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armengoldira

Wood planing competition for thinnest plane of wood

mexicain-sans-frontiers-v2

anxietyproblem

toorumlk

from bright-eyed and bushy-tailed to political fugitives on the run

saintkitten

i’m reading emma thompson’s diaries from the sense and sensibility filming for an essay and it’s very satisfying

megcarr13

Legend.

artisimpossible

I used to work for a trade book reviewer where I got payed to review people's books, and one of the rules of that review company is one that I think is just super useful to media analysis as a whole, and that is, we were told never to critique media for what it didn't do but only for what it did.

So, for instance, I couldn't say "this book didn't give its characters strong agency or goals". I instead had to say, "the characters in this book acted in ways that often felt misaligned with their characterization as if they were being pulled by the plot."

I think this is really important because a lot of "critiques" people give, if subverted to address what the book does instead of what it doesn't do, actually read pretty nonsensical. For instance, "none of the characters were unique" becomes "all of the characters read like other characters that exist in other media", which like... okay? That's not really a critique. It's just how fiction works. Or "none of the characters were likeable" becomes "all of the characters, at some point or another, did things that I found disagreeable or annoying" which is literally how every book works?

It also keeps you from holding a book to a standard it never sought to meet. "The world building in this book simply wasn't complex enough" becomes "The world building in this book was very simple", which, yes, good, that can actually be a good thing. Many books aspire to this. It's not actually a negative critique. Or "The stakes weren't very high and the climax didn't really offer any major plot twists or turns" becomes "The stakes were low and and the ending was quite predictable", which, if this is a cute romcom is exactly what I'm looking for.

Not to mention, I think this really helps to deconstruct a lot of the biases we carry into fiction. Characters not having strong agency isn't inherently bad. Characters who react to their surroundings can make a good story, so saying "the characters didn't have enough agency" is kind of weak, but when you flip it to say "the characters acted misaligned from their characterization" we can now see that the *real* problem here isn't that they lacked agency but that this lack of agency is inconsistent with the type of character that they are. a character this strong-willed *should* have more agency even if a weak-willed character might not.

So it's just a really simple way of framing the way I critique books that I think has really helped to show the difference between "this book is bad" and "this book didn't meet my personal preferences", but also, as someone talking about books, I think it helps give other people a clearer idea of what the book actually looks like so they can decide for themselves if it's worth their time.

emilybeemartin

I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.

My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813

*electric guitar riff*

And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like

emilybeemartin

Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.

mavaris

But does the racoon survive the Uruk-Hai? Does he curl up on Aragorn's head, or does he go straight to Faramir? Does he bite Denethor?

emilybeemartin

My friend. My colleague. My brother my captain my king. I too have been pondering this question, and in my mind there can be only one ultimate outcome.

A few months later

All hail the High Warden of Gondor.

Epilogue: It ADORES Faramir.

elodieunderglass

I’m going to wear this on my head like a raccoon and show everyone

lucifers-cuvette

I. am. dying.

Many thanks to @xwingrey for calling my attention to the full brilliant comic by Emily B. Martin.

#lotr

captainsblogsupplemental

obi-waankenobi

#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.

ingridverse

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.

sniperct

phoenixkaptain

Obi-Wan: “Did you know that Anakin is still alive?”

Bail: “Skywalker? No way! There’s no way that Anakin Skywalker lived for twenty years without getting on at least half of the galaxy’s nerves or being the most dramatic man in the room or without fighting a ten-year-old or oh my heavens he’s Darth Vader, isn’t he?”

mrsbillycranston

Types of Taskmaster Contestants (a break down)

The Try Hard: (examples- Ed Gamble, James Acaster, Kerri Godliman) The Try Hard wants to win Taskmaster so so badly. They are invested, they want points, and they like winning. The TH will argue their natural enemy is the Fuck Up, who can’t be reliably counted on for points when needed. They will insist that they can sometimes work with an Agent of Chaos, because the AOC can be convinced that the funny or devastating thing to do would be to win, but when an AOC wants to blow it all to smithereens, the TH is left in their wake. This is why they are wrong about their natural enemy, who is really Greg himself. They are important because as much as Taskmaster is a comedy show, it’s a game show. If no one cares, it’s not fun.

The Fuck Up: (Examples- Nish Kumar, Katherine Parkinson, Victoria Coren Mitchell)- Why are all the smartest, most talented people so bad at this game? The FU wants to do well more than anything, but they overthink things or over-plan, or just fall to pieces. The FU normally has one task where they randomly excel in a major way, think the Song for a Stranger for Nish, the Marble Run for Kath, or the Riddle task for Vic. Their natural enemy is the Cool Kid, who does just as well as the TH, but with little effort, leaving the FU frustrated and in awe. They work very well with Sweethearts but are not a high scoring team. They are important because they are fun to watch and root for. They always have a spot in our hearts.

The Cool Kid- (Bob Mortimer, Sarah Kendall, Lee Mack)- Cool Kids do VERY WELL on Taskmaster, just as well as the often successful TH. They are naturally very gifted at the games because they are often just good at things in general, and their relaxed attitude goes a long way toward success. They don’t stress and can get things done, often just by going with their first idea. They have no natural enemy, because they are enviably likable and laid back and while they like to do well, don’t often get overly stressed when they don’t. They have a soft spot for Agents of Chaos, who they find very fun. They bring style to the Taskmaster house, making all this look easy, and are fun to watch do well at things.

The Agent of Choas- (Rhod Gilbert, Sally Phillips, Morgana Robinson)- This person will be consistently inappropriate at all times. They often don’t care overly much for points, but prefer a good time, or testing limits. Kill Alex? Sure, they’ll give it a shot. Fuck a water cooler? Hells to the yeah. Disrobe? For sure. When they think their buffoonery warrants points, they will fight for them. They are fun to watch because you never know what they’ll do next, including absolutely mop the floor with everyone else. They have no natural enemy. Order is their natural enemy, not any one person.

The Sweetheart (Lolly Adefope, Charlotte Ritchie, Joe Thomas, Mark Watson)- This person, unlike their close sibling the FU, has the potential to be very good at the game. Though many Sweethearts aren’t, it is possible because ineptitude is not the defining characteristic of the Sweetheart. Adorableness and amiability are. They are the Taskmaster equivalent of a woodland animal with a twitchy nose and big eyes being stalked by a 6′8″ Welsh mountain lion. They are the embodiment of “I have only had this contestant in my life for an episode, but if anything happened to them, I’d kill everyone in this room and then myself.” You want them to be happy and get some points and not be stressed. Their natural enemy is the AOC (of which Greg is one), who is a bit too unpredictable for them.

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