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The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpa’s attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the world’s entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of Maine you currently live in

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Also the 90-year old hobo that your grandpa beat in a rap battle for possession of the bracelet while hiding from the Romanian secret police really loved the bracelet because it was coated in small amounts of LSD and tried to hunt and kill your grandpa to get it back. He was then apprehended by the FBI and instantly gave them your grandpa’s address. Seal Team Six is about to break down your door and shoot you, says your local congressman who can also do cool magic tricks

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There's a guy in NY who MIGHT be capable of destroying the codes but won't coz he simply wants to spend time with his wife. So it's up to your grandpa's old friend in rural Ohio to get you the friends capable of finishing the task.

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And we must not, at any point, remember the existence of aircraft and ask aloud why we can't just fly to Arizona

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We can't use aircraft because the fbi has access to all the flight data how many times do we need to go over this

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today’s the only day you can reblog this

“There Will Come Soft Rains”, Ray Bradbury

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happy birthday, dev 💜

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There’s nothing quite so disappointing as a story that’s this close 🤏 to Getting It but then they do some absolute clown shoes nonsense that makes it clear they don’t get it at all

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listen, i love the LOTR movies. i do! i love them. they are cinematic masterpieces of practical effects and team effort. it's astounding they look and sound as good as they do for what movies were at the time, the budget they had, etc.

but one of the quibbles i have with them is faramir's arc. in the books, faramir refuses to take the ring. in fact, he refuses to even know what object the item of power is. he tells frodo not to tell him! "not were gondor in ruins and i alone could save it, would i use this thing!" he studied with gandalf for years and years. he KNOWS objects of dark power corrupt.

and in the commentary for the LOTR movies, the writing cast (Philipa Boyens, specifically, I think?) talks about the change to have Faramir try to take Frodo to Gondor so they can use the object of power. she says that they've built the ring up for all the prior running time, to convey to the audience how powerful it is, and that Faramir comes along and "strips the ring of all its power."

i have been haunted by the Almost Getting It for years. Frodo's encounter with Faramir is important because of that! Faramir has so many reasons to succumb and rationalize trying to use the ring, and he says no. Frodo desperately needs that hope, that it CAN be done, at that specific moment. he's also been separated from the group charged with getting him to Mordor because of betrayal, and now only has Sam and Gollum. Faramir's refusal to take him off course or take the ring also gives Frodo hope that he still has support from the world around him, and that not all men have fallen and become lost already.

i understand many other changes to the story for drama and for run time, but that's one detail that's always struck me as illustrating precisely how close they were to understanding The Point, only to miss it entirely

starryeyed0590

Yes, this. A thousand times this.

#i wish i'd had these words when i was in middle school #to explain why i was so mad walking out of the theater #my family DID not get it

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Mr Darcy: So I have learned from Elizabeth that Jane is in fact in love with you.

Mr Bingley: Oh my gosh, that's wonderful! When did Elizabeth tell you this?

Mr Darcy: When I proposed to her.

Mr Bingley: ...

Mr Darcy: ...

Mr Bingley: You proposed to the sister of the woman you said I shouldn't marry because of her family's unsuitability?

Mr Darcy: If it helps... she said no

Mr Bingley: *tackling him to the floor*

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If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

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"are you gonna take those pills the rest of your life?" you mean my molecules? why surely you wouldn't deprive me of my molecules. they are shaped exactly just so, you see. my molecules

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do you know how hard someone had to work to make my molecules into their molecule shapes??

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they invented a new shape of molecule just for me and you want me to what, not absorb it???

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reblog to remind somebody about their molecules

starryeyed0590

Thank you, I did in fact forget to take my molecules

Jonathan. Phobos? You know, the one we literally get the word phobia from?

How did you get your doctorate???

#batman #dc comics #scarecrow #jonathan crane

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Will you be seeing red after taking this quiz?

I can only read “dogs” and only see anything in one other. I see nothing in any other.

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8/10 but fuck, OW.

stevolteon

8/10 also!

starryeyed0590

9/10 but dang. I’m also surprised because I got absolutely killed at Hues and Cues, which lead me to believe maybe I don’t see colors the same way as other people.

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”Robin would have loved this case… where is he?” 🥺🥺🥺

They’re thinking about their little guy. Nooooooooo. He would have loved weapons trafficking.

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DC CROSSOVER WEEK 2026 PROMPTS

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Posting: August 24th — 30th

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Yay, I’m super excited that some of my prompt suggestions made it to the big time!

reibub

it never gets old

hyliantomatoes

wait now i’m curious what’s everyone’s go-to pair of shoes

starryeyed0590

Birkenstocks. Well, not actual Birkenstocks, because money, but Birkenstock style sandals. Basically, as soon as it’s consistently above 60 degrees (Fahrenheit) I live in them until late fall comes around. Work, church, going to the store, pretty much anything that doesn’t require closed toe shoes. I wore them with my wedding gown— and took that very pair straight to the honeymoon where I wore them pretty much every day.

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like but... it's not the trope, it's how it's deployed, right. i hate a stupid miscommunication plotline just like the rest of y'all. if a single text message could resolve the situation, i often find it more aggravating than suspenseful. and we have all seen it used lazily! we have all seen a "miscommunication" that relies on all characters involved being suddenly stupid as fuck.

but miscommunication is a fucking incredible plot device, it just needs to be used well. because yeah, maybe it could be resolved with a single hey i just wanted to check in about what you said text.

but why isn't she texting that, actually. what shape do her hands make around the phone. does she open and close the messaging app, does she just doomscroll. maybe she can't even really figure out why she's upset - what she heard broke her heart. too much is happening in her life and she decides it's not her fucking job to constantly fucking be the hey just checking in friend. why can't they do it, for fucking once, she is always fixing things first. she is working with her therapist on her fawn response. and fuck them, honestly.

and they don't know she misunderstood, only that she pulled away suddenly. and the thing is that they didn't realize how familiar she was, how wonderful - and she's suddenly dropped them now, which makes sense, because they're a terrible person. everyone does this, right? once other people see how they really are - a void of a person - they are left alone again. so they don't text, either. they leave the phone at home while they go get drunk again. lights and music and dancing, skating over the frozen lake of their own heart, avoiding it. if they look too hard at it, fuck they miss her, she was the only fucking thing they have left. but it's not fair to her. she's setting a boundary, they need to respect it.

and the distance like a banner between them. her anger at their happy-go-lucky instagram stories; because of course they're out there fucking partying as if she wasn't ever important. their spiral that is the same spiral it always is, self-destructive and vapid, their heart empty in her absence. she pulls back further, they lash out - fucking stay away. neither one comes to their shared friend's birthday. and it's fine, right, people grow apart from each other, that's adulthood. but when she talks to her therapist she finds herself saying yeah, i could talk to them about it, but, like, it's been months. and they stare at her picture and type and retype the same message that they never send: where are you. what have i done. but they leave her alone, because they think it's what she wants.

this is a real thing that happens; and when it happens, it fucking sucks. in the real world, conversations are often not what they could be; they are often weird and painful and messy. we try to talk to the other person, but they're too stressed out to listen. we both try to fix things, but the hurt has just been too great, and it's never the same, no matter the length of the apology. we grow apart. or both people keep trying, but they're just too different (or too much the same), too much keeps getting in the way, they just end up arguing. the conversation was supposed to be small, it ends up spiraling into a massive and bitter breakup. the conversation was supposed to fix the friendship, but it just makes both people realize i don't really get along with you the way i once did.

in romeo and juliet, a pretty famous series of communication errors keep happening. obviously this is not because his writing is lazy. the lack of communication causes and exposes the tragedy. love is about two people trying to reach each other across an impossible barrier. the place where language can't touch - no matter how much i write about it, i will never be able to show you truly what i am feeling - like trying to name which sounds "feel" green. i cannot put you into my body.

barriers to communication are fucking interesting. is it because of the characters' shared history or because they don't have history? is it a generational thing. is it because they've actually talked about it too much, and there's nothing left that can even be said on the subject. is it because he is too attached to tradition, and she has fully forgotten her home country. are they both avoidant, both anxious? does one person accidentally trigger the other; is the other person not practiced enough to even talk about the trauma that surfaced? does one person lie; is another one being manipulative? is one person hell-bent on taking even neutral things personally, does the other person feel purposefully misunderstood and disoriented. maybe one of them just comes from a culture where interrupting is seen as rude, whereas the other learned crosstalk was a form of active listening - now neither feels heard, even though both actually are listening. hell, sometimes what isn't said shows us the real shape of the relationship hanging between them.

what matters is how you use it, truly. how you let it shape your characters and how you let it show us who those characters are. so much of art is communication. so much of being a person is communication. the driving force of love is understanding: and one cannot be understood without communicating.

#this is exactly WHY I love miscommunication as a trope

“Master Batman”

I love these dorks

#batman #alfred pennyworth #bruce wayne #dc comics #batfam #master batman

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Whumpy Works from the 2026 Spring Exchange

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Fandoms: White Collar, Batman, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Super Danganronpa 2, Baldur’s Gate, Genshin Impact, Ace Attorney, Kpop Demon Hunters, Avatar (Cameron), Honkai Star Rail, Stranger Things, Call of Duty, Deadpool, Mo Dao Zu Shi, the Brave Locomotive