#cuttables

[bidmoth]

I’ve been debating what the funniest, most fan-fury-inducing thing any hypothetical Silmarillion movie/show could do would be, and I think the answer is to condense the sons of Feanor. There are so many of them! And they aren’t particularly individualized! You could just… cut a few. Who needs seven whole kinslayers? You get get it down to three or four, easy.

[psalacanthea]

today in Thea Fails Food Photography:

blueberry muffin french toast. bread is the whey brioche I made yesterday.

DO you wanna know the worst part? I was so proud of how well I arranged it when I realized I'd put the fucking thing on the neon sea turtle plate.

[the-weeping-dawn]

*is dragged back to fully re-writing act 1a*

[helreginn]

daeron-the-bard:

Daeron smiled and nodded. "Now I do remember you." he remembered Noruinif well, he had indeed helped her back then. "My apologies, friend. You do look slightly different, and I should have been more mindful. It is a pleasure seeing you again." He invited her to sit down on a nearby bench. "How can I be of help?" @daeron-the-bard

She smiled even wider, glad that an age since, he recalled her at all.

"Not at all. It is more than slightly and not by mere coincidence." She didn't care to elaborate unless asked outright. The how and the why she had changed her form then and now were more comedic and erroneous than she cared to acknowledge.

"Truthfully, I need none this time. It is only that I seem to find myself in Doriath more frequently in recent years. I felt it would be good to become more familiar with you and others in Thingol's court."

[modwyr]

move over babies. it's real rpg time.

[volucerrubidus]

"Maybe it's the new movie talking, but the xenomorph could get it."

[furryprovocateur]

in other news i heard about this list of a shitzillion and twelve characters for a potential new mvc game and like a dumb little moron i decided to spend about 45 minutes making my own hypothetical list. important information: i do not read comics books and thus dgaf if i overrepresented x-men or spider-man or whatever. i think this game would be fun but also it's a total of 64 characters most of which are dissimilar so it'd be frankly pretty fucking insane to ever realistically expect this to happen (which i obviously don't). if anything i'd probably opt for a capcom crossover game and ditch marvel entirely but oh well!

[duckboiis]

I'm kind of curious, and I want to make characters suffer, so...

[daz4i]

you guys don't know how much I'm restraining myself on a daily basis from sending flirty messages to my mutuals i know love blood and want to be violent but have no outlet for it

[godsdreamer]

New files are coming to the #dreamerslildreamshop like this #svg cuttable file. Don’t have a cutter? No problem! Printable options come with! https://dreamerslildreamshop.etsy.com/listing/1054909212

[elodieunderglass]

Elodie thank you so much for your US-UK translation research but I have to ask WHAT do you mean fried eggs are cooked differently? How many ways are there to fry an egg?

Reference here: https://www.tumblr.com/elodieunderglass/771840932030054400/i-cant-let-you-guys-continue-this-conversation

Yep, I can explain this easily

In the USA, fried eggs are cooked in butter and flipped. If you don’t flip, it’s called “sunny side up.” There is much talk of cooking them slowly. There is a belief, unfounded by any evidence, that there is a way to make sunny side up eggs that have FULLY cooked white and a runny yolk (I don’t think I have ever actually witnessed this, UsAmerican sunny side up usually has some amount of snotty white that you’re just expected to live with, or the yolk is not runny. Sometimes people overcome this by putting a lid over it, creating a steamed fried egg.) for the flipped ones, they are flipped once by spatula and left alone.

In the UK, you start with a pan that has a reasonable volume of hot oil, into which you crack the egg. The idea is cooking it quickly. When the egg has formed its round shape, the pan is tipped and hot oil collected with a spoon. The hot oil is spooned briskly over the whites a few times, cooking them solidly. The yolk may be covered or let alone entirely. People are not offered options in restaurants, this is simply how you fry egg.

The uk fried egg often has a lacy brown crispy edge. They are often thicker. The white has more of a cuttable, solid texture. There is less of the golden-cooked underside that I like though.

Another key difference is that UK eggs are usually stored at room temperature (chickens are vaccinated for salmonella) while USA eggs must be refrigerated (salmonella is considered an unavoidable natural ingredient that can’t possibly be regulated.) This has some impact on their texture and most serious egg people suggest cooking eggs from room temperature. Eggs can also be fresher in the UK. old eggs often wander about a little when cooked , while a very fresh egg stays round.

So the typical uk fried egg is compact, with more white to slice, while a USA fried egg is more thin. (I actually like a thin fried egg more, so USA wins there.)

I don’t have a preference myself. Each has pros and cons. But they are fried differently

[volucerrubidus]

@gothpeng replied:

"make me before i make you."

Tim snorts. "Sorry, bud, but no-can-do. I'm pretty staunchly anti-murdering people. Makes this awkward, I know, so, here's what I'll offer: I kick your butt back to your boss, and we call it a day. Reasonable?"

[writingwithfolklore]

When To Cut Your Adverbs

I’m sure you, like me, have already been told that agents and editors hate adverbs, but until I was professionally edited recently, I didn’t actually know why. I’m huge on adverbs, I would say I’m one of their biggest fans, but the way my editor explained it to me actually made the advice click.

Bad (cuttable) adverbs state the obvious.

It’s in line with the advice “show don’t tell”. If you can show that a character is pissed off, or excited, or sad, or whatever, you don’t need to then tell the readers what they’re feeling.

For example, “wow, that actually really hurt my feelings,” she said sadly.

The adverb ‘sadly’ here is already implied by what she’s saying. As the reader, I can already imagine her tone before you tell me—so the telling in this case is unnecessary.

Does that mean you need to cut out every one of your adverbs? Of course not! Even my editor allowed a few of mine to stay—but she specifically kept in the ones that added something new and meaningful to the sentence. If the tone wasn’t already clear, or there was a deeper meaning the adverb added, she kept it in.

For example, “Oh my god, I absolutely love it,” she said tightly.

In this case, we need the adverb to understand that she is lying (unless the context does it for us).

Check out some related posts to this topic here:

Show Don't Tell: Symptoms vs the Affliction

Every Line Adds Something New

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[killjoys-makesomenoise]

oooh. sam/adam being caught kissing!!!

The rough cut was nearly done; Ben just needed to find a couple more clips to fill out a montage sequence of Sam and Adam chasing after him. Ben grinned to himself as he scrubbed through the footage. He had already tagged most of it as cuttable. Useless. They ended up with so many hours of unusable footage every season. Sam and Adam had spent the afternoon looking in an entirely wrong district, being cursed and breaking into arguments. Overall not great content but Ben needed something to cut back to while he showed his own footage. Also Ben’s not going to lie, he did find some sick pleasure in seeing Adam and Sam so worked up and frustrated. Ben might actually have to save a copy of this footage for himself—regardless of if it ended up in the show or not.

Sam in the footage set up a truly abysmal shot of mostly his knee and calf, which then became an awkward shot up his shirt when the camera fell over. Ben snorted and grabbed for his coffee, he remembered he had just skipped this whole video during his first run through because there was another clip in the same location (set up properly by Adam). As entertaining as Sam‘s bare stomach was, there was little chance of it being usable for the show.

Sam probably just uploaded it by mistake. Ben was about to skip to the next clip when he noticed something. There was a tiny sliver of Sam’s face visible that wasn’t covered by his pecs and the inside of his shirt. Sam was rubbing his head in frustration, clearly annoyed at himself. But then there were Adam’s hands. Pulling Sam in for a hug? It was difficult to tell since the camera was still mostly showing up Sam’s shirt.

Ben restarted the clip and arrowed through frame by frame. There was Sam’s knee, then the camera flipped and he got a great view of Sam’s flat stomach, the hem of his underwear, the soft looking sparse blonde hair on his chest. Which was pretty nice looking Ben had to admit.

Then Sam moved back slightly and the camera wasn’t entirely under his shirt. Sam’s face was visible now, or more accurately the bottom of his chin. Sam rubbing his head and frowning. Then Adam’s arms, no, not hugging, pulling Sam’s hand down. Ben put his headphones back on and unmuted the audio track. Adam was talking, much kinder than the usual in game tone he took with Sam.

The view returned back inside of Sam’s shirt as they moved. Ben tutted, annoyed, he didn’t need to see Sam’s sexy sleek body right now, he was solving a mystery. Adam was still talking, saying something about the day being almost over and that they could reset in the morning.

That was sweet, Adam was always good at making Ben feel better at the end of a long day. Sam shifted again and his face was in view once more, only this time so was Adam’s, because they were kissing.

Adam and Sam were kissing.

Surely it was a trick of the camera angle. But then why would Adam’s face be so close to Sam’s? The clip ended abruptly when Adam picked up the camera and shut it off.

Ben scrubbed back to the couple of frames that showed them together. It was undeniable, just the tail end of a kiss and then Adam pulling back and grabbing the camera to reset the shot. They probably didn’t even notice it got captured because most of the screen was Sam’s torso and rose bud nipples. What the fuck. Ben was never going to get this edit done now.

[muskbunny]

(inside you) i don't normally do this with girls but you are just. so. cuttable. fucking christ, i need to strangle you til the light fades from your eyes. i don't know how you do this to me. god. you're not crying hard enough. let me give you a reason to. you want a scar? good girl.

[foone]

You know, It doesn't matter if you belive in God or Science or Both, trans people are natural and awesome.

God? Well, we humans are made in God's image. We're all a little figurine of the Creator, and we Create. We create ourselves, our environments, our situations... God made the world and Man gave names to all the animals. We catalog and explore and determine and change. We make the wine and the bread, God made the grapes and the wheat. Of course we make our genders just as much as we make houses and clothes and stories and names. There's a bit of the divine in all of us and it's the part of us that Creates and Loves.

And Science? Oh boy! We are tool-users of the highest order. Changing things is just what we do. We built the pyramids and the dog and the horse and the computer. We've built cities out of swamps and lakes and put flags on the moon. Changing things so they work better for us is just our very nature. We heal our broken bones and build glasses and hearing aids and wheelchairs, because fuck our limitations. We invented corn and the Amazon rainforest. Transformation is in our nature just as much as being bipedal and featherless. We see a world and a body and a mind that doesn't work for us, and we change it. We build roads and skyscrapers and prosthetics and drugs, and the resulting humanity is better. We spent thousands of years building our world and our knowledge of how to change it and we're very good at it by now.

My point is, it doesn't matter if you think we're a unique creation by an omnipotent creator or a hairless ape that evolved to be particularly good at being social tool-users who can cook and throw things, our nature is Creation and Transformation. Of course some humans would be transgender and non-binary and generally genderqueer: those things are just reflections of what it means to be human.

God gave Adam the first tongs so he could smith, and the ape knapped a stone into a point so a spear could be deadlier than just a rock. Transformation is the core of humanity. Of ourselves, our environments, our tools, our stories. There's never been a humanity that was unchanging and rigid: we're not made of stone. We're made of clay and wood and reeds. Endlessly shapeable and cuttable and weavable. We decide what shapes and purposes we are meant for.