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Dune: Part Two (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

#i haven't watched dune yet #but this has real life of Brian vibes #dune #dune part 2 #congratulations you are being resqueued

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Every time a critrole cast member gets blindsided by their character catching romantic feelings the funnier it gets. Taliesin 'my character is irredeemable and will never be happy' veering straight into 'actually he's in love and will get a happy ending whether he wants to or not'. Liam entering c2 set on no romance only for Caleb to fall hopelessly and uselessly in love with first Jester and then Essek. Marisha being set on Beau being a fuckboy with zero attachments only for her to start falling for Yasha in literally the first episode and going on to develop a crush on Jester as well. Ashley creating a character in mourning with zero thoughts on romance who falls SO HARD for Beau. Travis KNOWING going in that Laura would try to romance him, set on not letting her succeed, and then falling headfirst for it anyway. Marisha and Laura both entering c3 like 'best friends!!' only to, at almost the same time, go *surprised pikachu face* 'why am I experiencing jealousy???'

Never change guys

#critical role #percahlia #shadowgast #beauyasha #fjorester #southern gothic #critrole c1 #critrole c2 #critrole c3 #mighty nein #congratulations you are being resqueued

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#a lot missing from this line up #but anyways #sailor moon #my anime starter package: #(after sailor moon) #dragonball z #tenshi muyo #(that was the cartoon network line up at the time) #i feel like I'm forgetting one #then WB got cars captor sakura which they ruined so you had to buy the sub #that gets you to the store #and probably the first anime i bought that wasn't being shown on TV was magic Knight rayearth #but also popular at the time was inuyasha which is included here but also ranma 1/2 was really popular #poll #anime

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Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

#lotr #shelob #sauron #samwise gamgee #congratulations you are being resqueued

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poll plagiarism <3

#79% #oof #disappointed in myself #time to play more geography games and refresh my knowledge #also i did not read the title and initially missed that this was a map of 1919 europe #so that did throw me off #poll #congratulations you are being resqueued

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I have no idea why Howl's Moving Castle is trending but it might be a good time to share that last week, at the bookstore, I saw this gorgeous new paperback cover?? Like this is such an upgrade from the weird green and purple one!

#howls moving castle #howl's moving castle #congratulations you are being resqueued

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#april 25 #miss congeniality

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Everybody acts like each new Game Changer is a new level of betrayal and psychological torture from Sam towards his friends. Did we forget that the very first game changer was "Sam wheels out a strange machine and asks the contestants embarrassing personal questions, the veracity of their responses is judged by the Machine. The machine is actually controlled by the contestant's significant others who have been made accomplices. Forcing their loved ones into revealing shameful truths for internet broadcast." And sure, he's gotten a bit more personalized with these, constructing a variety of torture chambers for Brennan Lee Mulligan specifically, putting Grant O'Brien in various situations and then bringing his mother onto the set. But deception and betrayal were part of Game Changer from the beginning. So, when I hear people say "I can't believe Sam WENT THERE" about something all I can do is think to myself He went nowhere He's been there the whole time

#lol #omg #game changer #sam reich #congratulations you are being resqueued

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You know who absolutely would have seen Obi-Wan’s wanted poster from Daiyu?

Hondo Ohnaka

#hondo ohnaka #obi wan kenobi #Star Wars #lol #congratulations you are being resqueued

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i like the idea of doing shakespeare adaptations set in high school a la 10 things i hate about you or she's the man but i feel like we're missing some opportunities by only doing the comedies. i wanna see macbeth but it's about a really high stakes student council election

#there's also an adaptation of macbeth set in a fast food restaurant #scotland pa #shakespeare #congratulations you are being resqueued

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jaime being insane in terms of skill as a swordsman is so key to his status as the #1 resident of idgafghanistan bc that is part of what enables his post-aerys experience faux nihilistic limbo state bc he effectively believes that he can solve any problem (“knots and tangles”) that he even allows to matter atp by cutting it apart with a longsword. the uncomplicated physical keeps protecting him from the complicated mental (kind of like how he frames the dissociative quality of the battle fever to tyrion: “you stop feeling, you stop thinking, you stop being you”). oh the kid wakes up and talks? ok well ill just kill ned and then robert and then. he is so far gone that he does the same with brienne when she embodies two major obstacles: the surface level problem of being his captor who judges, misunderstands, and dehumanizes him, and the deeper problem of being someone who cares and retains her values and humanity and continuously rejects and contradicts jaime’s cynical worldview that he uses to justify himself. her very existence is a condemnation of jaime on every level. this is also why her actually ending up dominating him and him being unsuccessful in cutting her down in that fight works so well. she is a knot he cannot cut through.

#jaime lannister #asoiaf meta #asoiaf #meta #congratulations you are being resqueued

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That time Matt had to "How do I want to do this?" himself

#critical role #the mighty nein #mighty nein #matthew mercer #sam riegel #travis willingham #marisha ray #laura bailey #ashley johnson #taliesin jaffe #critrole c2 #congratulations you are being resqueued

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how to go from daydream to draft:

begin by daydreaming as you normally do, or just after you've finished doing so. write down every thought you have. one after another. do not reread. do not stop for spelling mistakes. just dump out every thought. this is called stream of consciousness writing. you can do this for every scene you need a first draft for.

struggling to draft the scene? try to daydream about it. start thinking about how it would look, feel, what the characters would say, act it out in your head and then write out the stream of your thoughts as they arrive.

by now you have a few scene dumps. you may be tempted to go back and edit. do not do this expect for obvious spelling mistakes. do not read closely and start thinking "i need to rework this sentence." that is for later. now you're in the zone. draft more scenes. or work out what the next scene needs to be, scaffold it with a few comments. this will be the inspiration for your next deliberate thought stream that you will write out. repeat this process until you have the whole draft.

now that you have a draft or part of a draft you get to do this very fun thing called revise until you're happy. sweep through your draft with specific goals each time. one sweep to fix spelling/grammar. another for character voice. another for plot. repeat until you're happy with it.

leave it alone. just leave it for a bit. at least a few hours or days or even weeks. forget it exists. this will allow you come back with fresh eyes. then you can do your revisions with an eagle eye. now you may realize you need to add/remove scenes. you know how to get the first version down. close your eyes and daydream at your desk if that's what takes!

remember that fiction writing is persuasive writing. you are trying to persuade the reader to care about what happens next, the character's, the world, the feelings. as you're revising, consider whether you are persuaded. is the feeling/thoughts you wanted to provoke being felt by you when you read it? when working with beta readers, be sure to communicate what you're trying to convey so they can tell you if you've been successful or not.

this got a bit beyond getting the first draft done. hope you found it helpful.

bonus tip: check the spellings of names and places and other nouns that are not typically used, like the name of a magic tool!

#writing #writing advice #congratulations you are being resqueued

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I’m a simple woman, I hear the Pirates of the Caribbean music, I become gripped with the urge to don pirate garb and fight cursed skeletons upon the open sea

#BBC Strictly #potc #dancing #paso doble #congratulations you are being resqueued

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▶ zemfira - progulka

#kanera #fan art #congratulations you are being resqueued

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Looking for fantasy book recommendations, if anyone has them! Recently finished and enjoyed the following as reference:

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

The Magician's Daughter by H. G. Parry

A Power Unbound by Freya Marske

#reblogging for the morning

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Looking for fantasy book recommendations, if anyone has them! Recently finished and enjoyed the following as reference:

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

The Magician's Daughter by H. G. Parry

A Power Unbound by Freya Marske

#the latest with Liz #liz reads