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hawberries · 10 months

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i don't know if you can tell but i've been really into stacking guys on top of each other lately. in a manner of speaking

#spiderman across the spiderverse #spiderverse #hobie brown #gwen stacy #miles morales #pavitr prabhakar #fanart #people!#c: stack

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computer-nerd-girl · 1 year

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hayaway · 2 months

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I was playing Persona 5 the another day and I saw this!

I will post it here as a reminder to have my own way of coding 💻✨

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chiropteracupola · 3 months

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Our trusty and well-beloved Captain Jane Roland.

#em draws stuff #em is posting about temeraire #temeraire #jane roland #I think of her and brick house begins to play in my mind...#'that lady's stacked and that's a fact' &c &c...

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avaantares · 5 months

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Wait, Zhao Yunlan's gun is actually a...?!

(I've never claimed production meta for @guardianbingo before, but after the amount of time and research I put in on this, I feel like I've earned the "Zhao Yunlan's Gun or Whip" square, haha)

SO. GUYS.

Maybe this is something fandom as a whole figured out back in 2018, but I, who didn't hear of Guardian until 2020, did not realize until now and I need to share the knowledge because when I finally noticed, I made an unholy sound.

I've tracked down where Zhao Yunlan's gun came from -- or at least, what it most likely started as. Not the in-universe dark-energy-maybe-uses-bullets-maybe-doesn't-device-that's-best-not-thought-about-too-long, but rather the actual fake-steampunk-revolver-that-is-best-not-looked-at-too-long-because-it's-awful prop.

Y'know, this disaster:

I was actually working on a different Guardian Bingo fill and needed to look something up for continuity, so I'd flipped through a couple of episodes at super high speed trying to find a scene. As luck would have it, one of my skips forward happened to land on the scene I screencapped above, when ZYL confronts Zhang Shi.

Normally we don't get this clear (or this stationary) a shot of the godawful gun prop. I'd assumed all along they had just taken a plastic gun, glued some extra bits and bobs on it to make it look fancy, and hit it with some dry brushing (fun fact: you can watch the paint flake throughout the series; check out the top of the barrel and the side of the cylinder in the above screenshot!) to make it look #steampunk like the abandoned aesthetic of 25% of the show (as I've said before, I have theories about what happened in preproduction, but that's another post). This sort of thing is exactly what I've done for cheap cosplay weapons or background props for film work that aren't going to be seen at HD detail range.

Anyway, since the detail showed up better here than in other shots, I paused the video to look at the random screws and hex bolts (why??) they'd glued on it, since I recalled that I had the aforementioned gun/whip bingo square to fill.

That's when I noticed a detail that had eluded me before: An inverted V shape at the bottom of the grip.

Only looking more closely, that's not an inverted V. It's a symbol that I've seen a whole series of variations of over the past 15+ years... every time there's a new installment of the Assassin's Creed video game series:

So I started hunting. The principal weapons in each game turned up no matches, but eventually I found a gun that looks almost exactly like ZYL's:

It's not a perfect replica, but the details are certainly all there: The stylized logo; the leaves and swirls on the grip; the feathers up the back; even the Victorian scrollwork beneath the barrel.

Now, what's really interesting is that this gun isn't actually from the AC game series. It's part of an elaborate fan project by artist David Paget that started as a class assignment back in 2014. Even though it gathered a bit of steam in the AC fandom and generated a couple of forum role-play groups, OCs and the like, nothing about this artwork was ever connected to a real Assassin's Creed title. So why would there be a physical version of a gun that was only someone's fanart?

This is where the smoking gun (*rimshot*) goes missing, because I can't prove any of this, and it's been long enough that digging through the archives of the internet to find answers is going to take way more time than I can afford to spend on a project I'm not getting paid for. But there are two likely possibilities:

Scenario A: Some employee in a toy factory somewhere in China got told, "This Assassin's Creed franchise is really big, so we need to be producing replicas from those games to sell. Work up some designs." So the employee Googles "assassin's creed gun," finds David Paget's very professional-looking art, and whips up a replica to mass-injection-mold without realizing it's not actually from a game. Later, someone on the cash-strapped Guardian production team needs a gun to mod, and finds a cheap toy revolver on clearance after several years of sitting in storage because there was little demand for a replica of a gun that was never in a game. They buy several, glue hex bolts on the cylinder for reasons unknown, and poof! Instant pseudo-steampunk!

Scenario B: Other fans were involved in the design. Someone did build a 3D model of David Paget's design that's still available on Sketchfab (screenshot below), and it's not unreasonable to assume that other fans could have thought it looked cool and built 3D printable models. Later, someone on the cash-strapped Guardian production team needs a gun to mod, and acquires the 3D print file of one of those models from the interwebs. They mod the file a bit, print some, glue hex bolts on the cylinder for reasons unknown, and poof! Instant pseudo-steampunk!

Personally, I find Scenario A far more likely than Scenario B, for two reasons: First, the hero prop looks more injection molded than 3D printed, especially given the technical state of 3D printing back in 2017-8. And second... Budget-challenged dramas do have a history of picking up bulk video game replicas and using them as cheap props. I made a post back in 2019 about the WoW Horde shields we spotted in a different drama...

Anyway, no firm answers about the source of the hero prop -- the world may never know! -- but we have now confirmed that in some alternate universe (possibly one of the first eighty?), Zhao Yunlan and/or Zhao Xinci is an Assassin.

Wait, wait, wait... *recalls mechanics of how the whole Assassin's Creed frame story is supposed to work* Uh... so... who wants to write a genetic memory explanation for the whole Kunlun -> [lots of lifetimes] -> Zhao Yunlan thing?

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(I did actually check the catalogue of a friend of mine who makes replicas of props from various media franchises to see if he'd done a commission of the David Paget design, since a surprising number of his custom pieces actually do end up on film and television, but while he has a gorgeous replica of a revolver that actually appears in an AC game, it appears he has not done the Zhao Yunlan gun. I didn't really think it likely, since he's in the U.S., but you never know.)

#guardian #zhen hun #c-drama #guardian bingo #assassin's creed #tv props #it's always fun when my various hats end up stacked on top of one another

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carfuckerlynch · 2 years

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[transcript: 1. “and oh, my love, if you only knew how i long for you; how i waste my days wishin’ you would come around, just to have you around.”

2. “i love you. i say your name all the time when you’re not around just to put more of you in the world.”

3. “the number of hours we have together is actually not so large. please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.”

4. “what is the use of eyes if i’m not looking at you? it’s almost like they’re magnetic. almost, but made sweeter that they’re not: i can choose any sight or direction & here i am picking you.”

5. “…because feathers are strange. (start highlight) all i want is to finally take off my cowboy hat and show you my jeweled horns. if we slow dance i will ask you not to tug on them, but secretly i will want that very much.”

6. “i love you, jack, he said. i love you, jack, he said, at another station. when passengers come in from strange cities, the citizens come out to help the strangers. i love you, too, i said. i love you, too, i said.” /end transcript]

the decemberists— 12/17/12/c. t. salazar— headless john the baptist hitchhiking/mikko harvey— for m/silas denver melvin @sweatermuppet— love as an act of merciful conquer/kaveh akbar— calling a wolf a wolf/jack spicer— a second train song for gary

#edit pls come reblog from the original post i forgot to credit one of the writers #userjamie #the decemberists #silas denver melvin #web weaving #kaveh akbar #c. t. salazar #mikko harvey #sweatermuppet #odhran.txt #lit stacks

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pov-amna · 7 months

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When you find out that your 'original' code is just a copy of a copy of a copy...

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spop-romanticizes-abuse · 1 month

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I honestly hate how if the story had just not doubled down like it did then even Catras rushed redemption arc could have been somewhat excusable. Like before the end of season 3, I shipped Catra and Scorpia. I think the series was teasing at it. Catra had some pretty clear moments of caring about her and the like. Just have her stay like that, maybe have this bond keep building. Then i’d feel like she had the potential for a quick-ish redemption. But instead season four turns their dynamic deeply abusive and has Scorpia leave because she became too toxic to be around.

Part of making Zuko redeemable was Iroh. The fact that early on in the series he had the choice to save Iroh or catch the Avatar and immediately chose to save Iroh. The fact that he bonded with him and opened up to him. Similarly moments like him saving his crewmates and apologizing that his actions put them in danger, or trying to save Admiral Zhao’s life, did the same. It’s something Catra lacks, and especially lacks post-season 3.

#submission #agreed 100%#if they hadn't focused too much on making c//a canon i think catra could have had a decent redemption arc #even if its not the most drawn out #they just kept stacking one crime after another idek why #i guess just because people liked villains #spop critical #spop salt #spop criticism #spop discourse #spop #she ra #anti spop #anti catradora

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lonestarflight · 4 months

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This diagram shows the placement of LTA-B inside the SLA on Apollo 8.

Apollo 8 mission carried a ballast called Lunar Test Article B (LTA-B). The B probably stands for ballast. The LTA-B "was a dummy mass representing the mass of a real Lunar Module. It remained attached to the S-IVB stage."

George M. Low, ASPO Manager, set forth the rationale for using LTA-B (as opposed to some other LM test article or even a full-blown LM) as payload ballast on the AS-503 mission. That decision had been a joint one by Headquarters, MSFC, and MSC. Perhaps the chief reason for the decision was Marshall's position that the Saturn-V's control system was extremely sensitive to payload weight. Numerous tests had been made for payloads of around 38,555 kilograms but none for those in the 29,435 to 31,750-kilogram range. MSFC had therefore asked that the minimum payload for AS-503 be set at 38,555 kilograms."

The LTA-B being inclosed in the Apollo Spacecraft-Lunar Module Adapter (SLA-11A) at the Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, Florida.

"Because LTA-B brought the total payload weight to 39,780 kilograms, that vehicle had been selected for the Apollo 8 mission. All dynamic analyses in connection with the pogo problem had to be verified, but MSFC engineers were not concerned that the established weight would affect pogo performance. Because NASA had been prepared to fly AS-503 with a heavier payload - i.e., originally including LM-3 - Low saw no reason to be concerned about the decision made to fly the somewhat lighter and more symmetrical LTA-B."

Date: September 1968

source, source, source

#Apollo 8 #CSM-103 #Lunar Module #Lunar Module Test Article #LTA-B #NASA #Apollo Program #C Prime-type Mission #stacking #Manned Spacecraft Operations Building #MSOB #Kennedy Space Center #KSC #Florida #1968 #September #my post

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zelkam · 2 years

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“Wei Ying.”

— Nathaniel Orion G. K.

#cqledit #wangxian #Wei Wuxian #Lan Wangji #The Untamed #mdzs #myedit #hi hi hii it's been like 2 months since I last made gifs #and only like 2 days ago I realized that I can change the scratch disc directory in PS which made my life MUCH MUCH EASIER #bc my C drive was always suffering so much when I was giffing #but yeah I had this quote stacked away for a long long time already and it's just... Yeah #like the way they make their names sound like the most affectionate terms of endearment #the best thing I can call you... is you. nothing else compares.#and you are truly worthy of being Wei Ying............

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dennisboobs · 5 months

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i think everyone on sunnytwt needs to be sat down so i can explain to them what basic human empathy is. and then maybe i put them in a blender until they agree to write meta about the characters instead of whether or not charlie day got facial reconstruction surgery.

#ada speaks #u do not exist in a vacuum and your words have the capability to harm others #celebrities may not see your tweets but your balding transmasc mutual and your follower who feels self conscious about her nose will #it is fucking bizarre the way these people conduct themselves online #really. really fucking weird man #and then you see them acting like ppl are 'defending rich white men'#instead of taking issue with the actual shit theyre saying #whether or not you think rcg has been 'under the knife' or not #a) how is this any of your business. you are not entitled to this info nor do you have a free pass to criticize someone's personal choice #b) ask yourself why you feel you need to critique alleged surgeries and how they stack up to imposed conventional beauty standards #c) you do not *own* them. you can have opinions on your own attraction to them but #a person getting plastic surgery or hair plugs or whatever is up to them. not you. if it helps to make them feel better then who cares.#just because it doesn't make them attractive to YOU doesn't mean its okay to point and laugh #if a trans guy got top surgery and it was 'botched' would you act like they were stupid for getting it in the first place?#if a trans woman decided she wanted to surgically shave her jaw would you shame her for that?#it's their body. it's not yours.#for the record i don't believe any of them have gotten work done but think its a stupid thing to speculate on regardless #ive watched family members go through plastic surgeries of varying success. ive seen them get botox and hair plugs and everything #normal everyday people do it and it's not always about vanity #it can be for gender reaffirming reasons (and yes this includes when cis people do it) to alleviate dysphoria #trying to point out alleged surgical alterations made is just. gross #not to mention that holy shit MOST of the shit ppl are saying is like. age. different hairstyles. different facial expressions.#maybe if these people actually watched the show theyd be able to see the gang in action instead of staring at pics like spot the difference

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hawberries · 10 months

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welcome aboard the astral express can i uhhhhhh take your order

[image is an illustration of the astral express crew piled up on top of each other: Himeko casually hoists Welt over her shoulder, who's squinting at a newspaper and pouring coffee into her cup. Dan Heng sits on Welt's back, deadpan and holding a giddy March in his lap, who's got Stelle balanced on her shoulder. Stelle is holding Caelus over her shoulder; both trailblazers look slightly confused. Pompom waves from the top.]

#honkai star rail #hsr #himeko #welt yang #dan heng #march 7th #stelle #caelus #pompom #fanart #people!#c: stack

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computer-nerd-girl · 10 months

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yoohooyu · 2 years

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#let them fight like this trust me on this one #i just want to see them stacked like this #therer is no story purpose just S T A C K #ryu ga gotoku #yakuza #taiga saejima #kiryu kazuma #goro majima

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snoctober · 2 years

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au where everything is the exact same except tim carries around a camera at night, not to stalk batman or anything, but to take really close up pictures of rats and rats only

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slaughter-books · 4 months

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Day 16: JOMPBPC: Favourite Genre

I love contemporaries and I love rainbow book stacks! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷

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