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THE EXORCIST (2016-2017) “There But for the Grace of God, Go I” (2.05)

theorderofthetriad

#i dont go there but it’s old men kissing. my followers are the target audience for this. enjoy

nightowlqueen

headspace-hotel

Nothing on tiktok is this funny

lesbiankiliel

captain archibald haddock's most epic expletives, finnish edition

for @dimdiamond

to preface this post, I'm a long-time fan of the adventures of tintin and have read it mainly in finnish but also in french and a little bit in english (the animation I've seen exclusively in finnish and the 2011 movie exclusively in english). one of my favorite things about the series has always been captain haddock's colorful swearing.

I mentioned one of those expletives ("tuhannen tuhatta turskattia!") in the tags of one tintin post, and my dearest dim really liked it and wanted to know more. this post has been a longtime coming but here it is now.

all expletives have been taken from the book Tyrskyn myrsky! Johdatus kapteeni Haddockin manauksiin, edited by pasi heikura, adapting the original work by albert algoud (le haddock illustré: l'integrale des jurons du capitaine haddock)

important to note: I am only listing my personal favorites. this post is by no means intended to be an exhaustive list of captain haddock's expletives. many of them are not direct translations of the original expletives as far as I remember.

all of the expletives have been either translated or coined by jukka kemppinen and soile and heikki kaukoranta. translations to them are provided by yours truly, as are most of the additional notes about the expletives. some are translated from pasi heikura's notes. in alphabetical order according to the finnish expletive. pictures provided when possible (all photographed from the book)

disclaimer: not all of these expletives are politically correct by contemporary standards, and we have to remember that the original works were written between 1929 and 1976, and the translations were made in the 1970's

dimdiamond

Now i want a post in which you talk about their design and how complementary they are.

ALRIGHT THEN

Let's take a look at their designs:

I'm going to focus on two things:

Physical traits

Color palette

Physical traits:

I think these are obvious so I won't stand for long. Tintin is short and thin and Haddock is tall and more built. Tintin's youth can be seen from the lack of wrinkles while Haddock's age and struggles with alcohol and his profession can be seen from his eye bags. Haddock has beard and big nose and his eyes blank dots (something that I translate to light color eyes) while Tintin has no facial hair and small nose and his eyes black dots (like most characters and I translate it to dark color eyes). They already contradict each other with their appearances but they're exactly what they lack for each other so together it's like they complete the traits that a character can have and of course the main goal that is more than successfully accomplished is that they're immediately recognisable.

The lack of many characteristics of Tintin's face is filled by Haddock's rich of characteristics face and I would take it one step farther and say that as Herge's skills developed Tintin changed too and become more human in his world, no more a symbol but just Tintin, the young journalist. In a way we can say that since he has a stable companion he gains from him a stability in their world too.

Color palette:

Tintin is usually shown in warm colors and specifically close to yellow, red and orange and some white. Haddock is mostly in his classic blue and black. We already see that the colors are the complementary ones (complementary we call the colors that they're opposite to each other in the color wheel and if you combine them you get grey aka all the colors because they complete each other). That's a usual technique for character design especially when you have a duo. You want to pass the message to the audience that they are here to work together and they're not whole without each other. And if you have a character with the complementary colors on themselves then you pass the message that this character is a whole by themselves, another character is not necessary. So if you see a character coded blue or another color wait for its complementary to show up. It always does.

But I want to stay a bit in these characters because I think it's genius how the colors work here. Before Haddock's appearance Tintin is mostly in his yellow shirt and white socks:

example from Cigarettes of the Pharaoh

But that doesn't mean he didn't wear blue even in these books:

examples from The Black Island and Blue Lotus

But these were more like one time attires, to fit in the environment and circumstances. They're not exactly his choices, he happened to find them and I understand the choice because, as we said, blue is the complementary of orange (his hair) so he's more or less a stand alone character, he doesn't need another one. But actually he does because he quickly goes back to his yellow shirt and warm palette.

Since Haddock appears though the blue sweater makes more and more appearances and the yellow shirt starts to vanish with some last appearances in his first adventures with Captain.

examples from Shooting Star and The Secret of the Unicorn

The classic baby blue sweater becomes his standard attire without stopping wearing his brown-red pants and suit. That shows that not only he is affected by his companion but also that he hasn't given up his own identity. He has found a balance finally.

Meanwhile Haddock remains to his colors in most occasions but what do we see here:

example from The Seven Crystal Balls

When Haddock doesn't wear his usual attire he adopts a warm palette and it's not that he has something blue on himself to complement but we have already associated him with the color blue. That can be read in many ways: Haddock's effort to be something else from who he really is or to be closer to his companion. No matter this doesn't stay long and he goes back to his blue and black attire. But since then whenever we see him in another attire it's always in warm clothes aka his classic brown suit.

Take a closer look to these two:

examples from The Seven Crystal Balls and Calculus' Affair

The first one is from an adventure soon after Haddock becomes rich and the second after some time. You can feel the awkwardness in the duo because their palette is their usual one and especially Tintin the one he had before meeting Haddock. They are trying to close the distance between them but without accepting something from the other, afraid of opening up too much.

And then the second brings more peace in our eyes. Tintin has taken the blue from Haddock and Haddock the brown from Tintin. The kind of blue and brown is important too. Tintin wouldn't wear something too dark so the sky blue is the closest he can be to Haddock without losing himself and Haddock wouldn't wear light colors like yellow so the brown and bit of green make already the difference. They have found a balance between them.

And even when they are wearing their usual attires what connects them is the color blue. I don't think it's a random choice. Blue is a cold color, symbol of serenity and calmness. And that's exactly what both tried to reach together and found to each other and in the end bonds them.

Have I read too much on these designs? Maybe but I think when you start to notice stuff like that you can understand the work better and in a whole other level than saying things to your face. When visuals are used to tell a story are vital and necessary. When you see a color or a shape there's a reason behind it, they're here to complement the story and the words.

So in this case if you didn't understand why and how those two are grown to be an inseparable duo in your brain take a look at the visuals and you'll notice all these I mentioned and more. The designs are telling a story by themselves and it's worth to listen to them.

Bonus:

Calculus being green coded is exactly because he appeared to bring balance between the main duo and show you that he can work as their bridge but also he can stand alone but of course as trinity they bring all the colors aka characters together (and of course because green is cold color he stays with the other cold color aka Haddock but with Tintin there they all found balance).

dimdiamond

Now i want a post in which you talk about their design and how complementary they are.

ALRIGHT THEN

Let's take a look at their designs:

I'm going to focus on two things:

Physical traits

Color palette

Physical traits:

I think these are obvious so I won't stand for long. Tintin is short and thin and Haddock is tall and more built. Tintin's youth can be seen from the lack of wrinkles while Haddock's age and struggles with alcohol and his profession can be seen from his eye bags. Haddock has beard and big nose and his eyes blank dots (something that I translate to light color eyes) while Tintin has no facial hair and small nose and his eyes black dots (like most characters and I translate it to dark color eyes). They already contradict each other with their appearances but they're exactly what they lack for each other so together it's like they complete the traits that a character can have and of course the main goal that is more than successfully accomplished is that they're immediately recognisable.

The lack of many characteristics of Tintin's face is filled by Haddock's rich of characteristics face and I would take it one step farther and say that as Herge's skills developed Tintin changed too and become more human in his world, no more a symbol but just Tintin, the young journalist. In a way we can say that since he has a stable companion he gains from him a stability in their world too.

Color palette:

Tintin is usually shown in warm colors and specifically close to yellow, red and orange and some white. Haddock is mostly in his classic blue and black. We already see that the colors are the complementary ones (complementary we call the colors that they're opposite to each other in the color wheel and if you combine them you get grey aka all the colors because they complete each other). That's a usual technique for character design especially when you have a duo. You want to pass the message to the audience that they are here to work together and they're not whole without each other. And if you have a character with the complementary colors on themselves then you pass the message that this character is a whole by themselves, another character is not necessary. So if you see a character coded blue or another color wait for its complementary to show up. It always does.

But I want to stay a bit in these characters because I think it's genius how the colors work here. Before Haddock's appearance Tintin is mostly in his yellow shirt and white socks:

example from Cigarettes of the Pharaoh

But that doesn't mean he didn't wear blue even in these books:

examples from The Black Island and Blue Lotus

But these were more like one time attires, to fit in the environment and circumstances. They're not exactly his choices, he happened to find them and I understand the choice because, as we said, blue is the complementary of orange (his hair) so he's more or less a stand alone character, he doesn't need another one. But actually he does because he quickly goes back to his yellow shirt and warm palette.

Since Haddock appears though the blue sweater makes more and more appearances and the yellow shirt starts to vanish with some last appearances in his first adventures with Captain.

examples from Shooting Star and The Secret of the Unicorn

The classic baby blue sweater becomes his standard attire without stopping wearing his brown-red pants and suit. That shows that not only he is affected by his companion but also that he hasn't given up his own identity. He has found a balance finally.

Meanwhile Haddock remains to his colors in most occasions but what do we see here:

example from The Seven Crystal Balls

When Haddock doesn't wear his usual attire he adopts a warm palette and it's not that he has something blue on himself to complement but we have already associated him with the color blue. That can be read in many ways: Haddock's effort to be something else from who he really is or to be closer to his companion. No matter this doesn't stay long and he goes back to his blue and black attire. But since then whenever we see him in another attire it's always in warm clothes aka his classic brown suit.

Take a closer look to these two:

examples from The Seven Crystal Balls and Calculus' Affair

The first one is from an adventure soon after Haddock becomes rich and the second after some time. You can feel the awkwardness in the duo because their palette is their usual one and especially Tintin the one he had before meeting Haddock. They are trying to close the distance between them but without accepting something from the other, afraid of opening up too much.

And then the second brings more peace in our eyes. Tintin has taken the blue from Haddock and Haddock the brown from Tintin. The kind of blue and brown is important too. Tintin wouldn't wear something too dark so the sky blue is the closest he can be to Haddock without losing himself and Haddock wouldn't wear light colors like yellow so the brown and bit of green make already the difference. They have found a balance between them.

And even when they are wearing their usual attires what connects them is the color blue. I don't think it's a random choice. Blue is a cold color, symbol of serenity and calmness. And that's exactly what both tried to reach together and found to each other and in the end bonds them.

Have I read too much on these designs? Maybe but I think when you start to notice stuff like that you can understand the work better and in a whole other level than saying things to your face. When visuals are used to tell a story are vital and necessary. When you see a color or a shape there's a reason behind it, they're here to complement the story and the words.

So in this case if you didn't understand why and how those two are grown to be an inseparable duo in your brain take a look at the visuals and you'll notice all these I mentioned and more. The designs are telling a story by themselves and it's worth to listen to them.

Bonus:

Calculus being green coded is exactly because he appeared to bring balance between the main duo and show you that he can work as their bridge but also he can stand alone but of course as trinity they bring all the colors aka characters together (and of course because green is cold color he stays with the other cold color aka Haddock but with Tintin there they all found balance).

autisticexpression

Kinda love how Tintin is a completely asexual narrative. Like there's this group of ace people who found each other and go on adventures together, no relationship drama, just fighting bad guys and exploring. Good for them.

andalasiaa

Happy 85th Anniversary to The Adventures of Tintin!

litanumb

Fanarts of some characters from "Tintin".

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drnikolatesla

Soon after I left Mr. Edison's employment a company was formed to develop my electric arc-light system. This system was adopted for street and factory lighting in 1886, but as yet I got no money — only a beautifully engraved stock certificate. Until April of the following year I had a hard financial struggle. Then a new company was formed, and provided me with a laboratory on Liberty Street, in New York City. Here I set to work to commercialize the inventions I had conceived in Europe.

After returning from Pittsburgh, where I spent a year assisting the Westinghouse Company in the design and manufacture of my motors, I resumed work in New York in a little laboratory on Grand Street, where I experienced one of the greatest moments of my life — the first demonstration of the wireless light.

I had been constructing with my assistants the first high-frequency alternators (dynamos), of the kind now used for generating power for wireless telegraphy. At three o'clock in the morning I came to the conclusion that I had overcome all the difficulties and that the machine would operate, and I sent my men to get something to eat. While they were gone I finished getting the machine ready, and arranged things so that there was nothing to be done, except to throw in a switch.

When my assistants returned I took a position in the middle of the laboratory, without any connection whatever between me and the machine to be tested. In each hand I held a long glass tube from which the air had been· exhausted. “If my theory is correct,” I said, “when the switch is thrown in these tubes will become swords of fire.” I ordered the room darkened and the switch thrown in — and instantly the glass tubes became brilliant swords of fire.

Under the influence of great exultation I waved them in circles round and round my head. My men were actually scared, so new and wonderful was the spectacle. They had not known of my wireless light theory, and for a moment they thought I was some kind of a magician or hypnotizer. But the wireless light was a reality, and with that experiment I achieved fame overnight.

Following this success, people of influence began to take an interest in me. I went into “society.” And I gave entertainments in return; some at home, some in my laboratory — expensive ones, too. For the one and only time in my life, I tried to roar a little bit like a lion.

But after two years of this, I said to myself, “What have I done in the past twentx-four months?” And the answer was, “Little or nothing.” I recognized that accomplishment requires isolation. I learned that the man who wants to achieve must give up many things — society, diversion, even rest — and must find his sole recreation and happiness in work. He will live largely with his conceptions and enterprises; they will be as real to him as worldly possessions and friends.

In recent years I have devoted myself to the problem of the wireless transmission of power. Power can be, and at no distant date will be, transmitted without wires, for all commercial uses, such as the lighting of homes and the driving of aeroplanes. I have discovered the essential principles, and it only remains to develop them commercially. When this is done, you will be able to go anywhere in the world — to the mountain top overlooking your farm, to the arctic, or to the desert — and set up a little equipment that will give you heat to cook with, and light to read by. This equipment will be carried in a satchel not as big as the ordinary suit case. In years to come wireless lights will be as common on the farms as ordinary electric lights are nowadays in our cities.

The matter of transmitting power by wireless is so well in hand that I can say I am ready now to transmit 100,000 horsepower by wireless without a loss of more than five percent in transmission. The plant required to transmit this amount will be much smaller than some of the wireless telegraph plants now existing, and will cost only $10,000,000, including water development and electrical apparatus. The effect will be the same whether the distance is one mile or ten thousand miles, and the power can be collected high in the air, underground, or on the ground.

-Nikola Tesla

“Making Your Imagination Work for You.” By M. K. Wisehart. The American Magazine, April 1921.

anthonycrowleymoved

sometimes i’m like ‘fanfiction can’t shock me anymore i’m numb to it’ then i find this shit

anthonycrowleymoved

every moment of a cumulative thirteen years of catholic education is simultaneously screaming out in agony at this reply

rustbaby

Tbh the only way an average-looking guy could get 12 hot guys to follow him around and hang off his every word is if he’s the only top

anthonycrowleymoved

butlerbookbinding

Obviously Christ was a top, the Catholic Church keeps reminding us he’s inside everyone, and the one and only time he got nailed, it took him three days to recover.

moonisneveralone

So ain’t nobody gonna ask OP what they were doing looking for Jesus/Judas fanfiction?

anthonycrowleymoved

trying to find jesus/judas fanfiction to read i thought that was obvious

lorddoordash

OPs url makes this the funniest thread I’ve ever read in my life

ur-local-pair-of-binoculars-dea

I was putting a cupcake into my mouth as I opened Tumblr and was greeted with THIS so I think it’s safe to say I early died

user20021985

Oh fuck guys

gasolineflavor

http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=46383719

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i wish someone can tell me or can translate what’s happening here between jesus and judas. i really wanna know

although, it looks like its about judas having a crush on jesus for the longest until it all crashes down, but that’s my opinion

sketchdeath

the inherent eroticism of having blood all over yr face

valtsv

character in a fight scene: *restrains their opponent by pinning them against the wall by their wrists*

me:

icantwritegood

character in a fight scene: *pins their opponent down by straddling their waist and holding their wrists to the floor*

me:

ladylike-foxes

character in a fight scene: *lifting their disarmed opponent’s chin slightly with the business end of their weapon*

me:

g3ncyho3

character in fight scene: *pins down the opponent and leans in close to whisper in their ear*

me:

breyito

character in fight scene: *restrains the opponent by twisting their arm/s behind their back and pinning them to the wall chest first with their own chest pressing against the opponents back*

me:

abandoned-as-mustard

Character: *distracts their otherwise equally good/better opponent by flirting*

Me:

bmarvels

Character in fighting scene: *restrains opponents arms in a lock hold with their own, entangling their arms together forcing their bodies to be pressed together and faces in close proximity*