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pies are nice but also manta rays

[the-bear-woman]

The Australian Ballet is doing Alice in Wonderland again and on one hand I’ve seen it before, and on the other, their Queen of Hearts has my favourite costume in anything every

[the-bear-woman]

It’s just this and her court pushes her around the stage on wheels and every act it gets taller until she towers over everyone

[the-bear-woman]

Also in act 3 (I think) it swings open at the front and her husband is sitting inside reading a newspaper

[the-bear-woman]

I saw this again on Tuesday so here are some things I’d forgotten about:

This is the only Alice adaptation I’ve ever seen that doesn’t cut the caucus race

The mad hatter wears taps throughout and it’s so jarring and surprising it’s perfect

The executioner shadows almost everyone who dances with the Queen

Lewis Carroll is a character in the ballet and becomes the white rabbit who leads Alice into wonderland which is bad and wrong because Carroll is the dodo but does work very well

They started dropping rose petals from the ceiling onto the audience when Alice looked through the door to the garden and it was utterly magic

The Cheshire Cat is made of about 10 different puppets that dance around the stage

Which reminds me Alice is styled after Alice Liddell rather than the John Tenniel illustrations

I don’t think the king of hearts actually dances he just wanders around looking confused

[paraphernaliawagon]

here’s a video

[paraphernaliawagon]

more. (btw this is a parody/reference to the very famous “rose adagio” from sleeping beauty)

[paraphernaliawagon]

the Caterpillar is pretty neat too

(all of these videos are from the Royal Ballet’s productions in 2014 and 2017)

[catrinecat]

Finally an adaptation that makes feel like I’m going to have stroke, it’s perfect

[themummersfolly]

This looks fucking bonkers, I love it.

[elf7knight]

Wow fascinating!

[funnypicsdept]

[wizardshark]

this is without exaggeration the funniest story ive ever read in a youtube comment

[luntfontanne]

Emily Wilson on translating The Odyssey

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

christopher nolan shakespeare would be like “our much ado has been about nothing”

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

“our twelfth night is coming to an end”

[coldswarkids]

"that love's labour sure did get lost"

[prokopetz]

I was looking up the size of ships in 40k and one result took me to a forum. I got jumpscared when I saw you posting from 2009. Amazing.

Yeah, it turns out that it's actually fairly easy to maintain recognisably the same social media identity for twenty years when you're not part of any of the demographics that are constantly getting banned for no reason.

[beardedmrbean]

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[injuries-in-dust]

May I offer you cute red pandas in this trying time?

[hillhouseeleanor]

I know the “Vane called Flint gay for living in a house” thing is funny but I think in all seriousness Vane was calling Flint a class traitor for living in a house which is in some ways much funnier

[fuck-you-jack]

i love these tags so much

[confidentialityspice]

[afterthenovels]

“I often wonder if I should’ve been born in another time.”

#okay i need a minute here #i LOVED this scene #because at first i thought all it was was a cheeky nod to canon #oh har har what if he’d lived 200 years ago isn’t that funny #but it’s not JUST that #this is something that seems to have genuinely kept him up at night #something he almost seems to long for; something he wishes he could know for certain #and it’s something deeply personal. he doesn’t just brush it off as bullshit like he did his anders reveal in 1x03 #(that we later learned was partially the truth in 2x04) #listen to how upset he gets when he says he never would’ve spoken up if he knew the meeting had been compromised by mycroft #this is such a difference from sherlock using his NA meetings to practice going into a trance state #such a difference from regaling everyone with the story of the blue carbuncle rather than talking about his addiction #and you know what broke my heart the most? #200 years ago? … he was still the same addict he is here. 

[aniseandspearmint]

Those copy pasted tags are SO correct. This is part of why I love Elementary. They cared so much about the characters, their thoughts and actions, it made them so much deeper.

[funyuns-n-coffee]

Tony Jaa fights like a 13 year old in his imagination like holy crap

[fuforthought]

Ong Bak (2003)

[kungfutemple]

The evolution of a kick: Tony Jaa practicing one one of his more complicated kicks on the set of “Ong Bak”. According to Jaa, some of the moves in his films take an obscene amount of takes to perfect because, not only does the kick have to look good but the landing and the stunt man’s reaction also has to look perfect.

Still doesn’t beat Jackie Chan though. Jackie once famously yelled, “We stay here until we get it!” during the Jianzi game in “Dragon Lord”. The final sequence took around 2,900 takes to nail.

[steven-grant-gift-shoppist]

Younger Tony Jaa

Gd, I used to have a huge crush on him when I was younger, watching so many of his movies, especially his Ong-Bak ones.

[fuforthought]

Ong Bak (2003)

[parkchanwoohoo]

[bwarkz]

congrats to avalanche software for making the first game in the ‘transphobia’ genre!!