anyone remember that comedy dub someone did of an older anime where a teenager is a lawyer/investigator (and may be growing younger) and solves the case by pointing out the man in wheelchair is not in fact crippled and hits him i believe with a basketball?

Update: it was detective conan (aka case closed)! this was the bit I was thinking about: 

(under taste closed)

hey guys, fyi if you do online shopping - highly recommend fakespot.com

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i found a thing that had a lot of reviews and a 4 star rating and fakespot caught me before i bought it

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while i do sometimes use fakespot in conjunction, i highly recommend using reviewmeta instead

no matter what algorithms used, its bound to make mistakes and flag ordinary things as suspicous, so being able to look at these things helps give the user a better idea of whats going on

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A brief list of timestamped trigger warnings in Black Sails: Season 1. The focus is mostly on nudity, sexual assault, abuse, and violence against women. This list also contains summaries of some of the scenes so that people can skip them without feeling like they’ve missed something.

Please note that I may have skipped summaries and missed some brief mentions or short scenes, especially in the last two episodes, which I mostly skimmed through because my attention span was dying.

Episode 1
24:00-25:18 - Het sex scene with sex workers and Silver (with, in my opinion, slightly dubious consent on Silver’s behalf).
45:54-45:57 - Violence against women (sort of). Vane punches Eleanor, but she does punch him first.
49:59-50:52 - Wlw sex scene between Max and Eleanor, female nudity.

Episode 2
02:47-02:57 - Female nudity, non-sexual.
05:09-05:27 - Wlw makeout scene, female nudity.
10:13-10:41 - A sex worker has bruises on her face; Eleanor asks what the fuck happened to her, and the brothel madame is dismissive, saying that the money the worker paid the client is ‘worth a few nicks on the old hull’.
15:00-15:44 - Sex worker (Max) jacks a guy off, though there’s no nudity and it’s thoroughly non-erotic. Silver interrupts.
29:20-31:11 - Violence against women. Vane chokes Max (the camera cuts back and forth between that and Silver watching them).

Episode 3
31:08-32:15 - Female nudity (Vane has two sex workers on either side of him, though they’re just lounging).
39:07-40:30 - Implied violence against women/female nudity/implied past or future sexual assault tw.
45:49-51:40 - Het sex scene (Eleanor and Vane) immediately followed by a GRAPHIC sexual assault warning (Vane’s crew @ Max). Skip this entire part no matter what please it’s viscerally upsetting and triggering.

Episode 4
Note: SKIP THE RECAP. It contains part of the graphic scene from the previous episode and is upsetting. You might want to skip all recaps in season 1 from here on out just in case.

10:25-11:15 - The saddest het sex scene (Flint and Miranda). Consensual, but uncomfortable as it’s clear that neither of them are particularly enjoying themselves; Flint seems like he’s dissociating, and Miranda cries afterwards.
19:42-20:14 - Dubiously consensual het sex scene (Max and a member of Vane’s crew). Non-graphic, and without violence, but given the context it may be uncomfortable anyway.
20:25-21:33 - Sexual assault/violence against women TW (Max again). Skip this part completely, it’s viscerally upsetting. 
50:32-53:46 - Implied het sex scene (Vane & Eleanor) dream sequence, followed by Vane hallucinating a past abuser.

Episode 5
22:15-24:41 - Sexual assault aftermath; Max is cleaned up by the brothel madame, who is too rough, so Anne steps in to do it instead. Skip this entirely.
25:47-26:45 - Sexual assault mentions/a guy being gross about Max. Skip this entirely.

Episode 6
25:22-26:19 - Het sex scene (Miranda & Pastor Lambrick). Consensual.

Episode 7
06:08-07:28 - Het sex scene (Anne & Jack) followed by male nudity.
15:33-19:30 - General warning for vaguely implied child abuse and Vane talking with a former abuser.
27:21-31:10 - Again, Vane being around a former abuser, then trying to fight him and losing, then being buried.
53:53-54:42 - Male nudity (sort of). Vane kills his former abuser.

Episode 8
No warnings, though there may be an uncomfortable scene at the end between Max and Eleanor re: Max’s past abuse, I can’t remember.

Please feel free to reblog this list for the sake of people who haven’t seen the show but might want to!

(Also, for those of you who haven’t seen it - yes, there’s a lot of content warnings in season one. Season two and onwards are completely free of sexual violence and much less graphic on the sexual scenes front in general.

Addition: The one exception to the above is Season 4 Episode 6, which contains a non-graphic distant sexual assault scene at 23:05-23:15)

since november is tomorrow i’m back with one last post about film noir. i barely got through half of my list last time, so consider this…… noirvember recs 2: electric boogaloo. 

aka, the deep cuts.

the big clock (1948, john farrow) - this is a fun one. it’s ray milland vs. charles laughton! there IS, in fact, a big clock! it’s also a pretty damning look at the media industry.

the narrow margin (1952, richard fleischer) - i have been recommending this one to people for literal years, and NO one has watched it yet. please consider being the first. i think this is one of my favorite films noir of all the ones i’ve seen (and i’ve seen a lot). let me entice you: it is 70 minutes long and it takes place ON A TRAIN and marie windsor is the femme fatale! what else do you want! okay, well, how about you are on a train and you cannot trust literally any other person you meet on it. it’s a real potboiler, and i promise it will be worth your time.

on dangerous ground (1951, nicholas ray and ida lupino) - i am now going to talk about ida lupino. i think she is one of the most incredible actors AND directors. she pops up in noir a lot. she plays unhinged very well, and she can also play a tough as nails noir heroine. this might be my favorite noir of hers! it’s about a los angeles cop who can’t stop brutalizing his suspects that he gets transferred up north and ends up looking for a man on the run. ida plays the man’s blind sister, and she is incredible. another thing i love about this film is that it’s a winter noir, and we don’t see that too often! a perfect november watch.

nightmare alley (1947, edmund golding) - kind of very annoyed they’re remaking this, but whatever. the ending is one of the bleakest in the genre! which is saying something here. i don’t want to say too much about the plot of this one, so go in as blind as possible.

the blue gardenia (1953, fritz lang) - a staple of the noir genre is the accused man trying to clear his name. we see this so often in this genre, and what i like about this film is it’s the same premise, but it’s got a woman at the center. imagine you go out on a date and things get a little hazy. you wake up the next morning and your date has been found dead. did you kill him? did someone else? are you a killer? or are you just paranoid? anne baxter is incredible to watch here.

the hitch-hiker (1953, ida lupino) - hello! woman-directed noir about a killer hitch-hiker! hello! what else do i have to say?

phantom lady (1944, robert siodmak) - i like this film for the same reason i like the blue gardenia: it’s a play on the common “man has to clear another man’s name before he’s hanged for murder” trope we see a lot, but it centers a woman. this film is beautiful, and surreal, and strange. there’s an entire sequence involving drumming and it is intense and very sexual. 

the big knife (1955, robert aldrich) - hollywood loves to make films about hollywood, and i could have easily recommended the OTHER film about hollywood. you know the one. i wanted to spotlight this take, though, because it is very brutal about the ways the film industry grinds innocent people down, chews them and spits them right out. the film was based on a play by clifford odets, who helped re-write a certain other damning expose into the ways the media industry destroys people. so, you know, it’s good! 

the locket (1946, john brahm) - films noir often employ unique story structure, such as flashbacks… or flashbacks WITHIN a flashback. may i suggest this film, which somehow manages to have a flashback within a flashback WITHIN a flashback and yet it still makes sense (at least by noir standards). i caught this film on TCM on a whim a few years back and found myself struck by it. there are more notable names in noir than laraine day, but she made a compelling screen presence. also: robert mitchum has a small but fun little part here! 

i never see these titles floating around on rec lists so if you want to have a bit of alternate noir programming to the ace in the holes and the sunset boulevards and the double indemnities, i highly recommend these ones. happy watching!

Anyway, as we enter cold & flu season in the YEAR of corona, this will come in very handy.

This was created by Vox and if you look at small print, you'll find the sources used to create the table.

Obviously there are exceptions and we're getting conflicting and new information about covid-19 all the time but by mid-august, I believe we certainly had observed enough cases for experts to put this together at least.