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Quick Pinned post with links to stuff that may be of interest, will be added to eventually but for now here it is.
Also General info: name is Andy, I'm 21+, and I don't care what pronouns you use. Location is USA and that's all I'm sharing right now.
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I am so tired of short-attention-span, trim-the-fat culture. All writing advice these days is for how to write like Chuck Palahniuk. "Cut 'think', cut 'feel', cut 'wonder' - only action, only pushing forward, show and move and move and move." What if I could emulate this style, and still don't want to? What if I want to write like Henry James, with three paragraphs of introspective musings between each dialogue line? The music advice is, "make it shortform, make it Tik-Tok compatible, make it punchy, hit the refrain as soon as possible." What if I want that 10-minute prog rock piece? What if I want that symphony? What if I want it slow and luxurious and lazy? Movies. Series. Poetry. Bodies. Everything is "trimmed trimmed trimmed trimmed, stripped bare, you have three seconds to win me over, make it airport chic." I don't want to win you over, then, I guess. I want the fat left it. I want the pleasure and the indolence and the indulgence. Fuck this art-advice that's always "your art needs Ozempic."
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just found the best thing in the author's notes at the end of a fic and it absolutely needs to be a thing. It's just an emoji key for commenting, a no pressure way to comment without having to say what you feel or think. I am absolutely going to add one to my fics going forward because it is amazing and useful and I want people to feel comfortable to comment if they want to without necessarily having to find all the words.
yeah Bruce barely appears in this game but christ when he does its so worth it
Ngl I wish they left it more ambiguous at the end. Like did he walk away? Did he not? No one actually knows. Give the man a chance to see his kids kicking ass and being proud while he recovers enough to not want to punch one Rogue or another through a wall.
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Headcanon that the Wayne family had a recipe book that went down through generations, each new owner tweaking a recipe to their liking and adding ones they learned by themselves. Eventually giving it to their child or the next head of the family so they too, can pass it down to the next generation after them.
But Martha was a Kane , and that book was meant for the Waynes. Even if she married into the family that still didn't fix her inability to cook. to fix that problem she just gave it to their chefs at the Manor, Thomas didn't seem to mind as long as the staff made the dishes according to what was written. After all it's just a silly tradition in the grand scheme of things. And years down the line, they never paid attention to their meals and who cooked them- who had the book- chefs come and go and they passed the recipes between each other, not for value but for the Mr and Mrs preference.
17 years later Bruce wonders why he never got the recipe book, and thinks that Alfred kept it somewhere safe, so he learns how to cook in his travels to remember his childhood through food he used to love
Six years after that 23 years old Bruce wonders why Alfred keeps avoiding his questions about his family's heirloom, Alfred tells him it's silly and he has a butler to cook for him- why does he even want to enter the kitchen when he doesn't need to? it's absurd.
Two years later when 25 years old Bruce is missing his mother and struggling with a grieving Ward- who refuses to eat anything- pleads with Alfred to give him the recipe book -to try and find something he used to like as a child, in the hopes Dick would like it - is when Alfred confesses that his parents didn't care what happened to the book, that they gave it to the chefs , and Alfred- after their death, couldn't find it, didn't make the effort to look for it because it didn't matter to the Master and Mistress
they didn't think about Bruce getting the same things they got passed down to them, Bruce can only mourn all the other things they didn't think about passing down to him, all the things that could've reminded him of his family.
Consider, Jason finds it by accident. He was browsing a used bookstore and noticed the book. He was hoping for something to make his favorite dishes easier to cook since it had handwritten notes in it. Then he found a note at the back, a list of some sort with the last name of possession being Thomas Wayne.
It stays tucked on a shelf for months, Jason doesn't know how to give it to Bruce. Then one day Jason just gives it to Bruce, and to Jason's astonishment Bruce actually starts sobbing because he never expected to get the book. Bruce gave up on finding it and there Jason is with the book.
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#i like to think data took him all the way to the brig tossed him in and left#and then came back 60 seconds later and was like ‘i believe i have successfully played a ‘practical joke’ on you :)’#riker loses it & claps him on the back like ‘wow. good job u rly had me going. dont ever fucking do that again’ Perfect.
Actually it’s 73 seconds. Data, knowing something of how human minds work, estimates that Riker will give him 60 seconds to come back (because humans prefer “round numbers”, however arbitrary the units). After 60 seconds it will take 4 seconds for Riker to fully process the conclusion that Data is, in fact, not coming back after all, and an additional 9 seconds to build to the optimum level of anxiety.
After all, comedy is timing.
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[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - N64]
The game has been modified in the following ways in this gif:
HD TEXTURE PACK , CHARACTERS MODDED , WIDESCREEN MOD
A short thing I put together because I was thinking about the clothes in BotW and TotK.. and how the rest of the boys would probably love having new clothes. Wind especially would love having something new to try in my opinion.
"You know, I feel a little jealous."
"Huh? Why?"
Wind pouted glaring at Wild and Legend.
"Because they get other outfits to wear through their adventures."
Wild clearly heard it and turned to look at Wind. Then Wild grinned widely.
"I know! Let me check something." Wild pulled out his Sheikah Slate and started tapping it quickly. Wild glanced at Wind then tapped a few other things. A burst of blue light and then a pile of clothes appeared, Wild handed it to Wind with a bright smile.
"What are these?"
"They are the style popular in Laurelin Village. It seems perfect for you."
Wind unfolded the clothing curiously. The bright colors designed for sea life and fishing were definitely Wind's style, and the sailor was delighted to see it was both his preferred style and size.
"Wait, wait... is it just-"
"No, I have clothes for the rest of you too. I just," Wild paused and rubbed the back of his neck. "I was not sure any of you would want them."
Looking back on it now, I think that one of the strangest things about The Lord of the Rings is that either
Aragorn and Legolas managed to compose an absolutely epic lament for Boromir in the time it took to get Boromir’s body down to the river and arranged all nicely in the boat,
or Aragon just started singing on the spur of the moment and Legolas took over for the second verse while Aragorn quickly made up the third.
That’s some Cyrano de Bergerac wizardry right there.
Consider: Aragorn and Legolas had a generic lament all worked out with Mad Libs-style blanks for relevant personal details, just in case someone kicked the bucket and nobody else was down for singing their death song
OR
We take the fact that The Lord of the Rings is multiple of translations before it gets to the reader and is, in fact, made up by a later author and they just did some sort of haiku.
oh no Boromir
he is very dead what do
put him in the boat
I can absolutely buy that Legolas made up verse two while Aragorn was singing verse one, and that Aragorn’s education was long on ‘spontaneous poetry to suit the occasion.’
Consider, it’s likely there are a couple existing templates for elegies in terms of tune, so they just needed words, and if ‘dialogue with the winds’ is also a common poetic device, the song basically just requires plugging in some suitable rhymes. Aragorn could totally hack that together in the time it took to pile up all the orcs’ weapons and arrange Boromir nicely in the boat and all that.
The wild part to me has always been that they chose to sing as Denethor. Legolas didn’t even know Denethor, and Aragorn knew that Denethor disliked him personally.
Aragorn and Legolas share broad elvish music practices, but from wildly different cultures, so it’s possible that the style of their verses did not match up at all
i just recently reread this and i noticed another wrinkle
‘You left the East Wind to me,’ said Gimli, ‘but I will say naught of it.’ ‘That is as it should be,’ said Aragorn. ‘In Minas Tirith they endure the East Wind, but they do not ask it for tidings.
i know the thing is that the east wind comes from mordor and they’re leaving it out for that reason. but this also sounds like
gimli: you left a verse for me but i’m not doing it aragorn: no no no we didn’t leave a verse for you. we don’t want you to do a verse. we’re good
This song was almost certainly a Gondorian lament, with, as someone else suggested, mad-libs style openings for personal details. Aragorn would have known it due to his time spent in Gondor or possibly written it himself in the Gondorian style – he would have used something appropriate to Boromir’s culture at any rate, not something random. Most likely Legolas made up the second verse while Aragorn was singing the first, but a verse was not left for Gimli because it’s less likely he would have the cultural knowledge to compose something appropriate. Legolas shares a language and a number of cultural values with the Gondorians that gave him a window that Gimli just wouldn’t have had.
That being said, I imagine Aragorn didn’t really intend for Legolas to start singing either, he just kind of did and it would have been more disrespectful to pick a fight about it so he went with it. Legolas’ verse has this interesting equating of the sea with death, which makes sense for him, as an Elf who was probably born in the third age. Everyone he ever knew who went to the sea probably never came back, and the concept of Valinor is probably more of a theoretical to him than to many older Elves. Sailing probably seems more like the Doom of Men to him than it really is.
This is, however, not really a cultural concept that Gondorians are likely to share, with their multiple coastal cities and specific history regarding the sea. The foundering of Númenor, while clearly still alive in their cultural memory, was still the event that led to the inception of their nation, and in other poetry regarding Gondor, such as the song about the Palántiri that Gandalf sings to Pippin, it is treated as a beginning, and not an end.
TL;DR: Legolas’ verse is a little bit off, culturally speaking, and most likely Aragorn intended to sing the whole song himself, but just kind of rolled with it when Legolas got involved.
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#elves are absolutely the sort of people who WOULD spontaneously make up songs like that tho #and have the innate sort of music-in-their-souls thing where even a silly flibbertigibbet like legolas could absolutely jump-in like that #and follow someone’s lead even when they start singing in an utterly unfamiliar style and concept #half the conversations in mirkwood are probably spontaneous songs rather than talking #(remember the tra-la-lally elves in the hobbit? elves just do this shit) #(the world was formed from song and elves are tied to the world more than anyone else they are music and music is them yadda yadda) #and aragorn is both a: well-travelled enough and b: familiar enough with elves in general to be unsurprised when legolas jumps in #because OF COURSE he does? he’s an elf and someone is singing a lament for a shared friend OF COURSE HE SINGS TOO? that’s what you DO
#did aragorn deliberately leave an opening for legolas to take the second verse because he knows enough about elves to know he probably woul #or was it a surprise that he just rolled with? idk #but it honestly fits both those characters very well that they would do this like this #(gimli could ABSOLUTELY make up spontaneous songs like this too; but dwarf-songs are very different and probably have more rules) #(at least more rules than wood-elf songs which are probably pretty willy-nilly compared to gondor’s cultural structures) #and the fact that aragorn’s verses sound like something Traditionally Gondorian and probably are drawn from existing frameworks #while legolas’s goes more towards the sea (the sea! he hasn’t even heard the gulls yet and already it’s seeping into his songs! my HEART!) #is exactly the sort of depth and nuance of language i expect from tolkien tbh
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