#third film when.

[dykealloy]

d i s c o m b o b u l a t e

[alwaysahiccupandastrid]

Jake when his sons are in trouble:…

Jake when his daughters are in trouble:

[arttsuka]

Jedediah and Octavius

Some wips (but I forgot to take pictures of most of the steps) + the 'clean' version (basically without the hearts because I posted this on Instagram too and people I know irl follow me there 🥲)

[teachyouhowtodothesponge]

One more doodle of my favorite line from the Jungle Book.

[horrorlesbians]

i need to study him

[whetstonefires]

I don't actually agree that the beginning and end of a story are the hardest parts.

Beginnings should not be hard. Like the very beginning, the hook, takes careful crafting, but you won't be able to optimize it until you've written enough of the story to know what it's really about and how the tone is going to be like, so don't bother trying. It's the start, you have nothing binding you, you are totally free, just pursue your vision.

Similarly, the ending should not be super difficult. Hard to make really good maybe, especially the more balls you have in the air, but it's necessarily derived from the story you already wrote. Either you have the pieces set to assemble into a conclusion, or you don't. Putting in more effort on composing an ending will not fix 'don't.'

Which is why the hard part is the third quarter. When you have to stop adding new fun shiny story toys and start lining shit up for the payoff, so that i.e. when you sink that revelation in the corner pocket it has enough context to mean something, but doesn't feel so obvious nobody cares. And just generally do all the most boring workish parts of making a narrative go.

All without seeming to slow down in such a way as to lose your audience's interest.

Scale-up of the 'if you're fully stuck on a sentence the actual problem probably happened a few sentences ago' rule: if you're routinely absolutely snookered by trying to end pieces of fiction, it's the fussy grunt work in the third quarter you probably need to level up at.

[evansbby]

my opinion on the Blake lively situation

[wulfhalls]

himesh!watson spin off series announcement WHEN also henry can be there as well I guess as he does have the time now

[duu-kiwi]

is now the time when i finally take out the license to be horny on main???

[todayisafridaynight]

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[batfleckgifs]

literally one of the most interesting framing from this movie because you really see how this is the kind of pedestal he's been put in as this leader, with all the horrors and the regrets of evil crimes in service to an american imperialist god and its like a practice that never goes away because greed and desperation is so ingrained in the american experience

and then the next shot you don't even see the bodies of the people he just put down, just the bags and bags of money they stole

and then i think its really neat that once its just them again, just this little gang of you know complicit greed and tools of american imperialism, all fading into the background, you have him in bright orange as a literal target amongst the blue

[lupincaps]

[abirdie]

Gael García Bernal in Dreaming of Julia / Cuban Blood (2003, dir. Juan Gerard)

[side note: this film was initially released in a widescreen format. Indeed, I HAVE a digital copy in widescreen format, but with subtitles burned in so no use for giffing. Every other copy I can find on DVD or digital format (it had a lot of releases under different titles) is in this cropped aspect ratio instead, so this is the one you're getting. It does look better in widescreen, though]

Gifs are all 540px wide so you can click to see larger.

[other gael filmography gifsets]

[romanceyourdemons]

ok i was typing “i shouldn’t have to scrounge for scraps like a dog” in relation to not being able to find an english-subtitled copy of a particularly mediocre jiangshi film. BUT instead i accidentally typed “i shouldn’t have to scrounge for scraps like a god” which is altogether much cooler

[dulltoned]

I stand with the hc that Branch has one hell of a stomach, and that sweets aren’t his strong suit- he doesn’t mind the occasional cupcake or cookie, but he definitely doesn’t have the same tolerance as Poppy or any other troll-

I like to think the brothers all have different levels of tolerance to sugar, and their diets are a lot different than a common pop troll (seems like pops are the only one who ever really live off a lot of sweets from what we’ve got- correct me if I’m wrong tho-)

JD, I feel like, has the most similar diet to Branch, since he lived a lonesome life and most likely had to feed off of what the forest had and what little he could get his hands on, such as berries and whatnot- like Branch, he wouldn’t be as tolerant to sugar, but it isn’t half as intense as Branch- or maybe he’s just not that big of a fan-

now, Bruce, from what we’ve seen of his restaurant, seems more into sea food than anything, so his diet most likely consists of that- since he has kids, he’d be a lot more tolerant to sweets since you cannot tell me this man didn’t sneak in a few whenever the kids got to eat some- he gives “cool dad” vibes that shares everything with his kids- he’s open to anything new (another quirk he attained from having kids) and he isn’t that picky when it comes to food

Clay’s diet consists of fast food, such as fries, burgers and whatnot- definitely a lot of sugar too, so out of all of them, he’s definitely the better one at keeping sweets down-

for Floyd, I feel like the food he ate was rather vast- we aren’t entirely sure what he did during the 20 years alone, but I like to hc that he explored troll kingdom, most likely trying out the different dishes in each territories and just evolving his preferences and all- between all of them, he’s got the biggest range of tastes, and he’s never afraid to try out something new- sweets are fine for him, he just doesn’t go overboard unlike some others-

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I've always loved the idea that Branch doesn't stomach sugar well, but while it makes sense for him as a character I also acknowledge that I'm projecting onto him. Sugar makes me ill and it's interesting to have a character that I think can relate to that.

I think it'd be an interesting thing for Poppy to realize. Poppy is obviously a very excitable and very giving troll and I imagine that she'd give Branch a lot of sweets just because it's customary amongst Pop Trolls. Branch, the poor lovesick idiot, would feel bad letting Poppy's hard work go to waste so he'd just eat it and endure the stomach ache later.

At some point or another Poppy would discover Branch curled up, unwell over the sugar overload, and he'd be forced to confess that he doesn't really do sugar. Poppy would feel so guilty and Branch would feel even more outcasted from the Pop Trolls even after he'd regained his colors.

Poppy starts making him muffins and scones instead, less sugar and no frosting, and Branch finds that they actually aren't that bad. He still can't stomach the whole thing at first but he finds that some pastries are actually pretty good. His favorite is the lemon poppyseed muffins. No reason. Don't look into it too much.

[socially-awkward-chocobo]

Three more are out!! Now just three (maybe four or five, depending on my mood) left.

(Kido-Kano-Seto)

(Ayano-Momo-Mary)