Hello, Cuties!

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To all my fellow creators who haven’t been able to create lately and are feeling down and out: I love you.  You’re great.  You’re worth it.

While I hope you and I start creating again soon, just know that you’re still incredible no matter what.

[stormofteacups]

I kinda needed this

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[talaline]

Reblog if you’re currently writing a novel, even if it’s only in your head or scribbled in the back of a notebook somewhere.

Think about how many books don’t exist yet.

[buckys]

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[downeyverse]

@copperbadge

[copperbadge]

“Okay but Sebastian – was I wrong?”

“You were distressingly right! That’s why we shared it in an interview on the internet.” 

“You’re practically me already anyway, I’m so proud of you. You and Scarlett. Anthony’s on his own path, but he’ll come around in the end.”

“Chris is trying!” 

“Stealing my sunglasses and doing fun photoshoots with me is trying, I suppose.” 

“Well, not everyone can be you or me.”

“It’s so true, and so sad, Sebastian.”

[RDJ Advises Chris Evans Sebastian Stan on his Life Choices]

[copperbadge]

Reblogging because in the past 48 hours or so I have been linked to this about 30 times. (I guess RDJ reposted it to his facebook?)

I’ve seen it guys, I swear. I love you all, now please stop sending me links to it. :D

[alicentsgf]

they’re probably already planning a sequel-sequel trilogy… how many star wars saga films are there gonna be ?? is it gonna be like 2080 and we’re all crawling out of our nursing homes to see disneys new release of anakin’s great-great-great grandkids fucking up

[alicentsgf]

just to be clear im Not complaining my 90 yr old wrinkly ass would 100% be there for that

[sodam-art-deactivated20160811]

Avengers ancient Chinese AU!

I couldn’t draw all the Avengers, but I may be try them later.

[thanoshadtosnaptwiceforyou]

Bucky’s Trigger Words In Order

Longing: желание (zhelaniye)

Rusted: ржaвый (rzhavyy) 

Seventeen: Семнадцать (Semnadtsat’ )

Daybreak: Рассвет (Rassvet)

Furnace: Печь (Pech’)

Nine: Девять (Devyat’ )

Benign: добросердечный (dobroserdechnyy)

Homecoming: возвращение на родину (vozvrashcheniye na rodinu) 

One: Один (Odin)

Freight car: грузовой вагон (gruzovoy vagon) 

[beardysteve]

human shield

based on this post all credit goes to berkeleymews.com  / mews

[kittyseb]

@beardysteve I can’t believe you predicted the plot of CACW:

[plotsjotsandespressoshots-deact]

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

[suicunesrider]

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

[drtanner-dickery]

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

[fanboyingoverdemigods]

fucking look at this shit though

[mauridianhallow]

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

[mizushimo]

amazing

[shadowthorne]

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

[mad-dyspunktional]

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

[datneeks]

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

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(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

[alessariel]

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

[brainsforbabyjesus]

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

[alessariel]

This is getting better and better.

[red-dirt-roads-deactivated20161]

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

[teslasturtle-deactivated2023011]

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

[perspectivemax-deactivated20181]

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

[myloverhammurabi]

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

[gorsime]

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

[bisexualhobgadling]

remember when the Sherlock fandom decided to dislike all the Elementary trailers on youtube in an attempt to get it cancelled before it even aired

[brainstatic]

No, but I believe it.

[gmbencompetence]

My favorite part was when they called the show homophobic because making Watson a woman made it harder for them to write slash fiction about two lead characters.

[stargazerofgoldenwords]

Remember when Elementary fans had to create their own tag to get away from the Sherlock fandom invading the ‘Elementary’ tag on Tumblr

Remember when Sherlock fans found it incomprehensible that an Asian woman was playing the role of Watson.  Never mind that both Holmes and Watson have been mice and dogs and robots and pieces of fruit in different media. 

Remember when the cast and crew of BBC Sherlock pretty much baited its fandom by being passive-aggressive whiny chits about the show on social media and in interviews.

Remember when Mark Gatiss retweeted that ‘Not Benedict Cumberbatch/Not Martin Freeman’ mock-poster. 

Remember when self-professed ‘militant feminist’ Louise Brealey (Molly Hooper) called the casting of Lucy Liu - the first time a woman would play the role of Watson in a major adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories - ‘gimmicky’.

Remember when Benedict Cumberbatch insinuated that Jonny Lee Miller took the role so he could ‘buy something nice for his wife.’

Remember when Martin Freeman called Lucy Liu a dog on live television and then brushed it off as a ‘joke.’

[wondersmith-and-sons]

Remember when renowned feminist Victoria Cohen lost her shit in a Guardian article and frothed at the mouth for like 800 words on how Lucy Liu’s Watson “was an insult to British values”

Remember when renowned feminist Caitlin Moran wrote an entire article about how Asian Watson was “gimmicky” and “trying too hard”.

Remember when renowned fandom feminists was all about “SCREW WRITING STRONG WOMEN!!!! WRITE COMPLEX WOMEN!!!!!!” but collectively shat themselves and bent over backwards trying to justify their racism and how “Asian Watson is not progressive” and how “disinterested” they were in the Holmes/Watson relationship because it wasn’t about two white men eyefucking

[whillowed]

don’t forget when elementary included a trans woman in the show and people reached trying 2 say that including her was “FORCING DIVERSITY” and “WASN’T REALISTIC” because she was in the same room as an asian woman 

[the-multi-tool]

Wow I knew the Sherlock fandom was trash but damn. Also FUCK Martin Freeman for calling Lucy Liu a dog. Fucking whack ass hobbit looking bastard. 

[nyokoko]

A lot of y’all weren’t here when it was actually happening. I watched this shit unfold on my dash in real-time and it was very fucking terrible.

There’s a reason people hate the “SuperWhoLock” fandom on here. It’s not because they’re a huge fandom, it’s because of shit like this.

[acquaintedwithrask]

I remember all of this and it’s why, to this day, I inwardly curl my lip at anyone (in person or online) who calls themselves a huge fan of BBC Sherlock, ESPECIALLY those who go on to say they “don’t care for” Elementary.  I basically know immediately the kind of person they are.

[littleammydee]

I remember when I was talking to a friend about Elementary, and she said 'I just want it to fucking tank'. That was the beginning of the end of our friendship (which was really for the best, 'cause she was way more problematic than any of this suggests).

[thegoldenavenger]

that modern knight aesthetic

[littleammydee]

An Explanation for My Absence

Before I get into the nitty gritty, because I have very few followers and know this might not matter so much, I’ll just outright say what’s been happening: I have depression and just got it diagnosed. Now that I have things in order on that front, I’ll be getting back into the swing of things. You can now move on with your day, if you like, but I need to explain all this in detail for myself, and in the hopes that my experience will help others.

If you think you’re suffering from depression, or you are and you’re struggling with it, or you know someone who exhibits depression symptoms, then I invite you to read this so you get a new perspective on depression and understand that every degree of depression is a serious one. It is somewhat painful what I’m going to talk about, but I share my pain so that others may not have to suffer as long as I have.

Looking back, I think I always had depression, or at least it came about when I hit teenage years or so. It wasn’t until just last year, though, that I started admitting that it was worse than just having a bad month. I went into therapy hoping that I would figure out what was making me so miserable, and then eventually I would be okay and my life could go on as normal.

But as time passed, the symptoms were just getting worse: I would cry for no reason on some days, I would feel numb about even the things I enjoyed and it was a struggle just to meet expectations for those things, I could never motivate myself enough to get important things done and I thought it was all my fault that I couldn’t find the proper incentive to get me into gear. I never had suicidal thoughts, but part of me still wonders if that was really a blessing, because it was the absence of that one system that kept me in denial about my depression that I’m now realizing I had all my life. Thank heaven for my therapist who finally decided I needed medication, or I would still be in that hole I thought I dug myself into.

Because here’s the thing: there were moments I was happy. I genuinely felt optimistic about the world and that I could make it through alright. But it’s only with hindsight that I realized those moments I thought I was content were just me being numb to everything. And those moments I was overwhelmingly happy actually hurt, because I punished myself almost immediately after for not being that happy all the time.

Now that I’m on medication things are beginning to be enjoyable again. I am able to get things done with relatively little pushing, and when I do have to push, I’m more reactive to it. I’m still introspective, but there is nothing wrong with introspection. The problematic part of it, the part where I would eternally punish myself for the smallest mistakes, is now just a simple, “You did that wrong, let’s do better next time.” All in all, I feel more like myself than I ever felt. I feel more present in the world, more solid than I was before. It makes me simultaneously overjoyed to finally have control and saddened that it took my whole late childhood and half a decade into my adulthood to finally have that control.

I never would have been able to begin to balance all the things in my life if not for the treatment I received. I am so grateful for my family, my friends, my teachers, my therapist and my doctor who have been so understanding about my illness (because it is an illness, it’s a serotonin imbalance in the brain, and don’t let anyone tell you different) and have rejoiced in my ability to have it under control. I am thankful that medicine has progressed to the point that it’s at now so that I can take my medication and know that it’s working rather than hope for a placebo effect. I am thankful for the example of others overcoming their depression to help me know it is possible, and I am grateful for the strength I’ve found in myself that I thought could never exist.

This is not the end of my battle with depression. Just as if I was diagnosed with diabetes, I will be facing this down for very likely the rest of my life. I can’t stop taking my medication willy nilly just because I think I’m doing well or because I have a bad day or a bad week. This is a journey, a process that requires I trust my therapist, my doctor, and myself to do what is necessary to keep me from falling back into that hole.

I have an important message for those who think they are or actually are suffering from depression or bipolar disorder or a thyroid problem or whatever it is that makes you feel horrible: I may not know you, and I might never get to know you, but I do know from the bottom of my heart that you are incredible, that you have what it takes to overcome this and get out of that hole you did not dig yourself, and that your life is a precious one, infinitely valuable to yourself and those around you. I do not know you, and I still love you and care for you as if you were my friend, my family.

Hopefully my shared experience will help you find the way to feeling solid, feeling happy without it hurting or numbing you. Know that if you need me, I will be here, and I will do what I can to be there for you as often as you need me. And please do not give up, on yourself or the medication or others or anything. If you feel like you’re slipping, go to your doctor and your therapist first. You’re friends are fantastic and I can offer up as much help as them, but we can’t be substitutes for the professionals. It’s not fair to us or yourself. You deserve the best care possible.

I love you, and hope you will find everything in life that will make you the happiest and best that you can be.

[littleammydee]

What the...?

I go away for a little while for school, and I come back??? to this??????

[imaginetonyandbucky]

pitpulls are my weakness!!!! art for this wonderfull fill

-kamaete

[littleammydee]

Oh, so adorable, I love it!

[donnamissal]

You know, I have a cluster shrapnel, trying every second to crawl its way into my heart. This stops it. This little circle of light, its part of me now not just armor.

[fatherofmakebelieve]

[gothic1997]

Jabba, I see the resemblance