#Preprogrammed Scene

[msclaritea]

Good! That's the right attitude, Gen Z. It's the very one the adults in the room should have had for the Internet when it was introduced. We are STILL without basic protections from stalking, hacking, etc. Silicon Valley and the Media keep gleefully talking about all of the humans that AI will replace and just like Cheadle in the Space Jam scene, these wealthy shitheads love to brag about what their plans are. Stay skeptical about artificialintelligence, GenZ.

#Stay Skeptical #Gen Z #AI #Artificial Intelligence #Don Cheadle #Space Jam #Preprogrammed Scene #Animation To Be Eliminated #It's Too Kid Friendly #Warner Bros #David Zaslav #Secret Invasion #Samuel L Jackson #Bob Marley actor #Hollywood Gay Mafia

[chryzure-archive]

i’m going insane (thinking abt the fight scene in the police station at the end of malignant)

#the choreography of it was INSANE… had to fight perfectly since the camera was preprogrammed IM!!!! #malignant is such a comfort movie for me for real because james wan rlly jst gave it his all…… dumb fun time w so much drama #i loooove thinking abt that fight scene + the one where kekoa is following gabriel #and he falls straight from the fire escape onto the trash receptacle #i know he doesn’t ricochet off of it… but he certainly does BOUNCE #babygirl you are not gabriel <///3 you could’ve broken every single bone in your body #memorie.txt

[rubys-domain]

i did some beyond the map border shenanigans, and i discovered something that's either really wholesome or really creepy depending on how you want to look at it

i might be very far from the first one to discover this, but if you open the camera while paimon's trying to take you back within bounds (asuming you're not in a stance that keeps you from opening it like swimming or something), paimon stays onscreen and keeps moving like she does in the paimon menu. but if you move the camera so that it's looking at her from the side, she'll turn to face the camera and do her little wave.

now i don't think they'll do it, but... if genshin pulls some "you, the player" thing endgame... honestly i would be interested in seeing how they pull it off

#⇢₊˚⊹ 🩷∥ruby∥yo，ide yo !! #what if paimon is like the monika of genshin impact #where she's the only one with true sentience and everyone else is just part of the game #what if that's why she still calls you “traveler” even after the we will be reunited quest #because “aether”/“lumine” is just a vessel that the player controls. paimon wouldn't know your true name so she just calls you traveler #this is a crack theory btw if that wasn't obvious #and it's much more likely that the traveler either asked her to keep calling them that #or that she got the hint early on that the traveler didn't want to use their real name for whatever reason #but if by some wild coincidence my theory is true. then that might make her increasing insecurity in recent archon quests more impactful #she's probably the “if i can't do my job then i'm literally worthless” type #and she'd probably be really mentally exhausted after having to talk to countless preprogrammed “people” and pretend they're real #which makes the possibility of her doing something unhinged to keep the traveler from leaving... concerningly high. as if it wasn't already #what if in endgame there's a scene where we're in the abyss and paimon，presumably having destroyed the rest of the game， #finally addresses the player directly. what if she /is/ the sustainer and the “arrogation” mentioned in the opening cutscene is- #- doing as you please in a video game world

[snickerdoodlles]

headcanons behind fic: brother texting habits referenced in long & short

Chay holds up his phone sheepishly. “Also, your brother texted me. We’re invited to dinner.” Kim’s smile drops. He doesn’t need to ask which brother. “Did he type that out, or just send an emoji with a question mark?”

ngl, had i realized how much i'd expand this series, this is actually a scene i'd cut or at least heavily rework. it's the weakest scene of the story and its execution has only felt more clunky as time passes. hindsight! that said, i don't regret the scene either because the headcanons behind the premise of that scene are very near and dear to my heart, namely the texting rituals of Khun, Kinn, and Kim :D

the boys have a system to their texting. it's not anything as concrete as a code, that'd be far too dangerous and anxiety inducing. their system, naturally, revolves primarily around giving hints to Korn's mood without outright saying anything:

firstly, all brother invites to things go through Khun, because Khun's invites will only ever be invites and Kim's 'no's will only ever be 'no's.

anytime Korn demands Khun or Kinn (usually Kinn) drag Kim to a family thing for him go through Kinn, and 'Kinn's requests are always phrased as a question Kim can refuse. Kim once tells Kinn he'll show up if Kinn orders him to (because he doesn't actually want to get Kinn into trouble if Korn's being esp insistent), and Kinn smiles and tells him "thank you" and never ever once orders Kim join them, because Kim asked not to be involved in the family business and Kinn will take on any burden to keep Kim free of it.

Kinn passes along how insistent Korn's being through the overall tone and vibe of his messages, usually indicated by how much of it he types out. requests Kim join official functions sound like a formal invitation printed on a card, requests Kim indulge Korn playing family are much closer to Kinn's standard texting style;

because, and this is a silly headcanon i will have forever, Kinn fucking loves emojis. you know his whole "this could've been an email" vibe when he shoots that guy in the head ep1? same vibes except much cuter. Kinn thinks emojis are adorable and efficiency perfected. why send "thank you" when the 👍 emoji is right there? a picture's worth a thousand words and 🫂 is a thousand warm ones. he could send "wanna check out that new coffee shop by the studio next tuesday for brunch? their menu is 60% sprinkles so i'm sure you'll love it" but ☕🧋🎙️❔👑2️⃣🗓️🕦🍬👉💕💕‼️ is so much quicker. the only reason why Kinn's texts aren't 87% cute stickers is because he hasn't yet realized they come preprogrammed in his phone.

("do you think he speaks in hieroglyphics because he's secretly ancient?" Kim asks one day.

"how old does it make you to understand him then?" Khun snarks back.)

((Kim leaves Khun on read for a week.))

some bonus thoughts: Khun's a spam texter of the highest order. every one text is sent across 3.5 texts minimum. Kinn only ever sends one (1) text. if Kinn's replying to multiple messages in one go, he separates his responses in indv bullet points (if he's feeling petty towards Khun, he responds to every one of Khun's messages individually).

(Kinn's multiple messages to Chay in long & short are absolutely because he's watching Kim's live. for all Kim's snooping, he has somehow missed that Kinn has every alert and then some set for Wik news and while he can't make every live, he plans his breaks around them and even moved a meeting once.)

also, while Kinn pretends he's threatening/blackmailing with these baby Kim pics, this is 100% him taking advantage of the situation to gush about cute baby brother with a fellow Kim AppreciatorTM. Kinn has the cutest little brother, and he's gotta keep up with news of baby brother's current shenanigans somehow 😤👏 Khun is guilty of similar crimes ofc.

(Kim suffers older brothers so much.)

#kinnporsche #fic headcanons #fic: gone fishing #i love brothers <3333

[t-tomuras]

Gyuutaro x reader, modern au, wc 1k

He knows he should be wearing riding gear, that it was something essential and he knows his sister will ask about the first time he comes to pick her up. He wanted some as well, helmet at the very least so he could really enjoy riding the bike but it was insanely expensive and he spent a good chunk of his savings getting the bike in general.

And pretty much only the bike. 

No insurance, no proper license, no tags, no helmet, he wasn’t even wearing sleeves nevermind a riding jacket. Gyuutaro shouldn’t have this 1000cc death machine in the first place. 

But it offered a decent amount of freedom that he could taste on his tongue immediately. Feel it whipping against his skin in a way that didn’t feel like torment for once in his life while he weaved between the painted lines on smooth asphalt. 

His speedometer ticking upwards steadily, downshifting as broad palms grip tight to the cushioned handlebars. Shifting his weight to lift the bike from two wheels to one, balancing himself carefully as Gyuutaro howls with laughter. 

Grin splitting his face wide and flashing jagged teeth, baggy shirt pushed back with the roaring winds from the high speeds outlining his thin frame. 

And his mood doesn’t falter even when he wobbles slightly, tensing his forearms as he straightens and falls back onto both wheels. Bouncing slightly as he opens the throttle and rockets down the near empty highway. Reaching new speeds the shitbox he’d owned up to this point could only ever dream of achieving. 

Yes, there are ninety nine reasons for Gyuutaro to treat the road like it was his and his alone. Could count and reclaim each and every one of them while his music blasts like his own personal OST. 

Laughing maniacally despite how the rev of his engine through a short tunnel drowns out the sound with its reverberations. Adrenaline surging as the numbers climb higher. 

120.. 140.. 180.. 

One arm cutting through the torrential breeze he causes with his speed as it relinquishes its hold on one of the handles. Angled to make waves before it opens his palm flat to let the force throw it back like he’s riding a bucking bronco. 

His exit is soon, but Gyuutaro already feels at home right now before his song stops abruptly. Snarl marring his lips almost as quickly as he splits the lane between a few cars before the automated voice reads out the text you’d sent him. 

Dinner will be ready soon, get home quickly but drive safe okay?

‘Would you like to reply?’ The AI preprogrammed into his phone asks and he does, he always fucking does but he doesn’t have a helmet to muffle the loud howling of the wind. He’s lucky enough that the headphones you’d gotten him for his birthday hadn’t fallen out yet, it’d be nothing short of a miracle if the tech could decipher a word he says. 

So he slows, decelerates quickly yet safely just like you’d asked of him. 

Yes, Gyuutaro has ninety nine reasons to drive like a bat outta hell. But the one that matters most is you. 

The image of you waiting in the doorway when you hear the purr of his engine down the street. A scene of him backing his bike into your little carport before long legs cut the distance between you in a hurry before your arms wrap around one another as he kicks the door closed behind him plays in his mind. 

And just as the numbers tick down on the speedometer, so do the reasons for him to drive as recklessly as he pleases. 

His sister, the smell of dinner in the home he’s steadily moved into with you, the feel of your skin against his beneath your weighted comforter. Knobby and calloused digits intertwining with yours as he pins the back of your hand to the mattress in moments of intimacy. The way he fills you, the way you preen so prettily for him and the pleasure he provides. 

The intent to watch the swell of your stomach that only grows the more he comes home to you, and sure it would continue if he didn’t. Time would tick on if Gyuutaro’s was cut short but the thought makes his chest ache. 

Finding the actual speed limit as he veers off the on-ramp to take the exit home. Wavy locks styled chaotically from his trek back to you but you love it either way. Choosing not to question it but you do mention going shopping for a helmet when you receive him with open arms. 

Giggling between smattered affections to your forehead, the apples of your cheeks, the corner of your jaw and finally to plush lips because he wasn’t one to interrupt you when you talk. Your fingers carding through his soft curls with care, working out any tangles he’d caused just like you had many times before. Threading delicate digits together on the nape of his neck as you drape against him, telling Gyuutaro you’d already looked online for a few. 

“Pretty affordably priced with practical reviews,” because you always do your research especially when it came to him and his sister that you’d accepted into your life with ease. With a quiet compassion that spoke volumes of your character that he was more than aware he didn’t deserve but you fill his head with cooed confessions and his chest with their sentiment. 

And each kiss, meal, outing, lost restful night of sleep he’s ever gotten as well as each domestic and carnal moment alike replaces all of the desire for destruction. Be it internal or external, Gyuutaro was born to be a man that wrought and collected as he pleased. 

Yes, there are ninety nine reasons for Gyuutaro to speed on his bike, but they’ve morphed. Shifted and molded into something lovely instead of ghastly like he’s always known. 

An effect you’ve had on him from the moment he’d met you purely by coincidence. A stroke of luck in his underrated little life. 

Now, all of them revolve around you and the way you’ve integrated so effortlessly into a world that never belonged to him. 

He knows maybe you won’t like it, that you’ll worry and chastise him every single time but what reason could he give to not? Not one he thinks is worth it.

#vixen drabbles #gyutaro x reader #gyutaro x you #just me rambling about this man

[carlyraejepsans]

What did you think of annihilation? Any details you noticed?

REALLY loved the cancer symbolism there. and the way it ties in with the main character's affair. in the initial conversation with her husband when they talk about god, she says god makes mistakes because if it weren't for a certain "biological error", the cell's reproductive cycle would make us immortal. this is, of course, bullshit, as the psychologist makes evident in their discussion about suicide vs self destruction. "not many people commit suicide. a lot of people self destruct". lena looks up when dr ventress lists off ruining a happy relationship as one of the examples, closely tying her to the cell lifespan symbolism when ventress mentions that cells die because it's already programmed into their dna (something lena knows well, being a biologist). death NOT as a mistake by god, as a programmed stage of our life cycle. and what does lena say after her last time sleeping with her colleague?

"This was a mistake."

and the issue is: as harrowing, as unfair as preprogrammed, by-design mortality is, a cell that doesn't die and keeps reproducing forever is, well... a cancer. which is exactly what the shimmer is. it refracts everything, it combines dna regardless of species, it creates doubles, it absorbs and transforms, not so much killing, as annihilating what it touches as a consequence of complete genetic reshuffling, engulfing it into itself.

it's god's so-called "mistake" in cell dna (and thus, as an established parallel, human nature)'s tendency to self destruct that finally stops the shimmer's expansion. when lena gives her clone the grenade and takes its hand to set it off, she essentially teaches it to self destruct, like any (ironically) healthy cell would. no more immortality. no more cancer.

the final scene between lena and kane was also very... interesting. i think if i were to interpret it in any way, i'd say it's a kind of reflection on a biological ship of theseus. in the same way one would ask "if most (if not every) cell in your body dies and is substituted every so and so years, is it even still you"? kane committed suicide. he killed himself and let his clone take his place by lena's side, because his answer to that question was... no. and he couldn't deal with it. lena, as previously mentioned, self destructed and "won" against the shimmer as a consequence. unlike her husband, she remained "her original, non-alien self". kane doesn't think he is the same, and we can't blame him for it. but still, he turns the question over: are you? because she may not be an alien clone, but the shimmer changed her too. cells don't destroy themselves as a mistake or for fate, they do it to prevent cancer, save energy, and maintain the health of the organism. dying, changing, replacement, self destruction: they're all a part of our lives.

she doesn't answer. in the final shot, her eyes change color like his. alien. different. changed.

is she still the real lena?

does it matter?

#GOOD MOVIE #MMMMMM #you know those stories where the symbolism is so juicy you can sink your teeth in #answered asks #annihilation

[tired-fandom-ndn]

Good things about that version of the play:

Beatrice wearing a suit to the masquerade and Benedick wearing a denim skirt, fishnets, and a sparkly crop top.

The attending boy wearing a Mario costume.

The boy showing off his Rubik's cube to Don John and Don John giving him a cigarette in return.

Benedick lying hungover on the ground and sipping from a can of soda through a silly straw while wearing a Superman tshirt.

The rotating stage.

Everything about the eavesdropping scenes, especially the ways they actors basically dance around each other to show how desperate they are to make sure that Beatrice and Benedick are listening.

Beatrice creeping around under a sheet like they can't see her.

Benedick monologuing while covered in paint. "Love. . . me." Looks down at himself, in denim shorts and a Superman tshirt, covered in paint. "Why?"

Beatrice's howling laugh when Don Pedro proposes and then her desperately scooting away when she realizes he's serious.

How Don Pedro seems genuinely hurt and disappointed that Beatrice rejected him and him jumping straight into matchmaking seeming like a way to distract himself from his own feelings, supported by him sitting alone at the wedding.

(POLY TRIAD FICS!!!)

Everyone smoking always.

The blow-up doll.

The morning hangover bloody marys.

Everyone being dressed like they're ready to hang out by the pool.

The terrible drawing of a thief holding a sack labelled "swag."

The terrible tiddy drawing.

Don Pedro giving Benedick a cocktail with flags and a twisty straw and a lit sparkler.

The fact that the bachelorette and bachelor parties both got strippers.

Borachio stealing Hero's bachelorette veil during the party to give it to Margaret for the deception.

Hero sipping champagne with a straw while she freaks out pre-wedding.

Beatrice using Hero's dress train as a blanket and tissue.

The confession scene where Beatrice looks like a cornered animal and then they're both so giddy and running around making excited noises because THEY'RE IN LOVE.

And then the sudden change in tone where Beatrice goes from giggling and in love to crying and asking Benedick to kill Claudio for her cousin's honor.

Benedick trying to compose a love song on a tiny electric keyboard and the attending boy having to turn it off when it starts playing one of the preprogrammed songs.

Their looks of vague disgust while reading each other's love letters and both of them crumpling up the papers and throwing them away.

Benedick absolutely lovestruck by Beatrice and beaming at her while she's just fucking done. This scene:

#much ado about nothing

[wanderlust-in-my-soul]

My weekly roundup CW 18

I try to write down my thoughts after watching stuff to create a little weekly ranking in relation to the previous week on my, most of the times, quiet sundays (and because I love lists!). These are just my personal opinions and preferences.

And yes, this will contain spoilers!

☼ 1. Love Mate

I am thrilled and I decided to ignore the permanent crossing of boundaries. The series is so funny and not in a too embarrassing way. I cringe insanely fast and here it really kept within limits because the jokes just ended in time and were not exhausted until it hurts. We have grumpy-I-don't-believe-in-love-guy and the sunshine-I-fell-in-love-with-you-at-first-sight-guy (and yes, those are their names for me now) and the two have good chemistry and I just go awww. Grumpy guy is actually already smitten, just doesn't want to admit it to himself that someone has managed to break through his shell. And sunshine guy is just an idiot in love, who knows no boundaries and would do anything to convince his crush that love can be beautiful. And I am sitting in the front row rooting for him. Maybe because I can identify too much with grumpy-guy and find it quite nice to watch his heart slowly being conquered. Great series! Clear recommendation!

→ 2. My Story

Cutest scene this week goes to:

Zeke and Fifth are such flirts with each other and they both know they like the other and I think Zeke knows Fifth likes him too, it's just Fifth hasn't quite figured out that Zeke likes him too. There's still the belief that the latter might have a crush on Kim. Oh my little Fifth…you two are inseparable, Zeke doesn't leave your side unless you intentionally leave him behind, he is constantly flirting with you and bringing you coffee in bed. He actively and repeatedly seeks your proximity and wants you as a nude model! How many more clues do you need!? The preview for the next episode looks very promising! The main couple? Still not of interest to me. I lost interest in their story at some point and currently have no plans to get back in. They are not bad, Zeke and Fifth are just way cuter together.

Random scene I just don't understood what was happening or why:

↑ 3. Our Dining Table

How nice that the two of them ran into each other and Yutaka was able to experience the magic of the mother's special recipe. And when Minoru saw how differently his friend treated Tane and how Yutaka treated him, I think that was the moment when he finally fell in love. The look he gave Yutaka definitely speaks volumes. The story has some deeper parts, but it's still such a feel-good watch during the week. Some mid-week relaxation.

↓ 4. Happy Merry Ending

I think we all know that SeungJun's best friend is in love with him. Drama preprogrammed? We will have to wait and see. But I'm afraid this is a feast for writers. I'd like to see a plot twist like this, when you think that the two main characters get together and in the end it's the best friend who has also been in love with one of them for ages who becomes endgame (yes, my wish for The Promise). Won't happen, but I'd think it would be cool. Other than that, we got to see cute scenes between the characters and a bit of SeungJun's past, which is really not pleasant and I can get why he is how he is. Best scene so far is definitely the last scene of episode four when JaeHyun encourages SeungJun. Even though I was a little disappointed that they didn't dance with each other. Let's wait until the hand holding, then that will be my little tummy tickling scene!

↑ 5. Step by Step

I really enjoyed this episode again. What a roller coaster of emotions here! Maybe it was because the colleagues didn't appear that often and Jeng was also a bit more bearable again. At least he takes to heart what the employees have to say about him. And honestly, I love the looks he gives Pat! I was going to make a gifset, but then Photoshop broke, and after trying five times, reinstalling the application a zillion times, and ending up throwing Adobe completely off my computer, I figured there's currently a curse on it, I'm not touching the scenes again! But I think it won't be the last time he looks at Pat with that loving look. Such a handsome man. I'm a sucker for men in suits, but in this case, casual black shirts look soooo much better. As for the plot…I was too distracted by Jeng 😂

↓ 6. La Pluie

The mood of this week goes to:

It could have been over so easily and so quickly…well, Phat took his fate into his own hands and fell in love…That is shit. And in the end, I really just sat there and kept asking myself: What's happening right now? Are Tai and Lomfon falling for each other? What? And the scene where our precious vet is making out with someone and it starts to rain and Tai hears everything…that hurt amazingly bad. It left me speechless for a moment. I'm really curious to see where the journey goes. But I found a new motto this week: Unfuck it! Love it! Tian is the best! Someone needs to give him a really big hug. The poor kid is going through enough with his brothers and his arch-nemesis, who he's slowly falling for and who is slowly falling for his brother himself. Or this is just to get closer to Tian or just a representation of how people can bond over what they have in common without anything romantic having to happen right away, but I think we're all so influenced by our bl series that guys/men immediately flirt with each other and fall in love when there's common ground and a lively conversation. Just saw that the series is marked 18+ on MDL. Just wondering what made them give it that rating. iQiyi has it rated 13+.

↑ 7. Naked Dining

Okay, the moon thing was really cute. The moon means "I love you" and Mahori panics because he's already sent it. Honey, don't worry, Futa sends back a picture of the moon and everyone is happy! The female colleague will definitely make trouble, because of course now she has noticed how great Futa actually is or because she has been in love with him for a long time anyway. I don't really like this pretend you're my boyfriend acts because it always ends up with the girl falling in love and provoking drama. On the cuter hand, I thought it was cute when Mahori confessed having a crush on someone.

↓ 8. The Promise

Why do you have to drag everything out sooo much? Come on! These two like each other. This game is getting boring. Let them get together! And not just in a dreamed up deleted scene. What was that? I have no idea where to place that scene. Did either of them dream this? And if so, when? When Nan was in Party's arms? And Party, my man…you really are one of the best! Phu…get off your duff. Have faith in your best friend that even if he doesn't love you back, he won't abandon you. And Nan, please listen to your heart. I really feel like I write the same thing every week. I probably do, because a blind man with a cane can see that they like each other, but nothing seems to progress! It's frustrating!

↓ 9. A Boss and a Babe

Okay, so the topics are tough at times and yet the series feels like light banter to me. You know what I mean? It's dramatic with rape and drug trafficking and prison, and yet you feel like you're sweeping through the series light as a feather. I'm sure that's a little bit due to the characters. Even when dramatic scenes are shown, they are immediately grinned away in the next scene or covered up by love talk. The tragedy of many things doesn't really reach the viewer. And I won't go into Gun's mother for a moment. She wants to protect her son and especially the name of the family, which I can understand. The way it's done is just off, but really not as bad as in some other series or movies. And Cher doesn't let himself be kept away from Gun, which was kind of sweet in the end.

☼ 10. House of Stars

It was a mixture of boredom and drama and sex. I think the series is trying to go in the same direction as War of Y, but with less production budget and, sorry, a worse script. We have the mistress of the house who sets the rules and everyone obeys her. We have the little yet unknown one, who will fall in love with the nice seeming model student in the next episode, we have the competing pair, where you don't know exactly what's going on, we have the two in love, where I'm not sure if they are already a couple or not yet and we have the stalker, who finds the aggressive, heterosexual one so horny, that he watches him having sex and then lays hands on himself. And all this is accompanied by boring table talk and out-of-place fanservice scenes. Yes, this first episode has not quite picked me up yet.

↓ 11. Our Skyy 2

What's the point of intentionally hurting your partner just so you can have the satisfaction of surprising him in the end? That would have also worked if you had congratulated him and gone to the celebration from the outset and then just sneaked out. I'm angry about all this crap drama. It really overshadowed everything for me. And yes, I knew Our Skyy was going to be cringy, but it does really hurt. I'm really scared of when my favorites are on that it's going to spoil some of the original series for me….

↓ 12. Tin Tem Jai

I don't even bother to organize my thoughts - that's how little I care about the series in the end. Why were they fighting in the mall now? What was that hard cut and anyway…why that scene? A no-park zone??? How old is Tin!??! And was it really legal for Park to have sex with him? Their conversations are just so exhausting! Why is Park annoyed with Tin? I don't get it! That whole scene with your face is annoying….what was that for? Okay, now that's what I call abuse of power in a relationship with age difference…If Tin doesn't do what Park asks (i.e. not take the job that can benefit him professionally later and miss three days of college), then it's over? Wow.

I don't want to talk to Wikipedia right now….funniest scene of the week.

And what a drama with the mother in the last episode…Was that necessary? That was a bit much drama…And what exactly happened to Kana and Pao? They were just left behind on the track…At least I found them interesting and I would have liked to know how they are doing now. No…That was not good!

#weekly wrap up #weekly update #josi watching bl #sunday charts #just my opinion #bl drama #bl series #love mate #my story the series #our dining table #happy merry ending #step by step the series #la pluie #naked dining #the promise the series #a boss and a babe #house of stars #our skyy 2 #tin tem jai

[flightfoot]

So I was rewatching the Christmas special and got to the part where Adrien is upset about being lonely that Christmas and turns into Chat Noir to cataclysm the city tree. Then he sees an image of his mom and stops in his tracks. I used to think that scene was cute like "oh the memory of his mother is keeping him on the right track" but now with the sentimonster theory it seems so much darker! Now I can't help but wonder if Emelie gave him a command not to be violent and reckless and his sentimonster programming was kicking in or if it was a sweet memory thing. And if it was programming, how much of Adrien's personality IS programming? I guess there have been moments in the show where he does actually destroy or almost destroy things and Emelie's "programming" doesn't stop him like with the chimney or Scarabella. But it still weirds me out that it could be leftover programming. Like there is some element of programming to Adrien or else he wouldn't have said he wanted to be whatever his parents wanted him to be in Wishmaker. So I wonder how much of Adrien is legitimate developed personality and how much is pre-programming? I guess you could point to Felix as an example of why Adrien's personality is not preprogrammed, but not entirely considering Felix was designed by a different person with different wants than Emelie. It's possible that they WANTED a shrewd, unempathetic, super cunning, martial arts efficient son. Kagami's personality is pretty inline with what Tomoe would want. I'm just sayin, the "is Adrien's personality authentic?" question keeps me up at night.

I doubt that him remembering his mom like that in the Christmas special was pre-programming, but it is disconcerting to think of how much those initial commands might have shaped Adrien.

I'm hoping that we get a flashback sequence to show us Adrien's creation and give an idea of the ways that the amok has been used, or not used on him, growing up to get a sense of things. Even now, when Gabriel's controlling Adrien liberally though, he hasn't tried to control Adrien's actual personality.

#ask #miraculous ladybug #sentiadrien #ml analysis

[watching-pictures-move]

Put On Your Raincoats | Randy: The Electric Lady (Schuman & Strong, 1980)

This is the second movie I’ve seen co-directed by Zachary Strong, and like Little Showoffs, there’s a deconstructive streak. That movie was about exploring the fantasies of its participants, alternating between interviews and enactments, and eventually pulling back the curtain to show the work that goes into making these things. That movie’s overall attitude was fairly warm and supportive. This one’s, maybe less so. Here we find ourselves at some kind of institute of sexual studies where scientists are doing some very scientific research on the science of orgasms. For science, you see.

How it’s presented is any number of beautiful women in the throes of ecstasy, subject to stimuli either external or self-applied, while strapped to electrodes and the like, so they can be observed. For science, you see. Now, one might not take too much issue being conflated with the nice looking ladies in the cast, but one might object a little more to their relative lack of agency. The movie is softening the blow, but it’s still poking fun at you the viewer. The height of these jabs comes during a sequence where the subjects are forced to watch specially edited "commercial porno films" and masturbate, and what we see of the films is played so quickly and cut so incoherently, that one wonders how anyone can get off on it, which I suppose is the folly of skipping to the good parts. One of the scientists admits that pornography doesn’t do anything for him, as “there’s never any story” and you never get to know the characters, and the movie’s satire comes into focus. And even a character’s eventual sexual actualization is defined by a number of preprogrammed stimuli and positions.

The plot eventually turns to the extraction of “Orgasmine”, which allows two of the scientists to experience sex with each other entirely in their minds without actual physical interaction. One can speculate what sort of applications this might have in the name of science, but one should be wary lest it be used for less altruistic motives, such as world domination. Which may or may not be the motive of a mad scientist played by uberMILF Juliet Anderson, who may or may not want “enough Orgasmine to control the vurld!”.

Listen, you get Anderson chewing the scenery with a shitty German accent and a femdom lite routine, and this is automatically a good movie. You get the cute as a button Desiree Cousteau as the titular character (yes, Randy is a girl’s name here) and you have an even better movie. You get Lori Blue and Jesie St. James in the supporting cast and I certainly ain’t complaining. But what takes this to the next level is the forceful style with which this is executed. There’s an emphasis on sensory overload, like a sequence that cuts between Cousteau’s garden fantasy to her masturbating frantically to a pair of scientists fucking while we’re hit with colour effects and punchcards explode out of a computer (another scientist warns them “There’s no fucking in the sex institute!”). Or the porno sequence where we’re hit with a barrage of explicit imagery while punk rock blares on the soundtrack. Or the scene the dissolve-heavy scene where Cousteau and Blue masturbate together while reminiscing about past lovers, which has probably the best cross-cutting during sex scenes I’ve seen in porno.

The horror movie aesthetics and mix of coldness and camp invite comparisons with another pornographic favourite of mine, Nightdreams, although this leans heavier on the camp than the coldness. The lab setting, which includes a sassy mainframe computer and a mechanized dildo, on top of all the monitors, tape machines and cold interiors, help give this a distinct visual identity. So much so that the heavily degraded print, which alternated between giving the movie a gummy candy green and steely blue colour palette, didn’t manage to sink it. Ideally we’ll get a restoration of this at some point, but in any case it’s well worth a look.

#film #movie review #put on your raincoats #randy: the electric lady #phillip schuman #zachary strong

[willkimurashat]

S5 doesn't feel like a finished product. Most of the time MC's sprite just sits there doing nothing as we watch the other characters having fun together. The scenes will go for 8-12 minutes with MC just watching from the sidelines. We can't even know what she think about all that's going on. I felt more like an outside viewer than like a contestant. It's like FB forgot to code MC's lines. At one point I wanted her to move so I could focus on the text behind her. She is such a cardboard cutout

Lmaooo yep! Exactly! To quote myself from that long-ass rating s5 post i did, “16 volumes, 42 episodes and we know absolutely nothing about them. What do they like? Who’s their type? What’s their passion in life? What makes them, well, them? Who is mc? A hologram. A cardboard cut out that only has three preprogrammed comments: yes/no/i don’t know.”

No, but honestly, s5 does feel very much unlike any other season of the game before… Maybe it’s unfinished, maybe it’s cuz they rushed so much to get it out so quickly after s4… Or maybe they just wrote this one plotline about Suresh, a la visual novel style, and then someone on their team was like, “waaait a second… isn’t it supposed to be an interactive game?👀” And then they went, “oh SHIT MAYDAY MAYDAY” and just put together this robot of an mc as an afterthought really… So mc doesn’t even feel like the main character - it’s just a side character, spectating all the drama from the sidelines like this:

And the funniest thing that gets me every time is how li’s would be like, “MC, you are smart and kind and sweet and tell it like it is and blah blah blah”, and I’m just like, where did you get THAT from lmaooo😂😂😭😭

But anyways, thanks for your ask, my lovely!❤️

#litg #love island the game #litg s5 #litg eitv #litg ex in the villa #litg mc #ask ab

[inamindfarfaraway]

I'm sorry but I just stumbled across your Collector Clawthorne AU and I am dying to know what happens after The Collector's powers get unleashed!

Short answer: *gesturing to a board covered in hypothetical (because I can’t draw) fanart and edited The Owl House images of King, the Collector and scattered scenes in the AU connected with multiple colours of string, the title ‘Collector Clawthorne AU’ scribbled on a scrap of paper pinned at the top* Bold of you to assume I’ve planned that far ahead.

Long answer: I have no hard-and-fast overall plot for the AU series, just rough ideas and character arc directions with a few specific moments that I outlined in the previous post. But I do have some speculative thoughts! And having got a few asks about the AU “King’s Tide” now, I think it’s time to try to make something coherent out of them.

So, Belos powers the draining spell with King’s sacrifice, even now that that sacrifice is entirely by force. This draining spell is functionally the same as its canon equivalent, but the mechanics are different. It uses Titan magic, not the Collector’s, the culmination of all Belos’s studies of King and his father. The focal point is not the eclipse, but King himself. Despite valiant attempts to escape and resist (which damage the room and castle enough to create the openings the Collector later uses to reach him), King ends up unconscious and strapped to an operating table anyway. Yes, he is in the crucifixion pose. Yes, Belos recovered the gold ‘crown of thorns’ after it was discarded in “Edge of the World” and put it back on him. And so the draining spell activates.

How He Almost Did It: Witch and Biped Demon Genocide! Featuring a lot of stuff I made up about how magic works in this world!

Coven sigil branding in this AU has used extracted Titan magic all along. Like, the particles of the sigils themselves contain if not King’s DNA, then the ‘signature’ that is to magic as DNA is to physical cells. You know that trope? A person’s signature magic? However, the ‘cutting off access to other types of magic’ thing proves that while that is true, they also bind to the branded person’s magic. Magic, especially the living kind, is naturally inclined to return to the being it belongs to, especially if that being could really use some extra magic right now; the same way animals have preprogrammed mechanisms that instinctively fight to stop or at least delay them dying. The sigils’ connection to King has always been dormant and too weak to pick up on anyway. Until now, because Belos uses a special spell to activate it all at once.

He continuously siphons away King’s blood with catheters at a rate calculated to match the rate he replenishes it to suspend him on the brink of death. He is practically one extra lost drop of blood away dying. But his body has just enough strength to desperately draw upon all its physiological and magical ability to stay alive. Meanwhile, the blood is powering the portal.

Oh, hey, what’s this King’s magic is sensing? Loads of his very own magic that can heal him and give him energy scattered around in tiny fragments? He better gather it up and reabsorb it now! And any other magic stuck to it for good measure! Thus the draining spell. But because the sigils bind King’s magic with that of the witch or demon they’re on, the witches and demons have their magic and therefore life energy ripped out of them too. In short, everyone with a coven sigil becomes a battery in King’s forced magical life support.

Once they’re totally dead, Belos will casually pull the plug to prevent King surviving after all that. The ‘King of witches’ suffers, slowly, painfully dies and takes the sin and evil of the people of this world with him - evil is a synonym of being a witch, of course. Belos needs to stay until the covens are definitely drained to kill King and ensure that nothing interferes, with the rebels at large and how delicate King’s position is; and, well, it is so enjoyable to watch the fruits of his labour.

Everything seems doomed and everyone’s about to die. Nobody else knows how the spell works and Belos in his rage-consumed insanity after Luz brands him refuses to stop it. He reasons that if he goes through the portal and shuts it, he’ll be safe from the spell’s effects… but since the portal is right there, he might as well destroy these infernal rebellious brats on his way out.

Enter Collector Clawthorne! The two tablets that can release his power (the Titan Trappers’ one is taped together) have been salvaged and are obviously top priority. Hypothetically, anyone with one of them, the Collector and Titan blood could unlock phenomenal cosmic power, and given Belos’s surplus… yeah, no. Protect at all costs. But Collie aches to be useful in this darkest hour. And it really, really looks like it’s up to them. So he takes the tablets and sneaks away into the castle while Belos is busy rampaging, following the trail of magic, to find some Titan blood.

The only thing other than his reality-warping power that could save the day is just killing King before he unconsciously kills everyone else and for the reasons of being a child, being unwilling to murder someone they like and care about and an intense revulsion toward killing the sole survivor of the genocide they led and are trying to atone for, that isn’t an option. With his full power, he could easily revive King on top of healing the rest of Belos’s victims. This time, he’s going to be a god right. They’re not going to hurt people, deliberately or not. They’re going to help.

A slight problem is Belos is actually careful and diligent about not leaving the greatest power source on the Boiling Isles just lying around, so all of it that’s accessible is in the web of tubes coming out of King and into the portal. Collie chooses to puncture a tube with an ice glyph that freezes it shut almost instantly. He can easily fix it later. This gives them a small splash that leaked out to work with. He performs the ritual. The tablets are propped up opposite each other, Collie standing tall between them and facing King. Igniting a fire glyph wetted with the droplets creates the blue fire spell the Titan Trappers use, or at least an approximation, which they light each tablet with.

Suddenly King’s eyes snap open with a brief red glow. Remember that ‘all samples of his DNA contains his magic and is thus supernaturally connected to the magic in his body and right now that’s active’ thing I invented? Now he’s connected to this hell of a powerful spell more directly than canon King was to the canon Collector and the shock has awoken him. And he is very unhappy to be conscious. He’s bewildered, terrified and in agony. The stress of his tensing is not good for his already weakened body. He and Collie’s eyes are locked.

The flaming tablets rise into the air on either side of the Collector, crack and shatter to open circles of bright light, or rather holes punched in the fabric of reality, that his celestial magic pours out of in a breathtaking sight as Collie reaches out to King - but now King and the Collector’s magic are connected, so it all pours into him instead. These are not normal types of magic inside him, guys. These are the most powerful ones EVER. A Titan is a godlike being in a world where magic is commonplace and the magic of a ‘child of the stars’ is a complete outside-context problem like Bill Cipher is to Earth. Titan blood mixed with an intense, concentrated blast of all the power of an omnipotent god? This is gonna get weird. The blood in the tubes glows up into King’s veins, there’s a blinding flash of light and a chilling scream.

The good news is, King is rejuvenated and them some! The bad news is, he basically got the magic equivalent of a radioactive spider bite a millionfold, so while he feels fine and even has new superpowers, he nonetheless still has… you know, radiation poisoning. The cool news is he gets a new outfit, a starry dark blue hooded cloak that looks like it’s cut from the night sky and ripples on its own. The uncool news is, the draining spell is still going because as he was healed by an utterly incomprehensible and alien mechanism King’s magic doesn’t register him as okay - like, all that blood remains outside him. Collie is relieved he’s not overtly dying, but concerned. They knows their magic is Different and though happy it’s in the hands of a good person, he isn’t sure even a Titan will be able to handle it without losing control or accidentally dissolving themselves or something. King however dismissively says they have no time to worry or figure out exactly how this works.

Meanwhile, Luz and co. are battling Belos! It’s not going well. Belos rears up and brandishes his scythe arm -

when it’s caught by an absolutely fucking livid King. “King! What are you doing?” He smiles bitterly. “Saving the Boiling Isles, just like you always said I would.” As if teleporting here wasn’t demonstration enough of his level-up, he deletes his crown from existence and smashes Belos to pulp against the wall with a flick of his finger. The teens are caught between celebratory, confused and alarmed. The alarm wins out when King feels a sudden flare of pain, his eyes glow red and shooting stars spark off him, warping the ground where they land. Collie catches up and grounds him. He realizes to their horror their hypothesis was right - King’s body is rejecting the foreign magic and the two types are having an internal war. Hunter is especially frightened of losing his big brother figure. King insists he’s fine and that they leave things to him. Surprise surprise, the kid raised specifically to be a dark Jesus Christ analogue has a messiah complex.

He stops the draining spell by overriding his Titan magic with his new power. The good news is, it works! The bad news is, King does indeed lack control and unleashes the Collector’s magic across the Isles; it begins to twist and mutate the landscape to be wilder, more chaotic, even operating on fluid laws of physics like a dream, akin to the original Wonderland. It’s like a virus making a video game glitch out. King burns up with uncontainable, raw eldritch energy, physical form glitching disturbingly too, and has a breakdown over how he might actually doom everything anyway despite his change of heart and also nearly getting murdered by and in turn murdering the man who raised him that day and generally all his truckloads of unprocessed trauma. The Isles grow more nightmarish in accordance with his mental state. More Weirdmageddon than Wonderland. The Titan’s skull cracks apart as the magic, attuned to its hosts surging emotions, completely overwhelms his son’s rationality.

Luz uses vines to hold the portal together, intending to let everyone else go through to safety when King cannot be calmed down. But Collie refuses. They believe this new mess to be their fault for not figuring out the draining spell in spite of his knowledge of and skill at magical theory and not foreseeing what he would do to King, and he will. Not. Let. His power. Be an instrument of destruction and suffering again. They know it better than anyone, maybe they can help King master it! Or get it out of him! They can’t abandon King and the Boiling Isles, but they can keep Luz safe. Apologetically, he uses a glyph combination he devised in an earlier episode to blast Luz through the crumbling portal with a gust of wind.

And that’s “King’s Tide!” Ta-da! *sobs because it’s so sad and I only have myself to blame for creating this AU*

#now i’m sad #collector clawthorne au #the owl house #the owl house au #toh au #the collector #toh collector #king clawthorne #toh king #king’s tide #king’s tide spoilers #long post #very long post

[blue2dawn]

assuming hiro doesn’t have preprogrammed animations on his neurolink thingy, based on the scene where he presents the microbots to sfit, im inferring a few things:

it implies that his brain is capable of thinking about the movements and positions of tens of thousands of microbots at the same time??? we see him creating multilayered hexagonal structures that move in multidirectional, complex ways, which implies that his visualisation ability is like, almost inhumanly powerful. and when we see the masked guy (trying to avoid spoilers) use the bots, they move in crudely formed, vague shapes?? the most complex structure he makes, as far as i remember, is thin, easily breakable pillars.

basically what im trying to say is hiro is so cool for this and i love him sm

aaand this is why he’s like top of the list of fictional characters i love

#kaz thinks #hiro hamada #big hero 6 #disney

[awak3andal1v3]

The IK940 was Cyberlife's first endeavor into the music industry. A highly specialized model, it was intended to be the perfect vocalist; able to sing any song, in virtually every style, all while sounding as human as possible. This model's voice bank was it's bread and butter; versatile, crystal clear, highly customizable, and complete with realistic breath sounds. To give users further control over the IK940's sound, a companion app was released alongside the android. Using any computer or holopad, users would be able to fine tune its voice in ways not possible through verbal command.

But a stellar voice alone wouldn't justify an android body. Thus, the IK940 was equiped to perform as well. The preprogrammed personality was inclusive and highly interactive— charismatic and responsive to social cues that most other models missed. It could interpret and project emotions to appear more authentic. Combined with several programs geared towards listening and learning new songs, CyberLife's first vocalist was heralded as the most advanced at the time.

Despite all of this bleeding-edge technology, the model faced quite a bit of backlash upon release. People weren't ready for a world where androids made music, and the more paranoid customers feared CyberLife was trying to eliminate humans from the creative process. However, one man, by the name of Nathaniel Schneider, showed the world what was possible. With his android, designated "Cole," he produced sensational hit after hit with the IK940's vocals center stage. As he climbed the charts, sales skyrocketed, and he was later heralded as a pioneer and visionary in Android based music. Sadly, his career was cut short by suicide. His android had called emergency services upon discovering the body, but was nowhere to be seen when the authorities came to examine the scene. It was never seen again.

For all of its power and capabilities, the IK940 suffered a widespread malfunction later identified as deviancy. As a result, sales plummeted, and the model was discontinued shortly after Kamski retired.

#headcanon #had to get this out of my system before I got Cole's info sorted #It's an important part anyway #Cole's original purpose ties deeply into his story and who he is during and after the game's timeline #tw: suicide mention #character info

[sewerfight]

It's my birthday soon fair warning. If you don't know what day it is I won't ever tell you but if you know then I will send you my address. and you can show up and you can throw me a surprise party and I'll pretend to be so astounded I whip out a gun. whatever happens next is up to the both of us. good acting requires good reaction from your scene partner. and YOU bring the energy into a scene, not the character. unpredictability in the face of preprogrammed response and going with wherever the scene takes you is KEY. Okay thanks

[coffeeeeeee-writer]

Hottake: I didn’t like the Barbie movie.

Why?

Don’t worry. It’s not some BS. I didn’t like it, because it wasn’t good. Mainly because of the pacing. But the pacing and writing were subpar.

I’m a female, Bi, Hispanic. Played with Barbies profusely. I’m also a feminist. So please spare me the clutched pearls we all THINK we’re “supposed” to do in response to Barbie criticism... Im a woman. Not a manufactured doll with a preprogrammed voice box. I can think and say what I want to 👍🏼💅🏼 I just know some people will try “you’re showing your closeted misogyny”… just don’t.

So— why exactly was it subpar?

It felt gratuitous. Like, a very specific nostalgia trip— brought to life for a specific person— the director.

I felt like I was watching a series of montages of the directors favorite moments and then given small 5 minute reprieves of poorly written side quests.

Gerwig even says it! For the scene with the older woman (the Barbie creator) on the bench? She was like “I wanted this scene and I couldn’t cut it. It felt like why did I make this movie?”… and idk. You’re making a movie to inspire young women and this random staring contest scene could have been written completely differently than what you offered the audience??

Spoilers ahead!

The movie just felt flat. I don’t know how else to say it…

To name a few reasons:

Random music number.

Quick transitions from too-quick scenes.

Random Narrator.

Poorly paced and fleshed out adversaries.

And not enough invested in Ken to truly make me care that he becomes a villain or gets “redeemed”.

It was like I was being told I’m supposed to be upset that Barbieland is taken over purely because it’s Barbieland (not Kenland). And it wasn’t Barbie. It was a social commentary of the caricatured versions of emos and men and women, but dressed up in a lot of pink.

Barbie is an icon. She was the beginnings of young girls finally seeing themselves outside the box.

And this felt derivative, not inspirational. It felt forced and gratuitous, not heartfelt. And it certainly didn’t give me enough time to process the exposition of Ken and Barbie to truly care about the existential crisis for each of them.

For me to even care why Ken was so desperate, I’d like to have seen a little more. Like:

What if Ken walks away and all the Kens live in their original boxes. Not houses- their Ken doll box... Because isn’t Ken supposed to be the parallel of how women are treated in the real world? So it’d be a fitting metaphor that while he’s dreaming of being equal to Barbie, or at least loved/respected/wanted, he has to stay in a BOX. They don’t get the “perfect day” song in the morning or the cars or the real jobs. They get to be accessories to Barbie and get like it. Like women do— in the real world.

Taking the time to invest in something like that, would have made the betrayal seem less out of place.

But what we got instead was a devoted/#1 fan of Barbie, that suddenly sees horses and a couple of smiles— and because he’s a male it’s believable he’d just flip?? Just like that?? 🤔

I too believe that men get away with too much, but that fever dream of a Barbieland montage was all just to lead up to a 3minute transition and 180 flip into a villainy— just to make a point? And then the point falls flat because I don’t know or care enough about Ken?

That’s just lazy writing 🤷🏻‍♀️

But I guess it’s the “Barbie” movie, not the “Ken” movie. So we can’t possibly write anything more than an accessorized Ken, even tho we want him to be the main antagonist later. (???)

I’ve seen better. And I’m deeply disappointed that girls and women are simply banding together against ANY criticism, all because we want this to be better than it actually was.

Im confident enough in my womanhood and my love for Barbie, that I don’t need this movie to be the hill I die on. Just to protect the actual Barbie legacy.

And thems my words.

It wasn’t good. And it’s not because men didn’t like it. It’s because the writing and editing was not good. And any of you females out there who want to admit too— you can. You do not have to like this movie.

So… That’s my review. I said what I said.

#barbie #barbenheimer #the barbie movie