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#To Myself Ten Years Ago
suratan-zir · 4 months
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I'm just here to post this photo I took today, that's all. Look at these cuties. My heart...^_^
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expelliarmus · 6 months
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bylrndgm · 1 year
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seize the day!
byler week 2023 | day ii: 80s movies movie: dead poets society (1989) | insp. dedicated to @edelweiss-coffee
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graviconscientia · 5 months
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Well, everyone else got to show off their costumes. And I am, as usual, a little behind schedule. But better late than never, right?
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compacflt · 8 months
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what are bradley’s earliest memories of ice and mav? the bits of his perspective on them that you’ve written are so fascinating
fairly unsurprising answer but: ice: when he came to see Carole to apologize for killing goose in ch 2 of wwgattai (sets the tone of their relationship)
mav: something very benign like mav doing magic tricks for him as a little little kid. you know how your earliest memories are always a little fuzzy and always afternoon sunshine? imagine a desaturated maverick sitting crosslegged in the grass in pale afternoon southern california sunshine showing Bradley how he can detach his thumb from his hand and then put it back again. no blood, no bone, no pain, and he’s got this daredevil grin like he’s enjoying separating his thumb from his hand. can’t see his eyes behind his aviators. the best magicians are the ones who can make even their pain disappear. or, playing “got your nose,” holding Bradley’s nose up so he can see it right in front of his very eyes, NO PAIN!, and then making it disappear. “where’d your nose go, Gosling? oh, my gosh, I lost your nose!! how’re you gonna smell? i bet you’re gonna smell bad. get it? get it? —here it is, i found it, don’t worry, it’s all good!” and putting his nose back so everything’s ok. that’s Bradley’s earliest memory of mav.
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goalofthecentury · 2 years
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Q: i like how in a couple of scenes, that we peek into rocky’s mind, that we see crayon drawings of what he perceives. can you walk us through the inspiration of that?
A: the drawings were really… because, there’s three sets of fantasies in the film. there’s the fantasy of rocky, and how he sees the world, and the way that he reinterprets the adult world around him, and that i wanted to be very simple, and in a way that suited the mind of a six year old. or how we might see the mind of a six year old played out on screen. then the fantasies of boy, who is a little bit more advanced in his fantasies, and his play out in the live action cutaways, and they’re more imaginative, he can really picture his father doing all these amazing things. then we have alamein, the father, his fantasies. and they play out in the physical- like in the present reality. and those fantasies show themselves in the way he dresses and presents himself, the way that he’s, like - he changes his name, and he’s- his fantasies are really him trying to be anything but himself. and that’s really how the idea for the drawings came, it was just showing a way of representing rocky’s view of the world but in a way that suited a six year old.
source: this video, starting around 10:25
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fanatics4l · 1 year
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today i am sad thinking about how billy didn't have a single person in his life who cared about him or looked after him. we can assume that neil stopped really being there for billy after his mom left, so he most likely became independent and stopped asking people for help once he realized his mom wasn't coming back. he started pushing people away and getting tougher to please his dad, when all he really wanted was for his mom to come back and for someone to hear him.
he had no one throughout possibly ten years of his life and died with the knowledge that no one cared enough to save him. he saved his mom from his dad as much as he could but she still abandoned him. he saved a town he hated but ended up dying for people who would later on barely acknowledge his existence and what he did for them. like oh my goodness this kid was so selfless.
he spent his entire life looking after people who didn't care enough about him to look after him in return. every time susan looked away from him when neil hit him, he probably felt so stupid and little and worthless. billy was a kid forced to be a caretaker before he could even enter his twenties, a caretaker for people who didn't care about him.
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fuck marry kill david tennant, hal 9000, and george costanza ?
OH. WOW. OKAY. OKAY. HMM. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. PONDERING. SEARCHING WITHIN MY SOUL AND HEART. OKAY. OKAY
SO! i cant marry david bc he has like 5 kids i dont wanna deal with that. if we took them out of the picture he may have a fighting chance but as of now i am going to shock the world and say kill david 😦💔 because even though i am in the midst of an insane sexual obsession with him i have genuinely committed more hours to sexually fantasizing about george costanza i think more than anyone else ever. UM. SORRY. FUCK GEORGE!!!!! and of course that leaves me to marry my beautiful hal 9000. i can live inside him. build him a beautiful spaceship that is basically him and be in his wires every night. sighhhhh its so dreamy…… 🥰❤️🔴
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What would he have made his priorities after being the king? I mean politically? If he had worked at all that is.
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GREAT QUESTION it frankly drives me kind of insane that we never get any hint whatsoever about how he’s running the country while he does briefly take over from S&S through R&R. Like what are his POLICIES!! What is he DOING??
But also, realistically, he is not going to cancel wars with the Shadow Fold threat lol. Like that is only the beginning of a really long and drawn out foreign relations catastrophe. I talked about this a little bit in a different context awhile ago but he doesn’t strike me as a character with a firm end goal… ever. There’s always going to be more to do.
But like a civil war is going to fuck up the country no matter what. So I’d assume, regardless, there’s going to be a fair bit of immediate picking up the pieces economically. He doesn’t at all seem like he cares about public opinion, beyond being scary enough so people know not to fuck with him. So he’d probably have no qualms with making drastic and highly unpopular reforms lol.
We really don’t know enough about his stances but he seems to be primarily: a nationalist, an autocrat, prioritizing military strength, distinctly favoring Grisha interests, and also shdhfgfd against industrialization and technological advancement. He also favors the perceived good of the many over the interests and well being of any individual, and is very happy to make sacrifices of many, many lives to achieve fairly petty goals. He's a fantasy fascist basically.
The books somewhat superficially equate him with Russian revolutionary figures. But I don't think there's enough... actual ideology to back that up very much. And rapid industrialization and transitioning the Soviet Union from a primarily agrarian based economy was itself a key part of it? So... he's not much of a Stalin. If we're trying to sus out his policies I could see him being something of an anti Peter the Great, where instead of forced Westernization, you have an incredibly set in his ways immortal autocrat trying to drag everyone back to the values and traditions of his youth. (Which would also make narrative sense, considering Nikolai, as the Darkling-lite foil, seems to have def been based on some aspects of Peter the Great's youth and interest in innovation, if not his personality)
So for example, he seems like he'd favor isolationism. His idea of "peace" is "don't fuck with me or I'll make my monster filled interdimensional rift eat you." And we know Ravka is in intense debt! I could easily see him seizing the nobility's wealth and using it to pay off any debts owed to foreign countries. And then if anything's left over to stockpile resources towards making Ravka more self sufficient. Maybe even melt the gold and silver out of churches to that purpose.
(I forget which historical figure literally melted down church crosses dfghj but that was a thing! iirc incidentally he also stripped the silver from the currency, absolutely destroying its value...)
By RoW he seems to have embraced the entire like religious propaganda side of things. But in the trilogy proper he seems to hate the church. So resources going to it in any way will probs be diverted. And I could even see him gradually trying to repurpose the buildings for other things. They're on the tail end of a civil war, there's probs a lot of displaced people that could be put there for a start.
S&B meanwhile establishes that he has some pretty distinct opinions about how all the Grisha need to pretend to live like peasants so as not to forget their roots or whatever. I think he *would* enact really harsh regulations and reforms on court life just because he hates it so bad lol. Taxes on parties, insane sumptuary laws for everyone but his favored Grisha soldiers. He's had centuries and centuries to hate changing social norms. I think he'd go nuts if given the opportunity to dictate everything. Generally I think there would be a mix of skyrocketing taxes and reforms to an actual purpose (bolstering the economy and stripping material power from the nobility) but also just to be a petty, temperamental autocrat.
Def also criminalizing dissent and making examples of any opposition immediately. Can't have another revolution threatening his revolution. Again, here I'm annoyed by how little the world is fleshed out, because we get nothing about the nobility. Noble families with any sort of longstanding ties or known friendship with the Lantsovs would probs get executed day one. Stripped of titles and lands etc and then taking those and giving them to his own supporters. (Who are they? Good fucking question! He has one Ivan and then even he fucking dies. But realistically... he would have... supporters?)
He'd probs want to get a firmer grip on West Ravka stat, and maybe invest in some military expansion to control more ports. An issue I forever have with the Grishaverse worldbuilding is that it's just so small? There are only like five countries? Trade and foreign policy just aren't going to Look Like That or mimic a nineteenth/twentieth century vibe if there are only five fucking countries dfghjkl but whatever. Whatever.
I could also see him favoring exports over imports. Stopping all trade seems destabilizing af so I doubt he’d go there but seems likely he'd try to decrease any dependency Ravka has on other countries in favor of self sufficiency and isolationism. Maybe taxing imports so bad that it's just not worth it. Regulating the exact details of what can be imported, when, why, etc.
Speaking of the earlier impending foreign relations catastrophe. I think if he’s scary enough he might manage to avoid an all out war on all fronts? Might. Because there’s also a really good case to be made for attacking Ravka while its still weak and reeling from the civil war. But if he’s lucky, the surrounding countries will take a “wait and see” stance. But like there will be consequences eventually. Consider the Shadow Fold an in-universe fantasy nuke in the hands of a power hungry ruler who has zero qualms with any scale of loss of life or just murdering civilians for the lols. He’s proven himself to be unstable and unreasonable so even if there isn’t an immediate declaration of war there is going to be a response to that. No one’s going to be chill!! And like SoC and KoS context tells us that there is parem on the horizon, along with the Grisha super soldiers in Shu Han, the druskelle getting wayyyy more sophisticated and a general trajectory of rapid military industrialization and advancement through out the world. Those are playing pieces that would be on the board regardless, but it’s just going to get so much uglier under those circumstances. And especially with the knowledge and context that the Darkling is completely fucking unreasonable and ready to war crime anyone who looks at him funny.
I guess siding with Fjerda in S&S could hypothetically be advantageous to him here actually? Like we do not know the terms of that alliance at all, and I doubt it would hold for long. But it breaks up the framing of everyone vs Ravka. And opens things up for anyone else to respond by trying to get on his good side against their own enemies. And once again. There are only five countries lmao. So a tense balance of powers situation might be feasible, but I think it would hinge on him not looking like he’s completely insane. Possibly ironic, but the fact that he seems to have only war crimed his own damn country is likely also useful here. Other governments typically don’t care/won’t get involved to a degree of outright declaring war over that. And it leaves some room for arguing that he’s capable of some restraint. So how quickly things go to hell probably depends on whether he goes back on any alliances or makes good on/is cornered into making good on his Shadow Fold threat.
So I don't know, basically I think there's a ton you could extrapolate from his personality, actual world history, and like fascist takeover 101 sdfghj but it's also somewhat unsatisfying to speculate about because it's impossible not to constantly run into thin points in the worldbuilding. But basically I think he would probably rule with an eye for sweeping, harsh reforms, consolidating power, and chipping away at any opposition or potential adversary, with a general decided disinterest in the popularity or lack thereof of any of his policies. And I also think unless someone got him to take a deep breath and chill out for five minutes and relearn the value of diplomacy things would get. how you say. really fucking bad.
This was incredibly unorganized I hope it answered your question at all sdfghj
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houlebubo · 1 year
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Brennan Lee Mulligan I know your tricks, I Know for sure that Steel is going to betray Suvi and that she was the reason her parents died. Look at me, I was fooled during Calamity when Asmodeus didn't have a character voice, I trusted that fucker, and I will not be fooled again, I know he uses his own voice for the most malicious and manipulating villains, I am smelling it on every word from Steel
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kicktwine · 2 years
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it takes time
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#listened to a podcast on commonplace books last night and realized that many people do not actually use...a book#which was perhaps something of an obvious revelation but it remains revelatory to me#two of the guys in the discussion use physical note cards and one uses evernote (or did four years ago) so I thought 'huh'#'maybe I'll try evernote'#cut to me checking out four different cloud-based note-taking systems because evernote doesn't allow for nearly as much personalization#--with their free version as they used to#all that to say I then opened up The Problem of Pain to copy over the sections I've highlighted anddddd there are a lot more than I thought#the reason I really really want to get into this system is I want a way to organize my various trains of thought#so I can carry on a coherent discussion if the need arises#but also the one guy who uses the cloud-based system also has a whole section of his commonplace dedicated to quotes from friends and famil#which 1) reminded me of Kate always keeping a quote book for her various trips#and 2) reminded me of all of the quotes I've saved over the years from friends#it's just a fun little detail#and FINALLY while discussing this they mentioned a student who received glowing feedback on an assignment and told her friend she was--#putting it in her 'flex book' -- AKA the book of things she can look at when she wants to flex on herself#which I think a lot of us creatives especially can benefit from#(I have a little collection of kind feedback I've received on my writing)#(which has come in handy lately)#so! I am once again attempting to compile a commonplace book#and telling myself as I go that there's no harm in not having started this ten years ago and I will in fact survive#if you made it this far I love you and please be sure you're drinking enough water
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kai-the-mad · 5 months
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I uhhh
I really like it
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gen-is-gone · 1 month
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I can't go five minutes in DW fandom without people being just atrociously mean about things that I love with the blissful unawareness of majority mainstream opinion holders that the people they're being mean about are like. In the space with them. And this in a space full of ardent fans of arguably some of the most esoteric obscure side stuff that everyone else disdains or doesn't even know. And I'm having fun for the most part but also like. It's just exhausting, constantly goddamn exhausting.
#this is about moffat and eleven#in case that wasn't clear#megan whines into the empty abyss of cyberspace#i'm not gonna say that Lawrence Miles in particular doesn't have every reason to hate Moffat#or that as an EDA fan first and foremost I don't also side eye the fuck out of a lot of his early arc plots#but Moffat wrote *characters* in a way that no one before or since does#everyone droning on about rtd found family has nothing on 11 and 12 era character relationships#also yeah it is genuinely annoying and upsetting that people are STILL going on and on and on and on about ~bad vibes~ ~misogyny~ whatever#like that's just your opinion man#and I think certain fans would genuinely be shocked to actually acknowledge that some people just straight up disagree with them#and straight up have a different experience with that era of the show#and don't share the opinions that got so saturated with so little pushback that the arguments are by now parodies of themselves#like do you hate eleven's era because you formed that opinion yourself or do you hate eleven's run because hbomb made a video?#do you feel the way you feel because you came to that opinion or because others in fandom 'warned' you about moffat before you started?#also like ngl it just straight up hurts my feelings#it's mean! it's just really mean and I'm tired of getting my feelings hurt in situations that are meant to be fun!#I lived through this ten years ago when I'd watch Dr Who and then get on the internet to talk about it#and every post would be just endless bad faith nitpicking and tearing the episode apart#anyway gonna watch power of the daleks now and remind myself not to engage w nuwho fandom
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b4kuch1n · 10 months
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hi it's me. bulletpoints
job has concluded! barring sudden expansion on the project I think that's gonna be it for my work here. six character cards in total! this leads to
wrists are bit fucked. I'll be putting that thang (creen tablet) in da closet again for at least a month while trying to hold as few heavy objects as possible for the time being
why one month deadline? well it's bc I made an artfight account. I'm fucking doing it this year on god I'll kick anyone's ass I'll kick my own ass. I'll post a link to my acc a week or so before the event starts, meanwhile I'll keep updating my roster and cleaning up this cardboard box I arrived at their door in. do u guys have a spare pair of suspenders I have a really funny joke to make
will be doing it on the creen tablet, unless I make enough to get a new graphic tablet that works with SAI2 inbetween. on that note
ink comms should come back sometimes next week babeyy I need to get back into da groove! miss my G pen it feels like I was close to something last time. I wanna get back to it. but also
I'm writing a fic now. tis the season it seems this happened last year too. but I'll try my best to not disappear off the face of the earth for 3 months running again lol I'll do my best to pace myself, since this is gonna be one of the heftier writing things.
sk8 people and another very specific subset of people will be pleased to know it's a sk8 Real Steel AU. if this means nothing to u carry on. have a good day. to the five people still here I'll probably be brainposting abt writing this so don't be surprised if that comes up here and there
circling back a bit I'm currently 120 USD away from the graphic tablet I wanna get, so that'll be what the ink comms are going toward. otherwise if u enjoy my art and have a spare doller to buy the baku a coffee I'd absolutely appreciate ur support! not mandatory but I'll definitely be very thankful! especially bc
I'll probably phase out the redbubble store some time in the future. at the very least I'll probably stop uploading new things on there while looking for alternative. ohh baby they are doing some wild shit and I want off the ride please. please
but yeah. that's the current plan for things. I've accepted that comics happen when they want to, and I have faith they still want to see the sunlight some time this year. meanwhile we keep busy keep training keep recovering! thank u for ur patience. have a good night take this sharp object
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eternal-transcience · 1 month
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okay so when I went downtown to pick up some bits, I saw plants. And by that, I mean boxes of tubers and seeds and things like that. And when I tell you I audibly went 'oo' I'm not lying.
It's probably a good thing I can't access arden centres myself anymore because I'm like a combo of my parents: my mum would pickthing up, g around, then put thnigs back andget other things, then go back to the original, and my dad knew what he was after but would really contemplate and get this plan in hishead then tell no one else this plan. I'm like my mum in the sense I go 'I want tha it's so pretty' but I, like y dad, look at things and contemplate unless I raly like it.
Anyway, they do seed mixes in shaker cylinders no that are resealable which is fantastic. They have two types of peonies and two types of individual dahlias and a chocolate cosmos box (it smells lie chocolate it'sso good). Thenthey have selctionpackets of warm dhalias (reds and yellows and oranges. Very nice) and pastel dhalias, and onions and rhubarb and snapdragons. An I was like 'oooo I' save up for this combo' and they're £3 each for two for a fiver which is pretty good!
honestly very excite i'l probaly get the chocolate cosmos and plant it where I put the cosmos last year or in the front because it's sunnier there and not shaded out by the trees. mIGHT GET THE ARKER PEONY EVEN THOUGH IT LOOKS LIKE TWO WE ALREADY HAVE (WHICH ARE HERITAGE PEONIES MY DAD SAVED FROM A CLIENT AND WE'VE NEVER NOWN WHAT AVARIETY THEY ARE, BUT THEY ARE OLD like older than me old and still come back year after year beautifully and smell so wonderful) oops that was a caps lock accident i'm too lazy to fix that!
Might get some of the dahlias. the warm ones specifically because one of them reminds me of a bishop series where it was red but i'l have to see if the shop's online site says anything (i didn't look properly haha!). might get the onion set. my mum wants to try growing rhubarb again (we had it very successful for years but then the plum tree got too big haha!) so will have to discuss and I can't remember the prices on them. didn't look at those.
My um was like 'hey. strawberry indor for mother's day [next month in the UK]' and in my head I'm like'can't afford tose but can afford two of these plants with any luck'(last year i got my mum a sarah bearndheart peony for her birthday in early May and it's coming up again atm so hopefully it'll flower. then in autumn i'llplant it out if it's dry enough.
#listen i got serotonin from that display i'm not even kidding#sends my back to childhood where i'd legit be following my dad over my mum in a garden centre because my mum yo yod and halfhurried but my#dad would answer allmy questions and teach me things (he was a former gardener and farmer by trade haha!) and he'd let me smell the flowers#if they were in blom and if i really raly reallyliked the look of something he'd get it hehehe#(he bough an indoor plants named after me and it was blue and i thinkit died the year before he did and he always said my death would be hi#own whch iguess is half tru there... wow now I'm gonna haunt myself from that i just realised it anyway *brushes that dark moment aside*#whilst my mum wouldn't unless it was small or she hadn't picked up much#i wouldn't even ask i'd just be like 'oooodaddy this ispretty' and he'd be like 'oooo I'm taking a real healthy lookin' one*yoink*'#people wonder where i get it from ... XD#anyway but me and bulbs is my mum and bulbs: she has to feelevery bag for any squishers (rottons) lie they're potatoes and she'llpick up th#healthiest ones. particularly daffodils. she loves daffodils.#meanwhile my dad planted tulips like over ten years ago and they still flower in the front garden. they're this red colour! very pretty!#i need to see ifthey're coming up above the muscari that's suddenly everywere#anyway imiss garden centres. there was one that would have goldfish and dragon flies#and every damn time i'd be like 'are we going to see the fish?' and my dad would take me to see the fish#and if we went to lackock's whitehall we'd see the animals as well as the plants...#missin'me dad but hey! his favourite flowers are now mine too haha!
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