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“The Loki Show” …?
And now my brain wants a Johnny Carson/Jay Leno/Ellen type talk show where Loki interviews various intergalactic beings. Interspersed with the interviews are skits and pranks showcasing Loki's trickster abilities and all around jack-assery. Of course, every show starts worn him taking the stage and telling everyone to kneel.
https://www.themarysue.com/things-we-saw-today-tom-hiddleston-loki-show/
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Performs an Incredible Cover of David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ in NYC
@copperbadge This somehow seems relevant to your interests.
Today the Department of Phenomenal Papercraft is oohing and aahing over the work of Japanese artist Naoki Onogawa. Inspired by the ancient legend of 1000 Origami cranes and the story of Sadako Sasaki, Onogawa creates exquisite bonsai trees with miniature origami cranes for leaves.
“Since ancient times, Japanese people have been mindful of natural phenomenon. While confronting our fears of the natural world, we worship and co-exist in harmony with nature. As one symbol of nature, trees possess a life force which lies in all natural things,” Naoki writes on her blog. “I’ve tried to endow my artworks with this energy. Through looking at my works, I hope you can feel this life force too.”
Follow Naoki Onogawa on Instagram to keep up with her latest work.
[via deMilked]
@copperbadge Because origami
Your favorite fic author is probably over 30.
(Yes, this is a response to a post going around how maybe it’s okay if adults are in fandom as long as they understand that fandom is for ickle kiddie-boos and walk on eggshells. Um, no. Back in my day, we kicked y’all off our yahoogroups so we could post adult material, and rigorously didn’t post adult material if the list allowed you.)
So, back in the day, several of the authors of an LJ community that posted NSFW fic met up and had a group photo, which they posted. Apparently, some of the 18 year olds said, “Ewwwwwww! They’re all, like, oooooollllld!”
There’s actually a good reason for that.
Writing is part being good with words and part being good at turning your life experiences into something that other people want to read. Remember my previous rant about how you can’t assume a mystery writer is a homicidal maniac, and you can’t assume that a reader who likes a character has the same personal flaws as that character? There’s a reason people assume these things about authors.
See, if you’ve never fallen in love, you might think romance is when the other person brings you a dozen roses and a box of chocolates. And that’s fine! That’s romantic, too! But if you have fallen in love, you might remember the time that you woke up and went to go to class and found a bunch of wildflowers and a plastic ring from a bubblegum machine tucked under your windshield wiper. And you might remember the half touched, half about to burst out laughing expression on your sweetie’s face when you showed up to class wearing that tacky plastic ring. You might think that love is thinking the other person is the best-looking person in the world, or that love is wanting to spend your life with someone else. That’s love, too! Well, at least the second one is (the first is probably just infatuation). But if you’ve been in love before you’ll know that love is also hurting all over because your sweetie’s abusive parent died and they’re unexpectedly destroyed over it. The latter is worth a million flowery declarations.
Now, I’m not saying that no one under 30 can write. Some young people have had very full lives. And some young people have a natural talent for extrapolating from their own feelings. Virgins can write convincingly about sex, even. But the more life experience you have, the easier it is to extrapolate, and the easier it is to come up with the specific details that make things feel real and true.
If you want to become a better writer, the best things you can do are write a lot, share what you write, and live a full life. And remember, before you say adults should be banished from fandom: your favorite author is probably over 30.
When I started writing fanfics I was 23 years old and I knew several writers who were in their 30s and 40s. I learned a lot from them because they had more experiences than I did. Now I’m in my mid-30s and my writing has changed and the subject matters I write for has changed and do include things I have experienced personally (those of you who know my Prompto stretch marks fics…these are based on things I dealt with after the age of 27). The funniest thing is when someone tried to lecture me on how to write children and that I wasn’t portraying their developments appropriately (based on their understanding of the older develops faster albeit all the subjects in question are born the same year and in my verse just mere months between the oldest and youngest) but mind you I have children of my own and a sibling much younger than me and I’ve taken child development classes so perhaps I do know what I’m talking about. These are things an older writer can bring to the table.
Some of the best fics I’ve ever read were written by older fans.
I got a private message on FF.Net once about how I wrote so well, and I’m pretty sure my response was basically “I write so well because I’ve been at this for over a decade.”
It’s not just life experience (but it does help), it’s also the fact writing, like any art form, takes time being put into it.
Like the late great Bob Ross said:
i just turned 20 but i’ve been writing fanfiction since i was ten… i’ve surpassed my 10,000 hours, for sure, and i still have a long way to go
10,000 hours is a myth.
Ideally one never stops improving.
95% of everything I’ve written was written after age 30.
This is true of most things in life. It can’t be said enough.
I’m so mad because this worked
help me roger
Reblogging myself because
Originally posted by gifs-for-the-masses
Reblogging myself because… what was that? Five minutes?
O_O
………my friend has made me curious
help me roger
Update: after I reblogged this someone messaged me offering me tickets to the sold out Hausu screening with a Q&A and autograph session with the director
These never work for me, but here’s to trying.
I don’t believe in these things
But last time I reblogged one ten/fifteen minutes later I got a call offering me a job
But I reblogged it because I was waiting on hearing back from the job. So there you go.
Roger is cute.
Eh Roger is cute I might as well
That fish is so happy it makes me happy.
I have no luck right now. Halp.
Why does this have so many notes
because its not one of your posts.
Roger is precious to me.
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Some of you are reblogging because you think its funny that programmers would talk to ducks. I’m reblogging because I think its funny picturing a programmer explaining their code, realizing what they did when they explain the bad code, then grabbing the strangling the duck while yelling “WHY WAS THE FIX THAT SIMPLE!? AM I GOING BLIND!”
AS A PROGRAMMER I CAN TELL YOU THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU FUCKING DO WE HAD TO BAN THE DUCKS FROM MY CLASSES BECAUSE EVERYONE WOULD FLIP THE DUCK OR THROW IT AT A WALL OR SOMETHING WHEN THEY FIGURED OUT THE PROBLEM IN THEIR CODE
so that’s the function of a rubber duck
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I work at a startup and part of the onboarding package you get when you first start working here now includes a rubber duck. We also have a bigger version of the duck for the extra hard problems. Sometimes one duck doesn’t cut it and you need to borrow your neighbors to get more ducks on the problem. One time we couldn’t figure out why something wasn’t working right so we assembled the counsel of ducks and by the grace of the Duck Gods were we able to finally come to a solution. These ducks have saved many lives and should be respected for the heroes they are.
And make-up. And a bra.
A superhero tries to get himself classified as a natural disaster so people can get refunded by their insurance company when he destroys their home during a fight.
“Don’t you dare call me an ‘Act of God’! I got these powers from a scientist who created a super ray and tested it on be because I was pure of heart. Unfortunately, the scientist was then killed by terrorists and her machine was destroyed so we’ve no idea how she did it but it was science and not God. Pay for their damn insurance claims.”
Why do I feel like this is something Steve Rogers would do...?
The Avengers as a 70s cop show
Adding one more:
And this is why Taylor Swift is dating Tom HIddleston.
“You want shared life experience? I’ll give you shared life experience.”
- Maria Hill (probably)
This is apparently the cast for Infinity war.
That's it Marvel. I quit. I'm done. I'm tired of NOT seeing Hill anywhere. I'm enraged that suck a pivotal character keeps getting ignored. Fork me. I'm done.
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The sheer amount of spam on the Chris Evans tag (among others) is INSANE!!! There’s so much clickbait crap on there, it’s not even worth checking the tag anymore. Someone (I’m looking at you @staff) needs to troll for spammers.
Marvel: #TeamCap or #TeamIronMan
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How the Winter Soldier shot Nick Fury
I’ve been wanting to make a post about this for a while, even though I might be the only person invested in this, but anyway, here we go. I’ve seen mentioned several times, in posts about the movie and in fics that the Winter Soldier shot Nick Fury through the window of Steve’s apartment, and every time it makes me groan in frustration because no.
The Winter Soldier didn’t shoot Fury through a window, he shot him through a wall, and I don’t know about you, but it seems like a pretty big difference to me.
(bullet hole in the wall!!)
When I saw the scene the first time, I remember thinking holy shit??? that’s crazy, and for me that’s when the Winter Soldier really became a real, terrifyingly good assassin, that’s when his image as a serious threat solidified.
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Ok, my interpretation of this scene was pretty close to yours.
1. Steve moves to the corner and spots Fury, who is sitting in the chair
2. Steve moves away from the corner; Winter Soldier can now see him through that one window
(Side note: Steve’s apartment has a lot of windows)
3. Fury stands up; the Winter Soldier watches Steve’s eyes go from looking slightly down to looking at something eye level
4. The Winter Soldier quickly moves so that he’s in line with Steve’s line of sight; he doesn’t know exactly where Fury is, but he knows he’s somewhere on that line
The Winter Soldier shoots along said line, hitting Fury, then runs back to his initial position to see how Steve reacts and possibly confirm the kill. Then Steve spots him through the window.
Based on this, Bucky must have really good spatial reasoning and very precise estimation of distances and angles. Also he can possibly do trig in his head.
I LOVE YOU. GUYS, LOOK. SOMEONE DREW A EXPLICATIVE CHART THINGIE AND IT IS AWESOME. I hadn’t considered the Soldier moving before making his shot, but there’s no way to know, given that we only see him when Steve does, so it’s possible. I also really like the idea of the Soldier being able to do trig in his head and having really good spatial reasoning and very precise estimation of distances and angles, because I like everything that means he is very very good at being an assassin.
His memorial says he was an excellent student, so he must be doing trig in his head. I love posts like this.
Most of WW2 sniping was maths, with the odd bit of more maths. So Sniper Bucky was already really good with numbers, and then got the bonus training
https://www.quora.com/How-did-snipers-used-to-estimate-the-distance-during-WW2
Okay, stop. Just stop. Who here forgot about the part where the slugs that were recovered showed “no rifling”. It’s effing IMPOSSIBLE for bullets to penetrate a tin can much less a brick wall and a human body with no rifling. It’s what keeps bullets stable along their trajectory. As a trained sniper, Barnes would’ve known that smooth-bore barrels have lousy accuracy and stopping power.
