Dabbles in Fandom - A tumblr

Mostly to reblog the awesome that exists on tumblr. Want to ask a question? Step right up!

[byjove]

during the Victorian occultism movement I would have been the guy who giggled all the way through seances

[thestereotypebuster]

Arthur Conan Doyle subtly, but very firmly kicking you under the table.

[byjove]

man was 6’1” and built like a brick shithouse if he looked at me sideways I’d collapse like an aluminum can

[aeoliantectrix]

Mans was WHAT

[byjove]

here’s a picture of him standing next to Harry Houdini, who was 5’6”

[scoobycore]

This is actually really interesting in the context of average height.

In the Victorian era, average height for Englishmen was 5'6" with a range of 5'3" - 5'9". Anyone outside of this range was considered unusually tall or short.

So mans WAS built like a brick shithouse.

[sashaforthewin]

Might be why he didn't get beat up for actually believing in the Cottington Fairies

[otfilms]

Visit Original Link

[donkandfriends]

This is the video that launched my #whatdyawannabe series on TikTok. I’ll post some of those next.

[adulthoodisokay]

this is wholesome af

[marthajefferson]

ANGELS WINGS in movies & tv-series :

Passion Play (2010) Dogma (1999) Hellboy 2 (2008) Supernatural (2005-2020) Good Omens (2019) Constantine (2005) Lucifer (2015—) Date with an Angel (1987) Legion (2010) Dominion (2014-2015) Wings of Desire (1987) Michael (1996) Angels in America (2003)

[kizzim03]

Vague Venting about Vanity

Newsflash: saying “Wow, my post became popular because someone actually important re-blogged it” is a pretty shitty take on your followers.  It’s belittling.  As if they owe you exposure to the “important” masses.  As if any of their interactions are worthless unless they have a massive following.

As if they are not good enough.  

As if you are not the same as them.  

Also negging on yourself to get views, “but it’s okay, I know my work is shit.  No one will reblog it”, “Don’t know why I do this, none of you care”, “It’s just trash lol”, is some passive aggressive manipulative shit.  It’s called guilt tripping. Stop.

Trying to harvest some sort of self-esteem through social media when your own mindset is toxic, doesn’t work.  Get a reliable therapist, get tested if you are neurodivergent, but don’t spit at the world when a kind word is said.

[catchymemes]

[detestable-tall-man]

[a-nerdy-shade-of-purple]

PARTY WORM

[humming-fly]

it’s the mobile version of those wavey inflatable tube dancers 

[powygon-uwu]

Ok so I clicked the play button on the bdg cover of Can You Feel the Love Tonight and then scrolled down and right as he started singing this worm started moving and I felt an emotion I will never feel again

[chintakaya-deactivated20190713]

[chintakaya-deactivated20190713]

At Mount fuji

[isay]

Forget the rest of the fireworks around the world, these are the best. HNY.

[valeria2067]

The finale HOLY SHIT!!!

[thildasbeinhaus-deactivated2020]

This is actually the first time I was impressed by a firework

[watchlightfiend]

For anyone interested, the music is by a composer named Thomas Bergersen, and the piece playing is called Homecoming from his Illusions album.  I listen to his music whenever I need to be inspired to write.

[blackwoolncrown]

The uninhibited dopamine of it all

[jumpingjacktrash]

i never knew fireworks could be serene. i feel calmer, and maybe a little bit enlightened.

[titkoks]

[theepicyus]

his eyes say it all and it really really makes the video from an 8/10 to a full tenouttaten

[glumshoe]

Somebody give me creative reigns for a TV show. Picture this - Elvira and Dolly Parton starring side-by-side as twin sisters, both witches from humble roots. They’ve each lived wild lives independently and with a little huffy hostility towards each other, following different paths to become powerful enchantresses. As they reach old age, they realize the only thing they can’t replace with magic…. is family. 

[glumshoe]

This is the greatest day of my life.

[marquisedemasque]

when i was a kid i used to think Elvira was Dolly’s alter-ego 

[lynati]

: D

[tabloidsores]

[newkidsonmycock31]

this is the most powerful being on the planet

[memefix]

are you kidding me

[durneh-deactivated20220205]

What the fuck

[raaviel-lives]

holy shit

[jacob-the-gun]

I wish I could be this extra.

[feanor-the-dragon]

Honestly? Same

[pocketgameboy]

Spiritbending

[sourcefieldmix-deactivated20161]

good idea: marry a blacksmith so you can get free swords whenever 

[steelplatedhearts]

[omgweatherunderground]

Better idea; become a miner and then marry a blacksmith so he can have the required materials for you to get free swords whenever. 

[ranma-official]

Make a harem and marry a full production chain

[sunspotpony]

Monopolygamy.

[dangerousnotbroken]

I mean, if your harem is full of blacksmiths would that make it a polyhammerous relationship?

[saltwasteland]

You could make a whole polyarmory

[jeffreycombs]

“In a hundred years of movies, homosexuality has only rarely been depicted on the screen. When it did appear, it was there as something to laugh at, or something to pity, or even something to fear. These were fleeting images, but they were unforgettable, and they left a lasting legacy. Hollywood, that great maker of myths, taught straight people what to think about gay people… and gay people what to think about themselves.” (The Celluloid Closet, 1996)

[rowdybutch-deactivated20220528]

[osplanetasdasabelhas]

[kvothbloodless]

All things strive

[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?”

[tiktokarchive]

Doctor: [singing ‘Come and Get Your Love’ by Redbone to oneself]: Tka tka tooh, do do do do do do, de do do do do do beow beow beow beow beow beow buh nuh, bah dah buh buh buh buh, hey!

Someone else: Hey!

Doctor: What?