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I keep seeing people say things like “Why would we want a SoC spin-off they’ve already used the entire plot” and I’m like?? Did we read the same books???

What about The Ice Court Heist? Kuwei? Van Eck? “I’m going to get my money, Kaz vowed. And I’m going to get my girl.”??? The sugar fiasco? The auction at the exchange??

#there was not one damn wyvil in sight #MY GHOST WILL NOT ASSOCIATE WITH YOUR GHOST ???#please matthias hasnt even MET the rest of them yet cept nina

truestoriesaboutme

I need people to stop blaming the death of movies on “quips”. A quip is just a funny line of dialogue. That’s all. Like I just saw a post talking about quips and the death of movies and brought up Pirates of the Caribbean as an example of a better movie and yes it is but also that movie is FULL OF QUIPS. I just rewatched The Princess Bride. It’s all quips. Every single line. And it’s a masterpiece.

Movies suck when people don’t care about the art they’re making. That includes them not caring about their quips. Which is why a lot of comic relief dialogue ALSO sucks now. But the problem isn’t that funny dialogue exists.

kurozu501

#it’s not the quips it’s the complete and utter fear of showing any kind of sincerity#honestly it’s almost the equivalent of saying ‘no homo’ after a moment of being genuine

headspace-hotel

The Princess Bride is almost all quips, but it’s all sincerity. Every aspect of the plot is ridiculous and yet no movie dialogue has ever gone as hard as “I want my father back, you son of a bitch”

comicaurora

people recognize the problem contained within Whedon-style quippyness without knowing the term for the actual issue so they say “quips” when they mean “bathos”

roach-works

another problem with quips that’s a little harder to analyze and explain is the quips are all in the author’s voice, NOT the characters’.

steve rogers, natalia romanoff, james barnes, tony stark, pepper potts, and bruce banner are people from radically different walks of life, and should therefore have extremely different styles of communication, despite all off them nominally speaking the same language (english). they should have different senses of humor, different senses of where the boundary lies between irreverence and insult, different boundaries, different sore spots, different goals as well as different methods of communication.

the fact that all these characters banter the exact same way, i.e how joss whedon thinks is funny, is incredibly shallow and grating.

steve grew up as a challenging little shit, who was also very small and poor, and he did it in 1920′s-30′s brooklyn new york. he regularly got his ass kicked. tony stark is also challenging and provocative, he’s a shit stirrer, but he grew up rich as all fuck. no one was beating the piss out of him in a dirty alley. tony has grown up surrounded by sycophants, rich enough to get away with whatever amount of bad behavior he wants to pull; steve grew up poor and disabled in a society that openly advocated for the death and degradation of the weak and unfit. why the fuck would they enter a conversation the same way? why would they deliver a snappy retort the same way? natasha romanoff is a spy, she’s manipulative, she’s always watching to see how a joke lands, she’s always conscientiously tuning herself this way and that to get results. she doesn’t have the luxury of casual defiance, or unthinking obnoxiousness, or even standing by her principles and pissing off someone she hates. again, why would she be tossing off little asides the same as tony, or even the same as steve?

the princess bride is sincere, and the characters still banter in their own voices. fezzik is cautious and methodical, inigo is weary and incredulous, vizzini is desperate to impress everyone with his own intelligence and in so doing often sounds like a complete twerp, buttercup is so incredibly pissed off she doesn’t have any brain cells to spare for joking around, and westley is here to ruin everyone’s day. and it works! the characters have great banter because they’re striking sparks off each other, not meshing like identical cogs in a machine.

humor is about subverting expectations, about breaking up patterns, about confrontation and absurdity. you can’t get that from a blandly uniform pulp.

blueflameking

I have never heard anyone summarize Westley’s character so perfectly in a single line

#god i love the princess bride

djkoenig-deactivated20140905

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(ʘ‿ʘ✿) “what you say ‘bout me”

(ʘ‿ʘ)ノ✿ “hold my flower”

chronically-ill-dandy

✿＼(｡-_-｡) “Kick his ass, baby. I got yo flower.”

kahguyaht

i found it

the original post

i found it

eviesrealitychangesdaily-deacti

this should have the opportunity to be on everyone’s blog.

allons-ynumberten-deactivated20

*tour guide voice*

and here on the left ladies and gentlemen, you see one of the posts before everyone went batshit crazy

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World Heritage Post

peachdoxie

Everyone here is dead.

memesnotwelcome

rinadragomir

“𝐴𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡?” 𝐴𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑒𝑡𝑙𝑦, 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒. “𝐷𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑡?”

“𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼’𝑚 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑘𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤,” 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑. “𝐴𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑟, 𝐼 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢—𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡—”

𝐴𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑘𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑚.

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#LATE BUT OMG !!!#rina ily #xxx #chain of thorns #thomastair

justiceleaque

the sheer amount of artistic talent put into these panels to portray the right feeling on clark’s face is amazing

notajerusalemcricketd-deactivat

None of the images in the notes look like eachother but they all look like Clark wtf

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the-gay-goblin

Every time this graces my dash I can’t help but laugh until I’m on the verge of tears

killapunk

Can you swim?

yes 🌊

no 🏖

Voting ended onFeb 13, 2023

Please reblog and add your nationality in the tags along with what you answered! I'm very curious about this; and it's not to shame anybody, so don't be rude!

killapunk

If you don't do the reblog part it's not very good as a study 😭

#england + i swim <3 #fun fact i am a trained lifeguard ??

currently-evil

Yeah sure we know how Neil is with reporters (bloody brilliant that’s how he is) but How about Andrew? How does he act in front of the camera?

My personal headcannon is that he will do ANYTHING not to talk about Exy, especially as a Proffesional Exy player.

And I imagine him going through phases, testing how much he can do, before his PR Agent snaps and tries to kill him.

First time he is chosen to talk to reporters at the end of the game… he just keeps silent. Stare at all people with dead bored eyes, until they give up and ask somebody else.

Yeah, no, that can’t be. His PR Agent immediately tells him you have to, HAVE TO talk to the reporters, Andrew.

Very well, Andrew can talk to them.

Next time he answers all of their questions…. in german.

Ok, I see what you are doing here, I see. But no, stop that. In English Andrew, answer in English.

No problem. So Andrew of course answers questions in English, by convincing every reporter that he is Aaron (and also implying that they are incompetent by catching the wrong brother.)

Andrew can tell his PR agent is a step away from nervous breakdown when he gets a berating letter from her the next day. (He blocked her everywhere out of spite.) This time he even got a list that said You can’t keep silent with reporters, you can’t answer them in another language and you can’t claim you are Aaron, you have to talk about exy.

And honestly all that can be arranged.

So next time he talk with reporters, even in english! and don’t claim to be Aron single time… instead he tells them he really doesn’t know anything about exy.

You see the thing with Andrew is that he has this energy, this posture, this quiet self confidence that makes it really hard to realize if he is lying or not.

Just picture room full of sports journalists staring at Andrew unsure, quietly looking at each other trying to judge what is really going on.

“You dont know anything about exy?”

“nope”

“None of the rules?”

“Nothing”

“But…but you play professionally!”

“I was told I have to keep the ball out of the goal, I don’t know anything else.”

“You … you trained with Kevin Day! Son of the exy! How is it possible??”

“Kevin also told me to keep the ball out of the goal.”

Needless to say it’s one of the funniest after game interviews to exist and the moment Andrew’s agent starts looking for another job.

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gaycism

I mean Jesus fucking Christ this is not right

mrevaunit42

My friend told me the best example to explain the vast difference between a million and a billion

“A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago we were still dealing with the Soviet union.”

beeperbopper

This is why when we talk about “rich people” who aren’t paying taxes or who are wasting money, we’re not talking about the person who makes 1 or 2 grains of rice worth of money a year. We’re talking about the person who makes the giant fucking Costco sized pile of rice.