#without it having to be explained

[ingravinoveritas]

oh my god that camera cut to gt in the opening was brutal 😭

It was pretty rough, I agree with you, Anon. But I don't think it was rough for the most immediately apparent reason.

As we know, Georgia was doing a bit, a continuation of the opening sketch that started in the dressing room with her saying "I'm just here for the goodie bag." The camera cut was then supposed to be Georgia in the audience looking through the goodie bag, but it just didn't translate, for a number of reasons. One of the biggest ones is that it didn't come across as a "bit" because Georgia seemed like she was being herself. So if she's being "so real," right away that's going to make it that much harder for it to read as a joke or bit.

The second problem was with the visuals. The goodie bag was black, Georgia was wearing a black dress (which meant that almost all of the light in the shot was on her face), and it was dark in the audience, so from a purely visual standpoint, you couldn't see what she was holding and it looked like she was caught in the middle of going through her purse. Had she held up something from the bag and pointed to it with an exaggerated/sarcastic expression of delight, that would have been funny, and would've both shown that it was the goodie bag and that she was doing a bit, because she'd be reacting in such a different way than she normally does.

Obviously, humor is subjective, and what one person thinks is funny might not be something that something else thinks is funny. But one thing that keeps getting said is how British humor is so dry/people who aren't from the UK don't get it, and so on. There is, however, a distinct difference between dry humor and something just not being funny.

In the clips of the opening that were put out by the official BAFTA social media and the BBC, the entire segment in the dressing room is cut out, and the clip starts with David singing and walking into the auditorium. So that brings us to the third problem, which is the removal of context. Again, we know that it's a bit, but without that scene in the dressing room, the only thing the casual viewer is left with is David shouting "Lucky Georgia!" and a camera cut to her looking annoyed/unhappy and seemingly no one in the audience laughing or knowing what was going on. And I know people will say "It's a bit, people just don't get that it's a bit" but the thing is, if you have to keep explaining a joke over and over again, it's just not funny.

To be clear, I don't fault Georgia for this entirely, because whoever structured the skit (as there was undoubtedly a creative team at the BAFTAs working on the opening sketch) clearly did not think it through. Nor did the editors who put together the clip for social media, or consider what the optics would be of cutting to Georgia at that moment following that specific line of the song.

None of this is even touching on the dressing room segment itself, or how flat it was in terms of writing/energy level. But what it ultimately comes down to is that when you only have a few seconds on camera, you need to make the most of it. Especially if you don't have any lines and are trying to sell a comedic reaction.

So this just felt like a lot of missed opportunities more than anything else, and if the goal was for this year's BAFTA opening sketch to have the same rewatchability factor as last year's, it definitely fell short...

[drenched-in-sunlight]

i love the DLC man

[v-arbellanaris]

i think the funniest part about people going 'well i love that there's no racism in veilguard actually' is that they're actually stupid because the godawful overtly aggressively racist, islamophobic and orientalist representation of the qunari is right there the ENTIRE TIME completely bald-faced and unapologetic but i guess it doesn't count as racism because... what? this portrayal fits in with your world view of the real life analogues?

[wolfwarrior142]

Aaravos with his first child: *loves her so deeply, profoundly devastated for a century after she's unfairly killed, causes chaos for centuries after*

Aaravos with his second child: Fuck this little freak lol

[monstermonger]

A Night Sky in the Woods

[ciderjacks]

despite Laios low self esteem making him think that if he’d been eaten, Chilchuck and Marcille wouldn’t have helped Falin,

theres a small part of me that thinks the reason Chilchuck stayed with the party and went back in the dungeon in the first place was because he didn’t want to leave Laios alone. That Laios was moreso the reason he stayed.

[theabigailthorn]

What in the academic fuck is a GIC assesment

A GIC assessment (Gender Identity Clinic) assessment is the psychiatric interrogation you have to go through in Britain if you want permission to medically transition (and some aspects of legal transition too). Also called a Gender Dysphoria Assessment.

It involves answering a bunch of medically irrelevant, repetitive, deeply humiliating, repetitive questions like how you masturbate, what you wear when you masturbate, your sexual history, your childhood history, what toys you played with as a child, your employment, the clothes you like to wear, your relationship with your partners and family, etc. The classic is "Do you imagine yourself as a woman when you masturbate?" It also involves various psychiatric tests to check whether you're psychotic, which are deeply stigmatising. You will likely have to suffer this interrogation more than once if you want certain medical and legal doors to open. If you do not answer these questions "correctly" you may be refused transition.

If you want to get it for free, you'll need to wait several years, possibly decades depending on where you live, to be admitted to a Gender Identity Clinic.

If you want to go private, it will cost you about £500 a go, maybe more. (It's not technically a GIC Assessment unless it takes place at an NHS GIC; otherwise it's just sparkling humiliation.)

At the end of your interrogation you will - if you answered correctly - be diagnosed with "gender dysphoria." There is no way for them to check whether the answers you gave were truthful or whether you just told them what they want to hear. In Britain, about a third of trans people surveyed said they lied or withheld information during these assessments. There was no way for the 2015 American Psychiatric Association Working Group on gender dysphoria - the cis people who created the diagnosis* - to know that the interview data they based it on wasn't also full of people telling doctors what they wanted to hear! The unreliability of that data, some researchers have said, calls into serious question the use and sense of the diagnosis! * Fun fact: Ray Blanchard and Kenneth Zucker were both on that working group!

The NHS spends somewhere between 20 and 90 million pounds a year (depending on how you count it) on doing this.

Contrast that process to, say, the treatment pathway for menopause, where a cis woman who wants hormone replacement therapy can just get it from her family doctor 🙃

If you'd like to know more about this, I spoke about it here in more detail with citations

And wrote about it here

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Tis but a flesh wound!

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[raepliica]

tristamp post-S1 mashwood sillies and tri98(?) merylwood :]

[ctrlzxoo]

ivan and till have their first kiss, an alternate ending 💕

please look at this comic for context and Part 1!

[flowersforthemachines]

What home smells like (Crossroads comments)

Note: judging by the audio I extracted and the conversation file, Bellara and Taash don't have lines for that event (if they actually have lines and I missed them, pls lmk).

Rook: That scent… I can't place it. Neve: For a moment… it smelled like Dock Town after it rains. Lucanis: Coffee. Like Illario and I smelled in the kitchen where we grew up. But that cannot be right. Harding: That's my ma's apple cake! But… how? Davrin: That's smoke from my old clan's campfire. But… how do I even know that? Emmrich: It's reminiscent of the mortuary's perfumes, but… ah. Of course. Emmrich: There's small enchantments around this place. From the old elves, welcoming their kindred home.

My DAVG Extracted Audio Masterlist

[andrewknightley]

saw someone saying something like "do you really think veilguard story would be better if you could do evil choices?" and actually yeah. i think if they let us act more like the dreadwolf on the "you are a paralellism to the dreadwolf" game, it would be more significant when the story tells you "you are a bit like him/you are nothing like him" because , thats how you chosed to play it.

[benevolenterrancy]

Art prompt of Shen Qingqiu holding the aro flag (fits his color scheme)

the real reason this man doesn't realise he's tripping every romance flag in the story

[egophiliac]

still absolutely losing my mind over Lilia

[kevinsdsy]

pick your fighter:

kevin “did you know i’ve never been skiing? i’d like to try it one day, though.” day

vs

jeremy “yeah, i spoke to jean earlier this week. he’s definitely done for the year, but he’ll be back in the fall. he just won’t be back in black.” knox

[claraoswalds]

#mrs flood who are you: time lord edition