#wizard false

[annabelle--cane]

you think people actually have sex? naked and everything? I have to laugh.

[lizardsfromspace]

I've looped around from finding the belief that The Wizard of Oz was "the first color film" or "first technicolor film" understandable if wrong to finding it deeply annoying

Like. I get how it feels true - how the transition from sepia to technicolor in the film feels epochal, and how it's a springboard to people imagining how AMAZING and how AWESTRUCK audiences must've been at the time, but it just isn't the case, and no one in 1939 would've thought it was the first color film.

I mean, you've probably seen Snow White (1937) and Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). At the time color features were becoming more common, and they had been common in cartoons and shorts for years.

On a base level, if The Wizard of Oz was such a monumental moment in film history, giving people something they've never seen before, why did it only break even at the box office? By all accounts while not a flop it did decently but not great, and it only became a Cherished Classic thanks to TV airings later on. I mean, 1939 saw what is still, if adjusted for inflation, the highest grossing film ever made, and it wasn't The Wizard of Oz

Here is the actual history of color: most silent films were tinted, most commonly with different scenes being all tinted different colors, but more rarely hand-coloring. But back then people started experimenting with many different "true" color film systems, most of which failed for one reason or another, and there were a couple silent features made in two-strip technicolor, which had a more limited palette. At the start of the sound era, some black & white scenes would have color segments; this stage has been largely forgotten bc in many cases, the color segments don't survive & we only have them in black and white. Then three-strip technicolor began and became the dominant form of color until the late 1950s, with the first full-length three-strip technicolor film being 1935's classic...Becky Sharp. Which did decently, and got one Oscar nom for Best Actress, but didn't really become a classic. And then color films became more common until they became the norm in the 1960s

But it has to be a classic, right? It can't just be some random movie that ushered in technicolor. It has to be a famous movie everyone's heard of. It can't have been a gradual process touched by many individual artists, it has to be something one Great Man ushered in overnight, and the crowds were amazed, bc they had just been waiting for someone to Do Color Film so they could ditch black & white forever. It couldn't have been the case that they rejected many previous attempts at color film bc they sucked. Nothing can ever be the result of many people making many choices in many works of art, it has to be the work of one Great Work of Art that Changed Everything Instantly, and all the little people and failed experiments and less-enduring ones just have to be erased to make way

But it isn't. The transition from sepia to color in The Wizard of Oz did dazzle audiences, and still does, but that's because it's a incredibly well-done visual effect and a creative choice within the story to show the change from Kansas to Oz. We don't have to say it was important bc it was the first to do something technologically; it can be important for just being a really good movie

[vigilskeep]

hows your brother enjoying veilguard?? what kind of character did he make! you dont have to answer!! i just think its super sweet that you and your sibling both share this hobby

he is enjoying it greatly!! and he has very kindly allowed me to share the carefully selected finest images of his boy. everyone cheer and clap for him or i’ll blow this whole building up i’m so serious

and bonus quizzy

[worddevourer]

I think the perfect set up for a false hydra is actually a party of newer RPG players.

For the unfamiliar: A False Hydra is a monster with a very particular gimmick, namely that it makes itself, and its victims, be forgotten using an enchanting song.. It's essentially 'The DM gets to gaslight the players a bit, as a treat' the monster.

Usually, the setup is the players arrive in a town where things seem peaceful, if quiet, and steadily realize that people that should, by all rights exist, simply aren't there. The innkeeper has a child, but claims she doesn't even know the man in the family portrait. If you press the matter she gets upset. You eat fresh baked bread for dinner, but in the morning, there has simply 'never been' a baker. That kind of thing.

And of course, the classic of 'You wake up. There's an extra bedroll. you don't know why, but the fact that it's empty fills you with dread.'

But of course, implying you had another party member who just got eaten and forgotten kinda fucks over the story you've been telling this whole time. Shouldn't all those fights have gone differently? How are the players going to care about a character who literally exists only as a supposed hole in their memories?

That's why, for this to work, I recommend new players (or just act like you're running a slightly laxer table).

Essentially, figure out what basic utilitarian weaknesses the party has, and then, without any great fanfare, handwave them. Suppose they don't have a wizard. They find a magic item. You say, 'yeah, you get it identified, and it's a ...' Without particularly specifying how or with whom. They're in a dark cave, and the one human of the group is like 'hey, can I even see?' and you tell them, 'oh, yeah, don't worry about it, just pretend you had Darkvision cast on you.'

If they press the issue, you make up a joke, not-actually-real character, who you say is actually doing all this stuff. Blinzki the Narratively Convenient Wizard or whatever. Just a narrative construct, there to grease the wheels of gameplay. (Though, keep score a bit. Remember where things by all rights shouldn't have worked)

And then, they'll get to this town, and you'll feed them a potentially magical item, and they'll ask what it does, and if you're very, very lucky, you'll get an exchange to the tune of

'Do you know anybody who could identify it?'

'We've always been able to identify things before.'

'Yeah. You think about that, and shiver with a sense of wrongness.'

You find the corpse of a wizard. Her journal references people with your names, and she talks about how lucky she's felt to be traveling with you. She's not a great combatant, usually hiding when battle starts, but she's made herself useful with in other ways, casting darkvision on the fighter when they're in a dark cave, and enhancing abilities at opportune moments.

You don't know her.

You're crying at the sight of her corpse.

[thendlessvoid]

Surpriiiiise! Main travel group change! Since Custar III is with Pure Vanilla on this AU, the main group gets to have Light Milk instead

Relationships with Light: (you might need to zoom in to read the texts, i thought it looked bigger)

[saturnsconstellation]

snap is not that bad.

THERE. I SAID IT.

Like c’mon let’s be honest 😭 if we want to talk canon, SNAPE was a victim of the marauders (specifically James’s) bullying. Ofc yes he was terrible to Harry and yes, he was mean during his years in school. But being honest with all of you (as a victim of bullying) it changes you as a person, Snape did nothing to deserve that kind of treatment.

IF WE’RE TALKING FANON

Snape is literally just used as the ‘bad guy’ because the fandom already converted the slytherins (More Regulus and Barty who are canonically known to be PROUD DEATH EATERS) and now they need a character to “bully” and make the marauders (and I’m talking about Sirius and James) look cool.

Please grow up and realize that if you can and want to make Regulus, Barty, Evan, NARCISSA AND BELLATRIX good people, you should also consider doing the same for snape. That man did NOTHING to be as hated as he is 😭😭

[theindefinitearticle]

This far into the new game changer and I already know this is one for the history books

[the-twisted-truth-au]

Shining, you should go show your friends your amazing outfit :>

You have no choice lol, I’m teleporting you to them <3

…Wait, I- really don’t think that’s a good—

*Insert teleportation sound effect, he’s now standing in front of the ginger gang (Gingerbrave, Strawberry Cookie, and Wizard Cookie), Silverbell cookie, and white lily cookie*

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…okay, before you—

OH MY WITCHES HE GOT TO SHINING MILK!!!!

no, that’s not what—

STAND BACK, YOU FIEND!!!

*The young cookie (wizard cookie) attempts to zap shining milk with his staff, however he misses as The Fount quickly moves out the way.*

GAH—

Wizard Cookie!- Look at his eyes, he’s fine!! He’s not under his control..

…Oh- Oops.. U-uh- Sorry, Fount of Knowledge, sir!!- I uh.. thought you were..

Nono, it’s quite alright, I was expecting that.. I’m just glad that—

TAKE THIS!!!!

*Another young cookie (Gingerbrave) straight up WHACKS shining milk in the stomach with his candy cane, the fount having no time to react and therefore being hit*

GH—

GINGERBRAVE!-

Witches that hurts…

[made-by-moon]

I can not believe you all assumed that Sirius would be pissed if James and Regulus started dating. Like, come on!

Sirius knows that James will treat Reg with the kindness and love that he deserves and that Regulus has had enough shit in his life to settle for less than a perfect man.

Stop. Assuming. That. Sirius. Would. Not. Be. Happy. Because. He. Would. Be. Absolutely. Thrilled.

And I will die on that hill if I have to.

[lunar-stims]

hello hello once again! I hope it's in the cards to be able to ask for a stimboard of my Care Bear Cousin Sona Funtime Heart Tiger in rainbow with hints of green/purple with themes of jesters/jestercore, rainbowcore, board/tabletop games (the Game of Life, Candyland, Clue, Apples to Apples, and Trivial Pursuit), and other silly/whimsical elements? If not, please discard this request! Please and thank you, have a wonderful evening!

Here is Funtime's ToyHouse Folder!

https://toyhou.se/32512084.funtime-heart-tiger

-🌈

(also get sad to report that I can no longer find the stimboard you made of Sing-a-Long Bear XC)

hashtag sigma

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[marthalmary]

[lionfanged]

atticus only uses his trauma for evil when he does bring it up.

which is literally just his dead parents--he doesn't like discussing his homelessness, his assault, the violence he experienced during his homelessness...

but he WILL guilt you about his dead mother and father... who in life were abusive in different ways and he loathed them for it. but you don't need to know that. you just need to know how psychologically damaging it was to be orphaned so young and how while YOU may have experienced the wonders of childhood, he didn't :(

[icewindandboringhorror]

examining a seemingly normal image only to slowly realize the clear signs of AI generated art.... i know what you are... you cannot hide your true nature from me... go back where you came from... out of my sight with haste, wretched and vile husk

[favorite-lie]

another another creature

[thendlessvoid]

[silverameco]

happy birthday to the one and only sirius black, i love him a concerning normal amount