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im old and tired, also Italian

[catchymemes]

[pileofmemes]

I'm bored, might as well reignite this page I didn't touch in 4 years lmao

[corvophobia]

humbled

[thedankmemes]

[beardedmrbean]

[itznarcotic]

[lavenderlemniscate]

inaccurate, they will survive.

[moonminho]

[masitamie]

me after 5 minutes going outside:

[shipperholic-me]

One thing I'm loving about the kdramas from the recent years is the growing number of soft boi male leads.....i mean are they raising the bar a bit too high? Absolutely. But I can live with that.

[natalieironside]

If we were to rate movies just by how accurate their titles are, Drive would be considered the greatest movie ever made

[mnemonicpneumaticknife]

Star Wars 2/10: We’re told it’s a rebellion.  This implies a war but it’s never outright stated.  Also the fighting takes place in space and on planets and space stations.  This would be like labelling a contemporary war film “planet wars”

The rest of the titles in this series are worse with one exception: Attack of the Clones: 6/10 This was so close to a higher score!  The clones are deployed in response to a buildup of materiel and attempted extrajudicial execution that is construed as an act of war- The title should have been Retaliatory Strike of the Clones.  Even Counter-Attack of the Clones would have been acceptable.  Nevertheless, despite a rocky, non-clone beginning to the movie, there are clones and they do attack things. 

Jurassic Park: 3/10 While there is a park, it contains dinosaurs from all the eras of the cretaceous.  Only dinosaurs, not any other form of prehistoric life.  Honestly, I was generous with this rating.  Sorry Spielberg, I’m just used to expecting more out of you. 

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial: 9.5/10 Much better fare from Spielberg.  It’s about an extra terrestrial named E.T.  Non-E.T. containing scenes may be important but take away from title accuracy. 

Iron Man: 2/10 This early entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe should have been called Iron-Plated man, but he doesn’t even use iron for most of the movie and only drops the name near the end. 

How the Grinch Stole Christmas 10/10 This short holiday tale shows the delightful planning and execution of a theft of every material trapping of the titular holiday by the titular character.  Though his intentions may have been subverted, there was nothing left to steal, I feel justified in a full rating. 

Fight Club: 5/10 Falls victim to what a lot of movies do.  Fulfills the basic premise of the title (has a club for fighting) and then messes it up with some sort of message delivered by an unreliable narrator. 

The Matrix (1999) 10/10 At first it looks like this movie is going to take forever to get to the actual Matrix but then reveals you’ve been trapped in it the whole time.  Further, the titular Matrix fulfills at least one and probably several of the dictionary definitions of A matrix. 

Seven Samurai ?/10 So the Samurai are unemployed, which technically makes them Ronin, but over the course of the film they define themselves by serving the people they agree to defend.  Accuracy of the title may depend on if you think titles and rank are rigidly defined by the system or if our actions define ourselves. 

WALL-E: 10/10 That little robot sure is named WALL-E. 

[eternaldisciple]

The Never Ending Story: 0/10

1hr 32mins

Goodfellas: 2/10

These fellas were not "good" they were criminals, actually. However many of the characters can accurately be described as "fellas."

There Will Be Blood: 10/10

There was.

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: 6/10

It is dubious to define Eastwood's character, "the man with no name" as simply "good" however he is more righteous than the other titular characters. Lee Van Cleef "Angel Eyes" was "bad. Lastly where the film loses most points is calling Eli Wallach "ugly" cuz that's mean.

Bad Times at The El Royale: 10/10

Oh man those were some really bad times at The El Royale! I wasnt sure how bad they could really be but boy howdy were they bad for all those people really. I almost feel I should deduct a point for the film not being titled "Very Bad Times at The El Royale." perhaps if they make a sequel that should be the title.

[reallycoolsoup]

The Thing: 10/10

Fuck dude it sure is

[catchymemes]

[oddpoke]

My old friend, my companion, and my brother in arms

[shipperwolf1]

Me watching 1899: Eyk x Maura is the ship. What a power couple. They're perfect and nothing could--

Daniel: hi.

Me:

[scarletgallifrey]

Me while watching all 8 episodes of 1899:

[happyheidi]

(via)

[silverjirachi]

So when you’re writing, and if you’re like me, you might have heard how beneficial this whole “messy first draft” thing is, and I agree! It’s really true. But beginning to accept that mess and not self-edit and censor because it isn’t *perfect already* can be really hard. So here’s my strategy.

Let’s say you’re writing a scene of dialogue, and you know you eventually want to go into more detail about the characters’ expressions or the feelings and movements, but you’re really in the flow and don’t want fussing over the description to trip you up. Solution?

Brackets.

Character A says something to Character B that causes Character B to do a brief little bit of soul searching. You want this line to be important but can’t really figure out how to phrase it this instant. I might write something like,

“Oh,” Character B said. [He considers this, it’s important, soul-searching]. “I hadn’t thought of it like that before.”

I put brackets around my thoughts, what I’m trying to say but just don’t have the *perfect* way to say it right now. For me, it really helps because it allows me to be as messy as:

He walked into the room. [The curtains were blue or some shit idk]

in the middle of a scene and keep my flow moving the way it wants to at that point in time. It also makes for some hilarious moments to revisit when editing. Use brackets as notes for yourself to remember or things you want to go back and describe later. Use brackets when you’re stuck. Use brackets to give yourself permission to give up in the middle of sentences or entire paragraphs until you find the words later.

When you’re writing first drafts, it’s really just important to get the words and ideas out. If words are tripping you up, slowing you down, causing you to get “stuck” in a chapter or scene, use a bracket to write the gist of it. It will come to you later.

I think the brackets work for me because they visually help separate the *words on the page* from the “mistakes/obstacles/hiccups/road bumps/less than stellar phrasing.” And it helps to just keep me moving but in a way that I can still retain the concept for a scene which is the most important thing of all.

[pertinax--loculos]

This is legit, though. Saves my writing flow constantly. I actually have a system of different brackets, too – for word choice (repetitive word, word I can’t think of or need to thesaurise later) they go in the () brackets. (Technically I think they’re called parentheses? Though I also think that’s an Americanisation.) Stuff I need to check later – like timeline, whether that chair actually exists, etc – go in square brackets []. And then curly brackets are for things like {cannot think of witty response rn} if that ever comes up. 😂

If you’re struggling with moving forward because you just can’t find the right word or phrase or movement or whatever, I highly recommend giving this a try!

[nelovka]

have some goldmines from the dreamsmp game chat

[residentauggust]

the dream smp is the florida of smps