#the method

[k0rr1g4n]

"The acting technique known as "the Method" asks actors to imagine themselves in the same situations as their characters, and call up the personal emotions associated with being in those situations. Method acting can elicit brilliant performances, but can sometimes harm an actor's well-being if proper care isn't taken to maintain boundaries between actor and character, especially while performing challenging or complicated roles. To make Major Kira an authentic character, and honor the people who experienced harm at the hands of oppressors, instead of trivializing the real-world parallels in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Nana Visitor inhabited the character of Major Kira Nerys this way."

[itsawritblr]

"Whether we start with a story or with a character, let's face it -- we writers of fiction are alike in one way. We're a mighty strange breed. We view the world differently. We walk around with voices and shadowy figures in our heads. We tend to stare out windows, mumble to ourselves. The Normals can't begin to understand us. Only our first cousins, the actors, can come close to matching our eccentricities. For we share the same goal: bringing characters to life."

*~*~* Brandilyn Collins, Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn From Actors.

I highly recommend this book for all writers. You can find cheap, readable copies on eBay and AbeBooks.

[the-arcade-doctor]

i wish people would ask me how i make text doctors and how they work so i can hit 'em with the

and then explain the method in gratuitous detail-

[bongjo]

[sluttywonwoo]

That fic you wrote about Joshua being an actor, "The Method" 🥵 holy fuck! now is my all time favorite joshua fic. It's so so good ❤️‍🔥 you should definitely consider write a second part ㅠㅠ pls 💜 you writing is beyond amazing, I'm such a fan already.

thank you!! if the inspiration ever strikes for a part two i’ll def try and write one

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The math just adds up!

[lo-fag]

idk man. i just think itd be really cool if sign language classes were mandatory throughout primary school. yeah because it would make communication with deaf kids and autistic/nonverbal kids much easier. and those kids would be accessible to the others so they could make friends and have healthy relationships. yeah. and kids would eat that shit up man. like their own little secret language? they love that.

[thejournallo]

ME MANIFESTING THAT EVERYONE WHO SEE THIS POST GETS WHAT THEY WANT.

(Masterlists)

[matthew-s-j]

The series centers on Rodion Meglin (Konstantin Khabensky), a highest level investigator of the Russian police who is also a sanctioned vigilante, hunting down the criminally insane who slip through the cracks of an ill-suited justice system. He’s used to working alone, never revealing the secrets of his method. A young law school graduate, Esenia Steklova (Paulina Andreeva), is assigned to the department of the Investigative Committee where Meglin serves, becoming his trainee.

What I like about this series is that the characters are based on real serial killers. 

For example

Anatoly Slivko (28 December 1938 – 16 September 1989) was a Soviet serial killer and necrophile who sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated seven boys in and around Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai, Russian SFSR, between 1964 and 1985. He is also known to have sexually assaulted at least 36 other victims.

Gennady Mikhasevich (7 April 1947 – 25 September 1987) was a prolific Soviet serial killer. He murdered at least 36 women during the period from 1971 to 1985.

Vasiliy Kulik (17 January 1956 – 26 June 1989) was a Soviet serial killer convicted for the killing of 13 people and nearly 30 rapes in Irkutsk between 1984 and 1986.

Kulik was executed by firing squad in 1989.

Anatoly Moskvin (born 1 September 1966) is a Russian former linguist, philologist, and historian who was arrested in 2011 after the mummified bodies of twenty-six girls and women between the ages of 3 and 29 were discovered in his apartment in Nizhny Novgorod. After exhuming the bodies from local cemeteries, Moskvin mummified the bodies himself before dressing and posing them around his home. Moskvin's parents, who shared the apartment with him, knew of the mummies but mistook them for large dolls.

A psychiatric evaluation determined that Moskvin had a form of paranoid schizophrenia. In May 2012, he was sentenced to court-ordered psychiatric evaluation and has since been held in a psychiatric hospital.

[buried-in-stardust]

Making Huizhou inksticks (徽墨), famous for its high quality.

Notes:

The characters OP pressed into the inksticks are 山白, OP's username

The "internal heat" referred to in the video is a term in Traditional Chinese medicine referring to a cause of inflammation, swelling, twitching, etc.

[eng by me]

[a-method-in-it]

You know that Chris Fleming line that goes "Call yourself a community organizer even though you're not on speaking terms with your roommates"?

I honestly think every leftist who talks about the "revolution" like Christians talk about the rapture needs to spend a year trying to organize their workplace. Anyone who sincerely talks about building a movement so vast and all-encompassing that it overwhelms all existing power structures needs the dose of humility that comes with realizing they can't even build a movement to get people paid better at a badly run AMC Theaters where everyone already hates the manager.

[shirrinshine]

Defining major characters really is just taking pieces of yourself and slapping on a pair of glasses in an attempt to clark kent yourself into thinking that this isn't just rearranging a Rorschach test.

[blueskittlesart]

sharing mana

[bongjo]