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A sketch for dookerino and corgwn from my weekly sketch streams!
#furry#furry art#sketch#stream sketch#mcmuffin#mcguffin#body swap#tf#transformation#cai#cooper#ferret#bunny
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Forced, Spy Movie.
Argylle would benefit from a $150 million budget chop. Same cast, I thought they were great (Except the handsome train dude and the henchman carl(os?). I could not tell them apart.)
They're going to make like four or five more of these. Dear God, help us. This felt like forced fun. It feels like having to laugh at someone's constant unfunny jokes. I fell asleep through so much of it, but I didn't feel like I was missing out on anything or that I had missed out on something.
I should've known something was up when the trailers were all vastly different. I didn't even know about the actual tie-in book attempt until I went to the bookstore a week ago and saw it.
The whole rollout for this movie has been weird. Why does this need to be tied to books that aren't real? Why was the cat so important? I'm going to assume I slept through the reveal that the McGuffin was attached to its collar.
Why does a small, small-town bookshop have endless mint condition leather chairs? I could hardly focus on the scene because where are they getting the money for every reading event attendee to have their own leather chair?
Dua Lipa's wig! They didn't just wanna brush it?
I was hoping the cat was going to be the actual spy.
Explain the whirlybird thing and why it's supposed to be funny.
This movie and Rebel Moon have the same energy. You're telling me everything to come and not putting any energy into the thing you're actively making. These are very obvious cash grabs.
#argylle movie#bryce dallas howard#kingsman: the secret service#kingsman franchise#dua lipa#henry cavill#matthew vaughn#samuel l jackson#mcguffin#rebel moon#zack snyder#same energy#whirlybird#movie review#fat girl at the table#tie in merchandise#elly conway#agent argylle
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Who are the bad guys in Indiana Jones 5 gonna be?
1 and 3 had Nazis, 2 had an Indian warlord, 4 had Soviets, so I was convinced that 5 would be about the Viet Cong or the Cultural Revolution or Kim Il-Sung's North Korea, set somewhere in east Asia for sure, but recent developments imply it'll be set at least in part in the United States during the summer of 69. There's a chase scene through the Apollo 11 ticker tape parade in New York, and much of the cast is "German" (one Dane, one German, and one Dutchman; in Hollywood that means they're all interchangeably German)
You know what, as I was typing that I realized it'll probably be set in Apartheid South Africa. One of the actresses is Guyanese-American; there's no telling where her character is from by that fact alone, but the presence of all the Germanic actors has changed my mind. They're not German, they're actually Dutch. They're Afrikaners. Mads Mikkelsen is gonna play the owner of a blood diamond mine (just like Elon Musk's dad, no really, look it up), and he'll be searching for the Mystical Magical Unobtainable Emerald of M'Ghuffan which will grant him unlimited powers, and Indy has to return it to its people like the stones in Temple of Doom.
Conservatives will attack the movie as woke propaganda for saying racism is bad, but it'll be handled in that dumb tone deaf Disney way which is designed to appeal predominantly to white liberals and very few others. It's a schlocky popcorn movie, but everyone involved is gonna act like it has an Very Important Message™, "because really, it's about family, and that's what's so powerful about it." And Indy's goddaughter (presumably Sallah's daughter, because they're bringing him back too and it wouldn't make sense for her to be old dead Marcus Brody's) will inherit his mantle at the end, putting on his hat and embarking on her own adventures with this exact energy, but unironically:
It'll be insincere Disney pandering and conservatives will freak out even more about it. It could be done well, but it won't be. The focus groups won't let it. Kathleen Kennedy won't let it. Disney is physically incapable of letting it. Goddaughter Jones isn't gonna be a badass like Marion Ravenwood, she's gonna be a Strong Female Character™ like every Marvel heroine.
I haven't seen this movie, but I feel like I've seen it a million times.
#indiana jones 5#1969#apollo 11#mcguffin#south africa#apartheid#prediction#lucasfilm#disney#indy#steven spielberg#kathleen kennedy#it's about family#girl power#girls get it done#hashtag feminism#i hope it won't suck#but I won't be surprised when it does
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Emiya Shirou in Middle-Earth would be a fucking nightmare for everyone. The dude who can summon and copy infinite legendary and holy Mcguffins vs The Land of All Mcguffins End Up in a Poetical Fuck Up.
#heroic spirit emiya#silmarillion#emiya#fate stay night#tolkien#lotr#hobbit#Silmarils#One Ring#mcguffin#crossover#silmarillion crossover#tolkien crossover
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I think more mcguffins in narratives should be extremely mundane. Less world ending magical glow cubes more looking for a guitar strings while stranded in a far off galaxy. More trying to find the last copy of shrek in the post apocalypse. Give me a road trip movie about someone leaving their hometown to visit the bass proshop mega store pyramid.
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The mcguffin, cursed to get anyone who looks at it to obsess over it.
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"There is no retreat once the threshold has been crossed... Gifts cannot be un-given, only exchanges can be made."
I think she’ll like this one.
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A small story that I have on the backburner but really do cherish. Anytime I get pirate vibes i come to this one. It’s currently nameless, but has some Pirates of the Caribbean meets Assassins Creed: Black Flag meets DnD vibes, I think. Main characters are Rafferty and Irving (I purposely chose the strangest names I could find); Raff is a prisoner captured/saved (not sure which yet) by Capt. Irving, a young pirate with a newly-owned ship and crew making a name for himself on the wide ocean blue.
I really do need to name it, though. I’ll do it by the end of the post.
Still working of Raff’s and Irv’s relationship. Leaning towards putting them in a relationship, but not wanting to hammer home that idea for the story. No, the main plot is going to be about the conflicts they get into and the magic of the world, with their little antics being more a perk that builds character, and a relationship in the end being a type of payoff. I don’t really like McGuffin items in stories, but I figured I screw around with it here just to have fun. It’s a magical ocean pendant that Irv inherits from Capt. Red—a character seen below.
Capt. Red is an obvious nickname given to this guy: a famous pirate known for his cunning disloyalty to the monarchy and his kindness to prisoners cast astray and shipwrecked soldiers of the royal guard. He’s the adoptive father to Irving (though most people assume it’s biological) and raised Irv as his second-in-command before buying him his own ship and naming him Captain.
Okay, new name for this story, uhhhhmmmmm…
The Tide Sings. Yeah I think that’s good, at least for a placeholder. Knowing me, though, I’ll won’t rename it unless absolutely necessary, oops
#my art#old art#The Tide Sings#TTS#Rafferty#Irving#Red#Captain Red#Captain Irv#pirate#ocean#pirates#sea#mcguffin#original story
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The Golden Goose
A film noir take on the story of the goose that laid the golden eggs, in which a mob boss loses a mcguffin from which the majority of his ill-gotten gains comes. In the process of getting it back, he destroys it.
#bad idea#movie pitch#pitch and moan#aesop#aesop's fables#fable#the goose that laid the golden eggs#golden goose#maltese falcon#film noir#noir#mcguffin
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40 Nickels: A Book Review Renew
Book Review Renew at the Storytelling Blog--40 Nickels: A Carnegie Finch Mystery Fiasco. Fun romp through 1950s Toronto as Finch fulfills his PI dream investigating a weird cult.
40 Nickels: A Carnegie Finch Mystery Fiasco from Shotgun Honey, an imprint of Down-and-Out Books.
I’ve reviewed many books for this blog, some from the early days, when I had fewer readers. This year (2024), we’ll be rerunning reviews you may have missed. This review was first published on July 9, 2020.
Recently, I had the opportunity to review 40 Nickels: A Carnegie Finch Mystery Fiasco for…
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#40 Nickels#bizarro#Canada#Carnegie Finch#conman#detective#Down-and-Out Press#hobo#McGuffin#Mystery#noir#R. Daniel Lester#Shotgun Honey#Toronto#Vancouver#weird
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Sometimes, You Gotta Take A Little Risk
Today's flash fiction was inspired by an idle thought that popped in my self-talk while I was trying to decide if I should write this when I did or give up on it for the day. I apologize for absolutely nothing.
Galbret stepped up to the off-color wall panel and pressed a hand to it.
“Do you really think no one knows about this passage?”
“Yes.” Galbret tried to focus his hearing on the door, but Xendin’s pacing, heeled boots clicking on the stone floor, made it impossible to hear anything. “Just hush for a minute.”
Xendin stopped pacing and rolled their eyes at Alesi, but her back was turned as she…
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This could not be more of a McGuffin From My Book and frankly the timing of this popping up on my Twitter timeline is spooky
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Using Jewelry and Overall Personal Taste in Storytelling
In older as well as more recent media, jewelry--specifically the big glitzy stuff made for showing off or emergency funds or both--is often used as a McGuffin. This is a valid use of rocks of obnoxious proportions and is a time-honored way to ease into a high-stakes story. The dinner plate diamond, the suite of emeralds, the sapphire, the star ruby or what have you: We are fascinated by these things because we are fascinated by stories about big shiny things often owned and traded by swiney rich people, or stolen by people who would like to be swiney rich. Most of us would agree that the ethics behind all of this is debatable. (See also: Displays of wealth for their own sake.)
As a storyteller, while I enjoy and sometimes make use of the honking rock as McGuffin, what interests me if and when jewelry is involved is whether or not there's a story behind it. It's an easy visual shorthand for something about the character, if you will. That small personal piece worn night and day is my favorite kind to incorporate into a character description. Her father's watch, the necklace left by a grandmother or other elderly relative, a ring of sentimental value that was a gift from a friend. I like the layers of history that that adds. (Any given piece can also become another character in the story.) It's something to consider.
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the most special swamp hero and their sickest rustiest sword son, for @hodiedodie 🥺
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McGuffins
McGuffins can be a person, can be a artefact, can be a place, can be something intangible...
Objects
Conduit
Guardian
Location
Magical Eye
Cold Iron
Crystal Prison
Cards of Power
Voodoo Doll
Flaming Sword
Unholy Holy Sword
Inspiration
Apple of Discord
Artifact of Doom/Death
Artifact of Attraction
Artifact of Hope
Fatal MacGuffin
Artifact Domination
Animating Artifact
Amulet of Dependency
Egg MacGuffin
Dangerous Forbidden Weapon
Green Rocks: An object, piece of technology, or substance with effects that are seemingly random and varied, but always do something to move the plot along.
Magic Feather: A supposedly magic item that ends up being a placebo.
Origin
Gift/Prize
Is/Turns Setient/Turned Human
Copy/Fake
Source/Origin
An Anchor
Inheritance
Prototype
Super-Person
Living MacGuffin
Sentient Phlebotinum
Mundane Person
Made/Born out of an Person/Being
Born from an Sacrifice
Part of Someone (Soul maybe?)
Made/Created/Born out of another McGuffin
Vessel of a Soul? Connection to a Sealed Begin? (like Horcrux or the One Ring)
A Person being the Key to something valuable
Ability
Power Nullifier
Summoning Artifact
Morph Weapon
Unbreakable Weapons
Transformation Trinket
Bag of Holding
Immortal Breaker
Empowering McGuffin
Corrupted McGuffin
Clingy MacGuffin
Cursed Item
Hypno Trinket
Blood-Locked Artefact
Instant Allegiance Artifact
Loyal Phlebotinum
Clothes Make the Maniac/Clothes Make the Superman
Portable Hole/Portal Book/Portal Picture
Synchronize/Connect with a Artefact (Place? Person? Life Force?)
Trojan Horse (or at least use you to take a object of sorts to a place/out of a place/with you. Like a transport mule?)
Changes with the Owner Container (prision? seal? puppet? weapon feeding off a person life force?)
Plot
Deadly McGuffin Removal
MacGuffin Melee
Fakin' MacGuffin
Escort Mission
I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin
Stolen MacGuffin Reveal
MacGuffin-Person Reveal
Dismantled McGuffin
In Pieces/Broken/Fragment
Put the Parts Together
Take it off/Put it on/Fuse/Split
Accidentally Broke the MacGuffin
Possessed/Controled McGuffin
McGuffin Substitute/Take the McGuffin's place
Two Halves Make a Plot
Gotta Catch Them All
Gotta Rescue Them All
Gotta Kill Them All
MacGuffin Delivery Service
Refusal to Share with Others
Test to see if you are Worthy the McGuffin
Having an object stuck on you (an shard?)
Only the Chosen May Wield/Only the Worthy May Pass
Bring Dangerous McGuffin to an Place
It May Help You on Your Quest
#McGuffin#objects#macguffin#artefacts#magical artefacts#ancient artefacts#tropes#archeology#miraculous#Hoard#its special or common object?
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I’m really disappointed that we didn’t get any emotional beats this episode.
Hunter struggling with the fact that Omega is grown enough to make her own decisions about her life? That’s clearly an arc for him. How does this manifest? Is he angry? Is he devastated? Show me!
Crosshair feeling terrified and uncertain that, without Omega there—based on a plan that he co-signed and that he then fucked up—his brothers won’t trust him again and that his place is uncertain and that maybe he isn’t redeemable? Show me!
Wrecker trying to patch the hole in his own heart that his family is separated again while Hunter and Crosshair are probably withdrawn and sniping at each other and he has to be the glue that keeps his team moving forward again? S H O W M E E E E !
#the stakes are there! why are they not being capitalized on in lieu of a mcguffin episode??#sw the bad batch#the bad batch#the bad batch spoilers#crosshair#tbb crosshair#hunter#tbb hunter#hunter the bad batch#crosshair the bad batch#wrecker#tbb wrecker#wrecker the bad batch#tbb omega#omega#omega the bad batch
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