#chibisashimi

10th Anniversary is, IMO, the best iteration; they’re called the Dream Cast for a reason LOL

I’m glad I sparked your interest in Les Mis again! Also, thanks so much!! BnR will continue to keep trucking on, so long as Webtoon will have me 😂😂😂

Just looked them up as well as the term “vanity publishing,” which I had not heard before, and…..yeah, I think I’m going to pass.

From what I can tell, I’d basically be paying them for exposure and not much else. The money I’d pay, which their website states up front I probably won’t earn back, is easily equal to what I’d be earning in royalties over the course of a year just by sticking with my current system.

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He sounds like a GOOD BOY and a FRIEND and one I would very much like to meet and give bonks.

oooooh, I used to love that movie. I believe there's a short ton of academic writing on its homosexual themes...

@chibisashimi requested: “a pretty, frothy Sense and Sensibility type fake movie staring Nicole Beharie, Chadwick Boseman, Gina Torres and Lawrence Fishburne.”

The music that came up: Postmodern Jukebox’s cover of Rhianna’s We Found Love

Yellow Diamonds -- When Lord Willoughby dies quite suddenly of a fever, the estate is set into an uproar.  His only two sons, Arthur and Fredrick (Fishburne and Boseman), had a falling out with the family ten years ago and have not been home since.  Rumors have swirled since they day they left -- of the great tragedy that caused the family to scatter to the winds, of fathers betrayed and sons disowned -- but no one has ever been able to confirm the truth of it all.

Now both of the prodigal sons must return home -- each having made something of themselves, each having married, each having reason to think their claim on the estate is stronger than the other.  Their first meeting ends most unfortunately with raised voices and ugly recriminations.

Now their wives -- Isobella (Torres), a naturalist who would rather spend time with her flowers and bees than at balls, and Beatrice (Beharie), the daughter of a Carribean governor whose fiery pen is well-known, even in these country hills -- must forge a friendship and find a way to bring their newfound family  together, to bring old secrets to light, and to put old jealousies to rest.

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Well, we've already seen Gereon in patrolman drag at the play in season 2. I was thinking it would take something really awful and desperate to get him into Cabaret drag, but when duty calls, Gereon heels. In the name of the republic and all, I think the pretty boy from Cologne would take it on the chin, so to speak.

Good Lord

This is making me want to resurrect my mythology about the MC in Cabaret who died in the war and came back just to die in the next one. I think this is relating so well because Gereon's story is a descent, from living Cologne to dead Berlin. To be in Berlin is to be dead, and subject to the rule of stranger kings. That's why Helga doesn't fit. She's alive, and she looks it, compared to Lotte, with Theda Bara eyes, and poor Grete, whose a twitching corpse by the ep 16.

Oooooohhh. Oohh interesting. A city of the dead, and the dead keep it. God that’s so true about Helga, almost like she can’t even SEE that everyone around her is dying (her almost spookily blind response when Gereon at last rises back up from a dose looking like a whole ghost, comes to mind). And Lotte’s Theda Bara eyes yes!

Anyway I also appreciate this Cabaret mythology very much, which has additionally reminded me of a thought I had while running to ‘Wannsee Weise’ the other day: