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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

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grav // they/them
star trek, star wars, dimension 20, and whatever the hell else I get into
hey friends where is that picture of boromir with the gondor flag except its a pride flag?
Couldn’t find it so I made another because you’re right that it’s a crime and it’s definitely my duty to remedy it
was it casual when i nearly beat you to death while brainwashed and only snapped out of it when you told me you needed me and they named the episode after a song about leaving a lover
The prodigal codywan returns
UTHER for @merlinbingo | 1. It lingers for your whole life, Katie Maria; 2. Cut, Catherine Lacey; 3. Greek mythology, source unknown; 4. East of Eden, John Steinbeck; 5. The Hours, Michael Cunningham; 6. Accountability, Beyoncé; 7. Succession, Jesse Armstrong; 8. Descended from Dreamers, Li-Young Lee; 9. Thoughts of a stray iii, @dvoyd; 10. Unknown; 11. Unknown; 12. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock, Matthew Quick; 13. Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong, Ocean Vuong; 14. Walking to Martha's Vineyard, Franz Wright; 15. The Sun is also a Star, Nicola Yoon; 16. All the Red, Desdemona; 17. Weetzie Bat, Francesca Lia Block; 18. Unknown; 19. Blood Ties, Kjartan Isak; 20. The Hurting Kind, Ada Limón.
When you hold me in your arms / When I look into your eyes / I see that a God exists Shakira — En Tus Pupilas
Nathan, Annalise and Gabriel — The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself
for @polyamships PolyamShippingDay, using the prompt "devotion"
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jawn and jank shoulda had thick ass south philly accents go birds
i love totoro mary poppins
goat fight. non-negotiable.
#LISTEn listen most marvel fights feel so contrived and fake and like la-dee-da-superhero#but this one was REAL and had me on the edge of my seat and still does#partially bc of the street clothes not costumes#partially because steve is fighting 1 on 1 and gets stripped of his shield quick#and he has to show like his physical combat skills#and the ACTING on both their parts.. fucking ace#esp chris evans tho like his face looks PANICKED how often do u see captain fucking america panicked??#anyway in this essay i will (tags via @asterlark)
I think it’s also very important that this is a fight in which the characters *actually interact with their environment* in a way that feels real. Like, yes, have superpowers but there’s no cartoon physics involved, no obvious sense that this was filmed on an empty set with a greenscreen and the background was added later, or that they’re filming without even the people they’re fighting being present, just ‘look over here and make a hand gesture’. The shield gets stuck in a car, there’s that awful moment of the knife sliding along the side of the van that cues up with the mounting tension in the soundtrack. Bucky’s arm impacts the pavement and actually dents it, etc. They’re jumping over/behind the cars and getting thrown into them/into the pavement in a way that feels more visceral than just ‘whoosh there was a wire & we CGI’d in the rest’. t has a sense of real world space to it, and that adds to the feeling of real world stakes.
This is one of the few fight scenes I can recall seeing that makes a little knife look like a real threat. Like I am legit scared for Steve when that thing darts in, because he’s not wearing armor and it really feels like the WS could open him up like a can. I feel like movie fight scenes don’t usually hit that note with knives.
It’s worth pointing out that this scene WAS filmed on a actual set with actual asphalt and cars (with fall pads and stuff, but still). They really were interacting with their environment.
But as a fight nerd, there’s one other thing I want to point out about this fight, and it goes back to @mikkeneko’s point about the knife:
This isn’t a magic fight.
Yes, they’re both super soldiers. Yes, WS has a vibranium arm. Yes, Steve has a vibranium shield. But there are no magic blasts going on here. There’s no wuxia and minimal wire-work (mostly protective for the actors).
WS shoots at Steve until he runs out of bullets because that’s the most efficient way to murder him. Steve either dodges or hides his whole body behind his shield because that’s the most efficient way to not get murdered. The shield gets thrown, caught, thrown back, wedged in a car. Then it’s a knife fight. Throughout, it’s really obvious that neither of them are fucking around. WS is trying to just straight-up kill Steve, Steve is trying to not die. No banter. No dick-measuring. No quips.
This fight is brutal, efficient, and not flashy. Steve’s knife defense is textbook, and aside from that cool little flip that was almost too fast to clock, WS’s attacks are textbook. He’s doing his best to control Steve’s defense and open a hole to wedge that knife in. Steve’s doing his best to control that knife hand and keep just enough space between them that he can close those holes before WS can get to them. It’s telling that he’s paying so much attention to the knife that when WS finally gets through his guard, it’s with his empty, vibranium hand. (Still no idea why he tosses him instead of crushing his windpipe though, that was 100% movie logic.)
When Steve does that flying knee at WS, that’s not about flashy martial arts moves, that’s about brutal efficiency. Your knees and elbows are the hardest points on your body. Steve can engage in fisticuffs with normal people; he can knock out hitler over 200 times. He could also break his knuckles on WS’s face before doing any appreciable damage, and we watch him figure that out. So it’s not kung fu, it’s muay thai. It’s krav maga. Those flips aren’t for show - that’s pure Jiujitsu, the ruthless throws that are supposed to segue into joint locks and dislocations. That is the way to take your opponent apart, literally. He was trying to rip WS’s non-vibranium arm out of its socket.
That pile-driver? That was meant to break WS’s neck. A normal person would die instantly if Captain America pulled that WWE shit on them. We are into the gritty shit now. We have two extremely strong, extremely skilled men who are just trying to kill each other because the only way to win this fight is to die last, and it shows.
They scramble for position through the fight. When one move fails, they don’t bother breaking apart before finding the next-most-efficient killing move and trying that. This is what two people who are actually trying to murder each other look like - most street scuffles stay on the ground once they get there and don’t involve this much skill, but we can excuse that because it’s Captain America and the Winter Fucking Soldier. I still recognize the blocking of this fight as a real fight, not a spar. The urgency, breathlessness, the pragmatism, the messy transitions between moves as you just keep trying to improvise faster than the other guy… that’s all correct.
There’s no magic. There are fists, feet, elbows. There’s a shield and there’s a knife - the first and oldest human-made tools of war. There are chokes. There are joint locks. Not a word spoken. And it helps that they are really there - landing on cars, landing on asphalt.
No other MCU fight even comes close unless you’re including the tv shows, because that Daredevil long-shot hallway fight was pretty fucking badass too.
star trek tos au where all the uniform boots look like this
this is for everyone who was upset that i didn't match the boots to their uniform colors
@giftober 2025 | Day 5: Buildings
I like tall buildings so I can leap off of 'em...
benoit blanc takes his jacket off i objectify him it really is that simple
WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (2025) Dir. Rian Johnson
S3E9: The Tholian Web ⋆.˚ ✧ · ˚⊹ Original effects by Mike Manor:
"I projected the shots onto a white card with a rotoscope set-up and plotted pencil marks where the ship moved by tracing and advancing each frame. Then I created the cel-like cartoon animation using black lines for the grid. Each shot showed a partially completed grid with one line being animated across the field as if by the Tholians. I shot those by pulling a white card frame by frame, revealing the black line underneath. A black and white negative of all this resulted in a black background with white or clear lines on the film which was used to create an animation burn-in." -Interview with Starlog magazine, 1979
Compare these to the 2006 remaster below:
The perspective cutaway Star Trek ships masterpost!🎉
It's fascinating to see how different artists have interpreted the interior of the ships differently over the decades
By Christopher Cushman (most of them), Kemp Remillard (Star Trek Beyond ships) and others (the AMT 1701-A and Haynes Manual TOS Enterprise)