Practically Asleep

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As promised, the preview for this week's chapter! We finally get to meet Holly's girlfriend, whom we have dubbed Amelia.

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"How's the new job going, my love?" Amelia asked, still peering at whatever she was cooking on the stove. She had been called out to Chelsea the previous evening on DEPRAC business, and as such, the only debriefing she'd gotten on Holly's first day had been a "pray for me" when Holly kissed her goodbye this morning and Amelia told her to have a good day.

Holly heaved a sigh. "I'm beginning to think you didn't take me seriously when I asked you to pray."

Amelia winced. "That bad?"

"Where do I even start?" Holly sank into her chair at the small table in what passed for their dining room. "I mean, I knew mister . . . no, I can't even call him that! I knew Lockwood was my age, and even though he came across well in my interview, there's only so much experience he can have had. But it's so much worse than I'd imagined! That boy—I saw the employment records, and he's not even eighteen for another six weeks!—is an absolute mess. Sean warned me when he referred me that Lockwood had tragedy in his past, but I did not expect dead parents, a dead sister, a hopeless crush, and the complete and utter inability to talk about any of it!"

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Lockwood and Co as Scottish pearls of wisdom

Lockwood: Money cannot buy happiness but somehow, it's more comfortable to cry in a Mercedes Benz than it is on a bicycle.

Holly: Forgive your enemies but remember their name.

Lucy: Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.

George: Many people are alive only because it is illegal to shoot them.

Kipps: Alcohol does not solve any problem, but then neither does milk.

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kendrysaneela

This is why I love the “Covid is faked” conspiracies. Like really?? You think the WHOLE WORLD is working together THAT EFFICIENTLY?? Even the countries that hate each other? Wow cheers for the optimism

geijutsu1

Look up the manhattan project you dipshits

sashibunbun

You mean the project where the only reason there was any secrecy was that none of the people had any part of the wide reaching project (Oppenheimer, Einstein, and all the others were pretty much kept way away from eachother) and was almost brought down as a secret in the group by one of the guys being an amateur safe cracker? That Manhattan Project?

The one where everybody near Los Alamos knew that something big was happening, because they were actively hiring during the War?

The one that had so many close calls to they’re working on some kind of bomb that by the time the war was over you had people involved blabbing, to the point the Rosenbergs happened?

THAT Manhattan Project?

dixkens

The Manhattan project, the one that the editor of a science fiction magazine (I think it was Astounding) figured out was happening because all the physicists who subscribed suddenly changed their addresses to Los Alamos?

That Manhattan project?

hater-of-terfs

We’re talking about the Manhattan project that Kodak had clearance to know about (and even got advanced warnings about tests) because they figured it out when radioactive fallout from the tests contaminated their x-ray film? That one?

bogleech

And that was still just one government using the fullest extent of their power to try and keep just one secret in a time before cellular phone cameras or the internet. Imagine thinking multiple, rival governments agreed to fake a virus to fool just some of their citizens into staying home from work, while also agreeing to pay billions of dollars to compensate them for it.

definitelynotaminion

Some people have never had to work on a company computer and use company software and it shows. It won’t do its REGULAR function much less secret second functions.

americanbrightside

If you think three companies could develop vaccines with chips in them and the same system could be used to talk to all three chips, you’ve never been in a household with two brands of phone

lucymontero
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Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?

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suicunesrider

not gonna lie that still looks intimately real

drtanner

I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.

Fucking witchcraft, man. 

fangirlingoverdemigods

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fucking look at this shit though

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mauridianhallow

Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:

THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.

mizushimo

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amazing

shadowthorne

And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.

socialjusticeichigo

They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.

The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.

And the raptors were dudes in suits. I shit you not.

datneeks

One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?

Motherfucker randomly started moving.

So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.

bitter-bi-witch

(link to said post about malfunctioning t-rex)

alessariel

Did not know this, had to reblog for awesome movie history insights.

brainsforbabyjesus

So, I knew about the animatronics bit but I did not know the raptors were guys in suits and the malfunctioning t-rex sounds terrifying.

And i just googled malfunctioning t-rex and was not disappointed. Apparently in order to put the skin on over the steel frame a guy had to crawl inside the t-rex while it was turned on and glue the skin down. And if somebody turned the t-rex off or the power went out the guy in the t-rex stood a very real chance of getting mangled and killed by the hydraulics.

So of course, the power goes out.

And this guy is still in there gluing the skin down.

Apparently the way to survive getting sheered to death by huge sheets of metal while you’re inside a giant t-rex robot is to curl into a ball and hope for the best.

And this guy hoped for the best and got it.

Some other people on stage pried open the t-rex jaws and glue guy crawled out of its mouth and was totally okay.

alessariel

This is getting better and better.

red-dirt-roads

I think they only had like 6 minutes of CGI

buddha-fett

I’m just waiting for the T-Rex to come to life and leave its stand.

perspectiverelativity

@spinosaurus-the-fisher is this the kind of content you love?

spinosaurus-the-fisher

Realism comes at a cost, it seems.

funkylittlefang

i mean ok but why has nobody posted this:

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It’s a three piece raptor suit.

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Old movies had the best special effects

adinfinitumxx

The thing about this that gets my special effects nerd going is the fact that EVERY single dinosaur was sculpted by artists based on the current existent archeological evidence of the time.

witwitch

@jurassicparkandrecreation

senkirowolf

@shepfax

prettyarbitrary

Even better than that, this movie ADVANCED our best understanding of dinosaurs at the time.  They were blowing out a budget bigger than anything Hollywood had ever seen, and along with employing almost the last hurrah of incredible physical FX, they had a bank of those newfangled digital SFX computers.  Nobody’d ever really created convincing dinosaurs in a movie before.  It’d all been stop-motion animation, and even when the models were exquisitely crafted, you could just tell there was something OFF about them.  Spielberg wanted THE BEST DINOSAURS EVER, and he figured on using the cutting edge of digital modeling and animation technology to build them for him.

So they got hold of some of the best paleontologists they could find and said, “We want you guys to take this tech that your labs could pretty much never afford and use it to build us the most realistic, accurate dinosaur models the world has ever seen.”

The paleontologists knew an opportunity when it bit them in the ass.  They plugged in everything they knew about dinosaurs, all the skeletons and their best guesses about soft tissue and all that.  And when they’d created those dinosaur models, they had the computer start moving them as they realistically would with anatomy like that.  One guy took a look at those walking t-rexes and velociraptors (really utahraptors, but whatevs, fam), and he said, “Wait a minute, I’ve seen movement like that before.”

He called up film of a chicken walking.  Everyone in the room said, “Holy shit.”

Prior to 1989, the idea that birds were descended from dinosaurs existed–we knew about archaeopteryx, we knew there was some minor connection there–but the idea that DINOSAURS LIVE IN THE MODERN WORLD AND THEY ARE CALLED BIRDS was not pre-eminent.  Jurassic Park changed our scientific understanding of dinosaurs.

bastlynn

That paleontologists’d be Kevin Padian. Who is awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Padian

thistherapylife

This post just gets better and better with time

crocutaborealis

I love practical effects I love janky puppets I love costumes I love fake gore practical effects piss all over CG any day of the week

revretch

Fun fact: There is plenty of CGI in this movie. But even the CGI looks boss (not floaty and melty like most CGI) because it was animated using painstakingly articulated maquettes originally meant to be used for stop-motion animation.

The guy who made those maquettes, by the way, is also responsible for some of the most impressive effects in the original Star Wars trilogy, and the creator of Mad God.

lucymontero

The original plan WAS stop motion dinosaurs. They were going to make the best stop motion dinosaurs ever done. They hired the best guy he worked for like over a year. All these models.

The computer effects were supposed to be a smaller part. But these two guys pretty nearly got fired at one point because they would not quit with wanting to do a full body shot of a running Trex. It took forever. But they were like “no really it will be awesome. “. And Spielberg took one look at it and the stop motion plans were cancelled. All the stop motion shots were now computer animates. Like the TRex chase and the Brachiasaur and the stampede and the TRex at the end.

They kept on the stop motion guy- he was now assigned to train the animators on dinosaur movement.

And the hardest effect for the practical effects guys to manage was not directly dinosaur related. It was the ripples in the water glass that Tim and Lex see - caused by the shaking of the ground with the TRex stomps. Spielberg wanted perfect concentric ripples. Like a pebble in a pond. They tried for weeks in prep. Told him everything was on track for that sequence but they had no idea how to get it. Nothing made that pattern. Finally the week of the shoot one of the effects team places a glass of water on his guitar and plucks a string. Perfect circles. That shot on the car is caused by a crew member under the car plucking a guitar string attached below the dashboard.

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i love my therapist but i hate being in therapy. 10 minutes before my appointment, i'm in a meeting with my boss - we discuss my artistic choices; my boss recommends i artistically choose less. 10 minutes after therapy, i wash my hair and think about everything that was said, and then i have to switch it off, like a lamp, and go back to work again.

i was on a walk the other day and someone had the perfect combination of his cologne and whatever-else. it was almost exactly his scent. i fucking hate that. after all these years, i remember that? i tell my therapist - i feel like a fucking wolf. try telling a middle-aged blonde lady. oh i scented him on the air. i'm 30, and i'm having a panic attack over something that would be a plotline in the omegaverse.

what they don't tell you about mental illness is that if you are lucky enough to survive it into adulthood; it becomes a weird slice of your life. because you do, eventually, have to build a life. i realized in a panic somewhere around 22 - oh. i don't know what i'm fucking doing, because i always assumed i'd just go ahead and die. i didn't die, and i'm grateful for that, and i'm very happy about that choice. but it does mean that i am an adult in an apartment, living with my conditions side-by-side like. oh, that's my roommate, adhd. ignore the glass, bytheway, that's ocd.

so you pick your stupid life up by the scruff of the neck and you're, like glad for it (so much laughter and light and friends you would have never thought possible, when you were in the worst of it). but it feels so strange to be dancing around these odd little microcosms, these patchwork moments of your symptoms. if you have a panic attack at night, you still need to wake up and walk the dog in the morning. if your depression is making everything boring, well, you don't have any sick days left, and a job's not really supposed to be that exciting anyway. your ocd tears out each individual leg hair, and then, an hour later, you sigh, patch up the bloody bits, and go get dinner with friends. and the life is kitten-quiet, mewling and pathetic, but it's also like - it's yours, so you're fond of it.

and it's like - you're real. so you still enjoy pushing the shopping cart really fast and then riding on the back of it down an empty aisle. and you're not, like, so sick anymore that when you accidentally drop a mug you burst into tears (except for the days you do that. which are bad). and no, you're not allowed around certain items anymore. oops! but you've learned to be good about brushing your teeth most days of the week. and yeah sometimes in the middle of the day you have a little freak-out about how fucking unfair it all is, how fucking hard, how other people can just do this without having to fucking hurt the whole time. and then you sigh and force yourself to sit down and fucking journal about it so you can tell the nice middle-aged blonde woman yeah i had a hard day but i practiced grounding. you still sometimes want to burst out of your own skin, but you force yourself to eat kind-of healthy and to take your vitamins. you let yourself chop off all your hair in the sink in a dramatic poetry of control and relief - and you also have developed good hobbies that help you move your body more frequently. you feel helplessly behind, lost in the shuffle - but you also practice gratitude, taking stock of what you have garnered. because you're trying. even if you're never gonna be normal, you have something... close enough.

and the little kitten of your life, this mangy, starlit tigercub, this thing you expected to rot so young: in your arms, it turns itself over, belly-up. exposing this new soft part, all the organs and guts. like it's saying i trust you now. you won't give me up.