Explosive decompression
Robot girl wearing a shirt that says "sensitive electronic equipment"
Don't worry, I've got protection
You turn off the light, cats light up the space
Throwing an apple from an offshore oilrig
food chain speedrun
“It wasn’t something I did arbitrarily. When I read Takahashi-sensei’s source material, I thought, ‘This character has that kind of personality so they might do this kind of thing.’ For example: Joey is the hot-blooded ‘big bro’ character -> He might like martial arts -> I suppose he likes wrestling -> I bet he likes Inoki -> The chin! That’s how it went.” — Takahiro Kagami, 2012.
princeowl-deactivated20150410
why would you ever idolize cops when firefighters exist
teabrittle
yeah seriously have you ever heard of “corrupt firefighter”
princeowl
what would a ‘corrupt firefighter’ even be. he put out that fire with a little TOO much water. he was a little rough with the cat he rescued from a tree for a little old lady
i-cant-believe-its-no-homo
how on earth do you possibly fuck up that bad
Every time i see this post going around, i have to bring it up again: there are absolutely corrupt firefighters. There are tons of firefighters who are racist and act neglectfully in protecting the lives and property of people of color in their community. There are homophobic firefighters who won’t lift a finger to help LGBT victims of fire. And as my mother directly experienced as a victim, there are firefighters who are only concerned with where their money comes from, and will let the homes of poor people burn down and then go through the remains busting up things that survived the blaze.
It’s not anywhere near as bad on an institutional level as policing, but there are corrupt professional firefighters, and corrupt volunteer firefighters.
And they’re probably in your community.
additionally, so many firefighters commit arson that there is a Wikipedia article about it. according to that article, about 100 firefighters per year are convicted of arson in the US alone. that’s convictions, not how many times it happens.
there’s a really good documentary about an activist who has been working for years to get Narcan kits into the hands of EMS workers including firefighters, i think it’s just called Heroine and it came out a few years ago. anyway theres a very good scene where she goes to the local firehouse to talk to the firefighters there about how to use Narcan to save the lives of people who are overdosing on opioids. Narcan is extremely cheap, non-invasive, and involves less bother and effort by the person who adminstrates it that chest compressions or any other rescue action. Several of the firefighters look her right in the eye and deadpan inquire if they “have to” use Narcan on overdosing patients, legally, or if they can just let the overdose proceed (to inevitable cardiac arrest and death). so that was when i gave up on firefighters.
here in baltimore back in 2018 the fire department started parking fire engines outside bicycle activists houses to half-assedly intimidate them, and one firefighter even copped an assault charge for briefly grabbing a bicycle activist by the throat at a public comment meeting on a bike lane.
the initial reporting made this sound really funny, because people were spreading eyewitness accounts saying that a firefighter and a bicycle activist had gotten into a fistfight, which indeed would have been funny. over the next few days though it became clear it was a one-sided assault which is not funny and is just indicative of the FD having a violence problem.
anyway the FD, to my knowledge, still probably hates bicyclists for making it annoying to park their trucks, but they at least stopped getting in fights with them.
new company just dropped
do you guys think theyre hiring
1) why are you RIGHT
2) hotdong
3) bamhurger
This is not directly related to the WGA strike, but: why is there always (?) the need for rewrites during shooting in TV and film? Is it because some other aspects are not defined before the script is done? Or does it happen to accommodate other ideas from other creatives (actors, directors, etc)? (Or neither?)
The second most common for me is being on set and hearing the lines said, and realising that a line doesn't work or land in the way I'd hoped, and changing it there and then, clearing it with the director and then going to the actor and saying, "instead of saying 'i don't know' could you say 'Nobody knows. Not even me.'?"
The most common is budget and shooting schedule. I wrote a 7 page scene in a graveyard which is a location an hour away, and we can shoot six pages in a day, so if I can lose a page from that scene we can get the location stuff out of the way in a day, otherwise we lose a full morning shooting one page because we have to relocate everyone after shooting. So either I need to lose that page or rewrite another scene to set it in the same graveyard.
You can lose locations and have to rewrite scenes -- the scene with Drunk Crowley seeing the disembodied Aziraphale was, in the shooting script set at night in St James' Park and had no alcohol in it. Aziraphale was a reflection in the water. A day or two before we were due to shoot it we found that we couldn't shoot in St James' Park at night and I was asked if we could relocate it to a cafe. But we couldn't find a cafe at short notice -- we could, however find a pub. So I rewrote it to occur in the day, with alcohol, in a pub.
That special feeling you get when you bump into another trans person in the wild :)
A lil' short comic I made for my Patreon ♥♥