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Fiber arts & fandomy things - mostly Star Wars and weaving, not necessarily in that order.

[just-shower-thoughts]

A werewolf film written by a woman wouldn’t be as interesting because they know how unrealistic it is to be caught by surprise by something that happens regularly every damn month.

[uswe]

#run right into queue#no no no no no the exact opposite#by this standard a werewolf film written by a woman would be much more interesting because it would be more /varied/#some werewolves who are prepared not only for their own shift but also for those of six of their closest packmates#some werewolves who wake up already covered in fur and look at their ruined clothes and think ‘oh /shit/ that was yesterday’#some werewolves who can’t be assed to figure out what day it is and therefore have an alert set in their phone#so that once a month they wake up not to a blinking ‘wake up’ message but to ‘wake up and Be Prepared’ and dramatic hyena music#(and then inevitably lose/break/forget to charge their phone the day before and spend hours humming uncomfortably#before suddenly remembering at the least convenient moment possible and rushing off stripping as they go)#not to mention the one werewolf who only transforms one night a month and then has to refrain from gloating#while they help their one packmate who’s been shifted for an entire goddamned week and has started dreaming of murder (via @ereborne)

[squirrelstone]

And then there’s that werewolf who goes three full moons without transforming, then transforms one night during a waxing crescent moon.

[fangirltothefullest]

Now I’m imagining some on the werewolf form of the pill and having to regularly keep up their schedule and one werewolf telling another that they used to have such irregular changes but the pill now makes things so much easier and the other werewolves being like oh man I should talk to my doctor about this.

[awellboiledicicle]

All i imagined is some poor fucker that’s like “you think you have it bad. I got my first change at 9 and change sporadically every 4 months or so. For 2 weeks. Sometimes it happens randomly so i just gave up.”

[nannyoggskitchen]

   #for days before the change you’re extra growly and constantly want to go for walkies  

[pedeka]

@writernotwaiting

[malicemismanager]

Why. Is this not a thing already. Why.

[angstriddentrashhuman]

Wake up pissed and agitated with a headache and slam some aspirin with no real thought to the matter because it must just be a shit day. Halfway through the day they just “…oh shit that explains so much fuck fuck fuck”

[copperbadge]

I’ve coined a new term for the gallows humor that my generation indulges in because we have an overheating planet, a dim political future, a crushing economy, and a real avocado toast problem:

Millennihilism

[pidgeling]

It appeals to a nietzche audience.

[copperbadge]

I AM SO MAD I DIDN’T THINK TO ADD THIS MYSELF

[sendryl]

wait what’s wrong with avocado toast???

[copperbadge]

According to politicians it’s what’s preventing us from buying homes. 

[stand-up-gifs]

[lucasnoahs]

shit son

[starfoozle]

Another thing I was grimly satisfied by in Rogue One: actually bringing home the horror of a planet-killing weapon. Alderaan’s destruction was seen from a distance in ANH, but this, with all its nightmarishly appropriate similarities to atomic weapons test footage, was a really powerful display of why the Death Star had to be destroyed – it is pure evil in the shape of a moon.

[ooksaidthelibrarian]

#destroying a planet is the most nightmarishly evil thing in the universe – simultaneously wiping biology; culture; and place off the map#with no chance of leaving traces behind and no chance at all of natives ever going home in addition to all that death –#ughhhhhhhh#planet-killing is such a cheap bullshit trick in bad sci-fi which is why i utterly loathed starkiller base#first: that’s really shitty science. second – it was given zero narrative weight and undermined the death star’s symbolism as ultimate evil#rogue one did the exact opposite and i am grateful to be horrified by it#and i appreciated the test footage-style imagery of [both times the death star was tested at low-power mode]#i’ve watched a lot of bomb tests trying to understand how any person or group of people could authorize the existence of something like that#idk man as an armchair nuclear historian and advocate for disarmament this is important.#star wars#rogue one

I’ll ve over here, reblogging your tags because they’re awesome and should be read.

I was so ‘eh’ about Starkiller Base because the movie didn’t make us care one bit about the destroyed planet. But Rogue One, man, I cared a LOT.

[fuckyeahisawthat]

Yes! The blast on Scarif looks very much like a South Pacific nuclear test. And while destroying an entire planet is something we can only imagine, destroying a city with one bomb blast is something we actually have a context for.

There’s also a perspective shift going on here that I think is really important. In ANH and TFA, we see the blasts from space–more or less from the POV of the people firing them. (Yes, we do get one quick shot of some people on one of the planets Starkiller Base destroys, but we don’t know them and it happens very fast.)

In Rogue One, we see the Death Star from the point of view of its victims. While we do see what’s going on inside the Death Star, we primarily experience its effects on the planets that are being targeted. The destruction of Jedha City is given a lot of visual weight, and our protagonists are placed right there in front of it. And because we’ve been on the ground on Jedha, when the Death Star appears over Scarif, we have a true sense of dread.

Bombs are a lot scarier when you’re under them.

[mellifexfarm]

i’ve decided to start a new type of falconry, called chickenry, where we use chickens to hunt mice and frogs

[gaelgarcia]

Tessa Thompson attends the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

[ovalnephrite]

@lilithenaltum

[lilithenaltum-deactivated202209]

What kinda Bifröst couture realness YES MAAM

[gaslightgallows]

“Bifröst couture” 😍😍😍

[phdna]

Bifrost couture is apparently GORGEOUS

[project-shiny-blog]

Extended Cyber Monday Flash Sale - till 11PM tonight, 11/28, Cardigan Corgi Sugar Skull leggings, $25 plus shipping. Email [email protected] to order. :) Sizes XS-5X. 

[thoodleoo]

tag yourself: ancient greek literature

the iliad

probably an aries

mad about everything

will kick anyone’s ass, even their own

the odyssey

bisexual with a poor sense of direction

just wants to go home

cries about dogs

herodotus’s histories

bullshits every assignment they ever turn in

has a fun fact for everything

probably doesn’t even know if they’re telling the truth any more

the peloponnesian war

nobody knows what they’re talking about ever

makes everything about politics

cynical about everything

lucian’s a true history

only communicates via memes

somehow turns out new fic every week

never passes up a chance for a dick joke

the poetry of sappho

into the gaysthetic

has 50 crushes at once

constantly complains about not having a gf

the idylls of theocritus

is just here to have a good time

wants to save the bees

wears flower crowns whenever possible

[thoodleoo]

tag yourself: ancient greek literature

the iliad

probably an aries

mad about everything

will kick anyone’s ass, even their own

the odyssey

bisexual with a poor sense of direction

just wants to go home

cries about dogs

herodotus’s histories

bullshits every assignment they ever turn in

has a fun fact for everything

probably doesn’t even know if they’re telling the truth any more

the peloponnesian war

nobody knows what they’re talking about ever

makes everything about politics

cynical about everything

lucian’s a true history

only communicates via memes

somehow turns out new fic every week

never passes up a chance for a dick joke

the poetry of sappho

into the gaysthetic

has 50 crushes at once

constantly complains about not having a gf

the idylls of theocritus

is just here to have a good time

wants to save the bees

wears flower crowns whenever possible

[outofcontextdnd]

The dungeon boss: You… Unionized my hobgoblins against me?

[hobgoblinhero]

the working class will no longer be oppressed, my dude 

[yourplayersaidwhat]

Context: We’re all new players making our character sheets. DM: It says here that with level 3 you can choose a familiar. Me, tiefling warlock: I want a raven! Drow, who’s player hates corvids: No!!! DM: It says here that you can have a pseudodragon. Me: Can I just kidnap a dragonborn child and tell everyone it’s a pseudodragon?

[fluttertree-42-deactivated20140]

reasons prince hans should have sung a dark reprise of “love is an open door” when he locked anna in the room to freeze

it would make people notice the double meaning of the “open door” as freedom for anna vs. an opportunity to take the throne for hans

after the troll song there are no musical numbers for the entire resolution of the movie

reprises where the meaning of the song is changed are hella rad

disney villain songs are hella rad

[nevver]

Vertical Fall, David Grossmann

[sirpeter64]

A lynx climbs a tree at the Langedrag Nature Park in Norway.

[scrapdragonstudio-blog]

cats i want seven

[elbdot]

[scrapdragonstudio-blog]

idek.

[plotsjotsandespressoshots-deact]

Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

[suicunesrider]

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

[drtanner-dickery]

I’m 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. 

[fanboyingoverdemigods]

fucking look at this shit though

[mauridianhallow]

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

[mizushimo]

amazing

[shadowthorne]

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ 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 they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

[mad-dyspunktional]

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.

[datneeks]

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve 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 wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

[muck-raker-deactivated20181222]

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

[alessariel]

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

[brainsforbabyjesus]

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 you’re 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.

[alessariel]

This is getting better and better.

[red-dirt-roads-deactivated20161]

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

[teslasturtle-deactivated2023011]

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

[perspectivemax-deactivated20181]

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

[myloverhammurabi]

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

[gorsime]

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

[myloverhammurabi]

It’s a three piece raptor suit.

[flamingbluepanda]

Old movies had the best special effects

[skafuller-deactivated20180122]

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.

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

@jurassicparkandrecreation

[senkirowolf]

@shepfax

[prettyarb]

Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time.  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.  Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before.  It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them.  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, “We 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.”

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 they’d 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, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent.  Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

[bastlynn]

That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian

[thistherapylife]

This post just gets better and better with time

[marmotsomsierost]

Stan Winston, y'all. <a href=“https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Winston”>Stan motherfuckin’ Winston!</a>

[scrapdragonstudio-blog]

always reblog

[rabbiteclair]

a video game metaphor

civilization 5 barbarians: a small rapscallion of a skeleton. his heart is full of malice that his tiny body cannot accomplish, so he settles for smacking your beverages off of the coffee table when you aren’t looking. his shenanigans are tiresome

civilization 6 barbarians:

this fucking dude -

he is made of metal. his bones are covered in spikes and when he howls his terrible war howl, the sun goes dark and birds fall from the sky. you watch in terrified awe as he picks up your car and bites it in half. his name is written on his forehead in three-meter-tall flaming letters, and it is FUCKMOUNTAIN DEATHMONSTER. there can be no hope in a universe that contains the fuckmountain

[starkmaximum]

Ashley when do you plan to write a full fantasy novel in this exact style because holy shit.

[rabbiteclair]

“the riders have returned from the east,” the messenger shouted as he ran into the throne room. “it’s true, the beast Fuckmountain walks again.”

“the beast walks,” said Harshsmell the dwarf emperor, stroking his expansive shield-beard.

“and the Fifth Age of this world comes to a bony end,” moaned Bibarel the elf, prancingly.

“that isn’t true,” said a shadow near the wall. a man stepped out of it. four swords glittered on his back, and a hood covered his face.

“who are you, and how the balls did you get into my throne room?!’ shrieked Harshsmell

“I have come to put an end to this giant skeleton bullshit”

“fool!” shouted Harshsmell beardily. “no mere man can kill Fuckmountain! he pisses fire! his teeth are made of diamonds, and inside his head are thoughts only of malice and fucking shit up. no heart lies in his chest, because he’s a FUCKING SKELETON. he’s literally made of bones, the least-stabbable organ. you can’t kill that, dipshit”

“I’m gonna.”

“he ate two castles,” Harshsmell continued, moaning. “at the same time. i was there.”

the man stood his ground. Harshsmell glared at him dwarfily. “GUARDS! this man distresses me. take him away”

the guards moved forward to seize the intruder, but he stood his ground. though his face was not visible, Bibarel studied him.

“friend, is that Skullantula the Up-Fucker that you carry?” he asked

“it is,” said the man. he unsheathed one of his swords. it was made of jagged blood, but inscribed on the side with ancient elfin magic was a skull. both of the skull’s eyes were eight-balls.

the guards stopped in their tracks. one of them gave the sword an appraising nod and a thumbs up

“and Stabslicer the Grim,” the man continued, “and the Killblade of the Metalzillas, and the Large Fucking Hellscalpel, the last sword forged by the hands of the fire wizards of Double Lava Mountain”

“the fire wizards,” rumbled Harshsmell, “have been dead for two hundred years”

“and I’m the one who killed them”

“holy shit. fuck.”

“yeah, I know, right?”

“who are you, that could do such great things? no one man should have all that power”

“i am no man,” said the intruder, and finally pulled back his hood to reveal his face. he was three wolves. “I am Three-Wolves. I am three wolves.”

— excerpt from The Fight Saga of Three-Wolves Book 3: The Turbo Dragons of Castle Knifedick

[rabbiteclair]

“piss,” gasped Harshsmell

“forsooth,” Bibarel medievaled.

“yeah, pretty much” Three-Wolves said. “so are we stabbing some skeleton motherfuckers or not?”

Harshsmell fretted at his shield-beard. the long-fossilized remains of ancient side-dishes fell from its depths and shattered on the floor. “for the past thousand years, no dwarven army has left the depths of our mountain home, The Home Mountain. you will march alone”

“but your dwarfiness,” Bibarel interjected, “perhaps we can still help? we could offer him a mount.”

Three-Wolves stared stoically through one of the throne room’s many window-axes. “i was just gonna get an Uber or something”

“this is no mere transportation that we offer you, friend,” preened Bibarel. “it is the lord of the giant war scorpions, Bloodvizier VII, King of the Bugmoors”

“his mighty carapace is stronger than dwarven kill-steel,” Harshsmell boasted. “and his bitey things are like fearsome spears, if the spears were really fucking sharp and full of poison and attached to a scorpion”

“bears piss themselves at the very mention of his name,” Bibarel said. “not even little bears. the big ones”

“hell yea,” said Three-Wolves. “i’ll take it. also also the elf, because I need directions”

the journey was a long and arduous one, past the lightning spires of Napalm Druid Valley and across the abyssal Killfjord of the Squid Wizard. they knew they were getting close when they saw the giant head of an evil skeleton across the horizon, because that is what they were looking for

Bibarel stared in elfish terror as the beast Fuckmountain Deathmonster swallowed an entire mountain of swords, then ate a handful of catapults for dessert “already he has slain the hobbit viking warhost from the lawless northern lands of Fuckshire. do you truly think you can stab such a terror?”

“stabbing is for assholes,” Three-Wolves said. “i’m gonna skip straight to killing him”

Three-Wolves adjusted his vorpal codpiece and unsheathed all of his swords, and his cape billowed dramatically in front of the sun. then he kicked the war scorpion and they took off at a full arachnogallop across the obsidian plains, which were entirely covered in hobbit blood

seeing them approach, Fuckmountain reared back and stuffed a fair maiden into his mouth. her skin was as white as snow, fresh snow and not the shitty old stuff, and her bosom was really big. “please don’t come any closer!” she shrieked “it will eat me if you do”

but Three-Wolves did not hold any pity or lust in his three separate, discrete wolf hearts, only vengeance. he leapt from Bloodvizier VII and did six backflips before landing on Fuckmountain’s head. Fuckmountain roared, and lava shot from his eyes and melted swords shot from his skeleton dick. while he was roaring, Three-Wolves swung down and hurled the legendary sword Stabslicer the Grim into one of his eye sockets

“fool!” Bibarel moaned, from the middle of a giant puddle of his own fear pee “he doesn’t have eyes for you to stab!”

“i wasn’t stabbing shit,” Three-Wolves shouted back “it’s just hard to hold four swords, and i never liked that one”

he reached inside of his cloak and pulled out a dagger made out of enchanted hell-uranium, and covered with chainsaw blades. he pushed a button and they all glowed, but they glowed black

“it can’t be!” Bibarel gurgled. “the Laser Edge of the Starlich has been lost for aeons”

“like balls it has!!” Three-Wolves bellowed a mighty war bellow and sliced off Fuckmountain’s head, and stabbed him through the spine, and cut off his skeleton dick. he landed, and all the evil skeleton dust was already blowing away behind him

“friend, that was truly amazing” Bibarel gushed. “you have saved our kingdom!”

“yeah i totally did,” Three-Wolves said, stoically sheathing all of his weapons, and putting the safety cap back onto his vorpal codpiece “but there’s an even badder guy out there”

“what could ever be worse than a giant lava-pissing skeleton?”

“this” Three-Wolves said. he held up a stone covered in runes, and decorated with crystals made out of the souls of powerful monster-stabbers “it was in his head or some shit”

“a Thrall-Stone of Beam'uvee” Bibarel gasped. “but the art of making those is lost. there’s only one people who ever knew how to make them”

“yeah, i know” Three-Wolves said, and glared at the horizon “goddamn turbo dragons”

[gallusrostromegalus]

I want you to know that I have had a fairly wretched day thus far but you have managed to make my fucking WEEK with this also are you okay with art?

[dexxxtrodna]

Can we please make this the next DnD campaign XD

[scrapdragonstudio-blog]

if you will get everyone to finish their sheets!