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hustlerose

when you hear "cicero" which one comes to mind first

roman conservative politician

skyrim killer clown

Voting ended onFeb 25, 2023

orange-catsidy

secret third thing

marinella-ela

percyfraser

BRENDAN FRASER as George in GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE (1997) dir. Sam Weisman

shadydruid

AU: Keyleth is the Champion of the Raven Queen. I think this idea has some vibes of Flaspooint Paradox and I wonder what else could have changed if Kiki was the Champion of the RQ?

romeoandjulietyouwish

so many beautiful shots from this last batch

lithpin

finally finished this little man after 2 years of art block lol! I lov u leaf dragon my childe

lithpin

Oh God. Oh fuck. I forgot to show y'all the beans

quietsphere

aka Matt's personal purgatory.

aspiringwarriorlibrarian

Shout out to Syldor for being so committed to hating his children that he was openly dismissing the idea that they could ever be worthy to hold a Vestige while Vax was wearing one.

I bet Devara just brought it up casually after they were gone and then Syldor had to pretend that he totally knew that and didn’t just realize right that second that he’d missed the elephant in the room.

daggersandarrows

wait wait wait this is so goddamn interesting though because vax says NOTHING. he has the means to prove syldor wrong, and *easily*, and honestly sort of meshing the boots of haste into the death walker’s ward makes it even more impressive–AND HE DIDN’T DO A DAMN THING.

i’ve always been deeply fascinated by the difference between the twins in their relationship with syldor but i think this sort of perfectly exemplified the way that their dynamics with him are a complete flip from their normal behavior? it’s like vax knows, deep down, that there is a something-about-him that makes him fundamentally unlovable to syldor, fundamentally worthless–and he quit trying to change that a long, long time ago. outside of syldor, though, vax’s affection is almost to his own detriment? we know somewhere around the skull fight that he was absolutely convinced that grog hated him, and yet he repeatedly risks his life to support him and he’s continually affectionate towards him. he seems to believe–at least early campaign–that it’s useless, and yet he can’t stop himself. he’s openly shocked when grog picks scanlan and then immediately picks vax as his champions. he’s just been pouring love into what he thought was a void this whole time.

MEANWHILE!! meanwhile vex cannot seem to stop trying to win syldor’s approval. she’s not stupid; he’s never showed them a molecule of kindness a day in their lives, she knows what he’s like, and yet she just can’t give up on him. whereas with every other person they encounter she’s largely uninterested in openly making a show of any kind of devotion or affection towards them without reciprocation–even with percy! her initial advances are blatant, sure, but vex flirts with everyone like that–the more sincere shows of true devotion and support come across in much more guarded statements and actions that could easily be interpreted as friendly camaraderie if we didn’t know laura’s intentions (“we’ve got your back, darling”, “take the mask off” “you will fight this monster inside of you”; both fucking stunning lines, but easily interpreted as platonic without context).

it’s like syldor is the only person vax has ever given up on, and the only person that vex can’t make herself indifferent to.

ladykeyleth

Damn things don't bleed. How do you fight a tree?

canyousonicme

Alex Kingston makes a return to the RSC after first joining the company the early 90s. Since then, she has dazzled in a plethora of cracking roles for stage and screen. Now she's storming back as the first female Prospero to tread the boards in Stratford. Here, she talks about her work and how delighted she is to be in this 'healing' and climate crisis-caring production of The Tempest.The Tempest has its opening night tonight, how did the first preview go last week?

The Tempest has its opening night tonight, how did the first preview go last week?

AK: It was nice having an audience in. On the first night I was quite surprised because when I first came on the stage I could hear a lot of schoolchildren in the audience, so I thought this is going to be quite difficult. They were a bit noisy to begin, but then they were silent throughout, it was extraordinary – they were so engaged. I think the way we have set it and the contemporary approach means it’s less alienating to an audience. The whole production is about the care or lack of care that one has with another but also with the world and the environment.

How are those environmental themes being put across?

AK: Immediately when they enter the theatre the audience will see a stage that looks like it’s broken down – there’s grass growing through the floorboards. There’s also the sound of the sea and they know that it is an island – there’s a shack. There’s somebody that’s living there that is trying to make a life in this space. But the stage is also littered with rubbish – rubbish that was actually gathered from around Stratford. We all know walking along a riverbank or a seashore you cannot escape the trash. Immediately the audience knows the world they are entering into. Magically, through the course of the play, the rubbish starts to be eliminated. That’s the message that we are trying to send – that there is hope. We can change if we set our minds to it. That’s changing the landscape and bad relationships. It’s about power and how it can corrupt but it’s also about forgiveness. It takes a lot of strength to forgive.

[full interview available to subscribers only 😢]

vethbrenatto

THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA 2x08 | “Echo Tree”

glumshoe

I’ll never understand why anthropomorphic animal cartoons like Robin Hood and Zootopia will go to the trouble of creating character designs that are meant to be understood as “attractive” or even “sexy” to the human audience but explicitly avoid showing interspecies romances between anthropomorphic animals. Why is THAT weird but, like, trying to make rabbits recognizably sexy-coded to humans isn’t?

glumshoe

Sometimes, sure, but why was Maid Marian a fox in Robin Hood? There wasn’t anything particularly “foxlike” about her personality, and it would make more sense for her to be a lion. They made her a fox only because Robin was a fox and making her something else would be “weird”, but I don’t think the wolf cop or the chicken maid or the lion prince were actually meant to represent race.

countesspetofi

The best inter species couple is Kermit and Miss Piggy as the Cratchits in A Muppet Christmas Carol, because all their sons are frogs and all their daughters are pigs, as God clearly intended.

glumshoe

there are only two genders: frog and pig

I’ve pointed out to my friends that the fact that Kermit and Miss Piggy’s kids are like that means either

1) they reproduce asexually and the children are clones of each parent OR

2) Kermit and Miss Piggy are members of the same sexually dimorphic species, hence the split between their male and female children

yes I have spent too long running about potential muppet biology

glumshoe

oh god

sailor-lady

Third option, when they want kids they get some fabric and make one, and hope a Hand inhabits it

glumshoe

Do you think there’s a ritual for inviting An Inhabiting Hand to possess the empty husk of your muppet baby?

jenivi

aflowerthatbloomsinadversity

Just wanted to show u guys that in Muppets Most Wanted, Piggy fantasizes about her and Kermit having babies and this is what they look like

So do with that what you will

fremedon

Recall that in The Great Muppet Caper, Kermit and Fozzie are brothers. And this was their dad (right):

capitalism-and-analytics

Thank you for specifying, which one of the two individuals in the picture was the dad haha

la-pou-belle

I, for one, think Shrek handled interspecies coupling the best. By this I am of course talking about the Dronkeys.

kestrelsparverius

adrnired

In season 3 of BoJack Horseman, we learn Diane (middle) has been impregnated by Mr. Peanutbutter (left). The fetuses are confirmed to be puppies.

autisticexpression

This is the worst addition to this post

araku-validrava

I am reminded of Treasure Planet.

In which Captain Amelia (left), an extra terrestrial anthropomorphic cat, had hybrid babies with Doctor Doppler (middle), an extra terrestrial anthropomorphic dog, whom also gave birth to the babies

I always thought that in muppet movies like muppet Christmas Carol the characters are played by the muppets (so kermit is acting and playing the role of Bob rather than being him) so the kids in that film would just be other acting muppets right?

Or is that just something my brain made up?

dreverythingisaliens

i think you are all forgetting some crucial information here:

So, Glumshoe and @sailor-lady asked if there was a ritual where they invited a hand to animate their children.

Muppet Babies is canon.

and i dont see any fucking hands.

This has dark implications all over it.

dreverythingisaliens

@therobotmonster im just saying, if i offered you $200 and a pizza of your choosing, whats the best headcanon you would come up with for my proposed issue?

therobotmonster

I can circle that square with a few pieces of canon. We start out with Kermit on SNL:

The muppets are a form of life, perhaps not quite like our own, but one with its own orders and genuses and the like. Robin goes from tadpole to frog stage on Muppet Babies, after all, that’s a biological life process. Note that muppets keep sewing/stitching/hand jokes to a minimum, that’s because they aren’t puppets, they just resemble them.

The hand-thing presumes muppets work like toons from Roger Rabbit or toys from Toy Story, where they’re made by people an incarnated. I propose they are like Pokemon, a separate, parallel classification of life that exists alongside what we would call natural life. As with Pokemon, these lifeforms are not the result of a parallel evolution. Rather, their various kinds were created by some manner of God. We know these exist in the Muppet canon, as Big Bird argued the Egyptian Pantheon into letting a child ghost into the afterlife that one time.

Personally, as the essence of being a muppet is your greatest motivation being your greatest weakness, I blame the demiurge.

But you can blame Gonzo’s people or the aholes that are made of a Skexis and a Mystic, but not the Goblin King (he is a rogue memetic construct, what some might wrongly label a ‘tulpa’). It’s also possible they crossed over from the Gorg world. (but that does not preclude them from also being the creations of the demiurge)

This is not to say that muppets are inherently magic, any more than say, a hobbit or a goblin is “magic” in Lord of the Rings. They are simply created beings that thereafter reproduce after their own kind. Emmit Otter and his Ma, the fact that “Monster” and “grouch” are explicitly races in Sesame Street, etc.

Now, I hear you saying, “but [email protected], you handsome madman, we just pointed out that Fozzie and Kermit have a green half-bear/half-frog father!”

Yes. In a movie.

Because the Muppets are actors.

Muppets (the order of life) and the Muppets (the comedy/acting troupe), are different things. The former contains the latter but the latter does not contain all of the former. In essence, Kermit named his endeavor “The People’s Theater”.

Breaks down like this: You have our, real world universe. Within that is nested a universe that is much like ours, except it is sillier, and Muppets are creatures and not special effects. Within that are nested the fictional worlds of all the various muppet productions.

For further proof, I present these bloopers from Emmet Otter’s Jugband Christmas:

It is uncertain how much of the Muppet ouvre is canonical ‘behind the scenes’ and how much is constructed entertainment provided by the Muppet organization, because of one deep wrinkle we haven’t touched on…

Kayfabe.

Kermit is hard-core about Kayfabe. He comes from a Vaudeville theater background, the 4th wall does not exist in his performance ethos, the show must go on, and the rubes getting a peek behind the curtain doesn’t get you off that hook.

All your Muppet-troupe core performers stick close to this ethos, ensuring you can never be quite certain on what level of reality the scene you’re being presented with is intended to be.Any specific example that conflicts with the others cannot be shown not to just be another straight-faced performance.

It’s not an unreliable narrator, everyone is unreliable, from the producer on down to the go-fer.

Don’t blame me, blame the Demiurge.

(Here’s my Gofundme.)

prudencepaccard

don’t forget that during the filming of the Muppet Christmas Carol, the Muppets continued to move and talk after cuts, asking how they did playing their characters etc.

so like, e.g., Kermit broke character as Cratchit but nobody broke character as Kermit

razordoll

@therobotmonster You bring up kayfabe and use that gif of Beaker and Sheamus, but completely neglect to mention that Beaker and Sheamus are (at least within the story of WWE) cousins.

therobotmonster

The post was already pushing a pretty high word count and I knew people who knew the factoid would make the connection.

razordoll

Fair enough, but that it’s even implied to possible for a human and a Muppet to be blood relatives is pretty important to the overall conversation of Muppet biology.

therobotmonster

No, you see, when I say:

I’m not talking simple, one-level Wrasslin’ type kayfabe. Shamus can’t be used as evidence, because we don’t know how the levels of Kayfabe align. This is also true of arguments that Walter is Jason Segal’s cousin outside the film-verse.

Breaks down like this:

Shamus is a character within the Wrassleverse. In this universe, he has been presented as Beaker’s cousin. In the next level of reality up, Shamus is a professional wrestler playing a role wherein Beaker is his cousin.

But we don’t know if that universe is the one where the Muppets are sapient creatures who are actors, or if it is the reality where they are puppets performed by actors. Remember Emmit Otter and his ma.

Are we seeing one man perform kayfabe, or are we seeing two?

The answer cannot be locked down, because the essence of Muppet is the futile struggle of Sisyphus by way of Willy Loman, with a chaser of “No Exit.” Never succeeding, never failing enough to invalidate the effort. This is why I blame the demiurge.

We all have our burgers boulders to heft.

unrepentantnerdshit

Why is Seamus being blood related to Beaker weird? Have we already forgot Dave the human, and Walter?

therobotmonster

Not weird, we’re well past weird.

Inconclusive.

There are Muppet “humans” in the same sense that there are muppet dogs (both sapient and otherwise). Dave the human is no more an issue than the Swedish Chef or Statler and Waldorf. (If the Animal Show can be considered a part of this)

The Muppets, with Walter, is just like all the other muppet movies, the conceit is that these are productions starring muppets (the creatures) put on by the Muppets (the acting troupe/production company). As stated above, in-our-universe promotionals present Segal and Walter as cousins, as opposed to brothers in the film. However, that’s still got Kermit’s hand on it, so we don’t now if that can be taken at face value.

And lets diagram out the Shamus problem. We’ve got the following possibilities, and no way of telling them apart, except for the last one, which is out of bounds for the nature of the exercise:

Wrasslin and Muppets are both real. - Beaker and Shamus are cousins, whether by blood or marriage unknown, though blood is implied.

Muppets are fake in a world where Wrasslin’ is real. - Shamus is the character, but Beaker’s still being worked as a puppet as part of a cross-promotion tie-in.

Muppets are real in a world where Wrasslin’ is fake. - Both Shamus and Beaker are Actors.

Both Muppets and Wrasslin’ are Fake - Presumed state of our universe.

That being said, if the Muppets are, as I hypothesize, a created order of life, it is possible that whatever creator (ex: the demiurge) involved might have granted them the ability to breed true with non-muppet life. I’m just not yet convinced there’s canonical support for that happening.

therobotmonster

The inferior elephant-lion branch of the conversation crossed my dash again, so I am required to present the true and just version.

salamencerobot

I have the option to hide long posts turned on WHY DIDN’T IT SHORTEN THIS ONE

mosswall

Why would you want it too?

salamencerobot

That would be a great theory if I didn’t refresh my dash and see that my reblog was also not shortened at all.

crazyexdaily

graftandgrief

Eating while on shift is not permitted, staff are told. “If the system detects no keyboard stroke and mouse click, it will show you as idle for that particular duration, and it will be reported to your supervisor. So please avoid hampering your productivity.”

A training video about the webcam system, seen by the Guardian, says it “monitors and tracks real-time employee behaviour and detects any violations to pre-set business rules, and sends real-time alerts to managers to take corrective actions immediately”.

Capitalism is so exhausting

upsettingandunfortunateclasshate

Fuck this

lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers

This is insane.

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

Capitalism is so innovative /s

thestoryofaslut

Hi! Want to completely fuck the keyboard-tracking system in the ass? Want to do it in a way that they literally cannot do anything about without disabling primary Windows functions?

Step 1: Open Notepad.

Step 2: Copy the following text, line for line, omitting only the --- that caps either end of it. --- Dim objResult Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Do While True objResult = objShell.sendkeys("{NUMLOCK}{NUMLOCK}") Wscript.Sleep (6000) Loop --- Step 3: Save this as whatever.vbs, put it somewhere you can access easily, and double click it when you start your computer.

What does this do?

This runs a very basic script, and every six seconds, your computer will double-tap the NumLock key (i.e., turn it on, and then off) in a single instant. This counts as a key-press, occurs with a key that shouldn’t affect most things that you’re doing, occurs with no gap between them even if it could affect things you’re doing, and should prevent this kind of BS from engaging. As an aside, this will also prevent your computer from automatically locking itself, so take that into account if you need to manually lock your computer when going to lunch or whatever.