• they/them

plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.

host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)

chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)

other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)


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it's time for self-harm theater. I've been saving up this one for a long time—I've known about this movie for decades without actually watching it. Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant. ~Χαρά


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I liked it. Oh, it's foul, but that's just part of the cosmic joke. The titular "Bad Lieutenant" writhes uselessly on the end of God's marionette-strings. I read somewhere that Abel Ferrara wanted this movie to be funnier, but Harvey Keitel's apocalyptic performance dragged the film in a more serious direction. But there's still a lot of gallows-humor in Bad Lieutenant. Among the Lieutenant's many sins: he bets against his home team in a fictitious league championship series between the Mets and the Dodgers. The Dodgers win the first three games so the Lieutenant thinks he's going to win big by encouraging his fellow cops to bet on the Mets while he secretly bets against them—and for this heinous treachery, the Lieutenant is punished, forced to listen and watch as the Mets miraculously win the series anyway. Everything he does along the way makes his situation worse, until finally God takes mercy on the Lieutenant and sends a loan-shark's hitman who shoots the Lieutenant dead underneath a Trump Plaza billboard which reads "It All Happens Here".

How could this movie have been funnier?

~Χαρά


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