a sunflower squirrel commission for ashley - THEY DIDNT know the kind of plant they wanted to be tossed together at first, so heres the rest of the UNPICKED DESIGNS plus the first sketch ………………. !
The Ritual wasn’t flawless but it was the first horror movie I’ve seen in a while that 1) wasn’t utterly predictable 2) had me actually hoping the characters would make it out 3) the monster design didn’t fall apart the longer it was on screen
Which characters were you hoping would survive? I didnt really care for any of them…
it wasn’t that I really liked them so much as they were just a little different than the usual fare for horror movies, I chew through pretty much every even mildly horror movie that comes out so I end up seeing a lot of schlock with either dumb handsome macho guys or Oh This Guy Smokes Weed guys so it was just refreshing to visually see 4 guys that just look and kind of act like random guys rather than big stupid horror movie idiots, it gave you an impression of like… even if I disliked them I felt like they were human characters who people would miss. or something
That’s a good point! I was intrigued by the choice of an all male cast because it didn’t lean on female suffering the way most horror movies do. But I also feel like a lot of the stuff they were doing, like some of the dudes being really into drinking and having a “lads holiday” and trashing the nerd man about having a torn meniscus (which is incredibly painful???) made it seemed like they were setting up some kind of statement about classic macho masculinity, but then it ended up making no statement at all. Just like it seemed like the main character was going to confront his guilt and either redeem himself by fighting the monster to save his friend or realizing that it is ok to just save himself and practicing macho violence is not necessary to be a good man but in the end he does neither…
The Ritual wasn’t flawless but it was the first horror movie I’ve seen in a while that 1) wasn’t utterly predictable 2) had me actually hoping the characters would make it out 3) the monster design didn’t fall apart the longer it was on screen
Which characters were you hoping would survive? I didnt really care for any of them…
“Whether the Andrea Gail rolls,
pitch-poles, or gets driven down, she winds up, one way or another, in a
position from which she cannot recover. Among marine architects this is known
as the zero-moment point – the point of no return.” –Sebastian Junger, “The
Perfect Storm”
Posts like this aren’t my usual fare, but there’s a lot of
readers on Tumblr. So y’all might be interested – or, if not, you really should
be.
On Monday, this went down:
That’s the bloodless, matter-of-fact, ho-hum business event
way of describing it. Let me paint you a different picture.
On Monday morning, every single Barnes & Noble location –
that’s 781 stores – told their full-time employees to pack up and leave. The
eliminated positions were as follows: the head cashiers (those are the people
responsible for handling the money), the receiving managers (the people
responsible for bringing in product and making sure it goes where it should),
the digital leads (the people responsible for solving Nook problems), the newsstand
leads (the people responsible for distributing the magazines), and the bargain
leads (the people responsible for keeping up the massive discount sections). A
few of the larger stores were able to spare their head cashiers and their
receiving managers, but not many.
Just about everyone lost between 3 and 7 employees. The
unofficial numbers put the total around 1,800 people.
People.
We’re not talking post-holiday culling of seasonal workers.
This was the Red Wedding. Every person laid off was a full-time
employee. These were people for whom Barnes & Noble was a career.
Most of them had given 5, 10, 20 years to the company. In most cases it was
their sole source of income.
