The Humble Disney Fan

Just a twenty something trying to make it through life...

[comeonthinknowfloyd]

priceless / shortcomings

1. priceless

Hands touch.

Eyes meet.

Silence snaps shut.

Hold it.

They can’t know.

You learn the role by heart:

guard yourself,

play it straight,

win by disappearing.

Freeze the feeling.

Conceal, don’t feel—

until you almost believe

there’s nothing there.

But you know.

God, you know.

You know the cost of taking this.

You’ve priced the truth,

watched the cost climb,

asked if honesty

is worth losing everything.

And still—

you see them..

Rich in ease,

reckless with joy.

They say happiness isn’t bought.

They never show the bill.

So what’s the endgame?

Love?

Freedom?

Breathing?

No one chooses this for you.

But the water holds.

And the heart—

once thawed—

learns how to float.

2. shortcomings

Drive to the hoop.

Whistle.

Travelling.

Turnover.

Slide your feet.

Hands straight up.

Late whistle.

Foul.

Two shots.

Box out.

Whistle again.

Over the back.

Fast break.

Head down—

whistle.

Offensive foul.

No basket.

Inbound the ball.

Five seconds.

Whistle.

Reset.

Set the screen.

Feet planted—

legal.

No whistle.

Pocket pass.

Open lane.

Gather.

Up strong—

glass.

It drops.

Crowd rises.

Hands lift.

A moment of—

Whistle.

Waved off.

No continuation.

Nothing counts.

Ball at the top.

Shot clock draining.

Hands up.

Don’t risk it.

Pass out.

Buzzer.

Change possession.

Play the game.

Blood, sweat, and tears

Don’t lash out.

Condition yourself.

It’s never enough.

[redmyeyes]

JONATHAN BAILEY as Fiyero in Wicked: Part One (2024)

[broadwaydivastournament]

Curtain Up, Light the Lights: First Look at Audra McDonald in Gypsy

And perhaps a first listen too...

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[bogleech]

I know it's unfair vilification and stuff but it's also a lot of fun to see old media and stuff where people were SO scared of big animals like lions, sharks, crocodiles and wolves were fully expected to just come and eat you the moment you stepped into their territory. In older media we also made that assumption about gorillas and in still older we thought it'd be whales. But some animals that will actually fuck you up got left behind. Boars will kill you and eat you. They're way more likely to do so than any of those other things actually. Hippos, obviously, got off like bandits always being depicted as cute and dopey. And then there's the squids. Not giant kraken size squids. The eight foot squids that hunt in packs and will fuck you up if you fall in the water at night. I can't BELIEVE people slept on that. It's like all they cared about were the huge deep sea ones we never see. The medium size wolf pack squids were right there.

[bogleech]

Oh some of you don't know about the squids. I talked about them in another thread that went kinda viral somewhere or other but one of the reasons you should not swim in the open ocean at night in many parts of the world is that the water starts teeming with these:

And as you can see it is not like instant death, they too are just animals and they are often just gently curious about the presence of humans! But people who study and dive with sharks will tell you you're safe as long as you stay calm and know what you're doing. The world's leading professional night divers and experts on these squids, specifically??? Stress in every interview and article and paper they write in that you simply do not fuck around with these squids. They know what they're doing and they still all have at least one story of being attacked, in some cases having to be hospitalized. Considering just how rarely anybody puts themselves in the pitch dark nighttime ocean on purpose, let alone during a squid feeding frenzy, it sounds like they're quite a bit more likely to consider you potential food than other marine predators. We also don't know how many fatal attacks might have ever happened, because what humboldt squid like to do with large prey is just drag it away into the darkness forever. The two worst attacks ever proven involved two or three squid at a time latching on to a diver (in BOTH cases they were professionals and knew the risk!) and jetting straight downward with enough force that both divers suffered injury from the sudden pressure change alone, including burst eardrums, nearly passed out and they probably would have died if they hadn't broken free. In general, people who die drowning in the dark open ocean are either never found, or they're found in pieces picked over by enough scavengers that the precise cause of death can only be narrowed down to "the sea." But now you know ONE of "the sea's" possible murder weapons :)

There's a short section on Humboldt squid in Wikipedia's entry for Cephalopod attacks on humans:

Cephalopod attack - Wikipedia

And if you can get past some of Animal Planet's hokey presentation style, this video includes a bit of interview with one of those professional experts who still got nearly squidded from existence:

There is of course some debate about all this, with some arguing that all proven documented attacks occurred on people with reflective diving equipment, which they say the squid must have mistaken for the shine of fish. However, there are lots and lots of people who have to fish around these squids to survive, who do not have access to that kind of equipment, and also have a consensus that if you fall in the water when big squids are out hunting you might disappear without a trace or perhaps just get your head bitten open. With many modern science guys agreeing with this sentiment, this is one case where the "they're just misunderstood sea friends" crowd is kind of outnumbered. The sea at night is theirs and not ours is all. It's not ours during the day either but since we are neither marine nor nocturnal animals we are double fools in the eyes of the squids, which by the way are these eyes:

No for real:

[my-ants-are-anxious]

Absolutely! Also, the Humboldt squid will hunt in packs, sometimes with one flashing brightly to draw attention while the others approach in near unseeable camoflage!

[bogleech]

Beautiful footage of the nefarious sea demons also :)

Also because I can't reblog every addition together:

Okay where's the other 1199

[spiralshellsreblogs]

I absolutely adore Humboldt squid. I saw a doc once where a scientist was cage diving to study them, and one of the squid squeezed it's entire massive body through the cage bars, bit the guy and squeezed right back out.

[bogleech]

Why isnt this an animal that's already long gone viral like honey badgers once did. This is the animal that actually gives no fucks. People really are just that obsessed with bigger squids I guess? But the bigger ones frankly come across as big softies in comparison. One big sea monster can never be as intimidating as a thousand coordinated man sized sea monsters.

This is why I thought that if mermaids had a cultural equivalent to lycanthropy it'd be weresquids. Fun fact nocturnal marine life increases activity on the brightest nights ie the full moon.

[flameraven]

@sarahmackattack

[yourlocalviking]

Was nobody gonna tell me they had a storyboard of Dolores reenacting the velociraptor kitchen scene with Bruno and Mirabel?!

I mean look at this

Hilarious

[mclennonyaoi]

love that he keeps doing this. genuinely my favorite fucking bit

[mclennonyaoi]

he has had like ten “final movies” and everytime i get sad about it. and then he makes another one. fucking love this guy

[pedrohub]

Pedro Pascal, Gabriel Luna & Nico Parker “Sharing our love of the old-school with the kiddos. We think we’re cool. Unsure if Nico and Ksenia do. 😂 ”

[manny-jacinto]

PEDRO PASCAL as Joel Miller THE LAST OF US (2023-)

[stars-bean]

Spirited Away (2001) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[autistic--cryptid]

__[ _ _ •]–

platypus

[bellflower-islandsparkle]

An ordinary platypus?

[kurara-black-blog]

_/-\_ –[• _ _ ]__

[coffeedrunk]

pErRy tHe pLaTyPuS?!

[jcamcript-deactivated20200414]

Strange and massive objects plow near the moon, captured on amateur film from Quebec, Canada. (26.03.2020).

[pocketphoenix]

Aliens for April…… why not

[state-issued-boyfriend]

Bro please be nice aliens, like, please

[inkythealien]

[dilf-patton-deactivated20220806]

WOAHHH that’s so cool!!!

[relevantbubble]

Me expecting a joke video and waiting to see what hilarious item flys by on camera:

Me seeing what actually happens:

[beardedzombietech-deactivated20]

Reblogging again for the “April Aliens” part

[angrybell]

Why not?

[alaska-man-wyoming-land-deactiv]

Sorry dudes, it’s the Kaguya Cadillac science mission

[latining]

catching that mission on camera by accident is just as cool as aliens.

[hawkeyetoo]

“I was looking at the moon and I accidentally captured footage of a once in a lifetime lunar mission that’s mapping the surface of the moon a quarter of a million miles away…” Now THAT’S COOL!

[anais-ninja-bitch]

wild

[marsapartment]

The cartoon network cancelled a cinematic masterpiece, only for it to come back stronger and with more vine-worthy content

[saintofpride201]

Batman: *lists the people who have left santa prisca without facing Bane*

Bane:

[galuby]

“be careful with my trees”

“I

KNOOOW”

[badkidsjokes]

Why did 5 stay away from 7? Because 5, 6, 7!

[tiktokstowatch]

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

I'm just amazed that they managed to find someone who knew none of this

[itskyalenotkyle]

[omghotmemes]

If thomas can do it, so can you.

[crittizen]

I think humans are meant to see the ocean.

[lesbiancinnabun-deactivated2023]

fun fact, there may be an explanation for this in something called the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis!  There are some evolutionary biologists who think that at some point after the split from chimpanzees, our ancestors may have briefly become aquatic mammals but bailed out before becoming fully adapted to life in the water.  There are several quirks of human anatomy that may suggest this is the case:

Humans have a much higher percentage of body fat than most other land-dwelling mammals, we’re much closer to various aquatic mammals who rely on that fat for buoyancy & insulation.

We may have lost most of our body hair because it would have created drag as we swam through the water, but kept most of our head hair because it would protect our scalps from damage from the sun when we would come up for air.

We’re one of the only land-dwelling animals that are able to hold our breath.

Human infants instinctively know to hold their breath underwater, keep their heads up, and try to swim upwards (they’re not strong enough but they do the motions correctly), whereas the infants of other primates simply panic and drown, suggesting this isn’t simply due to having spent 9 months in the uterus.  

Children who swim very frequently are able to contract their pupils at will, something that is helpful in seeing more clearly underwater.  This can especially be seen among children of the Moken tribe from an island off the coast of Thailand who rely on this ability for catching fish and clams, but can be trained in children anywhere.

Humans are the only primates who retain some small amount of webbing between our fingers and toes, some people more than others. 

Females have permanent breasts with fatty tissue that doesn’t assist in milk production but does assist in buoyancy that would be ideal for breast feeding while floating on your back.

Our dependence on iodine for proper brain and metabolic function is highly unusual for land dwelling animals but would not be an issue for ocean dwelling creatures.

Now, this is only a hypothesis, and it has opponents who argue that aquatic life isn’t the only explanation for any of these traits and there isn’t sufficient evidence in the fossil record, however the fossil record also doesn’t rule the possibility out.  So who knows, this may be the source of your longing for the ocean!