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anneretic:

Do you ever get sad when you realize that in all probablity, someday Sam and Dean are going to walk into a hunt — a haunted house, a warehouse, a forest, a lake — and not gonna come back? So then somebody realizes the impala’s been sitting the for a while now, grass is starting to grow, so it goes to a junkyard or a used car shop after they refit some parts and sold as pre-loved to someone who loves classic cars but isn’t gonna drive it much because the mileage is yeah-high? One day, the guy’s kids are gonna sit in it, and they gonna find all sorts of things: legos and plastic soldiers, empty cartridges, a bottlecap Sam stuffed between the seats because Dean was being an ass again and he was entitled to act like a little brother, a folded candy wrapper because when Cas fell for the nth time and was unable to zap things to the oblivion dimension he just got lazy, nothing telling, nothing important, just years’ worth of debris proving they had a home, they had friends, they existed?

dinobearthemighty:

c0uches:

writeswrongs:

A friend of mine just sent me this:

I found little Pebbles Saturday May 18th at 2am crying in the parking lot outside by building complex. As soon as I went outside to investigate the meowing, there she was crouched under a car.  I kneeled down to get a better look and that’s when she came running up to me and put her little paws on my legs. I didn’t hesitate to pick her up and bring her inside. Once inside I noticed one of the eyes was infected. I took her to the vet the next day.  Turns out “She” is actually a “He” (makes me feel silly for calling him Pebbles) and is suffering from a severe eye infection and ear mites. He also suffers from an anal prolapse and is in need of surgery to have that area sutured up. They are also doing tests to rule out intestinal disease and parasites because of a swollen abdomen. The vet bill is now up to $475, which might not sound too bad, except my current financial situation cannot support that. 

My father passed away from cancer last year and my mother had a heart attack just 4 months later. Without hesitation, I left my job and moved back to my hometown to help her out. When my dad was first diagnosed with cancer a few years ago, I decided to go back to school to become a holistic nutritionist.  I graduated in November and have been working on getting my own business started which is just getting off the ground, but not bringing in much money.

I don’t usually ask others for help, but this kitten is in need of medical attention and I just don’t have the money to pay for it. My credit cards are already maxed out from putting myself through school over the last few years. When I called the humane society, they said because it was “cat” season they were filled up, any cat brought in that is in need of medical attention would be put down. I can’t let that happen to this sweet little guy.

Please help me give this loving little kitten a fighting chance, all 15 ounces of him! We are extremely grateful for any help you can offer.

Please signal boost for Pebbles <3.  You can donate here.

Help out little pebbles!

There I donated $17 because I’m feeling extra heart-jerky. 

shercocklocked:

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auronlu:

livvyplaysfinalfantasy:

This little exchange has always stood out to me, and I’ve never been sure why. To put it simply, it feels as though Balthier and Fran are having their own conversation that transcends these few simple lines of dialogue. I watched this part a couple of times in an attempt to pick out exactly what makes it seem special, and I think it has something to do with their body language. Balthier often doesn’t look at people while they’re talking to him (which says a lot in and of itself), but he’s staring straight at Fran while she speaks. They also do this thing where they both lean into each other. If the bars weren’t there, they’d be almost touching. It’s as though most of what they’re saying is conveyed through those simple movements rather than through words.

Yes! Yes. Or to put it another way: the graphics were finally good enough to allow acting. FFX had some multiple-character animations, but I recall a lot more scenes where each animation seemed to have been plucked out of a stock set, or (at best) each character was being animated according to his/her own dialog. In FFXII, far more gestures were tailored not only to specific lines, but choreographed between characters.

Also, of course, two excellent voice actors help.* Fran’s odd hesitation on “Only…” is a bit hair-raising, and Balthier supplies the end of the thought, as two close friends would. 

And maybe that’s part of it, too: these games often spell everything out for the player, but FFXII broke with that trend. Fran and Balthier often communicate with no words at all: a sneer, a head-tilt, and arched eyebrow, a touch, or Fran’s cat-like unblinking stare, which in some scenes substitutes for a smirk. (As when she watches Balthier throwing a silent hissy over Margrace upstaging him.)

*[I just looked up Nicole Fanti again. She’s a polyglot, born in Australia but living for a time in Vienna and Paris, so she created Fran’s peculiar accent from a blend of several European languages. Also, that was her first, and apparently her only (credited?) voice acting role.]

Murozond, the Lord of the Infinite