Grave of the Fireflies
Oh, god, I couldn't finish watching that.
And Kaylee, what the hell's goin' on in the engine room? Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
Mal ,'The Train Job'
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Connie Neil - Feb 06, 2012 1:54:07 pm PST #17983 of 30000
brillig
§ ita § - Feb 06, 2012 2:39:12 pm PST #17984 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I did finish watching that. For some reason, I can reasonably handle the pain of war movies with few soldiers at war in them. In fact, I really like POW movies.
It was terribly sad, though, pulling no punches. And I've gone and bummed myself back out by reading the wikipedia entry.
billytea - Feb 06, 2012 2:58:11 pm PST #17985 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
And for reading matter I strongly, strongly advise against even going near Nevil Shute's On The Beach (never saw the movie so don't know how it compares, but if it's even remotely faithful to the book it too is a big giant AVOID AVOID AVOID) and Roald Dahl's short story "Royal Jelly."
Oh! I agree that On the Beach is not comforting pregnancy fare, but I spent most of the book thinking "This is set in Melbourne! Oh, I know that place! That one too!" I probably wasn't supposed to enjoy it as much as I did.
JZ - Feb 06, 2012 3:29:40 pm PST #17986 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, billytea, you adorable freak.
Speaking of which, Matilda and I saw the prettiest snake ever on Saturday, a rosy boa, all curled up napping under a sun lamp. They're amazingly lovely and they don't bite and they give birth!
The Buffistas really need a word for that moment at a natural history museum or a zoo or a wildlife preserve when you have an overwhelming attack of either, "Oh, I wish billytea was here!" or "Wait till I get home and post about this to billytea!" I had a billy? A billysquee? I bt'd? We need something.
Polter-Cow - Feb 06, 2012 3:31:22 pm PST #17987 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
A billysquee?
I think we have a winner.
Connie Neil - Feb 06, 2012 3:33:06 pm PST #17988 of 30000
brillig
Can one have a billysquee over a jillifont?
billytea - Feb 06, 2012 3:50:41 pm PST #17989 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Can one have a billysquee over a jillifont?
Hee. Almost certainly. Incidentally, I do have a fear reaction where spiders are concerned, but they're still incredible creatures. Snakes, on the other hand - zero fear, not even for the hissing tiger snake we almost stepped on. (Bec, OTOH, was seriously phobic about them, and was rather more demonstrative about the tiger snake encounter.) On which note, that's a lovely boa, JZ. That's actually the main point of distinction I think of between pythons and boas, that pythons are oviparous and boas ovoviviparous.
Atropa - Feb 06, 2012 4:34:33 pm PST #17990 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Can one have a billysquee over a jillifont?
I know people who have.
tommyrot - Feb 06, 2012 5:59:30 pm PST #17991 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
This is great if you've seen the original Wicker Man. (I haven't seen the remake, so dunno how this fits with that.)
Oh… um.
Wow. Yeah. So… this exists:
That’s the video preview for a full-length comic book mashup of The Muppet Show and The Wicker Man by Paul O’Connell.
It’s… uh…
Well, words seem to be failing at the moment.
Really, what can one say when confronted with something like this, except:
(Followed by a few awesome panels of the comic.)
Although maybe I just have a sick sense of humor.
Polter-Cow - Feb 06, 2012 10:39:33 pm PST #17992 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The Amazing Spider-Man trailer! Okay, now I'm looking forward to this one.