#c++ stack

[perplexingly]

The cemetery in Barcelona is the most claustrophobic place I've seen in my life, but it has some beautiful sculptures

[chaos0pikachu]

man I can't even be mad at Grace and Mary for crashing out after Bo and Stack got ate and left respectively because I would too if my partner was that fine.

Annie didn't crash out because she knows she's the hot one in her and Smoke's relationship. Like Smoke is hot but Annie Is The Hot One. There's a difference.

[nekioe]

Something about fear

(Turn your brightness up)

[spark-circuit]

ZACHARIE'S LITTLE MENU ART AAAAAAAAA <3

[rat-rosemary]

Ough, pushing my trauma into c!Dream, guys he's in such a bad state after prison.

Base after base dedicated to hoarding just one specific item (or type like Redstone in general). Sapnap tracks Dream down and finds nothing but a empty base where every chest is filled to the brim with regular apples

(So many chests. Walls of double chests filled with nothing but stacks of apples. Dream never touches it tho, if he needs it he'll get more. This is for emergencies)

Dream sitting on his makeshift kitchen in prison in the middle of the night (he thinks. He can't exactly tell the time here) staring at some easy to eat food that he really wants and he's so hungry but he can't eat it because what if he needs it later?

Carefully studying people's schedules and timing how long he can stay in the sun, even if he's far away from everyone

Comfort hidden so deep no one could ever find it. Hundreds of blocks from mainland there's a hole digged at bedrock level where Dream made a bed filled with blankets and plushies and pillows. It makes him sick to try to sleep in it but looking at it make him feel safer

(Not acting on major threats like the egg because it gets attention off him it helps the plan. Everyone is coming together to fight one threat. The fact that it makes them forget about him for a bit has nothing to do with it.)

[lonestarflight]

Ground crews stack the S-IB first stage of the Apollo 1 (AS-204) Saturn IB (SA-204), onto the pedestal at Launch Pad 34.

Date: August 29, 1966

NASA ID: link

[computer-nerd-girl]

[cent-scratchnsniff]

reread tiphs dialog recently. i love them lots

[thespacelizard]

theres a post going around about this so i have to ask: what would your ocs bring to a potluck? (iirc rizeth is the only one who can cook right?)

oooh this is a good question. now i have to think about what Rizeth can Actually Cook instead of like. vague meals lol

of the Lads in my main collection, yeah, he's the only one with what I'd call a solid actual ability to cook - though he's not a chef, and doesn't really consider his skills like. Skills. He's competent.

But I feel like he'd bring something that pairs with what Ashenivir can make - so like he'd help Shen make some nice sporebread or something, and then make a big ol' soup to go with it, something like that. Something that's tasty but not showy; he doesn't want a bunch of people gushing over how good that was, he just wants to make sure people are fed.

Vizaeth is bringing nothing, if he's even invited to the potluck in the first place. Food is nothing but an Ordeal for that boy.

Zeth'rinn brings a very fancy dessert that he very much did Not make - he's 100% fine with bragging how talented his baker friend is and strongly implying he was eating frosting off of them like five minutes before he showed up.

Rune brings a tray of assorted meats, and Astarion's brought fancy cheese and wine, so between them they've got a functional charcuterie board and are thus my favourite people at the party <3

we've got a decent meal going here, what are your ocs bringing? what am I avoiding so i don't get poisoned :p

[avaantares]

Wait, Zhao Yunlan's gun is actually a...?!

(I've never claimed production meta for @guardianbingo before, but after the amount of time and research I put in on this, I feel like I've earned the "Zhao Yunlan's Gun or Whip" square, haha)

SO. GUYS.

Maybe this is something fandom as a whole figured out back in 2018, but I, who didn't hear of Guardian until 2020, did not realize until now and I need to share the knowledge because when I finally noticed, I made an unholy sound.

I've tracked down where Zhao Yunlan's gun came from -- or at least, what it most likely started as. Not the in-universe dark-energy-maybe-uses-bullets-maybe-doesn't-device-that's-best-not-thought-about-too-long, but rather the actual fake-steampunk-revolver-that-is-best-not-looked-at-too-long-because-it's-awful prop.

Y'know, this disaster:

I was actually working on a different Guardian Bingo fill and needed to look something up for continuity, so I'd flipped through a couple of episodes at super high speed trying to find a scene. As luck would have it, one of my skips forward happened to land on the scene I screencapped above, when ZYL confronts Zhang Shi.

Normally we don't get this clear (or this stationary) a shot of the godawful gun prop. I'd assumed all along they had just taken a plastic gun, glued some extra bits and bobs on it to make it look fancy, and hit it with some dry brushing (fun fact: you can watch the paint flake throughout the series; check out the top of the barrel and the side of the cylinder in the above screenshot!) to make it look #steampunk like the abandoned aesthetic of 25% of the show (as I've said before, I have theories about what happened in preproduction, but that's another post). This sort of thing is exactly what I've done for cheap cosplay weapons or background props for film work that aren't going to be seen at HD detail range.

Anyway, since the detail showed up better here than in other shots, I paused the video to look at the random screws and hex bolts (why??) they'd glued on it, since I recalled that I had the aforementioned gun/whip bingo square to fill.

That's when I noticed a detail that had eluded me before: An inverted V shape at the bottom of the grip.

Only looking more closely, that's not an inverted V. It's a symbol that I've seen a whole series of variations of over the past 15+ years... every time there's a new installment of the Assassin's Creed video game series:

So I started hunting. The principal weapons in each game turned up no matches, but eventually I found a gun that looks almost exactly like ZYL's:

It's not a perfect replica, but the details are certainly all there: The stylized logo; the leaves and swirls on the grip; the feathers up the back; even the Victorian scrollwork beneath the barrel.

Now, what's really interesting is that this gun isn't actually from the AC game series. It's part of an elaborate fan project by artist David Paget that started as a class assignment back in 2014. Even though it gathered a bit of steam in the AC fandom and generated a couple of forum role-play groups, OCs and the like, nothing about this artwork was ever connected to a real Assassin's Creed title. So why would there be a physical version of a gun that was only someone's fanart?

This is where the smoking gun (*rimshot*) goes missing, because I can't prove any of this, and it's been long enough that digging through the archives of the internet to find answers is going to take way more time than I can afford to spend on a project I'm not getting paid for. But there are two likely possibilities:

Scenario A: Some employee in a toy factory somewhere in China got told, "This Assassin's Creed franchise is really big, so we need to be producing replicas from those games to sell. Work up some designs." So the employee Googles "assassin's creed gun," finds David Paget's very professional-looking art, and whips up a replica to mass-injection-mold without realizing it's not actually from a game. Later, someone on the cash-strapped Guardian production team needs a gun to mod, and finds a cheap toy revolver on clearance after several years of sitting in storage because there was little demand for a replica of a gun that was never in a game. They buy several, glue hex bolts on the cylinder for reasons unknown, and poof! Instant pseudo-steampunk!

Scenario B: Other fans were involved in the design. Someone did build a 3D model of David Paget's design that's still available on Sketchfab (screenshot below), and it's not unreasonable to assume that other fans could have thought it looked cool and built 3D printable models. Later, someone on the cash-strapped Guardian production team needs a gun to mod, and acquires the 3D print file of one of those models from the interwebs. They mod the file a bit, print some, glue hex bolts on the cylinder for reasons unknown, and poof! Instant pseudo-steampunk!

Personally, I find Scenario A far more likely than Scenario B, for two reasons: First, the hero prop looks more injection molded than 3D printed, especially given the technical state of 3D printing back in 2017-8. And second... Budget-challenged dramas do have a history of picking up bulk video game replicas and using them as cheap props. I made a post back in 2019 about the WoW Horde shields we spotted in a different drama...

Anyway, no firm answers about the source of the hero prop -- the world may never know! -- but we have now confirmed that in some alternate universe (possibly one of the first eighty?), Zhao Yunlan and/or Zhao Xinci is an Assassin.

Wait, wait, wait... *recalls mechanics of how the whole Assassin's Creed frame story is supposed to work* Uh... so... who wants to write a genetic memory explanation for the whole Kunlun -> [lots of lifetimes] -> Zhao Yunlan thing?

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(I did actually check the catalogue of a friend of mine who makes replicas of props from various media franchises to see if he'd done a commission of the David Paget design, since a surprising number of his custom pieces actually do end up on film and television, but while he has a gorgeous replica of a revolver that actually appears in an AC game, it appears he has not done the Zhao Yunlan gun. I didn't really think it likely, since he's in the U.S., but you never know.)

[chaos0pikachu]

man it's almost a good thing the events of sinners happened before social media because can you imagine remmick with access to twitter? he'd be the worst kinda stan like after having his spirutal mitski-esque experience listening to sammie's music he'd make 16 different twitter accounts dedicated to hosting streaming parties for sammie's music, he'd be posting charting data, he'd be fighting left, right, and center somebody with like 12 followers to his 47.5K followers for saying sammie's newest song flopped trying to get them doxxed, he'd be starting stan wars, Pop Crave would post pics of Sammie with grammy award winning - older and married the scandal! - singer Pearline and Remmick would have a Club Chalamet level crash out on Tiktok talking about "did he take her to Club Juke tho!? NO. They're NOT TOGETHER"

meanwhile Sammie is blissfully living his best awarding winning life unaware of his most unhinged stan trying to fight people in a parking lot

[lord-paul20]

Michael b. Jordan did such an amazing job in sinners it's kindve weird watching the press tour cause I'm always like ":( why do they always leave one of the twins out, that's not nice"

Then I remember it's all just Micheal b. Jordan

[hoarderheart]

Charlie, Claire, Chuck, Crowley, Castiel, Ceasar…okay, what’s with supernatural and gay people and the letter C??? Did the letters play gay uno and C is losing? Or is this a win?

[tearueful]

When a vulture starts circling during the first scene with Smoke and Stack over the old sawmill. Then a second. (and the screen being split using the sky and sawmill) A third shows up when Hogwood finally arrives. The same vultures circle Bert and Joan's house when Remmick shows up. JUST- THE DELICIOUS FORESHADOWING.

[chiropteracupola]

Our trusty and well-beloved Captain Jane Roland.

[mishkakagehishka]

Walk out of a midterm feeling quite confident.

Gets 48%