Thank you for giving us the Theoden we needed, Bernard Hill. Join your fathers and rest in glory. ❤️🙏😔

This is UNCANNY.

@vurelly

This genre of re-enactment of video game logic/bugs/behaviour will never cease to be immensely funny

Not to mention everyone who does it is so insanely talented at portraying not only the vibes, but being dead on with the motion. I mean the courier in this alone has amazing core strength and rag dolls the EXACT way that bodies do in game. It’s honestly incredible.

Reblog to let your followers know that despite your current obsession your previous obsessions still exist and are simply lying dormant until they awaken and strike again

I mean I know a certain level of projection on fictional characters and situations is inevitable and even healthy, but sometimes you got to step back into the real world to remind yourself that Character X is not your shitty parent/abusive ex/asshole boss/bully from high school, and that people who like Character X are not personally victimizing you.

op is getting death threats now probably

Clash of the Titans (1981)

if you're cringing at the genre conventions of the genre you are writing in then why the hell are you writing in it. either have something substantial to say about those conventions or shut the hell up! i will not cringe alongside you at superhero powers and spaceship battles and big eldritch worms and bone magic. i came to this story to SEE that shit and I don't appreciate it when an author tries to pretend they're above the very things they're selling themselves on

stop wink wink nudge nudging me about how silly the genre is, asshole. i like that genre. I'm reading your story because I like that genre. your wink wink nudge nudging just tells me you're too unoriginal to deliver an actual critique and too irony-poisoned to unabashedly enjoy the clichés. again I ask: why the hell would you waste both of our times like this

honestly this is true even of genres I don't particularly like! i don't even enjoy romance all that much, but if I'm reading a romance novel, i expect there to BE romance novel trappings in there, and am therefore pretty fine with them existing. there are an awful lot of romance clichés that I hate, but it's still not cute or clever to include them just to laugh at them. why would you disrespect your own genre in such a substanceless way. say something true and beautiful NOW!!!!!

Related to that, if you decide to produce a story in a genre that has XYZ in it's name and then chooses to focus on anything but XYZ, you've lost me, bud. Why are you even here? Just call it something else, for crying out loud.

remember when u were like 11 and the only thing u wanted was a lava lamp

Thank you to @sleepnoises for making the original poll & for giving us the idea to to this :)

Sorry if we couldn’t get your favorite on here, we were limited to only 12 options (11 if you don’t include the “other” option).

Darksiders 3 really looked at the ‘humans are greedy and will turn on each other in a crisis’ trope and said ‘fuck you. Yes, the average person will do what they can to survive, but that doesn’t mean they don’t still care about their fellow man and when the chips are down, they’ll pull together to help however they can.’

For real. I love that the power-up you get from Ulthane for helping the humans (Rider's Mercy) explicitly harnesses the power of faith and gratitude of the humans Fury rescued.

Not the pain they've all quite obviously been through.

Not the despair they are no doubt feeling in response to the overwhelming odds against them.

Not the rage or sadness that comes from having your home destroyed and your loved ones killed.

No.

The magic harnessed from the human survivors comes from them acknowledging Fury's actions as an act of kindness, as a sign that even in this FUBAR apocalypse, there is still some mercy, some hope, some good left in the world.

Why do people need subtitles to watch a show in English? I don't get it. What is wrong with the ears of young people?

Modern movies and shows tend to have very unbalanced mixing. Also, a common trend in modern movies is more realistic dialogue (mumbling) that is not as crisp as it was in previous eras of film making.

I’m eating corn chips and they be crunchy and loud as hell and also I’m half deaf I think

audio processing issues and also crunchy food

Because I can't hear the actors whispering important information over the explosions

My kid won't shut up and I still want to know what is happening

Some people are deaf??!

someone looked at the cat and now she's purring and we can't hear the dialogue

i promise you i am not exaggerating

There's also millions of people out there who don't have English as a second language, but would like to learn, and being able to pause and read the subtitle when dialogue goes off at 80 mph is a fucking godsend.

If you had to pick, what's the ONE trait in a fictional character that makes you immediately go "oh this one's mine"

New REBLOG Game

Just fucking lie about the previous poster

Quick PSA, if you get one of those "Work scanned, AI use detected" comments on AO3, just mark them as spam.

Some moron apparently built a bot to annoy or prank hundreds of authors.

There is no scanning process, your work doesn't actually resemble AI writing, it's all bullshit. Mark the comment as spam (on AO3, not the email notification you got about the comment!) and don't let it get to you.

The spam comments have evolved.

They are now also linking to a site they claim is able to scan works and tell you whether they were AI written or not, and that you should do that before reading a fic.

It should go without saying that you should not, under no circumstances, visit a site advertised in a spam comment.

In this case, I'd say there's even a chance that the "scanning" site is actually used to scrape fics and use them for future AI writing. What it definitely doesn't do is tell you whether something was AI written or not. That's a bullshit claim.

Don't use that site. Don't believe these spam comments, whether you get them on your own works or see them on someone else's.

It's all bullshit.

Just got another one, so here's what they look like to anyone curious. They're never real users, either, just keysmashes for the display name.

Image Description: a screenshot of an AO3 comment by nlaoboh that says HoloAI pattern found in work. To all readers, before you read please scan the work with an AI detector like gowinston.ai and call out all AI using cheaters /end ID

As someone who works in education, actual AI detectors don't even work well and are rendered obsolete within weeks if not days. Please spread this around to spare your fellow writers and reader!

you're required to participate in this poll btw. i need data

This is walrus or fairy territory again. If I'm a clone, I have to adjust my beliefs to accept that human cloning existed 45 years ago and my parents just never told me I was a clone. That's one weird new thing to accept (e.g. a fairy). I'd still be a human, just one created in an unusual way.

But if I'm a robot then I have to accept that 45 years ago we could make robots that looked and acted exactly like humans. Robots that can grow and learn and have emotions. Robots that can menstruate and grow hair and cry tears and get a cold? Robots that can undergo many medical exams and procedures without any doctor ever noticing that something was strange about them. Robots that have the ability to give birth and feed a child from their body. Every blood test I've ever taken, ever minor surgery, even every time I've cut myself, I and everyone else around me failed to notice I wasn't a flesh and blood human? That's a lot of walrus to accept, pal. I have to adjust a whole lot of my beliefs about what is possible and accept a whole lot of near impossible things about my own experiences all at once for that to be true.

All of the above, but also:

If I'm a clone, the worst that can happen is that somebody else tries to pretend to be me, in which case... I can change my looks, move somewhere else and maybe even get a name change if I feel it's absolutely necessary? I might have to deal with a bunch of shitty paperwork if they try commit crimes in my name, and it might make for some potentially confusing situations, but... that's pretty much the extent of my worries there.

If I am a robot, all of the following may very likely happen:

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

Time to take this post entirely too seriously:

I worked a long time ago on a project called REED (Records of Early English Drama: https://ereed.library.utoronto.ca/) that was (and still is!) devoted to finding information about what plays and dramatic performances were happening in the pre-Shakespeare period. Nowadays they go up to 1642 when the playhouses closed, but the initial impetus was to locate and demonstrate the kinds of performances and entertainments that people were participating in outside of the big famous plays that we still remember today. Because again, there's sort of the impression that Shakespeare (and maybe Marlowe) was the first important playwright and English drama sprang fully developed out of nothing (like the person above mentions with Poe and detective fiction) and that's just not the case. And yes, a lot of it is lost now, but I promise historians and lit scholars are doing the work of finding and preserving the "ordinary" stuff too, and you can track it down and read what they find!

While I agree with the basic sentiment here, I think it's also important to remember that--the further back you go in history--the more time-consuming and expensive it was create written words. Nowadays, you can buy a 500 stack of printer paper and a pen for less than 5 dollars at any random shop, but that's a very recent development. Paper used to take a lot of time and effort to make. Ink used to take a lot of time and effort to make. The printing press has only been around for what? 600 years?

The further back in history you go, the more likely it is that what needed to be written was handwritten, and since there were no electric lights (only candles and maybe oil lamps, which take their own sweet time to manufacture), you were also quite limited in how many hours a day you could work on writing. When you're working under those kind of conditions--expensive materials, time-consuming workmanship--you don't put things to paper unless you consider them to be valuable for preservation for multiple generations. You certainly don't spend the effort copying them (again, would require someone to manually write out an entire copy of the original!) unless it's something that you consider everybody far and wide should know about.

So yeah, while it's regrettable that all we have of ancient writing is for the most part heavily curated, it does make logical sense, and we should absolutely consider ourselves blessed to live in a day and age when preserving even the most trivial or even bad piece of writing is a valid option due to its low cost in both money, materials and effort required.