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I like redemption arcs and I like happy endings. But it has to be said that sometimes I need to read (or write) a story where an unrepentant asshole gets what's coming to him in much the same way I need tragedies where people die and stay dead. These things do happen

sugurugetos

@lotrweek 2024 — Day III: The Green Earth in the Daylight

luriuan

I love how whenever ATLA recognizes Sokka is smart enough to solve a problem but it’d be too fast they just stick him in some kind of situation. Like he COULD’VE stopped jet from drowning a town so they tied him up and dumped him in a forest. He COULD’VE figured out what that spirits deal was so they lost him in the spirit world for 24 hours.

sailing-ever-west-deactivated20

One time they just stuck him in a hole in the ground for a whole episode.

ectojester

This is how writers should deal with characters who are too smart for the arc instead of making them suddenly dumber for no apparent reason.

If you frequently find yourself in random situations while your friends happen to be experiencing problems maybe you, too, are too smart for the narrative.

silverbridge-harbor

pronouncingitwang

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

yokowan

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

le-jardin-inculte

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

shithowdy

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

ingoldthewizard

Cooking is such a leap of faith, even if you've made that exact thing before.

tanoraqui

The Lord of the Rings movies did Denethor, Steward of Gondor dirty in their depiction of his competency in rule, eg, in the films he refused to send to Rohan for aid and it was up to Pippin, directed by Gandalf, to light the first of a series of watchfires connecting the countries; whereas in the books, Denethor has already sent a messenger to Theoden by the time Pippin & Gandalf arrive in Minas Tirith, bearing the traditional Red Arrow with which Gondor calls upon its sworn ally Rohan (no watchfires involved, either). However, this change resulted in the “lighting of the beacons” scene in Return of the King (2003) (x), one of the best—most beautiful and inspiring—depictions of pure hope in cinematic or maybe any media history. In this cause and effect, we see at work one of the fundamental underlying diegetically mythological and non-diegetically thematic principles of Tolkien’s world, that the good shall ever result from evil, and the truest good from the darkest evil. In this essay I will

plushviscera

wingedluminarytyphoon

Daeron of Doriath

mycelliumelium

Curufin beloved bastard man

oddarette

Tea snail no. 2. Transparent shell and silver skin. She is perfection 💙

dommingateez

me when i first started watching cdramas: woah the sets are so beautiful

me watching cdramas now: hey, i know that street. hey, i know that temple. hey, i know that courtyard. hey, i know that gate. hey, i know that tree

zhoudadudugongjin

Someone pitch a c drama where the plot is just that two producers double booked hengdian studios for their new high budget wuxia dramas and now they're fighting over the sets

prolestari

There's only one bed set

greenygal

Actors get halfway through a fight scene before they realize they’re from different shows.

janedrewfinally

The bridal procession extras deliver the actress to the wrong wedding.

adventures-in-a-world-of-fiction

Two producers on different shows realise that they can save money if they share a bunch of sets and all the extras, so they scheme to each book half of what they need at the same time while reporting that they've booked the whole thing, so that they can pocket the difference.

Show A needs to have a scene in a crowded street, while Show B needs to have an indoor scene with a crowded street visible through the window - they can use the same street and the same crowd.

The rest of the show turns into a farce as the two producers try to keep anyone else from working out what's going on. At one point, there's a near disaster because one of the directors wants to shoot from a different angle, which would put show A's camera crew in shot for show B.

At some point, one of the minor character actors figures it out and agrees not to spill the beans if they get a line in the other show so that they can double their credits.

athenadark

this overlooks the fact that 9 times out of ten they're sharing actors, look at my journey to you and fangs of fortune, all the minors in one are the majors in the other, costuming nightmare

fishfingersandscarves

redraw of the very first illustration i did for i tadui hanar

redstonedust

i could never handle immortality not because of any existential reasons but because i know itd make my procrastination so much worse. catch me putting off tasks for decades. catch me putting off tasks for centuries. what do you mean that movie ive been meaning to get around to became lost media 40 years ago. what do you mean that landmark ive been meaning to visit has been eroded. oooh i got PLANY of time..............