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eerna · 9 months

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so how's fourth wing so far :]

CHECK IN TIME! OK so I am on chapter 22, which is the 51% mark of the book. I continue to be disappointed, but now I have read enough of the book to know I'm not overreacting or judging too early.

Anachronisms continue to run rampant. At one point the MC uses the expression "Are our wires crossed?", which is an explicit reference to telephones, meaning this world has telephones but not pens. This could have easily been a modern fantasy and better for it, there is 0 reason for keeping it a historical setting.

I am on chapter 22 approximately because I actually accidentally fell asleep during Amber's trial and it was so insanely ridiculous I just signed off, and then rewinded to the beginning of the chapter when I woke up. Dain not believing his best freind in the entire world and a bunch of other people because "AMBER LOVES RULES TOO MUCH TO BREAK THEM!!" is one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen.

The characters.... Good lord literally everyone is just an empty shell of a person, someone who serves a certain role in the story and nothing else. It's been a while since I read a book where not a single character gave me anything to work with. That includes bad things I could complain about, or flaws. No one dares step a toe outside the stereotypical roles - wow, here's the Petite Delicate MC With Hidden Power, her Overprotective Childhood Best Friend (well ok he is depicted as bad in this one but more on that later), her Fun Extroverted New Best Friend, the Mysterious Brooding Dark Haired Bad Boy, the Evil Bitch, the Craaaaazy Murderous Competitor....... Like damn give me SOMETHING.

The deaths that people say raise the stakes and feel brutal and realistic are really funny to me because it is Super Obvious who is gonna be next to die. Why are we suddenly focusing on this random background character? Because they are gonna perish next page. Please pretend to be shocked when it happens. Rinse and repeat.

Ngl the "our dragons are mates and that means we are gonna be serving the army together for the rest of their lives also gotta learn how to work together" as a forced proximity method is an absolutely amazing idea. Too bad I feel nothing for this specific combination of characters.

The romance is so immature. It's not even SJM level relationship development. So Violet is in love with her childhood best friend, but then decides she doesn't want to be with him because there is no "spark" when they kiss. Not because he is controlling and belittles her and has no faith in her. Oh no. It's about how she can't even look at Xaden without getting horny!!!! It's about how she hates him as a person but his BODYYY WOWWWW YUMMMMM!!!! PLENTY of sparks!! At one point she describes his cousin and feels the need to specify the two look similar, but she is NOT physically attracted to him, which is just so funny. The book is still painfully straight and treats me to the "Big Burly Muscular Man and his Tiny Dainty Little Woman" shtick.

It's the EPITOME of those "imagine a book where..." tiktoks. Ohhhh the villain is KILLIN PEOPLE to SAVE THE MC even though she thought HE HATED HER..... Oooohhh he has DARK HAIR and ENCOURAGES HER TO BE STRONG....... Ooooooh the MC has bnded to THE STRONGEST DRAGON EVER and also HAS TWO BONDED DRAGONS which has NEVERRR HAPPENED BEFORE...... It feels like a collection of out-of-context quotes meant to be shown as a greenscreen backdrop while the reader pretends to be screaming into their hand in the foreground.

All in all. I am still not enraged angry the way some other books from the book club have made me, but we still haven't reached the smut so there's plenty of time for the nosedive. I'm just reading this and wondering why this specifically was chosen as the next Big Thing. What makes it special??? I see Nothing. Maybe I will find out if I keep going - I don't personally have to like it, but I'd like to figure out why so many other people do.

#eernask #eernanon

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batmanisagatewaydrug · 1 year

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Now that you’ve done your fave looks from the oscars how about the worst fashion from this year’s Oscars?

thank you so much for enabling my hater tendencies. like I said picking out the worsties isn't NEARLY as fun at the Oscars as it is at the Met Gala because people are taking fewer risks in general, so even the "bad" looks tend to be more "meh" than "go to prison," but here are the ones that I Did Not Care For.

first up an obligatory mention of every man who wore a plain black suit. I'm targeting Austin Butler in particular because he didn't even zhuzh it up with interesting accessories like some of his fellow offenders.

Sabrina Dhowre Elba I'm sorry you're very beautiful but you are literally wearing a greenscreen. someone photoshop a tiger on her ASAP. also what's the little knotted detail? I don't get it.

this isn't totally unforgivable but Florence Pugh is serving dirty napkin on the sidewalk. in a bolder color I think I might have enjoyed this?

I feel bad targeting Elizabeth Banks when she seems to have suffered the wardrobe malfunction of the night but it does just look kind of crumpled and unfinished, especially around the hem.

I hate to shit on a man who's actually trying to do something other than basic black but uuuuuh I'm about to do it several times in a row. I don't like Barry Keoghan's sunburst button things, they look like something that would have been cute on the Stranger Things boys circa season one but not on a Grown Ass Man

I don't know who Paul Mescal is but based on this I'm assuming he's headlining a show in Atlantic City

and Paul Dano is giving us "magician going through a divorce who's desperately trying to hold it together through this bat mitzvah because he needs the money"

absolute rock bottom has got to be whatever is going on with All Quiet on the Western Front producer/screenwriter (?) Lesley Paterson. I compared Salma Hayak's dress to an unconventional materials challenge winner on an early season of Project Runway; Paterson's look is more reminiscent of what happens when designers run out of time and send models down the runway in a poorly cut garment held together with staples and hope. genuinely an eyesore I am sorry Miss Paterson!

#oscars 2023

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corey-beepington · 6 months

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Having seen Eviction Day and some of the production you did for it, I might be inspired to create some more of my own multimedia projects (i.e. merging things like illustration/2D animation with more physical objects like that Spamton paper puppet you did).

In the teaser montage for Please Stay Tuned (and please correct me if I'm wrong), did you use rotoscoping for one of the segments?

If so, as someone who has used rotoscoping for my own projects in the recent past, that looks amazing!!

(Also looking forward to Pretty Kitty - I hope it's not too scary...)

I'm glad to have inspired you! Be warned mixed media animation is quite addicting...you'll never be able to go back ooooooooo. I do love using them physical props.

Dear asker, if I can tell you how to do it, you can first download an app called Stop Motion Studio (it's free on both apple and android) It's what I used to create the stop motion in Eviction Day (just be sure to shoot in the darkest room you can)! You will likely also need a greenscreen...which you can purchase a bright green or blue posterboard or paper sheet at your favorite craft store for under 5 bucks, you dont need a fancy 5000 dollar cloth.

Go fourth and create some wonderful things.

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Ah rotoscope...You are correct! There IS rotoscope in Please Stay Tuned

did you know i rotoscoped in Eviction day too?

The garbage noise scene also was roto'd (Blue and the reaching hand) because i wanted it to have a really uncanny, weird feel to it.

Thank you for the compliment <3

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Pretty Kitty is...

Well

It depends what you mean by "scary"

There's no jumpscares (Like in your face screaming, there's 1 or 2 sudden sounds but that's it). There will never be jumpscares in anything i create because I hate them. Like if you could handle the sudden sounds in Eviction Day, Kitty is a walk in the park.

However, if stuff like Don't Hug Me I'm Scared freaked you out, I don't suggest watching Kitty as there are scenes where things get a little

icky

let's just say

I do plan on putting out a more detailed content warning in front of the film once it's out but do know Kitty has much more intense horror visuals than Eviction Day.

#corey speaks #pretty kitty

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cowboysandunicorns · 2 years

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Well, since my last post blew up a bit, I figured it’s time for the long-awaited sequel, in a series I like to call:

Why The Lion King 2019′s Realism Sucks Too, Actually

Such Realism. Wow

Now, when it comes to The Lion King 2019′s visual flaws, there is a lot to talk about. From it’s overly-sanitized greenscreen scenery, to the uncanny locomotion, to the positively nightmarish expressions:

hELLo mOtHER

But today, I wanted to focus on one specific area. And that is TLK19′s Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Feet.

Now, when it comes to trying to create something that looks “realistic”, I find it helps to reference well... Reality. So before we begin, I want you to first acquaint yourself with this tasteful handmade collection of lion feet:

Its not weird unless you make it weird

Seriously, don’t just scroll past this to get to the next image. I want you to take at least 2-5 minutes just to look at this picture, and remind yourself of what a real lion looks like. Put on your favorite song, close your eyes, and imagine a blissful reality where The Lion King 2019 does not exist.

Now regrettably, we must exit this imaginary world and return to the hyper-realistic nature documentary known as the Lion King 2019:

oh no

oh dear

I know, right?

Now, what exactly is wrong with these pictures?

1.) The toes are too bony and overly-defined

At best, they look like dog or wolf feet. At worst, they look like fingers, skeletons, sausages, or dinosaurs.

You can see the difference in the comparison down below, between a wolf (left), the remake (middle), and a real lion (right).

The lack of fur and connecting tissue on the feet only contributes to this issue - making the anatomy flaws more noticeable, and overall looks very creepy.

TL;DR:

2.) The legs are too skinny and oddly proportioned, often making them appear bowlegged or off-balance.

This combined with the small, bony feet makes them look more like hyenas or pit bulls than an actual lion. Seriously, if you just looked at the bodies alone, would you even be able to recognize them as lions?

Answer: No. (But feel free to use this Wolf’s Rain base free of charge)

3.) The limbs (particularly the front legs) are robotic and weightless, and do not move in a natural way

His foot is supposed to be off the ground in this shot, for the record.

It’s like they animated the body, legs, and paws completely independently from one another, with no regard for how the different muscles would actually interact with one another in real life.

Here is a real lion for comparison:

Notice how the toes are already turned and outstretched, before they even touch the ground. See how the weight falls onto his other shoulder, and the muscles tensing in it’s back leg as it prepares for takeoff? The paws should be leading the motion, not just added as an afterthought.

Now, let’s return to the remake again:

His legs don’t even look connected to his body, much less the ground.

Thanks, I hate it.

TL;DR:

4. The limbs lack bones, and bend in the wrong places.

help I think his leg is broken call an ambulance

It hurts just looking at this.

I must re-iterate: lions are not dogs.

While I suppose a lion could theoretically walk on their tippy-toes like that, lions tend to weigh an average of 300-700 pounds, as opposed to a wolf’s 70-120. And unless they’re trained ballerinas, putting their full weight on their toes like that would likely be very painful.

The weight distribution should rest closer to where the “ball” of your hand or foot would be - not the actual toe bones themselves.

I wasn’t sure if what I was saying made a lick of sense, so here’s an attempt to illustrate:

At the same time, friendly reminder that lions are not bipedal, and the “heel” should not be touching the ground when standing.

TL;DR:

5.) The claws are always visibly protruding, and look way too small and delicate

It looks like they’re wearing SoftPaws. Thanks, I hate it.

6.) The legs bend, twist, and distort in confusing and unnatural ways.

This is the part I find particularly infuriating. Mr. Jon “ooh, we can’t have pretty skies or expressions or eyebrows or red fruit or a monkey holding a stick because it’s too ~unrealistic~ uwu” Favreau over here.

But then he has the lions constantly do shit like this:

Or this:

And this:

This might be the worst shot in the whole movie. it looks like Sarabi got possessed by a vengeful ghost and is about to use her weirdly human hands to tear Simba apart like a KFC drumstick

but no, obviously I am the fool, and I just don’t “get it”. i love realism that comes at the expense of art. i love corporate nostalgia. i love the lion king 2019, my favorite part is when the motion lines turn into a FUCKING ASTERIX

Such realism. Wow.

Anyways, that about wraps this up, thanks for listening, and I...

Wait a second.

What.

the fuck

Is THAT

Well I need some time to emotionally recover from this, so see you next century for part three - where I’ll be covering either the lighting, the cubs, or the stampede sequence. Whichever I can finish first.

Okay, that’s all for real now, goodbye everyone I’ll remember you all in therapy

#the lion king #the lion king 2019 #rants #body horror #tlk2019 #lion #anatomy #live action lion king #review #cowboysandunicorns #2022

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beltransadie · 1 year

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I ended up finishing another one (but it's pretty short). Admittedly it's just a side project I thought of during Christmas break, and I only ended up including what I initially planned. (Which is only up to the first verse).

Admittedly, this isn't the one I started right after I Won't Say I'm In Love, but more so something on the side that snowballed into a finished state (because I needed a break from the angst).

It's not the whole song, so there's not much art to add as preface. Here are the only fully colored frames in it.

And a sleepy Wanning.

Considering the references, the animatic covers up til chapter 80ish but it's not really spoilery anyway. I talk gush about stuff below. (I talk about what I referenced in here so if you don't wants spoilers for the animatic you should go check it out >.>)

"Can't count the years on one hand that we've been together."

That's literally it. That's what started the idea. That alongside the song's snappy beat made me think of 1.0 and how the way he just "hates" Wanning whilst looking out and seeking his attention.

So, to put it in a way, the animatic is more like: I hate you, but I'm still into you. (Even considering his past with the person)

Also this storyboard is just funny, him being confused while counting out how long they've been together. (I guess that's a spoiler in a way, gahah).

In the actual finished piece, the title is included in the background as if it's a part of the set piece which I find absolutely silly and decided to go for it. Just watching that sequence taken seriously is... gets me every time lmaoo.

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The transitions

I want to talk about the transitions for a bit, it was in the storyboards alongside (what I'd like to call) the funny turn around coz it's literally a spinning shot of ranwan I considered to be kind of daunting coz those shots are hard.

(Look I know height diff in the storyboard, but I googled a bit and I found out that 1.0 and CWN are almost the same height)

Also those full body pics ended up being used a lot in that sequence, pretty neat though considering back views are hard.

The animation in the middle ended up being a video I greenscreened because my video editor started lagging with the frames. (it ended up being for the better because I added another track later on.

My cousin made me a pretty collage using the two full bodies and the other frames from I Won't Say I'm In Love and I ended up using it as my wallpaper xD.

And it's also said cousin who improved the 4 shots before the zoom in by making the sequence more funny and exaggerated. Arguably that zoom in shot with the background opening up into another shot...

My favorite really. The background are two black halves of the screen and the full bodies are both on separate layers and they're all animated to zoom out to give the impression of the camera zooming in.

From the storyboards, I initially planned it to be a bamboo grove in Red Lotus Pavillion transitioning into Mo Ran tying up Xia Sini's hair with the bamboo as foreground, but decided against it as 1.0 was not aware of Xia Sini's identity.

Instead, I opted for another favorite scene in chapter 75 with CWN saving Mo Ran in Peach Blossom Springs which also has this passage I really like.

(smithereens) He really got shooketh there.

The next scene stayed the same as planned and is the moment in chapter 32 where Mo Ran is grumpily feeding Wanning medicine, which then transitions into the funny turn around scene.

The frames transitioning from their first meeting to the New Year together was something that ended up developing later on. (I love the New Year frames, I love how Mo Ran's eyes light up as he looks at Wanning, I love how the fireworks are falling in the background and how the golden light is reflected off of Wanning's eyes—)

The spin sequence wasn't as hard as I expected. But that's probably because I've done it too much I kinda know what to do?

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Last Additional Stuff

I think most of what I wanted to talk about is just the transitions and the spin around. The title at the start too as well as Mo Ran acting like a little shit. Also pointing out how I keep forgetting how his hair clip is supposed to be on his left lmao.

It's not definite yet, but I'm kind of considering expanding it somewhere in the far future. Closing this off with a Mo Ran cut out.

#2ha #ranwan #erha #animatic #dumb husky and his white cat shizun #my art

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literallysatanofficial · 2 years

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I see a lot of people theorizing about how Nandor's wish for Marwa to like what he likes will affect the next couple episodes, but unfortunately The Wedding episode IS still 4x09 chronologically. Only the finale episode comes after the wedding. I hate to break it to everyone, but Pine Barrens is not affected by the events of The Wedding at all, nor will Freddie or Go Flip Yourself be either. Any episodes that Marwa is in "after" The Wedding, she has not yet been accidentally brainwashed, because the wish hasn't happened yet.

If I had to guess, I would say that several episodes got pushed back because of unfinished VFX, as there seems to be an issue with it being unfinished, and The Wedding didn't have much aside from the Baron and his greenscreened lower body (which you can actually see in the episode, his legs are visible under the couch). Pine Barrens' trailer got privated because of an error with baby Colin's face, so I wouldn't be surprised if they rearranged episodes so that they could have another week or two to finish/touch things up before it aired.

#wwdits #what we do in the shadows #nandor the relentless #marwa #ada speaks

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buckevantommy · 11 months

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Sorry do you hate marvel or not? You reblogged a gif set from moon knight, that straight up nonsense show, saying they should give a show to one of the supporting characters? You know if you hate marvel media you can just not watch it right

marvel needs to die a fiery death.

i love stucky but the studio either queerbaited or was clueless or queerphobic plus steve's endgame made no sense. i love rdj's tony stark but he deserved better. they sexualised natasha to the nth degree rather than let scarjo work her drama muscles then killed her off rather than let her retire. moon knight was a mess but it was heartwrenching and different and oscar isaac deserves an award for that portrayal and i have a crush on layla and think may would crush a solo show - an egyptian superhero! (sidenote: i watched hawkeye recently and hated it but the deaf woc who got a redemption arc is getting her own show which is great).

i can care about characters and still hate their treatment - I'm an spn fan, it's second nature for me.

one of the many problems with the mcu is they're churning out multiple shows and movies per year which means they're not giving time to flesh out characters and plots like they deserve to be but it ALSO means a lot of eyes are on them bc when you crank out that much content in this day and age you HAVE to give diverse representation so we're seeing more and more poc characters in shows and on the big screen thanks to the mcu - eternals, shang-chi, moon knight, ms marvel, echo, blue beetle - and yes the mcu's diverse rep is problematic bc they care more about flash than substance and more about algorithms than grounded characterisations but you can't deny that the mcu has helped bring diverse casting into mainstream media. the worst company you know did a good thing, or however the saying goes. think back to the first avenger movies and how whitebred supermodel cishet they were. but thanks to societal influence and the changing of times, it became a necessity to have more poc characters in the mcu. the audience expected it.

however when it comes to queer rep, we've seen a lot more racially and bodily diverse casting and poc characters than we have queer characters. the first onscreen gay kiss took 26 movies and happened in Eternals, and other queer characters have been blink and you'll miss it moments or throwaway lines many viewers don't realise signified queer characters and instead misinterpreted those comments as humour or commentary. we've had a few queer side characters (negasonic x yukio, ayo x aneka, valkyrie, korg) but we're to yet to see a main queer character - and regardless of intention or comic book canon, throwaway lines, possible flirting, and jokes do not qualify as queer rep imho. so loki, deadpool, and tony stark don't count. it has to be explicit and undeniable, not catered to queerphobes so they can easily misinterpret.

but my point is: the mcu is a powerhouse that's been dominating the superhero genre and blockbuster charts for two decades, and from their success they've bet big in planning and putting into production dozens of shows and movies set to be released over the next decade. and that is a terrifying thought. they can't predict the future but they're trying to create content to fit a world that hasn't come into being yet. they're already behind the times on queer rep so i dont have high hopes for whatever they have coming queer-rep wise. but aside from that, their storytelling has become trite and so convoluted that they trade sense for the surprise factor. they're writing characters and plots to fit algorithm parameters like someone trying to say every buzzword in their work presentation. just look at Quantumania: a mess from start to finish in plot, dialogue, characterisations, not to mention stilted acting from a cast forced to act the majority of the film on greenscreen with no physical interactions to ground their performances.

i could go on and on but this post would get long and i'm no expert I'm just your average viewer and tumblr user looking for plots that make sense in stories i want to enjoy because i care about (or want to care about) the characters. if only the mcu cared as much about their characters as they do about big budget seizure inducing interdimensional battle scenes. as for genuine queer rep: maybe in 3 years we'll see a pair of same-sex lips gentle colliding like two pale coconuts. or maybe the mcu will crash and burn (or fizzle out) long before then.

i wanna be done with their stranglehold on the genre since they can't even produce decent shit these days. i want all the strikes going on atm to see creative teams get what they're owed. i want the next dozen mcu productions to flop so they realise they're not hot shit anymore. i want the streamer service upheaval to screw over their longterm plans. i want viewers and bloggers and journalists to call them out for being like the very villains they set up for their heroes to defeat - villains who want to control the cinematic universe, kill off competition, and screw over anyone they consider beneath them.

so yes, i hate the mcu. but there are characters i care about, and plots i wish were done better. but that's why fanfiction exists.

#anti marvel #anti mcu #.txt #diverse characters #queer characters #representation matters #lgbtqia

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justahumblememefarmer · 1 year

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Teen Wolf The Movie thoughts

The timeline is WACK. The show ran from 2011-2017. It took 6 years of real world time for 3 years in the show to pass. So in the show it either went from 2011-2014 or 2014-2017. This is set 15 years after Alison's death, which at the earliest is like... 2012, which would make this set in 2027.

Derek has a son. The mother is never mentioned, however the son is explicitly stated to be 15 years old, which means that he was born shortly before or after Allison's death, while Derek was still fully apart of the show. So either he had a baby with Jennifer Blake completely off-screen, or with some rando woman. And then either he didn't know, and just... randomly got full custody later in his life, or knew and never mentioned it.

They picked up dirt from where Alison died, but... didn't she die right outside of Eichen House or something? I thought maybe it was the ruined site based off the gate that was there. I forget what happened to Eichen House at the end of the show. But then at the end, I guess Eichen is still in operation?

The cursing was wild. It was like everybody got a free F bomb.

The nudity was even more insane. My friend and I were SCREAMING when Malia randomly jumped Parrish and they both stripped. Such an insane couple. He should stop going after girls he met when they were in high school and he was an adult.

Why was Liam in Japan? Never explained. Why was he in charge of the Nogitsune? Why was he friends with a random Kitsune?

Why the FUCK wasn't Kira there? Instead they just introduced Not Kira Hikari and she served exactly the same role. It's like they wrote the script with Kira in mind and then when Arden Cho didn't come back they just find & replaced her name with Hikari

How did she telepathically transfer her fox spirit to Scott. I noticed when they made random eye contact, but that was an out of the blue thing

I SCREAMED when the Science teacher came out of the blue. My friend didn't even remember who he was. We were theorizing either Gerard or Kate. His... motivations were a little unclear, and of all the flashbacks I kind of wished they had done one to explain who he was. I remembered he was the asshole science teacher, but that's it

Jackson was... useless. He almost always asked stupid questions that didn't really move stuff along. He's missed so much of the show that he was out of the loop on everything. The only useful things he did was stab the teacher

The special effects were... noticeably not that great at some points. The fire effects. The CGI cliff top. The greenscreen replacing the lacrosse field with the Nogitsune realm

They had several humans there who could break a mountain ash line. Alison. Melissa. Argent.

The lacrosse field was crazy. How the hell did they get 10,000 people watching a lacrosse game?

Most of the characters did not have much to do in the movie. It was like, they had everybody back, but it was too many people to give them all a plotline, so they just needed to make sure some of them were tied up for most of it. Liam didn't even join the final werewolf fight alongside Derek, Scott, and Eli

THE STEREK METAPHOR. I've never been a big Sterek shipper and I wasn't in the fandom at the time of "We're on a ship", but come on. Derek keeping Stiles old jeep to fix up and his son constantly stealing it and being obsessed with it, and then after Derek's death, Stilinski giving the car to Eli and saying that Derek "always had mixed feelings about the car, but it meant a lot to him". Like, what the fuck? That's such shipping language.

The ending definitely made it seem like they were leaving it open to another movie/show. Which makes my confusion that Wolf Pack is not a sequel series starring Eli even more bizarre

So that was all of the stuff I hated. I did enjoy a few things

I thought the fight scenes were really well choreographed

I wasn't sure how they were going to bring Allison back, but I thought that it made sense, and she had a decent storyline

I hate Parrish, but I did like seeing his butt

The Nogitsune was a good villain to bring back. Season 3 had arguably the best plotline. It does suck that the two characters most important to the Nogitsune storyline (Kira and Stiles) weren't there though

#teen wolf #teen wolf the movie #teen wolf spoilers

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morganski-19 · 6 months

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15 people 15 questions

Tagged by @mentallyundone, thank you

Are you named after anyone

No, I am not. My name is one that was inspired by a fictional character and is derived off of it, but it was also just a name that both my parents loved.

2. When was the last time you cried?

Honestly, no clue. I want to say a few weeks ago, but not in a while.

3. Do you have kids?

No, I do not. I am in no place in my life where I want kids, and honestly, I don't even know if I do. I'm still young, 21, and that could change as I grow and the world changes around me. But I can honestly say that the idea of starting a family in a world that might not accept them given who they are is the most terrifying thing. I already have to deal with it, I would never want my kids to as well.

4. What sports do you/have you play/played?

I am not sporty in the slightest. But as a kid, I did play soccer and softball. I quickly realized that wasn't me and most of my afterschool activities were theater or music based groups.

5. Do you use sarcasm?

So much so that I'll try to do it in a text and hope my friends know I'm being sarcastic. Sometimes they do, sometimes I have to clarify myself. It's so bad that when I moved to college, my grandfather joked that he missed hearing my sarcastic remarks at family dinner.

6. What's the first thing you notice about people?

That's hard because there are so many situations of how I can meet people. But, how they treat people, how they treat me, they're vibes. As far as physical traits, the eyes because I suck at eye contact so I purposefully hold it for too long.

7. What's your eye color?

Blue, like very blue. Sometimes people try to trick me and say that there's some green in there, but I've looked, it's just blue.

8. Scary movies or happy endings?

Happy endings. I can't stand horror movies, which is odd considering I'm a forensics major. The main difference for me is that I can see the aftermath knowing that the person involved is now either at peace or getting the help that they need, but I can never sit through watching someone go through pain. Psychological or physical.

9. Any talents.

I like to think that I can sing very well. I was in theater for many years and learned how to sing in that way, and many people have told me that I have a nice voice.

10. Where were you born?

Eastern Pennsylvania.

11. What are your hobbies?

Reading, writing, crocheting, knitting, and cross-stitching. I often joke that I hit my grandma phase before my adult phase. Also, I like knitting more than crocheting, it's better on my hands and I like the way the clothes look more.

12. Do you have any pets?

I do. I have a calico cat back home who is grateful whenever I leave for school so she gets to sleep in my bed. I sweat she gives me the stink eye whenever I come home.

13. How tall are you?

5'3". Everyone in my family is taller than me so I am the butt of many short jokes. But then I take advantage of them because I'm short and can't reach things. So a win is a win.

14. Favorite subject in school?

Any of my forensics classes. The teacher is so chill and the processes of finding and analyzing is fascinating. He also hates crime tv shows because of how wrong they are, which is funny when he gets on rants about it.

15. Dream job?

I would love to be a forensic investigator one day. Preferably in a larger city since the work would be more consistent, but anywhere really. I want to be on the field and collect the evidence. Sitting in a lab all day is not my thing.

No pressure tags: @ihavekidneys, @stoopidstrwbrry, @ellietheasexylibrarian, @berenwrites, @corrodedcoffin89, @carlprocastinator1000, @rpa-books, @olicreates, @slowandsteddie, @stevesbipanic, @ymdslf, @princessstevemunson, @alwaysfangirly, @metalfreaks86, @owlhowl-greenscreen

#tag game #15 people 15 questions

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go-to-the-mirror · 1 year

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howdy, howdy, howdy @a-mag-a-day and co. it's 148 time! That's lovely! :3

also uhm. 7de Laan (South African soap opera) spoilers ahead? apparently?

look idk what to do for a funny intro today

JONATHAN SIMS Rusty Quill presents: The Magnus Archives. Episode one hundred and forty-eight. Extended Surveillance.

For some reason, my brain immediatly went "the French magnus archives" and it would be like uh... cent et quarante-huit (?). I don't know why I wanted to translate it? Also, the most French I've done was like... grade 9 Canadian French which I've promptly forgotten. I don't know why I thought this.

Le Magnus (in a french accent) Archives? Look, I speak Afrikaans, but as someone who's learned it from 7de Laan and yk, just being in a family with one Afrkaaner who sometimes uses Afrikaans slang and words and cannot spell apple, so a lot of the Afrikaans I speak is just english words in an Afrikaans accent. I mean like that's basically what Afrikaans is so-

Y'all should watch 7de Laan, it's really fun. Idk what button they've discovered now, but I remember back when Mariaan killed... Ben I want to say, and they discovered the voice over button. And then there was the Orange is the New Black rip off season, and then I remember when they discovered the really bad greenscreen button and things started happening outside and it looked awful.

No one watches soap operas for the height of cinematography.

ELIAS Good evening, Detec— [Basira punches Elias.] BASIRA Useless, scheming piece of shit. ELIAS Detective, this is quite unnecess— [Basira continues to hurt Elias.] BASIRA I’m sorry, was that unnecessary? [Basira hits Elias once more.] BASIRA (Cont.) Because this is the most helpful you’ve been so far, unless you’ve got another crisis for me?

tbh absolutely deserved. god i love the scenes where elias has an awful time <3 it needs to happen more often.

BASIRA You always call me Detective. Is that supposed to mean something? ELIAS Honestly? I just like the way it sounds.

WHY IS HE LIKABLE? WHY IS THIS FUNNY TO ME? I JUST DONT LIKE BASIRA OR ELIAS AND THEY'RE JUST GIVING EACH OTHER MUTUAL TERRIBLE TIMES

ELIAS Will you? You’re not police anymore. You’ve done them some favours, but they’ve done you some as well, and I think you’ll find that the information that I’ve been giving to them has been far more consistently useful. You want to issue them an ultimatum? Go right ahead. I’m just not sure it’ll go quite how you hope. … And, um, no more violence, Detective, or I may have to call in the guards.

God, I hate how he turns it around, just manages to scrape himself an edge, prick. Like even in episode 200 (my beloved) he tries to get Jon to back down. It doesn't work, of course, but like, there was an attempt, there's always an attempt, I hate how he takes things in stride and always manages to come out on top, I hate that so much. Really hateable villain, he deserves to be drowned in a bucket /ref.

ARCHIVIST Can’t believe you’ve been seeing him all this time. BASIRA Oh yeah, that’s the terrible secret sabotaging the trust between us.

Ok, like, to be fair, talking with Elias did help end the world so...

BASIRA Yeah. John, we’ve been over this. The key is to not force people to feed you their trauma. You know, just don’t do it. ARCHIVIST It’s not that simple. BASIRA No, it is. Or I put you down.

Oh!

Look I was trying to find my original reaction to this, but I didn't talk about it to my partner (ily) or on my story (I believe the next one we're really digging into there is 154, because I was in fucking shambles), but I mean, I don't know exactly what I was feeling but it was probably like... shit.

Shit.

Like, I get Basira's perspective, right, but also you can't just. That's hardly proportionate and yet... isn't it? Gertrude would have done it, Adelard Dekkar would have done it, and when they do that sort of thing to monsters we hardly bat an eye, but... well, it's different, right, we know Jon.

It's like that post, about how the "monsters" were treated differently across the seasons, in season 1, Jane Prentiss is the entity formerly known as Jane Prentiss, in season 2... can't really remember, I mean they were seen as more... sentient, but still evil to their very nature. In season 3 we get a separation, Jon isn't like the other monsters, Mike Crew and Jude Perry were bad people, even though they were people. And then in season 4... well, come Scrutiny, we've realized that oh fuck, there is no separation, and we can view all the monsters as irredeemable and bad but... Jon's not irredeemable, he tries. So, what about all those other monsters. And in 152 we get it, how different is Jon from Jane Prentiss? Not really different at all. The season 5 comes along and none of the characters we're following are on the watched/human/victim side of the line, and the line wasn't really real back then.

Podded cast <3

ARCHIVIST (Mutters) I mean, that’s hardly… BASIRA Daisy’s been managing. ARCHIVIST Daisy is… Yeah, she’s managing.

Wow, why's Daisy managing better than Jon, it's not like she has the support of Basira, Jon, and presumably Daisy to help her, no it's just that she's fundamentally better /s.

Like, you can't expect someone to change for the better if you're only getting angry at them, if you treat someone like a monster, like they're going to fuck up all the time, then they're going to fuck up all the time.

ARCHIVIST Haven’t really been trying. Doing that sort of thing consciously … makes me hungry. BASIRA Oh, well then, find a statement to your tastes and read it. ARCHIVIST Yes, yes, I know. Thank you.

I had a little conversation with Japleeejay a while back so I'm just gonna put that here, inc his reactions in brackets because they're funny.

Also, I'm thinking about jon tma (🤯) And yk about my interpretation of his character which is the only correct one /hj (💙) And about how it's like his self esteem is shit, but that's when he's alone right? He's going to stand up for himself when other people are talking shit about him, but he's also going to internalize it and ruminate on it when he's alone? (‼️) Like uhh. He's obviously really guilty about what he's doing to his victims, but when they confront him about it, and in MAG 141 and MAG 148, he's defensive about it It's like it's not a binary thing right And if I may just like bring myself into it for a second because half of my jon thoughts are actual analysis and the other half is projection But like uhh the whole thing i had going on with the adhd, like I was fiercely proud of being adhd, and like i'd get angry at people for being ableist and stuff, but i also sort of... believed them? it's like, you can have contradictory feelings and emotions (‼️) And it's like it's different if you're saying it to yourself and someone [is] saying it to you? Like at least my immediate reaction to someone getting angry at me whether justified or not is to get angry back, and then yk i calm down and either don't think they're right or do, right? And it's like, Jon gets angry when people get angry at him, he gets defensive, and then he dwells on it a lot, right? Basicallly Um - Fanfic authors are doing it wrong i'm the only one doing it right - he's not. he's not like. yeah sometimes sure he's like that. he'll take it lying down sometimes - ^ especially when helen's saying something to him because she knows how to get under their skin - but like it's not a constant thing - hhhh idk how to describe it (💙)

(27 January, 2023)

ARCHIVIST I've been meaning to ask. The tape, the one of the, uh… my victim. You said Martin gave it to you? BASIRA Yeah. ARCHIVIST How was he? H-how did he look? Was he, uh…? BASIRA I don’t know. I didn’t see him. He just left it on my desk with a note. ARCHIVIST Oh, right. BASIRA Yeah. ARCHIVIST Can I ask what it said? BASIRA Um, yeah. It said, “Talk to him.” (The Archivist laughs bitterly.)

GOD THE PINING JUST GOUGE YOUR EYES OUT AND MAKE OUT FOR CHRISTS SAKE HHHH

I can't take this, I can't take 12 more episodes of this I can't.

Statement of Sunil Maraj, regarding their work as a security guard and the disappearance of their co-worker Samson Stiller.

OH YAY! They use he/they, that's lovely! I think I may have pointed this out a while back.

Someone had even put their name in the front, like they were afraid people were going to steal their manky instruction book.

Oh No

tbh i dont think i really paid attention much on my first listen but just like-

Oh No. it's a leitner.

Cos I saw some of the pages over his shoulder, and on one of them, there was … There was a picture of me, like a black and white photo of my face.

OH SPOOKY!

It was one of the old CRT sets, big and bulky, and the picture on it was never that clear, but for a moment, it looked like it was me on there, staring right back at myself as the screens slowly went black, getting closer and closer. The face on the monitor looked absolutely terrified, and I was starting to feel it myself. So, I just tried to smile, told him not to worry about it, and I headed out as quick as I could. My legs were shaking so hard I almost fell on the way out.

Don't know what to say just... spooky.

One time, when no-one in the store was looking, I threw a can of deodorant at one of them, hit it square on. Samson wore sunglasses for the next two days, and when I caught a glimpse of him without them, there was a crack, right down the centre of his eye.

Ohhh that's such a cool image also so spooky!!

I wanted to know why Samson hadn’t signed out of the building before he disappeared, why no matter who tried to reset the system, it always logged back in as him. Or why, whenever I was watching the monitors alone, I’d see him on that old CRT screen, staring right back at me, quietly calling for me to join him.

OH WOW THAT'S-

wow

Does reading a statement of the Ceaseless Watcher count as a sort of auto-cannibalism, I wonder?

He's started calling in the Ceaseless Watcher, not The Eye anymore.

Hmm. Feels more... reverential? In a way? I dunno. Need to compile a list of what people call the fears. I know Jon used to call it The Eye or The Beholding, I thought he switched to calling it the Ceaseless Watcher in season 4, but apparently not.

I honestly don’t care if Mr Maraj was chased down and consumed by his voyeuristic former friend, or if he has forgotten the whole affair, living in blissful ignorance. I just find my mind already wandering to the next statement, and the hopes that it won’t be quite as stale.

Is that a turning point? It feels like a turning point, but then again it just feels like he's already crossed that line, and there was no turning point, just an unstoppable march forwards.

Hm.

#I FUCKING FORGOT TO TAG ANYTHING-#tma #mag 148 #a mag a day #landscaping your mind chapter one

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jellyaibo · 1 year

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ok so disclaimer: i literally started writing this almost immediately after i woke up so there will be a bunch of typos which i dont bother fixing cuz im still very tired

had a dream where tpot 3 came out and i think it was 2 hours long and it was this HUGE bfdi finale video that had ALL the bfb characters (except…the tpot guys???? excluding 2 they were here at some point i think) i remember not watching the whole thing cuz it was fucking late at night so i skipped to near the end but right before i did there was this ?? intro to the episode where its just cary in front of a greenscreen thianking everyone who watched battle for dream island and when he said this an image was shown on screen that looked like the "I HATE CHOCOLATE" lady from asoingbob. anyways before ihe could continue i skipped REALLY far in the video where 4 and x have everyone gathered by a stage

(drew this on my phone sorry it looks like dogshit i didnt feel like redrawing it SKDJHFSDJF)

he was gonna reveal…something?? but before that he started doing this REALLY sarcastic and 4th wall breaking speech that basically made fun of the osc and people that didn't like post split??? it was so fuckunf weird it felt like cary/michael/whoever wrote this was having a breakdown while writing yhat. but thankfully it was just a joke thing and all the contestants hated him for that because i think at some point during the speech 4 started making fun of them too??? i swear they described everyone as "marketable disney stereotypes" and went off abt each one like. ok

while listing off each contestants flaws on stage, loser suddenly TRIES TO interrupt 4 multiple times but it doesn't rlly work out (plus her voice is different?? kinda… i described it as "more manly and…hunk-y sounding" so take that wgat you will)

anyways loser was fed up w this and stands up to 4 and getd all of the other contestants to GET THEIR FUVKING ASS so all the contestants get up onto the stage and start destroying the thing that was under that tarp (it was some kind of bad machine thing?) and the whole time this was happening 4 was just going "ohhhh oh nooo" in the most deadpan monotone voice possible. and ooohh this descrution scene ends with loser flinging himself AND CAKE up into the air like this was some anime shit and she slammed into the machine with one fist while holding cake in the other arm. this made me fucking get out of my bed and start punching shit (very positive) oh my god i was freaking the fuck out here

i remember i coudlnt stop replaying that scene NOT ONLY CUZ IT WAS THE FIRST LOSER & CAKE INTERACTION IN . A FUCKING WHILE but i also wanted to take a screenshot of cake's face cuz he had the funniest expression (too lazy to draw it but he was blushing SO MUCH and also screaming cuz he was falling w loser) BUT I COULDNT TAKE A GOOD FUCKING SCREENSHOT SO. MOST OF THE REST OF THIS DREAM WAS ME ANXIOUSLY TRYING TO GET A SCREENSHOT OF THIS FUCKING THIGN. oh yeah also cake's design was slightly different, he just had a white (or light yellow) center rather than a darker brown one.

then after i THINK i managed to grab a screenshot i went on a rant w lan abot how forced??? loser's little arc felt cuz there was no buildup ig and i just ended up complaining abt post splt and how bad jnjs writing was

THE END thats all i remember, i woke up drenched in fcking sweat at 2 am cuz of this (/hj itsalso just really hot in my room)

#i might draw some stuff based on this dream but no promises i feel very dented #also its currently 3 am i havent been able to fall bac asleep after this HELP #nate dreamposting

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deanpinterester · 2 years

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i hate the mcu’s mistreatment of vfx artists as much as the next person but i feel like yall are always choosing the worst examples to prove your points. it’s not uncommon to use cgi to fill in parts of a costume / prop that is reflective so that they don’t have to worry about removing the reflections of the camera and crew etc in post. the famous shot of nick fury in far from home being “unnecessarily greenscreened” is always missing the context that samuel l jackson could not be on set and so that scene had to be shot remotely (which could also explain why he had a cgi gun). xxx cgi and yyy greenscreen always seems unnecessary to the regular moviegoer because most of us don’t know what goes on behind the scenes, and what might prompt the filmmakers to do what they do.

basically what i’m saying is the mcu / disney isn’t evil because they use cgi and greenscreen too much. big movies and shows always use more vfx that you would imagine, and we just never notice it or even know about it. and yes we can continue the discussion of the REASON big movies prefer to use vfx over actual costuming / props / set, whether it be to save time / money or because vfx is much easier to exploit due to it being a largely un-unionized career, but that isn’t something specific to the mcu. that’s an industry-wide problem. to me these posts always read like thinly-veiled moral justifications for yall’s dislike for anything non-practical. like some bizarre two-birds-with-one-stone scenario where you talk down on visual effects if it meant you could also talk shit about marvel

HOWEVER!!! what DOES make the mcu / disney evil is they fact they don’t (and probably don’t care to) properly allocate time and resources for the vfx artists to meet their vfx demands! it’s absolutely possible to make a big spectacle vfx fest without going mad into overtime and crunch hours (see: Sonic movie redesign phase and Everything Everywhere All At Once and their less-than-ten-people vfx crew) but big boss disney just does not care!! they are hoity toity control freaks who prefer cgi over practical because it allows them to make any change they want at any time! (see: the cgi endgame time suits.) they are evil because they will repeatedly send back the same vfx shots for revisions, not because there’s anything wrong with it, but just because they wanted to ~see every iteration~ because ~it looks good but how about we try something completely different :)))~and it eats and eats away at the vfx artists’ time, who still have to finish the rest of their shots, who will stay at the office until 2AM just to meet their deadlines. THAT’S what makes them evil.

(also to note: this post is specifically pertaining to the vfx aspect. there are plentyyy of other reasons the mcu is killing creativity)

#uhhhh me

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very-grownup · 1 year

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Book 29, 2023

As an old person on the internet, I'm always prepared to talk about how things were Back in the Day. For example, once upon a time if you wanted to communicate with an audience, you used paragraphs with words and maybe some pictures, instead of podcasts or long videos of a presentable nerd talking in front of a greenscreen. A lot of things killed that, but some people know what they're good at, and in 2020 shortly before the pandemic hit, Old Internet Legend Seanbaby and recently unemployed Cracked.com editor Robert Brockway launched a site for longform comedy writing supported by patreon, 1900HOTDOG. While it's great to see writers still forcing a place for themselves on the internet into existence, one of the best things is that it's introduced me to writers who aren't Old Internet.

One of those writers is Dennard Dayle. You can't read the article that made me fall in love with Dennard's writing, about the H.P. Lovecraft noir mess "The Horror at Redhook", for free, but you may also enjoy his article on this tabletop system by a metal band murder Nazi or Mark Miller's astonishingly bad Batman parody thing, Nemesis. I liked Dennard's writing so much that I bought his debut collection of short fiction "Everything Abridged".

Primarily satire with a futurist slant, the stories are integrated into a shitposter's answer to Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary", short definitions of words infused with humour high and low, easy and sly, flippant and furious. They're a nice way of giving you a feel for the author's voice and areas of interest. But the meat is obviously in the stories.

I feel like a lot of modern attempts at satire get muddled in parody, while those leaning into futurism and cyberpunk lean so far into the subject that the contemporary criticism gets lost or easily overlooked. Dayle infuses most of the stories in the collection with protagonists who have real, relatable sadness or ennui or frustration on a scale much smaller than surveillance states or space nuclear arms races that keep you from being distracted by 'whoa cool laser'. Space colonization: rad. Less rad: gentrification and segregation but on a galactic scale. Bionic body parts: rad. Less rad: your cool bionic eye enabling you to work really efficiently at your government censorship desk job that you hate. It's a good mix of things and it's just great to see new authors finding ways to get short fiction on bookshelves.

But my favourite story isn't any of that, it's just two pages and called "Kidney Beans". It's a recipe the protagonist's mother used to make and his attempt to make it for a family gathering. It's a little gut punch that tells me Dayle's got a lot to offer in his future work. I'm excited to see it.

#2023 books #dennard dayle #everything abridged

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hungry-hobbits · 2 years

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i know someone said it but i hate the brain rotted marvel fans being like "i only like big movies ive never seen the godfather" like u realize different times had big movies right like marvel is gonna just be the 2020s big thing then in 20yrs people ur age are gonna be like "ugh cringe cant believe a sect of people thought this was cinema" and theyre gonna have their stupid annoying thing people think is good

like reservoir dogs is toted as a filmbro movie because its a QT pic and i avoided watching it because up until 2yrs ago i didnt like QT films beyond inglorious basterds and never gave them a shot, and it turns out its one of my favorite movies of all times because there's so much to it beyond what annoying macho dudes would have u believe.

like the godfather isnt a filmbro film its a fucking classic, ur not obligated to like things that are considered classics because some classics really suck, but others actually had a serious impact on film as a whole so like maybe dont comment on how superior you are for never seeing them when people who arent that filmbro type have watched them and extracted a great amount of meaning from them. like ur not intellectually superior for not wanting to challenge yourself with older filmography.

like i gotta be that guy and say that maybe if you exited your extremely small comfort zone now and then and looked at things that arent childrens cartoons, the latest billion dollar greenscreen project of the week, or YA novels as a 25+yr old adult you might have an actual like.......... developed sense taste for a person your age and have an opinion thats worth valuing

#it is imperative to your intellectual development that you expose yourself to things outside your comfort zone in order to experience #media you otherwise wouldnt - i'm not saying go out of your way to trigger yourself but you cant live in a sanitized bubble of content #and expect people to care about your opinions on masterful pieces of cinema because you're like but i cant ship in it - WELL THEN DONT!!#u think i watch the godfather because i want michael to slang dong fuck no i watch it for the immigrant story and the family story and the #unwanted descent and eventual acceptance of crime story like god #i cant imagine thinking ur superior for never seeing the godfather #thats the example i'm fixated on because i love that move very much but u get my point

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