ELIMINATED - Brie Larson in Room - 35.9% of all votes. Room was released in 2015. The film had one win, Best Actress for Larson, at the 88th Academy Awards. Larson was selected for Best Actress of the year in a lineup that also included Cate Blanchett in Carol, Jennifer Lawrence in Joy, Charlotte Rampling in 45 Years and Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn. Larson also garnered wins at the BAFTAs, Critics' Choice Awards, Golden Globes and SAGs for her performance as Joy Newsome.
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• Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos (Monster)
• Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf (La Vie en Rose)
• Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers (Black Swan)
• Cate Blanchett as Jasmine Francis (Blue Jasmine)
• Olivia Colman as Queen Anne (The Favourite)
• Emma Stone as Bella Baxter (Poor Things)
RANKING:

1. Brie Larson as Joy Newsome (Room)
   
2. Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
   
3. Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
   
4. Julianne Moore as Alice Howland (Still Alice)
   
5. Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen)
   
6. Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald (Million Dollar Baby)
   
7. Emma Stone as Mia Dolan (La La Land)
   
8. Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf (The Hours)
   
9. Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell (Silver Linings Playbook)
   
10. Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz (The Reader)
    
11. Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove (Monster's Ball)
    
12. Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
    
13. Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich (Erin Brockovich)
    
14. Reese Witherspoon as June Carter (Walk the Line)
    
15. Frances McDormand as Fern (Nomadland)
    
16. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady)
    
17. Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland (Judy)
    
18. Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy (The Blind Side)
    

i (20f) have had a long past few years. i’ve fought with severe depression with suicidal ideation for the greater part of the pst decade. the past couple years have been really hard for me, ending with me finding solace in drugs. last year i spent every day high out of my mind with my friends, mostly just weed, mdma, acid, and ket. (acid and ket were probably my vices and i even though it’s really not usual to get addicted to acid my friends and i would argue that we showed a lot of the typical signs of addiction/dependancy for it) we pretty much abused everything we could get our hands on.
throughout the year i lost my job, one day i just stopped showing up and i never went back (an asshole move to make i know) and i ruined almost all the friendships i had. by my birthday in october i had virtually nothing except my family and their support.
for the year i spent nearly every day with two other girls, they were my best friends. our relationship was good but over time it got shaky, especially when we weren’t high.
in june i had a spiritual journey of sorts, i did a lot of stupid things, things that im honestly suprised i walked away from alive, apparently i must have some mad guardian angel working overtime watching me. but during that time i ended up pinky promising a stranger that i wouldn’t kill myself, the topic came up randomly and he made me promise i wouldn’t. and somehow that worked, i began telling myself i couldn’t do it because you can’t break a pinky promise and slowly i started working on my mental health and got to the point where i started to want to live again.
and with that i also started to feel better, i was happier with myself and i wasn’t having depression episodes anymore so i (foolishly) thought that i must have gotten better. until one week all the feelings that id been running from hit me, (it was probably pms that brought them out but i was a wreck anyway) and i didn’t know how to handle them because id ignored all the bad things for so long. so i tried asking one of my best friends for help, i think i asked her wrong. i messed things up and she said wasn’t in the right frame to talk to me and then never spoke to me again.
i went sober nearly immediately after that, i quit everything cold turkey and haven’t touched them again for around six months. i ended up having a whole “bella swan in new moon” depression moment where i sat on the couch all day every day for a few months until my dad started to get me out the house again, my dad pulled me out of that and became my anchor.
now im here and im so mentally exhausted, i haven’t found a new job yet, honestly im too scared of how ill react when i start getting paychecks coming back in because i know i have no self control and i still have every impulse to get high again. i had to close a fictional book the other day because i was insanely jealous that they were smoking weed and i cant.
i dont know what’s next, i dont know how to process the year i just had, i am back in a depressive episode and everything is making me so emotional and i feel like im suffocating. everyone is expecting things from me but im still stuck in the past, i just dont know how to live.

What are the best allies in your opinion? Can be your personal favorite, or the one with the best perks.
I really don’t have a lot, I stopped playing a few months after wastelanders and just recently came back when the show released, so I missed a lot.
From the ones I’ve met, I have two favorites.
1.) Katherine Swan really grew on me hard. I purchased her from the atom shop because her daily power (+1P, -50% energy ammo weight that stacks with Batteries included), and because she sells really good junk.
Initially she really annoyed me though, like personality wise.
Now, love her. I asked her about alien abductions and she told me that if it did happen, with her brains and my ingenuity we would be able to overpower our captors, take over the ship, and explore the galaxy.
Sign me the fuck up lady. Also when you ask her about why she studied astronomy, and recites “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”, just a very beautiful little monologue she gives.
From there I saw her in a whole new light. Headstrong and smart character who doesn’t give a fuck and is absolutely down to scrap if it comes to it.
“The other day, some scavver called me "Toots." What does that even mean? I didn't even know how to respond.”
2.) Raider Punk. Maybe it’s nostalgia but he’s just my original homie, you know what I mean. Dude was in my camp day one of wastelanders.
He’s just got a pretty chill personality, gives you occasional quests, hangs out. I have a base on the hill near the ice cream parlor and orchard in the forest, with a watchtower he lives in, and he just fits with that setting so well.
Honorable mention: Settler Forager has some of the funniest voice lines in the entire game.
“Licorice tastes better now. You know, after the bombs.”

ELIMINATED - Michelle Yeoh in Everything Everywhere All at Once - 29.1% of all votes. Everything Everywhere All at Once was released in 2022. The film had seven wins, including Best Actress for Yeoh, at the 95th Academy Awards. Yeoh was selected for Best Actress of the year in a lineup that also included Cate Blanchett in TÁR, Ana de Armas in Blonde, Andrea Riseborough in To Leslie and Michelle Williams in The Fabelmans. Yeoh also garnered nominations at the BAFTAs and Critics' Choice Awards, as well as wins at the Golden Globes and SAGs for her performance as Evelyn Wang.
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• Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos (Monster)
• Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf (La Vie en Rose)
• Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers (Black Swan)
• Cate Blanchett as Jasmine Francis (Blue Jasmine)
• Brie Larson as Joy Newsome (Room)
• Olivia Colman as Queen Anne (The Favourite)
• Emma Stone as Bella Baxter (Poor Things)
RANKING:

1. Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
   
2. Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
   
3. Julianne Moore as Alice Howland (Still Alice)
   
4. Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen)
   
5. Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald (Million Dollar Baby)
   
6. Emma Stone as Mia Dolan (La La Land)
   
7. Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf (The Hours)
   
8. Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell (Silver Linings Playbook)
   
9. Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz (The Reader)
   
10. Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove (Monster's Ball)
    
11. Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
    
12. Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich (Erin Brockovich)
    
13. Reese Witherspoon as June Carter (Walk the Line)
    
14. Frances McDormand as Fern (Nomadland)
    
15. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady)
    
16. Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland (Judy)
    
17. Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy (The Blind Side)
    

So, i had this belief for many years, or atleast just something in my mind that i was convinced it was surely to be true but, for the life of me... I remember circa 2016 where i was talking to a cousin, hanging out, she invited me to do a movie marathon (we where at her house, in her room, on her bed with our twilight books I had taken mine out from my closet in the box where they had been stored for the last foufive years or so) and she was telling me about Bella's friends in the books vs the movies (who was the best, Angela, who was the worst, Jessica, Lauren ect) comparing the adaptations, ect, and i remember explicitly telling her out of the blue, so sure of myself "Oh, yeah, like that skater boy Bella hanged out with back in Arizona in the first one, it's strange that she doesn't write him emails like she does her mom, he seemed like a good friend for her" and let me tell you, i remember my cousin giving me this look of "Girl, ¿who?" and then i told her, "You know, the skinny boy that hanged out with bella doing tricks with his board at the curve of the neighborhood Bella lived in, the one she met in gym class..?" And she was like.. "Lo, Bella had no friends at school or out of it in Arizona, not in the books not in the movies.." and i was like. "Yeah, she did.." utterly convinced and then it took us a whole day to read the first book to prove me and my mind that there was in fact NO male skateboarder friend back at Phoenix, where did that come from??? I don't know..so, was i crazy or..? because i was sooo damned sure, like convinced to the max that Bella had a skater friend whom she hanged out with at sundown sitting on the curve of the culdesac to talk with.

ELIMINATED - Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - 27.4% of all votes. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri was released in 2017. The film had two wins, including Best Actress for McDormand, at the 90th Academy Awards. McDormand was selected for Best Actress of the year in a lineup that also included Sally Hawkins in The Shape of Water, Margot Robbie in I, Tonya, Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird and Meryl Streep in The Post. McDormand also garnered wins at the BAFTAs, Critics' Choice Awards, Golden Globes and SAGs for her performance as Mildred Hayes.
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• Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos (Monster)
• Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf (La Vie en Rose)
• Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers (Black Swan)
• Cate Blanchett as Jasmine Francis (Blue Jasmine)
• Brie Larson as Joy Newsome (Room)
• Olivia Colman as Queen Anne (The Favourite)
• Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
• Emma Stone as Bella Baxter (Poor Things)
RANKING:

1. Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
   
2. Julianne Moore as Alice Howland (Still Alice)
   
3. Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen)
   
4. Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald (Million Dollar Baby)
   
5. Emma Stone as Mia Dolan (La La Land)
   
6. Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf (The Hours)
   
7. Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell (Silver Linings Playbook)
   
8. Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz (The Reader)
   
9. Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove (Monster's Ball)
   
10. Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
    
11. Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich (Erin Brockovich)
    
12. Reese Witherspoon as June Carter (Walk the Line)
    
13. Frances McDormand as Fern (Nomadland)
    
14. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady)
    
15. Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland (Judy)
    
16. Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy (The Blind Side)
    

The more Renesmee-level terrible, the better

There was a fic I read on Wattpad a while ago about Stefan’s gay twin moving to forks with Bella Swan and being paired with jasper? I think it was jasper… if anyone knows what fic this is I would appreciate it.

ELIMINATED - Julianne Moore in Still Alice - 20.4% of all votes. Still Alice was released in 2014. The film had one win, Best Actress for Moore, at the 87th Academy Awards. Moore was selected for Best Actress of the year in a lineup that also included Marion Cotillard in Two Days, One Night, Felicity Jones in The Theory of Everything, Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl and Reese Witherspoon in Wild. Moore also garnered wins at the BAFTAs, Critics' Choice Awards, Golden Globes and SAGs for her performance as Alice Howland.
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• Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos (Monster)
• Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf (La Vie en Rose)
• Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers (Black Swan)
• Cate Blanchett as Jasmine Francis (Blue Jasmine)
• Brie Larson as Joy Newsome (Room)
• Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
• Olivia Colman as Queen Anne (The Favourite)
• Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
• Emma Stone as Bella Baxter (Poor Things)
RANKING:

1. Julianne Moore as Alice Howland (Still Alice)
   
2. Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen)
   
3. Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald (Million Dollar Baby)
   
4. Emma Stone as Mia Dolan (La La Land)
   
5. Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf (The Hours)
   
6. Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell (Silver Linings Playbook)
   
7. Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz (The Reader)
   
8. Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove (Monster's Ball)
   
9. Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
   
10. Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich (Erin Brockovich)
    
11. Reese Witherspoon as June Carter (Walk the Line)
    
12. Frances McDormand as Fern (Nomadland)
    
13. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady)
    
14. Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland (Judy)
    
15. Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy (The Blind Side)
    

ELIMINATED - Helen Mirren in The Queen - 38.1% of all votes. The Queen was released in 2006. The film had one win, Best Actress for Mirren, at the 79th Academy Awards. Mirren was selected for Best Actress of the year in a lineup that also included Penélope Cruz in Volver, Judi Dench in Notes on a Scandal, Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada and Kate Winslet in Little Children. Mirren also garnered wins at the BAFTAs, Critics' Choice Awards, Golden Globes and SAGs for her performance as Queen Elizabeth II.
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• Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos (Monster)
• Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf (La Vie en Rose)
• Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers (Black Swan)
• Cate Blanchett as Jasmine Francis (Blue Jasmine)
• Julianne Moore as Alice Howland (Still Alice)
• Brie Larson as Joy Newsome (Room)
• Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
• Olivia Colman as Queen Anne (The Favourite)
• Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
• Emma Stone as Bella Baxter (Poor Things)
RANKING:

1. Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen)
   
2. Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald (Million Dollar Baby)
   
3. Emma Stone as Mia Dolan (La La Land)
   
4. Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf (The Hours)
   
5. Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell (Silver Linings Playbook)
   
6. Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz (The Reader)
   
7. Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove (Monster's Ball)
   
8. Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
   
9. Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich (Erin Brockovich)
   
10. Reese Witherspoon as June Carter (Walk the Line)
    
11. Frances McDormand as Fern (Nomadland)
    
12. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady)
    
13. Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland (Judy)
    
14. Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy (The Blind Side)
    

ELIMINATED - Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby - 38.1% of all votes. Million Dollar Baby was released in 2004. The film had four wins, including Best Actress for Swank, at the 77th Academy Awards. Swank was selected for Best Actress of the year in a lineup that also included Annette Bening in Being Julia, Catalina Sandino Moreno in Maria Full of Grace, Imelda Staunton in Vera Drake and Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Swank also garnered wins at the Critics' Choice Awards, Golden Globes and SAGs for her performance as Maggie Fitzgerald.
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• Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos (Monster)
• Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen)
• Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf (La Vie en Rose)
• Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers (Black Swan)
• Cate Blanchett as Jasmine Francis (Blue Jasmine)
• Julianne Moore as Alice Howland (Still Alice)
• Brie Larson as Joy Newsome (Room)
• Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
• Olivia Colman as Queen Anne (The Favourite)
• Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
• Emma Stone as Bella Baxter (Poor Things)
RANKING:

1. Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald (Million Dollar Baby)
   
2. Emma Stone as Mia Dolan (La La Land)
   
3. Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf (The Hours)
   
4. Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell (Silver Linings Playbook)
   
5. Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz (The Reader)
   
6. Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove (Monster's Ball)
   
7. Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
   
8. Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich (Erin Brockovich)
   
9. Reese Witherspoon as June Carter (Walk the Line)
   
10. Frances McDormand as Fern (Nomadland)
    
11. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady)
    
12. Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland (Judy)
    
13. Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy (The Blind Side)
    

does anybody know where i can find bella swan styled clothes?

ELIMINATED - Emma Stone in La La Land - 19.9% of all votes. La La Land was released in 2016. The film had six wins, including Best Actress for Stone, at the 89th Academy Awards. Stone was selected for Best Actress of the year in a lineup that also included Isabelle Huppert in Elle, Ruth Negga in Loving, Natalie Portman in Jackie and Meryl Streep in Florence Foster Jenkins. Stone also garnered nominations at the Critics' Choice Awards, as well as wins at the BAFTAs, Golden Globes and SAGs for her performance as Mia Dolan.
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• Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos (Monster)
• Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald (Million Dollar Baby)
• Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen)
• Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf (La Vie en Rose)
• Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers (Black Swan)
• Cate Blanchett as Jasmine Francis (Blue Jasmine)
• Julianne Moore as Alice Howland (Still Alice)
• Brie Larson as Joy Newsome (Room)
• Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
• Olivia Colman as Queen Anne (The Favourite)
• Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
• Emma Stone as Bella Baxter (Poor Things)
RANKING:

1. Emma Stone as Mia Dolan (La La Land)
   
2. Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf (The Hours)
   
3. Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell (Silver Linings Playbook)
   
4. Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz (The Reader)
   
5. Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove (Monster's Ball)
   
6. Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
   
7. Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich (Erin Brockovich)
   
8. Reese Witherspoon as June Carter (Walk the Line)
   
9. Frances McDormand as Fern (Nomadland)
   
10. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady)
    
11. Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland (Judy)
    
12. Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy (The Blind Side)
    

ELIMINATED - Nicole Kidman in The Hours - 26% of all votes. The Hours was released in 2002. The film had one win, Best Actress for Kidman, at the 75th Academy Awards. Kidman was selected for Best Actress of the year in a lineup that also included Salma Hayek in Frida, Diane Lane in Faithful, Julianne Moore in Far from Heaven and Renée Zellweger in Chicago. Kidman also garnered nominations at the Critics' Choice Awards and SAGs, as well as wins at the BAFTAs and Golden Globes for her performance as Virginia Woolf.
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• Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos (Monster)
• Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald (Million Dollar Baby)
• Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen)
• Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf (La Vie en Rose)
• Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers (Black Swan)
• Cate Blanchett as Jasmine Francis (Blue Jasmine)
• Julianne Moore as Alice Howland (Still Alice)
• Brie Larson as Joy Newsome (Room)
• Emma Stone as Mia Dolan (La La Land)
• Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
• Olivia Colman as Queen Anne (The Favourite)
• Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
• Emma Stone as Bella Baxter (Poor Things)
RANKING:

1. Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf (The Hours)
   
2. Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell (Silver Linings Playbook)
   
3. Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz (The Reader)
   
4. Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove (Monster's Ball)
   
5. Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
   
6. Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich (Erin Brockovich)
   
7. Reese Witherspoon as June Carter (Walk the Line)
   
8. Frances McDormand as Fern (Nomadland)
   
9. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady)
   
10. Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland (Judy)
    
11. Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy (The Blind Side)
    

ELIMINATED - Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook - 27% of all votes. Silver Linings Playbook was released in 2012. The film had one win, Best Actress for Lawrence, at the 85th Academy Awards. Lawrence was selected for Best Actress of the year in a lineup that also included Jessica Chastain in Zero Dark Thirty, Emmanuelle Riva in Amour, Quvenzhané Wallis in Beasts of the Southern Wild and Naomi Watts in The Impossible. Lawrence also garnered nominations at the BAFTAs and Critics' Choice Awards as well as wins at the Golden Globes and SAGs for her performance as Tiffany Maxwell.
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• Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf (The Hours)
• Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos (Monster)
• Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald (Million Dollar Baby)
• Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen)
• Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf (La Vie en Rose)
• Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers (Black Swan)
• Cate Blanchett as Jasmine Francis (Blue Jasmine)
• Julianne Moore as Alice Howland (Still Alice)
• Brie Larson as Joy Newsome (Room)
• Emma Stone as Mia Dolan (La La Land)
• Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
• Olivia Colman as Queen Anne (The Favourite)
• Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
• Emma Stone as Bella Baxter (Poor Things)
RANKING:

1. Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell (Silver Linings Playbook)
   
2. Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz (The Reader)
   
3. Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove (Monster's Ball)
   
4. Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
   
5. Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich (Erin Brockovich)
   
6. Reese Witherspoon as June Carter (Walk the Line)
   
7. Frances McDormand as Fern (Nomadland)
   
8. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady)
   
9. Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland (Judy)
   
10. Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy (The Blind Side)
    

Bill would love Bella for her humanity, kindness, selflessness and courage. I could see Bill falling for Bella Swan.

In light of recent discussions regarding the delivery of story in Penacony and how HSR is akin to a “visual novel” with narration, I thought it would be interesting to investigate how much of HSR’s story delivery actually takes place in a narrated visual novel style, since the game does feature that type of delivery, and whether or not Penacony has made any significant changes on this front. I'm tallying these because these tend to be the least interactive sequences to look at visually, leading to a heavily expository feel to the scene.
The scenes I consider a "narrated visual novel" sequence:

• HSR has many sequences that feature a still pre-drawn picture, series of pre-drawn pictures, or a pre-drawn animated picture on screen, presented with story text and narration dubbed overtop. Basically this encompasses artwork that is not rendered by the game engine with 3D models and textures etc. For example, this still artwork of a bird in Robin’s hand with narration over it (screencap courtesy of Rubhen925's playthrough videos):

https://preview.redd.it/l0q5s2y3830d1.png?width=1844&format=png&auto=webp&s=c810723c1cc9d4ab6e75740df013ce02b2bdf519
What I do not count as a "VN" sequence:

• Any sequence with live in-game rendering, such as still camera shots of in-game scenery or of characters standing and talking
• Picture of an object (e.g. Sparkle’s flower buttons) since these are usually characters handing items to other characters.
• Phone texting, in-game texts like books or letters, or dialogue sequences talking to NPCs without any audio. Even though it is the most literal “novel”-like delivery where the player must read to get story bits, they’re also usually optional and can be skipped rather quickly.

I’m only counting the times VN-style scenes are used in the main story quests of each patch and not any side quests, companion quests, events, or Simulated Universe.

THE TL;DR AND OVERALL CONCLUSION:

Penacony 2.1 and 2.2 has significantly more VN sequences, overwhelmingly so. I have provided a chart below depicting the number of seconds spent in VN sequences over the course of the patches. Penacony 2.2 alone has 4271 seconds (1hr 11min 11sec) of VN screentime, which eclipses that of all previous patches combined. Penacony 2.0+2.1+2.2 features 6237 seconds of VN screentime (1hr 43mins 57sec), which is 3.92x that of 1.X's VN scene usage (1590 seconds). Penacony also has more individual instances of VN segments, totaling to 27 scenes in 2.0-2.2, which is more instances than all of 1.X (18 scenes in 1.0-1.6).
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However, Penacony is also a much longer story, naturally leading to more dialogue and cutscene time than in previous patches. There aren't many ways to correct for this exactly to see proportionally how long is spent in VNs, nor easily done as it would involve parsing every instance of voiced dialogue or cutscene-equivalent in the main story. If we were to take some rough numbers though, Penacony Acts 2 and 3 are roughly 10 hours long in total playtime if just doing the story, with ~1 hour 43 minutes spent in VN sequences. This equates to roughly ~17% of the runtime being visual novel narration in the past 2 patches, which is fairly significant. By comparison, all of 1.0 content (Herta Station, Belobog, Luofu Act 1) would take roughly ~15 hours to complete if ignoring side content and SU and events, with only ~17 minutes of VN time, leading to only ~1.8% of the time spent in VN sequences.
In conclusion, Penacony definitely exhibits more visual novel style than the previous patches based on the amount of time spent in visual novel-styled sequences. Moreover, the VN style variety in Penacony is more limited than in previous patches, featuring largely still shots with some particle animations and no animations in the scene actors (see my breakdown below). This leads to Penacony’s VN style feeling more static than in previous patches, with a heavier emphasis on the narration rather than the visual presentation in these types of scenes.

The Breakdown

Ok so now for the breakdown. For all this “research,” I’ve used the HSR playthrough videos by the youtube channel Rubhen925, which have cutscenes on autoplay and thus pretty good consistency in cutscene timing behavior. I have also included linked time stamps for the start of these VN sequences in the respective playthrough videos in case people want to take a closer look. I’ve also included a brief note about each VN, as there is some variation in the artstyle of these pre-drawn VN sequences.
I’ll put a disclaimer here and say that I may have missed one or two sequences, as I sifted through the footage watching the videos at 2x speed and skipping through sequences of combat or active gameplay, so there is a margin of error here. With that being said, here is the detailed breakdown, with the total time count in each header:
1.0 Herta Space Station Main Arc – 0 minutes

• None

1.0 Belobog Main Arc – 12 minutes, 48 seconds

• Gepard recounts the founding of Belobog city (multiple pics) – 40 seconds 6:53-7:33
• Cocolia under the influence of the Stellaron (multiple pics) – 62 seconds 1:10:21-1:11:23
• Cocolia argues with the Stellaron (very animated with multiple angles) – 67 seconds 1:02:28-1:03:35
• Svarog’s databanks about a previous Supreme Guardian’s Stellaron research (*background animated, multiple sequences) – 292 seconds 31:49-36:41
• Natasha takes the orphans to the overworld (single still shot) – 77 seconds 1:25:53-1:27:10
• Bronya’s inaugural speech as Supreme Guardian of Belobog (multiple pics) – 176 seconds 1:29:47-1:32:43
• Seele and Bronya argue as the Express leaves (*very animated, almost a cutscene) – 54 seconds 1:47:27-1:48:21

1.0-1.3 Xianzhou Luofu Main Arc – 4 minutes, 15 seconds

• Kafka talks about the script and our future encounter with Nanook (single pic) – 65 seconds 1:17:17-1:18:22
• Luocha heals Xueyi (single pic, some particles) – 26 seconds 1:28:49-1:29:15
• Fu Xuan recounts the events on the Luofu (game render screenshots with filter, also these are optional scenes for recap) – 164 seconds 4:32-7:16

1.4 Topaz Belobog Arc – 4 minutes, 46 seconds

• Bronya recounts her conversation with Topaz about Belobog’s debt (single shot, old film stylizing) – 51 seconds 23:16-24:05
• Topaz’s message to Bronya about her motivations (Numby animated) – 235 seconds 1:02:26-1:06:21

1.5 Huohuo and spooky Luofu arc – 2 minutes, 13 seconds

• Cirrus recounts the feud between the General of the Luofu and Ignamar (single still shot, some action particles) – 97 seconds 48:12-49:49
• Smol Huohuo (*adorable*) – 36 seconds 50:16-50:52
• A general note about the Huohuo arc is that there is a large amount of in-game text that needs to be read for clues to solve puzzles, but this is less visual novel delivery and more just a gameplay mechanism

1.6 Ruan Mei and Dr. Ratio Herta Space Station arcs – 2 minutes, 28 seconds

• Ruan Mei’s log about the bug (single shot) – 91 seconds 50:37-52:08
• Ruan Mei talks about the cake cats (single shot) – 57 seconds 1:05:41-1:06:38
• Note for this patch specifically – most of Ruan Mei’s logs are rendered cutscenes of her doing stuff with a filter over them, so I didn’t count these. There’s also the TV broadcast segments in the Dr. Ratio arc that don’t quite fit a VN description either as they are more akin to full-on animations and presented as recordings in the game world

2.0 Penacony Act 1 – 2 minutes, 12 seconds

• Silver Wolf relaying Sam’s message to the express (some animations with Silver Wolf’s signature styling) – 107 seconds 4:16:06-4:17:53
• Mourning Firefly getting unalived (single still shot) – 25 seconds 4:42:22-4:42:47
• Firefly’s photo doesn’t count

2.1 Penacony Act 2 – 30 minutes, 34 seconds

• RIP Duke Inferno (single still shot, animated fire) – 325 seconds 15:00-20:25
• Kakavasha part 1 (single still shot) – 283 seconds 52:20-57:03
• Kakavasha part 2 (single still shot, animated sky) – 245 seconds 2:09:14-2:13:19
• Kakavasha part 3 (single still shot) – 209 seconds 3:09:52-3:13:21
• Kakavasha part 4 ft. Jade (still single shot, but continues into a black screen while Aventurine has a monologue) – 366 seconds 4:01:35-4:07:37
• Aventurine recounts the cornerstone plot and tricking Sunday (multiple pics) – 90 seconds 4:20:55-4:22:25
• Kakavasha part 5 (multiple shots, animated rain) – 183 seconds 4:56:38-4:59:41
• Acheron speaking to an unknown man – 133 seconds 5:24:44-5:26:57
• Note for this patch – there are radio sequences from the IPC’s news broadcast, I don’t count these as VN sequences since they’re accompanied by black screens with no images and primarily intended to deliver audio playback as simply audio playback.

2.2 Penacony Act 3 – 1 hour, 11 minutes, 11 seconds

• Firefly recounts the events from her perspective (multiple game render screenshots with filter) – 160 seconds 31:04-33:44
• Firefly and Blade in the car part 1 (single still shot) – 228 seconds 35:13-39:01
• Baby bird (single still shot) – 347 seconds 1:18:27-1:24:14
• Acheron and the hooded figure part 1 (single shot, animated rain) – 385 seconds 2:20:44-2:27:09
• Sunday goes to church (single still shot) – 449 seconds 2:27:15-2:34:39
• Sunday’s quiz (interactive sequence of shots, the playthrough has all VN sequences conveniently back to back) – 340 seconds 4:12:29-4:27:09
• Mikhail’s story (sequence of shots) – 528 seconds 5:03:20-5:12:08
• Firefly and Blade in the car part 2 (single still shot) – 162 seconds 5:24:18-5:27:00
• Acheron and the hooded figure part 2 – 362 seconds 5:29:00-5:35:02
• Black Swan recounts the events and reveals the truth (sequence of still shots, interactive, video only includes the correct option dialogue) – 543 seconds 7:22:37-7:31:40
• Baby bird, Robin’s perspective (single shot) – 50 seconds 7:41:10-7:42:00
• Acheron and the hooded figure part 3 (multiple shots with some animation) – 379 seconds 7:53:17-7:59:36
• Acheron and the hooded figure part 4 (single still shot, animated rain/smoke) – 158 seconds 8:06:04-8:08:42
• Concluding monologue, Robin/Sunday flashback (single still shot) – 180 seconds 8:31:52-8:35:52
• Of note, this particular act has a lot of dialogue that occurs on black screens leading into VN segments, so I have lumped them in the timings since the entire scenes together can be interpreted as a “VN-styled” sequence

Afterword

I spent way too much time on this but it was also entertaining rewatching old story :)
Edit: idk why it shows a youtube embed, reddit is weird :/

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• Nicole Kidman as Virginia Woolf (The Hours)
• Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos (Monster)
• Hilary Swank as Maggie Fitzgerald (Million Dollar Baby)
• Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II (The Queen)
• Marion Cotillard as Édith Piaf (La Vie en Rose)
• Kate Winslet as Hanna Schmitz (The Reader)
• Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers (Black Swan)
• Jennifer Lawrence as Tiffany Maxwell (Silver Linings Playbook)
• Cate Blanchett as Jasmine Francis (Blue Jasmine)
• Julianne Moore as Alice Howland (Still Alice)
• Brie Larson as Joy Newsome (Room)
• Emma Stone as Mia Dolan (La La Land)
• Frances McDormand as Mildred Hayes (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
• Olivia Colman as Queen Anne (The Favourite)
• Michelle Yeoh as Evelyn Wang (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
• Emma Stone as Bella Baxter (Poor Things)
RANKING:

1. Halle Berry as Leticia Musgrove (Monster's Ball)
   
2. Jessica Chastain as Tammy Faye Bakker (The Eyes of Tammy Faye)
   
3. Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich (Erin Brockovich)
   
4. Reese Witherspoon as June Carter (Walk the Line)
   
5. Frances McDormand as Fern (Nomadland)
   
6. Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher (The Iron Lady)
   
7. Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland (Judy)
   
8. Sandra Bullock as Leigh Anne Tuohy (The Blind Side)