[Clipart 024] Lizard Person

The lizard person sat in his grandiose desk chair, the scales on his hands scraping at the leather upholstery. A series of manila envelopes were strewn on the desk in front of him, each labeled with a different name. Operation Ending Freedom. Operation Slaughter Christian Children. Operation Let Tens of Thousands of Terrorists into America. He tapped the table with his tremendous claws, each hit chipping away another bit of wood.

He grabbed the Operation Slaughter Christian Children dossier and thumbed through it. The images enclosed pleased him. There were pictures of the Planned Parenthood logo, a chart detailing the hundreds of billions of dollars that would go towards directly funding abortions, and a series of pictures taken from various clinics, or abortatoriums, around the nation. A picture of an aborted fetus being dissected on an operating table especially caught his eye.

[Election ‘016 032] Running/Not Running

Running/Not Running

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John Bolton and Peter King sat in a dimly-lit, cigarette smoke-filled bar, both of them sipping on vodkas and listening to awful country music in the background. A woman, intentionally showing as much cleavage as possible, walked by, trying to get one of them to buy her a drink. King started to raise his hand to get the bartender’s attention, but Bolton caught it and lowered it.

“Don’t bother,” Bolton said. “She wants your money, not your dick.”

King gave a half-hearted shrug and kept at his drink.

This is it: Welcome!

There’s a storm coming… The storm, of course, is the storm of a new week of HCAD Posts!

It’s Thanksgiving Week, which of course means you’ll be with your families, maybe, and maybe not have enough time to be reading our various stories and other things. But hopefully you’ll eschew any notions of the traditional Thanksgiving Week and decide to come eat turkey with us, metaphorically of course. The turkey is a metaphor for reading stories.

This week, we’ll be posting more stories as usual, and our Movie Club essay will be on Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, as you could probably have guessed. So hit that subscribe button, or constantly refresh the site to give us more page views, and strap yourself in for Home Clipart Animal Deer: Week 12!

 

[Movie Club] How Dense is “Revenge of the Sith”?

Foreword: All screenshots courtesy of http://starwarsscreencaps.com/.

When George Lucas said Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was going to be the last one, I don’t actually believe he ever meant it, but I do sincerely believe he wanted to go out as if it were. Because Revenge of the Sith is one of the biggest-scope movies ever made. It doesn’t seem like it from the exterior– its budget was only $115 million, which was big but still not mega-budget size, even in 2005, and it seemed like it was going to mostly expand on Attack of the Clones. What we got, however, was something that could only be the product of advanced CGI, and something that has never been replicated on this scale, aside from maybe Avatar.

While all six Star Wars movies are very well-known for their tendency to cram as much worldbuilding into the background of every single scene possible, Revenge of the Sith takes this philosophy and ramps it up by about three hundred percent. The concept artists behind this movie must have gone absolutely crazy while working on this movie, because there’s just so much stuff in this movie.

Like I described in my previous essay on Attack of the Clones, the prequels do a very good job at showing off worlds, and then expanding them in later instances by showing more layers of those worlds. Revenge of the Sith returns to all three of the planets that were featured in both Episodes I and II (though its visits to Tatooine and Naboo are brief), but it suddenly decides to go insane, and show off the entire rest of the galaxy to us.

[Madoka] Kuttsukiboshi x Madoka Magica – Chapter 7-2

Chapter 7-2

 

Homura Akemi could do nothing but stare. She couldn’t act, because she was too weak. She couldn’t run, because she wouldn’t let herself. She cried, and cried, and that was all she did.

She kept staring, and stared at Mami Tomoe’s bloodied, headless body. “This thing… it killed her…” she said, mostly to herself. She couldn’t bring herself to believe this was all really happening.

Mado–no, Kaname-san–touched her back and rubbed it gently. Homura felt warm… but only for a second. She realized that Kaname was walking away from her, and towards that giant witch in the sky. “No! You can’t beat it by yourself!” she cried to the girl who saved her, the girl she loved. “It’s too strong! It’ll kill you, Kaname-san!”

And there it was, Kaname’s steadfast moral principles, holding to the very end. It was the thing Homura loved most about her, and the thing she knew Kaname could never control. “Even so, I have to protect everyone. It’s my job; I’m a magical girl.”

Homura burst into tears again. “Please… You can run away! This… It’s all hopeless! No one would blame you if you did, Kaname-san. I wouldn’t.”

Kaname gave her biggest smile. “Homura…” she began. “It’s okay. I’m glad I got to become friends with you. You know, saving you from that witch, way back when, was my best accomplishment, and I’m always going to be proud of it. That’s why, in the end, I’m glad I became a magical girl.” She looked up at the witch in the sky. “I really am.”

“Kaname-san…I…” Even now, she couldn’t blurt out those three small words… I love you…

“Goodbye, Homura. Take care.” She drew her bow, leapt into the air, and attacked the monster head-on.

The Holiday Cup

The Project – Chapter 9

Chapter 9

 

“I really wish you would talk to me more about all this,” Future Stephen said. “The past few weeks, I feel like you’ve just been…” he trailed off, and never tried to pick up where he left off. This version of Stephen just didn’t sound like the Stephen that Future Stephen used to know, with his hesitant attitude and constant sighing. Future Stephen was almost too disconcerted to bother talking to him.

So all she said was, “I don’t feel like there’s many people I can talk to anymore.”

Future Stephen took quite a few seconds to respond. Finally, he said, “And I guess I’m not one of those people,” and stood up, ready to leave.

[Movies We Haven’t Seen] Hungry Game 3: Mockingbird

The final Hungry Game is upon Katniss. Will she make the right decision, or will Panem be changed forever? Find out what happens in this action packed conclusion to the beloved film series.

Mockingbird

James, John, Jane

This story is based off this Guy in Your MFA tweet.

 

James, John, Jane

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James stood in front of John and Jane, and put his hands on his hips. “We have to do something about this,” he said.

John chugged a soda, then slammed the glass bottle down on the table next to him. “I still don’t believe any of it,” he said, before burping.

Madoka Movie Marathon Recap

Because this is technically a blog, I’m going to take advantage of the fact I can post anything I damn well please and suddenly start making a blog post about real life.

My school’s anime club (after intense weeks of negotiations, AKA me whining a lot) held a movie marathon last night, playing all three Madoka Magica movies. It was a very fun time!