Thinking about all the things that could have been (Guillermo del Toro’s H*bbit movies)
Thinking about the one that got away (Guillermo del Toro’s H*bbit movies)
Feel like pure shit just want him back (Guillermo del Toro directing the H*bbit movies)
Some quotes about Del Torro’s Hobbit movies that keep me up at night:
Del Toro believed that the first film needed to have a different tone than the second one, committing to the feel of a fairy tale. His aim was to alter the aesthetic of The Hobbit from the look and feel of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, making something different. He gathered sketches from older editions of the novel and paintings from fans of the works of Tolkien to inspire the texture and details of the piece. The design of the wargs, for example, was new, as Guillermo felt that Jackson’s design was a little too close to real-world wolves, and Guillermo wanted to emulate the demon wolves found in Norse mythology. [x]
And:
Del Torro: “The only thing I will be pushing for more in these films that the other three are full animatronics and animatronic creatures enhanced with CGI, as opposed to CGI creatures themselves. We really want to take the state-of-the-art animatronics and take a leap ten years into the future with the technology we will develop for the creatures in the movie. We have every intention to do for animatronics and special effects what the other films did for virtual reality.” [x]
AND
Del Toro had a dogged commitment to keeping the film very close in mood and detail to the novel. His two planned films would have followed the story in a meaningful way, using a color code to designate the passage of time as well as Bilbo’s personal journey. His aesthetic would have been fanciful and macabre, focusing on favorite scenes like the contest of riddles between Gollum and Bilbo, which del Toro considers the most beautiful in the book. [x]
Of course he wanted to make something different from lotr, he understood that The Hobbit is a very different book from lotr. He sounds so passionate about it
Notes: Just a little drabble. This will not make any sense out of context, so if you’re not following along with the story at least partly, well. Still read it, because I want you to so badly. But like, it’s gonna be a rough follow. Takes place a few weeks before Bring Me the Collar, or approximately 7 months in.
Leo sits silently at the large table, his shirt collar constricting his neck just on the edge of uncomfortably. Next to him, Luke talks enthusiastically with another senator.
It’s all wealthy people at this event. It’s black tie exclusive, Leo’s first time feeling so put together since his time with West. Luke hadn’t pressured him to come, but he had made it clear there was an open invitation. In a moment of, perhaps unearned, confidence, Leo had agreed.
Now, he sits quietly, watching Luke talk business. Leo has done well tonight, he thinks. He’s earned a break from conversations with strangers, from warm smiles and handshakes. He takes a slow bite off of his plate, feeling oddly anxious. Luke is right next to him, but feels so far away.
Notes: Just a little drabble. This will not make any sense out of context, so if you’re not following along with the story at least partly, well. Still read it, because I want you to so badly. But like, it’s gonna be a rough follow. Takes place a few weeks before Bring Me the Collar, or approximately 7 months in.
Leo sits silently at the large table, his shirt collar constricting his neck just on the edge of uncomfortably. Next to him, Luke talks enthusiastically with another senator.
It’s all wealthy people at this event. It’s black tie exclusive, Leo’s first time feeling so put together since his time with West. Luke hadn’t pressured him to come, but he had made it clear there was an open invitation. In a moment of, perhaps unearned, confidence, Leo had agreed.
Now, he sits quietly, watching Luke talk business. Leo has done well tonight, he thinks. He’s earned a break from conversations with strangers, from warm smiles and handshakes. He takes a slow bite off of his plate, feeling oddly anxious. Luke is right next to him, but feels so far away.
- And just like that, the entire world falls away; there is no one but them, no sound but their mingled breathing and the thunder of Akari’s heart. She fists her hands in Shisui’s haori and laughs, brazen and happy and free. She’s getting married today. There have been a ridiculous amount of hands on her but she’s getting married today. Embraced by home and family and love - she’s getting married today.
Akari & Shisui on their wedding day! this incredible commission was done by @foolishkali + I couldn’t be happier with it. thank you so much, my friend
And now I’m mad that nobody told us we were given cows. Cause that’s really f*cking nice and nobody mentioned it at all.
American media tends to disregard that anyone donates to the US. And then Amurricans complain about money going abroad because “nobody helped the US in our disasters.”
>.>
Also, do you know how much a cow costs? O.O
It isn’t just a matter of how much a cow costs, its a matter of considering that Masai life is based around their cattle. Its their wealth, their food, and a significant part of their religion. Here’s a quote from Wikipedia:
“Traditional Maasai lifestyle centres around their cattle which constitute their primary source of food. The measure of a man’s wealth is in terms of cattle and children. A herd of 50 cattle is respectable, and the more children the better. A man who has plenty of one but not the other is considered to be poor.[37] A Maasai religious belief relates that God gave them all the cattle on earth, leading to the belief that rustling cattle from other tribes is a matter of taking back what is rightfully theirs, a practice that has become much less common.[38]”
So its not just “they gave us 14 cows”, its that they gave us something that is very important and significant to them, it is more than just a kind gesture that definitely deserves to be known and its a genuine shame that more people don’t know about it.
Wait, you guys DON’T KNOW that we offer help to the US when you have disasters???????
Shit, down here in Brazil we not only offered to send tracking units and doctors to help in 9/11 but we wanted to send a whole lot of donations to help with Katrina (we have experience with floods down here so we knew what kind of medicine to send to prevent outbreaks).
We alone had like 2 army airplanes full of medicine and non-perishables like baby formula, diapers, bottled water, mosquito nets and other stuff that’s needed to fight opportunistic diseases that hit flooded areas, enough to assist a good few thousand people at least, ready to go the day after it hit, but your government refused the donations.
The same thing happened to the Canadians and Europeans who offered help, the US embassies around the world told us all to give money to Red Cross.
And so we did, we all gave hundreds of millions of dollars to them, and then this happened:
So please, don’t you go spreading misinformation and prejudice against the rest of the world, WE DID OFFER HELP AND ORGANIZED IT EVEN FASTER THAN BUSH DID, BUT Y’ALL REFUSED IT.
Oh wow I had no idea this happened it’s really not talked about in media at all wow this is something good to know about wow
I really REALLY do not enjoy the slow push of Stephanie towards being a Wayne kid…
After how shitty Bruce and Steph’s relationship was, and the fact that Bruce never even gave her a fair shot as Robin, I just don’t see it happening. I don’t think they hate each other, but I just don’t see them having any sort of parent and child relationship. Bruce has taken in a lot of kids over the years, but he and Steph have had a particularly rocky relationship.
Also, Steph’s going to be Bruce’s daughter-in-law some day and bug the shit out of him but in a way that one can only do with ones in laws lmao.
Wish DC would bring back Steph’s mom…I loved their relationship especially at the end of the pre-New 52 universe when Steph’s mom essentially figured out that she was Batgirl but refused to acknowledge it out loud? It was so cool y’all.
And if anyone in the Batfam was going to be like a family member to Steph, it would be Babs tbh. Babs at least gave her a fair shot.
I think the push for Steph to be treated like a Wayne kid has sprung out of some fanony things and is now slowly bleeding into other things like a gaping wound that DC has refused to sew up and it’s just gonna just stay like that or get worse unless they do something about it.
I really liked the idea by @aksv1703 on twitter of Hurin as a concubine (is there any equivalent of this word for men?) and Morwen as his mistress, so here they are
A near miss or a close call? I keep a room at the hospital I scratch my accidents into the wall I couldn’t wait to breathe your breath I cut in line, I bled to death I got to you, there was nothing left
It’s good to embrace death - being dead seems such a lonely endeavor, after all.
This was an idea I had at the start of the month but only got time now to actually do it. Lots of different interpretations of death (the soon-to-die, the dying and the “undead”) to play around with. >:)
i could say something about how, oh, language changes quickly & aang previously innocent slang would probably have shifted in meaning, but really…. i have no explanation for this and thats OKAY
[image id: three panels of fan art of avatar. panel 1: katara says “okay. which one of you taught toph the c word? it was the only cuss she didn’t know IDIOTS!” panel 2: sokka, zuko & aang are sitting. sokka snorts & says “yeah aang who did?” zuko says “c’mon tell katara who did.” katara is not in this panel but an angry speach bubble from the side says “AANG?” panel 3: sokka, aang and zuko are still sitting. toph enters and says “WHATS UP CUN” (the implied “T” is cut off by zuko’s head.) Toph’s body can be seen but her head is cut off by the top of the panel. Aang says “look…um…it meant soemthing different 100 yrs ago?” looking innocent. sokka and zuko look amused. end id]
do you think ladybug & chat noir ever accidentally follow a red herring thinking its an akuma?? like they get reports of a dog akuma terrorizing town and mistakenly spend the day chasing a regular ol’ ornery dachshund, while some poor werewolf’d-out xy is banging pots and pans trying to get them to hurry up n come out and fight
it all works out when the dachshund hops up into xy’s lap, deakumatizing him on the spot. cheers ladybug & chat noir, you’ve done it again you absolute madlads
this one wins this one wins this one wins this one—
I’ve said it before, but I just have to say again that there’s something so undeniably powerful about taking a guy who’s been honing his craft as a character actor/comic relief for decades and handing him such a nuanced starring role in a such a unique romantic comedy. Usually he’s having to communicate a character with mere minutes of screentime, making the most of every second, and let’s not forget that comedy is harder to execute than drama. Rhys Darby stepping up to play the romantic lead in Our Flag Means Death is the acting equivalent of Rock Lee taking off his ankle weights.
