#Stephen Lea Sheppard

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Raliegh: 17 October, third examination of Dudley Heinsbergen. All right, Dudley, make yours like mine.

Narrator: Raleigh's next book was about a condition he called "Heinsbergen Syndrome. "

Raliegh: Where's that red one going to go?

Dudley: Done. Good. Very good. My goodness. How interesting. How bizarre. Dudley suffers from a rare disorder combining symptoms of amnesia, dyslexia and colour blindness. He has a highly acute sense of hearing. There is also evidence of...

Dudley: I'm not color-blind, am I?

Raliegh: I'm afraid you are.

[filmy420]

[kotori-mochi]

Using Disabled people to justify AI generators.

So I have seen this sooo many times on twitter, AI bros and pro AI people saying that "AI generators can help Disabled people be creative."

Just too tell you all my older sister whom I take care of along with my mother. Is mentally disabled and loves too paint and doesn't care for AI generated images. I even told her about it, how it works, everything and her comment was "isn't that cheating". Literally what she said.

(this is an old photo from the facebook account and the one with the Pink and black hoodie is my sister. Julia)

Also back in California she went to an art class for DISABLED people and even too this day, none of them use AI generated images because they enjoy the process of making art or being creative. If you want to know the school it's called Claraty Arts . I also added the link if you want to check them out and maybe buy some art from their talented artist who didn't allow their disabilities to get in the way of them being creative.

Also too add some well known artist who were Disabled:

Frida Kahlo

Vincent Van Gogh

Yayoi Kusama

Ángela de la Cruz

Ray Charles

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Django Reinhardt 

Stevie Wonder (blind but wrote music)

Alice Sheppard

Rick Allen

Yinka Shonibare

Ryan Gander

Stephen Wiltshire

Uttam Kumar

Ian Dury

Hank Williams

Gaelynn Lea

Muniba Mazari

Itzhak Perlman 

And the list continues...

So Disabled people don't need AI generators too help them, they can be creative themselves without using a program that does it for you.

If anything AI bros and pro AI people sound more ableist to say that they can't be creative without these programs.

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Stephen Lea Sheppard

Anonymous asked:

Stephen Lea Sheppard?

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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Wes Anderson

October 11th 2021

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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

[cinemuki]

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - dir. Wes Anderson

I don’t think you’re an asshole, Royal. I just think you’re kind of a son of a bitch.

[welcometoyouredoom]

[reviewsinfilm]

The Royal Tenenbaums

(TW: Suicide)

The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001) is a funky drama/comedy that is just as disorienting as it is heartening. The film follows Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman), a deadbeat father that only reappears in the lives of his family members because he has run out of money. His character, along with the editing, mise-en-scene, and reflexivity, makes the film a work of art entirely its own.

The title of this film is interesting because it has a double meaning. To label a family “royal” gives them a very prestigious, proper, and admirable feel. While the Tenenbaums are all quite brilliant, royal is not quite the way to describe them. This ironic adjective they’re given contrasts with what is actually a quite disheveled family. The second meaning, revealed quite early on, is the name of the main character. The movie does follow Royal Tenenbaum, but he is the ultimate outsider. He left his family to fend for themselves, then when he returns he is only accepted back in by his son Richie (Luke Wilson). To label the family by grouping them all together using his name shows that he is still the patriarch. Royal’s ploy to fake his illness does follow a classic plot line – that of a family member scheming to get back in their family’s good graces. He functions as the catalyst to bring the family back together, yet his character still brings a lot of meaning to the film. His disconnectedness comes to light when he states, “I want this family to love me.” In labeling them “this family,” he shows that he does not consider himself one of them. However, the close of the film reveals an interesting anecdote set forth by Royal. There is a shot of his gravestone, which reads, “died tragically rescuing his family from the wreckage of a destroyed sinking battleship.” What could be construed as one last silly joke played by Royal actually seems to be quite deeper than that. Each member of Royal’s family was suffering from extreme loneliness before he showed up. His role in the film was to pull them away from their troubles and make them reevaluate the choices they had been making. He quite literally saved them from their own wreckage.

The editing throughout The Royal Tenenbaums is mostly invisible, apart from one scene in particular. When Richie decides to kill himself, there are quick cuts to images of Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow), his adopted sister whom he is in love with. This type of editing is used to reveal his inner thoughts. As he slits his wrists with a razor blade, he is thinking about her. The audience is given his motive solely through this editing technique. The scene is also silenced and instead has a song playing lightly in the background. When Dudley (Stephen Lea Sheppard) finds Richie covered in blood, he is seen screaming, but the scream is not heard. The music plays over this scene. Hearing the song playing in the background seems to make it less tragic and closer to romantic. Had viewers heard Dudley’s scream, it would immediately become alarming. Between the use of silence and the quick flashback editing, this solemn scene turns into an ode of his love for Margot.

Prior to watching this film, I had some ideas about what a Wes Anderson work would look like: colorful, busy, and highly stylized. I was delighted to be proven right, as this film mastered the art of mise-en-scene. Every frame is filled with things to look at, between the picture frames hanging on the walls, the character’s costumes, or the board games brimming the closet. The colors are vibrant and there are as many perfectly symmetrical frames as there are completely skewed ones. The characters live in this slightly off-kilter world which comes across in the way the scenes look. The attention to detail proves that everything seen in the movie is deliberate and pristinely designed.

There are certain elements of this film that separate it from most others. First, the title sequence introducing the characters. I’ve seen very few films, if any, that have done something like this. Interrupting the narrative to remind viewers that the characters are actors playing a role is quite a bold move. It contributes to its self-consciousness, making it a reflexive film. Another moment that reiterates this reflexivity is when Royal is in the game closet. He is talking and looks right into the camera, as if speaking directly to the audience. Afterwards the camera shifts to reveal he was talking to a mouse, but in that moment, he broke the fourth wall. A third interesting element of The Royal Tenenbaumsis the inclusion of chapters, showing text from pages of a book. After a little research, I learned that this film actually isn’t based on a book and the novel pictured is entirely fictional. This is a fascinating, non-diegetic, addition to the film. It certainly adds an element of pomp to it - it almost begs to be taken more seriously simply because it seems to be based on a novel.

The Tenenbaum family is funny, bright, a bit inappropriate, and surely impossible to understand. Wes Anderson brought this to life in The Royal Tenenbaums, matching the way the film looks to the character’s personalities seamlessly. Each element allows the audience to not just view this film, but to experience it. The ending is slightly satisfying, but does not give the audience any sort of closure, allowing the Tenenbaums to remain enigmas.

14 July 2019

[to-move-heaven-and-hell]

Laughing is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Get a woman laughing, and you've got a woman loving.

Harris Trinsky, Freaks and Geeks

[violetlydreaming]

What are Those?! Exalted Animals

@heedra I saw you talking to @xxxdragonfucker69xxx about making a list of animals in Exalted and I realized that I’d already found one. This is courtesy of Stephen Lea Sheppard who made a list of animals in Exalted which correspond to real things in the 3e corebook that are non-obvious!

The angler lizard is a Tanystropheus.

The armored terror is a Dunkelosteus.

The benthic knifetooth is an up-sized and up-fierced frilled shark.

The boar-tusk crocodile is a Kaprosuchus.

The bunyip is a Diprotodon.

The claw strider is a Deinonychus.

The death moa is literally just a moa, I think. EDIT: It's a Bullockornis. Thank you, Vance.

The emperor sloth is a Megatherium.

The hellboar... I don't remember, but it's literally just a big prehistoric boar of some kind, I know it's one particular species but whatever, Google isn't turning anything up and I don't have these memorized. EDIT: It's an Entelodont.

The ox-dragon is a Triceratops or some other ceratopsid, yeah. That bit about opportunistic omnivorism is based on real current theory. I don't know what's going on with that illo.

The pestletail is a Glyptodont, and therefore a mammal and not a turtle. The stats would work for an ankylosaurus, though.

The quoll-lion is a marsupial lion.

The raiton is an Archeopteryx.

The river-dragon is from Exalted 1e and may or may not correspond to any particular bit of prehistoric megafauna.

The siege lizard is a Stegosaurus.

The tyrant lizard is, indeed, T. rex.

The yeddim is an original Exalted animal but seems to most closely resemble Paraceratherium. Or maybe some descendent of Paraceratherium after thousands of years of domestication by god-heroes.

Most of these were chosen by backers who purchased the "Choose an example of prehistoric megafauna for us to put in the book" reward tier. I was really, really hoping someone would choose Quetzalcoatlus northropi, but nobody did, alas.

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[littlemovieposters]

2021 Home Viewing #106: The Man with the Gray Elevated Hair. (dir. Jason S., 2017) [29m 40s]

My travels through every bonus feature on every home-video version of every Twin Peaks release that I can access is currently in an irritating rut. On the 2017 revival season’s initial home-video release, there are upwards of half a dozen short features directed by one Jason Scheunemann, who insists on being credited as Jason S., and every title card is the same photo of a man whom I presume to be this Jason. His IMDB page states that he was David Lynch’s assistant on Mulholland Drive, and he has credits for other David Lynch-related short documentary features. Lynch obviously loves this guy. What really irks me, though, is every one of these featurettes I am watching is narrated by a guy obviously selected by Scheunemann because he sounds like Werner Herzog. Scheunemann has this guy read “poetic” ramblings that sound precisely like what silly college kids hanging around trying to imitate Werner Herzog would come up with. Of course, “the man with the grey elevated hair” is David Lynch; oh, wouldn’t it be so funny to hear Werner Herzog say that? This is a joke that gets old after ten seconds, but it is clear that Jason S. doesn’t mean it as a joke. He passes it off like it’s true poetry to have a man with a thick accent intone curiously worded, often inscrutable phrases, as if half his viewers can’t tell he stole this shtick from Werner Herzog. Knowing that I have hours more of this nonsense to sit through makes things very irritating indeed.

I digress, but this is the second wholesale theft I’ve seen in the past week or so; Tyler Taormina’s abominable film Ham on Rye does a similar thing multiple times. Even if I can’t prove he stole his flim’s title from Charles Bukowski’s autobiographical novel Ham on Rye, which, like Taormina’s film has nothing to do with a sandwich, I would bet $100 on it. (Of course, like all these self-styled cleverness merchants, Taormina is ready with an argument against all comers: one of the many pointless scenes that contribute nothing to the film involves a man grabbing a sandwich from a woman’s hands and throwing it in a bonfire. Forget that it’s not on rye bread; Taormina would argue if caught, I have no doubt, that the title refers to that pointless scene.) And while perhaps he didn’t steal the title, he very obviously bases one of his characters entirely on Stephen Lea Sheppard’s character Harris Trinsky from turn-of-the-century TV show Freaks and Geeks, and another character, though he has few lines, is obviously modeled after Samm Levine’s Freaks and Geeks character Neal Schweiber. Taormina would undoubtedly tell us this is homage. Homage is not replicating characters wholesale. Good directors do homage. What Taormina does, and what Jason S. does in his Twin Peaks documentary featurettes, is wholesale theft, copying, mimicry, whatever you want to call it. I can’t stand having to sit through hours of someone who sounds exactly like a person imitating Werner Herzog’s shtick and having it passed off like an original artistic decision. I once met a pretentious guy at a wedding who introduced himself as Sparklehorse. He even signed the wedding registry as Sparklehorse with an enormous, embellished signature that took up half the page. No, you don’t get to do that, Sparklehorse is already someone else’s pseudonym, and it is a singular pseudonym, not an all-purpose nickname like Junior or Shorty that’s available to anybody who wants it. Watching all this nonsense is like meeting the fake Sparklehorse.

All of THAT being said, the short features by Jason S. cannot be written off as worthless, for they manage to capture the truest, most intimate examples that I can imagine are in existence of David Lynch’s on-set directing style. Throughout all the bonus features I have watched, actors from Twin Peaks have rhapsodized about what it’s like to be on set with David Lynch. They often say it just wasn’t the same when a guest director would come in for an episode of the original Twin Peaks two-season run. These actors love Lynch, and between the idiotic Herzog rip-offs Jason S.’s short features capture why they love him. It’s not just that he’s empathetic or patient; it’s also his own inscrutable side, the kind of thing you usually hear coming from musicians when they say perplexing things like “play it like a snake in the rain,” or whatever vision only they can see. And then the people they’re working with manage to do it. I love being able to see this in action with Lynch. So, I can’t hate Jason S. too hard, for Lynch allows him to capture all of this, and feels comfortable letting him in on these intimate moments so that we all can see them.

The Man with the Grey Elevated Hair focuses on Lynch’s interplay with some of the better-known cast members of Twin Peaks. 

2021 Home Viewing #106a: Tell It Martin. (dir. Jason S., 2017) [28m 52s]

This one, whose title has zero significance that I understand, focuses on Lynch’s interplay with other members of the cast outside the stars of the show that we’re most familiar with. In addition, some of Lynch’s other side is seen here: blunt, perfectionist, exasperated (not with people, but with situations). 

[thecsientist]

List of LGBT+ Characters in Television

Here is a list of them! It will eternally be incomplete, but do private message me any characters I have missed out!

Format : Character - Show/Film || Actor

Homosexual

Aaron - The Walking Dead || Ross Marquand

Alan Turing - The Imitation Game (2014) || Benedict Cumberbatch

Alex Danvers - Supergirl || Chyler Leigh

Alex Vause - Orange Is The New Black || Laura Prepon

Anissa Pierce - Black Lightning || Nafessa Williams

Bill Potts - Doctor Who || Pearl Mackie

Blaine Anderson - Glee || Darren Criss

Canton Everett Delaware III - Doctor Who || Mark Sheppard

Carrie Black - Orange Is The New Black || Lea DeLaria

Charlie Bradbury - Supernatural || Felicia Day

Citizen Cold (Earth-X Leonard Snart) - Legends of Tomorrow || Wentworth Miller

Curtis Holt - Arrow || Echo Kellum

Dan Sherry - Handsome Devil (2016) || Andrew Scott

David Singh and Rob - The Flash || Patrick Sabongui and Jeremy Schuetze

Denise Cloyd - The Walking Dead || Merritt Wever

Desi Piscatella - Orange Is The New Black || Brad William Henke

Eric - The Walking Dead || Jordan Woods-Robinson

Grace Choi - Black Lightning || Chantal Thuy

Hartley Rathaway - The Flash || Andy Mientus

Jack Harkness - Doctor Who || John Barrowman

Jenny Flint - Doctor Who || Catrin Stewart

Joey Gutierrez - Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D || Juan Pablo Raba

Kevin - Love, Simon (2018) || Colton Haynes-Leatham

Kevin Cozner - Brooklyn Nine-Nine || Marc Evan Jackson

Kurt Hummel - Glee || Chris Colfer

Loras Tyrell - Game of Thrones || Finn Jones

Madame Vastra - Doctor Who || Neve McIntosh

Maggie Sawyer - Supergirl || Floriana Lima

Martin Waters - The Architect (2006) || Sebastian Stan

Nicky Nichols - Orange Is The New Black || Natasha Lyonne

Nyssa al Ghul - Arrow || Katrina Law

Olyvar - Game of Thrones || Will Tudor

Patrick - The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) || Ezra Miller

Paul Monroe (Jesus) - The Walking Dead || Tom Payne

Poussey Washington - Orange Is The New Black || Samira Wiley

Raymond Holt - Brooklyn Nine-Nine || Andre Braugher

Ray Terrill - Legends of Tomorrow || Russell Tovey

Renly Baratheon - Game of Thrones || Gethin Anthony

Santana Lopez - Glee || Naya Rivera

Sebastian Smythe - Glee || Grant Gustin

Stella Carlin - Orange Is The New Black || Ruby Rose

Suzanne Warren - Orange Is The New Black || Uzo Aduba

Tara Chambler - The Walking Dead || Alanna Masterson

Terry Crabtree - Wonder Boys (2000) || Robert Downey Jr.

Todd Rice - Legends of Tomorrow || Dan Payne/Lance Henriksen

Tricia Miller - Orange Is The New Black || Madeline Brewer

Bisexual

Alana Bloom - Hannibal || Caroline Dhavernas

Alison DiLaurentis - Pretty Little Liars || Sasha Pieterse

Annalise Keating - How to Get Away With Murder || Viola Davis

Barbara Kean - Gotham || Erin Richards

Brittany S. Pierce - Glee || Heather Morris

Calliope Torres - Grey’s Anatomy || Sara Ramirez

Chuck Shurley/God - Supernatural || Rob Benedict

Clara Oswald - Doctor Who || Jenna Coleman

Clarke Griffin - The 100 || Eliza Taylor

Ellaria Sand - Game of Thrones || Indira Varma

Hannibal Lecter - Hannibal || Mads Mikkelsen

Irene Adler - Sherlock || Lara Pulver

John Constantine - Arrow / Legends of Tomorrow || Matt Ryan

Lorna Morello - Orange Is The New Black || Yael Stone

Lucifer Morningstar - Lucifer || Tom Ellis

Magnus Bane - Shadowhunters || Harry Shum Jr.

Marei - Game of Thrones || Josephine Gillan

Maya St. Germain - Pretty Little Liars || Bianca Lawson

Nico Minoru - Runaways || Lyrica Okano

Oberyn Martell - Game of Thrones || Pedro Pascal

Oswald Cobblepot - Gotham || Robin Taylor

Piper Chapman - Orange Is The New Black || Taylor Schilling

River Song - Doctor Who || Alex Kingston

Rosa Diaz - Brooklyn Nine-Nine || Stephanie Beatriz

Sara Lance - Arrow / Legends of Tomorrow || Caity Lotz

Pansexual

Brook Soso - Orange Is The New Black || Kimiko Glenn

Crowley - Supernatural || Mark Sheppard

Wade Wilson - Deadpool (2016) || Ryan Reynolds

Yara Greyjoy - Game of Thrones || Gemma Whelan

Asexual/Aromantic

Raphael Santiago - Shadowhunters || David Castro

Varys - Game of Thrones || Conleth Hill

Transgender

Rayon - Dallas Buyers Club (2013) || Jared Leto

Sophia Burset - Orange Is The New Black || Laverne Cox

Theorized (Unconfirmed, speculated by fans)

Barry Allen - The Flash - Bisexual || Grant Gustin

Dean Winchester - Supernatural - Bisexual || Jensen Ackles

Eurus Holmes - Sherlock - Lesbian || Sian Brooke

Jake Peralta - Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Bisexual || Andy Samberg

James Moriarty - Sherlock - Gay || Andrew Scott

John Watson - Sherlock - Bisexual || Martin Freeman

Kara Danvers - Supergirl - Bisexual || Melissa Benoist

Oliver Queen - Arrow - Bisexual || Stephen Amell

Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock - Gay || Benedict Cumberbatch

[skeptictankj]

Some sharp-eyed folks noticed a line in the most recent Adversaries of the Righteous that seemed to imply the Realm may now have same-sex marriage in 3E.

Here’s the gameline’s editor, Stephen Lea Sheppard, responding to questions on that:

"Re: Gay marriage: When Exalted was launched in 2001, and when Dynastic society was conceived for publication in the first Dragon-Blooded hardcover published in April 2002, gay marriage wasn't legal in the US and the idea that it might get legalized in less than, like, thirty years felt like a pipedream. There are solid in-setting reasons why the Dynasty might not treat gay marriage as even a thing, and adherence to that sort of internal verisimilitude was valued highly by the setting designers, I believe to the game's strength many years later. It is now 2017 and gay marriage has been the law of the land in the USA for years. The Dynasty is deliberately terrible. It is an engine of murderous exploitation informed by everything from King Leopold's Ghost to the Draka Domination. One of the Aspect Books features the story of a Dragon-Blooded mother who, unhappy with how weak and soft she believes her child to be, literally feeds her child's favorite nannies alive to sharks, ostensibly in the name of toughening him up but also because the mother is a bitter, vindictive old ass. But that's not the only thing the Dynasty is. The Dynasty is also Exalted's primary "social play" venue -- it's the part of the setting you set your game in if you want to do Game of Thrones or other courtly romance games, or Dynastic highschool hijinx. It's full of awful political backbiting and dark family secrets and also galas and balls and schools and sophisticated high society, based on but not always visibly engaging with terrible economic exploitation of the rest of the world. It is at once a villain for PCs to confront in some games, and a setting for other PCs to thrive within in other games. Because the Dynasty is in so many ways so terrible, it feels really weird to keep all those terrible factors and then say "Despite their natalism and domineering attitude towards their children and focus on filial piety and borderline-to-obviously-not-borderline abusive childrearing techniques, the Dynasty is surprisingly tolerant and enlightened when it comes to same-sex relationships!" ...but it also feels unconscionable to tell LGBT players "Ahah, even now after you can get gay married in real life, the primary social play venue of our imaginary fantasyland does not support gay marriage for your original characters (do not steal), because of reasons!" The setting exists the way it does because we write it that way. You can't hide behind "But it makes no sense because setting" when you're the reason the setting is the way it is. So gay marriage in the Dynasty in 3e is no longer just not a thing. All the factors motivating its discouragement are still around -- the Realm's interest in strong inheritence tracking and precise lineage records, its distrust of sorcerers and demons, the unreliability of sorcerous workings -- but they also exist in the context of a world that's been run by god- and element-chosen heroes shaping the world according to their epic passions since the dawn of history. When your best friend in secondary school now wields an ancestral heirloom daiklave that was famously forged during the Shogunate because of its creator's anger that arranged marriage prevented her from being with her chosen wife, and its use in pursuit of that grievance lead to the extinction of three family lines, the death of a regional daimyo, a volcanic eruption, and a tsunami that reshaped the coastline in ways you can still see centuries later when you visit your summer home, grandkids via demon midwife are still not what you want, but they don't look so much like the end of the world."

[cinemuki]

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - dir. Wes Anderson

There’s obviously something wrong with him. He’s taken off his shoes and one of his socks and actually, I think he’s crying.