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Just your average, everyday Virtuous Ninja

@mordmil

Morgan. 22. She/her. 9-1-1 enthusiast and Buddie shipper🥰 

I am kind of surprised that “D&D: Honor Among Thieves” isn’t getting as much [tumblr] love as it deserves. This is my contribution:

  • Everyone involved– writer, actor, director, wardrobe, camera, EVERYONE– understood the assignment.
  • There is no attempt to apologize for the fact that it’s an ensemble fantasy comedy-adventure movie.
  • The plot is clever without being Too Clever. All of the major twists are well-telegraphed, and while it surprises you in a couple of places, it doesn’t try to shock you.
  • Given that the archetypes of the fantasy genre came to us from Tolkein, Dungeons & Dragons, and Tolken-by-way-of-D&D, you will not need any context for the game and the lore that is not provided by the film itself. If you aren’t familiar with the lore, there are no jokes or plot points you will miss.
  • If you are familiar with the Lore, there are references galore, but they’re not fan service, they’re the byproduct of the fact that the movie is set in a known location in a richly developed world. For example, despite that the fact that it’s set in Neverwinter, at no point do any characters utter the phrase “Neverwinter Nights”.
  • If there must be a negative comparison to the game, it’s that no Dungeon Master alive could get a party to stick to the plot that well. They’d have gotten off track at the battlefield and the bard would have tried to seduce the Red Witch. Or everyone would have tried to adopt Themberchaud.

My mother, who understands D&D only as that loud nerd event which takes over the dining room four nights a month, loved the movie.

A fun game if you’re into D&D is to spot every Nat 1 and Nat 20. There’s a really funny Nat 1 that the sorc rolls mid way through and it’s so fucking funny.

ALSO the website of “practical effects are superior” can have a field day with this movie. There are dragonborn, tabaxi AND arakockra characters that are majority practical effects, not CGI

It is the best film approximation of the actual experience of playing D&D.

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Someone rolls a nat 20 to use a potato as an improvised thrown weapon.

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WIP Wednesday

tagged by @prince-buck-diaz  😊

more “locked up and left behind” bthb fic! I feel like I’m eating dessert before dinner by only working on the “fun” stuff at the moment, but oh well  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Here’s Maddie and Eddie to the rescue!

Maddie reaches Buck, pushing up on her tiptoes to yank the gag out of his mouth. She then cups his face between her hands. “Oh my god, Buck.”
Maddie,” Buck gasps.
“I’m here, I’ve got you. Are you okay, are you hurt?”
Eddie finally has a big enough opening that he can get himself through – and more importantly, get Buck out. As he clambers through the hole, he catches Buck nod jerkily.
“Pretty sure I have a concussion,” Buck says. (His throat sounds like he’s been eating glass – how long had he been screaming for help? Eddie wants to kill someone.) “Please get me down. I feel like my arms are going to snap off.”
Maddie swings her head in Eddie’s direction. “Eddie, can you –?”
As soon as Maddie addresses him, Buck’s eyes flick away from his sister and meet Eddie’s gaze. Abruptly, Eddie feels himself blinking back his own tears. “I gotcha, buddy,” he says, giving Buck a tremulous smile as he reaches up to try and dislodge the handcuffs around Buck’s wrists from the chain holding him up.
Fuck. With Buck’s entire body weight weighing him down, Eddie has no leverage to lift the cuffs off the hook. He tries a few more times anyway, gritting his teeth and trying with all his strength to get Buck free, but from this angle it’s impossible for him to get the leverage he needs. 
When his eyes find Buck’s again, he sees that Buck’s trembling. And, even worse, a few tears slip down his cheeks as Buck starts to hyperventilate.

hey @staff what the fresh fuck is this

wow i sure wonder 🤔🤔 what the new layouts supposed to look like 🤔🤔🤔🤔 its a mystery

Don’t forget y’all that there’s a much better way for us to let Tumblr know what we think about specific changes, rather than @ ing staff or wip, and it’s sending in a support ticket and choosing feedback!

Tumblr reverted some of the asinine app decisions they made after a concerted feedback effort! So make sure to use this form! It’s what it’s for, but it’s not well advertised!

wip wednesday

thank you to everyone that tagged me on sunday! i did not have anything really to share but i do today so thanks to @prince-buck-diaz for the tag today 💖 here’s more from the buck sees ghost fic!

He hears his name, can picture the way Eddie is furrowing his brow, but he can’t stop the pull he feels to face his best friend, like a magnet clicking into place or a commit falling into the gravity of the sun. He looks at Eddie and knows he can’t hide it. Can’t stop whatever is about to happen next. 
“Buck?”
Eddie follows the path and Buck can see everything falling into place. He gets to his feet, not caring if he has a job to do. He needs to protect Eddie. 
“Eddie.” He manages to get past the taste of blood in his mouth, “Eddie, wait, stop, Eddie!”
Eddie shoves him out of the way and Buck just stands there. Every part of him aches deeply where Eddie touched him. Chimney stops Eddie and Buck doesn’t have to see his Captain’s face to figure out just how bad it is. The Crooked Smiled Man standing over Shannon’s body is enough to tell Buck everything he needs to know. 
Buck pushes away the need to vomit. He still has a job to do. He doesn’t hear much, just a quiet buzzing as he works through the rest of the scene. Chimney, Hen, and Eddie are transporting Shannon and Buck is left behind to help clean up the rest of the mess. 
Something awful itches beneath his skin as he watches Eddie climb into the back of the ambulance. 
It doesn’t mean Shannon has to die. It doesn’t mean Shannon has to die. It doesn’t mean Shannon has to die.
Buck repeats the mantra over and over again. It’s a four minute drive to the nearest hospital and Buck counts the seconds as he blindly moves around the accident site. He blames the wetness in the corner of his eyes on the brightness of the sun. It feels like forever, like Buck’s somehow been dragged through purgatory, before they can leave.
He nearly sprints to the truck, yelling at the driver to take them directly to the hospital when he sees her.

sag-aftra press conference.

In case you missed it, SAG-AFTRA just finished up a press conference where they talked to union members and the press about what’s up.

Here are the big things (that I remember):

  • The deadline extension from June 30 to July 12 was made in good faith on SAG-AFTRA’s part. They thought the AMPTP would utilize the extra time to come to the table with a fair deal. They did not. It is suspected that they wanted the extension to have more time to promote their summer blockbusters.
  • The studios wanted to be able to have AI scans of background actors. These actors would be paid once, and then the studios would be able to keep the actors’ likeness, use the data for eternity without the actors’ consent, and never pay them again. Keep in mind that only two percent of SAG-AFTRA members are big names. This proposal would’ve affected the other ninety-eight percent of members, many of whom are living paycheck to paycheck at the moment.
  • The AMPTP tried to turn union membership against Fran Drescher (current union president) by circulating a picture of her “living it up” in Italy with Kim Kardashian. This was a work obligation on Drescher’s part. She’s a brand ambassador for a fashion line, and whenever she wasn’t on set, she was working with the negotiation committee via Zoom and text.
  • The video that was sent out to union members on June 28, in which they were told that the negotiations were going well, was filmed before the negotiations got to the core issues – AI, residuals, etc.
  • The AMPTP’s deal was “disrespectful and egregious.”
  • The other labor unions in the industry stand in solidarity with each other.
  • Fran Drescher called the AMPTP’s plan to wait out the WGA until they were homeless “unnecessary evil.”
  • While SAG-AFTRA is open to returning to the negotiating table at any time, leadership was signaled that the AMPTP was not interested; they believe the strike could last for a while.
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starting a collection

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[ID: Two screenshots of tweets:

1st tweet by @your_tmm_oc: love it when ur talking to a friend and theyre like 'aahhhh idk if this makes sense!!' babygirl i was born to understand your visions.

2nd tweet by @/HEARTAVI: me (insane) talking to my friend (also insane): ur not insane. and neither am i

/End ID]

ID: A retweet of a DiscussingFilm tweet by Emily @memilies. The original tweet contains a picture of Louis and Lestat from Interview With The Vampire and reads: “Interview With The Vampire Season 2 has halted filming due to the studio’s unwillingness to give the actors fair pay and working conditions.” The retweet reads “I love this phrasing, more of this please.”

END ID

“I can’t lose him, Cap.” Eddie confessed.  Whatever he and Buck had was so new, so alive, and the thought of that being gone felt a lot like having his heart ripped out of his chest and shattered to the floor.  Bobby’s fingers dug into his shoulders under it hurt and even then Eddie leaned into the pain. It was easier than the alternative. 

Complete fic with a new chapter every day!

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Rated: M | Multi-Chapter | Chapter Thirteen

No offense to Lena but Buck counted down the minutes before she left with the leftover pizza to keep her company on her ride back to… wherever it was the marshals went when they were hovering around.  Eddie had barely thrown the deadbolt before Buck was on him and he turned to catch Buck. 

Complete fic with a new chapter every day!

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Rated: M | Multi-Chapter | Chapter Twelve

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I was going to just leave this in the tags but no, I've seen too many people misunderstand this and it's very simple and easy to explain so I don't know why anyone who shares this fun fact doesn't use this analogy.

so if you took a few leaves and threw them into a blender and pulverize them to as fine a paste that you could they would still be green. this is because chlorophyll has a green PIGMENT in it. now I can't speak to the base color of blue jay feathers so we're just going to talk about blue macaws for this example. If you went and put a Blue macaw feather in a blender and pulverized it to the finest powder that you could you would get black powder. this is because blue macaw feathers have black pigment in them, but they reflect blue light because of a microscopic bubble texture on the surface.

to explain it further, have you ever seen one of those little rainbow hologram things? like how they'll put a holographic Crystal or sparkle pattern on like a Pokemon card?

yeah that motherfucker, if you tried to scrape the top layer of this card off to get the hologram "pigment", you wouldn't get bubkis. in fact if you scrape the top of this card very lightly, the yellow part would still stay yellow because it's yellow because it is PIGMENTED, but the hologram where you scratch it will stop being holographic. now it will still have the pigment underneath it because that is pigmented but the rainbow effect comes from a TEXTURE on the top.

you could even put these kind of holograms on chocolate, are you following? it's a texture!

it's the same reason that bubbles are rainbow colored despite being too thin to see pigment in them.

IT'S A TEXTUREEEEEEE!!!

blue pigment will always be blue, you can crush up a Rose and use the Rose goop to color something else the color of that Rose! leaves, bones, clay, rocks!! that's pigment! disturbing its structure will not change the color because its a PIGMENT!!!

but a blue macaw? a pigeon's neck? a raven's feathers? and a blue jay apparently? that's a texture.

"yeah that's how color works" NO!! bubbles are clear!!! they just happen to have a broad spectrum iridescent TEXTURE, and some bird feathers have a short spectrum of iridescence.

bird texture

Now that SAG is officially on strike alongside the WGA, remember:

No individual actor or writer is at fault if a project gets delayed or cancelled.

It’s all on the studios, networks, and streamers.

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Absolutely—put the blame on the studios who aren't paying their workers fairly. Support the WGA and SAG-AFTRA to get a fair contrac, keep encouraging their members on social media, and donate to the Entertainment Community Fund if you can. The studios mean to starve out the guilds—let's make sure the opposite happens.

i fucking hate everything.

a major reason why we need piracy sites. now that physical media comes secondary to digital streaming, piracy really is the only way to keep movies/shows like this from disappearing entirely

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just a reminder that you do not know the names of most of the people in SAG-AFTRA. They are not multi-millionaire A-Listers, not even beloved D-listers with a cult following. They are ordinary people struggling to make a living, living paycheck to paycheck just like the majority of WGA members. The push for SAG to strike was from the bottom up and that is who we have to thank for this moment of entertainment labor solidarity.

Donate to the Entertainment Community Fund to support those striking, as well as teamsters and IATSE members affected by the strikes

I’m a sag member who voted yes, no one knows my name. I’m a background actor. That’s it and I just want fair wages

Anonymous asked:

Why were ball pythons typically called royal pythons? :)

There's a legend that some African nations in the ball python's range used to wear live ball pythons like jewelry, especially royalty. It's true that ball pythons really like to wrap around your arms like bracelets, but I've no idea how true that legend actually is.

Regardless, it's impacted their official species name, Python regius, and in some areas it's common to call them royal pythons instead of ball pythons!

They're not bad jewelry...my girl Miriam likes to hang out with me like this while I'm doing chores!

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Two bright red splotches bloomed in Buck’s cheeks as he held up his hands in front of him. The light of the motel lamp glinted off the metal handcuffs wrapped tight around his wrists and the glare Buck shot at Bobby could only be described as betrayed.   “Seriously?”

Tags: Enemies to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Slow Burn, AU, Buck put the B in Brat, Protective Buckley Siblings, Protective Eddie Diaz, Buck continuing to be make the most stellar decisions.

Complete fic with a new chapter every day!

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Rated: M | Multi-Chapter | Chapter Seven