#tom parris

[aspiringbelle]

One more thing for Threshold day...

I happened to see this on YouTube, and noticed this comment...

#youtube #threshold day #threshold #star trek voyager #tom parris

[originaljediinjeans]

"CAPTAIN! TOM'S UP TO HIS FOOLERY AGAIN!"

~Literally anyone on the crew of Voyager, whenever Tom does a thing

#tom parris #star trek: voyager #original incorrect quote

[marvelsgirl616]

mommy???

#marvel #women of marvel #zawe ashton #dar benn #the marvels 2023 #the marvels #brie larson #carol danvers #mcu icons #marvel icons #dailymarvelqueens #teyonah parris #monica rambeau #kamala khan #ms marvel #iman vellani #mcu phase 5 #tom hiddelson

[tinas1469]

Malinda Parris with Tom and Zendaya at The Little Big Things: A new musical

#Malinda Parris #Tom Holland #Zendaya #The Little Big Things: A new musical #TLBTMusical #London

[westofessos]

The Marvels was amazing and perfect and made me so happy and so so sad and I can’t really give any kind of an articulate review right now but fuck it was such a fun time!! I really need to talk about how fantastic it was and everything that happened but no one I know has seen it yet 😫

Also the Loki finale broke me in every possible way. My poor boys.

#the marvels #carol danvers #monica rambeau #kamala khan #brie larson #teyonah parris #iman vellani #marvel #mcu #loki #loki series #loki season 2 #loki laufeyson #loki odinson #mobius m mobius #sylvie laufeydottir #tom hiddleston #owen wilson #sophia di martino

[daphnebowen]

dude I need to go see the marvels but I literally cannot for at least a couple more days and the spoilers are EVERYWHERE

and I still haven’t finished Loki (I’m only on the second episode, how I don’t even know) and heaven forbid I see those spoilers oh my

but like the marvels is freaking everywhere and this is one movie I’m actually so excited for because I love Kamala and Monica is an absolute icon and Carol I just am obsessed with her but idk when I’m gonna go see it…

so avoiding all these spoilers is hard to say the freaking least.

#ughhhh #the marvels #ms marvel #monica rambeau #photon #carol danvers #kamala khan #brie larson #iman vellani #teyonah parris #loki #loki series #season two #tom hiddleston

[theelectronicstranger]

So I just watched The Marvels and there are some crazy things that happened in this movie that made the movie so enjoyable for me. it sucks that nobody seems interested in this movie because my theatre was practically empty today. I enjoyed the film. It was tonally similar to the Ms. Marvel series in some ways, so if you liked that series then this might be for you. I'm not going to do a long post about it yet, but i will after a month or two.

Now, to patiently wait for the series finale of Loki.

#marvel #the marvels #captain marvel #ms. marvel #iman vellani #brie larson #monica rambeau #teyonah parris #nick fury #samuel l jackson #mcu #loki #loki season 2 #tom hiddleston #marvel studios

[clementine-kesh]

Thank u so much!! I tried finding your Phleelix post on my own but can't find it can u link it pls??

(I haven't quite made up my mind if i ship it yet but I wish to Ponder.)

-Levi

i can’t find the actual post either because tumblr search is bad (it was the list of lower decks-style voyager reboot episodes) but luckily i have a copy of that post saved in my notes app because it’s one of my faves so here’s the relevant bit:

FAITH OF THE HEART: a temporal anomaly confined entirely to the mess hall allows neelix to moonlight as the chef on the enterprise nx-01, but his loyalty to voyager is tested when he begins a torrid love affair with dr. phlox. b’elanna is disappointed when the hot they/them she matched with on spacebumble turns out to be a nearby borg cube.

#there are many other good bits from that post #including PARRY aka tuvix but with tom and harry #where he immediately escapes into the jeffries tubes and starts an epic campaign of pranks #the entire episode is the rest of the crew trying to catch him so they can separate him #no ethical debate he’s simply too chaotic a force to be allowed to live

[hellstromknight]

This started off with me just joking and fucking around with some buddies, my girlfriend and I, and uh... Kinda took a life of it’s own.

Recasting Marvel Actors as DC Characters!

Chris Evans - Aquaman.

Robert Downey Jr. - The Riddler. Everyone says something big and grandiose like Batman or Lex Luthor, and while he’d be decent as Lex... I just think he’d have a ball as The Riddle.

Chris Pratt - Guy Gardner/Green Lantern. Mostly because he’s pretty much the only ginger in the MCU. At least, that’s passable.

Richard Armitage - Hawkman. He’s actually my main choice for Carter tbh. Though, Aldis Hodge did a fucking amazing job, one of the best things about that movie...

Hugh Jackman - Wolverine.

Tom Holland - Jericho. Okay... Don’t lie, it’d be perfect to watch them be dad and son like that.

Ethan Hawke - Black Hand.

Tony Dalton - Joker. 

Anson Mount.

Teyonah Parris - Vixen.

There a were a lot that I came up with for the Marvel characters, nearly doing all, but I’m not gonna go through all of them.

DC’s version coming up soon!

#Fancast #Marvel #DC #Chris Evans #Robert Downey Jr #Chris Pratt #Richard Armitage #Hugh Jackman #Tom Holland #Ethan Hawke #Tony Dalton #Anson Mount #Teyonah Parris

[creativedifferencespodcast]

We’re back to reviews and we got a lot for you! Marvel Studios finally got a Black woman director, Hunger Games is back, we got a new version of Goosebumps, and the weebs have a new Scott Pilgrim! It’s been a big couple of weeks, and that’s not even including all these trailers! Have general audiences turned against Marvel? Are we willing to put our hearts on the line again for another live action Avatar adaptation? And is Dallas being honest when he says he watches shows for the plot? Hit play and dive into all of that with us! You can also find us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!

#the hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #the marvels #goosebumps #scott pilgrim takes off #tom blyth #rachel zegler #viola davis #peter dinklage #brie larson #teyonah parris #iman vellani #zawe ashton #samuel l. jackson #justin long #zack morris #isa briones #miles mckenna #ana yi puig #will price #michael cera #mary elizabeth winstead #chris evans #Youtube

[oldcountrybear1955]

Esquire US June July 2010 - Tom Cruise photographed by Nigel Parry

#tom cruise #nigel parry #esquire us #band of outsiders #double rl #red wing for j.crew

[arcimboldisworld]

&Juliet - Shaftesbury Theatre London 14.10.2022

&Juliet - Shaftesbury Theatre London 14.10.2022 #MaxMartin #JukeboxMusical #Show #Fun #RomeoundJulia #Musical #Review #Westend

Eigentlich dachte man, die Zeit der Compilation-und Jukebox-Musicals sei vorbei, falsch gedacht – “&Juliet” vereint seit der Premiere im Jahr 2019 Songs des schwedischen Pop-Hit-Produzenten MAX MARTIN und ist eine witzige und sehr unterhaltsame Feel-Good-Show, deren Charme und Energie man sich nicht entziehen kann… (more…)

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#Anne Hathaway #Besprechung #Billy Nevers #Cassidy Janson #Compilation Musical #Joe Foster #Jukebox Musical #London #Malinda Parris #Max Martin #music #Musical #Oliver Tompsett #Popmusik #Review #Romeo & Julia #Shaftesbury Theatre London #Showkritik #Tom Francis #Westend #William Shakespeare #Zara Macintosh

[makapatag]

On Posture In Gubat Banwa

So the sixth version of Gubat Banwa's First Edition "returns" to the ideal that HP as a pacing mechanic, an Action Economy limiter, and a resource pressure. As always, in Tactical Combat games, resource management is a major aspect of the gameplay. Management of action economy, management of distance, management of other currency (such as Class-specific Resources). Most of a Tactical Combat Grid game revolves around the manipulation of these mechanics: reducing, regaining, adding, changing, force multiplication/division of these resources, and more. In Tomian Design (that is, Tom of LANCER RPG and ICON RPG), costing.

For the first 5 versions of Gubat Banwa's design, we worked with lower HP values (across the board) and with Dice Pools. The idea was that each dice in a dice pool was an attack launched, or a moment of concentration. Every die in the defense pool was a parry or evasion attempted. While the fantasy of that worked pretty great, the maths on the other hand did not. It worked almost counter-intuitively against the high-flying martial arts x deliberate tactical combat that I was trying to strike a balance for. My white elephant, my Shambhala, was to strike a good balance between that.

The Change

In 1.6, while the Dice Pool didn't entirely go away--much of the game is built around getting tactically advantageous positions so that you can get more dice and a higher chance of dealing greater damage on the target--it went for a more linearly scaling game with the result on the die reducing the target's Health.

It was a hit, mostly, among the inner circle (that is to say, my friends that I run the newer version for). There was an immediate sense of "we know how this game works" now.

On Tactical Video Games

It was more transparent--this information was crucial to making a tactical game work and sing. This is why in video games, almost every tactical game has the "Combat Forecast", like in Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics, that showcased the expected Hit Rate and the Damage Output.

This is absolutely integral: tactical games are decision point games. Without the proper information (doesn't need to be complete information), no decision can be done satisfyingly. This isn't to say that dice pools can't be used for a tactical game of course--I've done it. But it requires a different kind of design principle and design goal that Gubat Banwa wasn't going for. That sense of martial progression, of spiritual strength and eventual enlightenment.

From HP to POS

During the initial playtests, we were still working with HP. Hit Pearls. The idea was that every hit "shattered" a Hit Pearl. This worked with the Dice Pools, because the fiction was that every attack could be parried with Defense Dice.

What was the problem with this? Firstly, the math of this was inherently fraught, unfortunately: on higher levels, Defense Dice were either horribly impenetrable or did absolutely nothing to defend you. It became a binary thing. That was not the goal: for the martial fantasy to come to life, much of the decisions should not binary but rather, on a gradient spectrum.

To me, the destroyer of tactical grid games is when there's a single best strategy that shatters the tension of the game. My favorite parts of Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre were early game moments where the output randomness could make every fight go completely different, even if you redid the same stage more than once.

Secondly, when the outcome of an action is that, really, nothing happened, you used an attack (even worse, the attack was buffed by yourself, an ally, and tactical modifiers) and then the target was able to parry all your hits. The fiction is exciting for a second, but then when you return to the battle grid, nothing changed. The mechanics fed into the fiction, but the fiction didn't feed into the mechanics.

With the math change, the fiction of the Hit Pearls wasn't working because HP values were higher to compensate for the changed math. 12 Hit Pearls could feasibly be visualized as Link's Hearts, for example. But at 48 HP, that didn't work anymore.

Hearkening to the Ancients

So I actually went on a trip to older versions of Gubat Banwa, and found I'd solved that particular problem. Older versions of Gubat Banwa had HP as "Mettle", their ability to stay in the fight. Turning to the game's current version, I realized the Physical Defense stat was perfect: POSTURE. The stance, the guard, the ability to keep fighting, the ability to turn mortal wounds into grazing hits, the ability to ignore the effects of bleeding wounds, of burning pyres, of seeping poison.

Every attack was inflicting damage by chipping away at the target's guard, or forcing their stance into more compromised positions so that they would be open to an actual mortally wounding strike. They were still real hits that the defender was actively still guarding against. And with every attack defended, their guard wore down.

This hit me after watching Donnie Yen's SAKRA (2023) the other day. Reaching back into the high-flying wuxia roots, Donnie Yen's character doesn't even take real hits until after he's overwhelmed because he is such a martial superior against the rest of the Beggar Clan. Because his Posture was so high.

Ten Thousand Earth Shattering Blows

It worked great. Not to mention that it's a great reference to Sekiro, another huge inspiration to the games's intended fiction, which also had a Posture break. Now Staggered for half Posture or lower made sense: your guard is brittle! You court death! Now the Wide Open affliction felt more in genre: your guard is wide open, so you're suffering more!

The Physical Defense stat was renamed into PARRY, while the Magical Defense stat was kept as RESILIENCE (itself a reference to Final Fantasy Tactics A2!) The defenses were there to keep the mechanical bite of an Attack vs Defense interaction, to provide an avenue for another mechanical design space, as well as to shoe in the fact that when an attack targets your Parry you're physically blocking while an attack against your Resilience requires your fortitude and concentration to block against: when your Posture is reduced, when you guard is worn down by these attacks, you know how you were defending.

When enemies hit 0 POS, that attack is the one that gets through their Defenses and kills them outright. When a Kadungganan falls to 0 POS they're not dead, but they suffer a WOUND, which only heals on Downtime (as opposed to POS healing on Repose, ie., short rest).

On Defeat and Victory

While you're Defeated, you suffer the same effects of Stun, but you can still act and do things, even make attacks at full power: you're Kadungganan after all. But every attack against you, despite your PARRY or your RESILIENCE is not met with a stance ready to block. Thus, every instance of damage you suffer, no matter how much, inflicts another Wound. When you eat 5 Wounds, you can pull on your Conviction to stay alive. Otherwise, you are tossed back into the cycle of reincarnation, or into the river to Sulad, or to Lunar Heaven, or to whatever next life your Kadungganan has chosen to ascribe to.

Status Effects

Statuses such as Poisoned, Bleeding, or Aflame, don't break you yet because they must eat through your bodily resistance. But they are still real: an aflame Kadungganan fights on even as flames swathe their body.

They can die later, when they feel the effects of the burn when their POS falls to 0. They can die later, when the Poison finally seeps through and enervates them and destroys their defensive capability. They can die later, when the bleeding takes its toll and they can no longer keep their stance up.

Martial Glossolalia

With a simple terminology change, the fiction changed entirely. Now everyone knew it was their defenses wearing down. Swords didn't cut off their fingers, flames didn't burn through their skin. They know that defenses are a holistic thing: your stamina, your constitution, your composure, your reactive ability, your dexterity, your presence of mind, your focus.

"It's not realistic!" The game is not meant to be realistic, and realism is not an inherent ontological good nor is it a goal for most TTRPGs, you will notice. Experiences, feelings. The fiction Gubat Banwa draws upon--SEAsian Folk Epics, Asian Martial Arts Cinema--is filled to the brim with the CLANG CLANG CLANG of sword-on-sword action. Often these clangs happen so quickly that you cannot process them, they are abstracted to you when it resolves in your brain--so is it abstracted by Gubat Banwa. Posture going down is the CLANG CLANG CLANG that resonates across a fight scene. It's not realistic because it's not meant to be, and even then, we must argue what your conception of reality is!

I could be argued that much of Tabletop RPGs (and, I would argue, most of games in general) is an exercise of language. Exploiting its vagaries, its ability to connect. When you go into Gubat Banwa, learning the mechanics of the game is learning a new language. And what is language but the foundation of culture?

#gubat banwa #ttrpg #filipino #fantasy #writing #rpg #gamedev #dnd #southeast asia

[holly-mckenzie]

SOPHIE WILDE as Sophia Western

TOM JONES (2023)｜Episode 2 dir. by Georgia Parris   

#tom jones itv #tom jones pbs #sophia western #perioddramaedit #perioddramacentral #weloveperioddrama #onlyperioddramas #userkayles #sophie wilde #mine* #i really loved this look #the dress her hair her earings #it all looked so good

[justzawe]

Zawe Ashton reveals she got into the 'best shape' of her life in The Marvels but had to reshoot the film after becoming pregnant

Zawe Ashton has revealed she got into 'the best shape' of her life while filming The Marvels but ended up having to reshoot the film after becoming pregnant.

The actress, 39, portrays the warrior Dar-Benn in the film opposite stars, Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris and Iman Vellani.

Zawe, who admitted to being 'traumatized' from working in Hollywood, felt the grueling training regime required for the blockbuster 'empowered' her.

Speaking at the Bazaar At Work Summitt 2023, she said: 'There was this opportunity for me to get in the best shape in my life [with The Marvels] which I really hadn't been in – getting fit and in shape, but strong and eating well, was a massive part of this journey for me. 

'And then the process of learning stunts and fighting is probably one of the most empowering things that I've ever done.'

Zawe welcomed her first child with her partner Tom Hiddleston last October, with the pregnancy interfering with the shoot.

She said: 'I thought the film was finished, and I got pregnant and had my baby. And then they told me to come back and reshoot basically the whole movie. 

'That, to me, has been the biggest journey with this movie: my physical wellness, my ability to endure, to mentally switch back into that place, postpartum, and come back, and try and kick some ass again. That's really what the landmark of the film is to me now.'

Zawe also spoke about working in the film industry as a young actress and how there were not many measures in place to protect performers from exploitation.

She said: 'I'm probably deeply traumatised! I was working at a point in our industry that is so different from industry that we are working on making for ourselves now. There were no safety protocols. 

'There were no conscious ways that we were thinking about protecting young women. I sort of wipe my brow sometimes, thinking: 'Wow, I actually emerged quite unscathed.' 

'There are so many different ways that we're thinking consciously about protecting the people who are working in front of and behind the camera now.' 

Zawe elaborated on sexism in the industry, saying she felt 'fatigued' from spending so much time worried about her looks.

She said: 'I realised that I'd spent nearly 30 years as an actor, but I'd also sort of spent 30 years performing as a woman, and I felt suddenly so tired.'

'That kind of patriarchal eye, that just gazes on you since birth, it suddenly felt really like that had depleted me in a very deep way.'

'I was suddenly hit with this fatigue, where I didn't want to think about my face, or about my hair and my looks. I didn't want to think about how I could keep presenting myself for a camera or a lens that basically represents this very, very problematic gaze.'

'Where do we draw the line? This is all part of the same spectrum. If you're not seeing women's humanity, if you're not seeing a full human life when you're thinking about the ways that you're putting these kinds of [character breakdown] descriptions together, then the extreme end of the spectrum is you're not valuing women, and that's a much bigger conversation than my industry.'

The actress, who was born to a Ugandan mother and an English father, also spoke about representation on screen.

She said: 'When I starred in period drama, Mr. Malcom's List, there was suddenly this healing moment. I had never ever seen any actor who looked like me invited to the table to perform these entertainment pieces. 

'I hadn't known necessarily that I was hurting so much, until I saw that representation happen, and the success of it take everyone by storm.'

'Growing up as a young biracial girl in Hackney, I was really drawn to the left-field, drawn to the alternative. And part of the bullying I encountered in my teens was because of that. 

'There weren't really any people of colour who were representing this alternative landscape. When I got the part of Vod in Fresh Meat, I thought: 'This is now my opportunity to be that for someone else who didn't maybe have it.' 

'I was willing to do whatever it took to make that character as edgy and authentic as I felt she could be, so that it would invite that person who is not seeing that kind of representation on screen, to really feel seen.'

 Zawe, who has not revealed the name or sex of her child, told how she feels like she is 'growing up' with her baby.

She said: 'The most surprising thing for me has been how quiet I feel like I've gone in motherhood.'

'Right now, it's been really about collecting women's stories. For some reason, we don't value ageing in our society. And there are women who have given me nuggets of wisdom that I literally could not live without. And they are all over the age of 60.

'Why we're not opening a platform and listening to women who have actually lived life is crazy to me. I'm a new mum. I know so little. I'm growing with my child… the child is going to teach you and lead you if you're open to it, and that's the moment to enjoy so much.'

(x)

#zawe ashton #article #daily mail #harpers bazaar work summit #the marvels

[doktorspiele-be]

Tom can be really annoying sometimes

But that's fine, his friend still love him lol

Also

Song: I'm crazy weirdo - Parry Gripp

#eddsworld #ew tord #ew tom #ew edd #ew matt #eddsworld fanart #eddsworld tom #eddsworld tord #eddsworld edd #digita art #art #eddsworld matt