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jared padalecki and jensen ackles nerd hq 2013 (source)
strip poker gin rummy in the laundromat
+bonus clean boys laundry
#j2#j2 gifs#jared padalecki#jensen ackles#nerd hq 2013#laundry#supernatural#spn 1x03#spn 4x18#spn 15x20#j2gifs#mygifs#someone mentioned this story in the notes of a fic i saw and i used my functional local transcript search to find it licketysplit#SOME DAY google will index all my transcripts and the online version will be just as usable and i will rejoice but alas i'm still waiting 🥲#choosing to leave the moderator out of this
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Julie💔
With no words or dootels
Dootels
Words
#welcome home#partycoffin#julie joyful#welcome home fanart#welcome home arg#welcome home puppet show#I can't believe it#why did it have to be julie💔#my ipads giving me a couple chances to actually do things or not so who knows what'll happen#still ill have to get a new one (WITH MORE STORAGE)#Fun fact! I listened to julies audios SO MANY TIMES to write down the parts where her voice isn't silly puppet pitched#and I STILL got some earrings wrong😭 I saw correct lines online so that helped! Where are you guys finding the transcripts...#If there's somethin wrong don't tell me! I tried my best waaa💔#That explains that doodle with the flower “LETS GET THIS OVER WITH” was actually “I'M AS GOOD AS I EVER WAS”...how did I mis-ear that...#oh well!
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I think the world would be more beautiful if people remembered that mituna didnt say any slurs.
#[uu] is online#double checked the openbound transcripts last night and there as nary a slur in sight#cronus on the other hand. he nearly said the r one twice
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my overthinking about the magnus protocol and sam jones new song has lead me to reading more 300 page journal studies on isaac newton than college chemistry ever did
#like what do you mean isaac newton wrote and theorized and an alchemical apocalypse#there's a book for like 55 dollars that's a transcript of a smithsonian lecture on death and resurrection in alchemy and i'm like chewing#my arm off trying to find an online copy#what i have found the most relevant is the idea of the alchemical phoenix#but that ties more into christianity which i don't think is relevant to tmagp#unless jonny and alex will make what alchemists think is god but is actually something Else#which i would say is a stretch#the magnus protocol#tmagp#tmagp theory
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I'm more listening to The West Wing this time around because I'm working on some repetitive stuff. I'm on the inauguration in the 4th season and this exchange made me chuckle
BECKWITH: I know you've been under ground all night but, uh... there's a rumor that the President's contemplating a new doctrine for the use of force. LEO: The President's nothing if not contemplative, Senator. The man makes the Prince of Denmark seem reactionary.
#the prince of denmark is specifically hamlet here#and hamlet is known for being an indecisive character#i maybe need to check out other Sorkin shows because the writing is so witty#I found a transcript online because lazzzzzyyyyy#the west wing
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full special multi-21 presser transcript
Q. Before Malaysia you were viewed as the good guy, but since then you have become the bad guy. How do you feel about the situation? SV: I don't consider myself being the bad guy. I don't think I did something that was in particular bad. I think I said everything I had to say after the race, and I apologised to the team - which was important to me to get things straight. I took the opportunity to go see the team after the race straight away and explain what happened from my point of view, like I did to you after the race, and that is it.
Q. Helmut Marko has been quoted as saying there will be no more team orders at Red Bull. How much more difficult does that make your job of winning the championship? SV: I don't know. I haven't seen Helmut yet. But it makes no difference.
Q. How do you define your relationship with Mark Webber now, and do you think you can count on his support? SV: I think being completely honest, I never had support from his side. I have a lot of support from the team, and the team has supported both of us the same way. But in terms of relationship to Mark, I respect him a lot as a racing driver, but I think there was more than one occasion in the past where he could have helped the team and he didn't.
Q. Is that why you did it then? SV: I explained to you why I did it. But whether you believe me or not is on a different page.
Q. But you said that Mark never helped you. Were you paying him back? SV: You could say indirectly so, but as I tried to explain to you after the race, in my opinion it is always best to be truthful. But sometimes the truth is not what the people want to hear. As you can see controversy is more popular than the truth. I told you after the race what happened. I was racing, and as a racing driver I was solely focused on winning the race and I got a call on the radio, which I heard, but I didn't understand at the time. I should have understood. That is why I apologised to the team, because in my action I put myself above the team. Whether you believe me or not is up to you.
Q. Didn't you know exactly what you were doing though? SV: I apologised to the team because it was the last thing I want as a team member, which is what I am and how I feel. I am one of the guys, you might say I am more or less important but I feel more or less on the same level and as a team member I didn't obey the team's order, which as I said was not my intention. My intention if you look at it as a racing driver is to win the race, so I don't apologise for winning the race.
Q. Going back to earlier in the race, was the decision to change to slicks at the first stop your call, or was it made by the team? SV: It was my call. I came on the radio at the beginning of the lap saying that it looks pretty dry. At the end of the lap I felt it was the point of crossover and I thought I would come in and take the risk, because I thought it was dry enough. Unfortunately as it turned out it was not the perfect call and it was probably one lap too early. Plus I had the gap, so I was not in need of being the first one in. But I felt it was the right time and that is why I went for it. As it turned out it was still a bit damp, plus I came out in traffic, turn 1/2/3 was still a bit damp so people passed me straightaway on inters, and then I was behind them when I came onto the dry section and couldn't make use of that. So the bottom line is that I lost too much.
Q. Was what happened later on your way of making up for it then? SV: Well what happened was that I was racing and I wanted to win. In that regard, I succeeded.
Q. You apologised to Mark after the race, but you are not doing so now. Have you changed your mind? SV: These kinds of things I sort out with him straight away, face to face. I think everything that happened in the past, there was sometimes more talk about what happened, sometimes less. It is not my style to run to the media and explain myself. If I have something to say then I prefer to say it internally.
Q. During the race you were backed into the Mercedes by Mark. Did that annoy you? SV: Not annoyed, I came on the radio and said that I was faster. I think it was a bit misunderstood because probably what I said came across a little bit arrogant but what I actually meant was that I had pressure from behind. Mark speeded up as soon as I got closer and to be fair he was even a little bit faster towards the end of the stint. At the beginning I ran a little bit into the back of him, which I am not blaming him for, and Lewis was very close, Mercedes had strong race pace and fortunately from our point of view they ran out of fuel and they could not keep pushing until the end.
Q. Have you been punished by the team? SV: There are a lot of marks on my back! No. As I said, I like to deal with these things face to face. I have always been open and I think I have always been truthful so if I have something to admit or talk about something I did wrong, then I have no problem admitting it. It is probably not the easiest to say the truth but that is what I did straight away after the race, and straight away to the team as well. My intention was not to put my interest above the team's interest because as I see my position, I am a team member, I am one of them - and the team is putting a lot of effort to give me a good chance to win races and have a strong car, and ultimately trusts me. I want to give that trust back as much as I can.
Q. Do you think Christian Horner's position has been weakened by your actions? SV: Well you could say so... but as I said, I went to talk to everyone straight after and explain what happened. The intention was not to undermine the decision by the team principal.
Q. How do you go about resolving the situation with Mark? Can you trust each other? SV: I wouldn't call it trust, to be honest. I think we have a professional relationship. As I said in the past, obviously, there was more than one occasion where things didn't work the way they should have, and as I said - I respect him a lot as a driver. I think he has achieved great things in his career in F1, and also before F1, and I respect that.
Q. Do you want a different team-mate next year? SV: It is not for me to decide.
Q. No it's not your decision, but you can have an opinion. Do you want a new team-mate? SV: I see where this is going...but I don't like talking bad about other people. It is not my style to complain or talk to everyone about everything. If there is something that I feel I have to say, I do address it to the people that are important for the decision.
Q. Had you understood the team order properly, would you have obeyed it - as you had saved the best tyres for that final stint? SV: I think as you mentioned, I was faster in the end. That is why I was able to overtake. Overtaking is not easy, let's not forget that, in F1. If I had understood the message and would have thought about it, I am not sure I can give you a perfect answer on this because thinking about it, obviously I probably had realised in the moment that there is quite a conflict, because on the one hand I am the kind of guy who respects team decisions and the other hand, probably Mark is not the one who deserved it at the time.
Q. So you would do it again under the same circumstances? SV: I am not sure I can give you a proper answer because in the moment it might be different, but I would probably do the same.
Q. How do you deal with racing Mark now? SV: It is not the end of the world here. At the end of the day I cross the paddock entrance every morning because I do something I love, I love racing and I love coming here, I love working with the team and the guys, I enjoy that a lot. It gives me so much satisfaction and I cannot think of anything else that gives me that much pleasure. I think the bottom line is I don't want to forget that. Sometimes we have easier or more difficult times but at the end of the day I am here for that, and that is what I enjoy most.
Q. Christian Horner said that there was no point in ordering you to give up the lead in Malaysia as you would have ignored it. Is that a sign that this is your team now, and that Christian is no longer in control? SV: I don't think that is right. I think the circumstances for that have a different nature. He is the boss, he is in control of all the employees and he is leading the team so I think I am not in any other position than I am. I am the driver.
Q. But you broke an order and you got no sanction? SV: I did speak up and I did apologise and I meant it. Sanction as in punishment? Maybe it is a little bit of a dreamland that you all live in, but what do you expect to happen. Make a suggestion! We dealt with it internally. As I said I did apologise to the team, I took it very seriously, I went to see the whole team as soon as I could, not just the people working here, and told them as well.
Q. So if Christian had asked you to give the position back, would you have done it? SV: I didn't mean to ignore the team's order because I didn't understand it. I heard it but I didn't understand it in the proper way, the way I should have. I apologise for that because with my action I disobeyed the team order and put myself above the team. Had I understood the message and had I thought about it, reflected on it, think what the team wanted to do, to leave Mark in first place and me finishing second, I think I would have thought about it and I would probably have done the same thing. He didn't deserve it. To me it is best to be myself. I have always been truthful and I said the truth after the race.
Q. You said that you don't like to talk about other people - but you complained about Mark earlier in the race on the radio... SV: Your translation is complain, my translation is that I can see why, because if you take it word by word, I can see how it means and how it comes across. The fact is I was faster at the time and I was under pressure from behind. As soon as I closed the gap to Mark he speeded up - I had no problem with Nico at the time, and I was able to pull a little bit away from Lewis. In the end it wasn't enough but I am not blaming him for that.
Q. Will the war in the team affect your title hopes? SV: I don't think we have a war, to be honest.
Q. So what part of Multi 21 did you not understand? SV: It is a code....believe it or not is up to you. I can only say what really happened, whether you buy it or not. I was looking on the steering wheel and got a little bit not confused but couldn't find the map change as we do map changes all the time in the races, you don't get that usually. I am not sure if you got the code as well. We have this code for quite a while in the team and I should have understood, full stop. But I didn't.
Q. Why do you believe that Mark did not deserve to win? SV: I don't like to talk about other people. It is not my style. I have said enough. The bottom line is I was racing, I was faster, I passed him, I won.
Q. Is it not the case that you passed him because you knew that Alonso was out of the race? SV: Honestly I didn't care where Fernando was.
Q. But he is likely to be your main competitor. Maybe you don't consider Mark as your ultimate competitor and you couldn't go away from that race leaving seven points on the table? SV: Well, to be honest with you I didn't think maximum points, maximum points. I thought winning the race, winning the race. It is race two of the championship. I know there are so many races. We have won the championship three times in a row. I know how many things will happen. Sometimes you will like it, sometimes you will not like it. But over the course of the season...things like what happened to Fernando when he damaged his front wing slightly, and that meant end of the race, zero points. These things will happen to everyone over the course of the season. Like it or not. Can you get away without it happening? No. There is probably a reason but you are also a little bit lucky. But these things, they hit on everyone and in that moment, race two of the championship, I don't think about numbers. I don't think about points. I think about winning the race. Ultimately you can say it is stupid, but from my point of view if I think about the championship and the points situation too much then I am not in the moment. I am not racing. I will give away a gap, or I don't go for the gap, because maybe I think it is too risky, I shouldn't do that because I might lose points - and it is better to have 12 points in the bag for fourth than three more points for third. You don't have time in the car where, if you are really going for that gap that all of a sudden is there, to reflect on whether it is right or not? Is there the right amount of risk or not? If you see a gap and you are free in your mind, you go for it. If you have any doubt you go for it and you crash. I can give you an example. Last year I started dead last in the pit lane in Abu Dhabi. I damaged my front wing and I was dead last again. I was fourth at the end of the race, with Jenson to pass. He was very difficult to pass because he was as quick as I was. You could say, I came from last, Fernando was only two places ahead, what is the point for three points? I am in the lead of the championship, so relax. Take the points and don't risk the very risky manoeuvre I had with Jenson. I saw the gap and I wanted to finish on the podium. I went for it. I knew the championship is important and I wanted to win it; but I saw the gap and went for it. I didn't think twice. And I got third place, and won the championship by three points. So...that is my view.
Q. There is a lot of tension between you and Mark. How are you dealing with it? SV: We say hi just like we do every other time.
Q. Is this ultimately a big fuss about nothing? You gave the fans what they wanted to see, you were given a team order and you said screw it, I am here to win, I am here to race... SV: I had a very normal two weeks, very quiet. I had time to prepare for this race which I am happy for. I tried to prepare and I am here in the best shape I can be and I am looking forward to driving the car. Maybe that sounds too simple for you, but that is how I feel.
#i paid $6 to autosport for this and just about lost my mind trying to find it again so i might as well actually post it#had it in my drafts for two years now#sebastian vettel#chinese gp 2013#multi 21#f1#wish the full vid was easier (i.e. not impossible) to find online as i don't fully trust this transcription but close enough#there's an awful lot of misinfo out there about what seb said (which is part of why multi 21 is so compelling)#but genuinely the truth is so much richer...seb chose his words VERY carefully. he's too smart to let some quotes out there#aaaaand post
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tma fans help me out, i swear at some point in some Q&A Jonny and Alex answer a question like 'Who is the best cook' but i have no idea where - it might be in one of the patreon Q&As but I dont have the transcripts for those. this information is of vital importance to me (want to reference it in a 3 note textpost. you understand)
EDIT: seems like it's most likely from the s4 patreon Q&A so I'll look there, thank yall
#tma#joos yaps#the magnus archives#its gotta be at LEAST s3 because they say smthn about georgie i believe#but that's also when q&as started ballooning so that doesnt help much#ive tried checking the q&a transcripts that are online for s3‚ 4 and 5 but nothing turns up for 'cook'#maybe im misremembering and it was about baking instead#or it didnt happen at all and i imagined it....#after all its been a long time#so even if you dont have it but you DO remember it as well i would appreciate knowing that
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office interactions~
#ah i didnt post this here did i#i play both piano and guitar so making this chart made me very happy ♪#ALSO SUBARU IS IN THE WRONG SQUARE IM SORRY#anyway why is the transcription of the office piano tune not online... do i have to make it myself...#enstars#ensemble stars
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Charlotte's Hair
What is up with Charlotte La Bouff's hair, like is it a wig?? Extensions???





Lowkey one of the biggest questions of The Princess and the Frog. Not how the talisman works, not why the curse involves frogs just this. How does this 1920s young woman's hair work
#princess and the frog#the princess and the frog#patf#tpatf#disney princess and the frog#Lottie la bouff#charlotte la bouff#Also sidenote yes i know there haven't been any fics yet on this blog as soon as exam season is over i hope to deliver#this does not impact the lore whatsoever but it itches my brain#Another day another time abusing animationscreencaps.com it's such a good website fr fr#I mean maybe it's obvious which one she has but honestly i don't know#Should have been in the directors audio commentary which for some reason has no online transcript maybe when I'm bored I will type it out
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i saw bakugo call hawks a spoonbill and was like what the hell is that...
hes funny asl ill give him that
#yes he calls him this in japanese as well#(at least in the random jpn transcript i found online)#bakugo#bakugo katsuki#bakugou katsuki#takami keigo#mind u the pink species is not found in japan#bakugo u fucking nerd
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Something that always annoys me is the idea only 1 language learning method works. Which is not true. While it may be possible that, for a particular individual, only a few out of many study methods may work well enough for That Individual to make progress and stay motivated... that doesn't mean all the other study methods won't work for anyone else out there, or that those few methods will work for every other given person.
Obviously if you've been studying a while, then you already figured out what kinds of things work for you and don't. If you're a beginner, just wading into studying?
I would suggest you simply look for study methods that: 1. Teach you new things regularly, 2. Review and practice things you've learned, 3. Include studying things you need for your particular goals (for example if your goal is to read X book then the study materials at some point should involve reading practice and some words the book contains, if your goal is to talk about Y then the study materials should include some information about pronunciation and words you'll need to be able to say).
As you can imagine, a TON of study materials will meet these requirements. And you can study a given skill in a LOT of ways.
(Reading is my focus lol so just for reading, a beginner might: do vocabulary study with lists or conversations with native speakers or watching shows and looking words up or listening to dialogues with a transcript like in a textbook or graded readers or a picture book with word labels in the target language or a video game with labelled objects in target language, all of those things as long as your vocabulary is improving or reading practice is happening would help you make progress). So to improve reading skill as a beginner: you could study with a textbook, a podcast with transcript, a classroom or tutor with words written down in target language (like TPRS), a video game, a TV show and a translate app on your phone, a friend you talk with (who either writes words down or you look up words you hear with a translate app), a friend you text with, srs flashcards like anki (provided there's text) etc. As long as there's new words, and/or you're practicing reading, the study method may work. If it works will come down to if you can stay motivated doing it regularly, and make sure you regularly learn some new things and review/practice things you've already studied.
So consider those things when you see people selling a study method as a product (especially when it's costing you money). Consider if it teaches you NEW things, and are those new things related to your goals, and how MUCH new stuff will it teach you before you finish it? Consider if it provides review or practice, or if you can use it's materials to review on your own making up your own method, or if you'll need to do separate review/practice.
So examples:
LingQ. Can it teach you many new words? Yes, thousands, since you can import any texts you want when you get done with their provided material (I have no idea how much their beginner material covers though in terms of words... I would hope 1000-3000 words but that can be researched). Is your goal reading? It's suited to reading, so you will practice and review often with it. Cost? I think it was $12 a month when I last had it, and the price may have increased. Is it worth it? Depends on a learner's needs. I found it was wasting my money, so I chose to use free tools like Pleco and Readibu apps - since those apps are suited for Chinese learners and have better translations, Pleco has better paid graded reader material if I was going to spend money, and both Pleco and Readibu let me import texts so I can learn thousands of new words just like LingQ but free. Now that I'm not a beginner, I often use Microsoft Edge to read chinese... since I can still click-translate words easily (all my web browsers have that tool free), and Edge's TTS voice is helpful for pronunciation and sounds quite good. I read webnovels online so Edge works well. But it's translations aren't as good as Pleco or Readibu, so if I still needed translations more I would use them. So... is LingQ a good study method? Its certainly a study method marketed to buy. Well... the method is suited to improving reading skill, at least. It costs money, which is a negative, but it does offer a lot. However: everything it does regarding reading can be done free with other apps or sites or web browsers on their own. So if paying money motivates you to read... sure. LingQ does have a few word tracking features a learner may find worth the money, keeping in mind the actual read-to-learn method can be done free without lingq. (Also... while LingQ is a valid option for improving reading, if the learners goal is speaking then it would be important to think of what study activities the learner will do OUTSIDE of LingQ to improve speaking... because I've seen how LingQ is marketed as "how to learn a language" but it's only focused on some skills. It has vocabulary and grammar in some sense, since you'll read a lot and encounter new words and structures. But it doesnt have speaking or writing practice at least last time I was on it. Those activities would need to be worked on, on your own).
You can do that kind of cost/benefit contemplating with any study method material you see being sold. Amother example: there's a beginner Mandarin course called Mandarin Blueprint. It teaches like 800 words. Thats all. It may be worthwhile for a beginner... who still needs to learn 800 common words. But if you already know a few hundred words, the benefit of the course is less, you'll need to find a new material to teach you more new stuff soon. And the price was like a few hundred for the course... which for me personally was too much to spend, when I had already learned 800 hanzi from a book that cost me 12 dollars and 2000 words from a free user made memrise deck. The course claimed to get a person speaking, competent, but anyone not a beginner would say speaking basically with 800 words is nowhere near the level of working in Chinese or just doing a lot of daily life stuff, or reading/listening to media. (Although for the motivated beginner if you're learning 800 words on your own like I was, its definitely close to the point of jumping to learn more words and start reading kids and teenager books, and watching easier shows if you're willing to look new words up). So to me... Mandarin Blueprint felt like overselling some basic beginner materials. (Again when I know several other things that teach beginner stuff either more in depth so HSK test prep classes, and college courses, or that teach beginner stuff to the same depth as Mandarin Blueprint but free).
Some study materials aren't going to act like they teach everything. I've seen chinese courses just for learning to speak tones better and general pronunciation - probably worthwhile if your goal is to improve speaking and a teacher could help improve the issues your having. But a learner needs to be aware for that course that they'll need to study vocabulary on their own, its JUST a pronunciation improvement course.
#rant#i saw a lot of comments on forums yesterday thinking automatic language growth alg was like snake oil#aka a scam. but it can be done for free (free lessons online) and for people who#learn well from visual context and guessing (i learn well that way) the lesson style DOES result in learning new words and grammar#so provided you can find ALG type free lessons that teach 1000+ words (ideally 3000+ words) then you will learn#enough grammar and words to then move onto native speaker content to continue studying. so all free#i have not seen yet how ALG helps students with speaking or writing yet though. so i can only say it for sure improves passive skills#specifically listening with new words and grammar. and listening translates to reading if you practice that on your own#even just with subtitles or podcast transcripts.#the issue for me is can i find alg courses that teach a thousand words in a timely manner (and free if thats my personal requirement)#i think Dreaming Spanish and Comprehensible Thai do have enough free courses to teach 1000+ words#so those ones would get you to possibly intermediate b1 level in passive listening skill#and then its up to you on if 1 that meets your goal 2 you learn well with that lesson type 3 you are motivated to do the lessons#like... duolingo itself is not completely useless... it teaches 3000 words on most courses (and maybe 1500 common words). the big issue for#me with duolingo is it takes me AGES to complete a lesson and complete a course (years). cause i cant focus on it#whereas with duolingos content... its beginner content. at best it will get Reading skill to A2 or low B1#and maybe other skills if you practice OUTSIDE duolingo with the words and grammar u learned.#so getting to A2 vocab shouldnt take me more than a year to learn (based on how i study). i can learn it in 6 months if i#just study a wordlist on paper and a grammar guide online. so since duolingo takes me 4 times LONGER to study than the other methods i use?#duolingo is a waste of my time. not worth it (and it markets itself as if it will get a learner to B2 when it wont. and it markets#as if 1 lesson a day is all you need. to make progress in 6 months in duolingo like my wordlist study...#you'd need to be doing duolingo 1-3 hours a day... which duolingo does not tell u to do. and most learners dont
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buddy cole documentary trailer editing update!

printed more quotes/clip descriptions and taped them to color-coded notecards for my irl paper-edit timeline!! also reprinted all the quotes i already picked out bc i wanted to change the formatting. and i just realized from looking at this photo that i accidentally put one of the quotes on the wrong color card FUCK
(it's the one attributed to mark mckinney that just says [The Buddy Cole Song], I wrote it that way bc I didn't want to type out every lyric he improvised and I'd know just from the description, but I use that same brackets style to describe actions in the clips that won't be using their original audio so it got put in that pile. remind me to fix that tomorrow lmao)
also the huge green one is a one minute piece of conversation from a time when scott was considering retiring the buddy cole character (which he's done several times over the course of production, that's what mark's improv-song was about) and me trying to convince scott himself why the character is still relevant. i'm a little insecure about putting that long of a clip in a trailer bc most other clips are like 1-3 sentences but also this is gonna be an extended trailer-slash-reel so it'll be like 5-7 minutes in total, and that conversation will at times just play as audio with buddy performance clips over it (that's what the green notecard means) but idk let me know if you don't want to hear it lol
also if someone could teach me exactly how the youtube copyright system works that would be much appreciated
#purple is just visual. red is visual + audio. yellow is just audio. green can have visual shown but can also easily become voiceover#and i'm gonna add blue notecards any time i come up with a type of clip i want to add that i don't already have printed out#(i.e. i have way more audio cards than visual cards‚ and none of the cards have stuff from the KITH tv show or archive footage yet#so i'm gonna build the structure via my own footage and then look at my placeholder blue cards and start tracking those down)#yes i know there are far more convenient ways to do this digitally‚ but this is how i want to work lmao#also in the ''person'' column i did separate scott and buddy as different categories#(it's defined by whether he's in his buddy costume‚ not necessarily the voice + whether he's onstage)#and don't worry i do have an online spreadsheet that includes not just the time code‚ name‚ and quote transcript#but also the file name and where it's located so i'll be able to track the pieces down again#yippee editing updates!!! idk if this is interesting but i feel the need to share to prove i'm doing something lmao
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