okay is there any photograph in history that deserves to be painstakingly rendered in oils and hung in a gilt frame in the Louvre more than the threesome photoshoot from that production of Twelfth Night with Anne Hathaway tho
like…dude…Caravaggio doesn’t hold a single candle to this shit………
I have nothing to add and this doesn’t directly relate to most of what I talk about but damn there’s just so much nuance and emotion going on here, it’s a stunning image and I’m staring at it
draw your ot3
@bridgetteirish that twelfth night au huh…
“Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.”
lena just gets on with her life every episode even tho shes been manipulated into horrible situations by her abusive mother and almost murdered by her brother several times WHILST getting blamed for everything they do NOT TO MENTION been thrown off a fucking balcony and been absolutely sure that she would die in the fall yet she ISNT EVEN FAZED by it is honestly?? unrealistic
my soft headcanon (a.k.a. not my real headcanon but it’s nice to think about) is that she would totally hella break down (i mean she looks like she’s permanently on the edge of tears) but Kara keeps hanging around and her gay just kind of short circuits it all.
She’s too gay to function, even when that function is to proceed to have a mental break down.
Exhibit (g)A(y):
The first time she has a close near-death experience-
So she’s like… “this is… absolutely fine.”
In fact, it’s better than fine. Because the next time she’s in danger she orchestrated the whole eventto bedangerous and invited Supergirl.
And if everything goes to plan, Supergirl will save her and Lena’s fantasies will be satisfied.
But it doesn’t quite go to plan because Lena has to fix the device, ending up saving the day herself.
She tries to salvage it and hook up anyway, saving be damned, but somebody decides to drop by.
Then, the next time she hears an opportunity for danger-
And that’s why Lena isn’t all traumatized like she should be
Then, the next time she should be Traumatized™, post-every one blaming her for her her mother’s jail break and post-her mother kidnapping her and her almost dying, she’s too busy heart-eyeing Kara and sitting in the after glow of Supergirl saving her and carrying her home.
Her issues are just… always delayed from being processed because she’s gay
In conclusion: Lena totally is fazed, she’s just overwhelmingly gay.
My cousin is a professional hippo keeper and has advanced far enough in the field of professional hippo keeping that she’s head of..idk, hippos? all giant herbivores? at Disney and has been consulting with the Cincinnati zoo about Fiona.
And being her facebook friend has really introduced me to the subculture of hippo keepers, who apparently all know each other and also can recognize most zoo hippos on sight.
And man, if you thought cat ladies were bad about the “my precious panther children just bit the shit out of my arm and then vomited on my rug” shit then I need to tell you that it is NOTHING compared to how hippo people talk about hippos with each other. For example, my cousin will post a cute video of Fiona and her mother and all her hippo friends will comment things like, “Aww, look at Bibi. She’s beautiful. Remember that time she bit down while I was brushing her teeth and she broke every bone in my hand?” and all the other people are like, “Aw, precious Nile princess! I remember riding with you in the ambulance!”
Or she’ll post a picture of baby Fiona gnawing gently on her caregiver’s leg and someone will respond with a picture of a massive bruise she got when a teenage hippo did that and everyone will be like, “hahaha, these nightmare murder beasts sure are wonderful.”
Kim is definitely afraid of fire and claustrophobic – Bonfires happen a lot less often – They try and find other things to do around town to bond, the beach, bowling, fishing (Jason spends a day teaching them all how to do it properly) – She tells them she doesn’t mind the bonfires and she can usually stand it for a while – Trini’s hand in hers is always a great source of comfort, but so it sitting decently far from it lmao – Billy finds some breathing techniques on the internet for when she starts to get panicked in tight spaces
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Trini is definitely afraid of water – She skips out on going in the water during beach/pool adventures – Doesn’t mean she won’t ABSOLUTELY go and look hot in her bikini – This presents a problem every time they have to go to the ship so someone always holds her hand when they jump in – It’s usually her gf Kim
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She also has a lot of trouble sleeping in her own room which leads to a LOT of sleepovers, usually with Kim, but she likes to mix it up and kick the boys out of their beds – They each develop a ritual to help her forget about the shitty things that keep her awake – Zack likes telling stories his mom told him, Billy will explain the anatomy of an explosive and all the ways it can go wrong, Jason will go therapist and try to really Talk
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Jason has a lot of trouble being decisive for a while because his decisiveness got Billy killed (he says) – He talks things over more with everyone, which helps him learn to make more informed decisions – Billy is always really calm and patient with him – The first Post-Rita Experience is a bit of a shit show because he’s scared to call some of the shots so Kim will fill in the blanks when he hesitates – He’s always really thankful because she’s always been that for him, especially when Billy was killed (he froze and she took charge)
• Billy hates the way his death makes everyone look at him – He’ll catch someone occasionally looking at him with this pained, distant expression and he knows exactly what they’re thinking about – He knows that it’s not exactly something a person can easily get over, seeing your friend die and carrying his dead body for miles, so he tries to bring them to the present with a joke or a grin or an interesting fact about whatever they’re doing – Jason is the literal worst sometimes – He just has to touch Billy to know he’s still standing there and breathing – All of it makes Billy feel like he never really woke up, they all just see him as dead – He talks to his dad about it a lot which he thinks is funny a “dead” boy talking to his dead dad – It starts to make him laugh instead of being upset when someone gets The Look™
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Zack will sometimes get flashbacks to that moment where he near passed out during the battle with Goldar – Everyone takes great care to watch for the signs – They all know to find him some water and help him sit because he’s always SUPER thirsty when he comes out of it, both from the energy spent and of how parched he was during that moment – Trini and Jason tell his mom about the flashbacks (in as vague a way they can even though they’re 89% sure she knows who they are) and she teaches everyone meditation tricks to help cut down on their occurrences – He really works on trying to talk through his emotions of the moment
honestly for all 13 years on krypton, kara did not have powers. For clark, his powers are what makes him kryptonian and as we see with myriad, clark thinks of himself as human but with abilities–and when he solar flares he thinks “i’m human for a day.” If he lost his powers permanently, he would think I am now human.
For Kara, her sense of Kryptonian identity does not hinge on the fact that she has special abilities, because for the first half of her life she did not. And would explain why she never feels normal–not only is she on a new planet, an entirely new culture and language and history and religion that she is expected to assimilate to, and thus is not normal for any human–her abilities would make her an anomaly among Kryptonians as well.
Kara is always Kryptonian–this is not about what she can do but who she is, her language and culture and history and beliefs, the way she looks at a problem–like that idea that no one was their own man on Krypton, how she doesn’t want to be the same kind of superhero as her cousin but wants to be an el mayarah superhero–a kryptonian superhero, not the lone solitary human savior that clark likes portray himself as (and the Christian savior that a lot of writers like to portray Clark as but @ them they are frickin space jewish go do research stop doing the whole Christian savior thing bc n o p e but i digress)
When Kara loses her powers she is not “human for a day” but powerless, still Kryptonian,the only one in her life not to be taken over by Myriad’s control without outside intervention. And the fact that so many people forget this– the writers of both season 2 AND fic–and it’s too many
Clark’s secret is that he is Superman, that he is powers–Kara’s secret is not that she has powers, but that she is not human–and considering that James and Winn almost always forget this, forget that she is a survivor of her entire world dying and forget that she has so much anger and grief inside of her, that if she forgets herself just a little she could accidentally break their bones, that she isn’t just “Sunny Danvers,” a constant smile affixed to her face?
(except alex-alex, who saw that transformation, that struggle, that act that kara constantly puts out there, for every nightmare, for years of grief–because when Alex was looking at Kara, after everyone else found out about all of the pain lingering underneath the sunny surface, looking at her after red kryptonite and sporting a broken arm and looking at kara sobbing on the table back at the DEO once it was all over–Alex looked at Kara with sadness and love and understanding but she did not look at her with surprise. She’s known for years that this has existed, the struggle Kara has gone through not to succumb to this, to keep her head above the water and become someone she can look at in the mirror. She knows that this is not who Kara chooses to be but that she could be? Yeah, everyone else (except J’onn, the only other one who can relate) was surprised. Alex wasn’t)
It means that Kara is just as successful as Clark is at hiding.
This is the secret that Kara would share, with Maggie or Cat or Lena–because sure it’s obvious to anyone who has spent a good amount of time with both Kara and Supergirl that they’re the same–same scar between the eyes, same exact gold earrings, same hair color, same height, same bright blue eyes.
Kara’s secret is her grief.
sometimes i wonder, if the reason that Clark abandoned kara was that she was a constant reminder that (as demonstrated with Myriad) he is not simply “a human with powers,” could never be “human for a day” he is Kryptonian. And he didn’t want to think about it–so he gave her away.
My interwebz is down so I figured I’d go ahead and post this up. I’m really proud of this. For my Screen Design class, we had to take a fairytale and retell it in however we wanted in storyboard form. I chose the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Just as a heads-up, I’ve replaced the bears with Ursa Major/Ursa Minor, the constellation based on a bear.
I could always tell the story myself, but I figured I should let the art do the talking and only answer questions if you’re curious about it. The only hint I’ll give is to pay attention to the faces of the characters. ;D
This sucker took me 3 days to work on. I’m dead, man. ;_;
Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?
not gonna lie that still looks intimately real
I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.
Fucking witchcraft, man.
fucking look at this shit though
Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:
THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.
amazing
And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.
They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.
The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.
One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?
Motherfucker randomly started moving.
So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.
Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.
So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.
And i just googled malfunctioning t-rexand was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside thet-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.
So of course, the power goes out.
And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.
Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.
And this guy hoped for the best and got it.
Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.
This is getting better and better.
I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI
I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.
The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.
Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time. They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers. Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before. It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them. Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.
So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”
The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass. They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that. And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that. One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”
He called up film of a chicken walking. Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”
Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent. Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.
Plus, you know, Jurassic Park had a plot and well-written characters? So you weren’t even that surprised the dinosaurs were there – suspension of disbelief at its finest.
on the day before valentine’s day this year, my two friends (one male and one female) decided to do a social experiment. they posted the exact same status on facebook and left it up for five minutes, before taking a screenshot to see what reaction they got. I think the pictures speak for themselves.
The purpose of this blog, demonstrated by a lovely social experiment.
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