#there's a notable difference

[daisywords]

can't believe it's 2022 and we still have posts around about not overusing "said" like seriously? Imagine if I made a list of words to use instead of "and." wouldn't that be stupid?

#obviously its a different grammatical category #but 'said' is functional #and hot take I guess but it ~should~ be your default #unless the character is saying something in a particularly notable way #not trying to be rude to anyone making or reblogging those posts #but it's a pet peeve of mine

[neolxzr]

OK so heres some of my favorite things that were talked about during the enter the florpus commentary thing yesterday:

one of jhonen's favorite things in the whole movie is the writing in zim's kitchen that says "do anything is real?"

they clarified specifically that gir was not lying and he did in fact eat a baby at the crazy taco

gir smells REALLY bad. theres like rotting organic matter in his body at all times. he stinks

zim's human suit is made out of actual human skin

zim is acting drunk on nacho cheese during that scene in his house because richard horvitz recorded it while drunk

they planned to have this whole thing with tak's ship only agreeing to go to moo-ping 10 because it knows tak is there. they wouldve shown her in silhouette during that brief explosion and she wouldve stowed away on the ship without anyone knowing and then wouldve shown up towards the end of the movie, but they decided to cut it out

zim did not need to frame membrane for a crime in order to get him into space prison and likely just tossed the guards like 5 bucks for it. its a shady place. they did specify though that if he did frame him for something, it would have been jaywalking

they pointed out during that scene where zim is celebrating peace day on dib's lawn that zim's reaction to seeing dib was very much genuine and that's just how his brain works. he is genuinely surprised to see him pop out of his own house. (they also described his reaction as like "being surprised to see your best friend")

the ham joke was ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL to the film and at some point jhonen remembered it and was like GUYS. WE ALMOST FORGOT THE HAM

there was supposed to be this joke where it cuts to and from gaz and dib in tak's ship and they would've had to stop at like a warp station or something and theyd be waiting in a long queue of spaceships and the radio is broken in the ship so theyre stuck listening to that one song. then itd cut to them like totally braindead drooling from listening to it for so long. and then a little later itd cut back a FINAL time and theyd know all of the words and both be singing along to it. but this was also cut out so only the last bit remained

when asked "who would win: minimoose or mrs. bitters?" the answer was along the lines of "neither, i think all of us lose in that scenario"

the tallest are just two dudes who happen to be the same height and therefore have to share the same job. they are not brothers and they are also not gay lovers ("as much as you want them to be, they are not. there is no love in this universe")

skooge is in fact alive and lives in zim's basement. they wanted to keep the number of "hey remember this thing from the tv show!" moments to a minimum so he was not mentioned in the movie. but he is there

#cryn rambles #invader zim #this is based pretty much entirely off of my memory btw Sorry i was not taking notes #im sure people will be uploading clips and stuff i saw people recording on their phones at different points #but i was not one of them. my phone was already like 3/4ths of the way dead when i walked in #also zadf real ANYWAYYY #kinda obsessed w jhonen's rapr shade LMAO #the whole thing was fucking hysterical im so glad i was able to go #anyways. there was so much more but these were some of my favs or just ones i thought were notable #also jhonen was excited for alan wake 2 today. my friend (big alan wake fan) was very excited to hear this info #iz tag

[turtleblogatlast]

Love the idea that Leo’s portal and teleportation based fighting style can heavily parallel the types of stuff you’d see in magic acts. Disappearing and reappearing, pulling stuff out of a hat/portal, sleight of hand and other such methods of averting the audience’s/enemies’ attention from what you’re trying to do, etc.

It’s genuinely pretty neat to see and I wish his love of magic acts and magicians was brought up more often because it and his other interests tie into each other and in turn his whole self so neatly.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rottmnt headcanons #rise leo #leo out here making his entire identity circle on his special interests #and u know what he’s so valid for it #bros out here doing a performance 24/7 of course he latched onto the whole idea of ‘a magician never reveals his secrets’ #he heard that one line and was like omg I can make a mask of this #I’m so on board with the autistic leo thought too bc frfr he shows it in spades #he’s just a king at masking #but yeah back to special interests- Leo’s all come together in making his various masks #the way he acts is nearly always reminiscent of someone else and it’s notable how different he is when masking isn’t necessary #everyone: will you ever stop overthinking this turtle boy? #me: no

[alphabetcompletionist]

my abecedarians. my booboo bears. i beseech y'all for those scholarly article websites. my uni databases keep giving me results for articles that aren't available and, like a pirate with a helm on his crotch might say, it's driving me nuts

ABCDEFGHI KLMNOP RSTUVW Y

22/26

#and per se and #i'm trying to write a bitsy baby undergrad paper #on the process of book challenging/banning and the differences between the current surge & the past #notably not being argumentative. obviously i have opinions but that's not the point of the paper #ala.org and court documents give me all i really need. hashtag based humanities. #but i need three Scholarly Sources (i.e. peer reviewed)

[felikatze]

so like, i'm fascinated by this, right, in all depictions of masked lucina - her awakening portrait, warriors, heroes, the lucina figma, whatever, - you can clearly tell that her hair is cropped short, identical to marth's style. and yet, when her mask breaks in awakening, her hair just goes flying out, like she had it tucked away somewhere. when i first played awakening i just rationalized it as maybe her long hair was tucked into her collar, or something, but playing the insane amounts of fe:w i am -

there is nowhere for the hair to BE it is clearly just cut short

so

fwuhh????

funny thing is, you can see that the hair is short in the same scene

there are multiple points where you can see the back of her head

also, there's a really fast and hard cut between lucina's mask being cut and the close up of her face, revealing her long hair

......almost like they needed to switch out her model, or something......

shout out to this maskless short hair lucina though. she looks so cute. thanks fewiki for this image

#feli speaks #fire emblem awakening #it's notable to me because the exact same model switcharoo happens in khbbs with vanitas #there's a hard cut between his mask breaking and the close up of his face with the broken mask #because they're two different models #since his hair would clip through the helmet otherwise and they dont want you to notice

[stuckinapril]

when you accept that the unique things about you are the best things about you. when you fall in love w your uniqueness and become obsessed w it and reject conformity. when you think for yourself and draw your own conclusions and adore that you don’t perfectly fit into a mold. that’s when you’ll know true peace

#this sounds like an instagram infographic but hear me out #all the things i used to hide as a teen are things i am so grateful to embrace now #i’m realizing that any notable person has trailblazed their own path. that’s how they stand out. #not bc they already fit into a predetermined mold. but bc they were unique and confident about it #can’t say i’m at a 100% w my self acceptance yet but there will be FAR fewer things to talk about in therapy 🥲 and that’s a good thing #ppl rly need to take their quirks and appreciate them and LOVE them and adore them and be obsessed and feel so lucky they have them #the same old same old is boring #it just sucks that w uniqueness naturally comes backlash #and u have ppl who r nasty rude etc etc. who try to make u feel like ur the freak show for being different #but as long as u know ur truth that’s what matters. that’s all #text

[falmerbrook]

Some old Morrowind character design stuff I was doing before my hands started acting up and nuked my ability to do nice line art. I might redo these (but just headshots) now that I have a more clear picture of these characters in my head since I don't vibe with all the choices I made in these anymore. Not my best art but there's enough ok stuff in these to warrant posting I think.

(the Vivec one is here btw)

#*cries* i miss doing detailed line art #im not thrilled about any of these but theres enough good in them to warrant posting #these technically got colored but it looks bad for these characters #ive already posted the vivec one mostly colored though #morrowind #tes #the elder scrolls #dagoth ur #voryn dagoth #almalexia #nerevar #sotha sil #my art #mine #notable changes i would make if i redid these: #ayem with wavy hair #ayem with a different nose #nerevar's earring would be gauges (based on the skyrim ordinator mask) #dagoth ur more off model (i tried to follow the in-game look too strictly here) #sil with a different nose #sil with wavy hair??? #just better outfit design in general

[haunted-xander]

I'm not the only one who thought of this surely...?

#i mean hes gonna be fine obv if he was affected wed know by now #pretty sure u need to be exposed for a long time for it to make any notable difference #but anyway. must be a bit concerning to find out the guy who possessed you had a radioactive rock constantly on hand #thancred waters #warrior of light #wol #banana pepper #endwalker #pandæmonium #final fantasy #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #ffxiv #6.4 spoilers #anabaseios spoilers #art #my art #xanders art #xanders haunting art #digital art #fan art

[wondercircuit]

Karting Champion and tutor, Mike Wilson spoke about his first encounter with Lance during his karting days in an interview, with an interesting comparison to a young Fernando Alonso, whom he'd also mentored: "Before leaving I said to my wife: "The father told me that the boy is very good. But it's normal to say that, do you know how many times I've heard it before? I assure you that if he is not phenomenal, I will return home, I don't want to waste time". Instead, when I saw him on the track, I realised that his father had his reasons and that this was a special child, with something more than others. Above all I was surprised by his determination: it was greater than normal. And this is strange, because boys who comes from such wealthy families generally do not need to struggle to get anything; consequently, they are not very determined. Not him. Quite the contrary! Before him, the last boy I had seen with his "willingness" was Fernando."

"Lance drove well and listened to all the advice. I remember a ROK International Final in which he started from the front row, in second place. The commissioners decided to replace the clutch for the first four (a precaution to avoid misconduct …) and he, at the second restart, started badly due to an overheated clutch. He was among the last drivers, but he did not lose heart because of this: he put his head down and proved to be among the fastest on the track. If he had started further ahead he would have won the race, also because he managed to overtake without wasting time: if you can do this at 11 years of age, it's only because you have talent. If that inconvenience had happened to me, I would have been so annoyed that I would have stopped and returned to the pits. It was certainly not easy to tutor Lance in those years: I would stay on Canada for a month, then return to Italia for a few weeks. Then I would go back to Canada, and so on. With a wife and children at home it certainly wasn’t easy. But it gave me great satisfaction: when he would climb onto the podium it would be as if I was there with him. Making money is important in life, but doing something you like is better. At my age, I still manage to get emotional on the track, and staying close to Lance was emotional.” - source

#lance stroll #mike wilson #fernando alonso #formula 1 #inchresting supplementary info to me... #i swear i'm normal #*info #1418 chokehold aside and unrelated: #i've been reading jb's book and been thinking a lot about driver development. #this amuses no one but me but i find it interesting as well that a lot of jenson's driving strengths are similar to lance's #besides some notable differences in driving styles esp re: braking on turns #thinking about the anecdote where karting is said to be racing at its 'truest' form and once you latch onto a certain style #during your karting years then the foundation of it sticks throughout (past single seater driving development and adapting your skills/styl #anyway i do have mixed feelings about lance's development re: 2016 and his f1 rookie year tho that's neither here nor there #all this is just making me think once again i guess

[essektheylyss]

It's been a full year since the Mighty Nein show announcement and I am honestly still laughing that we all inexplicably identified that the lines were re-recorded for the announcement in particular in .02 seconds flat. This is still my takeaway a year later.

#can y'all believe it's been a whole goddamn year. what the fuck. #it's so funny tho cuz I went and listened to it again and STILL was like 'oh that's re-recorded' #even though there's BARELY a discernible difference. like frankly not even a describable one in most cases #it is somewhat clear with essek cuz the actual line does not end on 'ocean of the unknown' but also like #there's a notable gap in the original that's like... no it cOULD'VE been the same line but it's nOT #tbf when you compare them it's also sound quality. like c2 sound quality is VERY MUCH FINE but it's not 'recorded in a booth' good #but also if you're not directly comparing the lines (which like. we were not doing right off the bat) it is... definitely minute inflection #anyway I'm laughing #m9 animated #critical role

[skrunksthatwunk]

losing my shit at this shot

noooo eiji im sorry you have to leave you're in danger you'll slow me down ohhh ok ash sorry im such a burden noooo you're not a burden we just live in different worlds and i don't wanna drag you into that distance distance distance meanwhile they're closer than ever. look at that you gay fucks your shadows are overlapping no matter how much you're in separate frames. jesus

#this is what living in two different worlds looks like btw. overlapping shadows #also that this happens while the sun is setting and yut-lung (who was Just talking about being the moon overlooking the night like 2 scenes #ago) is watching this and scheming. night is coming and it's bringing them closer together even as they stand far apart Anyway #banana fish #asheiji #also that hand clasp thing they did when ash got into the computer earlier in the episode (7)? I Know What You Are #the position of hands changes from laced fingers to unlaced between shots but what remains is. gay #also yut-lung looking at that also having an I Know What You Are moment pshdfjkdjf #man maybe i should do an episode-by-episode notable shot thing bc i really like the direction in this show okyy

[eyestrain-addict]

Feeling very normal and sane and not at all thinking about lore or implications (lying)

#chewing my fingers off #elden ring #elden ring shadow of the erdtree #shadow of the erdtree #miquella the unalloyed #messmer the impaler #whoever the fuck that is #heard a lot of new voices in the trailer #its a lot bigger than i thought it would be. impressive #the last voice did sound a lil like melina but she had a different cadance #i dont even wanna theorize cus theres just so much #but i think its notable that messmer whoever he is. is the big boss of the dlc and has a bunch of snakes #snakes come up in two places in elden ring that being the obvious rykard but also the colloseum “enemy of the erdtree” snakes

[oceanwithouthermoon]

tbh i hate when people are like "idk how anyone makes angst or gets serious topics out of saiki k when its literally just a gag manga🤓" when the akechi arc, the cattank arc, the volcano arc, and literally every episode where he feels guilty about hiding his powers all exist????

#i get that a lot of things shouldnt be taken too seriously- duh #but there are also lots of serious things as well- also duh... #kusuo n toumas entire backstory is so depressing like wdym 'no angst in saiki k' LOL #to say that saiki k isnt to be taken seriously because its 'just a gag manga' is just objectively wrong #yea not EVERYTHING is to be taken seriously but theres a notable difference between what is and isnt serious #WAIT ALSO ?? THERES LIKE MAJOR SUICIDE THEMES FROM THE FUCKING GET-GO #(in the manga. they took that out for the anime.) #all of that is never treated as a gag.. sure those parts of the story have lots of jokes but that itself isnt treated as one.. cuz it isnt #saiki k #tdlosk #the disastrous life of saiki k. #saiki kusuo #meows post

[kimabutch]

You could write a really fun comparative essay about The Locked Tomb and Red Valley and specifically their portrayal of a very near-future impending climate catastrophe to which the hyper-rich attempt to abscond instead of dealing with the problem, impeded by scientist eco-terrorists trying to hold the rich accountable

#there are other similarities too and some pretty notable differences #obviously in genre but pertinently in how those topics are handled #for one the fact that TLT tells the climate collapse story from the eco terrorist PoV #and RV from the hyper-rich adjacent PoV #I also think this is an essay that would get better after Alecto the Ninth and the rest of Red Valley s3 #so if I wanna write it I can at least procrastinate #locked tomb #red valley #book adventures

[realbeefman]

thinking about queer!house, who would’ve been just getting out of medical school at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. house who loves puzzles and mysterious diseases. who probably did have to interview patients when he was younger and didn’t have the reputation to back up his behavior, having to deliver a diagnosis of GRID, that has only experimental treatments, a mysterious disease that nobody will fund the research for. the medical community can’t even agree on why exactly people catch it or on how it’s transmitted at first.

in the hallways, the unspoken consensus is that it’s spread through deviancy. degeneracy. queer behavior. that it’s more social contagion than real disease.

it would’ve made him furious. to watch people die, over and over again, from a puzzle that those with power didn’t want to solve. to hear so many become indignant or furious or hysterical at a diagnosis that labels them as queer. maybe it was worse to see those visibly gay men who only nodded their head, accepted that what had already begun killing their friends, their lovers, was killing them too.

everybody lies. whether they’re lying about their sexuality or lying about accepting an awful death shouldn’t make a difference to him. they’re going to die irregardless.

i think living through the epidemic as a young queer man would give additional explanation to a lot of house’s behavior. his general distaste for and mistrust for authority, his willingness to try any treatment no matter how radical or experimental, his conscious refusal to connect emotionally with patients, even down to less obvious stuff, like his consistent refusal to use heroin. he’s genuinely traumatized from living through an epidemic that killed people like him.

#i just think it would explain soo much abt him #he hates everyone around him a little too much for somebody that hasnt been through hell #stacy says he’s always been a jerk but cuddy notably doesn’t #cuddy knew him in college. stacy met him at a conference after he was alr a doctor #and i think obviously house was always kind of an asshole #but i think living thru the epidemic wouldve changed him #wilson wouldve been affected by it too #but he wouldve more seen the moral panic and such #he wouldve been in high school/college at its height #and by the time he gets out of med school HIV is a diagnosis and there is much more public knowledge about it #different perspectives on it idk #been thinking abt this a lot recently #house md #greg house #house md headcanon #tw HIV #tw AIDS epidemic #house md hc

[askthekirbysquad]

Thinking about how Magolor's electric ball attacks look nothing like any other instances of electricity in the games that I can recall (particularly in Star Allies), but do resemble Gooey's Dark Laser attacks quite a bit

#magolor #not a comic or an ask #i am not saying that magolor is part dark matter or anything. because i don't personally believe that #BUT. maybe the master crown possession and soul-eating had more of a permanent effect on him than he initially realized #a notable difference though is that apparently gooey's dark lasers *don't* actually grant the electric effect according to the wiki? #still. i am Thinking about it #edit: taranza's attack with sectonia in star allies DOES also have purple lightning. i forgot about that #BUT. still. *that* lightning is purple and white. no black or any other dark colour to be found in it. so i think this all still applies