#timestop

[brightgoat]

[ Standverse AU ]

the Foestands also discuss timestop (and timeskip)

(do not take this too seriously lmao, this is the stands' perspective and you know how they get)

[hvplan]

Hypno Video : from Japanese Video

[gwenbunnybun]

I didn't have time for a quickie before class, so he stopped time to have full control of my mind and body

[sportslinka]

Watch online Modern Times Movies

Modern Times is a 1936 comedy film written, directed, and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film tells the story of a factory worker who struggles to survive in the modern industrialized world. Modern Times is widely regarded as a masterpiece of cinema, and its themes of automation, dehumanization, and alienation remain relevant to this day.

The film opens with Charlie Chaplin's character, known only as the Tramp, working in a factory on an assembly line. The Tramp is a cog in the machine, performing the same task over and over again with no end in sight. The factory is a symbol of the modern industrialized world, where efficiency and productivity are prioritized over human needs and emotions.

[psycheophiuchus]

"Waiting fot the Dance" - 2021.

Photographer & Model : Psyché Ophiuchus Headdress : Auruminarca Costume: Hazel Imrama Danse & Psyché O. The magnificent Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat https://www.psycheophiuchus.com/

[docerotichypnotic]

The Frozen Fighter

Yes, he came ready to fight, but he didn't know I had planted a trigger phrase that would freeze him in his tracks! I think I’ll put him next to the bookcase.

[tachyonpen]

Okay, so why oh why is the image that media defaults to when time stopping powers are involved is a bird frozen mid-flight? Like, almost every time it comes up in a show or movie or whatever, the default imagery for "time stops" is, like, a shot of people talking just being paused, traffic stopping, and a bird just halting in midair, but I'm most weirded out by the last one.

Like, the first two, people focus on people, so of course two examples are going to be human activity- I've also seen bullets halt right before contact, or a sports game stop, or microwaves just pause- but the third thing (because fiction loves its Rule of 3) is almost always a bird. Why bird? Like, if we want to show things halting in their path, a much cooler example would be, like, falling droplets of water or something. It's a lot more interesting than "pause this video we took of a bird", at least.

Speaking of timestop tropes, everyone shy of JoJo seems to focus on this sound of a big clock ticking before slowing to a stop (and even they couldn't help themselves when Jotaro got his hands on the ability, sorry for spoilers on a 30-year-old story). Like, cool, clocks are a neat audio cue to represent time stopping, but it would be a lot neater if everything, soundtrack included, just fucking halted. No sound at all except the character(s) moving in this crazy halted world for however long their stopped time lasts, just to really sell things on how genuinely cool this ability is.

[70sscifiart]

Timestop! cover art by Gene Szafran, 1970