Lords of Kobol, hear my prayer...

++ We finally got the teaser trailer for Dune Messiah (yes, it's titled Dune: Part Three, but it's adapting Dune Messiah instead of part of the first book like the first two movies and therefore I will call it as such). First, this music in this trailer is phenomenal, just like with the previous trailers for these films it really demonstrates the grand scale of how epic this story is. Secondly, even just seeing little bits has me very, very stoked, especially the mentioning of Ghanima and Leto II's names. I may have some nitpicks with Denis Villeneuve's creative choices here and there throughout these movies, but it doesn't lessen my excitement to see this one. If he manages to get this right, the reactions to it are going to be very interesting, indeed.

++ Felicia Day will crowdfund for a movie spin-off of her webseries, The Guild.

Again, a pleasantly unexpected surprise announcement that totally caught me off guard! The Guild remains one of my favorite first ever webseries that I watched, and I even have the DVDs that were later made available to purchase because I adored it so much. I know that there was a musical stage reading that was done of The Guild with Felicia recently, so naturally this would be the next step. I hope the crowdfunding will be successful so she can make this happen.

++ Girl From Nowhere is a Thai mystery thriller drama that I've recently gotten into. It's an anthology centering around a mysterious girl named Nanno who transfers to different private schools each episode to expose the lies and misdeeds of the students and faculty. It's utterly fascinating. Nanno, who is quickly revealed to the audience as a mysterious immortal entity, is delightfully unhinged, even more so in the second season, and I like that the acts of revenge are done as a way for characters to experience karma of their wrongdoings. Although the drama premiered in 2018 and has two seasons, Girl From Nowhere: The Reset just recently premiered as a re-imagined reboot of the franchise, theorized to be set in an alternate universe with another girl as Nanno, this time played by Becky Armstrong (known mostly from being paired with Freen Sarocha in various Thai GL dramas). I have only just discovered this drama franchise, so I like both actresses who play Nanno. In general, this drama is dark and twisted, but in a fascinating way that I do so enjoy.

++ I only vaguely follow the Olympics, as in only the sport events I'm interested in. For the winter Olympics it's figure skating. Because of this, I kinda got myself caught up with the sensation of Alysa Liu and her truly inspiring story and the outcome of her winning gold simply by just being herself, returning back to the sport after deciding retire a couple years prior and doing so on her own terms, and having passion for what she loves and having fun. For all the technical and professional elements of the sports competition, the pure joy and confidence in what she was doing is what most of all take away when watching programs like that. Her performances, her general attitude about life, as well as her kindness, support and excitement towards her fellow competitors, it was quite infectious and it's great to see something this positive and uplifting come out of the Olympics.

++ An official music video was released by the cast of A/B/O Desire for "Master of Desire", the drama's theme song. I literally was all chin!hands watching it! (✿◠‿◠) The video itself is visually stunning, and just seeing them all together for this and with them paired off with their respective couples just made me so happy, specifically that of Gao Tu/Shen Wenlang. Anything with them, please, I need more little itty bitty crumbs of those two!

++ Girls Like Girls is an upcoming film by Hayley Kiyoko, adapted from a book she had wrote that is titled and based off of her iconic 2015 song/music video of the same name. I wasn't aware that she had written a novel nor that this film was in the works at all, but that makes this discovery so much more amazing for me. I do remember back when the video music was released that people were saying that it could be its own story in itself, so, whether or not this was taken into account at the time, I like that Hayley wanted to take a step further with her own creation.

++ The news about Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife's deaths is unbelievably sad, and the more information we get surrounding their horrific murder the worse and more depressing it is. :(

++ Leverage: Redemption has been cancelled after three seasons, which is disappointing to hear and yet unsurprising at the same time. First, the way shows are nowadays especially on streaming services have a shorter lifespan than usual, both of its seasons and episodes, it was a miracle it was renewed after the first season to be honest. Secondly, some of its cast seems to be quite busy with other projects, and with the sizable delays of between filming seasons it's unfair to ask them to put their careers on hold. It's sad that there won't be more or even for there to be a proper conclusion, but it was a fun return nonetheless and one of the few revivals that managed to still capture that magic and continuity from the original run.

++ It's December already. When did that happen? *sigh*

++ The recently premiered Canadian BL show, Heated Rivalry, has been making the rounds among fandom spaces. I haven't seen it yet myself, however I'm absolutely tickled by there finally being a hockey-based BL romance show, especially with it being quite mature with its content, aka the sex scenes. I know that the genre itself is quite popular, hockey RPF and hockey AUs fanfics abound in fandom, so it was about time it actually ended up getting made for television. Funnily, I follow a few people who constantly post about IRL hockey, so it can be a bit confusing at first glance on which are from the show and which are actual real life hockey players, lol.

++ I've been waiting until some episodes were already out before I started watching the fourth campaign of Critical Role, and I finally have.

( My thoughts on Critical Role, Campaign 4 Episode 1: The Fall of Thjazi Fang )

Overall, I'm really looking forward to catching up.

++ A combination of Dick Cheney dying, Zohran Mamdani winning the NYC mayoral election and the Dem sweep, I'd say November 4th was quite a successful day politically. Obviously we're still fucked in the current grand scheme of things, but at least this didn't feel me with overwhelming dread and is a step in the right direction.

++ Jon Stewart announced that he's extending hosting The Daily Show into 2026, and Stephen Colbert teases the comeback of his Colbert Report character. Yes, it does feel like we're back with early 00s politics, but their commentary through jokes and satire were what made most of us back then sane.

++ In unsurprising news: Disney ends its partnership with Doctor Who, the show will still continue with the BBC. This isn't shocking, we all saw this coming a mile away, it just took too damn long for the announcement to happen when it shouldn't have. It was inevitable considering the many delays, so much so that the main actor himself, Ncuti Gatwa, asked to leave the show while a lot of things were still in limbo. With that being said, in the end this whole arrangement was quite a blunder and was just a waste of time, resources, and questionable creative decisions right from the jump.

Now that this has been confirmed, after the planned Christmas special for next year I do think the show needs a break. Not an exceedingly long one as suggested by others, but long enough of a pause to regroup and figure out where they want to go with the show itself.

++ Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are in talks for returning in a new The Mummy movie. The Mummy and The Mummy Returns were both such good movies, easily the most fun action/adventure kind of story with an excellent cast with good chemistry. On one hand I'm stoked to have both Fraser and Weisz returning, however I'm also apprehensive because, these days, the way current media is aside, revived franchises aren't always going to do well. It has to feature the elements which made the original work so well in order for it to flourish, and sometimes the magic just cannot be recaptured even with the best attempts (see: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, the third movie of which we don't speak of, and The Scorpion King, a pretty decent movie imho but didn't really hold up to what made the original two stand-out). With that being said I'm willing to give it a try should this go forward, because I adore Brendan and Rachel's chemistry since they made Rick and Evie's whole relationship work so beautifully, and I'm happy that there's a Brendan Fraser renaissance in recent years and I think many fans of The Mummy movies will appreciate seeing him and Rachel back in the roles.