The sword catching scene in Pirates of the Caribbean took hours to film because the actors kept missing the catch, so their reactions in the final shot are genuine.
Its an invasive species. Which means no hunting limits, so bag as many as you want! Theyre terrible for eating, but the hide makes a wonderfully soft and durable leather when tanned.
Leverage AU where Nate does go into the priesthood ⌠but still ends up doing the same thing.
âBless me, father, for I have sinned.â
âGo on.â
âI knocked over a liquor store.â
âAnd why did you do that?â
âWell my momâs sick. We canât afford the pain medication, and I know alcohol is a bad pain reliever, but I donât know how to break into a pharmacy, so âŚâ
âOK, my son, what weâre going to do is, weâre going to get your mom her medicine. But Iâm going to need your help. I need you to call the health insurance company, and tell them ââ
Hardison hasnât taken vows or anything but he runs IT for the church and itâs fascinating how much easier it is to stay under budget since he joined. I guess those computers just must be very efficient. đ¤ˇ
Parker was sent off to a convent as an inconvenient child. Sheâs technically a student at the Catholic school, but she also never leaves the grounds? Or at least, no one ever sees her leave. No one ever sees her around, either, so itâs kinda hard to say.
Sister Mary Sophia đ is absolutely a genuine nun and you cannot prove otherwise đ
i have to say tho i DO think people will be a lot kinder to RTD2 in retrospect. right now it has Reality War and also u know the possible cancellation hanging over it but like for most of it the response was pretty positive? it just ended very badly.
âthis argument works both ways though. the converse can be argued, so the Irish have no problem with vast numbers of foreigners coming over and changing their culture, but it was a problem when the Brits did it?â
My response:
The Polish, Sudanese, and Syrian refugees arenât actively segregating communities, paying the indigenous Catholics less, refusing them schooling, property, and legal rights, trying to genocide them through a manufactured famine, making the indigenous language illegal, and causing active discrimination which I experienced as someone born in 1999, several hundred years after.
Oh, no, I learn some words in a new language, try new food, see non white people more in Belfast.
If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.
1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.
2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.
3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.
4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.
5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.
Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.
Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.
i really genuinely wish I could hit chatgpt with my bare fists and hear its pityful electronic voice fade into glitched robotic gibberish and choking beeps as I hit it before I smash it for good and it shuts the fuck up forever
side note, im struggling to think of different names for everyone, there is a feminine version of damian, which just had more 'ne' tacked on at the end which is redundant so i just left it alone
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Iâm gonna propose something: if your combat/ass-kicking sequence canât fit to a top 40 female-vocalist Banger like âToxicâ or âMama Miaâ or âI Need a Heroâ youâre not Doing It Right.
I agree wholeheartedly with every point above but I watched this first with the sound off because I forgot that was an option and what struck me most is how efficient Luke's lightsaber style is. Almost every flourish he makes and all of what, 2 entire spins?, is defensive to better parry blaster fire while nearly every offensive swing he makes is basically a head or chest level kill shot. If I had to make a guess about his character I'd say this vintage twink has probably Seen Some Shit and maybe comes from a background where resources are scarce and help is far away so if you get in a fight you have to end it before it starts or you're dead meat
deeply want a time travel fic where Luke visits the old republic and the Jedi are like âthatâs not a dueling styleâ and luke is like âyea am not doing much dueling tbhâ
So, for whatever reason, the Justice League are fighting Phantom, thinking he's evil or suspicious and trying to bring him to the watchtower or whatever, but of course Phantom isn't cooperating, either not trusting the JL/being bitter they didnt show up to help Amity Park/whatever
UNTIL... One of Clockworks' notes show up, and Phantom pauses to read it, before surrendering to the JL, saying he'll follow them.
Now obviously, the JL are confused and suspicious, but eventually come to the (wrong) conclusion that Phantom is just a lackey or something, and that the person who wrote the note is the real mastermind manipulating this poor innocent super-powered teenager.
Danny finds this all either hilarious, or stupid. Probably both.
Phantom swiftly avoids yet another attempt from Wonder Woman to get him in her lasso. He doesn't think it would work on ghosts, but he's not willing to try his luck here. He low-key would like to send all of them flying. They hadn't been around for any of the crazy shit that has gone down in the last year, and now that they finally show up they want to take him in?
He knew he should have let Technus destroy all the digital news declaring him a public enemy. It must be why the absent heroes decided to come and take him down. If only the ghost wasnât also trying to take over the school news site just when Sam was publishing her own article on plant-based meal alternatives, he would have.
âSon, I suggest you surrender yourself before we are obligated to escalate things,â Superman says.
âYou're not obligated to do anything, you asshole!" Phantom screeches, sending a wall of ectoplasm their way to force them to take a step back.
A batarang makes its way around the wall, damn its boomerang properties, but Phantom simply turns intangible and glares at Batman, who only narrows his eyes in return. The dull object eventually passes through Phantom and back into its owner's hand. This is ridiculous.
Phantom was halfway to opening his mouth to tell the heroes to leave him alone again when the note appeared. It somehow managed to stop the heroes in their tracks as well. Everyone looked confused at the floating Post-it note. Phantom grabbed the Post-it, mostly annoyed.
âThey'll take you to space. Also, destroy this note. :)â Phantom stared for a minute at what was probably the most direct instruction he had ever received from the Ancient.
He groaned. âWhatever.â He crumpled the paper into a ball and tossed it into his mouth. The piece of paper quickly dissolved into tasteless ectoplasm. He placed his hands over his head and then said, âAll right, I'm all yours.â Clocky better be right about the space thing, or he's mauling him.
The heroes looked to one another, unsure. Then Martian Manhunter flew closer to him, taking cuffs from a compartment in his suit that shouldn't have been able to hold them. A bit over a year ago Danny would have been delighted to meet the man, and a part of him was still amazed by the alien, but he felt mostly annoyed right now.
âPlease bring your hands to the front, young one,â the Martian said, softer than Phantom thought he would be for someone they perceived as a villain.
He raised an eyebrow. âShouldn't it be behind my back?â he asked, slowly bringing his hands to the front anyway.
âIf you're coming willingly, I see no reason not to offer you the most comfortable option,â Martian Manhunter stated simply as the cuffs clicked shut.
âI believe the most comfortable option would be without cuffs,â Phantom scoffed in return. He probably shouldn't be poking at the leniency he was being shown for some reason, but he still hated the whole situation.
âWe can discuss options depending on your behavior,â Batman said before Martian Manhunter could say anything else.
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Martian Manhunter glanced at the teen who was glaring daggers at the Javelin's window. They had tried to ask about the note that had appeared out of nowhere, but the teen had simply looked away with pursed lips, refusing to speak a word from the moment they boarded the aircraft.
More often than not, young villains tended to be misdirected or acting out from pain. Powers rarely came without grievances, and even less so those that were visually notable. It didn't justify their actions, but it did mean that a push in the right direction and some support were often enough to help them leave villainy behind. And Martian Manhunter, despite being unable to read Phantom's mind, could feel a great deal of anger and sadness coming from him.
But what had once seemed to be a normal intervention became far more worrying once the note appeared. A teen lashing out on his own is one thing. A teen receiving directions from someone is something entirely different. Powered minors are especially vulnerable to being groomed into a life of villainy.
What's even more worrying is how readily this person not only asked Phantom to give himself up, but how easily the teen agreed. They'll have to consider whether this person holds blackmail over the kid's head, or if the kid is mentally that deep under their control.
It also raises the question of why this person would want Phantom to surrender himself. Are they hiding something bigger and using Phantom as a distraction? Or are they hoping to use Phantom to acquire information about them?
The mode of communication is also deeply troubling. None of them had been able to detect where the note had come from, or that it would appear at all. Even if none of them practiced magic, they had been around it often enough to usually be able to pinpoint it, but there had been nothing there.
Martian Manhunter sighed mentally. He's sure Batman would remain paranoid about this person spying on them, or gaining information through Phantom, until they proved that wasn't the case. He can't even blame him for this one.
âThe LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that heâs the most boring average person in the world. Itâs impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if sheâs female sheâs already SOMEthing, because sheâs not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but itâs weirdly prevalent in childrenâs entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, whoâs a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new charactersâ is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?â
â Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post.
(via 360degreesasthecrowflies)
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