Tips for writing those gala scenes, from someone who goes to them occasionally:
Generally you unbutton and re-button a suit coat when you sit down and stand up.
You’re supposed to hold wine or champagne glasses by the stem to avoid warming up the liquid inside. A character out of their depth might hold the glass around the sides instead.
When rich/important people forget your name and they’re drunk, they usually just tell you that they don’t remember or completely skip over any opportunity to use your name so they don’t look silly.
A good way to indicate you don’t want to shake someone’s hand at an event is to hold a drink in your right hand (and if you’re a woman, a purse in the other so you definitely can’t shift the glass to another hand and then shake)
Americans who still kiss cheeks as a welcome generally don’t press lips to cheeks, it’s more of a touch of cheek to cheek or even a hover (these days, mostly to avoid smudging a woman’s makeup)
The distinctions between dress codes (black tie, cocktail, etc) are very intricate but obvious to those who know how to look. If you wear a short skirt to a black tie event for example, people would clock that instantly even if the dress itself was very formal. Same thing goes for certain articles of men’s clothing.
Open bars / cash bars at events usually carry limited options. They’re meant to serve lots of people very quickly, so nobody is getting a cosmo or a Manhattan etc.
Members of the press generally aren’t allowed to freely circulate at nicer galas/events without a very good reason. When they do, they need to identify themselves before talking with someone.
"Then I'll go and tell them! I'll tell everyone the truth!"' "No! They'll just turn against you!" "I don't care!" "But I do!" "El-" "Promise me that you won't try to clear my name." "But-" "Promise. Me." .
Stephanie J. Block (E) and Annaleigh Ashford (G), October 9, 2007
Dedicated to @hamletthedane and @myheartisbro-ken ' excellent commentary on SJB and AA's insane, intense chemistry and acting choices during their run. They basically spent three hours looking like they wanted to eat each other alive.
(Those last two gifs just break me every time.)
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i dont normally post my animations here but this one was about ethan sooo...
farcille dood .. i love them
a few (likely perpetual) WIPs
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The Hunger Games, Actual Teen style!
On the left, 15-year-old Josh Hutcherson.
On the right, 16-year-old Jennifer Lawrence.
Think how much creepier it would be to see them killing other kids when they look so squishy-cheeked and little.
Duelist information part 2
Not on TikTok often but I heard this audio I had to make this edit with it. Here's a link to the original
deciphering this page in breadhead's head because i'm bored
first off, the box of text in the top right
it says "THE CHILD BORN OF YEAST SHALL BE NAMED BREADHEAD A GOLEM OF KINDNESS AND SWEET SWEET, SUGAR HE WILL BE LARGE AND SOFT. HE SHALL DESTROY BUILDINGS AND BE BIGGER THAN ANYONE ELSE HE SHALL BE DESTRUCTION"
this ring of text are instructions that say "FILL BOWL WITH - INGREDIENTS KILL - ONE THOUSAND LITTER BUGS - CAPTURE THEIR SOULS FILL WITH - WATER PUT IN LARGE STAND MIXER SCREAM - AND MIX LET THE CHILD RISE - AND HE WILL DESTROY - ANYTHIGN IN HIS PATH"
note that "anything" is actually mispelled in this as "anythign"
as for the four symbols in the circle, starting clockwise from the top, the top most one is the alchemical symbol for compose, followed by the symbol for water, fire and salt
the 8 pointed star is something that shows up in a lot of different cultures and i couldn't really tell you which one this page references exactly, it could mean anything from protection, to enlightenment, to life, to infinity, it's something used in all sorts of contexts and rituals
the rock in the center is also a mystery to me, since this page involves alchemy my theory is it's some kind of philosopher stone, but i've got nothing to really back that
the remaining two places of text are just lists of ingredients or instructions that further reinforce this information
first image lists off ingredients and their amounts by some unit of weight, it says "FLOUR - WATER - SALT - YEAST - SUGAR - FAT"
second image says "MIX - SMACK - BEAT - CREATE - RISE"
this image on the far left is a reference to a humonculus, which is a thing originating from an old 16-18th century theory called preformationism, it's the idea that the sperm or egg contained tiny pre-formed beings called animalcules, and it was simply a matter of enlarging these animalcules into a fully-formed being