#the background visuals in this performance is AMAZING

[alfonzone]

TWENTY ONE PILOTS - "HEATHENS / TREES (LIVESTREAM VERSION)" |

#in honor of twenty one pilots announcing their new album #i am pretty fucking excited about it #also- i tried to add this song another harry styles song on my SoundCloud and it immediately got deleted due to copyright #yikes #i gotta be careful about which ones i can upload? #that sucks #was hoping of making a playlist of live performances #oof #anyways #excited #twenty one pilots #clancy #the background visuals in this performance is AMAZING #music

[ice-cream-writes-stuff]

■□▪︎COURTING▪︎□■ Part 1

{Miguel O'hara/Reader}

《You decided to screw around with biology/Your attempts at trying to wooTHEE Miguel O'hara.》

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"Pav, Hobbie, Gwen! Hiya!" Your enthusiastic voice calls out to the younger Spiderlings. Jess, who sees you happily taking the teens in a group hug. It catches Miles off guard but reciprocates the hug. Gwen flinches, but relaxes in your hold. While Pav snuggles into your warmth, Hobbie groans playfully, patting you on the back.

You chuckle and let them go, before smiling brightly at Jess and waving at her stomach. "Hi little buggy! Your mom is doing an amazing job! Don't make it hard for her!" You tease, causing Jess to lightly chuckle at your antics.

˚Female Wolf Spiders have a strong attachment to their children since they (unlike most spiders) carry them around in their egg sac and do not abandon them. They even protect their newborns after they hatch."

"So... How did the first mission go?" You said warmly, gazing at the teens pridefully. Miles smiles, chatting excitedly. Even pulling out a small art book he had brought with him, drawing a small doodle of what the villain looked like.

"Oh, oh!" Pav excitedly raises his hand, taking your attention.

"Yes?"

"How's it been going with getting the bossmans attention?" Hobbie interrupts with a playful smile directed at Pavitr. "I wanted to ask that!" Pavitr whines as all the young Spiderlings gaze at you.

Jess laughs as you smile happily.

"It's been going well! I think-" You pause as a small noise alerts you.

"I'll have to tell ya'll later, I was assigned another mission, see you soon!"

As soon as you left, Miles turns the page of the paper as little notes and comments are written all over the place. A small doodle of Miguel in his spider suit glaring at you in your own spider suit.

"It oddly feels like bingo.." Gwen remarks. Laughing slightly at her own set of notes, she added.

"I mean, you can't blame us! (Y/N) is literally pulling out all the tricks to get Miguel!" Pavitr says, adding a small heart between the two doodles of you and Miguel.

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■ Attempt one!■

Males in a few species locate a female and unceremoniously run to her and mate, others court by rhythmically plucking the threads of a web. After the female approaches, he pats and strokes her before mating.

After a long and stressful mission and capturing another anomaly. Your team follows behind you, groaning tiredly and a bit slow to your up-beat pace.

"Miguel~!"

The futuristic Spider-Man eyes your group, nodding to them for their job well done.

Miguel then growls when feeling you pounce on his unmoving body. You hug his waist tightly as Lyla snidely. Your group, afraid of your well-being, beg you to let go. Fearing that he'd kill you, or the more plausible idea, throw you into a wall.

Miguel scoffs as your grip becomes tighter, struggling to get you off of him as you squeal happily.

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■Attempt two!■

Wolf Spiders perform a mating ritual that are a combination of visual display and vibrations akin to a courtship song. IF the female denies, she may eat the male.

You twirl and swing beautifully in the air, singing to the song playing in the background as you and Miguel track down a music themed Vulture.

When a male jumping spider encounters a female—literally any female—he launches into an elaborate courtship dance, including rhythmic flailing of limbs and complex vibrations.

Miguel rolls his eyes at your small movements that look like you were dancing. Your groove, not being thrown off as you manage to pull Miguel into a clumsy one-sided waltz as you kick the (finally) tied down Vulture.

His mean comments not helping your dancing as Miguel quietly chuckles at your actions.

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[Part two will be released soon! This is gonna be probably one of my best series yet! Taglist is open for ONE HOUR. Comments are highly appreciated and need to keep this series going! Thank you guys so much!]

(Also, (Y/N) is GN! Miggy is male.)

#miguel ohara #miguel o'hara x you #miguel o'hara x reader #miguel o'hara x y/n #miguel o'hara #across the spider verse spoilers #across the spiderverse #spider man: across the spider verse #smatsv #atsv x reader #yandere spiderman #spiderman x reader #spiderman 2099 spiderverse #spiderverse x reader #spiderman #spider man #spiderverse x y/n #spiderman into the spiderverse #spider man x you #spider man x y/n #spider man 2099 #beyond the spiderverse #atsv miguel #spiderverse imagine #miguel spiderman #miguel spiderverse #spiderman 2099 #atsv imagines #sony spiderverse #spiderverse spoilers

[antholojade]

to anyone that thinks "poison" glorifies abusive relationships:

it depicts the high highs and the low lows of abusive relationships. and the way the song is written depicts a downward spiral.

"addicted to the taste and i can't help but swallow up."

this is where angel acknowledges the highs of this relationship. fame. money that fuels his drug addiction. sex that satisfies his sex addiction. he's hot shit, and he's getting anything he could possibly want because he's owned by val.

"i'm choking from the taste and i can't help but swallow up."

while angel is addicted to sex, sometimes it's too rough for him. he's too tired. it's too much. but he can still take it. it gets him his cash. his fame. so it's fine. it's all fine. just take it. it's what val wants, and val has given him everything. and he'll keep giving him everything if he just keeps taking it - on and off camera.

"i'm filling up my glass but it's always hollow."

he can't take it anymore. he really was willing to do anything for some money, wasn't he? apparently "anything" included leaving work with black eyes, sore parts, and threats ringing in his ears.

he's getting money. he's getting coke. people love him.

but it doesn't feel good anymore.

but maybe it will… it's felt good before, after all.

and consider the visuals.

angel's dancing. he looks amazing. he looks hot. and then there's the background - the pain. he's dancing in front of his work like he's proud of it.

it's performative, just like angel.

and then, he gets dragged out of the spotlight by val, clutching him by his front… the same man who put angel there.

#hazbin hotel #angel hazbin hotel #hazbin angel dust #angel dust hazbin hotel #angel dust #hazbin hotel angel dust

[milkywaydrabbles]

Meeting the Haitani brothers in their clubs

A/N: literally no one asked for this but I am a firm believer the Haitani brothers are raveheads. Rindou is for sure a wook, while Ran stays in his progressive house lane. I could literally talk about them and their music taste for hours, writing a dissertation as we speak.

Haitani Rindou Artists inspo: ATLiens, Svdden Death, Rezz

⁍When you first met Rindou you were at one of his smaller clubs. Definitely an edm club, one that he owned for fun and not to push drugs or be a cover for any other illegal activity. He knew it was a silly club but it's one he often visited for the fun of it if he wasn't doing business. That's when he was his most casual. ⁍He was by the bar area, leaning by the rails of the elevated section and looking out to the sea of ravers. That's when he saw you. Across the masses, you were on one of the pillars that has some footing (not its intended purpose but you know what it worked). It let you be above the crowd for some air, really taking in the lights and visuals of the artist performing.  ⁍He’s seen it done before, not a new concept, so he let it be. Though his eyes lingered for a beat longer than normal of any other girls that frequented his club. For one, he hadn’t seen you before, a newcomer he assumed. But you were so comfortable in the scene it must have not been your first rave. Second, your attire might have matched his aesthetic in terms of rave gear than anyone else. All black, showing skin in a tasteful way, but paired with spikes and chains. Hot.  ⁍He watched you every now and again throughout the night, but not acting on anything. And then he saw you next weekend. And the weekend after that. And each time, no matter the artist, your aesthetic regularly stayed the same save for a jersey or pashmina that matched the artist. Each time you were heavily involved. Either fanning the crowd to give some air, trading kandi, hell even turning up in the pit.  ⁍The third time he saw you Rindou decided to say something. He got there early enough before the crowd started to form. You turned to him with a bright smile, and he thought just for a second you were too pure to be here.  ⁍You got to talking before it got too loud, and he learned you were new to the city, and you just found this club. He asked you your opinion, almost anxious on what you thought of his club. When you gushed over how amazing it was, he almost preened. ⁍Rindou wasn’t much of a smooth talker, didn’t really continue much conversation from there but he lingered, dancing and headbanging with you to each of the performers. You gave him a piece of kandi for the great night and wished him a safe trip home. ⁍He spoke to you again the weekend after that, and ultimately decided to just man up and ask for your number. You gladly gave it to him. Your hangouts eventually made it out of the club, now turning into breakfast dates, lunch dates, park dates.  ⁍Rindou over time confided in you, telling you that the club you frequented was his, and your eyes almost popped out of their sockets. He laughed in your face, immediately apologizing but it was too funny not to.  ⁍The two of you continued to see each other in and out of the rave scene, promise of this new found relationship blooming into something more.

Haitani Ran Artist inspo: Slushii, Dabin, Elephante

⊛Like his brother, Ran owns an edm club too, though a much different vibe. You were a bottle service girl at his club, and a diligent one at that. You’ve jumped in to help on nights you weren’t supposed to work, and even took on cleaning shifts if the rest of the bar was understaffed. ⊛All the bottle girls knew Ran, he liked to hire them personally to make sure they all fit the bill he was looking over (aka running background checks on them and making sure they were clean.) ⊛Every night he’d show up you greeted him with a cheery ‘good evening, Mr. Haitani!’ to which he responded with ‘you can always call me Ran, pretty girl.’ It ended with a giggle and a roll of the eyes, before heading off to your duties. ⊛You weren’t any different than the rest of them, not really, but he did notice you tended to get more tips than the rest and he was interested to know what you did. Maybe it was heavy flirting? Or maybe you ended up taking shots with the poor bastards and you milked them dry of their money that way? ⊛When he started watching you more, he noticed he was completely wrong. While the other girls tried to dance sexy with their tables you actively ended up singing all the words to the songs the performers would play and headbanged with them. That’s what got you more tips, you genuinely enjoyed the music. Huh.  ⊛At the end of the night while you cleaned up Ran came to find you and ask you about it. Oh boy, your face heated up so much you swore you could fry an egg on your forehead. You apologized for your behavior, stating that you ‘just really like the music, so working is really fun’.  ⊛Ran threw his head back and laughed, and asked you out on the spot. You paused, confused at the random offer and started to decline. That was your boss and you were pretty sure it was definitely against policy. ⊛But Ran was so pleasant and asked so pretty it was hard to say no. ⊛So you went on a date with him, thinking it would be one and done, and that it’d be short. Turns out, you had the best night of your life with him.  ���Every shift after that started the same, with your eager ‘good evening, Mr. Haitani’ his rebuttal ‘Call me Ran, pretty girl’, a giggle and smile.  ⊛And ended the same, Ran driving you home with a kiss and finally getting to hear you say ‘good night, Ran’.

#haitani rindou #haitani ran #rindou haitani #ran haitani #haitani brothers #haitani ran x reader #haitani rindou x reader #haitani brothers x reader #tokyo revengers #tokyo revengers x reader #tokyorev #milk writes

[diversestardewvalley]

Diverse Stardew Valley 4.0 is officially here!

DSV 4.0 is a pretty different beast than 3.0+, and it’s bigger & better than ever 😆 The biggest difference is that we’re back on NexusMods and we’ve returned to an all-in-one download: the changes we made for 3.0 was the best move for the DSV team at the time, but things have changed in the last couple of years and we’ve updated accordingly. 

DSV 4.0 also overhauls the interior of the mod with a shiny new C# engine, DSV Core, coded by the amazing KediDili. This should improve performance and make it much easier to configure DSV to your liking!

It’d take too long to list everything that 4.0 adds or changes, but here’s a quick summary:

Added over 250+ lines of variant-based dialogue

Added new additional variants which can be used alongside other variants:

Nonbinary Abigail, Sebastian, and Emily

Aro-Ace Gus

Jewish Mullners and Elliott

Hard-of-Hearing Haley

Added new small cultural map edits for modded variants

Re-added Marigold, Linus's service dog (this option requires Sprites in Detail, Custom NPC Exclusions, & Anti-Social NPCs) with improved higher-resolution sprites

Added new minor config options:

Mermaid Pendants - Rival Hearts & Canon Couples

Flower Queen's Crown Immersion Mode

Vanilla Beach Style

Enable Variant-Based Dialogue and individual dialogue toggles for each character

Abigail Goth Makeup

Elliott Helix Piercing & Ear Piercing

Penny & Pam Dynamic Outfits

Penny Freckles

Shane Punk Accessories

Marnie Dynamic Outfits

Clint Beard

Reworked character art for modded Pam, Black Haley & Emily, and modded Sikh and non-Sikh Harvey so that they have brighter, more accurate skintones

Clarified cultural backgrounds on the DSV website for several characters:

Romani Haley and Emily are of the Lovari vitsa

Black Haley and Emily have Ghanaian heritage

Indian Sandy is Deccani

Native Leah is of the Haida nation

Black Elliott has Jamaican heritage

Updated many outfits

Added compatibility with many mods

We also have a non-seasonal version for anyone who just wants the diversity edits (although it also contains some small tidbits for vanilla players such as improved beach art) and an add-on pack so that Always Raining in the Valley NPCs Sterling, Mia, and Henry can become Flower Queens through DSV’s Flower Queen’s Crown feature.

The DSV website has also been updated with visual guides to all of the new options, so please check it out! For any translators or mod authors interested in adding compatibility, there's also a new page with detailed instructions to help you out.

Thank you all for supporting DSV! 💖

#DSV #diverse stardew valley #diverse sdv #sdv #stardew valley #stardew valley mods #mod update #airyn

[rebirthgarments]

Hi friends! We have a couple of updates to share. 

Firstly, Seraj needs more than $3,300 to pull off his final Ramadan project before Eid. He wants to distribute it on the last day of Ramadan, which is in 3 days, so we need to get to $20k ASAP! 

contribute at bit.ly/serajfund

The financial situation in Rah Fah continues to decline, with intermediaries taking a 15-17% cut when people get cash out. He is so hopeful that this project will work out! Helping others and bringing smiles to faces–especially those of children–is clearly one of Seraj’s passions. 

Here are the project details, all thought up by Seraj himself. He has amazing ideas! 125-130 cash envelopes containing either 50 or 100 shekels each. Seraj will distribute them based on how large each family is. Seraj will also make 40 envelopes for kids, each containing 20 shekels. 

Currently, Seraj’s plan is to distribute his envelopes on the last day of Ramadan, before Eid al-Fitr. Last time he tried to print something, the printer had no electricity. He has a plan this time for checking in early to make sure he has a chance to print. 

Working with Seraj on his mutual aid projects has been such a tangible reminder that we reject the notion of charity (which is very rooted in the white savior complex and pity of Black and Brown folx), and even allyship (not enough action)  instead are partners and collaborators with Seraj self directing, leading us, and constantly motivating us to to get to the next goal so he can achieve his vision! 

 Because Seraj and his family have managed to survive, he’s been able to give back. No NGOs or governments, just a 21-year-old young man helping as many of his neighbors as he can. In his words, “This is my duty, sisters, as long as I can help! Why don't I do that!”

Seraj is genuinely a superstar to everyone on our team. His generosity is humbling to us. We have so much to learn from Pale-eh -steinians. 

Secondly, we have a date for our upcoming virtual dance party! Mark your calendars for Monday, April 29th in the evening (Pacific time). Sky is hosting this event to hype up our virtual auction for Seraj. Follow Sky on Instagram for more details @rebirthgarments or @radicalvisibilitycollective

If you’d still like to contribute items to the auction, go to bit.ly/fundraiserforseraj ! Seraj’s Support Soirée would like to offer an item or service for every budget. And we encourage a wide variety of dough-nation types! While many of them will be creative objects, they do not have to be.

Some examples:

a book you love or wrote

a framed photograph

a massage (local area bidders only)

a meditation session

a piñata

a tarot reading

a t-shirt you love or designed

stickers

a virtual lesson on social media marketing

visual art

a virtual dance lesson

Your items will be listed this week on Give Butter! (stay tuned for details!) 

Our support soiree dance party will hype up the auction featuring selections from the archives of Rebirth Garments fashion performances while you can dance with Sky!

Thank you so much for being here for Seraj. He and his family are so deeply grateful for all of the ways folks have supported them and partnered with them to help others. And our team is so thankful for how you all have stepped up. Please share and contribute! 

-Written by my team member Bex with additions by me!

[image Description: a flyer featuring a photo by Seraj of a small little kid with a blue plastic bag full of fresh fruits and vegetables. The kiddo has a heart emoji over their face and is smiling really big. They are wearing a red shirt that says “sleep time” with a sleeping bear on it. They are standing on a sandy ground in front of a tent. Text to the right of the photo on a red background reads: Gaza Sky Seraj’s mutual aid project for Ramadan in Rah-fah For part 2 of Seraj’s Ramadan project, he gave out 32 food parcels for 32 families around him in the displacement camps. Send support to his family + others! bit.ly/serajfund “ Underneath is a QR code with the link. ]

#gaza strip #gaza genocide #gaza #free gaza #radicallyvisible #queerfashion #mutual aid #go fund me #fundraising #free palestine #gazaunderattack #palestine #stand with gaza #vetted #I personally vetted this fundraiser

[room-surprise]

Dungeon Meshi Anime Review, Season 2, Episode 17 review

OH GOD OKAY here we go...

Once again, I am a broken record: good episode!

My two major complaints: The bit where Laios and Kabru stand around talking next to an off-screen, roaring, screaming monster seemed kind of silly in animation. In a comic it works, but they really should have animated them walking or stumbling away while delivering those lines, having them just stand there until the monster attacks them again is really goofy.

ALSO, something Trigger keeps doing that I am NOT a fan of, is throwing animated speed-line backgrounds behind characters when they're reacting to something. Sometimes these were in the original manga, other times they are NOT... and they break the immersion of the anime completely IMO.

The coloring in DM is so moody and wonderful, the aesthetic is generally grounded, so when suddenly the background is bright blue or lime green or pink and strobing, it's VERY jarring... and the joke DOES NOT NEED these effects in order to be funny! In fact I think it leeches some of the humor out of the jokes. Imagine if every time someone had a strong emotion in a classic Disney movie you'd get this:

This type of sudden background color change, strobing and speed lines are artifacts of older, cheaper anime, tricks that used to be done to hide the lack of budget, as a way to make a quick joke. It's now used as a shorthand to tell people a joke is happening.

But Trigger doesn't NEED to use these tricks, they're using them because "that's how you make sure the audience knows a joke is happening", but the jokes in Dungeon Meshi are so well written, you don't need to cue us with a visual laugh-track, Trigger!!!! ESPECIALLY when Kui didn't do it in the manga!!!

They've done it in other episodes, but I felt like they were particularly noticeable and bad in this one. Makes me sad because I feel it's dragging the anime down from the genuine peak of artistry that it's otherwise achieving.

As always, animation is fantastic. The stuff with chimera falin is obviously top notch, brutal and fast and amazing... But I also have to say that the Toshiro and Laios argument was animated INCREDIBLY well, with a lot of loving detail given to what is, ostensibly, just talking, something Trigger normally hates to animate.... But they put movie-quality work into that argument and it really paid off.

Honestly can't think of much to complain about. It's a solid adaptation of this part of the story, one of the biggest, coolest action sequences that we've all been waiting for.

Vocal performances were all great in both English and Japanese. Kabru's English voice actor did a great job, despite my misgivings about him in previous episodes. I hope he continues to improve.

A dub script change had Kabru think "He's excited" about Laios instead of "his pupils are dilated"... This isn't a terrible change, but a bit baffling. Saying his pupils are dilated tells viewers HOW Kabru knows Laios is excited, and indicates that he is using some kind of scientific criteria to measure it, it makes him sound smarter and more detached from what he's doing. Just saying "he's excited" doesn't tell us how Kabru knows... and it's a thought, not dialog, so it's weird for them to change it in the script, since there's no need to match mouth-flaps.

The sequence where Kabru strips off all his armor and does a surprise attack on Falin is still fantastic in this, though I am a little bit sad that they didn't find any ways to add any extra emphasis for it - in the manga it's drawn out a bit, to the point where you might miss what was happening on your first read... I think the amount of shots we got in the anime was the same as in the manga, but somehow it felt less impactful to me. Maybe pacing?

At any rate, it was an incredibly solid episode.

I already liked Toshiro, but seeing this part of the manga animated really made me like him more, I hadn't realized in the past just how damn romantic the twin bells thing was, but damn. Toshiro really has forgiven Laios by the time they part ways here, it's easy to forget that since Toshiro very much takes a back seat after this.

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #dunmeshi #spoilers #review #dungeon meshi spoilers #delicious in dungeon spoilers

[joonggphilia]

🩵🤍My Angel🤍🩵

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Pairing: Idol! Lee Know x Idol! Male Reader Genre: Fluff, fluff, and more fluff CW: mentions of unrequited love? A/n: I’m really excited about this ask. I adore descriptive writing so this was write up my ally. I think I should write a part 2 for this one <3 ———————————————————————

Music blasted, shoes squealed against the ground, mirrors fogged. Thunder was a new group in the industry and they were determined to rise to the top. Practices were intense, none stop, and one can be sure that the members were incredibly sore after. The music slowly faded making it so all that could be heard was the rigid breathing among the boys who were currently using the studio. “Get some water! That was the best run yet, I’m so proud of us. We deserve a win with this performance.” Said a (h/c) boy, as he sank to the floor. “M/n, are you sure.” Asked one of the members, taking a long sip from his water bottle. “I’m confident. You guys are amazing, and we worked for this.” M/n replied, a glowing smile painting his face. M/n was the proud leader of Thunder. He was well known in the industry for his unreal personality, and visuals. Sure there were people like Choi Yeonjun, the 4th gen it boy, or Wonyoung the it girl. M/n was the 4th gen angel. He was notorious for being pleasant and sweet to anyone who crossed his path. Another thing that was for sure was that he loved his members with all his heart. He was confident and commanded respect…..in a way they made your heart melt, of course.

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The day had finally come, Thunder had made their way up into the big leagues. They were just getting ready to head on stage for the showcase. The outfits for their concept were drop dead gorgeous. They wore white, lacy, formal wear with beautiful diamond jewelry. M/n makeup artist gave him a look that suited him extremely well. His face was glowing, almost as if he had cried. Around his pink dusted eyes was glitter and diamond gems. He looked so beautiful. M/n was popular with fans all around the world, but he was also popular with other idols. One person in particular, had fallen for his charm. That person was none other than Lee Know of Stray Kids. He got into the habit of frequently playing Thunder’s music in the background of his lives and bringing up how his bias was M/n. He couldn’t hide his smitten attitude anymore. “Minho, Thunder is about to perform. I’ll go watch with you if you’d like!” Recommended Bang Chan, leaving his corner of the dressing room to check in an all the members. “That’d be awesome. Let’s go.” Replied Lee Know, grabbing his hand and running backstage. The mad dash was worth it. Lee Know watched in awe as M/n glided across the stage. M/n was the main dancer in his group, but he was trained in ballet and contemporary. Thunder’s unique dance style got them a lot of attention. They had a more technical and contemporary feel to their choreography, unless the song called for something more high energy. “This is the best part!” Squealed Lee Know as he patted Bang Cahn’s shoulder. M/n walked to center stage and broke out into a set of fouettés. The crowd erupted into applause and cheers. Lee Know’s eyes never left his idol. He began to think to himself. Was M/n stay, a fan, did M/n know that he existed? His palms were sweaty, he really did like M/n a lot, but he had a feeling the feelings weren’t requited

——————————————————————— M/n was walking back to his dressing room when he suddenly felt a tap on the shoulder, causing him to turn around, only to make eye contact with the one and only Lee Minho! He froze up. “Uhm, hey. You looked really good out there, super impressive for a rookie group!” The brunette spoke, awkwardly fiddling with the hem of his shirt. M/n broke from his trance and began to bow, covering up his flustered face. “Thank you, it means a lot coming from a member of Stray kids!” M/n stated, bowing once more. Lee Know got butterflies hearing him say this. “Your a fan?” Lee Know asked, manifesting a yes. “Am I a fan? Of course I am! You guys are awesome, a huge inspiration of mine.” M/n chirped, a wide smile growing on his face. “Thanks, I’m glad we inspire you. You’re catching up to us pretty fast, I’m actually a big fan of Thunder.” Lee Know, stated, his chest puffy out with pride. This made M/n giggle “So it’s true! My fans always say you’re my biggest fan and that you guys are competing for that spot on my list.” This gave Lee Know a chance. “M/n, give me your number and that’ll prove I’m your biggest fan.” He bluntly asked. M/n didn’t say a word, just grabbed his phone and handed it to the grinning man before him, their finger tips brushing slightly. Lee Know set his contact on M/n’s phone as “Biggest Fan” to prove his point. “Can I see yours?” M/n asked holding his hand out for Lee Know’s phone. He took it and changed his contact, shutting it off and handing it back. “Let’s hang out sometime, Lee Minho.” M/n said, shaking the other male’s hand. “It’s a date, M/n L/n.” He sneered, causing both of them to blush and giggle.

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Once Lee Know got back to the dorms he checked his phone, only to drop it on his face when he read a small “hi” from a certain someone. The contact read -My Angel-

#stray kids #lee know x male reader #fluff

[flanaganfilm]

Hey there!

I’m a new writer-director finishing up film school and I keep getting into little spats with some of my instructors over my characters talking too much/for too long.

My stock response at this point has basically become “Well, it works just fine when Mike Flanagan does it.”

I don’t know if it’s because I come from a theatre background or what, but I really don’t like the seemingly common wisdom that characters talking—actors orating—is boring for audiences. That you have to have Something Happening all the time, and that characters “just” conversing or telling a story doesn’t count, as though “to speak” isn’t a verb.

Since you tend to have characters speak at length and it turns out riveting—I’m thinking specifically of the confetti speech from Hill House and Hassan’s speech about being a Muslim cop in NYC from Midnight Mass—I was hoping you could share some of your thoughts on balancing action with conversation, giving actors room to “just” talk, and keeping lengthy oration engaging.

Thanks!

I also come from a theater background. I wouldn't be too hard on your instructors - in fact, they sound like they're pretty in sync with a lot of executives in the industry.

I received similar feedback when I was a film student. My first few student features were very talky. We were studying the breakthrough work of Kevin Smith, Spike Lee, and Jim Jarmusch. The indie movies that were selling at Sundance and hitting theaters were The Brothers McMullen and Chuck and Buck. Tarantino had hit the scene and his characters were dropping pages and pages and pages of thick, unhurried dialogue. Reservoir Dogs posters were hanging on every dorm room wall on campus, and that movie was essentially just a long conversation. We watched My Dinner With Andre in class. So yeah, most of our student films were emulating that.

I have always loved a monologue. Going back to Robert Shaw's hypnotic story in Jaws, to Harry Dean Stanton's jaw-dropping monologue in Paris, Texas. It's an art form. Giving actors room to speak, to find music in dialogue, to transport a viewer just with mere words... that's an incredible feat, I think. It's some of the oldest magic left.

That said, I've always tried to balance that out. It's a visual medium, after all, and whenever I've found myself leaning too hard on the words, I've tried to counterbalance that was a very ambitions visual sequence, a long unbroken camera maneuver, or something else that honors the difference between filmed entertainment and theatre.

One of the reasons I made Hush was to challenge myself to eliminate words from my arsenal and focus on visual storytelling.

I take a fair amount of flack for my monologues and dialogue, first from studio executives and then from a small percentage of viewers whose attention spans are being challenged. The most common note I get on any project is to take out talking. It can be disheartening, but I'm always trying to be fair about it, and to be sympathetic to the fact that a lot of movies and television have actively tried to shorten viewers' attention spans for decades now. Audiences are being trained for things to happen faster, louder, shorter. What good is your amazing 6-minute monologue if people changed the channel two episodes ago?

There are times when it is more important to me than others. I dug in hard on Midnight Mass, where the words and ideas in those soliloquies are a big part of the point of the show... but on The Midnight Club, I didn't push for it. I kept scenes relatively short, and there isn't a monologue to be found.

But my overarching feeling is that an artfully written and well performed monologue is a gift, and a dying art. It celebrates great acting, it requires great trust of the performer and of the viewer, and it has the power to transport us with one of the oldest magics human beings ever discovered - the spoken word.

Storytelling began that way: monologues around a campfire. Over the millennia, we've harnessed that campfire light, we've even learned to paint with it, to pull our dreams out of our minds and put them onto giant screens, so the whole world can dream together... but the real magic still starts with the words.

Which is my long-winded way of trying to encourage you to make your films the way you want to make them. Make the films you want to see. And if you love words... that's a great thing. Try to find a balance, never lose sight of the visual medium, and if you're going to drop a big chunk of words in there, try to earn it with something visually challenging as well.

Or, just tell your instructors you'll make it shorter, and then cut out ten frames of air. ;)

#monologue

[jokeroutsubs]

Joker Out at Tvornica Kulture

Glazba and Muzika articles (11.11.2023)

Joker Out in Tvornica Kulture, Day One: “Scream as loud as you can”

Probably the most popular Slovenian band today, Joker Out, held one of the two sold out concerts in Tvornica Kulture last night. By the way, this was their first independent concert in Croatia. Based on how it started… there’s no doubt they’ll be recognised as a “generational” band, as someone who left a mark on the regional music scene. 

Exactly at 21:00, Bojan Cvjetićanin and the boys jumped onto the stage with “Sunny Side of London” and a “Scream as loud as you can”, to the delight of the mostly younger audience. They continued playing for the next hour and a half without a break. With every song, the atmosphere got closer to the peak and overlapped with the already hoarse voices, until it was time for the Eurovision hit “Carpe Diem”.

The setlist of 23 songs ended the same way it started - with “Sunny Side of London”, which echoed on the street as well.

Original article and more photos (Muzika)

A year ago, the young Slovenian band had no idea they would fill concert venues across Europe.

They represented their country at Eurovision this year with the song “Carpe Diem”, after which they experienced “Måneskin syndrome” - a huge rise in popularity and overnight star status.

As a part of their Europe tour, they’re performing everywhere - from Skopje to London, and in Tvornica Kulture in Zagreb, they sold out two consecutive nights, 10th and 11th of November. The young Slovenians realised how much Zagreb adored them in May, when they were the opening group for Buč Kesidi at Šalata. The frontman Bojan Cvjetićanin pointed out that they scheduled the first concert in Tvornica Kulture a day after Šalata, which sold out in no time.

They entered the stage in Šubićeva street exactly according to the program, at 21:00. They sang “Sunny Side of London”, and screams echoed through the hall to the lyrics of “Scream as loud as you can”, as expected. Nearly two hours of dancing and overall enthusiasm followed.

Throughout the whole concert, stuffed animals, flags, and even bras flew towards the stage. The age profile of everyone in Tvornica was very diverse, but what caught everyone’s eye was a seven year old girl on her mother’s shoulders faithfully reciting all the lyrics. The band paid tribute by dedicating a song to her, and the audience greeted her with enthusiastic applause.

Bojan’s interactions with the audience deserve special praise. With amazing recognition of the right moment and skillful leading, he makes the audience sing even louder and dance even more tirelessly. A couple of times he even gave the microphone to the audience, which showed how well Zagreb knows the Slovenian lyrics.

The costumes of all the members looked well designed, contributing to the overall impression. Unbuttoned shirts, messy hair, and prominent tattoos are undoubtedly reminiscent of Harry Styles’ style. Visually, and with their energy too, our neighbours undoubtedly seem worthy of worldwide stages, a sentiment more and more fans recognise. 

“Novi Val” was an especially emotional performance, before which the boys said it’s the perfect moment to hug the person next to you. The audience, of course, took the advice. At that moment, the drummer Jure Maček approached the audience from the background, so the lyrics “Generation of love and hope” echoed, accompanied only by guitars. 

The biggest hits - “Umazane Misli” and “Carpe Diem” - Joker Out decided to leave for the end, so it’s not a surprise that after those songs, the audience called them back for an encore. Of course, they came back and ended the night the same way it started, with “Sunny Side of London”.

The neighbouring sensation has another sold out night in Zagreb ahead of them, and soon they’re coming to Rijeka as well. With filled venues they’re tirelessly proving Eurovision can be a turning point, even if you finish only in the middle of the leaderboard. In addition, they are proof that there is musical potential in the region, whose sound and charisma transcends borders - Joker Out is a band for big scenes.

Original article and more photos (Glazba)

Translation credit @moonlvster

#joker out #bojan cvjeticanin #jan peteh #kris gustin #nace jordan #bojan cvjetićanin #jure macek #kris guštin #jokeroutsubs #tvornica kulture #zagreb

[panosatthemovies]

Challengers is the freshest, hottest, most playful film released at cinemas in a quite a while. Luca Guadagnino amazingly manages to match himself, and come up with yet another movie that catches the zeitgeist, after the excellent Call Me By Your Name. TikTok is now full of memes of people pretending to be tennis players or giving looks with innuendo while doing chores in slow motion, all set to the techno music from the amazing soundtrack by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross. Guadagnino plays off the amazing screenplay by first-timer Justin Kuritzkes (husband of Celine Song who did the also amazing Past Lives) that has a great structure with flashbacks that build the heat throughout the film while we watch the central tennis match visualize the character confrontation. At the same time we get three amazing characters, talking in snappy dialogue, evident of Kuritzkes' playwriting background. But what viewers really get to enjoy, front and center, are the amazing performances by Zendaya, Josh O' Connor and the immensely talented Mike Faist, who after playing the bad guy in Spielberg's West Side Story, here he finally gets all the attention he deserves. The film has great energy, chemistry and rhythm. At the end, it has audiences jumping off the edge of their seats, and the match isn't finished yet. This is cinema as it should become again. A cultural moment you have to go and enjoy in a dark theatre and talk about for weeks to come. Challengers is already, the film of the year.

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Trailer: https://youtu.be/MDnVk5jIJr0

#challengers #film review #movie review #review #movie #film #tennis #luca guadagnino #justin kuritzkes #zendaya #josh o'connor #mike faist #trent reznor #atticus ross

[mikumutual]

okay i'll address the screen.

i was at san jose, and i think the show had AMAZING visuals. the lights onstage and the flashing signs on the back wall were really good, fully contributing to the experience. the rainbow-ish lights during miku fiesta were especially great.

as for the screen... i think it was fine. it was big, and the vocaloids running back and forth never clipped offscreen or anything. it blended in with the stage overall fine. i was standing towards the front and in the middle, so i probably got the best angle, but the resolution was great and i could see everything. i do think the screen was intentional, given that sometimes a background was implemented - like luka had white writing behind her as she sang, which wouldn't have shown up on a transparent screen. so i don't think it was a last-minute change, and i don't think they're going to switch to a projection after coachella. (i don't know how much will change for europe.)

i do think a projection would have made the illusion more convincing. i had to actively convince myself that she was actually onstage performing, because mostly it felt like she was like... using zoom. though also the illusion was affected by how fucking tall the vocaloids are. like a full head taller than the human band members. and like, that's great for visibility, i'm not knocking the height at all, it just contributes to how it felt like a recording more than a live performance.

but even without the illusion, it was a fantastic experience. i loved every song that played. the crowd was high energy and very participatory. the live music was loud and incredible, without drowning out the lyrics. it was so SO much fun!!! seeing miku and everyone else perform was incredible, especially when surrounded by other people who also love them. honestly i think anyone trying to sell their tickets right now is overreacting. just go! who cares! you're gonna have a great time! i swear that miku expo was genuinely one of the best days of my entire life!!!!!

#miku expo #miku expo 2024 #mikuexpo2024 #hatsune miku

[themosleyreview]

The Mosley Review: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

What continues to be fascinating about this franchise is the amount of humanity that is found in the world of the apes. The amazing Caesar trilogy brought us a fresh take on the franchise that focused on the apes rising as we watched humanity fall and how much of our worldly views influenced how they would live among us. That made his trilogy special and set up a future that was ripe for exploring. This film carries that same torch and takes a very natural turn that is familiar and special in its execution. The idea of what Caesar fought for and believed in was on display of apes living together in peace, but the idea of one ape twisting his word to something more sinister was fun to watch and added that layer of drama that kept me invested. I honestly could've just watched the apes live in their village and be satisfied. The adventure doesn't take long to begin and where we are taken was essentially a rescue mission and along the way we learn what has happened many generations after Caesar. Where the film benefits is in the apes of course and when the humans are introduced it becomes a balancing act between the retrieving of the main characters' family and the humans slowly trying to reconnect with each other. It works for the most part, but there are moments where I wished it followed just the apes.

Owen Teague takes the lead as Noa in this new story and I loved his performance. He delivers so much warmth and innocence through his eyes and the compassion he has for his friends and family. I liked that he was constantly learning about the world beyond and above his village. As the film progress, he matures quickly from the young boy type to a man fighting for his clan. Its a classic coming of age story for a young warrior that works everytime. Lydia Peckham and Travis Jeffery were great as his friends Anaya and Soona. You feel the tender care and building of a relationship between Noa and Anaya that was sweet. The bond between Noa and Soona was fun and their banter in the beginning was great. I wouldn't mind another adventure with just the three of them together. Peter Macon was excellent as Raka and I loved his jovial nature. He was a wealth of knowledge that Noa needed to see and hear about and I loved the time we spent with him. He highlighted the real ideals of Caesar and he even felt like a preacher more than a historian. On the human side, Freya Allan joins the franchise as Mae and I thought she was great. The survivalist nature of humanity always bounces between the background and foreground in these films and she was no different. She didn’t take up space and I liked that for the majority of the film she was silent and showed off her physicality in conveying emotion and thought. William H. Macy was fun as a more dare I say, domesticated human to Proximus Caesar, Trevathan. He was so defeated, fearful and yet at ease with giving up the thought of the before apes ruled. He gave a different yet familiar view of stockholm syndrome. Speaking of Proximus Caesar, the very underrated and outstanding Kevin Durand delivers an incredible and dominating performance as the antagonistic king. He exudes power and ambition as the one thing he desires is yet a few feet from him. He had a vision even if it was a cruel and sometimes violent one. Through him and thanks to Trevathan's teachings, you see a complete mirror of how the Roman Empire created civilization, but in ape form.

Composer John Paesano brought to life this new look at the world in a very emotional and epic way. His score elevated the pain of loss during the bridge scene and highlighted the tension when Noah meets Proximus. Visually the film is as stunning and rich as the previous films and the CGI used to bring the motion capture performances to life is some of the best this franchise has ever seen. As I've always said since the beginning of the current wave of Apes films, I care more for the apes than the humans. If this film was solely following the journey of Noah and no humans were in it, I would be even more happy. This was still a great entry to the franchise and Director Wes Ball has done an incredible job bringing us back to the Planet of the Apes franchise. Let me know what you thought of the film or my review in comments below. Thanks for reading!

#kingdom of the planet of the apes #owen teague #kevin durand #lydia peckham #travis jefferey #peter macon #freya allan #william h macy

[im-gay-and-mentally-unstable]

Some sge trailer pics + thoughts

A moment to appreciate Beatrix's outfit and overall visuals. Yeah. Dot and Anadil are also looking amazing in the background. (I'm going to have so much beef with Anadil's outfits later on, so prepare for that lol) And Beatrix's actress is doing such a great job, the expressions are so on point. She just has the pure confidence aura around her and I love it.

Also this is a gorgeous scene. Despite Sophie being stabbed, yk.

And like?? The usage of the Gavaldon dress? Because Sophie probably spent so much effort to make it look as princess-like as possible and planned to look the best she could and then she lands in the wrong school and her dreams are ruined just like the dress.

I also feel like they removed the wolf from Doom room for some reason with Lady Lesso taking his place? I definitely want to see what they're going to do with that.

Love the pure dramaticness of it. And seems like the Coven has gained another member?

(Also, what is happening with Anadil's dress. Come on, the designers could have done so much better)

I'm pretty sure this is happening at Trial by Tale? Which means Tedros is actually there with the Excalibur and uses it? Maybe we'll be getting some cool fighting scenes with him in them, because he kinda didn't do shit in the books lol

Them. Y'all. Them.

Also, I guess we're getting more Hort, but his personality seems changed a lot? The trailer might be misleading, but it seems they're going more for the bad boyish kinda insane vibe, so I'm definitely curious.

If you look closely, you can see him always hanging around with the Coven, which might be a coincidence, or they might be going to make them friends? idk man

But all the Nevers seem so interesting

t h e v i b e s

(also what room is that, it looks too good for student rooms)

Also Agatha's dove transformations??? They look so smooth, I love the air twists she performs lmao

Also I'm really glad they didn't keep the mogrifs coloured based on the students' fingerglows, that was just weird

They also went with a more red than pink fingerglow colour for Sophie, which honestly looks so good

(And what is Anadil's dress there. Just what.)

(And Dot is absolutely slaying the outfit)

Kiko's dress >>>>>>

(Also it's the scene where Agatha smiles i think??)

I love just how satisfied Hester looks. Also, the details on the key?? I'd buy the hell out of it if it was merch.

And here's just Agatha being gorgeous.

I'm still living through all the excitement from the trailer, so this might be incomprehensible.

#the school of good and evil #sge #the school for good and evil #sge movie #school for good and evil movie #sge movie trailer

[saintofdaggers]

top 5 saw traps? :0

oh I'm so sorry for the word vomit you're about to witness

5. water cube

to put it in my own words from me trying frantically to explain Saw V and the sudden-onset brainrot to a friend who's still sane: "I did not expect to fall in love seeing a character give himself a tracheotomy, but that's just life in the Saw fandom." I love Strahm's quick thinking and the absolute stress of that scene (even if it is pretty funny that he ended up there because he ignored the instructions he was given) and it's such a simple but effective concept for a trap. which I found refreshing in a franchise that routinely goes way over the top with trap ideas

4. angel trap

Amanda's loss of faith communicated through a trap with religious symbolism? don't mind if I do! also I love Kerry and as much as I wish we'd gotten more scenes with her, it's such an amazing trap for her both on a character level and aesthetically

3. pendulum trap

John can stfu about the pendulum being inferior work lmao. Hoffman putting that together completely on his own with no professional background in engineering and faking a Jigsaw murder so well that he almost got away with it is sexy impressive as hell. also Edgar Allan Poe reference. love to see that <3

2. glass coffin

*stares at the wall in 100k+ words of fanfiction*

reverse bear trap

the star of the show! absolutely nothing will beat the aesthetic, the concept and this entire scene in my mind, it's just amazing visual storytelling and it slaps so hard. and the fact that Shawnee was sick while filming it and still delivered that performance is one of the biggest 'mad respect' Saw bts trivia facts for me

#inbox #sawposting #thank you for the ask <3

[cipheress-to-k-pop]

I just had the greatest idea ever holy shit and just needed to share- the gaang but kpop au!!! THE POTENTIAL

LMAOOOO I SEE IT

Sokka is obviously the leader and a with his amazing rhymes he'd be a rapper ("My name is Sokka. It ends with an -Okka. Ladies you know I'll rock ya!")

Maybe this only makes sense to me but I see Toph as a dancer with a background in hip-hop. maybe a b-boy?

Aang is the lovable maknae that everyone fawns over. I see him as being one of those idols who used to be a classical dancer (ballet?) and then became an idol. He's a pretty good singer as well. (Possibly Kazuka from Le sserafim or maybe even Sunghoon from ENHYPEN or Jimin from BTS)

I see Katara as the ace of the group who is great at everything from dancing to singing and when she tries she can also be a great rapper. The mom of the group duh. (I dunno she gives Jihyo from TWICE)

Zuko is the main visual. I shall take no arguments. He's not a bad dancer as well. He's the idol who clearly wants to become an actor more than a performer. (There's a reason why his face inspo was Cha Eunwoo in my SMAU)

Suki was hard to place but I think she's the dancer who secretly has an iron grip on the rest of the group but is also so funny and silly (see Hoshi from SVT or J-Hope from BTS)

#thanks for the ask! #gaang kpop!au #atla zuko #atla headcanon #atla fanfic #atla #avatar imagine #avatar the last airbender #netflix avatar