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i am such a terrible hater because i write one (1) genuinely cranky/scathing post and immediately ask myself 'would i rather be drawing hot bishies or sleeping instead of rereading this and being mad when i know this isn't useful for anyone' and the answer is always yes. and then i immediately delete it.

i respect the Hater(tm) game, just it ain't in me, clearly LOL

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The DEADLINE is getting closer and closer!

At deadline time - 9pm UTC on 17 December - your Yuletide assignment must be posted (published, not a draft!) to the Yuletide collection as a complete work.

Before then, we need your help, Yuletide! We have an outstanding pinch hit (#121) for the fandoms:
SMPLive
Roughhouse SMP
Mirai SMP - XYouly
Highcraft (Web Series)

See details here. Please email us at yuletideadmin@gmail.com if you can help, and spread the word if you have friends who might be interested. This pinch hit is due at 9pm UTC on 19 December.

More pinch hits will be advertised at

yuletide_pinch_hits, especially after 9pm UTC on the 17th.

Additionally, we love beta reader volunteers! You can connect with writers at this post by filling out a Google form, or you can join the Discord and keep an eye out for beta requests advertised by members with the Hippo role.

Good luck to everyone facing down the deadline!

kradeelav

(crossposted from tumblr, tags included.)

on the Fire Emblem series' general trend towards marrying as a gameplay gimmick, at least beyond the "yeay"/"nay" polarization.

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GYWO is BACK for 2026! We're starting our eighteenth year-long writing challenge with thirteen pledges to help you challenge yourself, achieve your writing goals, and build a writing life.

Keep in mind that even our smallest goals require a serious commitment throughout the year. While it’s okay for writers to be behind or even entirely miss their pledge goal, we want you to pick a pledge that will keep motivating you all year long. Before choosing your pledge, please take note of the few requirements we have of our members, and carefully consider which of the thirteen pledges you'd like to choose. You may choose only one pledge.

( Membership Requirements & Information )

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Pledging

If you pledged in a previous year and didn't meet your goal, quit, or were removed from the comm for missing check-ins, you are welcome to pledge again.

When choosing your pledge, consider your personal writing habits and what you find most motivating. Will hitting your word count goal early help propel you to keep writing through the remainder of the year? Do you need a major challenge to keep you on pace? Have you surpassed smaller goals in previous years and need more of a challenge? Are you already writing multiple days a week? Make sure the pledge you make is one that will motivate you. (If you need help deciding, please check out our post Choosing Your 2026 Pledge.)

To make your pledge, there are two steps to complete: Pledge & Request.

Step 1: Pledge
Complete the GYWO 2026 Pledge Form. You must provide (1) your email address, (2) your Dreamwidth or OpenID username, and (3) your 2026 pledge level.

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If you participated in GYWO previously under a different username than the one you plan to use this year, please take your best guess at your previous username—we track repeat members so we can see how the community has grown year to year.

Optionally, we request your Discord, Bluesky, and Tumblr usernames and your birth month for a monthly celebration post.

Any GYWO writer may join the GYWO Discord at any point during the active year—just follow the instructions once you join the server to receive full access.
For Bluesky, we only follow back GYWO writers who have provided their accounts for the current year.
On Tumblr we interact with accounts who ping or message us, but it's helpful to know if you're a current GYWO writer.
For birthday celebrations, we only include GYWO writers who have provided their birth month for the current year.

Reminders:

Step 2: Request
Once you have completed the GYWO 2026 Pledge Form, please request to join the Dreamwidth community if you are not already a member. We will approve memberships on January 1st (as we still have 2025 members scrambling to hit their goals!), and we'll hold you in the queue until then. You're also invited to use the link provided on the confirmation page to join our Discord server. Access roles are assigned starting on December 31, but it's a good idea to get yourself acclimated to our server rules before then.
If you are a current GYWO member or already have access to the GYWO Discord server, you won’t need to request membership. But it may be a good idea to confirm you can view Dreamwidth member-locked posts and see the full channel list on Discord.
If you are not planning to use Dreamwidth, let us know in the pledge form. You still need to sign up with a DW or OpenID account, but we won't hound you about joining the community. (But really, we strongly recommend it.)
If you are not planning to use Discord… you don't need to do anything, actually. But it is where we host writing sprints.

If you’re concerned we didn’t receive your pledge:

GYWO 2026 Writers

IMPORTANT: Anyone requesting to join the community who has not made a pledge will not be added. To ensure you are not left out, make your pledge first, then request to join.

You have through January 15, 2026 to make your pledge.
After that time you will NOT be able to change your pledge
or join the challenge, so think carefully before committing.

Got all that? Then it’s time to complete
the GYWO 2026 Pledge Form

If you still have questions, ask them here! But hopefully this post covers everything you need to know about what is required of members, what the pledge options are, and how to make your pledge. We hope to see your pledge soon!

FAQ
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• What happens if I finish my pledge early?
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If you want to share GYWO with your friends, feel free to snag one of our banners at the GYWO 2026 Promotion post.

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The default deadline has passed! Defaults after this date will require a New Year’s Resolution fic before you can sign up again. See more info about defaulting at our FAQ.

Original assignments and pinch hits #1-96 are due in a little over 6 days, at:

9pm UTC, 17 December
See when that is in YOUR timezone
See countdown

This is an international exchange, and deadlines are given in UTC/GMT. This deadline is also at a DIFFERENT TIME OF DAY to deadlines we've used in recent years. Please click the links and check when the deadline is for you. We appreciate it!

Good luck to all writing, and especial thanks to everyone tackling pinch hits! Check out

yuletide_pinch_hits for requests currently in need of writers.

kradeelav

it's fascinating reflecting back on my art situation and seeing how much has improved since 2020.

not even stylistically, i'm actually mostly thinking of project management and general peace of mind.

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Yuletide is coming! If everything goes well, we will reveal works in the main collection at 9pm UTC on 24 December, two weeks from now. Madness works are revealed a day later.

(Default deadline is 9pm UTC on the 10th; posting deadline is 9pm UTC on the 17th.)

In Yuletide, it's important to leave a comment on your gift (or gifts) to thank your author.

If you think you'll be delayed in commenting until late in the anonymous period (ending 1 January) or maybe not even until well into the new year, you can use this post to OPTIONALLY let your author(s) know about that delay ahead of time. You don't need to give a reason, but an approximate time indication may be helpful. Please include your AO3 name.

Thanks everyone! Good luck with writing, and please consider the beta post or

yuletide_pinch_hits if you have capacity for beta jobs or pinch hits!

kradeelav

not even 20 pages through (aka just the introduction) of 'addiction by design' - a book about gambling, and i'm already staring in the middle distance of how word for word this type of addiction psychology could go for basically every social media algorithm & UI dark pattern & gacha & viral bait engagement post/media & ai addiction.

necessary read, can already tell it's going to be one of those books that's mission critical.

but man! genuinely nauseated over here to see how virulent it is across media/technology as a whole.

kradeelav

"Growing up, August 15 always meant two things for my family: my mother's birthday and the first day of the CNE, a giant traveling fair that would park itself on Toronto's waterfront for the last three weeks of summer. We'd get there early, and by 10AM, there'd always be some poor bastard lugging around a galactic-scale giant teddybear that was offered as a prize at one of the midway games.

Now, nominally, the way you won a giant teddybear was by getting five balls in a peach basket. To a first approximation, this is a feat that no one has ever accomplished. Rather, a carny had beckoned this guy over and said, "Hey, fella, I like your face. Tell you what I'm gonna do: you get just one ball in the basket and I'll give you one of these beautiful, luxurious keychains. If you win two keychains, I'll let you trade them in for one of these gigantic teddybears."

Why would the carny do this? Because once this poor bastard took possession of the giant teddybear, he was obliged to conspicuously lug it around the CNE midway in the blazing, muggy August heat. All who saw him would think, "Hell if that dumbass can win a giant teddybear, I'm gonna go win one, too!" Charitably, you could call him a walking advertisement. More accurately, though, he was a Judas goat.

Digital platforms have the ability to give out giant teddybears at scale. Because digital platforms have the flexibility that comes with running things on computers, platforms can pick out individual platform participants and make them King For the Day, showering them in riches that they will boast of, luring in other suckers who will lose everything (pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/). That's how Tiktok works: the company's "heating tool" lets them drive traffic to Tiktok performers by cramming their videos into millions of random people's feeds, overriding Tiktok's legendary recommendation algorithm. Those "heated" performers get millions of views on their videos and go on to spam all the spaces where similar performers hang out, boasting of the fame and riches that await other people in their niche if they start producing for Tiktok: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Uber does it, too: as Veena Dubal documents in her work on "algorithmic wage discrimination," Uber offers different drivers wildly different wages for performing the same work. The lucky few who get an Uber giant teddybear hang out in rideshare groupchats and forums, trumpeting their incredible gains from the platform, while everyone else blames themselves for "being bad at the app," as they drive and drive, only to go deeper and deeper into debt: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

Everywhere you look online, you see giant teddybears."

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kradeelav

one of the many weird little things i've learned about being in the ex-/k/ server is the concept of "flag cones" (for when a general country flag is displayed on a pole but has a suspiciously conical shape). some are less "fake looking" than others; but for a particularly fake-looking example, see this reddit post. generally this depends if the flag is straight up painted on, or if there's more like a conical mannequin shape underneath where a real flag is draped over (aljazeera screenshot example).

once when you've seen one you can't *not* notice them everywhere in news screenshots/NATO briefings, etc, lol. ~~sometimes it makes for a fun drinking game to spot when you need something other than The News~~

there's technically similarly adjacent things called "flag spreaders" that are another step closer to how flags authentically drape but i don't see those as much in big news screenshots.

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Welcome again to everyone joining us for the Year-End Marathon and to everyone looking for a peek behind the curtain at GYWO. Each month volunteers post discussions about writing craft, life, and publishing. This rare public post is to give a taste of the full GYWO experience. We welcome you to interact, comment, and share your own experiences on the topic.

Tips for Getting Unstuck

No matter how much planning you do, there is always an opportunity for a writer to get stuck. Maybe your characters don’t agree with your plan, or you realize the plot twist is too obvious, or for whatever reason today this scene just doesn’t want to be written. Regardless of what’s actually going on, the bottom line is that you’re stuck in your writing and you need to not be stuck.

Let’s talk about some ways to apply a little grease and get your draft moving again.

( Tips for Getting Unstuck )

How do you go about getting unstuck while you’re drafting? Have you tried any of these strategies? And if you’re stuck right now and want to throw spaghetti at a wall, some of us will be around in the comments.

kradeelav

crossposted fire emblem selfship meta from tumblr, see this post for context if none of those words mean anything to ya.

( i'm trying to be better about keeping everything-over-one-paragraph-i-write here. :P )

kradeelav

I was recently reading an essay on babyfur vtuber .... wank? (the actual execution of the essay was pretty nuanced, but the topic was... yeah. nothing the world hadn't seen before.)

but what was interesting is the way said essay referred to "communities" almost exclusively meaning "personal discord servers of vtubers". and it made it click in my head of how baffled i've always been at this recent post-2018 merging of identity/community = a specific sense of moderation policies (for example the anti/pro fandom alignments) and moderation choices which made no sense to me with how "community" was defined in real-world terms before then.

because if we are exclusively talking about personal discord servers, i can see how young folks could come to the assumption that identity is a narrow set of moderation choices.

what's allowed in a personal discord of an influencer strikes me as a mix of pure "brand" (say, artwork that they draw or videos they create), brand-as-shared-interests or genre (shared artwork topics or cool inspirational art everyone likes), and once when one's locked into that kind of enforced bubble it pretty quickly spirals into myopia given how discord server social politics roll. it takes some pretty extensive "old school" moderating to keep the general server populace from getting incestuous; most influencers aren't interested in keeping a wide variety of folks in their server (assuming they're using it to make money/engagement); it's much more of a parasocial dynamic to extract something. money for access to the influencer (reminds me of the onlyfans model), other perks, etc.

(one of many reasons why you could not pay me to run a discord server lol; modding nazine's is the closest i'll get and that's only because it's tiny and full of mutuals with a weirdly high degree of media literacy; much less of the usual modding issues).

i'm not going to attempt to define what real-world "community" means as a term in contrast to discord-server-as-community (DSAC?) but the latter feels exceptionally more fragile in comparison to the former, and the implications of that sure explain a lot of current online issues.

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https://www.oglaf.com/signs/

kradeelav

watching 'hackers' may have been a bad influence because i've spent the last three days on an unexpected clothes shopping spree that can only be described as 'krad will shortly look like an fashionable extra in cyberdelia'

(to be fair i haven't brought new clothes in uh. 5-10 years??? ;D;;; it's been a while. and it'll be a good time to rotate out of the same 3 tshirts i wear all the time.)

that plus some recent furniture window shopping for my office... it's nice to actually want stuff again, with the full intent of making it happen within a year. <3

kradeelav

"Sometimes you get a fictional character that stays with you for long enough that they become Nursery Real. This is not a new phenomenon; I have no way of proving this, but I imagine this has been happening for as long as people have been telling stories. This relationship is far and away beyond any responsibility of their creator/s (assuming the creator is not yourself), totally independent of their intentions, the same way the person sewing together a toy rabbit for sale, one of a hundred such, isn't necessarily predicting that this one in particular will become someone's most important companion, in joy and in despair. This creation may not even resemble who or what they were when they were a toy-- worn into a new shape from being much beloved-- and as a consequence it becomes much more difficult to share them, because they have become a piece of your heart. (That's alright. Some things can just be for you. Not everything meaningful can be shared.) They have grown up with you as your understanding of what it means to be a person has grown. You can no longer look at them and think: "this character is my favorite part of this story" but "ah, it's you". "To me, you are a person, and I have loved you in every way that one can love." And you know, as you must know, that they exist as an idea-- certainly they cannot take you to the hospital if you fall ill, or do your shopping, or intervene on your behalf during a quarrel you are not present for. But you can nurture each other in a real way, and they can give you strength in a real way; having a relationship with someone who is made of thought is an exploration of vectors of the soul and selfhood and love that I have not yet found to exist anywhere else. Yes, they are an idea, and perhaps when we die and become an idea ourselves, we will meet again in recognition. This isn't your favorite fiction, this is your velveteen rabbit."

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With GYWO 2026 Pledges opening next week, which pledge to choose is hopefully on your mind. Instead of letting everyone stew in their personal hells, we’re running down a few of the common things the mods tell panicked participants, and then offering up a pledge calculator to help you make this somewhat difficult decision.

If you have any questions about GYWO or what it's like to aim for a specific pledge, the comments are open for all your concerns. Sometimes talking to a writer currently working on a pledge can help you come to a pledging decision!

If you're new to GYWO and have a question related to our membership requirements, general guidelines, monthly check-ins, or what words or activities count, please visit our website. More information about pledging for 2026 will be released around Dec 12.

Word Count Pledge Vs Habit Pledge
Deciding between a Word Count Pledge or Habit Pledge can be a difficult decision. Here are some things to consider as you make your choice:
( Choosing Between Word Count and Habit )

Habit Pledges
Choosing between Habit Pledges comes down to deciding how much you plan to write each month:

If you plan to write mostly on weekends, choose the 120 Day Pledge. That’s weekends + 16 days.
If you plan to write mostly on weekdays, choose the 240 Day Pledge. That’s weekdays – 20 days, giving you a few days off.
If you want to write every day, choose the 350 Day Pledge!
If you've participated previously and 120 Days was too easy, but 240 Days was too hard, try the 180 Day Pledge to land right in between!
If you've participated previously and 240 Days was too easy, but 350 Days was too hard, try the 300 Day Pledge to land in between!
If you haven’t tried writing daily before but want to, we recommend the 180 Day Pledge as a way to ease into a semi-daily writing habit before tackling a more challenging pledge.

Word Count Pledges
First Time with a Word Count Pledge?
If you’ve never tracked your word count for the year, take a moment to assess how many words you think you’ve written in the past year. Consider things like whether or not you participate in word-count based writing challenges, how much you’ve published in the last year (self or traditionally published, fanfic, blog, etc), and how much you tend to revise your work (writing it entirely over or just editing lines).

If meeting your goal is more motivating, choose a goal that matches a conservative estimate of how much you wrote in 2025.
If you think you’ll lose interest if you meet your goal early, choose a goal that matches a liberal estimate of how much you wrote in 2025.
There are no penalties for not meeting your pledge, so don’t be afraid to choose a pledge you may not be able to meet!

Pledge Calculator
Thinking about what projects you'll work on next year is another common way writers make decisions about their GYWO pledge. To aid that, we've created the Pledge Calculator. Click the link and download or make a copy to use the spreadsheet.

File > Make a Copy

Share & export > Make a Copy

File > Download

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Fill in the title of your projects, estimated word counts, or estimated number of days you'll work on the project. The calculator will recommend a Word Count Pledge and a Habit Pledge based on the information you provide.

download or save the Pledge Calculator

Whether you've done GYWO before or used the calculator, you might have narrowed your choice to two goals. Here’s our advice for choosing between two word count goals…

( Go Big on Word Counts )
( Step Back on Word Counts )
( Keep Your Word Count Consistent )

The best advice we have is to look at your schedule and figure out where writing fits into it. Use the pledge calculator (or pen and paper) to list the projects, ficathons, and stories you might write next year and consider the word tallies or time involved. Really think about what's motivating for you—knowing you'll hit a goal or chasing down the finish line.

And if all else fails, you can do what some of our current GYWO members have suggested and pick your pledge based on the associated pledge color. 😉

Habit Pledges

120 Days (Backpacker)

180 Days (Excursionist)

240 Days (Explorer)

300 Days (Adventurer)

350 Days (Globetrotter)

Word Count Pledges

75K (Light)

150K (Modest)

200K (Basic)

250K (Moderate)

300K (Difficult)

350K (Herculean)

500K (Outrageous)

1M (Ludicrous)

As a reminder, your GYWO pledge is locked in for the full year.
You cannot change pledges mid-year.
If you hit your goal early, you're still part of the same pledge group.
So choose a goal to sustain you ALL year.

In the comments, let us know your pledging woes! Wonder how difficult another pledge is? Still need clarity on the pledge types? This is your opportunity to ask. After some discussion, hopefully you'll come away with a confident decision.

Note: Commenting to this post does not constitute pledging for 2026. Come back next week and follow the instructions in the Pledges & Requirements post to make a pledge for 2026.

kradeelav

helicoprion had a fun 'mini paragraph per book read' style of book reviews that rules and therefore I shall yoink shamelessly, but at least with credit. :P

I was sharing my list of books read/media seen with my doujin group this past weekend; while it's clocking at ~71 (out of 75) right now, I won't review them all, just the ones I remember my reaction to some degree, or haven't already reviewed. Will try to do this more regularly, maybe on a quarterly basis.

Close to the Machine - Ellen Ullman (Book)
DNF. This might be the first time I've read a book by a hacker talking about suits/middle managers and actually was a little weirded out at the condescending tone towards them. There are some horrible (both horrible people and horrible-at-their-job) managers out there, to be fair; but Ellen was specifically using "lack of curiosity" as a derogatory statement towards another VP and I thought it was a little, um ... myopic? hypocritical? when she wasn't even curious at the subtle art of people politicking at that level, especially when there was no stated reciprocal animosity. I think there's some unprocessed baggage there and I'd rather read a book about somebody talking about what they like versus hate.

Japanese Swordsmanship: Technique and Practice - Donn F. Draeger (Book)
I was brushing up on this topic for a doujin strip I'm doing right now and this is one of those "nicely covers the entire topic from a lot of different angles with lots of pictures although I'm sure the actual experts would probably argue about some details" tomes. :P It did what it needed to do, basically give me a few insights as to the history, some various body language pointers of how the blade's positioned while they sat, stood, slept, etc - and at least one brief layer of "why" beyond that.

Sekiro - Fromsoftware (Game)
DNF. A buddy of mine really loves Sekiro and I promise i gave it a try for the cute weathered bishies. :P But man, mastering the parrying system is a clear make-or-break moment for the game with absolutely no gameplay alternative (running away, sneaking, using arrows, magic, etc), and I was finding myself swiftly frustrated and resolving to stick to Elden Ring.

Trickster Makes This World - Lewis Hyde (Book)
Did I actually review Trickster? I know I quoted it here a few times. Very close to being my top favorite book of the year, if not outright the favorite, at least for nonfiction. I'd describe it loosely as myth-anthropology; the Trickster archetype is a real common one across the globe and one thing I really appreciated is even if the author had a Western background, there was a huge genuine respect towards Old Woo and any culture he interacted with; didn't feel exoticized at all. "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell book-lovers would love this one.

Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader - Owlcat Games (Game)
Fire Emblem nerds should definitely try out RT because the strategy loop is also downright addictive here and it's not too far off from the general RPG premise of slowly accumulating your team, and learning about your allies (question mark?) before getting whammo'd by some worldbuilding twists. Good chunks of it remind me of Mass Effect 2 in tone; a little pulpy-dark, with some allies that outright hate each other in a cool 'oh y'all have your claws, nice :D' sense. Still malding that I "missed" the romance ending (....Henrix........I'm a basic bitch :P) I was hoping to get after dumping a fair amount of effort into it, so if you're only playing it once want a real specific ending, definitely look up guides.

Bisexual Married Men - Robert Brooks Cohen (Book)
Like "Swordsmanship", another one of those for research reads, though I was talking with the doujin gang a while back about how I was surprised there's not more nonfiction out there on bisexual men in comparison to other queer communities. There's some nuanced (and sad) reasons on why that's the case; a lot of it having to do with the invisible isolation of being rejected by both gay & straight social support circles. The structure of the book was ~10 or so personal interviews the author did of bisexual married men (mostly Western-based, though he did pretty good with the variety of demographics within that), and it was fascinating seeing some patterns occur (a mix of happy marriages but a lingering slight tension with trust especially if the other person was insecure, and wondering if they "settled down" too quickly.

No strong feelings about this one, but still glad I read it for research and first-hand accounts.

A Stepmother's Marchen - ORKA (Manga)
I kinda did a mini review in an earlier post & a liveblog on tumblr, but to recap so it doesn't get buried: like crorrin's hentai manga short stories, ASM is the story that convinced me that webtoons as a genre can be legitimately art, versus shovelware. put simply it's about a stepmother who somehow time travels back to the time right after her husband (head of the house in a vaguely medieval-vatican world) died, and she's able to fix her mistakes in slowly endearing his family to her. the way the story handled issues like grooming, domestic abuse of spouses, incest, flawed people trying to genuinely do better for each other, women being schemers and loving people at the same time.... i have not been that impressed in a very long time. lots of it reminded me of the highs of Utena and of Kuroshitsuji; that kind of old gritty manga while being absurdly gorgeous. some of ASM's panels look like it could be animated by the same studio that did violet evergarden.

Only Lovers Left Alive - Jim Jarmusch (Movie)
So, so so so so so good <3 <3 <3 grinning and very tempted to rewatch it for like, the third time just by THINKING of this; I'm starting to realize I watch movies almost solely for actor/character chemistry (doesn't have to be romantic) and while there's other parts of the film to adore (it LOOKS real and like a pre-2002 movie!!!) banger soundtrack, deceptively clever if chill take on vampires, a fun mix of a drama/comedy/established romance film where the romance feels genuine - but the very unique chemistry genuinely grabbed me by the throat. (It's not quote unquote "femdom"" or overtly kinky but kinky folks will feel at home here tbh.) Also possibly the one film that made me go 'oh that's why everyone was obsessed with Tom Hiddleston.'. I didn't even like the dude lol, but damn he can act even though Tilda Swinton / Eve actually outshone him imo.

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