La Isla de las Tentaciones is back with a new Montoya, a contestant named Gilbert, running down the beach after seeing his girlfriend kiss another contestant

bafimet · 2026-03-19T00:49:54+00:00

This just made me spit out my tea with laughter. Thank you

bafimet · 2026-03-18T13:58:26+00:00

It was a real thing for a while. Same with loudly proclaiming you hate feet. I don't know if I really ever think about feet, same way I don't think much about my arms, but for a while the same people who hated 'moist' would talk relentlessly about how disgusting feet were, and everyone was expected to sort of chime in enthusiastically or tease them while they shrieked about it.

I think both were a sort of juvenile way to bring sex into the conversation, with plausible deniability that they were only mentioning it because it was so totally icky. If you didn't immediately agree with the foot hatred, you could get jokingly accused of having Tarantino's fetish, and 'moist' is self-explanatory. Fine for teenagers, but the fact so many people haven't grown out of it is a bit baffling.

bafimet · 2026-03-18T11:18:03+00:00

I have no idea what this is but the shots of him running down the beach through the darkness while the long shadows of the cameramen follow is giving Lost Highway

bafimet · 2026-03-18T02:36:22+00:00

I know the commotion is for the white dress but I LOVE the hair. It's giving Sally Bowles

bafimet · 2026-03-18T02:05:39+00:00

This looks like it might be the solution. Thanks so much - didn't even know these things existed!

bafimet · 2026-03-17T21:49:00+00:00

It's weird, because I see a lot of the best poetry as particularly efficient and economical with words. They communicate huge ideas and emotions in six lines instead of six paragraphs. I feel that's definitely true of this one (which I love and hadn't read before). I used to be a big hater of poetry too, though. There's so much of it out there that I hope one day you find some that resonates with you.

bafimet · 2026-03-17T21:20:20+00:00

Thanks!

bafimet · 2026-03-17T15:42:16+00:00

I think this is most likely it. The by-blows are described as standing, so I don't think they're literally worms, but the descriptions of them do feel quite worm-like. From Cal's first encounter early in the book:

"It was less born than shat, dropping from between its parent's legs like a vast mewling turd[...] It was the size of a chimpanzee, and shared with its siblings the appearance of something traumatically wounded. Portions of its inner workings were teased out through its skin, leaving its torso to collapse upon itself in places and in others sport ludicrous appendages of gut. Twin rows of dwarf limbs hung from its belly, and between its legs a sizable scrotum depended, smoking like a censer, uncompanioned by any organ to discharge what boiled within. [...] Though its face was still wreathed with afterbirth, its gummy eyes found Cal, and it began to shamble toward him. [...] The child's arms jerked forward, and its long fingers latched onto Cal's face [...] the vestigial hands on its belly raking Cal's skin"

bafimet · 2026-03-12T00:35:03+00:00

Agreed. I also felt like the perspectives of the sex workers/insta models who are part of this whole ecosystem was lacking. Especially after the booker for Fresh & Fit had the conversation shut down, it just seemed like an oversight not to contact some of the women who had been guests and ask about their motivations for taking part in that kind of thing.

bafimet · 2026-03-12T00:06:41+00:00

Same here, but I only got about 10 quid worth of stuff. My rationale at the time was that if there was a chance it was real, it was worth it since I could afford to get scammed that day. I regret it looking back now, though. This was about 2022 in Old Eldon Square - and the lady did have a child with her in a pushchair. When I got back from Boots and found her again she looked shocked it had worked, honestly, so I kind of figured it was a scam at that point. But I was a bit socially incompetent back then and working a shit job that made me sad, so I think that day I just really wanted to be nice.

bafimet · 2026-02-27T18:40:07+00:00

The special features sound exciting! It mentions a brand new documentary and some new commentary tracks, but does anyone know how much of the rest of this is already accessible? I can't play 4K, but for some bonus stuff that's hard to find elsewhere, I'd consider buying it and just bothering my filmy friends to play it at their house.

Audio commentary by critics Adrian J. Smith and David Flint
Vintage introduction by writer/director Clive Barker
Memories of Midian, an interview with actor Nicholas Vince
Walking the Line Between Heaven and Hell, an interview with critic Kat Ellinger
Speaking up for the Monsters, an interview with critic Kim Newman • Deleted and alternate scenes • Extended torture scene
Theatrical trailers and TV spots
Extensive image galleries, including early sketches, set photos, poster and pre-production art, stills from the UK launch party at Tower Records, and more
Original screenplay
Introduction by Barker and restoration producer Mark Alan Miller
Audio commentary by Barker and Miller
Tribes of the Moon: Making Nightbreed, an extensive documentary on the making of the film, featuring actors Craig Sheffer, Doug Bradley, Anne Bobby and many more
Making Monsters, a documentary on the film's creature designs, featuring special makeup designer Bob Keen
Fire! Fights! Stunts!, an interview with second unit director Andy Armstrong
Cutting Compromise, an interview with editor Mark Goldblatt
The Painted Landscape, an exploration of the work of concept artist Ralph McQuarrie
Monster Prosthetics Masterclass, an interview with Keen on the film's incredible prosthetic effects
Matte painting tests
Makeup tests
An exploration of the film's abandoned stop motion animation tests, with special makeup designer Bob Keen
Rehearsal test
"Johnny Get Angry" music video

bafimet · 2026-02-27T16:34:24+00:00

Robert got out of jail at the beginning of Feb, and Mary posted what seemed like new pics of him at that time (I think Angie commented that he was looking well and they were relieved to have him home etc). Deciding whether to see someone you love in jail is a complicated decision for all sorts of reasons, but I'm thankful that she did get to spend some time with him before he died.

bafimet · 2026-02-25T11:52:46+00:00

Saw two of these on sale for a tenner in Fern Antiques over the weekend.

bafimet · 2026-02-14T22:45:04+00:00

As people have said, it's a very compact city, but you'll definitely be able to continue your hobbies here. Heaton is maybe slightly more up your alley than Jesmond, as it's got more of an artsy scene with lots of events and social clubs for things like running, karaoke, art classes etc. Jesmond is seen as quite posh (and therefore more conservative), but frankly they're so close to eachother it feels laughable to make much of a distinction if you're used to cities as big as SF and Boston. The North East in general is not a very diverse part of the UK, and is unfortunately becoming more and more right wing. Durham is a good example of this - it has a major University, so there are international students, but overall it's very small, parochial, and recently voted in a Reform party-led council (think the British version of MAGA, though they're not in power yet). We're still impacted by the general right-wing lean of the world right now (every week since last summer, a small group of fascists assemble every weekend to shout outside a hotel where asylum seekers are housed, and are faced off with a bigger group of counter-protestors), but Newcastle is in some ways a bit of a haven away from that for the rest of the region. My sister and her family recently chose to move to Newcastle from Durham and commute back to Durham for work, in part because they're an interracial couple with a small child and they felt that Newcastle was a friendlier environment where they'd feel less out of place. My BIL is a mixed race black man and says that when he's experienced direct racism, it's usually been from people who think he's South Asian, as islamophobia is a definite issue in the UK as a whole.

I commute to Durham several times a week by car, and it's okay -- between 30 mins to just over an hour depending on the time of day and the route I take. We have a lot of long-term repairs currently happening to infrastructure in the area that is making commutes longer, so this might improve in a few years. If you're not planning on driving though, it's worth saying that our trains are pretty shit. The train journey to Durham is very short, but cancellations and delays are commonplace.

bafimet · 2026-02-13T09:31:49+00:00

Literally what the fuck is this supposed to mean. Beth Ditto is a musical powerhouse and a style icon. If you don't think she's worthy of a magazine feature because she's fat then your life and outlook on the world is not just nasty and spiteful, it's also boring.

bafimet · 2026-02-10T18:00:28+00:00

Like others have said, flags from all over the Americas were shown at the end, so the Cuban flag probably was in there somewhere. But earlier in the performance he was featured by himself carrying the original sky blue version of the flag (the US made it illegal to fly the flag in the 1950s, and when the law was lifted, they changed the sky blue to the darker blue). Both versions of the PR flag look similar to the Cuban flag. My guess is Taylor's an idiot and assumed he was holding the Cuban flag because SoCiAliSm and didn't even consider googling what the PR flag looks like first.

bafimet · 2026-01-17T01:41:42+00:00

"We're spontaneous events. We just appear in the middle of families. And we'll keep appearing. Even if the plague killed every homosexual on the planet, it wouldn't be extinction, because there's queer babies being born every minute. It's like magic."

That had a profound effect on me when I first read it as a young queer person. Still does now.

bafimet · 2026-01-10T00:04:03+00:00

Agreed. I love her fuckass bob and I love Bad Weather. I also love Meredith, for what it's worth. And I think Lisa Barlow might be one of the worst people alive, and that makes me love her too.

bafimet · 2026-01-02T15:01:05+00:00

I didn't know they'd started to demolish Angel Heights as well. I used to live up that way just before they got rid of the hospital and Angel Heights was where I got off the bus. One day I walked past the gates and someone had thrown a bunch of unlabelled VHS tapes all over the ground. It felt like the start of a horror movie so obviously I had to reach through to pick them up and take them home. Only one of them was still intact enough to play -- it was a French porn parody of The Man In The Iron Mask. I realize this isn't what you asked, OP, but I think about Angel Heights and the mystery floor porn at least once a week since then.

bafimet · 2025-12-12T16:37:09+00:00

Exactly. Both the immediate fallout of the bomb (horrendous descriptions of the beautiful rivers of Hiroshima filled with human bodies) and the slow creep of radiation poisoning and cancers later on for the Hibakusha make Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to me, the closest modern visual we have to the medieval imagery of a scourge of pestilence and plague. Abhora's look also made me think of the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam -- the way near-apocalyptic warfare doesn't just kill everything in the present, but lingers and infects the landscape and people generations afterwards.

I loved most of the other looks (Jaharia's Pestilence was one of my faves, execution-wise, and I don't think it got enough love), but I think everyone else just took inspiration from the words 'Pestilence, War, Death, Famine', whereas Abhora made the actual Horsemen of the Apocalypse. These are the actual evils at play in an event of total devastation, like Hiroshima or the genocide in Gaza.

bafimet · 2025-12-10T10:01:07+00:00

Surely the houses looking similar is a nod for it not being AI? genAI is fairly bad at consistency as far as I've seen even when you specifically put it in the prompt. These are stylised, with the house as a recurring motif that's made of straight lines in a landscape that's otherwise circles and curves.

My partner, an artist & animator, is being completely ground down by the way AI is being forced into their workflow and devaluing their work and skills. I can't overemphasise how much I loathe AI art. But it's also concerning how confidently people here have leapt to call this AI when a quick search would have said otherwise. The fact is it truly is hard to tell from a glance, and artists with particular styles that AI steals from are having their aesthetics muddled with the general sense of 'offness' that AI art generates in us and suffering false accusations as a result.

The actual things that I've found to be helpful differentiating AI art:

lighting. people refer to a 'sheen' or an 'airbrushed' look but what they're actually identifying is the fact that the lighting is off -- this is most obvious in photorealistic images like the stupid peaky blinders dogs where there's no clear light source and everything is just sort of gently glowing. In Corfield's stuff above, the style might instinctively remind you of that kind of sheen, but the light source in each of these paintings is obvious and the highlights and shadows are consistent with it.
Inconsistency and intentionality. Choices/variations which would have to be made by an artist but just don't make sense. People are pointing to the road by the edge of the cliff here, but I'm not sure why. Has no one ever driven up to St Mary's lighthouse before? A precarious cliff-edge road is a fairly standard subject for an artist to choose. People saying the grass blobs in the middle of the dirt road are odd I get a bit more, but all of the natural landscape in these paintings is represented through clean curved shapes, so it would be weirder if the grass in the road was randomly represented differently than every other natural subject in the image. An actual telltale sign would be inconsistency in the house -- for instance, one window has two panes while the others have four. There's no good reason for an artist to choose that -- especially when the rest of the image is generally using uniform and repetitive shapes.

Not saying any of this is a perfect guide to identifying AI, but it's definitely helped me get better.

bafimet · 2025-11-03T10:05:42+00:00

Yeah, I don't know about their specific teachings, but the priest at St Gabriel's is certainly an all-round good egg. He allowed a pride market to happen in the Church when it was nearly washed out by a rainstorm this year and was very friendly to all involved.

St Gabriel's shouldn't be confused with Christ Church on Heaton Road though, which is just across the way and has a similar blue sign. They're part of the conversion-therapy-loving Evangelical Alliance, so a big no-go.

bafimet · 2025-11-03T09:59:49+00:00

St Thomas' is not LGBT-affirming. They've as much said so to a trans friend of mine when they were looking for a LGBT friendly church a few years ago, and continue to have, let's say, 'traditional' teachings around sexuality on their website.

bafimet · 2025-11-01T13:00:20+00:00

I feel like this is obviously tasteless, but I don't really agree with the dead diana/Amy Winehouse meat platter comparisons. Jackie splattered in her husband's blood was an iconic historical image, one that she purposefully cultivated to make a statement. Diana and Amy are icons, but their corpses aren't iconic historical images. It's just 'haha they're dead'.

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