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Zero Day (2002)
#movies film cinema#zero day#ben coccio#I actually talked to the director on Facebook super nice guy and he told#me a lot about the filmmaking process and even helped me with tips on directing non-actors and new actors#I remember him telling me to always be supportive and tell your new actors they're doing a good job even if they aren't in the first take#cause you can instill confidence and still reshape and change their choices and mistakes later#Sometimes I'd message him for advice when I was running into problems on some of my early projects#he told me once ''did ya choose to collaborate with this actor cause you were lonely or you guys had passion and chemistry''#ācollaborating is like a relationshipā and he was so right#there's nothing worse than working with people you disdain cause there's no communication and no trust.#he told me how he wrote the first couple of drafts of Place Beyond the Pines but his take on the 3rd act wasn't clicking for the director#so he took the script and went and had another writer rewrite the 3rd act but he liked the process cause he learned a lot and still got pai#but I'd still like to see Ben Coccio's take on Place Beyond The Pines he says the 1st and 2nd act are mostly unchanged#Ryan Gosling's scenes are still mostly the same he said but he couldn't tell me too much cause of the NDA he signed#The bloopers of Zero Day are hilarious his tip he gave me about being supportive#āThis is actually great but can we-ā and Cal interrupts him āHe says that no matter what if you're doing good or bad!ā and everyone lols#I hope I can make it and ask him to collab with me on a script#He's such a nice dude compared to the harrowing film he made.#I wish there was BTS but he had only one tape to film on and this was made when digital camcorders were infants#I think he had only one 2 hour tape that's how low budget#The bloopers is just Cal or Andre secretly filming and Ben getting annoyed āIs it recording?ā and Cal going āNah..."#Cal is such a funny guy IRL I wanna see him act more cause he's so good. He was so great at playing a sadistic psychopath in this.#the final shooting is so harrowing and disturbing#I told Ben he srsly gut punched me/disturbed me and this is what made him really open up.
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Maybe I did this to myself but it does irk me when people see me knitting and they ask who itās for and I say itās for me and the immediate reaction is āyou should sell itā yeahā¦ let me spend at least a weekās worth of my free time making an item I like, want, and would wear just to sell it on etsy, making at most a Ā£2 profit on materials and not being compensated for my time whatsoever šš»
#i say maybe i did this to myself because historically i have gifted most of the items i have knitted#because the venn diagram of things i like to knit vs things i like to wear is actually 2 circles that donāt touch#i looove making hats. i HATE wearing hats#also i love making baby clothes but i donāt have a baby and iām not going to have a baby#however lately iāve gotten really into knitting socks and i really like to wear knit socks. itās like the most affordable way for me to get#quality wool socks. and iām going to be watching my shows anyway. the time will pass anyways#but it feels like people are deliberately making me feel weird for wanting to make stuff for myself and not profit off my hobby#and like iāve made 3 pairs of socks to gift already because ātis the season or whatever. and iāve started another pair for a friend whose#birthday is in january#genuinely itās very weird to hear āyou should sell itā or āoh i want one!!ā about an item iām making for myself. after 18 years of gifting#or donating basically everything iāve ever knitted. like iāve gifted 2 double bed size crochet blankets#everyone iāve known whoās had a baby has gotten a cardigan or a blanket or hats or all of the above#i spent october making poppies for the church. iāve never even stepped foot in my village church mind you. my neighbour asked me to help#do you know what i own? that iāve knitted? a pair of mittens and a pair of socks.#you want some socks from me? alright. thatās anywhere between Ā£6 and Ā£10 for the yarn and thatās optimistic#iām currently making myself a pair with hand-dyed yarn that cost me Ā£18 including delivery#the needles i use cost me more than Ā£10. timeā¦ letās call it 24 hours per sock#i donāt know anyone with 18 years experience who makes minimum wage so letās call it an even 600 for my time. tbh#DO YOU SEE how this isnāt a viable side hussle??? i physically cannot charge what my socks are worth#if i like you and youāre willing to wait; socks are free or cost whatever the yarn costs#if i donāt like or know you venmo me Ā£620. and youāre still going to have to wait.#just pisses me OFF when people suggest i make an etsy page and they say it like theyāre doing me a favour or giving me great financial#advice. like youāve seen me sitting here all evening and iām barely done with the cuff.. do you actually think selling these for Ā£20 maximum#is going to help me out. iām not selling them. theyāre FOR me. iām making them because i want them#also when my friendās family was saying this to me and i was like āwell the yarn cost a fiverā and they got quiet and i was thinking yeahā¦#a fiver is the maximum you cheapskates would pay isnāt it. a fiver is cheap sock yarn bought on sale. or yarn that probably isnāt actually#good for socks. like donāt presume to give me financial advice when youāre this out of touch with the market please#next person who asks when iām going to start selling socks is getting this whole rant in entirety tbh i donāt care anymore#personal#edited to add that i didnāt even get into etsy fees or whether i would even be noticed among the mountain of dropshippers LOL
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I think the vegas strip can't be as cool as it's advertised. There's expensive food, gambling, and the occasional online influencer. I think cuddling with a chick taller than me is way cooler than anything Vegas could offer. Nevada's a dry ass state too but I'd be
I'm stopping myself before things get out of hand
#transfem#queer#transgender#trans#lesbian#:3#btw I'm not pursuing the guy anymore because I got great advice from someone#they smacked some sense into me and helped me stop thinking with my puppy brain and instead with my person brain
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Woo hello š¬!! I kept all of your ask here -- I put it like this for my own easy scrolling, but no way am I cutting any of this, it's so perfect AH
Oughhhhgh Haruka getting more confident from hanging out with everyone and getting such positive feedbackā¦ Iād imagine the back to back innocent verdict and night of compliments would do wonders for his psyche ;-; And same for Muu and Amane! Minus the inno verdict, but the sudden influx of explicit compliments and acknowledgement of āhey, that was fucked up what they did to you, okay?ā I wonder if thereās any awkwardness since After Pain directly follows Bring it On, but I like to imagine Fuuta and Muu have a deeper talk about things in private (and maybe Muu hesitantly mentions her involvement with Rei in preparation for INMFā¦)
Damn, whoās going to give the sex talk to the kids after Yunoās vide-- Shidou. Sidou does. Without hesitation. They have to stop him because no one wants to hear it and everyone there already understands the basics.I love the idea of she, Mahiru, Muu, and designer Mikoto chatting about everyoneās fashion sense (I can imagine them poking fun at Fuutaās tracksuit and Shidouās patterned shirts.) And planning shopping trips that include everyone!!! Amane and Kotoko are given no choice in the matter, and a lot of the guys are genuinely interested in coming along.
Awww, I love the thought of Haruka getting into a āboyā interest with Fuuta and Mikoto -- he never knew what it was like to have brothers but heās really enjoying it <3 (Also Iām cracking up over Fuuta trying desperately to convince them āitās not cringe!!!ā)
ASDFSDF Mappi just straight up sobbing and Mikoto handing her tissues š But yes, she also gets choked up during Magic and Amane canāt figure out why. This begins the adultsā efforts to get her out of whatever situation sheās currently in (which Jackalope was already half-working on, but is definitely spurred on by several angry almost-murderers demanding he get it done now.)
I do like that idea of Red more comfortable with showing skin than Blue. (I know people are very emotional about the stalker theory, but I personally never took it in a harmful way. I always enjoyed how it was a symbol of stripping away everything else until youāre left with your true, whole self.) So I like to think that Blue feels too exposed, but Red/Green are the ones who pitched it in a symbolic sense!Ā
Iām losing my mind at Kotoko/Kazui/Red talking about sparring. Everyone else is like āhell yeah, letās see it!ā and Shidou just sitting there like āyou all are going to be the death of me. You are NOT fighting.ā Because I really want to think about it happening, Iāll say they manage to sneak away at least once and nearly break a prop in the process, to which even Jackalope shuts them down.
I think they all manage to get pretty serious again by the time T2 rolls around, but the hiatus is filled with a lot of sweet moments and healing conversations between everyone. Also, making so many plans for the future helps keep them sane when some of the project immersion gets a bit too real. Whenever they start realizing they might be condemned for their actions and worried that theyāre too broken/theyāre life is ruined, they come back to those plans and relax a bit.
Absolutely no pressure, but I would love to hear your T2 thoughts! ššš Iām so incredibly grateful youāve taken the time to share your ideas -- from the very beginning this au has been a big collaboration, so itāsĀ super fun bouncing ideas around :D
#milgram#ft everyone!#i really love all of these ;---;#thank you so much!! ive been enjoying these so much and im sure everyone else is as well#i keep swinging drastically from torturing myself by thinking deeply about upcoming angst#and then healing myself thinking of everyone chillin in this au sdfsdfa#pretty soon ill write up a post with little details ive had in mind here and there šš#i just havent had the motivation to put em down on paper yet but youre inspiring me!!!!#and yeah... i swore id finish a few of my current milgram wips before starting anything new but youre tempting meeeee#there will be plenty of time over the upcoming trial break for me to get some writing in im sure š#in a more serious tone i want to write a little drabble of the prisoners leaving/returning to the prison area#the odd relief of dropping pretenses and feeling free again#and then the heaviness that settles over them when they put on their fake bandages and torn uniforms and walk back in#but movie night my beloved!!!#not in a limiting gender role sort of way but i think with all the femininity that was forced on haruka he has a great time with the boys#all that fashion advice was Not heeded when choosing outfits for backdraft and triage#the Dad Fit was all shidous idea#(<- says this but i love the backdraft look jsyk)#i feel like t2 movie night would be much more chaotic since they were involved for a lot so they can get rowdier#then again some things were left secretive -- they never got to meet shidous kids and most didnt watch tear drop filming#and some of the post-filming effects probably turned out cooler than they were expecting#lights camera sing your sins#ask
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What's the best alternative to Facebook currently? I really need to get off that site, but I also need to somehow convince everybody I'm connected with on FB to follow me to whichever new platform I choose, so it's gotta be good. And hopefully not too confusing for older and less tech-savvy people to join š
(Obvs I'm not telling most of my FB friends my Tumblr URL. These are two separate worlds, and separate they shall remain.)
#facebook alternative#twitter alternative#alternative to facebook#alternative to twitter#ig alternative#i'm trying to move away from the metaverse#and all similar creepy conglomerates#i have a bluesky account and it's all right but i don't lovvvve it#heard some not so great things about it#i'm also on mastodon and still trying to figure out it tbh#it seems like the whole distributed-server thing would be too much to ask all my fb buddies to handle#i also have a discord account but that seems more like a private/group messaging app than social media?#i want something where people. yknow. post a random pic from their day#and everyone who's friends with them sees it#social media#i need advice#i have also heard of spacehey and mewe but not really looked into them yet#started trying to sign up for tribel but it wanted way too much personal info so i got skeeved out#cosmo gyres#personal
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#Wasn't feeling this piece today but got some advice from a fellow artist and it turned out great!#Bbh fanart#badboyhalo#munchy pixel art
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Multidimensional travel am I right?
So uh somehow my oc became a dimension traveler XD TO NOT MUCH FAULT OF MY OWN IT JUST SNOWBALLED INTO THISā the gist is that after the āHow The Turn Have Tablesā crossover fic Iām currently working on (the fic takes place around the end of season 1) Sylvia gets a side effect to where she just randomly appears in a random dimension XD so yeah thatās funā
Also the background is basically an edited collage (by me) of all of me and my friendos art from The Employees AU. The main blog is @theemployees and I shall tag all of them so plz give them some love <3
@malka-gol3 @coyotecam @artstufff-jpg @suya-khamie @quirkycorgianimations @ariel-gremlinzkeep @ieatoilpatings @tigerkat360 @bloodyballoon on tiktok
#I am so so proud of how it turn out#Also KUDOS TO SUYA-KHAMI WHO GAVE ME GREAT ADVICE FOR GHE SHADING#I LOVE UUUU#Also shit is crazy cause this is like the main problem for season 2 for her XD#its ok she got friends to help her figure this out lmaooo#also you might see uh some of the crossover art Iāve been making eventually lmao#Iām a sucker for crossover shit#and this is a good excuse to do it soā¦.#*shrug*#anyways I hope you enjoy this piece~#took me 7 hrs to edit that background lmaoooo XD#rottmnt#save rottmnt#rottmnt au#tmnt au#the employees rottmnt#rottmnt oc#rottmnt art
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Friendly reminder that you can age perfectly fine without being a stereotypical āoldā.
My teacher just had her 15 year jubilee of teaching piano in her art gallery. We had a concert with all the students and I was so pleasantly surprised that I am the youngest by 15 years (and Iām 34). These ladies (and 3 gents) are witty, carry fascinating conversation, and promote being a lifelong learner. The average age was late sixties.
These are not your elderly folks who crash at 6pm after looking at the tv all day. These are people who donāt stop living their lives. They have their canes ā one even a caretaker ā but they all had a vibrant spirit and energy.
Yeah, we start the ache and canāt do what we used to in our twentiesā¦ but there is so much more to discover!
Also, we had an after party and I couldnāt keep up. I dipped out at 9:30 and theyā¦ are just getting startedā¦
Cheers to living life yāall!
#god those ladies can put away some wine#and I got such great gardening advice#oh and the STORIES#reallyā¦ what a night!
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Oh yeah I also attended a lecture hosted by famous tumblr user Neil Gaiman a few days ago that was pretty cool too :)
#might as well mention it since it was practically back-to-back w/ me attending geddy lee's book tour show#didn't get to meet him in-person but he was a very great speaker and I got some great writing advice!#hope this doesn't sound too much like bragging lol
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...hey guys completely random but i made a youtube channel š¶š»

#i never thought id be doing this but#after encouragement from some followers/oomfs on twitter... i finally did it...#i recently got a mic so... after i finish uploading my impromptu twitter voice covers#im gonna hopefully start recording and posting proper covers.....!!!!?!!??#lmao#anyway no i dont think my voice is that great but#this is smth ive lowkey wanted to/fantasized abt for a while (uploading covers to youtube)#and ive already gotten bold enough to share them on twitter/here so#and ive been encouraged by a few nice ppl (bc else i would never do it skfbdnd)#so here goes nothing#š«”.....šš»šØ#btw if u have any advice for how to set up my channel/what to put in the description kdhfdk#oh also i put a new username bc milkbreadtoast(fluffberries as well) was taken...#might change it tho...#my singing#<--my singing tag btw LMFAO#edit: o sidenote this is smth personal but#ive also wanted to record covers with my pre-T voice#so that if/when i ever go on T... I'll be able to look back on them#idk if i ever will go on T but if I do this is smth i def want to do before that#o btw... im not... ive never considered myself a 'singer' and ive never sang in front of ppl irl either or taken classes/joined clubs etc#but this has become a lowkey hobby the past couple yrs#and its rly fun to try to find ways to improve my singing... ive def improved bc#when i listen to covers i recorded a few yrs ago im like oh my fking god my ears... hell no...#like even just 2 yrs ago#i think i improved a lot in the past 2 yrs... or since graduating...?#/since covid/quarantine lmao
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2023 reads / storygraph
The Poisons We Drink
YA urban fantasy
a girl who brews powerful potions is coerced into making potions to interfere with D.C.ās most influential politicians in an attempt to stop a dangerous Witcher Registration Act from passing, and will do anything to protect her sister after their mother is killed
bi MC, nonbinary love interest
arc from netgalley
#The Poisons We Drink#aroaessidhe 2023 reads#this isā¦ā¦.a lot of cool ideas but also so many elements and high stakes that i kinda lost track of them#the pacing is weird. the worldbuilding is random?#why is brewing SO overpowered & risky for her but the other powers seem to have pretty normal low-scale risks?#itās definitely ambitious and has some cool ideas and also some great characters just. didnāt execute as well as Iād like#as much as weāre told the main threat is the government trying to put through a Registration Act#most of the actual antagonism we see is from other Witchers?#like the systemic discrimination got a bit lost in the witcher family drama and murder politics#important things to say about oppression and police violence but like....idk#she has this ādeviationā- essentially evil sentient magic inside her head (and you KNOW I love that trope)#but itās barely explained and very underutilised? other than helping her get out of bad situations you could take it out & would barely#change anything#also itās explained at the start that sheās an empath but other than the very occasional mention I kept forgetting#will also note that I bumped this up my tbr because I saw the author talking/promoting it as the MCs sister being aroace but no mention#maybe itāll come up in a sequel (there werenāt really any places where it would have made sense to bring it up here) but idk#(just the way the author was asking for advice on how to write an ace character and stuff youād assume that theyādā¦.put that in the book?)#not really a critique of the book itself but anyway. I really wanted to like this but the way it was put together just did not vibe with me#edit: I saw the author say on twitter that the version used for ARCs was before ace stuff was added and that there's other signif changes?#so perhaps that will be there! i'm not sure if I want to read it again but might skim just to see what that's about
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study smart not hard (altough both is best actually) this saying is so true
#my advice#but this saying is sooo true#i know some people at uni who study for exam so long and hard but then fail or just barely make it :(#like what are you doing? i don't mean this in a mean way but it doesn't have to be this difficult#i don't understand how some people can study for an exam for 2 weeks or even a month and still fail and i don't think they're stupid#or i don't see myself as particulary smart#but i guess they just waste their time a lot and i realized studying effective is so important#now everyone is a bit different and has to find what works best for them but there are certain techniques which are proven to work well#there is so much information on the internet on this look it up seriously#it made my life sm easier i never struggled in uni like i did in school and i get good grades#and if i ever struggled a bit it was because i started so late it was almost impossible to pass š#which is why to do both is still best š#but i actually always made it and i never failed an exam at uni (which i studied for)#(two i was fooled into to just try without studying bc it's easy lol)#i mean i shouldn't speak too soon but i already made it through some of the most difficult of my studies#ofc it depends on what you study how well this works but i'm speaking for myself#i once passed an exam with a B studying only 2 days as one of the best students while others studied 2 weeks#and got worse grades or failed#still studying only 2 days is stupidity don't do it š
#so the techniques i find very helpful are ofc exam questions probably the best one#if there are none make your own#then blurting for which there are different ways but i like to just go over a topic and then write down everything i remember#then fill the gaps#quizlet is also great it's an app which allows you to create cards and then tests you in creative ways#videos can be helpful as well for summaries and using summaries in general is normally enough it saves you sm time#normally you don't actually need to know everything but you should be careful it's not a bad summary leaving out too much š
#and i also like mindmaps bc i'm a very visual person#but all those tipps are mostly for remembering information so it doesn't work so well for other fields of study#well i hope this is somewhat helpful idk š#oh and reading texts over and over again is the most useless in my opinion i don't remember much at all and it takes sm time
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Self respecting enough to quit that shitty job, too autistic and introverted to get accepted for another
#š¦“#Times like these are when I think about the two great pieces of advice my sister gave me#Which were 'lie on your CV'#And 'trust in nepotism'#She didn't even get me a job she just said she'd talk to some people and then never got back to me again
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i hope you and your twin are safe and doing okay, take care astro
Yeah, weve got a whole group of friends whoāve got our back and I think weāre fine now. Weāve made plans to never talk to that guy again and weāre trying to find more healthy ways for King to front, because he definitely isnāt blameless in this situation.
oH uh speaking of which,,, so we thought King was a protector for a bit, but after this and a lot of confessions from Alexās other alters it is Really Fucking Obvious that heās a prosecutorā¦ Iām notā¦ great with dealing with King because he hates my fucking guts (because. Prosecutor) and Iām also not very familiar with systems as a whole, but I know I have followers who are systems so if any of you know any healthy ways to help a prosecutor, or like. I donāt even know it would just be great if we could convince king not to let the body get sexually assaulted š if anyone has tips on how to communicate with him that would be! Great!
#tw sa mention#tw sa#I donāt know what to tag this as so Iām just going to cross my fingers and hope with reaches the right people#Iām not very familiar with systems and a lot of my info I learned like three years ago. The realization that Alex has osdd is fairly recent#mainly because the alters were definitely hiding it from me and Kai because king Hates (and I mean HATES) us and august is a people pleaser#and this is the first Real Issue thatās happened after they were all out as a system#So this is really unfamiliar territory and it would be great if I got some advice š«¶
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as a former warrior cats fan i think its really funny that the further into the series you go the more that you realize almost none of these characters have interesting and unique personalities. like someone tell me a single trait of nightheart besides him being Not Orange
#i say almost because like#some characters are decent#but like the majority-#this (mostly) isnt hate on warriors btw#its garbage and i love that#and uh my one piece of advice for any warriors fan is uh#have you heard of wings of fire?#also i havent read a warriors book in years so sorry if the writing suddenly got great while i wasnt looking
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found a twenty on the floor today
#lets fucking gooooooo#also got some great advice from my camp counselors about college apps#riding high tonight
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