the elusive tabbyhusky

Hi, Mad Max ruined my life. (also Hannibal. Walking Dead. Pacific Rim. Resident Evil. Welcome to Night Vale. Alien vs Predator. The Cabin In The Woods. SPN. But mostly Mad Max) :::: My name is Sabin and failed at being a real adult so I ran away from the status quo and now live semi-offgrid with 28 Siberian Huskies that I dog sled race with. You can follow our real life adventures on Instagram; http://instagram.com/redlinesiberians

[fanartcity]

Sometimes it’s nice just to take a step back and enjoy the scenery. 

[the-deep-end-of-the-motor-pool]

Fallout 4 (2015)

[prettiestcaptain]

a wild lizard in its natural habitat

[fthgurdy]

I don’t know what it is about this movie, still. I haven’t seen it in some months and now every time I see a gifset there’s just… Ok, I know what it is. The clarity. The absolute clarity of every action scene and the care taken to make sure we feel every impact as though we were there. Just this gifset of Slit crawling along the cars, look how he touches everything and the camera follows, and it’s so close, and takes its time, and arghhhhh someone smarter please explain it because just looking at it gives my brain sensory confusion. @kimbureh, @bonehandledknife, help?

I mean I know it’s cropped and edited but that doesn’t matter. 

[nestofstraightlines]

I read that George Miller takes influence hugely from silent comedy filsm, by Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd in particular. It makes absolute sense.

Those guys knew all about making film work hard to frame action and gags, and telling a story with movement and expression and very few words.

(Even Furiosa’s engine-grease warpaint - and the less pronounced version on the Warboys, as seen above - it’s a classic silent movie trick. Clara Bow used to have dense, heavy eye makeup to make her eyes even more attention-catching and expressive.)

If more ction and comedy directiors paid attention to how the silent stars did it, Hollywood blockbusters would be a much more engaging place…

[tabbyhusky]

Reblogging for meta. This movie is still a fucking work of art.

[paledrake]

10/10 game of the year. (x)

[tabbyhusky]

ranger: i can't let any caravans go north because of a threat on the road

courier: k what threat

ranger: like 8 big ants

[tabbyhusky]

fallout 4: "Dogmeat found something!"

me: i can't find dogmeat

[helykk]

Yay, commissions !

I’ll really hope at least one or two of you will ask me something or my ego will bleed.

(In case you can’t read my shitty handwriting : [email protected])

(oh and, any signal boost is welcome :>)

[tabbyhusky]

Reblogging so I can find later and throw money at

[helykk]

Inktober #6-Hidden

Buzzards lurking from the darkness, waiting for a prey

(base vehicle : 1947 Pontiac Torpedo Eight)

[helykk]

Inktober #3 - Collect

In the fashion of a crapulance of the MadMax game.

(base vehicle : 40′s Chevrolet towtruck)

[tabbyhusky]

Oh look, it's a funky version of Jace's lootmobile!

[sofluffysoyummy]

A cat and a lowercase cat

[tabbyhusky]

Reblogging for "lowercase cat" omfg

[yohunny-art]

Ok but you know the Keeper of Seeds probably carried some extra seeds with her.

Congrats Mad Max: Fury Road and the team behind it on six(!) Oscars!

(My Patreon)

[tabbyhusky]

right in the feels

[thatonezombiecosplayer]

The Potato Lives On

Okay, a little background here before I start spamming you with pictures of a potato at Wasteland Weekend.

Sometime after @furiroad​ noticed that a potato falls out of the bottom of the War Rig when Furiosa kicks the Rock Rider off her legs in the Canyon, it was decided that the Potato Lives, and @fadagaski​ wrote a fic to immortalize the Potato’s sacrifice. (I love this fandom.)

Fast forward almost a year to Wasteland Weekend 2016, and a group of oldnew friends called the Clan of the Boltcutters are getting mildly tipsy on home-made alcohol infusions. By one means or another (I’m not entirely sure if anybody remembers how we got on the subject) a toast was made to Fadagaski’s Potato fic.

At Fadagaski’s suggestion, I got my hands on a potato the next day, and the following adventures ensued…

Potato arrives at Wasteland City to see the tribes that have gathered and experience the wonder for itself.

Hmm, nothing much going on here right now.

Wait, is this actually any safer than riding in the cargo hold?

Ooh, good view from up here.

Potato finally finds a little patch of the Green Place and feels at home.

I got multiple questions as to why I was carrying around a potato, and it was always an interesting experience trying to explain it to them. Responses ranged from “you’re shitting me” to politely nodding and probably thinking I was a bit off (though truth be told it wasn’t the weirdest thing to happen at Wasteland).

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That night I came into the tent to join the circle and couldn’t find a free pillow… but The Potato was snuggled down perfectly in the middle of one. Hence the quotefile entry “Does the Potato absolutely need its own pillow?” which was answered with “Yes!” from several voices :-D

[thatonezombiecosplayer]

An important addition to the story. :D

[fuckyeahisawthat]

OKAY BUT the best part of this story is that we randomly met Greg van Borssum, principal Fury Road fight choreographer, and somehow the potato came up in conversation and someone mentioned that the potato has continuity across multiple shots, perhaps suggesting it was not an accident, and he was like, “Oh yeah, that was an homage to the fact that in an early draft of the story Joe had a blue potato,” [this part is true; it’s in the art book] and I couldn’t really tell if he was pulling our leg about the intentionality of the potato shot but he did confirm that the potato did all its own stunts.

[fadagaski]

Fucking hell I love you guys.

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I’D ALMOST FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT. So we were all in costume, taking a group pic by the gates, and a random guy in a t-shirt and jeans jumps into our photo and poses with us. And we kinda react like… wait… what… dude, we’re taking a group pic here, at least roll in the dust first. Until we’re told who he is or it dawns on us. Greg van Borssum. And yeah, he totally rolled with the potato story :-D

[schwarmerei1]

I love all of you… I love everyone that made the movie… I love the potato…

[youkaiyume]

And look, there Greg Van Borssum totally is squeezing into our group photo and you can tell cuz he’s the guy on far right not in Wasteland Getup. We genuinely thought he was some random tourist insistent on a picture with us.

[sheliesshattered]

Omfg this post, I love you guys so much.

If I remember correctly, the Potato originally came up Friday night, when we sat down at the end of that long day to try out some fruit-infused alcohol and do a Tell. I think the original idea for the Tell was to actually tell the story of Fury Road as a group, just very casually. But that very quickly got diverted into talking about the 500 days after Fury Road, and all of us coming together.

It was a moment perfectly captured by @thebyrchentwigges‘ @flamethrowing-hurdy-gurdy story of Boltcutters all talking over each other and cackling fit to make the coyotes howl, and I’d had more than a little peach gin at that point, so I don’t quite remember the entire sequence of the conversation, lol, but more or less we were talking about ‘the story of us’. And into that din I just said “The Potato.”

And there was this half second of absolute silence (where I think quite a few of you mimicked Max’s ????? face) – and then everyone burst out laughing and talking over each other, talking about the original story and the fanart and the sequel, and the shipping and just how amazing the whole thing was.

And then @yohunny goes, “Wait, what potato?” Which had us all rolling with laughter and falling over each other to catch her up on the joke.

At some point someone asked if we had a potato in camp, and we pretty quickly confirmed that no, no one had actually brought a potato to WW. I am missing the next bit of the story, though, because next thing I knew the next morning @thatonezombiecosplayer was totting around a good-sized russet potato. As pictured above,of course. ;D

(This. This is the sort of thing we should write up into a Tenday post for later this year. This exact sort of thing.)

[thatonezombiecosplayer]

OH man this post has become a fucking treasure trove of memories. (And I’ve still been laughing at random all day whenever I think of Gurdy, before I even knew it was him, going “POTATO! THE POTATO!”)

Okay, yeah, I have absolutely no memory of those details of the Tell that night (I’m also blaming the peach gin). I just remember raised glasses tea cups and “to the Potato Fic!” and then me going “OMG Fadagaski needs to know that this is a thing that just happened.”

The Potato actually did come from the Boltcutters camp! I was totally ready to go out and barter for one Saturday morning, but when I was asking around (because I remembered someone had said they knew of people who had potatoes), I think it was @shinobijosh went “Oh, we brought a potato. Here.” And thus I had a potato. :D

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THE POTATO WAS WITH US ALL ALONG

As I recall that night we were running through ‘shared lore’ (AKA ‘Weird stuff we get but which baffles outsiders’) because Potato came up in the context of Lizard Racing and The Chicken Story. The Groundhog AUs also came up, though that may have been in another conversation

[fthgurdy]

I actually thought it can’t have been The Potato since your reaction was more of a ‘bzuh?’. XD Felt like a proper fool. What did you THINK I meant? XD XD

[tabbyhusky]

THIS. This right here is why I have made going to WW 2017 a priority. These are clearly my people.

[tabbyhusky]

Chasing The Dream - tabbyhusky

dreamer noun | dream·er \ˈdrē-mər\ • a person whose ideas and plans are not practical or based in reality • a person who lives in a world of fantasy; one who is impractical and unrealistic I’ve always been a bit soured on the term “dreamer”. Most folks seem to define a dreamer as someone who Read More

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[prokopetz]

Random Headcanon: That Federation vessels in Star Trek seem to experience bizarre malfunctions with such overwhelming frequency isn’t just an artefact of the television serial format. Rather, it’s because the Federation as a culture are a bunch of deranged hyper-neophiles, tooling around in ships packed full of beyond-cutting-edge tech they don’t really understand. Endlessly frustrating if you have to fight them, because they can pull an effectively unlimited number of bullshit space-magic countermeasures out of their arses - but they’re as likely as not to give themselves a lethal five-dimensional wedgie in the process. All those rampant holograms and warp core malfunctions and accidentally-traveling-back-in-time incidents? That doesn’t actually happen to anyone else; it’s literally just Federation vessels that go off the rails like that. And they do so on a fairly regular basis.

[writebastard]

So to everyone else in the galaxy, all humans are basically Doc Brown.

[prokopetz]

Aliens who have seen the Back to the Future movies literally don’t realise that Doc Brown is meant to be funny. They’re just like “yes, that is exactly what all human scientists are like in my experience”.

[roachpatrol]

THE ONLY REASON SCOTTY IS CHIEF ENGINEER INSTEAD OF SOMEONE FROM A SPECIES WITH A HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL APTITUDE IS BECAUSE EVERYONE FROM THOSE SPECIES TOOK ONE LOOK AT THE ENTERPRISE’S ENGINE ROOM AND RAN AWAY SCREAMING

[roachpatrol]

vulcan science academy: why do you need another warp core

humans: we’re going to plug two of them together and see if we go twice as fast

vsa: last time we gave you a warp core you threw it into a sun to see if the sun would go twice as fast

humans: hahaha yeah

humans: it did tho

vsa: IT EXPLODED

humans: it exploded twice as fast

[froborr]

I love this. Especially because of how well it plays with my headcanon that the Federation does so much better against the Borg than anyone else because beating the Borg with military tactics is nigh-impossible, but beating them with wacky superscience shenanigans works as long as they’re unique wacky superscience shenanigans.

[megabeeprime]

Yeah, I love this.

[underscorex]

Reminds me of the thing I wrote a while back about Humans in high fantasy realms - they’re basically Team Fuck It Hold My Beer I Got This.

Impulsive, passionate to a fault, the social structures they build to try and regulate this hotheadedness ironically creates even greater levels of sheer bull-headedness. Even their “cooler” heads take action in months or weeks.

All their great heroes of the past were impossibly rash by galactic standards. Humans Just Go With It, which is their great flaw but also their greatest strength.

[roachpatrol]

klingons: okay we don’t get it

vulcan science academy: get what

klingons: you vulcans are a bunch of stuffy prisses but you’re also tougher, stronger, and smarter than humans in every single way

klingons: why do you let them run your federation

vulcan science academy: look

vulcan science academy: this is a species where if you give them two warp cores they don’t do experiments on one and save the other for if the first one blows up

vulcan science academy: this is a species where if you give them two warp cores, they will ask for a third one, immediately plug all three into each other, punch a hole into an alternate universe where humans subscribe to an even more destructive ideological system, fight everyone in it because they’re offended by that, steal their warp cores, plug those together, punch their way back here, then try to turn a nearby sun into a torus because that was what their initial scientific experiment was for and they didn’t want to waste a trip. 

vulcan science academy: they did that last week. we have the write-up right here. it’s getting published in about six hundred scientific journals across two hundred different disciplines because of how many established theories their ridiculous little expedition has just called into question. also, they did turn that sun into a torus, and no one actually knows how. 

vulcan science academy: this is why we let them do whatever the hell they want. 

klingons: …. can we be a part of your federation

[the-real-seebs]

Come to think of it, I mean. Look at the “first human warp drive” thing in the movie. That was… Not how Vulcans would have done it.

[dkesserich]

I remember there was a bit in the last (and only genuinely good) season of Enterprise where Admiral Whatsisname is talking to the Vulcan Ambassador about why the Vulcans keep withholding information and technology and it was basically

Vulcan Ambassador: Because humans are fucking terrifying. We had a massive world war and nuked ourselves practically back to the stone age and it took us a couple hundred years to build our way back up to space travel and eventually warp tech. You had a massive world war and nuked yourselves back to practically the stone age and you built a warp drive ten years later. If we give you even more advanced technology we’re afraid you’ll take over the universe.

Admiral Whatsisname: Yeah, okay, fair point.

[kjghsladjlhfasjdkhfkjd-deactiva]

Gotta love NCR troopers

[sketchydrawer]

Just my reactions to the DLC’s