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This is it.

We are getting down to the wire here for 2018 – what has been one of the absolute best

years for anime in recent memory – and now we start the final season.

The final three months where we can finally start to piece together our Best of Year lists,

our favorites, and give praise to those deserving of it because, with this season, all of this

year's shows should be laid bare before us.

But of course I'm getting ahead of myself.

Today, we are not looking at the best of 2018, no, not yet.

But we are looking at what I hope to be possible contenders that are airing for this coming

season.

These are shows I hope will somehow be able to rise to the top of this year's admittedly

amazing crop of shows and leave this year off on an extremely good note.

So without further ado, ladies, gentlemen, and others, my name is Arkada and today it's

Glass Reflection's Top Anticipated Anime for Fall 2018.

Let's jam.

Staring off with some honorable mentions, this season brings back more Sword Art Online

(like we needed it), more Fairy Tail with its supposed last season (which I'll believe

when it ends), and HOLY SHIT INDEX III?

Wow, yeah, talk about shows getting new seasons out of nowhere this year.

Man.

I can't get too excited about Index III through because I still have the first season

on Blu-ray in shrink wrap on my shelf and it's been there for like two years.

Maybe this will give me an excuse to finally get around to it.

But now let's just get over to the list proper, were we are going to begin with our good friends over at White

Fox.

Goblin Slayer is about a priestess who begins an adventuring party in a fantasy world and

comes across the "name drop" Goblin Slayer who is very good at one thing.

I think you might be able to guess what that is.

Thankfully, it doesn't seem to be isekai as White Fox has already given us that with

Re;Zero, but this particular kind of fantasy setting is one we've been seeing quite a

bit.

I'm leaning heavily on the studio itself for my excitement level here.

White Fox has very rarely let me down with other show's I've enjoyed.

This is not to say that the staff is bad, and I'm praying on the studio, no...

In fact, we have the director for Girls Last Tour helming it and the music will be provided

by the same composer who already did the music this year for Golden Kamuy and Comic Girls,

along with working with Director Ozaki on Girls Last Tour previously.

Speaking of Golden Kamuy, that's our number 2!

My review on season one went up just recently, please check that out when you can, but the

end of season one, left us in a bit of a weird spot narratively, in that

we didn't really have a narrative end for it rather than just the show….stopping.

The final episode of season one felt like any other episode and that to me is a horrible

way to end a series, but thankfully with this second season we can expect to get all the

adventure, and hijinks, and not-so-subtle gourmet content that the series has been known

for.

With luck, we'll also get a narrative conclusion or an announcement for a third season as well.

That would be great.

K, thanks.

Next is a personal one that I don't think other people to be as excited for as I am.

Also, with its first 4 episodes already released it's not hard to think I might be adding

this just a bit too late.

Re Ri D, ReRideded....

RErideD is a series that doesn't have a fully known studio behind it, but instead

is riding (heh) on its staff.

Now the series itself is taking place in possibly our future, and on top of that it deals with

a guy that got cryogenically frozen unwillingly and also a girl he used to know that seems

to travel through time to leave him messages.

Now the interesting thing about its staff, considering it's a series that somehow involves

time travel or some kind of similar science, is that the show's director Takuya Sato

was also the director of the best time travel anime ever made: Steins;Gate.

Although that was an adaptation and this is an original series, so there's more that

can creatively happen since they don't have an original material, but also there is nothing to fall back on.

I was even more excited to hear that Yoshitoshi ABe was providing the original character designs…the

downside is that while the original designs were done by ABe, I'm finding it hard to

see those designs in the actual designs used in the show.

The first few episodes are out already and personally they have given me pause, but I'm

still hopeful enough for the series as a whole to leave it a spot on this list.

Here's one that I don't think has been claimed by any streaming service, but I'm

still excited to watch it whenever it becomes available: SSSS.Gridman!

This one will appear on a lot of people's radar for one of two reasons: either because

it's a reboot of a 90's Tokusatsu series, and these shows have their dedicated fan base

that will be thrilled by this, or because it's the latest outing by Studio Trigger,

a name which I feel becomes more and more hilarious with each new somewhat controversial

series they help to produce.

On the one hand, I think Gridman might follow heavily the footsteps left behind by the original,

just now in 2D animation with some more modern themes to make up for the time jump.

Or, with Trigger being Trigger, those could just be the expectations they plan to completely

blow out of the water.

Either way, I expect it to be a fantastic spectacle – which doesn't necessarily

mean it'll be good, just entertaining – which is all I'm asking for, really.

Second to last on our top list for this season is another series that I'm not sure

is getting streamed, but we can hope.

The title is kind of long, but it roughly translates to "So Many Colors in the Future

– What a Wonderful World", which I'm sure will be given a nickname eventually.

This series comes onto the list for 3 reasons.

1) PA Works, like White Fox, is a studio that rarely has let me down, but I can say that

even when I haven't been all that entranced by their narratives, the production values

usually make up for it.

Like, for example, the case of a series by the name of Nagi no Asakura, a series which

also shares a director with this new work.

Now as far as story, in this series we have a witch from the future who is emotionally

distant and apparently lost her sense of colour when she was little.

Her grandmother, feeling sorry for her, decides the best response is to send her back in time

to experience life….with the grandmother's 17-year-old self.

There's supposed to be magic, high-school highjinks (that hopefully won't be stale

on landing), and more than likely (given the director of the series) emotions will run

wild, even if they don't immediately come from our protagonist.

This last one should come as no surprise.

Yes, the 5th part of JoJo is here.

Do I honestly need to explain why it's here?

Even after all this time?

By now, I have no doubt that all of you watching this have made up your mind one way or another

on JoJo as a whole.

You either love it, tolerate it, or somehow have escaped watching or knowing much about

it despite its prevalence since Part 1 first aired several years back.

But I am a fan of JoJo, if that hasn't already been made obvious by the videos I've done

on the series.

Even though I will fully admit that I'm not yet caught up with the series, as I'm

still watching Diamond, that doesn't stop me from being excited as hell for this new

series.

"But Ark!

If you are such a fan, why are you still behind?"

The answer to that is easy.

I do not look forward to living in a world where I don't have another JoJo episode

to watch.

It'll happen eventually, but I've been delaying it as long as possible and now with

this new season, that effort is made all the easier.

So even if I don't watch it immediately, as it airs this season, I can still be excited as heck for JoJo Part 5.

So there you have it.

There are a few other shows that I considered adding to this list, ones involving slimes

and bunny girls, but perhaps in future seasons if I were to change the name of this list,

they might get included in a more official capacity.

This is mostly because I really can't say I'm anticipating them, more just curious

about them.

We'll have to see if that curiosity leads anywhere.

As far as the actual list went, with luck some of these will turn out to be very successful,

and possibly some shows I missed will end up getting into the limelight and blowing

us all away.

What out of these shows do you think you might be watching?

What did I miss that I very obviously shouldn't have?

Let me know down in the comments!

A very special thank you to my patrons who make these videos possible and support what

I do here.

It's very much appreciated.

And an even bigger thank you to patrons Calhoonboy, Siri Yamiko, Victor Ekmark, Ryefan Boneapart,

Rune Jachobson, Joshua Garcia and Devon North for being extremely awesome.

Until next time – ladies, gentlemen, and others – watch more anime! and stay frosty.

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Ok. This is going to be interesting. Hello, this is Sea

Hedgehog, and you're here again on my channel A Jest

in Sober Earnest. And since I can't seem to do 1 thing at

a time, I'm going to answer Athena Fenstermacher's

Spooky Halloween Tag while I cut this out because I

was supposed to do this multiple weeks ago and

instead I didn't.

So what I have here—and I'm going to be cut off—is two

pairs of pants. 1 is from Uniqlo, and the other is from

some company I've never heard of: Zella, and what I'm

trying to do is sew a pair of pants for my sister.

We are similar in circumference for pants, but she is like

6" taller than I am [sarcasm—more like 3"]. So I'm using

the only pair of pants that I have that I know that fit her

are these Zella capri pants, but they're capris, so I'm

using another pair of pants for the length.

So this will be interesting. I think what I'm going to end

up doing is just making them just a little bit too long and

hoping that it works out. So that's what we're doing right

now.

I don't really have a pattern, so we're using these.

Basically the strategy is that you fold the pants in such a

way that you can see what the little pieces look like that

make them up, and then you cut something out and

hope that it's right.

So I think the 1st question in her prompt was "What is

your favorite Halloween song or horror themed song?"

I think if it were Halloween it'd probably be something

like 1 of those Halloween songs that you have to sing in

grade school just because I associate Halloween with

those songs.

I'm trying to think. So 1 of them would probably be the

Monster Mash just because we played that song

nonstop in the car when we were kids.

1 of them would probably also be 1 of the Rocky Horror

Picture Show songs. Like, "Let's Do the Time Warp" or

something like that. I don't think I understood exactly

what that show was when I was younger.

So yeah. I fold—I've got this center crotch seam that I

folded it along for the front. I folded the front of the

pants along the INSEAM here. And then, these pants are

designed a little strange in that they have a little

triangle—I'll show you the piece when I cut it out

because it's really hard to see.

So then you line up whatever it is along the grainline of

the fabric and then I'm going to cut it out with a little bit

of seam allowance. And then for non-Halloween horror-

themed songs…

So I have a couple ones. 1 is this album and I have no

idea how I found it because I am not—my musical

tastes—for perspective, I'm in the Midwest, so my

musical tastes are like folk music, so I'm in no way,

shape, or form one of the—I don't even know what you

call them: people who know about current music.

Hipster? Maybe it's hipter. I think that fits the stereotype.

But somehow I found this album and I think it was from

watching a show. I think it was a French show on Netflix

and they played this song from an artist called Host and

the album is also called Host.

And for whatever reason, it's super impossible for me to

find any information about this artist online. But the

entire album is in minor key, and so it's really creepy and

the song titles are also super emo. They're called—one's

like" Cluster Bombs" and "Fresh Meat," "Hollow Point,"

"Hell is Here," so they're pretty dark.

And the thing I like about the album is there's a really

catchy tune that's very—this is why: I didn't take any

musical classes as a child so I can't describe what I'm

hearing--but even though there is minimal bass, there is

a rhythm to the music that you can keep track of and I

really like to play it while I'm exercising because even

though it's super emo and dark, the tone of the music,

even though it's in minor key is uplifting—that's a very

strange...not happy, but energetic enough that it

motivates me to keep going, even when I feel like I'm going to die.

I'm not particularly fit either, which is a problem. So

that's 1 of them. Another 1 is there is a song called

"Parasites" by San Fermin that's also totally in minor key

and is very discordant. The notes do not particularly go

together very well and so I think it makes it one of the

creepier songs that I listen to because it just—it's a

really interesting song, it's catchy, but it is not pleasant

to listen to, and I think that's why.

Another would be Anaïs Mitchell's—I keep saying her

name wrong—Hadestown Soundtrack. And I think that 1

in particular is horror themed because it's the myth of

Orpheus and Eurydice from Greek myth, but it is set up

in—I don't exactly know. It's either Prohibition or the

Dust Bowl (which barely overlap).

So there's the Robber Baron, Hades, who lives

underground and he employs loads and loads of people

who are out of work because they can't farm, or

whatever, to build a pointless wall, and so the whole

album is these laborers who continue to work. They're

putting their life and their essence into this wall,

because they're probably not going to end up back on

the surface. I think the implication is that they're going

to be buried into this wall that they're building, just

because he's working them to death.

And then, the Orpheus and Eurydice as a myth is very

dark in that the couple does not end up together at the

end. Eurydice dies; Orpheus goes down into the

underworld to rescue her, and he's unable to bring her

back.

And so this folk opera Hadestown takes it's own twist

on that myth, so I don't necessarily spoiling what the

myth is about spoils the album. And I thin it's now a

play.

So creepy songs, but for different reasons.

And then the next prompt was "What would you not

want to run into in the woods or in a haunted house."

I think, in general, the things that scare me in real life--

and I think we had this conversation in another 1 of my

videos, 1 of my Halloween prompts for Halloween

Heartthrob in that things that scare me in real life are

very different from the things that scare me in movies.

In a movie, having a creepy ghost or something would

really really scare me and I'd be screaming, I would run

away--like literally leave the room in the middle of the

movie. I've done that before. I am that awkward person.

But in real life, that's not something that scares me. So I

think in real life the things that I'm afraid of are people.

And I think, as a result, that's why I do like some of the

movie genres that I like and the book genres that I like. I

like crime novels. I think there's something really

terrifying about monsters who are people.

And so I think that is probably more likely what I would

not want to run into in a haunted house or in the woods

at night would be a human being who is not out there

for great reasons.

Ok. So the next prompt is "Have you ever played with a

Ouija board?" And I actually…have I ever played with a

Ouija board? So I haven't.

Ok, so this is what—I was listening to this video last

night, and I knew I would have something weird to say

for this.

How do I want to describe this?

I don't want to take anything away from anybody who

struggles with mental illness—that would never be my

intention, but I do feel like normalcy is a spectrum, and

everyone has behaviors that are slightly weird, slighty

strange, and mine happens to be that I feel sometimes

compelled to do things that are very repetitive.

If I hear about a superstition, I don't necessarily ascribe

to the superstition, but I feel the need to fill it out. So a

good example is the knock on wood superstition. So it's

really hard for me to not knock on wood in patterns of 3,

which seems really dumb, but it's sort of like, if you think

of double negatives, the first one is a yes, the second

one undoes it, like a no, and then the third one does it

again, in three sets of three, so nine times.

So knock on wood-k knock on wood-knock on wood.

And then I'd feel like I hadn't done it adequately, and so

I'd do it again, in three, and then I'd do it again in three.

And another 1 is turning off the stove and closing the

door. And so, I think I must check the door, as I'm

getting ready, like 5 times, and I know I've locked it, but

I'm unsure as to whether or not I've locked it.

So then I feel like I have to go back and check it and

make sure it's actually locked. That's super dumb.

Another one is—I said: turn off the oven. So I will check

to make sure the oven is off multiple times, even though

I know it's off.

And so there are certain things that I refuse to get

involved with because I'm afraid it's going to start

something where I will have a new thing that I'm

obsessed with and I know that that's not productive and

not helpful and not useful.

So I just avoid it entirely, and I think Ouija boards would

be one of those things. It's not like I feel like I'm going to

anger a ghost or something, but because it exists, I will

feel the need to have some sort of weird repetitive

behavior associated with it.

And so, yeah. I am slightly afraid of Ouija boards for that

reason. Which is really dumb, but, yeah.

So again, I don't want to minimize anybody who actually

has OCD and has it really affect their life, but that's the

best metaphor that I have to talk about what's going on.

"Do I have a favorite horror monster or villain?"

Ok. So I think my favorite horror monster or villain—I

don't know that it's considered horror—I think—and this

is kind of a weird 1 to say because I'm not terribly a fan

of the director and I'm not terrible a fan of the movie,

but I thought that the evil in Cabin in the Woods was

kind of an interesting concept, although I feel like it was

poorly described and planned out.

It made for a very interesting villain in that it was a

collaboration between an ancient magical entity and the

US government, but there were a lot of inconsistencies

that were kind of glossed over to enable—I don't

know—a more violent or exciting storyline.

But I thought that was an interesting concept and I do

kind of like villains or monsters where there's a greater

philosophical issue that you have to consider when you

consider the character. So villains that make you think

instead of villains that are unquestionably bad.

I think that's a far more interesting concept, especially

because, as I've said in some other videos, I'm not

particularly religious, and so I think that it's very realistic

to explore evil in the world that is not due to

supernatural or magical beings and is due to people. So,

the monsters in humans instead of the monsters with

forked tails and cloaks of darkness.

And I think that type of villain that is not normally

featured in pop culture because it requires a sort of

internal consideration or coming to terms with your

place within a species that can be so harmful to one

another.

Because in a certain sense, because we are human, we

are in some way either equally capable or culpable in

the actions of our peers. I think it's more clearly seen

with humanity's affects on the environment, endangered

species, global warming, whatever. But you could also

think about it in the context of supporting leaders or

governments that have toxic ideas that you don't

[personally] support and to what extent does your

support of that system is like a tacit approval of what's

going on.

Kind of deep. Sorry.

Ok. The creepiest thing that's ever happened to me

while I'm alone. I'm trying to think. So, over the

summer—this was kind of creepy—so, when you're

caring for cells. Cells that grow in a dish require

someone to feed them because they don't have a

circulatory system. And I think what's actually more

problematic is that they don't have a way of getting the

byproducts of metabolism—so like carbon dioxide and

cr*p—away.

So the cells get very angry, and depending upon what

cell line you work with, some of them can be more

temperamental than others. So over the summer I was

working with skin fibroblasts and so that basically

means that they were cells that were taken from a

person—I mean, skin fibroblasts don't have to be this;

they can be taken from a rat or something.

But these were skin fibroblasts that were taken by a

person and you grow them in the lab and the idea is that

it allows you to study how the person might act to a

certain medicine or treatment or whatever [at the

cellular level] or situation without using the person, so

it's considered more humane—because they're cells and

not people.

Yeah—if that wasn't clear. I think that was probably

pretty obvious: sorry!

And so that is all just a preface to say that these are

particularly temperamental cells because they're from

humans and they're used to being in humans, and

they're used to having this nice environment.

And so, as a result of that, I have to come in on the

weekends. And so, I came in on the weekend to feed my

cells. I gowned up because they cells are human cells,

which means that humans can infect them. Once you go

in, you don't leave the room, you don't exchange

anything with the outside, you replace the media—the

cell food.

So I'm in there; I'm in the zone: I have 4 or 5 dishes that

I'm working with, two at a time. And I hear movement

outside of the door, which is really creepy because I've

been in there for hours and it's been totally silent and

when I went in, the whole floor was empty.

And you know when you're in the zone, you're not really

considering that there might be other people—it just

doesn't occur to you even that other people might be

there?

It ended up being another 1 of my lab members who

was just out chilling, doing some computer work,

randomly, at 10 or 11am on a Sunday morning.

I've had weird things happen to me. Like one time my

sister, my mom and I—I was home from college—and we

sit down, and we start eating dinner and I realize there's

a van parked outside of the window—like right up…we

live on a corner street, but the van was like in our front

yard.

And it'd been hanging there for maybe 15 minutes. So I

looked over and then I'd not thought anything of it, but

then when I looked back to—I don't know, get

something off the kitchen table and it was still there.

So I'm paying more attention to this van, and all the

sudden this man gets out and he's middle aged, he's got

salt and pepper hair, he's kind of balding, and he's

fiddling around in the front seat, and then he's fiddling

around in the back seat.

And then I look away and look back and he's totally

nude. Well, he's not totally nude. He took off his pants.

And I'm like "What?" It's one of those things where it

doesn't initially process.

Like what's happening is so strange that it would never

occur to you that it's actually happening. And so you're

like, "Surely not." And then he takes his shirt off, and I'm

like, "What?"

He's in his tighty whities and then he just starts getting

dressed in our front yard. So he's using his van as a

shield for the traffic, but mooning us. It was very

strange.

And so he proceeded to put on a suit and a shirt and a

suit jacket and a tie and then walk into the house across

the street. What?

So the next question is are you superstitious, and we

sort of had this conversation. I really try hard not to pay

attention to walking on cracks, because once it starts, it

becomes this thing where I can't walk normally [it's

more of a perfection thing than a superstition thing].

You give your mind other things to think about because

clearly, it can't think rationally or reasonably about

something.

Sometimes I think I come across as being extremely

dismissive of superstitions, because when other people

talk about them, I just really don't want to hear it,

because I can't let it become a Thing.

I mean, sometimes it's because I don't believe in them.

Like when people are like "I can't get vaccinated

because then I'll get autism." That one I'm dismissive

of—it's not even really a superstition—well, I mean. Eh. I

don't know

That one I'm dismissive of because it genuinely kills

people. I don't really care whether you feel the need to

not walk on cracks. I don't really care whether you don't

want black cats to walk in front of you. I don't really care

if you feel the need to not walk under ladders.

It doesn't affect me; I don't actually care.

I think actually having cats has been really helpful to me

because I wouldn't touch doors because I was afraid of

the germs, and I didn't like touching other people's

hands because they might be germy. And it wasn't even

really that I was afraid of being sick, I just didn't want

the germs.

But cats, they put their butts on everything, so it feels

like it desensitizes me to the fact that everything is

germy.

Ok. So the next one is, "Do you ever see figures in your

peripheral vision?"

How do I want to say this? Yes, I do occasionally see

figures in my peripheral vision, but I have learned not to

trust them because my vision is so bad.

A lot of the things that I think I see either 1) aren't there

or 2) they're something stupid like a cat or a blanket and

I can't see it

"Which urban legend scares you the most?"

The 1 urban legend that I know [a lot] about is

Mothman, and the Grinning Man, who is his partner in

crime. There's actually a film made about this creature

called "The Mothman Indrid Cold," but in the original

story, Indrid Cold is the Grinning Man and he's not

actually the Mothman. It's a Midwestern cryptid. So

yeah, I'm a fan of Mothman.

Ok! "Do you believe in multiple dimensions or worlds?"

I think, and I think Athena said this as well. I'm open to

the possibility that it exists.

Ok, so the next question is, "Have you ever made a

potion?" I have not made a potion, but my sister has

made a "Concoction."

She went through this period when she was younger

where my parents wanted to encourage her interest in

cooking because they thought she might become a

professional cook.

And she would make these things and then my parents

would make me eat them to support her. So she made

this thing this 1 time, and she made other things that

were equally horrible and I don't know specifically why

this 1 stuck in my memory.

But she made this thing and it was in this little 8"X8"

baking pan, and it was Teddy Grahams, egg, cinnamon,

and you're like, "Ehhh, that could be tolerable," and then

she added, I want to say like 3 tablespoons of

salt. Just salt. And then she sort of stirred it, but not

really, and then she stuck it in the oven and baked it, so

what resulted was mushy Teddy Grahams and this

omelette consistency.

And my parents were like, "Oh, this is so good! Yum!"

And my favorite memory is we were driving home from

school, and my next door neighbors had picked us up

because they would alternate. And she [my sister] was

talking about how much we loved this food, and I didn't

know it, but the neighbor actually asked my mom about

it because she was like, "Sea Hedgehog's sister thinks

that you love her food so much and I'm just in awe of

your parenting skills because you tolerate all this cr*p

and it's nasty.

So I have never made a potion, but rather, I have been

subjected, multiple times, to some sort of potion. It's

unclear what it did exactly.

So the next question is, "Do you believe in demons or

the devil?" No. Yeah, sorry; I don't believe in demons or

the devil. Several significant religions in the United

States have had horrible sex abuse cases. I can think of

four right now.

In my perspective, there's a great evil in humanity.

People suck. And I think it becomes more hypocritical

and, perhaps unfortunately, even though this shouldn't

be the case, more shocking when it occurs in circles of

religion and faith because these people are supposed to

be mouthpieces for the gods that their followers believe

in.

And when you read the transcripts of these court cases,

it really becomes evident that people can be demons

and kind of devilish. The longer I live on this earth, the

more and more convinced I become that it's people that

are sh*tty.

There's nothing else that should be used or should be

allowed to be an excuse for someone's terrible behavior.

That is their fault.

They were not possessed by a demon; they were not led

down the wrong path: they chose their path, and despite

twinges of any morality that they might have or

opposition that they met down that path, they doggedly

continued to pursue it. And so that is evidence that they

s*ck.

"So you're home alone, and you hear footsteps in your

house: what do you do?"

So I was really in awe of Athena here. Her first thought

is a weapon. My first thought is I'm going to get myself

injured or shot. So I need to find a door with a lock,

preferably a deadbolt, and then I'm on the phone to 911

[emergency services and the police].

That's not an option for everyone. I never have to

balance the police shooting me versus an armed

invader in my apartment. Like, the police is always the

better option [for me].

"If you got trapped in a scary movie, what would you choose?"

My cat's are fighting in the background if you can see.

I think the problem with this is I don't watch very many

scary movies. I think there are a lot of horror movies that

I've watched with friends where I wanted there to be

somebody in the movie that was just yelling, "What the

heck are you guys doing?"

And I understand that when you're in a situation that's

scary, it's hard to act rationally, and I don't necessarily

think that I would be better in that situation, but it

doesn't make the better choice less evident when you're

watching it, even if you can understand the emotional

state that somebody might be in.

Oh, you know what? So this movie is kind of campy, and

the point was supposed to be campy. There's this horror

film--"Horror" film—on Netflix called "Zombeavers."

And it is about a zombie apocalypse, except the virus

that turns you into a "zombie" is from beavers. So in the

process of becoming a beaver-zombie, you grow beaver

teeth and a beaver tail. And it's genuinely terrifying at

some parts but also hilarious.

And they have their own theme song at the end, so I

think I would want to be in that movie

I don't know what I would be doing.

"If you could only wear 1 Halloween costume for the

rest of your life, what would you be?"

So I have this dream, and it was inspired by a drag

queen's costume, and I'll admit, beforehand, I hadn't

thought of it. So I have this predilection for being people

or things which are ginger for Halloween. I need

everything about it.

So not only was this drag queen Mrs. Frizzle from the

Magic School Bus, but they were space Mrs. Frizzle. But

they had the Mrs. Frizzle purple shirtdress with the

green collar and the lizard and this crazy updo.

But then they had this hat thing that had all of the

planets on it that rotated. And I think there's an aspect

of me that likes to wear costumes that are slightly

either absurd or impractical, so it pleases me to

consider walking around with this massive headgear

that keeps everyone at a certain distance from my head

or they risk running into Saturn.

Would you ever go to a graveyard at night? I actually did

this really cool graveyard/haunted house tour in

Williamsburg and they had people dressed up like the

ghosts who would tell their story and the mythos

surrounding them, which was really cool.

So you got a little bit of the history. Yeah, no. I totally

would do that. I do like it though when you get a little bit

of the context of who's actually buried there.

"Would you rather go to a Halloween party or Trick or

Treating?

So my street did something interesting with Halloween

and it was because a lot of the families on the street,

their kids were older. So they do the normal trick or

treating, but it was also just families walking down the

street just to sit and chat with one another, and I

thought that was really cool.

I'm not really a party person, so I do prefer trick or

treating or leading around people trick or treating or

being there to give the candy to the people that are trick

or treating.

So the question is, "In a horror film, would you be the

first to die, the last girl, the comic relief, the skeptic, the

smart one, or the killer?"

And I would like to think I'd be the smart one, but I would

probably be the first to die because I have no life skills

that would translate well to an apocalypse or a

dangerous situation like that. So that's my answer to

that question.

"When watching scary movies, are you the one that has

their eyes closed the whole time, the one that falls

asleep, or the one that yells at all of the characters?" I

am none of the above. I am the one who screams,

bloodcurdlingly, because, for whatever reason, I react

more strongly to horror movies than anything else.

"Are you the one that gets scared or the one who does

the scaring?" It depends on the context and I think I said

this on the other Halloween tag video. But if it's real life,

I'm usually not the one that gets scared; if it's movies,

I'm always terrified. Although I don't do a lot of the

scaring, so perhaps by default I am the one that gets

scared.

Favorite scary book. Ok, so this isn't a scary book—I like

the idea, and it's actually echoed in a lot of books. I

haven't read a scary book in the sense of horror film or

something in a while. I did read The Girl With the Dragon

Tattoo series.

But a really interesting and compelling type of story that

I encountered as a kid is this idea of—it's not really

multiple dimensions, but it's of different historical

periods or moments in time or places in time where you

can communicate with others through the veil.

So, one such book is called The Riddles of Epsilon,

another is called Triskellion, another is called I think—oh,

gosh, what is it called?—the middle book is called The

Summer King, I forget what the first one is called

[Hunter's Moon], and then another one is called, I think,

The Secret of Moonacre. And that one actually had a

movie made out of it, and that one is for children that

are significantly younger than the others.

But the ongoing thread through all of those books is

that there was a relationship between two people, and

they might be in the same time period, but in two

different locations, or they might be, one is an ancestor

and the other is a descendant of the other, or they might

just be separated between time and space.

But somehow their realities become close together, and

they're able to pass messages to one another.

So it's particularly creepy in Riddles of Epsilon because

the story takes place between the Victorian Era and the

90s when the book was initially published, but the

drama of the book is cyclic.

So it begins in the 1990s and then she drops a key or a

stone or something, she sets it down in this beach

house, and it's picked up in the Victorian Era by a boy

who is then able to unlock the secret of what's

happening to his mother, and his diary pages get stored

in a desk that is then opened in the 90s by this girl who

realizes that her own mother is going through the same

thing.

And so it's weird because none of these people directly

communicate with one another and yet the things that

they touch become exchanged through their connection.

The history that they're doomed to repeat. That's

another theme in The Riddles of Epsilon is both the boy

in the Victorian Era and the girl in the 90s, their mother's

have this script, almost, that they follow in their

behavior, like they both start going out to the sea, they

both start looking for shells, they end up being

manipulated by a malevolent entity, and there's a

moment in that book where they take the metaphor and

spell it out for you, and I think the reason they do that

for you is because it's a children's book.

And so there's this scene where the mother in the 90s

looks back, and there's a line—so she's walking and

looking for this shell that's consumed her life every day

since she ended up on this island and there's another

woman behind her, but her clothing is not present day

clothing; she looks back and it's clothing from the

1940s, and she looks back and there's a [third] woman

behind her also looking for shells as well with clothing

from the 1920s, and then she [1920s woman] looks

back and there's another woman behind her who's

wearing clothing from the Victorian Era.

You can see what they're spelling out explicitly, but

every generation of this family has been trapped in this

curse. And I see it as a metaphor for being bound by the

mistakes of your ancestors.

There's another book called Ghost Ship which takes the

same idea and the mythos surrounding [the concept] of

the Ghost Ship just in general kind of supports it. It's

this idea that there's a crime that's committed out at sea

and as punishment, the god or gods sinks your ship,

kills everyone on board and you are bound in Purgatory

to re-enact the circumstances/cause of your eternal

punishment.

So, in the book, they murder, violently, an African

American crewman on the ship who was a former slave,

and the ship goes under, and every night, they're

doomed to re-enact the terror that they put this

African American crewman through.

And people from present day go onto the ship that's

being reconstructed to be put into a museum and they

watch these crewmembers re-enact the story where

they already know what's going to happen next, but they

can't break free of the script.

And I think it's sort of a metaphor for abuse in that it

[abuse] is hereditary but not genetic—and I'm using

these words slightly more metaphorically than they're

intended to be used—but the idea is that one of the

greatest predictors of being an abuser is the abuser

being abused themselves

In the Secrets of Moonacre, it's a guy and a girl, a young

boy and a girl, who are separated by distance, and

they're able to communicate with one another, like

they're childhood friends, and they both think that the

other lives in the house next door or the village next

door, and then it ends up that they lived on totally

different sides of the world from one another.

I think that's a really interesting concept and one that

you might see that I've picked up and put into my story

with BJDs. I like the idea of interconnectedness. It's also

in—which I also read—the Cloud Atlas.

"What was your 1st Halloween costume?" So my 1st

Halloween costume was a pumpkin. Yeah. It's pretty on

the nose. But yeah. That was my 1st Halloween

costume.

I thought it was interesting that both Athena and I were

both vegetables for our first Halloween.

"What are you going to be this year for Halloween?" I

don't know if I'm going to be anything for Halloween this

year—I haven't started.

"If you could have a spooky Halloween pet, a cat, a bat,

a [something], or a wolf—sorry—what would you pick?" I

literally listen to the prompt and then immediately forget

it—it's gone.

You're going to have to watch her video for all of the

prompts.

I mean, clearly I would have to choose a black cat

because I already have a black cat. I mean, this one has

marked me with explosive diarrhea, so how could I

choose anyone else?"

Um, let me show you what I've cut out, since we're here.

So I talked about how this pattern was kind of

interesting. So it's a pair of pants, but see how it has this

weird corner in here. So normally, it would go in right

here for the top of the pants, but instead it goes out to a

little point. And it's because this wraps around to the

back. Unclear why. Interesting.

Here's the back. You will also notice, perhaps, that this

crotch is longer than it is in the front, and they're

normally that way, but not quite this much, and it's

because it has a little piece that's sewn in here, a little

gore to prevent the camel toe.

And then it has a separate doubled up waistband. Here's

the back—I actually think that's the front that goes to the

back--and here's the front. So that's 1.

And then all I wanted from this was a shirt. So I have a

sleeve, and I have the front and back of a shirt, and it's

modeled after this one. So I did it. Oh, and I have a little

pocket to be sewn. Perfect! Just what we wanted! Yay!

This was long. Sorry! Bye!

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Blue Penguin (the world's smallest penguin) - 4:1 - Nature Meets Paper - Duration: 7:03.

welcome to season four of nature meets paper

what's going on everybody my name is Brandon I'm a marine biologist and an

artist welcome to nature meets paper the place

where we go on an adventure to discover the world of marine biology I love

sharing my passion of the ocean and it's creatures with you through art nature

meets paper is a place where I share my experiences with aquatic animals with

you through stories science and art it is a place for everyone who loves nature

adventure and discovering something new in this season we're gonna be

discovering the animals from New Zealand from Hawaii and my home state of

Washington but today we're gonna focus on the blue penguin are you ready let's

dive in the little blue penguins have a range from Australia to New Zealand

they live along patches and colonies in the southern and eastern coasts of

Australia as well as the coast of New Zealand they live on land

during the night and spend most of the day foraging in the water they leave the

land before dawn and return after dark blue penguins are so small that they

don't dive very deep on average they dive up to 2 meters for roughly 21

seconds but have been recorded at depths of 20 meters for a total dive time of 60

seconds in Australia the blue penguin is most commonly known as the fairy penguin

because of its size in New Zealand they are known as the little blue penguin

or just blue penguins they get this name from the blue coloured feathers on

their back blue penguins are the smallest penguin species

they grow to 13 inches tall and 17 inches long it is important to remember

that these numbers are averages individuals can be larger or smaller

depending on the subspecies and environmental conditions let's discover

what the blue penguin looks like the head and back of the penguin are covered

in blue to slate blue feathers the blue can intensify or fade depending on

light conditions bright sunlight brings out the best blues starting at the chin

the feathers turn a slate grey color and turn white near the neck all the way

down to the feet blue penguins have light pink webbed feet with souls of

black like humans they have different colored eyes they can have blue slate

which is kind of a dark almost black color or even hazel eyes like all

penguins their wings have been modified into flippers these are the primary

sources of propulsion through the water penguins are elegant and move easily

through the water this is not the case on land let's just say they do

their best on land

penguins can run jump and even climb up rocky shores if they need to it may not

be the most graceful way of transportation but it does the job

what do blue penguins eat and how are they doing it blue penguins eat clupeoids

cephalopods crustaceans and the occasional jellyfish that is a bunch of

jargon that doesn't really help you know what they eat let me help you out

clupeoids are a group of ray-finned fish including sardines anchovy herring

and Spratt these are incredibly important feeding fish that are also

used by humans cephalopods are animals like octopus squid and Nautilus

crustaceans are animals like crabs shrimps Lobster and krill they have a

hard exoskeleton in several segments I hope this helps you imagine what the

blue penguin eats how are they doing I use the IUCN Red

List to track how animal populations are doing you can do the same online as a

group the population of blue penguin is listed as Least Concern some populations

are facing some pressure with human interaction and habitat loss but there

is evidence that populations have increased by 18 percent as of 2016 there

is a large effort to help protect the blue penguins there are even large

ecotourism opportunities to see these penguins the more we can get people

aware of what is in our world the more they will care about our world this

brings me to my personal story segment of the video this is not my experience

it is one of my sisters she's allowed me to use her stories and photos as

reference for this season she went to New Zealand southern island for a month

of backpacking with her class there she got to explore the island and learn

about its history and surprising connection to Hawaiian culture she was

able to visit a penguin colony that was managed by a group of people she was

lucky enough to see baby blue penguins and a few adults

while on a hike she got to experience a blue penguin in the wild swimming and

trying to get back on land it was a bit clumsy but it did it eventually my

sister really enjoyed her trip to New Zealand and would love to go back if you

get the opportunity to go keep your eye out for the little blue penguin thank

you for letting me tell your story and use your photos

I hope the painting turns out how are you imagined maybe a little different as

far as this adventure goes I will call it finished

thank you so much for watching this video if you like this content click

subscribe and ring the notification bell so that you can be notified when I post

new videos I do my best to post every new content every single weekend but

sometimes life gets in the way all of my art has either glitter pearlescent paint

or glass bead gel medium this way it plays with the light in interesting ways

and gives my art more life I sell my art in the forms of originals and prints so

if one of my pieces speaks to your soul you can own it just contact me I post

regularly on my facebook Instagram and Twitter thanks again for watching

I've been Brandon and I'll see you in our next adventure

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Canine Repro Over Coffee : Easter Inspiration (2018) - Duration: 0:49.

Hello everyone ! It's Easter Weekend, here in Ontario !

But today, I don't want to talk about canine repro !

Instead, I'd like to share something with you.

I'd like to tell you about this book that I read recently.

This one.

Right here.

Great source of inspiration in my opinion.

It's all about patience.

Perseverance.

Confidence.

Self-awareness.

So if you are looking for a great read during this long week-end...

Here you are.

I definitely encourage you to have a look.

It's definitely worth reading in my opinion.

Great source of inspiration.

So I wish you guys a Happy Easter.

Enjoy the long week-end ! And we'll see each other very soon ! Bye !

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