#it actually made 0 sense in the script if you read it

[stormbcrn]

i was just reminded that the show runners called daenerys her satanic majesty in the s8 script and i'm 🙄🙄🙄

[sapphire-weapon]

okay wow thanks for the explanation on the suppressant. i didn't know it was written that long ago. and how did you find it that quick anyway?

but also, do you think the writers intended it to be read that way? i know RE4R's story is good, but for the writers to be so subtle about it, they gotta be amazing at writing and delivering and i dont think anybody who writes the story for RE is at that level yet.

it's not that i dont want to believe in that take, but i also read ur post about how u dont apply "death of the author" and i just think "do the writers actually think like this? it wouldn't wrong for us to think this way but do they think of it like that?"

so i found it quickly because it's in my meta analysis tag. i'm very careful with that tag and only use it for posts that i think raise important points that i might want to reference later. this was one of them.

and i actually love the second part of this ask.

i don't personally feel that RE4make's writing is that sophisticated. it's sophisticated for RE -- but there are so many other games that have such better storytelling. SH2, spec ops: the line, hades, alan wake, disco elysium -- just off the top of my head -- are so rich in storytelling and so creative with how they convey it. even the evil within -- which was also a mikami game -- had an incredibly dense story that took effort and grit to fully unpack.

literally all that hirabayashi did with RE4make was hear mikami's pleas to fix the story, look at it, go "how can i do this without fucking up the gameplay loop or structure?" and decide that the easiest way to do it was by putting an emotional throughline in the game centered on leon and ashley's relationship -- which made sense to do, because that also lines up with the gameplay contrivance that the game is centered on.

he's also been working on RE since 0, so he's intimately familiar with these characters and the possibilities they hold. he was RE6's producer, so he knows that suicidal ideation is a part of leon's character -- just as an example. because it's in RE6 that leon admits to having been suicidal in the past.

we also know that he loves fairy tales. he wrote RE5's script, and RE5 is a modern horror fairy tale. sheva even has an alternate costume literally called "fairy tale." and, at its core, RE4 has the basic plot of a classic fairy tale. the Hero storms the castle, slays the Dragon, and saves the Princess. it's so easy to convert that into a more Proper fairy tale by tweaking the relationship between leon and ashley.

and the romance tropes and references he uses are very rudimentary. like, if you look at my posts, it's like... romeo & juliet and sleeping beauty. this is hardly a romance aficionado's deep dive into the romance genre.

RE4make is babby's first step into deeper storytelling in the video games medium.

so i really don't think that it's a stretch to say that this was his intention.

if you want to be really anal and pedantic about it, you can say that his intention was to make the story into something coherent and fluid, and the romance just happened to be a byproduct of that because that was the easiest thing he could reach for, but like.

to use the structure of romance stories and to consistently follow the imagery and symbolism and references of classic romances -- his reason for doing it doesn't matter. the fact remains that he did it on purpose, and it's reflected in the final product, and so that's what the story is.

i said this in another post, so i'll just paste it here:

So, sure. You could look at RE4make as a story about a man who’s just doing his job and saves the president’s daughter because idk he’s a badass and that’s just what he does. And he overcomes his trauma about Raccoon City because he actually saved a person’s life finally, and it wouldn’t have mattered who it was; it just happened to be Ashley. Sure. You could. But you miss the fucking point of what the storyteller(s) were trying to do. You miss the intention of the developers paying homage to RE4OG being such a huge part of so many people’s childhoods by turning the story into a fairy tale. You miss the parallels of Leon becoming a broken husk of a person because of failing re: Ada, and Leon finding his smile and his kindness again through Ashley. It leaves you with a shallow story where shit just kind of happens and Leon’s a cool dude who overcomes the odds all on his own because he’s so cool and strong. And you’ll never be able to convince me that that’s how the devs wanted their story to be read. Not with the deliberate layering of themes and imagery and allegory that they’ve folded into the narrative. And you’ll never convince me that all of this was just a coincidence, either.

[jellybeanium124]

actually you know what the more I think about that taika cameo in that shitty simpsons episode the more pissed I get. because taika and the simpsons could be so fucking good. like, early simpsons, and I mean early early, like s1-3, and taika waititi movies are like, in the same family. super early simpsons have this sort of slowness to it, this reality, this mundanity. the family struggles financially compared to the inexplicably financially comfortable simpsons of today. there's a lot more focus on childhood stories. "lisa's substitute" could be a taika waititi movie. so could "moaning lisa." "three men and a comic book," even.

and lisa? lisa would be the ideal taika protagonist. not the pop-culture-worshipping holier-than-thou-ing, zombified little-miss-know-it-all of the HD era, the real lisa simpson. this 8 year old girl who's sensitive and smart, but still a child. her father's a drunk and her mother, a kind, beautiful soul, and brilliant painter, had all her hopes and dreams crushed and remolded into homemaking and child-raising.

give! me! a! simpsons! episode! where! lisa has to come to terms with the real world at the tender age of 8!!!!

I mean like, I understand that they probably can't just let taika guest write an episode of the simpsons. or direct. directing an animated project is going to be super different from directing a life-action one anyways, who knows if he'd want to.

but the simpsons has done clever and thoughtful homages before, even recently with "barthood" (released 2015, fuck that's 9 years ago). they could've done an homage. they could've parodied his style. they could've made something thoughtful. homer and lisa stories have been some of the most touching stories on the show. or, they could've just focused on the kids and done a bart and lisa story.

but they didn't do any of that. they didn't write anything thoughtful, or creative, or even good. they wrote drivel, and racist drivel at that, with two jokes around the asian-caricature character kumiko that were genuinely painful to sit through (and this show has a history of being racist towards asian characters).

they wrote taika as a hyperactive egomaniac with no attention span and gave him 0 direction. his performance in this episode is undoubtably the worst acting performance I've ever seen from him. and like, you know, not all actors are cut out to voice act, but I don't think that's the problem here. I think the problem here is that taika read a shitty script, and it was season 35 of the simpsons so who gives a flying fuck, and he read the lines because this was a paycheck. why bother giving this project effort if nobody else was putting any effort into it either? why bother giving this project effort when they write you as the worst version of yourself, a persona that probably gives you a sense of comfort and control when you're choosing to do it, but probably doesn't feel that great when writers who don't know or care about you write it for you.

and, to be clear, I don't mind that he's the villain of the episode, or even that he wasn't written exactly as himself. like, of course it should be a persona of him on the simpsons. all celebs get a simpsons persona when they guest star as themselves. I think I just hate the fact that it's pushing a narrative that he's a shitty guy that's similar enough to his real life persona at a time where people are violently attacking him for no damn good reason. and the fact that it's poorly written with no love or care for anything. not taika, not the simpsons, not tv, not art, not anything.

[byrdiboo]

There is no sexism in Ba Sing Se

By now I think everyone has their opinions formed about the live action ATLA remake but as a non-fan I figured I'd offer my two cents to anyone still on the fence or who might be interested in a slightly less biased opinion. To clarify, I don't hate the show, I actually like hearing my friends talk about the fan theories and how they thought the various heavy subjects are handled, I just never got into it myself. Because my partner is one of those people who did get into it, I've at least seen up to the point of Kyoshi Village in both shows (ep2 Netflix, ep4 original). One of the things I've seen most people excited about is the special effects, especially the bending. I will say, it looks...fine. I'm not up on my fighting styles but the choreography seems decent. The effects are nothing groundbreaking - we've had these water and fire sims for at least 10 years - but it's definitely not awful to look at...when you can see it. Way too much of the show (ie more than 0%) utilizes the inexplicably popular "someone forgot to turn the lights on when filming" lighting technique and "shakeycam meets too-many-cuts" editing with motionblur out the ass for good measure (some of the opening scenes are on youtube, judge for yourself). At least all two of the creatures we get to actually look at look awesome. Perhaps the biggest thing I've seen talked about is the changes to the characters themselves. I will start by saying the actors deserve no ill will, they're clearly doing their best with a subject they love and a script written by people who thought ATLA should read like GoT. Aang and the others have a few goofy moments thrown in to keep people happy but for the most part he plays the part of Main Character Boy while the others are The Support Characters, rather than three children in extraordinary times doing what they think makes sense. This is where my knowledge of Aang and Katara is lacking, but I do want to talk about Sokka cuz his changes (rightly) had a lot of people worried (and a lot of his character arc is pretty obvious from ep 1, rather than revealed past the point I've seen). They didn't just tone down his sexism, they removed it entirely, taking him from an obnoxious but teachable idiot to a generic annoying dudebro. Maybe this is just me, but I was endlessly annoyed that they took away his sexism without addressing the things that made him sexist in the first place. After being told by the leaderly elderly matriarch character about the fire nation attacks wiping out most of the village, we are told Sokka is how he is because he was appointed the village leader at 13 for...reasons. So the village is still sexist enough to declare a 13 year old boy leader over the woman everyone already looks up to, but this didn't affect his character in any meaningful way, I guess? And for those looking forward to the Kyoshi warriors, you can go ahead and put those hopes down. The warriors themselves get minimal action time before Deus Ex Kyoshi-ghost-possession (yes, really) deals with the fire nation attackers for them. As for the love interest, they took what was a solid moment of "sexist gets ass beat by woman, begs woman for training, learns woman can do stuff too, ends up liking and respecting woman so hard she reciprocates" into the most bland "popular girl falls for cute boy at school" complete with eyelash fluttering, shy-can't-look-at-yous, and the most vomit-inducing "training" scene I've seen in a long time. No lessons learned, no character growth achieved, but hey they got rid of sexism or whatever. All this to say, I'm willing to give live action some passes, but personally I don't think this one's even worth a hate watch. I won't tell you to hate it, it does have a few moments of brilliance, but they're the glitter on a turd imo and Netflix doesn't deserve to be rewarded with your watch time. Despite my misgivings, the show is (supposedly) still getting at least mixed reviews from fans and non fans alike, so if you've bothered to see it I'm curious what you thought the remake (or my impression) got right or wrong.

[wench-and-jezebel]

NCIS Reaction: Sub Rosa

Wench (@scripted-downfall) reacts [with (maybe) occasional asides by Jezebel (@typicalopposite)]

Post-episode EDIT: I’m so sorry for the person I become in this reaction, but it’s really not my fault, I swear.

BREAKING NEWS BULLETIN: SNACK UPDATE!!!  This evening’s refreshments include: apple soda and ice cream!  Ya girl’s eating healthy, for sure.

Jezebel: ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ Wot!? Normal snack foods 👀 le gasp Wench: 'Tis true.  But the flavors Do Not Match, btw.  I know this going in Jezebel: ☠️☠️☠️ what are the flavors ma’am Wench: Well, apple soda, duh… And mint chocolate chip Jezebel: *typing* Wench: THERE IS A REASON, OKAY?! Jezebel: Meh. Not too bad. The apple soda is still not my cup of tea. ☠️ Wench: It just tastes like apple sparkling fake champagne.  The fake bubbly you can get so kids can have champagne without the alcohol?  You know what I mean? Jezebel: No ☠️ Wench: Well, anyway.  At this point, apple soda is my NCIS reaction drink.  Jezebel: ☠️☠️☠️☠️ I love it Wench: So I was going to have ice cream as a dessert because I felt like it, and then I was like.  Welp.  Guess I gotta now. Jezebel: Ah post break up ice cream gorging Wench (simultaneously): I'm not sure it’s fair to stick my personal life into our reactions, but otherwise I'd make a joke about the obligatory show-and-ice-cream-post-break-up binge- Wench (after): Nope.  That’s it.  It's going in now. Jezebel: ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ Wench: Just to clarify for anyone reading this and possibly getting concerned: it was actually quite civil and very mutual, so there’s no actual emotional trauma involved.  Indeed, we just spent an hour chatting on the phone post-break-up and we’re still friends.  :)  Jezebel and I just do dark humor pretty regularly, so it kinda… made sense.

Okay, on to the reaction!

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"Sweet cheeks," huh?

A HAZARD DIAMOND.  WAIT, JEZEBEL, PAUSE; I WANNA READ THE THING.  I know how to do the thing!!!  [lol, okay]  SO.  Crash course on reading these!  Four lil diamonds, right?  Red, blue, yellow, white?  [yes]  Red = flammability; 0 = not at all flammable.  Yellow = reactivity; 0 = very stable.  Blue = health hazard; 4 = DEADLY!!!  And white = specific hazard; I think corrosive is pretty self-explanatory aslkdfj  SO.  These vats are.  Concerning.  [Ah! 👀👀👀😂  Well I have been educated in case I ever come across these ☠️]

Please don't spill, please don't spil- WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT THE CORROSIVE!!!!  [Ackkk!]

A body! WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT THE DEADLY!!!!?!?!?  [Ack]

MCGEE!!!!  I HAVE HEARD SO MUCH!!!!  [He hassss arriveddddd]

Kate being mean (affectionate) to Tony... seems to be decently friendly though :)

Spilling seems to be a trend of the episode, I see.

If it's not coffee, wth is it?

HYDROFLUORIC!?!?!? ACK

Oop- sketch date with McGee?  That's how Tony flirted with Kate, just saying.  And she was trying to throw up on a crime scene too

WAIT!  GIBBS/KATE PARALLEL!!!  TONY JUST GAVE MCGEE A RULE TO FOLLOW ON HIS FIRST CASE!  LAKSDJF;LKAJFDS

McGee's so cute alskdjf  He's endearingly awkward

Tony is indeed picking on McGee, I see  [😂😂😂😂]

Abbyyyyy, my beloved  [You’re going to like ducky’s new assistant when he comes]

Maybe he just had a dolphin-tail birthmark, ever think of that?!?!  [☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️]

They're tuning out Ducky again :(

MCGEE AND TONY ARE GIVING EACH OTHER ONCE-OVERS!!!  DID YOU SEE THAT?!?!  [Yes]

Poor McGee.  He was just trying to help and Gibbs was so mean and for what :(  

[Tonyyyy enjoying this]  adsflkjadsflkj it was just seeing McGee nose-to-nose with someone and the Thoughts it brought up

"Spec-a-la-tive" is fun pronunciation

"The presence of a woman on a submarine is a tremendous inconvenience"  Buddy's sounding like Our Flag Means Death!Frenchie.  [☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️]  “Because women have crystals in their body, and the crystals attract demons, and the demons attract misfortune.”  [😂😂😂😂 Kate’s a mermaid]

Gibbs gonna go off?

Gibbs gonna go off.

Gibbs gonna go off!!!!

GIBBS GONNA GO OFF!!!!

Kate has no trust in her superior, holy hell.  And stop being a bitch to Tony to make yourself look better, holy hell.  I get she was pissed, but.  Don't tear down your team to build yourself up.

She's getting practice landing on these carriers alksdjf

[Nope.  I’ll just go sip my tea and shave my legs and not go on the submarine]

Wait.  WAIT.  This means Tony and McGee are on land together.  Buddies better work together :)

HOLD UP IS THAT AARON?!!? THAT'S AARON!!!  OMG I LOVE HIM!!! (Aaron Pierce from 24)

Betting on submarine pseudo-chicken; did I mention I love Aaron? (or whatever his name is in this) aslkdfj

Abby and Ducky, my beloveds once more

TANDOORI!  My man has good taste.  [I’ve never had it]  My woman (Jezebel) does not have good taste

[I could never.  Never.  NEVEERRRR.  Get on a submarine.]  'Cause you're scared of drowning?  Or a different-  [Have I told you I’m deathly afraid of the water?]  Ah  [Yes.  Ackkkkk]

WAIT I KNOW THIS DUDE TOO.  idk, I can’t focus on filmography rn.

I.  would (probably) not wear Abby's collar, this time.

"You getting lonely down there all by yourself, hon?"  "Oh, I'm not alone; I'm with Special Agent McGee!"

Tony jealousssss  [☠️☠️☠️☠️]  "What's she like?  She sounds cute."  "Not your type... We'll never speak of this again"  [☠️☠️☠️☠️  Shessss not your type I am]  

This episode summarized: Among Us.  NO WAIT LITERALLY; THE ACID LITERALLY LEFT BEHIND A LITTLE HUNK OF MEAT WITH BONE THO

[Well hell the last time I hyperfixated on this show I didn’t write. Lord help me]  Whoops :) 

[“Iiii gotcha Jimmy”  His drawl]  I told you I love Aaron!!!

adsflkj the lil periscope

This dude was in The Killing, I think.  And a Criminal Minds

Poor Tony

Ducky's bow tie and suspenders are adorable

He and Abby are so cute, plz

HE'S SO CUTE!  Ducky, I love you [😂😂😂😂😂]

And Abby actually listens to Ducky

Tony flirting with both the Lieutenant and McGee in the same conversation

ACK!?!?!?  PAUSEEEEEE  [😂😂😂😂😂]  "You don't need my permission to ask her a question... unless you want to ask her out on a date."  "No, sir.  Not my type."  SIR!??!?!?!

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It's time for my midpoint reaction but I warn you now that my mind is swamped by one particular interaction.  Gibbs’ rudeness is forgotten; Kate’s bitchiness has been abandoned; Abby and Ducky, while cute, have been momentarily swept aside; and, in their place, only one thing remains…

TONY AND MCGEE, I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE.

*clears throat*  Sorry.  I had to say it.  Yes, this will be a trend. Yes, it will also likely be somewhat subtle since I know that’s not everyone’s ship.  But. Jezebel was right that I’d pick up on this immediately.  I will still mostly be focused on writing, characterization, and plot.  It's just.  Not my fault if the characterization is that Tony is bi as all get out.  *shrugs*  Whoops.  The once-overs.  The flirting in exactly --- exactly --- the same way Tony flirts with Kate.  The "not my type" conversations.  It's incontrovertible, I'm afraid  [😂😂😂😂  I love it]

Okay, but, back to the basics… Gibbs standing up for Kate makes me happy, and I did appreciate the continuity in him sending her out of the room to do it; for once, it’s showing that he both a) cares about his team members and b) doesn’t want to say as much in front of them, and this diminishes my previous complaints a bit.  I need to start keeping track of who writes/wrote the good episodes, tbh.  [iirc he does it for all of them at some point]  That’s good.  Wish it were more consistent, but I’m happier than I was.  [Idk when tho ☠️]

I don't know if there's much more to add, tbh.  I had so much to say and then.  Welp.  McGee.  He thwarted all of it with one once-over and a subtle euphemism alksdjf  [I think now that McGee is here you will enjoy it all a little more]  Judging by things as they stand, I do think I like him a lot.  He's rising to join the upper echelon of Tony, Abby, and Ducky, ngl.  [Because the banter between Tony and McGee is 😙👌🏼]  The “banter”?  Is that what they're calling it these days?  [😂😂]  Y'all, I'm hilarious, btw.  Just saying.  [I think McGee is the only one still on the show. Maybe ducky too. But idk]  Oof.  Is.  Is Tony dead :(  [No 🙂]  SICK

With that settled, I’m good to go on.

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Tony looking impressed

THE FONDNESS IN THAT SMILE!!!  AND TONY GIVING ANOTHER ONCE-OVER!!!

Yes, Kate, that's why, keep up.  [☠️☠️☠️☠️]

“Un-hydrate”  I'm using that now

McGee, you're such a rule follower salkdjf  That's gonna change  [O-kay… McGeestiel]

ALKSDJF;LAKSDJF HE'S SO CUTE "PLAYING FOOTBALL" ALSKDFJALSKDFJA;LSKDFJ;LAKSDFJ;LAKSDFJ  I CAN'T  TONY, MY BELOVED  YOUR HAIR DID NOT SURVIVE BUT I LOVE IT

alskdjf Pause.  I.  I have so much to say.  Fuck.  The number of pauses we have to take is directly proportional to the number of interactions between Tony and McGee.  [☠️☠️☠️☠️  Yeah, I’m feeling the fics a brewing like indigestion]

I’m just.  THEY’RE SO CUTE OKAY.  I can't.  I can't verbalize this.  I'm half-hyperventilating rn because I'm laughing so hard.  [😂😂😂😂]  I had to pause because my screen was shaking too much.  [Oh also you got the first McGeek]  Yesssss!  McGee looked so endearingly confused  He even had a trench coat on, and I kept waiting for him to tilt his head in confusion  [😂😂😂😂]  I’m in danger.  Actually, I'm past in-danger.  I'm gone.  It's the end.  [NEW SHIP UNLOCKED]  I.  I can't even deny.  They're so fucking cute and it's the first episode.  [😂😂😂😂 I love it]  (To the people who haven't heard me rant about ships before, these are the conversations where my language gets about 50% more foul-mouthed.  I don't really use the f-word unless I'm really pissed or squealing over a ship.  Hint: I'm not pissed rn.)  [😂😂😂😂 isss true. Jezebel confirmed ✔️]

Thompson sus, man.  But it's just because of the characters he usually plays, I'm pretty sure.

Oof, juvie kid.  Hope his superior didn't just hear that and get angry.

COB be angry

"I make it a practice not making snap judgements"  THEY NEED TO LEARN FROM THIS IDEA

Come on, Kate; it's Gibbs.  He's aggravating

Miracles are what Abby does, duh.

HE LOOKS SO MUCH LIKE CAS  [I KNOW!  MY MIND IS DISEASED NOW!  For the people not watching, btw, McGee's crouched down in a tan trench coat in exactly the way Cas crouches.  It’s spooky similar.]

“Under the bookcase” = secret room plz

YESSSSS SECRET ROOM!!!!  SUCCESSFUL PREDICTION: ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED 

Oop- an underground activist alskdfj  How risque  *hand-to-forehead faints*

lkasdjf;lkasdjf;lkasjdflksadjflkasdjf;lkasdjf I'm sorry, but the whale video has me crying  [That whales on drugs]

Tony hovering over McGee's shoulder as he MIT-genius-types away at his computer is Dean hovering over Ash's shoulder as he MIT-genius-types away at his computer coded.  And Dean looks damn happy about Ash asking him to call him later, so.  *wink wink nudge nudge*  [😂😂😂 issss very true!!!]  (I said I'd be subtle, but I'm being about as subtle as these undertones --- er, sorry.  subtext --- have been, so.  This is fair, methinks.)  [☠️☠️☠️☠️]

For people who didn't go to college at Johns Hopkins like McGee here... Jock + Geek = romcom trope  [Yep!  Gotta love it]

[Oh look at that… The agents were right.  Also.  My.  Soul.  Would.  Be.  GONE.]

Oop.  Kate and Gibbs be a bit close.  [GIBBS!]

“Emergency Message: Drew.  End message” Take fewer words, why don't you?

Oh, shit.  [Well, shit.]  Buddy ded.  [Yep]

Dishonorably discharged for what???  I wanna knowwwww

Poor Tony.  Gibbs hung up on him :(  [Shhh he got his lickity boo]  Yer not wrong :)

I. Would not.  Go back under.  I.  Do.  Not.  Trust.

... [Take it away Wench]  NOPE.  NOPE THAT’S IT.  I’M SORRY.  I TRIED FOR SUBTLE.  BUT THEY GAVE UP ON BEING SUBTLE SO NOW I’M GIVING UP ON BEING SUBTLE BECAUSE OH MY HOLY HELL.  I’M JUST GONNA COPY THIS SCRIPT IN, WORD FOR FREAKING WORD, OKAY?!

ABBY: So what's Agent McGee like?TONY: Ah, like most newbies. Quiet, green, gullible.ABBY: Bi.TONY: I don't think so.ABBY: No, Tony, the canister. It has a bi-metal trigger.TONY: Aha. So it's turned on by either...either...what?

[And now Tony’s fumbling]  WHEN I TELL YOU.  THAT THE BREATH LEFT ME.

I was legit sitting here planning to make a quiet, subtle comment about “oh, Tony, why you acting so awkward about telling Abby what McGee’s like” or something.  (Actually, what I sent to Jezebel — right after the initial question — was "He's gonna say: 'Hot'”, and I was two seconds away from putting that joke-and-just-a-joke into the reaction and letting it go.)  And then.

AND THEN.

SIR!?!??!  HELLO!?!?!?!?!?  OH MY FUCKING GOD!?!??!  SIR WHY WAS YOUR BRAIN ON THE MAN’S SEXUALITY; PLEASE FREAKING EXPLAIN!????!?  I.  HELLO!?!?!??  WHAT?!?!?!  JUST.  lkajsd;lfkajsd;flkajsd;lfkjasd;flkjas;ldkf

Fuck.  I-  This-  I just- AHHHHH!?!?!??!

[You good over there?]  NO.  [Wait ahhh! This would be the first ship if you wrote for it’s not ooc to write them fun loving and flirty!!! Omg!!]  I KNOW!!! I FUCKING KNOW!!!  [OMG]  I- Fuck.  FUCK.  [IM SO EXCITED.  And by if I mean whennnn cause ma’am I demanddddd]  OKAY.  PROMPTS ARE OFFICIALLY BEING ACCEPTED!  [🙂]

Okay.  Okay.  I’m done, I think.  I just-  When Jezebel told me that I’d end up shipping them, I figured she meant behind the scenes.  Subtext and- and inferences and stuff.  NOT THIS.  So I needed a moment.  I’m sorry to anyone uninterested; it’s reallyyyy not my fault.  Feel free to skim past.

ON WITH THE REACTION.

Tony stuttering is so cute.

Abby: "is Agent McGee cute?"  Tony: *Avoids the question*  [Awww Abby!]

Kate.  I don't think "he was a whacko" counts as evidence.

Bro, why.  Wh- Why would you trust the random ice cream delivery?  I.  Like, making room for the body makes sense.  But also.  WHY WOULD YOU TRUST IT.

Wait, how tf do they know about the cold thing?  How did the message get through; I'm so confused?  Wouldn't they have to surface?

Also, the squishing/sloshing noise of the body is killing me

I hope the sarin being released in this way doesn't, you know, affect the ecosystem

alksjfdlkasdjf the ice cream is definitely important

Ooh, I like Gibbs' coat

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This reaction here jumps to the end of the episode for the end reaction because my brain decided to error out.  Literally.  For reference, the pertinent snippet of our Discord conversation:

So, um.  To condense the end into one big reaction is difficult.  It would result in a keyboard smash.  As you can see in the photo above because, well, that’s what happened.  Let me add in the script again.

TONY: Didn't they teach you how to use email at MIT?KATE: You graduated from MIT?GIBBS: And Johns Hopkins.TONY: I didn't tell him.GIBBS: What are you doing here?MCGEE: Oh, I've, ah got a lunch date with Abby.TONY: I gotta see this. I'll take you to her.MCGEE: Thanks.TONY: Thanks what?MCGEE: Tony?TONY: Sir. I already warned you - Abby's not your type.MCGEE: Well, I'd like to find out for myself.TONY: Yeah, listen kid, ah...I don’t wanna hurt your feelings, but you're not exactly Abby's type.MCGEE: I've taken care of that. Remember that urge you were talking about? I went with Mom.KATE: I wonder what he said to make Tony speechless.GIBBS: He told him he got a tat on his ass.

I- AH?!!?  I just.

Look.

Tony teasing McGee about his resume.  Tony going, “I didn’t tell him” when Gibbs mysteriously knows Mcgee’s resume too.  Tony insisting on escorting McGee to meet Abby.  Tony insisting that Abby and McGee wouldn’t get along for no reason whatsoever.  McGee able to leave Tony — Tony — speechless.  I just-  Hehh!?!??!?!

I’m sorry, McGee, but you’re not allowed to stay on the show.  It’s just… it’s not allowed.  This is posing a serious health and safety risk to Reactor Wench of Perdition Reactors and she’s not happy.  And Reactor Jezebel has refused to allow her to die, so this isn’t allowed.  Repeated breathing-halts can cause health risks.

I’m sooooo sorry to anyone reading this without any interest in this whatsoever, but.  Um.  It’s really not my fault, okay?  I’m a slave to the muse.  And the muse… made herself clear.  I might return to normal again.  Maybe.  At some point.  [I just ☠️☠️☠️ I love how all the reactions have been super character critical and analyzing deeper meaning.  And then he said McGee in the beginning of this one and you were like Ohp… who now !?  And you just been gone ever since.]  Look, IN MY DEFENSE.  I am going to give the deeper analysis too.  But when I’m deprived of oxygen, I tend to focus on the cause, ya know?  [This is from a very serious series. Where someone was murdered btw]  I… don't care.  Body?  Ugh.  Eh.  Who cares.  Derivative.  Jock + Geek = <3?  Fascinating.  Fresh.  Beloved.

“I hate procedural cop shows. There's like three hundred of them on television and they're all the freaking same. It's ooh, plane crashed here—oh shut up.”  - Dean Winchester, re. CSI

😍 - Dean Winchester, re. Dr. Sexy

Translation: repetitive procedural show = blah; repetitive procedural show with Romantic Interactions = amazing.  See?  It just… It just lifts the show’s quality, you know?  

ANYWAY.

On to my usual deeper analysis side of things.  Gibbs was decent in this, albeit grouchy.  Still not sure what he meant by “that’s not coffee”, though.  I thought that maybe he was going to use the pattern of the spill to figure something out about the acid?  But they basically forgot about the acid-dead-body-thing as soon as the tattoo was found, so I guess not.  Kate was cool — and, btw, her banter has been getting better… her thing with Tony at the end of this episode was kinda sweet, actually, with the “they make you the sub mascot?” “is this your way of saying you missed me?” exchange — and, with the exception of that bit at the beginning (about which I commented above), she continues to rise higher in my estimation.  Abby and Ducky are still adored; same with Tony.  Shockingly — since nothing about the earlier reaction could possibly have suggested this — McGee has already skyrocketed up there too.

Character ranking, as it stands now, is as follows:

Tony ≈ McGee ≈ Abby ≈ Ducky > Kate ≈ Gibbs (except that Kate is just a touch better than Gibbs due to last episode)

The writing seemed mostly decent!  The storyline seemed to mostly hold together — it did kinda annoy me that the acid body just kinda… dropped off the face of the map?  But otherwise — and I thought it was pretty well-done overall, actually.  [They yeeted the man out in a torpedo ☠️😂]  Yes, but it was a valid way to get rid of the gas.  Only issue that I see is that it might have ruined the whole, you know, habitat.  But I don’t know enough about sarin to be sure one way or the other.  And the ice cream was kinda out of nowhere — and not what I’d expect from a sub — but I guess they had vodka, so maybe it’s not completely bizarre.  I did like the reveal of why they were eating the ice cream; that was nicely understated, if that makes sense?  [To make room for the body?]  Yeah.  Like, they said it outright, but it was also... dark and quiet in a way most stuff isn't?  And delayed; they didn't outright say "oh, we gotta put the body somewhere."  They acted like it really was something they didn’t want to talk about.  [Yeah that was hilarious.]

Okay, I think that’s a wrap, folks!  Sorry for the screeching; this was.  Unexpected. See y’all next time (and please stick with us despite me being unhinged)!

[alolanroy]

2024 Watch Thread-Part 3

Part 2: https://www.tumblr.com/alolanroy/743462089395470336/2024-watch-thread-part-2?source=share

Lensman (anime): Sometimes lost media is bad. I'm glad it was found, but it still wasn't good 3/10

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: It got a few sensible chuckles out of us, but I'm glad they figured out how to make comedies funny after this. 5/10

Zombie vs Ninja (aka The Undertaker of Sohwa Provence). A South Korean parody of Chinese Kung-fu movies billed as ninjas for the US market. Imagine a turducken if every layer was racism. -5/10

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor: While my PC and Unreal were fighting for their lives, this janky game blew me away. Rarely do we get sequels that truly feel iterative, let alone head and shoulders better than their predecessors. It continually fed me new toys and mechanical twists. I think I'll remember this as both a fun action game and as an outstanding metroidvania. It made me remember that I liked Star Wars, and for that I am thankful. 9/10

Protodoid Delta: I see what they are trying to do here, but it just wasn't fun. just a lot of generic platforming and combat that didn't feel right. Weak buster shots and a three-hit melee I didn't find reliable do not a combat system make. 3/10

Blades: Not quite funny enough for the comedic premise, but for my friends who hadn't seen jaws, it still was enough of a thriller to hold their interests -5/10

Monster Squad: I feel like if this came out when I was a kid, this would have been my favorite movie of all time. The fun monster madness and tone was almost enough to distract me from how the horrible pan'n'scan always found a way to crop out the black buddy-cop, even when he was the one speaking. 7/10

Star Wars The Bad Batch: In all fairness, I stopped only a few episodes in, but this just felt like Dave Filloni playing with his action figures. No real tension, just a parade of his OCs talking to each other, mostly with the same voice. I don't really care to find out if it gets better, because all I've seen is people get excited that more characters from Clone Wars show up. I want a good show, not reminders of a good show. 4/10

Goldeneye: I'm glad Bond isn't quite as brutish with women as the franchise was historically, but while watching it with someone who had never seen a Bond movie before, it occurred to me how strange this movie is without the context it is trying to respond to. 6/10

Battle Star Wars: There wasn't much battle or wars in this one. The stars were allright, but I would've preferred maybe some different hallways or a second hill in the California desert. Hell, I think a second jpeg of the Earth might've gone along way. Besides one of the most funny-bad costumes I've ever seen, this was utterly forgettable. -2/10

Gundam Seed Freedom: This might actually be the most frustrating movie I have ever seen. It made me so mad that I, no joke, walked out to the lobby and stared at an arcade machine to cool off. The writing on display is insanely bad. The first half hour is a sequence of scenes where characters state their thoughts and exposit about a fanfiction-tier plot that barely makes sense. If you liked the cuck arc from Seed Destiny, you will love this movie. It doubles down on the concentric melodrama to a point where everyone has to just be cartoonishly mean-spirited and has the same ending as Destiny, down to the macguffin. 0/10

The Intruder (1962): The day of Roger Corman's passing, this film came up a few times. I took a chance and within a minute and a half I knew this would be a winner. I've never seen a film more quickly and elegantly set up that a character might as well be the devil. Shatner is absolutely fucking evil in this role and it is GREAT. The more I read about this film the more ballsy I realize it was. allegedly this was filmed using mostly actual locals given a watered-down script. All those teens actually went through integration the year before. absolutely wild. 10/10

The Last Man on Earth (1964): Wow, I can't belive that Will Smith Movie 'I am Legend' ripped this off. *Checks Wikipedia* Oh. 7/10

Vikingdom: When people say that a movie feels like a videogame, Ithink this is what they should mean. I would describe it as Jason and the Argonauts by way of a ps3 action game. Cheap as hell, but willing to go hard at random intervals. Shoutout to the sequence in the land of the dead. 6/10

The Cat Who Wore Sunglasses: I'm no expert on Czec new wave cinema, but I think that this was pretty neat. However, I'm not sure that it really fit the mood of a Costco Pizza movie night. 7/10

Dragonball: The Magic Begins: This movie is a laugh-riot mix of good wuxia action and bursts of some laughable CG...until it slows to a crawl at Kame House for like and hour and kills all its energy. The remaster they had on Amazon was gorgeous, but uncanny since these movies aren't usually accessible in any quality. The funniest takeaway was that the production interpreted anime hair as an 80s hong kong action lady perm, so Goku ended up looking a little they/them. -7/10

Blood of Zeus Season 2: I feel as though I can't speak for it much since this is clearly part 1 of a two part story, but it certainly is cut from the Castlevania mold. It does have better forward momentum than its predecessors, but the main party feels almost auxiliary to the other plotlines. I kinda forgot what they were supposed to be doing. 6/10

Everyone is in LA: I don't think the first batch of guests really grabbed me. If this ever got the chance to 'get good' they might be on to something. 4/10

Teldryn Serious: I get what they were going for, but it didn't really work for me. On the literal side, the quest objectives for the last third broke for me. Otherwise, I felt kind of confused because I guessed what was going on before I was supposed to, so I wasn't sure why the story hadn't caught up. 4/10

The Fall of the House of Usher: I think a lot of Japanese RPGMaker and VNs owe Poe and Corman money. Entertaining, but not mind-blowing 7/10

A.D. Police: It had some real cool energy and episodes, but its sure...uh... ended. 7/10

Gundam Twilight Axis: This is a prime example of the cutoff point between a series of scenes and a story 3/10

Skyrim-Mirai: I won't judge this too harshly since I really do feel teenage wish-fulfilment radiating off of this mod. When it clicked for me that Mirai has essentially the same narrative as Serana, and the romance post-game is longer than her main quest...I knew I had to meet it it's level. Not sure I like her ambiguous age, but I chalk it up to harmless fanfiction cringe. 6/10

Jiu Jitsu: With a little editing, this could have been an all-timer martial arts vs. predator mashup movie with a cool alien costume. Nick Cage is in it for a surprising amount and the martial arts is shot pretty fun. Sadly the movie as it exists starts off poorly and gives the impression that the movie is less ambitious than it might actually be. As a result I tuned out for the first half. 4/10

Dick Tracey: The funny makeup and production design does its best, but the awful pacing kneecaps the flow it has at the start. 4/10

Year One: uuugh -3/10

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom: We really had to make our own fun on this one. Except that gnomes, those were great -4/10

Jack-Of-All-Trades!? A Day in the Life of Master Micchi: The geats cast really is at its best once the series is over. These characters are just funny to follow around without the end of the world looming. 5/10

Kamen Rider Geats: 4 Aces and the Black Fox: This would have scored a full point higher if the main villains weren't a greasy discord mod/discord kitten pair that just did not fit the sick recolor of Geats 9. The brief pre-production view of Gotchard made me sad about what we ended up getting. 5.5/10

Kamen Rider The Winter Movie: Gotchard & Geats Strongest Chemy★Great Gotcha Operation: I know getting turned into a marketable plushie is a meme and all, but this was hilarious. Until it turns into a generic Rider movie in the last third, the puppets are funny as hell and the Geats cast shines so well against the mildness of the chemies. 6/10

[mrsbsmooth]

Scripts - S7 - Episode 19 (Vicky)

Daybeds & Breakfast with Vicky

Vicky Route

You make your way outside with {0} and over to the daybeds.

{0}_FLIRTY: It’s such a perfect night!

PLAYER_HAPPY: It’s a beautiful evening.

VICKY_FLIRTY: And the two most beautiful girls in the villa are spending it together.

VICKY_FLIRTY: It makes total sense.

Flirt back

PLAYER_FLIRTY: So you think I’m beautiful?

VICKY_FLIRTY: You are stunning.

VICKY_FLIRTY: And, so am I.

VICKY_FLIRTY: It’s why we make such a good couple.

PLAYER_FLIRTY: Confidence looks good on you.

PLAYER_FLIRTY: And I can’t help but agree.

Play it cool

PLAYER_HAPPY: I see you’ve got your full charm on, Vicky.

VICKY_FLIRTY: Always for you, {0}.

VICKY_FLIRTY: It seems to me like it’s working.

PLAYER_FLIRTY: Only time will tell.

VICKY_HAPPY: That’s definitely something worth waiting for!

Friendly response

PLAYER_HAPPY: I’m glad to be out here with you, Vicky.

VICKY_HAPPY: Me too, {0}. I’m feeling pretty lucky right now.

PLAYER_HAPPY: You’re really fun to be around.

VICKY_HAPPY: You’ve got the most charm in the villa by a long way.

VICKY_HAPPY: I think we’ve got a fun night ahead.

Go deep

PLAYER_HAPPY: I’m really glad to be out here with you, Vicky.

PLAYER_HAPPY: It’s super special to be spending this evening with you.

VICKY_HAPPY: Back at you, {0}.

VICKY_HAPPY: I want to get to know you better.

PLAYER_HAPPY: We should make the most of every second.

VICKY_HAPPY: I can’t believe we’ve only known each other a couple of days.

VICKY_HAPPY: It feels like longer.

PLAYER_HAPPY: I know! It’s been so exciting.

VICKY_HAPPY: I’m a big fan of this stage.

PLAYER_HAPPY: What stage is that?

VICKY_FLIRTY: The first bit of getting to know someone.

VICKY_FLIRTY: I love all the adrenaline, learning unexpected things about each other.

VICKY_FLIRTY: It’s the best part!

VICKY_FLIRTY: What’s your favourite stage?

Definitely the first part

PLAYER_HAPPY: I love the first part too.

PLAYER_HAPPY: So much passion and excitement.

VICKY_FLIRTY: It’s the best!

VICKY_FLIRTY: Getting to know what each other’s likes…

PLAYER_FLIRTY: Do you know what I like, Vicky?

VICKY_FLIRTY: I think I’m figuring it out.

Being fully comfortable

PLAYER_HAPPY: I like it when you’re fully comfortable with each other.

VICKY_HAPPY: How long do you think that takes?

PLAYER_HAPPY: I think it depends who you’re with.

VICKY_HAPPY: Hmm. And you mean like, when you can burp in front of each other?

PLAYER_HAPPY: You’re gross.

VICKY_HAPPY: You know I’m right.

Meeting the family

PLAYER_HAPPY: I like it when it gets properly serious.

PLAYER_HAPPY: Meeting the family stage.

VICKY_SURPRISED: Wow, no way?!

VICKY_HAPPY: Actually, I can see that for you.

VICKY_FLIRTY: I bet you do really well with the parents.

PLAYER_HAPPY: I do alright.

Becoming official on socials

PLAYER_FLIRTY: Hard launching on socials of course.

PLAYER_FLIRTY: I love reading all the cute comments.

VICKY_FLIRTY: Yeah! Feel like a celeb.

VICKY_FLIRTY: Plus it’s nice to move to the next stage.

VICKY_FLIRTY: Show everyone how happy we are together.

VICKY_IDLE: Well even in this early stage…

VICKY_HAPPY: I had to make my intentions known at the last coupling.

PLAYER_SURPRISED: You definitely did that.

PLAYER_HAPPY: How are you feeling about the decision now?

VICKY_FLIRTY: I stand by it.

VICKY_FLIRTY: Best decision I’ve made so far.

VICKY_FLIRTY: Are you glad I picked you?

Very pleased

PLAYER_FLIRTY: It was a very good outcome for me.

PLAYER_FLIRTY: I was very pleased.

VICKY_FLIRTY: That’s convenient, because I aim to please.

VICKY_FLIRTY: Especially when it comes to you, {0}.

I’d rather choose for myself

PLAYER_IDLE: I’d probably rather have chosen for myself.

PLAYER_IDLE: I like being in control of my love life.

VICKY_IDLE: That’s totally fair.

VICKY_FLIRTY: But can you blame me?

VICKY_FLIRTY: I knew that I would have some serious competition!

PLAYER_FLIRTY: That’s sweet of you to say, Vicky.

I’m still deciding

PLAYER_FLIRTY: I’m still working that out.

PLAYER_FLIRTY: It’s only been a couple of days. I like to take my time.

VICKY_FLIRTY: Hopefully I can speed up that decision.

VICKY_FLIRTY: I think tonight might give me that chance.

PLAYER_FLIRTY: Do you now?

Vicky turns to you with a glint in her eye.

PLAYER_FLIRTY: Do you have something else to ask me?

VICKY_FLIRTY: Now you mention it, I was just wondering…

VICKY_FLIRTY: How would you like to spend the rest of our night together?

I want to go all the way with you

You shoot Vicky a romantic smile.

VICKY_FLIRTY: You’re really getting me excited with that look, {0}.

PLAYER_FLIRTY: Vicky, I’d like to go all the way with you.

Vicky bites her lip.

VICKY_FLIRTY: Oh I think we can make that happen.

Vicky smiles as she leans in to kiss you.

She starts softly, before building up the pressure.

She parts your lips with hers.

Your hands explore Vicky’s body as she kisses down your neck.

You remove each other's clothes at the same time, letting your bodies press against each other.

She runs her fingers all over your naked body, sending tingles of pleasure down your spine.

Her hands continue softly moving over your body.

You explore each other's bodies at the same time, both moving rhythmically.

She works her way down your body with her lips. Until she finds the perfect spot.

You run your fingers through her hair as your body ripples with electricity.

You both fall back onto the bed, out of breath.

PLAYER_FLIRTY: That was amazing.

VICKY_FLIRTY: I know.

You give Vicky a playful shove.

You snuggle into Vicky in the little spoon position and she puts her soft arms around you.

You both fall asleep under the twinkling stars.

We could do some bits

You shoot Vicky a cheeky smile.

VICKY_FLIRTY: You’re getting me excited with that look, {0}.

PLAYER_FLIRTY: I was thinking that we could do some bits…

Vicky bites her lip.

VICKY_FLIRTY: Oh I think we can make that happen.

Vicky smiles as she leans in to kiss you.

She starts softly, before building up the pressure.

She parts your lips with hers.

Your hands explore Vicky’s body as she kisses down your neck.

She runs her fingers under your bra, making you squirm with pleasure.

Her hand continues running down your body.

She expertly works her fingers, your pleasure building and building.

Finally, a rush of electricity spreads through your body.

PLAYER_FLIRTY: That was amazing.

VICKY_FLIRTY: I know.

You give Vicky a playful shove.

You snuggle into Vicky in the little spoon position and she puts her soft arms around you.

You both fall asleep under the twinkling stars.

How about a cheeky kiss?

PLAYER_FLIRTY: How about a cheeky kiss before we go to sleep?

VICKY_FLIRTY: Sounds perfect.

She closes her eyes and leans in as you kiss her.

Softly at first, your lips gently touch as she caresses your cheek.

You part for a brief moment before being drawn back into the kiss.

It’s hungrier now, full of want and passion. She holds you tight and you feel like you are one.

The moment feels like forever until she pulls away, smiling.

VICKY_FLIRTY: That never gets old. Every time feels like the first.

You snuggle into Vicky’s arms.

And gradually you both fall asleep under the twinkling stars.

Let’s cuddle and sleep under the stars

PLAYER_HAPPY: I’d really like to fall asleep under the stars in your arms.

VICKY_HAPPY: That sounds dreamy.

You snuggle into Vicky in the little spoon position and she puts her soft arms around you.

She strokes your hair and you exchange happy, romantic looks.

Comfortable and happy, you both fall asleep under the twinkling stars.

Go straight to sleep

PLAYER_HAPPY: I’m ready to fall straight to sleep.

PLAYER_HAPPY: No cuddling tonight.

{0}_IDLE: Fair enough.

You settle into the daybed and within seconds both fall asleep under the twinkling stars.

You wake up from a blissful sleep and open your eyes to another gorgeous day in the villa.

{0}_HAPPY: Good morning.

PLAYER_HAPPY: Good morning, {0}.

PLAYER_HAPPY: How did you sleep?

VICKY_HAPPY: You’re a very good sleeping partner.

PLAYER_HAPPY: Wow, that’s high praise.

VICKY_FLIRTY: I fell into a very deep sleep after our… activities.

VICKY_FLIRTY: I don’t think I’ll be able to stop thinking about last night.

VICKY_FLIRTY: It was incredible.

PLAYER_FLIRTY: It was definitely a night to remember.

PLAYER_HAPPY: It’s so peaceful out here.

VICKY_HAPPY: I know, it sounds like no one else is awake yet.

PLAYER_HAPPY: I doubt it’ll be long.

VICKY_HAPPY: Whilst we’ve still got time to ourselves, how about breakfast in bed?

PLAYER_HAPPY: What did you have in mind?

VICKY_HAPPY: I’ve got just the thing.

Vicky jumps up and heads over to the kitchen.

You take in the view around you, until you hear her footsteps.

She’s holding a plate of pastries and fruit.

PLAYER_HAPPY: Oh wow!

She hands you the plate and gets comfy next to you.

Give her a pastry

You break off a piece of pastry and give it to Vicky.

VICKY_FLIRTY: Now <i>this</i> I can get used to.

Ask for a pastry

PLAYER_HAPPY: Send some of that pastry this way.

VICKY_FLIRTY: I think I can manage that.

She passes the pastry to you.

PLAYER_FLIRTY: Thank you, Vicky! What a treat.

VICKY_FLIRTY: Anything for you.

Food fight!

You shoot Vicky a ‘butter wouldn’t melt’ look.

VICKY_HAPPY: It’s banging right?

You pick up some of the fruit and throw it right at her.

VICKY_SURPRISED: Oh! It’s like that is it?

Without any hesitation she grabs a handful off the plate and throws it right back at you.

You and Vicky have a mini food fight.

You carry on until the plate is empty and your stomach hurts from laughing.

VICKY_HAPPY: Let’s see if any of this is still edible.

She puts the plate back together so you can eat some of the salvaged bits.

Back to the villa

[bestprivateservers3]

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"Simply put, you must have patience to achieve what you need to achieve. "

Capitalizing After your server has a vast site visitors base you can start getting donations. Maybe you have definitely done this whenever you started your server and received some dollars in the process. A lot more players you have a lot more profit you will earn from donations.

Concerning private servers, via shawls by hoda mostly go in conjunction in exchange for merchandise; the player pays some cash in exchange for the item or 'tokens', which can be used to buy items ingame. This really probably the most popular approach to profiting from a personal server.

When you are given great amounts of money, do not start to neglectfulness your server, do not forget- your income is dependent in the players, and when they will leave; so will your cash flow.

Re-invest your profits within the server:

Create a good 'realm' or 'world' Redesign the website as a result of making it easier to get Provide a 3 manner system for competitors to join (3 tips "register, download, play"). Advertise your server on toplist web sites such as mmotop100. world wide web Use Google AdWords to redirect people to your website

There are quite a few methods you can use to put your profits to achieve even more players.

"Remember: Players = Money = Players"

It's all I have to give at this moment, I will be able to write an article about how it is possible to improve awareness of a server, market the application and attract cutting edge players.

[lunathehungry]

Plot Structure Analysis for Love in the Air (so far. Spoilers to Ep 6)

Wrote this for my fave subreddit. Posting here too.

Some Notes:

1. Feel free to jump in fellow romance and writing lovers if you feel my beats are placed wrong. Haven't done this in awhile and it's a lot easier to do this on a novel than a drama series.

2. Plot breakdowns can sometimes break immersion for viewers and ruin the viewing experience because your brain starts thinking analytically and you can't just ride the story wave anymore. If this is you, don't read this, treat yourself by fully experiencing the romance. You deserve it.

3. This’ll probably be long and i'm drunk. Lets goooooo

The Romance Is The Plot

I know, I know, people might be saying “what plot does LITA even have?” But these are people who forget romance novels exist, even though the genre sells so hard that it rakes in nearly double the dollars of the next closest genre (which is crime/mystery, in case you're curious).

This is not a surprise because, especially in the west, romance novels very rarely get adapted.

Can you sense my derision at western media for looking down on romance? Because it's there.

Not all romance novels are the same, some have a lot more external plot stuff.

General format:

A Plot (aka Romance Plot) = 51% to 100%

B, C, D plot (aka everything else) = 0% to 49%

Love in the Air is like, 94% romance plot, 6% everything else. These are numbers I just made up, but I feel in my drunkenness that they are 100% correct.

So What Is A Romance Plot?

It's a character focused plot, driven by 2 (or more for poly/harem) individuals who are lacking something that they find in each other in order to achieve their HEA (Happily Ever After or Happy For Now).

This means that all the tension and excitement that comes from watching the story unfold MUST come from the character's interactions and relationship progress. Each moment builds upon the next to take another step towards their HEA. Even when a character takes a step back, like Rain does when Payu bans him from visiting, it's because something needs to change for that character before they can move on in the relationship.

If you, as a viewer, do not feel the tension between the main characters and get invested in their relationship, then you will find a heavy Romance Plot very, very boring. It's like reading a mystery, but not caring what the reveal will be. You might not connect with the characters, you prefer romance's with bigger side plots, or you just aren't into romance at all.

Love in the Air relies on Payu and Rain's relationship and their interactions to drive the story. That's the only plot available to attract viewers (except for PrapaixSky fans who diligently look for crumbs each week - my heart goes out to you all). Luckily, Boss and Noeul have great chemistry and the script has a good build up of the relationship beats.

Time To Break This Plot Into Parts

Story Theme: This is easy, it's "Love always wins" (or any variation of this). This is ALWAYS the main theme for a romance, though it doesn't have to be the ONLY theme.

I'll be using Gwen Hayes' Romancing the Beat for the beats because ICONIC.

The flashforward of the race is technically a Prologue so...skip!

PHASE 1:

Intro to Rain and Intro to Payu

These first 2 beats generally introduce the character's 'regular life' before they're disrupted by each other. However, LITA has Payu and Rain run into each other immediately when Payu changes Rain's tire. Although this is a meet cute, it's not THE Meet Cute beat. It just serves to show the difference between our characters-- Rain gets a flat, doesn't know what to do and panics, but Payu is capable and friendly enough to help a stranger. It's a tease for the relationship to come, shows there's a physical attraction component, and adds to the 'nice guy' Payu persona (with some ominous musical hints that he might not be so nice).

Switch to the classroom the next day.

Rain's External Goal is introduced here, which is to date Ple. But his Internal Need is actually stated here as well, when he's talking about Biker Guy to Sky. He wants someone who'll listen to his talking and who doesn't find his exuberance annoying.

This is brought up again later in the series, when Rain worries Payu finds him annoying after telling him not to visit anymore and also when Sky tells Rain he doesn't actually find him annoying, just determined. it's the basis of Rain's character flaw/wound/desire thing.

Here we also get an inaccurate intro to Payu, described through the eyes of Ple and Sky, he's practically perfect. There are tiny clues here that this might not be the full picture, like how no one knows what business his family owns, but otherwise it's meant to lull Rain (and us) into a false impression of Payu.

Side note: This is actually why I wish they'd left out the flashforward, so that we could have really fallen for this fakeout.

Meet Cute

This beat is actually their second meeting, at the frat party thing. We already know Rain finds Payu hot, this is where we find out it's the same for Payu. They're attracted to each other, but Rain's oblivious.

Payu: "If you're trying to seduce me, do it better next time."

Rain: Doesn't deny it while staring deeply into Payu's eyes, proceeds to hold onto his hand, and lets Payu rub him with a towel on his bed. 🌈✨🏳‍🌈

Payu: "Let me know if I'm too rough."

Rain: This is totally normal bro stuff. He's not hitting on me at all.

If you use Save The Cat to analyze story structure, the Meet Cute beat lines up with the Catalyst.

No Way 1

Rain finds out Payu is not the nice, perfect gentleman the rest of the world thinks he is. While Rain finds Payu handsome, he's not ready to face his feelings and just jump into bed with him so he hits him with a pillow, and proceeds to tell him he'd never get with him. (never ever ever).

Adhesion

This beat is Rain finding out Payu fixed up his car and didn't charge money for it. This debt is (supposedly) why Payu keeps seeking out Rain. But this is just an excuse created by Payu to stay in Rain's orbit. Anything to flirt with Rain, amirite?

This is also the section where we get the first introduction of what Payu's character desires/needs. brought up by Saifah when he says, "Then get into a serious relationship if you want to be like me." So Payu wants a serious, long term relationship, but he's been single a long time.

Payu’s a very self-aware character, since his internal and external goals are very similar, he won't have as much of a character change as Rain.

Internal Payu: Form a serious relationship with someone who welcomes the challenging demands he puts on a partner.

External Payu: Get Rain to date him and see if he's the guy who can handle it.

PHASE 2:

No Way 2

This beat is Rain kissing Payu and telling him he's going to make him fall in love with him toward the end of episode 2. I know it might sound counterintuitive for this to be a No Way beat, but here, Rain is outwardly denying his own feelings. He's going to make Payu fall in love, but not get entangled himself. Payu also plays it cool to Rain, challenging him and acting as if he's not affected by Rain, but since us viewers get to hear him talking to himself, we know better. The other 'no way' moments, like the ones that occur earlier in the university bathroom, build up to this bigger moment. They aren't the actual No Way 2 beat.

Inkling

Payu comforts Rain after he gets chewed out by the professor. This beat usually has a slight perspective shift for our characters. While we see the growing attraction throughout episode 3, it's not until this moment that Rain wonders why he went to Payu when he felt so down.

We also see a small shift in Payu. He said he wouldn't comfort Rain, but he's unable to resist and turns back to do it anyway. Payu starts taking Rain more seriously after this point and brings out a tougher challenge by banning Rain from visiting.

If you use Save The Cat to analyze story structure, this and the next couple beats line up with the Fun & Games section.

Deepening Desire

Rain decides to go all in and continue pursuing Payu, showing that he can handle school at the same time. His external goal has changed from Ple to Payu, which now matches his internal goal - a partner who listens to him talk and doesn't find him annoying. Payu has a conversation during this section with Saifah about how none of Payu's other partners have stuck around this long because of his tricks. As Rain exhibits his determination to have a relationship, Payu falls deeper and deeper.

Maybe

This is the 'getting vulnerable and opening up to each other' beat. Rain's confession in the rain to Payu and the beginning of the First Sex Scene.

Midpoint

This is pretty much just,

"Rain belongs to P'Payu now. Say it"

"Rain belongs to Payu."

And a little of the happy-morning-after before Rain takes off. It's the sweet moment before the down beats start.

PHASE 3

This is a low angst drama so all these following down beats get resolved very quickly. If this was high angst, they'd be drawn out a lot longer, some resulting in actual fights or breakups.

Inkling of Doubt

Payu shows up at Rain's, upset that he took off without telling him. Payu pulls away from Rain before it's resolved by Rain's apology. Here we get the introduction to Payu's fear (plus foreshadowing), telling Rain not to disappear on him again.

Note: I'm not sure Payu's breakup fakeout is part of this beat, but honestly, I'm not thinking about it too hard because I'm flagging, the Long Island Iced Teas are leaving my bloodstream, is this even coherent? I need a nap.

Save The Cat: Bad Guys Close In beat.

Deepening Doubt

This is where the real world starts to intrude on their relationship. Rain finds out Ple and Som🍎🍊 are after his boyfriend. He feels jealous but doesn't want to admit it to Payu. This section is also when Sky runs into our couple on their date and Payu admits he wasn't sure Rain would want to tell him about their relationship.

The movie date scene is where we get a nice visual of how each of them have satisfied their internal goals. Payu listens to Rain as he goes on nonstop about the movie and he now has the serious relationship that he wanted.

Retreat

This beat kicks off when Saifah suggests taking Rain to the race and Payu initially doesn't want to because of the rich assholes who'll attend, then covers most of the night race scenes. Rain is visibly hesitant when he's there. He's finally entering Payu's world, but is unsure of himself. He starts to realize how dangerous it might be and this becomes the foundation of his new fear revealed in the next beat. Payu lets the arrogant rich kid get under his skin. He gets upset and Rain has to coax him out of it.

Shields Up

Payu's race isn't really a romance beat, it's an external plot point that's a catalyst for this beat. Payu wants to race the rich boy jerk and Rain doesn't want him to. Since we've covered a lot of ground for Rain's character arc, it's time to introduce a new fear - fear that Payu will get hurt. Payu admits he doesn't exactly have a logical reason for the race (it's just pride/ego).

This is resolved by Rain not letting his fear get in the way of supporting Payu and Payu realizing during the race how unimportant this loser is. Sex with Rain is more important. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Break Up

The kidnapping (sort of). This beat is PROBABLY Payu finding Rain missing. It usually involves the characters fear which, for Payu, is Rain disappearing. And for Rain, Payu getting hurt.

One interesting thing Mame has chosen to do here, that helps maintain the low angst romance style, is had them reach their internal goals early, but started slowly introducing external troubles in order to maintain tension in the back half of the drama (of PayuxRain's section). Kidnapping may not seem low angst, but within the Romance Plot structure it is because it's not an internal conflict causing them to fight/breakup. Their relationship remains solid.

What's left? Pretty much all of Phase 4.

Dark Night of the Soul

Wake up/Catharsis (Save The Cat: Break Into Three beat)

Grand Gesture (Save The Cat: Finale beat)

What Hole-hearted Looks Like

Epilogue

It looks like we have a lot of beats left for this couple, but these final ones usually happen quite quickly, sometimes even in the same scene. They all deal with overcoming your fear and the Happily Ever After. I have some ideas, but I prefer to just watch it all play out instead of solidifying my predictions. It's more fun to watch when I turn off Writer Brain.

I can't believe I wrote this all up. Love in the Air, what have you done to me?!

[brycedearings]

I’m obsessed with the new Jurassic movie! I’ve been sobbing over Beta and Blue (I am slightly disappointed that we did not get more Blue screentime) and the OG cast and the Jurassic world cast we did not get enough of them together. Clawen and Maisie have me in a vice grip. Anyway what are your thoughts?

I loved it so much! [sp*lers ahead for anyone who hasn't seen it] this turned out really long lol

I was actually really surprised there were negative comments about the movie- but then again I thought the same thing happened with Fallen Kingdom. I genuinely loved it and would rank it above FK although it's very close. I'm just such a sucker for the Jurassic movies that there's not one I don't like.

I went into it with 0 expectations or spoilers so my only wishes for the movie were 1. Claire doesn't die (I doubted she or any major character would bc Jurassic has never done that before but I was paranoid lol) 2. Claire and Owen would still be together and not another breakup/complicated thing. I worried for a second when Franklin mentioned them being 'weird' but someone pointed out to me how it made sense bc with Claire and Owen being in hiding all those years protecting Maisie, they wouldn't have seen him and Zia a lot or at all so they're not seeing the daily dose of affectionate/in a healthy stable relationship clawen.

Which points me to something else- I read some people saying they didn't like how Claire wasn't really working or seeing her career driven but imo that wouldn't have made sense in this movie. In the first JW she was working at the park, then she was handling the DPG. Now she's got to take care of Maisie so it wouldn't have made sense for her to be risking her and doing something concrete. She was helping the dinosaurs so she still very much had a purpose outside of Maisie and I didn't see any problem with it. The film also ended before we could see what she would do next but 1. There's only so much they could fit into this already jam packed movie and 2. I liked that a lot was left for interpretation.

Claire had SUCH a beautiful progression in these 3 movies. Her arc was the most prominent and it made me tear up. I also love that clawen were finally in a healthy relationship without any unnecessary drama. They communicated, they were partners. All those beautiful moments!! I hoped we would get another kiss like in the other movies but I wasn't expecting one- and then we got that long kiss moment, all those hugs! The worrying, the reunions. Sigh. That perfect plane scene with his "i love you".

I loved their reunion with Maisie as well, that hug + that other hug later with Claire and Maisie warmed my heart. If I had to get picky with anything in this movie was that I wish it had been longer lol had a Dominion part 2 but that's not that easy and they already had issues with COVID back then so I was impressed with all we got.

I wished Maisie called them "mom" and "dad" but I can also understand why they didn't. It could have been perceived as corny or too easy. Her calling them her parents was a lot already- which I loved. Even an apology scene with her and Claire would have been nice but it's not something that overly bothered me. And yeah it would have been nice to get more Blue, but again there was already so much happening in the movie.

I loved seeing Owen saving Claire for once in this movie. It didn't make her look weak, it was just realistic I mean they're surrounded by dinosaurs. They're all saving each other at some point and it was nice to have that. And I mean Claire was still really badass in this movie. That opening sequence and the jungle scene? oof.

I almost cried when the OG 3 met clawen and Maisie. The callbacks to JP were great without being cheesy. The script was smart without being corny. I'm just still on a high from it and can't wait to see it again. Normally with movies you don't really get great character writing and progression for a female character (claire) and an amazing love story without over the top drama. The most we saw was in FK post breakup but even then we got a lot of great moments between them. I just wasn't expecting all the clawen we got. At all. I was on cloud 9 repeatedly.

[inscuciant]

*    †    [  gong yoo ,  he/him  +  cis male  ]  :  is  that  han eun  wandering  around  ?  under  these  neon  lights  i  swore  they  looked  like  a  druid,  but  in  actuality  they  are  an  illustrator +  underboss for the druids.  the forty-three  is  known  to  be  secretive and  sly,  albeit  friendly  and  patient.  after  spending  ten years  in  sin  city,  their  favourite  song  to  hum  is  loveable  by  kim jong kook,  though  people  often  associate  them  with ancient roots breaking past concrete, blood orange skies, the bleed of ink across cold pressed paper.  

— STATS .

sexuality & status: biromantic / bisexual & single :(

hobbies: gardening, hiking / camping, cooking, reading, writing poetry, whatever else bushcore / cottagecore thing you can imagine

pets: two cats

relatives: younger brother 

— DOSSIER .

Eun was born to a couple that never had the intentions of marrying. And while that was a mutual agreement, no one had expected his father to just up and leave a few days after he was born. Only in her early twenties, his mother did her best to raise him on her own. Naturally, there were a lot of ups and downs throughout his childhood and early teens, but they both loved each other at the end of the day. 

His mother fell in love with another man 12 years later, and this time they saw things through completely. Wedded after a handful of months and out came his little brother, Chanyeol; loud as the trumpets blasting on high. Barely settled in his young adolescences, Eun knew the importance of family. Had it ingrained that the Hans take care of their own no matter the cost — they only had themselves to rely on, after all. 

So it only made sense how Eun took it to heart when he was stumbled upon his step-father’s whispers of adulatory. He, of course, made sure to get concrete evidence while a decision formed piece by piece. 

Passive, aggressive, unknowing. 

It’d only been a year since his mother’s remarriage. Only a single year, and the honeymoon phase was slit from the back. Deep seated rage began to boil the longer he ghosted his step-father’s footsteps. Higher and higher the anger simmered until it came to an abrupt halt. Once close call where his mother almost found out was all it took for Eun to finally take action. 

Clever was he to practice personalized script and leave a neatly folded note at the kitchen table. One last shred of that foul man’s presence before disappearing forever. Not of his own violation, though. Of course not.  But it didn’t matter the moment he asked his step-father to come out back. *** tw: buried alive start ***The fireflies look especially bright tonight— come look and see. Watch as the ground gives way beneath your feet without a moment’s notice. Witness how the silver moon slims into a pinprick when dirt and clay and root and rubble swallow the rest of your days. Understand the mistakes of your actions as the world turns without pause, unbothered by your absence. *** tw: buried alive end *** Now a family of three, Eun continued to watch over his family. He worked his ass off throughout the rest of his youth to help burden some of the financial weight. Took up whatever odd job he could when he wasn’t legal to work— even past then when he was of age. It was hard to balance his life, lend a shoulder for their mother to lean on, and be a father/brother figure to Chanyeol. Yet he never gave up and always pulled through to the best of his abilities. Even as his brother wrapped himself in danger, found a little too much comfort and joy the deeper he descended. 

So he descended too after their mother succumbed to sickness. He has to keep an eye on the remaining member of his family — even if that means climbing the ranks for power and perfect the disappearance of those missing; somewhere deep where light never reaches.

— CONNECTIONS .

fine art critiques am i right? ( 0/? ) — grandiose as eun’s illustrations might be, he’s an entire world away from being snobbish and holier than thou when it comes to art. well versed in both mediums and history, he thoroughly enjoys chatting about any subject and is usually willing to teach if there’s space in his ridiculously busy schedule. 

the metaphorical apple never falls far from an even more metaphorical tree ( 0/2 ) — eun doesn’t have children of his own ( he’s honestly terrified of the responsibility to wean his own flesh and blood from those stellar examples of distant past ), but there’s a good chance he’s taken a person or two under his wing over the years. 

presto! they’re gone ( 0/? ) — while loyal to the druids, there have been times prior where he’s helped a handful with their issue of cleanup, i.e. bodies that need to be gone without a trace. 

hobby enthusiast ( 0/? ): eun loves to share both knowledge and tokens whenever it comes to the activities he loves most. always looking for more recipes to try out / insight on in depth techniques with certain foods, willing to share the harvest and seedlings from his harvest garden — maybe even spare a cutting or two from the numerous plants he has, etc. 

rome-of-ance ( 0/1) — something, something kiss kiss fall in love.

[variousqueerthings]

Tom Hardy Movies rated least to most queer

I made a list of some Tom Hardy movies and I rated them based on my own, non-specific criteria about what makes a movie queer. Results below the cut.

(Some films not included, because I haven’t watched them yet, because Mr Hardy’s only in them for a few minutes, because the subject matter doesn’t lend itself to this list, or because I just don’t want’em here. TV series also not included. The list is organised into both groups and ratings, because I’m doing The Most.)

Movies are divided into four groups and rated from 0 – 10 on the Queer-Scale, scroll down to the bottom if you want the ratings without the commentary.

Disclaimer: This list is subjective. Don’t come at me because I didn’t rate Inception higher, Nolan himself is as queer as cargo shorts. 

1. This movie would make more sense if it were queer

If this movie were queer it… might not become a perfect film all of a sudden, but it’d make a hell of a lot more sense than what’s actually going on. With an occasional dose of “are the cis-straights okay?”

This Means War (2012): So Chris Pine and Tom Hardy are ostensibly both in love with Reese Witherspoon, but say “I love you” to each other pretty much constantly throughout the movie and their friendship is often presented as a domestic partnership. Cool, cool, cooool.

Queer Rating: 2 out of 10. This movie hate-crimed me by having Tom Hardy literally spell out his relationship with Chris Pine, only for the script to then have him say… “can you imagine all that… but with a woman…” Later on the movie explicitly denies polyamory is possible. Fuck this film.

The Dark Knight Rises (2012): Batman movies should always be queer. Mr. Hardy’s the only one who acceptably camps it up, despite Nolan’s best attempts to make him “acceptably gruff.” No matter what you do, Bane is a massive daddy in a mask and thanks to Mr Hardy’s honestly iconic fucking speech pattern in this film, it goes from pretty atrociously straight to just queer enough to imagine a future where Robert Pattinson plays batman and maybe adopts a bunch of kids.

(the only truly decent mask in this franchise tbh)

Queer Rating: 3 out of 10. Mr Hardy’s back is the one that’s actually broken carrying any semblance of fun in this overly long movie all on his own.

Lawless (2012): Wow, this really was the year of the not-queer-enough, wasn’t it? Look, it’s “based on a real story,” but it’s also a movie and movies don’t need to stick to the truth, and this one certainly doesn’t. Was the guy queer in real life? I don’t know. But that doesn’t matter, what matters is that it’s just kind of an eh movie and maybe being queer would add something to it. One of those “but why make someone queer? because it’s always more interesting to do so,” movies.

Queer Rating: 3 out of 10. It’s just not queer. But Tom Hardy wears cardigans and described his character as a “mother figure,” which adds an interesting dynamic to him.

2. Actually Queer but in a homophobic way

Tom Hardy plays a canonically queer character, yaaay. The whole movie contains a strange sense of the director being too not-queer to actually engage with that and everything around him is almost aggressively straight, noooo.

RocknRolla (2008): Honestly this movie has the funniest coming out scene ever + that familiar undertone of “all these manly men secretly want to fuck each other” is only heightened by one of them actually being gay and in love with his best friend. It’s such a fucking… it’s such a movie. Personally I find Mark Strong, Idris Elba, Thandie Newton, and, of course, Tom Hardy to be really hot in it, so that’s a plus. There’s a scene in which Strong’s character teaches another gangster how to do a proper backhand. It’s really gay of him. Also slow-dancing at a gay club. Butler’s character needs to get himself together, you really don’t think 2008 Tom Hardy is hot? Mate.

(left to right: functional queer, disaster queer, distinguished queer)

Queer Rating: 6 out of 10, for having an actual gay character who is played by Tom Hardy doing a sexy phonecall voice to another guy, but then there’s that feeling you can’t shake that the whole movie is vaguely uncomfortable about it, like a family member awkwardly patting you on the shoulder after they found out you were queer second-hand, but they’ve still got 50 years of bias to unlearn. Also Thandie Newton is killed, fuck that noise. 

Legend (2015): If I had a nickle for the amount of times Tom Hardy’s played a gay gangster, I’d have two nickles. Which isn’t a lot, but weird that it happened twice (looks at Peaky Blinders and thinks it ought to be three times). I’ve watched Legend three times and every time it just… loses me. And because this is a biased list, I’ll only specifically mention that it fails to make Ron’s queerness anything but a way for him to shock others. Gangsters could be gay? Gasp! On the upside Tom Hardy has so much sexual tension with everyone in this movie, including himself (why would you do that? Asks Ron, bemused. Because I can’t kill you, no matter how much I fucking want to, hisses a blood-soaked Reggie right into his ear. It’s hot).

Queer rating: 5 out of 10 because the film is just not very queer for a movie with several queer men in it.

3. Straight as a forced family dinner

It’s straight.

Locke (2013): He’s a married man who had an affair and trying to deal with the fallout of it. This isn’t a spoiler for most of the movie, it’s a pretty neat movie where we look at Tom Hardy having a bit of a mental breakdown and taking lots of phonecalls (my personal hell). Is it queer? Not in the slightest.

Queer Rating: 2 out of 10 for Hardy’s face being in almost every shot.

The Revenant (2015): Yeah, yeah, DeCaprio’s and Hardy’s characters are obsessed with each other, yeah it’s a man’s world where the only women are dead wife, kidnapped sexually assaulted native princess, or background whore, yeah, they fight each other and there’s a ton of grunting, but also… I just fucking don’t like this movie. The thin line where a storyline like this one becomes queer might be crossed for others, but not for me. Fuck these guys and their stupid  bear fights.

Queer rating: 3 out of 10 for it being about dirty men in the middle of nowhere (but you could just watch Brokeback Mountain or The Lighthouse or God’s Own Country or any Mad Max, or, or, or…)

4. Queer? Queer. Queer? … Queer…

The plots, aesthetics and/or characters played by Tom Hardy lend themselves to a queer reading, even if there is no overt intention towards queerness. Often this is because of a deliberate lack of heterosexual and/or cisgender writing, which in this day and age is still pretty uncommon not to include within a plot.

Inception (2010): Okay, I don’t even need to write about the added “darling,” or the “go to sleep Mr Eames.” I don’t need to go on about the absolutely bonkers amount of fanfiction written for Eames and Arthur, based on a few minutes of film and a boatload of chemistry. It’s queer.

Queer Rating: 7 out of 10, because the actual plot of the film isn’t very queer, but between the Arthur/Eames dynamic and Elliot Page, Nolan was really given a gift he didn’t deserve.

Warrior (2011): Okay, so first off, this might be my favourite Tom Hardy film, at least some part of my brain is fixated on it at almost all times and I’m considering watching it for the third time in two weeks. I don’t only consider it queer based on Mr. Hardy’s character, although he has no romantic or sexual interest and could be read as aroace, but because of the themes, especially those surrounding said character, who is coded as a caregiver to women and through close emotional connections to men. It’s got possibly unintentional deconstructions of masculinity and two men (brothers) who need to forgive each other and can only do so through the catharsis of violence. It speaks to me as a transmasc with several cis brothers, struggling with my own masculinity. It’s not at all written for me, but I find myself all over it. I could talk about this movie forever.

Queer Rating: 8 out of 10. I’m not allowed to say any more or I’ll never stop writing about it. I love you Tommy…

The Drop (2014): Bob’s lack of sexual and/or romantic interest in Naomi is so strange to her that she doesn’t know what he would want from her otherwise. Bob really just wants to raise a dog with her (and also forgiveness for past sins). Bob is such a rare ace and possibly aro coded character, it really throws me every time I watch this film how obvious it is. Bonus points for also being autistic-coded and not in the stereotypical ways.

(Tom Hardy’s most challenging role: pretending he doesn’t know dogs)

Queer Rating: 9 out of 10 because it’s so fucking rare to see ace and aro coded characters that aren’t, you know…. serial killers. Also Tom Hardy adopts a puppy and has a very cute, kinda lispy voice. How often does Tom Hardy play softer men like this?

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015): Very deliberately no sexual or romantic writing included in Max’s and Furiosa’s relationship. Sure, there’s not a lot of time for that in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, but it was also done with a purpose! “It was always going to be two warriors on par, starting off with very little respect for each other and ending up with a massive respect for each other.” - Charlize Theron. “So of course they meet, of course there’s a relationship, an unspoken understanding. A recognition.” - Tom Hardy.

Queer Rating: 9 out of 10. It’s not just the characters, but the world and it’s apocalyptic BDSM leather scene, the questions it asks about sustainability and about people as tools, and the found family. It’s about overcoming violence through multiple kinds of love. And it’s about watching a guy playing flame-thrower guitar. What could be queerer?

Venom (2018): Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same… No, but Eddie is queer. The only question is whether the sequel will acknowledge that aspect or not, but even if not. Even if it manages to straightly bypass the reality of a symbiotic relationship with a genderless? genderfluid? being from another world that is linked to you down to your very cells and understands you more intimately than any other person possibly could… even if all that: Eddie is queer. Venom and Eddie are in a relationship. Any relationship Eddie ever enters into will automatically become a thrupple. He makes out with Venom in the movie! Eddie is queer.

(aw yeah that tongue is going down his throat)

Queer Rating: 9.5 out of 10, because it’s still coded by the creators in the language of bromance (hey, bro, is it gay if we’re physically and emotionally closer than any other people on earth?), but the movie is so, so camp and Mr Hardy’s acting choices are beautiful – the screaming? The lispy soft voice and lack of taking up space? The lobster tank? The only people who don’t know how queer this is are the people making it apparently. Fingers crossed for that sequel!

Hon. mentions:

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002): Star Trek – even at it’s worst (especially at its worst?) – is camp af + Hardy is a straight-up baby in this film.

Bronson (2008): It’s about a real person who’s still alive, so I won’t comment on the actual man. However the film seems to code the character Bronson along an ace line and also has genderqueering Vaudeville. Someone let Tom Hardy do more of whatever was going on in those stage-bits.

(this right here: this the good shit)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011): Another ensemble piece not massively about Hardy’s character, but it’s a movie that centers around queerness in a strange, depressing way. Tom Hardy’s character isn’t queer. Colin Firth and Mark Strong are though. The book makes me cry.

Peaky Blinders (2013-): Because it’s a TV series I left it out. There’s a lot of straight nonsense going on there, but Alfie Solomens is gay. There’s nothing in the series that disputes that and plenty that lends itself to the reading.

Dunkirk (2017): Tom Hardy plays an RAF pilot in a deep emotional connection with the other main RAF pilot. That’s immediately gay. However he’s not in the movie much because of the way it’s constructed, so I left it off.

Queer Ratings (least to most)

No queer to be found here traveller:

This Means War: 2 out of 10 - illegal movie, Tom Hardy swore he wouldn’t do another rom-com after

Locke: 2 out of 10 - straight Welshman and his straight problems. He pretty though

Lawless: 3 out of 10 - cardigan-Hardy being a mother-hen, but very straight for all that

The Dark Knight Rises: 3 out of 10 - a superhero movie that doesn’t deserve Mr Hardy’s camp talents (unlike Venom)

The Revenant: 3 out of 10 - doesn’t give me what I want out of a movie full of dirty, bearded men

Queer but we deserve more:

Legend: 5 out of 10 - timid homosexuality, considering the source material. 

RocknRolla: 6 out of 10 - hey bro, is it gay if we kill the only female lead in our massive ensemble cast

The queerest of Hardy’s:

Inception: 7 out of 10 - Elliot Page and JGL kissing was an all-around terrible choice that made no sense, we know the truth, Nolan

Warrior: 8 out of 10 - I’m still crying, Edgerton’s crying, Hardy’s crying, we’re all crying, and I think that’s really emotionally healthy and queer of us

Mad Max: Fury Road: 9 out of 10 - non-romantic love in the time of BDSM post-apocalyptic wastelands is something that can actually be so personal

The Drop: 9 out of 10 - “Fucking punk. Go out to dinner dressed like you're still in you living room! You wear those big hippity-hoppity clown shoes! You speak to women terribly! You treat them despicably! You hurt harmless dogs that can't defend themselves! I'm tired of you man. I'm tired of you. You embarrass me!”

Venom: 9.5 out of 10 - Sometimes a relationship is an anxious reporter, the sentient goo inhabiting his body, his kinda-ex-girlfriend and her new doctor boyfriend, and I think that’s beautiful

[brogues-b4-hoes]

Kingsman the secret service, first draft liveblog.

I’m reading the original draft for Kingsman: The secret service and being just blown away by how different but the same™ it is so I’m gonna list some things that made me go :0 

Huntsman and sons doesn’t really sound like a spy org. it sounds like a rustic b&b in the scottish countryside. Not a bad thing but Kingsman does sound a bit more “knightly” and “cool” 

Also Jack Lincoln is just not it. Harry Hart is where it’s at. 

SO about the ages: In this script Eggsy is 21, Harry is 49, Merlin is middleaged (I’m assuming that means like 44-45 ish), Roxy is 22, Charlie 23, Lancelot 39. 

Merlin was supposed to be “black, handsome” And frankly my first thought was “....Idris Elba?” lmao 

The medal Eggsy gets is called a Guinevere Cross and I immediately came up with a whole scenario of how the first Guinevere sacrificed themself in an act of bravery, which is why the Kingsman medal of honor is named after them. 

Lancelot was supposed to fight Gazelle before losing but ig getting cut in half from behind has more shock value. (Just give my boy a bit more screentime) 

I’m glad they changed Michelle’s whole approach to Daisy, cause in this script it comes across like she couldn’t care less about her literal toddler, which makes her kind of unlikeable :// I’m glad they didn’t do Michelle dirty like that in the final script. 

Arthur really was just a sexist, elitist bastard now wasn’t he (while looking at the candidates his reaction to Eggsy being proposed is “at least it’s not a woman, I mean wtf are all these women doing here??” .....There’s three women being proposed out of twelve candidates, Chester.)

On that note, I’m glad they ended up giving Merlin more of Arthur’s lines - mostly because it makes sense for Merlin’s character to play the part of handler besides being the tech wizard he is- but also Make! Arthur! Say! Less!

I think it’s an interesting choice to have the candidates be from all over the world, as I Imagine the agents who were abroad just chose the best person they could find from that area, and if that’s true then the other agents were away in: France, Germany, Denmark, Japan, Italy, Ethiopia, South Africa, India, Persia and America. Do what you want with that info.

Yeah Roxy was american originally lol

I’m glad they acknowledge the lack of privacy in the first dorm set up, because I always looked at that in the movie and thought “If I had to use a bathroom out in the open with eleven peers just hanging out behind me, I would simply not use the bathroom lol” 

Glad they cut the whole subplot of Harry infiltrating some bank, especially because it involved dressing up as a woman to get acces to the ladies room, which, given the current climate and the whole jkr situation would not have gone down well, to say the least. 

“That sounds exhausting” in which Harry is me. 

"Training starts tomorrow, which I will have nothing to do with. Watching people train is boring.” Spoken boldly for a guy who then subsequently shows up at every. single. training scene, Merlin. 

God I’m glad they cut the whole puppy obstacle course scene, it was just alot lol 

A lot of stuff is the same but what really stands out to me is how little Eggsy actually does on his own, in this version he only passes tests through dumb luck or because Harry straight up gives him the answers, which makes it difficult to root for him in this script. So I’m glad they changed that. 

Idk what to think about the implanted chip being a bluetooth earpiece originally, like who wears an earpiece all the time?..... Ig the writers thought the same thing in the end lol 

“Medic! We need a medic!” Me, internally: SO YOU ARE SAYING YOU HAVE MEDICS?? Merlin: “No we don’t.” me, internally: IM NOTING THIS AS PROOF THAT YOU HAVE MEDICS, GALEN IS CANON CONFIRMED

I like that Elton John is just fully in this movie, what exactly is it about Elton John that made Matthew and Jane continue to write him into both movies??? IS HE GOING TO BE IN THE BLUE BLOOD TOO? :0

I’d like to note that I do not like Elton John pelting shit at Valentine lol 

The way that they really wrote a whole Heathers the musical “shut up, Heather!” scene but with Arthur, Harry and Merlin saying “shut up, Eggsy!” I CAN’T WITH THIS SCRIPT

Broke: “Lady Gaga” woke: “Lady G’gar” (as pronounced by Arthur lmao) 

Okay so in a cut test, there’s a mentioning of Huntsmen security, which I will take as proof for my whole “The entire plot of TGC is bullshit because there had to be more staff at Kingsman than just Merlin, meaning more survivors of the bombing” 

AND THE PLOT THICKENS WITH THIS: Harry (to Eggsy): “Look, I’ll be back in a few days. Stay here ‘till then. I’ll call Merlin, and when everything’s calmed down I’ll take you in and finesse things. If we’re lucky we can get you a job in admin or train you as a pilot.” HELLOO WHERE WERE THE ADMINS AND PILOTS AND SECURITY IN TGC 

“Thank you. I’ll do anything. I’ll be a cleaner, even.” THEY HAVE CLEANERS TOO MATTHEW YOU’RE KIDDING ME

The ending is so different omg What is Happening? why is Usain Bolt, Lady Gaga, Jamie Oliver and Elton John fighting together avengers style? 

All in all: I much prefer the way they handled things in the final script because this felt a bit too much like the types of movies you write with your friends in middleschool for shits and giggles and less like an actual film you’d go see in theatres. But of course it’s important to remember that this mess led to one of my favorite films ever, and I really enjoyed the insight into the process and changes that led the writers to the final version. T’was very cool. 

Also I read the novelization of The Golden Circle and I can’t say which one I get the biggest yikes from (yes I can it’s the novel. It’s so bad lol) 

[demonslayedher]

More Hype for Mugen Ressha!

I bring you two things in this post: comments from the voice actors included in the Rengoku Vol. 0 booklet given out at the first showings, and my notes that I used to catch a friend up to speed really fast before watching the movie, as this may come in handy for some of you taking the uninitiated with you. 

Single comments from each of the main cast (presented aside from longer interviews): Hanae Natsuki (Tanjirou): “I want you to see how Tanjirou explodes with emotion after all this fighting he’s done for Nezuko and the rest of his family.”

Kitou Akari (Nezuko): “Even in the serious developments, I’d like you pay attention to Nezuko’s adorableness.”

Shimono Hiro (Zenitsu): “I’m putting my life on the line for each and every one of Zenitsu’s screams.”

Matsuoka Yoshitsugu (Inosuke): “When I saw the script, I thought that my voice might not hold out for all of this.”

Hino Satoshi (Rengoku): “This man, Rengoku Kyoujurou, has strength that made me hit a higher level of passion than I had assumed I would.”

Hirakawa Daisuke (Enmu): “This is Enmu, a character stripped of humanlike emotions.” 

When I brought a friend who had not yet been exposed to Kimetsu no Yaiba (besides, you know, seeing it everywhere in daily life), I showed her a few pages of anime recap in this booklet and prepared notes for what she’d need for the movie (and to keep myself on track instead of explaining the whole series). She was a serious student and had a few additional questions after the movie, like why Rengoku asked about the color of Tanjiro’s sword, and then within three days she had seen the whole first season and read the whole manga. I successfully created a demon. 

You can use my notes to create some demons too: 

Premise: Demons eat people.  Muzan is the main baddie, Upper Moons are the most powerful six demons under him, Lowers Moons are the next rank after that, others are scattered. The 12 Moons are powerful because they have more of Muzan’s blood and have eaten more people. Enmu is Lower Moon One, the last one left and the most powerful of that tier. No Upper Moons have appeared yet at this point in the story. Sunlight kills demons, as will chopping off their heads.  Demons used to be people.  Powerful demons can use magic Blood Techniques.  The Demon Slayer Corp slays demons.  Their leader is Oyakata-sama, a sickly man.  The swordsmen use a technique called Breaths. This all stems from Sun Breathing, which stemmed into five basic types (Rock, Water, Wind, Flame, and Thunder), but there are many other subtypes. Their swords are special, but they do not actually create water and flames, that is only imaginative animation.  The most powerful swordsmen are called Pillars. There are nine of them, Rengoku is the Flame Pillar.  Kamado Tanjiro:  Simple charcoal farmer until his family is killed and his little sister Nezuko is turned into a demon. Encounter with Water Pillar led him to join the Corp. There is a training arc and then he passes an exam. The first season his generally his maturation and introduces the world and characters.  Many people in the series have absurdly keen senses. Tanjiro has an especially good sense of smell. He also has a very strong forehead.  Kamado Nezuko:  She is a special demon because she gains strength by sleeping instead of eating people.  She wears the bamboo muzzle to help prevent her from eating people.  She is accepted in the Corp but not welcome.  She can’t talk, she changes size. Sunlight is lethal to her, she stays in a box to travel with Tanjiro. She is under a hex to see all humans as her family.  Episode 19:  Tanjiro is a Water Breather, but when up against Lower Moon Five he performs Hinokami Kagura, a sacred dance which he learned from his father without knowing it was a sword form. Nezuko finds that her Blood Technique is a fire that hurts demons but not people. Tanjiro wants to know more about Hinokami Kagura, and is told to seek the advice of the Flame Pillar, Rengoku.  Rengoku was initially opposed to Nezuko, but he accepts Oyakata-sama’s orders without question.  Zenitsu is a Thunder Breather.  He’s in the Corp to pay a debt.  He’s constantly scared, he can only perform one technique, but he has practiced it to perfection. However, since he’s always so anxious, he can only perform in his sleep.  He has powerful hearing, even in his sleep.  Inosuke is a Beast Breather, a Breath technique he created himself. His tactile sense is especially strong.  (My tip: Don’t say anything else about Inosuke. Let them make their own conclusions about him. Ask them afterward and laugh. They might not even know that’s not his real face.)

[crescencestudio]

Devlog #7 | 10.14.21

Hi everyone!

Back with another update - for some reason these biweekly updates feel so far apart. I also apologize for the lack of content on the blog lately! I’ve had a lot on my plate, from Alaris and ensuring continuous work for Devtember and the Expanded Chapter 1 Release to real-world stuff. October has definitely started off already busy for me! While I haven’t been able to update or post as frequently on this blog, I’ve been hard at work on Alaris and made lots of progress towards the Expanded Chapter 1 Release as well as part of Chapter 2 :) As we get closer to the release of the Expanded Chapter 1, definitely look forward to more marketing materials and more content again! 

*Cue Clickbait Screenshot Here*

As always, read below the cut for more details on progress on Alaris - I’ll be talking about the upcoming Expanded Release, Devtember progress, and more :D

I can’t quite remember what I covered in the last devlog, but I’ll go over all the updates I think are worth mentioning! Regarding Chapter 2, I’ve completely finished the draft script and it has come in at a WHOPPING 20,000 words. The way I’ve set up the flow of the chapter, you will be getting 10,000 words worth of content per playthrough (this will be dependent on your choices and personality), so it will feel like a normal chapter length, but there will be lots of content to access if that makes sense! 

I’ve also started scripting Free Time! I’ve decided to go with a setup that plays closer to Toki Doki Memorial - Girl’s Side for anyone who’s ever played that. Essentially, you will have a free time portion during the story, where you will be able to choose a location to go to. You can also invite one of the LIs (Kuna’a and Aisa excluded) to come with you! Depending on your affection with them, they will choose to either accept or decline. I won’t be making the affection requirement high since I don’t want this to feel like a stats-raising game, but a small requirement will be there since if you have like 0 points of affection with an LI, they would essentially view you like a stranger and logically wouldn’t accept. But keep in mind, personality and affection choices impact LI’s affection for you, so there are many ways to ensure you meet the requirement for any LI you like! As the game goes on, if your affection points with a certain LI are high enough, they may actually invite you out on a date! This is content that will be available in later chapters though, but it is something to look forward to :D 

I also have a big update regarding Devtember! Based on the layout of Devtember, you are supposed to just work on your project everyday and (optionally) post updates on it. I’ve been posting daily updates on Twitter, which you all are free to follow. But because I wanted to have some kind of submission/ concrete project to show the work put in for Devtember, I decided to focus on an Expanded Release of Chapter 1. This update will come at the end of the month/ early November and will include a preview of Free Time and ALL the currently planned Extras Features. This includes things like the CG and Scenes Gallery, a Music Room, Codex, and Full Stats Function. These past couple weeks, I’ve made a lot of progress in terms of finishing scripting for Chapter 2 and then coding all of these features in! 

As you can see, the Stats page will allow you to see how many personality and affection points you have in the game based on your decisions! I’m also currently working on coding the Codex, which will give you access to more information on the world of Alaris as you explore the chapters :) 

I’ve also finished coding the Preferences page. For those who played the Preview version of Chapter 1, you’ll know that the Preferences page was just the default Ren’py version. Now, the GUI will match the rest of the game! 

Please note, all of these are still drafts and are currently meant to help me test the code and have an idea of the GUI, but this will be a close representation to the Expanded version.

For those who are hesitant on the Expanded Chapter 1 Release, there will be some new content in the story itself that will give a sneak peek at Chapter 2! So the expanded version won’t just be about GUI, it will also include access to Free Time (preview), a fully developed Personality/ Stats system, a Codex, and a slightly expanded story! I hope you’re all looking forward to it as much as I am, and I’ll see you at the next update :D 

As always, feel free to follow me on itch.io or Twitter for more updates or donate at Ko-fi to support development <3

[reality-shifting]

could you tell us about any of your shifting experiences? :0 (i'm so sorry if this has been asked already)

nothing to apologize ^^ i love getting asks (even tho it took me a while to answer, but that was for different reasons ^^)

now, i haven’t shifted very often yet (just a couple times actually), but i’ll be telling you some of my favorite stories/things that happened!!

but before that i’ll kinda explain what my dr is (all these stories are from the same dr (as that’s the only one i’ve shifted to yet) (technically i did shift into one other reality too the first time i shifted, but i wasn’t there for long so i don’t really have much to tell about that))

basically my dr is a combination of bnha, death note, black butler, yuri on ice and my cr! (it sounds chaotic ik, but the way i scripted it, it actually all fits pretty well together! i might make another post talking about my dr in detail later, we’ll see ^^) and yeah, some of the characters might be somewhat out of character compared to their source material in this reality (due to what i scripted) & in my dr i’m in a poly relationship with misa amane (death note) & katsuki bakugou (bnha)

so now on to the stories :3

one time my cr best friend, bakugou (bnha) and mello (death note) had a snowball fight during our school’s christmas party- it was honestly hilarious, but they knocked over the snowman i’d built with yaomomo (bnha) and my other cr best friend. later that same day tho, deku (bnha) and my cr cousin rebuilt our snowman tho- which rly surprised me cuz i didn’t know my cousin was even at the party lol- (in my cr she rarely attends parties, but apparently someone dragged her along to that one XD) (the rest of the party was fun too btw! and the food was so good omg!!)

btw!! misa (death note) loves making snow angels!!! that’s literally the cutest thing ever!! and one time shortly before new year’s eve in my dr, she asked me to take pics of her while she was making snow angels and they turned out so good and cute and omg- sidhjdbxkdjdkdj!!!

something that really surprised me about my dr is that one of my cr best friends is also a really close friend of yuuga aoyama there!! and i actually hadn’t known until my friend invited me to go shopping together and also invited aoyama (without telling me lmao)- but tbh it makes sense they have a lot of similarities!! and hanging out with them was literally so much fun!!

so this probably only happened bc i literally scripted that someone was going to find out that i’m a shifter (cuz i thought that might be fun lol- (which it actually was, i was right :P)), and yeah this is less of a story but more of a lil fun fact about my dr ig- so i hadn’t scripted who was gonna find out and i just had no idea before at all lol. but then one day at school during break, deku (bnha) comes up to me and like tells me that he has something to ask me, and i was like “oh what’s up :0” and he basically listed a few things about me that confused him (like the fact that i have 6 quirks, and that i’m immune to certain quirks lol-) and just like asked me about that! then i like told him that there’s a reason for that, but he might not believe it & he promised me that he would indeed believe me no matter what (he was rlly curious- it was kinda cute ajdjjsmmsjdkdbdk-)! and yeah in my dr the idea of shifting is vaguely well known, and so while he didn’t exactly know what it was, he had like heard of it before which made explaining it a lot easier- i didn’t tell him anything about my cr tho (not yet at least). but i asked him if he has a big secret too that he could tell me, so we’d be even (i was hoping he’d tell me about OfA), but he didn’t ;-;

this is also not quite a story but i want to mention how much i love hugging bakugou- that was literally one of the first things i did when i got there and i still love that memory so much ajdjdkdbjdjdjd-

and misa braided my hair a few times- ajdjjdbxkdjdkd that made me so soft like omg- [insert heart eyes]

ALSO- bakugou’s cooking!!! agdjbdkxhdkd it’s so good!!! if you ever shift go mha (or any reality he could be in), you have to try literally anything from him (if you like spicy food that is)!! like it’s so delicious it’s not even funny lol- (the way this is already the second time i’ve mentioned food- oop-)

i also scripted that L & light (death note) are actually friends in my dr!! and let me tell you- when they actually get along they are so mean to others akdjdkbdkdjdk- like not mean as in insults but like it’s just so obvious that they think of others as idiots- which like understandable but still- ajdjkshdjdjd- and fun fact: light is lowkey a teacher’s pet sometimes- and he gets along surprisingly well w iida- (stain hasn’t shown up yet in my dr, but i’m curious to see if their almost-friendship would change after that)

if you’d like me to tell more stories in the future, or you have any other questions, lmk!! :D and thank u if you read this far uwu