#wrt dialogue

[vonkarma2]

i dont necessarily dislike the opinion that movies should be more about imagery texture and emotion than dialogue bc the visuals and sound are what make them unique as a medium + visual storytelling takes advantage of film’s particular characteristics like I can see where they’re coming from. but personally I like movies that are basically just dialogue I want to hear people screaming and yelling at each other + funny jokes also. but idk I really love visuals so I think its mostly bc of my personal failure to get immersed in a movie like feel like I’m inside it yk. and low attention span 😔🙏 sorry denis

[eyrri]

little Kitten Burst doodles because i love it and think about it a lot

pspspspspspspsps play kitten burst

[snowberry-pie]

i think it’s kind of funny seeing people praising how bg3 handles sex/sexuality because outside of larian hiring intimacy coordinators and having One well-written sexual abuse survivor story it’s. not great lol

[aces-to-apples]

Every time I see screenshots of Veilguard romance options followed by complaints about them not being "actual flirting" I am more and more confused. Like call me crazy but I actually think even calling them "flirt" options is a misnomer that's doing us all a disservice. Like look at them. Look at the heart. It's not about the nebulous concept of flirting, it's about showing care. Showing love. And oftentimes that's not an asinine comment about how someone looks, but rather a piece of affirmation, an offer of help, or a reassurance that their needs (or even baggage) are okay (good, even) because that means they're with you for it.

[sweetmage]

I am genuinely sorry for people who aren't enjoying this game but I am having a ball in this bitch.

[thevioletcaptain]

so i got some really great feedback on the final draft of my star trek strange new worlds spec and i'm hoping i can ride that high through next week when i'm starting my second-last class in the tv writing program. mostly posting this so i have documented proof that i am in fact a good screenwriter so that when i inevitably start second guessing myself i have a post to beat myself over the head with.

[sforzesco]

Does Trebonius make an exception for Mark Antony on his preference for older men ?

tbh the older men comment is an escalation on a long running topic of bickering between them, mostly that Antony keeps grilling him about getting married (it’s politically advantageous & a good wife is a kingmaker while peers are competition & you should be looking to outlive Caesar) & Trebonius keeps associating with older guys in both his personal life (he consider’s Cicero’s son to be like his own) and politically (Crassus&Pompey&Caesar) while ducking all of Antony’s attempts to introduce him to people (just not that interested/doesn't have the time for it, much to the despair of his parents)

however! Trebonius may or may not be hooking up with Cassius later depending on how things unfold as I write!

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

if i were a more insane and less feverish woman i would start tracking the time to shirtlessness and time to injury in every eastwood movie. tragically we seem to be in a periodic drought where very little is available on tubi/freevee/kanopy/plex et al

[turian]

i love achievements as a feature on steam because it's so fun to be able to see what percentage of players of (for example) new vegas, did a thing. and then speculate on why. and compare to the percentage of players who did another ideologically dissimilar thing. and it also lets me know that not many people bothered with busking in bg3.

[boleynqueenes]

Being as you are someone who writes about Anne Boleyn, I must ask you, which are your favorite portrayals of Anne Boleyn? I mean fiction (novels, film, tv) but also non-fiction. And, do you feel your fav portrayals have influenced you in the way you write Anne and her story? Your least favorite ones, do they have an influence too? Which ones are they? Thanks

If there's one with zero merit and/or minimal entertainment value I won't include it on the list, I'll say I'll ** = my absolute favourites and * = my compelling in some aspects, but tread with caution, and those sort of in between I'll leave alone.

Or rather, let's put it another way...* is worth a library rental or free Kindle borrow, whichever you have available, and ** is worth an actual purchase. Those without *...eh, I'll leave it to you.

The Challenge of Anne Boleyn, Hester Chapman*

Adultery, Heresy, and Desire, Amy Licence*

Raven's Widow, Adrienne Dillard**

Jane Boleyn, Julia Fox**

Among the Wolves, Lauren Mackay*

Queens of Henry VIII, David Starkey*

The Story of the Death of Anne Boleyn, Translation, Edition, and Essays by Joann DellaNeva**

The Lady Elizabeth, Alison Weir*

Renaissance Prince, Lisa Hilton*

Hunting the Falcon, John Guy & Julia Fox**

The Life & Death of Anne Boleyn, Eric Ives**

Tudors in Love, Sarah Gristwood

Tudor England: A History, Lucy Wooding**

Children of Henry VIII, John Guy*

Henry VIII by Lucy Wooding**

The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory*

The Lady in the Tower, Alison Weir*

The Lady Anne (Book 2 of 5 of Above All Others series) by Gemma Lawrence**

Judge the Best (Book 2 of 5 of Above All Others series) by Gemma Lawrence**

Threads by Nell Gavin*

In the Shadow of Lions, Ginger Garrett*

Tarnish by Katherine Longshore*

Brazen by Katherine Longshore

Anne & Henry by Dawn Ius*

Wife after Wife by Olivia Hayfield*

The King's Mind by Christopher Rae**

The Concubine by Christopher Rae**

VIII by HM Castor

Queenbreaker by Catherine McCarran

The Tudors (2007-)**

The Lovers Who Changed History (2014)**

Anne Boleyn miniseries (2021)**

Blood, Sex & Royalty (2022)**

I Am Henry: A Compelling Novel of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII (2023)

And, do you feel your fav portrayals have influenced you in the way you write Anne and her story? Your least favorite ones, do they have an influence too? Which ones are they? Thanks

Pieces from everything influence me, Christopher Rae's and Gemma Lawrence's novels, for example, both had some of the best and credible portrayals of Henry Norris I've ever read, both in credible unrequited love (tying into, Anne's wariness thereof) that was forged into a weapon against him and for why he became such a favourite of HVIII's in the first place (would've included Jeff Lavender's thesis of Norris also, had you asked for beyond fiction and non-fiction books). The best parts of all of the above have inspired me to craft AB as a character at turns, sympathetic and unsympathetic: proud, courageous, intelligent, zealous, prudent (more in the 16c sense than 21c), fierce, jealous, sensitive, vindictive, unyielding, talented, compassionate, bold, spirited, pious, impassioned, loyal, loving ...somebody who inspired either complete devotion or implacable hatred, with very little in between, and felt comparable extremes towards her own family, friends, and adversaries.

From my least favourite...I try to remember that every choice she made was morally defensible and/or justifiable, from her own perspective, regardless of whether or not it actually was (and of course, they weren't always). I try to remember also that fear and insecurity can best explain some of her less palatable choices, as enumerated here. Basically, just that she was human and flawed, but also that there were many people personally (and often, religiously) invested in magnifying her flaws and reducing, or even outright omitting, her strengths. Obviously, that misogyny can also be a factor in some of her portrayals, is a salient remembrance to keep in mind, as well.

[dammit-sammit]

I love Theo Solomon’s performance so much (so much), but I also miss sm the version of early access Wyll who was allowed to sound happy. And made jokes. And was sarcastic and confident and unapologetic and sure of himself and was still the softest gentlest kindest member of the cast. This blindingly bright star of a character. I miss so much when he was allowed to be those things. Like, I miss when the writing and the direction allowed for that.

Just, if you didn’t play early access please do yourself the favour of watching Wyll’s early access cutscenes on youtube. Absolutely every second of it is a joy. His happiness is infectious. (As far as I’ve been able to find out, his original actor was Lanre Malaolu, and just like Theo Solomon he is incredible.) And the reason why Wyll ended up with so much less content after the rewrites was because they spent the second half of his development time getting rid of that and replacing it with a version of the story where Will is spoken to more disrespectfully by the other characters, and he spends a huge proportion of his dialogue by comparison unnecessarily apologising for everything he is and does.

The complaints from early access players about him coming off as too ‘smug’ should have read as an obvious fucking dog-whistle at the first glance, and it honestly really stretches imagination to believe that no one in the writers’ room realised that. The game is amazing in a lot of ways, but it’s been kind of hard to celebrate that when it feels like we’ve all been standing face to face with irrefutable evidence of (at least some of) the (overwhelmingly white) writers’ moral bankruptcy since release.

Like. Wyll is *still* a brilliant character, which at this point I think is an outstanding achievement on the part of his actor, made despite the actions of the writers.

I just. Words cannot express how pissed off I am at the BG3 writers for agreeing to play into the EA playerbase’s transparently racist bullshit on this. Do you know how hard it is to be that good at working with language, and that bad at processing what someone else’s motivation with it is? They have to have known what it was they were being asked to do. And they did it.

God. I’m just. So fucking pissed off.

"bg3 set the new standard" "bg3 spoiled us" GIRL bg3 shipped unfinished with unequal content for the companions to favor the whitest man possible, and after treating the single black person in the companions like actual shit bc racists were mad about him even existing and they listened. this is not the standard i want for video games lmao

[waywardsalt]

need to remember to at least touch on the concept of linebeck preferring people he finds to be similar to him in the bellum x linebeck fic

[pavlikbuonarroti]

avowed keeps crashing when i try to move on to the next area. lolll. anyway more important things

i like her :)

[ferylcheryl]

1st time watching The Terror: this is so good this is so good holy shit holy shit !!! this is so good this is so good it’s sooooo good wtf this is so so so so sooooo amazing

3rd time watching The Terror: the concept of “seeing” — vision, sight, to perceive — is such a salient leitmotif in a narrative centered upon the disintegration of façades (of varying validity) imposed by an empire largely indifferent to those upon whom said façades are foisted; take for example the parallel between Irving’s dialogue w Hickey wrt God “seeing” him versus the later encounter between Tozer and Little in which Tozer says—

4th time watching The Terror: whoa Goodsir’s prosthetic corpse has back hair, amazing, we should ask Pready or DaveK about this

5th time watching The Terror: lmao wat if nedward was an actual actual horse w a pierced dick do u think jop would stoll be wulljnf yo get him pregante

10th time watching The Terror: this is so good this is so good holy shit holy shit !!! this is so good this is so good it’s sooooo good wtf this is so so so so sooooo amazing

[blacktabbygames]

Hi, hello, big fan of your game, Slay The Princess.

I'm sorry to bother your amazing dev team, I don't mean to be rude, so feel free to ignore this message.

But I've played STP on Playstation 4, and I'm suffering massive lag problems that I think shouldn't exist.

I'm sure the problem has already been notified by other users, but I wanted to bring it up again on your blog if you are willing to listen.

The lag problems basically affect every single aspect of the game, from saving and loading to just navigating the main menu; scrolling through the dialogue options is a chore that requires weird back and forth gymnastics from my controller, in order to reach the bottom I have to calculate my inputs hoping that the game would register them.

The game is especially a nightmare in The Nightmare route, where I guess the Princess' animations creates so much lag that, at a certain point, the game stops responding (you can tell because you can't hear Heart Lungs Livers Nerves in the background anymore). In order to complete this path, I had to close and reopen the game multiple times (since apparently, the game runs better once you just start it), consume as soon as possible all the dialogue options first available until I reached the bottom options (I couldn't scroll down through them, because the game would freeze before it'd load my inputs), and once I reached the "Leave with her" opinion, I'd click it before it was too late (I didn't bother with the other option for fear that it lead to a third chapter that continued the lag).

The game froze some more times on our way out of the cabin, and I had to reload it over and over again and skip some dialogues, to maximise the game's ability to run. It even crashed once I went out of the cabin with the princess, though thankfully, it wasn't a repeated problem, and in the end, after 10 startups, I was able to complete the Nightmare route.

Despite, all the lag issues, I still really enjoyed your game!

I actually liked it even more than Hades, another famous Indie Game that I've been playing these last couple of weeks, which is a lot I can say about a game that I was basically forced to close due to freezing during it's final "Boss Fight" (yep, the game froze once again during the Shifting Mound section, during, you guessed it! The Nightmare part of the confrontation).

I hope these issues could be fixed, but I also hope you are enjoying your game's success regardless of everything I just said, you really deserve it.

Have a nice day!

Oh, also:

Hi! We've started receiving reports on this recently, so I'm guessing this might come from issues wrt the latest console update. I've passed this along to our console publisher and porting team, but in the meantime, you can probably address those issues in the short-term by turning off first flickering images and then, if the issues persist, the boil effect in your preferences.

[melrosing]

do you think the fandom tends to erase brienne’s femininity?

idk I think the problem is less that they ‘erase her femininity’, more that they don’t really think about Brienne in complex terms at all. it’s just ‘I love Brienne and want what’s best for her!!’ and ‘sighhh she is the truest knight!!’ and ‘I love Brienne’s gender trouble!!’ but then nothing deeper - just statements that sound passionate or profound to disguise the fact that they have very little to say about her.

and some ppl may have only thought about Brienne long enough to think she’s interesting in the ways she doesn’t conform to womanhood, and miss the way GRRM deliberately pairs that with the ways she does, to create a duality about her that complements Jaime’s in turn. this duality is always key with Brienne - it’s literally in her sigil - but if ppl aren’t thinking that hard about her to begin with I don’t expect them to do much with it.

that said, I’ve talked before about how unhelpful the ‘erasing her femininity’ dialogue can be when discussing white gnc female characters. I’m not accusing you of this ftr! but this topic comes up a lot wrt certain other gnc characters in asoiaf and hotd, and it stinks a bit. it treats femininity as the resource that makes female characters complex, interesting and likeable, and finds ways to contort their non conformity into a more appealing, organic kind of femininity - rather than just accepting that ‘masculine’ traits are not a bad thing for a woman to have and it’s pretty regressive to desperately try and reframe every one of them as femininity. but yeah more in that post if you’re interested