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“We all knew that he was obviously quite ill, and it was pretty clear that this was going to be the last role he would play in a movie. And the fact that it was one of the Final Destination movies made it that much more poignant. Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, our directors, they made a very shrewd decision to take the last couple of lines that were scripted and say, ‘Tony, just say what you would want to say to the fans. What would you like to impart to them in this moment?’ So, everything that makes that scene so emotional is authentic because that was just Tony talking through the camera to the very fans who supported him for so many years. So, it was a very magical moment on set.“
Craig Perry, producer for FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES (2025)
“Sooner or later both of us will probably wind up dead.” - Person of interest 1x01
I loved their dynamic and how regularly this phrase haunted the seasons and near death experiences. In the first season, when that was said, we had an operator (Harold) and an asset (John). The two of them recognized the fact that they would probably die, and the show basically held my hand with that promise.
But.
Their team expanded. They added Shaw (an asset) and Root (who was basically Harold with the trade off of having less morals due to her life for more connectedness with the machine and ability to do violence). It is why the team kept going when Root was kidnapped, then Shaw was ‘kidnapped’, then Root died… and all the times Harold had to leave or John was being a detective.
They doubled their odds of success. Two assets, two operators.
And then there was the promise of dying. It was always going to be an asset and an operator. And whoever did, the machine could have continued to hobble on with the other two.
The fact that it was Reese and Root was simply because they ran their clocks down to save Harold and Shaw and also the universe couldn’t let one side be alive and the other dead, so they had to be ripped apart.
John was always going to give his life for Harold. And Root would have rather died than lived without Shaw. They both got what they wanted what was promised.
#this is one of those ‘oh yeah we’re stewards of the planet’ moments #the skill with which she grabbed that bird tho #apex predators who take it upon themselves to heal and repair little things…
learning that 1. there’s a thing called the ‘gen z stare’ 2. it pisses people off and 3. it’s just underpaid service workers staring at someone until they follow a simple instruction, has been interesting.
for example, the card reader says 'remove card’ the customer goes 'it says remove card, what do i do?’ then some underpaid 20 year old just stares at whatever twat just asked that question. apparently that’s devastating for baby boomers and gen x'ers, and they’re complaining about it. retail workers should be allowed to jump the counter and kill customers
So, in teaching, this is called “Wait time.” You ask a question, or give an instruction, and then wait for the students to catch up and answer/follow directions. The trick is waiting longer than you think you need to, longer than feels natural. So what ends up happening is a lot of staring at your class, especially when you give a direction, and a kid immediately responds with “What are we supposed to do?” (In this case, you are usually waiting for them to read the board, or another student to call them out for not listening, or merely for the urge to sigh and roll your eyes to pass).
Wait time is a relatively new teaching strategy. I started teaching on 2013, and in my college classes wait time was still talked about as if it was the new great thing. What this means is that, about 20ish years ago, teachers started staring at children more. And now, apparently, they have been trained to stare back.
ao3 comments will be like “i like this line of your fic” and my reply will be like “fantastic thank you here’s my entire thought process about how i ended up with that particular line and also an outline for another fic i have and fifteen resources i used to research 1980s politics” and nobody asked for that chill
i asked for that
No we 100% asked for that.
Definitely asked for that, and also here’s the other three dozen lines from your fic that I liked and the outline for the fic they inspired me to write plus some extra character meta that at this point is only tangentially related to your fic but was definitely inspired by those 1980s politics resources and -
Yep.
This is literally how I made most of my fandom besties.
Listen…
Fic Commenters: If you ever want to make a comment going on depth about a part of a fic that stood out to you, but think “does the author really want to read all this?” The answer is YES! YES WE DO WANT TO READ ALL THAT!!!!
Fic authors: If you ever see a comment that makes you want to explain your thought process behind your writing, and you think “does the commenter really want to read all this?” The answer is YES! YES WE DO WANT TO READ ALL THAT!!!
Reminder that people aren’t entitled to see into your decision-making process unless you’ve agreed that they are. Just told a business acquaintance that I’d “just finished up my previous commitment”. It’s not their problem to know that it was DND.
Just to make sure no one schedules meetings on top of my D&D sessions, BUT ALSO to avoid any chance of my coworkers figuring out when I’m playing D&D, I always block sessions out on my calendar with the appointment title:
“Conflict Resolution Seminar”
It’s not a lie, I’m discussing with a small group how to resolve conflict. Not my fault that the answer is often violence.
Bro I love you but if I saw in the communal calendar that one of my coworkers had attended thirty conflict resolution seminars over the last year then I would immediately assume they had committed innumerable acts of workplace violence and management was too scared to fire them
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