Well, We Just Had to go There Didn't We?

I'm going to let the posts I make speak for who I am, and then you can make your judgment calls.

[fantastic-nonsense]

Zelensky's live speech to the Russians tonight....haunting

[ancientbread]

Howard Shore in two towers and RotK:

[hurleyquinnzel]

Bridesmaid to a waiter: What a beautiful wedding

Waiter, about to reveal that the poor groom’s bride is a whore: Oh you haven’t heard?

[hurleyquinnzel]

the number of people making comments on this post about how there’s nothing wrong with being a whore is far too high like i’m not trying to shame people who are promiscuous or sex workers this is a fucking reference to a song and if you dont understand the reference dont reblog with some idiotic trying too hard to be progressive shit its literally a joke about a lyric from a song it was never, and never will be, that fucking deep. if you dont get the reference literally just shut up and dont reblog this post oh my god

[christopher-bryant]

by fall out boy

[hurleyquinnzel]

I dont know what’s funnier the people getting offended because they don’t get the panic reference or the people getting offended because they don’t get the fall out boy joke

[hephs-thighs]

Comprehension of this post is what defines the Millennial / Gen Z generational boundary.

[mysharona1987]

[freekentuckythinker]

[only-tiktoks]

[lierdumoa]

[Hark! A Vagrant No. 202 by Kate Beaton]

[ritterum]

@thatlittleegyptologist @silverdragon-98

[doodleforfood]

Pupper Support was a fan favorite, so here are my Top 4 of the mini-series!

[soothifying-sounds-asmr]

Blush Repair by cosmetic_doctor

[doodled93]

I thought this may be some kind of ASMR thing and it COULD be if it didn’t kill me dead with the little air puffer thing

[quinintheclouds]

WOOBWOOBWHOOBWHOOB

[angelicguy]

going to hooters with horse blinders on and ordering a small cesar salad that i do not finish, i tip 200 dollars and kill myself in the parking lot with a katana

[franzkavkas]

average kafka diary entry

[high-quality-tiktoks]

Otters will forever be the most dramatic creatures on the planet🦦

[insomnia-productions]

[missmamibee]

year 3 give it up for year 3

[starfoozle]

Continuing from the tags of the last post: look, my work centers on invasive species (and used to focus on the environmental legacy of industrial pollutants.) I’ve seen more ecological degradation and loss met by political apathy and vast unmet need than I ever could have imagined as an earnest young naturalist who wanted to do my part to save the world when I grew up. I have seen some truly devastating things — and I have also seen life stubbornly persisting and even thriving in places that shouldn’t be possible! But it does! Sometimes — often — it is stunted, or lacks adequate biodiversity, or it’s only indestructible noxious weeds that can survive whatever chemical catastrophe has happened to the soil or water, but there is still life! Hell, I’ve seen aquatic plants and waterfowl and fish all over the Cuyahoga River — you know, the one that famously caught on fire — and friends now go fishing on Lake Erie half a century after it was declared “dead”. Even at a mountaintop removal site — an absolutely blasted hellscape that’s still difficult to describe the magnitude of years later — grass was still trying to grow in some of the overburden. We should be fighting for a world that is as biodiverse, healthy, and equitable as we can make it, but even in the face of utter failure on that front life persists and sometimes even flourishes. It’s not over ‘til extinction.

[lotrfansaredorcs]

Fun Random Facts About the LOTR Soundtrack

Most composers spend just 10-12ish weeks working on a film’s music. John Williams spent around 14 weeks on each Star Wars movie, 40ish weeks total for the whole OT……but composing the LOTR trilogy’s soundtrack took four years

The vocals you hear in the soundtrack are usually in one of Tolkien’s languages (esp. Elvish). The English translations of the lyrics are all poems, or quotes from the book, or occasionally even quotes from other parts of the films that are relevant to the scene

When there were no finished scenes for him to score, Howard Shore would develop musical themes inspired by the scripts or passages from the book. That’s how he got all Middle-Earth locations have their own unique sound: he was able to compose drafts of “what Gondor would sound like” and “what Lorien would sound like” long before any scenes in those places were filmed

Shore has said his favorite parts to score were always the little heartfelt moments between Frodo and Sam

Shore wrote over 100 unique leitmotifs/musical themes to represent specific people, places, and things in Middle Earth (over 160 if you count The Hobbit)

The ones we all talk about are the Fellowship theme, the main Shire Theme, and the themes for places like Gondor, Mordor, Rohan, and Rivendell…but a lot of the more subtle ones get overlooked and underappreciated

Like Aragorn’s theme. It’s a lot less “obvious” than the others because, like Aragorn himself, it adapts to take on the color of whatever place Aragorn is in: it’s played on dramatic broody stringed instruments in Bree, on horns in  battle scenes, softly on the flute with Arwen in Rivendell….

Eowyn has not just one but three different leitmotifs to represent her

Gollum and Smeagol both have their own leitmotifs! Whose theme music is playing in the scene can often tell you whether the Gollum or Smeagol side is “winning” at the moment

The melody for Gollum’s Song in the end credits of the The Two Towers is the Smeagol and Gollum themes smushed together (it’s Symbolic)

And then there’s the really obscure ones. Like there’s a melody that plays at Boromir’s death that shows up again in ROTK in scenes that foreshadow a major death or loss

Wikipedia actually has a list of these leitmotifs, click this link and scroll down to check it out if you’re bored

Shore wanted the theme music to grow alongside the characters– so that as the characters changed, their theme music would change with them.  

You can hear that most clearly in the Shire theme. Like the hobbits, it goes through A Lot 

Like compare the childish lil penny whistle theme you hear in Concerning Hobbits/the beginning of FOTR with (throws a dart at random Beautiful Tragic Hobbit Character Development scene because there WAY TOO MANY to choose from) the scene when Pippin finds Merry on the battlefield, where you hear a kind of shattered and broken but more mature version of that same theme in the background 

I could write you a book on how much I love the way the Shire theme grows across the course of these films 

Unlike the hero’s themes, which constantly change and grow, the villain’s themes (The One Ring theme, the Isengard theme, etc) remain basically the same from the very beginning of FOTR to the end of ROTK. Shore said this was an intentional choice: to emphasize that evil is static, while good is capable of change

Shore has said that between all the music that made into the movies and the music that didn’t, he composed enough for “a month of continuous listening”……..where can I sign up

[knightsf]

[unrealunearths]

merry crisis

[yellowmonday-deactivated2022120]

me when i don’t know anything about the xicanx movement or latina feminism or the latin american diaspora or the spanish language. youre blaming trans people and “libfems” for phrases that came out of the latine fight against the lingual patriarchy of a gendered colonizer language? like it’s a bad thing? like it’s about “hurt feelings” and not about acknowledging the fact that spaniards imposed their language AND gender binary onto the natives they colonized? as if changing the grammar of the spanish language doesn’t have enormous precedent in latine culture and YEAH especially in US latinx culture? as if latines in diaspora “don’t count”? as if some english speakers aren’t fully fucking latino? stop pretending that “real latinos” didn’t have anything to do with this shit because we did and we still do. just because it’s a new concept to you doesn’t mean it’s worthless or senseless lmfao. of course op is a t*rf. fucking useless explaining the relationship between colonialism and gender to these people.

obligatory disclaimer: if youre not latine this isn’t your conversation at all. and youre looking like a fool trying to protect the integrity of spanish & shitting on english speaking latines as if all of us haven’t had these languages forced on us by colonial forces. there’s nothing sacred about the spanish language.

[yellowmonday-deactivated2022120]

the origin of words like latine and latinx and latin@ came out of people recognizing the gendered binary inherent to the spanish language. the origins of latinx specifically are suspected to either be a puerto rican periodical on the gendered nature of spanish or in the 2004 journal feministas unidas. it was also used in online chatrooms in the 1990s. x was like and x-ing out of the gendered -o. the “linguistic imperialism” of latinx is the same as the linguistic imperialism as latin@ — it is not easily pronounceable because it was employed in a mostly visual way. for effect. ways latinx can be pronounced include: latins(h). latin-equis. latin-x. it does cater to english speaking. but latine always exists as a perfectly pronounceable alternative for both english and spanish speakers while retaining the same purpose—making a statement by removing the masculine -o.

it’s okay if you don’t want to use it for yourself. it’s okay if you have differing opinions. but your opinions will be uninformed and perpetuating harm if you don’t recognize the history in latine activism—for example, the x in xicano or chicanx used in the mexican american movement and community, said to be influenced by indigenous language and non-binary gender systems. it’s worth noting that spanglish often used in chicanx communities has been criticized simultaneously for not being “american” or “latin enough” as if this too isn’t a problem directly stemming from colonization.

let me be clear i am not dying on the hill of latinx. i am dying on the hill that latin americans should be able to use whatever form of identification they want in order to recognize and dissect the effect of spanish colonization. i strongly prefer latine and i also strongly believe that terms like hispanic, latino, and variations thereof are all colonial terms. i’ll reiterate that we are living in a colonial society and that these terms are nearly exclusively meaningful in the arenas where xenophobia (fear of outsiders) applies to the native people below the colonist-established mexican-american border, where these natives are not recognized as native americans, where the borders of colonist countries are considered genuine authorities. it all only exists because of colonialism.

frankly i think arguing over these labels is a waste of time, but in this case, as in many cases, it’s less about the label itself and more about the bigotries inherent in prioritizing language (especially one that was literally imperially imposed by white people) over living individuals (especially people who do not adhere to the western gender binary, who have existed long before any conquistador set foot in the americas). i don’t give a shit what you use as long as you can understand that latinos are native to this land, that culturally indigenous peoples in latin america have gender systems that have been threatened by colonization, and both spanish and english were forced on us and it’s totally our fucking right to say fuck your grammar rules and fuck your gender binary. thanks

[faggottt]

[manny-jacinto]

MAMMA MIA! (2008) + tags about Colin Firth

[hedwig-dordt]

does anyone have that gif set handy where an interviewer asks Colin Firth “so when you meet the Creator at the pearly gates when you die - what do you hope he’ll say?” and Colin Firth replies: “I thought you were quite good in Mamma Mia.”

Colin Firth understood the assignment.