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My spoiler free review of Iron Lung
*Me in the first half of the movie*: "Huh I was really expecting more blood in this considering the film broke a record with the amount of fake blood used"
*Me in the second half of the movie*: "Oh...Never mind!"
incredible. LOTR fandom truly NEVER stops giving
( created by stixywixy | video on tiktok )
I was wondering if people on tumblr preferred gifs to videos. Many people told me that the sound was missing (and because I'm proud of my owl dubbing). I repost the video version here
Top left clockwise: Keith groover, Jordan Simons, Bret Crow, Harry Hansen
this is literally so fucking sick
Very Important Notice for any of my followers who wish to preserve their sanity over the next [x] weeks / months / years...
This is a 24-hour advanced warning to all of my followers that from tomorrow night, this blog will be going utterly feral with Take That content for the next god knows how long. Please prepare accordingly.
Genuinely, though - if you're using your blacklist to avoid tour spoilers, or if you just don't want your dash suddenly cluttered with 100,000 blurry photos and incomprehensible ADHD-fuelled ramblings about HOW FUCKING AMAZING THIS SHOW IS, I'll be using the tag #this life tour and #spoilers: this life tour as well as the usual general TT-related tags!
(You were all fortunate last week that when I saw them with @snowballschanceinahandcart in Dublin last week, I spent the next 2 days gushing incoherently at her and capturing all of my other unhinged euphoria in a text Note on my phone to post up once I was no longer travelling around. I'll be posting whatever's actually legible from that note here along with 1,000 blurry photos and any additional fangirl brainrot that may inspired by seeing the show a second time in London tomorrow night.)
me and shane madej 🤝 being insanely bad with emotions
For those who might not know; good. you don't want to.
Obsessed with this tiktok it won’t leave my mind’s eye
See, this is what I’d rather get ripped off by! Did she use this tumblr post to make this? Yeah!
BUT! She also added acting and drama and tightened it up and performed. My text posts just got dead AI voiceover that killed all its humor.
Ilia fucking Malinin’s world record breaking free skate
Oh my God every bit of this is wild
-when he does the first big jump the announcers start screaming. I don't understand enough of what I'm looking at to get what about this is breaking records but the announcers screaming was a pretty big clue
-He's dancing to music from Succession????? I don't recognize all of it but some of it is definitely the theme from Succession. At one point the audience claps along to the music. And I'm not sure if it's out of support for the skater or because they like the song 🤣
-when he finishes he just lays down on the ice incredible
THAT'S MY BOY!!! I SKATE AT HIS RINK!!!
That first big jump is a Quadruple Axel. It's 4.5 rotations in the air (you take off forwards rather than backwards, which is the extra half rotation). Nobody else in the world can do this jump it's so hard. He is the first and only person to ever land it cleanly, much less consistently. He had to land it cleanly here to have any hope of winning the World Champion title.
Yes, he's skating to music from Succession! The audience is clapping in support because he was doing so well (also because it was hosted in Montreal and the audience was very supportive of all the skaters that evening).
He lays down on the ice because he just broke multiple world records. He landed all 6 types of quadruple jumps cleanly, which no one has ever done at all (again, because he's the only one that can do the quad Axel), much less in a single program like this. This was an insane feat of athletic ability! If you go watch the other guys who competed against him, Yuma Kagiyama was in second place by 20 fucking points, and Yuma skated with no falls. This is Micheal Phelps / Katie Ledecky levels of smashing the competition (sorry the only other sport I know is swimming).
Some other notes for everyone:
Ilia listed that first jump as a Triple Axel on the sheet you give to the judges, meaning that he wasn't committed to doing the Quad Axel. (Technically you're not committed to anything on the sheet but it's generally your "plan" for the program.) He also doesn't do a quad axel in the 6-minute warmup beforehand when he does go and do it in the program, so it was a complete toss-up as to whether he was going to go for it. It's incredible that he manages to land the jump so perfectly without warming it up first!
He was 3rd coming into this skate from the previous short program. (All skating competitions require you to skate 2 different programs, 1 short and 1 long.) In order to win the title, he was going to have to skate without any falls, especially because his one strong point is his jumps and other skaters are stronger in other areas. There are many, many skaters who fall on their quad jumps, even when they're just doing one. It is so fucking hard to do even one of the 6 types of quad jumps. And he just does all 6! In one program! Insanity!
He did a 4 Lutz - 3 Flip at the halfway point of his program. Almost no one puts a Flip on the end of their combos, it'll usually be a Salchow instead because it's much easier. The only other skater I can think of to put a Flip on the end of a combo is Shoma Uno (who was also at these championships but didn't have a good skate).
His last jumping pass was a combo that was supposed to be a 3 Lutz - 2 Axel. He decided, in the moment, to change the 2 Axel to a 3 Axel. Nobody else has ever attempted this, much less succeeded. It is orders of magnitude more difficult to do another rotation to the second jump in a combo, at the very end of a 4.5 minute sprint no less.
In short, this kid is wild, had the performance of a lifetime, and I had the blessed opportunity to witness it.
This is my pièce de résistance. I've peaked.
I CCAN'T BREATHE
Venn diagram of people who like hbo chernobyl and the terror is a circle
Hi Neil! My partner and I both watched good omens season 2 and loved it. The only part my partner did not like is the unrealistic portrayal of Magie's record shop. "That place would be very busy in Soho! Especially with hipsters" were his words. I told him I would ask you if there was a reasonable explanation for the lack of business in Maggie's shop?
I'm sure he's right. I've watched so many wonderful established Soho record shops go out of business in the last thirty years, and I've gone into shops that used to be bustling that were pretty much empty because people had stopped buying music on disks or tape or vinyl, and seen several amazing specialist shops I thought would last forever close their doors that it seemed to me pretty likely that a vinyl-based shop that had been in business since about 1930 would be struggling.
Here's a wonderful article from the web (from 2015) about all the record shops that have closed in Soho -- especially in Berwick Street, which inspired Whickber Street.
Soho’s record shops were magical places for me and for so many others. This post takes a saunter through Soho’s record shops and ponders how
And here are the record shops of Soho from 1946-1996:
Reckless Records is still in Berwick Street, so is Sister Ray. Sounds of the Universe in Broadwick Street is lovely. And there are others. But I've not often found them "especially busy" although they are never as empty as Maggie's shop.
Sister Ray Records is great, found it when I went the wrong way looking for Orbital Comics and walked out with a cheap copy of Stiff Little Fingers' first post-reunion album that hasn't been in print for decades.
I'm still disappointed HMV Oxford St closed a few years ago too, corporate chain it may be but it always used to put on great signings and exclusive gigs in the back room upstairs.
Although I’d personally be more delighted to see the independent record shops make their triumphant return, you may be pleased to learn that apparently HMV is moving back into its old Oxford Street premises later this year. So there may be some hope yet!
so embarrassing when i forget im checking someone's blog and i start scrolling through and liking and reblogging shit as if it's just my dash. it feels like wandering into someone else's apartment and not noticing and making myself lunch
reblog if i can wander into your apartment (blog) and make myself lunch (like and reblog as if it's my dash)
Me, yesterday evening: *excitedly removing all of my Good Omens blacklist tags that were blocking spoilers to see all of the reactions to Series 2 and interact with other fans, forgetting exactly what website I’m on*
Me, this evening: *rapidly putting all the blacklist tags back to avoid other users because half the fandom is completely unhinged*
I’ll just say what everyone is thinking. Donna Noble would have voted for Cha Cha Cha
