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Rachel this week 061924

once again i love how star wars takes place in a massive galaxy with thousands of planets and billions of people, and yet every bounty hunter knows each other personally

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It's called networking babe

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when Boba Fett adds you on LinkedIn you know you've made it

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Kate in DC Pride: Love and Justice

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happy thursday everyone

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Server at work was down for 2 hours so I rigged & animated this little medieval bat friend. I couldn't do any fun texture work this time around but

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The fact that this 2hr animation doodle post is going to hones to god hit 10k :') what

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i'm putting out a beacon i need more videos of kittens doing the worst job eating / drinking like this is the highlight of my year

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asking for more of these

#death by cute #animals such as seals

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A BOUCY FALIN TOUDEN. She is just a happy chimera

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rb to give a flower to the person you rb this from

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Carrie Fisher and her dog Gary

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#death by cute #animals such as seals

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part of the fun of the original alien is the horror of the nostromo itself imo. it’s a cell of corporate greed ferrying narrowly-trained workers across barren space. it’s huge and yet claustrophobic, cockpits crammed with machinery giving way to yawning berths dripping chains and water. the supercomputer is named mother in a stroke of human anthropomorphization, but instead of providing comfort or protection, it’s only a courier between its creator and its wailing brood. ripley yells “mother! mother!” at a matronly-voiced computer that speaks calmly over her helplessness. the ship is full of endless details and patterns and unlabeled buttons and dials the audience can’t entirely make sense of; to do anything on the ship is a rigorous, technical process, and we must depend on the characters to know it. the internal mechanics of the ship are so alien that a literal alien can hide among the bits and bobs and not be noticed. it’s great.

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I'd like to add the appearance of the craft for anyone that hasn't seen it

Look at that thing. We get used to sci-fi where the spaceships try to look aerodynamic and cool, and the Nostromo went in the exact opposite direction. It is an entire industrial refinery floating through the void, matching the interior of overly complex panels, cramped spaces and chimneys dripping with water, chains dangling and clinking in the factory shafts.

It's enormous. It gives the impression of being understaffed by its sheer size - it doesn't seem to fit that a crew of seven, only two of whom are engineers, can be responsible for this towering manufactory, an implicit reference to the corporate mishandling at the core of the story.

It takes the symbol of antihuman greed - the factory with its barely paid, unsupported, physically endangered workers - and slaps it directly into space. It tells you that Weyland-Yutani did not invent exploitation, but is part of a repeating cycle that never ended even once we commodified travelling to the stars.

Its labyrinthine layout, exposed piping, its ridiculous size, it all gives the alien a perfect place to hide and hunt the crew, as if the alien turns the very ship against its passengers, which Ripley then discovers was an intentional collaboration from the start. Even the vent shafts they believe they can corner the alien in have an unforseen advantage in the alien's favour.

The alien doesn't want them, their employer doesn't want them, even their very ship doesn't want them, and it's the only thing between them and the vacant hostility of space.

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Star Trek side of Tumblr:

How do they get the com badges to stick to their shirts in The Next Generation???

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We’ll ask some experts and find out for sure. 😊

My guess? Magnets or Velcro. Or even tape. I’d imagine they had different types; ones that stayed on so they could have a visible backing, and ones designed to be removed in certain scenes, that they had to rig up something different.

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It’s Velcro.

The combadges looked like they were made of metal, but were actually plastic, and very light. They were held to the uniforms by Velcro, and Garrett Wang and Robbie McNeill would play a game on set where they’d throw their combadges at each other, trying to get them to stick to the Velcro.

Garrett says that one day Kate Mulgrew joined in. She made one throw, and stuck the combadge on the first try. She then said “I’m the Captain,” and walked away.

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I think an underappreciated element of Leia's character is that even after days or weeks of ruthless interrogation interspersed with torture, she still had the presence of mind to identify a feature of the Stormtrooper who barged into her cell that she could mock.