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@foalpapers
AU where Sokkaâs high-on-cactus-juice encounter with the giant mushroom takes a dark turn. (Also he has a gun)
based on this beautiful tumblr post
bonus:
Absolutely hilarious. đđđ
This is the best interpretation of the mushroom post.
iâve been crying laughing over this for the past 5 minutes
This honestly reminds me of a show on the history channel where they spent like 25 minutes wondering how the sides of all the pyramids seemed to be perfectly divisible by pi or something, and people where theorizing about aliens and some lost form of mathematics, but then at the end they interviewed a tiered looking paleontologist and he was just like âmaybe they just used a wheel to do all their measurements.â and the whole show just immediately collapsed.
One of my all time favorite internet moments was watching @foalpapersâ Ancient Aliens charity stream. They went on and on about how weird it was that the same type of structure appears all over the world, and you could hear the disappointment in his voice as he pointed out that maybe thatâs just the most effictive way to stack blocks so they donât fall over, so it keeps naturally occurring to people. But no, aliens. Definitely.
For just one day letâs only think about love!
âFlowers for YOU! Flowers for YOU!â
âYes it isâ -Adora
i also think old people writing thinkpieces about how cellphones are the devil and millennials are addicted to twitter is stupid but you guys need to learn the difference between someone just going âtechnology bad young people stupidâ and someone going âthe specific affordances of this new technology can very very easily be manipulated to take advantage of people, especially people who are marginalized in some way, or used to the detriment of society as a wholeâ
like. face recognition software is just a feature, right. but when ppl say itâs bad, thereâs a MAJOR difference between someone going âthe young people only like stupid things like snapchat filters and those face emoji things and thats why itâs badâ vs âa comprehensive database of what people look like, associated with their screennames and their browsing habits and all their contacts, is incredibly invasive and potentially dangerous and thatâs why itâs badâ.Â
not every criticism of technology comes from a place of âtechnology is bad fire is scary thomas edison was a witchâ sometimes people have valid points that we should be considering when we engage with tech
âOver the course of realizing that, it began to feel like an emergency. We need to let children know that they belong in this world. You canât wait to tell them that until after they grow up or the damage will be done. You have to tell them while theyâre still children that they deserve love and that they deserve support and that people will be excited to hear their story. When you donât show any children stories about LGBTQIA characters and then they grow up, theyâre not going to tell their own stories because theyâre gonna think that theyâre inappropriate, and theyâre going to have a very good reason to think that because theyâve been told that through their entire childhood. Realizing that changed everything for me.â
â Rebecca Sugar, Steven Universe creator has done more for LGBTQ visibility than you might know (via oak23)
Thank you to the Steven Universe community for saying such positive things about this scene, we thought you might like to see the pencil test. These are the shots from âChange Your Mindâ that I animated and that Kendra @bcakesbaxter tied down. Thank you Rebecca for letting us be a part of your beautiful show. Thanks to our Drew @poseidonsbitch for scanning it all.
Thank you James!!! Thank you Kendra!!! Such an incredible honor to work with you on this. Thank you forever.
Catradora - an in-depth analysis
âIt is a truth universally acknowledged that an adorably earnest and heroic child soldier in possession of a magitech sword and attached transformation sequence, must be in want of an envy-driven catgirl frenemy who demands equal standing to an eight-foot tall legendary physical goddess.â â Noelle Stevenson, probably.
*ahem*
Catradora is a complex and nuanced relationship built around the central theme of equality and can only be successfully and sustainably attained as a meeting of two nation leaders whose polities are comparatively matched, in this essay I will
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⊠that is to say, I will DEFY THE FUCKING MEME, THATâS RIGHT BITCHES, YOUâRE GETTING A READ MORE ON THIS.
What Youâre In For:
Two Kids Lost In The Fright Zone: how Catra and Adoraâs childhoods fucked them up
Catra, Ambition & Equality: what she really wants and why sheâs angry at Adora
Where Girl Ends and Goddess Begins: the divide between Adora and She-Ra
Alas My Former Friends: Adoraâs attitude towards the Horde in general and Catra in particular
Theyâre On Different Sides And Thatâs OK: why it might be for the best that theyâre enemies for now
Situation Unstable, This Wonât Last: where things might go from here.
Keep reading
The famous La Marseillaise scene from Casablanca.
You know, this scene is so powerful to me that sometimes I forget that not everyone who watches it will understand its significance, or will have seen Casablanca. So, because this scene means so much to me, I hope itâs okay if I take a minute to explain whatâs going on here for anyone whoâs feeling left out.
Casablanca takes place in, well, Casablanca, the largest city in (neutral) Morocco in 1941, at Rickâs American Cafe (Rick is Humphrey Bogartâs character you see there). In 1941, America was also still neutral, and Rickâs establishment is open to everyone: Nazi German officials, officials from Vichy (occupied) France, and refugees from all across Europe desperate to escape the German war engine. A neutral cafe in a netural country is probably the only place youâd have seen a cross-section like this in 1941, only six months after the fall of France.
So, the scene opens with Rick arguing with Laszlo, who is a Czech Resistance fighter fleeing from the Nazis (if youâre wondering what theyâre arguing about: Rick has illegal transit papers which would allow Laszlo and his wife, Ilsa, to escape to America, so he could continue raising support against the Germans. Rick refuses to sell because heâs in love with Laszloâs wife). Theyâre interrupted by that cadre of German officers singing Die Wacht am Rhein: a German patriotic hymn which was adopted with great verve by the Nazi regime, and which is particularly steeped in anti-French history. This depresses the hell out of everybody at the club, and infuriates Laszlo, who storms downstairs and orders the house band to play La Marseillaise: the national anthem of France.
Wait, but when I say âitâs the national anthem of France,â I donât want you to think of your national anthem, okay? Wherever youâre from. Because Franceâs anthem isnât talking about some glorious long-ago battle, or Franceâs beautiful hills and countrysides. La Marseillaise is FUCKING BRUTAL. Hereâs a translation of what theyâre singing:
Arise, children of the Fatherland! The day of glory has arrived! Against us, tyranny raises its bloody banner. Do you hear, in the countryside, the roar of those ferocious soldiers? Theyâre coming to your land to cut the throats of your women and children!
To arms, citizens! Form your battalions! Letâs march, letâs march! Let their impure blood water our fields!
BRUTAL, like I said. DEFIANT, in these circumstances. And the entire cafe stands up and sings it passionately, drowning out the Germans. The Germans who are, in 1941, still terrifyingly ascendant, and seemingly invincible.
âVive la France! Vive la France!â the crowd cries when itâs over. France has already been defeated, the German war machine roars on, and the people still refuse to give up hope.
But hereâs the real kicker, for me: Casablanca came out in 1942. None of this was âhistoryâ to the people who first saw it. Real refugees from the Nazis, afraid for their lives, watched this movie and took heart. These were current events when this aired. Victory over Germany was still far from certain. The hope it gave to people then was as desperately needed as it has been at any time in history.
God I love this scene.
not only did refugees see this movie, real refugees made this movie. most of the european cast members wound up in hollywood after fleeing the nazis and wound up.Â
paul heinreid, who played laszlo the resistance leader, was a famous austrian actor; he was so anti-hitler that he was named an enemy of the reich. ugarte, the petty thief who stole the illegal transit papers laszlo and victor are arguing about? was played by peter lorre, a jewish refugee. carl, the head waiter? played by s.z. sakall, a hungarian-jew whose three sisters died in the holocaust.Â
even the main nazi character was played by a german refugee:Â conrad veidt, who starred in one of the first sympathetic films about gay men and who fled the nazis with his jewish wife.Â
thereâs one person in this scene that deserves special mention. did you notice the woman at the bar, on the verge of tears as she belts out la marseillaise? sheâs yvonne, rickâs ex-girlfriend in the film. in real life, the actressâs name is madeleine lebeau and she basically lived the plot of this film: she and her jewish husband fled paris ahead of the germans in 1940. her husband, macel dalio, is also in the film, playing the guy working the roulette table. after they occupied paris, the nazis used his face on posters to represent a âtypical jew.â madeleine and  marcel managed to get to lisbon (the goal of all the characters in casablanca), and boarded a ship to the americas⊠but then they were stranded for two months when it turned out their visa papers were forgeries. they eventually entered the US after securing temporary canadian visas. marcel dalioâs entire family died in concentration camps.Â
go back and rewatch the clip. watch madeleine lebeauâs face.
casablanca is a classic, full of classic acting performances. but in this moment, madeleine lebeau isnât acting. this isnât yvonne the jilted lover onscreen. this is madeleine lebeau, singing âla marseillaiseâ after she and her husband fled france for their lives. this is a real-life refugee, her real agony and loss and hope and resilience, preserved in the midst of one of the greatest films of all time.Â
Quid hoc delphino spe deiecto facio?!
What do I do with this disappointed dolphin?!
(Fons Imaginis.)
January Patreon Postcard: Tohru
Tried some new brushes using Clip Studio Paint this time and had a lot of fun! Commission information HERE!! Support on Patreon for early access to new artwork and receive other rewards such as art postcards and sketches!
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I know this is late, but itâs still christmas in my heart dammit!
So merry christmas!
It isnt a request.
From imdb: âDuring the filming of some scenes for The Princess Bride, the weather became markedly cold for Robin Wright Penn. Andre the Giant helped her by placing one of his hands over her head; his hands were so large that one would entirely cover the top of her head, keeping her warm.â
comic by Box Brown :: via flickr.com
This is so sweet how can I NOT reblog this.Â
Dâaaawwww.
All of the behind the scenes stories about Andre the Giant were adorable like this, Apparently Wallace Shawn is deathly afraid of heights, so he was freaking out while they were doing the scene scaling the cliff and Andre was like âit is okay, Iâll keep you safe.â thereâs a behind the scenes thing on the DVD and everyone is choked up and misty eyed when they talk about working with him.
Andre the Giant was a radiant human being.
Iâm so glad he gets to go down in history as everyones favorite giant. What a legacy!
If you read âAs You Wishâ, Cary Elwesâ memoirs of the making of the film, youâre treated to several such wonderful anecdotes. Andre was utterly beloved by everyone who worked on that film.
