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ultrakillblast

THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978)

chlommunist

gandalf got jukes

coughloop

hannahvevo

“that must be the uvula”

“oh, so its a girl house”

bob-belcher

powerfulwizard

People that get invested in fiction and examine fictional lore need to learn how to tell the difference between which lore is actually important to the series and which lore is an excuse for something.

powerfulwizard

If Dwarven women are capable of growing beards, but have cultural reasons not to, that is an excuse that they made not to give them beards.

If a female character can only wear skimpy clothing for some given reason, that is an excuse to sexualize her.

If an organization can only be populated men, that is often an excuse to not have to create female characters.

Its all made up. It isn’t a foundation of the universe that they can’t control. They wrote it to be like that.

mininecro

Since this post is back again: you cannot explain away a doylist question (”Why did the author make it so the dwarven women not have beards?”) with a Watsonian answer (”because they have a cultural reason not to”).

A great explanation of the terms here-

imploder

Hey everyone who consumes any fictional media at all. This is so very important to understand.

mosoli

acapelladitty

I wish I put as much effort into my life as Phil Collins did into the Tarzan soundtrack

hufflepuff-spidey

One time my Spanish 2 teacher was like “I dont have a lesson today. We’re watching Tarzan” and put it in the VHS (This was 2010). We [sophomores - seniors, I was a junior] were super excited. The movie starts and my friend and I look at each other and say at the same time “IS PHIL COLLINS SINGING IN SPANISH?!” I went home that night and found out Phil Collins sang the songs in the English, Italian, German, Spanish, and French versions of the film. Mind blown.

xiaorawr

I did NOT know that and now I gotta look up all the versions that Phil Collins sang for omggg

99percentinvisible

verisimilis

This is so aesthetically satisfying.

forthefuns

How I see America from the other side of the world

alittlemorelikeyou

yoncevevo-deactivated20251204

LEGENDARY

worldoffizz

So? A lot of performers do it. Bruce Springsteen uses one. Tom Petty did. Paul McCartney does. As does Elton John. All of ‘em use teleprompters. It’s called being prepared.

Here’s Aerosmith using one.

It’s not that they didn’t take time to learn the lyrics. Sometimes you can’t remember them all, especially when you have a large catalogue of music like some of those I mentioned.

I once watched Billy Joel live and he flubbed a lyric near the start of a song. He stopped, laughed it off, and restarted the song laying emphasis on the lyric he messed up.

mosaiccreme

Just because they’re superstars doesn’t mean they’re completely immune to the mind-blanking, anxiety-inducing, blindingly-bright, overly-loud setting of being on a stage in front of thousands, all expecting you to blow their minds.

otherwindow

Merchants in low-level towns be like: > Potion (3 Gold) > Fishing Rod (5 Gold) > Great Fishing Rod (50 Gold) > Fresh Fish (5 Gold) > Whip of Bakunawa, Serpent of the Eclipse (50,000 Gold)