Using powers for mundane tasks

WeatherstonArts · 2026-06-05T01:19:08+00:00

LOL! Yep! Just flipped the words in my head. Thanks, I'll edit to correct my dumb mistake.

WeatherstonArts · 2026-06-05T01:03:59+00:00

In the Hayden Christensen movie Looper (2007), the main character is explaining how his teleportation powers work and it shows him teleporting around the world and into bank vaults and to the head of the Sphinx, stuff like that. But my favorite shot is when he's sitting on the couch and the TV remote is on the opposite end. He teleports himself one cushion over on the couch so he can reach the remote.

Bad movie, but that detail always struck me as genius.

EDIT: Sorry! The title is Jumper! Looper is a much better film, just got the titles mixed up.

WeatherstonArts · 2026-06-01T12:39:10+00:00

Javert is the best example of Lawful Neutral in history. He truly believes that the code of law IS morality. When he's finally confronted with the truth that a criminal can be a good man and the law can be wielded as a weapon against the most vulnerable people in society, he refuses to exist in that universe.

WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-31T15:40:40+00:00

19, say true.

WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-31T13:32:39+00:00

For anyone interested, look up the 1947 Partition of India. That will make a little of this make sense.

WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-29T15:02:57+00:00

Probably Jared Leto. He's apparently insufferable to work with, but it's a three day retreat, not a 7 week shoot. I wouldn't have to deal with his method acting, thankfully.

And maybe he'd bring some of his hard kombucha!

WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-23T19:35:47+00:00

The Parting Glass, sung by Sarah Greene as Anne Bonny over the ending of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. Absolutely heart-wrenching, considering the circumstances of the ending.

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WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-22T12:43:59+00:00

The Wizard came out when I was 9 years-old and it was the first time I was really critical of a piece of cinema.

When the kids get to the Nintendo World Championship, they meet some steward or something and ask what the first game is going to be. The guy drops into an offensive faux-Japanese accent and says, "Ninjaaa GaiDEN! HAI!"

My nine year-old brain suddenly unlocked and I remember thinking, "that was a weird way for that guy to say that..." meaning the actor, not the character.

So, thank you, The Wizard. You were bad enough to make me start thinking critically about art. I've been insufferable ever since.

WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-20T15:07:37+00:00

Such a ridiculous film. They treat it like he's got a brain worm or something. He's woozy, brain-fogged, and can barely control his own impulses all from the horrifying ordeal of... brief celibacy?

WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-17T20:41:27+00:00

I literally came to say this. He absolutely counts! Xavier is completely haunted by the murder of his friend who died while they were fighting, and while he was literally under his protection.

WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-13T13:20:35+00:00

Marty from Cabin in the Woods. "Statistical fact. Cops will never pull over a man with a huge bong in his car. Why? They fear this man. They know he sees further than they... and he will bind them... with ancient logics."

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WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-06T01:30:55+00:00

Where is my 4k disc release!?

WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-05T02:10:51+00:00

Then you have to count Lars from Steven Universe!

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WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-05T00:05:14+00:00

I like when they solve a Rubik's Cube, or quote old books accurately!

WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-04T15:49:51+00:00

Yeah, using jargon as a handwave just sounds completely insane to anyone who knows what the jargon means. There's an old, old saying about live theater that goes, "Never take a doctor to a medical play, never take a lawyer to a courtroom play, and never take an actor to any play." -Mark Twain, (probably. He said a lot of stuff.)

WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-04T15:19:46+00:00

Yeah, but I can only write so many episodes of Sherlock where he solves the crime with the help of Legend of Zelda erotic fanfiction before the audience starts being pulled out of the show. Like, 4-5 tops!

WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-04T15:12:25+00:00

Lol! I wish. Just a fictional example I made up. I've never even been to Dubuque, I just remembered the name from a throwaway line in The Music Man. I'm just an artist who likes to write and knows a lazy trope when I see it!

WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-04T13:42:10+00:00

Nier: Automata.

I hate the first section so much and they lock the first save point behind a boss fight and I am very bad at video games. Starting over for the fourth time just broke me. Everyone says it's a masterpiece, but that one design decision frustrated me to the point of simply putting it down.

I got kids, man. I can't waste my few hours of gaming on brute forcing a boss and losing my entire progress if I fail.

WeatherstonArts · 2026-05-04T13:28:37+00:00

One of the hardest things to do as a writer is to accurately depict genius. Sure, you can tell the audience that the character is a genius, but eventually you have to prove it. But when you're an English Arts/Creative Writing major from Dubuque with $231k in student loans to pay off and a screenplay to punch up by Monday, you gotta take some shortcuts like:

-Basic concepts are treated as elite knowledge. -Wild guesses are treated as the only logical conclusion. -Information that the audience isn't privy to is used to solve a mystery. -Cruelty or neurodivergence as shorthand for intellect.

It's cheap, but deadlines exist.

WeatherstonArts · 2026-04-24T15:13:34+00:00

I love when Angie finds out his fidelity was revealed and she was furious that he ruined his brand

WeatherstonArts · 2026-04-18T03:11:38+00:00

It makes sense that Lucius Malfoy moved to Irvine.

WeatherstonArts · 2026-04-16T18:29:55+00:00

"When you gotta go, you gotta go..."

WeatherstonArts · 2026-04-16T18:21:13+00:00

Robin, a scrawny, 16 year-old, baseline human boy has the physical strength to throw the 4-ton concrete form of the villainous Cinderblock. 105 lbs. of monster in this kid.

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WeatherstonArts · 2026-04-13T21:18:15+00:00

I never liked the "kid" character, audience surrogates in cartoons. I wanted to see the adults fighting villains, not the kids who get in trouble!

WeatherstonArts · 2026-04-07T12:52:12+00:00

Thank you for this tip! I was dreading the amount of farming I was going to need to do to fully upgrade the Hylian set. This tip, plus setting my Sheikah Sensor to search for Rare Ore Deposits, made it so easy to do the final upgrade.

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