Poster of "Little Miss Sunshine" and there is a lot going on here. The background is dandelion yellow all text is in black. The actors' names appear at the top, from left to right "Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, with Abigail Breslin, and Alan Arkin." Several quotes appear beneath on the right hand side: "THE FUNNIEST LAUGH-OUT-LOUD AUDIENCE PLEASER AT THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL." ROGER EBERT CHICAGO SUN-TIMES "THE ROAD IS TWISTED AND SO ARE THE LAUGHS. THIS ONE IS A WINNER." PETER TRAVERS ROLLING STONE "A HILARIOUS TALE ABOUT WINNING, LOSING ADN THAT NETHER STATE IN BETWEEN WHERE MOST OF US MUST LEARN TO LIVE." DAVID GERMAIN AP ASSOCIATED PRESS "A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE" RUTHE STEIN SAN FRANSICO CHRONICLE. The Sundance Film Festival Offical Selection seal is beneath the reviews. The title of the film "LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE" appears beneath, the subtitle being "A FAMILY ON THE VERGE OF A BREAKDOWN." The poster image of Kinnear driving the iconic yellow Volkswagen bus with Arkin reaching out for Breslin running after the vehicle is pictured below. Carell and Collette also run after the bus with Dano pushing it. Fox Searchlight Pictures info is listed beneath the image.

Challenge: Choose 30 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 30 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just posters.

1/30

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Cover of album: ombré yellow to orange from top to bottom. "Ludo" is pictured with cutout letters hanging from string in white, with cherries hanging by a stem off the D... never caught that oddity before typing it out. Beneath the band name we see a bigfoot-esque creature handing flowers to a three-eyed slug monster with big eyelashes. The album title "You're Awful, I Love You" is at the bottom written in black in a white box.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 12
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Book cover: all white with alternating black and red text. The cover features a large red slash down from the top right corner through the title. The title is written in black all-caps "My Heart Is A Chainsaw." Beneath is "New York Times Bestselling Author" in red all-caps, with the author's name is black all-caps beneath that "Stephen Graham Jones." A quote appears to the right of "IS A" in the title reading "Jones is one of the best writers working today." in black, with "-NPR" printed below in red.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (20/20)
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Text upon a greenery background: MOST OF US ARE THREE BAD MONTHS AWAY FROM BEING HOMELESS. NONE OF US ARE THREE GOOD MONTHS AWAY FROM BEING BILLIONARES.

… too accurate.

After a month of what felt like near-constant studying, I can report that I passed the NCMHCE on the first try. I can also report that it is indeed the most annoying test I have ever prepared for.

The Psychology of Horror: The Babadook and The Others - Parenting in Grief YouTube video by BeyondPsyched

In this video, we look how grief impacts parenting, how motherhood demands too much, and how the death of a spouse changes a person. We also examine the 5 stages of grief and prolonged grief disorder through the lens of both films.

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Cover of Green Day's American Idiot. The background of the album is solid black. "Green Day" is written in white, all-caps, with "presents" in much smaller white, all-caps to the right. "American Idiot" is written in all lower-case in red beneath that. A "Parental Advisory Explicit Content" sticker appears in the bottom right-hand corner. The image on the cover is a white silhouette of a hand and forearm holding a bleeding? heart-shaped grenade.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 11
#MusicSky #MusicChallenge #Music

Cover of "The Animal Atlas." The Animal Atlas is written in all-caps in blue text at the top of the cover, "Illustrated by Kenneth Lilly" is written beneath in much smaller text all on a white background. A monarch butterfly appears in the top left corner and a long-eared bat on the top right. The majority of the cover features an image of multiple animals in front of a view of the Earth (animals from left to right, top to bottom: brown bear, red kangaroo, ring-tailed lemur, mountain bluebird, golden oriole, Siberian tiger, small spotted genet, Emerald tree boa, scarlet macaw, giraffe, scarlet ibis, and elephant seal). The bottom of the cover reads "A pictorial atlas of world wildlife" in all caps. The book is bordered by alternating black and white rectangles and then again in green.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (19/20)
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A digital painting done in Clip Studio Paint. A black dragon rears back from the viewer in a powerful and defiant pose, readying its flame breath. The flame is a rainbow, gathering in the dragon's mouth and throat with streaks of rainbow light streaming. The dragon has a mane of glowing fire, flowing back and around in waves, in the white, pink, blue, brown, and black of the progress pride flag colors. The dragon's pose flows into a raised talon, ready to strike or defend, with wicked curved talons. Its eye is a radiant yellow. It has various spikes on its head, a curved beaky snout full of tooth like hooks, and forked horns. Its wings are spread and flared behind. The art is not subtle in its support for queer people. The artist's watermark reads copyright 2025 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com.

Some days you need the dragon, powerful and protective; some days you are the dragon, fierce and full of fire

Never not thinking about this edo period drawing of hammerhead sharks 🥹

A screenshot of a Guardian headline, echo reads: Scientists point to Andes potato pathogen as origin of Irish famine.

I'm sorry, The Guardian, you've made an error. Scientists may have found the pathogen responsible for the blight, but the famine was caused by the English.

Such a good series and definitely a contributor to my ongoing taste in fiction and general fear of elevators! 😂

Cover of "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark". The cover features bold, black text at the top with the title. Beneath the title is an image of a sketchy barn and a couple of graves, between these settings is a large head growing out of the ground smoking a pipe and side-eyeing the reader while sporting clown makeup and a toothy expression. The bottom text reads "Collected from Folklore and Retold by Alvin Schwartz Drawings by Stephen Gammell. The entire cover is bordered in bright red with a Scholastic books logo at the bottom. The red border is then bordered in a wider black border.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (18/20)
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Cover of The Spill Canvas's album "No Really, I'm fine" It is a brownish gray color with off an tan border and a little flourish in the top right corner. The center of the cover shows a reel-to-reel of a tape deck. The text is off-white, with the band's name on top and the album title beneath the reel-to-reel. The word "spill" in the band's name is written in aqua instead of off-white.

Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you.
One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 10
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Hands up everyone who zooms in on every picture posted with a bookshelf in the background to check out the books

a man wearing a schitts creek shirt smiles ALT: a man wearing a schitts creek shirt smiles

It works from my computer, so my phone is the problem! At least I figured it out!

Cover of Sally Wen Mao's Ninetails. The cover depicts an upside down nine-tailed fox with multiple threads wrapped around her with the threads extending across the cover. The cover also shows flies, a gem, a pomegranate, a corpse flower, peaches, a cane, a bird's wing, scissors, a skull, flames, and various flowers (these are features of the various stories). The cover is a black to blueish/purpleish ombre. Text from top to bottom is written in white. The title, Ninetails, appears in all caps at the top. Nine Tales is written beneath the fox in smaller text, with the author's name beneath this in larger text. At the bottom, it reads "A sly and spirited modern fairy tale." With the quote's attribution beneath it, "- C Pam Zhang, author of Land of Milk and Honey."

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (17/20)
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Images with or without alt text are the issue. Will do more troubleshooting.

This is a test to see if images are the problem with posting.

Closeup of a gray Rock Pigeon with white by its short bill, orange shining eyes, green and pink-purple iridescent feathers on its neck, and pale shoulders

Imagine looking at a bird this gorgeous and calling it a “rat with wings”

Couldn’t be me, I instead bring my camera to shopping centers for close-ups

Thread of Rock Pigeon portraits:

I do think it's a mistake to claim that there are only so many ideas in horror.

The cosmos is infinite and every single thing in it is scary to someone.

Blessed Solstice, #Witchsky 🎄✨
Image by Wendy Andrew

From Upstate New York and I don't pull out my REAL winter coat until the temperature hits single digits.

Capitalism? More like crapitalism, am I right?

I'm seemingly one of the only people who think the birds are the best gifts in The 12 Days of Christmas.

A six-panel cartoon titled "real and implied birds". In the two panels in the top row, there's a rough legged-hawk sailing through the sky, next to a smooth legged hawk, which has smooth human legs. In the second row, there's a great-crested flycatcher looking dapper, next to an ok-crested flycatcher that has just a slightly less nice crest. In the third row, there's a mountain chickadee standing up on stones, next to a valley chickadee peeking out from a dip between stones. In the fourth row, there's a least bittern standing in some reeds, next to a most bittern that is enormous and stomping through a city, with people running in fear, helicopters overhead, and an overturned car on fire.

Another thing I made this year: Real and implied birds.

Cover of Delia Owens' Where the Crawdad Sing. The cover is mostly orange with a sunset, the bottom shows Kya rowing through the marsh waters (even though she had a motor boat in the book). Text at the top is in black and reads "#1 New York Times Bestseller." The title is written in large white text beneath and "A Novel" is in much smaller text. The author's name appears at the bottom, with "'Painfully beautiful ... At once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative, and a celebration or nature.' - The New York Times Book Review" beneath, both also in white text. A "Reese's Book Club" stamp appears to the left of the title.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (16/20)
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