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These images are so arresting I had to go find more about them. These were designed by Paul Tazwell based on the work of production and set designer Preston Singletary.
After immersing himself in Singletary’s aesthetic and in Tlingit artwork, Tazewell said he was inspired to make the clothing acknowledge that influence. “Much of [Tlingit] decorative and spiritual artwork has a strong black line, black clean lines on fields of color,” he said — hence the dark shapes on the king/queen garments, or the swirls on the wicked fairy Carabosse’s tattered gown.
okay but there is something disquieting about this urge to cast fan writers as altruists. they give us all this for free!! well, no.
they’re sharing
it’s a key difference in perception. fic isn’t given. it’s shared. it’s part of a fandom community— in which readers are also an integral part.
it’s probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people
but like. fandom is sharing. i think we’ve lost that somewhere.
attention this is your captain speaking chag sameach pesach to all celebrating and a reminder do not open the airlock to greet elijah the vulcan rabbinic council ruled that opening the door to the room where the seder is occurring is sufficient elijah can get on a starship just fine himself he just likes to be personally invited in to your seder we dont need another incident like last year thank you
I like the fact that the two most well-known uses for lithium are treating people who are bipolar, and making batteries, which are also bipolar but in a completely different way.
Still convinced the most unrealistic thing in Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is that all the alchemists could draw perfect circles on the fly.
I fully believe in Ed and especially Al being able to do so, but also, that’s part of why I think Mustang wears gloves with it already embroidered (painted? Stitched?) On. If mans had to draw a perfect circle he might blow himself up instead of his target
Yeah but then Mustang went and managed to carve a perfect transmutation circle onto his hand while bleeding out that one time.
Which H O W.
It’s because he’s g- I am forcefully removed from the podium
I propose that making perfect circles is a genetic trait in the FMA universe because any alchemist that CAN’T make a perfect circle leaves the gene pool very very rapidly
This suggests that there could be a future or an alternate universe where children are tested for “perfect circle” gene and turned into killing machines to fight a losing war
that’s just the state alchemist exam
i took an art class once where the teacher walked in and drew a giant, perfect circle on the chalk board. everyone gasped. he then drew a small perfect circle, and kept doing that for about a minute, until everyone was yelling incredulously.
then he explained that he once wanted a studio job where the only test was to walk into the room and draw a perfect circle on command. it’s extremely difficult, but you can learn to do it if you spend a couple months doing nothing else with your life. the studio wanted artists that would make that commitment, and this teacher made it.
‘so we can do that?’ someone asked.
'anyone can do this,’ the teacher says, 'if they’re prepared to spend all summer learning how.’
anyway, i still can’t. but i know now that it’s possible and it takes about four months. if drawing a perfect circle was the gateway to doing actual magic on a government salary, i think you wouldn’t have a shortage of people practicing their circles.
someone has already posted this but buffy was definitely the funniest example of american tv using irish as a magical language for spells and the occult. mostly because this passage was very obviously copied and pasted from an article about a new bus lane
In 1947, an British flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Santiago, Chile reported their status over Morse code as “ETA SANTIAGO 17.45 HRS STENDEC”. That last word is nonsense, so the tower asked for clarification. They repeated: STENDEC. STENDEC.
They were never heard from again. 11 people vanished, apparently along with their plane, and the only clue is that last word.
And no one knows what the fuck “STENDEC” means.
She STEN on my DEC until I’m never heard from again.
