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[redbelles]

#when the roast is five years old and aging like a fine wine

LOGAN LUCKY (2017) dir. Steven Soderbergh

[velvet4510]

To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancé, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.

[tuulikki]

Knowing all this has always made this bit of Beren’s song instantly reduce me to tears:

Though all to ruin fell the world

and were dissolved and backward hurled

unmade into the old abyss,

yet were its making good, for this—

the dawn, the dusk, the earth, the sea—

that Lúthien on a time should be!

Tolkien straight up wrote a poem that said “the world could end, but it wouldn’t have all been pointless, because she was in this world, however briefly, and that justified all the rest.” Kills me.

Who can outdo Wife Guy Tolkien? Dude was writing elaborate AUs where his wife is an impossibly beautiful magic-wielding immortal elf princess who fights Satan and wins to rescue her human boyfriend from Satan’s doom fortress. Flawless.

[ichigo-kuriimu]

the japanese “-ne?” particle and the british slang term “innit” serve the same function

[ichigo-kuriimu]

Standard English: It’s cold, isn’t it?

Japanese: Samui desu ne?

British: It’s fuckin’ freezin’, innit?

[ichigo-kuriimu]

i have to do everything around here

[notahorseindisguise]

i hate this cause i did japanese for like a year and this explains the use of the -ne particle WAYYYY better than my teachers ever did. it took me ages to comprehend what this post makes abundantly clear.

my teachers: its like a, a little rise at the end of a sentence, to show that you are seeking a response, while not warranting the -ka particle which would make it a proper question.

me: ok. i guess i get that??

this post: its like saying “innit?” 

me: oh. oh no.

[wind-on-the-panes-deactivated20]

fun fact: afaik, "-ne" was inherited from the Portuguese settlers/priests that stayed in Japan in the 16th century. It comes from "né?", which the contraction of "não é?", "isn't it?".

It's LITERALLY "innit".

[twofingerswhiskey]

oh so like "eh" in canadian

[the-last-teabender]

*un-Babels your Tower*

[drunkbedelia]

Hannibal invites Gordon Ramsay for dinner; it does not go well. Based on

Edit: I wrote a fic y'all

[catchaspark]

According to Know Your Meme, on August 18th, 2005, Erwin Beekveld brought forth this work into the world. HAPPY TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, THEY’RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD.

[timefortigers]

sheds a single tear

[catchaspark]

every august 18th my notifications break and i go, fuck, tumblr has failed me once again, but it hasn’t. it hasn’t failed me. it’s just the taking the hobbits to isengard-iversary. happy 12 years

[gholateg]

Lil Early, but fuck it! I’m not missing it this year.

[jackietaylorsghost]

“I could see no reason why my pet didn’t deserve an attractive mate. At least, I was determined to do my best. Of course, dogs are a pretty poor judge of human beauty. But I had a rough idea of what to look for.” 101 Dalmatians (1961)

[rosbridge]

I can’t decide if

a) This dude has run into Obi-Wan before and is just like this asshole lives to ruin my commute or

b) He sees a guy hanging from a droid in traffic and is immediately like “must be a Jedi. Our fucking tax dollars at work”.

[archerwithangelwings]

One of my favorite TWD moments was when one of the twins who played Judith called Andy “stinky linky” on set and wouldn’t sit with him unless she could spritz him with a spray bottle LMAOOO

[willgrahamscock]

Hannibal would have been wild with David Tennant's energy, and the article quotes that Bryan Fuller wanted David because he was so fun in his audition but Hugh Dancy really wanted Mads Mikkelsen for the role of Hannibal.

We could have had Bedelia say "You a righteous, reckless, twitchy little man" to Hannibal instead of Will.

[archangel-fucking-judas]

I love when my cat meows at me and I can see her little teeths cause she looks like this

[archangel-fucking-judas]

My cat is being oh so meanies to me but I can't take her seriously because everytime she opens her mouth to yell at me she becomes a stapler remover

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[mossdftba]

the notes are so right. You don't bother to check every egg until the day one is cracked.

[iam-siriuslysher-lokid]

When David Tennant is his own ✨️ Barbenheimer ✨️

[fashion-runways]

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[not-your-lawyer]

“French is such a beautiful, romantic language.”

“Cat, I farted.”

[republique-francaise-officiel]

it's even worse. we do pronounce the T at the end of "chat" which makes it "female cat, I farted". Guess what is also called a female cat in slang? female genitalia.

[wholesmememeshub]

Who left these onions here?

[tchaikovskaya]

[sashaforthewin]

This is legitimately my job, I string pearls 40 hours a week. I cannot help but overanalyze every piece of media that includes a pearl necklace. I have gone on long rants about Martha Wayne.

Okay, so necklaces are either knotted or straight strung. Straight strung doesn't have knots separating the pearls, so there is more tension on the pearls and it's bad for them over time, but it is cheaper and looks fine in short term. So yeah, most rich people knot their pearl necklaces. There is one exception: sometimes we have a super picky Karen-type that demands their necklace with really fucking expensive pearls be straight strung because they like the look better. Properly knotted necklaces have nearly invisible knots so this is just batshit demands, btw.

So, that leaves two options: either you chock this up to comics folks not knowing anything about pearl necklaces or, the funnier option being that Martha Wayne is just one of those people that makes the most unhinged demands to feel in control and powerful.

I'm just really pumped I found a post I could actually professionally weigh in on

[soberscientistlife]

[whatbigotspost]

Always nice when math helps make it all the more clear how ridiculously reasonable the worker demands are.

This is what the studios have brought everything to a grinding halt for.