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people seriously pretending EEAAO is overrated suddenly bc it swept awards? it swept awards largely because it is very very very good. I cried like someone who's just had a religious revelation BOTH times I watched it bc it touched something raw and real and beautiful but it was also just very, very funny. everyone's performance kills and the concept is creative and interesting and doesn't distract from the emotional core. you guys are just contrarian.
#red said#also there are posts and tweets like THIS IS JUST FOR MCU FANS#like please go on demonstrating how you've adopted 'mcu fan' as a shorthand for 'person who likes films i don't'#or 'person who likes films that are popular'#because the defining features of mcu films are that they're high budget irony poisoned derivative works#targeted at a broad audience so aiming to be accessible and inoffensive#and it really seems. like 'accessible' is the part of that you object to#bc EEAAO is a highly original A24 indie film with a 14.5m budget which is NOTHING#it's made mostly with practical effects and sets#and most importantly it's beautifully painfully earnest. it's never trying to shy away or go Hey Look How Silly This Is 😏#everything is driven by its earnest desire to talk about specific themes#i think the people comparing it negatively to mcu films are stuck on the fact that it's about a multiverse and it's got jokes#and colourful action scenes#but they miss that the referential jokes (like racacoonie) and setpieces aren't the point of the film
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So let’s fast-track the inevitable. We can take you down to the hallowing-sites today, you can fight and scream and be as courageous as you like, and your seat on the council, that can be freed up for someone who lacks your hero’s spirit.
love saint shrue for sacha @unbloodiedmartyr
#🐉#well. love saint/promised bride propaganda setpiece.#hence the wither mark prayer marks except for the one that represents completion#the silt verses#shrue#jart
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Another Whitecalf tarot card image- (reversed) temperance
#FUCKING LOSER DRINKS ALL ALONE IN STUPID TENT - BLOOD ALL OVER FACE AND CHEST - DISGRACEFUL#This is actually like in-story Whitecalf setpiece. Most of the noblemen pilgrims have big stupid tents like this#The ground would be completely covered in rugs but I wanted some barren earth visible for this one (also the tent itself wouldn't#be Quite this tall but still bigger than it needs to be)#the white calf#janeys haidamane
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Hi, sorry to be anon, but can I ask to see the Vargas family post trick or treating? Divying the goods, or just being tired from the event? Thank you and Happy Halloween!
Day 30 - Fine, but you're taking nightmare duty
#Requestober#My art#Vargas#Scriabin#Edgar#Todd#Shmee#Called it on being late today lol - not bad for the first (and hopefully last!) of the season tho!#Also no prob on the anon :) As long as you're following the rules it's all good! Anon's there for a reason <3#And Happy (Almost) Halloween! :D#They're back from Trick Or Treat! Edgar and Scriabin in this year's featured costumes haha <3#Once again refusing to show them outside the apartment lol it's just a reliable setpiece!#And since I didn't get any ISaT reqs this time around I decided to throw in a reference myself lol#Toddfrin hehe little guy <3#The adults are very tired from all the running around - Scriabin especially haha his lack of impulse control and being new#Looks like he managed to keep his costume on the whole night tho good for him ♪#Even exhausted he's still going to find some way to poke at Edgar just his nature haha#Todd was going to listen! He's a good kid <3#We all know there's no way Scriabin's getting up after all the excitement haha barely holding onto the back of the couch#We'll just have to pretend Todd gets perfect sleep and nothing spooky happens :') It could pan out that way! Maybe!#I always enjoy this midway-to-chibi style hehe it's cute! But still a little lanky#Little bit quicker and good and cute ♪ Enjoyable
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a couple more pages of my pillars of eternity journal, finally getting into the part of the game i didn't reach on my first (unfinished) playthrough!
#my art#fan art#traditional art#pillars of eternity#poe#game journal#video game journal#game journaling#video game journaling#rpg#crpg#aloth#i really liked how he managed to confront his awakening#poe spoilers#maybe?#i need to play more but uhhh twin elms has so many cool setpieces i just cant help but stop to draw stuff#not sure about the coloring this time maybe should try something different next#poe journal#PoE journal
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something something It's very interesting to me how Aperture is consistently a sort of mirror to the Combine Citadel. Two buildings built by entirely different hands, one not even of earthly origin, yet both fulfilling the same purpose - dehumanize, control, conceal.
Both facilities treat humans as a resource. As some kind of cargo to be stored as efficiently as possible, later to be processed and discarded. They both cram people picked off the streets into tiny boxes where they're then preserved for god knows how long, denied even the dignity of death.
They both shift restlessly, uncaring for who or what their many writhing arms may crush They build themselves out of themselves, countless corridors and chasms built seemingly for no one to ever traverse. The buildings feel as if they weren't even built with humans in mind, sparse catwalks scattered about as a mere afterthought.
Even the people who are meant to be in control are barely accounted for. Offices feel like either the bare minimum, or a strange alien approximation of an environment a human could work within. In neither cases were they built for comfort. Only for utility.
Aperture as both a company and a facility shows that humanity, under the right conditions, would have come a little too close to becoming a perfect mirror image of the Combine. If things hadn't gone wrong, it's safe to say humanity was on track for exactly that. Black Mesa wanted to exploit Xen, just like the Combine wanted to exploit Earth. Hell, while those two were at it, Aperture was too busy exploiting itself, and doing a damn good job at it. Both Aperture and the Universal Union are systems where literally no one was benefitting from the status quo, because they were too busy slaving away maintaining it. The Combine is just what Humanity would have become if it wasn't stopped at the very first hurdle. Flesh and machine, living and functional - both turned synonymous.
#portal#portal 2#hl#hl2#hl 2#half life#half life 2#aperture science#the citadel#the combine#universal union#rambling#ohhh there he goes raving about decades old videogame setpieces again#i feel like the similarities between the citadel and aperture are often treated way too literally instead of viewed from a metaphorical len#instead of “THEY WORKED TOGETHER?!!” I rly haven't seen anyone come to the conclusion of “oh humanity was on track to becoming similar”#anyway ahahaha new crackship alert. aperture. the building. and the citadel ! someone get on it#let's doom humanity together!!
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my vaguely adamandi-themed ceramics (THE PINK WAS INTENDED TO BE DARKER RED)
#kal’s art#adamandi#adamandi musical#based on 1. beatrix’s strings 2. the vincent monologue about the geometric apple 3. the eye setpieces
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There'd better be a mirrorball 🪩✨
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#i'll never shut up about this setpiece it's stunning#also farewell to the car tour#:')#arctic monkeys#am#the car#the car tour#the car era#alex turner#matt helders#jamie cook#nick o'malley#mirrorball#disco ball#there'd better be a mirrorball#arctic monkeys fanart
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there's a scene coming up in an honest lie and it's the first time i've ever done any kind of multiversal nod and rewritten a scene from another fic. but i think it's quite fun, and i hope it will put any 'is pieces an AU?' fears to bed :')))
#my writing#wip: an honest lie#cazador's mansion is a comedy setpiece#(no it isn't. but playing 5d chess with your own timelines as a writer sure is!)
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Beyond surface appeal, what makes Ganon a compelling antagonist
I think cruising my blog would provide a good number of possible answers, but I guess my tl:dr would be (otherwise I could probably make a full 24h conference about it at this point): because he does reveal (if one is willing to look) the brutality of a world in which gods uphold a natural order through a given kingdom that will not budge on its god-given right to rule, and him as both a rebellious disorder to that status quo which also ends up devoured by said status quo as just one natural part of a cycle of creation and destruction that ultimately always kind of stays the same.
Also, I find the setup of a man born to a tribe of outcast women, considered exceptional by birth while also having to figure himself out + the role he needs to play in that kind of structure and in a very difficult context, someone who both is being granted a lot of natural power while also still being sneered at and considered lesser and/or inherently evil by those blessed by the gods (while also carrying a lot of unexamined baggage of their own), is just so juicy and interesting and brimming with potential psychologically speaking (especially when applied to his motivations of: why does he want power, why does he always alter his own body, his uncanny resilience, etc). It does come with a lot of baggage, as "the evil man from the desert" is far from being a neutral concept coming from a neutral historical place --but examining what kind of world would come to such conclusions is also deeply revealing of said world.
And then, Wind Waker gives him even more of a window to reflect on his own rage while also never apologizing for the horrors he commited, mourning what he wanted and what he became while also being the only one calling the gods of Hyrule out for being terrifyingly cold entities --far more than he could ever hope to become.
Yeah, I think Nintendo has been sleeping on Ganondorf ever since (even if I defend his TP appearance). But he has a fascinating cross-game story(ies), and I find him to be a deeply tragic --if horrendously flawed-- figure, which is partially why TotK was so disappointing to me, because TotK saw nothing but the surface level + the fact that putting him in a game sells and makes people horny.
(you'll notice I didn't mention Demise, because I think that, while the whole cycle thing wasn't bad or not that interesting, fans really overly simplify this concept in a way that has contributed to make Ganondorf extremely flat, which I am not here for.)
#asks#thoughts#ganondorf#there's much more than this obviously#his weird contradiction of both wanting power and self-definition while also being desperate for the gods' approval in a way#his relationship to beasts and monsters and demons and his own humanity#his relationship to his mothers and his gerudo heritage#the way he's a foil to link and zelda#and from a game design perspective there's a ton of things too#like how he's a very proactive antagonist in most games which helps guiding the storytelling from one setpiece to the next#he's kind of having his own adventures in a way and you must follow his trail and/or foil his plans and/or survive his trickeries#and thematically when done well he can be a great foil too#anyway love this weird sad angry boar-man#great hair too
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I watched Damsel last night and I gotta say, the depiction of the dragon was immaculate. Like this is really inspiring stuff for a DM to pick up on.
Like it's the complete package. The flaming birds announcing her presence and apparent cruelty? Ohhhh and the fire breath itself was amazing. Like something between fire and napalm and how it melts the rock partially where it hits. This isn't something you can just put a shield up to, it'll ooze around and stick and warp the metal.
Moon above, the lair too. I feel like recent fantasy has kind of built up the expectation that you go through trap-filled caverns to get to a dragon's lair, which is where you actually fight her. But no the entire mountain is her lair in Damsel. You never know where she's going to turn up, her voice carries strangely, and there are few places she can't get to. Oooh how she just dives in out of nowhere at the "window" (iykyk), apex falcon behaviour. I fucking love that she probably could have just flown up the singing crystals or melted them with fire to end it, she keeps them intact. Like they're probably the only thing she could call entertainment for decades and it's not like it goes anywhere anyway. I don't know why but that's such a neat detail to me.
The whippy tail? Fantastic. The way she uses her wing to support a limp? Perfect. I love the twist on the dragon's horde too. It's just bits the princesses carried on them, brought back to the long-cooled golden albumen of her clutch. Fucking... the kingdom had more gold than her, but her horde was a hundred times more personally precious. It meant something other than wealth. And I bought it completely, Shohreh Aghdashloo's performance was so fucking feline and motherly in the same stroke. I never got tired of hearing her taunt and roar and even calmly speak.
The sheer show of power that was the firestorm, though. The actual height of her depiction. Wreathing the mountain in flaming clouds to rain cataclysm on the surroundings was incredible to see. That's the moment, right there. That's a fucking DRAGON. You think flyby fire breath attacks are what raining hellfire is? Cute. Here's Meteor III because I'm ticked off.
Actually perfect. I could spend the rest of my time talking about how the rest of the movie was kinda mid but I honestly don't care when it gave me this much Dragon.
#damsel#damsel netflix#dragon#dragons#like damn I'm gonna have to steal some of these setpieces for DnD#She has a proper lair and everything#gave me the best kind of chills to watch her slay
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day 98: cool forest region
#rain world#rw slugpup#daily slugplush#this is also a museum poison exhibit picture even if it doesnt look like it#this was a setpiece for a snow white thing and whether or not the story couldve happened in real life [it could not]#i dont remember very clearly why but i think its something like if she consumes a poison that makes her muscles so relaxed she looks asleep#that presumably includes her heart! you can assume what happens from there
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Hi I hope this isn't a dumb question but I saw ur post again about LOK and can I ask how does your typical mecha anime show "unpack the horrors of war" I don't really watch mecha anime
this is the opposite of a dumb question in that it's a question you would need like a graduate level paper to answer properly. im not a huge mecha person either so im not qualified to give you an in depth answer here but. i would say in extremely broad strokes a lot of the way mech anime deals with War Horrors is by exploring the way advanced technology makes war much more catastrophically violent while simultaneously distancing people from the violence they are committing
#im not saying every time a mech is in media you have to get into The Horrors#for example. studio trigger SURE loves giving us cool robots. theyre great at that.#but if you're gonna have a city-destroying death laser mech as. more of a setpiece than anything else? come on
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controversial take probably, but like the single greatest flaw in Dark Souls 2 (which is still an excellent game though btw) is that the entire game is designed around you being able to bonfire warp from the very beginning
#dark souls#dark souls 2#rambles from the moonsink#it can be kind of forgiven I guess what with how many beautiful setpieces and how much of its scale#could probably not have been accomplished without that design decision#but fundamentally that is the games biggest letdown
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Destiny 2: Gnarled; Entangled
#destiny 2#the final shape#d2: the final shape#destiny 2 the final shape#the pale heart#destiny 2 the pale heart#the blooming#destiny 2 the blooming#this setpiece is INSANE no one look at me#bungie#destiny 2 pc
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The Brothers Rico (1957)
"Okay, okay, so nobody's blaming you! Let's just say something happened way back, huh? So maybe I am gonna die. But, Eddie, you've got even bigger troubles. You're gonna live."
#the brothers rico#1957#film noir#american cinema#phil karlson#lewis meltzer#ben perry#georges simenon#richard conte#dianne foster#kathryn grant#larry gates#james darren#argentina brunetti#lamont johnson#paul picerni#harry bellaver#paul dubov#william phipps#richard bakalyan#mimi aguglia#US noir adaptation of a Simenon novel; i haven't read this one i dont think but I'd bet good money the book doesn't feature the same#syrupy sweet (and frankly quite implausible) ending. that aside‚ this is very decent stuff indeed. it's character led‚ rather than being#too plot heavy‚ allowing Conte (an old favourite of mine since he stole The Four Just Men tv series away from his international co stars)#to shine in his role as a former mob accountant gone straight but dragged‚ by younger brothers‚ back into the grist of it all#he's brilliant‚ particularly in the early domestic scenes with Foster which are genuinely very sweet and charming‚ with a realism and#natural rhythm that this kind of film so often fails to find in contrast to the stylized violence and hyper cool dialogue of the more macho#setpieces (not that i don't enjoy those too!). nor is Conte alone; this is a good film for actors‚ and every part down to the most minor of#middlemen‚ henchmen and goons (and there's a lot of those here) feels like a fully realised‚ honest creation by a talented actor#the melodrama comes a little thick in the back half and as said the very ending is.. far fetched. but definitely a superior whole of a film
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