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Anti-revenge narrative this, anti-revenge narrative that, I personally think that Inigo Montoya had the right idea when he stabbed Count Rugen in the gut and said "I want my father back, you son of a bitch"

galwednesday

A lot of revenge arcs end with the hero saying "there's nothing you can do to bring my loved one back, so me seeking revenge is pointless." The Princess Bride's revenge arc ends with Inigo Montoya saying "there's nothing you can do to bring my loved one back, so there's nothing that can save you."

#Monkey Man as well <3

muttsandmustelidae

wth i didn’t know there were wire haired stumpy tail cattle dogs out there

muttsandmustelidae

I’ll take 5

#!! a perfect li'l scraggle of a dog

hollanovhateai

ohhh man. apparently when you copy+paste stuff directly from claude into ao3 it includes code. which anyone can find. people have found it in big, popular fics in multiple fandoms 😬. also heated rivalry; some of which the authors fervently denied using AI. link to thread.

link to their complete findings for those without twitter

shinelikethunder

welp. guess who's got two thumbs and just added

.font-claude-response-body { color: #B6FF00; }

to her custom site skin to turn all such text poison green

(mine is dark mode; if yours isn't, change the hex code to something darker like #5A7F00 or use background-color instead)

#this whole thing has been very messy and also entertaining #also sigh I guess this means I finally have to bother trying to figure out a custom site skin for Ao3?#I am that person who leaves pretty much everything on default settings because 0% impact on experience #but it *is* frustrating to get a certain distance into a fic and start squinting at its annoying echoes #some of them these days are obvious off the bat but some take a bit and I'm still getting used to it #there's a kind of wordy flabbiness and a sense they're spending too much time in one place & don't know how to pace #I don't want to read that *anyway* but it also seems to be a feature of some kinds of prompted fics #there are also still the ones where I don't register anything about it and then find out later it was at least partly generated #which I don't want either #(I have noticed though that another hallmark seems to be that a lot of folk showing up on these lists - not all! but many #are also dealing in a kind of characterisation approach in which I have no interest or find actively offputting #so I suspect perhaps someone who wants interestingly developed characters is less likely to farm out that work to something else?#either that or it's a coincidence of taste #because again certainly I've enjoyed things from ppl who appear to not be doing all their own homework #I will note with some irritation I've seen ppl commenting like folks who miss signs are idiots who can't read #and I guess I want to know what bar *they* are using to judge fucking fanfic #some of it is certainly v good but tbh I'm never looking for booker prize noms from the free pixels #the lower bar means letting low qual slide past if it hits the spot which I've been doing for the last 20ish years #plus also when it's a rare kink or particularly iddy thing one's not worrying too much about the quality of the metaphor haha XD #I have a library card & a loyalty card for the local bookshop for the rest of it)

podcastwizard

affirmations for writers: i know how to write. i have seen sentences before, and i know how to make one. i can identify up to several words and their meanings. i am not afraid of semicolons.

#i probably need to remember to be afraid of semicolons in the thing I'm working on at the mo though #it is a smidge technical and already hard to avoid long sentences because of the nature of The Things #an urge to semicolon in this instance - usually a thing I enjoy - would be a good sign I should rethink my sentence structure

stardustpainter

Ilya trying to outplay his demons

#great concept!#heated rivalry art

kira-7

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

If you want to spread it elsewhere, here's the official link

#well those are some big feelings for 5am

subaru-copilot

#two genders etc

orangeandsass

#the flyers have had SO MANY gingers in orange but this is The Ginger

assignedilyaoftheday

your assigned ilya of the day, featuring The Return of the Curl

#heated rivalry #perfectly shaped top lip for downcast face #extremely pretty while miserable #just a great collection of angles and face shapes here

bipolar4autistic

So the problem with hollanov safeword is that I think Ilya would bring it up once passively and Shane would frown really strongly and say well that ruins the fun though doesn’t it?

hardlyhinged

Tags via @gaynehollander

#I like all this tbh #I do *also* like the idea that these two idiots are making it all up as they go along #and maybe years down the track someone says something or they look shit up and give it a try for something new #and shane is like yeah thanks i hate it

libraryleopard

why do we always bash girls for poisoning their family with arsenic but never question if the family had bad vibes? or was unpleasant to be around?

#justice for the angelmakers

jessiesjaded

Ship dynamics are always like Sunshine and Sunshine protector~ Cinnamon roll and their grumpy one 🤗 Well what about 2 cunts. They're both cunts and that's the dynamic. cunt4cunt.

#i've liked this before and i still like it

pankendev

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

#certainly worth considering sacrificing a few of the folks who think of themselves as a ceremonial king #feed the land for another year etc

idlesuperstar

- Very good.

txf-tarras

This is the type of film that the phrase “glorious technicolor” was invented for - look at the richness of the colours!

petermorwood

To say nothing of a phrase that gets used in this house a bit too often…

quousque

ok so this is The Court Jester with Danny Kaye and it is the best fucking movie i swear. It’s a comedy musical robin hood parody thing about an incompetent moron and his extremely competent ass-kicking girlfriend taking down a tyrannical king and restoring the throne to the rightful heir

-the rightful heir is a baby and they can tell it’s the right baby because of a giant birthmark on his asscheek

-the main character’s only talent is singing and the rest of the pseudo robin-hood group just kinda tolerate him because he repeatedly fucks up

-he gets hypnotized into believing he is this amazing swashbuckling sword fighting hero along the lines of Wesley from the Princess Bride and ends up fighting the villain while snapping in and out of hypnosis

-the vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison, the chalice with the palace has the brew that is true “what”

-he stumbles his way through the entire plot and never knows what the hell is going on

-Danny Kaye is the funniest motherfucker you’ve never heard of

-seriously go watch it you wan’t regret it

oldshrewsburyian

#yea verily yea ( @lessthansix)

whatevercomestomymind

And a fun tidbit from the filming was that Danny Kaye had never fenced before this film, so he was trained by Basil Rathbone’s stunt double who was also the fight coordinator. Kaye got so proficient so quickly, that Rathbone himself had to do most of the duel scenes between them as the fight coordinator eventually couldnt keep up with him on the more technical parts of the fight. If you watch closely, you can see that Rathbone stays on camera doing the fencing for a much larger percentage of time than he normally did by that point in his career, and Kaye does all but a couple of shots of his own fencing, because HIS double couldnt keep up and make it believable.

copperbadge

I need everyone in this thread to know that it is my belief that the post escaped containment in a drastic way because my Texan stepfather, a lovely man who is the least On Tumblr of anyone any of us has ever met, put this movie on for us to watch yesterday because “The Internet says it’s great and underrated, and apparently there’s a fight scene we need to watch.”

He chortled his way through it and pronounced you all correct and then lost his shit when I showed him my favorite backstage photograph: