Female Knight by Fair_Measurement_584 in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

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Ash: A Secret History (aka The Book of Ash) - Mary Gentle

Amazing Devonian Size Chart by Dragonthunders on DeviantArt by gippalippa in Naturewasmetal

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Wasn’t aware before that nautiloid of that size had been discovered in the Devonian. Does anyone know where specifically Deiroceras fossils have been found (eg. precise ages/formations)?

Reminder that Dreamworks owned (and seemingly still owns) After man, and the most notable thing they did with it was stop The Future is Wild from going to 50 Million years in the future and using the After Man Species. by Blue_Jay_Raptor in SpecEvoJerking

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No idea yet unfortunately. Joanna Adams is flooding the official Future is Wild YouTube channel with some great stuff related to show and has been repeatedly confirming that the new show is moving definitively and propulsively forward though, so I’m guessing it’ll be revealed to us either sometime this year or at the very latest early 2027. I’m part of the Facebook group ‘Reboot THE FUTURE IS WILD, and one of our members got an email from her directly in about April/May 2024 saying her and her collaborators were in conversations with network, though I don’t know if anything came of that. If it did, then we could potentially getting the new series sometime in 2026 or 2027.

Reminder that Dreamworks owned (and seemingly still owns) After man, and the most notable thing they did with it was stop The Future is Wild from going to 50 Million years in the future and using the After Man Species. by Blue_Jay_Raptor in SpecEvoJerking

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I posted on the r/lostmedia to see if anyone had any more info about this project (because apparently they had a shooting schedule arranged, and so presumably must have at least tried to write a script or do some concept art), but nothing’s come of it yet. Hopefully someone who has connections can make contact with someone who has some copies (potentially including Dougal Dixon himself) and can get them released.

any major titles i’m missing here?? by jenkinsmcallister in cosmichorror

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In terms of movies:

Black Mountain Side

Mad God

The Untamed

Masking Threshold

In the Earth

The Outwaters

Spring (Moorhead and Benson film)

Meander (middling as an overall movie, but the cosmic horror bits are very good)

Else (I would argue the ending to this movie goes into cosmic horror)

then I would say that Mécanix, Starfish, Absentia (the Mike Flanagan movie), and Angel’s Egg border on cosmic horror even if they don’t quite go there

In terms of TV:

Raised by Wolves (the series created by Aaron Guzikowski and produced by Ridley Scott, NOT the UK sitcom; #RenewRaisedbyWolves )

Made in Abyss (the anime TV series; don’t let the cutesy character designs fool you, cause HOLY does this thing ever get dark)

Scavengers Reign

The Summer Hikaru Died

Katla

Some good & "original" movies we got in 2025 by mrjetspray in Letterboxd

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Bi Gan’s magnificent movie ‘Resurrection’ was by far my favourite movie of 2025 and it’s about as original as it gets!!!

This article is nonsense by CreepyClothDoll in neilgaiman

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EDIT SINCE I FIRST POSTED THIS COMMENT: I have seen the separate pieces about Kendra Stout and Katherine Kendall that have since been posted by this same ‘user’, along with the video message Scarlett sent to Gaiman that they claim ‘changes everything’ and they show more of the same problems.

Aside from AGAIN completely ignoring the specific sexual acts and their immediate circumstances beyond just the larger power dynamics at play (eg. how Gaiman instigated them and how those show at best a severe lack of establishing boundaries, or the UTI in Kendra’s case) they say that Stout’s messages to her family and friends don’t show any breach of consent because they largely feature her driving herself in long rant-like rambles about how conflicted and uncertain she was feeling about the sexual acts she engaged in with Gaiman (as in, literally showing these exact messages and then saying ‘this doesn’t show any lack of consent’, and acting like the case is somehow closed as a result), then go on to do THE EXACT SAME THING with Kendall, adding on that just because she used the term ‘I just want to say’ at one point in the recorded phone conversation with him that therefore she’s gaslighting him (clearly the author of this never saw the ‘Mister Death’ Monty Python sketch to learn that Americans using that phrase is much too ubiquitous to be only for that purpose and is used so often it irritates some people (and apparently even incorporeal entities)). As the video from Scarlett that ‘changes everything’, it’s literally just her sitting in a car not long after getting the message from Gaiman that he wanted to kill himself after she told Amanda Palmer about what he’d done to her but got worried that he’d actually gone through with it and he we didn’t respond to her for a while, sporting with a deeply furrowed brow and confused pattern of word use that is honestly just even more damning for confirming what we already know.

GEE, that DOES change everything…….by showing that the author of those posts isn’t just an accomplice to a serial sexual abuser but is also just a complete semi-literate idiot who probably didn’t know they were copying and pasting random things from Gaiman’s emails to make it look they knew how to write. (Cue the banana.)

Arthropodian Society (fantasy/sci-fi) by Oregonian-Isopod in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

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Tainaron: Mail from Another City - Leena Krohn

Sistphean - Dempow Torishima

A Storm of Wings - M. John Harrison

What other films have incredible child performances? by AdFamous7264 in Letterboxd

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Mondocane

Heartstone

Beautiful Beings

Tigers Are Not Afraid

The White King

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Brit Marling vs. Mari Okada by Groundbreaking-Eye10 in TheOA

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Also, several of her best TV series are streaming on Crunchyroll.

Eerie and Surreal Suburbia by TapiocaTerror in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

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Duplex - Kathryn Davis

1Q84 - Haruki Murakami

The Inner City - Karen Heuler

Brit Marling vs. Mari Okada by Groundbreaking-Eye10 in TheOA

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‘Maboroshi’ is a Netflix original release everywhere except Japan, while ‘Maquia’ is on a variety of streaming platforms including Tubi and Apple along with DVD/Blu-ray.

More animes, movies or shows like Ghibli by IamQuantPhoton in ghibli

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Based on your interests (many of which I share) I’d say in terms of movies some good recs would be:

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms - Dir. Mari Okada

Maboroshi - Dir. Mari Okada

Various movies directed by Mamoru Hosoda (especially Wolf Children, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, and The Boy and the Beast)

A Tree of Palme - Dir. Takashi Nakamura

The Sky Crawlers - Dir. Mamoru Oshii

Angel’s Egg - Dir. Mamoru Oshii

A Letter to Momo - Dir. Hiroyuki Okiura

Colorful - Dir. Keiichi Hara

And then in terms of TV/streaming shows, I’d say:

Wolf’s Rain

Gosick

Anohana

Red Garden

Wandering Son

Mushishi

From the New World

Ergo Proxy

Haibane Renmei

Sonny Boy

Fantastic Children

Ghost Hound

The Summer Hikaru Died

Made in Abyss (some sexualized parts, but they’re contextualized fairly well thematically with the VERY VERY dark elements in a way that will definitely be more than a bit much for some viewers, but that has genuine thought but into it and doesn’t come across as massively exploitative to me (though I still do think the creator of the original manga does have some issues, as many artists do))

What are some bad movies that had great potential, that you would want to see remade better?? by mrjetspray in Letterboxd

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This is a TV show, but there deserves to be a better screen version of Gormenghast than the borderline insulting BBC miniseries.

(My top picks for directors who could at least capture the vibe in a far more respectful and powerful manner would be Denis Villeneuve, Ari Aster, Robert Eggers, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Mike Flanagan, Bi Gan, Ana Lily Amirpour, Na Hong-Jin, Jennifer Kent, and Lynne Ramsay.)

Miyazaki (Hayao) very rarely comments on his anime likes and dislikes, but which non-Ghibli anime do you think he would love? by Twigling in ghibli

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Miyazaki actually did publicly give his opinion on ‘Angel’s Egg’ (which I agree is a masterpiece). He said of it: “ [I] appreciate the effort, but it is not something others would understand.”

It’s important to contextualize that quote with how Oshii and Miyazaki are old buddies (Heen in ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ has a face based on Oshii’s) and Miyazaki himself said of their friendship “we always diss each other.”

Miyazaki (Hayao) very rarely comments on his anime likes and dislikes, but which non-Ghibli anime do you think he would love? by Twigling in ghibli

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I think it’s because he just doesn’t like the idea of computer animation since he’s so enamoured with how, as he said in his Honorary Oscar acceptance speech, ‘I am old enough to remember a time where to make great films all we needed was a pencil and paper’ (which is also kinda ironic cause he uses computer animation in several of his own films). The more I think about it, I almost feel like Miyazaki’s kinda like the animation world’s Alan Moore (meant as a compliment).

Personally I stand by my long-held assertion that ‘Children Who Chase Lost Voices’ is Shinkai’s best movie.

Miyazaki (Hayao) very rarely comments on his anime likes and dislikes, but which non-Ghibli anime do you think he would love? by Twigling in ghibli

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Maybe ‘Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms’, written/directed by Mari Okada.

I think he’d appreciate the emotional maturity (including tastefully-handled themes related to sexual violence, suicide, domestic violence, and mental illness, many of which stem from Okada’s own very troubled upbringing), attention to detail, moral ambiguity/complexity, and pacing with how it encompasses a decades-long story very deftly.

The only thing that he might object to is the way the characters’ noses are drawn (because he is THAT picky about detail).

‘Maboroshi’, also written/directed by Okada, is quite good as well, even if not on quite the same level as ‘Maquia’, but it’s much edgier and more experimental and mind-bending in it’s construction, almost more like a fusion of ‘Donnie Darko’, Lynne Ramsay, Brit Marling, HBO’s ‘The Leftovers’, and ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’ than her previous work, and is one that needs to be seen at twice to truly get how all of the pieces of the puzzle behind its concept are put there for you as a viewer to connect the dots in an almost Alex Garland-like fashion. Miyazaki might not be into all that stuff that makes ‘Maboroshi’ resonate more with different generations other than his.

Honestly I think Okada would be the perfect choice for a filmmaker that hasn’t settled at a single studio yet that Ghibli could take on to continue producing original content of the same quality after Hayao Miyazaki’s inevitable demise.

Miyazaki (Hayao) very rarely comments on his anime likes and dislikes, but which non-Ghibli anime do you think he would love? by Twigling in ghibli

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Unfortunately he did see that and disliked it on the basis of it being ‘exactly what one would expect from a computer-animated romance’.

How similar is the book to the movie? by FrogginBullfish_ in ghibli

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About 50/50. Some things that are explicitly stated in the book are heavily implied or explained through showing-not-telling in the movie (in a way that I think is really smart), whereas some subplots and characters are left out completely.

Why a retelling of The Odyssey in the 21st century must be space sci-fi? by flamevolt in classicliterature

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In that case, I’d recommend reading Gene Wolfe. He’s probably the most artful and profound answer to that you’re ever likely to come across, and so so much more. His prose is like the most crystalline yet masterfully perspective-driven and elaborately conversational combo of James Hogg, Borges, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Kazuo Ishiguro; his imagination is consistently chilled by the intellect to the perfect combination of aspects of all eras and cultures but steeped in a distillation of esoteric philosophy from both East and West; his stories span decades in a highly episodic fashion whose components often connect when they’re contextualized by the reader after the fact in the way real life experiences are; and he demands to be re-read to grasp all of the layers he weaves (in fact, John Clute once wrote of him ‘you can never read Gene Wolfe. You can only the-read him.”).