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finchers-ipad · 9 months

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SE7EN FUN FACTS!! (SPOILER WARNING)

these are my favourite facts/little details about the production!!! a lot of them are from the dvd commentary, ‘David Fincher: Mindgames’ book and other random interviews i have consumed! :)

(thank you to @loosebonez for giving to an excuse to dump these and itch my brain!!)

- Fincher wanted to keep Kevin Spacy out of the marketing campaign for se7en so that his reveal would be all the more shocking, this included not having him in trailers, posters and even his name not being on the opening credits (and on letterboxd Spacey’s name isn’t at the top of the cast list like it normally would be for such a big role but it’s at the very bottom of the cast list, which is very cool and epic of letterboxd)

- (related) in the promotional material , the scene of John Doe’s phone call to Mills and Somerset is included, and because they were keeping Kevin Spacy out of the campaign, FINCHER DOES THE VOICE OF JOHN DOE WHICH IS SO FUCKING COOL!!

- Fincher wanted the film to be a “no colour, colour movie” and therefore kept the production and set design to a very gray/black/green colour pallet so that when colour is used it has impact and draws the audiences attention (seen most notably with the colour red for blood, Johns prison outfit being red to show he is a threat and stand out and the neon red cross over John Doe’s bed)

- Fincher was sent the wrong script when being asked to do the film, as there was multiple versions of the ending, and the ending he was supposed to be sent was one where Mills’s dog’s head is in the box at the end instead of Tracys head. it was in Brad Pitt’s contract that he would only do the film if it had the head in the box ending

- an extra in the back of the barbershop scene was drunk on set, and the extra sat in the chair was worried that he was going to cut him with a straight razor (which was real and not a prop because the props department ran out of them lmao)

- Clive Piercy and John Sabel, who designed John Doe’s diary’s spent 2 months and around $15000 (i found that number online but idk how accurate it is) to HANDWRITE a lot of the diary’s. obviously not all of them are hand written but the ones given close ups on camera and in the opening credits are. there are around 2000 notebooks. there is a special feature section on the dvd where you can listen to them explain how they created them and the ideas behind the information they put in them, it’s very interesting i highly recommend it :3

- in the back of the leather store scene, John Doe can be seen looking at Mills and Somerset through the window from the outside, he even has a limp like the guy working there mentioned. he has a limp because he cut his leg on a window when Mills was chasing him earlier in the film.

- se7en was heavily inspired by the neo-nior films of the 70’s such as ‘The French Connection’

- Andrew Kevin Walker (the scriptwriter) makes a cameo at the beginning of the film as the dead guy at the first crime scene before the opening credits

- Fincher and Arthur Max (production designer) wanted the city that the film is set to be nameless and unrecognisable, which lets the audience think that this type of crime can be going on in any city and all around them. they ensured the anonymity of the city by removing and changing street signs, creating police cars with their own unique design to the film. they also did no large establishing shots of the city, and if they did, they were shots of building exteriors and general unrecognisable images

-Fincher and Pitt both agreed that Mills is a selfish character, and should be presented as such. they amplified this by adding David and Tracey’s dogs last minute, to show that he is so selfish as to move these big dogs into a small city apartment

- there is a deleted scene of Somerset checking out a new house in the country side, which would have been at the beginning of the film and they really liked this cute little cottage that they filmed it at but it was RIGHT next to a maximum security prison so they had to put these massive barrels of hay in-front of the barbed wire to block the view of the prison 😭

- not a fact but the dvd commentary for se7en is available on spotify and it has the audio from the film too which is really cool (please listen to it just to hear how crazy Arthur Max’s voice is)

THANK YOU FOR READING MY INFO DUMP!!! i fucking love this film (if you couldn’t tell already) and i honestly probably have more facts but these are my favourites that come to mind!!! crazy film with silly guys that established Fincher as a director :) (sorry about any spelling mistakes) <3

#INFO DUMP #long post #se7en #se7en (1995)#david fincher #fincher #david mills #william somerset #brad pitt #morgan freeman #films

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lickoutyourbrains · 5 months

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I enjoyed the DJD serial killer au and would like to propose the idea of the DJD filming their kills and making their own DVDS. In the extras section you can decide if you want to hear Tarn's directors' commentary or not

(there's also a hidden feature on the menu where you can /really/ experience Tarn's directors' commentary, but they don't play that at home.)

Oh 10000% YES they absolutely make their own snuff films!!! Tarn always puts an overlay of the empyrean suit over it as the soundtrack.

Always.

#brains answers asks #brains won't shut up about the DJD

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kylesvariouslistsandstuff · 1 year

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A CHICKEN RUN Workprint & Such

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Quite something that the year CHICKEN RUN: DAWN OF THE NUGGET comes out, we get a look at never-before-seen behind-the-scenes stuff for Aardman Animations' debut feature film...

This channel contains a workprint for the film that has quite a few alternate versions of scenes, alternate lines, and plenty of storyboarded bits to fill in the gaps. Temp music throughout, too. You know, the usual animated movie workprint stuff.

Even more enticing is an over hour-long collection of early test footage, of how the characters move, all on various sets, some of which very rough and simple, and likely intentionally so. Almost like a pitch pilot. There's even some CGI in there, for figuring out how the more mechanical things in the movie - such as the makeshift "crate" plane - work.

CHICKEN RUN has long been a favorite of mine. I saw it in the theaters when I was turning 8, and I absolutely loved it! I watched the VHS over and over, I even had a CHICKEN RUN lunch pack! It had Rocky on it, flying through the air on his tricycle. I've enjoyed all of Aardman's films, but this debut feature really hit the ground running. Just so good, so tight, everything about it is just so cool- BUT this isn't a review of Nick Park and Peter Lord's groundbreaking stop-motion made-of-plasticine movie, I could waffle on about this one for days... Anyways, a favorite of mine, and to see all this behind the scenes stuff is great.

I absolutely love watching workprints and rough cuts of animated movies, and reels of test footage and other such components. Up until YouTube came about, the closest I feasibly had to that was the carefully-edited "Work In Progress" version of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, which was available to *me* via the 2002 DVD release. The actual workprint, as in what a specific audience saw at the New York Film Festival in mid-1991, was preserved on the original home video release's deluxe edition... Which I did not have back in the day. The DVD has a sweetened version for a more casual viewing audience. There was also the full rough cut of HEAVY METAL that was available on its DVD release, complete with an audio commentary by Carl Macek. Just so much informative stuff in what you're seeing alone...

It's been a great time for fans of this kind of stuff. This year, we also saw a partial workprint of THE LITTLE MERMAID from around mid-1989 get out online, which curiously capped off with the trailer for the movie that appeared on the VHS release of BAMBI later that year. A workprint of ALADDIN, made sometime after Jeffrey Katzenberg's complete rip-down of the project in 1991, floated around YouTube for quite some time. A full LION KING workprint, made around the time the whole middle section was being reworked in mid-1993, can be found on Archive. A good chunk of Richard Purdum's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is around, too. As for Pixar, there's some TOY STORY and A BUG'S LIFE rough cut stuff going around as well...

One big lost media drop, for me, was last year with THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE's fifth season, like several VHS tapes of dailies and rushes that was like a day's length.

What I would like to see drop next?

Any Disney animated movie would certainly suffice, particularly some holy grails, like a pre-regime change version of THE BLACK CAULDRON that has the infamous melting soldier scene in it and all those extra Fflewddur Fflam dialogue bits. Or KINGDOM OF THE SUN, the film that was thrown out in 1998 and retooled into THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE.

DreamWorks and Sony, too. A full workprint of the Chris Farley SHREK? Maybe B.O.O.: BUREAU OF OTHERWORLDLY OPERATIONS, the almost-done movie from 2014-15 that was completely scrapped? I've seen various completed scenes of it via various animators' resumes on Vimeo. Whatever was completed of BOLLYWOOD SUPERSTAR MONKEY and LARRIKINS, that too.

What I'd like to see, like on my mind right now... Two particular pre-acquisition Pixar movies... TOY STORY 2 and FINDING NEMO.

Like, a TOY STORY 2 that still had Al's Toy Barn in the suburbs and not right across the street from the penthouse ("all the way to work!"), a TOY STORY 2 that still has that weird Godzilla roleplay scene that landed Woody in the yard sale by accident, I want to see more of what that version looked like. An earlier version of FINDING NEMO with unfinished no-water scenes and wonky-looking humans is something I'd be down for, honestly. I love seeing this sort of stuff in the raw, before all the refinements. It gives everything a bit of an alien quality, honestly, that only makes it all the more fascinating.

Those, off the top of my head.

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mourningbirds1 · 3 years

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@thirstworldproblemss here for the DVD Commentary thing (and yes, I got your ask…. I’m just slow). This bit from Gresham House please:

“I do love it when you smile. Even though I can’t see. I can hear it. And it makes me happy. To know that you’re happy. Or relaxed, at least. It’s all I want, you know.”

He’s quiet for a long time. You’ve mostly learned to read his silences but this one feels different. When at last he speaks, it’s slow and deliberate. As though he’s testing the weight of each word before he says it.

“Things have changed since I last came here. I’ve shown my face to someone. Someone I… someone who’s very important to me,” he says. “And I want to show you. If you’d like that.”

“I should like that a great deal,” you tell him slowly. “But—”

He lifts his hand to his helmet and you catch his wrist before he reaches it. Before he does anything he might regret. “Wait. Are you really sure? You’re certain it’s alright?”

He gives you one of his nods.

“Let me—here, I’ll give you some room.” You transfer yourself from his lap to the mattress.

And then, unbelievably, Din hooks his thumb under the base of his helmet and slowly pushes it half way up his face, revealing to you his mouth, and a strong, unshaven jaw. He holds it there, seeming to hesitate.

“Have you changed your mind?” Or shall I dim the light?”

“Yes. The light. Thank you.”

His voice is different. Unaffected by whatever mechanism the helmet employs to alter it. Your heart begins to race at the sound of it, and at the sight of his teeth, his lips, his moustache. He has a moustache. And his jaw. His dear, stoic jaw.

You get up and lower the jet on the gaslight, watching his shoulders soften as the light changes. He waits for you to return to the bed, and once you’re seated beside him, he pushes the helmet the rest of the way off and places it carefully on your bedside table.

“You’re very handsome.”

The words are inadequate - he is the most beautiful man you’ve ever seen - but they draw a soft smile from him nonetheless.

He takes you by the waist and pulls you closer. “Come here,” he murmurs, “I want to kiss you.”

Hiii TWP! 😍 what a treat to see you in my inbox 💕

This section is from my Din Djarin one shot Gresham House.

Oh man, this part was SO HARD to write. Poor @alwaysbethewest had to listen to me moan and whinge and complain about it every single day while I was writing this one shot. Aside from the smut, this was the thing that gave me the most trouble in this fic.

A little behind the scenes context here - I think Din first met Boarding House Proprietress some time before the events of Season One (I do have some thoughts on the circumstances of this...) but clearly, Din was unable to visit her while he was caring for Grogu. Hence their emotional reunion in this fic.

So when Din says Things have changed since I last came here. I’ve shown my face to someone. Someone I… someone who’s very important to me, he is referring to Grogu. I hoped that, for any readers who deduced this, his comparison with Grogu and his desire to also show her his face, would imply the strength of his feelings for Boarding House Proprietress.

I felt a lot of pressure to honour the seriousness of this moment and to show that the helmet removal was still a difficult thing for him to do - he can't just whip it off. So balancing his vulnerability, while still maintaining his power and stoicism, had me tearing my hair out tbh.

I also wanted to do justice to the excitement and enthusiasm she would feel here, while making it clear that she was not pressuring him at all.

And I felt extra pressure on that last point because the whole time I was writing this fic I kept worrying that readers would dislike her for some reason. She is quite different from most of the characters/readers that are paired with Din and I felt insecure about this.

All in all it was a really delicate dynamic to write.

And then it was just really hard to describe the mechanics of the helmet removal in a way that was dramatic and emotional and interesting. Kind of like writing an orgasm, which is another thing that gives me a massive bloody headache and another thing that @alwaysbethewest has to listen to me complain about on the reg 😅😅

One of my favourite lines in this fic is when she tells him “You’re very handsome.” That was my little reward to myself for managing to write that passage lol. I just want him to know how beautiful he is 😌

DVD Commentary ask game

#dvd commentary ask game #gresham house #thirstworldproblemss #din djarin #nt

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ajoblotofjunk · 4 years

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DVD commentary for the July chapter of HFOG! or just the motorcycle ride if that’s too much lol

All of July is too much for me mentally right now so I’ll do the motorcycle ride. :D This got (unsurprisingly!!) long, so lemme put a Keep Reading cut in real quick.

A week later, on the off Sunday between Winterfell and Lannisport, Jaime was spending his birthday alone at the office.

I’ll do this whole section, since it being on his birthday was the trigger I used to get Jaime to ask her to go on the bike. This scene was one of like three I had in my head from pretty much the beginning. I find motorcycles extremely sexy (I’m an easy target okay) and I loved the idea of forcing these two knuckleheads into that much physical contact in what should theoretically be a platonic experience; I just had to figure out how to get them there since Brienne just spent the last part of June pushing Jaime back a step. Hard to say no to a lonely man on his birthday though.

going clubbing until they were both passed out or dead by the end of it. Bronn was home with Lollys, probably having enough sex to stock them up until August, and Jaime wasn’t really close enough with the rest of the crew to consider spending time with them outside of work.

I think this was the month where I decided Bronn was going to be genuinely happy with Lollys. I know I mentioned her early on but I toyed around in my head for awhile with the idea that he was still kind of loose and maybe even unfaithful to her, and I decided I didn’t want to go that way. I wanted to like Bronn in this fic. He’s kind of my Sarcastic Wise Elder character for these two and I really grew to love the idea that he is just as much an inner softie in his heart as Jaime is, that that sharp outer shell/gooey center combo was something that connected them. I think it really helped in the October chapter that Bronn was likable, because then that scene in the hospital between him and Jaime had a much bigger emotional hit.

The only other person he wanted to see was Brienne and though she’d sent him a ‘happy birthday!’ text that morning unprompted, he hadn’t responded for

I laugh to myself thinking about Brienne hovering over that text message all “should I send a gif? is the text going to be enough? what about emojis? Is it weird if I text him at all? He didn’t tell me it was his birthday but I definitely know it’s his birthday because I have memorized a lot of unimportant facts about a man I am Definitely Not Into.”

lunch, smoked what he swore was the only cigarette he would have as a thirty-six year old, and then aimlessly watched TV for a few hours before driving his motorcycle into the office.

Jaime uses smoking to fill the hole of the things he wants but believes he’ll never have. At the start of the fic that’s respect and winning races. As he slowly gets those things, he smokes whenever he’s thinking about Brienne, even though he does not realize it consciously. Once he gets all three, he stops smoking for good.

There had been a scattered handful of engineers there that afternoon, working away in preparation for the different requirements of Lannisport next week, but

Honestly, sometimes remembering there were hundreds of people working on this team in particular was exhausting. 😂 I always had this constant voice in the back of my head of Lannister Corp scenes of “where are all these other workers and what are they doing?” It works here because I needed the ride to happen at night, but this is just giving me flashbacks to “oh right this team is actually 500-1000 people, not just these 12.”

He raised his glass of water to his empty office. “Happy birthday to me,” he muttered, taking a sip. It wasn’t even flavored water, which felt like such a maudlin statement on his life that he couldn’t finish it.

The “it wasn’t even flavored water” line still makes me laugh to this day. It’s one of my favorite moments in the entire story. It’s so DRAMATIC. Like, my god man, get a hold of yourself. Anyway, I love drama queen Jaime.

He probably should have texted Taena or Melara, but he didn’t want to spend time with them. He didn’t want to listen to his sister’s barely concealed insults

I had a whole bit…I think it was in August? Might have been earlier, I can’t recall now, anyway, two or three paragraphs talking about how Jaime met Melara and Taena and why they all worked out this arrangement and Brynn (rightly) made the point that it didn’t actually add anything to the story I was telling. I managed to cover what really mattered about it in two sentences instead. The moral of this is that this story could have been even longer but Brynn is the best so you should thank her.

find out what she did on her off days, what kind of birthday cake she liked, if

Chocolate with chocolate and fruit filling and chocolate frosting, FYI.

Brienne’s worried frown deepened. “Have you done anything for your birthday today?”

“I had a cigarette.”

She shook her head, looking disappointed. “Anything that doesn’t shorten your life by doing it?”

I also really like this line. I’m a fan of Worried Mom Friend Brienne, too.

“I drank some water,” he grumbled.

Unflavored! Like an ANIMAL. 😂

“Have you even eaten?”

“I feel like we’ve had this conversation before.”

She blinked, startled, and then a sheepish grin swarmed over her face. “I guess some things don’t change. At least you didn’t insult me this time.”

“Progress,” he said, smiling, watching her features go soft and open in a way he’d probably dream about that night. Distance, his brain reminded him.

I didn’t plan for this quiet callback to the sandwich conversation from January, but I really was pleased to see it happen. It makes sense; Brienne wants the people she cares about to take care of themselves and where back in January I think she felt she was being more his Mom, here they’re both aware she’s being his friend and that’s part of why it’s a softer moment.

“Then come riding with me. Have you been on a motorcycle before?”

“No. My dad was firmly against it after Galladon died.”

At this point in the fic I was pretty sure Brienne was going to drive although I hadn’t worked out all the details of how I was going to get there yet, but when I wrote this I definitely shored up the “Selwyn is very overprotective” support I’d only just started to build back with the phone call in January. I also knew when I wrote this that Jaime was going to bring the motorcycle to Tarth and her dad was going to be all about it, even though I wasn’t sure how that was going to happen.

“Well,” he said, standing slowly, “your dad’s not here now, is he?”

Fun fact: this story idea first appeared to me in relation to Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire” and there’s a lyric in there - ‘hey little girl is your daddy home, did he go and leave you all alone’ - that this quietly references. And actually I wanted the whole motorcycle ride to have the exact same feeling when you’re reading it as I feel listening to that song! It’s a direct path from there to here emotionally.

(In some other universe instead of this I wrote a fic where Jaime keeps bringing his car in to Selwyn’s Garage just so he can see Brienne, grease smudged on her face, and he asks her to deliver it to his home and she does and, well. It doesn’t go like the video. *g*)

(That video and song were very formative influences on young me though I was not aware of it at the time. If you haven’t heard the song or seen the video, here you go: https://youtu.be/lrpXArn3hII)

Jaime arched an eyebrow. “My bike is plenty big.”

Brienne snorted but the red in her cheeks spread out to her crooked her nose and down the freckled length of her long neck. “Sounds like you’re compensating, Lannister.”

I could show you he thought but he bit it back, as well as the image of pushing her against the door of his office and- No. Bad. he told both his errant thoughts and his twitching cock like they were misbehaving dogs.

Jaime has been horny for her since April (January though he would refuse to acknowledge it if you told him that at this point), give him a break.

He came around the desk and held out his hand and she stared down at it like it was a snake she was trying to decide was poisonous or not.

Brienne gingerly wrapped her long fingers around his

I wanted Brienne to actively participate in the decision to do this, to show through her actions (not just Jaime’s perceptions of her) that she wants this, too. I had to ramp things up for both of them in this chapter because I knew what was coming in August and I wanted them to be ready for that. I couldn’t have gone from where they were in June to the kiss in August, I had to force them together in a way they hadn’t intended so that when they come together intentionally it feels like a natural progressions, and that meant both of them had to be wanting it.

What are you doing? his brain demanded as he led Brienne through the empty corridors out to the front parking lot.

Enjoying my birthday for once.

I like this because it’s both Jaime making excuses for why he’s doing something really foolish if he’s supposed to be keeping his distance but ALSO true and a sad reflection on his life (and what Brienne brings to it even now).

His bike was parked in Tywin’s CEO spot, where he always parked as a small, childish fuck you to his father. Brienne gasped as they walked up, pulling her hand away to brush the gleaming chrome.

“You have an Iron Throne!”

I know. I KNOW. But I love calling it that. I cast around for motorcycle names for awhile and when I hit on this I could not resist. Iron Thrones in this fic world are basically those giant Harleys that would easily seat two people.

weight of her against his palms. Brienne’s eyes narrowed and he worried for a second she’d heard his thoughts. “It’s not safe to ride without a helmet though, and I don’t have one. Do you have an extra?”

Jaime hadn’t brought his today, either. “We could wear driving helmets.”

As I recall it, Brynn came up with the idea of the helmet scene or at least definitely helped me work out how it was going to go when I got stuck on it. She made the point it should be a cute moment between them and it was right because it made the whole ride seem fun instead of just weighty and tense. The fact they actually have FUN together is really important to me because I think it’s really important to successful relationships in general. If you’re going to be with this person for the rest of you life, I hope like hell you enjoy spending time with them.

When she saw the helmet he had she laughed, the sound bursting up into the sky like a flock of startled birds.

I’m not usually happy with how I describe things - I never feel like it’s as interesting or descriptive or powerful as I want - but I do like this line a lot.

“It’s a helmet,” he said, holding it out to her. The helmet was a bright neon green and covered with frogs forming the words MOAT CAILIN with their bodies. “I got it from one of our sponsors a few years ago and kept it thinking someday I’d wear it just to piss off my father.”

What does Moat Cailin do? I genuinely have no idea. 😂

Brienne took the helmet and held it out away from her like it was a very stinky baby. “You’re sure no one is going to see us?”

“Now who’s vain?”

This made me laugh. I love when Brienne gets to be light-hearted.

“Isn’t there some biker lingo you should use instead?”

“Hop on my hog, sexy mama?”

Goofy Jaime: also a personal favorite. This is kind of an early insight into how he’s going to be in later months when he’s truly, unburdenedly (I made that word up) happy.

Brienne laughed even harder that time and shook her head. “You are so annoying,” she said fondly, climbing on behind him.

The “you’re annoying”/”you’re stubborn” back and forth is something I have been trying to consistently but not overwhelmingly carry through this fic from very early on.

“Since you’ve never ridden before, the primary rule is that you have to lean into the curves with me. If you’re balanced differently than I am it might bring the whole bike down.

Having ridden a motorcycle: this is actually true. It was the first thing the person I was riding with told me.

Her arms fully encircled his waist, her body pressed so firmly against his back he imagined he could feel the weight of her small breasts through his own shirt. He had no jacket but he didn’t need one; even if it hadn’t been for the drowsy summer heat, Brienne’s warmth against him stoked enough fire he could have burned all night.

You shouldn’t ride a motorcyle without proper gear, kids, but Jaime doesn’t give a fuck and for the purpose of this kind of intimate contact, neither do I for this story. 😁

It was almost like sex, the way they moved together around the curves, the blood thrumming in his veins, her occasional breathless gasp. He had to shift a little on his seat to make room for his awkward erection, but he pressed the bike faster, the curves tighter, until she was welded against him and the wind whipped her joyful laughter from her mouth, leaving it like tracers behind them in the dark.

This is the image in my head when I thought of them on the motorcycle ride. Everything before and after this paragraph is just set up and pay off for this one part.

Centuries ago there had been a keep at the top of Aegon’s High Hill, but all that was left now were old stones weathered by time and the salt air off of Blackwater Bay.

Thank goodness for the internet, and people who post very detailed maps of King’s Landing and Westeros so I can figure out some of this stuff. I have spent a surprising amount of time for this fic looking at maps.

“Why were you at work today?” he asked, staring at her.

Brienne pulled off her hoodie to reveal a tank top underneath, her muscular shoulders bunching as she did so in a way that made his mouth go dry.

There’s a gif that was being posted in the Oathkeepers discord around the time I was writing this that I had in mind explicitly for this moment. 😄

Her skin seemed to absorb the light, making it white and smooth as milkglass, her freckles mirroring the infinite stars. “Truthfully,” she said, “I wanted to spend some time alone with the car.” Even in the moonlight the reddening of her pale cheeks was clear.

Survey says: Mostly true. She also was thinking of him, since it was his birthday. She genuinely did NOT expect him to be there, though.

Jaime walked to the edge of the flat gravel and stared across the Rush to roughly where he thought Tarth would be way down south in the Stormlands. It had been years since he’d been and he didn’t remember it well, but he wished he could so he could picture Brienne there.

Again, I knew he was going to be in Tarth the very next chapter, so I wanted to lay the groundwork for it to seem natural he would be. Bringing it up here was a perfect opportunity for that.

They put their helmets back on, and Brienne her hoodie, and she climbed on behind him again, her arms automatically curling around his waist this time instead of the distant grip of the start. He started the engine and leaned forward a little, and she leaned her head against his shoulder as they took the drive down more slowly.

This easy warmth was important, too. Again, the sexual tension is critical to get them to their breaking point because they’re sure as hell not going to talk about how much they care about each other first (or even for a long while after they start having sex, as we discover), but I wanted there to be something deeper to their bond, too, a connection that I could build on in the second half of the story where you believe they’ll be happy together as an established couple. That they’re comfortable together.

The trip down the hill was as solemn as the stars above and when he parked again in front of the Lannister Corp Racing offices Brienne took her helmet off and stared quietly at him when he remained seated, his visor pushed up.

I think subconsciously this is when Brienne really falls in love with him, because it’s just Jaime being Jaime, and sharing something important to him with her and that kind of openness is the key to her heart.

Sadness gleamed like the stars in her big twilight eyes. Brienne put a hand on his shoulder and his whole body went rigid under her touch. Her fingers crept to the nape of his neck under his helmet, softly brushed through the short hair there before she dragged them away again as her pale skin reddened.

Brienne was more reserved here in the initial draft of this and Brynn thought there should be more and she was - as usual - absolutely right. So the touch was added to fully seal the momentous connection that happened here.

“You can get home okay?” he asked.

“I’ll take the bus, there’s a stop just by the sports bar.”

Brienne the Bus Rider strikes again. Hee.

He couldn’t even quit smoking; how was he ever going to quit wanting Brienne?

These two things are connected here for a reason! As noted above. Hee.

Wow this was fun for me, thank you for asking! 😊

[DVD Commentary Meme - Asks are open]

#dvd commentary meme #heart full of gasoline #the-world-unseen #i was lowkey worried i wasn't going to have anything to say #idk why given my history with this story in particular #but anyway this was kind of illuminating for me too #so thanks!#hopefully it's not super boring hee

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ansonmountdaily · 5 years

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Anson Mount’s Star Trek: Las Vegas 2019 panel (sadly, footage of the first 30 mins only without Jason Isaacs) - August 2 2019

TIMESTAMPS:

0:51 - What was the coolest thing for you to do on Star Trek: Discovery? 1:37 - What drives Captain Pike, what does he stand for? 2:20 - Are villains more interesting to play than good guys or heroes? How do you go about playing Pike with layers of depth? 4:40 - Pike is an inspiration for people with physical challenges, for combat veterans, etc. Pike knew his fate and he still makes the choice that he makes. How did you approach to play that? 6:50 - What does it mean to you to be this guy who is imbuing this character that so many people love and respect and think of as a hero? 8:23 - How was it like to be a newcomer on the Discovery lot? 9:28 - Talk about working with Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn. 9:45 - **Surprise appearance by Ethan Peck on stage!** 10:44 - Give as an example of a sci-fi book Ethan gave you to read (related to the previous question.) 11:07 - Lots of fans around the world and in this room want a full-on Pike/Spock/Number One series. How interested would you be if the opportunity actually occurs? 13:12 - We will see you in several of the Short Treks. How did they approach you about that? Were you already wrapped on the show when they brought it up? Was it after the fact? 13:46 - We know you can’t address specifics about the Short Treks but maybe tell us a little bit about the tone of them, and how much fun have you had playing this shorter format? How different are they? Are they adventures? The teaser trailer showed they had some comedy in it. 14:40 - **Anson’s reaction to the Discovery Season 2 dvd promo clip with the blooper reel and extra scenes.** 17:07 - Anson comments the actors did audio commentaries for the dvd. 17:20 - Fan: You have such great chemistry with everyone on set. Are you aware of it when you’re acting what great chemistry you have? 18:26 - Fan: I have a friend, she calls you her "husband", and her name’s Angie. Could you just say ‘hi’ to her? 18:49 - Fan: What was it like to prepare for the battle sequence in the Discovery finale and how was it filming it? 20:36 - Fan: Hell on Wheels was a lot of mud and dirt, and then Star Trek, a lot of CG. Which one was easier? 21:34 - Fan: How do you as an actor conjure the emotions for certain scenes (when Pike is crying, for example)? 23:43 - Tell us more about your podcast. I know that’s a deeply important project for you. 24:52 - Fan: I apologize for this question but you were part of other very large franchises recently. Can you talk about your experience on the Inhumans? 26:04 - Fan: What do you think about the fan reaction [to the Inhumans]? 26:37 - Fan: A couple of years ago I read David Beck’s Section 31 book Control. Does the concept for Discovery come from that book? 27:38 - Fan: I heard that during Season 2, Discovery had a series of re-shoots. Before the re-shoots Pike was actually a very religious man. He did a lot of praying, apparently. I didn’t know if that was just rumour. Could you share some light on the situation? 29:11 - Fan: A year ago at San Diego Comic-Con they set it up for you to meet Chris Hunter, the son of Jeffrey Hunter, the original Captain Pike. Was that your idea? Did they set it up for you? Did they surprise you with it? 30:09 - Fan: Are you prepared to work seven seasons for us because after three Short Treks, you’re gonna be on forever!

#star trek discovery #star trek las vegas #*appearance #*clip #short treks #anson mount #and finally we have footage!#lots of goodies in here #i like that he says pike isn't perfect and that he 'definitely has ego issues'#but that he's 'becoming mature enough to realize that'#like many others i crave his replies about ethan and rebecca and a pike show #the audience cheering when ethan shows up and hugs anson <3 #anson and ethan recommending each other books is cool #anson's reply to the husband question <3

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cartoonexpress · 4 years

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1, 2, 8, 10, 13, 15, 19, 22, 27, and 38 for Quarantine Questions, yo. :B

Wowzers! Thanks for all them questions there, mate!

1. Animated character that was your gay awakening? -

I answered with Yumi from Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi previously, but I can give another one:

Katnappe from Xiaolin Showdown

“*Marge Simpson voice* I just think she’s neat” - Kid!me liking the side character in the tight leather outfit for totally cishet reasons

2. Grilled cheese or PB&J? -

PB&J for the most part, but I’ll have a swiss grilled cheese every once in awhile (try it. it’s so good)

8. What’s a job that you’ve had that people might be surprised to find out you’ve had? -

Aside from the obvious one that’s drawing phallic caricatures on the side, I’ve also made a logo for one of Walmart’s e-Learning courses back in 2017

10. Do you own any signed books/memorabilia in general? -

I have a canvas of an animaniacs title sequence frame signed by Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille, and Maurice LaMarche as well as signed prints and DVD boxes from Bob Camp. You can see them on my Instagram

Prior to those, I had a Hetalia print signed by Todd Haberkorn from my weeb days and a concert ticket signed by Jimmy Urine from MSI. No idea where either of them went and I would only care about finding the ticket

13. Brunch or midnight snacks? -

I’m guilty of having plenty of midnight snacks, but I’ve got to say brunch bc it feels better to eat around that time

15. What coffee drink would you describe yourself as? -

Iced caramel macchiato with coconut milk and an extra shot of expresso. I choose that bc that’s my go-to coffee drink at starbucks. Nothing deep about it lol

19. That book you were forced to read for class but actually ended up enjoying? -

The Little Prince! The older I get, the more the commentary on human nature hits me. For those who don’t know, it is a book styled like a children’s book, but it isn’t a children’s book

22. What was your “phase” when you were younger? (i.e., Mythology Nerd, Horse Girl, Space Geek, etc) -

When I was around pre-teen age, I was drowning in Greek mythology (really helps me out these days watching jeopardy) and a tiny bit of Egyptian mythology. After that, it was anime... x_x;;;

27. What section do you immediately head for when you walk into a bookstore? -

The graphic novels first bc I’m predictable, but also the music album section. I’m one of those people that still like owning albums. They’re the perfect way to listen to music you like while still having enough battery in your phone to use the maps app to get you home.

38. Favorite mid-2000s song -

Feel Good Inc by Gorillaz

Aaaaaayyyyeee!!!

#riley answers #bornagainkishin

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orionsangel86 · 6 years

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Cas in Syria - AGAIN

Guys. GUYS. You know how I bitched after 13x15 that an episode devoted to Cas’s adventures in Syria would have been better than the actual episode?

You know how we all pondered on how that adventure might have actually gone?

Well seeing as Scoobynatural is the GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING I did NOT EXPECT that we would get an ACTUAL STORY FROM CAS THAT I REALLY NEED TO HEAR IN FULL!

“Sam! Dean! I’m back from Syria with fruit from the tree of life! The tree was guarded by a pack of Jinn, I killed most of them, bargained with the rest. I think I’m technically married to their queen now”

I NEED MORE INFORMATION ON THIS CAS. WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS GETTING FAKE MARRIED CAS? WHAT WILL YOUR HUSBAND THINK CAS!!!

Sometimes these writers are far more clued into fandom than we give them credit for. How did they know that we would pick up on the one Cas comment from 13x15 and take it to heart and obsess about it? How did they know to therefore bring it up in THIS episode and give us such a wonderful and amusing summary about Cas’s adventure there?

(I assume that the actual script for this live action section was probably written AFTER the 13x15 script rather than a year ago with the rest of the Scooby stuff)

I mean what even is this? Other than a really interesting side commentary about Cas and his random fake marriages (one of which was to a woman named Daphne and therefore is another very apt callback in this episode)

How many people are you actually married to Cas?!? If anything this is yet ANOTHER nod to Cas being so desirable to all creatures in the SPN universe that getting married to a queen was a good deal for the Jinn even after he killed their kin!

But now I just feel even MORE robbed of an episode which sounds like it would have been one hell of wild ride from start to finish. I swear to god sometimes I think they should film a mini series for the DVD extras of just Misha as Cas doing all the things they reference him doing when he’s not in episodes...

...Riverboat Gambling

...Digging up pre-biblical lore in Gaza

...inadvertently marrying Jinn Queens in Syria in exchange for fruit from the tree of life...

I’ve been musing on this idea for ages about Cas making a load of allegiances in Season 6 with various powerful creatures and pagan gods to support his war efforts against Raphael, and I dreamed up this whole idea of him basically coming across Aphrodite, and winning her favour because he was so blindingly beautiful and fascinating that she took a major liking to him. I need more scenes of insanely beautiful queens and goddesses basically fighting to be with Cas and the whole time he is oblivious because Dean. lmao. Anyway I’m going off on a tangent...

I just can’t believe we were robbed of such a fascinating story where Cas accidentally got married to a Jinn Queen and it was literally a one off line in an episode about Scooby Doo.

What even is this show

#castiel #scoobynatural #spn spoilers #13x16 #caaasss #cas in syria #i need more information on this #or just a million fanfics on it #I now feel sorry for the jinn queen #like she is wondering why her husband just left her #probably before their wedding night #because he was too busy talking about some guy called dean #honestly though poor jinn queen #but also poor daphne #not that daphne #the other daphne #seriously what EVEN IS THIS SHOW

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marlahey · 6 years

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hi! are you still doing the commentary thing? i'm in need of cheering up tonight so this is the section i was thinking of: "“I’m not…This isn’t–” Shawn shakes his head, and when he finds your eyes again, the vulnerability in his expression snuffs out that ember of want. “I don’t want to have sex. I mean–” You shouldn’t smile at his incoherence, but it’s a strangely inadvertent reaction. " i just want to say this might have been the best/most realistic paragraph of your fic i adore your writing!!

Hi anon! I am, absolutely! Thank you for that compliment. I hope this makes you feel better. The thing that I find difficult about sort of burgeoning relationships that aren’t necessarily founded on long friendships/casual dating is that I’ve always felt this like, uncomfortable shadow over every interaction that’s just like, SEX IS AN ENDGAME HERE. I find it so awkward, hence I’ve largely given up on just dating strangers lol. With this scene, even though Shawn and Ellie have been really close friends for such a long time, they’re still in the beginnings of a new kind of relationship, and being young adults that are interested in physical intimacy, sex is something they’ve obviously thought about privately but never with each other. In this moment I wanted to explore how they navigate that. Shawn’s being honest here; he does just want to be close to Ellie without sex, but talking about it out loud for the first time is still a bit strange and making yourself vulnerable like that is always difficult, no matter how famous he is or how experienced/unexperienced they both are, or much they already trust each other. So in the end he fumbles a bit and it’s all very endearing, and underneath that I wanted to make a point of how important it is to have that really clear and open communication, and how even though it might seem unsexy, it can still feel really nice and natural. (send me a section of wsitd and receive a DVD extras style commentary OR send me up to three words and receive a sneak peek of part twelve)

#shawn mendes imagine #shawn mendes blurb #shawn mendes fic #shawn mendes writing #wsitd #anonymous #a wild ask appears!#thanks so much anon I'm really glad you like that part I worked really hard on it lol

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Haven DVD Commentary - 3.04 Over My Head

Commentary with Gabrielle Stanton, Executive Producer (and writer for this episode) and Matt McGuinness, Executive Producer.

As we see Tommy pull a dead body out of his car in the previouslies, MMG wonders if they “had a real body in there” and decides probably not from the way it hits the ground.

As we see Audrey and Nathan in the morgue, MMG comments that’s a set they built and GS adds, “We finally realised we have enough dead bodies on this show that we could use a coroner’s office.”

The woman we see grabbed at the ATM and who is then scalped by the bolt gun killer is also Emily Rose’s stand in.

MMG mentions they “had a lot of drama” over how grisly they could be on showing the scalping. They agree that the final product is not very grisly at all and GS says that the first cut was “quite grisly-er”.

MMG: “Gabrielle and I are working on season 4 right now and the tattoo continues to play a pivotal role in the secrets of this town.” GS: “And by the end of season 4, you really understand how important it is.”

After a little while of silence, Gabrielle says that commentary is very hard, and Matt adds, “the problem is our show is so fascintating, we just keep watching it.” Gabreille agrees, like, “Oh my god I remember when Claire did this! This was a great epispde!” Matt agrees, “It’s like a visit with old friends because we knew these characters and liked these characters and now they’re gone; poor Claire met an untimely demise.”

As Audrey talks to Claire in Claire’s office, Matt comments on the globe over her shoulder; “There’s a globe with an orange ocean, that’s unusual.” Gabrielle is surprised too, having not noticed before and comments, “That’s very Haven.”

Claire’s office was a set that was built for this season.

At Audrey’s “But I have to try,” at the end of that scene, MMG starts to say there was a lot of drama over that line, but then both of them are distracted by the arrival of Frank, talking enthusiastically about his audition tape. GS; “I went crazy, like a) he has to do this part, and b) I just want to do a spin off series where he just sees stuff and starts screaming. Because he’s so fantastic. He was so good.” MMG talks about having many more minutes of him screaming at a much higher frequence, saying [I’m not sure how seriously] that they should put it up on YouTube. MMG also claims that the actor playing Frank “bears a vague resemblance” to one of their executives, but doesn’t say who.

As we see Lucassi examining the body by the pool, GS seems surprised that the body still has both legs attached; the script had a section of leg floating in the pool. She figures that might have been seen as a bit too grisly.

They discuss/try to remember where the pool scene was filmed and decide it is part of the “Atlantica” resort about 20 minutes away from Chester. GS comments that (in contrast to ice skating rinks) it is not easy to find a swimming pool in Nova Scotia.

As Duke joins them by the pool, MMG says that they had “much debate” about Duke’s attitude in this epsiode and how he would be reacting to what Audrey had done last epsiode in asking him to kill for her. MMG: “So we landed on Duke being difficult and lashing out and saying ‘OK what’s good for the goose is good for the gander and if you guys are going to make me kill people, I’m gonna hang around and do whatever I want.’ And I thought Eric played it great.” GS agrees, “Because you really didn’t know what was going on with him; was he going to start killing people, was he mad, was he OK with it? And that’s a nice thread that runs through the episode with Nathan and Audrey wondering as well what’s going on with Duke.”

They’re both pleased to see Vince and Dave on screen. MMG: “These two guys make us smile.” GS: “They’re really fun to write for. And they always seem to know a little bit more than they’re telling.”

As Nathan is asking Vince and Dave about the ‘tattooed people’, GS says that they had a big debate about this because Nathan got this tattoo, but they had to decide; how much did he know about it before he got the tattoo? “And we landed on the idea that he did it symbolically because of the whole Audrey Duke of it all and he didn’t necessarily know the full back story of it. So that way we could unpack that this season.”

MMG realises this episode is the first time we meet Jordan, “I actually wrote the first Jordan scene. It was fantastic [but was cut]. If you’d like to see it you may find it online I believe.” GS adds that it might be on the DVD extras as well [My DVDs certainly have some deleted scenes, so we’ll see!]

Both of them comment on the lighting in the station as being dark/moody in this episode.

GS says that what she likes most about the character of Claire is that “basically she’s a shrink for Troubled people. Because who else are you going to talk to about that kind of thing.”

As Nathan shows Audrey the evidence of the shark’s tooth, they comment on the species; Porbeagle shark. Despite “sounding like a made up name” this is a real shark that swims off the coast of Maine. Though not necessarily one that eats people.

As Nathan tells Audrey about the Guard, MMG says that they had “much debate about what the Guard should be called” and went through many potential names, GS remembers a couple; The Marked, The Locals. They also had some executives who “resisted strongly the notion that they would have any name at all,” (says MMG). But they are both glad they won that fight because otherwise “how do you refer to them?” “They had to have a name.”

As a wave of water knocks a car across the street they both describe this as a “fun” scene. They discuss the initial wave being CGI and the water actually on the car being really there (dumped from a huge bulldozer) and the difficulties of making convincing CG water.

GS says that production “really loathes” her because she is know for writing a lot of water stuff which is hard to do on set (and also cold). She wrote the “mermen” episode “where I sent 20 extras into the freezing cold ocean.”

GS says that the mural on the wall behind them as they talk to the guy with fish in his car is a real mural in Lunenberg.

There’s some discussion at to why Tommy wears his badge around his neck and whether this is realistic. And they both like Vince and Dave as Tommy leaves the Herald, MMG saying he likes these moments where these “old coots” get up to this kind of stuff and GS saying how Vince and Dave are “always so mad at each other, except when they’re scheming.” GS adds, “Every year we talk about doing a back-in-time young Vince and Dave episode, and one of these seasons we’re going to do it.”

GS is amused by the look that Eric gives Frank’s body in the morgue as Audrey is talking to Nathan. As Nathan tells Duke to “Stay there” as he takes Audrey out into the corridor to talk to her and Duke replies, “With the dead body?” GS says that was an ad lib, but it was good so we left it in. GS: “Eric likes to ad lib and he likes big sweaters. We try to accomodate his requests for both.”

Where they’re talking in the corridor, this is all set built for the show, and MMG comments that he thinks parts of this set doubled for Claire’s office.

As we see Audrey and Duke get out of her car there’s some discussion over the type of car, MMG surprised and unsure about it. GS says it’s not entirely fair that the boys get their cool cars and she has something boring, but MMG says Audrey’s is a cool car.

As Duke and Audrey talk to Daphne’s neighbour who gets covered in black crabs, GS says that he did this really well and she really liked how this turned out. “It’s one of those scenes that you write and you think it’s either going to be really cool or it’s going to look really stupid.” MMG says he had thought that for that effect they had done the same thing as with the water i.e. use one or two real crabs and then CG the rest, but actually they are all CG.

As we meet Jordan, GS says that they built this set, MMG adds that the “Gun & Rose” name of the diner is from Stephen King [The Dark Tower I think - there’s a voice in the background and then both of them speak at once so it’s not too clear].

GS describes Jordan as the kind of character we haven’t really seen in Haven before, “a little more out there, a little more urban,” and definitely in the way she dresses, with her necklace with the little spikes on. “She’s a tough chick, I like that.”

As Nathan meets up with Audrey and Duke at Daphne’s, MMG comments (of Duke and Nathan) “They just don’t like each other.” GS adds “They do in real life. I think they like playing being mad at each other, so they get to be snarky to each other.” MMG adds, “I like when Eric’s snarky and funny, and you’re not quite sure what he’s about.”

As the characters talk, they comment on the laundry hanging up in the background and how does that work in a climate where it rains so much.

As we see Vince and Dave pecking at their keyboards; GS: “I like the way Vince types. It’s actually kind of how I type.”

As Audrey, Nathan and Duke find Reed Harris on the floor bleeding out from a cut in his leg MMG comments that this was a production challenge to shoot. He was supposed to be round the back of the house much further away. GS says that because it was raining they had to move him under some kind of cover to shoot it. Also according to the script there would have been a lot more blood pooling around him because he’s bleeding out.

As we see Daphne in the car, GS comments this is why the actors hate her because she puts them in freezing cold water, and they discuss the shark fin that we see out in the water, GS calling it “scary” and MMG calling it “ridiculous”. MMG: “I didn’t want the shark fin.” GS: “The shark fin makes this scene.” [It’s not like they’re angry or anything though, they’re both laughing.]

As Duke is drowning, GS wonders how they did this in production, did they put little hoses on him to pump the water out? MMG says that when this was broadcast, in this moment as he is drowning with water spirting out of his mouth, a public service announcement came up on the corner of the screen that said; ‘Health tip: for better health stay hydrated. Drink water!’

As the three of them are stood around the map on the hood of the car working out where Daphne is, GS comments how they’re working as a team, each with their own bit of information to contribute. MMG comments on the map angle, saying that he’d like to have a map of Haven.

GS says that the original crabs that she had picked didn’t exist in Maine so she had to find a different species.

MMG: “So if Eric’s that wet, that means that all the water that’s in his hair came out of him. That’s kind of gross.”

As the three of them arrive at the cliff, GS says what a great location this was. It was a big deal to film because Daphne’s car was on a crane to get it down to the bottom of the cliff. GS says she just learned that day that this was the most expensive episode of Haven in terms of VFX to date. GS: “I felt guilty, happy and excited all at the same time.” MMG is surprised but they figure between the crabs, the wave in the street, this scene, the shark fin (though MMG jokes surely that was just a piece of cardboard), and Audrey’s flashbacks to being Lucy. There is actually a fair amount of CG in this scene because the car is being held in place by wires from a crane so they had to CG those out, and then there’s the rocks that fall down towards the car as well. MMG wonders why they didn’t use styrofoam rocks, GS says there was a reason that wouldn’t work though she can’t remember what it was.

They comment again as well about the poor actors having to get in the cold water, but then they figure Eric is used to it what with his surfing.

GS: “Season three was a lot about Duke coming to terms with his new abilities and this is the start of it.”

In the hospital as Duke is talking to Audrey, GS: “Aw, I always like it when he gets real with Audrey.”

After Audrey’s gone and Claire comes back out of Daphne’s room, GS says, “I always thought they could have been a good couple. We didn’t go in that direction, but I could see Duke Crocker dating a psychologist and the problems that would cause.”

Back with Jordan and Nathan in the diner, MMG says this scene was the one they used for casting Jordan’s role, “We heard this scene many many times.”

MMG is also looking at the scenery commenting on the ‘Asian Food’ sign and the light-up waterfall over Jordan’s shoulder/at the back of her head.

MMG starts to talk about something Kate Kelton (who plays Jordan) told him about a “complicated skin regime” she has that “helped her relate to this character,” but didn’t have any more detail than that. They both agree that she “knocked this scene out of the park.”

As the scene comes to an end, MMG comments on the “sexy music” and GS on Nathan’s “sultry” look.

As Vince and Dave join Tommy in his office to attempt their blackmail and we learn from Tommy that Vince and Dave “own half of the commercial real estate in Haven” GS says that this does come up in future and is “part of the overall series mythos about why the Teagues are so important to the town”.

They discuss whether a line made it to the final cut (Tommy’s “You wouldn’t know it from your wardrobe” which MMG says he found really funny) and GS says it’s always funny watching the final product because you’re gone through so many versions of it; between different versions of the script, different cuts, the editing process.

About Vince and Dave as they go to leave Tommy’s office: MMG: “I love when those two get their back up, they’re great.” GS: “You do not want Vince and Dave mad at you.” MMG: “No, they’re really scary. That look!”

As we see the bolt gun killer, MMG says he thinks this is a reshoot; they had to reshoot it because the original version was too grisly.

#haven syfy #3.04 - over my head #haven dvd commentaries #haven season three extras

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I couldn’t get the formatting to co-operate as an Ask-Reply, so:

@docbeeski asked: For the Dvd commentary, from Nothing Like Potter:

"How long have you.. " Nick's voice cracks and he clears his throat. "How long have you been sleeping in a cupboard?" "Since January." Will can't look him in the eye. "Fuck. Jesus, Will, why didn't you say something?" Will shrugs. "I don't know." "You're an idiot." He sounds angry. Will doesn’t look up. He knows he’s an idiot, okay, but he's got too far into this mess to figure it out.

Yeah, so, this got LONG.

This is a really interesting pick, because this section is the pivot point for the whole story - I’m guessing you chose it deliberately?

Up until this point, Will’s life has been slipping out of his control, and he’s now at a point where he doesn’t know how to fix it. This scene, where Nick realises that Will’s been sleeping rough at the ice rink, is the turning point and everything from here on moves towards the resolution.

At this stage, Will’s coming to see his situation as normal and even sustainable - he’s got somewhere relatively safe to sleep, he’s got money coming in, he’s got access to cooking, washing and laundry facilities. It’s a long way from ideal, but having sunk this low he’s now at least in a steady position. The scene immediately prior to this is upbeat - he’s had a good game, he’s having normal fun interactions with his sister, and then he comes back down to the cupboard where he’s been sleeping and realises that Nick’s discovered his secret. It’s a rapid change of tone, to match the shock to Will of being found out.

Will’s reaction to being caught is to assume the worst. Nick calls him an idiot, and Will immediately interprets that as you’re an idiot for not being able to keep a home like a proper adult - his train of thought a couple of lines after this extract shows this more clearly:

He feels sick with embarrassment that he's been found out like this, Nick's going to think less of him for dealing with this so badly, he’s going to be in trouble with the rink, with the team, Darren's going to bench him or kick him off the team and if he has to go back to live with his parents he’s going to have to quit his job and his whole life is falling apart because he's been too stupid to face up to his problems he’s twenty-two he’s not going to cry he’s twenty-two and he should be able to cope with basic adult things like having somewhere to live but he’s made such a mess of everything-

The run-on sentence and lack of commas is deliberate as his thoughts get faster and faster to the point of overwhelming him.

Although Will has normalised his situation to himself, to an extent, he’s very much aware that this is not normal and he is not coping, and he’s ashamed of himself, and this is what comes straight to the front when Nick confronts him - he’s failed and he thinks that everybody’s going to think less of him as a result.

Nick, however, has a completely different take on it. He means you’re an idiot for thinking that this was the solution, any one of us would have helped.

Nick’s been sitting in the corridor for a while, waiting for Will. It’s cold, it’s quiet, it’s poorly lit, and he’s had time to think - and he feel responsible. When his voice cracks, he’s blaming himself for not noticing that Will, his rookie, his friend, was in such a bad situation, and for not being the kind of friend that Will could turn to. It’s not exactly pity that he feels for Will, although there is an element of that, but he’s coming at this from the perspective of here is a problem to fix.

And then he finds out that Will has been in this situation for about six weeks (it’s not specified in the story) and he feels even worse.

After he takes Will home with him, he’s up for hours talking to Sarah about it, and she has to talk him down from thinking he’s responsible and move on to finding a solution.

Nick’s closer to Will that perhaps either of them realise - Sarah’s picked up on it, she knows that Nick likes Will better than any of his other teammates, partly because they share idiosyncracies, but also because they just get on really well.

This is the first of the Back Up There stories to pick up the theme of the found family - it was never my intention for that theme to be there, but somehow it’s worked its way in.

Will’s taken in to Nick and Sarah’s family - he’s Uncle Will to Lily very quickly, and although Will doesn’t need a new family as his biological family are very much present in his life and happily so, he ends up very happy with the way that things work out. It works out well for Nick, Sarah and Lily as well, as they absorb him into their family unit.

There’s always been a poly question mark over this group - Nick and Sarah both refer to Will as a brother, in the later scenes, but I always had a vague idea that this could progress in a non-platonic direction. That was always something that would come later in their timeline - it didn’t fit in this part of the narrative, and it wasn’t the right time for me as a writer or for this series. In the end, it didn’t work out that way and I don’t think I’d ever write anything to move them in that direction. When they appear in the werewolf au, there’s a second child. I always intended that Lily would have a younger sibling, although there was always the faint chance that Will might be the father, but when Elijah appeared (and he exists in the non-werewolf universe too) he’s definitely Nick’s son.

However, if this is disappointing to anybody, I’ll admit that Will and Nick are so much a unit in my head that they frequently get given each other’s surname when they appear in drafts of other stories, so at least some part of me thinks they’re married.

This story has possibly the least cross-over with the other stories in the series. There’s a mention that Nick used to play for the Cobras, and he’s the goalie who gets injured in It Doesn’t Count, At Camp to open up the roster for Rob’s call-up, but other than that this is very self contained. Most of the later stories in the series have a reasonable amount of overlap, because the guys all know each other and have connections. Characters from previous stories have cameos in game scenes, and the back-up goalies from seven out of the ten teams have a group chat which features sometimes.

The only three goalies who don’t feature in the group chat are the guy from the Tornadoes (story coming soon to a screen near you!), established in other stories to be a “proper grown up” by the guys in the chat with the impression that they find him a bit intimidating and don’t know how to ask if he’d like to join, Ricky from Glitter, who we know is an incredibly private person, and Will.

Leaving Will (and Ricky, to an extent) out of the group chat wasn’t actually a conscious decision on my part. It just seemed obvious, when I was working out who should contribute to the dialogue and how the dynamics of the group would unfold, that nobody had asked Will to join. We know that Coop or Damien or Addy will chat to anybody who keeps still for thirty seconds, we know that Pete and Jonny are outgoing, and that Jack and Billy will go along with things (...well. You don’t know much about Billy yet. Coming a bit later to a screen near you…).

Will’s a very self-contained character - he doesn’t appear in any other stories except when somebody’s playing his team, and then he usually appears by his surname because nobody’s really friends with him. This extends to the rest of the team, to a certain level, as none of the family connections (the Lewis brothers or the Evans clan, for example) include the Griffins, and they just haven’t featured as rounded characters. Even in Will and Nick’s chapter of the werewolf AU, it’s just their little family and nobody else.

I’ve been going through the list of protagonists, and Will’s interesting because he’s the only one who doesn’t actually have a face. Many of the protagonists have a physical similarity to a real guy out there, as I’ve either written a story inspired by some tiny interaction I’ve witnessed, or realised later that a guy in front of me was a great fit for how I saw a character.

Ricky’s the only other clear protagonist (the Huskies are a bit different because there’s so many of them, but even then I know what everybody looks like) who has never had a physical fit, and I have a much better idea of what he looks like because it’s relevant to his storyline. Will’s never physically described (a common feature in my writing, it seems…) and as far as I’m concerned he’s a fairly generic sandy-haired guy, but it’s never mattered with Will in the same way. He’s the kind of guy who blends easily into crowds.

I think that this story, more than any of the others in the series, is complete in that I’ve never wanted to add extras or write a sequel. I’ve either written additional scenes or planned follow-ups for pretty much everybody else, but there’s nothing for me that’s crying out to be said about what happens next for Will. I didn’t like this story any less than any of the others while I was writing it, and re-reading this section still makes my heart clench for Will and his rock-bottom - I just feel that I said everything I needed to within the story.

(That said, I’m always open to answering questions...)

#nothing like potter #docbeeski #ask the author

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MY FIRST STORY MMA Tour Final The Premium Symphony 2017 in retrospect

On 23rd December 2017, MY FIRST STORY made another milestone by performing at the same venue which was supposed to have been the place where their rival brother band ONE OK ROCK was originally scheduled to perform with Linkin Park in November. Looking at the visuals presented to us so far, it was a roaring success.

Photos by Masanori Fujikawa and Taka Tallman except *

Here are my thoughts .... for my reader who requested. Basically a continuation of what I had said in a previous post before.

1. The stage looks like something inspired by Jules Verne novels combined with the Parthenon.

That’s impressive!!

Then, similar to OOR, they also used a runway heading out to the audience. OOR normally use this for their acoustic set where the band members would gather together with their instruments. MFS used the end platform for Hiro where the digital piano was mechanically raised from below the stage. For a rectangular concert hall, you have to have this kind of setting for the audience's optimal viewing.

Look at the laser lighting! It was among the elements that worried the s**t out of their boss GEN back in the Shinkiba Studio Coast show because it was expensive. But looks like he’s not worried anymore based on this elaborate display.

Ready to go “Around The World In 80 Days” or “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”! XD

2. The attendance at Makuhari was higher than the Budokan.

From the TV clips shared by Japanese fans, 18,000 people came compared to 12,000 for the Budokan. Reading through fans' reports, it looked like Blocks A & B were the most packed or the crowds consisted of the hardcore fans. One girl in Block B said she wished she could transfer to Block C where she could breathe.

Looking at the crowd placement, I started to feel doubtful whether choosing a seated ticket for this venue is worth it for someone like me (154cm tall) because unlike the multi-tiered Budokan or the Makuhari Event Hall, the Makuhari Hall 9-11 are flat. They're exhibition Halls after all. How high were the seats raised from the main floor if they were raised at all?

* Photo: Makuhari Messe Hall 9-11 when empty. Making me wish that it had a premium ceiling seat XD

3. It was MFS first attempt at using a full orchestra + a full choir

When they first announced the MMA Tour Final, they said this would be MFS as we had never seen them before. The ALL SECRET TRACKS album obviously had been arranged for this. The Live was not named The Premium Symphony for nothing. To me MFS music from the start has always been heavily layered. It was inevitable that they would arrive at this point.

Photo: The moment the curtain came down. Aaaahhhh!!! That’s 終焉レクイエム (Shuuen Requiem) making its debut everyone \(^^)/

When MFS did the acoustic set for Itsuwari NEUROSE Final at Shinkiba Studio Coast, my mind actually wondered whether they would one day tackle the violin-cello string arrangements. Would have been slammed with the "OOR copy" moniker big time if they did it back then, wouldn't they? The difference is MFS actually created songs with orchestration right on their album rather than pick a few songs and re-arranged them with a string section for the Live show.

You know what’s beautiful about the above photo? The backup musicians were smiling as they looked at the band members giving it all. Despite the different genres they come from, all artists know passion when they see it.

4. The Surprising setlist :-o

More like shocking to me!

The most striking thing about the setlist is the fact that they had excluded their signature Live songs Second Limit, The Story Is My Life, 最終回STORY and Awake :-o. Seriously?? WTF! You know what this means??! This means they were signalling the beginning of a new era. Up to this point, an MFS show would not be complete without those songs. This is them presenting the fans the new-phase MFS!

The Setlist

1. 終焉レクイエム (Shuuen Requiem) 2. ALONE 3. Black Rail 4. 悪戯フィクション (Itazura Fiction) 5. Missing You 6. REVIVER 7. この世界で一番の幸せ者にはする事など出来ないかもしれないけど... (Kono sekai de ichiban no shiawasesha ni wa suru koto nado dekinai kamoshirenai kedo...) 8. 失踪FLAME (Shissou FLAME) 9. See you again 10. Love Letter 11. monologue 12. 虚言NEUROSE (Itsuwari NEUROSE) 13. LET IT DIE 14. "BOOM" 15. Zero Gravity 16. The Puzzle 17. CHiLD -error- 18. Tomorrowland 19. モノクロエフェクター (Monochrome Effector) 20. 不可逆リプレイス (Fukagyaku Replace)

(Encore)

-Nori Ohtani marriage proposal- EN1. 「花」 -0714- (Hanarenai yo) EN2. Merry Christmas EN3. REVIVER

While I understand their wish to move forward with their music, it's sad for me to see 最終回STORY go because that's the song through which I fell in love with MFS (T_T).

5. Hiro debuted his piano solo performance

My wish came true \(^^)/! Back in 2014 when MFS released their Taylor Swift remake We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together, I told another fan on my friend's MFS FB fanpage that I hoped to see Hiro perform with a piano.

I guess it wasn't the right timing for it then because it was the time when Hiro was still so heavily criticized and ridiculed as being Taka's copycat. Hiro with a piano onstage would be a bad move a few years ago. Nowadays, the comparison with his famous brother is much kinder as MFS music is speaking for itself more and more. So I think Hiro picked the right time to finally do it.

By the way, Hiro played See You Again solo. For Love Letter, he played solo halfway and then joined by the others. Can’t wait to see these (^^)

6. Hiro’s vocal performance

You see this one coming. My MFS concert commentary wouldn’t be complete without me talking about Hiro’s vocals, would it? True that I wasn’t there at the Hall BUT I have come to the point were I can slowly trust him to nail it around 90 to 95%. While I wasn’t expecting perfection, I know Hiro had worked really hard as he was confident enough to again include the song I directly and openly criticised him for through the band’s social media back in 2016, 失踪FLAME . Though they did not respond to me directly but Hiro did acknowledge on STORYTELLER that the song was hard.

When I saw this visual for 失踪FLAME , I felt good because I knew he still kept his determination to get that song right. I believe he handled it well. He wouldn’t have made this visual display if he couldn’t do the song right, could he (^_-)?

7. Former drummer Masaki came (^^)

Their friendship remains solid and Masaki once again showed that he wouldn't miss his former bandmates' big moment for the world. He tweeted saying it had been awhile since he went to see them, how awesome the show was, apologizing that he was giving an impression of an elementary schoolkid’s excitement and then attached his old photo wearing his underwear with producer Nori with a congratulatory message. Because that’s the only two-shot photo he ever had with Nori XD

8. "Men In Black" (^^)

Who wasn't taken by the fact that the band performed fully in suits?

I think rather than setting themselves apart from the backup orchestra + choir members, the look they chose tied the whole thing together. The formally attired orchestra + the choir that coloured the overall feel of ALL SECRET TRACKS and their visually impactful LET IT DIE MV from ALL LEAD TRACKS. It was "MFS The Premium Symphony" and not "MFS with some guest musicians for some songs".

Oh, yes. To me Teruki Nishizawa is the most dashing of them all in black suits. They’re all cute guys but Teru actually has that “prep school + white collar” aura which transcends well with that outfit. I don’t think I’m biased at all. Just look.

9. Hiro & Blouson Chiemi

I'm a bit blurry with this one, did he do something like her comedy skit onstage or what? I saw a few Japanese fans mentioning her name along with Hiro’s. Knowing that Hiro likes her, I was hardly surprised. But MFS always edited out extra things like this when the concerts went to DVDs. So, if he ever impersonated any celebrity at all, it probably wouldn't go on the official release (-_-)

But at least we had seen Hiro posing like her during VAMPS Halloween Party 2017 XD

*Photo: From BREAKERZ Daigo’s blog

10. Sho Tsuchiya did not perform with them this time

Though he did appear here and there on the MMA Tour, he did not perform at the Final as I previously had expected. Well, they already played up his surprise appearance to the MAX at the Budokan. Anyway, I'm glad I wasn't at the Budokan because I swear I would have pissed in my pants the moment I saw his face on the screen XD. But it wouldn't have the same impact doing it the 2nd time around, eh? The only way Sho’s re-appearance can top the Budokan is if they actually announce him coming back to them.

* Photo from iTony Entertainment (it’s JMS subsidiary too!)

11. The biggest surprise of the night ..... Nori's getting married!

Their producer Nori Ohtani proposed to his girlfriend and after which, the band launched into their wedding anthem 「花」 -0714- . The fans, including yours truly XD, flooded the band's social media with messages congratulating him and wishing him well.

My thought :

Dating a rock band's manager / producer has its perk, eh? If things go well, you may get an epic marriage proposal with an orchestra, a choir and 18,000 eye witnesses too XD

Overall

One fan commented on IG that after watching the Makuhari show, the Tokyo Dome now doesn't seem like a dream anymore. I agree with her. I mean, if a band or any artist can hold a packed show at a venue like Makuhari Messe, with glowing reports and feedback afterwards, then the Tokyo Dome is not a dream but already a given.

#my first story #mma tour final #hiroki moriuchi #teruki nishizawa

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allhailkingrooker51 · 7 years

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Jason Freeland (director): This was great.

Michael Rooker: This was a pretty cool sequence here, yeah.

Freeland: This was all handheld, and, again, this is one of those scenes where you just kinda kept going. I mean we had talked about some of the different ideas...

Rooker: Right.

Freeland:...but, um, you really didn’t want to talk about it too much. And, this whole thing where you break the mirror in here was something that, um...we had no idea when you were gonna do it. Like I had said to you ‘Hey, it might be interesting’ or whatever, and, you can see the way that it was shot, Seo (director of photography) had no idea you were going to do it at that moment. But it’s fun, you know, there’s just lots of extra footage here that we never used.

Rooker: I had no idea I was gonna do it at that moment. It was one of the spur of the moment...I knew that you had wanted the mirror to be, uh, sort of done in, and I wasn’t sure when and you weren’t sure. You know, you didn’t know when. And I just remember you, after the whole scene, you’re up there in the corner..you’re peeking over the little...the set, and you’re in the corner of the wall looking down and it’s just me and the cameraman in there.

Freeland: Yeah, and the 1st assistant. Right, but like, that’s a real mirror. I mean the thing is I had talked to you about breaking the mirror, and we had some ideas of what we were gonna do or whether we were gonna like cut it up. You really didn’t want to talk about it, and so we had no chance to prop that up or anything. That’s the actual real mirror that we bought at Ikea, and I think you cut your hand doing that.

Rooker: Eh, not too bad. Just a little bit. If you do if fast enough, you don’t usually cut too badly. I like this little section here....pushing that thing around with my head. (Laughs) All these thoughts are rolling through my head there. Yeah, pretty cool stuff, Jason. Well done.

Source - Brown’s Requiem (1998) dvd commentary

#michael rooker #brown's requiem #rooker #fritz brown #one of my all time favorite rooker scenes of all rooker scenes #when he puts his head on the light #king rooker #all hail king rooker #greatest actor of all time

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capriciouswrites · 7 years

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for the DVD commentary thing can you do "He catches her hand before she can poke him again" to "but I’m not missing anything too serious.” from where's the rest of the body?

This is for the 500 word section DVD commentary, which I am still accepting!

You probably want to read where’s the rest of the body, first.

He catches her hand before she can poke him again and just holds it before tilting her head with his free hand. “I don’t think you can lecture me when it looks like you cracked your head open, Simmons.” He’s unsure as to what’s going on, but he’s willing to play along until he can figure it out.

She huffs out a breath but obligingly turns her head so he can see that she’s got about a months worth of growth and that the scar, while still frighteningly large, looks to be healing well. He touches it gently and is rewarded by her shiver. “I’m fine. There was an explosion and it knocked me out for a few days. I still have some blank spots in my memory, but I’m not missing anything too serious.”

I’m terribly fond of this ficlet, and poor Grant’s attempts to keep up throughout it. Which is kind of what this is. He’s definitely feeling off balance here, and trying desperately to hide it. He holds her hand for longer than he should because he’s still trying to figure out what happened to her -- and he’s also trying to figure out her boundaries. So he’s extra physical, just to see if he can push her into doing something to tell him what she is/what she’s doing here.

(Her shiver is definitely not pain, so much as him touching her on sensitive skin -- her “turning” doesn’t specifically say how Grant did it, but given the memories she does have, she assumes it’s at least partially because she’s in love with him/her crush, and him being so physically affectionate is making her more sure of it -- and making her a bit hot under the collar.)

Oh! Also, Jemma is totally digging with the “anything too serious”, she definitely wants to know if something did happen between them and is hoping Grant will tell her. (She’s a little disappointed that all he mentions is being mad and not like, them getting engaged or something -- though that’s not likely without the ring and all, she knows.) Which is also to say, she is missing a lot that’s serious, obviously.

Um, what else. This is Grant at his manipulative best, and, while he’s still not convinced she’s not been brainwashed, he’s going to use it to his advantage either way -- it would just be easier if he actually knew what was going on. I think that’s it. Questions?

#biospecialist #dvd commentary #where's the rest of the body #erika whispers to me #thanks for the ask darlin!#Anonymous

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joyful-voyager · 7 years

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DVD Commentary

@devoverest wrote:

"Grief," sections 5 ("They hauled me in for a physical today") through 8 ("But it's so hard to accept without proof.")

I've chosen that passage to stay within the stated 500-word limit, but if you want to commentate the whole story I surely would not object. Or, please feel free to pick a different passage from "Grief" if you want to. I just didn't want to pick the ending because spoilers, but it gives me chills every time I read it.

And here is my overwritten response!

Whoa. I need a time machine for this one! We're going back 21 years to the heady days of Voyager's second season, when the fandom was new and the fanfic newer, and Seven of Nine wasn't even a nasty little gleam in Brannon Braga's shifty little eye. Weirdly enough, though, there are about three stories that I can remember the exact circumstances that surrounded their creation. This happens to be one of them, and you'll find out why in a minute.

So. “Grief." This was part of a bigger project that was inspired by Sue Love's story “Period of Mourning." That one story spawned a ton of other fanfic, from straight-up knock offs to gut-wrenching counterpoints (see Michele Masterson's “Contrition“ if you can find it), to a multi-author project in which several people told this same story from a single character's point of view. Sue's style was first person by Tom Paris as a series of personal logs. Over the course of a few days, a bunch of other authors jumped in and “claimed“ a character and got to work in the same style.

Probably because I was young and arrogant and really naïve, I immediately claimed the one character whose point of view I had no business examining: Chakotay's. I was only 26 years old, after all, and I'd never experienced the kind of grief I imagined he would go through. Not even close. But like the idiot that I was, I thought I was good enough to write it anyway.

Sure. Right. At 26 years old, having never been in a long-term relationship, much less having lost a lover to death. Boy, was this a bad move. I knew it right away, too. Whenever I sat down to write, there was so much nothing in my brain it was horrifying. I was in way, way over my head.

Fortunately, at the time I was working in a small, independent bookshop. The weekend that I wrote “Grief,“ I had to work a Friday night shift that kept me in the shop until almost midnight. I am decidedly not a night owl, and the shop was rarely busy on Friday nights. Even worse, I was in charge of the Special Orders desk that night, which was way back in the hinterlands of the shop, between Foreign Language Dictionaries and Psychology. By about 7:00 I was bored and desperate to stay awake. I was rearranging Psychology just for something to do when I realized: “Hey, dumbass, you've got a whole shelf full of books on grieving right here. What kind of ex-librarian/ex-M.F.A. student/bookseller are you anyway? Research." So that's what I did. I grabbed a couple short little books on grief and went back to the desk and started reading. By the time the shop closed, I had a pocketful of handwritten notes on grief and the grieving process. When I got back to my apartment, I opened my notebook and wrote one line: “I am in someone's nightmare." And then I went to bed.

The entire story, virtually every single word of it, was in my head when I woke up. No lie. I think what happened was that all the research I'd done about grief and the grieving process matched itself up in my sleeping brain to things I'd heard family members say over the seven years prior to writing the story. See, when I was 19, a beloved cousin of mine was murdered by a drunk driver. She was 22. My family took it extremely hard. We are a large but close-knit bunch, and over the next months and years I spent a lot of time with that wing of the family – the deceased's parents and in particular her two brothers, who were 19 and 20 at the time. I remember my uncle chain-smoking and saying, “This feels like it's happening to someone else." I remember one of my cousins saying that he couldn't get warm even though it happened in the middle of an extra-sultry Indiana summer. I remember my sisters driving my aunt to the spot where it happened because she wanted to visualize what her daughter had seen at that moment. Most of all, I remember my 20-year-old cousin having to take charge of the situation because his parents were so leveled by grief that they couldn't function. He was the one who identified what was left of his sister's body, made all the phone calls, arranged the Mass and the interment, etc. I asked him how he managed all that. He said, “I didn't have a choice. I put my best suit on and I just did it. I did it for her. But it was the hardest thing I've ever done." And I also remember how, a couple years later, that same cousin started to get into all kinds of trouble for rage-related incidents that he later, with therapy, traced back to not grieving properly for his sister. Somehow, all of these memories just…hooked up in my head with the facts of grief – you know, denial, anger, bargaining, acceptance, etc. – and turned themselves into this story. All I had to do was transcribe it.

As for the techniques and tools part of it: The first person POV was a given, since that's how the project was working. I purposefully kept the early sections short and the language sort of staccato to show how Chakotay was still in the thick of his emotions even though he wasn't dealing with them. He was keeping a very tight rein on himself and even sort of fooling himself, and I wanted to show that in the beginning. The turning point, of course, is his collapse in front of B'Elanna. I imagine the walls really closing in on him at that moment. Weeks have passed, maybe months, and he has done what he thought he had to do: Perform for the crew, do what Kathryn would have done, and not show anyone how her loss was affecting him. When he shouts at B'Elanna, it's a moment of stepping outside of his self-protective shell just long enough to express an honest emotion. And even though it's anger he's expressing, the floodgates are then open. The rest of his suppressed feelings aren't far behind, and they soon come pouring out in his screams, and later his plaintive cries, for Kathryn. The language gets more lyrical then, more self aware and self reflective. He's gone as far down into his grief as he can go and he's slowly coming back to himself. When Kathryn does eventually return, I imagine that he's overjoyed, yes, but also very cognizant of his newfound strength. He can lose someone he loves deeply and still survive it and carry on. (This is part of the reason the reunion scene in The Eternal Tide drives me up a freaking tree, but that's a whole different and equally long-winded post for another time.)

One other technical note: Having the other characters move in and out of his peripheral vision was my way of hopefully making the reader aware that Chakotay's attempts to keep his grief hidden weren't working at all. Tom and B'Elanna and Harry and Kes and Tuvok? They know. They all know, which somehow makes Chakotay's self-delusion more painful. Or at least it was supposed to. Upon rereading the story just now, I'm not sure I fully succeeded at that, but overall I think the story still works.

Thanks for the ask! And sorry the answer is so long. I have nothing to do at work today, it's freezing in my office, and I'm bored out of my mind!

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