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oH RIGHT This was before LotR pioneered cgi for massed crowd behavior

There was so much cool cgi in those movies I just assumed all the clones were too but back then I guess they still couldn’t really be

chilewithcarnage

this is so sexy

luckyladylily

I wonder what happened to all the agent smith masks

roomtemperaturesuperconductor

I can actually answer this! So the latex/rubber they used, while standard for Hollywood at the time, reacted REALLY BADLY to being doused in pouring water nonstop for an entire day of shooting. They ended up corroding, which caused them to stink really badly and glob together at the seams. The original plan was to hand out masks to various crew members on the final day of shooting as souvenirs, but the sopping wet, melting, rotting rubber got so gross that by the end of that shooting day they’d already thrown most of them out. Somewhere in a landfill are hundreds of disgusting, bloated, slimey Hugo weaving heads fused together into a nightmarish rotting amalgam :)

roach-works

it’s what he would have wanted

thethirdromana

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

dandy-boi-ftm

The comments of this has me wrecked like how the fuck you grow up catholic and get no guilt… like if you are happy and you know it that’s a sin is pretty baked in there… then again i get baffled by the catholics who got got by prosperity doctrine. Like how how… how did that happen…

moondancer-of-light

When I was a kid/younger I was catholic because my parents are catholic. I live in the US so I mostly went to protestant churches. I didn't pay much attention to what was said in church and my parents didn't pray in English so I didn't really understand the specifics of anything. I never heard that happiness was a sin.

dandy-boi-ftm

“If you’re happy and you know it that’s a sin” is a meme about catholic guilt. Basically well if you are happy and you know it but you also know other people are suffering and you aren’t doing anything to relieve that suffering; that’s the sin. It just doesn’t roll off the tongue…

Also what kind of Protestant church because the minimalism is there to emphasize the importance of the words… and oof sometimes there is too much emphasis on words but not how to act.

Catholic Churches are ornate because it is supposed to reflect the wonder of G-d’s creation, and that all people are worthy of being around that wonder and beauty. Mainly the word is great but the acts you do because of the word is the important thing. And well with Catholicism since you always have to acknowledge people are suffering, it also leads to the guilt caused by “well you could be doing so much more for others, why aren’t you doing anything about it.”

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thethirdromana

Putting the term "Catholic guilt" on a high shelf where fandom can't reach it until everyone learns how to identify characters who are very very clearly coded as Protestant.

dandy-boi-ftm

The comments of this has me wrecked like how the fuck you grow up catholic and get no guilt… like if you are happy and you know it that’s a sin is pretty baked in there… then again i get baffled by the catholics who got got by prosperity doctrine. Like how how… how did that happen…

anglaised

i hate dieting culture and ed revival and coke skinny and celebrities promoting self harm as beauty

bovid-beauty

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

junequeer

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

dandy-boi-ftm

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah fucking shit balls fucking damn. Fucking fuck fuck

silvertons

Cinderella (1997) + costumes

ratbastarddotfuck

you have to forgive the printer because it's one of the most machine-ass machines we interact with on a day to day basis. that thing says kerchunk. hardly anything says kerchunk these days. you can't get mad at her when she kerchunks up a little.

digitalsymbiote

Crazy that tech has gotten so bad that we're doing printer forgiveness now

digitalkiddo

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

thundergrace

WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS MY FAVORITE TELEVISION SERIES OF ALL TIME (it's not out yet)

dandy-boi-ftm

Welp i know what i am unleashing on the drop in

imsobadatnicknames2

I think it's really funny how the practice of bleeping out profanity is not only completely ineffective as a censorship tool, it's had the opposite effect of creating an environment where it's ridiculously easy to edit apparent profanity into footage that doesn't actually contain it. Like you can just grab any audio or video clip and bleep out anything and people will automatically mentally insert profanity in there it fucking rules.