This blog turned stream of consciousness awhile ago, but I’m keeping the name.30s. He/him. Sociohistorian. Neurodivergent. Nerd. BLM, feminism, support LGTBQA+. I’m about social and economic justice for all, and a lot of what I reblog reflects that.
remember that wild Dragon Age theme park ride (Dragon Age: Flight of the Wardens), originally located in Dubai until it randomly turned up years later (now also oddly-rebranded as “[Not Dragon AgeWe Swears It]: The Guardian”) in, of all places, Skegness England? well, I had to satisfy my curiosity and obsession with obscure pieces of Dragon Age media & archival thereof. and so - actually quite some time ago now - I finally got around to going on a pilgrimage there (which was this whole, like.. heinous harrowing in and of itself, that I will not go into), and I rode it
and to my surprise the original Dragon Age in-ride movie is still part of the ride experience! - complete with references to darkspawn, a Pride demon, dragons, green “rifts”, Discount Anders (a Grey Warden[?] mage called ‘Eldron’), Discount Yavanna (a Witch of the Wilds called 'Alexia’) and Dragon Age: Inquisition soundtrack music. there is also now a new pre-ride movie which replaces the old Dragon Age pre-ride movie as part of the ride’s rebranding, and i simply ?¿?
there are also still quite a lot of identifiable Dragon Age props in the fantasy-themed queue-area of the ride (so these must have been part of the whole purchase between parks), including multiple iconic Inquisitor helmets, Grey Warden shields, a Dragon Age dragon (now with DA-dragon identifiable horns.. sawn off??), and several Dragon Age banners, including the Inquisition hairy eyeball, the templar symbol and the Circle symbol. here’s some pictures.
[^this image is taken from the video linked below]
I also captured the new pre-ride movie, and you can see it along with the Dragon Age in-ride movie here ⬇️. and so now, with this epilogue to the.. most odyssey of all time, more than two years after the first message about the ride was ever sent to Ghil Dirthalen, this adventure in obscurity and the strange fever-dream meta story of Dragon Age: Flight of the Wardens era in Dragon Age history is finally complete.
Ghil Dirthalen: The Guardian??? {Overview. - Spoilers All}
[video source & link: Ghil Dirthalen, posted here w/ permission]
some further notes, thoughts and commentary under the cut -
If a flaming old queen in a cape wants to kill off racists in power I say have at it
That wasn’t even his plan!! His plan was to make the senator a mutant, so he’d have to advocate for mutants or be destroyed by his own policy, and tbh. It’s the best villain plan I’ve ever seen. The goo was the plan unexpectedly failing. 9/10 only bc he was going to kill Rogue. Next time use someone willing to sacrifice herself for the cause, pls. No further notes
I like how his plan in like real world terms, was to turn desantis gay but instead he exploded
My grandmother is sending us $200 a month to feed us and all of our industry friends who are out of work due to the Writers Strike. We pool our resources and do a big group potluck.
With SAG-AFTRA going on strike now too there’s going to be a lot of people below the line that need help.
Me and mine are ok - I left the industry and make enough to pay our rent, and with my grandmother’s contributions we can feed us and a bunch of our friends who are out of work. Most people aren’t that lucky though.
There’s about 245,000 people in LA alone that are going to be out of work for the foreseeable future. If you can donate to the entertainment community fund, the money will be spent helping keep them fed and housed.
Morning reblog. Despite the so-called “glamor” of Hollywood, we’re workers too. Every set has grips, gaffers, carpenters, janitors, PAs, drivers, caterers, hair and makeup people, security guards, assistants and everything in between. Many of us live paycheck to paycheck. When there’s a strike, no one works (as it should be) but it’s a lot of people suddenly without income.
Even a dollar or two helps. Donate if you can. Not to Wikipedia up in here, but if everyone who can donate donated a dollar, no one would have to worry and we could strike until the studios caved.
This is why they’re striking.
The studios don’t event want actors anymore; they want to own the scanned faces and bodies of people in perpetuity, to use as they please without paying.
We need to stay on the lines until we win this one, or this industry will eliminate its need for people.
Please donate even a dollar if you can. Please reblog.
‘Sean Astin, the “Rudy” and “Lord of the Rings” star who is one of the negotiating committee members for SAG-AFTRA, told IndieWire outside of the Warner Bros. lot how amazed he was at the unity he’s seen on display, including how miraculous it is that the SAG-AFTRA national board unanimously voted to approve today’s strike.
“Anybody who knows anything about SAG-AFTRA, because it’s a member-run union, there has been a lot of in-fighting over the last couple of decades. That is gone. We are in lockstep. We are as unified as a union has ever been,” Astin said. “That is a testament of how serious the issues are and how narrowly you can interpret them. It is what it is, and we need what we need.”
Astin described the mood the last couple of weeks in the negotiating room as having “a sinking feeling.” After agreeing to a 12-day extension following the initial contract’s June 30 deadline — one that came at a cost politically among members — negotiators felt duped by the studios, as though the only reason they wanted to extend was not to further talk in good faith but to buy more time to promote tentpole summer movies as though they were expecting a strike.
“When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time,” Astin said. “They came back with virtually nothing. And they were disrespectful. We’re volunteers, and we sat around for four weeks. And it’s basic human courtesy that was a little missing.”’
this is LITERALLY the funniest promotional piece that anyone has ever made for a tv show or movie ever
The best part is the story behind it.
After Edgar Wright stormed off the project, this movie almost got canceled. It took Peyton Reed literally finishing it with his crew in a single year, and Paul Rudd contributing on the writing to get it done within the deadline. And apparently, because they had to rush production ON a reduced budget no less, the effects weren’t even close to done by the time they had to put out Trailers and TV spots, and most of what was finished, or near done, had to be used in the theatrical spots. So Rudd and Douglas here supposedly came up with this idea, on the spot, as it would at least get people talking and avoid reusing too many of the same shots.
They accidentally hit the precise vein of our generation’s comedy
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