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The Lost Sketchbook of Guillermo del Toro:

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro put all his ideas for `Pan’s Labyrinth’ in a notebook — then lost it.

The heavyset man ran down the London street, panting, chasing the taxi. When it didn’t stop, he hopped into another cab. “Follow that cab!” he yelled. Guillermo del Toro wasn’t directing this movie. He was living it. And it was turning into a horror tale.

The Mexican filmmaker keeps all of his ideas in leather notebooks. And Del Toro had just left four years of work in the back seat of a British cab. Unlike in the movies, though, Del Toro couldn’t catch the taxi. Visits to the police and the taxi company proved equally fruitless.

Del Toro’s films — “Chronos,” “The Devil’s Backbone,” “Blade II,” “Hellboy” — typically feature magical realism. Fate was about to return the storytelling favor.

The cabbie spotted the misplaced journal. Working from a scrap of stationery that didn’t even have the name of Del Toro’s hotel (just its logo), the driver returned the book two days later. An overwhelmed Del Toro promptly gave him an approximately $900 tip.

The sketches and the ideas in that misplaced journal — four years of notes on character design, ruminations about plot — were the foundation of “Pan’s Labyrinth,” a child’s fantasy set in the wake of the Spanish Civil War.

The director, who at the time wasn’t even sure he’d actually make “Pan’s Labyrinth,” took the cabbie’s act as a sign, and plunged himself into the movie.

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School is demanding but I’ll have a month off soon…

Name: Oya

Aliases: Idie Okonkwo, The Girl Who Wouldn’t Burn, The Third Light

Origin: Oyo in Delta State of Nigeria

Affiliations: The Lights, X-Men and Jean Grey School Students

Created By: Matt Fraction and Kieron Gillen

Publisher: Marvel Comics

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #528 (September 2010)

Biography/Story Line: Idie was a young girl living with her family in Oyo, in the Delta State of Nigeria when her mutant powers manifested. She was located by  the X-Men using Cerebra. With the advent of her mutant abilities, Idie accidentally burned down her village and killed her family. A paramilitary group that tracked down Idie attempted to murder her, but the arrival of Hope Summers and Storm prevented the troops from harming her.

From her introduction, Idie is shown to have deep religious reservations with respect to her status as a mutant. She has viewed herself as a “monster” and has wished her mutation was as obvious as Laurie’s, so that her “sin” would be just as obvious. When deciding to not be called “The Girl Who Wouldn’t Burn,” Idie describes herself as “a witch child,” “a blasphemy,” and “a heretic.” She states that if she cannot burn in this world, she will burn in the next. She later tells Wolverine that she has made peace with the fact that she is a monster.

Idie, with no living family left, joined Hope and the other Lights as continued to rescue the last two Lights as Generation Hope. First traveling with Rogue, Hope and the Light across Europe and finally to Florida while tracking Teon. Later the group traveled to Tokyo, Japan to stop Kenji’s rampage. Though nervous, Idie stood with Hope in defiance of Cyclops’ orders.

Once the Lights arrived on Utopia, Idie quietly submitted to Doctor Nemesis’ tests and to Hope training. Idie also quietly accompanied Hope and the other Light on their first mission to Berlin to find a new mutant.

Wolverine took a liking to Idie and started to mentor her. She was at the Museum of Mutant History when the Hellfire Club attacked. Cyclops told her to “do what she thought was necessary”. Idie decided it was necessary to stop them, and so killed them with her powers.

After the events of Schism, Idie went with Wolverine to Westchester County to attend Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.

Oya is no longer part of Generation Hope and she is now part of the Wolverine and the X-Men. During a visit from Deathlok to the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning, it is shown that Idie has a high probability of eventually becoming leader of the X-Men.

Powers/Skills: Temperature Manipulation

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jackalonthemoon:

Hearing someone say ‘Kamen Rider triple Oh’ instead of ‘Ohs’

Why even open your Mouth

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eiji pls

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Jennifer Morrison as Emma Swan (credit)

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zoearcher:

What I always enjoyed about Morticia and Gomez was how they made no secret that they passionately loved each other. We get so used to seeing depictions (on television especially) of married couples in continual states of contention—belittling one another, falling into the wife/mother-husband/child trope, and generally disrespecting each other, which made me wonder why they even bothered marrying in the first place.

But Gomez and Morticia never lose their desire and respect for each other. Is it because they’re “weird” that it’s acceptable to depict married life so positively? Or are they “strange” because, after three children and a lifetime together, they still adore each other? I know no marriage is perfect, but wouldn’t it be nice if the media portrayed marriage as more than a continuous state of exasperation and anger? Maybe that’s why romance novelists and romance novel readers are so embattled: because we dare to believe in love. 

“How long has it been since we waltzed?”

“Hours.”

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(Sir) Kenneth Branagh receives his Knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II, November 9th 2012.

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