There are
a few important things I'd like to write about so please be patient and
read them before proceeding to the preliminary schedule.
If you have been joining TMP you'd know that at the end of every TMP
post I would list the linkup requirements for participating in TMP. The two requirements are for participants to submit their link in the linkup
widget and the other is to link back to my blog on their own TMP post.
Occasionally some participants would forget to do either linkup requirement. Once or twice I
would treat it is as either forgetfulness or a mistake. They would
usually by themselves remember to do it the next TMP. If anyone does it more than
twice, I would usually remind them in their comments section and they tend to
comply after that.
It has come to my attention the past few months that two
participants of TMP have not done at
least one of the requirements over weeks and months. If a person doesn't do
it once or twice, it can be excused as forgetfulness, a mistake.
However, more than twice - that is multiple times over weeks and months, it is a choice, deliberate.
According
to my linkup widget history, the last time the first participant
submitted their link in my linkup widget was for the May 6th 2021
Thursday Movie Picks #356: Oscar Winners Edition: Best Director. After
that I simply thought they chose not to participate in TMP anymore;
people do come and go. However, in September/October 2021, as I was
reading someone else's TMP blog post comments section, I found this
person's comment, that implied they had participated for that Thursday's TMP.
I visited their blog and found 3 most recent TMPs (I didn't look
past the 3 so I have no idea how many actually since May 6th that
they had participated in). I promptly left a message on their comment
section to remind them to submit their link to my linkup widget for future TMPs they participate in. They replied and gave the excuse that
they had either forgotten to or they realised too late and the linkup widget
was closed by then. By the way, for each TMP the linkup widget is open until the next Wednesday so about a week of opportunity, there is plenty of time to submit one’s link, every other participant of TMP have been able to do so. Weeks went by and in about November I was once
again reading someone else's TMP blog post comments section and found
this person's comment yet again implying they have participated for that
Thursday's TMP and upon visiting their blog, yes they did. In fact they
participated in about 2 or 3 TMPs after the one I left my reminder on yet
they continued to not submit to my linkup widget on any of those occasions. The
excuse this person initially gave was weak to begin with, now it has
thoroughly collapsed.
The
second participant does not have a blog, so previously they would
actually
participate in TMP by posting their picks in the comments section of
my TMP post (so with no blog they do not do any linkup). I regard this
as sufficient. Coincidentally according to my blog's comments history, this person stopped posting their picks on
my blog post
comments section on the May 6th 2021 Thursday Movie Picks #356: Oscar
Winners Edition: Best Director. Once again I just assumed they were no
longer participating in
TMP; after all people come and go over the years. Then I started finding their
picks on someone else's TMP
blog post comments section. I found another and another on several
different bloggers' blogs on several different Thursdays. This person
apparently have been participating in multiple TMPs and have been posting
their picks ONLY on other bloggers' comments section. It's is fine if they want to post their picks on other's comments section, but to do so without ever posting
on mine even though I am the host
and creator of TMP??? With this person not having their own blog I had no
way of
contacting them to STOP the way they have gone about
participating in TMP and so
this have been going on for weeks and months since MAY! If they didn’t
post their picks on mine just once or occasionally…it might be because
they forgot…but to do so for each TMP they participated in since May, than
that is active choice and that is inexcusable, especially when they
leave
their picks on everyone else’s blog comments section.
So
I suppose the point of this write up is to stop what has been going on,
though I doubt those two participants would even see this since their failure to submit their link on my linkup widget and to post their
picks in my comments section for the one without a blog seem to imply they don't
want to visit my blog. Yet they want to participate in my blog
series??? Anyway to other bloggers that have participated, you all have
been very good. I would just like to remind you to remember to do the
linkup requirements and if you are late and the linkup widget is close,
you can always drop your links in the comments section, the considerate ones among
you have had the initiative to do so in the past.
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So the upcoming 2022 run of Thursday Movie Picks
will be the ninth year I'm doing the series.
This year the
Romance Tropes Edition has returned and will of course run in
February. There's also a new special edition theme for this year, the
Mystery Edition, which will no doubt be fun to pick.
As you know with each year, it has
been harder and harder coming up with new themes, so I will require a little help from
you for some theme suggestions. I have a few dates open; SIX in total (I've highlighted the dates, but please note I may rearrange the order
of all the themes on the final schedule - except for the January 6 theme which is fixed). If you're interested in submitting
themes here are the submission criteria:
a) must have participated in a few TMPs and have been an active commenter on my TMP blog posts.
b)
submit three (no more as I'll probably have a hard time choosing)
suggestions by posting a comment on this post. Only on this post.
c) please submit suggestions by January 5.
Any questions or clarification needed please leave a comment.
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2022 Thursday Movie Picks Schedule (Preliminary)
January 6 - 2021 Releases
January 13 - Diary/Journal
January 20 - Time Loops (e.g. Groundhog Day)
January 27 - TMP Television Edition: 2021 Freshmen Series
February 3 - Romance Tropes Edition: Enemies to Lovers
February 10 - Romance Tropes Edition: Famous Person and Non-Famous Person Romance
February 17 - Romance Tropes Edition: Second Chance Love
February 24 - Romance Tropes / TMP Television Edition: Workplace Romance
March 3 - A Dig (Archeology/Paleontology)
March 10 -
March 17 -
March 24 - Gaslighting
March 31 - TMP Television Edition: Family Comedies
April 1 -
April 7 - Psychic and Mediums
April 14 -
April 21 - Environmental Wrongs/ Disasters (not a natural disaster, so something like Chernobyl)
April 28 - TMP Television Edition: Royalty
May 5 - Cinephiles in Movies
May 12 - Actors who are Real Life Family Playing Same Family Role in Movies
May 19 -
May 26 - TMP Television Edition: Home and Lifestyle Shows
June 2 - Failure to Launch (Movies that were supposed to launch a franchise)
June 9 - Fantasy
June 16 - Shopping Mall
June 23 - Island Movies
June 30 - TMP Television Edition: Origin Story
July 7 - Fairs
July 14 - Non-English Language Movies
July 21 - Combat Sports
July 28 - TMP Television Edition: Book Adaptations
August 4 - Math in Movies
August 11 - Ageing Leading Actors Cast as Much Younger Men Playing Alongside Much Younger Actresses
August 18 - Dark Academia
August 25 - TMP Television Edition: Boarding School
September 1 - Mystery Edition: Capers
September 8 - Mystery Edition: Historical Mysteries
September 15 - Mystery Edition: Media or Technology Mysteries
September 22 - Mystery Edition: Female Investigators (Private or Police)
September 29 - Mystery/TMP Television Edition: Cold Cases
October 6 - Halloween Edition: Horror Movie Themes/Scores
October 13 - Halloween Edition: The Final Girl
October 20 - Halloween Edition: New Home
October 27 - Halloween/ TMP Television Edition: Horror TV Themes/Scores
November 3 - Mazes
November 10 - Business
November 17 - Female Revenge Movies
November 24 - Book Adaptations
November 30 - TMP Television Edition: Non-English
December 1 - Art
December 8 - Retro Chic (Movies set in the present day but has a retro look)
December 15 -
December 22 - Winter Sports
December 29 -TMP Television Edition: Amnesiacs
