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rituals (1977) - part 2 of 2

this is a great, great movie if you like seeing middle-aged men beat up and pushed to a breaking point

In the mosquito-infested clearing north of Toronto where the final scenes of a movie thriller called Rituals are being shot, Lawrence Dane hangs, turning slowly in the windless night. He is dangling from a crossbar, eerily lit by klieg lights. His blood-streaked face is twisted in agony as he prepares for his Big Death Scene. The agony is not entirely feigned: the special body harness he wears cuts deeply into his flesh. “How does it feel, lad?” inquires actor Hal Holbrook. “Well,” Dane replies wearily, “it ain’t Peter Pan.”

-- "The face is familiar but you can't place the name? It's Dane, Larry Dane" by Ron Base for Macleans magazine, 1976

since this is part two i won't go over the rating and the plot again. (here's part one if you missed it, do please read that first if you haven't already.) obviously there will be more spoilers here, but one, if you think spoilers completely ruin a story then was it a good story in the first place? and two, this movie is over 40 years old lmao

the escalation of events in the second half is paced very nicely - the only point at which the pacing suffers is in the last few scenes, where we could have used a little more time to expand on the antagonist so there's not room to ask "but why now/why these guys specifically?" like, we can deduce a lot from what they give us, but i would have liked knowing what happened between the antagonist's trauma and the present day because i was left wondering why he apparently(?) hadn't tried anything before. was it just the first time he'd encountered doctors after being recovered enough to do anything about it? perhaps, but it's been decades.... maybe his isolation working to protect other people? his brother? these are all pretty different potential explanations. i feel like the narrative steps just a little too close to the line between letting the viewer figure things out versus withholding too much and confusing people.

that said, i still highly recommend this film because in my opinion that's not a severe enough shortcoming that it substantially impacts one's ability to enjoy the overall thing. like, you can still come away with a fundamental understanding of what happened, etc. and sometimes when media is flawed i find it more compelling since yeah, it does leave me asking questions even if they aren't the ones that were intended. and then of course there's the terrific performances from everyone involved.

highlight of the second half of the movie: it's very brief and mostly unseen but he pukes at one point and it was an unexpected treat uwu

screenshots and further commentary under the cut. several images have been altered to try and compensate for the poor film preservation, but i'm not a professional image editor lol. warning for gore and other violent imagery, and discussion of a homophobic slur

( i just love this movie so much )

dane was quoted in a 1981 profile of the actor gordon pinsent as saying that “hollywood has a kind of aura about it, a kind of place where you cannot rid yourself of the feeling that one day you might wake up and be 65 and waiting for the phone to ring.” that sentiment is part of why he moved back to canada, he explained, and I'd like to think that despite the rather tortured distribution history of rituals it was still a project he could remember as a high point of his canadian career.

there's more i could say but this post is long enough as it is. as always, feel free to leave a comment!

other reviews i drew on, in addition to the ones linked in the first half:
http://craneshot.blogspot.com/2010/12/if-you-go-down-to-woods-today.html
https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/74643
https://www.mondo-digital.com/rituals.html
http://sonofcelluloid.blogspot.com/2011/11/rituals-1977.html
https://www.criterionforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=54&t=7036&sid=3f1f13f8e3000210f61bf1549ac40c83

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lawrence dane

dane trivia

sometimes when i'm bored at work, i use my old graduate school account to poke around in their library's newspaper databases. they have access to the toronto star and the globe and mail, though neither archive goes back further than 1978 or so. this means that i'm certainly missing out on dane content and none of the articles in the databases seem to include any photos.... but there's still fun things in there for me.

one example is this little feature about an apparently controversial public art piece in toronto. don't worry if you can't access the article - i'll share the relevant bits below.

"Toronto benches the Lovers' Bench, Montreal gains art"

Saturday, June 02, 1979

Marina Strauss

Toronto the Good appears to be trying to hold on to its title.

A controversial sculpture of a nude couple embracing with a woman sitting next to them was quietly removed last week from outside the Colonnade shopping concourse on Bloor Street West after a number of people complained about the art work.

Lovers' Bench, displayed at the mall by the Kar gallery, is a $100,000 mass of bronze by sculptor Lea Vivot. The sculpture now sits comfortably on Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal, where a prospective buyer has already expressed interest.

[...]

Most people interviewed around the Colonnade yesterday either liked the statue or else couldn't see any reason for removing it.

I thought it was humorous, provocative - very masculine and very feminine, said Lawrence Dane, who lives in an apartment above the mall.

it gives ages/occupations for nearly all the other random people interviewed but not him, which suggests that we should know who he is - and i think that makes it safe to assume that yes, this is the same lawrence dane. he would've been 42 here, a couple years out from that very nice macleans magazine profile where he's described as a confirmed bachelor and complains a little about being perceived as a playboy, haha. (he didn't get married until 1995!)

this quote is so funny to me because it feels like quintessential 1970s, very "macho but sensitive", lol. and given what i know about heavenly bodies, the film he co-wrote and directed...let's just say i'm not surprised. (i haven't gotten to watch that yet but i'll get around to it eventually.) he comes across as charming enough in interviews at the time, and it makes me wish i could've found out for myself whether that was true.

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ramble on

bingo start!

i finished the self-indulgent fic i mentioned in my last post! i was worried about the food descriptions but the italian friend whose oc i was borrowing loved it so hopefully that means i did ok, haha. finally posted a bingo card to my writing comm and linked to the fic from there. aiming to finish the second part of my rituals review this week - most of the images are chosen already. just need to stop finding new things to talk about, lol

also i need to replace some of my icons but it feels weird to get rid of the old ones................. maybe an account upgrade is in order?? we'll see

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ramble on

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i'm still working on the second half of my rituals post but i didn't have much to say about happy birthday so that was faster lol. and i've been getting a little writing done for personal pleasure - a windows update a few weeks ago somehow managed to wipe a folder from my desktop where i kept a bunch of wips, so i lost like 10k worth of writing.................. months of work down the drain. so i decided i'd try writing smth very indulgent to try and comfort myself haha and i'm having a lot of fun with it so far! when i'm done i'll post it as part of that "untranslatable words" bingo. i also started on the sakura exchange fic and i just need to decide which direction to take with it then the rest should be easy.

i learned my lesson: always back up your work, and never update your computer. ever. don't do it.

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happy birthday to me (1981)

yeah that's what watching this movie felt like

the "is it worth watching this for lawrence dane" rating: 1/5

in short, no. this movie is........interesting. the closest comparison i can think of is the 1982 horror movie "pieces". they both have wildly uneven acting, a sincerity that enters camp territory, and bizarre twist endings out of fucking nowhere. watching it just for lawrence dane was not worth it, though, since he only has four scenes totaling less than 30 minutes. he had third billing so i felt let down, but hopefully that means he got a good paycheck for this trainwreck.

the plot: lmao what plot. look up any review of it and you'll see people talking about how the people involved re-wrote the ending well into production so the result is a disjointed mess. i don't watch horror movies to ooh and ahh over how creative the murders are or whatever so like..... let's put it this way. if i'd gone into this wanting to watch a shitty horror movie for the sake of watching a shitty movie, not for a specific actor, i probably would have enjoyed this more. especially in the last third of the movie where it starts being really campy. all three of the reviews i linked above are from people who liked it and, to be fair, it's not the worst movie i've seen. but if the criteria is "was this worth it for lawrence dane" then prepare to be disappointed.

i was very confused as to what we were supposed to think of dane's character; were we supposed to be sympathetic towards him as a father trying to save/protect his daughter? were we supposed to blame him for everything that happened since apparently the catalyst for all this bullshit was him being out of town on a business trip during his daughter's birthday some years ago? both??? it was weird and i got the feeling there was more filmed that'd explain things but it got left on the cutting room floor lol.

highlight: wet and making a face like he's getting a blowjob.... nice

none of the following screencaps have been altered. warning for some gore

( at least he's still cute in this one )

so.... that was "happy birthday to me" lol. not worth it for dane, but if you get drunk and/or high to watch this you'll probably have a great time

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rituals (1977) - part 1 of 2

the "is it worth watching this for lawrence dane" rating: 5/5 (and the movie itself is a 5/5 as well)

i stumbled across this movie entirely by chance - it was on shudder and happened to be playing when we started up the tv, right at the tail end of a pretty brutal scene. at first i didn't want to watch it because of that, lol, but my spouse convinced me to since it was visibly from the 1970s and i generally have an easier time with older horror films (they're the horror buff, not me). maybe they regret that now that i've watched it five times since the beginning of march, haha.

this is the performance of his career. a real tour de force. which isn't to say it was all downhill from here, of course, but he inhabits his character so completely that i never once thought to analyze his acting the first time i watched this. mitzi is a fully-realized character and dane brings ian sutherland's already organic-feeling dialogue to life. it's a good script, though the mechanics of the story itself could use a little polishing, and the little details that dane and the other actors bring to their roles make it easy to believe that these characters have known each other for a long time. we don't need to be hit over the head with it; just tagging along for the hike is enough. according to dane the majority of the film was shot in sequence, so the exhaustion they embody as the narrative progresses is real enough and only enhances their performances.

the ensemble cast is phenomenal but it wouldn't work nearly as well without holbrook and dane tying it together, and the juxtaposition of their suffering with these sublime landscape shots makes for a very compelling film.

the plot: let's get one thing out of the way - if you look this movie up you're bound to find people comparing it to deliverance. (apparently dane himself acknowledged that comparisons would be inevitable but knew that they were doing something different.) maybe this is a controversial opinion but rituals is a far better film - there's no homophobic rape scenes and no "villainous redneck" stereotypes. there's a fleeting instance of homophobia, sure, but it's literally one line snapped during a moment of frustration. (side note: that's the scene that cemented the idea of mitzi/dane as my oc maurice, since maurice is a self-hating closeted old-school homosexual and would have said the exact same thing. while we don't learn that kind of information about mitzi and we don't need to, thinking about him like that is still interesting/amusing to me.)

this thoughtful review gets into the plot very nicely so i won't rehash the details here. do give that link a read if you're interested in the film - my focus is on dane/mitzi rather than a "proper" review.

rituals is arguably more of a suspense/thriller film than a horror film, at least in the sense that horror is commonly understood today, but the rawness of the situation is visceral either way and the sparing use of gore is quite effective. the emphasis is on thoughtful character studies, not shock value, and that helps it hold up better than certain other films. it's not a perfect movie but it's a damn good one nonetheless (and perhaps even because of its flaws, since there's more openings for someone to sink their analytical teeth into).

unfortunately, dane's audio commentary is inaccessible to me so if i remark on anything that's already covered by the audio commentary then you can blame people's reluctance to provide closed captions for "bonus" material (if the film itself warrants captions then it stands to reason the other material included with the home release should as well, assholes). anyway, buckle in! rituals can be watched on the streaming service shudder, if you have a subscription, or for free on archive.org as well as youtube, so if you want to check it out before reading the rest of my post go for it. just make sure you watch the version that's closer to an hour forty, because if it's shorter then that's the version where a distributor cut out a bunch of character development fsr.

(the person in the comments on archive.org who's complaining about the bickering is dumb because that's the best part of the movie imo. it's so funny sometimes in a way that doesn't detract from the high stakes, since it feels realistic. like of course these guys who are scared and upset and already have strained relationships aren't going to be having a great time!)

highlight of the first half of the movie: grr bark bark etc he is so sexy when he looks condescending

screenshots and further commentary under the cut. several images have been altered to try and compensate for the poor film preservation. warning for surgical gore and other violent imagery

( long post is long )

and that concludes the first half of the film! saving the juicy slur scene for next time lol. after i write up part two i'll link it here. i just have a lot to say, ok, but pls feel free to go ahead and share any thoughts/questions you might have!

part two is here

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ramble on

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realized i misspoke at a pretty important point in my scanners review (the kim obrist interrogation scene) so i cleaned that up. i still stand by my interpretation but now it should be easier to follow what i meant, lol.

working on my review of rituals now and it's possible this may need to be a two-parter, orz. let's see how long it is once i'm done.

so close to being done with the anthology - gotta proofread some machine translations and feed my own story through deepl tonight then send that to the co-editor so she can pass those along to the printer, and then we just sit and wait for the hard copies to come in! looking forward to not having that over my head anymore so i can work on my sakura exchange fic and other things. and then i'm having a major surgery in mid-may so i'll be off from work for a week. plenty of time to write and watch more of lawrence dane 😌

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lawrence dane review masterpost

(last updated 01/01/2026 - watched several items, added review for find the lady)

this is where i keep track of what i've watched or want to watch for lawrence dane. an introduction to him can be found here.

a strikethrough means i've watched it but have not yet written about it.
italics means i have access to it (technically, anyway - one asterisk denotes autocaptions only, two no captions at all) but have not yet watched it.
no formatting means i'm still working on locating it.
᛭ means i know his character dies in it.

...and of course a link means i've reviewed it!

the list is organized by chronological filmography, but i haven't been writing reviews in that order. still refining my technique.... all ratings are based on the question of "is it worth watching just for lawrence dane". as you may have guessed, these are not professional reviews, lol.

shadow of a pale horse (1960) - (5/5) ᛭
george-étienne cartier: the lion of quebec (1962)* - unrated
~~the saint: teresa (1963)~~ - (tv, 2/5) ᛭
itv play of the week: the fixers (1963)**
the forest rangers: santa macleod (tv, 1965)*
the forest rangers: the choice (tv, 1965)*
masters in our own house (1965)
control of inmates (1965)** - (4/5)
festival: yerma (1967)** - (4/5) ᛭
i spy: blackout (tv, 1967)* ᛭
the felony squad: let him die (tv, 1967)* ᛭
the felony squad: the pat hand of death (tv, 1967)* ᛭ (also, blonde???)
mission impossible: the survivors (tv, 1967) - 2/5
jericho: the loot of all evil (tv, 1967) - 2/5 ᛭
~~the virginian: the decision (tv, 1968)~~ - 0.5/5 ᛭
the virginian: the wind of outrage (tv, 1968) - 2.5/5 ᛭
~~the f.b.i: wind it up and it betrays you (tv, 1968)~~** - 1/5 ᛭
wojeck: chocolate fudge with walnuts (tv, 1968)*
it takes a thief: a matter of royal larceny (tv, 1968)*
the virginian: journey to scathelock (tv, 1969) - 1/5
the felony squad: the last man in the world (tv, 1969)*
mission impossible: commandante (tv, 1969) - 3.5/5 ᛭
the f.b.i: the inside man (tv, 1969) - 4/5 ᛭
bonanza: sweet annie laurie (tv, 1969)*
lancer: the wedding (tv, 1969)** (located transcript)
~~mannix: fly, little one (tv, 1970)~~ - 1.5/5
the house on greenapple road (1970)*
mod squad: the exile (tv, 1970)* - 1.5/5 ᛭
mod squad: just ring the bell once (tv, 1970)* - 2 or 2.5/5
~~mannix: overkill (tv, 1971)~~ - 1.5 or 2/5 ᛭
mission impossible: encounter (tv, 1971) - 3/5 ᛭
the f.b.i: memory of a legend (tv, 1973)** - 1.5/5
~~only god knows (1974)* - 2.5/5~~
~~the heatwave lasted four days (1975)~~ - 4/5 ᛭
it seemed like a good idea at the time (1975) - 0.5/5
our man flint: dead on target (1976)** - 0.5/5 ᛭
find the lady (1976) - 3/5
the clown murders (1976) - 2.5/5
rituals (1977) - 5/5 - part one / part two ᛭
~~bear island (1979)~~ - 2.5 or 3/5 ᛭
running (1979)* - 0/5
head on (1980)*
nothing personal (1980) - 0.5/5
for the record: a question of the sixth (1980)** ᛭
scanners (1981) - 4/5 ᛭
happy birthday to me (1981) - 1/5 ᛭ (additional review reflecting revised rating of 3 here.)
julia (1982) - 5/5
shocktrauma (1982)
of unknown origin (1983) - 3/5
the littlest hobo: lumberjacks (tv, 1983)* - 2.5/5
~~heavenly bodies (1984)~~ - unrated; wrote & directed, did not act
~~the park is mine (1985)~~ - 2.5 or 3/5
in like flynn (1985)
the hitchhiker: out of the night (tv, 1985)** - 0.5/5?
danger bay: poison bay (tv, 1986)*
seeing things: eye of the beholder (tv, 1987)*
~~rolling vengeance (1987)~~ - 1.5/5 ᛭
airwolf: stavograd parts 1 and 2 (tv, 1987)
alfred hitchcock presents: if the shoe fits (tv, 1987)**
~~mount royal: the best of intentions (tv, 1988)~~ - 0/5 or 0.5/5
the equalizer: memories of manon (tv, 1987 - unclear if he's in the original tv episodes or the version edited into a tv movie)**
the equalizer: mysteries of manon, part 2 (tv, 1988)**
danger bay: to glimpse a unicorn (tv, 1988)*
alfred hitchcock presents: prosecutor (tv, 1988)**
in opposition (tv, 1989 - rec'd one episode from the cbc)**
~~millennium (1989)~~ - unrated ᛭
street legal (tv, several episodes, 1990-1991)
devlin (1992)
the red green show (tv, 1993-1994)* - 0.5/5 (1 from a cultural studies perspective, perhaps)
side effects (tv, 1994-1995)
darkman ii: the return of durant (1995) ᛭
~~national lampoon's senior trip (1995)~~ - 0.5 or 1/5
~~the outer limits: trial by fire (tv, 1996)~~ - 3/5 ᛭
~~bride of chucky (1998)~~ - 4/5 ᛭
waking the dead (2000) - 0/5
~~the hunger: i'm very dangerous tonight (tv, 2000)~~ - 1/5
stargate sg-1 (tv, one episode, 2000)
rated x (tv movie, 2000) - 0/5
queer as folk (tv, three episodes, 2001)
absolution (2006)
~~behind the wall (2007)~~ - 3/5 ᛭
sofia (2010)
a very merry mix-up (2013)

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Scanners (1981)

(he's too tall for his chair again lmao)

the "is it worth watching this for lawrence dane" rating: a qualified 4/5
imo the mid-1970s through the early 1980s has dane in his absolute prime. (no judgement towards his later work - i'm just not as familiar with it yet, and imo he's at his most attractive during this time period lmao.) he does wonderfully with the material he's given and is arguably one of the strongest actors of the film after michael ironside. top three would probably be ironside, dane, and mcgoohan. o'neill is fine but it feels a little as though she's trying to match the lead actor's presence and her performance suffers as a result.

why the "qualified" 4? because the lead actor is...not great. he was probably chosen for his looks, which are indeed very striking, but his acting is so wooden it's painful to sit through at times. that said, it's certainly an aesthetically interesting movie to watch and dane is fantastic when he's on camera.

the plot: honestly? i watched this via the criterion channel and my initial reaction was to be unsure why it was on there. after doing some reading about how it was innovative for its time with the mixing of genres (among other things) and watching the second half again i'm able to understand its inclusion better. it was just difficult for me to see past the stiffness of the lead actor, and the ending being so abrupt didn't help either. i'm all for open-ended stories, no need to spoon-feed me anything, but imo it would've worked better if they'd given themselves a little more time to breathe in the last stretch of the story. apparently the movie went into production without a finished script and was written on the fly, and it really shows in places. i agree with the conclusion of that av club essay i just linked - it feels like a transitional rather than essential film. but i've definitely seen way worse, lol.

with regards to lawrence dane - his role isn't the meatiest of the secondary characters but there's still plenty there to chew on. while i wish we'd learned just a little more about braedon keller's motives, he communicates so much with his eyes alone during that absolute chef-kiss of an interrogation scene and then the follow-up with mcgoohan's character. (i'll dig into this a little more under the relevant screenshots below.) and he's very fun in general - quite good at being menacing in a banal way, which serves to make his character feel even more dangerous and helps him hold his own against ironside in their scene(s) together. undoubtedly a presence refined by all his years of playing tv villains. bonus for me: while this isn't the role that made me fixate on him and also see him as an embodiment of my oc maurice (that would be mitzi in rituals) the apparent ease with which he flips the switch between polite and violent is big maurice energy. a delight to watch :3

highlight:
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD

selected screencaps and some actual film commentary below. none of these images have been altered.

( if you think this is a lot of screenshots you should see the literal thousands i didnt choose )

thanks for reading!

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ramble on

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happened across this post with bingo-style prompts the other day, and i know i saw prompt tables like these Back In The Day on lj but haven't tried them since...what, 2005? almost half a lifetime ago. a lot of the "untranslatable words" are so evocative i found myself thinking of specific characters almost right away, so i think i'll take a stab at generating my own bingo with these prompts.

even if i just do drabbles (100 words!) or general flash fiction, this should still be a good warmup for the exchange fic i have to write that will be due in june. i've been spending a ton of creative energy on co-editing an anthology and writing for it and drawing for it and.... exhausting. especially with the person who was supposed to do the cover for our side dropping out at literally the last minute. ANYWAY the end result should still be really cool, since how often do japanese- and english-speaking fans collaborate on something like this? excited to see the end result. it's supposed to be sent to the publishers at the end of this month, before golden week (fingers crossed) so that should free me back up for more personal projects.

a bingo table seems like a low-stakes way to get back into just writing for the sake of writing whether it's original stuff or fanfiction, so i'll probably do a combination since i've also been working on a short story the past couple months with an eye towards getting it published. maybe some of these prompts will help me decide what exactly i want to do with certain sections of the story.

if other people haven't seen these prompts before, here's hoping they find them as inspiring as i do!

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lawrence dane

the lawrence dane rating system

5 is rituals. he's front and center, amazing, show-stopping, etc, would watch it multiple times.

i haven't found a 1 yet but i'm sure i will lol.

the s6 mission impossible episode is probably a 3.5, scanners a tentative 4.

this scale is subject to revision the more things i watch for him.

upcoming posts: s6 MI episode, nothing personal, rituals, find the lady

next up on the watch list: the clown murders, the s4 MI episode, find the lady but with the actual subs rather than autocaptions so i can follow the dialogue and judge it accordingly, possibly (parts of) house on greenapple road. still tracking down other media like happy birthday to me and various television episodes. i've seen bride of chucky but need to rewatch it since that was before my experience with rituals and i don't remember how much he features in it.

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mission impossible s02e03 (the survivors, 1967)

the "is it worth watching this for lawrence dane" rating: 2/5
most of his role is just standing around and looking pretty, though he does do a damn good job of it. comparatively few lines of note and you can see that he's still refining his approach to acting. his turn in s06e07 is much better and more significant in terms of the script. still, the big bad (played by albert paulsen) is one of the better actors of the episode and enjoyable to watch as well so it's not too boring overall. put this one on for the occasional eye candy while you're folding laundry. at least he doesn't die in this one!

the plot: shrugs, your average cold war hijinks. some creative theatrics with the staging of a fake earthquake but honestly the episode with leonard nimoy in the fake submarine was more interesting to me in that regard. when i read this episode's description i was hoping dane's character was one of the scientists being kidnapped but alas he just plays one of the heavies. he's very talented at smirking sexily though so it's no wonder people always wanted him for that.

At six-feet-two, with his sonorous voice, long, swarthy face, and dangerously hooded eyes, Dane seemed born to be a TV heavy. He played bad guys in 70 episodes of such series as Mod Squad, Mannix and Bonanza. “I didn’t mind at all,” he says. “If I’d been short and cherubic, I would have starved to death. There are only two major parts on any television show, the hero and the villain. The economics of the medium don’t allow for anything else.”

But by 1971 he had grown tired of being dispatched by every square-jawed television hero.

-- "The face is familiar but you can't place the name? It's Dane, Larry Dane" by Ron Base for Macleans magazine, 1976

highlight:
HE'S TOO FUCKING TALL FOR THE STOOL LOOK AT HIS LEGSSSSSSSSS

lawrence dane having to basically fold his legs under himself in order to sit at a table that

( lotta good noses in this episode )

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fandom events

dear creator (sakura exchange 2022)

GENERAL LIKES REGARDLESS OF SHIP/CHARACTER:

- awkward first times (date, kiss, sex, hand-holding, conversations, etc)
- obvious crushes
- vomiting and/or sickfic where the one that's sick is the one that's usually very concerned about self-image and/or easily flustered
- situational humiliation (e.g. getting sick in public, trying to hide a boner in public, blurting something out, coming in pants, etc)
- premature orgasm/multiple orgasms
- breeding kink
- trans characters
- bossy bottoms
- (if AU is ok) priest kink. seduce that priest!!!

( fandom-specific prompts&c )

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media reviews

devilman crybaby: the cryening

thoughts on the complete series, so obviously again there will be spoilers.

do not read past this point if you care about spoilers and have not finished either crybaby or the manga.
( here be spoilers )

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media reviews

thoughts on devilman crybaby so far

devilman spoilers, obviously
( spoilers for crybaby episodes 1-6 )

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have you heard of lawrence dane? no? well now you have

welcome all my honored guests~

i've used the handle miscellanium for a long time so if you've seen posts on livejournal or remember reading fics by someone with that name it was probably me. nice to meet you/run into you again!

you can call me misc or misce for short.

current passion: lawrence dane (z"l). i don't make many locked posts so what you see is what you get, and what you'll get is a lot of me talking about the actor lawrence dane and any related historical research. feel free to subscribe for that or for general discussion of fandoms/media and creative activity, which mostly consists of writing. you can take a look at my profile for a list of other interests that might crop up from time to time.

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