#coordinated. because i said so

[shortnotsweet]

HEAD HEART HANDS: “TURNING A NEW PAGE”

Charlotte is hardwired for realism. It’s a hefty task, given the present company and the dubious physics that have kept them all alive for the past few years, but if a resume could receive an A+, her feats in risk assessment and time-sensitive innovation deserved it. Charlotte would know; she installed the updates herself. Still, with the leader of their trio absent and Jasper dealing with impossibilities on the side, the biggest challenge these days is seeing eye-to-eye.

[ Jasper and Charlotte discuss Henry’s leave of absence, as well as his radio silence. ]

The mythology of Greek craftsman, inventor, and architect Daedalus has been cited by a variety of sources, including Homer, Pliny the Elder (Pliny’s Natural History, AD 77-79), and Plato, the latter of which interpreted his inventory and intellect as a parallel for the pursuit of truth. Pliny credited him with the invention of carpentry, as well as ship sails and masts, in addition to sculptures so lifelike they may as well have been animated; his genius was so evident that life was born into the wood. The most famous of his feats, however, was the tale of wings constructed out of wax, and the fall of his son, Icarus, into the sea.

It’s one thing to live in pursuit of knowledge. It’s not like that’s a bad thing, per se. Plenty of people do, and are perfectly content people with no lingering emotional or psychological hangups. That being said, the itch of knowing and the object of doing are not the same. For doctors who treat the sick in the morning and the engineers who study maths to reach the moon, knowledge alone is poor sustenance. For years—too early—invention has been a means of civic duty. She is too clever to fall into the sea unplanned, but she’s not heartless. She’ll make them wings, and a parachute. She left Harvard and the future she’d made for herself to follow the people she loved. Love—to the point of modification. To the point of invention.

[tulipe-rose]

Random ask timeee! :D

As a tribute to the dire state the Hunting Dogs are currently in, which duo/trio of them is your favorite? Which are you gonna be most excited about when they (hopefully) reunite? 👀

AAAA HIHIHI

My favorite duo that I miss dearly, and barely have content of is Jōnō and Tachihara. They're such wasted potential istg. Tachihara is bothered by being supposedly 'not very smart'–which I heavily disagree with–and you know who could make up for that? Jōnō. Jōnō is the brain and Tachihara is the brawn, but their capability isn't limited to just that. Yes, Tetchō and Jōnō fit this description too, but to me, the unexplored battle potential of Tachihara's and Jōnō's combined Abilities is just so much more intriguing. With the very few interactions we got of them in canon, I can't help but imagine them having some brothers bonding time but it's military lab rats style. Also no one can convince me that they're not sent out on undercover missions the most, like they're both incredible actors; they'd fool Mōri, which Tachihara already did. Even Dazai could take a while to realize them. They're my power duo ever though I don't think we'll see them again for a while now. (If ever ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ)

[shipping-all-ships]

I'm the only one who's going to find this funny because of the AU that's been cooking in my head but here's everyone's stance in my "heathers but they're all jonathan" AU about clone fucking

Jonathan Morgenstern: I'd fuck my clone because who would know better how to fuck ME than ME? Johnathon "Chris" Wayland: I'd totally do all sort of weird things to my clone I'd be embarrassed to ask someone else to do. Johnathan "Jace" Herondale: To be honest, fucking my clone has always been my fantasy. Alec: I'm gay, but I still don't want to fuck my clone, that's gross and weird. Izzy: I'd totally fuck my clone because I want to know if I'm good in bed. Clary: It's basically the same as masturbating, right? So no big deal. Magnus: Not only would I have sex with my clone, I'd probably make a bunch of clones and just get it on with all of them at once because that's how pro clone-fucking I am.

[1071png]

Obito and Madara in the boruto era ..lol Boruto is really bad but i still enjoy some parts of it ngl

[pynkhues]

how to make that work both professionally and personally.

Can you talk more about this? I'm so curious because yeah, I don't think of how long-term a project is having an impact on what intimacy coordinators do, I'm just thinking of it scene by scene, but that makes sense. But I'd love to know more about what they said about what making it work both professionally and personally means.

And yes it feels like it would be surreal to really adore someone as a close friend and then also passionately make out with them before pretending to murder them and then going to dinner and hanging out. I can also see having that kind of physical intimacy on set creating more closeness more rapidly among people who maybe naturally like each other? Jacob and Sam seem to have such physical comfort with each other, with looking at each other and being in each other's personal space and touching, and HAVING to do all that on set must sometimes speed up that comfort level in real life

(x)

Yeah! She talked quite a bit about her job as being about helping the actors to build a physical language of intimacy between characters, and how with established or long-running relationships, that becomes about creating a foundation that you build off. What that means varies depending on the cast, really, because she says there's not a one-size-fits-all approach to that, and sometimes you dig really deeply, and other times it's more just about making the mechanics of a scene work.

This particular intimacy coordinator had a process where she'd meet with everyone one-on-one first (the relevant actors, director, writer), to work out what people were and weren't comfortable with, and what everyone wanted, and then they'd jump into a space together and workshop in ways that were both broad and specific. Yes, they'd workshop the scene, but she said they also sometimes do a lot of character work to understand how the character is going to respond to intimacy.

She'd been the coordinator on Love Me (a very good Australian show!) and the example she came back to a bit was with working with Hugo Weaving and Heather Mitchell and (hilariously) Emma Freeman as director (Australia is a small industry, haha). In that, Hugo's character had been caring for his very sick wife for many years who passes away right at the start of the series. He's worn down and he's grief struck, but he also hasn't been intimate with anyone in years and years, so when he finds this connection to Heather's character, he's not really sure how to navigate it.

In that, she said a lot of the intimacy coordination became about working out the history of his relationship with his wife, just how touchstarved he was, that vulnerability with having been in a caregiver role for so long that you're no longer sure how to be cared for, and what that means with physical intimacy from gentle touches to kisses to sex.

So she said that was a lot of going back to both Hugo's and Heather's characters' previous relationships and sexual history to build up this understanding of how they might be with each other. This was particularly important with them as Hugo and Heather have worked with each other a lot and are really close in real life, and it was very easy for them to slip out of character in a way that left them feeling pretty vulnerable and exposed as performers. In that sense too, she said that building up these characters histories with one another and apart also becomes about helping the actors to separate themselves from the characters and actually is a means to protect their privacy so that they can watch themselves back and see their characters having sex and not them having sex. She said it's a pretty hard line to manage sometimes, particularly when actors know each other, are friends, or have slept together before (the latter she said can be particularly hard for actors to break out from sometimes), but it's a really important one.

But yeah, she said sometimes it also is just about mechanics too, it really depends on how much intimacy there is in a show, what the creative team wants to do and also how experienced the actors are (interestingly, she said with less experienced actors, her role is usually a lot more about the actor's comfort and helping them work with other departments such as costume with things like cock socks and modesty patches, which more experienced actors are used to, than character work).

Interestingly, a lot of intimacy coordinators in my experience have a history in sex work too (two out of the three on that panel did) and this particular one had actually been a dom / dominatrix, so she talked a lot about how she uses stuff she learnt from scene preparation in supporting actors too.

I don't know if this answers your question, haha, but yeah! It's a pretty interesting space to work in, I think.

[srabaskerville]

I couldn't even finished the first episode of The heart killers, and I haven't watched any of the new episodes of orb and dandadan, because I have been to busy, specially with work, because I have been trying to make the best, to give only the good there, just to receive a two line message saying I will be staying in a place I don't want, from a person I have never met before.

I am so tired of care, I should mind anymore

[miodiodavinci]

collapses to the ground like a deflated balloon

[lady-grinning]

I had a first driving lesson and it was.. bad.

[socraticmethadon3]

There’s no running away from your problems at monasteries. It’s the best + most awful thing

[laugtherhyena]

Playing Bomb rush cyberfunk has been a crazy experience so far because i feel like I've been enjoying the game just as much as I'm not doing so

[lupismaris]

If anyone has a spare thought/fuck to give please toss it my way I'm treading the delicate path of sorting out the possible (absolutely likely) fuck ups of a former colleague and explaining to their supervisor that they allowed said fuck ups to continue for far longer than they needed to all for the sake of not wanting to ask questions

[arctic-hands]

I wonder if the totally-barely-hiding-it-which-is-ballsy-for-Indiana Wiccan teacher I had in middle school knew what she was doing when she cast me in the lead male role for the school play in eighth grade

[djungleskogs]

im kinda jealous of how involved american colleges are. like your professors actually take a personal interest in you? my tutors all barely remember peoples names and most of them don’t even try. you have mandatory classes? i went to 1 class out of 13 for one of my units this semester because i couldn’t make myself go. you are failing or need extra credits? the professor can choose to give you some. maybe it’s just my uni but they do NOT give extra credit no matter what. we don’t even get supplementary assessments so if you do badly you’re just fucked. extensions go through the uni itself and not the teaching staff. you have multiple classes per subject a week? ok maybe not all colleges but i feel like if i had more than one to go to i would show up more and would also get to actually know the people in my degree. i am four years into this and i have like. 2 friends who study law and we aren’t even in the same stage of the degree. one of my old unit coordinators was american and she had such a culture shock coming to my uni because of how detached it is. she tried to structure the unit in a way that encouraged students to actually show up to class and get to know people in the classes and she had to change it because it went against uni policy.

[pynkhues]

It is interesting with Antoinette. I could see it being that Lestat genuinely had affection for her, even if he would certainly have killed her had Louis personally asked him to -- or it could be that she was just familiar, and he wanted the closest thing to intimacy he could get, so someone who knew him was better than someone who didn't. And the whole possibility that she reminded him of Gabrielle in some ways...

(x)

Yeah, I totally agree, anon.

I actually unfortunately suspect that Antoinette isn't a character the show will really come back to, and I think I'm one of three people that cares about that, haha, but where I tend to land on her relationship with Lestat is the fact that neither Lestat nor Louis actually have any friends.

That's not to say that I think Lestat and Antoinette were just friends, I don't, they obviously fucked a lot (which like, also comes down to the fact that Lestat doesn't know how to have friends he doesn't fuck, haha), but I do think the reality is that Lestat and Louis have very different racial and cultural contexts, hobbies and areas of interest which aren't things they can easily share with each other, especially not in early-1900s America, and I think that's a bigger factor in their relationship breakdown than either will admit to.

It's why Louis' able to reconnect with Jonah so quickly - they might be leading different lives, but they have more overlapping factors than they don't, whereas he and Lestat have less than they do - and for Lestat as a white theatre kid, he needs to be around other performers. I think with Antoinette, she's obviously a talented vocalist and an ambitious artist, and I can see that genuinely just being company that Lestat wants to be close with. They probably talk shit about crap theatre they've seen and do vocal runs together and fuck, and honestly for a part of Lestat, that would lowkey be a dream relationship, haha. Do I think they have a deep emotional connection? No, but given even Louis' willing to admit she's talented, and his own complex relationship with not succeeding as an artist, I wonder how much that factors in to his portrayal of her and his insecurities around their relationship (to say nothing of the fact that she's both white and a woman).

This feels like it's going on a hundred tangents, haha, but my point is maybe they'd step out on each other less or descend into unforessen levels of chaos and destruction if they both had a few friends they could talk about their identities and niche interests with!!

[badolmen]

*last winter* *never got ticketed/severely buried/otherwise had a problem with parking in my designed disability spot even during storm warnings*

*this year* noooo don’t park in the disability parking spot 🥺🥺🥺 I’ll have to have you towed!!!! Drive up to the sidewalk across the lot 💞💞💞 and I’ll plow around you ☺️☺️☺️ haha sorry don’t wanna bury you so I’ll call to have you towed instead if you don’t 💜💜💜 thanks oxoxox

[tardis--dreams]

Yesterday I went to the supermarket and it was the most crowded i have ever experienced any supermarket in my life. Like. They made us queue up to even enter and i was waiting for like 30 minutes to pay. So today i am very scared to return because What the fuck was that and is it over now???