#moving pictures

[horrorlesbians]

yeah right, he fucking loves me. (youtube link)

[beforeisayaurevoir]

jordan peele describing the jean jacket interior as a "straight shot into digestion" and like "a theater in itself" is making me go crazy

[leona-florianova]

There had been so much in-fighting between the various orders of wizardry in recent years that, just for once, the senior wizards had agreed that what the University needed was a period of stability, so that they could get on with their scheming and intriguing in peace and quiet for a few months. A search of the records turned up Ridcully the Brown who, after becoming a Seventh Level mage at the incredibly young age of twenty-seven, had quit the University in order to look after his family's estates deep in the country.

He looked ideal.

'Just the chap,' they all said. 'Clean sweep. New broom. A country wizard. Back to the thingumajigs, the roots of wizardry. Jolly old boy with a pipe and twinkly eyes. Sort of chap who can tell one herb from another, roams-the-high-forest-with-every-beast-his-brother kind of thing. Sleeps under the stars, like as not. Knows what the wind is saying, we shouldn't wonder. Got a name for all the trees, you can bank on it. Speaks to the birds, too.'

A messenger had been sent. Ridcully the Brown had sighed, cursed a bit, found his staff in the kitchen garden where it had been supporting a scarecrow, and had set out.

'And if he's any problem,' the wizards had added, in the privacy of their own heads, 'anyone who talks to trees should be no trouble to get rid of.'

And then he'd arrived, and it turned out that Ridcully the Brown did speak to the birds. In fact he shouted at birds, and what he normally shouted was, 'Winged you, yer bastard!'

The beasts of the field and fowls of the air did know Ridcully the Brown. They'd got so good at patternrecognition that, for a radius of about twenty miles around the Ridcully estates, they'd run, hide or in desperate cases attack violently at the mere sight of a pointy hat.

-Moving Pictures (Terry Pratchett)

[aeshnacyanea2000]

Magic wasn’t difficult. That was the big secret that the whole baroque edifice of wizardry had been set up to conceal. Anyone with a bit of intelligence and enough perseverance could do magic, which was why the wizards cloaked it with rituals and the whole pointy-hat business. The trick was to do magic and get away with it.

-- Terry Pratchett - Moving Pictures

[insanity-laughs-under-pressure]

[talesfromthebookhag]

'You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?' said Ginger, not paying him the least attention. 'It's all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they're really good at. It's all the sons who become blacksmiths because their fathers were blacksmiths. It's all the people who could be really fantastic flute players who grow old and die without ever seeing a musical instrument, so they become bad ploughmen instead. It's all the people with talents who never even find out. Maybe they are never even born in a time when it's even possible to find out.'

-Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures.

[pratchettquotes]

A dwarf tentatively raised his hand.

"'Scuse me?"

"Yes?" said Soll.

"Why is it all Mr. Dibbler's films are set against the background of a world gone mad?" said the dwarf.

Soll's eyes narrowed. "Because Mr. Dibbler," he growled, "is a very observant man."

Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

[uaravsh]

"...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened."

- Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures (@uaravsh )

[blacjaq1]

[zagreuses-art]

Woodcut & riso Cover/poster for Moving pictures I made in my printing class

[ID: a mixed media black and white print illustration. The illustration has a border of movie film. At the top is the text "Moving Pictures" in the style of the Hollywood sign. Below is a scene of two alchemists demonstrating a movie projector. The alchemists are in the style of medieval woodcuts,one has glasses and a goatee and is pointing at the movie screen. the other has a robe covered in alchemical symbols, and is inspecting the photorealistic film being fed into the photorealistic old fashioned movie projector, which is sitting on a table between them. The screen looks a bit like a old mantlepeice, with carved skulls at the corners, on the screen is a frame of a black and white movie depicting a woman in the pose of the Whore of Babylon, wearing a 20's style dress and half-circle headpiece, on top of a beast with six heads. In the foreground three other alchemists are watching the two giving the presentation from a set of movie seats, one has glasses, another is bald, the third is eating popcorn. In the black space created by the seats is the name Terry Pratchett, in white. End ID]

Easter Eggs:

- the film image in the center is from the movie Metropolis, because it's my favorite silent movie and I thought it fit thematically with the Hollywood Eldritch abomination aspect of the boom.

- the projector is an Edison design I found a photo of, as is the pose of the alchemist holding the film next to it, I edited out Edison's name on it because fuck that guy

- the name text is silent movie subtitles card font and the title is Hollywood sign font, both hand carved

- the seats are meant to look a bit like the MST3K silhouettes

- this has risograph printed and woodblock printed elements, the wood had a very definite grain that made it hard to do horizontal lines

[tiny-merkitty]

f2u gif dividers made by me ! please like+reblog if used :)

[horrorlesbians]

don't break me down, i've been travelin' too long

camille preaker & rust cohle + ride by lana

[dimity-lawn]

I can’t believe it’s my 1,000th post! In honor of Moving Pictures, I give you this post,

With a 1,000 Elephants!

[ankh-morporkianpostalworker]

With the events of Night Watch in mind, CMOT Dibbler writing the Discworld equivalent of "Gone With The Wind" in Moving Pictures is either brilliant foreshadowing, an astonishing coincidence, or incredible attention to detail on PTerry's part. Given the fact that one of the central characters of the penultimate Discworld novel is the son of a character who appeared in a single novel twenty two years earlier, I'd say it's the latter.

[inkdemonapologist]

Say it enough and you'll start to believe it

(non-gif version under the cut:)

[insanity-laughs-under-pressure]

I'm reading 'Moving Pictures' at the moment and the fact that popcorn is called banged grains is just so hilarious to me.