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Trans rights are human rights. Fight for your siblings. Film, tech, animals, architecture and sometimes humans. (hän/se)

A skull painted with pine bows and roses on its brow, laid upon fresh pine boughs and lit by only a single candle in otherwise complete darkness.
Two girls sitting so close their heads are nearly touching, barely lit by a deep red light. One has squinted eyes and is whispering to the other about the directress, while the other has a look of terror.
Freshly baked round loaf of bread with a cross split top, sitting on parchment paper in a cast iron dutch oven.
The cover of the graphic novel by Keezy Young, sitting on a wood table. The cover shows the main character laying, eyes closed in a field of flowers that look like eyes while red hands grasp at him from within the plants. His good friends stand in the distance looking concerned, a backdrop of a starry night sky behind them.
The Girl riding down the middle of a road at night on a skateboard while wearing a white and black horizontally stripped shirt, black pants and a chador billowing behind her. The road is intermittently lit by weak streetlamps barely lighting the road and giving some shape the a few buildings in the distance.
Eleanor in The Haunting (1963), standing up in a night gown after having just gotten up from bed. She stares at her hand in horror, exclaiming "who's hand was I holding?".
Close up shot of Wyatt's face as he stands in the basement, cellphone to ear, and listens intensely to information being given to him about the evils to come.
A golden brown discus of baked pizza dough sitting on a baking pan. Crust encompasses the entirety of the fillings, like a calzone but a perfect circle.
The hero sitting in a tree, leaning back on a branch and eating what looks like olives. He looks off in the distance with lazy indifference while talking to those below.
A woman in a black outfit sitting in the dark interior of a home next to an open window. A book sits open on the still as she crosses her arms and looks out in thought into the woods an fields beyond.
Credit card from Suspiria (1977) that reads: Musica Dei "GOBLIN" Con La Collaborazione Di Dario Argento
Mrs. Dudley in The Haunting (1963), with dark hair and dress, lit from above to give a brooding dark shadow to her eyes making her look gaunt and ghostly and sporting a macabre smile. She is showing Eleanor Vance to a room and warning her to leave.
Andy and his sister Piper stand at the edge of an empty pool at their new foster mom's house. They have a look of concern and confusion at the odd child standing in the pool, off screen, that appears to be the foster mother's child and is silently wrestling with a cat.
The silhouette of a child running across a wet road at night, backlit by a streetlight.
Little green humanoid creature with a large head and massive black eyes from the show Scavenger's Reign, slowly standing up while surrounded by floating glowing orbs. It lives in a flower-like structure in a giant hedge wall made of thick tubes.
The lead character, played by Ice Cube, barely emoting but with a slack jawed open mouth staring into the camera waiting for his Teams call to connect. The entire movie is show from webcam and phone camera perspectives. It's infuriating how lazy this thing is.
Wirt, Greg, Greg's Frog and Beatrice riding a horse to get away from yet another bad/odd situation.
Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Bread on a cooling rack, sitting on a patio table.
Peugeot 205 T16, in a dark gray/black with red strips and white hub color scheme, parked on a race track with rolling wooded hills in the background.
Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest box art
The main character and their girlfriend walking through a marketplace with almost every inch covered in lights, lamps, and reflective surfaces creating an assault on the senses in hues of gold, orange and purple.
The new book All The Ash We Leave Behind by C. Robert Cargill sitting on a pine table.
A dark shot of a fog covered steep mountainside filled with pine trees. A stream near the bottom of the mountainside flows towards the camera.
Cover of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness tabletop roleplaying game. A teenage mutant ninja turtle, with twin swords and a red bandana (so maybe Raph but also maybe Leo), stands front and center with the city skyline behind him. Below them are four mutant ninja turtles all with red bandanas but with the signature weapons of the turtles. Along the bottom from left to right are Shredder, Splinter and Casey Jones.
Yoshii Ryosuke standing next to his house in the woods, wearing a tan jacket and looking at the camera. He's about to learn why you don't screw people over repeatedly and expect no consequences.
The crew of the Icarus 1 spaceship on the observation deck, sillouhetted against the Sun viewed through a tinted view screen. A small black dot moves from right to left in front of the Sun, the planet Mercury, showing the scale of just how enormous and overpowering a star is.
A man leaning out the balcony of an apartment, screaming in frustration and loneliness at the zombies outside.
Grant Massey, the protagonist, his eyes-wide and mouth agape he is yelling out. A black cowboy hat is on his head with headphones on his ears but the headband going under his chin. Behind him are clocks on the wall of a sound booth, showing different timezones.
The main protagonist dressed in pajamas, sitting in a wheelchair looking towards the camera as he looks out into the courtyard of his apartment building. His girlfriend stands behind him dressed in a black and white evening dress, also looking out the rear window. Between them is a nicely set table with a lobster dinner and candles.
One of the many close shots of an actor in Cube (1997). This is of a bald man looking pensive as he has just entered a softly lit cubic room that most likely has a trap designed to kill him.
Waymond Wang, played by Ke Huy Quan in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022), looking confused about the long weird day he's had and pleading with everyone who is fighting to stop. He's on the verge of crying. His wife stand behind him, taking in the multiverse memories of their lives and how they've affected each other, coming to the understanding that it's never too late to stop the violence.
A couple in a dark house at dawn. The husband sits in darkness, a look of weariness on his face as he leans back against a pillar and stares at the ceiling. The wife sits on the floor lit by the morning light, looking at the husband with confusion, doubt and possibly fear of the sudden appearance of her husband.
Movie poster for The Stuff (1985) with the title in a yellow dripping font in front of a person screaming , hands raised in terror, as their eyes and mouth exude a white gooey substance similar to yogurt.
Josh Hartnett in the film Trap (2024) standing at a table with his daughter having something to drink before a concert. He's making an absurdly exaggerated expression of astonishment like a clown.
A family sitting around a table eating a meal together while watching TV. On their faces are looks of disbelief as they witness a young form of Hedorah (a monster made of sludge, slime and trash) sink two boats on a news report.
Film poster for Come and See (1985). A backlit portrait of someone staring into the camera with a haunting expression catatonic terror.
A shot of the woods behind the titular hotel where the protagonist, Irene, is working nights. At the very bottom of the shot appears to be a curb covered in leaves at the edge of a road or path. Beyond it lies a few trees resembling marble columns flanking a path or doorway. The light illuminating the curb and trees struggles to reach further than three or four trees before the darkness beyond swallows it completely. The shot lingers here several times during the film. No movement, no sounds, just the darkness and whatever waits within.
A close shot of Zombie Walter, standing mouth agape at his son's growth throughout the film All You Need Is Blood (2024). Dried blood crusts his sickly pale chin while his eyes are dark and nearly fully bloodshot.
The titular Monkey Man, played by Dev Patel, in a rubber monkey mask standing in a seedy, illegal fight ring. He is dirty from head to toe, hands taped up and some white grease or paint smeared on his arms, shown off by his tank top. A crowd is barely seen in the gloom behind him, seething with anticipation for the fight.
The titular monkey doll sitting on the counter of a pawn shop during an attempt to be sold to some other poor sap. Turns out, the monkey is not happy about this and supposedly causes a Rube Goldberg death of the pawn shop owner with a spear gun. This is the very start of the film and really the only good part.
A young John Travolta standing on a bridge in a park at night, wearing fingerless knit gloves, a trench coat and headphones. He's smiling while using a shotgun mic to listen to a couple who are making out until they see him in the distance. Standard audio guy behaviour.
A snowy hill with three beavers (men in beaver costumes) carrying logs on their shoulders only to have the main character ride a sled saucer down the hill and take out the beaver in the middle. He has successfully knocked the beaver over and is tumbling further down the hill while the saucer has launched away from him. A fight then ensues where he is beaten up by the beavers and he continues to go hungry.
Mr. Hand in Dark City (1998), pale with a greasy smile on his face and raised eyebrows asking some poor lady where the protagonist is.
The crew of the Nostromo in film Alien (1979)
Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (1984)
Closeup of a photo hanging on a wall in a kitchen. It is a Kirlian photo showing a halo of electrical energy tendrils surrounding what appears to be the cross section of a mushroom. The photography original shows up as drawings in a notebook found in a cottage before the source photos are discovered in a back room.
A man in a suit talking to a large humanoid monster with red glowing eyes and mouth.
The interior of a cramped police station in Japan, from the movie Cure (1997). An officer stands in the left portion of the frame, backlit by the desk lamp and overhead. On the right is the antagonist of the film, seated at and laying his head on a desk while shrouded in the dark. He has a lit lighter set on the desk that flickers and seems to mesmerize the officer.
Display console from a racing vehicle in The Running Man short in the anthology film Neo Tokyo (1987). Multiple purpose built displays are shown giving readouts on what looks like drive output, RPM, fuel consumption, some kind of schematic for an engine, etc. with no indicator of what any of it actually means. The only section with a clear label is titled MRS-5 with four vertical readouts labeled L-1, L-2, R-2, R-1 and appears to be pressure or RPM related.
Herr König from Cuckoo (2024) sitting in the hospital with Gretchen (off screen). His lips show a slight smile, but his eyes point to the seriousness of his veiled threats. The lighting of the room is light and sterile but he is backlit, casting shadows over most of his face.
The titular vourdalak (vampire) character puppet sitting at a table outside during the day tightly bundled up in a wool hat, scarf and fur cuffed coat. It is reaching up covering its ears with its thin and emaciated fingers due to a nearby dog barking at it. Sitting next to it is the vourdalak's son, offering some porridge.
The two headed, hydra like monster from the film Willow (1988) taking up nearly the full frame with a very gum showing shit eating grin. It's very ready to eat anything and everything that comes along.
Capa's nightmare from Sunshine (2007) where he is falling into the surface of the Sun while screaming, clothed only in comfy crew attire and sneakers.
The titular taxi in the film Taxi from 1998, a white Peugeot 406 sedan with front scoop, side skirt and rear pedestal spoilers. It is driving down a busy French road at high speed while looking goofy with a taxi light on the roof.
A shot of the titular cyborg from the film Cyborg (1989) standing in a darkly lit brick hallway. The cyborg is a puppet with the back half of its head showing mechanical internals with a well done and accurate looking human face on the front. It has a look of surprise at being cornered by thugs. While a bit uncanny looking the effects look as good or better than puppet/prosthetics shots from other films of the same era like Terminator, Scanners or Robocop.
A small humanoid alien the size of a grape with a head larger than its body and eyes to match. It lays shriveling up and breathing its last breaths in the center of an anemone like flower after seemingly powering it up. Concentric circles of glowing orbs surround the creature and appears as a sort of shrine to its imminent passing.
Conan the Barbarian sitting at a table with a big bowl of gruel in front of him. He absentmindedly moves a spoon through it with a distant look on his face after partying too much. Atop his head sits a jeweled helmet, askew. His new lady friend sleeps draped over his shoulders.
Gangly, brown papier mache creations representing the flesh eating plants called Triffids are held back by a waist high, electrified chainlink fence. In the foreground a man is using a hose to spray what is supposedly burning gasoline at the creatures in a campy and absurd scene.
The titular character of the film/book Matilda, a 5 and a half year old girl, sitting under a tree reading a book. In front of her is a red Radio Flyer wagon filled with more books from the library.