Author Archives: XYuriTT

December 2023

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In December 2023, we added to Turtledex:

2 movies:
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
The King’s Man

1 TV-series:
What If…?

14 books:
Stephen King – The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
Paul D. Stewart – Galapagos: The Islands That Changed the World
Tui De Roy – Galapagos: Preserving Darwin’s legacy
Terry Pratchett, Bernard Pearson – The Discworld Almanak The Year of the Prawn
Terry Pratchett – Dragons at Crumbling Castle: And Other Tales
J.K. Rowling – The Harry Potter Wizarding Almanac
Various – From a Certain Point of View
Various – The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life
Mikołaj Maria Manicki – Diabeł już tu nie mieszka
Marcin Świątkowski – Psy Pana
Wit Szostak – Rumowiska
Various – Sprzedawcy marzeń
Agnieszka Hałas – Świerszcze w soli
Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey – Our Planet

The King’s Man

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Title: The King’s Man
Year: 2021
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton, Rhys Ifans, Harris Dickinson, Djimon Hounsou, Shaun Yusuf McKee, Peter York, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance, Alexandra Maria Lara, Alexander Shaw, Bevan Viljoen, Shaun Scott, Andrew Bridgmont, Olivier Richters, Valerie Pachner, Daniel Brühl, Joel Basman, Gavrilo Princip
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: UK, USA

Why in Database: The film features rings with symbols of various animals, including one with a turtle, visible in two scenes. Moreover, the tortoise is mentioned in three dialogues, one of them referring to the story of The Tortoise and the Hare.

– A tortoise? Am I not worthy of a better animal?
– Rasputin, I have a bear. I will happily exchange it with you.
– Yes, Princip. I will be the great bear of Russia.

– As everybody knows, the tortoise eventually wins the race.

– The tsar’s nanny found a ring in Rasputin’s chambers. Identical to Princip’s, but with a tortoise instead of a bear.

Author: XYuriTT

What If…?

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Title: What If…?
Year: 2021-Ongoing
English dubbing: Jeffrey Wright, Terri Douglas, Matthew Wood, Robin Atkin Downes, Fred Tatasciore, Mick Wingert, Josh Keaton, Helen Sadler, Hayley Atwell, Samuel L. Jackson, Lake Bell, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Ralph, Debra Wilson
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, SF
Country: United States
Viewing method: Whole series

Why in Database: In the sixth episode of the second season, titled What If… Kahhori Reshaped the World?, one of the characters, Atahraks, mentions that he has a turtle inside him, symbolically, of course.

Got some turtle in me myself.

Author: XYuriTT

Our Planet

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Title: Our Planet
Author(s): Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey
Release year: 2019
Publisher: Bantam Press

Why in Database: A book supplement to the first season of the Our Planet series, with a few turtle mentions and one turtle photo. All turtle fragments:

Around its shores, the waters teem with life. In this ‘bathtub ring of biodiversity’ lurk crocodiles, water cobras, terrapins and more unique species tha in the Galapagos Islands.

SEAGRASS GRAZER
A green turtle grazes on seagrass in a bay off Misool, one of the Indonesian Raja Ampat islands. Behind, blacktip reef sharks patrol in search of small fish and other sea creatures. This bay – once a shark-finning camp – is now part of a rich marine reserve, transformed in less than a decade. The seagrass provides food, habitat and nursery areas for numerous fish and other species, stabilizes the seabed and filters out pollution. Seagrass plants need light and therefore clear water to grow, and they can easily be smothered by sediment run-off or algal blooms caused by agricultural or other land pollution.

The dense meadows are also home to turtles, dugongs and their close relations, manatees.

The reserve encompasses 120,000 hectares (296,525 acres) of reefs that had previously been damaged by dynamite fishing, general overfishing and shark fishing. But such activities are now banned, and at the heart of the reserve is a ‘no-take zone’ where all fishing and other activities such as collecting turtle eggs are prohibited.

The villagers have leased part of the reef to a high-end diving resort, which generates tourist revenues. In return they also receive incomes from jobs as park rangers and pilots on patrol boats that see off foreign fishing boats after shark fins and turtles.

Better news is that, in 2017, oil prospecting was banned from around the 300-kilometre-long (190-mile) Belize Barrier Reef, home to some 1.400 marine species, including hawksbill turtles, manatees, rays and six types of shark, and part of the Mesoamerican Reef, the largest reef system in the western hemisphere.

Author: XYuriTT

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

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Title: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Year: 2018
Director: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
English dubbing: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Luna Lauren Velez, Zoë Kravitz, John Mulaney, Kimiko Glenn, Nicolas Cage, Kathryn Hahn, Liev Schreiber, Chris Pine, Natalie Morales
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, SF
Country: Canada, USA

Why in Database: The turtle only appears in this film as a verbal reference, a mention used by Spider-Man Noir:

Is that all you got? You gonna fight or you just bumping gums, you hard-boiled turtle slapper?

Author: XYuriTT

Świerszcze w soli

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Title: wierszcze w soli
Author(s): Agnieszka Hałas
Release year: 2023
Publisher: Sine Qua Non

Why in Database: Turtles appear here in a slightly far-fetched way – in one of the stories (“Pod skórą”) we have a mention of tortoiseshell cats.

Na posłaniach z futer i jedwabi śpią koty wszystkich barw – bure, czarne, łaciate, rude, białe, szylkretowe.

Source: Mossar, Developed: XYuriTT

Sprzedawcy marzeń

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Title: Sprzedawcy marzeń
Author(s): Various
Release year: 2023
Publisher: ŚKF

Why in Database: In one of the stories in this collection (“Kałuża”, written by Agnieszka Żak), turtles appear, literally in the form of one mention.

Pomiędzy rubinowymi gałęziami koralu pływały błazenki, pokolce i inne tropikalne rybki we wszystkich kolorach tęczy. Na parapetach osiadły rozgwiazdy, a z okien wypłyneły żółwie.

Source: Mossar, Developed: XYuriTT

Rumowiska

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Title: Rumowiska
Author(s): Wit Szostak
Release year: 2023
Publisher: Powergraph

Why in Database: Turtles appear in two passages in this book. The first is the comparison to a sea turtle, the second is the use of the term to describe a very slow process.

Larwa rzeki co chwila przystaje, co chwila kwestionuje swoje płynięcie. Czasem przypomina wielką kroplę, odbijającą słońce i zniekształcającą okoliczne krajobrazy. Kiedy trochę podrośnie, ale nadal niewiele, w ziemistym lub piaszczystym terenie zbiera kruszyny gleby, ziarna piasku, oblepia się nimi. Wygląda jak otoczona posypką, jakby płynne błoto przemieszczało się po ziemi. Przypomina panierowanego piaskiem morskiego żółwika, który dopiero wykluł się z jaja, wydobył na powierzchnię i kierowany niezrozumiałym dla siebie instynktem pędzi na krótkich łapkach ku morzu. I jak wiele jego sióstr i braci zapewne nigdy tam nie dotrze.

Rzeki nie muszą pędzić, ale to robią. Transgresja lodowca następuje żółwio, jakby spowalniając cały proces, czekała na uznanie publiczności.

Source: Mossar, Developed: XYuriTT

Psy Pana

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Title: Psy Pana
Author(s): Marcin Świątkowski
Release year: 2023
Publisher: Sine Qua Non

Why in Database: Turtles oappears here only as one mention, a reference to their stereotypical slowness.

Mimo żółwiego tempa kolumny przetykana niewielkimi pagórkami równina zaczęła się fałdować coraz bardziej, tworząc specyficzne, regularne wzgórza, opadające i wznoszące się co kilkaset kroków.

Source: Mossar, Developed: XYuriTT

Diabeł już tu nie mieszka

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Title: Diabeł już tu nie mieszka
Author(s): Mikołaj Maria Manicki
Release year: 2022
Publisher: Publisher IX

Why in Database: The turtle appears in this book only in the form of one mention – a comparison.

Łatwo mówić, że to nie najlepszy moment na nerwy; tak jak podobna sytuacja przyprawiłaby większość osób o zawrót głowy, tak i oni czuli się niczym żółw leżący brzuchem do góry.

Source: Mossar, Developed: XYuriTT