#effective action scenes

[thedreadvampy]

people seriously pretending EEAAO is overrated suddenly bc it swept awards? it swept awards largely because it is very very very good. I cried like someone who's just had a religious revelation BOTH times I watched it bc it touched something raw and real and beautiful but it was also just very, very funny. everyone's performance kills and the concept is creative and interesting and doesn't distract from the emotional core. you guys are just contrarian.

[lynxgriffin]

Eldritchrune - Attack of the Killer Queen

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Story Setup Eldritchrune Masterpost

The Fun Gang finally arrive in Queen's lair, and attempt to take her on! But it's far from easy to battle an ancient, dark god...especially one so steeped in acid!

PHEW dang this part took me WAY longer to finish than I was expecting, but finally, as many have asked, we have the Queen boss battle! Next part will be up tomorrow!

[delsheree]

Action Scenes: Using Action in a Story

What does action do for a story? Assessing an action scene's purpose can help make it more effective and reward the reader for taking the time to understand it.

Action in a story always serves a purpose when done well. To make sure action scenes are effective, consider what they ask of the reader and how they advance the plot. The Nature of Action Scenes When it comes to the nature of action scenes, it is important to recognize that a big difference between movie action scenes and written action scenes is what they ask of the reader. Action scenes in…

[hyakunana]

The Black Rabbit Brotherhood

[ofswordsandpens]

foregoing the changes made to the characters' ages and Grover's personality, the first 20 minutes of the lightning thief movie is largely a pretty faithful adaptation. Its around that mark that the faithfulness of it starts to peter out, but hey at least it's still super entertaining after that.

[lucy-moderatz]

[ivebeentotheforest]

Epic action sequences in Dune: Part Two (2024)

[isaacathom]

i have genuinely so many thoughts about how the book Lieutenant Hornblower was adapted and how most of the changes work, when accounting for the fact it must necessarily leave Bush's POV in order to work as television, and how those changes end up fucking over Bush's character in the movies, and how he was further pilfered by the series' decision to maintain characters like Styles and Kennedy. There is so much going on in there. Unfortunately, I don't yet own a copy of Lieutenant Hornblower, and having to constantly borrow it from my library is a faff and prevents me using post its to mark important passages. :(

[r0semultiverse]

Okay so Avatar shrines are the exception. Still wild. Aang having weird gender feels after becoming & being possessed by a strong avatar lady is my headcanon now!

I know I’m overthinking it, but couldn’t they just make or find a small mobile avatar shrine & take it with them everywhere?? I mean we see something like that in Zuko’s ship in his room. 👀 I mean I’d rather see Aang figure out his power on his own & with his friends, but I figure I would bring that up again. Just carry around an emergency fuck you button basically. Lmao

[fenmere]

If you want to see a reasonably OK made movie with a beautifully animated dragon voiced by Shohreh Aghdashloo, where the dragon gets her revenge in the end, we do recommend Damsel.

The dragon is not the heroine, she's definitely the creature the heroine has to survive.

And the story is about as simple and cliched as any wilderness/creature survival flick. And you'll know by the title and setup that's it's a basic overcoming misogyny flick, which, well, we need those. It's a fairy tail turned on its head.

And if you feel claustrophobic from spelunking scenes in caves, you might want to avoid it or take anxiety meds before watching it.

But, if you want to see a dragon that's objectively better than Peter Jackson and Blueberry Cobblepot's take on Smaug, watch it.

[machetelanding]

[acmeoop]

Behind-The-Scenes “Coyote VS ACME” (2024-??)

[asjjohnson]

I joined the Danny Phantom Invisobang this year. :D

It's a oneshot with cute little scenes showing an older Danny helping people around Amity Park, but there's also something going on in the background that comes out during the last half.

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Cracks Spreading in Tinted Glass

Summary: Grateful townspeople and stuttering admirers are part of Danny’s everyday life now that he’s in his twenties. He loves helping his town. However, Amity Park harbors a secret. One their resident ghost hero doesn’t know about.

Danny straightened up, letting the trash bag he was holding slip down to rest in the grass. A calm breeze brushed across his back and ruffled his hair as he surveyed the sun-dappled sea of green before him. A serene feeling swelled within him at the view. The large area of grass stretched toward a two-story house, its beige siding lit up in the sun. He’d helped achieve this.

Read on AO3 to see images within the text: https://archiveofourown.org/works/49811131

Read on ff.net to read it without the images: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14278133/1/Cracks-Spreading-in-Tinted-Glass

@paenling and @tytach drew the awesome art for it. :D

To see the art without wading through words: Tytach's awesome post with pic plus goodies! and Paenling's awesome post with multiple pictures! They're both so cool!

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In March, I saw a pic on dA that @weshney colored for the Green With Envy event (lineart by @marzfartz) and it instantly inspired a ficlet idea. I was at the midpoint of the ficlet when I saw an ad for Invisobang and impulsively joined. So I started the fic over to make it longer and add more stuff to it.

[stevebuscemieyes]

Terminator 2: Judgment Day was released 32 years ago today.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day, July 3 1991

Dir. James Cameron

[cozypancakes]

no one other than Wick knew that the assassins were in love with each other. when Rose picks up the phone and calls him “her partner” Wick instantly knew something was wrong. Rose and Peter have no idea that they murdered two halves of one whole, that it was personal at the train depot, that the ring they spent hours looking at was a symbol of the assassins love and commitment to each other

[see-arcane]

Mina's incredible (and underrated) detective prowess would be very useful I bet. Put her on the helm Integra, Van Helsing praised her brains as being above everyone's including himself for a reason.

I honestly can't guess what the chemistry between Integra and Mina would be. Integra doesn't really click with me as a classically heroic character, for all that she does focus on saving humanity from the undead via Alucard and her forces, being the Boss Lady etc etc. She's miles away from being as insidious as an Amanda Waller, but...

The hotel. The fucking hotel will never leave me.

Yes, the order went directly against 'soldiers of the enemy,' but those soldiers had been lied to about who and what they were charging into. Which was obvious even without being a fly on the wall to know their higher-ups had fed them some BS to march them into death and win their own power grab from Millennium. She didn't tell Alucard to 'make it quick' or even just to 'neutralize.' She told him to search and destroy. Folding to Alucard's egging and negging to seem like a Worthy War Commander in the grand scheme~ of the plot

She's not heartless, exactly, but she is arctic and surprisingly quick to breeze past the loss of lives that aren't under her direct care/command. While she might respect Mina's abilities and investigative skills--I wouldn't be surprised if Mina could intuit Millennium's endgame well before the climax could happen--Integra inherited none of her ancestor's warm regard, supposing Abraham van Hel(l)sing had any of the original's tenderness in him (50/50 considering this takes place in aggro horror territory). We can't even say if this universe's Mina played any big role in cornering Dracula; she might just have been a targeted damsel.

All that said, I think Integra would see Mina as another time-displaced bleeding heart with a few useful skills, same as Jonathan. Someone to be an ally at best, a liability at worst. So I don't see her handing over any reins or offering to be co-girlbosses any time soon :c