#it's never been used anywhere

[drswannbond]

Léa Seydoux as Madeleine Swann in Spectre (2015)

Some lesser-seen production stills by Jonathan Olley

#madeleine swann #james bond #spectre #léa seydoux #lea seydoux #007 #praise the lord for the bond producers' endless budget allocation for film still photographers #barbara broccoli to me you are perfect #tbh i'm making this post because of the very first pic #was utterly speechless when i first saw it and i'm still regularly gobsmacked by it #it's never been used anywhere #i understand that the press prefered to use pics from the train dinner scene because of the old james bond vibes #but this close up on her face (her cheekbones !!) is insane #no other word for it #she is out of this world

[yellowocaballero]

Been a fan of your fics for YEARS. I was just telling my friend how despite how much I read fics I never actually love them, with some of your fics (especially TMA) as the exception. Felt the need to reread some of them and saw you reblogged some ISAT fanart. So. Any thoughts on ISAT you'd like to share?

Hope you have a wonderful day!! So happy I found your fics again!!

I avoided answering this for a while because I was trying to think of a way to cohesively and coherently vocalize my thoughts on In Stars and Time. I have given up because I don't want to hold everybody here all day and I have accepted that my thoughts are just pterodactyl screeching.

I love it so much. I have so much to say on it. It drove me bonkers for like a week straight. I have AUs. It's absolute Megbait. They're just a little Snufkin and they're having the worst experience of anybody's life. Ludonarratives my fucking beloved.

I am going to talk about the prologue.

The prologue is such a fascinating experience. You crack open the game and immediately begin checking off all of the little genre boxes: mage, warrior, researcher, you're the rogue...some little kid who's there for some reason...alright, you know the score. You're in yet another indie Earthbound RPG, these are your generic characters, let's get the ball rolling.

Except then you realize that these characters are people. You feel instantly how you've entered the game at its last dungeon, at the end of the adventure. They have their own in-jokes, histories, backgrounds, adventures. They get along well and they're obviously close, but not in a twee or unrealistic way. They have so much chemistry and spirit and life. I fell in love with them so quickly.

But Sif doesn't. Sif kind of hates them, because they will not stop saying the same damn thing. They walk the same paths, do the same things, make the same jokes, expect Sif to say the same lines. They keep referencing a Sif we do not see, with jokes we never see him make and heroic personality he never shows - they reference a Sif who is dead - and Sif can't handle that, so he kills them too.

They become only an exercise in tedious frustration. Sif button mashes through their dialogue, Sif mindlessly clicks the same dialogue options, Sif skips through the tutorial, Sif blows through the puzzles. Sif turns their world into a video game. Sif is playing a generic RPG. Sif forgets their names. They are no longer people with in-jokes, histories, backgrounds, adventures. They're the mage, the warrior, the researcher, and...some random kid.

I did not understand the Kid's presence at first. I had no idea what they contributed to the game. They didn't do anything. As a party member in a video game, they're a bit useless. Why is the Kid there?

Because Sif's life isn't a video game. Because the kid isn't 'the kid'. They're Bonnie. Bonnie, who the party loves. Why is Bonnie there? Because they love them. There is no room for Bonnie in the boring RPG that Sif is playing. And then you realize that Sif is wrong, and that they've lost something extremely important, and that they'll never escape without it.

Watching the prologue before watching ISAT gave ISAT the most unique air of dread and horror, because you crack open ISAT and you see the person Sif used to be. You realize that Sif used to be a person. Sif used to be the person who made jokes, who gave real smiles, who interacted with the world as if they are a part of it. And you know you are sitting down to watch Sif lose everything that made them a person, to lose everything that made them a member of this world, and turn them into a character in a video game who doesn't understand the point of Bonnie at all.

At the climax of the game, when the others realize that something is deeply wrong and that Sif physically cannot tell them, they realize that there is nothing they can do. So Bonnie declares snacktime. And for the first time they have snacktime.

What is snacktime? Classic JRPGs don't have snacktime. There's literally no point to a snacktime - not in a video game, and not in Sif's terrible life. It's not fixing this, because nothing can fix this. But Bonnie gives Sif a cookie and Sif eats it.

It's meaningless. It's a cutscene. It didn't save Sif and it didn't change a thing. It will make no difference in the end.

But it did make the difference. It made all of the difference in the world. Bonnie is a character who you really don't understand the point of before you realize that Bonnie was the entire point.

ISAT is about comfort media. Why do we play the same video games over and over again? Why do we avoid watching the finale of our favorite shows? What is truly comforting: a story with no conflict, or a story where you always know what is about to happen? Do you want to live in a scary, uncontrollable world, or do you want to play Stardew Valley? Do you want a person or a character?

When I beat Earthbound for the first time (and if you don't know, the prologue/ISAT battle system is just Mother) and watched the ending cutscene where the characters part ways and say goodbye...I felt a little bit sad. I wanted them to be together forever. But that's something only characters could ever be.

#these aren't deep or unique thoughts they're just the specific aspect of ISAT that made it one of the most interesting gaming experiences #i actually like the prologue much more than ISAT for just this reason #its honestly a video game art piece that's created to give the player a very specific experience #that makes them an aspect of the narrative that is told #it's. incredible. #in stars and time #start again start again start again #start again: a prologue #isat #god and there is so so so so much more to say here #what a rich and complex and fascinating game that made me cry like a baby #i dont even kin sif. we arent similar at all. #i cant imagine how devastating this game would have been if i did #but I do have a deep relationship with escapsim #and i write about it a lot #and video games about being video games are wonderful #as are stories about being stories #and why we consume stories. how we use them. how they save us and hurt us. #never played a video game that used its medium so well #i bet undertales also pretty good at that but this is more so i think #stories about stories have to be about why we love stories #and im not an artsy person and i roll my eyes a bit when people talk about the spiritual neccesity of art #i think people need stories because the world is sad and hard and boring and we want to think about something else for a while. #some people need to be anywhere but here #and sometimes if you're Lil Depressed-Ass Snufkin that looks like being here forever #baby cringe-ass snufkin big hat idiot

[wolves-in-the-world]

thinking about how the one time eliot masterminds something, it's because the circumstances are dire and we don't actually see it happen; how he says he plays chess and nate believes him but we don't ever see it or hear about it again; how we don't even see his most basic fighting skills until they're needed and he has to drop the cerebral and nonthreatening grift he was using in front of the team. and I don't know what to think except that in some ways he's just as secretive as parker is, we just don't see it because on top of that he's this very believable gruff-but-sorta-amiable person who meets up with his vet buddies and goes on dates and cooks for his team.

#not heading anywhere particular with this just. #with parker we see the warehouse and the multiple addresses and it's all shown to us in a way to draw attention to her caution #and how much she trusts the team regardless by letting sophie figure out the combination #and we have to assume that eliot has safehouses too but the show never even flirts with the idea of showing us. #he's secretive in a way the story allows and glosses over. #the difference between him and parker is that he pretends hard to be normal and she either can't or doesn't. #once again reminded of the ship dynamic 'there is something wrong with you that is also wrong with me.' #like. I sort of love that we don't see eliot's discussion of the kidnapping. what he figured out and how they'll handle it etc. #because just like in the pilot it's including the viewers in his grift #and this time it's the grift he resorts to most around people who know his job #the one that says he's violent and simple and not especially bright. the one that leads people to underestimate him. #power negativity applied in the best way for a hitter's career. #it's a grift we see multiple times and we're only barely shown the edges of it. #I would still kind of love to see more. because once again #it is fascinating to me that you can watch the entire damn show and still believe the grift of it. #eliot #leverage #hi I've been ignoring tumblr to get writing done and I keep having thoughts. it's terrible.

[chibishortdeath]

Drawing muscles is so fun :3. I wanna try to make more illustrations like this, but idk sometimes the vibes are just off and he ends up with way less detail than intended lol. But yeah, he’s standin.

Hehe bonus: a little doodle based on a pinup I ran into >:3

#castlevania #castlevania games #akumajou dracula #akumajo dracula #castlevania nes #castlevania chronicles #castlevania artists #Castlevania x68000 #castlevania fanart #art post #my art #Simon Belmont #yeah no April fools post or anything lol #I never really know how to make a clever one tbh I always feel like they just end up annoying #the boop thing is something tho idk what kind of a notification it’d sending people tho #honestly tho like he is so fun to draw #you don’t realize just how big his thighs are until you stare at them for a while XD #he looks like he’d be very good at hugs #I swear the vampire killer changes design every time I draw it #also my sketchbook is so prone to smudging it’s so annoying #I used to get way better quality sketchbooks but I haven’t been able to find that brand anymore anywhere (T_T )

[moonfromearth]

- ...

Day 12 - The Killer "Iconic. The bringer of doom. It gives them pleasure to pick of the cast, reveling in their own cat and mouse game. No matter their backstory, it always leads to slaughter in the end."

from @windbrook's Slashed Challenge.

#he's a bit of a lazily designed killer #but i thought the smiley face was a mildly creepy touch #😅 #by the time i got to twelve i wasn't sure what to do #and i was done downloading cc so #i had to improvise with the hats/masks in the game #which turned out to be fun the eco living bag is kind of a good option like he could have got it anywhere #i can't believe it's the last prompt though i had so much fun with these #going to work on a character page i think for them all #because i'd really like to work on some edits for the plot #thanks everyone for enjoying the sims it's been super fun to see the likes they got so thank you 😁 #slasher dude #(i never gave him a name... #i had one but i feel like it's already been used) #day 12 #windbrookslashed #sims 4 #ts4 #sims 4 screenshots #ts4 screenshots #tw murder mention #tw murder #tw death mention

[radio-and-the-dirt]

dude i don't really care if people ship aroace characters just please acknowledge that they're aro and/or ace. like,, aro and ace people still can and do enter into relationships of various types at times and not every aro or ace person completely lacks attraction anyway and some date even if they do, so like, ship them if thats what you want but please just be respectful.

just acknowledge that the character is aro and/or ace. do some research about what that might mean for them if you need to. treat those characters in a way that respects their identities and doesn't completely brush them aside.

im just tired. we can be in relationships. we can not be in relationships. we are still aros and aces. dont try and erase what little representation we get.

i would like to note that i see things in this way because i have never seen a 'professional' writer (like non-fanfic or not a small online creator) specify where an aro/ace character sits on those spectrums or how they actually view relationships of any type. i've also never seen any 'professional' writer's characters get to explore or express that part of themselves enough in their stories to give much better an understanding than just "not really interested in sex or romance".

if a more specific understanding of a character was provided and it meant that that character wouldn't be involved in romantic and/or sexual relationships or was repulsed by them than yeah, I wouldn't want people shipping them at all but i dont think i've ever seen that so thats not what this is about.

#this is mostly about one character because theyre on my mind atm but i've absolutely seen it happen to others #its just really disheartening to have confirmed representation and then see so much of a fandom ignore that because they want to ship thing #i love this character as rep as well. i think they capture certain things for me really well #i almost never come across it but pairings of characters whether romantic or something else are really fun when written from an aroace lens #but thats not what i see happening with what i'm thinking about #its just infuriating to see so much of the fandom accept certain details that were revealed in a certain way but then argue that this- #-character's orientation hasn't been confirmed anywhere when it was revealed in the exact same way #just say you don't care about respecting us at this point man #if you know what character im referencing here about then uhhhhh cool #i hope no one minds me tagging these next few #aromantic #asexual #arospec #acespec #aroace #might remove those in a bit idk i get quite nervous being perceived sometimes

[rickybaby]

The Daniel Ricciardo show at Silverstone 2017

Daniel got knocked out in Q1 after suffering a turbo failure in Qualifying. He would start the race in 19th and charge his way through the field to finish 5th.

Ricciardo was putting in the hard miles with the drive of the day in his wake. Not only that but he had to do the job almost twice over. An early charge up the field to 12th was wasted when he went wide and dropped once again back to 18th. He duly set about the task again and pulled off move after move, displaying the commitment and judgment in overtaking that has proved so exciting. Points might have been the target but by the time he dealt with the Force India cars of Esteban Ocon and Sergio Pérez, the Australian had made it clear he was not satisfied with scraping into the top 10. (x)

#thank you to the YouTube algorithm for recommending this in time for the Silverstone weekend #it’s just frustrating to see the constant revisionism of Daniel’s career whether at redbull or Renault #he was pulling drives like this when he never once had a championship winning car #just imagine how much more impressive his stats from his redbull days would have been if that car wasn’t constantly breaking apart on him #this man was already in the points by lap 19 when the car wasn’t anywhere near the rocketship it is today #and then you have checo missing q3 thru his own mistakes and having people fucking applaud him for making it onto the podium #in the car of today #when Daniel used to pull drives like this constantly #case in point monza 2017 where Daniel qualified p3 but then dropped to p16 after a grid penalty and he’d proceed to finish p4 #with him closing the gap to seb in p3 #and people have the guts to question why many others consider him to be the best rb driver after seb and max

[spearxwind]

Honestly i Get It now i do get why people build things constantly

#i built my first two furniture pieces with my bf and im still really giddy about it. the previously empty room thag i used as a study is my #fave room now. my new shelf is full of things i love and things ive made and things my bf made and its got sm space left to keep filling it #my new table is a godsend and im genuinely so happy with it. its so lovely making things on it #and building this lil model plane plus the new one I've been working on today is so so so relaxing and nice #i love doing manual things I've really wanted to do more of this for a long time and now i have and its so good #i built another thing this morning too that i was gifted a while ago.. a little 3D puzzle of a weird creature #hadnt had the chance to build it yet bc i never had anywhere to put it but now i have #thunderclap #honestly im really sorry if it takes me 60 million years to get back to my regular art and ocs but this is really nice in the meantime

[astraltrickster]

Also I've made one of my older posts about AI stuff unrebloggable because it was starting to go around and while my final verdict opinion hasn't really changed - I still strongly consider it a really exciting tool that can be used for both good and evil and despise its use as a corporate cost-cutting gimmick or a new way for trolls and grifters to be giant cockholes but love seeing what people do with it for its OWN value as a tool and how making art out of ANYTHING is such a human thing to do-

digging even a few inches deeper has caused my reasons for arriving at that same conclusion to change a lot lmao

It's kind of my current ultimate example of

[Source]

#personal #ai tag #and also i complain about how its flaws are making.people way too sympathetic to reactionary arguments #this doesnt mean i fail to recognize or hate the way it's used for evil #but hair-splitting about Real Art and Real Labor has NEVER led anywhere good this time will NOT be an exception #and ''we have to shove this genie back in the bottle to Save Jobs'' has always been a losing argument #and beefing up copyright is the exact opposite of preventing the worst uses #but holy shit we need better online privacy protection and vfx unions #we need that shit 40 years ago #and we need automation taxes to go to beefed up unemployment -> ubi #and i hate how theres a kind of godwins law corollary with 1984 because the filters on so many readily available generators are #TERRIFYING #its bad enough when tiktok tries to block you from talking about queerness and mental health and basic facts of life #at least they cant block you from saying it to a friend next to you #but when companies falsely think they can monopolize the entire concept of making images #and decide that various disabilities are ''too violent'' to show.......... #yeeeeeah yikes

[oozeandgoo-art]

old drawing I never posted. i like these two freaks, I should draw them more

#rubin #skironir #oc #rukaan #humanization #skironir is fully on board with the murder for the record. She likes rubin because he loves to kill people and she thinks it's cool and fun #someone warned her when she was like human-nineteen (im not sure how to translate caribou ages to humans LMAO could've been #anywhere from 19 to 25ish) that there was a weird loner freak eating out of the garbage and threatening people with knives and she went #'damn thats crazy. hes kinda hot. im gonna be his friend' #rubin (also approximately the same age as her) was like 'ive never had a friend before and im not going to start now. fuck off' #and then failed so hard at not having any friends that he fell in love like an idiot and now he's stuck with her forever and she can't get #rid of him. which works for skironir because she would be very sad if she did get rid of him #im not sure im gonna keep the she/her pronouns for skir. in all the stuff i've written for the deer game with skir i use he/him #but rubin using he/him pronouns in the mg!au also trips me up a bunch because i keep being like this is girl rubin he's a girl i made him #into a girl and now he's a girl. and then i get lost in the pronoun weeds LMAO #you undrestand #anyway i enjoy them a lot #very straightforward characters. they roll into town. they cause problems. they kill someone. they leave #i should make magical girl katjaana straight up just a dude. for balance. a dude who uses she/her and turns into a magical girl also #or maybe i could go full tuxedo mask with her.... idk

[hellbatschilt]

Recently organized, and added new stuff to my Yokai Watch collection!!

#merch tag #yokai watch #can you guys guess my favourite yokai? (it's agent x! count cavity is my second fave) #also apologies for using flash the lighting in my room is not that great lol #anyways!!! #can't believe i've been collecting yokai watch merch for 7 years o(-< never thought i'd be able to add more stuff to it too #i got the sakich*n skysh*riman and dr. k*gemura dream medals today! #dream medals are actually my favourite medals they've made :'^) so happy count cavity got one #cc actually got so many medals which is like yippee!!!! #anyways for those who want to know i collect my main team + the ghoulfamily + whatever other yokai i like #my main team is cc tattletell snee rimo kimetemaou and sighdurr :^) #the other yokai i collect are skysh*riman sakich*n and dr. k*gemura! i actually need to grab some h*kai stuff too though #honestly i just like yw3 related merch a lot. it's my favourite in the series! plus my favourite yokai villains are in it hehe #anyways uh this isn't even all of my merch lol i have some other stickers and flat items + the cc and rimo's metal charms #and cc's omamori charm! which i do want to take outside with me eventually but i should get a dupe of it in case it gets - #- damaged or lost #oh i also have some 4komas and some manga that my faves show up in #trying to figure out if i have any grails for yw merch and honestly? a few years ago they released a halloween ramune case and timidevil - #- was on it but i've never been able to find it for sale :'^) tragic... not like i have room for it anywhere but still #there's also a yw3 sticker(?) set that has most of the ghoulfamily on it and they're playing rock paper scissors? #i have a photo of it but have never seen any listings... hard to find it without having a specific term to check i.e the omikuji stickers #some of my tags got eaten </3 so i can't ramble on more :^( please talk to me about yw merch

[covenofthearticulate]

can I tell y'all a secret............

you don't actually have to be as smart as a Smart Character to be able to write them........you just have to understand their motive and their speech/articulation patterns........

#sincerely: someone who has gotten better at writing louis but who does not actively use her brain for Smart Things anymore #like forreal. i got my college degree in rhetorical theory LMAO like we called it communication studies but it was actually rhetoric #i thought i was sooooooooooo smart but actually. you know what. i've grown so much as a writer since then LOL #and i think it's honestly mostly because i really do try to go back to the text and study louis' voice #rather than like. louis' specific socio-political opinions lmfao #idk! just something i've been noticing lately! i'll never be anywhere near as educated as louis but i'll be damned if that stops me LMAO

[ardentpoop]

they literally had no clue what a special and one-of-a-kind character they had on their hands

leagues above the rest of this show’s characters in terms of emotional depth

#not to sound like a broken record but the fact that the writers treated him like shit adds a layer to his narrative #like if he wasn’t saddled with his particular role within the restrictions of his particular universe I wonder whether he would’ve spoken #to as many sad freaks like me as he did #if he wasn’t written thru a misogynistic lens for a misogynistic audience his story may have been significantly less tragic #if he wasn’t in a story that viewed mental illness and addiction as moral failures. #if he wasn’t in a story that ultimately believed in Us vs Them and in the inherent Rightness of the nuclear family #if he wasn’t in a story that handwaved and made excuses for the abuse he suffered at the hands of his loved ones bc it was #merely a consequence of him straying from the Mission #thee singular male character that I’ll tell you is a woman and mean it in the sense that you CANNOT engage meaningfully with him without #acknowledging that his central conflicts and his defining traits and the way the fandom at large treats him are all tied up in #traditional expectations for female characters #he’s relatable if you’re a misunderstood woman and if you’re queer and if you’re a 2nd gen american #if you’ve felt lonely your whole life and if you feel like you never fit anywhere #an actually perfect character to me few others can compare #tag vomit

[imanes]

being late is alright, being chronically late seems like a thing u should deal with but I can work around it by lying to you about the time we should meet or just being late myself, being chronically late and never letting people know you’re gonna be late and/or lying about your whereabouts while people are already at the agreed upon place and waiting for you is what has gotten people on my strike list and often time the second and third strikes were the same thing lol once upon a time this girl was still taking a shower and she was like I’m on my way! Ended up waiting a whole hour in the cold ✨ wherever this bitch is I’m glad she’s not wasting MY time anymore

#anyway this was prompted by my mom telling me my sister would pick us up to go to my brothers place for his daughters bday #and I was like I’m gonna text his wife to let her know we’re gonna be late bc she times our arrival so that the food is still hot #and my sister has never been on time anywhere in her long life #and my mom was like no that’s rude!! I don’t think her and I have the same definition of rudeness

[acheyri]

just for fun, lil dump — valkyrie (svee's "final boss" form, which she uses vs the endsinger) has been a Thing in svee's lore since i first made her in 2018. i thought miqo'te reminded me of the cat laguz from fire emblem, and i wanted to give her a cat form (she was also a thaumaturge because i learned thru those quests that shapeshifting WAS kinda possible. now in current lore thaumaturgy is the reason for her scar and aetheric deficiency+disability)

design process of valkyrie took a. long time. i ditched it for a bit. endwalker gave me some stuff that helped fill some lore holes. also i decided to be extra self indulgent because who cares, i already break canon so much, and i wanted her and shinryu to have a big dragon fight, for fun. svee gets in a dick-measuring contest with zenos and gets jealous of shinryu. (those feelings arent entirely canon. but it IS funny)

these sketches are in order! 2018 to 2019 to a few months ago, to now :) at the start of her redesign process a few months ago i tried to make her look more like the ffxiv dragons (top left of the third picture), but she ended up taking a lot more inspiration from monster hunter because she just isn't.. noodly. shes built like a tank.

i have more lore about valkyrie that i cant drop yet until i drop a certain (very long) comic that's in the works, because valkyrie is linked to some svee lore that is a Huge Spoiler. [yoshi-p voice] Please Look Forward To It.

also i like to think her theme is both endsinger p2 theme (ffxiv spoilers in link) (when svee actually becomes valkyrie) and teostra and lunastra's themes combined (its about the woodwind but also the drums. you understand.)

#svee #valkyrie #sketches #uhhh year tags... #2018 #2019 #2022 #i love my oc so much you dont even know!!!! you cant comprehend it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i used to primarily draw traditionally in my sketchbook so theres soooo much old svee art #that just has never been posted anywhere because i didnt have a scanner and it wasnt just sitting in my pc files #dont think i even had a pc then #sunny speaks

[ybcpatrick]

i'm digging back thru my archives to try and find all of my old digital art from when i was a teenager. and i have Regrets

#shut up kell #WHY DID I HAVE LIKE SEVEN DIFFERENT ART BLOGS??? AND WHY DID I KILL THEM ALL 😭😭 #note to artists: keep all of it. keep all of it please keep all of it i am begging you to keep fucking everything #you will be kicking yourself in the ass later if you don't #i don't even have that much hope honestly. like a lot of it is just straight up GONE. but nevertheless we persist #but also holy fuck i never got off this website in 2016. there is so much to wade thru. kid LOG OFF #UPDATE: WHERE MY BLOG FAILS MEGAN'S PREVAILS 🗣️🗣️🗣️ #THANK U MEG FOR HAVING BEEN THE SWEETEST BEST FRIEND IN THE WORLD AND REBLOGGING EVERYTHING I DID I LOVE YOU MWAH #SEE YOU TONIGHT HEEHEE #(she doesn't use tumblr anymore i just love talking at her on here. and anywhere. bc she's my megan and i love her🥰)