baby, there’s only one shady whistledown

fix your hearts or die

[obxnetflix @obxnetflix]

OBX 5. THE FINAL SEASON. AUGUST 20.

[𝗔𝗺𝘆 𝗞𝗼𝘁𝗼, 𝗧𝗩 𝗙𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹 @TV_Fanatic_Girl]

Here's a Giles moment that still cracks me up with every rewatch of episode, Dead Man's Party.

"Do you like my mask? Isn't it pretty! It raises the dead!" 😂😭

[Pop Base @PopBase]

‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ and ‘Ted Lasso’ actor Anthony Head has died at the age of 72.

[𝒢𝒾𝓁𝒷ℯ𝓇𝓉 @AbakpaJob]

cats will be like oh you're walking somewhere? no WE'RE walking somewhere. and i will get there first. where is 'there' btw

[c ☆ @tintafey]

amy 😭

[𝕟𝕠𝕟 @nonfett]

グローグー！！！！！！！！

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

That little green guy walking the red carpet last night is a $5 million puppet. The studio almost didn’t build him. The original plan was full CGI.

Three weeks before filming started, the puppet team brought in a test version they’d been quietly working on. Everyone in the room changed their mind.

It was built by Legacy Effects, a workshop founded by people who trained under Stan Winston, the designer behind Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs and the original Terminator. Grogu’s skin is custom silicone, made to look “fleshy” under hot studio lights. Inside him are wires, tiny motors, and metal rods that puppeteers push and pull from just out of frame.

For every scene, two people sit off-camera with controllers. One works only the eyes and mouth. The other works the rest of the face: ears twitching, eyebrows lifting, cheeks puffing when he eats a frog. On harder shots, three or four puppeteers run the controls together, like a band all playing the same instrument.

The ears alone took four full rebuilds. Legacy wanted the skin thin enough that you could see the little red veins underneath when the lights hit them. They kept thinning, testing, scrapping, and starting again.

Werner Herzog, the German filmmaker, plays a villain in the show’s first season. He fell so hard for the puppet on set that the director said he seemed to forget it wasn’t alive. One day the crew started removing the puppet for a CGI backup version. Herzog turned around and called the entire team cowards. The puppet stayed.

For scale: the most expensive Grogu replica on the market costs $100,000. It runs on 25 tiny motors that let it blink, twitch its ears, and grip things. That’s the consumer version. The one used on the show was built closer to laboratory equipment than a toy.

A detail that never made it on screen: Grogu has feet. Legacy built them. Favreau hated how they looked, so the robe always covers them.

The Mandalorian and Grogu hits theaters May 22. Pedro Pascal is back as the masked bounty hunter. Sigourney Weaver plays a colonel in the new government rebuilding the galaxy after the Empire fell. Jeremy Allen White, from The Bear, voices Jabba the Hutt’s son, all grown up.

But the star of the movie is still that tiny green face. Almost every emotional reaction you’ll have to that face was sculpted by hand, by a team that nearly went CGI instead, and stayed only because Werner Herzog called them cowards.

[Anna’s Top Stanna @LinguistReborn]

To be clear, this isn’t a story of Alec Guinness being homophobic. Alec Guinness was bisexual and was arrested for cruising when he was younger. This is a very sad story of how queer people had to hide themselves and assimilate into a deeply homophobic industry.

[emmy award winner @emxlymargaret]

another mother's day where my cats didn't get me SHIT

[Libriscent @libriscent]

gentle reminder that ‘high functioning’ just means you’re suffering in a way that’s convenient for everyone else and i said what i said

[𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 @beyoncegarden]

OH HE ACTUALLY SPILLED SO BAD I FEAR😭🥹

[Cinema Scene @CinemaScene404]

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

[k @ysljennii]

me with the laundry from the dryer

[The Pay Day Vault @ThePayDayVault]

Neo Destiny (2002) introduced ‘Light Pokemon’ as the thematic counterpart to ‘Dark Pokemon’. The artwork showcases gentle-spirited Pokemon representing “light” qualities like friendship and harmony. ☀️🌷

[PCStop @PokeCardStop]

If you didn’t know, the Team Rocket set was released 26 years ago today, April 24th, 2000 🎊

This set was the first to include Dark Pokémon. The idea at the time was that these Pokémon were raised without love and affection, by Team Rocket, and in turn were hardened or evil.

The art from the set is widely acclaimed. It’s darker, harsher, and more dynamic than its predecessors. It was an obvious standout upon release.

This set contained the first, formal, Secret Rare in the Dark Raichu (picture 2). The English set had two print runs, 1st edition and unlimited.

Happy birthday Team Rocket, thanks for being the best set ever ✨

[baby, there’s only one shady whistledown @sarajva]

@soundmap_app 😌

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first trailer for ‘PRACTICAL MAGIC 2’ has been released.

In theaters on September 11.