#good lookout

[kicktwine]

for as much as I love and adore stories where the power of hope and friendship is a blinding wonderful light, full of happiness and ease and laughter, something hits different about the way hope, in ffxiv, looks like this

covered in blood and dirt and limping forward. It’s probably been said multiple times before but isn’t it a reassuring image to know that hope drags itself through the mud just as much as you do and keeps fighting when it can hardly stand. and amidst deepest despair, light everlasting

#endwalker spoilers #ffxiv #ffxiv spoilers #AAA SPOILERS AAAAAA. LOOKOUT ETC. #miss venat you have beautiful sans undertale eyes #scary image! this is hope and love!!! This is what love and light and the fight to live looks like! And I think that’s neat #I like her. I like that she lives forever and likes bunnies and windhounds and also murder is ok #and I like that sundering was about like. 3/4 for the good of the world and 1/4 Spite

[solarwreathe]

i designed a sheikah outfit for josha like purah and robbie. they gifted it to her, but josha added the depths elements later because no one tells the president what to do.

i wanted to keep it in line with the modern sheikah's sense of style, with some allusions to their past ninja antics, hence the bandages and assassin's creed hood. all the better to slip out of lookout landing undetected. strict parents make sneaky kids, purah!

#loz #totk #tears of the kingdom #legend of zelda #josha #totk josha #loz fanart #totk fanart #sheikah #totk sheikah #tloz totk #legend of zelda tears of the kingdom #i made the mistake of putting home alone on the entire time i was drawing this #now i suffer the curse of pavlovian responsing myself when i look at it #i gotta remind myself no solar totk never had a b plot where purah and the research team accidentally left josha alone at lookout #and she created a series of ingeniously cruel sheikah traps that exploit lookout's unique terrain to foil the yiga bandits #(totk if it was good)

[rovermcfly]

art by @8pxl

#literally on my knees for this aesthetic #all of their art is so unbelievably good but sth about those lookouts.... #art

[acearadiamegido]

@homestuckss pinch hit for @topfsecret !!

Reluctant face of the Alternian revolution Karkat is NOT quite used to having an entire security detail yet, and isn't sure why they're all dressed like sci fi adventure movie characters??

to which I would say, if you're gonna be planning an underground revolution against a spacefaring despot why WOULDN'T you dress for the occasion. c'mon.

#homestuckss #hsss2023 #topfsecret #karkat vantas #aradia megido #sollux captor #kanaya maryam #while its not explicitly shippy i did make sure to throw aradia & sollux in since u mentioned them in particular as good karkat pairings #theres options here lol #anyway the outfits are a little silly but i was going for kind of a movie poster vibe and i figured if theyre moving around in the daytime #that they would need hoods/hats/etc to stay out of the sun (except kanaya who is wearing hers for fashion and to match the crew) #i like the idea that all his friends shift into de facto bodyguard mode real fast once he gets established as like #the big special revolutionary poster boy #and that hes not really sure how to feel about that! because theyre still his friends who dunk on him and stuff #but theyre also constantly on the lookout for threats that might give them reason to kill and/or die for him which is a new element #ANYWAY. u got me thinking i hope that comes across here lol anyway happy holidays sorry for the wait!!!!!! #draws

[prussianbluevelvet]

As a leftist, having ‘good intentions’ is not enough.

You need to be fucking educated.

Your intentions mean NOTHING, without accurate knowledge and education abt minorities, you’re just doomed to repeat harmful propaganda without A) being able to spot it and B) more prone to justifying your bigotry and biases via ‘I’m trying to be morally correct so I’ll just believe whatever makes me feel good 🥺🥺🥺’ which just results in you confirming and perpetrating you own biases.

Like… I have a migraine now. I just spent 2 HOURS explaining the history of antisemitism in europe to my mum and educating her about jewish stereotypes and the history/cultural context behind it cause she’s a typical well-meaning-but uneducated leftist who thinks that spewing antisemitic rhetoric is somehow ‘helping Palestine’ i think the fuck not! bitch ur literally european how the fuck are you NOT familiar with the BS myths and legends behind antisemitism… thought it was common knowledge but I suppose people are generally less educated than i thought????? ugh.

Being a leftist doesn’t automatically make you a good person, or ‘correct’ or even morally correct.

You gotta actually fucking learn about history, and various cultures, and the context behind different types of bigotry if you want to avoid repeating it.

Everybody thinks they’re ‘morally correct’. Nazis think their actions are morally justifiable.

Being a leftist isn’t about being ‘morally correct’.

#antisemitism #i/p conflict #leftist antisemitism #if ur leftism doesnt involve questioning ur biases than its useless #u gotta actually put in fucking effort to learn and unlearn and relearn again in an endless cycle #and always be on the lookout for potential propaganda because ur not fucking immune #intelligence wont save you from accidentally becoming a bigot #having good intentions wont either #cause intelligence and wisdom are two very different things! having the former doesn’t guarantee the latter #israel #palestine

[plantanarchy]

Say hello to my new dog! She is a two year old guessed Pug/Beagle who is very cuddly and mellow. She is 22 pounds, gets on fine with Taco so far, and hopefully will do well here.

#she does not yet have a name! #her foster was calling her lucy but she came out of a shelter in kentucky three weeks ago #this was all very quick im very shocked pikachu face about it #but really i have been on the lookout for a dog since i bought this house so #she fits a lot of what i wanted in a dog which was small to medium and chill and good with taco #maple

[thatlittlesungod]

how is the ace attorney movie GAYER than the games?????????

how??????? HOW???????

just finished watching it and,,,, like the smile?!?!?!?!?!??

the gay little line in the credits?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

"My methods do not violate the law... but they seem to have violated you. Have you got a problem with that?"

Miles Edgeworth you just straight up admitted to wanting to be pegging him,,,,, to pegging Phoenix Wright.

oh my God you gay little bitch. you insatiable little brat. Miles Edgeworth, i want to pick you up put you in a jar and study you forever. you are the most gay thing in existence. even in this movie where everyone is just trying to make you straight, you somehow exude enough raw gay energy to communicate through your eyes the entire movie how much Phoenix means to you to the point of where I swear to God you were dressing him down in the most controversial ways.

your mere presence alone makes Phoenix bisexual.

you have caused a man who I thought was actually going to be straight in this movie to be a WHORE. you look at him, with passion and desperation, and later smile in the end credits and Phoenix does his little cat smile back... and then in the next line you basically ask permission to peg him within an inch of his life,,,,,, to pound him into SMITHEREENS and he just smiles at you with the corner of his mouth and yells objection....

the actor who plays Edgeworth in this movie, Mr. Takumi Saitô,,,, oh i want to hug you. you brilliant man. you are so special to me. you are also insanely hot and i can see why they picked you for this role. i will watch more projects with you in them.

also wanting to hug Hiroki Narimiya (who plays Phoenix) but that's just because you made him stupid as he should be. your smile is so squishable and you look good in blue.

also a special shout out to the actor who played Gumshoe (Shunsuke Daitô!!!!!!!!!) because you sir, ✨ s l a y e d ✨

#apollo talks #ace attorney #ace attorney movie #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #dick gumshoe #be on the lookout for gay lawyers <3 #maya was good too #she's so cool!!!!

[dodgebolts]

I had a draft of about 5 of these results ready to go pre-face reveal but then everything went to shit so just for some closure here are the results (FROM SEPTEMBER!) ^_^

This chart shows the percentage of total respondents who indicated that they mained the people above. This isn't a comprehensive list, with other streamers like SBI, Benchtrio, or other DSMP-adjacent streamers rounding the answers out!

of the 598 people who filled out the survey, 98.5% main one of the people in the above chart, and 92.8% main one or more of the Dream Team.

From this question, it seems like DSMP creators are the main pipeline into dtblr—but a good 40% of us didn't start on the Dream Team side!

We have a good amount of people who came from the Corpse/OTV side of Twitch, and a decent amount of you who have been here a while, since SMPLive :]

A lot of us have been here a long time—66% of us were here before 2021. The vast majority have been here since 2021, a good 93% of us!

I thought it'd be super interesting to see how watching the Dream Team may have changed how we interact with their primary game, and it looks like a majority of us were crafters before and still are! They managed to get nearly a fifth of his audience here into playing as well!

A toast to the loss of most of dtblr's favorite MCC player to watch, something that we definitely mourned when we heard the news. But if you're looking for a new POV to watch, survey respondents put down a wide range of players—just outside these top 8 were Ranboo, Tubbo, Grian, Illumina, Purpled, and Hannah!

Another loss for 6% of dtblr with how this question aged, RIP Trust Issues :( But for the remaining 94% of us, our favorite Drusic is still on streaming platforms. Change my Clothes is only...500k listens away from 67 million listens on Spotify so 👀

Wow ok as this goes on I realize just how many chapters have ended over the last few months but a salute to the 26% of loreheads on dtblr! On to the next chapter :]

Now to a touchy subject...who's in the dteam privs? According to the survey responses, 39% of dtblr is in all three! Interestingly, there are more people who follow Dream's alt than his main. Fair enough, there are enough piss tweets on there to warrant unfollowing it!

Word of mouth and the YouTube algorithm seems to have been the best way for the dteam to get to us—interestingly enough, a good amount of people found out through either Heat Waves the song or through the fanfiction, ranging from it crashing ao3 to commentary YouTubers talking about it on their channels!

Now for some psychic damage, I'm seeing a lot more of RTAH posting on my dash nowadays but here's some solidarity for everyone who may have come from similar backgrounds ^_^

Now for some more history—a vast majority of us came from gaming content backgrounds, and nearly 17% of us were primarily mcyt enjoyers. Personal shoutout to Team Crafted viewers we're holding hands <3

Nearly half of dtblr doesn't consume much Minecraft content outside of the stuff our boys are in, though there's still a pretty large amount of people who watch other SMP's and keep up with the speedrunning scene!

This one is an ode to the lurkers who keep the economy strong—even now you guys are an essential part of dtblr! Same to the 30-40% of people who post the stuff for lurkers and other dtblr members to see. Everyone is important to keeping our little island afloat <3

Now onto Banter, most of dtblr doesn't make time for Banter Wednesdays, but if there's an interesting episode, it seems like the trio will capture our attention :]

Adding some literal variety to our results, I thought it'd be interesting to see what common variety games are our favorites! 95% of us would be tapped in wholeheartedly for Geoguessr or Jackbox streams. On the other hand, Fall Guys and Fortnite are in the middle of the pack, whereas it seems like FPS games are our mortal enemies—62% of us would tap out during Valorant while 46% wouldn't be paying attention to CS:GO.

Onto the topic of shipping, DNF steamrolled every other ship listed to have nearly 86% of responders saying they ship it. That lines up with the follow-up question, where nearly 90% of respondents either have experience with shipping RPF in the past, or have been caught up with DNFer supreme Dream's antics. Otherwise, there was a good distribution of love for most popular ships within DTQK+, with Karlnap, DNN, and Karlnapity leading the pack at around 25% each!

Ever wonder how dtblr is spread out across the globe because of the dash being dead at different times? Well, the vast majority of us are in North America and Europe, with 86% of us being between GMT +4 and GMT -4. Much like our streamers, though, a lot of us have fucked up sleep schedules so time zones aren't as much of an issue LMAO

Next up is a fairly simple one, I had another question that asked for gender but there was, as expected, a lot of variance and nuance that I couldn't fit into a neat graphic. But this one is a fairly simple one to graph so Well here's the 24/7 pride parade Dream mentioned coming in hot, with about 95% of us identifying as LGBT+ or questioning!

I wanted to test out my theory that GNF mains are also biased towards CS/Engineering fields, so I asked what people were studying! There's a pretty big bias towards the arts and humanities around here, but we also have just as many STEM people around, good on dtblr for academic diversity! As for my hypothesis, 22% of people who indicated they were George mains studied some form of CS/Engineering. George mains also made up 70% of all people who studied CS/Engineering. So cheers to my stem kid gnfers o/

Finally, I don't really know the best way to make a graphic for the favorite colors question, but just know that 50% of us chose either green or blue, and it was a near-even 25%-25% split. Great job dnfers, Dream would be proud <3

Thanks for reading! I hope that this was fun to look through, and I'll be posting an identical one for new dtblr soon! Super excited to see how things have changed since Well. anyways. Also wanted to say thank you to everyone who filled it out, reading all your answers was a ton of fun and I got a ton of laughs out of some of y'alls bonus section content and the few joke answers I got throughout <333

#long post #<- under the cut #lyss analyzes #lyss.dtblr #this took 7 months to get back to and then it took me one day of work to finish #LAWL! burnout is a bitch #but we're back I'm good now and better than ever so be on the lookout for the new one #and if you have any new questions you want me to ask shoot me an ask or dm and I'll consider adding it :D

[cinamun]

I was telling my darling moot that I only download BGC CAS kits because... reasons. I have the ones greyed out because this community is dope (and quick). However we love to see a Black woman secure a bag so here we are.

#good morning y'all #now the party one? I will absolutely be on the lookout for the BGC version lmao

[dawnbirdwhistle]

Me having fun in photoshop turned Xueyi (HSR)

In terms of quantum, we have no quantum on my account lmao hence why I am building Xueyi rn (plus obsessed with her design, so pretty)

Def giving queer vibes to me personally

#hsr xueyi #xueyi #honkai star rail fanart #hsr #hsr fanart #hsr art #fanart #honkai fanart #digital art #my art #dawnbirdwhistle #and the compulsory ramble #lol #just a doodle this time bc I am working on a b g 3 piece #that takes so much time #i separated the letters bc this is not a piece from the fandom #and i am a good cookie #won't mistag #*salute* #so yeah if u like the moon lesbians of that game #be on the lookout #👀

[asgoodeasgold]

"I met him and he had a spectacular energy to him. He was all over the "I met him and he had a spectacular energy to him. He was all over the room. He had a real danger to him, yet he was also funny and charming, which were two really important things to me."

Scott Frank, director of The Lookout, on why he cast Matthew Goode as Gary Spargo, seemingly against type. I love this quote, so telling about the mercurial actor that Matthew is. He will always surprise you.

I thought I would do a Lookout edit today (an under-rated gem of a film noir, I love it so much) to celebrate the fact Scott and Matthew are being reunited in Department Q. This makes for a great team!

🎶 One Big Holiday by My Morning Jacket

📷 The Lookout (2008) my edit

📖 Quote from The Movable Fest interview with Scott Frank and Matthew Goode

#matthew goode #matthewgoode #the lookout #gary spargo #joseph gordon levitt #scott frank #department q #carl morck #film noir

[sassy-man-apocalypse]

Aouaoaauh calling The Lookouts Fandom please look at this BASTARD of a man

Sketch version under the cut cuz it also kinda looks silly idk...

#lookouts #lookouts game #curly wolf #please go play this game #it is so good #its about #queer #transmasc #outlaws #and they almost die #and then kiss #go play it #on #itch.io #𝄡 art

[specialagentartemis]

"I wish more aro or ace books were good" REAL. I'm not a huge reader these days (a victim of the "read several books a day as a kid to easily distractable ADHD adult" pipeline :/, I'm working on it though) but I stick to mostly nonfiction when I do read, because most fiction is too amatonormative for my tastes and most aspec fiction is. Well. I already struggle with reading books, I need to be able to actually get into them to have a hope of finishing them.

The biggest mood there. Kinda all of it :') Reading books takes so much longer and more Effort than it used to when I inhaled books when I was 12... and SO many books that market themselves on the Aro or Ace Rep are just. They just aren't good books. Most aren't Morally Objectionable or anything, they're just not good books.

I feel like it's normal growing pains for a Queer Identity... god knows how many books I read of high schoolers going "It's okay... to be gay, actually!" when I was in middle/high school--but I kind of wish we could hurry up to the point where there are plenty of good ace and aro ones to choose from. (There are some good ones! The Murderbot Diaries, Ancillary Justice, Michelle Kan's novelettes, Polenth Blake's work, Darcie Little Badger's entire ouvre... I love those. And I haven't read The Bone People but it won a bunch of Real Literary Awards, and Firebreak I've been told is really up my alley... but I have. also read a bunch of aro and ace books that were just mediocre-to-bad.)

#asks #astriiformes #always on the lookout for recommendations of things that people Read And Liked not just found on a list #also for nonfiction: Sherronda J. Brown's 'Refusing Compulsory Sexuality' is SO good. Particularly asexual focused but from an aro-ace POV #and it's Really Good #books

[pleasereadmeok]

"I went and met Scott and auditioned and that was err... that was actually one of the most relaxed auditions considering I hate audtions ... and particularly doing it with an accent and stuff... He made me come back 7 times - another 7 times...The Bastard!"

Matthew had to work hard to get his first role directed by Scott Frank. Wonder if Scott made Matthew audition for his new role in 'Department Q'!

Matthew Goode talking about his role in The Lookout. Interviewed by Warren Etheridge at a special screening 2007

Loved this interview that was syndicated to promote 'The Lookout' -

‘For Frank, “The Lookout” represents a transition from being one of Hollywood’s most celebrated screenwriters into a first time director who successfully has taken his razor sharp gift for onscreen gab in films such as “Out of Sight” and “Minority Report” and translated it into a taut, tightly paced thriller. And he couldn’t have found a better heavy than Goode, a British actor known for starring in lightweight romantic comedies such as “Imagine Me and You” and “Chasing Liberty.” But Goode turns in a performance where he subverts the charm that has led many to call him the next Hugh Grant and turns it towards making his character Gary into a Midwestern drifter whose lurid magnetism is stronger than his fists.  How did you cast the film? Many of your actors, specifically Matthew Goode, play against type. My casting director knew [Matthew Goode] and said he’s more like the guy in your movie than he is the guy in “Match Point.” And I went, “really?” And she said, “really.” I met him and he had a spectacular energy to him. He was all over the room. He had a real danger to him, yet he was also funny and charming, which were two really important things to me. [Syndicated interview]

This little insight from Dan Stevens about Scott Frank is funny - from Moviefone. - 

‘And he wanted someone a little unexpected to play this Brooklyn drug trafficker -- someone who, by their very casting, would tease the audience's expectations. He delights in seeing actors try things they'd never tried before. I really liked "The Lookout" and I loved what he was doing with Matthew Goode in that movie. I remember thinking, "What a cool role to take on," especially someone who had taken on a lot of similar roles to me back in England. I know Matthew a little bit and we delight in the sense that an American director would be like, "Play a weird bad-ass." That vote of confidence is so enormously empowering.’  

Matthew showing Scott Frank just how big his bad ass is.

📷 The Warren Report

#matthew goode #scott frank #department q #matthewgoode #the lookout

[teach463146]

#matthew goode #lookout #Instagram

[pokimoko]

The One-Way Waltz of the Moth and the Wild Flame (and the Incident of the Authorial Intrusion) - A Good Omens Fic

Written by pokimoko

Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: ~25K

Fandom: Good Omens (TV)

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley (Good Omens), Crowley & Muriel (Good Omens), Crowley & Nina (Good Omens), Crowley (Good Omens) & Original Character(s)

Characters: Crowley (Good Omens), Aziraphale (Good Omens), Muriel (Good Omens), Original Characters, (who is technically not an original character but I've got to keep some secrets ;) ), Nina (Good Omens), Background & Cameo Characters

Summary: A story in which Crowley does not prevent forest fires, a radio sends out thoughts and prayers, an angel misuses the emergency contact, the local duck population invents socialism, trees are threatened to varying degrees of success, a waltz is indeed played, and an author considers the nature of tragedies.

Tags: Ineffable Divorce | Aziraphale and Crowley Break Up (Good Omens), Post-Break Up, POV Crowley (Good Omens), Emotional Hurt, He/Him Pronouns For Crowley (Good Omens), They/Them Pronouns for Muriel (Good Omens), Crowley & Muriel Friendship (Good Omens), Angst and Humor, Crowley-centric (Good Omens), Canon Continuation, Post-Season/Series 02, Post-Episode: s02e06 Every Day (Good Omens), Pre-Season/Series 03, No Aziraphale Slander Here but it is also Crowley's POV so expect at least some Thoughts, Angry Crowley (Good Omens), Running Away, Both in the Emotional and Literal Sense, Because You Don't Have to Deal with Your Romantic and Personal Issues in Washington State. Obviously, (incorrect: you very much do), Crowley is a Mess (Good Omens), (even if he won't admit it), Crowley Loves Aziraphale (Good Omens), (another thing he won't admit), Aziraphale Loves Crowley (Good Omens), They're just being stupid, Not A Fix-It, References to God(s), Romantic Angst, America, United States, Fire Lookout, Remember Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires (Unless You Are Anthony J. Crowley), hey is it healthy to repeatedly relive a past trauma to deal with a breakup? asking for a friend, Scene: The Bookshop Fire (Good Omens), Fire, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Isolation, When You're Trying to Cope Badly in the American Wilderness but People Keep Talking to You, Radio, Inspired by Firewatch (Video Game), Character Study, Crowley and the Woes of Being In a Narrative That Won't Let You Go, (Fleabag voice) This is a Tragedy, But oh? What's this?, Angst with a Happy Ending, Ambiguous/Open Ending

#good omens #crowley #crowley good omens #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #aziraphale x crowley #fanfic #my fanfic #my fic #ao3 fanfic #my writing #good omens fic #good omens fanfiction #good omens fanfic #gomens #gomens fic #hey good omens fandom. long time listener. first time caller. i thought i'd dip my toes in writing one of my fav characters #going from a 14th doctor fic straight to this was very funny because like. it's the same actor. similar mannerisms. almost the same voice #but they couldn't be any more different. move over 'weeelll' we've got 'ngk' and 'ngh' now #this story was an absolute joy to write. it was so fun getting to write in a style somewhat similar to the good omens book #like the fic is still perfectly angsty trust me but boy was it fun to be a little bit funny with it #also apologies for the long arse title. my brain decided that a good omens fic needed a really long and ridiculous name #to everyone who already knows me: yep. i'm writing a story with radios again. it's either ghosts or radios or both guys i'm sorry #different fandom. same old ideas #i am also furthering my brand that is writing long as heck oneshot fics. chapters? haven't heard of 'em #fyi crowley is literally the only character who shows up in this fic in person. everyone else is pure audio baby #'tis the isolated life of a fire lookout. even if that's the only part of the job that crowley's doing correctly #(the demon is...going through it folks. don't try this at home)