#how to score

[podcastwizard]

if you're in the throes of cosmic despair i cannot recommend museums enough. art or science or history it doesn't matter. oh we're all connected, all of us and everything, throughout all time and space, and no one, no one, no one is alone? awesome. that's what i thought i just wanted to make sure.

[usergrantaire]

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (2010) dir. Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois

Score composed by John Powell

[fabelyn]

Art I commissioned from @re-unknown for my fic Theoxenia.

(Which in turn was inspired by @nekophy's comic lol)

[cozylittleartblog]

i thought naming myself this would be really funny. and it Is. every time i get into a match i think about gabriel playing Miku Rhythm Game

[baltharino]

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

[upslapmeal]

ONE LAST SCRONCH FOR THE ROAD

[goggleghost]

Spoiler alert for chapter 11 of Love, Death and Rollerskates by @spadillelicious ! 🙃

[chronicowboy]

buck sending eddie monthly rent payments with the silliest references. it becomes another way to communicate. something he hopes makes eddie smile. and eddie looks forward to it every time. gets the notification once whilst he's with his sisters and they ask who's texting him and he goes oh buck just sent the rent but he's smiling so big and there's a bit of pink to his cheeks that have them raising a suspicious diaz eyebrow at each other. but it's just this little reminder that they're best friends no matter what. month one: thank you for the leaky faucet. month two: offerings to the overlord i mean landlord. month three: for texas chainsaw massacre shack upkeep. month four: chris wants a new game. month five: i miss you.

[filmscorememes]

[petitmimosa]

What on earth is this witchcraft from Yuzu. What on earth.

[fullscoreshenanigans]

Ray recalculating his meticulously crafted plan of six years to save his best friends every time Emma and Norman present him with some new bullshit

[egophiliac]

HEY guess who's being completely normal about episode 7 :)

anyway it sure ain't me, so I made myself a baby Malleus! I used the single-headed version of Choly Knight's hydra pattern (link will be in replies ↓↓↓) as a base, and just messed with some of the pieces to make him more Mall-y. including sewing all those little claw pieces, then pinning them on and realizing I actually liked him better without them...oh well. to heck with accuracy, I want stubby little dragon legs!

unfortunately, he doesn't photograph very well, especially his forehead scales (they're there! I promise!) (they're made of glitter HTV so they are actually SPARKLY in real life, yet apparently they come out completely invisible in photos, woe). but he is super cuddly and soft so I'm happy with him! just as in canon, he is a product of LOVE. :>

[ivvyela]

sometimes i think about how in how to train your dragon (2010) john powell created a theme for hiccup and a theme for toothless and neither of those themes have a conclusive ending until 'test drive' when they both merge together and complete each other because hiccup and toothless complete each other and i want to just start screaming.

[chasedeys]

Batmobile thoughts, please?

Joe : I don't know what you're talking about. Tee : ........I don't know what y'all are talking about. Ja'Marr : He bought the batmobile?

You guys are all in on this, wow. You guys are all playing dumb.

[mollysunder]

There is a theory that the way children play serves as a means to simulate and prepare them for the tasks they'll take on as adults. So for all the narrative weight both Jinx and the story give the boxing machine at the arcade it would never have prepared her or the kids to take on Piltover.

What are the two things that Piltovans excel at over their Zaunite counterparts to keep the hierarchy? Weapons and technological development.

When you look at the way Piltovans invest in their children, they don't prioritize hand to hand/melee combat training. Piltovans focus on giving their children experiences in handling firearms, a pursuit that is both leisure sport for the wealthy and a key offense against dissenting Zaunites.

And from the show notes even Jayce, whose family occupies the upper middle class, was sent on educational excursions across Runeterra to explore the world and learn what it had to offer. Without Jayce's education abroad he would never have been inspired to pursue the concept hextech.

It's no wonder that the two figures that are set to be Piltover's biggest threats from Zaun are Jinx and Viktor, becasue they engaged in the same kinds of games and activities as their Piltovan counterparts.

Jinx didn't have an entire forest preserved to help her practice her sharpshooting like the high houses of Piltover, but she did excel in the few games at The Rift (the arcade) that built on her talents. She's the only Zaunite thus far who's long distance offensive is a strong counter to Piltover's forces.

Viktor couldn't travel the world like Jayce did, but for better or worse he managed to stumble into an opportunity to get real opportunity in research not offered to his peers through Singed. It was through that experience that Viktor knew to turn to Singed when he was at the end of his rope, and the consequences of that will be fully realized in season 2.

Ironically, the kind of skill the boxing game champions is only good for keeping other Zaunites in line. Vander's days of fighting Piltover were way behind him when we first met him, and Vi spends season 1 primarily fighting other Zaunites. It's no surprise the Zaunites who embody the old ideal of strength in Zaun that the game portrays, Vi and Vander, are largely at the mercy of Piltover and end up collaborating with them to avoid further harm.

Zaun's future as an independent city-state couldn't happen if they stuck to their old ideals. The people who stand a chance against Piltover are the ones that not only succeed but excel at playing Piltover's games against them.

[charactercandyart]

♪ help you put on your lipstick ♪

♪ lean close, and help you ruin it ♪