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obi-wan sneaking around the death star + the pink panther theme song

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Animation techniques and effects from the classic era. For more vintage movie geekery, check out my Old Hollywood Special Effects, and my Early Color Film Processes posts! (And while you’re at it, take a look at my art blog, why don’t ya?)

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the proposal was *checks entry 17* not accepted he definitely isn't soliciting the government for resources to build a portal gun for funsies, no sir

referencing this amazing photoset of weird al (thank you @thefloatingstone for putting this on my dash)

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So allow me to put my hat into this ring

An interesting pet theory of mine, based entirely around the song used in the trailer and the name of the game itself, and structured from there:

Daylight by David Kushner

It's a very sort of bitter sweet song. Melancholy, one of regret. Not the vibe one gets of a remorseless killer who revels in the slaughter. Or someone lost to madness and does not know of their actions. It speaks of a deliberate choice and knowing the cost is terrible but doing it anyway.

Add that to the title. 'The casting of Frank Stone'.

Interesting since both meanings are refrenced in the trailer. In the film reel seen playing near the end, and by the fact he is in a foundry, wearing a modified welders mask. Suggesting a skill or vocation with shaping metals.

So using these two context clues i am about to run with it.

What if Frank stone was a suvivor of the entity once? He either lived the trials or lost someone to them or bore witness to its aftermath, but he knows of the entity. He knows the games the entity plays and what it feeds on. And he wants to end it. So he sets out a buffet, a trap. He litters the lair with hooks because thats what draws the entity in, and he sets up generators because he's following what the games rules are. Have to pretend to play fair. His intent originally is to play a role as a trick, casting himself as a 'killer' because he knows thats what he needs to do to get the attention. Chumming the waters. He knows they need a killer but he cant risk it to anyone else to play it. They wont believe his mad plan, they wont be believable enough in the role, they'l hesitate or perhapse go too far or any number of things. It has to go right because the cost of it going wrong would be far to great (the entity would win, again) Does he intend to kill the four in the trailer or merely seem like it? Survivors survive after all, they can get away. But the problem comes about that the entity isnt extactly something one can trick. It doesnt think like a person does. Its a reality warper. It draws slashers from stories and makes them manifest, it changed Carmian into the Artist. by playing the role as killer and drawing its eldtritch gaze, Frank unwittingly moulded himself. Changed himself, made himself a little too well. (Cast himself, through bloodied iron and hate) Survivors may survive, but sacrifices must also be made at times. He had to after all. Its a burden he's willing to bare, to bring the entity down.

Would the Entity care about the difference between a sacrifice made to it, and one made to spite it? How many? before the role isnt an act anymore.

Theories for the Casting of Frank Stone

The Casting of Frank Stone is an interactive horror game being made by Supermassive Games (the same guys behind Until Dawn and The Quarry.) It is in the Dead by Daylight universe and will be single-player. It will likely play similar to those two games, with players choosing the story, leading to different outcomes and endings.

So far it seems to be a story taking place in the real world, not the Entity's realm, however the Entity is present and this means it's possible these characters are going to end up in the realm, or are investigating the realm from the outside.

A theory I've seen tossed around is that the Entity took inspiration for it's game, off of Frank Stone's game. Throughout the trailer we see hooks and generators, in a real-life location, where Frank Stone (the killer) seems to be operating. The theory goes that this serial killer had been kidnapping people and making them do generators to escape his lair, or he would hook and kill them. The Entity took inspiration from this game and used it for it's own realm, possibly taking Frank Stone and the others in the process.

Another theory that kinda adds onto this is that Frank Stone was one of the first killers in the game, if not the very first. The four others shown in the trailer are the first four survivors to be taken, and the general perks in Dead by Daylight belong to these characters, who are now long gone leaving behind only remnants of their abilities.

A theory I saw going around was that Frank is related to, or an alternate version of the Trapper, due to their similar designs, and the survivors are alternate universe versions of the main four in DBD (Claudette, Meg, Dwight and Jake.) While this is definitely possible, I personally think it would be lame for what is essentially the DBD Lore game to be in a different universe lmao.

It's possible that this story shows one canonical game that occured in the Entity's realm, with Frank and these four people, and the different endings are things like who got killed and who escaped and whatnot. Though I think it would be hard to draw this out for a long time.

These are just a few theories I've found, but please share any others you can think of, this game looks hype.

#dbd #the casting of frank stone #dead by daylight #Personal fun idea #not sure how serious i'd take it #but its an interesting one #Youtube

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Always reblog that which shows genuine passion.

if ever i need to feel pure love and joy in my life once again i simply rewatch jason' brown's riverdance routine:

(and if you're going why does he look familiar yes, he was also the guy with the cotton eye joe routine, the can't touch this routine and more recently, the backsteet boys routine)

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Perception check but the Dark Urge is a ✨BARD✨

『 I’ve waited a while to see if this would eventually pop up on Tumblr, but afaik it’s still not here so. Here. 』

Source: @yaaayhem on Twitter

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English added by me :)

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ok but if bruce wayne somehow came upon zuko fresh out of banishment he would lose his mind.

black hair? check. bad parent(s)? check. trauma? double check.

bruce: how’d you get your scar?

zuko: my dad got mad at me for saying that killing people is wrong so he lit my face on fire and banished me.

bruce, vibrating with excitement, already pulling adoption papers from his utilility: that’s terrible. how do you feel about capes.

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Putting a hardstyle track over this Bollywood movie worked amazing [x]

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

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"The best thing we can do with power is give it away" - On the leftist critique of superhero narratives as authoritarian power fantasies:

The ongoing "Jason Todd is a cop" debate has reminded me of a brilliant brief image essay by Joey deVilla. So here it is, images first and the full essay text below:

"A common leftist critique of superhero comics is that they are inherently anti-collectivist, being about small groups of individuals who hold all the power, and the wisdom to wield that power. I don’t disagree with this reading. I don’t think it’s inaccurate. Superheroes are their own ruling class, the concept of the übermensch writ large. But it’s a sterile reading. It examines superhero comics as a cold text, and ignores something that I believe in fundamental, especially to superhero storytelling: the way people engage with text. Not what it says, but how it is read. The average comic reader doesn’t fantasize about being a civilian in a world of superheroes, they fantasize about being a superhero. One could charitably chalk this up to a lust for power, except for one fact… The fantasy is almost always the act of helping people. Helping the vulnerable, with no reward promised in return. Being a century into the genre, we’ve seen countless subversions and deconstructions of the story. But at its core, the superhero myth is about using the gifts you’ve been given to enrich the people around you, never asking for payment, never advancing an ulterior motive. We should (and do) spend time nitpicking these fantasies, examining their unintended consequences, their hypocrisies. But it’s worth acknowledging that the most eduring childhood fantasy of the last hundred years hasn’t been to become rich. Superheroes come from every class (don’t let the MCU fool you). The most enduring fantasy is to become powerful enough to take the weak under your own wing. To give, without needing to take. So yes, the superhero myth, as a text, isn’t collectivist. But that’s not why we keep coming back to it. That’s not why children read it. We keep coming back to it to learn one simple lesson… The best thing we can do with power IS GIVE IT AWAY." - Joey deVilla, 2021 https://www.joeydevilla.com/2021/07/04/happy-independence-day-superhero-style/

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Clint Barton ghost wrote this.

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Writer Issues

Writers Corner for more writing memes.

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"whether in a perfect dictatorship where the dictator always made the optimal decision" I think it's funny how Ankh-Morpork with Vetinari in charge is sort of presented as being just that. He's just that good! Although, with his predecessors having been enormous shitheads who had secret police torture squads and so forth, it's not quite an endorsement of the whole *system*.

yes it's arguably a weakpoint of the series, that Vetinari is carefully presented as being ultimately righteous and held in check by other righteous men (okay one man, Sam Vimes), but let's be real, if you heard of a city state ruled by an ex-assassin who we know regularly has people killed and is backed up by his chief of police who also happens to be (by pure coincidence!) one of the richest men in the city, you'd be a little suspicious wouldn't you?

like he only comes out looking good relative to the bloodshed of his predecessors and the need for the stories to have happy endings, but realistically it's difficult to argue that this is an optimal arrangement.

on the other hand if I was teleported back to a medieval city, what would I do? other than dying of cholera, smallpox, or the plague, I mean.