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[sassyappless]

I loved Shazam!

Go watch it!

Can’t wait to see it four more times.

Also the teaser for the sequel WAS THE BEST!

THE ONLY NEGATIVE PART IS CAN WE STOP, JUST FUCKING STOP CASTING OTHER ETHNICITIES AS LATINOS LIKE FUCKING STOP THAT!  YOU KNOW GET LATINOS TO PLAY LATINOS? 

Other than that great film!

[sassyappless]

Quick story detailing how I am.

So I’m signing my name to a girl.

And then she signs it back in the diminutive version of my name and of course I sign back correction and my name.  The full length.

I reaaaally don’t like when people who just met me want to use the short version of my name.  That’s for my buddies, friends etc.

[ddrvbiblgigb]

[garfield-baybee]

Reblog to have something good happen at 1:42 tomorrow

[tom-nippleston]

I have a budget meeting at 130.

You have to Gimme money for my department. The internet said so 😤😤😤😤

[sassyappless]

Anyway, disappointed Roma didn’t win.

It was so good and it was all told from the point of view of Cleo, the protagonist.  Everything.

[sassyappless]

Doom Patrol (2009) #13

“When you said we shouldn’t be keeping secrets from each other... That we should stop pretending we don’t need each other as much as we do...”

[sassyappless]

Ahem.

WHY HASN’T JAMES MCAVOY BEEN NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR

LIKE IN GLASS (2019) AT THE END WHEN HE DOES HIS FINAL SCENE, THAT HAD ME IN TEARS

“And you’re my friend?”

TEARS.

The small speech about fear and the sweet relief, CHRIST.

I definitely stand by the characters needed a better ending (I get what he wanted and respect that, but they deserved better) and the idea is wonderful but the third act man.

It’s a movie I’ll hate and love.  I’ll love McAvoy’s character and everyone else’s always but I’ll hate the third act.

McAvoy for an Oscar or else I swear I will 100% stop believing in the Oscars.

[sassyappless]

Still pissed about the ending to Glass, so pissed I convinced two of my friends to go watch it again with me so we could all be pissed together.

You’re welcome  M. Night Shyamalan.

And yes, I will be rewatching it a third time to say good bye to those characters I was so fascinated with.  It truly is the kind of film you love but hate.  Yes,  I also cried during you know who’s death scene because you know who can act the living Gods out of that character and that one specific line about fear but a sweet sense of relief.

[thehordereigns-blog]

M Night’s producer: the script is great! But are you sure for the ending? Are you sure you don’t want to write a happy ending for your characters?

Night:

[mcavoy]

It’s a feeling, it’s a vision, I have to touch them

GLASS dir. M Night Shyamalan 

[scottlava]

“Do animals talk in this dimension? Cause I don’t wanna freak him out.”

[sassyappless]

Anyway, I’ve probably been in love with the same person the last ten years of my life but have failed to acknowledge it and therefore everyone else that’s come into my life as never really been that person for me because I’m already in love with someone else and yet at the same time I don’t want to be in love with that person and have tried to love other people.

Geez, talk about setting myself up for failure with other people.  Can’t love someone else if I already have someone else I’m in love with.

[worldwithinworld]

When you are writing a story and refer to a character by a physical trait, occupation, age, or any other attribute, rather than that character’s name, you are bringing the reader’s attention to that particular attribute. That can be used quite effectively to help your reader to focus on key details with just a few words. However, if the fact that the character is “the blond,” “the magician,” “the older woman,” etc. is not relevant to that moment in the story, this will only distract the reader from the purpose of the scene. 

If your only reason for referring to a character this way is to avoid using his or her name or a pronoun too much, don’t do it. You’re fixing a problem that actually isn’t one. Just go ahead and use the name or pronoun again. It’ll be good.

[roane72]

Someone finally spelled out the REASON for using epithets, and the reasons NOT to.

[futureevilscientist]

In addition to that:

If the character you are referring to in such a way is THE VIEWPOINT CHARACTER, likewise, don’t do it. I.e. if you’re writing in third person but the narration is through their eyes, or what is also called “third person deep POV”. If the narration is filtered through the character’s perception, then a very external, impersonal description will be jarring. It’s the same, and just as bad, as writing “My bright blue eyes returned his gaze” in first person.

[cimness]

Furthermore, 

if the story is actually told through the eyes of one particular viewpoint character even though it’s in the third person, and in their voice, as is very often the case, then you shouldn’t refer to the characters in ways that character wouldn’t.

In other words, if the third-person narrator is Harry Potter, when Dumbledore appears, it says “Dumbledore appears”, not “Albus appears”. Bucky Barnes would think of Steve Rogers as “Steve”, where another character might think of him as “Cap”. Chekov might think of Kirk as “the captain”, but Bones thinks of him as “Jim”. 

Now, there are real situations where you, I, or anybody might think of another person as “the other man”, “the taller man”, or “the doctor”: usually when you don’t know their names, like when there are two tap-dancers and a ballerina in a routine and one of the men lifts the ballerina and then she reaches out and grabs the other man’s hand; or when there was a group of people talking at the hospital and they all worked there, but the doctor was the one who told them what to do. These are all perfectly natural and normal. Similarly, sometimes I think of my GP as “the doctor” even though I know her name, or one of my coworkers as “the taller man” even though I know his. But I definitely never think of my long-term life partner as “the green-eyed woman” or one of my best friends as “the taller person” or anything like that. It’s not a sensible adjective for your brain to choose in that situation - it’s too impersonal for someone you’re so intimately acquainted with. Also, even if someone was having a one night stand or a drunken hookup with a stranger, they probably wouldn’t think of that person as “the other man”: you only think of ‘other’ when you’re distinguishing two things and you don’t have to go to any special effort to distinguish your partner from yourself to yourself.

[undertailsoulsex]

This is something that I pretty consistently have to advise for those I beta edit for.  (It doesn’t help that I relied on epithets a lot in the earlier sections of my main fic because I was getting into the swing of things.)  I am reblogging this so fanfic writers can use this as a reference.

A good rule of thumb: a character’s familiarity with another character decreases the need for an epithet (and most times you really don’t need one at all).

[rehlia]

Good writing advice.

[silvertonedwords]

I’ve never been able to verbalize why this annoys me so much, but yes, THIS. If it’s a story about a parent’s relationship to a child, then saying “her daughter” makes sense. If it’s Newt Scamander taming an animal, saying “the magizoologist” is fine. But if it’s just randomly throwing it in to avoid saying “he” or “she” or “they”, then it is annoying as hell and PLEASE DON’T.

[hellblazeit]

how fucking extra

[catie-does-things]

your fave is problematic: obi-wan kenobi

overly critical

never listens

it’s nOT FAIR

[stormraven24]

Anakin, who let you sign up for a Tumblr?

[fluffycakesistainted]

I love Arthur and Mera very much, but I also really love the fact that the central love story of Aquaman (2018) is actually Thomas and Atlanna, and how beautiful that is. 

[memesandlaughs]

[raeazure]

Being the family’s assigned IT person is fun because everyone gets annoyed when you don’t know what to do