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Don’t join the rat race, raise children fat of face
All this time thinking about your Net Worth when we should be thinking about the fertile Wet Earth
People are like "ha ha, wouldn't it be weird if there was a horror movie about [innocuous animal]", but given that one of the undisputed classics of the man-versus-nature horror genre is a film about people getting swarmed by seagulls, I'm not convinced there's any animal you couldn't make it work for.
they changedd the world of warcraft sound for someone messaging you to a orc bellowing having an orgasm for like 8 seconds now
Those boots are fire
Rewatching Treasure Planet (great movie, watch it) made realize something about the way that stories convey information to their audiences. There's been a lot of discussion on the overuse of plot twists and how many stories prioritise surprising their audience over telling decent stories. However, if you instead reveal the "twist" to the audience before it becomes known to the characters, you can build tension and stakes. Treasure Planet comes right out and tells you that Long John Silver is the main villain almost immediately after his introduction (And even before he's introduced we're warned about a cyborg, so you'd have to be pretty dense to not put 2 and 2 together and realize he's a bad guy). So when the audience watches him and Jim bond and grow closer, it builds tension for when Jim finds out and it highlights the tragedy of their friendship, because we all know it's not going to end well. Then, after the truth is revealed, stakes are created because we want the friendship between Jim and Silver to be repaired, because we know it was real, but we don't know if can be after what Silver's done. And all of this would have been lost if Silver's true nature had been a cheap plot twist. The tragedy would be completely overshadowed by the surprise and betrayal, and any investment in their relationship would have been built on the false impression that Silver was a good guy.
Another good example of this is Titanic. Even if you were somehow ignorant of the ship's sinking, the film makes sure you know that it sank with its framing device of Old Rose telling her story to people salvaging the Titanic's wreak. And Titanic's plot structure could only possibly work if you know the ship is going to sink. I'm not just talking about building tension, tragedy, and stakes for the characters like with the above example, I mean that if you didn't know that the Titanic was going down walking into the film, the abrupt shift from romance to suspense-disaster would be an increadibly tough pill to swallow. But it works because we expect it. You don't walk into a film called Titanic without expecting the damn boat to sink.
However, the sad thing about both of these examples, is that despite all the benefits that came from telling the audience these things ahead of time, I think the main reason the creators didn't make them plot twists was because they couldn't have. Treasure Island is the single most influential piece of pirate media out there, and you'd have to have been living under a rock for over a century to not know the Titanic sank. So, the writers had to work around the fact that these important turning points in the narratives were common knowledge, and they wound creating incredible stories as a consequence.
I want to see more of this style of writing in stories where the writers aren't forced to do it. We've clearly seen that you can tell some really damn good stories by giving information to the audience before the characters learn it, and I just wish more works would do that instead of trying to surprise people with shocking twists.
Wet. Diaphonized, please.
would you rather be taxidermied or be a wet specimen wait dont leave
OP: This is the first time I've seen the Yellow River's sediment discharge with my own eyes.
The structure of our society is to blame. Not you. Not your friends.
friends
It’s illegal to tell someone you’re gonna kill them. Here are some ways to imply it, legally:
- people are hunting you
- you will die soon
- won’t someone please kill this fuck?
- when you die you will be screaming, covered in blood.
- I wonder what color your blood is?
- what do you think your last words will be?
- the grim specter of death has his icy hand around your throat.
The trick to this is to sound as much as possible like a necro-wizard delivering a fell prophecy.
“Shouldn’t we compromise with them? They have money after all”
- every liberal slime
Got it?
#ModernPolitics
This is why I walk around with my dick out. Keeps the weirdos away.
The term and concept of "rent lowering gunshots" has seeped into my mental vocabulary, and I've welcomed it there. Something I'm up to is gross and weird? Good, keeps the rent low. Keeps judgy people out. Post weird shit on your blog, do weird shit to your hair, be as fucky as your heart ever wants to be. If you're not the one making the profit, make yourself unprofitable. The aposematism of brightly coloured creatures is there to warn predators, not friends.
You have no moral obligation to make yourself palatable for those who would consume you.
As he untied her hat, her hair fell around her face, framing it like a frame made of hair.
He unwrapped her shoes, and as he unzipped her from her nightgown,
just saw a horny post with vaguely historical terms in it and the weird misuse of those terms is frustrating me beyond belief. your historical sexual fantasies should be well cited from primary and secondary sources you can’t just make this stuff up.
If you take away their names, they’re basically shitty wizards who know essentially one spell
Cyclops = eyeball wizard
Colossus = skin wizard
Wolverine = bone wizard (with claws)
Jean grey = mind witch
Storm = weather witch
Rogue = mana drinker/mirror witch
Etc. etc. etc.
"But I need wizard school media to live" just develop bad opinions about the X-Men like a normal person.
No idea who these idiots are but the old man in the pic looks like he’s ready to die
Thanks for piercing the temporal veil of my past and reminding me of that which i had forgotten!
Darrell K. Sweet's 1989 cover to Piers Anthony's Visual Guide to Xanth, by Piers Anthony & Jody Lynn Nye. Via Ranaroth on Bluesky.
Mortal Coil
Got a bike during covid. Couldnt ride with no hands. Now i can. I am 43.
i think i found an exercise i enjoy doingim going to be the jump rope girl again just like i was back in middle school. i did that shit like it was nothing it was THE recess activity and i remember id lowkey be a showoff about it and i want to bring that energy back
A man needs a car like a wizard needs a bicycle
Killing other people
