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⌈ Secret Post #3951 ⌋

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Official advertise your fandom-related event thread.

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3. What IS allowed: roleplay advertisements, fandom comms, fandom events, things like that.
4. What is NOT allowed: anything for profit, any kind of fic/art commissions, seeking 1-on-1 RP, that kind of thing.

Review/Analysis of Columbo's "Mind Over Mayhem"

[(Anonymous)]

This isn't going to be the only time Columbo has to solve a murder surrounding an institute of smart people, but it's definitely the first time. It's also notable for one of the weirder cameos on this show...

https://tv-366.blogspot.com/2017/10/day-223-columbo-mind-over-mayhem.html

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Official clickables thread.

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General comments:

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Based on 3!

[(Anonymous)]

What movie/show/game that you can decide if you just didn't "get it" or if it was actually a mess with cult statue?

Re: Based on 3!

[(Anonymous)]

Reality shows in general bore the shit out of me, as do competition shows like the Dance/talent things.

(Oddly, cooking-related shows I can enjoy, even if they are the competition sort. Iron Chef, Julia Childs, Yan Can, Junior chefs, bakeoffs, that sort of thing.)

Last Meals!

[(Anonymous)]

What would be your last meal?

What is something you are sick of hearing about?

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What is something you want to hear more about?

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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What colors did you used to hate?

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How do you think you will die?

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How would you want to die, when the time comes?

Come Discuss It Follows today!

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Today we are discussing It Follows!

Come join us here.

If you could have any public figure's facial feature...

[(Anonymous)]

what would it be?

Recommend One Book

[(Anonymous)]

What one book would you most want to recommend to people? If you could get as many people as possible to read one book, what would it be?

Entertainment / Fandom Talk

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change thread title as appropriate

What has made you mildly sad recently?

[(Anonymous)]

Not really sad, just a bit sad. That kind of sad that only lasts two minutes.

What animal creeps you out the most?

[(Anonymous)]

Not scares, but creeps you out.

Vent Thread

[(Anonymous)]

What's been on your mind lately?

Hamilton Tumblr Drama

[(Anonymous)]

I am not in the fandom, but I enjoy rubbernecking.

"“Israa,” in the guise of the tumblr user blueskysapphic and ao3 user iluzjonista, spent most of late 2015 and 2016 collecting fans for their HIV-centric Hamilton high school AU. They claimed to be an HIV-positive Chinese-Pakistani trafficking survivor, living in India with their Catholic Somali-American wife. They claimed to be nonbinary. They claimed at one point that they had been pregnant, and then that they miscarried.... "

Long freakin' thing where basically this college student pretended to be a HIV positive lesbian couple in India to... get cred for their Hamilton AU Fanfic. Oh, and also to collect donations for their awful life.

Another tumblr user exposed them.

EXCEPT. Dun dun dun. The user that exposed them? Once wrote a cannibal-Hamilton fanfic which makes them super-problematic and awful and probably racist somehow. So it was wrong of them to expose the scam because they're problematic? Or something. Anyone else got better details?

Family health emergency

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In next comment. Trigger warning for blood.

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Games thread!

Movie Discussion for It Follows!

[kaijinscendre]

Today we are discussing It Follows!

Here are some questions to start us off.

1. What was your initial reaction when the movie started? How did that change by the end of the movie?

2. Who was your favorite character in the movie? Your least favorite character? Why?

3. What was your favorite scenes? Your least favorite? Why?

4. What did you think of the soundtrack and/or score?

5. What did you think of the cinematography?

Feel free to talk about anything else as well!

Re: Movie Discussion for It Follows!

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1. My initial reaction was "Who runs out of their house dressed like and with heels on? Also, THIS MUSIC IS AMAZING! I loved the movie but I think it would be super easy (especially as a woman) to evade the monster. I'd just sleep with a new person each day. Or sleep with a prostitute.

2. My favorite character was Jay. She was a fairly well rounded character. Then again, most of the other character didn't get the screen time to become less 1-dimensional. Paul was my least favorite. I hated how jealous he was of every other male character in the show. He is sort of the stereotypical 80s movie nerd.

3. My favorite scene is when the BF is showing Jay the monster for the first time. I love how they have the camera on the front of the wheelchair so it is facing Jay the whole time. Also, the first reveal of the monster is fantastic. There wasn't much I didn't like. But if I picked the least favorite would be when they were playing the trade game and he saw the girl in the yellow dress. Why would you go to a theater if you were being chased by a monster that is always moving?

4. I love the OST for this movie. It is probably in my top 20 OSTs of all time. I am glad this whole 80s style of scores is coming back.

5. I love how they use the camera to make you constantly unsure of who the monster is at several points during the movie. As I mentioned above, I also love the scene with Jay in the wheelchair.

The clam shell computer reader thing was so weird. Everything else in this movie says "80s" but that clam shell says THE FUTURE! Also, it is totally impractical as something to read on.

Re: Movie Discussion for It Follows!

[(Anonymous)]

1) My immediate reaction was “wow, this is odd!” and also “what a surprise that it's a young woman running about in skimpy clothing.” That reaction didn't really change much. Still odd by the end of the film, and we'd got a lot of footage of young women in skimpy clothing. I suppose the change was that I was thinking, “why no young men running about in skimpy clothing? Pls?”

I would have dressed in something a bit more practical one I knew what was going on TBH.

2) My favourite character was Jay – she kept her head admirably, considering, and also Gus, who was very brave. So was Paul, but he was a Nice Guy too.

3) Favourite scene was the wheelchair scene. That was really scary. It was so bizarre. What was he going to do to her? Was he a complete psycho? As it turns out, not the case, but at that point I had no clue what was going to happen next.

Least favourite was the scene in which they decide to go for the swimming pool. Yes, a great idea, but how did they know that chlorine + electricity was going to work? I may have missed something in the run-up to that point.

4) The soundtrack was wonderful– just slightly off perfectly normal.

5) Cinematography – well, I know nothing of such matters, but it worked for me!


The discord between past and future was unsettling, but perhaps it was meant to be. Cool reading device, but why didn't they have mobile phones? And why did the school give out names? That had a 70's vibe.
And finally, it's an interesting case of “showing the monster doesn't make it any less frightening.” I'd like to have more explanation of it got started, though, and how Hugh knew so much about it.

Not something that I would have watched without the movie club so thanks to the anons who voted for it!

Re: Movie Discussion for It Follows!

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1. I was on board from the get-go, mainly because the whole "I can't see what you're seeing" thing is always an instant creep-out for me.

2. Jay. I thought she came off as really believable and didn't fall into the usual 'helpless female horror protagonist' tropes. I liked how she took initiative and sort of enlisted her friends in avoiding/destroying the entity rather than just sitting and crying while watching everyone get slaughtered.

3. It's such a short scene but the one where her friend is standing in the doorway and this ridiculously tall guy just ducks through the door behind her is one of my favourites. I love any horror villain that is threatening just by being there and being silent without the whole jumpscare screaming/shrieking/running towards the camera thing that a lot of horrors use these days.

I was always a bit iffy about the hospital sex scene. Like, I get the practical reason behind it, but I just kept thinking "surely someone would notice?"

4. No complaints about the soundtrack at all. The main theme is pitch-perfect to me and stuck in my head ever since I hear it.

5. As I posted in another comment, I loved the camera use here. I spent the whole time looking out for people that looked like they might be walking in Jay's direction and it really added to the sense of paranoia.

Overall this is one of my absolute favourite horrors of recent years. It's really nice to see some subtlety and ambiguity rather than RAAAAWR SCARY SCREAMY JUMPSCARES. I feel like some of the stuff that wasn't explained (like the entity appearing as Jay's dad towards the end) just added to the mystery of it.