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The it’s not my fault that Chris Evans is too hot meme (15/∞)
What are you going on about marbles? Of course I don’t have marbles on me. Who the fuck brings marbles to the spider void? They’d get lost! Have some common sense idiot. Moron. Buffoon and a half. You talk like you’ve never been to the spider void dumb dumb.
I’m not dead(unsurprisingly), you’re not dead(surprisingly), this is great news
head-cannon? Nuh uh bro, at that point it’s just an au 😔
o/ <- person waving
o7 <- person saluting
ol <- person raising hand
o1 <- person scratching head
\o> <- person stretching
“The General Without Honor” General: Maurice Janin 1862-1946 Was a French General Appointed to Commander-in-chief of the french and british forces in Siberia during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. He is known as The General Without Honor because of his betrayal to Admiral Kolchak who was the Supreme Ruler and Commander-in-Chief of All Russian Land and Sea Forces, while the surviving members of the royal family lived in exile abroad in safety. “Vous avez ma parole d'officier. Je vous garantis que votre sécurité”. - General: Maurice Janin On January 14, 1920, after giving his word to guarantee the safety of Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak, he ordered the Czechoslovak Legion to hand him over to the Left Socialist Revolutionaries authorities in Irkutsk. On 20 January the government in Irkutsk surrendered power to a Bolshevik military committee. The White Army under the command of General Vladimir Kappel advanced toward Irkutsk while Kolchak was interrogated by a commission of five men representing the Revolutionary Committee during nine days between 21 January and 6 February. Despite the arrival of a rumored contrary order from Moscow, Admiral Kolchak was condemned to death along with his Prime Minister: Viktor Pepelyayev. Both prisoners were brought before a firing squad in the early morning of 7 February 1920. According to eyewitnesses, Kolchak was entirely calm and unafraid, “like an Englishman.” The Admiral asked the commander of the firing squad, “Would you be so good as to get a message sent to my wife in Paris to say that I bless my son?” The commander responded, “I’ll see what can be done, if I don’t forget about it.” On his return to France he was brought in for a court-martial with delegates from all allies present. The allied majority wanted him to be hanged, had it not been for his efforts during the Great War, it would have been the case. But despite his previous heroics, he was now a disgrace to the entire French army and the French Ministry of War. It was decided that he would be stripped of all rank and titles and be sentenced to life time in military prison. He was later released when he was diagnosed with a fatal tuberculosis. Many saw him and see him today as the reason why the counter-revolution failed. If Admiral Kolchak and his staff and government in exile had been successfully evacuated, then They could have regrouped and Launched a new invasion with help of the allies. And perhaps this time been better equipped and better coordinated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Janin http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1101026/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjKHYENLThw&list=FLK2-HSTM-0sNjaVITZHsFGQ&index=128
Incorrect quotes of tiktok audios:
Random insert person because idfk: so your mother sent you to riders quadrants so you wouldn’t get killed for finding out the truth but your just at the riders quadrant for about a year and find out sooner then you would have in the scribes quadrants with help from the one person supposed to protect you and generals are now trying to assassinate you.
Violet: … typ shi
hello world, how do i start a conversation or make a friend thru virtual means without making myself look like a fucking weirdo creep every damn time? r/serious
Roof Extensions Deck in Salt Lake City Mid-sized arts and crafts backyard deck photo with a fire pit and a roof extension
Best of Animation 2021 - The Last Lullaby (Centaurworld)
Centaurworld is a deceptively deep show*. From the marketing it received the show felt jarring and disjointed almost as if two incompatible worlds had been thrown together haphazardly but the moment you boot it up and start watching it is obvious this is far from the case.
Centaurworld is about grief, loss, depression, and learning to heal. It uses its vastly different tones and visual styles to elevate these aspects of the story.
It’s a fantastic and fun ride and I believe its finale “The Last Lullaby” is the best example of how it uses all these seemingly contradictory parts to get all these themes across, especially with the music.
Centaurworld is a musical that has a lot of songs that I have fun with but I would say it is usually “all bops and no bangers” (credit where credit is due. I heard this from Sarcastic Chorus).
The one place I really love their music and think it makes itself stand out is in its reprises. The way it brings songs from earlier on back and completely changes the meaning through the context of the scene.
This episode does the same thing with Rider’s Lullaby and The Nowhere King’s lullaby. These songs are closely associated with the protagonist and antagonist of the show respectively and the way they are brought back in this finale really brings their arcs full circle.
I especially love how the Nowhere King’s lullaby is brought back because it really accentuates the tragedy of his character and his relationship with the purple haired woman. I wish this relationship was explored in greater depth throughout this season but what we did see of these two characters was hauntingly beautiful in a way that you wouldn’t expect from what is essentially a single episode exploring their relationship.
The Nowhere King’s death didn’t feel triumphant or glorious like you would have expected after his introduction in the two part finale of season 1. It’s quiet and personal. He returns to his original form one final time before the woman he loves ends his life once and for all.
The purple haired woman hesitated to go through with this before this point but she’s resigned herself to the fact that she must be the one to bring this nightmare to an end. Despite the love between the two their story doesn’t have a happy ending. It’s very tragic and the last lullaby the purple haired woman sings gets across the emotions of the scene between the two characters accentuates this.
The backstory of the elktaur chronicles the slow self-destruction and mutilation of someone who feels trapped on the outside looking in due to his internalized self-hatred. It becomes a tragedy about someone who felt undeserving of love to the point where their internal war with themselves became external.
“They’re the same being locked in this everlasting fight with himself.”
This is an interesting exploration of morality that accepts that people are steeped in shades of gray. It’s like what the Nowhere King says to horse “we all have good and bad”.
This episode shines brightest when it takes a microscope to all these characters and forces us to look at them for all they are.
The Nowhere King is a horrible monster that has caused so much suffering but he is also a victim.
The general is a monster wearing the mask of a hero that perpetuates a conflict he will never end because he ultimately holds his own self interest and preservation of utmost importance.
The purple haired woman was blinded by her love and awe of the elktaur and centaurworld and it is ultimately her love that prevented her from ending this conflict when she had the chance. (She isn’t evil. I’m not blaming her. She understandably struggled to end the life of someone she loved.)
That being said I do have a few issues.
My issues with this episode don’t stem from the content within the episode itself but rather the lack of screen time and build up to certain important aspects of this finale.
I think there should have been more of the general before this moment because the twist that he’s part of the nowhere king is meant to completely flip the kindly, righteous leader visage on his head but since we didn’t spend enough time with him it doesn’t hit as hard as it could have. The general’s betrayal of Rider would have been even more of an emotional gut punch if we trusted him like Rider did, which could only be built up if there was more time allotted to him.
I think the purple haired woman should have had more screen time because it’s the tragedy of her life and love of the nowhere king that is a driving factor in the entire story. In fact it’s her ending with the nowhere king that is what I would argue to be the emotional climax of the episode and by extension the series so I wish more time was given to them.
Everything that happened in the episode was great and it hit all the beats it was aiming for but like I said above I feel like some of them could have been strengthened if the series had given the characters involved more focus.
For example Rider being stabbed by the general is comparable to Marcy being stabbed by Andrias and yet I would argue that Marcy being stabbed is much more of a gut punch due to the amount of time their relationship was afforded within the show. We see how much Marcy trusts Andrias and we know why. Even if we knew he was up to no good we got to see how well Marcy and Andrias clicked and how much they had in common.
Marcy is also given more screen time herself which allows us to grow attached to her in a way we couldn’t with Rider. So when the moment of truth happens and Andrias makes the decision to stab Marcy in the back it is a complete gut punch. We care about Marcy, we know how this relationship made her feel seen, we understand the full depth of the betrayal.
I’m not saying this to hold one show up on a pedestal above the other, I’m using it as an example to explain why I think this certain plot point would have benefitted from extra attention earlier in the series.
That being said, I believe the way the general’s betrayal played out was very effective coming from Rider’s perspective (just not as much when it comes to the general and their relationship). The show has done a good job up to this point portraying Rider’s unwavering belief in the general. She is a child soldier that has dedicated her life to this cause that the general leads and yet he never meant to actually end the war or his people’s suffering.
It also leads into a very touching reprise of Rider’s Lullaby.
This was the first song we heard in the series and it was the defining song of Rider and Horse’s relationship. Having the song come back around with Horse being the one to sing it to comfort Rider in an inverse from the pilot would have been a fantastic bookend to their relationship.
This is why I’m mixed on how they chose to have this scene play out.
I’ve never been a big fan of fake out deaths and this one still has me conflicted. This is purely a personal preference thing. I’ve just never been big on these types of scenes.
This leads me to the episode’s ending.
Centaurworld is a story of two wildly different worlds and tones that come together to elevate each other rather than detract. On the one hand the show can cover the bleak reality or war, loneliness, and loss and on the other it triumphs family, love, and connections. This episode is a nice blend of the two with the finale showing the clash of the tragedy of the past (the elktaur and the purple haired woman’s story) and the hope of the future (the ending with horse and her herd).
This decision holds true to the series to this point.
This episode was a fantastic ride from start to finish. There were some aspects of the episode I was mixed on but I ultimately love the end result and find myself revisiting the tale in my thoughts and on rewatch.
I am interested to see what Megan Nicole Dong does next!
*The marketing for this show wasn’t great. I know many people that were turned off from the show because of the trailers they had seen which is disappointing. But I’ve seen a lot of fairly big youtubers cover the show and help give it the attention it deserves.
Extra Thoughts
I thought almost all of the comedy hit, especially all the gags with Stabby. “I have unquantifiable corpses on my conscience.” is one of the funniest lines in the entire show. I really wasn’t a fan of the fart joke with horse in the elktaur’s mind and thought it really fell flat.
Gallery Update
Good Evening! Just a little post to inform you that the new Gallery is up on Goran Visnjic Daily and it can be access at https://goranvisnjic.org/gallery
Most of the pictures and stills I'm uploading are HQ. Sometimes it's hard to get my hands on some of his movies, but whenever I can get them in Blurays, it's way better for Screencaps. - Done with screencaping Hellraiser :P
New Stills and behind the scenes pictures from "General" have been added!
New stills and behind the scenes pictures from "Red Widow" have been added as well, let me know what you think of the new gallery! Don't forget, there's more to come in the following weeks!
