#PIE with Films.

[623duck]

2024.01.01

Happy New Year!

In 2023, two of my films were released in theaters, I left noadd Inc., where I worked for seven years, and started my own company. I have had a year full of news.

Continue to work on many exciting projects in 2024. I would like to ask for your continued support!

[tylerposey]

STEVE TALLEY as Dwight Stifler American Pie Presents: Beta House (2007)

[kazz-brekker]

my two favorite valentine's day facts are that st. valentine is the patron saint of not only love but also beekeepers, people with epilepsy, and the plague, and also that february 14th is the original release date of the silence of the lambs (1991)

[tigitaldurtle]

Topic of discussion: Explosions

[texaschainsawmascara]

Shannon Elizabeth, Scream 3 premiere (2000)

[dedalvs]

Do you have any thoughts on the translation scene in Goncharov? I haven't seen a lot of people talking about it but it's a pretty pivotal scene and given that what they're doing is not dissimilar to a conlang imo i figured you might have some good insights

*sigh*

I figured someone was going to ask this eventually...

So listen, the whole translation scene in Goncharov is not technically conlang-related. It's actually even more brilliant, but it's hard to explain.

Since the tutor doesn't speak Russian and the nurse only speaks Italian, the aphasiac Soviet spy has to use an impromptu series of hand gestures to indicate that he either does or doesn't understand. I mean, you can glean that from the subtitles, so that's no big revelation.

But this is where it gets weird and...I mean, linguistically controversial, to say the least, but it was the 70s.

As the tutor and the nurse attempt to communicate with him and each other, they begin to winnow down their vocabulary to words that are cognate between Italian and Russian. And through this back and forth, the languages seem like they're blending, but what they're actually doing is reversing the sound changes of Italian and Russian until they both end up, improbably, at Proto-Indo-European. It's like something you'd see in Fantasia, but aural! It's...utterly bizarre.

And, of course the final word that the nurse and the tutor utter simultaneously, the one that brings the spy to tears, is *bʰewdʰ- "awake, aware"—which, I mean, knowing how the rest of the movie goes...yeah. Bombshell. And it's crazy to me that they didn't subtitle it! Like, you pretty much have to be a PIE scholar to get that, and the entire subplot hinges on it! I mean, bold isn't the word for it. Unfathomable. Cannot believe they got away with that...

Rumor has it that Morris Halle consulted on the film, but he's adamantly refused to talk about. (For years, he'd end all his guest lectures with, "Are they any questions about anything other than Goncharov?") He never once confirmed whether or not he was involved (of course, he wasn't credited, but that wouldn't be unusual for the time even if he was involved).

I can see why you'd think it would be a conlang, but the reverse-engineered sound changes were so precise, and the whole thing so by the book, that there really wasn't any actual invention. It was all Indo-European!

[punk-angel]

some of my favorite ponies ‼️

[sexynetra]

NICKY AT CANNES THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[sincericida]

ANDREW GARFIELD

at the closing night of the Red Sea International Film Festival 2023.

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[daughterofcainnnn]

This will ALWAYS be my favorite photo of her ♡

[pamietniko]

Twede's Cafe

North Bend, Washington

[doubters-get-no-cookies]

I need this outfit ᡣ𐭩 •｡ꪆৎ ˚⋅

[cherryc0ke90s]

𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓃 𝓅𝑒𝒶𝓀𝓈 ☕️

[linatron]

GIRLSSSSSSSSSS <3

[kazz-brekker]

femme is the evil version of those gay rom-coms where the main character becomes really attached to a piece of clothing belonging to their love interest

[captain-rickbond]

hello! i'm a fellow rickbond fic writer and i'm desperately searching for something, and for some reason you came to mind (i think it might be the username?)

i vaguely remember a q&a answer (might have been via twitter) where either ben or larry confirmed who paces and who writes - and i cannot find it for the life of me! attempting to write a writing-for-bill era fic and want it to be at least slightly accurate lol

hi!

I asked my friend @bawdiestrhymester about this because I knew this was the person to turn to if you wanna get a legit answer💜

and it turnes out... Ben is the pacer, and Larry is the writer

link to the WANA podcast when they talk about it :)

anyway, if you're writing about writing-for-bill era, have this quick crazy Walsingham doodle (I haven't had a full night's sleep in over a week so this shows exactly how I feel 🙃)