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I started cooking some dahl and its pretty good
had some great result doing some chicken with coco cream and tandoori curry too
my father cook chicken with tarragon mustard sauce sometimes and I love it, I have to do some myself

Whom wants a slice?

>>47371
reported

>>47380
For what?

I find a lot of youtube efforts to be pretty inspiring and refreshing, like Lackadaisy for example

>>35725
you're a coward and a weakling

>>35812
Jesus Christ that's an abomination of a Jojo balloon animal. At least have better taste in futa m8.

>>35725
>>35722
I recently watched the Dreamworks Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken Movie. It was pretty lame to be honest, and it's entire plot feels like a femcel movie where beautiful girls are evil and "ugly" non-traditionally beautiful girls are hidden beauties in a lazy "be yourself" message. It's a plot that has existed for a long time, but in this particular film it's quite a step over something like Heathers.
They were REALLY banking on discount Ariel to bring in tickets out of spiting Disney and it justifiably lost a lot more money simply because the movie was terrible looking and had a very mediocre story to begin with.
Now I've never liked yurishit because it's almost never good, but unironically I think the movie (probably) wouldn't have flopped (as hard) if it actually was a romance between Ruby and Chelsea instead of whatever nonsense it turned out to be. Sure some people wouldn't like a lesbian movie but if it's done tastefully it'd be at least interesting. Hell it has a typical "enemies to friends/lovers" vibe.
Also, it had a really bad schedule to release in movie theaters all around. The new Spiderverse movie just hit cinemas and was destroying the box office in money and the Mario movie was released to home video after it made a world record for highest grossing animated movie yet. Production wise it is a significant downgrade from Puss in Boots 2. But at least it has something for the fetish-audience; giantess, tentacles, etc.

TL;DR: It's a typical teen drama movie but as one review for it said, there's a simpler, more sincere movie underneath it all that seems to be taunting audiences, like a glowing shape from deep below. If they took some more time to streamline the story it would have been pretty good I think, though the art style was frankly too janky and Illumination-tier rubbery. It's similar to Turning Red tbh, an interesting concept playing with mythologies within a modern human society, but its done horribly. Cheap girl movies like Aquamarine were better executed than this.

>>7671

Sorry to necropost here, but a few corrections:

• I think it’s unfair to paint the same brush on the examples used. Like Gumball shows tons of diversity in terms of animations styles (e.g., Gumball being a 2D cat, Tina being a 3D dinosaur, etc…) since it is supposed to be a surrealistic comedy.
  
  
• I think the style being so similar has less to do with “CalArts” and moreso with how the cited authors all worked on Adventure Time or similar productions that pioneered the “toonboom” style (e.g., the creators of Steven Universe and Regular Show having similar styles due to previously having worked in animating Adventure Time).
  
  
• Specifically with regards to She-Ra, the princesses are supposed to be minors at the start of the story, so it’s understandable why they are less curvaceous or adult-morphic compared to the previous iterations of the She Ra series
  
  
• As for the style taking over Tumblr, I can’t say for sure why, but I think it has to do with how easy and time-saving it is to replicate it on a digital format as well as animate it fluidly compared to the more anime style (e.g., Monsuno) which would require more time as well as better understanding of human anatomy that may be a hurdle for less seasoned artists.
  
  

I’m not trying to take away from your criticism, just that a few clarifications are needed. Of course, fast forward to 2026, now you have Netflix commissioning anime productions like Castlevania and DMC, Invincible airing on Amazon Prime with great acclaim, so we may see a shift away from it as far as adult animation goes, but that’s just a hunch.

Any anons have experience with transcription software or speech-to-text writing? I fucked up my hand and can't type at length anymore so I'm looking for alternatives.

>>46993
>Hemingway
>CIA
This is the kind of shit that gives "conspiracy" theories a bad name. It lumps in actual glowies like Orwell or Service with those that are legit and in so doing discredits the entire idea for people.

Why is it that in omegaverse works whenever there is a alpha/beta relationship the beta is almost the exact same as an omega? They are always weak or sickly and always get pregnant at some point. I've only read one where the beta wasn't just a shittier omega and that was it. Beta/omega relationships are even rarer, I've only seen one story with this type. It was decent though.

>>40419
>Emilia Clarke was at a huge disadvantage since she was trained for stage acting, not screen acting
Fucking nonsense excuse, some of the best film actors in history began as stage actors. Stage acting is in fact what most modern actors lack.
>When you're like 100 feet away from the audience you have to really exaggerate your acting
No, you don't. That is today's modern take on stage acting and is why most stage plays I've seen in the past decades are fucking trash.
>That's the reason for everything she did being so over-the-top.
The Camera is right there, she's performing on a greenscreen or on a set a few feet away from the crew and director, which would be equivalent to small-stage. To be fair, even if she didn't realize this, the Director's role is literally to stop and correct her and make sure the take goes well, so she's not entirely to blame.
>She also had two brain aneurysms near the start of the show
Ah, I actually did not know that, in which case that at least explains the acting, even if it doesn't make it good.

Kit Harrington is the same as Emilia - modern "stage training" except he doesn't have her excuse of the aneurysms and what not.

I'm not being mean to her, she's probably a nice girl and probably tried her best, but her acting was still over the top.

>>40432
>That is today's modern take on stage acting and is why most stage plays I've seen in the past decades are fucking trash
And that's the kind she was trained in…
>some of the best film actors in history began as stage actors
Yes and they also learned how to act for the screen.
>Fucking nonsense excuse
No it isn't, when your muscle memory is a certain way you have to train yourself to do it differently.
>she's performing on a greenscreen or on a set a few feet away from the crew and director, which would be equivalent to small-stage
Idk what you mean by this, what theater stage has audience members sitting as close as a camera gets in a closeup?
> the Director's role is literally to stop and correct her
Correct. It's also something where if it's a persistent problem the production should hire an acting coach to help fix it. That doesn't change the nature of what she was doing wrong thoughever.

>that at least explains the acting
Probably she was too busy getting medical attention and recovery to get coaching needed to fix the issue.

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>>40435
>when your muscle memory is a certain way you have to train yourself to do it differently.
Yes and no. For example when Diving you train to breath with the mouth and not push air out through your nose, and unless you've got some problems in reigning yourself in, you can do this by merely staying conscious of the fact and proceeding carefully. The same can apply to acting, especially when she has a director there who should be reminding her of things. That being said, as you mentioned with her aneurysms and what-not, it's excusable in this case.
>what theater stage has audience members sitting as close as a camera gets in a closeup?
There is Small and Big Stage performances. Small Stage is when audiences are often right up close and the performance area is (obviously) smaller and up-close. I've been to a few in my time.
>He has the opposite problem if anything
I suppose in some way yes, though proper facial expression is also a problem I've seen in modern stage performances, either over or under acting a role/scene/character.

Watched A Knight of the Seven Kingdom yesterday. I had little interest in any GOT related TV since halfway through season 6, but decided to check this one out due to positive word of mouth.
It has almost none of the grimness and politicking that were the staple of the original series, the tone I would describe as a slightly dark comedy, with dramatic elements sprinkled on. The protagonist is a dim witted impoverished hedge knight, the entirety of first season covers a single tourney spanning couple days. The sets are composed out of a single jousting arena, a castle hall, a and a tent town around it. No dragons here, nor epic battles. It does have my absolutely favorite fight between knights in all of cinema thought. Like I am no expert on medieval combat, but it does look exactly how I imagined a combat between two men clad head to toe in iron would look like. Slugfest where both opponents are accumulating cuts and punctures and fractures, until they cant stand anymore.
Only 6 episodes, each little over 30 minutes, the whole thing could have been a long movie. Its really good, go watch it.

>>47472
the show is based on 3 short stories, this first season was the first one, and the second one is imo the best, so the next season should be even better

>dim witted
while definitely a bit slow, the man nonetheless has the "commoner wisdom" aplenty, and a decency that clearly lacks in the upper classes, which makes him very sympathetic. Only a commoner like him that learned chivalry from a jaded hedge knight can both recognize the story of lords and knights being honorable as obviously false, and still buy into it by applying chivalric principles himself

I also like that you see why the baratheon rebellion was successful: nobody really likes the targaryen, they're still perceived as foreign invaders with regularly cruel crazy lunatics in power, and without the actual dragons to enforce their rule they're very reliant on the big regional power lords which have plenty of rivalries among themselves.
The second season will expand a bit on the latest targaryen civil war where ser arlan lost his nephew (leading to him taking dunk as a squire as replacement and becoming a hedge knight out of grief), while still being grounded in the day to day of dunk

>>47376
Ah thanks. I just saw someone say that he was done with comics in an exhentai comment, but I wasn't able to find any dis/confirmation.

>>47355
First time seeing this. Lovely, lovely art and a nice story to boot. Teared up a bit when Alfie and Vera finally reunited, only for Alfie to tear my heart out by being such a bitch. Glad she came around.
Been so long that I can't say why but the comic made me nostalgic for Bone, might try and re-read that

>>47357
>And lydia really didnt strike me as a 4 children kind of gal
She didnt really choose to have kids, she is just the only character who keeps having sex with men of her own species.

>>47451
>She didnt really choose to have kids
>implying no abortive or contraceptive herbs exist
>implying marco cant just pull out
yeah I dont buy that

Andrew Hussie vs Quentin Tarantino Autofellatio Contest

>>47467
normies want mid wit slop and the Market must provide.

you know, people who read real books don't start autistic arguments like these.

If you are going to critique, give specific examples.

Local LAN Rules (Yahoo):

Hopkinton:

FBI given local area arrests, Middlesex County; CIA empowered to make kills overseas, Bush code.

UMass-Amherst AFROTC, MKULTRA program for marijuana users; second memorandum, HUMINT Hillel; Ted Bundy preemptive capital offense, forbidden from attending class reunion or interacting with Jenna Williamson; Mossad at threat of own life; "proposal per wedding".

Attleboro PD, two kills, standard spy, three, serial killer; 007 films, dues collected by state and local sports teams; Attleboro football field.

Plainville Freemasons, federal food district testing; refused per investigating Spiro T. Agnew, "Epic Lloyd"; Osama Bin Laden, busted by self, for being retarded and savant, an autistic savante; "Tony Cliffton Heights", Dawood Ibrahim; "D-Company".

>>47454
Say: "MOSSAD MOSSAD MOSSAD"

Personal Background:

Tanakh: Samson, invention of women's lingerie; men's sword fighting leather thong, placed on silkworm per facesitting position; "queening".

Bible: Old Testament, Joseph Chill; Arab father, Macedonian, of Jesus Chill, through slain prostitute's sibling of sister; Madonna, "Roberts" Chinese-Jew. Myth of paternity suit. Given to daughter, Peter, "Jesus", through Judas Pilate, "Iscariot"; "Breoghor", "Biden", crucified instead; long lasting relationship, between Cicero and Azerbaijini, U'Niall and James.

Detective Comics: Firm formed per "Department of War"; Doelitz, "Two-Face", "Gast", drafted from McKinley legal dues of experiment; "Bob Kane", along with "Finger", artist, and "Robinson", "Dr. Golden", "The Joker". Confederate doctor and conscientious objector, "Ali Baba", sworn to give anyone medicine at cost of suit from Southern Banks of Nepal; Canadian Pierces, The Respite Center; "Autism Speaks".

Action Comics: Print of sons, Jake, Jiggy, and Ray, as "Lex Luthor"; "Boardwalk Empire", Nixon family, MacBeth, printed as "Superman" in recast of series; Adolf Hitler using "Superman", without nemesis, as basis of election in private reviews since prison; prior to "Mein Kempf", "Superman #1" ripped off.

Ren and Stimpy: Nickolodeon test project, per "Subpop Records"; frontsitting face position removed if Senator, limited to rear position, "Honeymoon"; gusset broken per conversion to Judaism of labor, not "hotwife", Arab's position; "Robert the Bruce".

i would like to see more socialist or anti-imperialist fiction but i feel there is too small a market

i have started to read things fall apart by chinua achebe.
does anyone know what igbo clothing looked like in the 19th century? i have a hard time picturing this aspect of the setting and i don't seem to find any good pics

>>47277
What do you think of it? I read that a long time ago in middle school and didn't like it, but I've been meaning to reread it as a middle aged adult.

i'm currently reading à rebours, objectively speaking i don't think it's a bad book so far but something about it makes me drowsy almost immediately

Currently Reading the Don Flows Home to the Sea, the second in a duology depicting the lives of the Don Cossacks shortly before World War I and into the Russian Civil War. Lots of great comparison between the roughness of the Cossacks and the land itself.