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Also I hope Cooper and Cigarette are doing well

thanks and they are doing just fine :o)

Nickname: Light Gender/pronouns: She/her Star sign: Aquarius Height: 1.60m, concerts are a challenge, honestly! Birthday: January 29th  Favorite bands: I always want to rant around this question but I will keep it simple for once, lmao. Rrrrrrrrammstein, The Clash, Frank Turner, The Cure. Favorite solo artist: These questions! OMG. I will say Jeremy Enigk, probably. Song stuck in your head: A dumb song a friend from work kept singing all week called “Compré una cantina” that literally means “I bought a bar”. Don’t listen to it 😂 Last movie you watched?: The Shape of Water. Nice job Guillermo, nice job *is proud in spanish* Last show?: I just finished Vikings season 4 (IVAAAAR!) Why did you create your blog?: Initially for art and design inspiration. Later when I turned it into a Rammstein blog, like come on, this doesn’t need explanation *stops typing to start a Flake dance* What do you post?: I try to keep this Rammstein only but occasionally post music, quotes, aesthetics and shitposts. Last thing you googled?: “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers metal cover” LMAO, I wanted to prove to a friend that the original song was already metal and therefore metal was sometimes embraced by society without even noticing. Why am I like this? 😂 Other blogs: Nope. AO3: Nein. URL?: My name is actually Light. I love lightning and thunder (these are too some of my favorite words in english) and also music by The Go! Team and We Were Promised Jetpacks. I follow: 176 blogs. I am missing the world! Followers: 626, I am so grateful to you guys! ❤️ Average hours of sleep: about 6 Lucky number: I don’t think I have one, but I like 9 Instruments: I used to play bass and keyboards. I don’t do it anymore thou. Learn guitar is on bucket list. What are you wearing?: Pajamas. I am supposed to be sleeping right now, lol Dream job: I really enjoy being a designer but I know I want to do something more music or social related. Dream trip: Germany,  Sweden, Brazil (yes youuuu! ❤️ @sturmxundxdrang)  Favorite food: Most food from breakfasts! and I recently eat a lot of celery (whaaat?) Significant other?: My bed, food, Chrissy Schneider and Vamp (what, only one?) Last book I read: I am still reading the TLOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring. Slow but steady, promise. Top 3 fictional universes: Rowling’s (omg, what if it’s real and I am a muggle?) I wish there were chocobos from the Final Fantasy franchise and I am a little low of ideas right now.

A little while ago I had a really bad game. I got my ass handed to me by a better player and most of my team started flaming me, pinging me and telling the enemy team to report me. I'll never understand why some people get so mad in normals. Normals are where people go to learn and try to improve away from the seriousness of ranked! Everyone loses once in a while. Don't bully and harass people for having ONE bad game.

So Strove and I went to see the new IT film the other day. It was a slightly different experience for both of us, with myself being a long-time fan of IT, and horror in general, and Strove being almost completely new to the whole thing. Of course, he jumped plenty, and I definitely didn’t...

I was personally really sceptical for the longest time, I was almost completely convinced that Hollywood was going to ruin one of my favourite old movies (/miniseries, whatever). But actually, I was really impressed - especially so by Bill Skarsgård’s portrayal of Pennywise. Not only did he do an amazing job, but I always find it really interesting when actors take something involuntary that may be seen as a hindrance and turn it into part of the act. Bill’s lazy eye and prosthetic-teeth-induced drooling were utilised really damn well to turn Pennywise into the perfect, noticeably inhuman monster that he should be. As much as I believe Tim Curry’s Pennywise is wonderful in his own ways, Bill’s portrayal was at least just as good, if not better in some manners.

One thing that really stood out to me, without spoiling too much, was the actual implication of the phrase “you’ll float too”. In the original miniseries, it only ever seemed to be a reference to balloons, but I was really impressed to see that the phrase actually had meaning in the new film. I haven’t read the book yet (it’s in my list, I promise), so I don’t know if that was from the book or just made for the film, but it was shocking and really cool to see nonetheless.

Speaking of phrases, I have to mention that I was really happy when Pennywise said “beep beep, Richie!” in the new movie. I appreciated the nod to Tim Curry’s Pennywise there.

Overall... I expected this film to be a mess of cheap jumpscares and tryhardy acting, but was really pleasantly surprised. I had a great time, and I’m pretty sure Strove did too (which is good, because it seemed like he wasn’t interested the first time I suggested going to see it).

~Doll

Strove here, going to throw my two cents in here too. As mentioned im not a big horror fan nor Stephen King fan nor IT fan so this was far from my usual viewing. That being said i did really quite enjoy it. When it comes to horror i often dont see the point in cheap scares just for the sake of it being a horror film, for me there has got to be something else. This could be a black comedy or a horror with some proper character development and story. IT was the latter, combining, almost in equal parts, an 80s style coming of age film and well done horror.

Pacing was good, characters were fairly fleshed out despite the very limited time spend on each one. Sure they could have taken a little longer to develop them but they all certainly have their own characters and can be described without saying what they look like or what they do which is always a good test for character development. Horror was quite light on cheap scares instead going for a lot of uncanny valley and general uneasiness. Nicely acted, some great visual work, good balance between horror and story.

So yeah, despite not being a big horror fan i did enjoy it a fair bit.

Oh and for the record Doll jumped first at the message telling folks to turn off their phones... Many wincing faces and tense expressions were had by my girl...