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Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 1d

And he's desperately trying to shield his sister from the ugliness around them

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 3d

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 2d

"Never fortune did play a subtler game".

Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 3d

Next line is good too -
"Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow
That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow"

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 3d

Rest in peace Diane x

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Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 3d

How cool! That third photo is at The George Inn, which dates from the 17th C. and where I may have spent too much time. But so did Dickens ;)

Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 3d

I'm certain there's a cat in there somewhere

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 3d

This workshop will initiate with people from Mexico, Latin America and Europe to strengthen the ties of stop motion and collaboration and, in exchange, education will be provided for free for one Mexican / Latinamerican student for the first ten years also.

Cartoon Brew @cartoonbrew.bsky.social · 4d

Guillermo del Toro, Netflix, and Gobelins have teamed to open a stop-motion studio in Paris. The endeavor shares a kindred spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and will honor stop-motion legend Mark Gustafson.
www.cartoonbrew.com/stop-motion/...

Guillermo Del Toro, Netflix, Gobelins Team On Stop-Motion Studio

The new Paris studio shares a stop-motion spirit with Mexico's El Taller del Chucho, also co-founded by del Toro, and honors Mark Gustafson’s legacy.

www.cartoonbrew.com

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 4d

Netflix partners with Gobelins school and Guillermo del Toro to launch a stop-motion studio in Paris.
variety.com/2025/film/gl...

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Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 5d

I ended up getting a power conditioner for my audio system for similar reasons. Too many dips in power

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Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 7d

The location of that bleak scene is called Joyland. Ironic. Unless it's deliberately invoking the @stephenking.bsky.social book

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 8d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 7d

@gailsimone.bsky.social might enjoy this thread

AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 8d

So many story lines have used Women In Refrigerators trope to move plot forward. It's one thing if it was once in awhile but frigging is so commonplace a lot of us assume it will happen especially in action films.

arlie

@daiziesss

this actually has its own trope because it happens so often btw

Women in refrigerators is a literary trope

coined by Gail Simone in 1999 describing a trend in fiction which involves female characters facing disproportionate harm, such as death, maiming, or assault, to serve as plot devices to motivate male characters, an event colloquially known as "fridging". Simone's

@punkcorpz Oct 1

I think there seriously needs to be discussed how often you see in media how a woman's suffering is used as a means to make the men around her feel braver and how many fandom/shipping spaces only amplifies that

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 8d

On set of DRACULA (1931), director Tod Browning, star Bela Lugosi, stage producer Horace Liveright, and writer Dudley Murphy.

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Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 8d

I feel the same way you do about the sexually provocative images that always pop up (sorry) here. Shrug. It just makes censoring internationally renowned works of art even sillier

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Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 8d

France put these images on publicly sold postage stamps. Bluesky's bot flagged them as adult content

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FANTASTIC PAVILION @fantasticpavilion.bsky.social · 10d

Arturo and Roy Ambriz's stop-motion animation film 'I Am Frankelda' – which can count Guillermo del Toro among its supporters – is heading to Mexican cinemas on October 23.

Details: tinyurl.com/ycfdjxcb #FantasticPavilion @realgdt.bsky.social

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Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 9d

I once had an interesting meeting with an executive whose native language was German regarding why his company shouldn't call their marketing department the exploitation department

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Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 10d

The entire poem - "The Masque of Anarchy" - can be read here:
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-mas...

The Masque of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley - Scottish Poetry Library

As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over the Sea And with great power it forth led me To walk in the visions of Poesy.

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk

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Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 10d

The feeble declaration "source of fibre" -- not even a good source of fibre, just a source -- adds a nice touch

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Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 11d

Lucullus:
"I have observed thee always for a towardly
prompt spirit—give thee thy due—and one that
knows what belongs to reason and canst use the
time well."

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Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 12d

That famous Marines' Hymn 🎵🎵"From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Milan"

Marlowe 🦇 @marlowechris.bsky.social · 14d

Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation

Antoniya Hubancheva Award Applications Open
Sept 30 – Nov 1

This award provides critical support for bat researchers, conservationists, and students worldwide. #bats #skypuppies
www.merlintuttle.org/our-work/sch...

Scholarships and Awards - Merlin Tuttle's Bat Conservation

Scholarships and Awards Scholarships and awards are unsurpassed in their contributions to bat conservation. Most of the world’s more than 1,500 species remain unstudied beyond taxonomic descriptions. ...

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 15d

it’s time 🧛

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Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 15d

You read that right- there are now 1,500 official bat species known to science!
The Bioko pipistrelle (𝘗𝘪𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘭𝘢) was found on Bioko Island in Africa’s Equatorial New Guinea by former BCI Student Scholar Dr. Laura Torrent and her colleagues.

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