#i love scott patterson so much

[moonyflesh]

Scott Patterson behind the scenes of Saw lV - (2007) as “(Special Agent) Peter Strahm”.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

Gilmore Girls - Pilot | Walmart Holiday x Gilmore Girls (x)

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[bornforastorm]

peter strahm in saw iv: top ten king bitch moments

[trypoed]

OH MY GOD, finally, FINALLY I did this!!! 😭

uh-oh. nevermind. here's Peter Strahm Tribute for y'all

[queenunderthatmountain]

the way Luke and Jess either have the most heart breaking scenes or the ones that make you snort and giggle out loud there's no in between

[choshashio]

Copywork and how it makes Better Writers.

What is Copywork? Copywork is the act of copying a paragraph or passage from a novel you like. Isn't that just plagiarism? No, while you are copying what another author wrote, copywork isn't for the purpose of publishing. It's an exercise for improving your understanding of sentence structure, grammar, vocabulary, metaphor usage, and more, while helping you sound like the author you admire.

Who uses Copywork? Originally, copywork was invented by scribes to help preserve knowledge. These scribes would hand write every detail of whatever important texts they wanted to save. But it became more popular by writers like, Scott Fitzgerald who wrote The Great Gatsby, and James Patterson who wrote Along Came a Spider.

Why should I practice Copywork? While it's good for all great writers to read a lot. Reading can only get you so far. If I were to ask you, What author inspires you to write better? Who would you say? Why does this author inspire you? Whatever the case is, I know that for every writer out there, there is always at least one author you've wanted to write like. For me, I really love how Frank Herbert, the author of Dune, writes his books. And at one point in my life, I really wanted to write like he does. So, I sat down and scoured the internet, looking for anything that would help me write like Frank Herbert, but I couldn't find anything. If you've ever been in a situation like this, Copywork is your best friend. Instead of reading article after article or scouring Reddit for anything and only coming up with: this is how they structure their sentences. Or, you can't write like so and so, you should have your own style. Use Copywork.

The Big Question: How Can I Copywork?

If you have your own Frank Herbert, an author whose writing style you love, pick one of their books and find a passage or page that speaks to you the most.

If you don't have an author like that, ask yourself: What about my writing do I want to improve? When you find your answer, look for an author who does the thing you want to work on in a way that you like.

Once you have your passage, get a pen and paper. This is going to help you absorb the information so much better than just typing it out.

Step 1. Set time aside every day, at least 20 minutes, to practice.

Step 2. Copy down the scene you picked out.

Step 3. Go back to the start and break each sentence down into its base structure of, Noun, Verb, Adjective.

Step 4. Rewrite the scene, using the sentence structure and formatting, with your own characters, setting details, and dialogue.

Step 5. Repeat the next day with a new scene.

[grigori77]

Val Kilmer, Rest In Peace ...

Gods ... we've lost another one, and this is another one that REALLY HURTS. He'd been going through a lot over the past few years, and he was having a really hard time of it, but he never gave up hope, he never stopped being who he was even when things were at their worst. The man was a bloody LEGEND and one of the all-time great cinematic comeback kings. We've lost one of the REAL ONES.

I first came across Val Kilmer when he was still coming up, before he really got his big break, back when he was still known mostly as a hadnsome young man with a great sense of humour in comedies like Top Secret! But it was his role as Chris Knight, the irreverant scientific genius at the heart of Martha Coolidge's criminal overlooked screwball comedy Real Genius, that I REALLY fell in love with his cocky charm. Well, this and, of course ...

MADMARTIGAN!!! Yeah, I was a kid, and I LOVED big, loud and sometimes kind of dumb fantasy action adventures, and there was SO MUCH adorable roguish swagger in this high fantasy Han Solo clone from Ron Howard's wildly imaginative cinematic adventure Willow that OF COURSE he immediately began to live rent free in my head.

And then, FINALLY, I saw Top Gun. US Naval aviator Lieutenant Tom Kazansky, better known by his extremely apt callsign "Iceman", was, quite rightly, one of THE COOLEST CHARACTERS he ever got to play. This single role QUITE RIGHTLY turned him into a bona fide SUPERSTAR, and for several years he could do no wrong, becoming one of the most rightly IN-DEMAND young superstar actors of the late 80s and the 90s.

A lot of the stuff he got was fluff, pure blockbuster pretty boy roles, but every once in a while he was land something with genuine WEIGHT, like his phenomenal lead role in Michael Apted's powerful thriller Thunderheart, in which he played an FBI agent coming to terms with his long-buried Native American heritage ...

Oliver Stone's controversial but undoubtedly impressive biopic The Doors, in which he was truly magnificent as ill-fated rock icon Jim Morrison ...

Tombstone, one of my very favourite westerns OF ALL TIME, in which he effortlessly stole the entire film in probably THE VERY BEST performance of his entire career as the complicated ailing gunfighter Doc Holliday ...

Irish engineer Colonel John Henry Patterson, the man who went to Africa to build a bridge and killed two man-eating lions in the criminally underrated, more-than-a-little historically inaccurate but still great period man-against-nature survival thriller The Ghost & the Darkness ...

A truly fucking LEGENDARY turn as troubled bank robber Chris Shiherlis in Michael Mann's stone cold CLASSIC crime thriller Heat ...

And he even got to fulfill a lifelong dream of getting to play Batman ... although that didn't go QUITE how he would have liked in the end ... His career took a slump for a time in the late 90s, but by 2002 he started to see something of a renaissance as he started cherry-picking more interesting and challenging character roles in smaller, more high quality films which found particular respect for more discerning audiences.

Like retired US marine-turned-SOCOM operator/trainer John Scott in David Mamet's incendiary suspense thriller Spartan ...

Meth addict Danny Parker, caught up in the middle of an impromptu murder investigation in The Salton Sea, an early, pre-big break offering from Disturbia director DJ Caruso ...

And, best of all, the phenomenally subversive, hillariously sharp-witted role of acerbic LA private investigator "Gay" Perry Van Shrike in writer-director Shane Black's massively beloved black comedy cult classic Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

In later years, a second career slump and subsequent burgeoning health problems saw his withdrawal from the public eye once more, complications from throat cancer led to an essential forced retirement from acting. With the esception of a scattering of smaller roles and an incredibly moving and fascinating documentary entitled Val in 2021, with his son Jack Kilmer narrating his own words, his career officially came to an end in 2022 when he returned to the role of Iceman in a cameo in Joseph Kosinski's blockbuster sequel Top Gun: Maverick. It was a fitting farewell to the character, and a powerful swansong for a mighty actor in his own right.

Legendary film critic Roger Ebert once called Kilmer "the most unsung leading man of his generation". Truer words have never been spoken. "Ice is gone", Maverick is told at one point in the sequel. Maybe so, but he'll NEVER be forgotten.

Val Edward Kilmer, December 31, 1959 - April 1, 2025. Rest in peace.

[youandmedead]

I wanna rant on about the production/behind the scenes of the saw movies so bad! It's so cool watching how they made the traps and came up with the ideas, created the prosthetics and how they actually function! I just watched the stuff for Saw V and it's mad seeing how they filmed Scott Patterson in the cube trap and all of the outtakes they did and it's so cool seeing how they did the glass coffin trap and what the original concept was (Hoffman would've still been in the glass coffin but the room was supposed to fill with water instead of the walls moving). In other words it just makes me want to work in the film industry even more and just makes me more passionate about movies! A lot of people who don't watch it only see it as a gore film (which they're not wrong in a sense) but there's so much more to it and that's what I love about the franchise. The way the team talks about the behind the scenes, building processes and test runs etc is so intriguing and you can see their passion and pride when it comes to their product!

[butchjess]

Well. hrm. the way they all connect to each other. like it’s all starting to look like a circle of some sort. jess as rory’s mirror/reflection/narrative foil but also jess as he pertains to luke and jess as he pertains to lorelai. luke breaking the church bells luke who says he was troubled but they gave him a chance and just bc a kid has issues doesnt mean they don’t deserve that. luke who is a figure placed against the rest of the town, just in the sense that he is not like them, he does not hold their values, he doesn’t even sound like them. which is of course a result of scott patterson’s new york accent, but adds to this theme anyway. and they use jess to build this picture, because they walk the same and talk the same and they’re stubborn—independent to a near self-endangering degree—and emotionally repressed in the same way and luke himself admits that he spent more time working at his dad’s shop than he did at school, which jess also does. but jess and luke are also. very very different when you get past these similar values that are maybe ingrained into them through different circumstances and same genetic makeup. and in their differences you get a lot of jess and lorelai’s similarities. when it comes to their family dynamics and how it’s affected them in particular. it’s made them independent yes, but it’s also made them hypervigilant, almost paranoid in the way they are allergic to accepting help and especially accepting help from the people who hurt them. jess only goes to his mother’s wedding because luke asks him to, lorelai only asks her parents for money because rory needs it for school. and they, and this is where they differ from luke, don’t know how to trust people and so they don’t know how to talk to people. where luke’s particular brand of emotional constipation comes from a general cluelessness as to how to do it—which is why the tapes helped him so much—lorelai and jess’ come from emotional responses to the situations they grew up in. while it was different—lorelai growing up rich, jess growing up poor—the effect it had on them still resulted in something similar. lorelai with her overbearing manipulative mother and (emotionally) absent father, and jess with his neglecting manipulative mother and (in all senses of the word) absent father. the ways that, despite their effort to distance themselves, they still end up with similar mannerisms to the parent they have the most conflict with (lorelai and her controlling nature + that scene where they have the same nighttime routine, jess and his love for books + tendency to run away). and of course, their romanticism. their big confessions and period drama-esque speeches and, yeah, i do think in a way jess was asking rory to marry him in 4x21. come with me. let’s get married. luke and rory both being the most important people in their lives. literati+javajunkie where they are all melding into each other, and luke is rory and lorelai is jess but on the surface level dynamic luke is jess and lorelai is rory and they are all each other. on accident. by sheer nature of making jess as a character for the sole purpose of interfering with luke and lorelai’s relationship (which means he is important narratively to them both) and by making him rory’s love interest/foil (because ASP casted him before she even had the idea for the character) you have now made an accidental blending of them all together. he is like a skeleton key of a character. Okay. okay.

[noirtek]

tonight i’m thinking about how when they put scott patterson in the cube trap it was 100% fully functional. like yeah no don’t worry i mean we couldn’t think up a way to like. FAKE drown you so we’re gonna drown you for real. just flail around whenever you think you’re about to pass out and we’ll figure out how to drain it mkay :]. you can tell so much love goes into the franchise because if it didn’t half the actors would be dead

[fanhackers]

The End of Reading (?)

There have been a lot of academic books and high-journalism opinions about the end of English Literature as a discipline or, even more alarming, the end of Reading itself.  As both an English professor and a fan studies person, I take these claims with a grain of salt.  Regarding literature as a field - well, there might be fewer English literature majors, but most students still want to take literature courses as part of their undergraduate degree, and I think many people still want to be guided in their reading towards stuff that is good.  And capital R-Reading, from what I can see, isn’t in as much jeopardy as people think. 

In his recent article, The Reading Crisis, A.O. Scott agrees,explaining that people have always worried about the state of reading, particularly where the kids are concerned:

Nowadays parents and other concerned adults worry that young people don’t read or love reading enough. Their counterparts in the 18th and 19th centuries were apt to fret that the young loved reading too much. 

And as someone who’s spent much of my life in fanfiction reading and writing communities, I’ve never been worried that young people aren’t reading. They may be reading different things than people expect, but let’s face it: most people aren’t reading Paradise Lost (or at least not every day) and most stuff on the NY Times Best Sellers List isn’t anything particularly thought provoking or improving (the NYT Book Review of the same week as Scott’s essay is topped by the likes of James Patterson and John Grisham etc. I personally find fanfiction–or at least, the fanfiction stories I finish reading, which isn’t all of them–infinitely more thought provoking and improving!) 

Scott concludes his essay by wandering into fannish territory, using D&D to describe some different ideas of reading and readers:

If you’ll forgive a Dungeons and Dragons reference, it might help to think of these types of reading as lawful and chaotic. Lawful reading rests on the certainty that reading is good for us, and that it will make us better people. We read to see ourselves represented, to learn about others, to find comfort and enjoyment and instruction. Reading is fun! It’s good and good for you. Chaotic reading is something else. It isn’t bad so much as unjustified, useless, unreasonable, ungoverned. Defenses of this kind of reading, which are sometimes the memoirs of a certain kind of reader, favor words like promiscuous, voracious, indiscriminate and compulsive. Those terms, shadowed by connotations of pathology and vice, answer a vocabulary of belittlement — bookworm, bookish, book-smart — with assertions of danger. Bibliophilia is lawful. Bibliomania is chaotic.

I am both a lawful and chaotic reader–though chaotic reading is the most fun, isn’t it? :D

–Francesca Coppa, Fanhackers volunteer

[moonyflesh]

made this and printed it out for my planner but i thought someone might want it so here 🥂

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

#Staring At The Love Of Your life At Town Meetings Like

[alexandraisyes]

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Oh, this is such a hard one what the fuck Lemon. Also hi lemon. I love you lemon.

I don't have just one, but let me list my favorites.

The Dark Tower (Stephen King)

Earthsea (Ursula K Le Guin)

The Dark Is Rising (Susan Cooper)

The Chronicles of Prydain (Llyod Alexander)

The Time Quintet (Madeleine L'Engle)

The Hunger Games (Susan Collins)

Between Earth and Sky (Rebecca Roanhorse)

The Giver (Lois Lowrey)

Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

A Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

1984 (George Orwell)

The Maze Runner (James Dashner)

Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

Divergent ( Veronica Roth)

Uglies (Scott Westerfield)

The Fifth Wave (Rick Yancey)

Witch and Wizard (James Patterson)

The Mortality Doctrine (James Dashner)

Bag of Bones (Stephen King)

Gone (Micheal Grant)

Hobbit + Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien)

This is just a very short list of books I love so much, there's so many more that I can't remember off the top of my head, I've probably read nearly 1000 books in my lifetime already lol.

But these ones really do live in here rent-free, and I love yapping about them. They're so so so fucking good, and I suggest giving them a read if you haven't. As one can tell, I enjoy all sorts of different fiction, haha, and I love different types of stories.

Also, any underlined books have a link to a site where you can read/download them for free! I only included links to complete series, some of the books on the internet archive require you to have a (free) account to access the content. The empty ones are mostly series, you can find the books separately but I didn't want weird links so I left them alone.

Ask related to this ask game! Would love to get more asks related to said ask game sent my way!

📖 Fave book

[trypoed]

Currently watching Gilmore Girls, and I swear Scott Patterson can't do anything but look annoyed. Explains a lot about Strahm (not that I'm complaining)

[lesbianaerith]

tell us your top 5 Saw traps and top 5 fictional characters for the ask game <3

Top 5 Saw traps, with 1 being my favorite:

5. Eyeball Vacuum. This one shot up pretty high in my personal ranking even though it's a dream sequence, purely because of the atmosphere of the scene. I love the way it's shot, I love John's tape speech full of jokes, I love the way this scene really makes the VIEWER feel trapped and suffocated. It's just so well done in my opinion and it's my favorite in Saw X for sure. Also the music is so good.

4. Water Cube. I just think the practical effects are neat. They really made Scott Patterson do all that. They pourt wader on him. The visual of Strahm's head in the box in the darkness is so cool to me and I just love that he "cheats" the trap depending on where you stand on Hoffman leaving the pen there on purpose. I think players should be allowed to cheat more in Saw it's enriching (for me.)

3. Shotgun Collar. There's yuri. There's tension. Lynn's trap is such a fun one even if it's totally not rigged in her favor. I really like the traps where they aren't just some 60 second one-and-done. And if Lynn had survived this one, her scars would be more mental than physical. Much like Amanda really! Cut a guy open to stop your head from exploding, sounds a lot like Mandy's trap but with a lot more work involved.

2. SHOTGUN CAROUSEL <3 It's the fun, it's the whimsy, it's making the guy who chooses who lives and dies... do that. It's the tension between William Easton and his employees. It's the realization of the last guy to die when the second woman is saved. Shotgun carousel I love you forever.

1. The bathroom. The original. Classic. Simple. Sexy. I like slow burn traps which is why the carousel is so high. I need everyone involved to truly absorb the situation they're in and eat each other alive trying to get out. Or maybe... they fall in love. Anything can happen in these kinds of traps. Beautiful. They got married on that disgusting tile.

Top 5 fictional characters:

5. Aerith. FFVII.

4. Roxas. Kingdom Hearts.

3. Amanda Young. Saw.

2. Lightning Farron. FFXIII.

1. Cloud Strife. FFVII.

I was going to write long explanations for why they're all my favorite but I've already written too much. My favorite characters can rotate and change sometimes, but Cloud gets the top spot considering he's the character that got me into FF as a series. Roxas has taken Axel's place as my favorite KH character, and Aerith and Tifa are always fighting for my favorite female FFVII character but right now I'm feeling Aerith. Lightning is of course a close second to Cloud. And Amanda my beloved.