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we don’t talk enough about taskmaster being on youtube for free. i don’t mean someone uploaded the episodes to youtube i mean The Official Taskmaster Youtube has every single episode on their channel, in their entirety, For Free. they want their show to be internationally available for everyone to watch. every episode goes up the day after it airs in the uk. you can just go watch the entire show legally. for free. on youtube. go do that!!
Ūropi, also known by its indigenous name “Europe”, meaning “wide-gazing” or “broad of aspect”, is a small continent first discovered in 1806 by Moehanga of Ngāpuhi, although indigenous Europeans had been living there for many thousands of years. Modern researchers believe the indigenous Europeans originally migrated from the Middle East, and over time split into separate tribes or “kingdoms,” with many retaining their ancient rangatira (called “monarchs” or “nobility”) to this day.
While many see Ūropi as timeless and exotic, indigenous Europeans have actually adapted well to the modern economy, often exporting cultural products like baguettes and vodka, the former of which may be recognisable as the basis for bánh mì.
hey isn't that the place where River Gulu is
I have got to find that it sounds hilarious
I found the mockumentary!! It's called Das Fest des Huhnes (the festival of the chicken), and you can watch it English subtitled here!
an angel on letterboxd just dropped a whole playlist of films free on youtube I was filled with so much love and light I had to share with you guys
it also includes short films, animated movies, documentaries of every genre, full recordings of live performances. all spanning different decades from different countries. YOU DONT EVEN FUCKING KNOW
would love to turn people on to nz on screen, a free archive of new zealand and māori content with over 4500 titles!
the site is accessible in both english and te reo, and it includes over 500 films, 3000 tv series & specials, 2000 documentaries, as well as history series & specials, chat shows, musicals, lgbtq+ content, standup, children's shows, historic news & sports, and more :)
new zealand and māori filmmaking & content, particularly from before the late 2000s, can be exceptionally hard to track down and haven't been given the archival attention they deserve, so this is an amazing resource!
Somebody please archive these in case YouTube takes them down
Don't worry, someone on Reddit has downloaded them all and will upload them to the Internet Archive later
The uploader apparently has a lot more of these, and is taking requests for more in the comments, so if anyone has anyone they want to see shoot 'em a line
watching the 2018 milwaukee ballet production of dracula and y'all the dracula/jonathan pas de deux is amazing
it's beautiful and creepy and sensual and horrifying all at the same time
crap, i don't know enough dance terminology to make this coherent, but the way they've been utilizing going en pointe in act 2 is fascinating. like, aside from when they're doing turns and stuff like that, all the women are walking around on the flat part like regular people. but then dracula bursts in and everyone is down in the dark except lucy, who is now on her tippy toes and basically floating across the floor to him in a trance and the contrast is so eerie
also i just realized it was mean of me to talk about this without telling anyone where to watch it. here's a link to the official video from the milwaukee ballet account's @ Home series https://vimeo.com/469873929/5ee47dee00
continuing the trend of being both sensual and beautiful and horrifying, the drac+lucy pas de deux is also fantastic.
also, repeated theme the way dracula just kind of flings them around at times, like they're not dance partners but just toys to be played with and literally tossed aside. in the jonathan one he just like yote him 15 feet or something crazy across the stage, and in this one he's just positioning her like a ragdoll, the choreo is so good
agh no no no i hate this! D: lucy! :(((
looking forward to and dreading the drac+mina one if they're all gonna be this good but also upsetting lol
oh good, an ensemble mourning scene, that's cool that's fine i'm handling this gracefully
oh damn, though, she does feral really well too. cool thanks this is a great place for an intermission because i'm feeling totally emotionally stable (:
WHAT I MUST PUT THIS IN MY EYEBALLS
Hey Joy!
After Dracula Daily is over I want to watch a Dracula Movie. But everything I'm seeing on my dash implies none of them are... really what I want. Is there a dracula movie that doesn't leave out Qunicy and doesn't try for a Mina Dracula romance? Is there one that does a really good job sticking to the book? What I'm seeing on my dash implies no, but I thought I'd ask the expert.
It's the bane of most Dracula fans that there hasn't been a single faithful film adaptation of Dracula to date.
The 1992 version with Winona Ryder with Keanu Reeves is probably the closest because it keeps all the characters, though it takes some liberties with Dracula and Mina's relationship, and it invents a whole backstory for how Dracula became, well, Dracula.
OHHH, MAN, OP. HAVE I BEEN READYING MYSELF FOR JUST THIS MOMENT.
You're gonna want to sit yourself down in front of Count Dracula (1977).
I have a half finished post about it waiting in my drafts from before Dracula Daily was a thing on here, from when I used to do Dracula movie/musical reviews for people who are interested in the actual fun and interesting stuff, instead of "Dracula is badass and bites hot babes and murders people". (Read: people who have the same taste as me, really.)
This one is a two part miniseries from the BBC and they make a couple really big adaptational changes, but 1) I, a fellow Dracula novel enjoyer, think they're all good/respectable, 2) no Mina-Dracula romance, and 3) I am delighted to say Quincy is here and glorious and gets screen time. 👍👍👍
Hey Liza :) I just thought I would let you know, now I don't know if the genre is something you like or not but, the creators of Black Sails have a new show out called "The Old Man" and it is really, really good. In case you were interested :)
I'll add it to my list! I loved Black Sails enough to check out their other stuff.
i am once again asking you to watch the 2019 shakespeare in the park production of much ado about nothing
Actually I also think that people participating in Dracula Daily should watch Shadow of the Vampire (2000), a fictionalised account of the filming of Nosferatu which imagines that Max Schreck (the actor who played Count Orlok) is actually a real vampire
Specifically, everyone should watch the scene where he’s asked what he thinks about the book, Dracula
also Schreck is played by Willem DaFoe and every second he’s on-screen is a delight
the alt-right pipeline is a real and dangerous thing that i think needs more awareness. here’s some videos that can help you learn about it
The main thing I get from Dylan Hollis cooking old recipes is this:
Recipes from the 1910s and the Great Depression are great, and I suspect it’s because they were made by someone with limited resources. But they found a way to make something good, maybe even something fantastic with those limited resources, and they wanted to write it down and share with their friends so that they could also make something out of saltines and potatoes. Recipes from the 1910s and the Great Depression are written down and shared in love.
The recipes you should fear come from the 1950s and 1960s, which I’m pretty sure are written down and shared as a form of McCarthyism.
I strongly suspect that the rise in horrifying recipes in the 50s, 60s and 70s is that this is when recipes were being used as advertising. Whether or not the recipe was tasty or even palatable at all was a secondary concern at best to if it could convince a housewife to buy more Chlorox Brand Lard™️ to try it out.
Interestingly, there has been a resurgence of that exact phenomenon, which perhaps you’ve seen: viral cooking media Meme recipes of unfamiliar origin? Videos of impossible recipes or trick editing? “Life Hacks”? I bet these will be the Horrifying Sixties Recipes of tomorrow, because they are also made to sell attention rather than to inform.
At this point, I would like to remind you all of Ann Reardon, and her youtube channel “How to Cook That” where she not only debunks and explains the trickery behind all those “viral baking hacks” but also provides ways to ACTUALLY make those things where possible, as well as a numberbof other delightful recipes, and often has her willing husband taste test the internet’s culinary monstrosities. She’s the hero we need so 50 years from now another Dylan Hollis won’t destroy his microwave or his face trying to make “ ‘this easy 2 ingredient microwave caramel!!!’ that comes to us from 2021 from the channel ‘5 Minute Crafts’.”
Reardon is also a vocal advocate against Youtube, Tiktok, and Facebook allowing (and borderline encouraging) dangerous videos to become so viral on their platforms. She frequently cites incidents where people were hospitalized, marred for life, killed, poisoned, or accidentally burnt down their homes attempting to recreate tacky clickbait recipes and crafts.
And, like Dylan Hollis, she too recreates incredibly old recipes (usually 100yrs or more) while adding educational background to the reasons a recipe calls for this or that weird ingredient/technique. She also makes clickbait-like videos herself like "Giant Snickers Bar!" or "Holographic Chocolate!" only when you click you get EXACTLY what was advertised. She WILL show you how to make a Minecraft cake or a giant Kit-Kat or a sweet gift from an old snack package. Because Ann Reardon is a professional, wonderful person who believes the world should be better.
Oh my goodness this is getting a lot of notes! Since I see posts on tumblr about how a lot of people seem to think all historians and archaeologists are crusty old bigots I’d just like to add that this guy is an archaeologist. A very vocally anti-racist archaeologist who goes out of his way to be as inclusive as possible to queer people.
Reblogging to watch later!
Always get your historical facts from anti-racist archeologists.
Wait, how’d the run go!?
Oh gosh I forgot to update on that! It went well, he was sore and tired but no injuries, and he raised over 1700 pounds!
my favorite genre is “kitchen sink” tbqh. yes i want your metaphysical space opera Gothic haunted house horror-comedy. yes i want your medieval road trip heist mystery. give me time traveling werewolves and noir detective robots teaming up to fight alien supervillains. i want this sundae with every topping in the shop
This post expresses my desires. Give Me The Weird
Something More Than Night by Ian Tregillis - pitch-perfect noir mystery set in dystopian Heaven, also there are time slips
Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin - super Jewish historical fiction featuring the Spanish Inquisition, star-crossed lovers, and Caribbean piracy, as narrated by an African Grey parrot
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin - New York City becomes self-aware and embodied in the minds of select, random people, is instantly attacked by Lovecraftian entity, starts with battle against tentacle monster that’s won with an umbrella and an antique taxi to give you some idea.
Eifelheim by Michael Flynn - alien first contact in medieval Germany, features quantum drives, the synchronicity of medieval philosophy and scientific knowledge, a battle against the town down the mountain, and the Black Death
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire - found family, telepathy, time travel, alchemy, deconstruction of portal fantasies, ancient Greek ideas about math, music, and the nature of the universe, and also a spin on Frankenstein
His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik - alternate Regency England where they have a dragon air force (but so does Napoleon). Continue the series to get international travel and the dragons unionizing to get their “human” rights.
Among Others by Jo Walton - epistolary boarding school coming of age novel that doubles as a classic SF rec list and also there are fairies and the MC can do magic
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson - science fiction with super-advanced nanotech where everyone lives in gated community-countries based on Aesthetic™ and also there’s an orphan girl who gets a talking book (made by Neo-Victorians) that changes her life
Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica - new adult portal fantasy about a nature photographer, with coming-of-age vibes, magic, a water world where almost everyone lives on tall ships, and ecological themes
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde - mystery novel set in a 1980s with rampant literary fandom, cloned dodos, an apparent national dislike of toast, featuring a detective who’s tasked with rescuing Jane Eyre from a terrorist who wants to erase it from history, and that’s only skimming the surface of the weirdness
These sound great
taking this opportunity to suggest a movie that people think I made up when I describe it:
The Frisco Kid, a 1979 road trip buddy comedy Western starring Gene Wilder as the Maria von Trapp of rabbis in the shtetl. He’s too much of a free spirit! The other rabbis don’t know what to do with him! So when a synagogue in San Francisco needs a rabbi, they send him to America, where he is robbed and left by the side of the road almost immediately.
It is at this point that he meets Harrison Ford, an incompetent train robber, who is like ‘this weird little man is completely pure and innocent and absolutely going to die unless I look after his dumb ass.’ This was after the release of A New Hope but before filming Empire Strikes Back, so I guess he was just in a weird place career-wise.
He and Gene Wilder become best friends as they make their way to San Francisco, with various hijinks along the way. The scene with the Native Americans starts out cringeworthy but the payoff makes up for it, somewhat. I still kind of can’t believe it’s a real movie.
Hey dudes, dudettes, and nonbinary dues,
The past few days ProWritingAid hosted an online conference on writing, with a focus on writing romance. I have watched everything and I filled nearly half my study notebook with interesting learnings.
The best thing is, it's free, it's online, and it's available until (I think) the 24th on a laptop screen near you. You can watch it on YouTube or on the ProWritingAid Romance Writers' Week hub. The hub also has some freebies YouTube doesn't have.
What if you don't have the time to watch 20 hours in the next 7 days? No problem, I have provided you with a shortlist. The best sessions, in my opinion, were:
Some other sessions, to give you an idea:
Please take some time next week to watch these, because I have learned SO much and I wish the same for you.
Here's the link again, so you won't have to scroll up: https://prowritingaid.com/romanceweekhub (cue angels vocalizing)
Disclaimer: I have no interest in this event, I just want to be helpful.
Spread the word to help a fellow writer!
Around five years ago I made a list of free horror movies you could watch on Youtube. Unfortunately none of the links work anymore and it’s much harder to get full-length films on Youtube these days.
But not impossible! Here is a brand new version with links that work as of 9/21/21 for all your Halloween marathon needs. Some of these are very old movies in public domain, others are just up on Youtube and nobody cares enough to take them down. A few are on Youtube Movies and are free with ads embedded (*). Enjoy!
The Old-School Classics
Nosferatu (original 1922 version)
70s-80s-90s
Horror Around the World
Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog 1979 version)
Rated V for Vincent Price
Stephen King made for TV corner:
Hammer Films British Horror
More Older Horror Films That are A little Lesser Known but I Love Them
Some Recent Indie Horror Films You Really Should Really Try
YouTube Films Currently Free with Ads that More or Less Fit the Bill
Trollhunters (*)
Gremlins (*)
