So inventor dude accidentally made a key that let #skeletor in the back door and now there he captured the priestess of gray skull and they're fighting their way out. And LOL the #MacGuffin #gizmo

#monsterdon #MastersOfTheUniverse

#macguffin #cinema #hitchcock #mcguffin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkyUxfSOKbI

@fesshole This is a fabulous set up to the kind of B-movie horror that we love for #Monsterdon! Combining cheese, ants, a Spanish pool and a swimmer. We need some sort of radiation or toxic waste to be the #macguffin and some clever camera zoom work. Boom! An hour of fun for us all! :)

The Maltese Raven
https://medium.com/p/9aaf6f97af21

once upon a nighttime foggy, while i brooded dark and groggy

over bills that needed paying

and a backlot of cases I got a call

it’s some bill collector, I was saying

a shyster, who at this hour makes his call...

#poetry #parody #Marlowe #detective #noir #edgarallanpoe #poe #theraven #macguffin

Et encore une fois, c'est le majordome qui a fait le coup ! Il ne mérite pas ses roudoudous.

#Zan #Réglisse #Milan #MacGuffin

https://www.lasteppe.eu/mixtures/reglisse

I think there was an #eclipse, and it became a #MacGuffin for the plot of the #Mahabharata

@retromischief @damieng

This is literally the #MacGuffin in the 1999 movie #OfficeSpace

The magazine #MacGuffin (edition 13, macguffinmagazine.com) writes about special #ligatures in #opensource #fonts, which may help French people to make gendered endings of words non-binary. https://typotheque.genderfluid.space/

Spoiler for #DeadReckoning:

There’s a #MacGuffin!!! 😆

#WatchParty was pretty intense. Not gonna lie, this third-directed silent #Hitchcock flick is great. (Can't believe I was so ignorant of his earlier films - he started directing before the Talkies?! 😮

A great beginning to the career of this amazing #Director . Certainly points to his future use of the #MacGuffin as a #storytelling technique. 🤓

@pomCountyIrregs @mwt Thank you. I certainly don't fancy myself an essayist, but I confess that I do purposely mangle the language to make a point(†). As you point out, there is a tradition of doing this.

To be clear, this essay was #writingAdvice for #fiction #writers like myself suggesting that focusing on people performing or doing evil things is far more engaging (and horrifying) than a more distant defined or indefinite #evil institution, being, or force, i.e., a #MacGuffin.

Yes, I proceed to relate it to real life because when we don't think about why we are doing what we do, acting on reflex or as taught by rote or obeying authority, we can do bad things unthinkingly. As characters will in our stories. As authors, getting our readers to realize their awesome capabilities (in this case to perform evil) is just one of the services fiction writers perform.

† - I am doing this wholesale in my current story.

#writer #author #fiction #writingCommunity
#BoostingIsSharing

Sometimes #depression is like that dreadfully hackneyed #MacGuffin, the long windowless corridor in horror films. The viewer/protagonist sees the end the of corridor clearly. Then starting, from the far end, the the strip lights go out one-by-one creating the illusion that darkness is rushing the victim until the last light goes out. We are told to look at worse miseries and count our blessings. #Mentalhealth doesn’t distribute like that. It’s not like #wealth.

I title my journals based on changing themes. They provide the cornerstone for the mise en scène of my writing. A month into a new book and I’ve got nothing. So, I’m trying to define the device. Is it a #fetish, a #muse, a #MacGuffin, a #redHerring, a #philosophersStone, a #huntingBlind, an #f(x)? What device do you use to better observe the ineffable? As a quasi “throw away,” what duty have we to identify with it, serve it, thank it, or let it go? #writersBlock #themeBlock #commodification

#writinglife: So a friend suggests an idea he really wants to read. I stupidly incorporate it into the current novel as it is an opportunity to generate a necessary #MacGuffin. The subplot involves naval matters, but I skirted having to detail it precisely because it matters little to the story.

However...

To make the plot insertion work...

I had to create incidents—and developed a handicapped unfairly maligned Ensign getting her first command on a mission designed to fail, but which turns out to be critical to the nation's survival.

Compelling.

Oh, shoot!

This morning I woke up unable to sleep in because I was plotting it all out in my head. Now I've written the first chapter and have to seek a reader with naval experience to make sure I don't #FUBAR naval life or procedure.

Thank you, friend, @taur10 #mlp

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Hunter Biden's laptop is the #macguffin of the GOP story.

This ancient Greek #MacGuffin must be to do with the movie's main #ColdWar #spacerace plot. Astronomical secrets, too powerful for evil fascists? Scroll back to the gadget and you'll see a horizontal sundial design, like this one from #Pompeii.
4/10

I was today years old when I got caught up in my first petty #screenwriting debate (argument) on the bird app.

#macguffin