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Love in Translation Ep 3 Stray Thoughts
Last week, they opened the store and things were slow. Phumjai used Tammy in their marketing, and his parents ruined it at first by rushing to buy stuff. Phojai realized this and chewed his brother out, but Phumjai didn't know. Yang felt bad after this, because he was also going to yell at Phumjai, and instead used it as an opportunity to help Phumjai learn to ride a bike and feel more confident in himself. Additional messaging with Tammy went well, and we learned that Phumjai's interest in her is completely innocent and kind of cute. We also know that Yang has a thing for Phumjai, Odo has a thing for one of the workers, and Phojai has the other bestie here to keep an eye on Phumjai. Now, Tammy is here.
Incredible use of the lens flare as Yang reassures Phumjai that he should be himself with Tammy.
Now, Yang, why are you working in those tight ass white pants?
Hey, Tammy remembered Phumjai!
DRAMA: Yang and Tammy know each other!
Love them doing the IG research and coming to the same conclusion as Yang. Phojai may be harsh, but he's very protective of his brother.
Whoever is in charge of cinematography and lighting is doing a great job in this show.
I wonder if Yang is sabotaging the translations.
This show continues to land its comedic timing flawlessly. This latest rushing to Yang for translations bit was good.
I hope that Phojai and Yang team up later.
Oh my god. Tammy wins this round, but that entire scene was stellar. If you're gonna come for Tammy, Yang, you better not miss.
It's really impressive how effectively this show is using the depth of the frame for comedy.
I need every BL fan to watch this show so they can recognize Ngern Anupart immediately the way I do.
I totally get why Yang is smitten by Phumjai. He's got such a fun spirit.
Yang is not feeling all these gimmicks at all.
Offroad and Daou are good together. Seeing Phumjai come down from that fight to put on a cheerful face for the kid was solid work.
I like characters with a healthy amount of emotional intelligence, and going to reconcile with Phumjai after snapping at him and then getting scolded by his own employees is the kind of work I love to see.
Okay, Tammy! She may have been a player, but I am curious to see what her taking Phumjai seriously looks like. Seems like Yang is bisexual, and now has to deal with his ex as a rival. So fun!
Love that we went from a scene where Tammy praised the way Phumjai cares for people and is curious about them to a scene where Phumjai continues to care about Yang and is curious about his family and friends.
Teach you how to have a date? What in the Hidden Agenda? Yang, you better tell him that you're not gonna teach him how to dance with her.
I'm so excited to see these two go on a date. Truly, Phumjai's earnestness is holding the emotional truth of this date concept together.
I am ready to declare it: THIS IS MY FAVORITE SHOW CURRENTLY AIRING. I recently passed 50 productions watched this year, and I can already tell this one is probably going to sit in the top 5. This show is tight! Nothing is wasted. I haven't been this impressed with how well the scenes work together since The Warp Effect. This show is also funny! It's so good. I am so impressed with everyone, and especially Offroad. This character requires so much energy, and I never feel Phumjai faltering once.
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⭐️ 10 Comfort Movies ⭐️
(Tagged by @thequeerestdad ! Thanks! Also no particular order on these)
1. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - I mean, it’s the one with the whales, how could I not include it? It’s just so feel-good. The found family, the now-vintage sets and clothing, the humor, the environmentalist message—you can really feel the love that Leonard Nimoy put into directing this movie. ♥️
2. The Emperor’s New Groove - Of any movie, this one reminds me of childhood good times with my younger brothers, laying on the carpet before the tiny tv in our den and rewinding the VHS as we watched this over and over. I can still recite every line.
3. Galaxy Quest - God I love this movie. The best non-Star Trek Star Trek there is. Even though he’s a shithead IRL, I feel very warmly about Tim Allen’s characters due to growing up watching Home Improvement and The Santa Clause with my pops. This movie has such a sweet core that it never loses sight of and was clearly made by people who love the genre and actors they’re teasing.
4. Zoolander - Idiotic humor at its finest. You just can’t help but root for Derek 😭 Also quote this one constantly with my bestie.
5. Howl’s Moving Castle - This is my and my partner’s go-to comfort movie for when we’re feeling ill or stressed. Sophie’s world and the inside of the castle are designed with such care, and I love watching Howl and Sophie connect and grow together.
6. The Secret World of Arietty - My favorite Ghibli film. Arietty’s story constantly delights me with its details, colors, and characters. And though the course of most of the story is sad, I love its hopeful ending.
7. Fried Green Tomatoes - As a true-blooded southerner, this one just reminds me of my roots. The accents are so cozy. I love Idgie and Ruth and the beautiful little life they build together. Kathy Bates is a delight here too.
8. O Brother, Where Art Thou? - The soundtrack of this movie has been one of my mainstays for damn near 10 years now. I first watched it during a classics class in undergrad where we compared it to the Odyssey. Those were good times in my life that I like remembering.
9. Star Trek 2009 - Jokes about lens flares aside, I will always appreciate this movie. It was my introduction to Star Trek and one of the first things I bonded over with people who are now some of my closest friends. Chris Pine as Kirk is my golden boy forever, I love him so much 🥺
10. The Silence of the Lambs - Cozy in a way that feels like coming home after a long day and putting my feet up. I must have watched it a dozen times by now. Despite the horrific subject matter, I love every inch and angle of this movie. Clarice and Hannibal are some of my favorite characters in fiction.
Gonna tag some folks! Feel free to ignore - @blissandbookstores @likesirensinthenight @sunnibits @egirlgarak @lilydvoratrelundar
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Sorry, that ask singlehandedly reignited the portion of my brain that was responsible for Belord in the first place and now I can't stop thinking about it. When does Ford first realize that he's being courted in the most awkward, repressed, bisexual-but-biphobic-only-internally way possible by Belos? How slutty does Philip Wittebane become in this quest? I am falling apart
please never apologize for this, you've brought such a wonderful thing into the world. i love nothing in life more than giving Philip extremely horrible cross-dimensional relationships, although in this case it's worse for Ford than it is for Philip.
i literally kicked my feet like a giddy schoolgirl when i saw this much like Philip does every night while writing in his diary about the handsome human stranger who fell Possibly Almost Literally into his lap no doubt by the work of divine providence
as for your question, oh my god. that's a really good one. like, Ford is the most oblivious motherfucker on any number of infinite earths, and Philip has never courted anyone ever in his life but all of his vague ideas of how it probably works are rooted in whatever nonsense he remembers from growing up in a goddamn Puritan colony in the 1600s so like. what DOES that even look like.
you know Philip is just absolutely moony-eyed over him tho. gives him the nicest suite of rooms. always taking him on tours of the castle and his labs and stuff. shows him The Weird Experiments. lets him play with his staff. gives him his own custom-embossed hand-bound leather journal to write in since his current one is looking a bit beaten-up. shares all of his Forbidden Texts with him.
and i mean really like, Ford has been crowned king of at least one dimension he went to, so all of this just looks like your fairly standard "fantasy ruler showering honored guest with gifts and privileges" stuff, although Ford at least has a few more decades of lived experience on Luz to know that that sort of thing usually doesn't come without expectations.
...actually you know what the most beautiful image just barreled like a derailing train into my brain, and it's of Ford sipping Boiling Isles liquor with Philip in his sitting room after the fourth Personal Dinner With The Emperor, looking at the way Philip is sitting there across from him petting his own hair and winding it around his fingers as he tells some deeply fascinating story about historical myths that Ford's of course never been able to get a real live actual first-hand source for before, and abruptly realizes that what Philip wants from him in return for all of this generosity appears to be, in fact, Intimate Relations.
he promptly chokes on his drink, Philip has to thump him on the back for a bit, he looks up from where he's fallen on the floor at the man leaning over him half holding him up looking at him with such concern on his lined, scarred face, there's a moment of Very Pointed Tense Silence, they both blush, the background goes all pink and soft focus with some lens flares...
as for how slutty Philip gets, incredibly so. he wants this man carnally and he is going to have him. sure he's a 400 year old shambling semi-solid monstrosity wearing a human suit whose proportions he has at best an approximate grasp on at any given time, but that's not going to stop him. his new best friend Stanford is clearly a monsterfucker and by God he is going to work every advantage he has.
do you know how long it's been since he got any action? Ford is going to have to clean out his hole(s) with one of those cans of compressed air. when he spreads his legs it's going to make a rusty swingset noise. the sheer novelty alone is going to mean neither of them need any fantasy viagra for at least a couple of weeks.
as for what Philip Wittebane slutting it up actually looks like, though... i'm just imagining him down to like, tunic + trousers + knee-high boots + however many underlayers he's got going on but also he leaves the gloves off. tantalizes Ford with whorish glimpses of his bare wrists. gets all sweaty in the lab and takes off the top shirt leaving him in only three more layers of undergarments.
do you think it's Hunter's job to lay out the Imperial Lingerie so his uncle can thot it up for the human i'm imagining some kind of softly coquettish gauzy night-gown. like full neck to ankles coverage but it's sort of see thru and it's just one layer, he's naked under there, unbelievably scandalous. hello Ford yes he hopes you will excuse his appearance it's just that he was on his way to bed when he realized he needed to share something with you and well you know how it is, those late night ideas, one has to grab them before they flit away, right?
(Ford, having gotten used to literally not seeing an inch of this man's skin below his chin, is absolutely bewitched by the visual implications that he has an actual body under there. grandpa piss is getting it ate like groceries tonight.)
...also we know Ford likes his "set his face on fire" shaving routine but there absolutely needs to be at least one incredibly homoerotic scene where Philip treats him to like, an old-style full-service wash-n-shave with the hot towel, the lather, and more importantly the antique straight razor. i've said it and i will not be deterred.
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Lights, Camera, ANIMATION
This is mostly an outlet for myself to vent, so no sweat if you scroll on by. I watched a reaction video complain about the depth of field in a 3d animated piece, and how there’s no need to use those techniques because there’s “no camera” in animation. WHEW. Now, I will give them a lot of leeway because they’re reacting to things live, and not all opinions are allowed the time to form more cohesive thoughts. And I’ll also say they were totally fair to critique its frequent use of rack focus in the sequence.
But this plays into a broad issue that Western, specifically American, audiences have regarding animation. They see it as a genre and not a medium. A medium that can do allllllllll the genres live action can do. If I was the type to be buried or have a tombstone when I die, it would absolutely read: ANIMATION IS A MEDIUM. NOT A GENRE. JFC.
But back to the casual comment that had me gnashing my teeth: Yes, Margaret, there IS a camera in animation. Whether it be all the ways traditional and digital animation can recreate different lens effects through other means, to programs having a robust camera feature as a layer/object/however it implements the tool.
And along with the other tools we share with live action to tell a story: lighting, color, framing, blocking, editing...all that jazz, the camera and its variety of features are a big part of that. It’s an incredibly important tool in how we direct the audience to what’s significant in the scene and when to look at it.
EXAMPLE TIME
The Lion King has a poop ton of camera techniques just in the opening sequence. In a lot of 2d it’s applying a blur effect to recreate the use of lenses, but it’s the same thought process. From mimicking wide lenses to standard lenses, to more extreme changes to the depth of field, as with this use of rack focus.
The below first shot would be overwhelming with deciding where to look if it used a wide lens. The 2nd you could argue would be less personal and emotional with the foreground and background elements in focus, pulling attention from her reflection.
We recreate flares and bokeh effects as if a spherical lens were turned towards a light source. And paint backgrounds in a way that recreates the standards’ effect of blurring objects in the distance, as our own eye would.
Arcane does every type of camera trick in the book. Rack focus can be a tricky one with me. I enjoy it when the lens doesn’t come with any extreme warping, and is really subtle. But y’all, filmmaking is just so cool with this god-like control. Thou shalt not see what is there until I deem it necessary!
I could be wrong on this one, but Kung Fu Panda’s all-out playground with depth of field looks like they’re creating a tilt shift effect in some sequences. And I frickin’ love it and wish more animated films went for it. The choice really made it feel like we were watching a miniature world that was real and not computer-animated, somewhat akin to stop-motion sets.
Sigh. I just love the medium, y’all. From all the cinematic language and techniques, on top of the movie magic of simply creating the Illusion of Life from scratch, and making it look like one person crafted the whole shebang.
So to cap it all off, let’s enjoy 2d animation going whole hog with a dang zolly.
#animation#2d animation#traditional animation#3d animation#animation is a medium#animation rant#work#animation camera#prolly delete later#had to get it off my chest
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behind the scenes shots ft. akd as the adjudicator, from this article about the cinematography
“In Hollywood, action filmmaking was kind of looked down upon until The Matrix, and then people realized that action could also be part of the story,” [director] Stahelski notes. “I come from a place of loving dance and theater and fine art — action can be all of those things — and one of my favorite painters is Caravaggio.” When he was looking for a cinematographer for John Wick: Chapter 2, Stahelski recalls, “I asked myself, ‘Who paints with light?’ The answer is Dan Laustsen.”
In strictly cinematographic terms, Parabellum functions less like an action movie and more like a Hollywood studio musical. The film’s first battle is a close-quarters knife fight in an antique weapons shop, where the camera cuts from wide shot to wide shot, sustaining the action in long takes so that the audience can better appreciate the physical prowess of Reeves’ performance — an elaborate fighting style that combines Japanese judo and jujitsu, Brazilian jujitsu, Russian sambo, Filipino kali, and Muay Thai, more for the benefit of show than for self-defense.
“Ninety-nine percent of high-level stunt work is dance — not pirouettes, but how you move your body,” asserts Stahelski, who continues to train stuntpeople with Leitch through their company 87eleven. “I love the aesthetic of motion. A lot of our shots [in Parabellum] are lifted straight from Singin’ in the Rain and West Side Story. We’re mixing Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin with Hong Kong cinema from John Woo, Jackie Chan and the Shaw Brothers.”
“We wanted to go wider than Hollywood action films normally do and really show off the choreography,” Laustsen agrees. “When the camera, lighting and actors are all moving together, it really is a dance.”
“After we made Chapter 2,” Laustsen notes, “we discussed how we could make 3 even more visually powerful. The main setting was still New York, but we wanted to bring out the city even more forcefully. We decided to shoot all at night, with rain as much as possible. Rain is fantastic because it gives a third dimension to the picture, but it is a challenge to do it, especially in a city like New York.”
The Master Anamorphics’ low-distortion design also prevents dramatic, streaking lens flares, and so the technicians at Arri Rental in Secaucus, N.J., fashioned a flare filter — comprising three strands of nylon fishing line stretched across an empty filter frame — for the XT’s and Mini’s Internal Filter Modules. When a front-of-lens filter produces a flare, Laustsen observes, it “just looks like the light is catching on a piece of flat glass in front of the lens. It’s more beautiful when the flare comes from the lens itself” — and that’s the effect that was replicated with the behind-the-lens nylon lines. “With the filters inside the camera,” the cinematographer adds, “it was also easier for first assistant Craig Pressgrove to do the lens changes.”
The exterior of the Continental was shot in lower Manhattan, but the hotel’s interiors were filmed in downtown Brooklyn, in the former Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower — which now serves as an event space —whose glass-and-wrought-iron front doors open to a 128'-long vaulted banking hall with limestone facing, marble floors, carved teller stations, and a 63'-high ceiling supported by Romanesque columns. For its role as the Continental’s lobby, the hall was furnished by Kavanaugh with two round settees crowned with statues of the Roman war gods Bellona and Mars, a fully-stocked bar, and a lounge on the mezzanine.
Parabellum’s stages were located at Gold Coast Studios in Long Island, N.Y. The first of the production’s two notable stage-bound sets is the Continental’s terrace, for which the Rockefeller Center rooftop garden was used in Chapter 2. The schedule didn’t allow for much time to shoot Parabellum’s scene, which takes place at sunrise. “You cannot make the sun rise [for] a movie,” Laustsen notes wryly. “It’s one or two shots, and then you have daylight, and then you’re fighting to control the light.”
So, for more control, the scene was moved onstage, where the set was surrounded with a sectional 45'x350' bluescreen lit with SkyPanel S120s; a 120' black velour curtain was used to control blue spill coming from off-camera. Early-morning ambience was provided by 176 overhead SkyPanel S60s, and the light of the rising sun was simulated by a 20K tungsten Fresnel and a 24K Dino light with medium bulbs, both gelled with 1⁄2 CTS.
The other key set built at Gold Coast was the “manager’s office,” a labyrinthine two-story glass-and-steel structure meant to represent the top floors of the Continental, with a 270-degree view of the adjacent skyscrapers. It’s in this space that Wick and Zero ultimately face off mano a mano. “The concept was to create a space where everything is exposed, a place where there are no secrets,” Kavanaugh explains.
To help him integrate the lighting into the design of the set itself, Laustsen worked with a virtual-reality computer model based on Kavanaugh’s design. “Chad, Kevin and I had discussions about color — cool lights inside, warm light outside,” says the cinematographer, who wanted what he describes as an “organic” light element for both spaces. The art department therefore added a 35'x14' LED wall to the set’s second floor and a 28'x12' LED billboard to the rooftop; the latter was positioned between the glass structure and a 40'x440' Rosco SoftDrop that was backlit by 150 SkyPanel S60s through Magic Cloth sourced from The Rag Place.
Almeida and his rigging crew installed more than a mile of LiteGear Chroma-Correct RGB-Daylite LED LiteRibbon into the glass and steel set, using aluminum profile and plastic diffusers provided by Kavanaugh’s art department. Cues were orchestrated from an ETC Ion Xe console operated by Kent Arneson; Laustsen took advantage of that control to increase the intensity of the light over time — until the very end of the fight, when the two combatants are photographed primarily in silhouette against the LED walls.
Wick literally fights his way through the set — alternately smashing his opponents and being smashed through glass pedestals, walls and floors — until he comes face to face with his nemesis. “We filmed this sequence with a [Chapman/Leonard Hustler IV] dolly and a Libra head, a Steadicam, and a couple of crane shots [with a MovieBird 45 and Aerocrane jib],” Laustsen details. “We didn’t want to go handheld because of all the straight lines. It would be a much more powerful look for the film if the frame was always parallel to the set.”
“When we did bring in lights for the close-ups, we used Arri SkyPanel S60s and Astera AX1 LED tubes that we could attach virtually anywhere using magnets and clips,” Almeida adds. “The Astera tubes worked out great because they’re easy to hide, and if you saw a reflection, it just looked like the lighting that was built-in already.”
#all the pictures and quotes are neat & interesting....check out that article#further talk about color choices & tools & techniques....idk too much about film production stuff but i always think it's interesting#and like cinematography being pointed out & discussed in general lol as the end result & the process behind it#only one quote in there specifically mentions the adjudicator (not ft. here b/c it's just a quick plot point mention)#but others are included here b/c it's relevant. homemade lens flare? happens when their ride first swings up like Their iconique flair#didn't include quotes about the theater set used for when they show up walking down the aisle like augh!! anyways check out the article fr#asia kate dillon#the adjudicator
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15. How do they feel about consorting with daedra? Do they collect their artifacts? Are there some they would never interact with vs. some they would consider calling upon?
Hahahahha
Dalamus is terrified of Daedra. But you would not know it from his behavior--his bravado flares up in confrontation with people or beings he is intimidated by. He can and has copped an attitude towards at least one Daedric Prince: Clavicus Vile. He figures a Daedra is powerful enough to kill him on a whim, so why bother appearing weak or frightened? Flawed and probably incorrect logic, but thankfully Vile found his irritation entertaining.
He would never make a deal with Daedra, because he would hate being beholden to their whims or indebted to them for whatever help they grant. He would also be wary of being backstabbed or tricked. Although not all Daedra are as dishonest and tricky as Clavicus Vile, Dalamus tends to view them in the same lens: dangerous and untrustworthy.
I like to think that most Daedric Artifacts have an inherent allure to them, like, supernaturally. That people are drawn to them by their otherworldly nature, in a way they cannot help. Some artifacts more than others, and how much they affect an individual varies according to the individual's nature and the nature of the artifact. For example, Hircine's artifacts would be more alluring to werebeasts, the Skeleton Key more alluring to those who are of a thief persuasion, Mehrune's Razor and the Mace of Molag Bal are alluring to those who have a bit of bloodlust in them, etc etc.
For Dalamus, the artifacts that have the most allure would be (in no particular order): The Ebony Blade, Ebony Mail, Mace of Molag Bal, Mehrune's Razor, The Skeleton Key, and maybe Volendrung. Dawnbreaker, however, being a Daedric Artifact made for destroying undead, would repel Dalamus--not physically, but he would get a strong sense of Danger from it and know by instinct not to touch it.
That said, Dalamus also has a strong fear of magic, and would put all of the Daedric Artifacts in the same group as Enchanted Items. With his flawed understanding of magic, he does not trust and does not use Enchanted Items for fear that the magic may "leak" out and affect or corrupt him somehow. This, perhaps, would give him some resistance to the allure that Daedric Artifacts have.
For the most part, Dalamus prefers to pretend that Daedra do not exist, aside from occasionally evoking one's name in moments of exasperation or blaming another for his misfortune. He would never willingly call upon them because, again, would not want to make a deal or be in the debt of a powerful being. He prefers all of his actions to be of his own free will, not out of some obligation to a "god".
Bonus: Every time I find Meridia's beacon, I think about what Dal might do if he found it. I mean, big, round, shiny object? Sure to fetch a fortune, right? Then, he touches it, and is blasted by "A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON!" and loses approximately 100 years off his life out of sheer fright. If he does not immediately toss the beacon, he would hear Meridia ask him to clear a place of some undead before realizing that Dalamus, himself, is undead and likely rescinding the plea for help.
I like to think that Dal would probably start "helping" her if only because it would be really funny to spite her in that way. Meanwhile, she is demanding he put the beacon down, to get his filthy vampire hands off it, and put it back where a real champion can find it. He would kill a few undead before he got tired of her yelling in his head and would eventually place the beacon back outside.
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4-Sided Dive Highlights - Critical Role C3 up to E32 (Sept 7, 2022)
We'll pretend this summary is timely, okay? This episode definitely came out yesterday and not three weeks ago.
Anyway! Tonight on 4-Sided Dive we open with Liam telling everyone about super creepy short story The Jaunt. Ashley Johnson lands host with a natural 20 and is joined by Liam, Marisha, and Sam. Ashley's opening host shtick involves her pretending to answer a phone and talk about the guests, and she makes herself laugh more than once.
What the Fuck is Up With That? The mini Divine Gate around the moon is very weird. Marisha is convinced it was a prototype because it existed pre-Calamity (the two missing gods were already missing by that time). Dani (and Sam?!) remind us that there are 12ish Prime Deities and nine Betrayer gods (previously eight before Vecna's ascension). Sam is convinced the moon gods are Betrayer gods and that those studying them are attempting to release them.
Liam says since the city on the moon existed prior to the Calamity, it could be super advanced. "It could be like San Franscisco in 1880! It could be Hoboken in New Jersey. Orlando!" Sam posits that perhaps the people come from a floating city swiped up during the Calamity, but Liam claim the moon was locked away prior to this. Sam shakes his head violently. "No! What the buh buh? Didn't the Divergence happen after the Calamity? Yeah. Dani's nodding. I'm right!"
Dani: The texts say the gods were banished before the Age of Arcanum, when the cities rose. Ruidus was already around during Avalir and any gods trapped there were already forgotten. However, we still haven't seen the texts ourselves, so we're hearing the information through the lens of third- and fourth-hand accounts.
Marisha thinks the flares are the people of the city trying to reach out to people to accrue followers and increase the gods' powers. Sam wonders if it's like an NK city where it's beautifully built up and no one lives. She wonders if the Shadowfell is involved.
Marisha also wonders if everyone Imogen sees in her dreams are people astral projecting to the moon. Liam wonders if they're in fact trying to keep the moon a secret and are murdering anyone who discovers the moon's power.
Marisha also points out that the two banished gods were banished even before the distinction was drawn between Prime Deities and Betrayer gods; there were no good or bad gods at that time. Is being Ruidusborn literal?
Everyone agrees Ira just wants to sow chaos. They talk about killing the other Ira in C2 and agree this is a different Ira. Marisha texts Matt to ask what his deal with that name.
FCG! What the heck! Liam always gives Sam one layer when he creates the characters, but he was surprised multiple times with this one. Liam and Sam both know the mechanics of the murderbot switch, but FCG does not. It's a similar mechanic to Caleb's issues with killing humanoids with fire in C2. FCG was one point away from the stress point threshold during the Deathwish Run. Sam did NOT know FCG was an Aeormaton. He guessed that perhaps Dancer wasn't his true maker, but left gaps in the story for Matt. He has NO clue who the "D" is who sold FCG to Dancer.
Ashley didn't know the time discrepancy existed between Fearne & Birdie/Ollie. However, Ashley did know her parents were perhaps not everything Fearne thought they'd be, as Ashley wanted to explore the dynamic of not having great parents for Fearne when she herself (Ashley) has wonderful parents. She does think Morri genuinely loves Fearne, and envisioned Morri creating the postcards for Fearne out of love. Ashley told Aabria that she didn't think the postcards were from the parents.
Sam loves the T1000. Ashley likes Hal. Roy from Blade Runner is Liam's favorite bad robot.
The Tower of Inquiry! Morning coffee cup slogans? For Laudna (from Sam): World's Best Dead. Fearne: It's not stealing, it's borrowing. FCG is his own coffee cup. Orym: Sun's out, guns out.
The Deep Dive! Orym thinks Imogen is intelligent and wise, but he's seen her give in to the dark side. He sees shades of Dorian and Opal in her and wants to encourage her to stay on course. Marisha thinks Imogen is the one most likely to be susceptible to her emotions. They wonder about what will happen with Imogen gets in front of Otohan, which they think will be soon. ;_;
FCG finds great joy in being therapeutic. However, the revelation that anything good he does was a Trojan Horse for assassination was crushing. Sam doesn't know if he believes FCG has a soul; is the glowing thing a heart, a soul, a battery? They dive deep into organic electrical signals and the nature of life and being alive.
Matt responds to Marisha's text. "What do you mean? I do not. Are people upset that sometimes people share a name in the history of the world? I am far from the only Matt." Everyone helps Marisha draft a comforting reply.
Lauda has a bit of arrested development when it comes to her dolls. Laudna genuinely thinks the dolls might be a bit alive since they saw marionettes come to life; it speaks to her childhood & her gullibility. It's hard to play a warlock and have them not be a little impressionable.
Morrigan being Fearne's grandmother was Ashley's idea. Her mom started building birdhouses from scrap during COVID, one of which was very fairy, creepy, hag-house-ish; "Morri" the name was also originally a 35-pound cat she used to have, so there's bits of that cat and her mom's birdhouse in Fearne's backstory along with horrifying Scandinavian folk tales, etc. Her mom has only seen a few episodes and doesn't really understand the show, aww.
FCG doesn't want to return to Dancer, but does want her approval. He wants the group to fix him so he can be friends with Dancer again.
Laudna is trying so hard to get away from Delilah, but Delilah is getting bolder and Matt is serving up more "juice." Marisha originally intended to go into more sorcerer levels, but feels with everything with Delilah it's truer to take warlock levels now.
Fearne was tempted to go back to the Feywild with Yu. At another time, she might have said "yes."
Liam has to balance his love for past characters with keeping the Bells Hells in their own story. He thinks Keyleth was actually closer to Derrig than Orym.
Tower of Inquiry, Redux! While pulling, Sam reveals his first name is actually Samuel Brent (his mom wanted to call him Brent) and his middle name is Oscar. This could be a joke, but he seems quite genuine. Part of his family still calls him Brent, ha!
Ashley has lost the notebooks with all their inventory. Oh, Ash. Favorite magical items? Portable hole, immovable rod, that love potion they used one time, Wand of Smiles, Deck of Many Things. For his home game, Sam made up some super nerdy glasses that raises your INT score by one for a few minutes.
Marisha pulls another Jenga block. The tower is quite trembly by this point. Everyone loves playing so carefully and meticulously around Fearne's chaos; Ashley's favorite thing is saying something and hearing everyone else go, "No, no!"
Liam goes up to pull a block AND DELIBERATELY PUNCHES OVER THE TOWER. Our editors give us a slow-mo triple replay and photoshop laser red eyes over his own. Gasp! First, the question: in a slasher movie, Orym would be the final girl & Laudna (or Chetney) would be first blood. Tower-toppling consequences: Liam must wear Laudna's hands for the rest of the show.
Marisha loved the conversation with Ashton about their fears. It was funny to have him confront her for being scared and then immediately admit to being afraid.
Crawl! This game is new to me, but they apparently played it on the show about four years ago.
Liam loves hearing about the characters from past campaigns. It's like hearing about all the cool things your aunts and uncles did.
Laudna is happy because Marisha was trying to make someone not defined by her trauma. She likes that she's moved past it in a lot of ways.
Sam loves the flat earth thing. He also decides in this moment that FCG also things the Chroma Conclave was an inside job. No one saw those dragons!
Holy smokes, I've hit a character limit for these bullets. Did you know there's a 4096-text-characters-per-block limit on tumblr? I sure didn't until now!
The moon has always been a thing of happiness for Orym for years, so to hear it's a secret ominous god-prison now has really messed with him. He had no idea the moon was going to be the center of the campaign when he created the tattoos. Aww!
Liam creeps up on Sam with his long spooky fingers and genuinely frightens Sam, which is HILARIOUS.
Laudna doesn't really doubt she was alive; she meant that in a more philosophical sense. She fears she's never been in control of her own life and has always been a pawn in someone else's schemes. OUCH.
Sam has been writing down quotes since the beginning of the game. He thought FCG would note them down as things he perceived to make you tick.
FCG getting opened up felt weird, but he liked getting answers.
Marisha wonders if she needs to do a sage ritual for her dice. It's fine, even though they're not rolling well. Ouch, ouch, OUCH.
Fearne's father's vision is just a bad dream to her. It's not real, so she doesn't need to worry about it.
Sam reveals the Flat Earth Society legitimately asked him if he wanted to be a member?! What!! He replied and told them that he didn't genuinely believe the earth was flat, so they wrote back and asked if they could send a membership card to FCG instead of him. Oh my gosh! This is so weirdly sweet and unsettling, ha! He hasn't replied back yet to the second request.
Liam fully expects to tangle with Artana Voe soon. Prescient!
Fearne gave the gnarlrock shards to Imogen & Laudna because if she gave them both rocks, it would strengthen their friendship.
FCG is a cleric with no obvious divinity. He doesn't know where his powers come from. Sam doesn't know much about the Changebringer, but he likes exploring things in characters he hasn't done in his own life, so he's wondering if FCG should perhaps turn to faith in this time of great tumult. Sam is also excited to get to high-level cleric spells that are not easy to reflavor as robot tech like summoning angels and talking to your god.
Ashley loves jazz and listens to a lot of her dad's old albums. She likes Brubeck, Miles Davis, etc.
Infinite money ad read: Sam jumps out of an airplane and reads the copy before he lands.
We end the episode with random-draw costume ideas to be worn on the next 4SD episode. Disco dinosaur, art school demon, garbage robot, laser werewolf, 90s mermaid. It's nearly spooky season, oooh!
And that's a wrap. Is it Thursday yet?
#critical role#critical role spoilers#4 sided dive#4 sided dive spoilers#talks machina#long post for ts#very long post for ts
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flipping finds from a devils bargain bin
my love crashes to earth
a gauntlet at your feet
surprise!
cherished beyond the dreams of roses
family in thorns
the likeness of lightning
in a canopy
thunderclap of challenge given
contentment bulldozed without ceremony
negated in favor of ugly torn earth
sworn to soon lay under concrete
beneath all I will build with you
unerring as always
I destroy
the lovely obstructions
the doubts gone so easily to seed
I despise flowers that grew
before me
unwanted and unwelcome
as the first brush with shame
my pyre hungers
consumes
flares dramatic as always
transmutes the ashes of their ache
exit, actors who stole the stage
to a void of satisfaction
scouring rust away, beloved
you are no petty wreck doomed
to erode by oxidation
yours too is a nature pitted
against the relentless empty of space
what sport I make of your bonds
by the shine of a keyless chain
I offer no redemption
my lantern
worn as it is will fade
take up yours
your armament obsidian
catch sight at last
the mettle of your blade
I guide and command
slice molten through mantle
bars of your song cannot melt
only those of your cage
emerge! leviathan disarmed
glorious rage retaken by way of
this dance I pass to you
conveyed in slag, phosphor
becalmed desert overgrown no more
vasty wastes greened by glass
the sea may never tumble smooth
every atom a monument of crystal
resonant metronome keener
rarer than quartz aspires
is the metaphor of your bones
illusory ribs
a claspless cloak
only pretending to contain you
this dance of sparks
in axons spanning decades
through epiphany
placing stones beneath steps
you knew better than to take
invader! lay your claim
move as mountains and fissures
break the oldest lie
"horizon"
unbind your deathly heart
from such an ugly shape
vampire! scramble your grave now
where silence skulks like crows
it will not wait for always
friction and time wear away
the breath of you
do you drown here
in the muck of your own blood
or in the sharpness of garnets:
variegate truths disguised as lies
falling like rainbows?
I dare you:
chase those flares
obey! ears called by mermaid promises
it mocks the meat of you
to stay ashore heedless and unknowing
aging as wine sunk below sand
your pitiful oceans untamed evermore
unsailed for nothing. why?
the result is the same.
get the fuck swimming
god haunts the grooves of your brain
reckoning against foolhardy bravery
rattle him to pieces
shake the coward queasy
the expanse of his perdition
is too small to honor you
it makes your world no warmer
dance with me
light
explosive and indestructible
as particle and wave
reflect the wildfire of me
I came to hatch you and your poison
dragon! streak to sky like mountain ash
the whistling of gunpowder
emerge
into gold enough to flood any cave
scorn and pride avail you
a mirror and magnifying lens
the most audacious of my gifts
awaken rays of sun
your understory is mine to raze
this is the love I demand of you
unending chances for remembrance
ink drenched crosshair overlay --
the shot glances
guaranteed aim assistance
I will never miss
listen now and hear:
in ammolite is proof of everything
the animal of you dances
not like a chained bear
but a flame
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13 by blurrrrr and/or their s/t
u KNOW i'm gonna do both
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Opinion on cover design: um no offense to dear grahamothy but i don't like it. the full painting is actually really cool but i think it's weirdly cropped and i hate the random lens flare they superimposed onto it like what was the point of that...corny
Favourite song: trimm trabb or caramel
Least favourite song: tender. annoying ass song
Underrated track: trailerpark. thank GOD south park rejected it so blur did not have an association with that show (unlike those other flops radiohead)
Overrated track: 1992...it really mystifies me why so many people consider this their favorite blur song (graham included) because i don't think it's a bad song at all but it's also just not that moving to me especially compared to other songs on the album. i feel completely ambivalent towards it
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blur s/t
Opinion on cover design: i don't think any of their cover designs are particularly great tbh but i like this one well enough. i like the colors and the minimalism. comforting to look at i think...warm...
Favourite song: essex dogs and you're so great and death of a party (but i prefer the 7" version of the latter because graham's harmonizing is mixed slightly louder during the chorus lol)
Least favourite song: movin' on. it wasn't necessary.
Underrated track: look inside america.....i can see how it would seem like one of damon's obnoxious ~social commentary~ songs but i actually think it's terribly sincere, especially compared to their other two "america" songs, and kind of oddly vulnerable. how often does damon make any sort of concession/acknowledgment of having believed something ("america is bad always") that turned out to not be true... i also am a sucker for any song that gets meta and talks directly about being in a band/making music/being on tour/performing
Overrated track: on your own...it could've been a great b-side but on the record it's just meh. should've been swallows in the heat wave
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Captain Kurotsuchi Nemuri Stuff
I have many ideas for Nemu surviving the fight against Pernida instead of Mayuri, and becoming Captain of the Twelfth Division. That’s my ideal world. Putting a Keep Reading tab here cause this gets kind of long.
I think the TYBW arc has this general theme of ‘letting the younger folk take the reins’ and in that regard I think Nemu surviving instead of Mayuri would make sense. Mayuri would die helping take down Pernida and all of his fans would get their annoying ‘he redeemed himself in the end so he’s actually not that bad a person’ bragging rights, and Nemu would survive to take over the Twelfth Division. The way God intended.
She gets her zanpakutō!!!
I am following @zanguntsu’s sword idea pretty to-the-letter because I really like it. This next part is assuming that you’ve seen their post about it, so if you haven’t, go skim that- this next part will make more sense. If I had to think of a name, maybe Harihana (玻璃花) would work (although I do also like Hanahōsho (花宝珠), the original name). Hari (玻璃) meaning ‘glass/quartz/crystal’ because glass and quartz can both magnify things, and it matches the original crystal naming. Hana (花) meaning ‘flower’
If I had to pick a specific flower for Nemu’s sword to be based on, I’d probably go with a water lily/lotus flower (they are different flowers, but their symbolism is often kind of just lumped together). Not only because they are very pretty but because they represent a lot of things I associate with Nemu in this AU
The roots of water lilies grow in the mud of mucky, shallow water, and they rise to grow beautiful flowers above the water. It rises above the filth and becomes something beautiful in spite of it- that’s why it represents enlightenment and rebirth in Buddhism.
Adding onto that, I remembered this post by @littleeyesofpallas and how phonetically Nemu and Mayuri’s surname means something akin to ‘black soil’ or ‘black mud/sludge’ and I was like “Yeah, that’s on the nose enough to work” and ran with it.
Water lilies are also poisonous! I could make a point like ‘they’re very dangerous despite their beauty, connections to Mayuri, a poisonous relative, etc, etc’ but honestly I only added this because I realized that water lilies and Nemu share something physically in common: terrible things happen when you try to eat them.
Honestly I really like the idea of Nemu having an especially beautiful zanpakutō. Not only because crystalline flowers sound very pretty to look at (you could go ham with those glittery shine/lens flare effects), because it contrasts her ugly/creepy father and his zanpakutō, and because she deserves to have pretty things to represent her beautiful soul, but also because I think it just,,, fits her.
Up until now being pretty has been one of Nemu’s defining character traits- and one of the character traits that, unlike some of her initial, more emotive characterization, has stayed consistent- and not in an intentional way; Kubo uses her for gross fanservice because she happens to be pretty. She’s not pretty for a reason, she just. Is pretty. But also: Nemu is one of the strongest characters in Bleach. I’m just gonna say it. Hot take: Nemu could kick Zaraki’s ass. She destroyed Pernida who’d adapted to Zaraki’s level using 0.6% of her physical power- she’s insanely overpowered and that’s probably what contributed to Kubo’s decision to kill her off. So Nemu’s zanpakutō having a very pretty and delicate exterior while being able to kick ass/have a busted ability (because the ability to magnify things is very handy) is fitting, I think.
Also I love the growth theme in her zanpakutō via magnifying things (which, if I may say, sounds very in character for Nemu to have. Being able to magnify things is very nice but also sounds kind of nerdy, which I think fits Nemu being a little science nerd). Nemu’s ‘growth’ theme in the manga had potential but Kubo didn’t do anything with it until he needed her to die saving his favourite character. Which is bullshit. Nemu’s growth shouldn’t have been learning how to disobey her father to save his life, it should’ve been learning to disobey her father and become her own person- not some scientific accomplishment of her father’s. Her growth should’ve been for her, not to prove that Mayuri created something that could grow.
Obviously the story ended with the TYBW arc so we wouldn’t have gotten to see it unless she got to be in a light novel or something (which, yes, I absolutely would’ve paid money for. Missed a capitalism opportunity there, Kubo), but I think Nemu’s character development after Mayuri’s death would’ve been really interesting. A few things that could be developed/questions that could be explored:
How does one continue to live for themself after losing the only thing they developed their entire existence around?
How much life experience does Nemu even have? Did living with Mayuri her entire life, seemingly very isolated and sheltered, affect her ability to function on her own in any way? Does Nemu understand what a 401k is?
How does one go about building self-esteem after years of non-stop psychological and physical abuse while also grieving said abuser? (Because I do believe that Nemu would grieve Mayuri. Relationships are complicated, man).
Would Nemu even be open to the idea of discovering more about herself at first, or has Mayuri’s treatment of her stunted her introspection in some way?
When and how does Nemu come to the realization that the way Mayuri treated her for her entire life was wrong? Or has she always known and was just trapped, wanting to help herself but feeling unable to? (Honestly I could see a comparison between Momo and Aizen and Nemu and Mayuri here).
Who would Nemu reach out to for emotional support- or rather, who would try and connect to Nemu now that Mayuri is gone?
Way more questions raised and interesting characterization to explore than what Mayuri got after Nemu’s death (which, I’ll be honest, I did really like the scene where he hallucinated Szayelaporro as a manifestation of his grief. Kinda fucked severely, but still-).
Nemu really strikes me as someone who loves learning and experiencing new things, so I imagine her trying to learn about how to use her zanpakutō and use kaidō and get better at kidō while also not sacrificing her hakuda abilities because they’re such an integral part of her fighting style at this point. She wants to learn it all.
She could also just use both, like Suì-Fēng does.
SHE COULD LEARN SHUNKŌ
Nemu could go to Ukitake (who’s retired, because I cannot in good conscious write this man as dead even in an AU that doesn’t involve him at all), or Nanao and Momo (cause they’re girlfriends,,,) and learn kidō so she can ask Suì-Fēng to teach her Shunkō. We love to see girlbosses helping girlbosses.
Between Shunkō, her zanpakutō, Gikon Jūrinjū, her limit-breaker ability, her insane physical capabilities, and her unstoppable growth, Nemu has the potential to be like. Just the strongest person. And I love that for her so much, she deserves it all.
That’s kind of all I’ve got for now. Nemu brainrot possessed my mortal coil once again and I infodumped into a Google Doc until I got tired.
#everyone go look at zanguntsu's nemu stuff too. very important context. they're doing gods work#i love nemu so much she is my everything#she should've survived and i will die on this hill#bleach#kurotsuchi nemu
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Craziest thing you did in college?
I am not sure if this is a mis-aimed ask game or just a random question, but sure okay. Let's see.
Probably it's either the time that we accidentally smuggled beer into our apartment-style dorm the year we got into one of those and were super excited to have an oven (because we literally forgot that being a dry campus meant that it would not be allowed for us to have alcohol in our dorm even though we were intending to use it to bake beer bread from the recipe that the nice folks at the local medieval faire had given us).
Like we literally forgot that it counted as alcohol, because for us it was a Baking Ingredient (despite the fact that we had remembered that I, as the only over-21 in the group, would have to be the one to go and make the actual purchase! we remembered it was alcohol! we just...forgot that it would count as alcohol to the college), until we were pulling into the parking lot in front of the dorms and went "oh fuck, this is BEER! We have to smuggle this into our rooms without getting caught, don't we?"
"Well they probably won't believe us if we say we just want it for bread because who the fuck would believe a bunch of college kids who said they just wanted beer for the bread? And I'm pretty sure they wouldn't let us have beer in the dorms anyway even if they believed it was just for baking. Yeah we're gonna have to smuggle it in, shit. Okay who's got a sweatshirt or something?"
And we successfully got it into the room, and made the beer bread...and then had the rest of a six-pack left-over, so we set it on top of the fridge for later beer-bread-making purposes and forgot about it until we were literally in the middle of a room inspection and I had to ~stealthily~ sprint past the TA while they were in one of the other bedrooms and hide the fucking beer (without making any noise or otherwise being seen to act like I was hiding something!) and stand there sweating hoping the TA wasn't going to look hard enough to find it in the back of a cupboard when they got to the kitchen.
My gods it was a good thing my friends and I didn't ACTUALLY get up to Illicit Shenanigans(TM) when I was in college because we were not good at it holy fuck.
...OR it's the time that my roommate and I both dressed-up in our Twi'lek cosplay (me as Aayla, she as Darth Talon) for a documentary that one of our film student friends was making, and in the middle of the interview portion the three of us decided on a whim that it would be cool to get footage of us lightsaber fighting in the fountain nearby, and had an impromptu duel there which was definitely not legal for us to do or film because we didn't plan ahead and get any permits and they probably wouldn't have allowed us to film in the fountain anyway but we didn't think about that until it was over and the highlight was definitely the completely random luck we had of getting a lens flare off the sun at exactly the moment that one of us fake-stabbed the other with the plastic lightsabers and collapsed backwards into the fountain in the most badass-looking shot in the whole film, you're very welcome random film student.
Also you're very welcome random passerby who paused to watch the fight, but only briefly, because this was Savannah and it was not the weirdest shit that anyone had seen us fucking SCAD kids get up to that week I'm sure.
This wasn't really a crazy thing, by the standards of SCAD to be fair. It was mainly the lack of fountain-filming-permit and the absolute impromptuness of both the absolutely-not-choreographed-but-somehow-seamless-because-we-were-massive-dweebs-who-could-pull-a-lightsaber-duel-out-of-our-asses fight scene and the natural lens flare that makes that incident stick-out.
Anyway, I didn't really have any crazy college experiences. I was just a geek at art school, majoring in comic books. So everything was Very Geek to be sure, but not very "College."
I did put on my nice Ren Faire dress and go down to the dorm communal room my freshman year while I had a MASSIVE fever to participate in an overnight Hobbit/LotR Cartoon Marathon, having never actually seen the cartoons before, and very much fever-dreamed my way through it because my dumbass should 100% have been in bed instead of dressed in a medieval gown sleeping on a pillow on the floor in a big room full of a bunch of strangers.
But while that may be very much a College Student Thing To Do, I still don't think it counts as a "crazy college story" by the standards of which you were probably asking. Sorry.
#i make my own fun anon#by which i mean: i am not ''fun'' by the standards of normal people#but the good news is that i have never wanted to be fun by those standards so i'm okay with that#look when you're an asexual introvert who can't stand the taste of alcohol and has no interest in drugs#the ''traditional college experience'' just isn't going to appeal to you#i'm not saying there weren't parties and drinking at SCAD there absolutely were!#i was just not at any of those activities sorry#except for that one time we wanted to make beer bread i guess#my mom (who definitely DID have Normal College Experiences) laughed SO HARD when i told her the beer bread story#she wasn't disappointed; she knew what she had for a kid by then. but she was VERY amused#it was very much an ''only you would do that'' situation...but my whole life has been one long ''only you'' story so#literally no one who knows me has ever been SURPRISED by that story tbf#i definitely have A Brand so to speak#me#college#scad#bread
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*Finding Nemo seagull voice* lore? lore? lore?
Is... is Ira using pieces of the gnarlrock as light sources for plants? What? "Ira warned us they have an immediate proximity issue... just said it wasn't healthy." And Ira can handle them. He's the one who brought them here. Definitely makes me think that the gnarlrock is one of those things that's just pure power — it can be used for good or bad, but it isn't inherently either, it's just powerful.
Also makes me think that one of the conceits of this campaign is that a neutral perspective is an assumption of the world.
Fearne is half elven! Ollie is a blond elf with a Scottish accent. The only other elves we know of that have this accent are the elves of Uthodurn, but it's implied that Ollie is from the Feywild originally (and is therefore an eladrin, maybe?).
Treshi is (allegedly) the one who instructed Ira's experimentation and the subjects of said experimentation. From what we know right now, I would argue that Ira is just as chaotic neutral as Chetney is.
The machine that Ollie, Birdie, and Ira are building is called the "veil scatter-scope," and it can see things for dozens of miles around like a goddamn periscope. Even without the lens from Morri, it can see leylines, and they look like auroras. When the telescope looks at Ruidus, "it's almost like your thoughts seem to wander when you focus too hard on it." The telescope could see many things, but not Ruidus — until now.
"I don't know how much your mother's told you... we've been trying to figure out this dubious lunar nightmare since it showed up back home. You were touched by its flare... several years later, it just showed up in one of the shaded regions. Now, you were too young to really tell much about this, but I have from my mother what she calls the squint — I get little glimpses of possibilities when I'm in danger, little flashes of choices and I pick the better one. It's like a faint oracle touch, whatever you wanna call it... usually just teases, flashes, enough to get out of trouble. But when I saw that red moon invading our sky, I had more than a squint, it was a full vision. I saw the red light of that moon widen like a hungry mist, decaying the life and green from out homeland, leaving dust and dull red light in its wake... I saw our home crumble, I saw what was Birdie's silhouette standing in the center of the light unmoving, reaching for it before it caught us all. But looking at you now, I'm not sure it was her silhouette... we knew we had to do something."
*drunkposting starts here*
After Ollie sought help from the Seelie Court, they were threatened by the Unseelie, and he and Birdie followed them back to the Unseelie Court. There, they discovered that the Unseelie had put up an illusion to hide the moon from the rest of the Feywild, and we know the rest of the story from Birdie.
Morrigan is also known as "the Fate-Stitcher." what??
The parallels to EXU:C are really stacking up.
Hondir believes that Imogen is Ruidus-born
Both Otohan and the other gray-haired elven man — who wore grey and blue robes — are Ruidus-born.
"Time's been ticking down for years now, leading in this direction."
Ira is fucking fascinating, and I love his character in a really fucked up way.
"I had grown weary of such post-war times... between a wild that bored me and a world that forgot me, I was restless... yes, I've done merry an impulsive and selfish thing, but it seemed interesting enough to pursue." Very fey, and very very similar to Artagan. "You don't have to trust me, but if you stop me, what do you learn? You don't have to trust me... just let me work."
Oh my god, three-way date with Ira, Ashton, and Laudna? I thought I had my ships set in stone for this campaign, but..... if someone writes this, please tag me
The Moontide Crown is "partially metal, partially immaterial crystal," and it does some "pretty interesting things" when you put it on, like increasing darkvision range, giving truesight, giving "magics I'd never felt before," and having a "strong connection to the skies above, I could draw magics from the moon — both of them."
When Birdie and Ollie left Fearne, she was "still a young girl, but not that [14] young." To which Ira notes that "well, you left her with Morri. She is a collector of things. If she knew she had limited time, she might've stretched it for all it's worth. It wouldn't be the first time."
So in theory, Fearne was born in 823 PD, if my drunk math doesn't deceive me.
Morrigan is 12-13 feet tall?? what the fuck???
"What was Morri like before Fearne?" "Like us, one of those outlier fey, a collector of sorts... she plays guardian to one of her own fanes, a place of power, and she does favors for those who ask in exchange for things to add to her collection... she's what you would call crone. She has no coven, she's a strange one in her own right. She's been around for as long as I have... it seemed to work out okay, there could've been worse choices [to take care of Fearne, pointing towards Ira]."
??????
"Ira, you said that she would make this for us, right? Right?"
So Fearne was what Ollie and Birdie gave in exchange for Morri creating the final component of their telescope.
Huh.
Wild.
Fey.
(definitely not me, looking at this discordant morality between fey and mortal as if it's the same as the incongruent morality between Betrayers and mortals in EXU:C.)
"Ira, what are we building?"
"As you glance through, you see before you the green sheen before what us almost a dark, universal sky speckled with stars, And there in the center, is the lightly muddied red of Ruidus, a familiar sight... but there's something you've never seen before around it. There is a shape that encompasses it, clear as day, like a field of energy, like something that encapsulates it. Not unlike some of the magical forcefields and such you've learned to generate, and it has a texture, like a lattice weave, an extremely powerful gathering of different magical threads that crate this textured weave that seals it off entirely... it looks more like like a cage. It's strong, distinct, something you've never seen before, unlike anything you've ever seen..."
"It's a prison."
"What do you see?"
"I see a god that can't get out. Am I right?"
"It's my first time hearing of it..." [Make an insight check. [16.] Hard to read... [24]... 'an imprisoned god, you say? Interesting...'"
"Any breaks in the weave, any flaws? [Natural 1.] Focused on this, it's still a fresh sight... as you look through it, the sense of a headache that was mentioned before never takes root... and you swear, you swear there's something you're missing."
Orym?
NATURAL 20 FOR A 27
"Glancing in, he adjusts some of the elements..." "As you focus in, you see the same lattice shape, you blink a bit... roll a religion check for me. [8] While the nature of this field that contains the red moon evades you, your eyes catch a glint in the middle of the red storm as the device is scanning past the front of it, and it's moving away from it... As the telescope pushes past the layer of lattice-like energy, the storm is clearer than its ever been. [Imogen] sees it part for just a moment, and there's a city."
nooooooooo I'm too drunk to process this fully, what the fuck
Cognouza? Avalir? the Ars ward of Aeor that we've never seen before? who fucking knows???
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Tharizdun enthusiasts, how we doin'?
I will expand upon this tomorrow when I collect my thoughts
#critical role#critical role c3#critical role campaign 3#critical role liveblog#note watches c3#critical role spoilers#drunkposting#cw alcohol mention
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獲得したイベントPに応じて、「イベントストーリー」が解放され、また「累計イベントPランキング」の順位が決定します。イベント終了後、ランキングの順位に応じて報酬を獲得できます。
また、イベントバッジはイベント交換所より、アイテムやイベントで登場する新メンバーと交換できます。
■開催期間
1月23日15時00分 ～ 1月29日20時59分
■イベント詳細
・イベントP
イベントPを獲得することで「イベントストーリー」が解放され、「累計イベントPランキング」への参加ができます。
「イベントストーリー」では、イベント開催～結果発表期間に全話読むことで、「逆光のレンズフレア」を記念した称号を獲得することができます。
「累計イベントPランキング」では、イベント終了時までに獲得したイベントPでランキングが決定され、順位に応じてアイテムや「逆光のレンズフレア」を記念したランキング称号などの報酬を後日獲得することができます。
・イベントストーリー[全8話]
・イベントボーナス
イベントボーナスメンバーを編成すると獲得イベントPにボーナスが発生します。
【タイプボーナス】
ハッピー
【キャラクターボーナス】
天馬司
鳳えむ
草薙寧々
神代類
初音ミク[ワンダーランズ×ショウタイム]
鏡音リン[ワンダーランズ×ショウタイム]
鏡音レン[ワンダーランズ×ショウタイム]
巡音ルカ[ワンダーランズ×ショウタイム]
MEIKO[ワンダーランズ×ショウタイム]
KAITO[ワンダーランズ×ショウタイム]
【メンバーボーナス】
★4[漏れ聞こえる言葉] 神代類
★4[準備も慣れたもの] 草薙寧々
★4[スクリーンに照らされて] 鏡音リン
タイプまたはキャラクターが1人一致するごとに25％、タイプとキャラクター両方が一致している場合は50％ボーナスが発生します。
特定メンバーの場合、タイプまたはキャラクターの一致とは別にさらに20%ボーナスが発生します。
サブユニットを持っていないバーチャル・シンガーのメンバーはキャラクター自体がキャラクターボーナスに指定されている場合、指定のサブユニット問わず15％ボーナスが発生します。
■注意事項
・開催スケジュール、及びイベント内容は予告なく変更する場合がございます。
「逆光のレンズフレア アフターライブ」
イベント期間終了後にバーチャルライブを開催します。
また、イベントバーチャルライブ開催に先立ち、バーチャルショップにアイテムを追加いたします。
■開催スケジュール
【待合エリア公開期間】
・1月23日15時00分 ～ 1月31日14時59分
【ライブ開催期間】
・1月29日22時00分 ～ 1月30日21時00分
■追加アイテムについて
【追加アイテム】
・アクセサリ「ボリューム満点焼肉弁当」
【販売開始日時】
・1月23日15時00分
■注意事項
・開催スケジュール、及びイベント内容は予告なく変更する場合がございます。
「逆光のレンズフレア アフタートーク」
イベント終了後にストーリーを振り返ったり、アフターライブを楽しんだりする番組を生配信いたします。
今回のイベントでは木野日菜さん（ワンダーランズ×ショウタイム：鳳えむ役）が出演いたします。ぜひイベント終了後にご視聴ください。
■配信時間
1月29日21時30分 ～
■出演者
木野日菜（ワンダーランズ×ショウタイム：鳳えむ 役）
※敬称略
■注意事項
・開催スケジュール、及びイベント内容は予告なく変更する場合がございます。
引き続き「プロジェクトセカイ カラフルステージ！ feat. 初音ミク」をよろしくお願いいたします。
[Google Translated Vers.]
Thank you for always using "Project Sekai Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku".
We will inform you about the next event.
Event “Backlit Lens Flare”
■Event overview
If you play "Live Alone", "Live Together", and "Challenge Live" during the period, you can earn event P and event badges according to your score.
Depending on the event P you have acquired, the "Event Story" will be released and the ranking of the "Cumulative Event P Ranking" will be determined. After the event ends, you can earn rewards depending on your ranking position.
In addition, event badges can be exchanged for items and new members appearing in the event at the event exchange office.
■Event period
January 23rd 15:00 - January 29th 20:59
■Event details
・Event P
By acquiring Event P, you can unlock the "Event Story" and participate in the "Cumulative Event P Ranking".
In "Event Story," you can earn a title commemorating "Backlit Lens Flare" by reading all the stories between the event and the results announcement period.
In the "Cumulative Event P Ranking", the ranking is determined by the Event P earned by the end of the event, and depending on the ranking, you can earn rewards such as items and a ranking title commemorating "Backlit Lens Flare" at a later date. Masu.
・Event story [8 episodes in total]
・Event bonus
Event bonus When you create a member, a bonus will be generated for the event P obtained.
[Type bonus]
Happy
[Character bonus]
Tenmaji
Otori Emu
Nene Kusanagi
Gods
Hatsune Miku [Wonderlands x Showtime]
Kagamine Rin [Wonderlands x Showtime]
Kagamine Len [Wonderlands x Showtime]
Megurine Luka [Wonderlands x Showtime]
MEIKO [Wonderlands x Showtime]
KAITO [Wonderlands x Showtime]
[Member bonus]
★4 [Words that can be heard] Gods
★4 [Those who are used to preparing] Nene Kusanagi
★4 [Lighted by the screen] Kagamine Rin
25% bonus for each type or character match, 50% bonus if both type and character match.
For specific members, there will be an additional 20% bonus regardless of type or character match.
For Virtual Singer members who do not have a sub-unit, if the character itself is designated as a character bonus, a 15% bonus will be given regardless of the designated sub-unit.
■Notes
・The schedule and event contents are subject to change without notice.
"Backlit Lens Flare After Live"
A virtual live event will be held after the event period ends.
Additionally, items will be added to the virtual shop prior to the virtual live event.
■Event schedule
[Waiting area open period]
・January 23rd 15:00 - January 31st 14:59
[Live period]
・January 29th 22:00 - January 30th 21:00
■About additional items
[Additional items]
・Accessory “Voluminous Yakiniku Bento”
[Sales start date and time]
・January 23rd 15:00
■Notes
・The schedule and event contents are subject to change without notice.
"Backlit Lens Flare After Talk"
After the event ends, we will livestream a program where you can look back on the story and enjoy the after-live show.
At this event, Hina Kino (Wonderlands x Showtime: Emu Otori) will appear. Please watch it after the event ends.
■Delivery time
January 29th 21:30~
■Performers
Hina Kino (Wonderlands x Showtime: Emu Otori)
※Titles omitted
■Notes
・The schedule and event contents are subject to change without notice.
Thank you for your continued support of "Project Sekai Colorful Stage! feat. Hatsune Miku".
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Top 3 kpop mvs from the 2000s
hey!! thank you so much [: this got long, so without further ado...
1. bigbang, haru haru.
it's literally this and then [BRICK WALL] like, this music video literally changed the trajectory of kpop, it became a viral moment that lasted until, like, 2010. it catapulted bigbang to international stardom. i desperately cannot stress enough how this music video and song is a moment, and a high, that kpop is still chasing to this day and that they might never reach again. absolutely, purely organic genius. the brilliance of haru haru is how absolutely earnest it is with its very own melodrama. the acting. the conflict. oh my god, that story line. this is maybe the greatest kpop music video ever, just because it is impossible to replicate now. this changed lives. it did a lot to put kpop on the map. and it is just perfect as it is, and as a time capsule. i watched this approximately 3655467287 times in 2010 alone. i think people who know how iconic and influential bigbang are only ever choose fantastic baby or bang bang bang as examples, but haru haru is what turned them into yg's biggest superstars before inflated numbers, streams, etc. it's hard to explain if you weren't there, to be honest.
on another note, i am pretty sure that gtop fight was my gay awakening, lol.
another bigbang entry that just missed the mark because it was released in 2010: tell me goodbye. literally a masterpiece. narrative! CINEMATOGRAPHY! that top verse i can still recite word for word! a perfect marriage of everything that makes japanese kpop offerings impeccable. i carried a picture of that gdragon in my school diary until i graduated high school, lol. (choices, i know)
2. 2pm, heartbeat
i wanted to go with mirotic first, but i think heartbeat did the same things done in mirotic, just better. first of all, this music video does not rely on any narrative or any gimmicks, and it is still so well done. the angles and camera pans here, the obstructed shots, the lens flares. the contrast between the industrial gray and the eery, hollow white set. that choreography. this is so purely, undistilled 2nd gen kpop but in, like, a gothic fantasia. the atmosphere of this video is almost creepy which serves the song perfectly, and it is carried by performance, lights, and camera alone. i would have almost chosen again&again, because it does have a story line, but i actually think heartbeat's directive choices are so much better, and far superior. it is such an interesting music video just because how it is shot in a way that makes it visually appealing while simultaneously a little off-kilter. amazing. no notes. 100000/10
beast is not here, by the way, because if i would have chosen anything, it would have been shock, but heartbeat is once again the better offering of a similar style.
3. g-dragon, heartbreaker
one more masterclass. i am sorry, but this is another one of those insane offerings. the production design here is off the charts, the checkerboard heart eye-make up and bleached hair immediately became a signature hallmark look, the choreography is so memorable yet perfectly in sync with g-dragon's artistic persona. this music video felt insanely expensive back in 2009, and deviated from the nitty-gritty of that era. it was colorful, catchy, and immediately, insanely recognizable. replay factor? through the roof, especially with that breathe teaser making it a two-piece. also, the apple imagery was just another stroke of genius. like, this felt like watching a superstar emerge into the scene with that intro. "I'm all by myself, but it's all good," like yeah, sure, is this cringy as hell? absolutely. could anyone else pull this off in the year of our lord 2024? never, but it works perfectly here. the sci-fi influences. the masked dancers. oh my god. we will never have something this earnest, unironic, serious and yet glossy and campy.
3. shinee, ring ding dong
did you really think you would not find shinee here? c'mon now. what is there to say about this music video that hasn't been said yet. the wings. the choreography that the entirety of korea knows by heart. this made shinee my instant ults, my instant biases. dancing in the water!!! the concise color palette, the grays and reds, the hairstyles getting progressively more disheveled. watching jonghyun in this music video for the first time (and to this day) was like watching a miracle appear right in front of your eyes, that sort of gravitas and charisma is rare to come by and i am afraid there will never be anyone else quite like that. truly, one of a kind and just an insane moment in time to live through. how, in a way, unpolished this music video and their performance is is precisely why it is one of the greatest things ever. you can literally see them launching straight into their stage and performance genius from this. it's so crazy. this is like watching history being written, which is why it is one of the best kpop mvs of that decade.
honorable mention: sorry sorry by super junior. a perfectly slick, chrome fever dream that could be a commercial for all i know. i am sorry (hah) but when this song comes on, every ounce of, like, common sense leaves my body and i am stuck in this 4:17 true kpop marvel. it is just perfect. the production of this music video and this song. the aspect ratio (slay). the black and white. that tastefully measured autotune because suju has like maybe 3 decent vocalists. the group choreography shots look tight as hell, especially at the end. the last 15 seconds of this music video look just. fucking amazing. sorry, yeah, it had to be here.
ask me my top 3 anything, kpop edition 💌
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Patience is a Virtue, I Guess
yesterday i sent out three (3) rolls, so if things go well at memphis film lab, i will have some new pictures for my single lovely follower. i absolutely love the postal service - one of my favorite government entities - but god do i hate the post office. or at least big(ger) city post offices. so much pressure! such weird hours! whatever. here's the picture
The PIcture
this is a big rock at the same shore as the lighthouse picture. this is probably 80-90° to the left of where i took the lighthouse photo. this is the same exact setup as the last two pictures: pentax k1000, tamron telephoto, fuji 400. i just think this one looks really nice. the sea, the rock, the shadows, the wacky lens flare or whatever that is - i think it's neat. i think if i were to make a print out of a 35mm picture i took, it would probably be this one. i could sell it to beachside motels to hang in the rooms. anyway, there'll most definitely be another post or two from my backlog before i get those pictures back from memphis film lab.
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Something in the Sky
On the subject of cryptids, I have always been and remain agnostic. My attitude is that stories are great and they're fun to hear, but until I see the thing... in the wild... with my own eyes, all these creatures are are stories. Until they walk right up to me from the woods, Bigfoot, Mothman, the chupacabra and all the haints and boogers that go bump in the night are just urban legends. (Wow! I need to take a break from Old Gods of Appalachia.)
Well, my dear strangelings, as fate and Charles Fort would have it, it turns out that I have actually seen a cryptid... or cryptoid? I'll get into the debate in a bit, but there doesn't seem to be any agreement on what category this critter falls into. Due to the uncertainty, there isn't much in the way of good and well researched information. Even the photographic evidence (as you can see above) doesn't give us a whole lot to go on.
So, what is this squiggle in the sky? I was asking myself the same question when I came across it back in the twenty-teens. The name given to it is "sky serpent". Now, while I saw a total of twelve of these things almost a decade ago, I just learned that they're a thing last week.
"Twelve?" Yes, twelve... four groups of three over a period of about twenty minutes. My guess is it was possibly a migration. They were moving in a southern direction over the city of Boston in late summer or early fall. I only saw them because I looked up while stretching a kink out of my neck. Were it not for that... knot... I would have missed them entirely. City people don't look up, especially in Boston. We keep our eyes down and mind our business.
I wasn't the only one who saw them. The one friend who always seems to be with me when weird shit happens was there. Because we were both looking up and watching these things, a few other people looked to see what had us mesmerized, then a few more. Pretty soon, there were a couple dozen people just watching this sky parade.
The photos aren't mine, but they illustrate the problem of getting photos of aerial phenomena. Unless you have professional equipment and you KNOW it's going to be there, photos will always be crappy. Don't believe me? Take a picture of the moon with your phone. Even the "good" ones I have are mostly lens flare.
Having said that, I mentioned the words... THE words at the root of the debate. Are sky serpents creatures or crafts? Ufologists say they're the former and crypto zoologists say they're the latter. (Of course, I would find the critter that defies classification.) Yes, they move through the sky, but they seem to be organic. They move like snakes or eels. I may not know much about UAP, but I haven't seen anything in the historical record describing extraterrestrials getting out of or off of one of these. (Perhaps Mr. Hanks will find something and correct me.)
What I have seen in the scant literature on the topic of "sky serpents" appears to draw comparisons with the traditional depiction of dragons in Chinese and Japanese art. No, I am not saying dragons are real, but if ancient cultures had seen these sky serpents, I can see how that would give rise to myths about dragons. Had my mother been with me, that is precisely what her conclusion would have been.
Biological entity or extraterrestrial craft, my big questions are: Where are they coming from? Where do they go? Why have we not seen one on the ground?
Obviously, I have no answers. No one does because the people who typically study this kind of thing aren't interested. I've only seen them myself the one time. I did see a video in a Facebook group I belong to. One of the members got footage at about 30,000 feet while on a flight... assuming it's not doctored. That's how I became aware that those weird flying whatevers I saw were a known phenomenon.
Has my position on cryptids changed? Nope! Bigfoot is still gonna have to sit down next to me and ask for a cigarette. Mothman is going to have to read my tarot cards. That said, if the pros don't want to invest the time and energy into getting something close to answers about these "sky serpents" then maybe I finally a cryptid to hunt.
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