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My flist informs me that Festivids is live. :) From a swift glance, I think I can safely say that Everything Everywhere All At Once is the most popular choice (and quite rightly so).

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Another petition, this time for the NHS:

Immediate action by Government to address crisis in NHS

ETA: Well this is uncomfortably accurate...



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ETA2: On the BBC now:

Forgotten Heroes of the Covid Front Line
Catherine Burns meets NHS workers who are living with long Covid and struggling to return to work. They now face the prospect of having to retire early or even being sacked.

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We watched the first episode of Andor last night. It was... okay? Considering that we had to pay for Disney+ we should keep watching, or it'll be the most expensive TV episode we've ever watched. *g* Of course everyone's been raving about it, so I shall 'look to like, if looking liking move'. It certainly looks beautiful.

(I also need to finish watching the Fourth Doctor, although I'm now in Season 18 and the quality has magically improved and Tom Baker is ACTING OMG, rather than just doing a Doctor bit.)

John Boyega: 'I’m the only cast member whose experience of Star Wars was based on their race'
During Britain’s Black Lives Matter rallies in June, John Boyega wrote his name in the history of racial justice. And here, in his first interview since finishing Star Wars and that unguarded address from a Hyde Park stage, he explains how both platforms inspired him to make a stand, but for very different reasons. Now, starring in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe as a Met policeman in the depths of institutional racism and breaking his industry’s expectation of silence, actor and activist is speaking with one voice

If you can’t read the full article pls pls let your top lip and bottom lip become one. ❤️

— John Boyega (@JohnBoyega) September 2, 2020

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And something completely different:

Kierkegaard on Popular Opinion, the Petty Jealousies of Criticism, and the Only Cure for Embitterment in Creative Work
“I need the enchantment of creative work to help me forget life’s mean pettinesses.”

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And today's art: Rut Blees Luxemburg. Das Offene Schauen/Viewing the Open, 1999. Photograph, C-print on paper, mounted on aluminium. (x)

The Beautiful, Ugly, and Possessive Hearts of Star Wars

Money quote: [The reaction of the most hardcore of fans] to The Last Jedi proved exactly why it needed to be made.

It also reminded me of a tweet I saw by someone who asked whether people could take Vice Admiral Holdo seriously [what with having purple hair and wearing a 'prom dress']. And there were plenty of people in the comments talking about Leia's hair & clothes and how the other admiral was a fish etc. But what I thought was that it's not really about that person (who wrote the tweet). It's about the next generation and trying to deprogram them from the Straight White Male Authority Figure template.

The kids of today will remember Holdo as one of the great heroes of the Resistance, purple hair and all. And hopefully the world they grow up in will reflect it.

(Did you see what I did there? *g*)

Previously posted links:

( SPOILERS. SO MANY SPOILERS )


And new links/stuff I saved up:

( Still spoilers )

This is excellent:

The Last Jedi, toxic masculinity, and showing your place in all this

(Many spoilers)

ETA: EmoKyloRen just doesn't stop being funny... Under cut, cause spoilers:

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Via Kerk:

Will Wheaton on The Last Jedi, general thoughts, no spoilers:

“We are the spark, that will light the fire that will burn the First Order down.”
I felt like, if I were a kid today, this movie would be *my* Star Wars, it would the one I would still be talking about in forty years, the way the original Star Wars (that I refuse to call ‘episode whatever’) is for me today.


Via sea_thoughts:

Bitter Gertrude (MANY SPOILERS!!): “This is Not Going to Go the Way You Think”: The Last Jedi Is Subversive AF, and I Am Here for It



If you didn't like TLJ, if you felt it handled [insert issue/story/character] badly, and wonder why some people are so taken with it, this article might provide some answers. I was practically making dolphin noises by the end of it. (And - believe it or not, although I can prove it - I had the idea for the icon before reading the article!)

And for those that would like the icon - as usual free to good homes, but please credit - I made a US version too:

Saw it on Tuesday, but haven't had time to write anything.

And still not sure WHAT to write.

But basically, I think it's my favourite out of all of them. It had that *something* which pings me; interesting, complicated somethings, which meant that when the movie was over, all I wanted to do was for it to start straight back up again. If it wasn't so horrifically expensive to go to the cinema I'd watch it many times. Instead I guess I'll have to wait months for the DVD. :(

Vox has a v good article (WITH MANY SPOILERS): The “backlash” against Star Wars: The Last Jedi, explained
Why the latest film in the galaxy-spanning franchise has proved so unexpectedly polarizing.

Which was useful since my other half is one of those disgruntled fans (he has loved it since he was a boy and queued round the block to watch the originals etc etc), so I am just ignoring him. And anyway, we tend to like different things.

Above everything else, however, I shall recommend Kylo Ren's twitter:

Emo Kylo Ren

It is hilarious (and spoilery) and I love it to pieces.