#Original : the-modern-typewriter

[saturncodedstarlette]

Soap : Oi, where’s your boyfriend?

Y/N : He’s not my boyfriend. 🙄

Soap, gestures at Graves : Have you told him that?

Philip Graves, looking at the love of his life : 😊👋🫴💝

#Cod #Call of duty #cod x reader #Call of duty incorrect quotes #Cod imagines #Cod Philip Graves #Call of duty Shadow Company #Shadow Company #Philip Graves x male reader #Philip Graves x fem reader #Philip Graves x gn reader #philip graves x you #Philip graves x oc #Original : the-modern-typewriter #Original : Tumblr #I said I wouldn’t but look where that got me 😔 #Cod Soap #John Soap Mctavish

[the-broken-pen]

The Pinterest to whump pipline is so real!!! Did you fall from that pipeline?

I remember searching for “whump” boards until I just needed more and came straight to the source - tumblr.

Ahh, yep. The pipeline is one I hold dear. It was me googling writing prompts, finding stolen screenshots of moderntypewriter, and then stumbling onto tumblr when I figured out they were hers. After that my mother went into her authoritarian phase and I lost contact :( then I discovered how to use duolingo as a proxy and all was well.

A lot of the prompts were just *chefs kiss* but I think it was this one that really was like “oh. Oh.” for me. That and all the fae ones.

#whump #not writing #writing community #young writer #origin story lol #the modern typewriter

[downthepub]

A very 80s Nero Wolfe version with Delta Burke as a guest star I think.  Inspector Cramer portrayed as a rather neurotic and sad character who talks softly, Saul Panzer has a brief appearance and is played as completely incompetent.  

Wolfe is played like a rather nice man (but still not a bad adaptation of him), Archie seems a little too sincere.

#nero wolfe #better than the radio adaptations but not amazing imo #rex stout #archie goodwin #saul panzer #delta burke #80s adaptations of classic mystery fiction #inspector cramer seems kinda gay tbh #he's far less sympathetic in the books and more of a ham-fisted cigar chewer #and Saul is supposed to be quiet and competent and funny not obnoxious loud and INcompetent #i may watch a couple more episodes #a Very Modern Computer plays into this one replacing the original plot element which had something to do with typewriters #they got the title wrong i think??? idk

[vickyvicarious]

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air. [...] When we are married I shall be able to be useful to Jonathan, and if I can stenograph well enough I can take down what he wants to say in this way and write it out for him on the typewriter, [...] When I am with you I shall keep a diary in the same way. [...] I will tell you of my little plans when we meet. [...] I am longing to hear all his news. It must be so nice to see strange countries. I wonder if we—I mean Jonathan and I—shall ever see them together.

Look at how forward-facing Mina is! She is chock-full of plans and anticipation for the future in this letter; practically every other line is looking ahead. To her vacation with Lucy, and further ahead still to her marriage with Jonathan, and perhaps even further than that to a future in which they can travel together. She talks about being busy and she certainly is, of course. She's been working hard and is probably tired. But her stress is still pretty minimal here. Instead, she's overflowing with love and eagerness.

It's a perfect introduction to her, in a bunch of ways.

She is a character who is so closely linked to modernity (and contrasted to her enemy Dracula who represents the past), and so having this letter be all about the future is very fitting.

This letter shows just how young and eager she is. We saw it with Jonathan, on his first big job - and here we see Mina as well, full of energy and eager to embark on a new stage of her life.

We see that Mina is the kind of person who works hard for the future, too. She doesn't just sit around and dream, however much she looks forward to doing so with Lucy - instead, she tells us of multiple ways she is currently/is planning to begin preparing for her future. She's studying, practicing, teaching and learning at all times - and happy to do so.

The lighthearted letter is a great contrast to everything going on with Jonathan. Dramatic irony aplenty about his trip - but also about the uncertainty of the very future she anticipates here. It also echoes how his diary began. He and she shared this frame of mind originally, but after meeting Dracula it's been taken from him. Eventually, despite their reunion and marriage, Dracula's return and attack on Mina robs both of them of this eagerness for the future. Mina anticipates her death instead of her life. Jonathan tells us they never speak of the future. It's not until he is gone from their lives that they start to live for the future again in the same way.

It being a letter, and one so full of joy and love for both Jonathan and Lucy at that, is very fitting as well. Mina is the heart of the latter part of the novel, and builds unique bonds with everyone around her in a way no one else does to the same extent. She is motivated by love and care for others, and their love for her prompts them into action as well. Connections are so important with her. So having her first contribution to the book be a letter to someone she loves is perfect.

#dracula daily #dracula daily spoilers #mina murray #dracula meta #my meta

[cantsayidont]

August 1940. Perhaps the most important Superman story never published: In the summer of 1940, Jerry Siegel wrote a complete script for a 26-page Superman epic (the length of two normal Superman stories of this period) in which Superman is weakened by a passing meteor of radioactive metal from the destroyed planet Krypton, here called "K-Metal." That alone would have been noteworthy, but that's far from all. Later in the story, Superman reveals his true identity to the survivors of a mine cave-in, including Lois Lane!

The other three witnesses are subsequently killed, but Lois now knows the truth. She and Superman then have the following conversation:

LOIS: Now I begin to see. Your attitude of cowardliness as Clark Kent-- It was just a screen to keep the world from learning who you really are! But there's one thing I must know: Was your--er--affection for me, in your role as Clark, also a pretense? SUPERMAN: THAT was the genuine article, Lois! LOIS: How foolish you were not to let me in on the secret! You should have known you could trust me! Why-- Don't you realize-- I might even be of great help to you? SUPERMAN: You're right! There were many times when I could have used the assistance of a confederate. Why didn't I think of it before? LOIS: Then it's settled! We're to be--partners! SUPERMAN: Yes -- partners!

It isn't quite so easy, however. After returning to Metropolis, Lois tells Clark, "I just remembered how long you've secretly been laughing at me! I don't like to be laughed at, Clark Kent-- But-- I'll assist you… Only for the good of humanity, however!"

Most of the art for this story was completed, or nearly completed, by Joe Shuster's shop artists before National-DC pulled the plug. The exact reasons are now unknown, although the most likely explanation is that the story just seemed like too much of a shift in the established dynamics of the Superman strip, which was by then running in newspapers and on the radio as well as in the comics. K-Metal, renamed Kryptonite, resurfaced in a 1943 radio storyline, which borrows some elements from this script, but Kryptonite wouldn't appear in the comics until 1949, and it wouldn't be until decades later that Lois Lane really and truly learned the secret.

For background on this story, see Mark Waid's article in ALTER EGO #26 (July 2003). The Superman Through the Ages website has a nearly complete recreation of the full story, done by modern artists (in color) based on the surviving pages of original art and Siegel's script, which Waid had carefully retyped using the same kind of typewriter Siegel used.

#comics #golden age superman #jerry siegel #joe shuster #wayne boring #john sikela #costin stefan #mark waid #kryptonite #clark kent #superman #lois lane #kryptonite was an important part of the radio show #featuring in four major storylines of the mid 1940s #no idea why it took till 1949 for it to appear in the comics

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

- Erik Satie

To his contemporaries and peers Erik Satie was something of an enigma. Just a few of his quirks included claiming he only ate white foods, carrying a hammer wherever he went, founding his own religion, eating 150 oysters in one sitting, and writing a piece with the instruction to repeat 840 times! As a composer, Satie paved the way for the avant-garde in music and became a very influential figure in the classical music of the 20th century whose works still sound fresh today.

Born into a poor and difficult childhood in the Normandy harbour town of Honfleur on 17 May 1866, Satie would always be an outsider. The Paris Conservatoire to which he was enrolled by his stepmother, herself a pianist, became for him “a sort of local penitentiary” during his teens; he left with no qualifications and a reputation for being lazy. He signed up for military service in 1886 and dropped out within the same year. Immersing himself in the bohemian life of Montmartre, he became linked with the popular music scene and eked out a living as an accompanist, playing at the Chat Noir cabaret. Always on the periphery, and forever out of money, he later downgraded from the cramped room in which he lived to the less fashionable Parisian suburb of Arcueil, where he holed up in isolation and squalor – no visitors set foot in the room during the near-30 years he lived there.

Much has been made of the eccentricities of this flâneur, who was always seen in a grey velvet suit, and yet underlying Satie’s music is his serious desire to create something new. You can hear it in his popular piano pieces: the haunting scales and rhythms of the Trois Gnossiennes written under the spell of Romanian folk music, and the meditative world of Gymnopédies, where, as in a cubist painting, motifs are “seen” from all sides. At a time when French composers were looking to escape the shadows of Wagner’s epic Romanticism, the French composer’s stripped-back mechanical sound, inspired by the humble barrel organ, offered a radically simple approach.

Satie preferred originality to the mundane. The composer of the famous Gymnopedies, could never be accused of having an uninteresting personality. For one, his outgoing fashion statements always caused a stir. During his Montmartre years, he had 12 identical velvet corduroy suits hanging in his wardrobe, which earned him the nickname ‘The Velvet Gentleman’, and in his socialist years, he donned a bowler hat and carried an umbrella.

Debussy helped to draw public attention to Satie, orchestrating two of his Gymnopédies, yet Satie had to wait until much later in life to attain celebrity status. While still earning a living writing salon dances and popular cabaret songs, and after suffering a creative crisis, he enrolled himself at the Schola Cantorum in Paris at the age of 39. Rather than finding him validation, his studies seem to have fuelled his hatred of convention - it’s with more than a hint of bitterness that he claims to put “everything I know about Boredom” into the Bach chorale of his masterful Sports et Divertissements piano pieces. But notoriety led to a succès de scandale and when it came it came with a bang in Parade, his surreal, one-act circus ballet for Diaghilev. Into the orchestral score, which featured jazz and cabaret tunes, were thrown typewriters, sirens and a pistol - just the kind of noises a wartime audience would normally pay not to hear. With its rigid cubist costumes by Picasso - which restricted Massine’s choreography - and a promotional push from Cocteau, it was provocative enough to secure Satie’s position at the vanguard of modernism.

Yet Satie was continually frustrated in his attempts to be accepted as an artist in high society France - his failure to establish himself at the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts, to which Debussy had won a scholarship, only compounded his resentment. Was this treatment by the cultural elite fair? Certainly his determination to antagonise his audience in his late ballets did little to endear him to the critics, but the fierce criticism he received in Paris was also a sign of things to come. Pierre Boulez would later poke fun at Satie’s lack of craft, while composer Jean Barraqué - another proponent of 12-tone music - would deride Satie as “an accomplished musical illiterate … who found that his friendship with Debussy was an unhoped-for opportunity to loiter in the corridors of history”.

Satie is perhaps, to this day, the most audacious and original composer when it comes to naming his works e.g. Gnossiennes and Gymnopédies. With Satie you will not see symphonies, concertos or opus numbers. Satie possessed a wicked sense of humour and his mockery, both of himself and others, became an inspiration for many of his irony-tinged works. His Sonatine bureaucratique is a spoof of Muzio Clementi’s Sonatina Op. 36 and contained many witticisms in the score. For example, he writes Vivache (vache being French for cow) instead of the original Italian tempo marking Vivace.

Whether in the collage-like miniature piano parodies he wrote during the World War I, his creation of a theatre format that has endured over the years, or in his collaboration with Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso y Sergei Diaghilev, there is a liveliness of imagination and a hunger for innovation that made Erik Satie In the torch bearer of the vanguard in his work. Satie would influence so many so strongly that years later some of his closest friends became radical artists, for example. ManRay, the sculptor Constantin Brâncusi, and Marcel Duchamp, or a much younger group of Paris-based composers like Les Six.

Satie, a known drinker of absinthe, and apparently every other alcohol available, died of cirrhosis at the age of 59 in Arcueil, France in July 1925. But his compositions, especially those deceptively simple-sounding solo piano works, find life today through recitals, concerts, and great movie scores. Although he died in poverty with little success to his name, today Erik Satie is acknowledged as a founder of 20th-century modernism, who changed the face of music.

Personally I do find Satie's music enriching, But I also find that his calculated wackiness is culturally apt. Pieces like ‘3 Pieces in the Shape of a Pear’, ‘Flabby Preludes for a Dog’ and ‘Desiccated Embryos’ rewardingly deflate Wagnerism's excesses in a characteristically French way.

#satie #erik satie #quote #music #classical music #composer #pianist #debussy #modernism #paris #french #france #arts #culture #french culture #innovation #artist #life

[your-dankle-bloob]

So, this might’ve been obvious to some, but I found something really interesting while digging around on Eggabell’s wiki page. Did you know that Bugsnax’s worldbuilding is very 60s/70s inspired? Let’s start with what I found on the wiki:

(photo from 1966)

After seeing this small tidbit it struck me that a lot of the theming and technology in the game is very 60s/70s-esque. For example:

Beffica’s phone seen in the end credits is a push telephone commonly used in the 70s. And,

Clumby’s office phone is a rotary phone stylistically similar to those found in the 1960s (rotary phones originate way further back, but the one seen here is relatively modern in appearance)

In the same picture we can also see in the background the radio is reminiscent of a transistor radio from the 1970s.

And throughout the game you can notice typewriters are commonly used by the grumpuses (Floofty has one in their hut in Snaxburg, and Jamfoot has one in the Triplicate Space. You can also hear typewriter sounds in the music used during interviews.) On this note, it’s also important to point out that newspapers are incredibly frequent in the game, and appear more vintage than modern due to the lack of color and general aesthetic:

(it’s also interesting to note that Snorpy has an obsession with radio waves rather than, say, idk, cell towers? A much more modern conspiracy focus?)

A modern and vintage newspaper for comparison:

(Going back to hat aesthetics for a minute, I wanna point out that the whole fedora with a PRESS note tucked into the band on the side is a VERY vintage depiction of journalists/reporters)

A lot of the gear used by the journalist have similarities to technology used around those decades as well:

The journalist’s snaxscope is very stylistically similar to a 1960s voigtlander camera:

Their tape recorder is a portable reel to reel tape recorder stylistically similar to those from the 60s-80s, albeit significantly downsized (it looks a lot like a mashup of a reel to reel and a cassette player):

And the snaktivator made and given to them by Floofty is reminiscent of the 50s-60s sci fi aesthetic (this could just be contributed to them being a nerd, but I thought it was interesting enough to be put on the list)

Something else small but worth noting is the boombox used by Cromdo and by Filbo during the parties is quite 70s-80s-esque, and the record player in Wiggle’s hut is, of course, a timeless commodity.

The final thing I wanna touch on is the reel to reel tape player used in Clumby’s office and in Lizbert and Eggabells hut:

Not only is it very vintage device (in fact, it’s more closely similar to ones predating the 60s than ones from the 60s-70s), it’s very important to note that all the reels, when projected onto the screens, are a yellowy monochrome instead of in color:

Of course, there’s some things that conflict with all this, such as the songs that Wiggle’s records reference being released in the 90s at the earliest, and Beffica’s entire way of speaking, but the fun of a fictional world is that you can add things like this just for the hell of it! I think Bugsnax’s worldbuilding is really interesting with all the vintage references paired with the much more modern ones. Also, let me know if there’s anything I missed - I’d love to see other oldies references in this game!

#bugsnax #worldbuilding #vintage #history #eggabell #clumby #the journalist #60s #70s #80s #vintage technology

[colleendoran]

I went to a lot of comic cons in college. My impression was that most of the creators were… creatives. People that spend long hours in front of a drawing board or a typewriter, building worlds out of the aether that is their brain(s). That’s illustration to me. Physically manifesting the metaphysical, moment by moment. Picking the best moments for each beat of the story.

I -flat out- went to school to be a comic book artist. I just cannot fathom feeding my wife and my boys by manifesting the images in my head into a monthly income. But hey, that’s me. Your work is a continuous source of inspiration and joy for me.

My eldest son loves the power rangers. He he drew the green ranger in pencil on a canvas. He then painted the drawing with acrylic. He had a full-on meltdown when the painting didn’t look as good as he wanted it to look.

I sat with him and explained the process of creating comic book artwork. From blueline to publication. I spoke with him about the value of perseverance, and the value of using mixed media. He waited a day and then outlined his painting with Sharpie. He BEAMED with pride when he showed me the final product. Made me so, so happy.

Rodin was a hack. Dude had no deadlines, and no narrative outline.

Keep being awesome. You are an inspiration to me, to my boys, and to generations to come.

I am so glad you are encouraging your son to make art and enjoy it, and it is great that you find so much to appreciate in comic art and have so much respect for those who make it. We all truly appreciate it.

A few thoughts, if I may.

If you want your son to understand and appreciate mixed media, you might want to move him away from using markers like Sharpies.

If you are concerned about the longevity of the original art, I regret to inform you alcohol based markers such as Sharpies and Copics are not lightfast. That is to say, they fade on exposure to UV light. They do not use pigmented inks, they use dyes.

The fading may not happen today, it may not happen tomorrow, but it will happen sooner than you would like. Many well-known cartoonists who used Sharpies on their original comic pages, or did commissions sketches using them, have seen the art fade markedly (pun intended) over time.

Here's what that looks like.

This Klaus Janson commission has just about gone home to Jesus.

Try to switch to pigment based markers, such as those from Faber Castell, or go wild and learn to use a crow quill.

Also, while I truly appreciate your kind compliments, it's not necessary to do that at another artist's expense.

Rodin was the complete opposite of the definition of "hack".

A hack is a term originally used for one who works on tight deadlines to publisher specifications, and produces poor quality work.

That's not Rodin.

Rodin was a spectacular talent who earned his place in the canon. He came from humble beginnings and spent the first two decades of his career sculpting decorative architectural elements. He obtained his place as a fine artist after many years of struggle.

And even then, a fine artist often works to deadline, as there are salons and exhibit specs that must be met, as well as the requirements of patrons and clients, to say nothing of the grueling formal training aspiring artists were subjected to in the ateliers.

His work often contains strong narrative elements as well, as evidenced by his design for The Gates of Hell.

In fact, for most of the history of modern art, narrative elements were considered anti-art. As someone who prefers 19th century genre art, this attitude is bummerific.

The term "hack" comes from the 17th century term "Grub Street Hacks".

Back in the day writers did not get royalties. Bookstores usually published books and paid writers a flat fee and never another penny, which resulted in a lot of very broke writers, or writers who came from wealthy families who could afford to scorn the sordid topic of coin.

Grub Street was located in London where a lot of book publishers were housed next to brothels and flophouses. It's now known as Milton Street. This area was the location of the lowliest of the low publishing joints.

The great Samuel Johnson was once a Grub Street Hack.

I've just read the most wonderful book about Samuel Johnson which has many amazing details about the development of publishing. The Club: Johnson, Boswell and The Friends Who Shaped an Age. My highest recommendation, though some will be very upset by attitudes and behaviors toward the women in these men's lives.

Johnson, despite many years of poverty, was able to escape after his work eventually earned him a royal pension. When well-thought of creative people couldn't make royalties, they were supported by wealthy patrons and the royal pension system.

While I don't have a formal education, I spent many years doing research for auction catalogues and ghost writing articles about art history, which is why I am annoyingly pedantic about it all to this day.

#rodin #samuel johnson #comics #lightfast #hack #grub street hack

[the-magpie-archives]

'I'm made of plastic, silly!' elicits a very specific image to a modern audience. One of shiny, brightly coloured modernism. Perhaps of cheap animal figures, and barbie dolls; harmless childhood toys.

But bear in mind this is said by a creature of the past. Have you ever held an antique baby doll? a weakly cast action figure? Even the case of an old typewriter? You can feel the brittle plastic, cold and rough; it feels as if it would snap under your fingers and its deceptive strength leaves your hands unsure of the density and your mind trying to figure it out.

Have you ever seen an old automaton? I read a book about them once, it was the first time I ever felt truly afraid of a puppet. Not the brash, fluffy, celebratory animal things of America, but the original European circus pieces.

One of the primary reasons a circus succeeds is spectacle: the creation of something so entirely awestriking that audiences have no choice but to gawp, and pay their fees. There's something so terrifying about not being able to look away. Sometimes not being able to see really is a good thing.

To see something that isn't a person move and talk like a person is horribly unnerving. It's far too common in this modern age, but can you imagine the terror of seeing these things firsthand for the first time, in a world where technology is scarce beyond an idea?

That fear is enough to power a thing for years to come. Enough to give it more power than a thing like that should ever have.

#I woke up super aggressively at 1am and couldn't go back to sleep until I wrote this so I hope you enjoy it! #Nikola holds a special place in my heart as someone enthusiastic about antique animatronics.... #They absolutely have the power to kill #<3 #the magnus archives #tma #the magnus institute #Jonathan Sims #Nikola Orsinov #tma the stranger #the unknowing #tma season 3 #mag 97 #tw unreality #tw mannequin #tw animatronics #circus of the other

[the-modern-typewriter]

Hi! I've been following you forever, since before your change from prompts to writing snippets and I'm a huuuge fan. You are actually my main motivation to continue writing!

I was wondering if you ever posted something more about your inspirations and "backstory", like how you got into writing and publishing your work here on tumblr and then on patreon, while working a job (seriously, how do you do that?!?) and also: do you have a goodreads account? I would love to get to see which books you are reading, since your writing style is so very original, or recommendations about writing blogs here on tumblr.

I totally get it if this isn't the kind of ask you want to answer on your blog, so no worries, just thought I should try..

Have a lovely day! :)

My goodreads is here.

I don't get as much time to read on tumblr as I would like, but some blogs off the top of my head that I like are: @recklessfiction @insomniac-dot-ink (their books are also on my to-read list!) @emungere (I also enjoyed their book, Love under Fire, and am meaning to get around to reading the others!)

@gingerly-writing @yourheartonfire @trappedgoose-in-a-writblr-room @nuttynutcycle @amethystpath-writes @thepenultimateword @creweemmaeec11 @save-the-villainous-cat @caffeinewitchcraft

There are many, many others!

I also generally reblog other people's writing/art/things I find cool on my other blog @the-modern-typewriter-aesthetic

In terms of backstory...I don't know. I've been posting my writing online in some format or other since I've been online as a teenager. I think I had a not-close friend who posted her fanfic online, which made me realise that was an option. So I started and didn't stop. This blog was just a natural progression I guess, when I got more into writing my original fiction over fanfic. It's what I do with my free time. I like writing! (mostly).

#glad I can motivate you! #the world always needs more writers #have a lovely day too

[loebleopoldwp]

So that teaser trailer...

Wanted to get together some observations and thoughts, would love to hear what ya’ll are thinking about it too.

-Font choice: questionable

-I’m wondering if the “My name is Nathan Leopold” “Richard Loeb, nice to meet you” talking to the camera bits and the hand clasp are going to be in the movie itself or if they were just filmed for the trailer? If they are going to be included....where would those extreme close up intros even fit? They’re like POV in a hallucination.

-They finally got the title of Leopold’s book correct: it’s 99 not Ninety-Nine.

-When Leopold is typing on the typewriter you can see and hear the original actor hired to be Leopold. The continuity is also all over the place on what he’s typing. First shot: kidnapped Second shot: kill your Third shot: kidnapped Fourth shot: kill your boy These appear to be the only words on the page, as if Leopold is starting his typing there. “Kill your boy” was in none of the ransom notes used, and kidnapped was never the first word on a page.

-The Bobby kidnap scene is all over the place too. The car pulls up and obviously it’s not the same color, make or model as the real car, but for a no budget movie, you take what you can get. But in the background as the car pulls up you can see modern awnings for a florist and a Thai restaurant in the background, along with modern signage, handicapped parking spaces, telephone wires, etc. It might have been easier for them if they filmed it on a residential street-where Bobby was actually picked up-instead of on a street with a bunch of businesses.

-The clothes for all three are inaccurate to what they were wearing on the kidnap day, and everyone is rocking bow ties. Bobby also starts screaming at the top of his lungs in their open windowed car in the middle of a street, Loeb makes no attempt to cover his mouth, not sure how they don’t get caught there.

-We see Judge Caverly, Darrow and Crowe on the stairs, the only actor they tried to get close to looking like the actual person was Darrow, the other two are very far off, Crowe is bald and his suit really doesn’t fit. Nice stairwell they’re filming on though.

-Some time period inaccurate makeup as we get a close up on a flapper and then both the original Leopold and Loeb appear dancing with the film’s choreographer. 

-Then some bizarre shots of what looks like a modern fancy dance with teenagers where no actors from the production can be seen. Not sure if this is stock footage or something the production had from some other project?

-Shot of the original Loeb choking the original Leopold in extreme blue lighting.

-Then we get to the see the courtroom crowd. There’s very few of them, they can’t even fill half the courtroom. There’s also no care for period accuracy here: the clothing is off, there’s short sleeves, several extras have a lot of facial hair including thick beards and there are children sitting in. There’s also a female police officer standing guard.

-Loeb throws a peace sign to the crowd, then turns around and looks directly into the camera. His suit is also noticeably too small for him.

-There seems to be a jury? EDIT: Have confirmed from an actor that yup, there’s a jury! A huge change from the actual case!

-The last scene:

Reporter: Alright boys, let’s get some pictures. Reporter: Woah woah woah woah woah. What does it feel like to be celebrities? Are you guys nervous? Loeb: Do I look nervous? (laughs)

This could actually have been taken from actual newspaper coverage, not the celebrities bit, but there were several times where newspapers printed similar responses from Leopold and Loeb about being nervous.

So, if I’m honest, I think it looks like a bit of a mess. This production is also nowhere near done. They’ve only shot one week with the original Leopold-Loeb actors and one week with the current Leopold-Loeb actors. I assume that first week will have to be scrapped and reshot, unless they’re actually planning to just include both sets of actors and hope the audience doesn’t notice?

#american criminals #leopold and loeb

[immediatebreakfast]

Sometimes I wonder if despite being such a nice book Dracula is destined to have horrible adaptations that don't care about the original material, while the few good ones remain hidden for avid readers to see.

Yeah the Drcl Midnight Children manga is still shit, and it twisted all of the characters so beyond that the only thing they share is name. Warnings for sensitive content regarding sexualization with Lucy because I do warn you it gets really gross.

Shinichi Sakamoto literally had the easiest job in the world if he wanted to adapt Dracula into manga since he already has a gothic art style that could have been the perfect ring for the novel. We have already seen in the Manga Classics adaptation that you only need to draw what is happening in the novel, that's it.

Just grab your ink pen, and let Stoker's writing do the heavy lifting while you go crazy drawing all of the dresses, and the bats.

But nooooo! Everyone thinks they have the Big Brain™ to "subvert" Dracula while doing what everyone else has been doing but worse every time. The same tropes, the same complexes, the same beats, even making Dracula the protagonist. All of it feels the same, and Midnight Children does this too BUT WORSE.

It's infuriating to see Mina and Lucy portrayed like this. Also I only mention Mina and Lucy because these girls are the only characters who got any "dept" in this story, everyone else is a downright cardboat cutout, or worse a stereotype (Guess who is this one). Again, these modern writers end up being more sexist than century old irish writer with all of these "subversions" somehow.

We start with Mina Murray, a peasant girl who managed to get into Whitby's only boys academy which makes her a pariah among her peers, and subject of bullying for being first a girl, and second poor. This Mina is... pitiful.

She is not the Mina Harker/Murray Train Fiend, lady journalist, and leader of the group. This girl is only Mina in name, and in typewriter use because this is just a poor teen girl desperately trying to survive in the middle of a hellish school while surrounded by bullies. Drcl Mina is intelligent, but only in information, she tries to document just like Mina Harker, and the narrative conveniently spits on her efforts by having Dracula somehow tamper her precious typewriter.

Even with all of drcl Mina's wits I don't feel the same resolution, and admiration that I felt for Mina Harker in the novel. The manga is only presenting a poor girl named Mina scraping at every small bit of information she can find to somehow explain all of the supernatural shit she is seeing, and the sudden sickness and death of her only friend. I don't want to cheer for this Mina, I want her to grab her bag, and get the hell out of that school and out of Whitby even if it means abandoning Lucy because the conflict feels pointless. It feels like something that she can't win, or fully understand because SHE IS A CHILD.

A child that is trying so hard to be voice of the group while no one listens to her. All of Mina's qualities, and intelligence are not there because the story downright erased the epistolary format that gave her so much charm and character to make way for shock value scenes that only paint Drcl Mina as a pitiful fool going in circles for trying to win against Dracula.

We all know that Jonathan is Mina's other half, the only person who defends her, and loves more than god itself through the whole narrative. However, having Jonathan with Mina in Midnight Children could mean that Mina would have some sort of supporter, and that doesn't make room for tragedy™ so no Jonathan for Mina!

Now, talking about Lucy (Luke). How the fuck Sakamoto decided to make this Lucy a trans girl, then immediatly sexualize her in the most gross way possible. It's a new layer of grossness because in this adaptation is very textual that Lucy is trapped inside Luke, and she has to pretend to be a boy in front of everyone else except when she is alone with Mina.

It could have been a sweet, but rather tragic story about Lucy trying to overcome her own internal battle with her gender along with her trying to make sense of her upcoming tragedy masked as a chronic illness.

But no, this Lucy is passive, midly cruel, and reduced to a puppet device for gross sexual scenes that borderlines on transphobic voyeurism. Remember that Midnight Children Lucy is a TEEN.

She never lifts a finger to make the suitors stop their bullying towards Mina despite her calling her "my only friend." She never tells Mina of any pranks, nor consoles her in her lowest moments. This Lucy is every adaptation Lucy that paints her as the whore to the madonna, and somehow becomes more useless because of the rampant sexism, and the perceived sexualization that will always follow Lucy's character despite her being a symbol of purity, and the perfect victim.

Just to tell you that the first encounter between Lucy and Dracula here is on the Whitby shore, but instead of being a glance of red eyes that incites dread, teenager Lucy is alone when wolf Dracula steps on Whitby soil, and something really gross it's implied for shock value, and I had to put the phone down, and take a moment.

ALSO STOP DRAWING 15 YEARS OLD LUCY NAKED JUST STOP. IT WILL NEVER LOOK ETHEREAL NO MATTER HOW MANY FUCKING FLOWERS YOU DRAW ON THE PANEL BECAUSE THE FOCUS IS ON LUCY BEING NAKED. THERE IS LITERALLY A FUCKING PANEL WHERE LUCY IS COMPLETELY NAKED, AND EVERYONE (INCLUDING ADULT VAN HELSING) JUST STARES, AND IT HAS EVERY SINGLE INSULT ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, and that scene is so cheap edgy that I can't.

Also all of the symbolism, and mystery of the bloofer lady is gone because here vampire Lucy graphically kills the children she feeds from, so... another plot line into the trash.

#Honestly how could he grab a very straight foward story and just make it a mess #Like as beautiful as the art is the panels and the structure is all over the place #There is no clear yesterday today tomorrow and no it doesn't work to create a dream like atmosphere it really loses the thread of the plot #Why am I doing this to myself? #dracula daily #dracula #drcl midnight children #cw sexualization #cw violence

[haggishlyhagging]

Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.

This was the original aim of the movement for woman's emancipation. But the results so far achieved have isolated woman and have robbed her of the fountain springs of that happiness which is so essential to her. Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being, who reminds one of the products of French arboriculture with its arabesque trees and shrubs, pyramids, wheels, and wreaths; anything, except the forms which would be reached by the expression of her own inner qualities. Such artificially grown plants of the female sex are to be found in large numbers, especially in the so-called intellectual sphere of our life.

Liberty and equality for woman! What hopes and aspirations these words awakened when they were first uttered by some of the noblest and bravest souls of those days. The sun in all his light and glory was to rise upon a new world; in this world woman was to be free to direct her own destiny—an aim certainly worthy of the great enthusiasm, courage, perseverance, and ceaseless effort of the tremendous host of pioneer men and women, who staked everything against a world of prejudice and ignorance.

My hopes also move towards that goal, but I hold that the emancipation of woman, as interpreted and practically applied today, has failed to reach that great end. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. This may sound paradoxical, but is, nevertheless, only too true.

What has she achieved through her emancipation? Equal suffrage in a few States. Has that purified our political life, as many well-meaning advocates predicted? Certainly not. Incidentally, it is really time that persons with plain, sound judgment should cease to talk about corruption in politics in a boarding-school tone. Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one. Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: "To take is more blessed than to give"; "buy cheap and sell dear", "one soiled hand washes the other." There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

Emancipation has brought woman economic equality with man; that is, she can choose her own profession and trade; but as her past and present physical training has not equipped her with the necessary strength to compete with man, she is often compelled to exhaust all her energy, use up her vitality, and strain every nerve in order to reach the market value. Very few ever succeed, for it is a fact that women teachers, doctors, lawyers, architects, and engineers are neither met with the same confidence as their male colleagues, nor receive equal remuneration. And those that do reach that enticing equality generally do so at the expense of their physical and psychical well-being. As to the great mass of working girls and women, how much independence is gained if the narrowness and lack of freedom of the home is exchanged for the narrowness and lack of freedom of the factory, sweat-shop, department store, or office? In addition is the burden which is laid on many women of looking after a "home, sweet home"—cold, dreary, disorderly, uninviting after a day's hard work. Glorious independence! No wonder that hundreds of girls are so willing to accept the first offer of marriage, sick and tired of their "independence" behind the counter, at the sewing or typewriting machine. They are just as ready to marry as girls of the middle class, who long to throw off the yoke of parental supremacy. A so-called independence which leads only to earning the merest subsistence is not so enticing, not so ideal, that one could expect woman to sacrifice everything for it. Our highly praised independence is, after all, but a slow process of dulling and stifling woman's nature, her love instinct, and her mother instinct.

-Emma Goldman, ‘The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation’ in Alice S. Rossi, The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir

#Alice Rossi #emma goldman #anarcha feminism #women’s history #women’s liberation

[desmondsprettyface]

Okay here's what I can't stop thinking about tho- and I genuinely can't decide if this is genius and deep or just Riverdale embracing its core wilful ignorance of its own plots-

the WHOLE finale was Betty and Jug reminiscing on 'the way it used to be,' specifically referring to the love triangles, the football, the milkshakes, and the general childhood innocence that makes high school drama seem so important. BUT THAT'S NOT AT ALL WHAT HAPPENED AT ANY POINT IN RIVERDALE!! 👏THAT'S👏 WHAT👏 HAPPENED👏 IN 👏THE 👏COMIC👏 THAT THIS ADAPTATION IMMEDIATELY AND WILDLY DEPARTED FROM AT EVERY TURN!?!!

So the question is: What life is this finale actually reminiscing on? When Betty says "I wish I could go back to the way it was..." is she really talking about the first season of Riverdale? OR is she talking about the genuinely innocent character she was in Archie Comics before Riverdale made her a trauma-stigmata serial killer cult member FBI agent kidnapping survivor sex addict?

The generous reading is that the real finale of "Pop's Eternal Narrative Heaven" is not that they're trapped in Riverdale forever. It's that they finally escaped Riverdale (CW 2017) and made it to the wholesome world of Archie (Pep Comics 1941).

It's specifically in the way Jughead talks about this projected simplicity especially around Pop's that just never existed. You're reminded of that when Jason opens the door to the idyllic world as if to say, "Welcome back! Remember when everything was fun and simple? Because I don't! Because I was already murdered by my father by episode 1! This has never been real in Riverdale!" He's the gatekeeper to the original Pep Comics world not just because he was the first to die in Riverdale, but because his character is more anchored to the carefree milkshake plots of the early 80s issues from whence he originated.

Of course modern Archie Comics have developed along wildly diverse and often dark plot lines, as any comic book still going after 60+ years would. In that sense, Riverdale isn't that far off much of its more recent source texts. But Riverdale has made a point of cordoning the dark plots off from the characters' experience and recollection as the series wound to a close. This disconnect is evident in the unsettling way they all casually chuckle at the horrific details in Archie's poem about the stuff that actually did happen to them. It's like he's recounting something portrayed about them in a comic book instead of the other way around.

I interpret Archie's poem as a kind of metatheatrical catalyst for the Riverdale characters to leave those adapted selves behind as a story about them instead of their "real lives" so they can return to their core selves as Pep Comics characters.

Which perhaps makes the whole thing one big metaphor about post-traumatic dissociation? Anyway, ending on Jughead at the typewriter as he places them all back into their original comic book diegesis fulfills the dream he was deprived of when no one met him at Pop's after graduation. In a show ostensibly about the Archie Comics but which immediately skipped past the low stakes wholesome high school drama straight into murder, it took a main character removing himself from the narrative and rewriting it himself to get them all to the 'real' Pop's where which milkshake they're going to have really is the most pressing matter. In that sense, Riverdale has traced a reverse trajectory in adaptation where characters with little more than hair color, pearls, and a silly hat anchoring them to their namesakes spend 7 seasons working their way back to their source text.

#riverdale #archie #pep comics #don't mind me #analyzing the finale

[rpgsandbox]

The Best Selling Hit RPG from 1985 is Back!

This Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness Kickstarter campaign features a relaunch of the original TMNT role-playing game and sourcebooks, sought-after collector items that have enthralled generations since their release in 1985 as one of the first licensed TMNT products. 

They are returning to print as two, officially licensed, deluxe hardcover collections of the RPG and all sourcebooks. Each is completely remastered, includes rules clarifications, and is updated to full color. Bonus material includes an array of new artwork, never-before-seen behind-the-scenes info and art, remembrances, and tributes by renowned comic book and RPG creators Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Freddie E. Williams II, Sophie Campbell, Jim Lawson, Ciro Nieli, David Petersen, Steven Cummings, Ramon K. Perez, and many more.

From Kevin Eastman, TMNT Co-Creator

This is incredibly exciting! I am 1000% onboard to help bring this historic and original TMNT Role-Playing Game series back in a truly deluxe collector’s edition that will thrill original fans and open the door for new ones. 

I've made all my archives available for expanded behind-the-scenes content as well as a few top secret surprises you need to be part of. Stay tuned! 

What is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG?

CREATE YOUR MUTANT - Mutate your own hero (or anti-hero) from a wide variety of urban, rural, and wild animals from birds to exotic zoo animals. Train them up with a variety of skills, combat experience, weapons, cool gear, and even psychic powers!

EXPLORE - Shrouded in secrecy is a hidden world of mutants, robots, aliens, time travel, and even passages to other dimensions. While their existence is kept secret from the public, the deep lore of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - and other strangeness - awaits fans old and new to experience firsthand.

ADVENTURE - Visit the back alleys, sewers, and dark recesses of metropolises like New York City, or travel to faraway exotic dimensions. Get caught up in mayhem and foil plots to destroy the neighborhood, the world, or even stop an alien invasion. The choice is yours, and so are the weird friends and rewards that await. Each book contains easy-to-run adventure scenarios as well as plot hooks to keep your own story arc fresh for years.

DISCOVER - The familiar cast of the TMNT are joined by unique potential allies, enemies, and frenemies to add to the RPG lore. These characters, originally illustrated in 1985 by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, and others, have never appeared again in the TMNT comics, cartoons, movies, or video games. The Terror Bears, Caesar's Weasels, Doc Feral, and more will delight new and old readers and gamers alike with their memorable antics, crazy origins, and unique motivations. Learn their schemes and grand plans for the future of mutantkind and decide - will you help them or work against them?

Originally released in 1985, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness role-playing game books were created using typewriters, paste-up boards, and lots of handcrafted skill.

REMASTERED TEXT: Palladium Books' archives of these titles - the original boards sent to printers for printing - have been painstakingly scanned at high resolution, cleaned up visually, edited for typos, and updated with new content and rules clarifications.

ART UPGRADE: We are pleased to say that the high-resolution scans have the art looking sharper than ever and presented in glorious full color for the first time by top colorists like Michael Majestic, Jeremy Colwell, Luis Antonio Delgado, and more. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness looks more stunning than ever before!

FRESH CLEAN BOOK: When combined with advances in digital printing, modern digital layout software has also allowed us to refresh the look of the books while staying true to their classic presentation. Each book will have a back index and other tweaks to make the contents easy to navigate and enjoy.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles  & Other Strangeness Redux Edition

This 256 page full color reissue contains the following remastered with modern layout:

NEW Homage Cover Art by Freddie E. Williams II, with color by Michael Majestic.

The classic 1985 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness core RPG book. Now in full color.

The Turtles Go Hollywood adventure book. Now in full color.

The Truckin' Turtles adventure book. Now in full color.

Featuring 8 pages of original comics created for the RPG by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Now in full color.

Featuring 35 original mutant animal illustrations for the RPG by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Now in full color.

Featuring all-new rules for creating 5 new mutant animals (the Gecko, Great White Shark, Ring-Tailed Lemur, Penguin, and Alligator Snapping Turtle) with one or more illustrated by Sophie Campbell, plus a new "Feral" hand-to-hand combat style for mutants who grew up in the wild, and an equipment chapter updated with modern gear not available in 1985. 

The Redux Edition includes the classic rules clarified and updated to provide ease of play for fans old and new alike. 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles  Transdimensional Adventures Redux Edition

This 256 page full color reissue contains the following remastered with modern layout:

NEW Homage Cover Art by Freddie E. Williams II, with color by Michael Majestic.

The fan favorite Transdimensional TMNT sourcebook with rules for creating humanoid mutant dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals like the saber-toothed tiger and mastodon. Plus fan-favorite easy to use time travel rules, magic, and more! Now in full color.

The TMNT Guide to the Universe sci-fi sourcebook and adventure supplement with weird aliens, high-tech gear, and rules for creating futuristic craft and piloting them in dogfights!  Now in full color.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures the best selling TMNT RPG adventure book with memorable villains and dastardly plots. Now in full color.

Featuring 10 pages of original comics created for these sourcebooks by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Now in full color.

Featuring 33 original mutant animal illustrations created for these sourcebooks by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, and Jim Lawson. Now in full color.

BOTH BOOKS INCLUDE ADDED TRIBUTES AND MAKING-OF FEATURES

NEW full-page artwork by comic and RPG artists including Kevin Eastman, Jim Lawson, Freddie E. Williams II, Sophie Campbell, Ciro Nieli, Ben Bishop, David Petersen, Ramon K. Perez, Steven Cummings, and many more including RPG legend Larry Elmore!

NEW never-before-seen behind-the-scenes information and art, plus remembrances and tributes by renowned TMNT creatives including Kevin Eastman, Jim Lawson, Freddie E. Williams II, Ciro Nieli, Sophie Campbell, Kevin Siembieda, and others including writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber.

Kickstarter campaign ends: Wed, November 29 2023 4:59 AM UTC +00:00

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#RPG #kickstarter #Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #TMNT #Palladium Books

[noiselessbuck]

Ooh which ag character had your favorite book/series?

definitely originally it was kit kittredge i got a typewriter for a birthday/christmas because i asked for one cuz she had one. i liked the newspaper element and the uh "girl who's favorite fandom is robin hood" element and tbh have forgotten the rest to time

i also really liked the two girls in New Orleans? i forget their names but i viscerally remember the scene where they swap mascarade masks to go to the other half of the segregated marti gras party. both aware of ohh my god that's stupidly unrealistic theyre gonna notice a black girl even if her friend has curly hair lmaooo but also the disconcerting experience of being the only person of color at something and semi being treated as white stuff

anyways my second favorite was Julie's friend bc she had mystery books and those were inherently cooler than other books. and both of them are from SF which is the closest any of the characters have lived to me

of the modern ones favorite was uhhh annie or something? she liked butterfly conversation and then learned that if you want to use ladybugs as natural pesticides they also eat caterpillar eggs sorry- which imo was the most reasonably nuanced thing id read from the franchise

#digging thru old memories #answered asks #the lavender creator #doll stuff