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Illustrations of scenes from my old fanfic, Home Free (modern au housemates-to-lovers indie romcom kinda thing), because I had a very clear mental image of Callum’s pivotal human disaster moment, but at the time I was lacking the skills to illustrate it, I tried and didn’t like what I did. So this is like a gift to 2021 me.

Callum put his icecream in the noodle bucket because you need that cardboard bucket to properly wallow and the tomyum residue was just bonus self-flagellation for the foot-in-mouth romantic confession that preceded this. The moon phase snuggie is Rayla’s. It smelled like her. He wallows like a CHAMP!

Rayla watches him sleep after he passes out, the love is very much requited, they’re just idiots.

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if you win, you get to look at this really good clipart of a rhino I found

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utopians

that crunchy vibe that 70s/80s movies have that modern movies simply cannot capture... that kind of quiet empty vibe to em that can be played for either bleakness or a peaceful energy... why do all modern movies (even the great and pretty ones) feel overproduced after watching an older film. what is it I can't put my finger on it but it's there I can feel it

iheartvelma

Shot on film
No digital colour grading (today’s films are horribly over processed)
No in-the-computer composite layered scenes with virtual sets etc.
practical sets and effects
hand painted mattes / hand animated vfx
You used the light you had instead of endlessly tweaking it
Sociologically, people stopped going to movies as much in the late 1960s / early 70s because television had really taken off, the era of the ‘tv movie’ started, so studios greenlit a lot of low budget auteur films that had to focus on meaning & relationships instead of spectacle.

traegorn

8. Pacing.

This is the biggest thing, and it's not even something most people will even realize they're noticing. Movies became more uniform in their structure, as hollywood found the "formula" for a hit movie. It means you lose quiet, peaceful scenes that don't fit into the pattern. That uniformity has done more to hurt the emotional tone of films than any visual effects tricks.

elfwreck

Why Does Every Movie Released These Days Feel Exactly the Same? This Book.

If you’ve gone to the movies recently, you may have felt a strangely familiar feeling: You’ve seen this movie before. Not this exact movie,

Slate Magazine

In 2005, Blake Snyder released a book: Save the Cat! It discussed movie "beats" and and gave an outline for movie pacing.

That outline has been followed like it's religious dogma for the majority of Hollywood movies ever since. It's enough that you can literally count the minutes in movies and say "ok, here comes the antagonist's big move."

volturialice

it’s not just pacing but also average shot length (sometimes shortened to “ASL,” but not to be confused with american sign language.) a movie that only cuts every 12 seconds is gonna feel drastically different from a movie that cuts every 2.5 seconds.

tlbodine

As someone who's been watching a whole lot of 1970s horror movies lately alongside 2000s remakes, can confirm all of the above.

writingtheother

Dear screenwriters (and all writers), please read The Heroine's Journey by @gailcarriger. Even if you've read Save the Cat.

Especially if you've read Save the Cat.

juniperarts

I adore him ❤️

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alagaisia

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

alagaisia

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

alagaisia

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.