My Life as an Orange

Hello. Louise. 26. French/American. She/her. Was living in Paris and Oxford for a bit. Originally from New York City. Stage manager and art history geek. This blog is basically a mess of different things... Often NSFW as well. Enjoy! PSA Also if you want me to respond to a message privately (if not obvious from the content--please tell me!)

[impidimp]

Okay but it's objectively hilarious that in the scene where Buck kisses a man and realizes he's bisexual, Eddie's name is mentioned eight times

[greenmantle]

9-1-1's Oliver Stark breaks down that Buck kiss: It's a 'gift' to explore this new story

[djdangerlove]

Buck: *grinning through his clenched teeth* In all of LA we end up at the same restaurant at the same time?

Eddie: *closes find my friends app on his phone* What a coincidence!!!

Three exclamations because we all heard how loud Eddie was talking in that small restaurant

[pretty-fishy]

Tommy bringing big "Pretty sure you're in love with Eddie, but who am I to turn down a pretty boy" energy to this

[niuniente]

CAT by  By 九米 / Zhaobangni (1631123)

[readableporn]

And when I say I lost my shit–and by all lost gods did I– I mean it.

[adulthoodisokay]

unmute unmute unmute

[munkseel]

for the love of EVERYTHING holy u GOTTA unmute

[letslipthehounds]

This was funny silent, but HILARIOUS with sound.

[leonordchoem]

im singehandedly repairing jewish-goyische relations through my outreach with my facebook friends

[aerialsquid]

I briefly forgot there were normal humans named Elijah and wondered why this person thought they were getting messages from Actual Prophet and Messiah-Herald Elijah the Tishbite.

[findingfeather]

….yeah me too.

[lireavue]

Me three.

[star-anise]

Imagine getting visions of someone else’s holy prophet and having to text your friends like “….what am I supposed to do with that?”

[redsparrow12]

[stirringsofconsciousness]

it is not ridiculous that multiple Jews assumed that this was talking about the Elijah the Prophet because look, the dude gets around

[vintagegeekculture]

oooh have you ever done a post about the ridiculous mandatory twist endings in old sci-fi and horror comics? Like when the guy at the end would be like "I saved the Earth from Martians because I am in fact a Vensuvian who has sworn to protect our sister planet!" with no build up whatsoever.

Yeah, that is a good question - why do some scifi twist endings fail?

As a teenager obsessed with Rod Serling and the Twilight Zone, I bought every single one of Rod Serling’s guides to writing. I wanted to know what he knew.

The reason that Rod Serling’s twist endings work is because they “answer the question” that the story raised in the first place. They are connected to the very clear reason to even tell the story at all. Rod’s story structures were all about starting off with a question, the way he did in his script for Planet of the Apes (yes, Rod Serling wrote the script for Planet of the Apes, which makes sense, since it feels like a Twilight Zone episode): “is mankind inherently violent and self-destructive?” The plot of Planet of the Apes argues the point back and forth, and finally, we get an answer to the question: the Planet of the Apes was earth, after we destroyed ourselves. The reason the ending has “oomph” is because it answers the question that the story asked. 

My friend and fellow Rod Serling fan Brian McDonald wrote an article about this where he explains everything beautifully. Check it out. His articles are all worth reading and he’s one of the most intelligent guys I’ve run into if you want to know how to be a better writer.

According to Rod Serling, every story has three parts: proposal, argument, and conclusion. Proposal is where you express the idea the story will go over, like, “are humans violent and self destructive?” Argument is where the characters go back and forth on this, and conclusion is where you answer the question the story raised in a definitive and clear fashion. 

The reason that a lot of twist endings like those of M. Night Shyamalan’s and a lot of the 1950s horror comics fail is that they’re just a thing that happens instead of being connected to the theme of the story. 

One of the most effective and memorable “final panels” in old scifi comics is EC Comics’ “Judgment Day,” where an astronaut from an enlightened earth visits a backward planet divided between orange and blue robots, where one group has more rights than the other. The point of the story is “is prejudice permanent, and will things ever get better?” And in the final panel, the astronaut from earth takes his helmet off and reveals he is a black man, answering the question the story raised. 

[airyairyquitecontrary-deactivat]

IIRC “Judgment Day” was part of the inspiration for the excellent Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Far Beyond the Stars.”

[may-shepard]

This whole post is liquid gold for writers.

[thenatsdorf]

Itchy snoot. 

[softsaryn]

[sheryl-lee]

THOR: RAGNAROK (2017) + letterboxd reviews

insp.

[bobacupcake]

we are already living in the cyberpunk future and i know this because within a span of 3 days we went from this tweet:

to thousands of people making phony images and replying to them with their passionate desire to have them as a tshirt to overload the bots with nonsense and junk and send out warnings to shoppers like this:

and now we even have people replying to pictures of baby yoda with “i want this on a tshirt” knowing how ravenous disney is being with copyright in hopes to get the stores taken down altogether

i dont know what it is about stuff like this and the whole turn mei into a symbol of hk protesters thing but, its really reassuring for some reason

[pinkieperil]

And the next step…

[systlin]

https://teezyli.com/

Holy shit y’all look at the front page of the site right now

[cathrine-rose]

Oh my god

[systlin]

Anyway, I just emailed [email protected] to report the site for very evilly stealing Disney’s IP! Because obviously that is very evil and bad and shit.

[anthropohedron]

I’ve never seen such a perfect example of fighting fire with fire.

[systlin]

Holy fucking shit

[scifigrl47]

I’m DYING.

[ejacutastic]

[desarea-doodles]

😂😂😂

[raptorcivilization]

More accurately

[flowerinaflame]

[stuft]

[tlirsgender]

Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon

[tlirsgender]

It’s carbon it’s pretty and it didn’t involve slave labor what’s not to love??? Hi I’m having geology opinions tonight apparently. And I’m right

[tlirsgender]

There is so much bullshit in the diamonds industry to be mad about tbh. It also ties into the bullshit of the wedding industry as a whole but we don’t have the time to unpack all that

[val-ritz]

not even going to lie, the day i learned i could get like 15 lab grown rubies the size of dimes for $20 is the day i spent $20 on rubies, and i have never once said to myself “man, i wish this cost $1,600 and the lives of eight children to produce”

[fuckyeahmineralogy]

We are a pro-lab-grown mineral blog here, not only is it massively cheaper but massively more ethical as well in many cases.

[thegreenpea]

another very cool lab grown gem is Moissanite. It has a 9.25 on the mohs hardness scale where diamond is a 10. Moissanote also has a 2.69 refractive index in comparison to diamond’s 2.419 and here is the difference 

and the best thing about moissanite? It is all lab grown and it costs only a fraction of what diamond costs. So fuck the diamond indsutry and buy lab grown gems which cost significantly less

[rubixpsyche]

Also it’s just cool to think of some mad scientist lookin person doing shit against the law of the universe and making pretty gems for you. Like cmon. This shouldnt be allowed probably. But humans really be like on gOD i want some shiny an just started MAKIN em

[zathechaosgod]

for years people wanted alchemy, well now we have alchemy and we’re making gemstones out of it and suddenly “it doesn’t count” anymore

[shittynewyorkercartooncaptions]

[steveyockey]

*sees a take* oh wow that is objectively bad

*sees my mutual agrees with that take* actually it’s uhhh it’s a complex issue. there’s room for— there’s nuance

[archived-themagicalmysticalboy]

Paul justifying anything John says

[ilan]

this person is talking about the fucking beatles on an already kind of shitty tumblr post. where am i.

[gamora-borealis]

I THOUGHT THIS WAS TALKING ABOUT THE BIBLE

[meme-loving-stuck]

[lamaison]

[mtfoss]

No actually Dr pepper is the scientist you’re thinking of Monster energy

[fivedayslater]

My conclusion: the nerdier you are the more likely you are to win gold

[fivedayslater]

Got another one lads

[schiaparelle]

another one babes

[fivedayslater]

ANOTHER ONE

[annullo13]

I just love all these nerds showing up on international tv as some of the worlds greatest athletes

[ghosthierophant]

we are Not going to leave out Noah Lyles kamehameha 

[angrbodic]

How does this post NOT have this:

Uzbekistan’s Ball (rhythmic gymnastics) too