The Marvel Method

The Dark Herald shares an insider’s denoscription of the Marvel method of movie-making at Arkhaven. Like Matt Shakman and the writers of #FantasticFour, I’ve sat in the ‘creative meetings’ at @MarvelStudios. They’re horrible. You basically sit in a room with Kevin Feige and Lou D’Esposito and try to pitch your movie while realizing Kevin just […]

https://voxday.net/2025/08/12/the-marvel-method/

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"Of the 20 shortlisted by the 1000 Libraries Awards team for voting, two of the top five have inspired some of pop culture's most iconic libraries."

https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/travel/list-beautiful-libraries-bookstores-world-468811

"Alan Tudyk claims that 20th Century Fox removed him from the press and marketing campaigns for I, Robot because he tested better than Will Smith."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-170795623

"The bottom line? GPS was built for a world where the US had orbital dominance and adversaries couldn’t touch it. That world doesn’t exist anymore. If you're planning to fight in a theater saturated with drones, jammers, and precision-guided chaos, you’d better have a Plan B. Preferably one that doesn’t involve trusting 31 satellites floating 12,550 miles above a war zone.

"Inertial navigation systems (INS) were the old Plan B. Gyroscopes and accelerometers track motion, but they drift. A little error becomes a big one over time. Quantum gravity sensors fix that by constantly anchoring position based on Earth’s gravitational “fingerprint.”"

https://substack.com/home/post/p-170181134#:~:text=The%20bottom%20line,Earth%E2%80%99s%20gravitational%20%E2%80%9Cfingerprint.%E2%80%9D

☕️TECTONICS ☙ Wednesday, August 13, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS🦠

Something big is about to happen. The media has no idea what it is and it's making them crazier than sprayed roaches. Trying to get a handle on it all, in today's insightful roundup.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/tectonics-wednesday-august-13-2025

"Please note that it is incredibly, mercilessly difficult to break into publishing, and when Vance submitted his memoir, he was a 31-year-old "nobody". To imagine that such a person, from an extremely disadvantaged background and with no obvious establishment connections, could have his book snapped up, turned into a bestseller, and then made into a film, is, frankly, the stuff of fantasy. That simply doesn't happen to ordinary authors.

"It only happens to people with deep establishment connections who are being utilised to fulfil some sort of an agenda. In short: the establishment does not give you a central role on the world stage, it does not make you a bestselling author and turn your life into a film, unless you are an integral part of said establishment and deeply invested in serving it in key ways.""

https://open.substack.com/pub/miri/p/the-calm-before-reform?r=lp6h7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

"The tree stumps are from a period when Iceland was covered in forests. Even though 9th century Norse settlers reported vast forests across the country, it is believed that 3,000 years ago, the forests were much larger, even reaching the highlands. Approximately 500 BC, the climate became colder and glaciers began to form, destroying parts of the forests."
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/3000-year-old-trees-excavated-under-glacier/#:~:text=The%20tree%20stumps%20are,parts%20of%20the%20forests.

“And finally — pure happenstance — Trump pops up in richly symbolic Alaska, for his first closed-door confab with Putin since 2018. If you believe in Jungian synchronicity, that’s the classic trifecta: the Clearing of the Shadow, the Guarding of the Threshold, and the Meeting in the Borderlands. Or, if you don’t, then it’s just three consecutive, airtight, symbolically aligned moves in the span of a week, all pointing in the same direction for no reason whatsoever. Either way.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/tectonics-wednesday-august-13-2025

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Observe the timeline:

YESTERDAY: Trump takes federal control of the DC police for 30 days, deploys the NG to secure DC, SecDef has unnamed “specialized military units” on standby.

TODAY: Trump notifies Smithsonian he will be reviewing their collections.

This means that Trump will have access to the Smithsonian tunnels beneath the National Mall, while he just so happens to have military presence and full control of DC. These tunnels could be used to mask the movement of troops, perps, equipment, etc.

I find the timing of Trump conducting a “comprehensive internal review” of the Smithsonian museums to be a little suspicious to say the least.

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How the Marvel Sausage Is Made

A quick look by a former insider at Marvel's Anti-Creative Process

https://arkhaven.substack.com/p/how-the-marvel-sausage-is-made

Kiev is retaliating for defeats on the battlefield in the only way they know: striking random civilians. Several buildings have been damaged in Rostov-on-Don, at least 13 people have been injured.

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This helps determine if an egg is fertile and to assess embryo development.

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The Israeli Security Cabinet has approved a plan to seize Gaza City, despite harsh criticism from world leaders. Great Britain, Finland, Australia and a number of international organizations have warned that this step will only worsen the already catastrophic humanitarian situation in the enclave. Even the United States, which traditionally supports Tel Aviv, is making cautious statements — Donald Trump has effectively admitted that further actions depend solely on the Israeli leadership.

The decision has been opposed not only abroad, but also within Israel itself. The opposition and some of the military leadership say the plan ignores the exhaustion of combat units and threatens the lives of the remaining hostages. The General Staff warns that continuing the offensive in its current form could be a strategic mistake. However, Netanyahu's cabinet insists on control over Gaza — albeit with the proviso that it is a temporary measure and the subsequent transfer of the sector to the Arab coalition.

Amid these decisions, the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is rapidly worsening. According to the UN, almost the entire population of the enclave was forced to leave their homes, more than 60% of the infrastructure was destroyed, and millions of people were on the brink of starvation. The Gaza Ministry of Health reports tens of thousands of deaths, most of whom are civilians. Western politicians, including British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, are calling for an immediate ceasefire and negotiations, recalling that a military solution to the conflict will only lead to new victims.

However, for the Israeli leadership, military logic prevails over political logic. But the longer this course continues, the deeper the crisis and the more difficult it will be to find a path to peace. And the entire burden of the consequences of this war, which many in the world are already calling one of the most destructive and hopeless in the 21st century, falls on the shoulders of civilians.

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