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im going to start a thread of pokemon drawn to the sizes of the things theyre based on
here, iâll startÂ
also this thread is open to anyone
A very small boi enters
@alpha-bread
!!!!! This is Zangoose sheâs pointy and I love her
I chose the littlest ones cause the BIG ones were always tadpoles and the little ones were always poliwogs.
A pocket sized boy
buffyverse meme [2/20] scenes ⥠Beneath You; âAnd when exactly did your sister get unbelievably scary?â
i let the furby skins soak in fabric softener after i washed them and my sis found them and sent me:
and i have never laughed so hard xâD
never do i ever want to hear the words âfurby skinsâ uttered ever again
You never peeled a furby?
What the absolute fuck
Brienne of Tarth, Got book version, art by LionessOfTheNight
Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was likeâŚthe end all, be all of special effects?
not gonna lie that still looks intimately real
Iâm 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.Â
fucking look at this shit though
Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so Iâll say it for this one myself:
THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THATâS WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AINâT CGI. AND IT AINâT GUY IN A COSTUME. ITâS A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.
amazing
And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the âskinâ 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 theyâd start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.
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.
One of my favorite anecdotes Iâve 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 wouldnât actually, you know, eat them.
(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)
Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.
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 youâre 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.
This is getting better and better.
I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI
Iâm just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.
@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?
Realism comes at a cost, it seems.
i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:
Itâs a three piece raptor suit.
Old movies had the best special effects
The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.
@jurassicparkandrecreation
@shepfax
Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time. Â They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers. Â Nobodyâd ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before. Â Itâd all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them. Â Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.
So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, âWe want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.â
The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when theyâd created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, âWait a minute, Iâve seen movement like that before.â
He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, âHoly shit.â
Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existedâwe knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection thereâbut the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent. Â Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.
That paleontologistsâd be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian
This post just gets better and better with time
Always reblog this and it hurts my soul when they say old movies because I was like ten when this came out and⌠THIS WAS MY CHILDHOOD.
pretty sure rian johnson timed this scene to match up perfectly to abba
lmaooo my swedish ass is so pleased by thisÂ
What people think writing is like: careful planning and thought out plotlines
What writing is actually like: being possessed by an idea that you are constantly arguing with
I have never seen such an accurate description of writing in my life
You know what I love most about Rey? She is fucking brutal.Â
I mean look at this aggression⌠Iâm an older fan and I NEVER saw women presented like this when I was growing up, and I am so happy for all the little kids out there who get to have this
And in tfa it was this bit that got me shook
She just stalks towards him like the badass she is
Look at that face. I f**cking love it. I am so happy (and Daisy just kills it, what a star).
Whatâs cool about Rey is that sheâs a change of pace from Anakin and Luke, whose stories were about reckless heroes who need to be taught patience and discipline by wise old mentors. But Rey is already disciplined as heck from the moment we meet herâyouâd have to be to stay alive for ten years scavenging tech on Jakku. She already appreciates the qualities that had to be drilled into the Skywalkers, which I think accounts for her picking up how to use the Force so quickly.
Consequently, Rey isnât so cautious about cutting loose and being badass. Sheâs not afraid that the anger will run away with her like Anakin and Luke were. Because Reyâs anger doesnât come from being tempted by attachment or glory. Sheâs not out here trying to protect the ones she loves or trying to be a hero. Sheâs just pissed that thereâs injustice in the galaxy, and all these assholes (droid theives, hand-grabbers, fascist edgelords, troll-y old hermits) are making it hard to put a stop to it, so hey fuck you, Iâll kick your ass.
Iâm not sure the old Jedi would approve, and maybe the Sith would have a field day exploiting her emotions. But itâs good for us because we get a novel twist on the whole âkid goes off to become a Jediâ story. Reyâs anger is selfless and just, and itâs a damn good thing sheâs on our side.
I like to think that Rita Skeeter totally lost whatever renown she had after the war and so Harry and Ginny and the others like to pick up her stories for fun without worrying about the effect itâll have on their image? Like Harry just idly turns a page every morning and goes, âOh, weâre getting a divorce.â And Ginny yawns as she fetches two coffee mugs and says, âIs it because Iâm snogging Neville?â âNo,â says Harry, âitâs because Iâm snogging Neville.â And Ginny slams down her mug and says, âGoddamnit, Harry, let me have my affair in peace, would you?â
They have this sort of conversation in public, sometimes. Especially in places (the Leaky Cauldron, the Three Broomsticks, etc) where they know that itâll get back to Skeeter.
I like to imagine that the kids get in on it as well. Like Albus and Scorpius can be over heard in the Great Hall with the latest Potter Family gossip
âDid you hear that your dad is leaving your mum for my father?â
âI thought mum was leaving dad for your mum, Scorp?â
âNo that was last week. Your mum is with your aunt Luna right now.â
âAh, my mistake. Pass the pumpkin juice.â
Please tell me that the cursed child was just another bullshit story that the kids fed to her.
New head-canon: Rita Skeeter wrote The Cursed Child.
Iâve been ignoring this post in my notifs for ages but this is now the only explanation for the Cursed Child that I will accept.
Suddenly everything makes sense.
Bonsai apple tree growing a full-sized apple.
A perfect balance of extremely impressive and completely ridiculous.
Apple trees are DETERMINED. My parents planted a twig of an apple tree, and that first year it grew one apple. And the whole thing was bent over from the weight of it. It had one job and by God it was gonna do it.
she did such a good job Iâm so proud
And he goes, âWhat are you?â   Which is fucking rude.
this is so wild, this guy thought his landlord was going into his house and leaving him post-it notes but he just had an extreme case of carbon monoxide poisoningÂ
Modern ghost story
Did reddit save this dudes life
What the fuck
NO BUT I READ THIS WHOLE THING ONCE.
he got the CO detector out, saw that it was in dangerous levels (there was a problem with an underground parkade in his building, iirc), calmly went âshitâ, and went to the hospital. If he didnât get that advice, he would most likely be dead now.
The best part? He didnât get a webcam app or anything. He just made a folder, called it Webcam, and called it a night in his carbon monoxide induced delirium.
This is honestly one of my favorite Reddit stories.
That was completely wild. This is also one of my favorite explanations for both historical and modern tales of haunted houses.
In the story of that historical incident, the 1921 âMrs. Hâ account, they experienced many of what we think of as the really classic signs of a haunting. Aside from moving into a run down, semi-creepy house â thatâs how these stories always start, right? â they experienced things like mysterious noises as if someone was violently rearranging the furniture in the middle of the night. They heard voices, felt as if they were being watched or followed, heard tapping in the walls. And it was as if there were ghosts acting on them physically: shaking the bed, holding them down, yanking away the sheets. âMrs. Hâ sees ghostly figures sitting at the foot of her bed, and describes them in detail. And it all turns out to be a carbon monoxide leak: the furnace is fixed, and the haunting immediately comes to an end.
Whatâs scariest about carbon monoxide IMO, and whatâs really illustrated by that reddit story, is how quickly and thoroughly carbon monoxide poisoning can just disconnect you from reality. You think youâre taking appropriate action and thinking clearly and remaining essentially yourself, while half of what youâre doing, pretty much all of what youâre experiencing, turns out to be sheer hallucination. It has to seem so real on every level, but none of it is. Itâs scary to think how easily our entire perception of the world can just be wrong, and we have absolutely no concept of it.
(My other favorite explanation for hauntings is infrasound. I donât necessarily disbelieve the idea of some sort of life after death or things like that, I try to maintain an open mind because our understanding of our universe is seriously not as thorough as weâd like to think, but the scientific possibilities for what could cause the symptoms and sensations of a haunting are completely fascinating. Like who wouldâve figured you could get such vivid, convincing, visceral effects from something as obscure as sound outside your ability to actively hear, or gas you canât detect.)
hey all, firefighter here, i seriously cannot stress enough how important it is to have CO detectors. this guy absolutely would have died if someone hadnât suggested carbon monoxide poisoning. it can and will kill you without warning - you probably wonât even realize itâs happening. do yourself a favor and get a detector, especially if you live in a cramped and poorly ventilated home or apartment, theyâll save your life
The clam before the storm
What an aesthetically pleasing meme.
I think this is it. My aesthetic. The sea, a beautiful sky, and a pun.
Can I just⌠talk for a moment⌠about how much I love how, if you know them well, words donât have synonyms?
English, for example, is a fantastic disaster. It has so many words for things that are basically the same, and I find thereâs few joys in writing like finding the right word for a sentence. Hunting down that peculiar word with particular meaning that fits in seamlessly in a structure, so the story flows on by without any bumps or leaks.
Like how a shout is typically about volume, while a yell carries an angry edge and a holler carries a mocking one. A scream has shrillness, a roar has ferocity, and a screech has outrage.Â
This is not to say that a yell cannot be happy or a holler cannot be complimentary, or that they cannot share these traits, but they are different words with different connotations. I love choosing the right one for a sentence, not only for its meanings but for how it sounds when read aloud. (Do I want sounds that slide together, peaceful and seamless, or something that jolts the reader with its contrast? Snap!)
I love how many words for human habitats there are. I love how cottage sounds quaint and cabin sounds rustic. I love steadiness of house, the elegance of residence, the stateliness of manor, and tired stubbornness of shack. I love how a dwelling is different to a den.
And I love how none of them can really touch the possessive warmness of all the connotations of home.
Words are great.
I did not expect to cry by the end of this, but I did. Which proves the point, no?
âThe difference between the right word and the almost right word is like the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning.â - Mark Twain (and one of my favorites, since I happen to agree with everything the OP said!)
^that is an incredible quote Iâm upset Iâve never heard it before
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When Iâm editing a story, I read it aloud. Not only does reading it out loud bring my attention to little grammar mistakes or skipped words, but the wrong word stands out like a sore thumb.
If you read your work aloud and you come across a sentence that doesnât feel right or isnât exciting, stop. The sentence is wrong. There is a better word out there and itâs your job to find it.
Your story has to be good enough for you. Not anyone else or any perceived audience, just you. If even a sentence, just one sentence, doesnât excite you , it needs editing because you deserve the best story you can tell.Â
I have decided that Darth Vader doesnât actually rescue his son because he experiences a sudden powerful call to the Light
rather, overthrowing all his old allegiances at the absolute last moment and sacrificing his life to save his son by destroying his shrieking wizard master in a storm of lightning and blue flame is the most dramatic thing he could possibly do in that situation
and if thereâs one thing truly left of Anakin Skywalker, itâs his instinctual drive to do the most dramatic thing possible at all times
