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mattkustrabricks · 2 years

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You can look inside Waste incinerator into the Lord Buissnes office. Mockup built for a LEGO fan. It fit perfectly into his amazing LEGO city. I love putting together great LEGO cities from sets and rebuilding them according to my ideas. PL. Można także ściągnąć dach i zaglądnąć do srodka, zobaczyć co lord Buissnes robi w wolnych chwilach. Ups chyba musiał dzisiaj wyjść wcześniej. Makieta spalarni odpadów zbudowana dla fana klocków LEGO. Idealnie wpasowała się w jego niesamowite miasto z klocków. Uwielbiam układać takie wielkie miasta zbudowane z zestawów LEGO i odbudowywać je wedle moich pomysłów. #lego #legostagram #afol #moc #BrickNetwork #legophoto #legoart #minifigures #legomania #badpirate #kustra #ideobricks #brickcentral #mattkustraafol #scalemodels #micromodels #legoideas #architecture #model #deisgn #urbanmodel #modeling #architect #lesswaste #zerowaste #nowaste #reducewaste #mockupdesign #mockup #mockups @bialystok_instamiasto @bydgoszcz.pl @miasto.konin @krakow_pl @miastopoznan_ @rzeszow.stolica.innowacji @visitszczecin @miasto_warszawa @gdansk_official @miastoolsztyn (w: Kraków, Poland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfFJlVkrzYa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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pebblethief · 1 year

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that post was prompted by a book whose summary opens with "Aliens. Space pirates. Dragons."

which. hell yes that is most of the things i am interested in

but the book opens w the protagonist utterly failing to steal a ship (big coat seems to be the only aesthetic decision described) and from what i can tell the rest of the book is her being captured and trying to escape. utterly shitty pirates lol

the dragons are dragony at least. and i strongly suggest badpirate + woman who can talk to dragons being lesbians while they are captured at least?

not far in enough to tell you if it is any good but real fucking lame on the space pirate front

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threeopennames · 2 years

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18072022: T22

Chapter 21: Slip n Slide

Plot: Isabella tries to escape from the people keeping her safe. It’s strange that she doesn’t even consider just telling them the truth. If they understand what the badpire wants, they’d probably let her go through with her plan. They’re not going to be unreasonable assholes and let her mother die. But, okay, whatever, let’s just pretend like Isabella is right and they wouldn’t help her if she told them the truth. Also, we get to watch the author flex their knowledge about Phoenix’s airport. Being a resident user of that airport myself I can confirm her needlessly detailed logistics here are accurate, at least up to the part about the bathroom. This entire plot point revolves around the Phoenix international airport having a woman’s restroom with two exits, the bane of any vampire’s existence. I’m also not sure how the vampires aren’t doing their sparkle sparkle thing out in the sun, but the times here are vague. Seven? In the morning? In the evening? It must be dark since Edward is arriving too but jeez, that’s important setting information that just isn’t covered. Much later in the chapter Isabella says the SUN is out so I don’t know how the hell Edward and friends intended to move around outside like that. Or how the badpire did. Whatever. Whatever. Whatever.

Isabella: Not much to cover here, since her entire plan relied on nothing super interesting anyway. I’ll mention that I think this escape scene undercuts her alleged character though. She doesn’t really even consider what happens if she fails, which if it happens, means the death or injury of her mother (as far as she knows). Trying to pull a fast one on Edward just seems remarkably stupid in that context, especially given the other Cullens' magic powers. I get the point of this scene, it’s supposed to give Isabella agency in the story (which she was sorely lacking), and to show that the meek and helpless ISABELLA SWAN, SELF INSERT FEMALE PROTAGONIST is capable of doing things on her own and she’s also a SAINT and SO SACRIFICIAL and SUCH A GOOD PERSON. But she’s actually not just endangering her own life, she’s endangering her mother's and the Cullen's. Especially since, although at this point you can’t trust anything Isabella says, she claims she’s clumsy and accident prone. The plan had no business working and the whole thing is stupid. So I sympathize with the author here, Isabella desperately needs a scene like this, but the arm twisting the author has to go through to get here undermines the point the author is trying to get across. If I wanted to write fanfiction I’d suggest a better alternative but, eh, whatever, let’s not pretend like the target audience really cares either way.

Jameswatch: The stupidity of Isabella’s plan becomes apparent when she calls him and he makes it clear he has no idea if she’s still working with the Cullens or not. Isabella’s sudden conversion to honesty only when talking to James is bizarre, but let’s just chalk that up to nerves or something. Apparently he used a TV recording of her mother to trick Isabella into...answering the phone the first time, I suppose. Kind of silly but sure, even if the only reason it exists is to make sure the author doesn’t have to tie up the loose end of Isabella’s mom knowing about vampires. He also gives a villain monologue about a bunch of stuff even I didn’t care about. I was perfectly willing to accept he chose to go to Phoenix because he’s a super cool awesome hunter, but the author seems to think I need a huge multi-page explanation of exactly how he figured it out. I guess this is something she planned out and wanted to let the reader know that it all made sense, because logistics is the next most important thing in this story next to romance and hate, but I didn’t get much out of the explanation. Also, by the way, he’s tied to Alice somehow! Let’s jump into that down below.

Alicewatch: So Alice is one of the few ‘good’ characters, primarily because of her unwavering support of Edward and complete willingness to do anything Isabella says no questions asked. Her other defining trait, not counting her future sight powers, is that she didn’t have a memory of being a human. This seemed irrelevant to me, like a piece of character fluff you sprinkle on for fun, and I was happy to just not know what boring life Alice led prior to leading her boring vampire life. Instead, it turns out, Alice has this whole backstory with James. I’m not going to go in to it, not because of spoilers, but because it’s dumb and pointless. It’s all a setup to, again, lead back to logistics: it’s why James went through so much effort to catch Isabella. I guess I prefer this to the ‘Isabella is just the best human ever’ approach, but I was happy to accept THAT dumb premise because at least the number of moving parts in the story were small. Now I’m supposed to believe that two vampires 100 years ago had some domestic problems and because of one game of vampire baseball, now he’s finally getting his sweet revenge. You can only stack these plot conveniences so high!

This all makes sense from a writing perspective, however. The author trapped themselves in a box and ‘long villain talking scene’ was a necessity to keep the game going. Vampires are too fast and strong for Isabella to have any chance at all of surviving a confrontation, so James needed to be a sadist and draw the thing out. But the author didn’t want to write a whole bunch of torture scenes, so James needed to talk a whole bunch instead. James isn’t even a character, though, so readers aren’t going to care about his backstory at all when he’s droning on. So the author needed to tie him to the Cullens somehow, in the thinnest possible way, so that when he started his gloating monologue there was actually some plot relevance to it. What we end up with is a chapter spent on a lot of logistics and rambling. The whole story is basically falling apart at the seams because of small individual decisions the author made about it leading up to this point. My deepest sympathies!

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airbnbfestivals · 6 years

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mike-1999-usa · 9 years

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mattkustrabricks · 2 years

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Waste incinerator mockup built for a LEGO fan. It fit perfectly into his amazing LEGO city. I love putting together great LEGO cities from sets and rebuilding them according to my ideas. PL. Makieta spalarni odpadów zbudowana dla fana klocków LEGO. Idealnie wpasowała się w jego niesamowite miasto z klocków. Uwielbiam układać z zestawów wielkie miasta i odbudowywać je wedle moich pomysłów. #lego #legostagram #afol #moc #BrickNetwork #legophoto #legoart #minifigures #legomania #badpirate #kustra #ideobricks #brickcentral #mattkustrabricksart #scalemodels #micromodels #legoideas #architecture #model #deisgn #urbanmodel #modeling #architect #lesswaste #zerowaste #nowaste #reducewaste #mockupdesign #mockup #mockups @Białymstok @Bydgoszczy @Konin @Krakow @Poznan @Rzeszow @Szczecin @Warszawa @Gdańsk @Olsztyn (w: Ekospalarnia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CemSvEXLk1H/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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threeopennames · 2 years

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17072022: T21

Chapter 21: Fun Call

Plot: Isabella’s mother is being targeted by Hunter Badman. Isabella decides to just go and die to him, which will require some kind of epic vampire heist moment that isn’t delivered this chapter.

Isabella: For a while I was wondering what the point of Jasper’s power would be. Jasper is a vampire that can control other people’s emotions, which seemed strange since there was never a ‘crowd’ to worry about in the book so far and that seems so specific as to be almost worthless. Here, in this chapter, the real reason the author introduced this vampire comes to fruition: Isabella’s LOVE and EMOTION for Edward is SO strong, she can overwhelm Jasper’s emotion manipulating power so that she can...still feel love and emotion even when he’s trying to keep her calm. That’s it. It’s just an excuse to show how special and powerful the bond between Edward and Isabella is. Rest in peace, Jasper. Your plot relevance has been completed. There’s even a point where they need Isabella to stay calm, but she doesn’t use Jasper’s power because she’s a STRONG CHARACTER who don’t need no VAMPIRE HELP even though literally since the badpires showed up all she’s done is get helped by vampires. Anyway, Isabella’s masterful lying ability pulls the wool over the eyes of the vampire who can literally see the future somehow.

Jameswatch: This hyperfocused vampire with basically no motivation other than ‘lmao I feel like it’ is, at the moment of this chapter, clearly the most engaging part of the story. He catches Isabella’s mom but I guess doesn’t reveal he’s a vampire somehow, then tells Isabella to ditch the bodyguards and wait somewhere for him to kill. This sets up an actually interesting dilemma at first because although we’ve already established Jasper might as well not exist, Alice can see the future and both have super duper speed and strength. Also, Isabella will actually have to DO something! Keep in mind she’s got a unique scent to vampires and we’ve spent literally 20 chapters saying how noticeable she is in a crowd so this is a setup that is going to demand a big payoff. It’s kind of weird how her bodyguards don’t hear all this over the phone with their super hearing, it’s not like phones can whisper and Isabella was acting really fishy beforehand, but since this is the first legitimately interesting plot development in the book I’m not going to ask questions. Thanks, James!

I say all that, but it is kind of funny how Isabella’s big pivotal character moment boils down to ‘do exactly what Alice’s future sight said I would do and then die’. Whatever. I’ll only come back to this if the story fails to properly deliver on its climax.

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threeopennames · 2 years

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16072022: T19

Chapter 19: Good Buys

Plot: Escape from the badpires! Hey, wouldn’t you know it, this is a convenient excuse to have Isabella literally carried through a large chunk of the plot. The scene where she leaves her house is kind of ridiculous, but at least it’s somewhat her own choice and actions that make it up, so it’s not terrible. Everything after though, hoo boy. She might as well be an olympic torch with how much she gets passed around.

Isabella: Color me surprised, all the bizarre dishonesty that makes up a significant chunk of Isabella’s characters comes to a head here as she must pretend to...hate Edward. I thought at the start of the book that all her awful character traits were going to be something that turned around eventually. Like, she might be hateful and paranoid, but through the power of love she’d learn to open up or relax or something. Instead it seems like the author took the opposite route; Isabella’s lying, bitter, resentful personality is a STRENGTH, not a flaw. This becomes more apparent when she starts yelling at her dad so he doesn’t follow her, where she channels all that bitter rage at Forks and his failed marriage and just spews out bile like a geyser. What an odd message for a young adult novel to take. Not so much the ‘be yourself’ angle, that’s pretty typical, but I’ve never seen a story where the ‘be yourself’ part entails almost entirely negative (or what most people would construe as negative) traits as being a good thing. Bravo, Twilight!

EDWATCH: He doesn’t like killing vampires, apparently. I’m guessing no good explanation for this will be given in this book. It’s an utterly bizarre blind spot for the author to have, in a world full of supernatural serial killers nobody is concerned with catching or punishing them at all. Maybe there’s like, some kind of weird vampire society protocol that prevents it? Like you’ll piss off their vampire buddies and start a gang war or something? That goes against the whole ‘nomad’ thing they mentioned before but it would provide at least an excuse for the characters to tolerate the existence of evil vampires. The total silence on the topic is deafening. Anyway, the decision made early on to give all vampires super speed proves hilarious here as all the vampires zip around while Isabella just stands around gawking. I’ll grant the author points for consistently applying their superpowers even when it results in completely silly scenes like this. To me giving all the vampires the ability to be invisible by means of superspeed is a writing nightmare, because eventually there will be a slipup where the author forgets and something easily preventable happens, but whatever. I’ll enjoy the clown show for what it is.

Charliewatch: This had to be a fun chapter to write for the author, given how much garbage gets heaped on Charlie. I can tell because Isabella has to say (twice) how much she just hates, oh hates so much, having to be really mean to her father. There was just no other way to escape from the evil vampire except to make it clear he was a terrible husband! No way to get free except to insult his way of life! Man, what a nice coincidence that the solution to the problem at hand happened to utilize all that hatred Isabella had for the entire book. The author has been priming the reader for this scene since page 1, but has structured the narrative in such a way that not only is putting Charlie down CORRECT, it is a LIFE OR DEATH CRISIS so that there is no choice at all and it must be done. That absolves Isabella of any wrongdoing whatsoever, while she still gets to scream at her father for not being cool enough or something. In fact Isabella is a GOOD PERSON for being so mean to him. It’s the kind of plot pretzel a romantic comedy might set up where the protagonists have to like, fake kiss or something for some stupid reason. Except here it’s used to scream at dad and tell him he was a bad husband. Twilight is a love story after all.

Jameswatch: James is the evil vampire hunting after Isabella who has existed for maybe half a chapter. We’re told he’s a super brilliant masterclass vampire hunting machine, so I’m eagerly awaiting the series of stupid mistake’s he’ll make. Kind of lame the main villain for your book gets like, no screentime, but whatever it’s romance this guy is just a plot device.

The actual plot here is deadened somewhat by the fact that Edward can read minds, and Alice can see the future. These were weird narrative choices to make originally because of how much they restrict how much suspense you can have for any given scenario, but here they actually just prove to make what is supposed to be a tense escape scene into something dull. For a ‘horror’ novel that feels really out of place. Like, there’s a super skilled elite hunter vampire out for Isabella, but we already know what he knows because of the mind reading, and we already know the Cullen’s plan worked because Alice goes ‘lmao yeah it’ll work let’s do it’. Very odd choices!

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threeopennames · 2 years

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16072022: T18

Chapter 18: Rhymes with Hunt

Plot: Badpires! Isabella is so special that the evil vampires that show up immediately want to eat her, even though it’s stupid to do that for a lot of reasons. The drama here seems to be focused around how the Cullens don’t want to kill the badpires, which again is very weird. Like, if they don’t go eat Isabella, then they’ll go eat someone else instead, which is seen as an acceptable alternative. Is that not, uh, just as bad?

Isabella: Her big moment in this chapter is to suggest she fake going to Phoenix so they can hide her, then to insult Emmett when he agrees it’s a good idea. I think the plan is ridiculously complicated, and it’s bizarre that these centuries old vampires are apparently so dull witted they can’t come up with anything better than a 17 year old can, but whatever, whatever, fine, fine, you can have it. Isabella is just so smart that her plan to fake going to Phoenix as a front to really go to Phoenix so they can kill the vampire there instead of in town is a good idea because it just is.

EDWATCH: I figure I’ll put it here since he’s the one who does all the planning, but SO MUCH of this chapter is logistics. Like it kills the momentum of ‘oh no Isabella is being hunted by badpires’ when we suddenly get into these little details like whose vehicle is big enough to hold everyone and how much time they’ll spend packing and other inane things that aren’t interesting or relevant at all. He’s also the only one to disagree with Isabella but it’s because he cares SO MUCH about her safety and not because she’s wrong, which seems like a strange way to dress him down. He’s willing to sell out his family to keep her safe and I...guess that’s romantic? Like he doesn’t even consider other plans and is really, really eager to just force the Cullens to move again to keep Isabella safe rather than to leave her alone for even a short period of time. I suppose I can understand it if you find that type of thing attractive, like ‘oh he’s so dreamy he’s willing to throw away his entire world for me’, but I would find that to be a pretty big red flag because it means he’s not acting rationally. Like if someone told me they burned their house down for me, my first response wouldn’t be ‘oh that’s so sweet’. But fine! Fine! Take it, take your obsessive vampire boyfriend and his bad choices. If that’s what you like then here you go.

BADWATCH: To my enormous surprise, the bad girl vampire character has red hair. Bravo for finally having some, let’s call it, diversity in the cast of bad people. One of them even has ‘olive’ skin color, and I’m not even going to comment on that because when you’ve already established the paragon of virtue as being ‘extremely white’, there’s really nowhere you can go from there that won’t look kind of awkward. It’s strange that these new vampires are familiar with vampire baseball. Like, they literally only found the Cullens because they heard the noises and ‘wanted to play’. That’s weirdly wholesome and probably tremendously inconsistent with what was already established but let’s just like, not think about it since there’s already so much else going on. There’s an establishment of what I guess is like, vampire social protocol? There’s a mention of ‘hunting range’ and ‘territories’ and it’s all vaguely interesting and I wanted to hear more about it, but since we spent almost an entire paragraph on something that wasn’t Isabella, the author got antsy and forced her to become the most important thing in the story again so we never learn more about it. What a bummer.

This in and of itself could have been forgiven if there was like, some more lore revealed or something when Isabella being human was revealed. Like they could have said her father was in the police and helped them stay concealed or something, I don’t know. It doesn’t seem crazy that vampires would be willing to trust some humans with their secret in exchange for some kind of service. That’s like a staple in vampire stories, isn’t it? Whatever, I’m writing fanfiction now.

One of the badpires is a ‘tracker’, which means apparently all that other protocol goes out the window and he’s just going to kill Isabella now because that’s just what ‘trackers’ do. This seems like a weird bomb to drop, that there are vampires that just lock onto single human targets and stop at nothing to kill them, and it makes the Cullens look REALLY irresponsible given they have a mind reader and a future telling psychic on their team. Nobody even seems to ask Alice ‘hey this is really spooky, why didn’t you see any of this happening and what should we do’ given that everything that transpired was directly because she suggested they play baseball. Is she IN ON THE WHOLE THING? Probably not, it’ll be some excuse like the future is hazy or whatever. Still, poor showing all around from everyone involved in this chapter. But at least things are happening now!

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mattkustrabricks · 5 years

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mattkustrabricks · 2 years

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Brick #scaledmodel. Great for expo or office decor made by Me and my team. (PL) Makieta Łódzkiego centrum dystrybucyjnego. Uwielbiam budować i robić zdjęcia makiet w tej skali. #legomoc #mattkustrabricks #afol #moc #legophoto #legoart #badpirate #kustra #legomasters #legomaster #architecture #model #deisgn #urbanmodel #modeling #architect #industrial #warehouse #logistics #gigafactory #tesla #artwithlegobricks #legoart #legobuilding #legoarchitecture @prologis_polska @hines @eurologistic_ @altmasterlogistyka @segroplc @goodman.group #7rwarehouses https://www.instagram.com/p/CcECNV9L82g/?utm_medium=tumblr

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mattkustrabricks · 2 years

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#panattoni Brick Hub #scaledmodel. Great for expo or office decor made by Me and my team. (PL) Makieta Łódzkiego centrum dystrybucyjnego @Pannattoni. Uwielbiam budować i robić zdjęcia makiet w tej skali. #legomoc #mattkustrabricks #afol #moc #legophoto #legoart #badpirate #kustra #legomasters #legomaster #architecture #model #deisgn #urbanmodel #modeling #architect #industrial #warehouse #logistics #gigafactory #tesla #artwithlegobricks #legoart #legobuilding #legoarchitecture @prologis_polska @hines @eurologistic_ @altmasterlogistyka @segroplc @goodman.group #7rwarehouses (w: Radom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CcBlm9CrcLC/?utm_medium=tumblr

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mattkustrabricks · 2 years

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#panattoni Brick Hub #scaledmodel. Great for expo or office decor made by Me and my team. (PL) Makieta Łódzkiego centrum dystrybucyjnego @Pannattoni. Uwielbiam budować i robić zdjęcia makiet w tej skali. Zapewne dlatego że zawsze miałem słabość do miniatur i fotografi tilltshift 🤣🤣🤣 #legomoc #mattkustrabricks #afol #moc #legophoto #legoart #badpirate #kustra #legomasters #legomaster #architecture #model #deisgn #urbanmodel #modeling #architect #industrial #warehouse #logistics #gigafactory #tesla #artwithlegobricks #legoart #legobuilding #legoarchitecture @prologis_polska @hines @eurologistic_ @altmasterlogistyka @segroplc @goodman.group #7rwarehouses (w: Łódź, Poland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb_EDdCrRXR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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mattkustrabricks · 3 years

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mattkustrabricks · 3 years

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mattkustrabricks · 3 years

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