pitbullmabari:

pitbullmabari:

zaidlux:

“You need to believe in things that aren’t true. How else can they become” - Hogfather, Terry Pratchett

it’s seasonal lads

IT’S SEASONAL AGAIN LADS

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jheselbraum:

goryghostieguts:

yesimalittlestitious:

Sony Animation went from this

to this

Just after a year

Technically not in a year development for movies takes more like 5 years. Development for Into the spider-verse started around 2014. While The Emoji Movie was in development around the same time. They were technically developed together but what a lot of people tend to lack remembering is that they are different teams.

The movies may belong to the studio but there are tons of people working there. All that Sony from the top really does is approve which projects they are going to fund.

We’re judging a whole animation and distribution center on something not everyone works on. It’s not improvement it’s just two entirely different teams working on different stories.

I think the lack of understanding how the industry actually works hurts a lot of animators in the end because then a project isn’t associated with a team, but a company. And I think it should be something that’s highlighted when talking about animation.

It’s like how Dreamworks produced Shrek and The Prince of Egypt at the same time.

Yes this. And then realize it applies to game publishers in exactly the same way.

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mikkeneko:

teratorequests:

t-a-c:

prokopetz:

Level 1: Prophecy proclaims that no man can kill villain; killed by woman.

Level 2: Prophecy proclaims that no weapon can harm villain; pushed down stairs and dies.

Level 3: Prophecy proclaims that villain will be brought low by no mortal hand; kicked to death by angry mob.

Level 4: Prophecy proclaims that no power on Earth shall be villain’s undoing; fatally distracted by sun in eyes.

Level 5: Prophecy proclaims that only power of laughter can defeat villain; beat up by clown.

Level **: Prophecy claims that villain cannot be killed by man nor beast, at day or night, or inside or outside. He is killed in a doorway at sunset by a half-man, half-lion

(this is actual Hindu myth)

Level ???: Prophecy claims that hero cannot be killed during the day or night, nor indoors or outdoors, neither riding nor walking, not clothed and not naked, nor by any weapon lawfully made. He is killed at dusk, wrapped in a net with one foot on a cauldron and one on a goat and with a spear forged for a year during the hours when everyone is at mass.

(actual Welsh myth!)

what i’m getting from this is that rules-lawyering is an ancient and honorable tradition

Or, more usefully, that many tales go to great lengths to destroy the idea of simple binaries.

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penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

penny-anna:

Consider: Hobbits unused to carrying swords, initially VERY unclear on when it’s appropriate to whip em out

Merry and Pippin have a disagreement over, idk, whether cake or pie is better and both draw their swords like ‘HAVE AT THEE’ 

meanwhile Aragorn in the background like, boys please, please boys those are sharp

Frodo: *napping*

Boromir: hey Frodo wake up we need to talk-

Sam: he’s having his nap sir

Boromir: Sam please this is important

Sam: *draws his fucking sword* HE’S HAVIN HIS NAP GO AWAY

Frodo is slightly more sensible & very polite

Frodo: *sees Aragorn with his sword drawn* oh is there trouble. should i get out my sword

Aragorn: …no that’s alright

Frodo: are you sure it’s no trouble

Aragorn: Frodo if i want you to draw your sword I’ll. I’ll say so alright

Frodo: ah, alright :) just say the word

Boromir: *grabs Sam’s sword* ok I’m confiscating this till you learn how to use it appropriately

Sam: *does not let go*

Boromir: *pulls harder*

Sam: *still does not let go*

Boromir: *slowly dragging Sam across the ground* HOW ARE YOU SO STRONG

Frodo: *waking up* WHAT… is going on

Boromir: *holding sword like 6 feet up in the air w Sam dangling off it* um

Sam: I’m handling it Mr Frodo go back to sleep

Frodo: Did I sleep through swords-time?

Aragorn: No, it’s fine just-

Pippin & Merry: *leaping up with swords in hand* But what about second swordsti-

Aragorn: NO.

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hellwolf99:

protom-lad:

roguetelemetry:

wahbegan:

inquiries-of-an-intj:

bloodcountessabendroth:

protom-lad:

theblamegabe:

mllemusketeer:

fuck-yeah-classic-monsters:

fantasticfelicityfox:

My favorite part about 1931 Dracula is that there are armadillos running around Dracula’s castle.

Look at this it’s like they couldn’t find any rats so they just were like “eh close enough no one will notice”. But I noticed. I noticed.

“WE NAILED IT BOYS”

Apparently in the 20s and 30s, armadillos weren’t very commonly known, so moviemakers would use them wherever they needed some creepy, ‘demonic’ animal running around. So there were a lot of armadillos in early filmmaking, and it was often people’s only source of reference for armadillos.

Fast forward twenty years to when the father of the biology professor who told me this is driving out from the east coast to see his son in California. Crossing the southwest at night.

An armadillo runs across the road. 

He comes to a screeching halt and the Thing Of Evil, which he never knew was actually a real animal, trots the rest of the way across the road and vanishes into the desert.

Apparently it shook him up rather a bit.

@mortalityplays

Ok but what about Dracula’s Bee.

A single, solitary bee with his own tiny custom-built coffin. 

Nobody ever talks about Dracula’s pet bee.

the armadillos I get, but I still don’t understand the solitary bee

why did it have a coffin?

did Dracula just love his pet be that much?

It’s not a bee it’s a Jerusalem Cricket, included for basically the same reason as the armadillo

excellent pre-halloween content

While that is a cool and good clarification, my question stands

Why did Dracula have a single solitary cricket with his own tiny-built coffin.

Because he could.

Look, eternal life gets boring after a bit, so Drac has taken up a lot of hobbies. You should see his Etsy page.

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jdkinkaid:

trinket-the-bear:

wild-west-wind:

wild-west-wind:

You know what fantasy writing needs? Working class wizards.

• A crew of enchanters maintaining the perpetual flames that run the turbines that generate electricity, covered in ash and grime and stinking of hot chilies and rare mushrooms used for the enchantments
• A wizard specializing in construction, casting feather fall on every worker, and enchanting every hammer to drive nails in straight, animating the living clay that makes up the core of the crane
• An elderly wizard and her apprentice who transmute fragile broken objects. From furniture, to rotten wood beams, to delicate jewelry
• A battle magician, trained with only a few rudimentary spells to solve a shortage of trained wizards on the front who uses his healing spells to help folks around town
• Wizarding shops where cheery little mages enchant wooden blocks to be hammered into the sides of homes. Hammer this into the attic and it will scare off termites, toss this in the fire and clean your chimney, throw this in the air and all dust in the room gets sucked up
• Wizard loggers who transmute cut trees into solid, square beams, reducing waste, and casting spells to speed up regrowth. The forest, they know, will not be too harsh on them if the lost tree’s children may grow in its place
• Wizard farmers who grow their crops in arcane sigils to increase yield, or produce healthier fruit
• Factory wizards who control a dozen little constructs that keep machines cleaned and operational, who cast armor to protect the hands of workers, and who, when the factory strikes for better wages, freeze the machines in place to ensure their bosses can’t bring anyone new in.

Anyway, think about it.

• Construction wizards to turn back time to root out wood worm and strengthen old buildings.
• A wizard tailors who transmutes cloth into fully made clothes without seems and leaving behind no scraps
• A wizard who works in public transit, timing out teleports with detailed schedules, time magic, and enchanted communications, sending dozens of people to far away cities for a day or work or leisure
• A team of wizard gardeners tend to trees grown far outside their native range, and ideal climate, encircled with runes and fed potions to grow none the less
• A wizard sits in their office in the aqueduct, re-casting the spells that allow its precious water to flow to the city uphill
• A wizard fisher casts water repelling spells on the sailors and the stairs, keeps the hoist on the anchor from rusting, casts balls of heat that keep everyone warm below decks. Their real job is to herd fish together so they can be caught in single huge nets, and keep them cold as the boat returns to land.

There are so many possibilities outside of “stodgy academic who wears ugly robes” and “Very good holy man who helps everyone and the fact they’ve never had a job is never brought up” and “evil wizard toiling away on great evils in his evil tower in the evil country.”

• Wizards who come out and ward your home for you, like the magical equivalent of a home security system.
  

Isn’t this just Eberron?

Yeah, this was my favorite thing about Eberron (from a long list!) - it embraced the idea that a fantasy society where low-level magic had been common for thousands of years could look a lot more like modern day, albeit with enough twists to keep it fantastic in ways that stand out.

It added an NPC class called “Magewrights” who basically could cast cantrips and low level spells, as well as magical houses/guilds that specialized in different higher-power applications of magic. Between those two things, the setting could and did support pretty much every idea listed above.

Which is to say: this idea is great, and if you’re looking for a fantasy setting to incorporate it, I’ve got good news for you!

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nurgletwh:

piwnymisiek:

thebibliosphere:

shenno-r:

I’ve started rereading Guards! Guards!, and you know that funny feeling, when you watch Star Wars Episode I or reread first Harry Potter, and it’s kind of painful to see all this innocence and almost happiness when you know what crap will happen? Well, it’s like this, but in opposite direction: it’s weird to read about Vimes in that state and I constantly want to give him a blanket and tell, that everything’ll be alright, but I read that part, when he speaks not even with Vetinari himself, but with his secretary, and feels uneasy and kinda afraid of him, and then I think about that peculiar understanding Vetinari and Vimes will reach and their almost-equality, and it makes me happy in advance.

Sorry to just randomly add on to this with a tangent but your post got me thinking and then @the-tao-of-fandom‘s tags just hijacked my brain, but I like this post, and I like what it conveys.

That Discworld is the antithesis of dark and gritty fantasy, while fully embracing dark and gritty content.

When people talk about gritty realism, they never think of this. They think of a character being brought low and struggling and exploring pain because pain is real right? They think of never ending suffering and how strong a character must be to withstand it. And while I understand why this trope exists, I hate to say it (I don’t actually, I revel in screaming it from the rooftops), it’s not realism. It’s not even gritty. It’s just depressing and wholly unhealthy.

They never think of a mediocre, stifled and bitter character who is already suffering in very ignoble ways. There’s nothing honorable about Sam Vimes at the start of Guards! Guards!, there’s a vague sense of he does some good things but knows he should do better, his dear old mum didn’t raise him to be a drunk in the gutter and yet…

They never think that grit and realism can come out of becoming better. That the true strength isn’t just tolerating the pain, but learning to live through it and then without it, which is something else Sam Vimes struggles with, with all the hallmarks of a person having become well and finding a place of mental stability, but knows all too well what lurks in the deep. He stops being afraid of success, and instead starts to fear what happens if he stops. What will happen to his family if he stops. So he stays well. He does the steps, one day at a time. He will do this not to save the world, not to prove a point, but because there’s people who love him. It’s a very human reaction. It’s a very human need. 

And that’s where the Pratchett books thrive for me. You start as low as you can go, and work your way up. It’s the stories of real life people, set in this fantastical world, and we get to watch reality unfold around them through very human experiences.  It is, quite literally in Vimes’ case, putting one foot in front of the other until you are whole again. And even when you still might not feel it, there will be others there to fall back on. Even if it’s Nobby Nobbs. (Especially if it’s Nobby Nobbs, who I like to believe always makes sure urchins have their own spoon, and that’s why everyone in the Watch House has to stir sugar into their tea with a knife.)

You are not alone in this world. Things will get better. And you should try to make things better too because we have a responsibility to each other that goes beyond not being a dick.

That’s realism. That’s true grit. And I love it.

There’s nothing darker and grittier, and yet more uplifting, than the image of a berserk, murderous man clinging to life and sanity by reciting his child’s favorite storybook, because some things must be done. And other things must be done properly.

@grumpyoldsnake

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atopfourthwall:

iwilleatyourenglish:

auricrane:

So hero 29 is Ashe. Another female character. Wow.
I mean, Ashe is hot af but really Blizzard? Another female? This game is actually feminist now.
I mean we currently have 13 human female characters, 11 human male, 2 animals and 3 omnics. See that? We have more famelas than males. In video game. In “military company”. How does this make sense?
Blizzard can you fire feminists and bring us new male char? The last male was Doomfist in July 2017.
Thanks Blizzard.
This game needs more male characters and more omnics.
Share if you agrre.

please stop speaking thanks

Just remember - any time someone uses “female” in this manner, it’s best to imagine them as a Ferengi.

Oh no, in a science fiction future of superpowered soldiers, cyborg ninjas, and superintelligent animals, there might be about as many women as men. Truly, this is the most unbelievable bullshit. When will Blizzard learn not to market a game towards more than half of humanity? They need to add five identical macho-guy space marines with buzzcuts, immediately, lest they be excommunicated by the High Church of Gamers.

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forcefish:

quinintheclouds:

jumpingjacktrash:

antis-are-abusive:

churchyardgrim:

god this is a big ask but I really wish there were like….. a site where you could plug in your state/district/whatever and tick some boxes on issues you prioritize and then the site would give you a rundown of the potential candidates in your area and where they stand on those issues in like….. clean simple bullet points. gimme the cliffnotes, I literally do not have the time or energy to comb through god knows how many articles and shit to figure out who to support, just tell me what their stance is on X, Y, and Z, and that’s gonna have to be enough.

There’s BallotReady!

It goes through who’s on your ballot and explains things like that based on your address. 

this is really great. it gives you bullet points on what each candidate has said and done on each issue.

very illuminating, frankly, seeing the candidate’s own words and actions. for instance, under ‘defense/veterans’ the republican candidates almost always say something about a well-funded military, and the democrats almost always say something about getting veterans the medical care they need. makes it pretty obvious that republicans don’t care about soldiers once they’re done with them.

VOTING DAY IS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH

NOVEMBER 6TH

People in SoCal can also use VoterGamePlan.

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maecatt:

vince-thrilligan:

–– Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul writer, Gennifer Hutchison, constructing *the* best Twitter thread

(….tbh, I’m a little worried she’ll be pissed that I re-posted this on Tumblr, but it’s a good thread and I want to save it. Plus my @name is a PUN and she hatesssss puns… so on many levels she may not be thrilled, so let’s not mention it.)

*Taking Notes*

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