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I feel like the complaint about Gen Z needing subtitles because “sound mixing in movies today is so bad” is just remembering life without subtitles wrong? or not getting what subtitles might be useful for? maybe my experience is unique to me but there have been multiple times where I’ve rewatched movies I loved as a kid and been shocked to find out what the actual lines or lyrics were because in my head they were just mumbling or gibberish.

like, sometimes the lines were said at a perfectly audible level with no overlap, but were said so quickly the words kind of ran together, especially if you didn’t recognize them (like how some kids think “dawn’s early light” is “donzerly light”).

sometimes lines or lyrics are perfectly audible and clear, but I just straight up didn’t know the words being spoken. there’s a Robin Hood movie that I watched a ton of as a kid with the line “there’s more than one way to bring down a quarry,” but I didn’t know what a quarry was and heard “corry” and thought maybe it was a kind of medieval word for a bird or deer.

sometimes home sound systems just suck. my mom did not want us to turn the TV volume up too high or sit too close to the TV, so a lot of stuff was perfectly audible normally, but not to me as a kid watching at home. not all of us had speakers.

also, sound mixing wasn’t always better! I watched the 1993 Three Musketeers movie so many times that I could quote the whole thing from memory… except for anything with Milady de Winter, because she spoke in a very low and quiet voice and I STILL can’t hear a darn thing she’s saying even as an adult.

it’s like complaining about people needing liner notes with lyrics in an album and being like “back in my day, we could just hear all of the lyrics perfectly!” no, you couldn’t. famously, Bob Dylan listened to the Beatles’ “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” and heard “I can’t hide” as “I get high.” people mishear stuff all the time, it’s just that now we have the technology to not bumble through life assuming that The Bonnie Earl o’ Moray has a character named Lady Mondegreen.

byjove

Achilles wouldn’t have died if he was wearing OSHA approved work boots.

byjove

Don’t let workplace safety be YOUR Achilles heel.

pooslie

1047-exe

i read then watched project hail mary and i really like it.

one of my fav parts from the book

yujateaandpi

Was driving with my grandmother and in broken English she says “no eyes… no nose… no face. Don’t trust.” To which I looked around wildly in search of this omen of ill portend.

Cybertruck. It was a cybertruck.

transgenderization

hope tumblr lasts another 20 years so i can liveblog my midlife crisis

transmortifried

idk why people are still trying to do "hear me out"s on tumblr

you could talk about wanting to fuck the space needle on here and people would still call you a poser for insisting on fucking "conventionally attractive architecture" as if that's a coherent, easily-recognizable category

charlesoberonn

I want to fuck Antoni Gaudi's unbuilt Hotel Attraction skyscraper design

anatomizer

"hear me out" and it's a picture of the most fuckable building you've ever seen. c'mon now.

druidshollow

HAVE THAT CHARACTER GAIN WEIGHT AS A SIGN OF HEALING: NOW

callalillee

bulkhummus

based off of this post

drpepperwhoree

remember that pride is still a protest

sophsun1

Buffy the Vampire Slayer – 7.11: Showtime

sakurabreeze

Vincent van Gogh – Sprig of Flowering Almond in a Glass, March 1888

crabussy

I saw an anonymous ask that got sent to an artist I follow that was along the lines of "I need an outlet for my stress, and being mean to people makes me feel good" and I would really like to say. to anyone who is mean to others for the thrill of it. I understand you completely and I was EXACTLY the same a few years ago. you're right!! it DOES feel good!!!!

for a few minutes.

crabussy

and then you feel even worse than you did before. you're not "letting off steam", you're building a dependence on bullying, and you WILL end up with misery as your default emotional state. even if you don't behave this way to your loved ones, it WILL start showing.

I've had to distance myself from friends whose main form of entertainment seemed to be upsetting strangers over harmless disagreements. play a stressful video game. join a sports team. get into media analysis and get angry at a shitty tv show. there are ways to blow off steam that won't make you a miserable person who has a hard time finding ways to relax.

crabussy

if I got out of that "get angry -> take it out on people -> feel good -> feel worse and need an outlet -> repeat" cycle, that means it's possible.

as soon as my efforts to escape that cycle started paying off, I was NOTICEABLY less stressed, I was VISIBLY healthier, and the urge to fight with people died down.

crabussy

these days, I'm quick to delight, I find it very easy to be kind to people, and I can calm myself down before jumping to conclusions. and I can tell you with absolute certainty that life feels IMMEASURABLY more enjoyable this way. my good days outnumber my bad days 10 to 1 despite the fact that I still deal with the same things I used to, and those bad days are much easier than they used to be anyway.

crabussy

but how do you even escape? what's the first step?

the next time you find yourself itching to lash out at someone to get that good rush of anger, try taking it to private dms with a friend who gets you! this stops the person you're angry at from responding and continuing the argument, which helps that reward-response feeling fizzle out.

from there, try a high-focus-high-stress fun activity instead of talking about it AT ALL. like I said earlier! video games! horror movies! go for a bike ride at full speed! let the cortisol and adrenaline or whatever it might be course through you until you feel calmer.

once you've got that down as a skill, you could even try flipping that anger on its head. MAKE something out of it. someone's artstyle pisses you off? make your own art the way YOU think it should be. someone hates something you like? talk with your friends about how that same something brings you joy, and why!

best of luck. been there. this isn't meant to be patronising or condescending. I don't know better than you. I only know how good it feels, and how bad it can be for you and the people you care about.