Also I made it through the first ten minutes of Secret Invasion and then got so angry at the MCU that I had to go cuddle my dog for a while. Sorry hot Maria Hill I tried. Prickly MCU feelings below the cut.
(Also the more the world turns the more the idea of “present day” without acknowledging the COVID pandemic becomes more and more dissonant in media in general, and I thought this about Secret Invasion and then I remembered that “present day” in the MCU is actually I think 2026 because of the shitty math they did for the Snap and I had to go cuddle my dog some more.)
(And then I thought about how nice it was that nobody could retcon that Tony Fucking Stark cured COVID because he’s For Sure Canonically Dead and that helped a little.)
(Wait no because the dumb baby math means he COULD have cured COVID because Endgame takes place in 2023 doesn’t it I hate it hereeeeeee)
BUT THE THING IS I AM MAD BECAUSE I ACTUALLY LOVE A SECRET DOUBLE STORY.
But it’s a treasure and a gift of a trope because it relies on the viewer knowing the characters. The fun of it, the joy of it, is being able to know the characters well enough that when there’s a shift in facial expression or a choice that doesn’t feel quite right, I the viewer can guess along! The reward of being able to see the twist coming because you know these people, the satisfaction of yelling at the screen don’t listen she’s evil because you the viewer have information that the other characters don’t.
And I want to like this SO MUCH but I’m sitting here like. What depth of knowledge do I have about the inner life of Famous Actor Playing White Man In Suit Number Six. Whose motivations have been a clear and consistent thread between films such that I can follow along in that way. How can that tension and joy possibly be earned in a production where actors are only given single scenes at a time to avoid ~spoiling twists.
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hello, sexiest man alive committee? yes I'd love to nominate Lou Wilson and Brian Murphy for attempting to speed-write an actual in-universe 300-word essay in 5 minutes of real time as Fabian and Riz posing as Fabian with complete earnest and a 120 percent commitment. both this effort and the incredibly smooth hand-off in the middle of it was maybe the most attractive thing i've ever seen a man do
yes it's a dungeons and dragons show. don't put me on hold. hello
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The Mechanisms from someone who has never listened to The Mechanisms
There's an album where it's all the brothers Grimm fairy tales but now it's futuristic space fantasy and war crimes
gay space pirates
There is a sentient ship
The sentient ship and it's engineer are in a gay wlw relationship
Things keep going into the sun apperantly
Some dude forgets trans people exist, this causes problems
There's a character named like, tinker toyman or something
Everyone dies all the time
In Ulysses dies at dawn, Ulysses dies at dawn
If you have a mythology, congrats its mechanisms now
Everything is a mechanisms reference, you're gay? Mechanisms refrence
More gay people
The ship goes into the sun, everyone dies this may happen more than once I don't know
The Ship x Engineer Yuri gets broken up tragically
Seriously forgetting trans people exist causes more problems then you'd think
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Y'all, I did NOT know this existed -- this is a 3D interactive/spectator mode map of the season 8 Hermitcraft server.
It's a huge map and takes a while to load, but it's SUCH a boon to anyone looking to reference something on the server real fast without having to download and run the entire world download.
Other seasons can be viewed too, in top-down Dynmap mode, if you weren't aware. I've messed around with them in the past and they're super cool. You can even get coords from wherever you click if you want to easily find and tp around to different locations.
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@unexpectedyarns replied to your post “Today I worked on some hand sewn buttonholes. Here...”:
I love that you are wearing a swashbuckler shirt. There’s not a man on earth that doesn’t look amazing in a swashbuckler shirt. Nor a woman either.
It's just a regular 18th century shirt, all my shirts are cut to more or less that same pattern, though usually in very historically inaccurate colours.
I've got a blog post about the construction, but it's from 2020 and I've improved my technique since then and have been meaning to do a better, updated tutorial.
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