ADHD is great because you’ll be standing there listening to the national anthem (I’m American) and the entirety of the movie Poltergeist flashes before your eyes, followed by the ending of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
A recent artwork I did for a phenomenal short film directed and written by two of my very good friends from University. Super stoked as to how it turned out!
Making the promotional material for this was an absolute blast and I learned so much. Genuinely such a fun project to work on!
Ahsoka Tano - No, until she figures out that Skyguy hates them, after which, yes. She does actually adore them, however.
Obi-Wan Kenobi - No. He doesn’t understand the frenzy.
Padmé Amidala - Yes. She was given one by a small Naboo child while campaigning for senator. She finds them cute and dresses them up in little queen outfits and wigs.
Luke Skywalker - No. He thinks they’re ugly.
Leia Organa - Yes, but only because a little girl gave it to her, just like her mom. She’s not a fan and thinks they’re kinda freaky.
Han Solo - Absolutely not. He has Chewbacca for that.
Chewbacca - No. He’d rip its arms off.
Lando Calrissian - Absolutely. His wear little capes.
Rey Skywalker - Yes. She got it during the Festival of the Ancestors on Pasaana.
Poe Dameron - Nah.
Finn - Yes. Rose got him one.
Yoda - No. Labubus were based on him. If he was on Dagobah, he’d mistake them as family, though. He finds them amusing.
Qui-Gon Jinn - Yes, because it was embarrassing to Obi-Wan and he needed Obi-Wan to learn not to be so serious all the time.
Mace Windu - No. He secretly suspects they’re being popularized by the Sith.
R2-D2 - Yes.
C3-PO - No. He finds them completely and utterly illogical and undignified. Artoo is more than enough.
Sheev Palpatine - No, but he has stakes in the company.
Darth Maul - No.
Count Dooku - No, but he owns stakes, including the factories on Geonosis.
General Grievous - Yes. He stole them from the corpses of Jedi he slaughtered and keeps them in a display cabinet in his creepy lair.
Asajj Ventress - Never, but she’d secretly want one.
Jar Jar Binks - Has collected all of them after seeing Padme’s. He adores them and has little outfits for all of them as well. He takes very good care of them, despite being clumsy. He has accidentally broken a couple, though.
Boss Nass - Yes, because he was presented with one. It made him laugh. He’d lose it under a pile of riches, though.
Rose Tico - Yes.
Captain Phasma - Yes. Hers is encased in silver. She has the one and only solid silver Labubu.
Aayla Secura - No.
Luminara Unduli - Absolutely not. It’s a form of material consumerism and distracts from the Force.
Barriss Offee - Yes. She was too afraid to get one herself, so Ahsoka gave her one.
Plo Koon - No. He doesn’t hate them, though.
Kit Fisto - Yes.
Ki-Adi-Mundi - Yes, and he’d criticize others for having them.
Yaddle - No.
Admiral Ackbaar - No. It’s a money trap!
Mon Mothma - Yes. She and her daughter love them.
Vice-Admiral Holdo - Yes, and she loves it.
Ezra Bridger - Yes.
Kanan Jarrus - Yes. He bought it for Hera.
Hera Syndula - Maybe.
Sabine Wren - Yes. She stole it from an Imperial officer and has since dyed it to look punk.
Zeb - Yes.
Cassian Andor - No. He’d sell it.
Jyn Erso - Never.
Jabba the Hutt - Yes, it’s a freak on a leash so of course he bought entire crates of them.
Bib Fortuna - No, but he’d use Lafufus as lures.
Oola - Yes, she stole the secret from Jabba and that’s why he dropped her down the Rancor pit.
Sy Snoodles - Yes, and she’s addicted to buying them.
Max Rebo - No.
Dexter Jettster - No, but he did install a PopMart vending machine in his diner, so…technically.
Owen Lars - Never in a million years.
Beru Lars - She probably wouldn't buy one, but she might find them cute and endearing. They remind her a little of Luke.
Jango Fett - No.
Boba Fett - Yes. Zam bought him one, much to his father’s disappointment. He thinks it’s ugly.
Cad Bane - Only if he was using them as bait.
Aurra Sing - No. She considered stealing one from a baby for fun, though.
Zam Wessell - Yes. She only has one, and it hangs from a rear view mirror in her speeder.
Sebulba - No. He’d mistake it as a space frog.
Ben Quadinaros - Yes.
Watto - No, but he owns a fake PopMart machine full of Lafufus.
Admiral Thrawn - No.
Grand Inquisitor - No.
Bastilla Shan - No.
Darth Revan - No.
Carth Onasi - No. He hates them with a burning passion.
Something I just mentioned earlier: I recently began playing Tomb Raider (2013) and holy crap, was I not ready for this game.
I was told that it would be dark and a departure from the regular series, but as someone who had only seen the Vikander movie and played the first level or two of the original and Underworld, this initially had me incredibly hesitant until I found myself in love with the narrative weight of it all.
At first, I was torn on Lara being less confident and even less sexualized than she was in the previous games. That sounds a little counterintuitive to my usual opinions, but after the Bayonetta trilogy proved to me that sexualized characters can be empowering, it felt almost mean seeing Lara Croft, who is usually flawlessly ready for every situation, get almost beat to a pulp, and worse, almost assaulted in the first hour of gameplay. I wasn’t warned of the latter going in, which is kind of a miracle. (I’m still not sold on the necessity of that scene, but I digress).
I was worried that it might have betrayed the franchise by going a little too far with its violence and horrific content. It felt more like The Descent than it did Tomb Raider. I wasn’t expecting to become so attached to Lara, which is a similar experience I had with Red Dead Redemption II and Arthur Morgan. Seeing her go from an understandably shivering, terrified, young woman in over her head to the absolute boss we’re used to is just incredible. What’s more is that the emotional beats with her friends are hitting on a cinematic level - I found myself crying over a character I didn’t know I was attached to, and for those who have played the game, it’s not the one you’d think, either. (That one made me sad, but it was the one before that.)
Not only is the lore super cool, the premise is genuinely thrilling and the action set pieces are phenomenal. Even the environments themseles feel “lived in”, with multiple options to choose in terms of how to navigate the world and solve problems. It doesn’t feel like a lot of adventure titles I’m used to, where it’s clear the world is designed like a video game, with distinct ledges and puzzles that don’t make sense outside of being something to jump onto. Even the combat is cooking in a way Uncharted, one of my favorite franchises of all time, didn’t.
Basically - this game has grown on me fast. Watching Lara become increasingly empowered is such a great example of the indomitable human spirit in media, and I love how emotional, vulnerable, and caring she is on top of being a skilled, intelligent, fierce badass who can take down an entire army of men almost completely by herself. She isn’t impenetrable, but she’s a hero with a fleshed out personality and determination that shines as the heart of the game beyond the terror.
TL;DR - this might be one of the best video games I’ve ever played.
I hate to become part of the Apple cult, but my new MacBook Neo is winning my ADHD brain over with the distraction free layout, smooth transitioning, and the fact that it can play Tomb Raider (2013) on max settings with only occasional stuttering and more importantly…
It can run modded Minecraft with shaders and 38 mods at 60fps, which is INSANE.
Random thoughts on Hannibal on my first-ish watch through*
1. Will is not a true psychopath or sociopath. Otherwise, he wouldn’t feel guilt or any of the emotions he shows on screen, let alone empathy.
2. Will Graham is good. This seems more like a case of malicious psychiatric treatment, in which Hannibal is grooming Will by taking advantage of his understandably fragile mental state.
3. Will Graham is autistic. I agree with the community on this one. At the very least, he’s neurodivergent. I’m not sure how I feel about the show giving him superpowers because of it, nor am I completely sold on the idea of portraying a neurodivergent man as someone whose condition makes him inherently dangerous, but we shall see.
4. Beverly Katz is not my favorite character. Apparently, the fandom loves her and I’m sure she gets better later on, but I find her behavior in the second episode to be really weird and off-putting. I know the same can be said for all the other weird characters, but those characters are positioned as unlikable, whereas Beverly is being positioned as one of the “good guys.” I just dunno about her.
5. I need Laurence Fishburne to be in more things. I've loved this guy since The Matrix. I may want to throw a shoe at him in the show for badgering Will into helping his unit out, but he's an undeniably great actor and I miss seeing him on screen.
6. Some of these kills are still way too much to the point of being almost unbelievable. I will give it to the writers and makeup artists and set designers - all of the kills and creepy surroundings are incredibly memorable. That being said, there's a few that honestly go a little too far - the first of which being that someone somehow survived being forced to rot alive as a half buried mushroom farm. I simply don't believe that element was necessary and that it makes the situation feel really far-fetched.
7. This is some of the most gorgeous cinematography I've seen on broadcast television, let alone NBC. Seriously, whoever brought on the cinematographer needs to be given a raise. This show has HBO prestige drama level visuals and special effects. I'm shocked that this aired on public access anything, considering how gruesome it gets but also because of how expensive it looks.
8. The kid in the fireplace doesn’t scare me as much this time around and that disturbs me. I’m still shocked they were willing to show not-alive kids, but it’s only shown for a couple seconds, which is way less than I remembered during my “first” failed watch through. I feel like I might be desensitized. Looking at real-life crime scene photos does that, I fear. (Would not recommend.)
9. The Blood Eagle murders still might be one of the grisliest things I’ve seen in media…period. I like to say I’ve seen some shit, but honestly? The Blood Eagle is what made me quit the show the first time. It’s just as bad as I remembered it being. It feels like it’s straight out of Hellraiser, which is a franchise I actually love, so maybe that’s why I’m able to handle it this time? Six years does a lot to a person.
10. They chose the right woman to call Bella. Gina Torres is so damn good in everything she’s in, and she’s gorgeous to boot. I love how complex and honestly interesting Bella’s struggle with cancer is.
I shall update with more thoughts later on.
*Last time I tried watching this, I tapped out because it got too violent. One of my online buds is really into this show though, so I thought I’d give it another go. Hopefully I don’t let my ADHD abandon it, which happens a lot with these shows.
I made an Archive skin using a color pallet based on some prison-based screencaps. The result is a theme that is a little grittier than your average AO3 reskin, which is what I was looking for.
It’s a re-shade/recolor/remix of the Glowy Dark Mode skin by @ao3commentoftheday , so the code isn’t mine. I just tweaked it to make it fit the theme I was going for.
Here are some pictures of what it should look like:
You can find the link to the Google Doc copy-and-paste version HERE or just copy and paste the code down below.
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After receiving a degrading call from her misogynistic boss, Goldfinger's associate "P. Galore" decides to kick James Bond off her plane and commandeer the aircraft, her crew of bright, gorgeous women, and ultimately, her destiny.
This fanfiction seeks to provide an alternate storyline in which the women of Goldfinger take center stage. They’re no longer “Bond’s girls”… instead…
…what if sisterly bonding had nothing to do with James at all?
origamiaround
jacobvanloon
turnnoffyourmind
blakekathryn
kaledo-art
stormborns
yousharknotpass
