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nerfherder-02 · 1 year

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I've been thinking about why I love Andor so much (besides the fact that it's brilliant and the best star wars media in years) and it led to me thinking about the fact that most of my favorite star wars media is within the time of the Empire.

I think it boils down to the core story of Star Wars, the timeless struggle of a few desperate people against a looming enemy. the indomitable human (or alien) spirit. the innate desire for justice that prevails against all odds. the catharsis of seeing the abusive systems crumble from within, inch by suffocated inch.

I think the best stories are those that we can find within ourselves. maybe even when we don't live in a time of despotic regimes, we will still have to go to war with the oppression in our homes, or our minds. we have to wake up every day and make every effort to fight the good fight. and when the evil creeps in, keeps us apart, confuses and pushes us down, we have to shake off the dust, learn to trust, and fight!

#star wars #andor #andor thoughts #original star wars #gosh i'm emotional about star wars again #i keep coming back to it because it's endlessly fascinating #and dear to my heart #i love when star wars is real #it's gritty #it's human #but most of all it's love #and family #and justice #i love stories

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suiheisen · 10 months

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gritty both capturing the zeitgeist as usual AND educating me on the availability of free flow butter at american cinemas

#i am intrigued………..#is it to spritz more butter on your popcorn????#does the popcorn come unbuttered?#or is it extra flavouring on top of that #is it at all cinemas? or just some??#is it just pure melted liquid butter???#anyway #i just watched oppenheimer but honestly all i can think of is that tiktok comment: ‘why einstein gotta be such a cutie patootie’#yes i’m drained but also….#albert einstein in his babygirl era #long post #gritty #barbie #barbenheimer #philadelphia flyers

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pyladeshungover · 7 months

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#blessssss!!!#gritty #philadelphia flyers #nhl #hockey

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savagegood · 1 year

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literally who is doing it like gritty, icône de l'extrême gauche américaine?

#c'est quoi gritty? c'est mon emotional support mascot!!!#someone retweeted the gritty twerk video and i went down a gritty spiral on twitter....#there were worse ways to spend my time #gritty #philadelphia flyers #hockey #196 #r/196 #nhl #nyc #climate change #barbie #pride #pride month #smokey the bear

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wildaboutmnhockey · 5 months

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you better watch out you better watch out YOU BETTER WATCH OUT

#gritty #philadephia flyers #christmas #holidays

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drizzledrawings · 28 days

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There’s a good man within you Arthur, but he is wrestling with a giant

#he’s gritty and an asshole but not much different than his high honour counterpart #the cutscenes are pretty much the same #but it gives me a different perspective on him and the game #idk I love him #red dead redemption 2 #low honor arthur morgan #arthur morgan #rdr2 arthur #rdr2 fanart #rdr2 #high honor arthur morgan #red dead redemption fanart #red dead redemption two #I love low honour Arthur

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theshitpostcalligrapher · 8 months

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gonna put the progress of this thing in its own post

so we start with references

then i figure out my layouts and start sketchin, putting the text down first after initial drafting

then i gotta fully flesh out all of the illustrative bits with pencil sketching. we got the holy gritty with his holy hockey staff and flyers pendant, little bits of orange dashed onto there, designing the flyers logo wherever i can

then we get black inking on there, bit more orange as well. normally i get kinda heartbroken when I smear a bit of ink here or there by mistake, even patch to fix mistakes sometimes.

But I'm gonna be real. The small blots match too well with the overall energy of the piece

the next image will be the fully completed piece!

#calligraphy #shitpost #gritty #long post #illuminated manuscript #hockey

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gyudons · 1 year

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you tell ‘em, king

#yeah <3 #philadelphia flyers #gritty #nhl #hockey #pride #pride month #lgbt #lgbtq #gay #queer #lesbian #asexual #bisexual #transgender

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inkskinned · 1 year

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i think one of the reasons glass onion is so fun is that it just... loves the audience back.

so many popular movies and shows these days thrive on a sort of bitter engagement with their fans - where the fans are dismissed as being stupid, annoying, and needlessly angry. we are constantly positioned as being less intelligent as the writers.

so much of "spoiler-free" movie-making relies on writers getting away with one twist in their work, regardless of if that twist was earned. the work doesn't actually have any rewatch value or interesting writing - because they think "good writing" is about "pulling one over" on the audience. they don't focus on making interesting characters or storylines or good endings - they focus on fooling you. glass onion, meanwhile, has faith that the audience has figured the ending out, and that we'll watch anyway, because we love the characters.

so many adaptions of older works... kind of seem to hate the original work. they're done without passion. they're done almost as if checking off a box. so many of them openly mock the audience for enjoying the original, almost directly telling us that we are fools for ever having loved something.

but glass onion. loves the audience. it knows that many of the people watching are mystery-lovers. it is an homage that feels love towards the original works it references. it knows we also love those works; and instead of trying to disparage those works, it allows us to celebrate them.

one of my favorite things about it - and maybe why i found it so satisfying - is that this movie isn't trying to tell you it's the smartest, bestest, most-clever detective story. instead, it asks itself what is satisfying and exciting for the audience? and actually gives us that payoff. it's bright, colorful, and fucking fun.

just... more of this please. i'm very bored of nihilism and grittiness and "shock value" writing. put the love back in. let us love unironically. have your work say i love you too. thank you for sharing this story.

#is this bc i keep thinking about bbc sherlock and how we were all done dirty?#yeah :/#does this make sense?#i know there are other examples of movies like this that love the audience but i just #was inspired by this particular example #since it COULD have been a 'gritty version of a thing u love'

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yomeiu · 5 months

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nowhere like our places.

#i give up trying to crop this either its too blurry or too zoomed out #i realllyyy really like the idea of them going to extremely ugly places #they claim it and make it their own as hangout spots #dark and gritty my beloved #dazai osamu #chuuya nakahara #soukoku #skk #chuuya #dazai #bsd #bungo stray dogs #illustration #i missed you

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anarchywoofwoof · 8 months

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"kill them kindness" WRONG. Gritty Meme Dump!!!!!

#gritty #memes

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buttersteps · 5 months

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you’d better watch out…

#gritty #philadelphia flyers #christmas

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thestuffedalligator · 7 months

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I read Fat Face by Michael Shea last month and it was. Fine? It was a Cthulhu Mythos story written in the 80s, it was very edgy and it had a lot of tropes I’m not a fan of, I don’t really recommend it, but I have to talk about one detail I have not stopped thinking about since I read it.

So. I knew Fat Face through reputation because it was the story that inspired Shoggoth Lords from the Call of Cthulhu TTRPG, shoggoths that can control their cellular makeup to look like humans. And the twist in Fat Face is that shoggoths have been hiding amongst humans in Los Angeles, and at the end of the story one of them eats the protagonist.

The tone of the story is grit. It’s grime. It’s sleaze and sexual violence and drug abuse on top of cosmic horror. It wants to be taken seriously so bad.

But here’s the thing about the shoggoths: they have a business.

They have two businesses they run out of an office building in downtown Los Angeles. A shoggoth is a primordial blob of eyes and mouths and flesh and hunger, and the idea of one of them at the LA Office of Finance registering an LLC is already. Great. Perfect. No notes.

The business is a front — and again, that’s great, a shoggoth went, “I want to do some nefarious deeds and not get caught by humans; I know, I’ll register a fake business that’ll be a front, and no human will ever suspect” — because the actual interior of this office is a room of pools of water made from black and ancient Antarctic rocks so that shoggoths can relax in their original blobby forms and eat stray animals that they’ve caught.

So it’s basically just. A place for shoggoths to unwind after a long day of pretending to be human. It’s portrayed as cosmic horror, but it’s shoggoth Cheers. Sometimes you wanna go where nobody knows your shape.

Here’s the kicker. The front of the business is a hydrotherapy clinic and stray pet rescue.

When they decided to make a front for their secret lair in an LA office building where they hang out in pools of water and eat stray animals — the front they prominently display and advertise — they decided to go with a hydrotherapy clinic and stray pet rescue.

That is Goosebumps shit. The rest of the story reads like a tone poem about the sleaze and violence of Los Angeles, and the main twist of the story reads like R.L. Stine.

But that’s not even the detail I can’t stop thinking about. Because the story reveals that this business — which again, is a front made by alien blobs to eat stray animals like an ALF-themed buffet and hang out in jacuzzi tubs of Antarctic rocks in an LA office — has a flyer.

Which means there’s a shoggoth with a passion for graphic design

#lovecraft #shoggoth #horror #and this isn’t me demanding realism in my cthulhu mythos #but i think it proves that at a certain point grim and gritty storytelling becomes absurdist comedy #the rest of the story is a gritty crime drama about being a sex worker who breasts boobily under the pitiless california sun #and the twist which is supposed to be cosmic horror elevates it into zany cartoonishness

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sisaloofafump · 2 months

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In case it seems like every third comic has Batman in it... you're not wrong. He's been in 38.6% of DC issues since 2020, with a stark increase of 8% each decade since the 90s and surpassing Superman in popularity. Despite this, there's been a massive drop off of comics where he is teamed up with Superman or a Robin (although the amount of group team ups between Batman Family members has increased, as well as Nightwing solos).