killing me softly with her song

- professional dumbass - an award-winning yearner - she/they pronouns -

[guooey]

[gayrika]

[aquatic-turquoise-deactivated20]

I read that as dual wedding and i had to

[sunnyslidetotheleft]

lets give them a proper skyrim marriage

[g-a-y-g-o-y-l-e]

i love how tumblr users play with jpegs like dolls

[ninja-weapons]

This gif is outrageous

[headlesssamurai]

 ■ The so-called “blood explosion” which punctuates the conclusion of Akira Kurosawa’s 1962 movie Sanjuro remains one of the most memorable and influential special effects in film history. Production designer Yoshiro Muraki would later recall this scene was filmed in a single take. No such effect had ever been attempted before, as movies of the time rarely showed violence with graphic detail. Filled with uncertainty, Muraki worried the blood spray he’d rigged up wouldn’t impress Kurosawa, so he added an extra 30 pounds of pressure to the fluid pump. At the moment the pump was activated, the additional pressure caused the compressor hose attached to actor Tatsuya Nakadai to blow a coupling which created a slight, unintentional delay before the fake blood began to spray, and caused a much larger gush of fluid than planned. It sprayed so powerfully Nakadai claimed it almost lifted him off the ground. His heart sinking, as he believed the delay and over-pressure had ruined the effect, Muraki nervously glanced at director Akira Kurosawa, but Kurosawa only nodded in approval.

[trilllizard666]

“oh god i fucked this up”

“yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOO”

[kineticpenguin]

And to think this is so iconic that “two dudes clash, there’s a beat, then one dies incredibly violently” is just a must-have for action in anime

[webbut]

Its crazy to think that this iconic visual that has been so ubiquitous in pop culture for so long despite that the source material barely being known by people all came from actors staying in character thru an FX malfunction.

[fail-boat]

The shelter where I volunteer got some new hissy babies and we were making progress with socialization yesterday.

[thinkveganworld]

Play video, sound on.

[chairman-buttlicker]

There was this old lady who lived across the street and cats would just appear at her house. They’d never really be seen again, and she had a cat of her own with a collar and all who never really left the house but would spend most of the day by the bay window. But the rest were just a revolving door of random cats. Which naturally meant kittens would pop up too.

So one time when I was doing my high school volunteer hours at this animal shelter, she showed up and said she had some kittens to drop off and some to pick up. I thought it was weird but I figured she fostered them and so I assumed she fostered cats and that explained the amount of random cats I’d see at her place (turns out she’d lure strays in for spaying/neutering and then take them to shelters around the area for socializing and ideally adoption).

So she dropped off three extremely socialized and friendly kittens that I guess she had picked up 2 days prior. And then grabbed a kennel thing with five feral-ass kittens one of the donors found near a dumpster.

I had seen them earlier but the day manager told me they had just gotten them the day before and they had not been socialized because they were waiting for “the expert”. And I guess that was this lady. So she puts on these thick black gloves and goes “Sweetheart can you hold this for me? I gotta prep the babies”, and I held the kennel still while this woman just 100% no fear sticks her hand in there and grabs a kitten that is NOT happy about it. She then grabbed it by the head gently, wrapped a tea towel or some type of cloth thing around it, and then laid it down to do something that was like equal parts origami fold and burrito roll?? Idek. Point is the kitten was PISSED. But it couldn’t move or anything because she wrapped it and secured the wrap with one of them big old timey baby pins. And she did it to the others as well. It didn’t even take her 5 minutes lmaooo. Then she put them back in the kennel and went home.

I asked the manager about it and he said “Oh yeah she’ll be here in 2 days to drop them off. She has a M E T H O D.” And just as he said she showed up two days later, with 5 perfectly friendly kittens in tow!

I didn’t ask because I assumed she was a witch and also I didn’t care, but I had mad respect for her 😂

[taraljc]

I wish to meet this woman and also to learn from her so that I can do this magic

[datcat1325]

@cat-spotted

[cat-spotted]

CAT SPOTTED!!☆ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ

[transpigeon]

DE WINTON’S GOLDEN MOLE ALIVE AND WELL LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

[movedto-transmisogynistic-deact]

[flowerlygirls]

look into the horses eyes its going to eat their faces so fucking fast

[no1fan15]

Apparently the context is this horse has injured everyone who has tried to ride them

[a-cloak-deactivated20241120]

that feeling when you get a brand new story idea, but it literally has no plot yet, just vibes>>

[momo-de-avis]

Im losing my shit

[animentality]

[whetstonefires]

well see it can do the work of the colon, the semicolon, or the parenthesis with more speed and less formality than any of these, plus you can use it to capture the stream-of-consciousness effect of a comma splice with much less loss of clarity. sort of an all-purpose punctuation for the casual yet elaborate written construct.

[somewhere-south-of-neutral]

I believe in the em-dash because the em-dash believes in me

[deniselavestal-deactivated20231]

the good thing about being told that writing about a certain cliché or concept should be avoided “because it’s overdone” is that you can simply. ignore that and write about it anyway if you so desire. like it is that easy

[heywriters]

"oh, i liked this but this part is really cliche" yeah, it is :) glad you noticed, you must be a connoisseur of this kind of story :) :) :)

[neil-gaiman]

I'm in Reykjavik, at the Nordic Noir festival. I took this photo this evening as the last of the dusk was being eaten by the night.

[eco-socialism]

Ecosocialist praxis

[damnianweynee]

I support you poison Ivy

[immortalcheesewedge]

Reblog if you support Poison Ivy

[neil-gaiman]

That’s my girl.

[jacobtheloofah]

[beechicory]

Important context:

(from: https://comicbook.com/comics/news/poison-ivy-batman-guide/)

So. Yeah, Neil Gaiman.

[neil-gaiman]

It’s true.

[akboro]

[dduane]

Terry knew.

[petermorwood]

"...the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories..."

That passage leads into this one:

Yup.

Terry knew.

[huffylemon]

damn ok lake superior

[songsofwaterandnight]

Ok yeah that lake is superior

[one-time-i-dreamt]

The Eiffel tower is going to be deconstructed.

[crazy56u]

Au revoir et bon débarras, espèce de connard triangulaire.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[ukulelekatie]

I just revived my old iPod touch that I haven’t used since ~2013 after believing it to be dead dead for years and oh my god it’s like opening up an old time capsule. There are photos of me and my friends that I haven’t seen in years, taken in an old high school building that doesn’t exist anymore. I have games that are no longer downloadable on the app store. It’s running iOS 5 with the original skeuomorphism app icons. I still have the youtube app. My contacts app is full of maiden names and deadnames. The music app has songs I haven’t heard in almost a decade but still remember all the lyrics to. A daily alarm set for 5:30 AM (god I can’t believe I had to wake up that early in high school) and another set to 11:11 PM to remind me to make a wish. Reminders to finish homework assignments, or to write my application essay for the university I ended up attending, and one marking the release date for the final episode of Cabin Pressure. The last thing I googled was “how to draw people hugging”.

Possibly the strangest thing is that the tumblr app still opens, but it’s stuck in a permanent snapshot of 2013 where it won’t show me any new posts no matter how many times I refresh. My dash is full of old BBC Sherlock posts from long-lost mutuals who have either since deactivated or got unfollowed or changed urls so many times that I don’t even recognize them. Lady Gaga and Game of Thrones are the top trends. My profile shows my previous url and icon, with only 43 followers. I feel like a time traveler

[voidartisan]

I think the Jedi council should have at least considered sending obi-wan over to Dooku to be like “yes hello I am here for sith training” just to see what would happen

[voidartisan]

Like, we know from the rako hardeen arc that he’s a good enough actor to pull this off. Combined with Dooku’s clear affection(?) for him, I think the council would have most of the separatists’ top military secrets in a month, max

[voidartisan]

I mean, even if Obi-Wan got caught transmitting information

Dooku:…what are you doing

Obi-Wan, panicking slightly: I’m a double agent. Passing them bad intel.

Dooku: I didn’t ask you to do that

Obi-Wan: …i’m taking initiative????

Dooku:

Dooku: We’ll it’s about time SOMEONE around here did

[voidartisan]

Palpatine: There have been far too many “coincidences” with the Jedi lately. The information your new apprentice is transmitting is accurate, I’m sure of it.

Dooku: My boy would never do such a thing

Palpatine: Your b— you know, the whole “no attachments” is a Jedi thing but I think we need to have a talk

[terapsina]

Let's just add another layer to this cuz I bet that LIKE the Raako Hardeen incident no one tells Anakin anything.

So we also have an unhinged (but in the OTHER direction) Anakin chasing Obi-Wan across the galaxy going: 'Come back to the light side, Master, you're my brother!'

So now Palpatine's dealing with the unexpected headache of his planned future apprentice being too busy trying to de-sithify the not-actually-a-sith!Obi-Wan to get sithified himself.

[wolverina2002]

Anakin suddenly throwing himself hard into being the perfect Jedi to guide his master back to the light is hilarious

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I just couldn't fall asleep so I did my laundry and some chores when my alarm suddenly rang, waking me up to the sight of my still undone laundry.

[one-time-i-dreamt]