u/ginochre

It feels a little silly but i was reading predators gold and got to Uncle’s backstory with Anna and thought it would be a great introduction to a trailer.
I really wanted to focus in on Anna Fang and the green storm for this because it’s my favorite thing going on for the book.

(uncles voice blares over an intercom, as the camera zooms top-down on anna fang’s body)
“i want to tell you a little story.”
(camera cuts to a far shot of a silhouette of Caul hanging from a crane by rope)
“are you hanging comfortably? then i’ll begin.”
(blackout)
(fade in to the great ice predator arkangel, trudging along the ice)
“by the time i was eighteen i was in charge of the salvage yards of Arkangel”
(cut to the scrapyard)
“slaves were what kept the racket running. I was in charge of all of them.”
(cut to a young slave girl)
“then one day arrived a girl, beautiful who turned my head…”
(cut to a small compilation young uncle giving gifts and spending time with the young slave girl)
“but my love was playing me for a fool the whole time”
(cut a cleaner-looking jenny haniver taking flight from the slave yards)
“Anna, this slave’s name was…”
(cut to a closeup of the lower half of Uncle’s face, speaking closely into a microphone. his voice is clearer now, no longer distorted by an intercom.)
“Anna Fang…”
(A mad rush of still frames from the first mortal engines movie of Anna Fang, stopping with a bang on a scene of an indian girl, Sathya, cradling Fang in her arms in the snow, despairing. she looks up over the cliffside at the Jenny Haniver, fleeing towards London and the next cut is a closer shot of the cockpit window: behind it, the two young pilots, Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw, looking worriedly back out the window.)

(cut to the jenny haniver in flight, beyond it in the distance to its side, a fleet of 3 armored airships. Cut to a closer angle of the airships, displaying a symbol of a green lightning bolt on their gas bags)
“Jenny Haniver, cut all engines immediately and prepare to be boarded.”
(cut to a worried pennyroyal sweating profusely, sitting on a bench in the jenny’s quarters)
“The green storm… they’re extremists, sworn to destroy all traction cities and their inhabitants.
(cut to the attack airships firing a warning rocket)
“We’ll be murdered in our gondola…”
(quick cut to the Jenny haniver swerving low through a small traction town, as a green storm airship pursues them and crashes in a fiery explosion.)

“Hester Shaw.”
(cut to hester, a hand with a syringe suddenly jolting up behind her and penetrating her neck- she winces)
(cut to Sathya’s face)
“You are responsible for the murder of Anna Fang.”
(cut to a scene of Hester Shaw in chains and cuffs, her clothes replaced by a grey jumpsuit, struggling against guards as they force her along a bright, white, yet gloomy hallway.)
“i did nothing!”
“Stop Lying!!”
(cut to a flashback, Anna fang stepping out of the Jenny Haniver in Shan Guo)
“She was our leader. We’re lost without her.”
(cut to a serious looking engineer, tinkering with some kind of tech)
“And luckily, Mr. Popjoy has agreed to help us.”
(cut to Hester)
“Help you? With what?”
(pause for a second, black screen)
“With getting her back.”
(Cut to a massive steel round door unlocking and opening, then a wall with projection of hundreds of photos on it, and then a silhouette of a tall, lanky figure in the middle of a spherical room, too far away to make out anything more, wires of all sorts connected to its head and stretching to the ceiling. It has no legs, and its torso is connected to the ground via a pole.)

(footsteps)
(a close up view of the clawed bronze hand, stained almost entirely red, dripping blood. footsteps can be heard. cut to a far away view, the lanky figure, now with legs, is walking toward the camera slowly, the weight of every footstep felt. the floor is spotted with red pools.
Cut to Tom Natsworthy and Hester Shaw, Crouched low on the ground. Tom flinches as he looks up.)
“Miss Fang?”
(Whispy, Raspy voice groaning)
“I am not Anna Fang…”
(cut to a bronze, emotionless mask of a woman’s face, bright green light pouring out of the eye sockets and a wrinkly, rotting mouth behind a small opening in the lips of the mask)

i have like 50 words and phrases but ive seen most of them never get used besides the one time ive entered them and its always the same 5 or something that get used ALL the time. is there a reason for this?

this is very hard for me to describe so everything below is my best attempt to at least put in perspective what ive been thinking about

I quit almost all social media platforms and mostly stopped playing video games 3 years ago because i know they take up more time than im willing to give to them, i know how it effects the reward path of the brain, and i know they are designed to be addictive to the detriment of users.

i went on a trip to japan to visit my girlfriend’s family in march and was captivated by the way i felt during the trip. I dont know what exactly it was or whether it was a lifestyle difference or just how inviting and accepting her family was toward me. After the trip i started trying to figure out how to compare how things were in japan to how things were back home and try to change my lifestyle to be more like it

i believe that life gains meaning from things that are physical- things like drawing and going outside and things that surround you. I think that these things can easily be overlooked. I go on long walks pretty often where i just explore along roads that i usually drive down. I go behind storefronts and other places that i wouldn’t otherwise have reason to be in and i just go toward whatever catches my eye. I find it exhilarating.

I believe in adjusting the means by which i live in order to reduce the amount of money i need to sustain myself. Then i could get by while spending less time working and instead doing more personal and meaningful things. My plan is to eventually live in my car, strictly manage what i spend money on, and move from place to place working part time minimum wage jobs.

I have this overwhelming feeling that the way that many people live in America doesn’t fulfill their happiness or what it means to be alive, and that it is regarded as normal when it doesnt have to be

Im familiar with materialism, and how many people chase after material things that don’t fulfill them. I’ve tried looking toward capitalism for answers, wondering if my feelings couldve been shaped by living in a social and economic system that heavily emphasizes growing wealth, and wondering if capitalism ignores the aspects of life that i find most important and that being what feels off for me. I think thats the closest ive gotten, but blaming capitalism feels too easy and depressing.

These things i believe in make up my own idea of what it means to be alive, and i want to tell people about it but every time i try to put it into words i start drifting off topic and talking about social media companies or materialism and such and i can tell that theres a bigger picture that im on the path toward realizing, but that im still missing.

does anyone here understand what im talking about, or know where i can go in person to find people who’ve thought about similar things, or what i can read or look into to learn more about all this?

my usual routine has been laid back recently but i wanna start doing more. What ive been doing is going 3 times a week, doing chest press and curls one day, leg extension/curl and situps one day and then tricep pushdown and shoulder fly one day. I always go for 4 sets of 12

the gym i go to has dumbells, a lat pulldown machine, a bench press machine that has modes for flat, incline, and shoulder press and a leg extension/curl machine.

my goal is to lose 10-20 pounds and to go to the gym more often but i wouldnt mind also building muscle. I also am starting trying to control my diet more, drink more water, and jog a mile every day at my local track

dont know what to say for this body. I want to get rid of games entirely but the only alternative i have is to read at the park, and while i do enjoy it, i cant do that all the time.

I have a schedule of local events where i live but most of them are either for super young kids or senior citizens and theres nothing much for anybody inbetween. Wish there were more places to go and things to see here.

Im sort of working myself up. I just dont know what to try or what kind of things i enjoy. I mean i enjoy people- i love social events but like i said, literally nothing around here that is remotely in my age range. I want more days when im out so long that my feet hurt.