#rusty signs

[accidental-apocalypse]

"Jonny 'I don't write happy endings' Sims" this, "Jonny sits in his castle of screams and tortures characters" that - every story that man has put out into the universe is three raccoons called Hope, Humanity and Love wrapped up in a trenchcoat of horror and his writing gives me hope that us humans aren't completely doomed maybe.

Try to change my mind, but you can't!

[dafry-shenanigans]

I have no idea wth is happening but i want in-

Randy: Uh... Is he okay...?

Jake: Yeah don't worry, he'll be fine... I think...

[sailing-ever-west]

im thinking about nonverbal luffy au again

[mephiles-the-jester]

metamy prime can be real,,please

[valahelart]

so Eden sank to grief / so dawn goes down to day / nothing gold can stay

[scarlettclownose]

me bc i genunliey thought morro was a girl as a kid

[rustic-space-fiddle]

After exploring the EPIC fandom a bit, I have decided that I really really love it when something just jogs everyone’s creative brain in a similar way? The way PJATO did, and we just all had this nearly universal idea of what the characters looked like. EPIC seems to have done a similar thing, and we all just collectively decided a some things about the characters and I love that. Before I even saw there was extended lore and was just listening to it little by little on Spotify, I imagined Odysseus with 3 main things: longer (curly) hair, a beard that progresses, and a war-scarred face. Then I come online and see that’s what other people envisioned too! I just love the brain scratch that REALLY GOOD art and literature gives people as a whole. It’s super cool to see something like music/poetry convey such a vivid image in our imaginations. I love it sm.

[totheidiot]

i am going to combat the babygirl-ification of elias bouchard by saying that he is balding. the top of his head is hairless and he has got a little ring of gray hair around his head.

[aimfor-theheart]

TAG GAME: selfship character sheet

rules: fill out this meet my otp sheet for you and the fictional love of your life and then tag 5 friends!

i was tagged by beloved @andypantsx3 and i am very grateful bc i had so much fun filling out for me and wolfwood 💗💗 i drew mine which was really nice bc i haven’t drawn in so long!!

no pressure tags: @chositooo @mieiri @meguwumibear @kedsandtubesocks @isatoru and anyone else who’d like to take part!! 💗

[dinoserious]

waxwing

[erin-gilberts]

Pretzel: "Yeah, like when my guinea pig ran away and my mums told me he might come back. But he didn't. :c"

This bogan-ass kid: "pRoBaBLy a sNaEk aEt HiM!"

[ridasart]

But no amount of grooming, of cleaning, of polishing, could erase the gaunt woman she had been, more animal than human, with dirty hair so tangled they’d had to cut most of it off.

…

She raised her gaze from the top of his head and looked again in the mirror, where a rag-clothed, filthy, bony woman with empty eyes the color of a still lake stared back at her.

Wild Sign by Patricia Briggs

[umbra-borealis]

LOOK MA, I'M DRAWING

[minweber]

Been replaying mass effect recently, and going through the second game it once again stuck out to me how Mordin's whole "modifying the existing genophage" thing feels a bit like a last-minute patch. Half of all conversations Shepard can have with him on the topic are about the original deployment of the genophage, not his modification of the thing, and not once during his extensive defenses does he try to fall back on the idea that he only maintained status quo. And so much of his arc revolves around not just guilt over having done something bad, but creator's guilt specifically...

What I mean by this is that I bet Trick Weekes originally wrote Mordin to be the actual creator of the genophage, and laid out his entire arc around that premise and probably wrote the key scenes... only for someone in the writers' room to be like "Uh, yeah, here is the thing about that..."

[richs-pics]

Out of season

[serial-serializednovelreader]

So I was rewatching Hotel Transylvania on Netflix using the SignUp Captions Chrome Extension to watch an American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation of it side-by-side (I do this to keep my language skills somewhat intact and just to see how different interpreters operate — highly recommend if you want a free and fun way to experience ASL, British Sign Language, Indian Sign Language and Australian Sign Language!) and here are a couple of cool/funny things I noticed:

a) during the first time Dracula does his weird growl/anger thing, the interpreter chooses to gesture at the film as if to say “just watch this” instead of try to emulate it, which is super hilarious to me. You know the count is being a drama queen when even an ASL interpreter just goes “yeah no, you can see this for yourself”. They do emulate his last anger/growl thing at the end and it’s great. I love it!

b) the interpreter does interpret the iconic “bleh, bleh-bleh!” in an interesting way. There is actually a “blah blah blah” sign which they could have used, but I think their way is better (and more funny). Basically, they use a classifier sign (this is kind of hard to explain if you’re not familiar with the language — just think of it as a way of highlighting specific details or conveying information efficiently in a way where you don’t necessarily *create* new signs, you just use get creative with them to get the point across? I’m not sure if that makes sense). Here’s what it looks like in action:

[Video ID: The video is without sound. Against a dark background, an American Sign Language interpreter sits in a chair. They are signing a conversation from the movie Hotel Transylvania (2012). The conversation, translated into English, goes as follows:

(Signing as Johnny) “You’re, like, the real Count Dracula. Like, ‘I’m Dracula, bleh, bleh-bleh!’”

(Signing as Dracula) “I’ve never said that in my life. ‘Bleh, bleh-bleh’ I don’t know where that comes from.”

End Video ID]

The “bleh, bleh-bleh” part is specifically when they make the two-handed fist and have one fist move away from the other in a rhythm similar to how the character says it while also mouthing the words with their tongue out. I love this because you can even see how they subtly change their facial expressions from Johnny to Dracula when this happens: for Johnny, this expression is over-exaggerated and almost over-confident. It says “yep this is Dracula!” But when they sign Dracula doing it, it’s very close to how Dracula actually does this in the movie: with a deep frown and an expression of disgust.

So yeah, just some cool details I noticed!