Wait, what? What, now?

[yesterdaysprint]

The Daily Utah Chronicle, Salt Lake City, Utah, February 1, 1940

[pervocracy]

are you ready for my favorite fact?

If you leave a hamster wheel out in the forest, wild mice will come and run on it.

that is my favorite fact

[blueelectricangels]

Bobcats and lynx will sit in cardboard boxes abandoned in the middle of the forest.

I asked the lynx researcher who told me this why, and he said “Cats, man” and shrugged.

[mynamebatman]

This is now an “if I fits, I sits” appreciation thread.

[confusedkayt]

A Disco Reimagining Of Chilton Psychic Driving Abel Gideon

I blame this entirely on @the-bees-patella.

“You can tell by the way you use that pole you’re a rippin’ man without a soul.”

“Well, killed your wife and mother and then you killed another, you’re takin’ a life, takin’ a life.  I say you were rippin’ and everybody’s trippin’, you’re takin’ a life, takin’ a life.”

“Oh, I know now I’m the Ripper!  Self knowledge makes me chipper, and I’m takin’ a life!”

[confusedkayt]

I love that this just pops up from time to time.  :D

[genufa]

Sabina’s 1013 Followers Giveaway!

Hey folks - I’ve been saying I’d do this for a while, and I can’t reasonably procrastinate any further XD; it doesn’t look like I’ll fall under 1K due to a mass unfollow any time soon, so here it is: a Giveaway Of Stuff to celebrate the unparalleled artistry and productivity of the Hannibal fandom community. Please don’t make me go on about how great y’all are and the times we’ve had: I’m no good at that, but assume it’s true. I <3 you all.

This is realistically the only time I’m doing this so there are four (4) choices:

* An unopened copy of RADIANCE (@lovecrimebooks) and associated postcard art. (NB: I swapped in my copy for the photo as otherwise it would have depicted only my shiny face reflected in the shrink wrap.)

* A copy of Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur’s Cookbook by Janice Poon.

* A sundry collection of Hannibal fan art - postcards, stickers, buttons, charms, etc. More stuff included as I find it. I would tag the lovely artists but my records are very iffy, sorry for that! Please tag yourselves in if you like!

* A 1000 word minimum story or essay by me, on a prompt of your choice.

The giveaway will run until August 15, 2018. On the 15th, I’ll draw a winner from the entries at random, contact that person, and they will have 24 hours to let me know which of the 4 prizes they prefer. Then I’ll choose a second winner who gets to choose among the 3 remaining prizes, and so on.

Rules behind the cut!

Keep reading

[genufa]

Hey folks - last chance, I’ll let it run until midnight EST tonight then do the final tally (i.e. among other points, you will have to be following me when I check XD). Thanks for playing!

[confusedkayt]

Yessss!

[confusedkayt]

God, this day is the kind of day that is three tense scenes in your novel.

[confusedkayt]

Iron Cleavage!

[rustandruin]

[anais-ninja-bitch]

baltimore is a helluva drug

[wrathofthestag]

@devereauxsdisease and @dogsandships   Whuuuuu?

[awritersrejections]

@confusedkayt this feels relevant to your life

[confusedkayt]

YOU ARE NOT WRONG

[petersquilll-deactivated2018092]

I know. You’re wondering… what is a place like me doing in a girl like this?

[onehandedbooks]

I need this so I can live my best Ursula life

[confusedkayt]

YES YOU DO

[lasturlontheleft]

Everyone in Infinity Wars gonna be complaining about how hard these last few years have been for them until Thor rolls up with no hair, no hammer, and one eye. 

[doctorbones]

#“also my dad died”

[actuallyvady]

Don’t forget “my planet had to be destroyed to keep my sister from killing like the whole universe so now me and all my people are refugees. But hey, Loki’s back, that’s good news!”

[scottishaccentsareawesome]

Peter(raises his hand in the back): “…My homecoming date‘s dad turned out to be my arch nemesis and a building fell on me!“

Thor (smiles and gives a thumbs-up): “Good for you! (aside, to Tony)…Who is that person? Do we know him or did he just show up?”

[sexycraisinthanos]

T’Challa: My dad died, too.

Thor: I apologize for your loss, I know how it feels 

Thor: (To Steve) Who is that handsome man dressed like a kitten?

[lizatonix]

Starlord: My dad turned out to be this giant, planet eating god and tried to kill me so I had to kill him.

Thor: These things happen sometimes.

Thor: (to Banner) Are we just picking up strangers with sad family stories or…?

[bouncyirwin]

This is now canon, you can all go home, there’s no need to see infinity war

[monzterzack]

sometimes life is like that 

[lizatonix]

Somebody did beautiful fanart???? Of a post I contributed to?????? This is amazing????????

[castielismyfavouriteangel]

This is so fucking awesome xD

[suitofhumour]

This is the plot of IW. Everything else can go back to the script.

[glumshoe]

my gender is a sexy detective jazz cover of ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’

[rhapsody-in-blues-deactivated20]

I was kind of bored last night and liked the idea so I ran with it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_3Y9_Hw8wU

[glumshoe]

holy shit

[the-sassy-composer]

I laughed so hard I think I cracked a rib

[techno-gal-deactivated20191104]

Nice

[surahlia]

In the Lounge of the Mountain King

[copperbadge]

This is FANTASTIC. 

[thelibrarina]

I listened to this so many times in a row that the original arrangement is forever ruined for me. Oh you wanted to be spooky? Too bad, now I’m thinking about all the characters in a smoky underground speakeasy and your score is ruined.

[slightlypsychicparade]

What’s great is that the “Mountain King” referenced in the title is a troll. The original song is about stumbling across a troll’s lair and trying to survive. Please imagine a bunch of trolls in three-piece suits and fedoras walking the city streets and giving monologues about CRIME.

[confusedkayt]

My awesome manicurist, Momo at Oh My Nails (check out her insta!) has done it again.  I wanted something inspired by Newt’s tattoo sleeves to celebrate a Pacific Rim sequel and she took it so much further than I could have imagined!  You’ll notice Newt’s kaiju designs on both middle fingers, and partial detail from his sleeves on the two flanking fingers on the right hand (top).

The left hand is an ode to my little ‘shipper heart - Newt’s sleeve design is flanked with a complementary-colored version of Hannibal Chau’s Kaiju Remedies logo on one side, and a copy of the black flocking pattern on Hannibal’s jacket in black.  I like to think Newt worked the same into his tatts at some point.

  (Both pinkies and thumbs are the background designs from Newt’s sleeves).

[confusedkayt]

ETA:  Momo put the mani up on instagram, with much better photography than I have!  https://www.instagram.com/p/Bg6LYswB6F9/?hl=en&taken-by=ohmynailsnyc

[confusedkayt]

Finally saw Pacific Rim: Uprising

It was...  not my favorite but I did appreciate that Newt most definitely looked like Hannibal had been dressing him all this time.

[confusedkayt]

My awesome manicurist, Momo at Oh My Nails (check out her insta!) has done it again.  I wanted something inspired by Newt’s tattoo sleeves to celebrate a Pacific Rim sequel and she took it so much further than I could have imagined!  You’ll notice Newt’s kaiju designs on both middle fingers, and partial detail from his sleeves on the two flanking fingers on the right hand (top).

The left hand is an ode to my little ‘shipper heart - Newt’s sleeve design is flanked with a complementary-colored version of Hannibal Chau’s Kaiju Remedies logo on one side, and a copy of the black flocking pattern on Hannibal’s jacket in black.  I like to think Newt worked the same into his tatts at some point.

  (Both pinkies and thumbs are the background designs from Newt’s sleeves).

[plotsjotsandespressoshots-deact]

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

[suicunesrider]

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

[drtanner-dickery]

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

[fanboyingoverdemigods]

fucking look at this shit though

[mauridianhallow]

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

[mizushimo]

amazing

[shadowthorne]

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

[mad-dyspunktional]

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

[datneeks]

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

[muck-raker-deactivated20181222]

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

[alessariel]

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

[brainsforbabyjesus]

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

[alessariel]

This is getting better and better.

[red-dirt-roads-deactivated20161]

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

[teslasturtle-deactivated2023011]

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

[perspectivemax-deactivated20181]

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

[myloverhammurabi]

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

[gorsime]

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

[myloverhammurabi]

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

[flamingbluepanda]

Old movies had the best special effects

[skafuller-deactivated20180122]

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

@jurassicparkandrecreation

[senkirowolf]

@shepfax

[prettyarb]

Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time.  They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers.  Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before.  It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them.  Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent.  Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

[bastlynn]

That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian

[thistherapylife]

This post just gets better and better with time

[gfnkdngkdg-deactivated20191116]

bedelia

[confusedkayt]

YESSS

[frejann]

How do you make people fall in love with you

challenge them to a duel 

[frejann]

I ENDED UP DRAWING A COMIC ABOUT THIS STUPID FUCKING ASK IM CRYING

an extremely short story about two knights who were made for each other