Technicolor Ansible

fandom account | pronouns: she, her

[thepeacefulgarden]

[dominacetrix]

Saw someone on Reddit asking what the requirements are for going to the library. Not to get a card and check stuff out. Just to hang out there. I don't mean to make fun of the poster for not knowing. I blame capitalism and the reduction of third spaces for making the idea of being able to just exist in a free public space seem like a strange concept to people. Anyway. This inspired a meme.

[plausible-fabulist]

widespread archaeological evidence suggests that many North Americans of this era acknowledged the existence of three genders: "men", "women", and "employees only"

[tiktoks-i-enjoyed]

The art of mindless embroidery.

by @ toolbburs (no pronouns in bio).

[dailyclassicart]

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Julie Manet with Cat (detail)" (1877)

[dry-gold]

Hey in middle earth is there any ecological consequences for those big fuckin eagles

[astercrash]

Goblins and hobbits both make their homes underground

[cool-bacon-dude]

Funniest answer for why gandalf didnt use eagles to carry the hobbits to mordor

[whereifindsanity]

Hotel California on Guzheng by Moyun.

[coconutshipwreck]

Just, like, wow.

[labelleizzy]

[avauntus]

Username Songs Tag Game

Rules: Share a song for each letter of your username

I was tagged by @convenientalias. That was so kind, thanks! Sorry I'm here so rarely, but this looks fun! :D

...Get ready for a BUNCH of mid-aughts alternative, haha.

A - Artifice - SOHN

V - In the Valley of the Gods teaser trailer* - Campo Santo / Muddy Waters - LP

A - All for the Best - Francis Cone

U - Up All Night - Beck

N - Northern Lights - Woodes

T - Time Machine Invention - Cloud Cult

U - Yakusoku wa Iranai - Maaya Sakamoto**

S - Systems - Tiny Victories

(It felt like I was reaching for the "V" and second "U", so you all get ~*thematic*~ picks for these letters instead!)

'* - This pick is for "Valley...," and also "Valve," who bought Campo Santo right after this clip was released and well... There's a reason all we know is the sublime teaser.

'** - A song that will instantly make me nostalgic - also an apology to those who heard me try to karaoke this. You know who you are >_<

I tend to pick music for 'fandom' reasons, so a lot of this (but not all of it!) is associated with characters, usually due to snips of lyrics--

"I'm not going anywhere until we're back to where we were before / I don't need anything except always just a little more" (Cloud Cult) always reminds me of Wei Wuxian, but also Emet Selch, lol

I haven't been around much lately, so I'll just say - consider yourself tagged if you'd like to do this! (You should do this, it's fun!)

[waterlilyvioletfog]

I do recommend My Country: the New Age if you like watching lots of WAR and dramatics between insane gay people. Okay there is ALWAYS. just a lot going on. Here’s a chain of events: Nam Seon-ho, upon reuniting with Seo Hwi for the first time since screwing him over during the state exam and then getting Hwi sent to the front to stop his dad from killing Hwi bc Hwi knows that Seon-ho’s dad bribed an examiner (like I said. LOT going on.) because now Seon-ho’s been sent to kill Hwi’s unit by his dad, kinda just stares at him for a bit and then immediately jumps into Sung-rok’s sword that’s meant for Hwi. Big stab wound, he looks totally dead, Hwi screams a lot over his body it’s great. Anyhow, while Seon-ho is passed out, after he finishes screaming, Hwi 1) begs on his knees for his friends to PLEASE help him save the guy who was sent to kill them all, 2) organizes their escape from the extra guys Seon-ho’s dad left behind to kill all the survivors including Seon-ho, and 3) gets Seon-ho medical care and refuses to leave his side for two days. When Seon-ho wakes up he’s like I have realized that I have something I can’t bear to lose. I am talking about YOU. Idiot. And Hwi goes “…?” And then Seon-ho starts lying and telling Hwi that Seon-ho is responsible for all the bad shit that happened (lies) and Hwi says right thats all bullshit it’s clearly your asshole dad’s fault. and then Seon-ho says “your sister is dead” (she’s not, but his dad said he’d kill anyone who found out) so Seo Hwi goes YOU KNOW WHAT!!! FUCK YOU FOREVER AND EVER!! WE ARE BREAKING UP!!!! And Seon-ho just goes🧍👍 okay [eyes full of tears] and Hwi says I am going to KILL your dad (the secretary of the state) and Seon-ho goes wHAT NO. nononono dont. Dont do that he’ll fucking kill you!!!!!!!!!! And Hwi says WE ARE BROKEN UP FOREVER AND EVER YOU DONT GET TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO and then their conversation is interrupted by a bunch of flaming arrows and Hwi, who, and I cannot emphasize this enough, just HAULED HIS HALF-DEAD ASS for like three days to save Seon-ho, FULLY abandons Seon-ho to the flaming arrows. And Seon-ho goes right yeah cool so that’s great, puts his armor on and then uses a big dramatic speech about being abandoned to recruit Sung-rok to his big plan to kill his dad (the secretary of the state) and the king and then he dramatically steps out of the burning building looking like a human shadow yadda yadda Seon-ho’s the dark prince now blah. And then theres still like a full hour of episode left after all that

[avauntus]

Yeah, this is the stuff 👍👍

[tiktoksijustthinkareneat]

Safety inspection in the Mines of Moria.

[aethelflaedladyofmercia]

They shall not pass ☹️

[odd-maid3n]

[knight--error]

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

this is everything to me 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈💕

[draconym]

Live theater in the His Dark Materials universe must be wild. Surely an actor's daemon also has lines to recite, so their daemon's form probably also factors into casting decisions. Maybe some plays have vague character descriptions for daemons, but I bet other plays have really specific or central daemon characters. And sure, big-budget theaters can afford to hire a separate actor with a particular daemon to stand backstage while their daemon plays its part onstage, but community theaters don't have those kinds of resources.

Like if you're casting for Julius Caesar, surely the real historical Caesar had a pretty iconic daemon, right? Are you going to cast an actor with a pigeon daemon as Caesar and just have everyone suspend their disbelief that it's Caesar's lioness, ἁμαρτία?

[draconym]

[queenklu]

#overthinking how casting works in real life#internal pieces of an essay about directors' choices and interpretation and whatnot#But imagine casting your actors and daemons as a set--what it says about the characters they're playing#It says something if you cast Julius Caesar with a pigeon daemon#Imagine what it would do to the Eulogy speech! How could Caesar have been ambitious! His daemon was a common pigeon!#(or do you argue that historians were embarrassed by the betrayal and “lionized” his daemon after the fact to make him seem more regal?)#It would make typecasting and casting against type absolutely fascinating when you thrown in daemons.

absolutely fire tags from @afamiliarroomba

[impossibletruths]

#i bet in some cases of really iconic daemons they keep the actor's daemon offstage #and use puppets or something #also opens up a world of new possibilities for child actors (via @pigeonhawk)

[tosailuponthesea]

#I had to preserve these. the bit about child actors made me go ''oh fuuuuck'' out loud #there must be some majorly significant coming-of-age plays that have to do with daemons settling #and like. at least one instance of a daemon /actually/ settling during a performance #the reviews! the doctoral dissertations! #also love the idea of daemons-as-puppetry #something something the facsimile of theater while daemons skitter along under the stage like matched magnets #distinct schools of theatrical production and history based on live-action or puppetry daemons and mixed-form shows trying to make a point (@impossibletruths)

[roach-works]

different theater traditions would solve it differently, too. the greeks once wore rigid theater masks--they might once have also held up their role's daemon as a metal silhouette on a stick, a form as rigidly symbolic as their unchanging mask... and as easy to recognize from the back of the amphitheater.

consider also kabuki, with the stagehands in black, and the bright contrast of the actor's makeup and posturing. the daemon's role could be superimposed with patterned fabric overlays as well as ritualized posturing. a monkey daemon could pose and roar like a general's tiger, while a stag daemon could frisk around and like a servant's loyal dog. and if anything orange and striped was a tiger, and anything white with brown ears was a dog, audiences would be perfectly fine with this for the duration of the show.

theater doesn't have to be realistic, it has to be convincing. an actor's soul would be up to the challenge, whatever shape it was.

[evilhasnever]

Jin Guangyao's three smiles according to Zhu Zanjin:

[1] those that can be used (可利用)

[2] those to get rid of (可抹杀)

[3] lan xichen (蓝曦臣)

(interview from here, gifs from here reposted with permission!)

[missbcm]

https://twitter.com/profannieoakley/status/1357768408671027202

 This thread is gold… make your own here: https://htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/

[iamonlyhereforthefreefood]

When Everything Everywhere All at Once said “The only thing I do know is that we have to be kind. Please, be kind, especially when we don’t know what’s going on" 

When the Good Place said “Why choose to be good every day when there is no guaranteed reward now or in the afterlife… I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.” 

When Jean-Paul Sartre said ”‘Hell is other people’ is only one side of the coin. The other side, which no one seems to mention, is also ‘Heaven is each other’. Hell is separateness, uncommunicability, self-centeredness, lust for power, for riches, for fame. Heaven on the other hand is very simple, and very hard: caring about your fellow beings.“