Amanda Hudgins

@barelyconcealed.bsky.social

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Columnist at Unwinnable / alt ctrl developer/ very tired

Recent activity on Letterboxd: National Treasure (2, rewatch, review)c Jurassic Park 3 (2 stars, rewatch), the Muppet Movie (4.5 stars, like), the Great Muppet Caper (4 stars, like)
Recent activity: sideways (3.5 stars), Mononoke Chapter 2 (4 stars, like, review), Paprika (4.5 stars, like, rewatch), Branded
A cyanotype quilt bloc with a central image that says Hell is Real.
The wooden rafters of an Aframe home showing white painted sections a covered in red handprints
Recent activity: sins of our mother, disclosure day (2.5 stars, review), trust me the false prophet (4 stars), top secret
A view of a doorway that shows the top of the door is not level with the ceiling
A photo from the perspective of the ground of an empty home. The angles show that the floor is absolutely not level
A photo from the perspective of the ground of an empty home. The angles show that the floor is absolutely not level
A photo of a two story yellow house, corrected so that the street is the level object, skewing the home wildly
A person is laying on the couch. Cuddled close to their side, asleep, is a beige cat
An acrylic cut case for a papershoot camera, held in a hand. The bottom of the camera is held together with pink tape. The back corner is glued back together. It is missing a screw
Recent Activity: Mac and Me (.5 Star, review), new moon (2 stars, rewatch), breaking dawn part 1 (.5 stars, rewatch , review), eclipse (1 star, rewatch)
Recent activity: le cercle rouge (3 stars, review), crossed animals, the yogurt shop murders, the Backrooms (2 stars, review)
A video of a screen showing a far off shot of a tapestry quilt that says Fix Your Heart or Die. Then you see a click showing that it zooms in tight on the texture
On a small white card in pencil is handwriting in kind of cursive, followed by all caps, and then a mix. It reads: hello world, this is what my handwriting looks like. But I also love to write in all caps. There is a lot of variation, tbh.
An up close shot of a cyanotype tapestry with a central pic of the Hell is Real billboard. A cast paw is visible in the corner of the image
On a crowded tabletop is a small square quilt tapestry- on top of that is a small tortoiseshell cat
Recent activity; anything that movies (1.5 stars, review) the sheep detectives (4, review), mortal kombat ii (1.5 stars), the crash (4 stars)
A quilted block on grass. The block is a central image of a man stretched across the top rope of a wrestling ring, surrounded by a smaller ring of cyanotype blue and white blocks
A small beige cat sitting on a boucle sofa in front of a small quilted tapestry that reads Be Gay Do Crimes
Recent Activity on Letterboxd: Is God Is (4 stars, like, review), Star Trek (4 stars, rewatch, review), The Gangster The Cop and the devil (3 stars, rewatch), the Black Widower (3 stars, review)
A steam deck on a lap showing a high scoring, ongoing game of Raccoin. Behind the steam deck is a small tortoiseshell cat and further beyond that is a small beige Siamese cat
Amanda, pointing a camera at a mirror holding a collection of bags on their arm and drinking a fancy soda
Recent activity: gladiator (2 stars, rewatch), Django unchained (2 stars, rewatch, review), mother Mary (4 stars, like), fighting in the age of loneliness (4 stars, like)
TikTok of a guitar up close with a person hand drawing eyes on white shapes. There’s a comment from “your dad” that reads why do you have so many guitars
A small tortoiseshell cat sitting on a green bookcase one inch from a massive tv showing mma legend Cro Cop
Recent activity: hamlet (4 stars) Chao (4 stars, review) exit 8 (3 stars) , forbidden fruits (3 stars, review)
A tiny canvas with cyanotype, being nosed at by a cat
A distant shot of several pieces of artwork on display.
A black and white square quilt with the center letters obscured by the body of a small cat
Recent Activity on Letterboxd: Dhurandhar the Revenge: 1.5 stars, review Ready or Not 2 : 2.5 stars, review Fighting in Plain Sight - 2 stars, review They Will Kill You, 2.5 stars, review
Recent activity: Inside the manosphere (2.5 stars, review) His motorbike, her island (4 stars, review) , Scarlet (3 stars, review), Tetsuo the Iron Man (3 stars, review)
A beige cat sitting on the back of a boucle sofa. A fuck ice quilt hangs over the back of the sofa.
Harry Potter is a work of fiction that is incapable of interrogating its own problems, and despite the wide and well-loved greater wizarding universe, the world-building falls apart on closer examination. Fanwork has, for years, propped up a franchise that is effectively a house of cards of hot button trauma and mid-tier fantasy. Fanwork is labeled as “derivative work” because it fundamentally builds off of a previously established work. There is an implication in the term derivative that the resulting product is somehow lesser, and sometimes that is borne out in the product. But there is one thing that Harry Potter fanwork does that J. K. Rowling has never done – actually interrogate and contend with the heavy issues she broaches.
The biggest issue in The Last of Us is a consistent issue in a lot of Naughty Dog titles – a scorched earth approach to narrative design. This is more obvious in something like The Uncharted series, where Nathan Drake seems especially keen on razing any unique and anthropologically relevant community he dashes through but it is also present in The Last of Us. There is no character in the series who is able to leave the presence of our lead characters alive. This is a failure of writing; a lazy way of wrapping up loose ends. In Melanie Lynskey’s character Kathleen, you have a character introduced in the show who is killed off at the conclusion of her arc, an easy way to make sure she will cause no narrative issues further on in the story. There are no loose ends, no one that the characters can double back on
The body of an email: Hi Amanda - I absolutely want this story. How soon can you file? Stu Horvath
Recent activity on Letterboxd: what did Jack do, the French dispatch (2.5c review) blazes of the guardians (3.5 stars), the borderlands (2 stars, review)
A statue of a meatball dressed up with a fork stuck in its head
Recent activity on Letterboxd: predator badlands 3 stars, review, good luck have fun don’t die 4 stars review and like, the mind of Aaron Rodriguez , pacific rim (5 stars, like, rewatch)
In a lap, a curled up tortoiseshell cat and on the far couch arm a perturbed looking Siamese
A small tortoiseshell cat, on a multicolored Indian quilt
A small tortoiseshell cat o the floor of a bedroom. Next to a slipper
Other person: is your cat named after lesbianism OP: I mean I didn’t name her. But maybe. She has had a bunch of litters so she’s probably of the opinion that men aren’t shit
A close up of hand quilted squares, irregular and of three different colors (red white and blue) in a mass array of shades. This detail shot shows how across a field of white, the hand quilting is a stair step effect,
On a table, a red white and blue quilt tapestry that reads “fuck ice”
Recent activity on Letterboxd: Warren Jeffs Prophet of Evil (4 stars, review) The worst crime (2 stars, review) 28 Years Later the Bone Temple (4 stars, review) Iron Lung (2 stars, review, like)
In a beige hallway, a cat sits on a set of concrete grey stairs.
Actual answer to your question: if what they wanted out of the series was sports (for some reason) Together With Me. It's about college sports stars who need to figure out if they want to risk their lifelong friendship by dating It was my entry into Thai BL, has a pairing that has excellent chemistry. If they can't do subtitles, unfortunately the west is pretty bad at gay shit. The only real options are heartstopper - which I don't like reccing because the original author said some weird stuff about East Asian bl - and Red, White and Royal Blue
Zoomed in crop of a TikTok of a femme presenting person with text that says “when I convince my friends to watch the Terror because I tell them it’s like heated rivalry but British sailors and I lowkey forget to tell them it’s actually a paranormal survivalist horror and no one lives”
A ruler on the snow, at about 9 inches
A ruler in the snow at about 9
A ruler in the snow showing the height as almost 9 inches
Ruler with 8 inches covered
A ruler in the snow with the snow line a tick above 7 inches
A blue ruler in the snow, with The snow reaching a tick under 6 inches
Recent Activity on Letterboxd: D(e)ad (2.5 stars, review) All You Need is Kill (4.5 stars, like, review) no Other Choice (4.5 stars, like, review) The Cult of the Real Housewife (1 star, review)
Amanda in black with freshly died hair. On their shoulder is a small Siamese cat
Screenshot of a TikTok video: I’ve been incredibly lucky to work on this project over the years
Two people sitting at a tabletop height cabinet playing a 2D fighter with 100 buttons,
Inside of an arcade box, theee separate micro PC’s sit in a tangle of wires