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Evelyn: “We dig up dead people who often have monstrous curses placed on them!”

Rick: *grabs sword from equally ominous looking wall full of weapons one of which seems to be glowing* fantastic I was getting a bit rusty

Rick: Have I mentioned how wonderful my wife is yet, I really feel like I haven’t really expanded enough on how wonderful she is

Gomez: do go on, I would be delighted to hear about how wonderful your wife is, I strongly encourge all men to extoll the virtues of their wives with rapturous praise, however I should perhaps mention my wife is in fact better

Maybe the story Jaffa and Silver want to tell is so massive and epic in scale, that we have to switch to a different part of the country?

I remember this interview with Jaffa and Silver loooooong ago where they talk about exploring how these different pockets of human communities react to each other when they come together. What will happen? What will they do now? How do their cultures look like? They say there is a lot of story there.

What if when trying to come up with how these different communities of humans come together, the writers needed more POVs to tell the stories of these other communities? Maybe it would've been too much for one movie to be switching back and forth between Noa/Mae and the other humans and other apes.

For example. The people from Fort Wayne Indiana that responded at the end of the Kingdom...they're probably dealing with their own ape situation. What if the next movie is about those apes? The humans in that area?

Okay, has anyone here read Throne of Glass?

At some point in the series, the author released a companion novel called Tower of Dawn. The events of Tower of Dawn ran parallel to the events of a book in the main series called Empire of Storms. We follow different characters in different parts of the world, but they're connected.

Tower of Dawn was originally going to be a novella, but it grew so big that the author turned it into a novel. She originally had the POVs of the characters from Tower of Dawn as part of Empire of Storms, but it was too much! So instead the author had to write a companion novel.

Maybe the same is happening with the next POTA movie! Maybe that's why they're changing things. Eventually the events of Kingdom and this new movie tie together.

this could be like the role reversal of my Vampire Academy AU with Shane being the vampire and Ilya his Dhampir familiar/bodyguard

or... ORRRRR.... 😈 hear me out...

a kind of Jekyll & Hyde AU with Ilya being the new caretaker of the estate of the mysterious wealthy hermit Shane who hides in his mansion all day and comes out at night to haunt Ilya as his sexy evil incubus alter ego.

Also have decided that Shane's incubus form looks like the demon from Witches of East End - but with the hornes.

Shrugging off his unease and disgust, Ilya grabbed a pair of grilling tongs from the kitchen cabinet, hoisted the carcass into a trash bag to dispose the dead animal outside. The thunderstorm had eased up by now but the moon was hidden by dark heavy clouds swirling over the estate.

When he returned to the kitchen, he was no longer alone to his surprise. Shane Hollander was leaning with his shoulder against the doorframe, watching him with curious eyes in silence as Ilya shut the backdoor behind him.

He looked different than when Ilya first saw him merely hours earlier when the man had tried to kick Ilya out of his mansion while it was pouring and cracking lightning outside, no longer wearing that hideous oversized hoodie but something a little more fashionable - silken black pants and a matching white shirt with the top buttons undone showing off an unexpectedly athletic body with broad shoulders and a trim waist. His hair was styled in a different way and almost seemed longer and his eyes shimmered an elusive blue in the dimlit kitchen. Was he wearing contact lenses?

But it wasn't just his appearance that was different, it was his demeanor as well. The prolonged eye contact he has struggled to maintain with Ilya during their first encounter seemed no longer an issue. There was even a little swag in his steps as he pushed off the doorframe in a fluid motion and crossed the spacious room to stand on the other side of the kitchen island opposite of Ilya. It almost felt like meeting a different person - almost. Those endearing freckles on his face were still there.

"What are you doing?" Hollander asked, voice low and melodic.

Ilya faced him and braced his hands on the counter top. "I was hungry so I'm making a tuna melt."

Hollander mimicked his posture, bracing his hands on the counter as well. A smirk stretched across his lips, his eyes darkening as he studied Ilya intently. "I could use a little snack myself."

Ilya felt a hot shiver zip down his spine at the way the other man was looking at him. He recognized that look. It was the same predatory look that Ilya has sported often enough whenever he looked for an easy lay at a bar or nightclub, only this time he wasn't the hunter, it seemed.

Look, a beautiful HD version of that photo!

https://www.reuters.com/world/berlin-pride-parade-called-off-after-car-hits-crowds-police-say-2026-07-25/

Hundreds of thousands of people had gathered peacefully in the German capital for the annual Christopher Street Day celebrations, one of Europe's largest LGBTQ ​events, before the apparent attack brought it to an abrupt end.