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Manda. 24. She/her. Writer with a multitude of interests, reflected in real time by my reblogs.

[aeijis]

another leon wip

[friendzonefrog]

she's trying out some thumbnails for her YouTube Shorts, whatchu guys think

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Incredible events unfolding on reddit

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I would die for Tessa. I would find her 200 toothbrushes.

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So it looks like Tessa has been using these veggietales toothbrushes for ages, but has misplaced the stash.

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

[snartles]

thank you RE9 for actually giving me energy to finish a personal piece, love u forever requiem

[tianhai03]

still trying to remember how to draw. have a leon 💙

[skelesass]

quick sketch

[apllecrash]

leeeeooooonnn

[redstonedust]

watching sinners with an inflation calculator open in a second tab so i can understand just what kinda money the smokestack twins are throwing around. nerdiest possible movie experience i think.

[tbqtalks]

Okay coming out of lurking for this because among the many great features of Sinners is you don't actually have to go outside of the movie to understand what kind of money they're throwing around. The movie tells you itself.

In the scene where Smoke teaches the young girl how to negotiate, they're standing in front of of a cafe. The shot of them negotiating is framed so that you see a sign in the cafe window advertising a Ham and Eggs breakfast - in other words, a full meal - for 25 cents. The editing makes sure to put that sign back into frame whenever the question of the value of money arises in their discussion.

Smoke offers her 10 cents a minute and asks if that works for her. She says yes. He says no, it does not and tells her to negotiate higher. The 25 cent sign is framed in the shot when he tells her no, reminding us *why* it's not a good value.

She comes back with 50 cents - which the sign has informed us is the cost of *two* meals. Smoke tells her that's too much and counters with 20, which is just under a full meal but we now know that's a fairly respectable price because we just got the high/low contrast of 10 being too little and 50 being too much.

The negotiation ends with her getting 20 cents per minute and we now know 1) 25 cents is the cost of a filling meal in this environment 2) This girl only needs to do five minutes of work to be able to feed herself for a over day (20 cents per minute times five is a dollar, which is four meals) 3) Smoke has the kind of money to throw around that over a day's worth of food for someone can be to him - as it is to our modern eyes - mere pocket change and 4) Smoke's the kind of person who can both be a violent gangster but also care about teaching this girl how to look out for herself so that one day maybe she too can throw over a day's worth of food around like pocket change.

Combined with 5) you can now use that 25 cents = a meal to do the math every other time money gets mentioned in the movie to understand just how much cash the Smoke Stack boys are dealing with.

And that's just ONE detail which, thanks to props (Hannah Beachler), editing (Michael P Shawver), and cinematography (Autumn Durald Arkapaw), told you almost everything you needed to know about how finances work in this environment. This movie is unfair to all other films in how fucking good it is.

[andhaveapleasanttomorrow]

yesterday I had the thought "visual novel for normal people" (?) and halfway through making this image (which I thought would be really funny) I realized it was completely meaningless

[thecutpriceguignol]

A Needlessly Thorough Rant About Return to Silent Hill

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For Me, It's Always This Shit (or, how Return to Silent Hill defangs the complex story of the game but fails to add anything interesting to it in the process).

[friendzonefrog]

GREAT READ, you nailed pretty much every complaint I had about this 🤬dang🤬 movie.

[thecutpriceguignol]

just got back from seeing Return to Silent Hill

[friendzonefrog]

I'm working through some things (just blocked a Letterboxd "influencer" for rating 'Return to Silent Hill' higher than 'Bone Temple'...)

[kanerallels]

At this point if they actually wanted to make a unique retelling of Dracula, they should have Quincey as the main character, market it as a tragic Western/British romance, and then halfway through drop us into the plot of Dracula

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