Almost A Blog

(Female) (27) reblogging a whole bunch of random things from different interest and fandoms. Just so everybody knows, I live in the middle of a mysterious Bermuda triangle type dead zone of poor wi-fi connectivity and overpriced internet so I might not always be able to post or respond. Please excuse my inability to properly hash-tag things.

[dark-fri3ren]

[funny-tik-toks]

[tatooineknights]

Academy Award winner Marcia Lucas has died. While winning major awards for her work as an editor for Star Wars (alongside a team of editors, including Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew; some of her contributions outside of her work with George Lucas include Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, and New York, New York), she mostly disappeared from the public eye following her divorce and essentially retired.

While Marcia dispelled the belief that she singlehandedly saved Star Wars in the edit (and very passionately defended George's craftmanship and ideas, which she felt were undercredited, as well as the work of their team in general), there was a lot of work she specifically did and I thought it would be good to highlight just how much she did and give her credit where it is due. There is a lot that came from her that most don't know about. Most of those examples are from Howard Kazanjian's biography, A Producer's Life, published in 2021.

On some of the uncredited dialogue and story revisions for Star Wars:

On some of her work in Star Wars:

On having the iconic trench run on the Death Star as her biggest work while working on Star Wars:

On her uncredited work in The Empire Strikes Back:

On how her input changed the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark:

On her joining the Return of the Jedi crew, an emphasis in finding the right cut for actors, cutting together footage of Luke in ROTJ after she and George disagreed with the characterization the director had given to Mark Hamill and unable to reshoot footage:

On editing the climactic ending in the Throne Room in ROTJ:

[countesspetofi]

I keep seeing tags is the reblogs to the effect of "the movies would have been worse without her" and I need you younguns to realize that THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MOVIES (PLURAL) without her. The first movie, which wasn't even called "A New Hope" when it came out, was released in a day and age when sequels were not a given. The kind of meteoric, runaway success that Star Wars and Jaws had was what established the paradigm for big summer blockbusters having guaranteed sequels and setting up "movie franchises." That wasn't really a thing until then. (The movie series of the old studio days were a completely different thing.)

Marcia's contributions took Star Wars from a high-concept but awkward novelty into something that was undeniably fun to watch and emotionally resonant to an audience of all ages, and more importantly, something people could watch over and over again without getting bored. In the days before home video, people paid to see it over and over in the cinema. I'm sorry, but that simply wouldn't have happened with George's original draft, without Marcia's editing and other contributions. Paying audiences DEMANDED to see more, and that's why sequels were financed and made. If the movie hadn't had the unprecedented success it did due to Marcia's work, it would just have been a footnote in film history as George's weird little one-off Flash Gordon-type space robot movie, no matter how much he would have liked to make a sequel to it or not.

[scrupulosity-comics]

sometimes instead of a horrid little monk, divine visions of lesbians dance in my head dispensing wisdom

[scrupulosity-comics]

[king-carnivore]

what really fucks me up about watching the truman show in 2025 is how it's not fictional. truman is fictional, but the truman show isn't.

there's thousands of truman shows. you find them on youtube, tiktok, instagram... family and mommy vloggers, sad beige moms and now the trend of neglectful moms showing the "reality" of parenting. all of them using their kids for entertainment. each child their own truman; living a life manufactured by their parents, a camera watching their every moment, broadcasted for the entire world to see.

[king-carnivore]

tbh, i didn't even think about that when i made my post and holy shit you're so fucking right

[sandmandaddy69]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You're right but don't say it like that

[luulapants]

Story time:

In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.

The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.

So whenever I see crap like Elizabeth Holmes’s blood test scam or pharmaceutical trials which are unable to be replicated or industry-funded research that reaches wildly unscientific conclusions, I just remember those fucking sweet potatoes. I remember that curiosity dies when people are just trying to give their superiors the “right” answers, so they can get the grade, get the job, get the paycheck. It’s not about truth when it’s about paying rent. There’s no scientific integrity if you can’t control for human desperation.

[poetrylesbian]

obviously dietary requirements aren't a joke but my grandma sometimes runs errands for her church and i asked her what she's up to today and she said extremely seriously "ive got to track down the body of the gluten free christ, julia"

[ritavonbees]

this totally scans for a swear intensifier btw. what in the gluten free christ is going on here, Julia

[fuckyeahkitschy2]

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 2 days 5 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 2 days 5 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 2 days 5 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

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[tim-official]

that poll going around of the guy who thought "people only eat tofu as a bit because they're deranged vegans" or whatever really crystalizes something that i have never been able to precisely say - which is "a nonzero fraction of people who start picky-eater discourse just happen to precisely hate those foods which are not from north america and refuse to introspect on this whatsoever"

[tim-official]

In contrast some people say "there aren't any picky eaters in Asia 🙄" but this is laughably untrue. I have a cousin in India who refused until his 20s to eat anything in a sauce. as you can imagine in India this was difficult. he basically had to pick things out of curry and wipe them dry

[bobcat-pie]

[hollowedskin]

[the1920sinpictures]

1930 Air King radio. Pinterest.

[athanza]

From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

[see-arcane]

@ibrithir-was-here

[bovineblogger]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Fuck yeah droving

[painkillerscoffeeandcathair]

I wonder what they're saying to each other?

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Most of it is probably "hey calf! I'm here! We're going somewhere new so don't get lost!" and "Hey mum! Mum! This is confusing and I lost sight of you for three seconds! Tell me where you are!"

[beka-tiddalik]

There's also "argh flies why" just for texture

[catchymemes]

[wereopossum]

The sheer energy. The beauty of this woman. The women hugging in the background. The man in rainbow parachute pants. This whole video is art.

[inthefallofasparrow]

XXI. The World

[taboo-delusion]

This is what world peace looks like

[kymeira]

[jinjeriffic]

Lets hear it for Malicious Compliance

[elkian]

*filming literal mold* “There is a bit of a damp problem…” The signs saying “DON’T BUY THIS” are a beautiful touch.

[silly-signs]

Official silly sign(s)

[househunting]

I saw someone positing in the reblogs about what kind of house this is!

this falls into the general craftsman umbrella, but it is specifically a foursquare, more recently called a "seattle box" or "classic square".

it's my all time favorite type of house. it has four main rooms on each floor and a staircase in the middle. they are so gorgeous inside and each one has its own quirks and custom rooms. a few that i've been in have a little tiny powder room in the middle of the main staircase.

this one was built in 1908 but they were built, from what i've seen, from 1890s - 1910s.