I think...therefore, I'm single...

Until I am able to locate my original, I am having to use the photo from this page:
http://www.themeparkreview.com/parks/p_40_215_disneys_animal_kingdom_dinosaur

My Fanfiction Masterlist http://ericadawn16.livejournal.com/11957.html
My Icons for 2013 http://ericadawn16.livejournal.com/619082.html

These are the 20 films I'm most looking forward to in 2026!

4 Kids walk into a Bank
A Magnificent Life
Coyote vs ACME
Flowervale Street
Glenrothan
Godzilla Minus Zero
Hamlet
Hexed
Masters of the Universe
Narnia
Remain
Scary Movie 6
Spider-man: Brand New Day
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
Supergirl
The Cat in the Hat
The Pout Pout Fish
The Sheep Detectives
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Wildwood

Guess what?

I redid "Knocked Up". I never forgot how a friend wanted me to better integrate Doctor Who into the film and I realized I really wanted to write "This is 40".

https://archiveofourown.org/works/12558880/chapters/28602164

Films must have been seen between January 1 at 12:01 AM and December 31 at 11:59 PM in 2025. Films must have been seen in a proper theatre setting; not my tv or phone. Films cannot have been included on a previous list. Ranking is biased by how much I enjoyed a film and how much I want to re-watch it.

1. Hamilton
2. Sinners
3. Frankenstein
4. Zootopia 2
5. Bad Guys 2
6. Superman
7. KPop Demon Hunters
8. Wicked: For Good
9. How to Train your Dragon
10. The Day the Earth Blew Up
11. Vertigo
12. The Fantastic Four: First Steps
13. The Phoenician Scheme
14. Thunderbolts
15. Freaky Tales
16. Now You See Me, Now You Don’t
17. Life of Chuck
18. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
19. A Complete Unknown
20. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey

Facebook sent me an email to verify my identity...

But I didn't see it...

So, I went on Facebook but I was on my laptop and by the time I undid my privacy on the camera, they already did the video and now I think I lost my Facebook account...

But mostly, I was about to ask Facebook...

What is the difference between beer and carbonated mead?

In Alphabetical Order what I'm looking forward to

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip
All Creatures Great and Small
And Just Like That...
Andor
The Bondsman
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Conan O'Brien Must Go
Daredevil: Born Again
Doctor Who
Douglas is Cancelled
Holland
Ironheart
The Last of Us
Long Way Up
Ludwig
Mayfair Witches
Mid Century Modern
Miss Austen
Pee-Wee as Himself
Percy Jackson and the Oympians

2025 looks like a return to really good films on a regular basis. These are my picks.

Alphabetical Order

The Bad Guys
The Bride
Downton Abbey 3
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Good Fortune
Hurry Up Tomorrow
Jurassic World: Rebirth
The Life of Chuck
A Nice Indian Boy
Now You See Me 3
Opus
Paddington in Peru
The Phoenician Scheme
Sneaks
The Spongebob Movie: Search for Spongebob
Superman
Thunderbolts
The Wedding Banquet
Wicked: For Good

I realized something when watching Beauty and the Beast. Gaston is basically the Prince before the Witch cursed him. The Prince was forced into body dysmorphia in order to empathize with others. His isolation made sure he was surrounded by those rightfully blaming him for their situation instead of being fawned over. However, by having Gaston be the villain and go after the Prince directly. It's like his past literally catches up with him instead of just running out of time with the rose. So often, we have this past sense of self haunting us or sabotaging us from moving forward and this was done in a literal way with the fight between the Prince and Gaston. The Prince even appears dead, but with his past lying dead below, and Belle's part in the curse fulfilled, he's able to finally move on to be a whole new person.

My Favorite Films of 2024

Rules: The films are listed as my favorite because quality is measured along with how many times I'd like to see it or whether I'd want to watch it ever again. Films must have been seen in a proper theatre setting between 12:01 AM on January 1, 2024 and 11:59 PM on December 31, 2024. Films found on a previous list are disqualified.

1. Wicked
2. Deadpool & Wolverine
3. Inside Out 2
4. Moana 2
5. Monkey Man
6. Lisa Frankenstein
7. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
8. We Live in Time
9. The Wild Robot
10. Transformers One
11. Saturday Night
12. IF
13. The Fall Guy
14. Kraven
15. Fly Me to the Moon
16. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
17. Venom: The Last Dance
18. Kung Fu Panda 4
19. Madame Web
20. American Fiction

The next day after that post, I went to work only to find all these cars lined up next to gas stations like it was lane to pick up their kid after school.

None of these stations actually had gas then. The cars would line up in the HOPE that gas would arrive at some point. They needed gas for the generators and because most people were charging their phones by running their cars. People no longer use radios to find out about the outside world, only their phones. The day after Milton, I immediately turned to the radio once I could find something that worked, but our local radio station; our record-winning radio station for playing 3 million songs in a row without a commercial and working on 4 million. Now it was just gone. The tower was collapsed on power lines and the power lines were wading in water over five feet deep. Around six weeks later, they're hoping to have it up by Thanksgiving.

I don't know if it's because everything is social media based and that was unreliable or just plain incompetence, but people didn't know where to go or who to call. Everyone felt so alone even as neighbors and strangers tried to help. On Saturday, the helicopters started. The sound is so uneasy as it is. Are they delivering someone dying or looking for a criminal on the loose? Now, they were heavy duty military birds, and they were plucking people from the water. At the parking lot of the park I'd walked to all my life, was World Central Kitchen. They go to War Zones and extreme catastrophes. The Daily Show had begged for donations for them while discussing Gaza, Ukraine, Haiti, and there they were, World Central Kitchen, just a mile from my house.

Another charity, Operation BBQ Relief, was here for weeks. If you donate, do them. The others are tight-fisted with lots of rules and personal bias. People are mostly back to normal, but some are still in their cars. There have been two Town Hall Meetings, but they were about navigating FEMA, not discussing what people want to discuss: that most of this flooding wasn't from the storm, but man-made from incompetence. Waterways that have existed for hundreds of years were ignored or filled in. Developers made their new construction flood-free at the expense of existing properties.

People just want reassurance that it'll be fixed, that it won't happen again, and the local government won't do that, probably because it knows they have no intention of fixing it and it will happen again. Nine days after Milton, we had a corporate visit at work. I thought they wanted to make sure we were okay, and whether we needed anything. They wanted to make sure we were all set for the holiday buying season...

It's not my first rodeo. I felt Irma was the storm to compare all others to...

But Milton was way worse. For one thing, he took down the tree that we'd been watching as problematic, but it was on the wrong side of the fence to do something about it. It made the loudest, most horrible noise as it snuggled with our roof and smacked our overhang out of place. As Milton continued, it ripped the tree apart further although the pieces still remain in our yard, mostly the backyard.

My town was cut off from the outside world. Every road connecting it to somewhere else was flooded, blocked by fallen trees, debris, or just plain destroyed. Our electricity flickered out. Our internet and cellphone coverage became non-existent or spotty. I know we were lucky. I have friends in Asheville where we didn't hear from them for about a week and were beginning to accept they may be dead before we heard from them.

It's still a weird feeling though. Every trip has to be carefully planned and made with the understanding that you will be turning around, going down alternate routes, and taking so much more time than before. Routes that used to take 10-15 minutes are now 30-50 minutes. Do you realize how hard it is to see your hometown in ruins? So much of the places tied with your childhood memories are now destroyed, flooded, or with trees down. There are so many businesses flooded or torn apart in the wind. The vast majority of older mobile homes are all destroyed. The carports and closed-in porches of the newer ones are all gone. I feel bad for all the businesses, but I feel worse for the homes, especially the ones that were barely hanging together before; their owners barely able to make it day by day.

And Milton wasn't even that close, he was 45 miles away! Supposedly, his most powerful winds wouldn't have even reached us. I can write this because those beautiful linemen just turned our power back on, but so many will still spend days without any power. Prayers or whatever you believe will be much appreciated for my town and everyone in it.

*Someone on a community page has claimed their wind monitor captured 123 mph.

"Florida!!!
Is one hell of a drug
Florida!!!
Can I use you up?
The hurricane with my name when it came
I got drunk and I dare it to wash me away
Barricaded in the bathroom with a bottle of wine
Well me and my ghosts, we had a hell of a time
Yes I'm haunted, but I'm feeling just fine"

M: What are your hobbies? What else do you do?

Me: Taco Bell and Deadpool & Wolverine

M: That's a MOVIE. That's not a hobby.

Me: It is when you go four times.

Someone on TUMBLR suggested that George Lucas watched the War Games serial of Doctor Who and it influenced Star Wars. The argument was flimsy; basically, the glasses technology that works the same as the Jedi Mind Trick.

From a factual standpoint, War Games aired in Britain in 1969. Doctor Who was already airing in the United States. Tom Hanks has stated he was already a fan at this point, and Walt Disney died in 1966, but not before trying to make an American Doctor Who film. It's plausible although Steven Spielberg claims he was introduced to Doctor Who by Tom Hanks.

However...now that I've watched War Games, there are little things like the use of "Empire" and "Rebellion" and little things that make me wonder if they're right...

This is the top 20 films I'm most looking forward to according to IMDB because Wiki was inaccurate last year...

Borderlands
Deadpool & Wolverine
Despicable Me 4
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
IF
Inside Out 2
Kraven the Hunter
Lee
Moana 2
Monkey Man
Mufasa: The Lion King
Nosferatu
Piece by Piece
Problemista
Red One
The Fall Guy
Thelma
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Wild Robot
Wicked