#press label

[beaft]

wish I had the ability to stop time after someone speaks to me so I could take a minute to think before selecting the most appropriate response from a dialogue tree

[onlydylanobrien]

Dylan O'Brien, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Gabriel Labelle, Lamorne Morris and writer-director Jason Reitman during the “Saturday Night” press day at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Canada. (September 8, 2024)

📷©: ellahunt on Instagram

[nephriteknight]

For anyone who's curious, here's the probability of outcomes on Daggerheart's duality dice! Remember that half of all rolls (except critical successes) are with Hope, and half are with Fear.

On a d20 there is a 5% chance of rolling a nat 20, while Duality Dice have an 8.3% chance of a critical success. However, half of all failures are with Fear, making extra-bad outcomes more common than a nat 1. (Also, unlike nat 1s in D&D, rolls with fear always have mechanical consequences, and will likely have narrative consequences too, depending on the GM and the moment.)

Excluding crits, duality dice have a range from 3 to 23. The ends of that range are less likely than the middle since more than one die is rolled, with the exception of critical successes, which are as likely as a 13, the most likely outcome. (Note that it's impossible to roll a normal 2 or 24, as both can only be achieved with doubles and as such are always crits).

[taxinealkaloids]

so...John’s planning on pulling the plug on the world, right? Like that’s what he’s doing here?

I’ve just been turning these bits of ntn over and over in my head and tbh I can’t stop thinking about the description of 10,000 years of civilization as a first draft. John’s first resurrection didn’t quite end up how he wanted -- closest friends all dead, turned traitor, or both, fighting a war on multiple fronts, his only allies the corpse of his accidental bastard daughter and a twenty-something princess with cannibalistic tendencies whom he canonized as part of a failed attempt to revitalize his polycule-- but hey, it doesn’t matter, because he can just start over. All of NTN he’s in this depression spiral; he’s falling apart, he’s having orgy parties with his senior staff, he’s got at least part of his subconscious camped out in the comatose mind of a half-dead nineteen year old he tried to have murdered, treating it like a confessional booth; because right there, in the background of his mind through all of this, is the off switch. He can have his breakdown, and then just...let Alecto out. Erase it all, start fresh, and this time he’s got one attempt under his belt, he’s got notes for what to do differently, and so let it all fall to shit! Nobody else is gonna remember any of this anyway. Two worlds, now, that only John will remember. Maybe three, later; maybe four, what’s to stop him from redoing it over and over til it’s just right? 

The issue with that, of course, is there’s really no way to treat the world like this and still care about it in the way other people do. You’d lose your ability to be affected by life’s events after a couple reboots and then what’s there to get emotionally invested in? When you’ve turned a person off and back on two, three, four times and you know you’ll probably do it again the next time something happens you don’t quite vibe with, how can you possibly look at them as a real person? Are they a real person, if they only know what you want them to know and do what you want them to do? And once you reach that point, once people aren’t people but project components for you to edit, what are you even bothering with all this for?? John started down this path because he so loved the world; what happens when he reduces the world to something he can no longer afford to love? Might as well pull that plug for good, yeah? 

Anyway. I’m fascinated by the way John’s shitty mental state is dooming the world and it’s everyone else’s bad luck. The rest of the cast is out there fighting for their lives and he’s like *sigh* let’s try that again. take two, everyone! 

[spitblaze]

Hyperfixation is lowkey annoying. Like can you really not think about ANYTHING else you dumb gay bitch

[strwbrryfire]

i dont think i'll ever do drugs just bc the adrenaline high i get when charles and max even do as little as look at each other, it has to be the equivalent of actually getting high

[syn4k]

DOC WHY DID YOU PUT THE "SPAWN WITHER" NOTEBLOCK ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BOX NEXT TO THE GRIAN AND SCAR ATTRACTING SIGN YOU ARE SHOOTING CHEKHOV WITH HIS OWN GUN HERE ARE YOU SERIOUS

YOU HAVE A SIGN SAYING DONT GO IN BUT THATS NOT IN THATS OUT. THIS IS OUTSIDE. OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. THEY WILL BE FOLLOWING THE RULES IF THEY STAY OUTSIDE AND PRESS THE WITHER SPAWNING BUTTON. DOC. DOC.

[thurstongrey]

[some-teeth-in-a-trench-coat]

I think we need to put the word "intuitive" up on the shelf for companies until they stop defining it as "minimalism" and "gestures that look like you're using a holographic scifi screen"

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

The Doors - Wild Child

[dozydawn]

Nastassja Kinski, Salma Hayek, and Alfonso Cuarón attend the premiere of Great Expectations, 1998. Photographed by Steve Granitz.

[onlydylanobrien]

Dylan O'Brien, Rachel Sennott, Cory Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Gabriel Labelle, Lamorne Morris and writer-director Jason Reitman during a photoshoot at the "Deadline" Studio during the "Saturday Night" press day at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in Toronto, Canada. (September 8, 2024)

🎥©: deadline's Instagram Stories

[hangmanssunnies]

Normally I like to think of Natasha as my very very pretty princess. However, I think butch presenting but actually high femme Phoenix ...... yeah, she could fix me.

[vertigoartgore]

1990's Why I Hate Saturn GN cover by artist/cartoonist Kyle Baker.

Tom Brevoort : "The short-lived Piranha Press imprint from DC was also trying to expand the boundaries of the medium in revolutionary ways, but few of their projects made any long-lasting impact. One that did was Kyle Baker’s WHY I HATE SATURN, his second stand-alone graphic novel after THE COWBOY WALLY SHOW. Having begun his career as a journeyman artist and production person at Marvel, Kyle had developed some serious cartooning chops and had created an approach to storytelling that drew influence from editorial cartoons and comic strips such as Prince Valiant. Which is to say, his copy tended to sit at the bottom of his panels rather than in traditional balloons and captions. The book tells the story of cynical writer Anne Merkel, whose life is thrown into chaos when her long-lost and utterly crazy sister re-enters her life. No super heroes to be found here, just a wonderfully told story with exceptional artwork."

[cheekydogs]

To really give this the feel of a last-minute Halloween costume, I only told Motor Oil about the #itemLabelLastMinuteHalloween costume event yesterday, and told him he needed to have a plan by the 17th to make sure we had time to craft it. Turns out, he didn’t need that much time at all—he already knew, deep in his heart, that he wanted to be a prescription OuiOui

It’s a tight fit, with some jagged cuts and misaligned labels, but he’s very happy with how it turned out. I am too! Especially considering he undertook it with no hands—such a talented little guy!

[jrueships]

guess whos not going in at all this week, actually