I've Just Finished Watching Interview With The Vampire And I Can't Believe Daniel Passed Up The Opportunity

Salut, c'est re-moi. J'ai trouvé d'autres troubled birds

I've started Master and Commander, and 2 hours in I have the following to report:

They're doing the fastest Enemies to Friends to Shipmate Speedrun.

Each of them infodumping in turn, then talking about music.

They have the following DELIGHTFUL exchange, about Castillan and Catalan (as best as I can remember it):"But they're quite similar? A putain, as they say in French? - Oh non, they're different languages. And a patois, if you please. - Oh ? I'm sure the other word exists, I think I've heard it."

A guy who Jack is talking to for the first time snitches on another by saying that he's gay. Then asks what Jack thinks of this "buggery business".

For the record, Jack is against it, but doesn't like to see a man hang for it. It turns out that Lt Snitch doesn't really have anything concrete, it's more of a vibe-based accusation.

I'm letting all nautical talk gently flow through me without making any impression. I think Maturin is doing the same.

I have some extra audible credits. Would you recommend using them on the Aubrey-Maturin serie?

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My cartoon for this week’s New Scientist

I have a theory on that, and it handily also explains why Nina notices the whole Jane Austen thing as well as making the ball a little less eldritch-horrory. The idea is that this mass hypnosis thing works better (at least when Aziraphale is doing it) when it's for something that people want or are not opposed to, but it falls apart if someone has a reason to nitpick.

When Nina enters the ball, she goes to very upset to not upset at all, and she notices. From that, she's on alert and notices other things, like everyone talking like they're in a Jane Austen novel and the dancing. The other shopkeepers who didn't have such a jarring experience when entering just went with the flow. The fact that Maggie didn't notice anything at first works against the theories that she has any sort of supernatural powers in my opinion. Nina points out the weirdness to Maggie, which raises her awareness, and she's a sweet person who likes Aziraphale and doesn't want to leave him in danger, so his miracle doesn't work. I also think that he *could* make her forget (like Crowley hypnotizing Sister Loquacious in season 1), but that he's avoiding being too heavy-handed.

And as a bonus, it means that there's a bit of a build-in safeguard if you're invited by local ethereal entity trying to set-up humans couple by altering their behavior, state of mind and mode of expression: anything too jarring would snap you out of it.

Hello! Do you happen to know why Aziraphale's miracles don't work on Maggie in ep6? He tries to make her forget and leave and she just answers: "Are you trying to hypnotise me?" We don't see any miracle blockers though.

Hiya! :) I'm afraid I have no idea! :) <3

But those are the funniest options!

So Universal Pictures may have just intentionally over-pruned all of the city owned trees in front of their LA corporate office in an effort to fuck with the WGA/SAG-AFTRA picketers during what is predicted to be the hottest week of the year so far:

And the LA City Controller is looking into it:

Once again it looks like it's time for:

that moment when you’re reading a history book and get jumpscared by an eerily familiar name from Discworld. pterry strikes again

context: Wynkyn de Worde (along with William Caxton) first popularized the printing press in England

BOOK: How To Be A Tudor by Ruth Goodman (pg 13)

I am not trying to ruffle any feathers, but I have to say this before Season 2 comes out, so I can act smug when I’m right. Here is my number one prediction for Good Omens Season 2:

There won’t be a voice-over.

Now hang on. I know it’s a controversial opinion. Let me explain.

I have noticed that virtually every adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s books has some sort of voice over, either diagetic (like Going Postal, where it’s part of the framing device) or non-diagetic (Hogfather). And I get it ! If you’ve read any of the Discworld book and have this weird brain quirk where a part of you is always thinking about how this would translate on screen, you’ve probably noticed two things:

1. There’s visual humour in text form. How ? This man was a genius and a will be missed forever.

2. There’s so much that just can’t be translated on a purely visual level. The footnotes! Should we just leave the footnotes out ? They’re so great! They add so much to the world in general. There are running jokes that only appear in the footnotes ! Should we just accept that it won’t make it to screen ?

Yes. I’m sorry, but yes. Some things will be lost. Maybe you can integrate one of these jokes as recurring background events ? A lot of people are not going to notice though. There’s an expectation that the reader will read all of the words, while the viewer may not see all that’s happening on screen (although, to be fair, you will be noticing new puns on every re-read for years in the case of the Discworld).

(In comparison, adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s work are less prone to voice over. If I remember correctly, Coraline didn’t have one. Sandman starts with a bit of voice-over from the main character, but nothing more after that. I don’t remember any in American Gods. MirrorMask has left me nothing but the memory of a fever dream, so I can’t be sure. )

This is not to say that the voice-over in season one was pointless. It establishes the tone, to start with. If you remember, the opening narration is about the age of the Earth, in which we learn that it was created on the 21st of October, 4004 B.C., and therefore learn its star sign. It’s a good way to show that yes, there are angels in this, and demons, and the garden of Eden, and if you want to think too hard about this, they’ve got you covered. But if you think that these depictions are either blasphemous or religious propaganda, it might be a good time to learn to take a step back (and a joke, in my personal opinion).

But there are definitely instances of narration that would never have happened if season 1 wasn’t a book adaptation. I am thoroughly convinced that Dog’s experimentation with chasing and being chased by cats would have been screen only. Maybe a scene. Maybe something happening in he background. Who knows.

And here’s the thing. Season 2 isn’t the adaptation of a novel. I remember a tweet by Neil Gaiman about how he and Pratchett had a sequel plotted out, but even that isn’t season 2. According to the same, tweet, Season 2 is how we get there.

My number 2 prediction is that there will be a an intense heist scene during which Sadie and Dottie both try to steal some incriminating letters unbeknownst to each other.

Wanna see a funny thing ? This is the worldwide trend search for The Crow Road

I cannot express how disappointed I am in the fact that the link to [Elliot, 2025] doesn't work. And that the paper was an April's Fool. Elliot please share the joke with me I want to know what's the Elamo-Minoan hypothesis.

University really is about looking at the worst pdf known to man huh