l219tj-or-elle:

rae-butter:

I love the trope in fiction when a characters view of the world is so distorted, so messed up, that it’s hurting themselves and everyone around them.

Someone who grew up with the “survival of the fittest” mentality and now suppresses every weakness in order to be worthy of existing

Someone who sees everything as one big game, every interaction as transactional, and the more they sacrifice the more they get in return

It’s just peak character development to me and I wish to see more of it handled correctly in media

In a lot of media, I see most of the plot surrounding around fixing it or focusing on the absence of love in that characters life, but never what is taking up the space of that absence like what coping mechanisms they use and how they view the pain they’re putting themselves through.

You can’t create relatability in a character when you make their pain seem broken and unnatural versus a natural, normal consequence of their worldview, and their fear in place of where love is supposed to be

#note to self

ralfmaximus:

brosetv:

56kilobits:

Whoever wrote that Vanguard message did so with shaking hands, between sobs & swigs of bourbon straight from the bottle.

k009:

My back hurts

vetchtibbles:

the-rodhaj:

vetchtibbles:

dead serious WHAT did they put into claire de lune to make it do all that

pinao

astounding

mi6-cafe:

It’s time for Last Moodboard Artist Standing!

What is it?

LMAS is a four-week competition similar to Last Drabble Writer Standing! It starts in May. Each Friday we release a new prompt and the moodboard artists who have signed up have seven days to submit their responses. We then post the moodboards anonymously and everyone votes/leaves feedback for their top three moodboards. At the end of each week, we’ll reveal the top three, and at the end of the month, we’ll see who the Last Moodboard Artist Standing is!

Who can participate?

Anyone who knows how to make a moodboard! Not sure how yet? That’s okay! The fantastic Ato and Kitten are hosting a “How to Make a Moodboard” workshop on April 26th!

Can the moodboard be related to any character?

Yes! The prompts aren’t character-specific. You’re welcome to focus on any character or relationship in the Bond franchise or even on non-character elements!

How do you sign up?

Between now and April 30th, fill out THIS LMAS SIGN-UP FORM! You’ll receive confirmation of your participation and your first prompt on the first Friday of May.

Good luck, moodboarders!

valtsv:

valtsv:

inception is a decent movie but there’s so much horror tragedy potential written into its premise and the implications of its worldbuilding and being able to see that and do nothing about it makes me feel deranged

dream technology was developed by the military “so soldiers could practice shooting, stabbing and strangling each other”. the only way to escape a dream before it ends is by killing yourself or convincing someone to kill you. you can live entire lifetimes in a dream, only to wake up to the disorientation of realising that only hours have passed in the waking world. prolonged exposure to dream-sharing tech carries the high risk of inducing psychosis to the point that you can no longer tell the difference between dreams and reality. you can carry a “totem” that behaves differently in a dream to counter this, but if anyone else gets their hands on it and figures out how it works, it’s game over. dreaming is so addictive that some people sacrifice their waking lives to keep dreaming for longer. people can be hired to break into your mind and take anything they want from it, down to your most intimate parts, and sell them for profit. if that’s not paranoia-inducing enough, entering someone else’s mind carries the risk of being hunted down and torn to pieces by manifestations of their own psyche in a subconscious act of self-defence that cannot be controlled, because what you are doing is invasive and violent. the premise of the film rests on a superrich man hiring a group of people to fundamentally alter a man’s identity because inheriting his father’s corporation has the potential to make him a BUSINESS COMPETITOR. the leader of said heist team is so haunted by the suicide of his wife that he (unintentionally) caused by violating her mind to the point of madness that he locks the rest of them into a labyrinth of his own guilt, stalked by the minotaur her vengeful ghost. oh, and on the right cocktail of drugs, you can’t wake up from a nightmare, and will instead end up in pure unconstructed unreality, surrounded only by decaying structures built by those who inhabited it before you, whose intentions and regrets might still haunt the landscape like a malevolent physical presence.

and you still have to go to work in the morning!

chaumas-deactivated20240115:

#fuck or die

content warning: #major character death

swshows:

THE MANDALORIAN (2019-) CHAPTER 16: THE RESCUE