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26 years old

[jackieliam1998]

I remember the day that you left me. I remember the smell of sandalwood in the rain as you walked out the door. The thunderstorm crashing loudly around me cracking against my ears. The lightning being the only thing lighting up the room as the power went out. I can remember the feeling of my heart shattering as I watched your car pull out of the driveway. My heart still aches when I look outside at the cracked pavement. Sometimes I’ll see a car that looks like yours and follow it with my eyes until I can’t anymore. You leaving was the last day I felt something. I have become numb. Birthdays and holidays have passed, and I don’t feel the excitement. On your birthday I bought a cake because I wanted to send you a wish from me. Your leaving broke me in more ways than I could have never imagined. And now you are trying to come back into my life as if you hadn’t destroyed me. You came to my door with a smile on your face and happiness in your aura. It is as if leaving me was the best thing that ever happened to you. You brought me flowers to try and win your way back into my heart, but to be truthful you never left. You just burned a hole in the side and made a little home for yourself. You didn’t care if it hurt me or not, you just wanted to be loved. And loving you is all that I did. So, I don’t want you to come back. I want to tear your home out of my heart and give it back to me. I want to heal from loving you. But I can’t because your smile wears me down and your smell brings me home. You wrapped yourself right back into my heart and I can’t bear tearing you out. The thought of you leaving my life again pains me physically in a way that I have never felt before. You are not good for me, but I can’t let you go. So, make the decision for me. Leave me. Let me be in that pain again so that I can heal this time. Please don’t hold on to me. I need my world to crash once more so that I can understand how to be better for myself so that I don’t rely on people like you anymore.

[yichens]

❝ It’s impossible not to remember wild and want it back. ❞

— Mary Oliver wishing zhang qiling eternal happiness ♥

[leepacey]

I say, jolly good show, chaps. And did I panic? I think not.

[zombeesknees]

#the comic relief who is genuinely comic  #and who makes the ‘incompetent bufoon’ trope actually work as an endearing quality as originally intended  #well played movie - well played  #john hannah  #WHAT A FOX

[antivillain]

#but! BUT!!!#THE GREAT THING ABOUT JONATHAN#IS HE’S NOT INCOMPETENT#he can read ancient Egyptian albeit not as well as his baby sister#he clearly has an interest in archaeology if only for treasure-related reasons#he had to go through intensive schooling to get the sort of permit required#to even have digs of his own#WHICH HE CLEARLY DOES#on a dig down in Thebes#he says and Evie believes him#Jonathan reads from the Book of the Living and he’s an excellent shot with a rifle and is clearly a boxer#Jonathan is SO COMPETENT and SO IMPORTANT#while simultaneously being plucky comic relief without JUST being plucky comic relief#u get me?

[star-anise]

Jonathan, like Phryne Fisher, clearly hasn’t taken anything seriously since 1918.

[jkthinkythoughts]

And, I would suspect, for similar reasons.

[thebluemeany]

^^^This. Jonathan being in World War I makes total sense. It’s almost impossible for him not to have been. Given his age and background, he probably volunteered in 1914.  

Of course he’s going to not take anything seriously. Of course he can shoot. The drinking, the skittishness, the recklessness, the sense of ‘keeping your head down’, the scepticism about traditional heroism….

The one with more actual experience of death, carnage and fighting is Jonathan. Not Rick. Not Ardeth Bey. Jonathan.

When Rick says ‘I’ve had worse (situation/odds)’ and Jonathan replies “ Me too”. That’s probably true. 

Drop The Mummy into the real world context and that’s a character who’s going to have seen a lot of his school friends die, along with the myths and tales of heroism they were raised on. Sort of makes the line where Evie’s scolding him for drinking/messing about a lot darker…

Evie: Have you no respect for the dead? Jonathan: Of course I do, but sometimes I’d rather like to join them.

[gingersnapwolves]

I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

*record scratch*

Wait a minute. Why is it being assumed that Rick and Ardeth wouldn’t have fought in WWI, as well? Johnathan isn’t that much older than any of them–in fact, there is a good chance that he, Rick, and Ardeth are all of an age. Just because Johnathan’s hair is thinning doesn’t mean he’s a decade older.

It was a LOT easier to lie about your age back in the day. So much easier.

Johnathan is the soldier who fought in WWI and became disillusionsed with pretty much everything except wanting to live (most of the time) and live well–and where is the shame in that? He would have seen some of the darkest shit humanity has to offer, and he kept going. And the thing is, though, archaeological digs at that time were DANGEROUS. Not from curses (usually) but from assholes who would turn up with guns to try and steal anything you discovered. Johnathan never really STOPPED having to deal with dangerous pricks, it was just less dangerous than death raining down from the sky in bomb, bullet, and mustard gas form all the time.

Rick grew up in Egypt as an orphan. What paperwork? He joined the French Foreign Legion, which fought in World War I in some seriously critical battles on the Western Front in Europe. Rick is the soldier who quickly grew disillusioned with everything, but he didn’t know how to stop being a soldier. Johnathan had a career and schooling to fall back on. Rick had guns, the talent of not dying easily, and not much else. When the army finally left him behind because he was literally the only survivor of his last FFL battle, he literally didn’t know what to do. At all. “Looking for a good time” was code for “Please someone give me a fucking purpose.”

Ardeth grew up in the desert. He probably never enlisted…but if you think his people didn’t fight against invading forces during WWI, think again: that region of North Africa was swarming with soldiers on both sides, and they alll tried to claim everything they stumbled over even while in the midst of fighting each other. Ardeth spent his entire life fighting to protect what belonged to him, what belonged to his people, and trying to keep assholes from stealing things that didn’t belong to anyone (for good reason). By the time the war was over, Ardeth was disillisioned in everyone except his own people, and seriously fucking done with stupid idiots who stole in the name of archaeology. He is completely (justifiably) resigned to the worst when Rick the Magic Survivalist returns to Hamunaptra.

[serpentine-sorceror-deactivated]

This has been another episode of “Actual History adding context and depth to character behavior”

[filthybonnet]

I love when “The Mummy” fandom comes out to play. But it’s even better when the history side of tumblr is also in “The Mummy” fandom.

[knottingthewind]

Every time this post comes around I am compelled to watch The Mummy again.

[rachelladytietjens]

There is an explicitly nihilistic ‘old soldier’ in the movie too, just to drive home the point.

Winston: “Is it dangerous?”

Rick: “Well, you probably won’t live through it.”

Winston: “By Jove, do you think so?”

[petermorwood]

That “old soldier” is one element which jars with me. YMMV, of course.

“The Mummy” is set in 1926, so Winston is far too old to have been a pilot in WWI (actor Bernard Fox was 72 at time of filming). He should have been a “young soldier” or more correctly, “young airman” of about Rick or Jonathan’s age.

The script was also a wee bit confused about what he served in…

The British air arm was the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) until 1918, when it became the Royal Air Force (RAF).

His survivor’s guilt and heavy drinking is spot on, though: average aircrew life expectancy was between ten days and three weeks. In “Bloody April” (1917) when superior new German aircraft were introduced before the Allies had anything to match them, average life expectancy dropped to about two days. The RFC lost almost 250 planes during that month, the Imperial German Air Service lost just over 60…

WWI pilots didn’t have parachutes until 1918, and even then Allied pilots NEVER had them: the top brass, who of course didn’t fly, considered they would “impair a pilot’s nerve” to continue fighting.

Pilots who saw combat soon saw the results of that policy when a plane caught fire (gasoline, linen and canvas in a 120 mph draft makes a great barbecue). No parachute left three options: a long jump, a slow roast or the service pistol carried “in case of being forced down in enemy territory”. Seeing that happen, and the thought of experiencing it personally, would make anyone hit the bottle.

The pilot of this German aircraft is having a very bad day final few minutes…

Also, in WWI the only oil that didn’t thicken at altitude was castor oil - it’s where the “Castrol” oil company’s name originated - so aircraft engines were lubricated with that. Breathing the vapour had the same laxative effect as swallowing the stuff, so aircrew fought diarrhoea as well as enemy aircraft, trying to stun their insides with enormous amounts of booze. US ace Eddie Rickenbacker swore by cherry brandy. Pints of it.

Funny thing is that Winston could have been Biggles - not the silly subject of Monty Python skits, but the original character from WWI air-combat stories written for late-adolescents, before they were revised for children with the removal of serious adult elements like alcohol abuse and PTSD.

Biggles in those early stories was like many real-life WWI pilots, a chain-smoking, heavy-drinking young man of about 20, living on his nerves and skating along the edge of a breakdown, whose principal talents were killing the enemy, not being killed himself, and not letting the deaths of his squadron mates affect him. He wasn’t as good at that last one as he thought he was.

Left to right: Major James McCudden, VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar, MM, killed in action July 1918, aged 23. Lieutenant Arthur Rhys-Davids DSO, MC & Bar, killed in action October 1917, aged 20. Captain Albert Ball, VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC, killed in action April 1917, aged 20.

The unrevised stories suggest Biggles might well have turned out like Winston. By the time of “The Mummy” he’d have been about 27-28, and looking like this pilot painted by J.C. Leyendecker.

At a guess, that age casting didn’t happen because a young alcoholic pilot with haunted eyes and a death-wish wasn’t as automatically funny as an old alcoholic pilot with a pompous accent and a death-wish, and would have the wrong “tone” for the movie.

[explorerrowan]

I think it says something about the American movie audience of the time. The Mummy was released in 1999. Bush’s disastrous Iraq War wouldn’t start for another couple of years. Americans were used to allowing veterans of WW2 and the Korean War their traumas, but veterans of every conflict since then were treated like their trauma was either unimportant, a joke, or attention seeking. You only have to look at how often “Nam flashbacks” were treated as a punchline, or how the “agent orange” business of the Gulf War was disregard by the rest of society. (It was a concerted propaganda effort by the people in power, of course, both so they could continue justifying imperialist wars and so they wouldn’t have to take care of returning veterans, but that’s a different discussion.)

American audience wouldn’t have known what to think about a young traumatized, alcoholic pilot. It didn’t fit the narrative of old heroes that they had been fed since the end of WW2.

[m-r-levine]

This fandom conversation just gets better every time it makes the rounds.

I agree with the probable motivations for age adjustment of the character. Balancing the worldbuilding and the way the audience will most likely relate at the time any given story hits the public eye seems astoundingly challenging.

Its a little unsettling how 1999 feels a world away right now.

I should do a Mummy homage art at some point…

[fluffmugger]

Winston I believe is a case of the character being much younger than the actor - I can easily see him being in his fifties. And while today fifty is not seen as an “end of life” age and it seems preposterous for a 70 year old (even one who looks as damned decent as Bernard Fox) to play one, for the time period it fits perfectly. This “youthful fifty” is a relatively modern invention, and it definitely was a very different matter before the postwar (II) prosperity (for a very stark example compare Hartnell’s 1st Doctor with Capaldi’s 12th - both actors were roughly the same age during their tenures).  The RFC did have officers born in the 1860′s and later, so while it would have be career military, including air corps (which fits Winston to a T, including his old soldier persona) it is believable that he was an older First World War veteran.  If he was serving for a large enough period before the name change, then yes, it would explain the word salad, especially as an older soldier well used to working under the RFC moniker.   I suspect Ardeth very likely at least peripherally was involved with TE Lawrence’s shenanigans - you can’t tell me the Meiji weren’t keeping a bloody close eye on the Great Arab Revolt, especially since the whiteboy involved was a goddamn archaeologist who had previously been digging around an Egyptian necropolis…

[stereden]

@deadcatwithaflamethrower more history about The Mummy!

[deadcatwithaflamethrower]

More history, and @fluffmugger pointing out that the “Youthful Fifty” years of age is SO VERY NEW, GUYS.

Example: Alec Guiness, in 1975, filmed his role with Harrison, Mark, Carrie, & Co. at the tender age of 57. In today’s terms of fifties, he looks like he’s in his late 70s to early 80s.

Peter Cushing, same year, same film: age 62, looked like a healthy and well-groomed modern era mid-to-late 80s.

Casting Bernard Fox was actually spot-on. The Mummy might’ve gone for comedy, but they didn’t fuck around when it came to acknowledging that all of these characters were PTSD-riddled from at least one major war, and also completely fucking nuts.

[thekimonogallery]

Puppy sleeping. 1955, Japan

[papayajuan2019]

ive been coming back to this post and on the verge of tears every time

[jillianleedy]

[geekgirlintraining]

This is an important message.

[majaminxx22]

I will never NOT reblog this.

[emelinelovesjc]

THIS!!!!

[im-in-way-2many-fandoms]

THANK YOU. I NEEDED THIS

[watercolourferns]

I keep telling young people I meet this. But maybe it’s because I look young myself that they don’t listen…

[vixibombae]

best moments in gaming journalism

journalist gets real yakuza members to play yakuza 3 and asks for their opinions on its authenticity

that’s it

[vixibombae]

highlights:

“What’s with all the fucking gaijin in this area?” “Dude, don’t say that, use gaikokujin, it’s nicer.” “Oh, shit, right. What’s with all the fucking gaikokujin in this area?”

“The breaded pork cutlet bento box is like mega power. More than ramen. That’s accurate.”

all of them start dragging kiryu for his shitty cheap shirt for five minutes

“Shooting people sends a message.” “So does shooting anything.”

(after being told that massage parlors, mahjong, and hostess clubs were cut from the US version) “I feel sorry for the people who bought the American version. SEGA USA sucks.”

[tramampoline]

S: I don’t know any ex-yakuza running orphanages. K: There was one a few years ago. A good guy. M: You sure it wasn’t just a tax shelter? K: Sure it was a tax shelter but he ran it like a legitimate thing. You know.

[enemy-stand]

“Author’s note: A heated discussion takes place as to whether the game is stereotyping the yakuza, which is resolved when Midoriyama, a now-retired former mid-level faction boss, points out that the stereotypes about the yakuza are more or less correct, with the exception of their alleged prowess in martial arts.“

[smoqueen-deactivated20251108]

i’ve seen these quotes a hundred times but never the full article — 200k notes and i’ve never seen someone mention the guy saying “they should let kiryu smoke meth”

[subtubitles]

[golemmanifesto]

Notice how Shan Yu doesn’t even question it or make a comment about “BUT YOU’RE A GIRL” he just instantly goes into a “I’LL TEACH YOU TO KILL MY MEN AND STEAL MY VICTORY” rage and I think about this a lot sometimes

[ruffnutthorstonthebesttwin-deac]

((Well that might have to do with the fact that he’s a Hun.  Women among the Huns had higher status than their Chinese counterparts and even some of their own men. Women were free to hunt and fight along side of the men, could choose their own husbands and divorce him if she choose to. There were even records of clans being led by women leaders. So for Shan Yu Mulan is just another soldier))

[hotdiggitydammit-deactivated202]

thank you, history side of tumblr.

[nealdk-blog]

He also might not have been able to see very well, due to whatever horrible disease has taken hold in his eyeballs.

[temporalscallywag]

Pretty serious Wilson’s Disease judging by the copper buildup in in irises, and apparent melanocytosis localized to his sclera.

[moonfallplays-deactivated202501]

Thank you medical side of tumblr

[aquilacalvitium]

I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOREVER

[muraae]

It’s always mandatory to reblog this whenever it appears

[sturchling]

I finally found this post again!!!

[jurgenronaaz]

This has bugged me for YEARS so sorry for going off but they aren’t Huns, they’re Mongolian. The Huns lived in Khazakstan, the Mongols lived in Mongolia, north of China, and are one of the main reasons the Great Wall was built!

FURTHERMORE, Atilla the Hun, the guy who got the Huns to do actual invasions, died in 453 AD. Genghis Khan, who lead the Mongols on a VERY successful invasion of China, followed by anywhere else he could get to, died in 1227, nearly eight HUNDRED years later.

They are Mongols.

Although it’s harder to rhyme Mongol than Hun so I let it slide.

[guilty-as-battery-charged-deact]

The Addams Family renting out rooms in their huge mansion cheaply to broke college students.

The students digging it because the craziness and the bugs are pretty much the same as any other dorm house. Also, Morticia and Gomez treat them all like visiting cousins, not like tenants to abuse and exploit. 

[guilty-as-battery-charged-deact]

One of the tenants is a creative writing major and Gomez and Morticia house them up in the tower because of the quiet and the inspiring view

They’re supposed to be working on a typical coming-of-age story but after living with the Addams for just a week the project is becoming a horror-Gothic-romance

They go to their room after classes one day and find Thing correcting the grammar errors in the manuscript with a red pen 

[specialstarfish]

and yeah, the students pay roughly market value for their rooms, but that doesn’t stop gomez from shouting “capital idea!” and handing them wads of cash when they tell him about their weekend plans or what they’re researching, so they basically end up living there for free

[gholateg]

In the same vein, half the them have to turn into exceptional fencers, because Gomez just doesn’t give a shit, and if he sees you in the library, its fucking Sword Fighting Time. 

Fester and Pugsley find out one of the college students is trying to get into chemistry and woo boy, there has never been a faster study of how to counter various acidic chemical reactions due to “water” balloons in campus history. 

Morticia and Grammy are keeping the horticulturalists on their toes with their Black Tulip/Rose hybrids, which can flick their barbs a foot away from their stem system. But it’s fine, one of the kids has managed to breed Aloe with the anti venom. 

Lurch makes sandwiches for everyone who’s too much of a coward for Grammy’s cooking. Any music major will find him looming over them, utterly stone faced as they practise until they finish, when he’ll smile, and slowly applaud. 

And the spookiest thing of all

Wednesday and Thing will find your thesis. They will critique it in every way imaginable. 

There is no escape. 

[aardvarkingmad]

I especially love the idea of Gomez spotting a student in the library, throwing a sword at a startled student, shouting, “En garde!” and lunging at him/her with a sword of his own.

Student (later in life), when asked how she jumps from quietly doing research to handling a sudden influx of ER cases so quickly and easily, says, “When you have to snap out of deep concentration on biochem to fight for your life then get back to biochem without losing your train of thought…you learn or you die.”

[soap-stains]

This has made me laugh so hard-

[tinygiantrobotsinouterspace]

And you know how chatty Gomez is when he fights, he’d probably help more students work through creative blocks via swordplay than any education counselor in a stuffy little office.

[breelandwalker]

Gomez Addams as the embodiment of the Rubber Duck Method for struggling students via surprise swordplay is directly on brand.

And I firmly believe that long-term residents who finish their degrees suddenly, mysteriously, find that their student loans have been paid off. The family attends every single graduation ceremony and claps and cheers for “their” students as boisterously as any parent. They make a particular point of doing so for the ones who have no other family in attendance.

[villainous-queer-deactivated202]

do u ever want something so bad that you can’t even write wish-fulfillment about it u just. cry. instead.

[swindle94]

I fucking CRY everytime I read these. Out of the good feels.

[unicornempire]

Congrats Tumblr, you just wrote a better Addam’s Family movie than the animated one that just came out. I am not surprised in the least, but kudos. 

[lejacquelope]

[chocolatehighhh]

Please reblog this every time you see it

[institutionalized-gaming]

October can’t come soon enough

IT IS AUGUST

[its-an-ear-hat-john]

This has been in my likes since last year. It is time.

[bedhead-queen]

This is the 21st night of September skeleton. He only appears once a year.

[ultrafacts]

Source 

[hellkatsally]

These dudes are fucking legit.  They don’t just show up one day in court, either, they actually make friends with the kids and let them know they have a support system and that there are people in the world who care about them and will always have their back.  And less important, but also cool, is that the few times a couple of them have come into my cafe, they’ve been super friendly and polite and when I told one of the guys that I noticed his Bikers Against Child Abuse patch and wanted him to know how awesome I thought he was because of it, he got kind of shy and blushed and said, “The kids are the awesome ones, we just let them know they’re allowed to be brave.”

[bebinn]

The source is long, but so, so good. These men and women are available in 36 states, 24 hours a day to stand guard at home, in court, at school, even if the child has a nightmare. Many of them are survivors of childhood abuse as well, and know what it’s like to feel scared and alone.

In court that day, the judge asked the boy, “Are you afraid?” No, the boy said.

Pipes says the judge seemed surprised, and asked, “Why not?”

The boy glanced at Pipes and the other bikers sitting in the front row, two more standing on each side of the courtroom door, and told the judge, “Because my friends are scarier than he is.”

[lesbian-moon-gf]

Actual tears.. hnngh

[bee-whistler]

Show me more of people like this, world. I give up on humans too easily.

[groovypirate]

where do i sign up for this,i want to be in this gang

[ultrafacts]

[haydengisearchive-deactivated20]

This is fucking amazing. It may be out of character for me to say this but rock on

[clatterbane]

Bikers Against Child Abuse was founded in 1995 by a Native American child psychologist whose ride name is Chief, when he came across a young boy who had been subjected to extreme abuse and was too afraid to leave his house. He called the boy to reach out to him, but the only thing that seemed to interest the child was Chief’s bike. Soon, some 20 bikers went to the boy’s neighborhood and were able to draw him out of his house for the first time in weeks.

Chief’s thesis was that a child who has been abused by an adult can benefit psychologically from the presence of even more intimidating adults that they know are on their side. “When we tell a child they don’t have to be afraid, they believe us,” Arizona biker Pipes told azcentral.com. “When we tell them we will be there for them, they believe us.” ( Article)

More about BACA, from their site

[uriesays]

My parents are a part of this organization and they are metal af

They go on runs to protect the child if they feel even the slightest threatened no matter where. If the child needs them to go on vacation with them, they do. Bikers come from across the nation to watch over and take shifts for these kids. And the best part is once you’re adopted into this family as a BACA kid, you’re always one. Even when you’re 40 and the perp gets released from jail, they’ll come meet with you and find your best options for avoiding the person and maintaining the life you’ve built for yourself. Once a BACA child, always a BACA child. In Florida, there’s 100% rate for identifying the perp based on the child’s testimony. Why? Because BACA stands with the child and supports the child so they feel comfortable enough to point out their attacker.

What’s better than a badass biker gang being on your side???

[kikithegirl]

NATIVE AMERICAN CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST WHO IS A BIKER AND NAMED HIMSELF CHIEF HELL YES I’M HERE FOR THAT AND BIKERS BEING BAD ASS TO PROTECT KIDS. HELL YEAH.

[birdungehrl]

it’s back! I will always reblog BACA

[your-uncle-dave]

Damn good people.

[rowsdower-saves-us]

I know they wouldn’t consider themselves such, but these people are freaking heroes and the world is a better place because of them. 

[racethewind10]

Hey folks, it talks about this in the article but its not mentioned in this post, BACA is a 501 © (3) charity that depends in part on donations to help pay for stuff like gas for their bikes. If you want to help, consider donating. 

[drgaellon]

@copperbadge You like posting about heroes, Sam. Seems like this would be up your alley.

[copperbadge]

I love these folks! I’ve reblogged them before but it’s wonderful to see the donation information has been added. 

[galaxy-of-stories]

Always reblog. Keep doing what you’re doing y'all.

[hurtlittleboy]

Guys? This post changed my life. I saw this post. Forever ago. And thought it was only in america… and wished desperately that they could help me. But then I saw it again, during a bad episode, and checked their site. They aren’t just in the USA

They’re in Canada as well and probably other countries. I met and talked with a native guy who runs the place near me. His name is Shaman. I got in, and I’m considered a BACA child now. Despite being 17, turning 18 when I talked to them. They spent time with me when my abuser was over, they gave me therapy resources. They give you something called a ‘level 1′ where they go to your house with as many bikers as they can, i shit you not a solid 20-40 bikers came from even out of province, and met me. I got to choose my biker name and I got a vest with patches on it and my name on it. They all hugged a Teddybear before giving it to me, and told me if I ever felt the BACA bear was running out of love, to give them a call and they’d refill it for me, and then I got a ride on one of their bikes. Just a day or so ago I went to an annual party with them and they we ate food one of them cooked and had a lot of laughs. 

I’ve never felt as loved as I did being a part of the BACA family. They also gave me dog tags with the names, and phone numbers of my 2 workers.  So I can call them whenever I feel scared. 

BACA is an absolutely wonderful group that will do everything in it’s power to help any child whos been abused. 

And it doesn’t end when you’re 18 either. As long as you get in contact/get your level 1 before you’re 18? you’re ALWAYS a BACA kid. I’m 18 now and they still invite me to parties, ask me if I’m okay, and are there for me. They’re still trying to find me resources for therapy. 

BACA has changed my fucking life. 

I hope you all can read this, and reblog it knowing from someone who fucking been with them, that they are absolutely amazing. 

[feanor-the-dragon]

If I ever don’t reblog this, it’s because I am physically being restrained against my will.

[moved-to-arpwrites]

I just watched bts carpool karaoke and I’m so emotional!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TRULY THE BEST PIECE OF CONTENT TO COME OUT OF THIS PROMO STINT THANK U MR JAMES CORDEN I haven’t laughed this hard in so long 

opening with Joon talking about how traffic is so bad in LA????? YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN’T HAVE A DRIVERS LICENSE MY DUDE ft. Jin’s squinty smiley face in the back

u already had me in the first 15 seconds mr. corden, well played sir well played

james knowing all the lyrics to mic drop and keeping up with the rap made hobi so surprised and happy and impressed !!!!!!!!!!! not to mention tae’s face in the back SENT ME lmfaoooo 

i could tell the boys started liking and respecting james a lot more from then bc he made the effort and he was genuinely jamming to their songs it wasn’t just on camera :( <3

I LOVED THE EDITING OF THE VIDEO it genuinely had great unscripted comedy omg 

hag line being salty they watched friends too but didn’t know english 😭

also I lost it when trunk line was like ‘we don’t know whats happening but lets laugh anyway ahaha ha’ and middle seat line followed along….like……………..TRULY ONLY ONE BRAIN CELL IN THAT ENTIRE GROUP and namjoon has it sometimes

don’t get me started on namjoon and those fucking grandma glasses i don’t know what to do with him i really don’t hOW IS HE A BIG BAD RAPPER but hes wearing the most delicate yellow sweater and he could be a hand model for rings looking so perfect and delicate and poised HIS DUALITY IS WHY I DONT TRUST MEN

suga had the worst fucking camera angle and it was SO FUCKING ADORABLE bc he was dressed like yoongi not suga or agust d and the camera angle contributed to making him fluffy yoongi instead of big bad rapper suga

seeing him perform black swan like that was, im not gonna lie, a religious experience

also….. just suga. period. in the back being cute and bopping along my entire heart belongs to him. i’m glad he was lowkey because fucking jhope man

the universe needed jung hoseok singing ‘my big fat ass got all them boys shook.’ i can now confirm god’s creation is officially perfect and complete.

james going ‘this shouldn’t shock u but my koreans not that great’ and kook going ‘me too’ 😩

sjkhdfljks when james said ‘oh, worldwide handsome was my nickname in highschool’ and jin said ‘oh you a joker man!!!!!!!!!’ without a MOMENTS HESITATION like JIN!!! HONEY!!!!!!!  YOU DON’T JUST CALL PEOPLE UGLY LIKE THAT SJDHFLKSJDHFLKJ it was truly comedic genius bc it would have fallen flat if he had said it any other way, a second too late or his tone off

im gonna be honest, seeing how jin’s comedy translated across cultures and languages was probably the best part of the video for me no i am not a jin stan yes i am lying

tae going “im good boy” in tiny

james making sure everyone was happy and included!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????

jimin was a little stiff at the beginning and thinking too much about how to appear on camera and what the right thing to do/say was and james saw he was zoning out and called him mochi and it took a second for jimin to register it but then hE JUST CRUMLPED INTO HIMSELF AND BECAME A GIGGLY MESS and for that , kind sir, i will never forget u. mr james corden

ummmmm don’t get me started on jk and high high notes for both the bruno mars song and ON, i won’t shut up 

ALSO FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: jungkook cocking his head like a little puppy when james was talking in english and trying to figure it out????? PEAK GOOD BOY BEHAVIOUR I want to give him all the treats and my soul too if he wants that

v didn’t talk much but he was serving LOOKS the whole time, HARD LOOKS and sir, that was unnecessary for a fucking carpool karaoke. save that for your sold out stadium shows thanks

i can’t get over the happy and embarrassed puddle of jelly jimin became at being called mochi i really can’t he’s so SOFT

baby mochi and papa mochi WHYS JIMIN ACTUALLY A COMEDY KING

“i want to see papa mochi dance” 

knowing jimin and tae are soulmates and they’re also the ones that bicker the most is my every favourite trope come to lifewhats the mandu incident????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was in the soulamte song and now they refuse to speak about it on camera???????????????????????? im that crazy conspiracy meme guy rn

james taking every fucking opportunity he can to join bts is honestly #ME

namjoon being SHOOK when james was telling him about his exercise dance class and he didn’t know if it was a joke or not and he didn’t want to make james feel bad in case it was real so he didn’t laugh and translated it as ‘oh james actually takes dance classes twice a week’ WILL YOU LET ME LIVE FOR ONE FUCKING SECOND WITHOUT TRAMPLING ALL OVER MY HEART KIM NAMJOON

jin was such a pro fucking dancer at the dance class omg he shone so much and wHY IS SUGA MY SPIRIT ANIMAL ‘this is actually pretty hard’ I SNORTED

yoongi was genuinely laughing and having so much fun at the dance class it made me heart so fucking full to see him hopping around in his sweater paws i got so emo it was embarrassing

hobi proudly letting jimin do the dance tutorial :( :( :(

after slapping his ass

and joon hyping him as Baby Mochi like it was a badass rapper name

i didn’t know i needed a room of 30 something suburban people sweaty and jamming to bts and genuinely having the time of their fucking life but u mr corden sir have seen to my needs before i was ever aware of them and i am eternally grateful

WHY DID HOBI HAVE TO GO SO HARD ITS FUCKING JAZZERCISE

AND JIMIN AND HOBI COLLAPSING TO THE FLOOR AFTER IT WAS OVER u know what i think jimin and hobi were being reaction kings and faking it bc hello their concert choreographies are a million times more exhausting lmao they’re such drama queens but they did it because its their job to entertain us and it worked and i respect that and love their commitment 

im drained omg i feel like i’ve ascended to the next dimension

what a rollercoaster of emotions fuck

god, if i wasn’t army already, this would have been the video that converted. thank u for doing gods work mr james corden, i love u

i’m on such an intense high rn and oh god guess what i just fucking realized: there’s tons of footage we haven’t seen yet and james is probably gonna roll it out bit by bit depending on how much we beg him

بموت 

[a-knight-in-shining-rainbows]

if you have an identity that falls anywhere on the ace or aro spectrum I hope you find twenty dollars on the ground today.

[mac-aro-ni]

Thanks OP

[yourfreindlyneighborhoodnerd]

But doesn't someone else have to lose $20 for that to happen?

[callboxkat]

Reblog to make an aphobe lose $20

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

My favourite math fact is that 0.9999999.. is equal to 1. Exactly. Not approximately. Not as a rounded number. 0.9999 (recurring) is exactly 1.

[transsexual-dandelions]

Question. How the fuck does that work?

[homo-sex-shoe-whale]

I tried explaining it here:

[secondaristh]

Here’s another perspective on why .999… repeating is exactly equal to 1.

For any two distinct real numbers, we can always find a rational number strictly between them, i.e. that rational number must be able to be expressed as a terminating decimal or a repeating decimal.  To be clear, that rational number is strictly between the two values; it is not allowed to be equal to either.

Suppose k is a rational number strictly between 1 and 0.9999….  If this is possible, then, I can write k exactly as either a decimal with finite digits, or I can write k as a repeating decimal.  The problem is, there are no decimals with finite digits between 1 and 0.999… , and there is no way to write a repeating decimal that is greater than 0.999… and still less than 1.  Either way, a k strictly between 1 and 0.999… does not exist.  The only way this can be true is if those two numbers are not actually distinct.  That is to say, 1 = 0.999…..

[oysters-aint-for-me]

i truly appreciate how math seems like it’s this infallible always-true only-one-answer thing, when in reality math is just like:

[ed-longshanks]

[swop-bango]

Against my better judgement I’m gonna add to this to say: numbers are made up! You can make any number system you want as long as it’s internally consistent! One of the most common ways we define real numbers involves taking sequences of rational numbers that get closer and closer together, and then pointing to one of them and saying “yep, that’s a real number.” So, in theory, yes, you could probably make a consistent system where 0.9999999… and 1 are distinct numbers, (with the caveat that you’d need to add a whole lotta stuff to that in order to make even addition and make sense, let alone multiplication and division).

HOWEVER, not all of these systems are equally useful. On a technical level, the “0.9999999… isn’t 1″ system, as far as I can tell, basically makes any attempt to define continuity an absolute nightmare, and a lot of similar point-set topological concepts aren’t any better. So basically the big choice here is “You can make every decimal representation correspond to a unique number, but if you do that, calculus stops working.”

[damienthepious]

Also, i was trying to wrap my head around this because it’s been a long time since I’ve actively thought about math, and couldn’t this idea be expressed even more simply because 1/3 is .333etc, which would mean that 1/3+1/3+1/3 would equal both 3/3, which is 1, and also .999etc? Is that anything??

[gothicprep]

remember when jared leto absolutely terrorized his suicide squad castmates and turned himself into a laughing stock bc he misinterpreted what method acting is, only to have 7 minutes of screen time and be cut from most of the film’s promotional material? i know it was a while ago now but i dnt think anything more satisfying will happen in our lifetime

[bi-furiosity]

ok but the full extent of margot robbie’s vindication is frankly legendary. she wanted a better chance to relish her role as Harley so, like an absolute icon, she went to warner brothers and pitched a movie to then. now we’re getting an r rated girl gang movie about harley getting out of her shitty relationship w/ joker and going on a chaotic ass roadtrip with a bunch of other female heroes. it’s going to be the first superhero movie directed by a woman of color and there are multiple major characters of color, including a Latina lesbian. can you believe margot robbie obliterated jared leto’s tired ass joker with one fell swoop?

[raptorific]

and two really important updates: 1. all planned future appearances of Jared Leto as the joker (Joker solo movie, Joker/Harley movie, etc) have been indefinitely tabled, including his planned appearances in the Suicide Squad sequel, where he’s pretty much the only cast member of the first movie not returning 2. The Joker is confirmed to have a cameo in Margot’s Birds of Prey movie (likely for the scene where she leaves him). They’ve opted to use a body double for the part rather than inviting Leto to reprise his role

[dddiamond-dog]

opted to use a body double

i’m crying

[pr1nceshawn]

Giveaways that someone is American, as told by non-Americans.

[moosetrees]

Accurate.

[built2bulk-blog]

This is oddly comforting.

[notasupersaiyan-yet]

Idk why I was expecting a list of negative shit

[theultimatepumpkinpie]

We do do these things a lot and it’s so nice to hear them in a positive light because so often I feel like we’re hated on. Never in my life have I had someone from another country call us friendly. They always say we’re loud and obnoxious (not that that’s not true, it often can be). It’s such a relief to hear something else.

[uncle-beanbag]

Being prepared for anything should be everyone.

On the off chance a giant whale drops from the sky and splatters in the desert with a flower pot I’m prepared for it.

[steakplissken]

I had a poli-sci Professor from Bulgaria who had done work in refugee camps during the Bosnian wars and she said the American volunteers were the most helpful, least-jaded of everyone. Not naïve, but willing to believe problems could be solved and trying to keep spirits up rather than saying it was a shitty situation and what else could you do?

Friendly to the point of suspicion and prepared for everything.

[renthony]

I feel like pointing out that the “prepared for anything” and treating cities like uncharted jungles with nowhere to shelter or get water is largely because, in America, water and shelter are commodities. 

You usually CAN’T find water or shelter for free or even cheap in any given large American city, and a lot of us (especially who grow up in hotter American climates) are taught from a very young age to always bring your own water, along with an umbrella and a jacket. 

You can’t “loiter” in the air conditioning anywhere, it costs $3+ for a decent-sized bottle of water, and business owners are outright hostile to people who enter the building just for quick relief from the weather.

[heroofthreefaces]

And the “tipping the barman” paragraph reflects that food service employees in the US are legally paid a minimum wage about 1/3 of everyone else because the difference is assumed to be made up with tips.

[ruffboi-mags]

I’m honestly deeply touched that “loud but friendly and prepared, not sarcastic when saying things are ‘great’, big smiles” was the takeaway from this, not “loud and obnoxious ugh stay away americans.” because we *can* be wonderful and it’s always a little heartbreaking that only our very worst behaved people (or stereotypes that aren’t generally accurate) are ever considered an “example” of what Americans are like.

[systlin]

Can confirm the water thing; in cities I always automatically assume that a small bottle of water will be like $3 or more, and so just bring my own instead. And a small first aid kit, because if you need it it’s faster to just whip yours out rather than trying to find out where you can get what you need around you. 

[thatdisasterauthor]

Also jumping in on the always prepared/water bit. As a Colorado girl I get incredibly nervous without my bag even in places I go every day. You NEVER know what Colorado is gonna do. Always gotta have a jacket, umbrella, gloves, first aid kit, water, and snacks. And that’s just my purse. You should see the shit I keep in my truck. I could survive in my truck for a MONTH.

[srvphm]

Dissociation feels

everything is happening 0.5 times too fast

numb

everything but a little bit to the left

Numb™

it feels like Monday the 17th at 3:31pm but also like Saturday at 4:57am

….. existing?

hahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

why are the end credits playing I didn’t even hit play

Current emotion is coma

I need to self-harm but I physically cannot move

feeling panic rising up inside but being too numb to physically react

Must Do Thing. Do Not Know What Thing Is.

N҉͏̖͇͕̥ư̷̭̪͇͉̰̱͢ͅḿ͝҉̠̬̘͇̫͇͍̘͜b̴͓͍̱̣

everythingeverythingeverythingeverythingeverythingeverythingeverythingeverythingeverythingevery

…I should start a religion

I A M G O D

*vibrating softly* everything in the world is my fault

Numb

Existence Is Fraud

Do I still have legs?