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In Film Booth's video with Hayden Hillier Smith (editor for Logan Paul) mentions his favorite place to get music at 1:12 is "spoilers." Does anyone know what that is? I've been trying to google it for a while now and have not found any luck in trying to find where he gets his music.

I want fresh music that doesn't seem "stock-y" and integrate it into my videos. I use EpidemicSound right now, but every YouTuber does that and I'm trying to move to something different. If you have any ideas or any suggestions, let me know! Thanks.

Edit: I already have The Beatles as Musicians. And while I’d like some analysis, I’m not looking for something that detailed.

I’d like topics ranging from: why a specific chorus is great, to a piece on John and Paul’s friendship, to looking at their different accents, to an argument on why X is their best album.

Hopefully there is something like that out there!

I am preparing to start writing my fantasy story, but I started to wonder if the story would be boring.

Main antagonists are from the world called Varávilág. Once there was a catastrophe that could destroy the Varávilan civilization, but some brave men appeared to stop the apocalypse. They did not die, but they gained powerful abilities. The Emperor of Varávilág Ehdoton wanted to use these abilities to start conquering other worlds. To avoid this, the powerful ones opened the gate and traveled to another world, the world of humans (Szavilág) (They avoid fighting because the consequences could be dire). But they did not know one thing. They have become more than only "powerful old men", they have become inseperable part of Varávilág. When they disappeared the world began to slowly fall apart.

The Varáviláns killed Ehdoton and Ystava became the Empress. The Varáviláns started working on opening the gate to Szavilág. They were going to bring back the powerful ones to save their world. And they will succeed, but it will turn out that the collapse has gone too far. The Empress will decided to conquer Szavilág and relocate her people there. Of course MC and his friends and others will fight them.

Is it not too clichéd, generic "saving the world" and "war of the worlds" stuff? Should I give up this idea?

I am a WWI historian, and wanted to see a Snoo in Highland dress added to the WWI subreddit banner. This they were unable to do for sound reasons. Nevertheless. I wanted to try my hand at drawing one. I did my best see here for reference. Despite being 45, I can't draw beyond a kindergarten level.

Any one of talent exceeding mine (and that means everyone!) who wants to take a crack at improving on my work, that would be grand!

desparate to see / mirrors suffice for a time / looking is seeing

actively looking / outside gets inside(Kate Bush - Breathing) of us / seeingt is knowing

This is my first post here and I'm pretty sure this is allowed, but I apologize if it's not.

Twenty years later, I'm picking up a story I started writing when I was eleven. Obviously a lot has changed in terms of my perspective and skill there, but the bones of the narrative are good, which is what inspired me to have some fun with it.

Anyway, three of the characters are sisters who are all adopted from different countries, a detail that my narrator thinks about briefly a few chapters earlier. There is a coffee shop scene later where the young women are all chatting and making what seems to be an established, recurring joke that some of them "got the good [physical feature]" as though they're actually genetically related. In my eleven-year-old version, this was very on the nose and I explained the joke very explicitly (i.e. this is funny because they're not actually related).

Do you think it could be worthwhile to try and keep this cute game in as long as it's much more subtle, or should I concede that this is something that would work better in a different medium and move on?

To make this question more general: What do you think of using dialogue/character interactions to hint at a character's physical features?

Edit: Wow, I did not expect to get so many thoughtful, useful, and witty responses—but what else should I have anticipated from a bunch of writers? Thank you so much for encouraging me, sharing your tips, and for giving me a kick in the butt. Y'all are great.

One more problem I'm playing standard so good gear costs a lot. And even if I go to ritual I'm too noob to farm(500 hrs my budget is 18ex and 1k c) and probably league will end by the time when I'm able to buy smth good
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“Dad,” my daughter asked, “are you gonna remember to check under the bed for monsters?”

I turned over my shoulded in the doorway to face her, my hand still hovering over the light switch. Her eyes caught mine. She sat upright with her legs folded under the covers, like a porcelain doll, and she certainly didn’t seem too worried about what dwelt beneath the bedframe like most kids her age. Come to think of it, no matter how small she was, she’d never really asked me to check for monsters. Always a quiet girl, always going softly into a goodnight. Maybe my memory was wrong. Maybe she’d asked before, and I’d just forgotten. I needed to shut myself up. My shrink said that I was just gonna get worse if I kept questioning my own memories like that. There could’ve been a reason for that. I had to try and pretend that there was no way he could have had an ulterior motive.

As selfish and irrational as it sounds, my heart was thrumming heavily through my ribs. This was it. This was that same damn story from Reddit I’d seen reposted a million times. The one where the kid begs his dad to check the closet, and then he sees that same kid in the closet, telling him there’s something in his bed. It was the same old cliché, over and over again, but I could never peel my eyes away and look at cat videos or some crap without thinking of it on a loop for the next two days. It was like drinking wine from the bottle, or like watching a fatal car crash on LiveLeak. You tell yourself you’re just gonna make yourself sick, that the way it hurts you could kill you, but you don’t have the strength not to watch it anyway.

God, that story always put a million little questions inside me, anyway, always rattling around in my head like spiders in a ceiling light. If the kid in bed was a monster all along, why’d he tell him to look in the closet where the real kid was, giving him a chance to escape? Just to relish the man’s terror? Just to hear the sound of an old father screaming? And, furthermore, if the kid and the monster looked exactly alike, what’s to say the one in the closet wasn’t the monster, and the kid was still in bed? What if they were both the monsters, trying to break his head with decisions, having offed the real kid hours ago?

I scanned my daughter up and down with my eyes, making sure I wouldn’t spot some stupid little detail that would tell me she was an imposter. Her eyes were always green, her hair was always curly, her birthmark was always on the right side of he

For example instead of Henry visiting FBI HQ Stan takes Philip. The Mail Robot sensing something is off about Philip starts beeping furiously. At first they laugh it off, but subconsciously it raises Stan's suspicions about the Jennings family.

Feels oddly resonant.

like stories, plot elements, character types, that contemporary Fantasy in the modern day do...over and over and over again.

Although it's not Fantasy, examples include how in media, big businesses and CEOs are OVERWHELMINGLY negatively depicted in media.

I was reading about this a while ago and thought it was a great word to use - technical I think, but not pastiche or something like that. It was quite specific about imitations diminishing the style or work rather than due to the original itself.

A lot of comedy is comfort TV, which means those of us that are tv lovers are going to hear the same old tired jokes. I don't mind it in most cases, because that's all part of the comfort. Some of them, however, I find less bearable than others.

For me the most annoying one is when someone has information and needs to pretend like they've heard it for the first time. They do the whole "ThAt'S DeFiNeTeLy ThE FiRsT I'M hEaRInG oF tHaT" bit.

I get that comedy doesn't always have to be in the realm of reality but it's just so off base from how someone would actually talk that it irks me.

What bits are you tired of?

Just my personal opinion. I feel like those who ask are looking for a reply to their post and don't actually go to the Megathread. I saved my long response in my phone and have it ready to paste wherever I see the question. My apologies to those constantly seeing my repetitive response to this repetitive question.

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I can’t stand them. All of the cutesy-poo characters with just-enough-overacting-facial expressions-used-to-convey-emotion makes me want to puke out of my face-hole.

“But the jokes are funny!” Yes, because a cat falling down a chimney and saying “oof!” is pure fucking comedy gold.

I could try to scrape up reasons to hate on it so bad, but it really comes down to the facial expressions. Just fucking tone it down! It’s like if you had Emilia Clarke’s eyebrows on a persons face, but every other part of their face did the same shit. I’m still breaking a fever so feel free to re-write that last part.

Disclaimer: Shrek was great. That was before studios could pump out a dozen of these garbage ass movies out a year. So it’s grandfathered in. Also the expressions were way lower-key, at least according to my nostalgia bias.