Failed Psychopomp™

art, gays and the horrors

[without-ado]

"Shadows on the Balearic Sea" l Andrew McCarthy

[coughwheezecough]

I'm so happy that the three alarms and two calendar notifications ensured I completely missed this ☺️

[dubiousculturalartifact]

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

[thekalpar]

How dare you leave this in the tags.

[number1mongrel]

"You hear that? They're saying The Odyssey doesn't even have nobody!"

"They've got nobody in the Odyssey?"

"No I'm saying they don't got nobody."

"Nobody's there?"

"Nobody's not there!"

"So everyone's there?"

"Everybody but nobody!"

[coughwheezecough]

It was an enjoyable cinema experience, with great company comes great times. But dang..the only way to describe the writing is american (derogatory)

[as-warm-as-choco]

Before the computing era, ILM was the master of oil matte painting, making audiences believe that some of the sets in the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogy were real when they weren’t. They were the work of geniuses like Chris Evans, Michael Pangrazio, Frank Ordaz, Harrison Ellenshaw and Ralph McQuarrie ! Forever thank you, to their handmade art and the work of their colleagues, that made us dream of impossible worlds and fantastic places across Earth and the Universe.

There are more background paintings on this article, featuring comments by the masters/artists themselves ! 

Some of the following pieces were made by other artists 2:

[the-time-goddess-of-221b-deacti]

exCUSE ME?!?!!??!??! TheYRE PAINTINGS?!??!!?!

[starsintheskysandsontheshore]

SHUT UP I thought they were miniatures!!!!

[sodeartomyheart]

It’s too beautiful. I could cry.

[firey-rising-demon-deactivated2]

I love this because I’ll be watching a movie and think “how did they do that? Is that a building they built for this movie? Was it there beforehand? Is it cardboard or CGI? Is that actually some place on Earth that they’re filming?” And the answer to all of these now is “nope, that’s a painting”. I can’t believe some of the most iconic, familiar shots were paintings!

[green-is-gay]

i dont WANT pride months to be over,

on the other hand...

[coughwheezecough]

woah hell yeah, I didn't know this.

[mapsontheweb]

Passenger trains in US vs Europe (image is making the rounds among U.S. transit advocates today)

[rumbustious-backhander]

High speed rail in China on 2008 VS 2020

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

[coughwheezecough]

From a continent with like two trains in my whole region, this hurts my feelings.

[nessa007]

do y’all understand just how insane this is???? 🤯

via filmdreams

[coughwheezecough]

With my dude from Dead Meat in the background

[geologyin-blog]

Natural druzy Amethyst crystals with Haematite Inclusions Locality: Boekenhouthoek, Mkobola, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Collection: Macro_crystals

Photo: Matthew Parshchikov

[coughwheezecough]

pesis and the crystal gems

[inceptingnolan]

The Writing Process - In Pictures

[diced-onions]

COULD THIS BE ANY MORE ACCURATE

[kaijuerotica]

THIS IS THE MOST WONDERFULLY ACCURATE THING I’VE EVER LAID MY EYES ON

[bigdisasterenergy]

[im-sooo-changable]

This is the most accurate thing on Tumblr.

[rebel-at-heart713]

me

[tetsur0-1]

Me trying to find a good fanfic that isnt smut

[coughwheezecough]

Just rewatched Attack on Titan and jezuz....I understand the horny but my gods, the desire to see Levi bent over can't be the biggest thing you took from a piece of media that is as close to 10/10 as one can fathom.

[sudan-transgender-organisation]

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[sometiktoksarevalid]

[coughwheezecough]

Time to tuck in and ignore tomorrow's responsibilities.

[joyxande]

[coughwheezecough]

Listen do you love women? Would you eat the rich? Are you enticed by the profound bond of sisterhood? Do you love campiness and great cinematography? WHAT ARE YOU STILL DOING HERE GO WATCH THEY WILL KILL YOU.

[iamheavymeta-lll]

Mickalene Thomas.

[shimamitsu-moved]

some of my favorite replies to this tweet. happy lesbian visibility week!

[mikado-shogun]

Toph- the greatest earthbender

[coughwheezecough]

Toph being my fav shounen mc was not in my bingo but we praise the stars.

[classicjdiesandgoestohell]

i study 2 languages, norwegian and swahili, and the differences between their resources kind of drives me insane.

norwegian has 5 million speakers. it has courses on any language learning platform you can think of. the norwegian learning subreddit has 58k members - a bunch of passionate learners and natives who answer questions. in the last year ive managed to find 12 books in norwegian at thrift stores, book warehouses, etc. never even bothered to get some online because of this! you can watch basically any show you want in it, or at least with subtitles.

what does swahili have? swahili has around 100~ million speakers, making it the most spoken language in africa (excluding colonizer languages like french and arabic). most platforms dont have a course for it, but the few that do are incredibly poorly made and almost impossible to use to learn with. the swahili learning subreddit has only 6.7k members (and most of these people have personal ties like family, as opposed to norwegian where people just learn it randomly for fun). i have never found ANY books IN swahili. ive found two dictionaries, and they were both at speciality stores (unlike norwegian which ive found at my usual medium sized town thrift store). virtually nothing is translated to swahili. not even the fucking Lion King, which uses words from the swahili language (hakuna matata, simba, rafiki, mufasa).

im not expecting tanzania and kenya to translate every western movie ever, they have their own stories to tell (as well as some government censorship), but thats not the whole story. the west has no interest in giving their stories to africa and they have no interest in translating african stories to english.

and like. I understand Why these disparities exist. due to colonization and therefore lower education levels, there are less books in swahili in the first place. people would rather learn a language with grammar and vocabulary similarities to their own, like an indo european language. but the difference is actually fucking absurd. a language with 100 million speakers should not have this few resources. with norwegian, i could always google any niche grammar question i had and find someone online asking the same question. with swahili, i have to search through decades old grammar guides in search of an answer on my own.

swahili is a beautiful language. it has the most consistent grammar of any language ive studied. i wish more people were interested in it, in ANY african language. i cannot imagine what resources are like for literally any other african language! i want people to care to learn these languages the way that people randomly decide to learn lithuanian, estonian, and other smaller european languages. i want their resources to be greater, more courses to be created, more books to be written, more translations to bridge the gaps between cultures.

[m0tel6mxzzy]

i’m learning swahili myself and it’s just so disheartening. my mom is a native speaker so i’m often asking her to correct my grammar and fact check the resources. the ones ive linked are consistent with the structure and pronunciation, but changes in pronunciation and new vocabulary varies across newer generations. i have a link that i’ve found to be helpful for english to swahili translations!

💬 0  🔁 17  ❤️ 31 · swahili language learning resources: (books) swahili: a foundation for speaking reading and writing teach yourself swah

[latriviata]

Swahili learning fistbump - no family or particular connection but I just find it such a lovely language, and an interesting window into East African and coastal Indian Ocean history with the influences from both Arabic and various Indian languages in addition to its Bantu linguistic neighbours. I ended up shelling out again for classes this year because I’d reached the tiny limit of what I could practice myself and I’m glad I live somewhere where that’s an option because it’s often not the case.

In the UK at least the main textbook seems to be this which comes with audio resources, but the first edition (unsure if the audio was the same so it might not sync up) is available on Internet Archive or a smaller file I found via duckduckgo. Bonus: McGrath teaches online and is just a stupidly nice man.

A Routledge Companion Website

Also MobiTuki is the online dictionary he recommended AND if you add it to your homescreen (at least on iOS) it works offline!

MobiTUKI Swahili to English Kamusi ya Kiswahili online

TUKI, kamusi kuu ya Kiswahili-Kiingereza yenye vidahizo 14000+, zikiwemo nahau, misemo, etimolojia na vinyambuo.