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bunnycocaine

cursed to be a tumblr user forever

tennesseewillams

women love when there’s a woman

medievalthymes

how it feels to read 85 pages of a book in one sitting

nanahayashi

in-libris-liberta-s-deactivated

Just finished hamlet & had to share THIS

iamnmbr3

btw this is literally what goes down. it’s great.

ovenroastedtwerkey

You just know the ye olde peasants went NUTS at that last part

elodieunderglass

We don’t say sblood enough we should bring it back

splashesdarling

CLAUDIA + COMPLEXITY ("Hello, grudge!")

#claudiaaaaaa #iwtv

sunderwight

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

adizzyninja

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

julianova44

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

they-bite

part of the fun of the original alien is the horror of the nostromo itself imo. it’s a cell of corporate greed ferrying narrowly-trained workers across barren space. it’s huge and yet claustrophobic, cockpits crammed with machinery giving way to yawning berths dripping chains and water. the supercomputer is named mother in a stroke of human anthropomorphization, but instead of providing comfort or protection, it’s only a courier between its creator and its wailing brood. ripley yells “mother! mother!” at a matronly-voiced computer that speaks calmly over her helplessness. the ship is full of endless details and patterns and unlabeled buttons and dials the audience can’t entirely make sense of; to do anything on the ship is a rigorous, technical process, and we must depend on the characters to know it. the internal mechanics of the ship are so alien that a literal alien can hide among the bits and bobs and not be noticed. it’s great.

erdenmaedchen

STAR TREK V The Final Frontier

#star trek #watching this with the besties oh last summer was beautiful

marwyn

Is your first name canon in asoiaf

Yes

No

Sort of (spelled differently, etc.)

Remaining time: 4 days 8 hours

Here’s the character list on the wiki for reference

#voting no #because there are of course 10 billion rose-ish names in the world and some make it to asoiaf too but NOT my specific one sooo #it would be a real strech

ngalitzine

BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (1999) dir. Jamie Babbit

corporaloretsev

They did not, in fact, cancel it.

riding-with-the-wild-hunt

the fact that the tra la la lally elves don’t show up when frodo et al. arrive in rivendell implies a few options to me:

they are only there some of the time or at certain entrances (possible but prosaic, includes the potential for tra la la lallying as shift work)

elrond’s magic has some kind of built-in warning system and they cleared out to avoid potential danger (plausible and realistic considering that i don’t think team tra la la lally is either interested in fighting or skilled in emergency response)

the changing political climate and increased danger around rivendell resulted in all tra la la lallying activities being moved inside the valley (which begs the question of where, and if they just manifest barbershop quartet style beneath guests’ windows)

elrond didn’t know about it until bilbo unwittingly mentioned the experience over dinner, and all roadside tra la la lallying was brought to an end (either petering out without the allure of secrecy or simply by the power of elrond’s consternation)

the whole thing was contrived solely to troll the dwarves (elucidates the standout conformity of only these elves to historic ‘tree-dwelling hippies’ stereotypes)

bilbo fully made it up (this was revealed when merry and pippin cheerfully asked elrond when the tra la la lallying would start, and elrond said ‘gesundheit’)

assuming the tra la la lally elves are real, though, i’m so certain that it was a celebrían-manufactured conceit made permanent by her shameless use of a parting wish to a weeping and dock-bound elrond right before they were sundered for centuries. she was leaning over the rail of the boat to valinor shaking her fist and yelling that they had to sing the song she wrote and not some sad sappy poem meant to attract maglor. yes, with all the tra la la lallies. or else.

probablyfunrpgideas

I was going to make the joke idea “play one of the tralalalally Elves, whose only skill is singing” and then I remembered two things.

First, song is immensely important in Middle Earth, to the point where some of the most powerful character moments and magic effects we see are done through singing and poetry. The tra la lally gang are most likely quite powerful sorcerers!

Second, the song mentions many of the Dwarves and Bilbo by name, which means they are either capable of foresight or very well-informed by mundane means. Certainly not the giddy bards the appear to be.