB spoilers

So no

[proud fiber]

Oh

Uhh you can open that spoiler if you want I kind of just list the characters in order of social status

[sage remnant]

Hmmmm

[proud fiber]

Way ahead of me

[copper phoenix]

anything Im not enjoying is long

[sage remnant]

Not even || Kelsier vs Steel Inquisitor? || MB book 1

The only one from Stormlight I would put above it is prolly || Szeth vs Kal || Words of Radiance

[near echo]

The Man Who Planted Trees is gorgeous

The Man Who Planted Trees:

[arctic flax]

damn,already 6 episodes? Ig they dropped 2 this week

[obsidian basalt]

for me it was just not particularly interesting after book 1 so I can't get through the second book

[copper phoenix]

skill issue

[obsidian basalt]

anyway as far as fights go for Brandon it's pretty similar to one piece where the fights themselves usually aren't all that but everything surrounding them is peak

the only fights that I can actually call peak in terms of the fighting are RoW || all of kaladins fights against the pursuer ||

[sage remnant]

|| Szeth vs Kaladin is peak in terms of choreography.
Similarly, Steel Inquisitor vs Kelsier || Mistborn book 1. WOR

[copper phoenix]

wat || adolin vs skibidi was peak ||

[obsidian basalt]

WoR || round one is really nice but round two is just two people flying which is only hype cause it's in a storm||

[obsidian basalt]

|| skibidi is such a trash character that I just can't give it any credit although it was solid||

[sage remnant]

WoR || I mean yeah. The way the fight utilizes its surrounding is what makes it a good fight ||

|| For Round 2 ||

[obsidian basalt]

|| idk for me it's a pretty average flying fight that's carried by the reader really caring about the characters and the outcome ||

[sage remnant]

Rather || The Pursuer fight is forgettable to me other than the market sequence. Can't remember anything other than that || RoW

[obsidian basalt]

row || in terms of the fight itself leshwi Vs kaladin in row is probably better and that's a pretty nothing fight ||

[sage remnant]

WoR || Utilizing the flying plateus and timing the lashes accordingly with using the momentum of flying plateaus. It had some really neat written choreography. ||

[obsidian basalt]

|| round one you get to learn the guys powers and it's the first time kaladin has any sort of almost equal fight in the story, round two is probably the most peak cause kaladin just no diffs bro without powers, round three is in the peakest part of the entire series so it's get boosted from that but also the struggle extremely fun and kaladin has to fight in ways hes never had to, round 4 is barely a fight (in the well) so not much to say , and round 5 is again peak fiction in every way ||

[sage remnant]

Similarly the || Steel Inquisitor one where Kelsier usines the Push Pull metals to rotate and exit from the cage he's about to be trapped in || Mistborn book 1

[sage remnant]

Meh.
RoW || Like half of those cases are "things surrounding the fight" than the fight itself, which is the distinction you were going at.

The one where he escapes and is saved by Dalinar and then the last one where he is with Voidlight (following Teft's death) aren't good cuz of the fight themselves ||

[obsidian basalt]

I guess I should mention for choreography the RoW || kaladin Vs guy from war breaker I forgot the name of ||

[sage remnant]

Okay that one is p nice

[sage remnant]

|| Zahel/Vasher || RoW

[obsidian basalt]

|| first one is not a fight yeah but you cannot tell me the entire second half of the last fight isnt goated ||

row || like my goat pinned the guys head to the window and decapitated him ||

[sage remnant]

It is carried by the things surrounding the fight which gives it the impact it had

[obsidian basalt]

I mean yeah it is but the fight itself is still great

[sage remnant]

Reading that didn't give me any excitement or "Wow" for the choreography that the WoR one had

[main lion]

bro said choreography in a text only format...

[sage remnant]

Choreography can be described...

[frank rivet]

Lol ya I was surprised

[thorny veldt]

Why this channel is only for spoilers

[modern lichen]

?

[regal root]

We require people to properly spoiler tag messages talking about shows/movies/stories in this and #other-series as to not accidentally someone

[thorny veldt]

Yah I understand that, I mean I stead of ppl discussing we got just spoilers

[regal root]

Ah

Well people tend to have more than 1 interest so

[sage remnant]

Every discussion is a spoiler so

[sage remnant]

xmen general || https://www.tumblr.com/queer-scots-geordie-dyke/779074646133882880 ||

[sonic quail]

Mind u describing it is how actors adapt into it into action scenes

[thorny veldt]

right i understand now

[thorny veldt]

true

[modern lichen]

@sage remnant finished the buried giant

[sage remnant]

general thoughts?

[modern lichen]

pretty fuckin great

[sage remnant]

https://tenor.com/view/based-sigma-ryan-gosling-ironic-gif-7777846084008282349

would love to talk more but have exams for the most boring subject ever

[modern lichen]

i'm open to do it whenever

[limber urchin]

WAT question, up to chapter 22 ||Is Adonalsium the original, singular Shard that was splintered into multiple gods like Odium and Honor who represents aspects of the original? Does that make Adonalsium the real Almighty?||

[sage remnant]

WaT answer, ch 22|| That's what we have been told so far yes ||

[limber urchin]

thanks

[sage remnant]

what's in that chapter

[limber urchin]

WAT chapter 22 ||Dalinar and the Stormfather arguing about whether he should seek Honor's power while WIT gives him the watch he needs to not lose time in the Spiritual Realm.||

[sage remnant]

Ah

interesting reveals by that point

[limber urchin]

speaking of which

WAT, ch22 ||My guess is Shinovar itself is from the original human planet or it was seeded by humans when they first arrived here. I guess the last thought is all of Roshar used to look like this until the birth of the Stormfather changed how flora, fauna, and the landscaped itself behaved and/or evolved.||

[sage remnant]

rafo

[limber urchin]

Stormlight in general ||I just heard Brandon pronounce Shallan. I'm gonna jump off a cliff. Adolin sucks too.||

[shrewd sigil]

stormlight ||I'm never pronouncing shallan the way Brandon does||

[sand cypress]

Stormlight ||Somehow I read Shallan correctly but Jasnah threw me for a loop first time I heard it ||

[limber urchin]

Stormlight ||Brandon pronounces all these names wrong. Does he read his own books?||

[scenic galleon]

Marvel is currently slowly revealing the cast of Avengers: Doomsday via a live-stream where they pan to a different director's chair with a cast member's name on it every 15 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7k3aJS0Fw

[sage remnant]

Stormlight ||Isn't it Yasnah? ||

[sand cypress]

yes

[sage remnant]

why did it throw you off

Stormlight ||Alethi names had clear Arabian influence ||

[limber urchin]

I totally know how to pronounce Arabian names

[sage remnant]

|| Alethi are Japanese-Korean-Arabian so... || WaT

[limber urchin]

I have little idea what inspired anything in the series save for Stormlight ||the safehand which I heard Brandon talk about once||

[sage remnant]

Hence stormlight has to be animated...

|| best of luck finding epicanthal folds in dark skinned non-rounded face people (brain not braining so can't remember the word rn. gn) || stormlight general

[primal mason]

I’m gonna watch persona

[young compass]

Stormlight ||Does he say it like shallow||

[limber urchin]

Stormlight ||SHUH-LAWN||

[young compass]

That’s how I say it…

It’s the correct way……

[limber urchin]

I'm going to gaslight you all

[sand cypress]

Because I am clueless

I blame Dinsey for pronouncing princess Jasmine with a J

[mild seal]

isn't... isn't that how its supposed to be pronounced?

[scenic galleon]

Yasmin/Yazmin

[limber urchin]

Speaking of, I must admit, Stormlight up to early WAT ||I thought Jasnah was one of my favorite character early on. But I realized over time I mostly liked her because of her interactions with Shallan. Now, on her own, with the rare chapters I get of her viewpoint, I've found her less tolerable. She almost seems emotionless unless it's academic-related, despite the fact I'm told she has a serious backstory and that Navani mentioned her showing her emotions to her in private after it was confirmed she was not dead. EDIT: She seemed to like Wit, but even that felt hollow. I think she also is capable of showing emotion around Dalinar, 'cause she seems to look up to him, but I don't think we ever get to really see or feel that emotion in depth.||

[near echo]

Watching Moana 2

Will I regret this one too

[crimson lance]

Started the dunk and egg short stories because i finished ASOIAF and i read the first one in one sitting somehow

the lack of chapter breaks kept me going for all 140ish pages

[near echo]

Moana 2 ||first song was ass||

[near echo]

This movies not as good as the first by any metric but it's still really cute

Music sucks tho

[main lion]

First movie had some fun songs

[primal mason]

Finished Persona ||I really like how his films get really introspective in character conversations. Ingrid seems to like to explore neglectful mothers, this particular one is more creative in its presentation in exploring that idea.||

[main lion]

#games

[primal mason]

https://tenor.com/view/bonk-gif-19410756

PREDICTABLE JOKE

[near echo]

Moana 2 end ||still don't have a better way to describe this film than cute. I liked it, it was shallow, feels like a Disney+ series intended for like 6 episodes that got truncated, stitched together and released as a theatrical film when that wasn't the best medium for this story

Which I'm pretty sure is exactly what happened so lol so be it. Doesn't add to its predacessor like Frozen 2 did for Frozen 1 but Moana is already one of Disney's best films and didn't need a sequel anyway so being inoffensive is Fine.||

[modern lichen]

i need to remake my disney tier list

[near echo]

I should do one and embarrass myself

[primal mason]

do it

express yourself

🙂

[near echo]

Still working through some odds and ends

Do I watch another tonight

Wreck it Ralph 2 might drive me to alcoholism

[sage remnant]

Dw it was p good

[naive socket]

Invincible season 3 episode 8 spoilers ||it’s been 2 weeks without Rex I might explode. 😔 ||

[near echo]

Is Frozen 2 >>> Frozen 1 a hot take

Cuz I stand by that one

[modern lichen]

yeah

frozen 2 sucks

[near echo]

Better songs than the first and more interesting conflict than it too

Frozen 1 is like 25 minutes of some of the best work Disney's ever done and then the entire rest of the film after that is Okay

Wow have I really never seen Lady and the Tramp

I'm slacking

[modern lichen]

interesting conflict

sorry man its just boring

[near echo]

Frozen 1 ||is outright stupid from the second Anna gets to the castle and never recovers for the rest of the film||

[modern lichen]

like, it tries to expand on the world and history but that aspect is so sloppy that it becomes a slog

[sage remnant]

What did you think of Black Cauldron Bon

[near echo]

Black Cauldron sucks but has one of Disney's most metal villains so I'll allow it to exist

[sage remnant]

Based..

[near echo]

I apparently haven't seen Sword in the Stone either

I know for a fact I've seen Three Caballeros but I was so young I won't even include it

[sage remnant]

A lot of Disney are same for me

[near echo]

Disney's conservative nature is one of their biggest strengths and one of their biggest weaknesses

Truly the Nintendo of movies

It makes the ones that genuinely stumble hard like Raya, Pocahontas and Home on the Range stick out so badly because this is a market proof formula and you still pumped out a piece of shit somehow

But also makes ranking em difficult cuz 60% of these are floating in the 3.5 star range

Okay I might be starting Ralph 2

If I can't tolerate the first 15 minutes of this I'm gonna go play Portal 2 custom maps instead

[modern lichen]

wreck it ralph 2 >>>>> frozen 2

[near echo]

I have Ralph 1 at a 4, Frozen 2 at a 3.5 and Frozen 1 at a modest 3

I'm expecting Ralph 2 to land at a 2/5

I hate everything I've seen about this

[sage remnant]

I would probably put Ralph 2 at 3.5

Or a 3 at worse

[modern lichen]

i kinda dislike all disney 3d animated features

[near echo]

I'm a big fan of Moana and Ralph 1
Encanto, Tangled and the Frozen movies are good family films

Frozen films are elevated hard by the soundtracks

Frozen 2 might be their best musical score since Lion King

[modern lichen]

oh i like only tangled

come on man

[near echo]

I'm not counting Tarzan cuz Phil Collins is cheating

[modern lichen]

encanto is fucking trash, tangled is the best of the 3d lot, frozen movies are boring, moana duology is boring, wreck-it ralph duology is fun but nothing beyond that

what else

[near echo]

Zootopia

[modern lichen]

raya is boring as fuck

zootopia is fun

they never go beyond "oh this is fun to watch at the moment but i'll forget this in like 2 minutes post finishing it"

[near echo]

I think I like Disney films more than you lol

[modern lichen]

i'm an old disney purist

big hero 6 and bolt are fun but big hero 6 is like muddled and confused at what it wants to be

i love the big mess that's chicken little

[near echo]

My favorites are Sleeping Beauty, Fantasia and Little Mermaid but that's doesn't mean the stuff they're doing now has no worth

Part of why Disney's stuck around as long as it has is their ability to effectively retell stories for a new generation of kids. I think Moana is better than most of their Renaissance films and has pretty rightfully earned its place as one of their most rewatched films

Disney Animation Studios operates on a pendulum and they're currently flying towards shitty dark era rn though

[modern lichen]

i'm not saying they're of no worth, i'm saying that i see little worth in them personally

[near echo]

Give em ten years to make something valuable again

[modern lichen]

pixar is going through the same gestation period as well

[near echo]

I straight up don't like modern Pixar much at all

Inside Out 2 I liked

That's kinda the exception

Not passionate about that film but I had a good enough time

[modern lichen]

inside out 3 is gonna be riley's ADHD diagnosis

fun time for the family!

[near echo]

Soul ||I know people swear by this one but I passively paid attention to it while cooking dinner and tuned out the second they swapped bodies I couldn't be fucking bothered||

Should give it a real try one day

[young compass]

not really missing much

[near echo]

Yeah but I'll get my brother off my case

[modern lichen]

soul is fine

nothing groundbreaking

[near echo]

I think my biggest fear with starting Ralph 2 is that if its dogshit I won't be able to tolerate him in Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed anymore

Gonna face my fears tho

Starting now

Ralph 2 ||does this film literally open up with Ralph doing the very thing the original film was about him NOT doing

Dude went turbo and broke an entire game||

Ralph 2 ||why does Ralph act like he's a child in this||

[main lion]

aristocats top 10 or bust...

[near echo]

Never seen

[main lion]

its fun

[near echo]

Wreck it Ralph 2 feels like a high budget version of Food Fight

[near echo]

Ralph 2 ||wincing at the giant Disney ad in the middle of this||

[white smelt]

Frozen 2 ||Did frozen 2 add to it? Lol I haven’t watched it but I watched the making of on Disney plus and it’s structured like it was an aimless endeavor and the central conflict of the docuseries is them figuring out the point of it right before release. I thought the review scores kinda showed it as well. Do people actually like the second movie?||

[near echo]

Frozen 2 ||I like the way it builds on all the characters. Elsa learning to accept who she is and reconnect with her parents without using Anna as a crutch. Anna learning to stand on her own for the first time in her life. Kristoph actually having to chase the girl and fleshing out their relationship so it's not hypocritical to the one she had with the loser villain of the first movie.

I like the fun little elemental characters and gags. I like the ballads a lot, especially Lost in the Woods and Next Right Thing. I think the movie as a whole looks way better visually than the first one.

Olaf is kinda stupid in it and the new supporting cast fizzles out of the climax hard to the point I can't remember any of their names but so be it. The emotional hits of Frozen 1s opening hit me and then everything else felt limp, while Frozen 2 hits just as hard and did a better job at holding the fort down for the entire movie and weaving the lost plot points from Frozens tumultuous development into a convincing sequel.||

I like both movies perfectly fine but I do think the second is the better one and it mostly feels forgotten these days cuz Disney's pumped out worse direct sequels to their current film roster. Got lost in the sea of shit when on its own it's one of the better things they've done in the past decade

And I remember the reception being good? Frozen 1 was lightning in a bottle you can't recapture but everyone I know who saw Frozen 2 liked it

[modern lichen]

well, you'll find a hater in me

[near echo]

It's okay we disagree on wicked too

Sugar coated franchise musicals are apparently my thing

[modern lichen]

just when i thought wicked was the worst thing that could happen to major movie musicals, emilia perez dropped a big fat stinker on that

[near echo]

Ralph 2 ||getting into the third act finally this film really made Ralph a completely unlikeable character and parody of himself||

Around the 30 minute mark I was like "this is neat" and around the 1:20 mark I can't fucking stand this film anymore

Might be Chicken Little tier

[modern lichen]

chicken little is awesome

[near echo]

Movies hysterical

[main lion]

is this real

[modern lichen]

what do you mean

[main lion]

like is it sarcasm

[modern lichen]

its a mess but i love it

[main lion]

fair enough lol

one of the few disney movies I've seen get universally shat one

[modern lichen]

its a guilty pleasure

i cant hate on it

[main lion]

my younger brother was in the demographic that couldn't really think about movies critically when that came out

[modern lichen]

man, i just checked out a song from moana 2, this is dogshit

[main lion]

so we rewatched it on repeat in my household

I couldnt stand it lol

[modern lichen]

i can see why someone can hate it if that's the case

that's one of the tortures in hell

[main lion]

fr 😔

that shit was like

land before time, bravel little toaster, we're back a dinosaur's story, fox and the hound, and aristocats for me

[modern lichen]

land before time goes hard as fuck tho

[main lion]

it really do

honestly those all go hard

[modern lichen]

fox and the hound and aristocats are like lower tier classic disney fare for me but they're still so much fun

[main lion]

really? I always felt like fox and the hound was one of the better ones

[modern lichen]

yeah....

[main lion]

aristocats I get tho

its just a vibe

that song is stuck in my head until I die

I block out the racist part

[modern lichen]

LOL

[near echo]

Ralph 2 ||did they really give the final moment of the climax to the Disney Princess advertisement||

2/5 hated it exactly as much as I expected but I'll admit it's got some charming parts that barely hold it together

Actually y'know what I liked chicken little more

1.5

Can't put em in the same tier

Hater on this one

[modern lichen]

cannot fathom liking frozen 2 but not liking this one

[main lion]

there arent many good disney sequels

[near echo]

I think this is straight up one of their worst feature animated films period

[modern lichen]

i think frozen 2 (and moana 2) is on a special tier of garbage

but yeah not many good disney sequels

[main lion]

you wouldnt have survived chicken little 2 if it didnt get cancelled

[modern lichen]

i genuinely wouldn't have

red check also-off-topic

let me remake my disney tier list

[near echo]

Ralph 2 ||Broke nearly all the world building and internal logic of the original film and turned the characters into cardboard cutouts of themselves to mostly tell the same story as the original film beat for beat with astonishingly little subtlety and none of the charming supporting characters

Mostly to use it as a vehicle for Disney corporate commercials, paid advertisements and treating the scummiest parts of internet culture and the monetization of social media as harmless side effects for the kids in the audience. Coupled with visual humor and pop culture jokes that range from being a boomer perspective of online culture to trying desperately hard to be hip in a way that feels alienating no matter who the target demographic is supposed to be, and a lot of them haven't even aged well because online culture evolved so fast this is already a time capsule.

Tron did the setting significantly more justice and without nuking some of the best characters Disney made in their modern era, or aggressively and transparently sticking their fingers into childrens wallets.

Some of the animation is impressive. I liked the car chase, I think some of the landscape shots of the internet have a ton of character, Vanellope being a kid who takes to the internet like a moth to a flame while Ralph is a gullible confused boomer is cute in the first stretch of the film before it goes on 50 minutes too long and wears off its welcome. There's something charming and heartwarming here that got buried under a billion executive mandates, and knowing the original pitches for Ralph 2 it just made me sad.||

Shocked I didn't hit character limit

[near echo]

Current tier list, sorted on a whim at 1am and reposted cuz I uploaded the images backwards the first time

[white smelt]

Wow you really don’t like dinosaur lol

[near echo]

The hand puppets McDonald's gave out were nasty

Also some of these I haven't seen since I was like 6 and I'm working off my feelings at the time

Looking at you Oliver & Company

[main lion]

chicken little is not better than dinosaur...

[near echo]

I fucking hate chicken little but also I want to protect him it's complicated

(That movie is made more interesting by being familiar with the CHAOS of its development, it's like rewinding a trainwreck to sleuth out what happened. Id watch a whole documentary about Chicken Little.

Which doesn't make it a better movie at all but I personally have more fun watching it lol. Also the animation is super funky and weird)

[main lion]

have you considered that dinosaur is silly looking

dinosaur

[near echo]

Dinosaur ||freaks shouldn't have talked||

[main lion]

dinosaur ||also the meteor scene in the beginning was pretty impactful to me as a 5 year old tbh ||

[near echo]

Remember that time Pixar made a dinosaur movie and it also sucked

What's Disney doing

Land Before Times a masterpiece and there's good dinosaur anime out there too try to compete

[main lion]

not every dinosaur movie can be cinema

🐐

[near echo]

I raise you this

[main lion]

what the fuck lol

We're back a dinosaur story || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGoDxgTE08U ||

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-12869046600151364058

[near echo]

Dinosaurs (the sitcom) ||Have I ever posted the fuckin Baby Sinclair figure I have next to all my Metroid and Mega Man memoribilia

This is my element||

[main lion]

LMFAO

dude halfway through this video

somebody just starts talking

is that like, a really low effort voice over

for the non song dialogue

[main lion]

I think I remember seeing this

[near echo]

Lol just watched it

What the fuck

I should watch this movie I've only ever caught bits on satellite

[main lion]

its got some pretty great animation in it tbh. Narratively its not amazing but it has some scenes with really great presentation that have stuck with me

fun dinosaur movie

[near echo]

I remember attending a talk by James Gurney where he talked about the canned 90s Dinotopia movie

Still makes me mad

That could have kicked ass

[main lion]

they should bring back dinosaur media that isnt jurassic park

feels like 90s and 2000s had heaps of it

and now its gone

[mild seal]

keep them gone

[white smelt]

Man, I forget that they really tried to make Whoopi a leading lady in romance flicks back in the day

[main lion]

oh wait that is her I was focused on the dinosaur

[sage remnant]

My top 8 would be similar. Fantasia, and Lion King at the top

[raw gate]

Aaaaaaaahhhhh

Goofyyyyyy

[limber urchin]

WAT, up to chapter 33 ||Lift and Gavinor are so wholesome together. He brings out a better side to her.||

[sage remnant]

This convo was so fucking good

WAT same point || The whole about "He's too young and (forgot what was there) to be told Revenge bad bit. Very good ||

[limber urchin]

oh btw one funny thing

WAT, up to chapter 33 ||Renarian painting his Warhammer 40K figurines. ||

[sage remnant]

Oh yeah how was part 2 ending

[limber urchin]

not there yet

[sage remnant]

Huh

[limber urchin]

WAT ||you mean Day 2 right?||

[sage remnant]

Yeah

Oh right you mention later chapters for spoilers to be safe

[limber urchin]

WAT, ch 33 ||One of the last things Navani said was "it's only the second day" or something like that and mentiond the setting sun|||

But if you wanna know the moment I stopped reading, it's at WAT, ch 33 ||The Ghostbloods caused the Perpendicularity to explode in the hallway fight. And then it switched to Lift's viewpoint.||

[sage remnant]

Ah okay

Yeah I understood

[raven badger]

hi goro

and queen buffy

do you guys watch any sitcoms?

im looking for funny ones

[sage remnant]

Uhhh I am not the proper one to ask

Friends ig. And early seasons of How I met your mothrr

[raven badger]

ah alr

[limber urchin]

I loved Fraiser because it has more high brow humor.

Cheers was decent. Friends was decent too.

Dick van Dyke has good laughs

[raven badger]

i only know dick van dyke from mary poppins lmao

[raven badger]

but ima check this one out,never heard of it

[limber urchin]

It may not be your cup of tea, but if it is, you'll end up loving it. It won a ton of awards in its time.

[modern lichen]

https://fixupx.com/warnerbros/status/1905288394391138751?s=46

Warner Bros. (@warnerbros)

From Writer/Director Paul Thomas Anderson, #OneBattleAfterAnother.
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[white smelt]

A new PTA joint

[frank rivet]

Reacher S3 Final - || that might have been the most generic ending ever lol , I had a feeling they were gonna have a big fight scene near the riptide ||

[mild seal]

oh it finale ended

I've been waiting to watch it all

[near echo]

Fully aware the film was a government commissioned propaganda piece

But all the same I kinda liked Saludos Amigos lmao

[wooden swift]

@fair echo this shit has me in tears man

https://youtu.be/X-AQNR93Nc4?si=YoJMiu7uiazpJVRq

The fucking plumber

[near echo]

Sword in the Stone is weird

Competent in most areas but it's really missing a hook to make you care about anything thats happening

[modern lichen]

I like the aesthetic

[knotty fox]

https://x.com/SentaiFive/status/1905327702548099162

🖐️ No. 1 GozyuFive (戦隊ファイヴ) 🐺 (@SentaiFive) on X

Toei's Spider-Man got a redesign

X · Mar 27, 2025, 6:34 PM

[near echo]

Maybe it's just the HD upscale but the xerox feels messy in this movie

I love the animation and backgrounds and cartoonish characters

It's just all a little muddy. Like sometimes the construction lines make it into frames

[near echo]

I feel like a lot of this film got refined and made its way into Aladdin

[sage remnant]

What the fuck
Fast X || Why is this half a movie ||

At least advertise it as such

[white smelt]

All the severance bros

Did you like the second season no spoilers

My friend is telling me how much he hated it and I feel like yall were going bonkers for it

[modern lichen]

all of us loved it

any hate is pretty miniscule compared to the love it has got

[white smelt]

I dunno what this mean, man

[tawny parcel]

newsflash pal

[copper phoenix]

how can you even take that comment seriously is beyond me

even without knowing anything about the series I wouldnt trust this mfs opinion about anything

[main lion]

its better than the first

I think your friend might be contrarian. Severance got popular with season 2

[copper phoenix]

it fell off when the normies took over 😔

[main lion]

saying newsflash unironically is crazy lowkey...

[tawny parcel]

White people don't say hip hip hooray anymore they say have you seen the new episode of severance

[main lion]

have you finished severance yet wombat

[tawny parcel]

watching it rn lol

finally have my computer back so i can watch it with my gf

[main lion]

ok, now that is epic

[tawny parcel]

[white smelt]

tech bro white guy in finance… I pretend I do not see it

One of my oldest friends and he’s deeply involved with ai as his line of work

[main lion]

its so over...

its ok my oldest friend started a business and is also deeply involved with AI in his line of work

I pretend I do not see it

[white smelt]

https://tenor.com/view/marge-simpson-the-simpsons-shy-shame-ashame-gif-16916873

[modern lichen]

[slim helm]

Kabhi khushi Kabhi gham || The movie is a drag , but its ok for a one time watch ,but the funniest thing in the movie for me was that b4 shah rukh bids farewell to young hrithik his finals words were "lose some weight" lmfaooo . ||

[modern lichen]

k3g ||fat boy to hrithik roshan fooled many people into thinking its the same with everyone||

[tawny parcel]

Jesus man

severance s1 ep 7 ||crazy episode||

severance s1 ep 7 ||so many moments dude||

severance s1 ep 7 ||the dance party 😭 ||

[sage remnant]

https://vxtwitter.com/ign/status/1905407009068892410

@modern lichen

[tawny parcel]

severance s1 about to finish

[tawny parcel]

holy fuck

cinema

severance s1 finale|| I would die if I had to wait for s2||

[sand cypress]

severance s1 finale || One of the best season finales in recent memory ||

[tawny parcel]

Man i don’t want to sleep bro I want to start s2 but my gf is asleep 😞

[sage remnant]

just wake her up. get her a coffee and binge s2 all night

ez

[main lion]

watch it all alone then rewatch with her and pretend its your first time and guess everything correctly so she thinks you're a genius

[raw gate]

For the next few months, at least, talking about Severance on Friday’s should be a ban-able offense.

Dont remind me of what I no longer have

[main lion]

Im tryna sever for the next 3 years

[raw gate]

Type shi

Back to cinema I go

[near echo]

Fantasia 2000 is a weird one

Dude Penn and Teller are in this???

[sage remnant]

okay now I am interested

[modern lichen]

i love rhapsody in blue

[near echo]

Rhapsody in Blue and Firebird Suite were both on par with the best stuff in the original film while being experimental in a way that better suits the turn of the millennium. Really stellar stuff

The rest of the film feels so much less tonally cohesive and smaller scale than the original though

Ended up reminding me more of the later Package Films like Melody Time. Not so much in quality, this was way fucking better, but in that it's an anthology of shorts that really feel like they have nothing to do with each other besides leaning into the framework of the original Fantasia

[modern lichen]

its pretty middle brow

[near echo]

Like I think it's cuz Fantasia was a love letter to classical music and opera from top to bottom. The comical shorts still prioritized the ballet over the animal slapstick, and the intermissions were informative and self serious. It was a concert of 8 movements that approached itself from the angle of "how grandiose can we make the dances and how can we bring the themes of this music to life in a way only animation can do"

Whereas shorts in Fantasia 2000 like Piano Concerto no. 2 and Pomp & Circumstance felt like they drafted shorts first and sought out classic music that matched after the fact. And the celebrity cameos and skits are a REAL miss

[modern lichen]

yeah, i agree

[near echo]

Still glad I watched it tho and I wouldn't hate a third Fantasia to let Disney fully experiment with it with CGI this time. We've had traditional 2D animation and digital 2D animation, and their cgi pipeline is refined enough now I think they could do something special if the animators were allowed to just go wild with no creative restrictions.

And give Goofy a short to complete the trinity lol

But also that's entirely reliant on Disney as a corporation not being fucking horrible and ruining it

And I don't trust em at all

Probably better off leaving it as it is. Maybe in 2060 when it's been another 60 years they'll have the creative drive to do something like this again

[limber urchin]

WAT, up to chapter 41 || ||

[sage remnant]

SO GOOD

[limber urchin]

He had that one coming

[sage remnant]

WaT ch 41 || And this part is so hated in reddit lol. The slut word feels modern apparently ||

WaT ch 41||(It was coined in medieval period. I checked)||

🏃‍♂️

[limber urchin]

a lot of the words in the book feel modern, but it's still funny

[sage remnant]

felt like every other Stormlight book to me. There are some instances later, but eh

[limber urchin]

But more importantly is this last epigraph I read WAT ch41

insane

[sage remnant]

I don't understand this still

[limber urchin]

Maaaaaan

I need answers

[sage remnant]

how was the interlude

[limber urchin]

Oh I remember now

On the second interlude ||I did find El a very interesting character. And he did something that I'm curious if it will have serious consequences. Like, what happens when you truly kill a Herald?||

[sage remnant]

I don't know if you missed a part or haven't reached to that part

:kekhands:

oh wait it was in RoW

|| remember the Kalak epigraphs? || RoW

[limber urchin]

you'll have to be more specific, certain things can be easy to forget when you read this much

[sage remnant]

RoW end || In one of the epigraph in part 5, Kalak mentions that trapping Jezerezeh 'Elin had effectively killed him ||

[limber urchin]

Oh wait OK ROW epigraphs ||Basically what Moash did?|||

[sage remnant]

Yes

[limber urchin]

but ||that's akin to eternal torture or prison in a way right? At least El kind of saw it that way and wanted to be a bit more honorable to this herald that felt I think like a friend to him?||

[sage remnant]

WaT Interlude 3 || The El Interlude was just him finishing off the slivers of what remained of Jezerezeh ||

WaT Interlude 3||Yes I think that's what El saw it as. ||

[limber urchin]

did you mean to say interludes 2?

[sage remnant]

WaT Interlude 3 || The one with El and Jezerezeh is Interlude 3. Interlude 3 and four happened after day 2 ||

[limber urchin]

i might be an idiot

[sage remnant]

:kekha

I had checked before writing the interlude number

[limber urchin]

@sage remnant WAT, question up to chapter 41 ||I meant to ask: should I interpret any kind of disorder Szeth may have had since childhood? Or is there a disorder for someone who always seeks perfect order and desires someone to control everything?||

[sage remnant]

WaT ch 41 || Obsessive compulsive personality disorder ||

[limber urchin]

Oooooohhhhhh

I didn't know the intricacies of that, so I would've never guessed it.

[sage remnant]

you are at || first flashback chapter || right? WaT ch 41

or atleast beyond that

[limber urchin]

No, I've read about 3 so far WAT ch 41 ||In the last one, his sheep was killed and he used the stone to fight back.||

[sage remnant]

WaT ch 41 || Molli ||

WaT ch 41 || The societal values of Shinovar (mentioned so far) is way too much for anyone ||

[limber urchin]

oh for fucking sure, hoooooly shit

i ain't living there

nice grass though

[modern lichen]

current 2025 book list status:

1. The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
2. Cromwell trilogy - Hilary Mantel
3. ~~The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt ~~ (partial reread)
4. The Passenger/Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy
5. ~~ Agent Running in the Field - John le Carre ~~
6. ~~ The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro ~~
7. Intermezzo - Sally Rooney
8. The Fraud - Zadie Smith
9. The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton
10. ~~ The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern~~ (Did not finish)
11. Orbital - Samantha Harvey
12. The Bright Sword - Lev Grossman
13. Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson
14. Wind and Truth - Brandon Sanderson

[sage remnant]

that part was my least fav one cuz
WaT ch 41 || I had issues connecting with Szeth's simple outlook at first and like the whole societal values of Shinovar. Took me more thant it should have.
It's really messed up when you think of it ||

[modern lichen]

next up: orbital and then the bright sword

[sage remnant]

Samantha Harvey sounds familiar

strange haven't heard of any of her books

[limber urchin]

Lot of books

good job harsh

[sage remnant]

ah okay makes sense

[modern lichen]

thank you buffy

[limber urchin]

I will have read 6 books by like mid april. but because of the length it feels like I've read 20

[sage remnant]

I probably had put her in my ptr due to this comparison

[sage remnant]

read Murderbot after this

[modern lichen]

read something besides fantasy buffy

[sage remnant]

The first book will be a 5/5 trust

yeah Murderbot is scifi

[limber urchin]

I did last year: Axiom's End

And the next one is....let me find it

[sage remnant]

or read a Christie. Can never go wrong with a Christie book

[limber urchin]

ah fuck i forgot it, but it was a retelling of history during the cold war

[modern lichen]

or rather, branch out into some literary fiction

[limber urchin]

Oh Frakenstein is next on my list!

[sage remnant]

nice

[limber urchin]

I had never read it

[sage remnant]

still a scifi

[limber urchin]

it was supposed to be dune, but I can't do another huge book right now

[modern lichen]

percursor to scifi

frankenstein is awesome btw

[limber urchin]

other books I was supposed to read are "The January 6th Report" and "Black PIll"

those are non-fiction of course

and before that I read Mindfuck

you all can add to this list of things for me to read

[sage remnant]

Did I recommend you Poppy War?

[broken scarab]

Poopy war

[limber urchin]

Maybe? I know you recommend another stand alone book, but I forgot the name.

[sage remnant]

Sword of Kaigen

[limber urchin]

thanks!

[sage remnant]

Strong Trigger Warning for Poppy War btw

One chapter from there is like the most difficult to read thing for me

due to the content it covered

[modern lichen]

kuang is a fraud

at least from what i read of her

i'm sure poppy war is more competent

[sage remnant]

ehhhhh

I didn't like it that much in my reread...

I find Babel better

and the lack of subtlety isn't something I am bothered by

[modern lichen]

you know what i think of babel

[sage remnant]

Ye

[limber urchin]

Oh, y'all will like this tidbit. But I had never read Lovecraft until about 2018. And when I had finished reading Cthulhu, I went to my coworker and asked "Hey, uh, was Lovecraft really fucking racist or something?"

[sage remnant]

Poppy War in my first read was a 5/5
In my reread, it ended up being like a 3-3.5

[modern lichen]

so fuckin obvious too lmao

[sage remnant]

yea lol

[limber urchin]

Yeah, it caught me off-guard so hard, 'cause I had no idea at the time.

[modern lichen]

call of cthulhu ||ah yes the natives are the ones who are dangerous, the white blondes are the true heroes||

[limber urchin]

oh and I rarely spell cthulhu right on the first try. I forget the second h a lot.

[modern lichen]

wait till you see the rest of the names

[limber urchin]

I should read more of his work, like the colors out of space

[sage remnant]

Very good

also saw King in Yellow there

very good

[modern lichen]

gonna reread the antimemetics SCPs

i'll start orbital tomorrow

[sage remnant]

have you read the where the dragons went

[modern lichen]

no, i'll read that too

[sage remnant]

funny I am recommending you one as you were the one who introduced me to SCPs lol

[modern lichen]

lmao, there are many i didnt read, its so vast

[copper phoenix]

morbheads keep winning

https://tenor.com/view/morbius-morb-morb-nation-nation-rise-gif-13421098270692945406

its worse than db evolution

[sage remnant]

Gal Gadot's acting was apparently worse than her usual performance

that tells you how bad it is

😭

[sand cypress]

Another remake no one asked for

[sage remnant]

Give the audience what they need, not what they asked for !

🔥

🗣️ 🔈

[copper phoenix]

surely this will make disney stop with this live action bs

[sage remnant]

The audience are bad !

We made good movies !

-Disney

[modern lichen]

i've heard the movie is fairly bad but i genuinely dont think its as bad as morbius

except for gal gadot who's fuckin shit in every role she takes

[limber urchin]

I haven't seen the film, but she doesn't feel right visually in that role.

[mild seal]

We can all blame the fast and the furious for gal gadot

[limber urchin]

FF my beloved

[sage remnant]

did you watch Fast X...

[limber urchin]

hell yeah

loved it

[sage remnant]

Man I was so angry at the end

|| It was half a movie 😭 || Fast X

[limber urchin]

oh yeah you're right i forgot about that

Fast X ||I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but the film ended like a cliff hanger or something?||

[sage remnant]

Ye

|| Dom and son excape to river. Then Momoa's character is about to blow up the dam|| Fast X

[limber urchin]

Jason Mamoa gonna be cashing checks

[sage remnant]

|| Then the movie ends with Hobbs and i forgot gal gadot's character name cameo || FAst x

[frank rivet]

Is it really that bad or is it just because of the main actress

[white smelt]

It’s not the main actress lol

Reviews say she’s the only good thing about it

[regal root]

Bit of both I have to guess

[frank rivet]

Lol because I was thinking. There is no way it's worse than DBZ evolution

Or avatar the last air bender 🤣

Those movies were so bad , even kid me said. Shit that was a waste of money

[regal root]

Find it funny how there seems to be a concerted effort online to shift blame on SW tanking primarily on Zegler

Pain to work with yadda yadda

[shrewd sigil]

she was trending earlier for shit talking trump and saying free Palestine

my goat

[short hornet]

When does invincible season 3 stop being boring

[vapid radish]

Invincible show ||the last 2 episodes are the best in the whole series||

[short hornet]

|| holy shit Rex just died and there’s like 20 invincibles, this is the most action packed episode yet, no stupid bullshit, just straight to the ooint|| ep 7 season 3 invincible

[vapid radish]

Invincible season 3 ||I know and the next episode is even better||

[main lion]

morbius is funny. Im sure this movie isnt funny.

[limber urchin]

@sage remnant @sand cypress @copper phoenix WAT, up to chapter 41 ||It's so over for these Shardbearers.||

[arctic flax]

1.6 geez. Probably dropped that low because of the controversy attached with the film, with the actor's politics.

[main lion]

I dont think thats why dude lol

[arctic flax]

and stuff with women tend to get reviewbombed on imdb

it prob deserves a 5 imdb score tbh

[main lion]

gal gadot is a dogshit actress, and people are mad that snow white isnt white, are the two main reasons probably. I don't think people even know about the actress' politics enough

[raw gate]

Gal Gadot 💀

[arctic flax]

She's so so bad that even in the poster, you could tell it was bad acting

Tho idk how it can be worse than kal el no. must be real horrible

[regal root]

I think the main reason people hate it is because it wasn’t a faithful adaption, it was “reimagined” for a “modern audience”

People loved the original for a reason. If it isn’t broke don’t “fix” it by changing key elements from the source material

[primal mason]

What movie do I watch tonight, Ratcatcher, Lady Bird, or Beetlejuice?

[white smelt]

The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert ford

[primal mason]

it's not on HBO max

when I get to a non-streaming movie, that will be first

Remind me when the time comes

[tawny parcel]

starting severance s2 tonight

[proud fiber]

i liked lady bird, havent seen the others

[tawny parcel]

beetlejuice is fun, havent seen the others

alos

[tawny parcel]

severance s2 ep 1 ||wtf is a child doing here bro 😭 😭 😭 😭 ||

[raw gate]

Nice, you’re finally onto S2

Enjoy, g

[tawny parcel]

severance s2 ep 1 ||the cartoon corporate animation 😭 ||

[raw gate]

Severance S2 ep. 1 ||Gotta love the eerily funny Lumon atmosphere ||

[tawny parcel]

Severance s2 ep 2 ||damn so they just straight up lied it hasn't been 5 months||

Severance s2 ep 2 ||Wtf lumon would never lie ||

[primal mason]

beetlejuice and lady bird are tied i suppose

someone pick one so I can watch it tomorrow

[main lion]

severance s2 ep 2 ||the newspaper image of them was just their desk group picture photoshopped onto a car in a crowd lol||

[tawny parcel]

severance s2 ep 2|| the better question is how did they make that crazy ass animation in 5 days||

Severance s2 ep 2|| knowing Lumon it was probably AI...another Lumon L||

[main lion]

so true..

[short hornet]

|| what the actual fuck, conquest is fucking up mark beyond imagination, he’s reliving the ass beating from season 1 truly || invincible season 3

[short hornet]

|| is mark stronger than Omni man now?|| invincible season 3

[tawny parcel]

The fucking minecraft movie bro i don’t even care anymore nothing is sacred

Nothing ever happens

[sage remnant]

@limber urchin @brave orbit ROW

[vapid radish]

Invincible season 3 ||this is what I think, I believe that he's not but when he gets a rage boost he does surpass him (at least currently in the story)||

[thorny veldt]

yooo guys

[proud fiber]

finished lost highway

hopefully i can go to sleep after that

it is midnight in the PST

[arctic flax]

not really a movie u can sleep on lol. i couldnt stop thinking bout it the day i watched it.

[dim hedge]

anyone watching euphoria? just finished s2. just mostly skipped it cos of the excessive nudity and drugs, except zendaya's scenes.

she's a good actor to me. better than most actors, both male and female, from my country

[raw gate]

No

It’s rubbish

[white smelt]

Rubbish

Bro thinks he’s British

[raw gate]

):

[dim hedge]

innit bruv

[main lion]

he never stopped pretending...

[raw gate]

LMAO

[dim hedge]

about to start blue eye samurai 🗡️⚔️

[raw gate]

Noice

[median nova]

@short hornet invincible s3 || i think around ep 4 or 5 it kinda declined but i still think it was peak overall!, cus at the beginning we also had omni man , allen, beast etc and i think it was well made to start the season too ! ||

[dim hedge]

bro severance is like next banger in a lot of time

[regal root]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1905608029099225579

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) on X

The live-action ‘LEGEND OF ZELDA’ movie will release on March 26, 2027 in theaters.

X · Mar 28, 2025, 1:08 PM

https://tenor.com/view/claire-trevor-tension-headache-what-am-i-going-to-do-what-is-going-on-what-the-hell-is-even-that-gif-4591127481771210617

[raw gate]

No good things to come from this

At best, it’s Sonic LA quality. At worst…

[vapid radish]

https://tenor.com/view/minecraft-movie-minecraft-a-minecraft-movie-jack-black-i-am-steve-gif-13691645871022200802

[raw gate]

Lol. I’m in a perpetual state of forgetting this film exists and being reminded of it

Looks BAD

But maybe a funny bad?

[white smelt]

I… am Zelda

[limber urchin]

[sage remnant]

where you reached in WaT

[limber urchin]

uuuuh let me think

OH

[sage remnant]

finished part 3?

it was p short

[limber urchin]

WAT, up to chapter 53 ||Kaladin and Syl danced together while Szeth wondered off.||

[sage remnant]

that part still lives rent free in my head...

[limber urchin]

it was very sweet

[sage remnant]

how was || Skybreaker || WaT upto 53

[limber urchin]

like the epigraphs about them?

[sage remnant]

no the ||fight|| WaT upto ch 53

[limber urchin]

The last fight I read was ||Szeth vs the woman for one of the honorblades, and Adolin fighting off hordes.||

[sage remnant]

Ye the first one

[limber urchin]

oh yeah I really liked it, one of the more unique fights Brandon wrote.

[sage remnant]

WaT upto 53

Was trying to mention this moment by || Skybreaker ||

[limber urchin]

I'm still not sure what to make of his powers honestly

like is it just ||fire?||

[sage remnant]

||It splits the bonds between molecules || WaT

[limber urchin]

ooooohhhh

my brain was doing twists trying to figure it out

WAT ||"I am Science Man." - Szeth||

[sage remnant]

|| according to OB when we see it for the first time by Taravangian's dustbringer Malata, she starts a chain reaction sort of thing which burns a table or a chair

objects to degrade, burn, or turn to dust.

is how she describes it there || WaT

WaT. Reread a bit and man this part....

[limber urchin]

i remember this now that you mention it. and yet my brain still defaults to fire.

[sage remnant]

|| They can break the bond, and apparently add or remove energy (which you can add since you are breaking the bond so by extension of that you can remove too || WaT

there are surely other much more intelligent people than I who have gone on detail of the magic system

these aspects of the magic system don't interest me as much as others

[limber urchin]

Why are they called WAT ||Skybreakers then? I get the break part. But why sky? Like "the sky's the limit in terms of what we can disintegrate?"||

Or am I confusing that word with the name of the group ||Nale is associated with?||

[sage remnant]

The answer is RAFO

[limber urchin]

It always is lol

[sage remnant]

You can connect the dots, but like the actual mention comes later

[limber urchin]

I'm too smoothbrained to connect the dots until Brandon tells me outright.

[sage remnant]

I am that way for things I don't care about but ultra perceptive for things I do

Even in Stormlight

Enjoy reading. There's some cool stuff coming

[limber urchin]

well it's better than the 4th book in most respects so far

[real cloud]

no reason for this

link doesnt even talk

[raw gate]

Money

[regal root]

Of course there is a reason, studio wants to excuse to waste hundreds of millions of dollars gambling on the chance audiences like the garbage slop they produce

[mild seal]

its sony, almost everything is garbage

[regal root]

https://tenor.com/view/lets-go-gambling-gif-3937562841362806777

[mild seal]

you'd have to gamble for a sony movie to not be bad

[tawny parcel]

severance time

Severance s2 ep3 ||THE MILCHICK PAINTINGS LMFAOO||

Severance s2 ep 3|| the very unsubtle cinematography when Helly is helping Mark with gemma stuff lol ||

[tawny parcel]

severance s2 ep 4 ||DAMN IRV IS HIM BRO ||

Severance s2 ep 4|| I KNEW Helly was acting weird she was coming onto mark so much harder than she normally does I was literally thinking it might be her outie||

severance s2 ep 5 ||its been Helena the WHOLE start of s2? I thought it was just the excursion. Gonna have to look back and see in the beginning of s2... ||

[bleak halo]

Invincible Volume 11 comic ||I am finally getting to the invincible war in the comic and I’m so hyped||

[copper phoenix]

https://www.gosugamers.net/news/74554-live-action-league-of-legends-series-reportedly-underway-vietnam-considered-as-a-filming-location

by gawd

I completely forget they didnt hop in the live action train yet

maine just keep it to fortiche

[raw gate]

Agreed

[sage remnant]

What's this obsession with a less free medium...

🏃‍♂️

[raw gate]

They need to tap into their inner Nika and be free

[copper phoenix]

animation is for kids

the success of arcane wasnt enough

they need to get REAL men to watch it

[carmine latch]

the penguin is lowkey alot better than the batman

[main lion]

if bilgewater ends up being a live action series Im ending it all

[shrewd sigil]

it looks like its inevitable atp

live action bilgewater and animated noxus/demacia/ionia

[main lion]

killing myself

[sinful vessel]

https://x.com/mcufilmnews/status/1905856742489022578?s=46

MCU Film News (@MCUFilmNews) on X

Marvel Studios has reportedly rumored to have canceled ‘BLADE’.

(Source: https://t.co/qMsY6G6KP8)

X · Mar 29, 2025, 5:37 AM

[sage remnant]

Wtf

[raw gate]

https://youtu.be/EoJrtxezg7s?si=dBZpGQQqekwXdBva

[fresh umbra]

Just rewatched Daredevil s3 before starting Born Again and I forgot how good this shit was

[near echo]

Man Tubi is actually pretty cool

Lotta neat stuff on this

Watching The Great Satan on a whim

[dim hedge]

blue eye samurai's a borefest. forced myself to finish two episodes. played it in the background actually

[carmine latch]

i just caught up to absolute batman. absolutely insane first arc

[near echo]

This was an experience

Impossible film to actually recommend cuz it's extremely NSFW and a little gross, and also a 75 minute YouTube Poop that barely qualifies as a movie, but I loved it

If Everything is Terrible is on tour again in the near future I should see if they come to Denver, I'd go

[near echo]

Jim Hensons The Cube is manic

[near echo]

Half of these will be real within the next 10 years

[primal mason]

Welcome to the Tubi club

Check out Pluto too

[near echo]

I like Tubi cuz it's rife with shitty old sci-fi and horror movies

[robust snow]

Invincible S2 Ep7 ||Allen the Alien may be the best character of the entire show||

[raw gate]

Invincible S2 ||I like that he’s just voiced by Seth Rogan. It’s like the perfect fit, although I hate Rogan’s laugh||

[robust snow]

Invincible S2 ||I was very hesitant about liking the Seth Rogen as Allen but now I can’t visual him being voiced by anyone else||

[sage remnant]

Ben 10 s1e1 ||
Gwen: "Ten Superheros on that stupid watch and you pick the one with flaming butt"
Ben: "Jealous"

LoLllllll ||

[vapid radish]

Invincible ||have you seen the Atom Eve special?||

[raw gate]

Rewatching?

I have fond childhood memories associated with this one

[robust snow]

Invincible ||Oh shit I meant to after season 1 but forgot, is it any good?||

[vapid radish]

Invincible ||yeah it's really good I'd say, it's a look into Eve's origins||

[robust snow]

Invincible || Will definitely give that a watch then I will put season 2 on hold I’m on the last episode currently||

[vapid radish]

Invincible ||might as well just finish season 2 then, you could watch the special after||

[robust snow]

Invincible S2 E8 ||That Spider-Man reference was really cool lol||

[vapid radish]

Invincible comic ||fun fact that is supposed to be Spider-Man himself, the show couldn't do it because copyright but canonically he does meet Spider-Man||

[robust snow]

Invincible || Lmao that’s actually awesome||

[sage remnant]

Haven't watched it properly in like damn 16-17 years lol

Had Watched a couple of eps in tv some 10 years ago but can't count that

Didn't know what to watch on Netflix ao ye

[jolly heath]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1293189665850916874.webp?size=48

[copper phoenix]

ok thats fair

I was about to ask why would anyone rewatch ben 10

its good but not rewatch good

[robust snow]

@vapid radish Invincible S2 E8 ||Does this mean mark has also canonically met Batman?||

[vapid radish]

Invincible comic ||it's framed the same way where we don't see the character but we are given a description but yes both the comic and show it's heavily implied to be him||

[sage remnant]

I have watched it wholly like when I was 6-7

Just got nostalgic about it

So ye a few episodes today

[copper phoenix]

watch the remakes

[sage remnant]

Shut up

I have seen a couple of ss

And hate how they look

[sage remnant]

@copper phoenix Stormlight Archive || https://www.reddit.com/r/Cosmere/s/ZGKQHmiJvF ||

[copper phoenix]

rimworld

I tried to play that game once but didnt really hit

and I like colony sims

[sage remnant]

Don't really know what kind of game that is lol

Just saw that and know you play quite a lot of games

[copper phoenix]

its a game where you control a colony and tries to survive also you can farm people for their livers and wear their skin

[sage remnant]

|| https://www.reddit.com/r/murderbot/s/4QAtd64Qbq || Murderbot Show

@sand cypress

[primal mason]

https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/1906714115176817091?s=46&t=lt96tnL-KevDqAbpgE7qDA

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) on X

‘COYOTE VS ACME’ has been officially saved by Ketchup Entertainment, who bought the film for $50M

They plan to give the film a worldwide theatrical release in 2026.

X · Mar 31, 2025, 2:24 PM

[near echo]

Sick

Still haven't been able to see the current one 😔😔😔

[copper phoenix]

cinema is saved

[limber urchin]

WAT, up to chapter 66 ||This book is delivering on that good shit. There's more to the chasmfiends than originally thought. There was a fourth moon that was destroyed. Adolin meets the first trans character in the series. And Dalinar's visions in the Spiritual Realm have been amazing - just finished seeing the Oathpact and learning that Honor had a direct hand in the destruction of the original human homeworld. And the book describes the destruction of the human world like "There was nothing you could do once the chain reaction set the air ablaze (so was it the fault of Skybreakers? It also almost sounds like a nuclear chain reaction)." And I learned the original god, Adonalsium, was killed by humans supposedly (curious if this was from a world with advanced technology?). And finally, according to this image I attached: zombie lore!||

[sage remnant]

I hope you got the answer for the question you asked 2 days ago
|| About why they are called Skybreaker ||

Thoughts on
||
How Nightblood views itself in Shadesmar
Adolin and Gawks
Szeth back story 😭 || WaT 66

https://fxtwitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1906693732876820724

Film Updates (@FilmUpdates)

The first poster for ‘BRING HER BACK’ has been released.
︀︀
︀︀From Danny and Michael Philippou, the directors of Talk To Me.
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FxTwitter · Mar 31, 2025, 1:03 PM

[limber urchin]

yeah you gave me the answer directly

[sage remnant]

@modern lichen

Huh had I given the answer then

I think I had just said Rafo

[limber urchin]

i might be thinking about a different question then

[sage remnant]

The one in tags here

[limber urchin]

WAT, up to chapter 66 ||Szeth's backstory is a mixed bag for me mostly because his personality, even as a child, is extremely offputting..||

[sage remnant]

Also
https://www.nexuspointnews.com/post/exclusive-meryl-streep-the-chronicles-of-narnia

[limber urchin]

I still feel confused, so it's best if you explain it.

There's a lot of info I took in the past 3 days.

and it's some hefty worldbuilding and lore

much more than book 4

[sage remnant]

WaT 66 || Yeah that was kind of difficult to like properly get into the shoes of.
Dude needed help from very early on but only got ostracization. 😭 ||

[limber urchin]

Wat, ch66 ||He was clearly different from practically birth. He needs a trained psychologist and possibly medication more than anything else.||

I would have no idea how to reach him

[sage remnant]

WaT 66 || I viewed it as first of how they "break stuff" (division) and sky is their domain (lashing abilities). Then with how the Willshaper fight showed it, I understood as the order who could even break/burn the sky (which then became apparent with the part about Ashyn ||

Also I love how || The most important event in their history, the Oathpact, had occurred in such a place and lack of grandiose-ness and is in their historical arts depicted to be so grandiose || WaT 66

[limber urchin]

WAT ch66 ||But shouldn't the sky be the domain of the Windrunners? Though I think it's been implied some powers can crossover.||

Also, does this mean the WAT ch 66 ||Skybreakers are the most OP of the bunch?||

[sage remnant]

Want the Words of Brandon (Like SBS content equivalent) spoiler (doesn't happen in any book) or just to the extent of the book?

That WoB predates this book

[limber urchin]

Yeah I'll take Brandon's version of the SBS.

i'll take anything that doesn't spoil future book 5 stuff

[sage remnant]

WAT ch 66/WoB || Lightweaving is the most dangerous ability ||

Can't find the WoB rn for the specific usage that shit was crazy

[limber urchin]

This is according to Brandon?

[sage remnant]

Cosmere/WaT 66 || Lightweaving-like abilities is in other magic system too (yet to be written) and he mentions a specific usage of that which works with Lightweavers.
And yeah that's according to Brandon ||

I think its the case of Op op no mi and say Magma fruit

|| Op is really powerful but requires very specific usage. Magma fruit has more imminent danger.
Similar to Lightweavver and skybreaker || WaT 66

[limber urchin]

interesting. I can't personally imagine it, but if you're saying ope ope I know what you mean contextually

[sage remnant]

I realize Magma is a bad comparison as its the most powerful fruit

But ye

[limber urchin]

Nah, it works for this

'cause I get the context

Time to make Brandon a One Piece fan