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Hello! While I have been able to donate to campaigns in the past I am currently unable to. I’m very sorry. Please don’t try to pressure me into giving you money.

#I have been overwhelmed with dms asking me to donate and I just can’t #I really hope those who need money are able to find people able to donate I really do

If you are interested in learning the Yautja Language, listen up! I recently joined the Yautja Language Discord (which you can find the invite link here), and it’s helped me to refine my Yautja dictionary. All credit goes to the folks over there. It’s definitely not finished quite yet, but dw I am updating it constantly. I just thought I should share it for all you fan fic-ers out there:

Yautja Dictionary

#the old spreadsheet is being deleted soon because It’s kind of a mess #this one is more organized and has a TON more info on it #hope you guys like it!#yautja #predator franchise #predator badlands #predator killer of killers #yautja language

puryartist

she wants to show thia something!

theyamwizard

it is literally not possible to "ruin" the predator by making it "too human." the idea that that's a thing you can do reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about what defines the predator and what makes it an effective horror monster.

an example of a movie monster that effectively uses the "fundamentally inhuman alien mind" is the xenomorph. it is very possible to make a xenomorph "too human" to work as a monster anymore. this is because the fear factor of the xenomorph is based around being inscrutable; in the first movie, this is mostly achieved with its bizarre and horrifying life cycle, and its strange physiology. the sequels introduce/expand on its eusociality. its lack of eyes is meant to be uncanny, calling to mind cave animals, and its carapace and eusociality makes it buglike, which is always a quick and effective way to make something seem strange and Other to humans. the xenomorph was created using a man in a suit, but the designers and the cinematography of the movie goes to great lengths to try to hide that human form.

Predator takes an opposite approach to making a scary alien. it is not scary because it has freaky mandibles and laser guns or even the stealth cloak; lots of aliens are ugly and have laser guns. the predator is scary because it is, for all purposes, a human being. it walks upright, with no tail, and despite the mandibles, it has forward-facing eyes and expressive brows. it uses weapons and tools, it wears clothes, it makes plans. even in the first movie, it clearly demonstrates a range of emotions. (panicking in the net trap, wincing and screaming when it has to patch up its wound, freaking out and shooting wildly into the jungle when Dutch uses his mud stealth cloak (in a direct echo of the scene where the protagonists were freaking out and shooting wildly into the jungle), the little "are you serious? you think you're clever?" look when it finds the trap Dutch is trying to lure it into.) a yautja looks like something you could talk to, and something that could talk back. except it won't. even the fact that it wants to hunt you for sport is something that makes perfect sense to the human mind. there's nothing inscrutable about it; its a game hunter, and your head will look impressive on its wall. this is a thing that humans do all the time. we can look at the yautja and immediately see that they are just like us, but they do not recognize the same in us, and that's what makes them effective horror monsters. they're a mirror. the premise of the yautja in the first predator movie is "what would it feel like to be the lion that's hunted by a big game hunter?"

inkybyl

EEEEEEEEEE LOOK WHAT JUST GOT HERE

@milkcioccolato THIS IS THE CUTEST KEYCHAIN EVER he’s so angy i love him

jackirii

we all need someone like kwei fr 🥹

stellanslashgeode

I got some anon tut-tutting me because I made a post they interpreted as me saying Rheena Sul was Brander Lawson’s side piece.

Let me be clear, Rheena Sul is a successful business owner and clearly a put-together accomplished lady. Brander is a cop who seems to mess up all his operations.

Brander is Rheena’s side piece.

tivvzz

Half the show in

Hey guys, just in case you want to post my art somewhere, pls, at least mention me as an author, thank you

butts-art

Kids gotta eat

ninety6tears

You gotta watch Rebels! Your favorite Clone Wars character comes back for a serious plotline and they look like this

#The art style in that show is fucking atrocious #(I also don’t think the story or the characters are any good but shhhh)

argonblue

some purely stupid doodles of two boots and spybot because I like to think they would get along if they had more than two seconds of shared screen time.

argonblue

crawling out of hell to post star wars fanart.

ok so I watched Maul: Shadow Lord and OH MY GOD IT'S GOOD. Two boots is everything I have ever wanted from star wars when it comes to droids, and i am so glad he exists. We don't normally see nuanced protagonist droids, especially not ones who speak, and i'm really hoping he gets a few chances to shine next season.