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Bothering the beast
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i still do not understand what possessed so many well-respected actors to do the spy kids movies like
did they pay really well? did you want these beautiful, terrible movies to be a blemish on your career forever?? why
antonio banderas did so many high-profile movies then in spy kids he looked like this
tony shalhoub has won multiple emmys but he did spy kids and
even fucking george clooney wtf
steve buscemi is pretty goofy but still
salma hayek’s pigtails in this wow
elijah wood was the lead in a movie that’s tied for the largest number of oscars of all time and he played a character creatively named “THE GUY”
sylvester stallone is like a cultural icon and he played not one but FOUR ridiculously dressed weirdos
alan cumming is the only one i can understand
Spy Kids is a national treasure
thealmightytrebleclef
how dare you talk about spy kids as though it is not the most brilliant franchise ever created
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They did Spy Kids cuz Spy Kids fuckin SLAPS. Bad post op
dasha-henshins
Real answer: because Robert Rodriguez’s experience working with Tarantino lead to him developing a way to make movies with essentially no budget AND made him a lot of friends in Hollywood, plus he was making these movies specifically for his kids and had such an infectious energy about it, he was a joy to work with and those big-name actors did it almost for free.
tabbythekouhai
So, basically, they did it for fun. Is that it?
dasha-henshins
Yeah, and because it was very little work, the movies were shot in record time almost entirely on greenscreen.
adults are allowed to have fun too op
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Rescue professional here:
If you need rescuing or help, DON’T FUCKING MOVE. You are so much easier to find when you stay put.
Credits: @foxes-in-love
Your most important survival skill is asking for help
Goddamn preach this
"Your most important survival skill is asking for help." THIS, it makes me so damn pissed off when parents try and normalize that asking for help is a taboo thing!
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I was told as a child, if I get lost: STAY PUT. Unless I saw a first responder who I would definitely be safe with and call my parents, stay put.
I'm much easier to find if I'm where I was last seen. If I go wandering, we could circle each other and miss each other. If one stays still, the other can find them easier.
Even as an adult, I do this. If I get lost, I stop and stay still while I get my gps going or call the person I lost sight of. I stay where I was last known to be or where I realized I was lost.
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Consider, though, "you dare?" and "I beg your pardon?"
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Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?
folks, don't do this one. do not look at kudos count. do not look at comment count. do not look at hits. you read the summary and see if it sounds like your cuppa. multi-chapter fics in particular suffer a lot from inflated hit counts because loyal fans will show up for every chapter, but only get one kudos apiece. literally just read the write-up and if it's bad, you'll know within a minute of clicking on it. give new works and chaptered works a shot
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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This info needs to be out there, it turned the tide against cryptocurrency in the public eye it might fit so too
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worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean
sorry i said something dickish. a few mildly frustrating things happened to me in succession and it turned me evil
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"why doesn't this thing in a movie/book/tv show happen exactly like it would in real life" is the most brain dead criticism the internet has to offer, and yet I see it EVERYWHERE.
because it's not real life!! because tone and aesthetics are as important as narrative!! in the immortal words of cinematographer andrew lesnie, the light is coming from the same place as the music.
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"i hate small talk. you are a stranger. why the fuck would i want to talk about the weather with you"
i may be a deeply introverted and asocial individual, but even i recognize how many relationships have started with a single innocuous question, forged in the fire of an ember lit by humoring it with an answer.
humans make small talk, because small talk can grow.
"can i borrow your red?" without even thinking, you hand over a crayon. your peer smiles, missing the same tooth you are missing. you smile back, and you both talk about the tooth fairy. tomorrow, you each 'buy' one another's drawings, one fresh new quarter each.
"what's that on your keychain?" you look up, the face of a fellow teen peering over the back of the bus seat. you hesitate, suddenly worried you seem less mature than others in your grade, but you tell them it is something called a neopet. next week, you have accepted their friend request. you draw them art of their new shoyru, and they explain some basic coding to you to make your skeith's custom pet page 'pop' more.
"woah, what's with all the bananas?" someone chuckles as they take notice of your shopping cart. it is a bit silly, but you explain you're trying a new recipe, but are sure you are going to get it wrong many times, so you are doubling up on all the ingredients. the stranger admits they're not a great cook either. they tell you a story of when they set their dorm room on fire. you have also set something on fire, but it wasn't a dorm room. you playfully hint it was not an accident either. you recognize mischief in one another's eyes, but also, that it is something more than mischief. a year from now, while the two of you are no longer strangers, you will be standing side by side in the streets with your fists in the air in the name of one, tears in your eyes long before the canisters fall.
"i don't understand the appeal of this newfangled thing, do you?" as you glance to the bar TV to see what they are referring to, you tell them that you do. as luck would have it, you have a walked a path in life that lead you to understanding it. you offer to explain it, for it truly is not as strange, or even as newfangled as one would think. it has been five years, and while it's not all you do together, every friday you see one another for drinks. they are someone else, but the someone else is them, and they are happier than they have ever been. as are you. this particular friday, you have a ring in your pocket. part of them knows you do.
"how about this weather, huh?" for a moment, you do not look up. you do not speak. you are looking down at your plate. you are at the table of acquaintances, in their very own home. well, on their patio, rather. they are not your friends, per se, but you know their names and the creases on their faces. your face has creases too. it has been thirty five years, and that is a long time to see the same two people sit at the same two stools every weekend, only for one day, one of the stools is empty. however close or distant, everyone knows, and everyone feels the absence. and some have invited you over for dinner tonight. the wife is quite the cook. finally, you respond.
"sorry, what was that?"
"i said 'how about this weather,' it's been so nice lately, hasn't it?"
though your heart and bones are aching from the rain your joints now just know is coming, you smile.
"yes. yes it has."
“i said 'how about
this weather,’ it’s been so nice
lately, hasn’t it?”
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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I hate so much that professors who still can't figure out how to send messages on Zoom think they're capable of spotting AI writing. Professors are just feeding essays into AI detectors with massive fail rates with absolutely zero critical thought about the tools they're using. I moved across state lines. I've spent years of my life trying to get this degree. But at any moment I could be expelled because I got a false positive from a detector that tells you ChatGPT wrote Anna Karenina.
My friend was placed on academic probation because their essay tripped the automated AI detectors. His probation only lasted until the humans in the community standards office made time to manually review his essay -- that wound up being sixteen whole days.
There's a scholarship for our school's study abroad program, but you can't apply if you're on probation. And there's a strict deadline. My friend wasn't able to apply, even though he would have been perfect for the program, because the mindless program started beeping, and the humans in charge didn't care enough to come check until after the scholarship deadline had already passed. He can't afford to go on his own. This likely means he won't be able to attend classes during the summer even domestically, which means he won't earn credits during those three months. That pushes back his graduation timeline by a whole semester. I cannot stress enough that these crazy arbitrary braindead-version-of-HAL "detectors" are wreaking havoc with real people's lives.
[Image ID: A comment by catsruleokay that says "This is a big problem with international students. My friend was accused of using AI because 'his english doesn't sound natural'. People who use translation software often get accused of it as well. /end ID]
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we all have our own crosses to bear. for example. sometimes i enjoy a panic at the disco song
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I AM ABSOLUTELY LOSING MY MIND AFTER READING THIS PLEASE READ IT
maniron
READ PART TWO AND THREE BELOW !!!!!
there is a VERY chaotic Cupid running around this village
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^ that last comment 🤣
I never knew i needed this in my life, to believe there’s kindness that still exist in this world. Thank you God, i’m glad i lived
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sometimes the moral of the story really is just "you cannot go back and what happened to you is going to be with you for the rest of your life. but it's still going to be okay" huh
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Ilia fucking Malinin’s world record breaking free skate
Oh my God every bit of this is wild
-when he does the first big jump the announcers start screaming. I don't understand enough of what I'm looking at to get what about this is breaking records but the announcers screaming was a pretty big clue
-He's dancing to music from Succession????? I don't recognize all of it but some of it is definitely the theme from Succession. At one point the audience claps along to the music. And I'm not sure if it's out of support for the skater or because they like the song 🤣
-when he finishes he just lays down on the ice incredible
THAT'S MY BOY!!! I SKATE AT HIS RINK!!!
- That first big jump is a Quadruple Axel. It's 4.5 rotations in the air (you take off forwards rather than backwards, which is the extra half rotation). Nobody else in the world can do this jump it's so hard. He is the first and only person to ever land it cleanly, much less consistently. He had to land it cleanly here to have any hope of winning the World Champion title.
- Yes, he's skating to music from Succession! The audience is clapping in support because he was doing so well (also because it was hosted in Montreal and the audience was very supportive of all the skaters that evening).
- He lays down on the ice because he just broke multiple world records. He landed all 6 types of quadruple jumps cleanly, which no one has ever done at all (again, because he's the only one that can do the quad Axel), much less in a single program like this. This was an insane feat of athletic ability! If you go watch the other guys who competed against him, Yuma Kagiyama was in second place by 20 fucking points, and Yuma skated with no falls. This is Micheal Phelps / Katie Ledecky levels of smashing the competition (sorry the only other sport I know is swimming).
Some other notes for everyone:
- Ilia listed that first jump as a Triple Axel on the sheet you give to the judges, meaning that he wasn't committed to doing the Quad Axel. (Technically you're not committed to anything on the sheet but it's generally your "plan" for the program.) He also doesn't do a quad axel in the 6-minute warmup beforehand when he does go and do it in the program, so it was a complete toss-up as to whether he was going to go for it. It's incredible that he manages to land the jump so perfectly without warming it up first!
- He was 3rd coming into this skate from the previous short program. (All skating competitions require you to skate 2 different programs, 1 short and 1 long.) In order to win the title, he was going to have to skate without any falls, especially because his one strong point is his jumps and other skaters are stronger in other areas. There are many, many skaters who fall on their quad jumps, even when they're just doing one. It is so fucking hard to do even one of the 6 types of quad jumps. And he just does all 6! In one program! Insanity!
- He did a 4 Lutz - 3 Flip at the halfway point of his program. Almost no one puts a Flip on the end of their combos, it'll usually be a Salchow instead because it's much easier. The only other skater I can think of to put a Flip on the end of a combo is Shoma Uno (who was also at these championships but didn't have a good skate).
- His last jumping pass was a combo that was supposed to be a 3 Lutz - 2 Axel. He decided, in the moment, to change the 2 Axel to a 3 Axel. Nobody else has ever attempted this, much less succeeded. It is orders of magnitude more difficult to do another rotation to the second jump in a combo, at the very end of a 4.5 minute sprint no less.
In short, this kid is wild, had the performance of a lifetime, and I had the blessed opportunity to witness it.
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Is that all there is? Is that all there is? If that’s all there is, my friends, then let’s keep dancing
After Hours (1985) dir. Martin Scorsese
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