this meme is really funny to me, so I—

via @indiarosecrawford

𝑓ₒᵣ ⲕᵢ𝑛𝑔 ₐ𝑛𝑑 𝑐ₒ𝑡𝑡ₐ𝑔ₑ

First of all, this is genius and the sound must be on. I have a lot of comments. This was a LOT of work. Not just the animation... but the lovely and adorable handmade creatures themselves. The staging and gathering of the miniatures used, all of it. A labor of love. I am so happy to Reblog and I hope more enjoy it. Thank you so much for sharing, pretty much reset my day.

@zuppizup

This is so sweet 🥹

official cover illustrations from the tgcf simplified cn revised edition!

kuri huang, the illustrator, who also did the covers of strike the zither, posted the HD cover illustrations of the revised edition of tgcf on twitter! here's the link to their post on twitter~ make sure to leave comments on their tweet ♥️

here's the bonus illustrations for the book box made by 黄油天际 on weibo ♡

#i like to think data took him all the way to the brig tossed him in and left#and then came back 60 seconds later and was like ‘i believe i have successfully played a ‘practical joke’ on you :)’#riker loses it & claps him on the back like ‘wow. good job u rly had me going. dont ever fucking do that again’ Perfect.

Actually it’s 73 seconds. Data, knowing something of how human minds work, estimates that Riker will give him 60 seconds to come back (because humans prefer “round numbers”, however arbitrary the units). After 60 seconds it will take 4 seconds for Riker to fully process the conclusion that Data is, in fact, not coming back after all, and an additional 9 seconds to build to the optimum level of anxiety. 

After all, comedy is timing.

not a dream

what's your favorite fictional detective?

I'll start

THERE IS INSPETOR MAX IN OTHER COUNTRIES??

I don't know much about Max, but this is the original - Kommissar Rex (Inspector Rex), an Austrian show that ran from 1994 - 2004. It then had a spin-off which was a joint Italian and Austrian production that ran until 2015.

I've also seen the Canadian version, Hudson and Rex. Although I love it, nothing will ever come close to the original to me. Rex was an icon. The show was so huge in Croatia.

Something about Inception has always bugged me and I finally figured out what it is

I don’t think Mal doing everything she did to set Cob up should have been the backstory, it should have been the actual story, and the actual inception they have to do is convince her she’s not still in a dream and is awake

Because two energy companies feuding is way more boring than a man realizing he accidentally convinced his wife her reality isn’t real and they have the ticking clock of her Gone Girl-ing herself and getting him arrested to work against

In the movie they have the problem of the guy secretly having had dream training to protect himself but with Mal, she’s as experienced as every other person on the team, she knows every trick they do and would be able to see them coming, meaning they would have to try and come up with new tricks she could not know or anticipate

In the movie the characters think if they die they’ll just wake up like normal and Cob has to tell them that actually they’re under a new chemical that won’t wake them up if they die and they’ll go to the bottom consciousness zone. Know who doesn’t know that? Mal, who will be under the impression that if she kills her husband she’ll be waking him up and saving him from being trapped in the fake dream world with her, making her very ok with tracking him down to kill him and not caring if she kills the others because as far as she knows they’re just dream apparitions

And you can keep the fact that Cob is keeping things from the team like in the movie, only instead of it being that he has a guilt manifestation of his dead wife coming after him in dreams it’s that the team doesn’t know why they’re going into Mal’s dream. All they know is she’s been acting weird towards them and Cob said he accidentally incepted something bad in her head, so they just assume he’s incepted the idea that they screwed her over or something. But they then find out too late that she isn’t mad at them she thinks they’re not real and so will have no problem trying to kill them and there’s nothing they can do to convince her otherwise

And you can still have the uncertain ending. Mal would wake up and think she’s finally in the real world, go out and hug her kids, see her friends and hug them because it’s finally her real friends. But now Cob has spent, to him, hours with Mal doing everything in her power to convince him that what he thinks is the real world is only a dream and as he watches the happy reunion you can see him starting to wonder if this is real

The Ring: If I had a quarter for every time a hobbit picked me up, I’d have two quarters.  The Ring: Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Of all the bearers of Sauron’s ring, 4 of them were hobbits.

I was wrong. It’s 5. Not 4

The lineage of ring bearers is as follows.

I love how Deagol counts as a ring bearer even though he had it in his possession for all of like five seconds

He held it for the rest of of his life!

[Image description: Tweet by @banalplay saying “but something happened then that the ring did not intend. it was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable: a hobbit, the same fuckin thing that just had it for like 500 years.” End Image Description.] Link to original here. Otherwise reblogging for the final rb there, which made me cackle.

From the ring’s perspective:

1. Home, the finger of my creator and other self.

2. Well, I don’t like it but I can work with this. Cause some trouble, get some revenge, find my way home, this is fine.

3. What the fuck is you?

4. Right personality, wrong species, I don’t know what you are but I hate you and I don’t know why you’re so resistant to my powers.

5. NO NO NO there are goblins everywhere how did I find another one of THESE horrible things. This one’s even more resistant than the last one and also disgustingly nice. I suffer.

6. Listen, I’ll cooperate, just get me the fuck out of this hellhole full of small cheerful people my power doesn’t work on properly. No, not like that. I hate you. Please stop. 

7. FUCK

8. (Frodo again) I still hate you with every molecule of my mortal form but at least you’re not number seven. Think I’m starting to get through finally. 

9. (Smeagol again) YES it’s you I actually missed you now get me back to the Master and NO FUCK NO I HATE YOOOOUUUUU…. *fzt* 

you CHAIN The One Ring?! you chain it like the prisoner?! oh! OH! trauma! deep psychological trauma for hobbits for One Thousand Years!

reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

@dragonpyre any chance you could elaborate on this

I grew up learning about land formations. Seeing fictional maps that don’t follow the logic and science of them makes me upset

What are the most common sins you’ve seen relating to this? I wanna know

Mordor.

Why is the mountain range square. How did the mountain range form. Why is there one singular volcano in the center. Why does it act like a composite volcano but have magma that acts like it’s from a shield. If it’s hotspot based volcanic activity why is there only one volcano.

And then the misty mountains!!!! Why isn’t there a rain shadow!! And why is there a FOREST where the rain shadow should be!!!!!!!!

So what is a rain shadow?

Wind blows clouds in from the sea, but mountains are so tall the clouds can't get past 'em, so you get deserts on the windward side of mountain ranges because clouds can't get there to water the land, or do so only very rarely.

A couple things:

Rain shadow doesn't mean desert, it means less rainy side, and rain shadows vary in dryness. Look at Washington State in the US as an example. There is a desert in eastern Washington, but the eastern sides of the mountains and foothills are still forested. Lothlórien and Fangorn are fine. And even if you think there should be a desert immediately east of the Misty Mountains, there's clearly in-world reasons why Lothlórien and Fangorn have been preserved: Nenya and the presence of the Ents. If you want a scientific explanation, there's also the possibility that the Gap of Rohan affects the weather there by bringing storms from the sea. In the north, the Bay of Forochel could affect the weather in Mirkwood. There doesn't have to be a desert immediately east of the Misty Mountains.

As for plate tectonics, you have to remember one basic thing: plate tectonics was discovered in the 1960s and it was only in the following decades that it started becoming widely taught. Lord of the Rings was published in 1954. I know plate tectonics seems really obvious to us now, but it just straight up did not exist as a way to understand the world at the time Tolkien was composing LOTR. Plate tectonics didn't make those mountains, gods did. It literally says so! I'm all for discussing the ways science intersects with fantasy, because it's interesting and cool. But when people say this stuff about the mountains of Mordor obviously being wrong, I don't think they realize how much our understanding of science has changed since LOTR was published.

Yes, this!

Mordor’s artifically created by Sauron, but northern Middle-earth actually makes a fair bit of sense to me, because it resembles North America, except that the part west of the mountains is wider.

Eriador, west of the Misty Mountains, near the sea, is more rainy, like the Pacific Northwest; it used to be a forest, as you would expect, but it was logged in Númenorean times and some areas (like the Shire) were settled since then and turned to farmland.

East of the mountains, you have grassland (Wilderland, or Rhovanion), just like in North America. Then, as you go further, you have forest, despite being inland. In Canada, I think that’s partly thanks to the Great Lakes; in Middle-earth, the large inland sea of Rhûn might have a similar climatic effect.

修雅 🍂

First Post!

I deleted my old tumblr because... man idk why it was covid-times and the prefrontal cortex was not in the room with us!! Anyways, I was reminded by my lovely friend @repecca that tumblr exists, and that some of my work has been going around on here, so I decided to post some of my work up officially! Starting off with my most notable (?) work to date, here's my LOTR: The Middle Kingdom Project. Now, it's been over a year since I posted this, and at the time I was... really searchingfor myself artistically, and I decided to go all in on something that I'd been ruminating on for a long time.

So, hello, again. I'm Leia. I do visual development/BG design, and I'm also a writer of things. I love fantasy and transformative work. It's nice to meet you.

“Alfred Date learned how to knit in 1932.

In 2015, at 109 he created tiny clothes for Phillip Island Penguins who needed woolen jumpers in the wake of the oil spill to help prevent penguins from swallowing the oil when they attempted to clean themselves.

Alfred ‘Alfie’ Date passed away in 2016 at 110 years old.”

I promised I'd dress as Gandalf Big Naturals before my breast reduction, and true to my word, here are the pics I took literally the day before surgery LMAO

I know that Peter’s Jackson Lord of the Rings trilogy technically has flaws but also….it doesn’t. It’s perfect.

‘Are these magic cloaks?’ asked Pippin, looking at them. with wonder.

‘I do not know what you mean by that,’ answered the leader of the Elves. ‘They are fair garments, and the web is good, for it was made in this land. They are Elvish robes certainly, if that is what you mean. Leaf and branch, water and stone: they have the hue and beauty of all these things under the twilight of Lorien that we love; for we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”

- Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter 8: Farewell to Lorien

This is how I think of Jackson’s movies. Yes, there are serious flaws - Gandalf’s de-powering, Gimli as comic relief, and Faramir, namely - but come on.

Remember when the guys making their chain mail invented a new method for quickly producing large amounts of it by hand? Remember Miranda Otto walking down the street, practicing sword positions? The guys who forged all of the swords - for leads and for extras? The men and women riders who volunteered to be riders of Rohan? The costume designers who designed the inside of Theoden’s armor (which no one would ever see) so beautifully that Bernard Hill said he felt like a king? The friendships between the cast, and their size doubles, and the stuntmen?

When they made that movie, they put all that they loved into all that they made.

#just hundreds of people who went ‘sure let me try this’ #and they made something breathtaking #and then they made it 12 more times in different sizes ( @byjoveimbeinghumble​ )

Wait tell me more about that chainmail thing

“Kaynemaile has worked tirelessly to perfect the material science behind beautiful architectural mesh, collaborating with architects and designers on projects that embolden urban environments with positive buildings. The company’s patented polycarbonate mesh, inspired by 2,000-year-old medieval chainmail, was initially created for the armor and weapons seen in the The Lord of The Rings movie trilogy and is now used on major architectural projects around the world.

“The film’s art director and Kaynemaile’s founder Kayne Horsham worked with his team to construct each garment from plastic plumbing tubes, coating them in pure silver. Once filming wrapped, Horsham dedicated himself to creating a change to the liquid state assembly process to mass produce the polycarbonate chainmail for architectural applications — products that were light, but strong enough to protect the interior or exterior of a building. Now an industry-leading manufacturer, Kaynemaile produces mesh for everything from small interior screens to large scale exterior façades. Their mesh is easy to install and can be custom created for specialized applications.”

https://architizer.com/blog/practice/materials/kaynemaile-mesh-facade-systems/

YOU GUYS

they took forced perspective and scaled sets to a new level by adding moving set pieces to create the illusion that the hobbits and dwarves were much smaller than everyone else even when the camera moved.

every scene you see in the 11+ hours of glory that is the LOTR masterpiece is most like ridiculously elaborate or expensive–from model towers to the all-new motion capture technology used for gollum to the costumes and sets to the aerial on location shots of mother-fracking new zealand and the big impressive battle scenes and horse charges.

but then the story and the screenplay too–there is just SO much lore that is there in the background lurking if you want to look for it, yet it still remains simplified for the average viewer. Crazy impressive feat.

And the acting is heartfelt and real and makes you love the characters.

ALSO DON’T GET ME STARTED ON FREAKING HOWARD SHORE AND HIS 100+ HEARTSHATTERINGLY BEAUTIFUL LIETMOTIFS AND BRILLIANT SUBTLE VARIATIONS IN THE FLIPPING 13 HOUR SOUNDTRACK. AND ENYA SINGING IN REAL ELVISH.

And the acting is

heartfelt and real and makes you

love the characters.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

you’re all ‘ohh i love hole’ but now when i’m about to throw you in this bottomless pit (which is a form of hole btw) you’re all ‘please spare me’ fucking hypocrite

you attack my heart 🍎💘