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Any idea if the Arrow Video 4K bluray of The Long Kiss Goodnight has color grading closer to the original DVD release or the older blu-ray? I'm thinking about getting (once I check my blu-ray player's specs, but if it doesn't look like the DVD release I'll pass on it (imho the earlier blu-ray omitted color grading from scenes and gave everything a kinda washed out look like the Bourne films).

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Films watched Matariki weekend

The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)

Part 1 of my weekend of revenge!! Although the film spent quite a long time pre-revenge, which was a little bit frustrating to me. I’m not watching a Count of Monte Cristo adaptation for Dantès’ pre-Count life.

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Ballerina (2025)

Revenge part 2, the John Wick spinoff. I’ve only seen the first and last John Wick movies, so some of the worldbuilding stuff may have gone over my head.

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The Old Guard 2 (2025):

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Western Bingo Fest

allbingo is hosting a Western Bingo Fest for the month of July, and I couldn't resist jumping in. I know I still have several unfinished bingo cards that I need to get done, but I can't pass up the chance to indulge in my love of old westerns.

Current Music: Now I'm All Messed Up // Tegan and Sara

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New Vid: You Oughta Know (BtVS)

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Title: You Oughta Know
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Co-Vidder:

periru3
Music: "You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morissette
Length: 4:08
Summary: I'm not gonna fade as soon as you close your eyes.
Notes: Part 3 of Jagged Little Slayer

So much pronoun confusion! But you can't exactly switch to the more appropriately pronouned Broadway version when you're making a vid album. Pronouns aside, we knew this had to be a Buffy/Faith vid right away, and that it should be framed by "Who Are You?" and "This Year's Girl," focused on Faith's resentment when she wakes from her coma and sees how Buffy's life has gone on while she's lost everything. The emphasis on season 4 did mean (a) that we vidded a lot more Riley than anticipated, lol, and also (b) that we left a lot of great season 3 clips on the cutting room floor, though, which is what led to this vid thrown together from the leftovers folder.

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Squid Game s3 e5

I am not going to watch the final episode tonight, but this post is just to say

finally

( finally )

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REC: Day by Day by surprisepink (Our Flag Means Death, Stede Bonnet/Izzy Hands)

Fandom 50 #22

Day by Day by

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Fandom: Our Flag Means Death
Ship: Stede Bonnet/Izzy Hands
Medium: Fic
Length: 1361 words
Rating: Teen
My Bookmark Tags: slice of life, romance, humour, happy ending, established relationship, izzy lives, future, flirtation, compatibility, service
Summary: A typical raid for Captain Bonnet and his new first mate.

Excerpt:

“I’m getting the hang of this, if I do say so myself,” says Stede, cheerily.

“And you do.”

“What’s that, Izzy?’

“Say so yourself.” The man looks entirely unimpressed, but it does take a lot to impress Izzy. Stede has accepted it by this point, and knows not to take it personally. Knows, too, that if Izzy actually wasn’t at least a little happy with him, he could leave the ship just about anywhere and find another pirate crew to join. And yet, port after port, he doesn’t.

And all Stede had ever wanted was for people to stay.

This is everything I love about the idea of Stede and Izzy together on the Revenge, with Stede captaining and Izzy serving as his first mate. The way they rile each other up is perfect, tempered to just the right heat by a better understanding of each other. Izzy's ways of trying to serve Stede while keeping his ego in check are moving, and so is Stede's growing sense of what he's doing and what it means.

The story's funny, with a comedic moment early on that made me laugh out loud, and the sexual chemistry between Stede and Izzy absolutely crackles. This one really made my day.

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film: phantom (2023)

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I discovered yesterday that the 2023 movie Phantom is now on Viki! (I think it might've been there since Spring, but I only noticed now) It's one of the many adaptations of The Message and the most actiony and texually queer of them.