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If the singular form of “mice” is “mouse”, shouldn’t the singular of “lice” be “louse”?

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Aw man I have like, THE BEST NEWS for you my friend

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Mean tweets:

Me:

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Detail at Schiaparelli Fall 2015 Haute Couture, Paris Fashion Week.

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Lizzie: Mr. Darcy, you explained your behavior towards George Wickham, but why did you separate my sister and Mr. Bingley?

Mr. Darcy:

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this is who I am, mom, it’s not a phase

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One of my favorite animation stories is when Disney hired a group of female animators to work on Snow White and like this was a huge deal, it was Snow White, it was going to be the very first full-length American animated movie, it would go on to win a special Oscar designed just for it (they didn’t know that at the time of production, obviously, but this is how groundbreaking the movie was). And obviously this was back in the 1930s so everything was hand-drawn and hand-inked but…because they had the actual physical cels right there in front of them, they could put whatever they wanted to on the paper, I don’t know about you all, but I feel like I definitely take that for granted. You think ‘pencil, ink, paints’ and that’s it. And apparently Walt Disney had that mindset too because he was confused by the texture of the makeup on Snow White’s face and so he asked his female animators and they were just like, “Sir, we used our actual makeup” like these animators actually did Snow White’s makeup which is mind-blowing enough but then you realize that there were over 250,000 cels in Snow White and okay, sure, only a fraction of those cels actually featured a closeup of Snow but it’s still insane to think that we’re looking at somebody’s real blush here (once you see it, you can’t un-see it):

Animation, man.

rainbowravioli

This is myth.

First, there were no women animators. Women only worked in the inking and painting department.

The women of this department actually did develop a new technique for Snow White’s makeup (as well as the Queen’s, and the rosy cheeks of the Dwarfs), but real makeup was not involved. Makeup was too chalky and it will not adhere properly to the cells.

What they did was, they would color in Snow White’s skin tone on the back of the cell, as it was usual, and apply a transparent red dye on the front of the cell. The dye would dissolve and combine with the paint of the skin to give that soft glow effect. The women who did this (and not many could do it) really had to apply it in the exact same spot on each cell so there would be no flicker, essentially doing animation with color. Apparently the one who did it best and got all of the close-ups was a woman named Helen Ogger.

These women really do deserve to be admired, credited and remembered, but for their real skills and amazing innovation, not a fun myth.

You can read more about this in Mindy Johnson’s “Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney’s Animation” and J. B. Kaufman’s “The Fairest One of All: The Making of Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”.

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me bursting through the doors at a hamlet lecture

spicyshimmy-blog

girls don’t like boys girls like the starship enterprise

trekkingwilbury-deactivated2017

I guess boys can come clean then. They like the Starship Enterprise as well. Let’s stop pursuing each other, and instead pursue peace and acceptance of all sentient life so that we can boldly go where no one has gone before.

melpopenn

What if we don’t like starship enterprise? What if we don’t like space? Space is scary. Life is scary. Life in space is terrifying. I will boldly go hide in a cave with my tin hat thank you.

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c'mon bones it’ll be fun

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“Don’t buy any Girl Scout cookies!!! They support pLANNED PARENTHOOD!!” me:

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swan2swan

Sidenote:

Don’t let anyone forget the fact that the President of the United States skipped out on visiting military graves for Armistice Day’s 100th anniversary.

Because of rain.

He has golfed in the rain. He was inaugurated in the rain. Other leaders–and his own subordinates–made it out there in the rain.

President Trump, though? The man who loves our troops and our country? Yeah, it’s weird that he didn’t go to the ceremony and chose to stay in his hotel room. He left our country on Veteran’s Day weekend to visit Paris for the reunion, but could not be bothered to face a little rain in order to pay his respects to the troops.

He forgets the names of the fallen. He cuts funding for veteran welfare programs. He sends our soldiers to the border for needless exercises in intimidation. Then he claims that others are weak on the military and don’t respect our troops?

What a joke.

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Oh, and when I say “don’t let them forget”, I mean “every time some alt-right nutjob comes at you, hit them with that question”.

Also, if you need to cite facts:

An hour. This isn’t a “scheduling thing”, this is something that should have been planned. At the least, the President doesn’t have staff who know how to plan a trip.