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Just a road warrior and some raggedy man-of-myth

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"At this point in the movie, we've got Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy and we've got Praetorian Jack, played by Tom Burke, arriving at Bullet Farm, where they're meant to pick up all these munitions and weapons for this battle. However, when they get to the Bullet Farm, there's something weird going on. […] There's a certain part of this sequence which has no music because the music would be redundant, so it's not scored. The score only arises when it informs us of what's happening between our two main characters. They have to respond in the moment like all Warriors do, and get out of this situation. And in the process, we find them relinquishing their own self-interest. One for the other. What follows is that through their actions, not their words and their promises to each other, but through their actions, that they actually are prepared to give of themselves entirely to the other. So in a way, it's kind of a love story in the middle of an action scene. That's always at the heart of every action sequence. It's not all the kinetics and the sound of it. It's all about an interaction of characters. It's character-driven and it's the interplay between them that we're most interested in."

─ George Miller | Anatomy of a Scene (x)

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Enjoyed this look into the practicalities of road war from an ancient and military historian. Turns out I need to write in some more Toyota Hiluxes.

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in honor of furiosa turning 1, here's another crash out prince edit bc i cant get enough of this lil guy

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Sometimes you see a film and you like it the "right" amount. You enjoy the experience, you maybe mention it to a few other people, you move on with your life.

And sometimes you see a film and you like it, and days later you find that you are still thinking about it. And you're coming off a really shitty few years in your life, and you really have not been getting out of the house much at all, so maybe this is a good excuse to go outside: go see the film again. And so you go for a second time, and you realise you really, really like it.

You decide you need more of the film and more of the characters, so you go on AO3 but there's not a lot there yet because nobody's had time to write for it, so you decide to write the thing you wanted to read for yourself, even though you haven't written fanfiction since you were 12. And you need to check some details for the fic, so you go back to the cinema for a third time, and you briefly wonder if that might be enough, but it's not.

A week later, your AO3 account finally gets activated, and you post the fic, and it's only small but people seem to enjoy it. And there are more people posting fics by now, and you read them all over and over, and you still want more, so you decide to keep writing. You are trawling Tumblr for gifs and discussion and any scraps of the film that you can find.

A few days after that, you actually leave a social gathering early because you realise you can catch another screening if you go now. You sit in the cinema by yourself with a big, stupid smile as the title of the film comes up again, and you think, "Yes, this was the absolute best possible use of this moment."

When your local cinema stops showing the film, you go to the next city over just so you can watch it one more time, and you are still sad when it stops showing there as well, that you only got to do this five times.

You keep writing and reblogging stuff on Tumblr and you start to get to know the other people who are doing the same thing. Somebody sets up a Discord server and soon you sit around swapping ideas and observations all day like you're sitting around the campfire talking about some shared mythology.

Your next fic gets out of hand and goes from one scene to five, and then you decide to write the gaps between the scenes as well, and before you know it, you've accidentally written over 70,000 words of fanfiction. You haven't been this obsessed with a piece of media since school. You are an adult with a job and a bunch of responsibilities and you still spend all of your time thinking about this film. Your family and friends are barely tolerating you bringing it up all the time but you can't stop yourself.

You are still writing. When you were a child, you used to dream of becoming a writer, and then life happened and you put that dream to the side and figured it would never happen. Now you realise that you have started to think of yourself as a writer again. Your love for the film has somehow started to change your concept of your own identity. You can't decide if this is silly or not, but it makes you feel alive, so you go with it. Your search history is filled with queries like "best way to cook rat" and "australian muscle cars 1970s" and "amputation treatment".

As soon as you finish writing the first long fic, you get an idea for another one, and if you thought the last one was out of control, then this really blows it out of the water. You are now structuring your days around trying to find the time to write, and the rest of the time you are just thinking about the writing anyway. There is a new sense of purpose to your life. You tell your therapist that the experience of writing feels like you have discovered an entirely new room in your house that you didn't realise was there.

You travel to another city to see an actor from the film in a play, and you have a great time. And the next day you meet up in person with someone who you first met online because they love the film just as much, and it's great, and you think how strange and how cool it is that you're sitting here talking now just because you sat in two different cinemas on two different continents and felt the same spark go off in your brain.

You reach the point where you can start publishing the next long fic, and by now you are feeling far more confident in the idea that you are a writer, that this is what you are meant to be doing. Friends and coworkers ask you what you've been up to recently, and you just say "oh, the usual" because you don't want to explain that you are currently finishing the fanfic equivalent of a 600-page novel. But at the same time, they can tell that something is different about you, that you have some sort of new energy. You have finished therapy and phased off your antidepressants. You start writing other things too, original things, because now you know that you actually have the ability to do it.

Somehow a year has passed, and you have thought about the film every day for 365 days, and you have written more than 250,000 words of fanfic about the film, and another 50,000 words that you wouldn't have written otherwise, and at some point you even got something from the film permanently marked onto your skin just so you'd have that reminder of how it made you feel, and sometimes you think... is this actually too much? Is my brain misfiring here? Should I maybe have put a little less energy into so deeply, wholeheartedly loving this thing? Should I have just liked it the "right" amount?

But then you look back on the year – this completely unexpected year, which has brought energy and new friends and this feeling like you've somehow rediscovered yourself – and you think, actually, this was 100% the right amount of like for me.

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HAPPY 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO THIS MASTERPIECE 🧡🧡

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This was how Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) actually ended. My good friend Praetorian Jack was there, he told me.

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One of the things that always drives me insane is seeing people try to work out coherent chronology and continuity of the Mad Max series, and the thing that makes me crazier is when people push back on this by being like "it's a dumb movie about crazy driving and explosions! it doesn't NEED to make sense!" because in reality the lack of a defined chronology or continuity is a feature, not a bug, and the reason for it is not that the movies are too dumb to be held to that standard, it's that the movies are much smarter than anyone trying to Figure Them Out give them credit for

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Friendly reminder that my Mary Jabassa Lives AU is up to 17 chapters with more in the pipeline!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62347186/chapters/159530512

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War boys! Who wants to be a Mortifier?

I, along with roopnavarro and others, have cultivated a Discord server for Mad Max fans, artists and roleplayers! OC and canon writers are both welcome! It's a relatively small community. Carefully curated to keep toxic parties out and have a safe space for people to nerd out and discuss the series as a whole. Not just the Mortiflyers. Canon characters can be claimed to be the main writer for in the overarching story and canon of the server. If there is an overlap of canon characters people want to write as there is a section of the server to write as who you wish that does not conflict with the claimed character's writer. This is not a 'tryhard' server.

The fandom is very small nowadays and our goal is to keep the passion and love for the series alive and well. If anyone is interested please feel free to DM me or @roopnavarro (who is more active on tumblr). There is a bit of a vetting process to make sure that those who do not align with our values of inclusion and equality are not let in. This is about having fun. Not spreading hate and gatekeeping things people enjoy that hurt no one.

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this photo… i need furiosa to be my wasteland gf so badly 😭❤️

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Various Furiosa weirdos as @dril tweets

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Furiosa and Jack as @dril tweets

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Dementus as @dril tweets

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Watching the bts for Furiosa and crying at how collaborative George Miller is with his cast and how invested Anya Taylor-Joy was in her character and how she made sure Furiosa could go beast mode on Dementus at the end

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speaking of pins, here are some designs i’ve made up! all are my original designs, (except the MFP badge, jim goose sticker, and the comic book ones in the 2nd picture), and i’ll be opening an Etsy for them soon! as soon as i figure out how to work an etsy store (if anyone has any experience with etsy stores please hmu)