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first thing is, everything about this movie is a tired cliche. from the opening scene where we see old people staring at younger photos of themselves, old timey music singing about nostalgia, flashback sequences, the whole thing felt like a special flashback episode of a soap opera tv series.

i remembered that the reviews had mentioned that the whole premise of harry's character getting married to corrin's while having this gay affair and that it seemed unnecessary and cliched. when reading those reviews i was a bit confused and gave the author and writers of this movie leeway because this was in the 60s so obviously gay guys were more likely to settle down with women and fake being straight while having affairs.

but having watched it i totally get what they meant, because the entire premise of this movie with harry deciding to make this a threeway relationship and get married made absolutely no sense. it would've been way more interesting for harry's character to already be married and then to catch dawson's character in the act of something and then become fascinated and obsessed with him in that way. anything to make these relationships to feel urgent and interesting. there didn't feel like any real pressure for him to do all of this. no pressure from his family, no pressure from the policing agency, nobody almost catching them forcing him to need to do this. once again, instead of creating urgency or a genuine reason to care about this dilemma, it came across forced and stupid and you just didn't care about it, because why should you.

also his whole interest in art and how they first meet feels really dumb. like i said, it would've been way more interesting for them to meet because dawson was caught with dudes or committing some type of offense. but having them sort of know each other casually because he's a cop even though his character obviously hates cops and then they start talking about art is just boring. why not have harry's character be interested in art and be pursuing it on his own and making mistakes and not really knowing what he's doing and maybe he then meets dawson and then sees him in an art class or vice versa. have this interest feel real. have harry's interest in him feel like something he's needed for a while. every piece of this story could've been made more compelling and instead we got the most trite unbelievable narrative instead.

harry styles is a terrible actor. when i saw people describe him as "just being there" in a scene i assumed they meant that he was sort of a background presence and didn't detract from the air in a scene, but he fucking punches the oxygen out of every scene we see him in. it's like he gives every scene covid oxygen depletion. i cannot believe there's anyone who gave him any positive reviews on his acting. he has zero screen presence. zero charisma. he's a vacant black hole of personality. there's no body language, no facial expressions, you will find soap opera actors who give more and feel more tempered when they're walking in the background of a scene than in this.

but the absolute worst thing about him is his voice acting. he reads scripts like the kids in class would read out shakespeare when they could barely read. it's all just chunks of dialogue and there's zero emotion, zero passion, zero nuance. he says everything in the same flat way. he is a fucking disaster of an actor. so many moments that were meant to be serious and you have to laugh because he's so fucking diabolical. that first blowjob scene between them where harry says "i don't know what's happening" just fucking hilarious. i cannot believe it's possible to say those words in a supposed passionate tense sexy encounter where we're meant to feel propelled into their chemistry and he's sounding like a child called up in class to explain quadratic equations. every romantic scene in this movie is a disaster when you can see his face and hear his voice. everything becomes hilarious. that other scene of him being drunk and yelling. it's all so fucking goofy. "don't. please". how did anyone on set just let these things keep happening?

HARRY IS A TERRIBLE KISSER. we've seen him giving three major kisses so far in public or onscreen and they're all fucking terrible. the first kiss he gives here is that weird face devouring one. it's like he thinks trying to demonstrate huge passion will create sexual chemistry and a beautiful onscreen relationship. instead he's like some alien character trying to deskin other living beings. and that would've been a way more interesting movie. the first sex scene in bed and he does his face devouring thing. he doesn't let kisses build up, he doesn't let this seem shy or timid or awkward, he doesn't know how to engage and respond and flow with the other person which we saw too with emrata, it's just full on face devouring and this rapid passionate stuff that doesn't feel like it goes with the vibes of the characters or scene. the kisses are always about him and him acting like he's trying to win some type of contest. the other person barely exists to him. it's another moment where you either cringe or laugh.

i also get why all the reviewers critiqued his queerbaiting in general in this and how it perhaps explains why he's incapable of showing any undercurrent or complexity or turmoil or second layer to his character in any of this. there's absolutely no credibility to the idea he relates to this character or to any part of this storyline. he really doesn't even pretend to struggle in this movie. you never feel any sort of complexity or yearning or undercurrent. this man just walked into the scenes every day and sat there and got paid and went home. the fact he thought and was told by so many people he could become a famous actor is symptomatic of how nothing fucking matters anymore in society. your connections and industry swagger is all that people need.

 Whether it is in a movie, show, game, or other media, some of the most iconic familiars for mage characters have had distinctive personalities that resonate with the audience.

One such archetypical familiar is the familiar that thinks it is in charge. These so-called egotists are either pampered pets that demand attention and care, or perhaps their magically-granted intelligence came with delusions of grandeur, believing that their magic companion is their servant.

Heck, perhaps sometimes there is some merit to this belief, especially when it comes to the familiars of witches or shamans, which serve as the bridge between the mage and the otherworldly beings that entreat for power.

Others still might be familiars of the magical mentor sort, such as those that guide Chosen One Paladins and Magical Children Vigilantes, who demand obedience in addition to attention to their tutelage.

Regardless of how grounded in reality the familiar’s sense of superiority is, it is up to the mage with how they deal with it. Perhaps they also believe the mage is in charge, or perhaps they merely humor them. Others may clash with their familiars constantly, which may lead to interesting conflict, but remember that unless it is for story reasons, the familiar probably shouldn’t completely deny their services in pursuit of the party’s goals.

 Normally, a familiar grants their master enhanced senses and a minor boost to a skill, save, or other minor ability. However, these pampered creatures instead bolster themselves with such things, drawing upon the abilities and associations of their species to benefit themselves.

However, they do learn to directly communicate with their master much faster, all the better to give orders and make demands of them.

Additionally, while a normal bond allows the mage to share spells they can normally only cast on themselves, these familiars can instead demand that their companion cast beneficial spells on them from afar, letting them cast buffs that normally require a touch, and so on.

What’s more, rather than letting their mage scry upon them, they instead subvert the bond to scry on them instead, which can come in handy if they become captured, as long as other party members can understand the familiar, anyway.

This archetype inverts the purpose of many familiar abilities of the, well, familiar. The uses for this are not immediately obvious, though. If you’re going for a build centered around buffing your familiar, however, this can have plenty of uses. This archetype can’t stack with the mauler archetype, so rather than buffing them as a combat familiar, instead, they can make excellent scouts, social skill or general skill monkey, and so on.

 The major conflict that this archetype generates is the fact that the familiar in question believes it is in charge, and unless you retrain out of it, it is not likely to change. In fact, retraining out of it could be a perfect way to give mechanical benefit to a familiar growing to respect their caster. In any case, the familiar and caster will have to find a way to get along in order to function, and when they cannot, it might be an entire side quest or storyline to convince them to work together.

  King Tillamook is an imposing foot and a half tall, but that doesn’t stop him from attempting to assert his will on the world, the small monkey relying upon his “jester”, the mirthful vanara wizard Lasshi to interact with the world. For his part, Lasshi finds this all hilarious, playing up his role as a mere servant to throw off his foes.

 Most quasits at least pretend to be lowly, if vicious servants under their master when called to serve as familiars. Apparently nobody told that to Akkibashanag, servant of the fiend-conjuring sorcerer Kovvik, who stokes the diminutive demon’s ego, pretending that all of his plots are the quasit’s ideas, and often convinces him to “inspect” the defenses of their hideout: living fiendish traps called urannags.

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