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here's a few of the famous paintings rendered in wax by Mr. 3! 👀
The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1767–68)
Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David (1801-1805)
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer (c. 1665)
now there were two other waxified paintings in his house that i couldn't identify - smart folks of Tumblr, do you know these paintings?
Frans Hals, the laughing cavallier
(Jean) Antoine Watteau, the love song
It's spring. There's lambs. 👍🐑
this tiktok screenshot ruined my life i need to see the serbian pigeon movie so so badly but it doesn't exist it's so foul to make this bad of a point with something so cool and then take it away from me.
Tiktok marvel fans really will be out here like "movie fan SHOCKED because i'd rather watch superhero movie #54 in blue and not a sensual 1987 french horror film about a man discovering his wife may not exist set in what is gradually revealed to be a space station" as if you're supposed to agree that superhero movie #54 is the clear winner in this comparison
Love the idea of a story about a complex issue that's told from the perspective of something that cannot comprehend or care about the issue. The way the story would be sliced up and moments that a human would consider pointless would be focused on because the pigeon happened to be there would be hype as fuck
Ok FINE I made the movie poster of it
Mališa, otherwise known as Little One, is a pet pigeon owned by a conservative butler of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy. She is loved, and she is pampered— until her owner is murdered in cold blood, and she is left to fend for herself in Sarajevo.
In the wilds of the city, she feeds from the poor, working nationalist radicals, and the vieux riches alike.
To Mališa, there are no ethical concerns. No politics. No burgeoning nationalism.
There are only hands that feed her, and hands that do not.
This is compelling. Consider me fucking compelled.
Final shot is the bird hearing, but not seeing, the sound of a .32 ACP pistol, and flying away in shock
"From the studio that brought you Goncharov...."
My God guys we can't do this again
Architecture, costume design, models of re-created historical buildings, creative camera angles.... depending on when the movie was made imagine the cultural impact it had on other film projects.
birds eye view shots get a bit more literal.
have you ever been stung by a bee?
Have you ever been stung by a bee?
Yes
No
Literally how y'all???
Do you not have bees where you live? Or is it that you are suprised there's that many ppl who haven't?
What are you all doing to get stung by bees?? They literally let you pick them up and pet them if you're calm. I've had them land on me loads and just hang out for a while but I've never been stung?? They're just chill lil dudes.
Digging in the school sandpit and my hand came down on top of a half dead bee buried in the sand that I didn't notice until OW
Was eating an apple and not paying attention that a bee had decided to also eat that apple.
In the end, if children bother you for sensory reasons and that's why you don't want them to be in the same public spaces as you, there are disabled adults who can and would cause the same sensory issues for you. Adults who are loud, who vocally stim, who have poor boundaries, poor hygiene, who cry in public, etc etc etc. And they're already socially ostracized for all of this.
So actually yeah, it's the bare minimum you can do for the group with the least human rights on the planet to figure out how to accept children as part of your public community without hating them for it, even if you are child-free yourself.
Haha, no, shut up your crotch goblins or get off the plane.
I am child free. I do not have children. Grow the fuck up, get the fuck over yourself. The world is bigger than you. You are not the main character. I'd rather deal with a million kids than one grown asshole who acts like this on purpose.
A fun way to do this with crying children is this:
Either consider that it is a deeply sincere way of expressing themselves, or remind yourself that, while you are uncomfortable, so is the crying child, that is why they are crying.
Either way, your mood will improve instantly.
Saw this frame on a different reblog by @thatssroughbuddy but why does it look like Iroh is using his phone to take a photo of his nephew at a landmark
"Uncle, make sure you get that glowy light in the picture and send it to my dad to let him know I'm about to capture the Avatar!"
This was so cute I had to draw it
and of course Iroh is doing what-
!!!!!!
Iroh posts it on social media with some caption like "look at my beautiful nephew" and Zhao comments like "is that the Avatar in the background?"
And Iroh responds, "no, it's the northern lights."
This is insanely funny to me and now:
They... they're on the south pole.
Iroh would do that.
Hey can you hold this onion for me? I’m using it for tonight’s dinner, so keep an eye on it for me ok?
Is this that the Lady of Shalot from the poem?
correct opinion on mackerel.
if you were trapped in a time loop how many repetitions do you think it would take for you to willingly kill another person, knowing there would be no consequences
I so badly want to ask this question at a party or something where I can set parameters and ask follow up questions gfdgsd people saying "I just can't see myself doing it" I genuinely want to know why. There are no material consequences, there could be temporary benefits, so what would hold you back?
Official Time Loop Post
It is really very simple: I'm already stuck in a timeloop of sorts, and have been for years.
Primary school. Every day, the same routine, the same people, the same tasks, the same failures, with only the weekend as a small reprieve, with some holidays and weather changes for variation.
Middle school, higher education, work. Different background, same idea.
What is the difference between being stuck in a timeloop and living life within these structures?
Not a lot, really. I already can do things that are unusual. I could shave my hair. I could learn mayan glyphs. I could call in sick and lay in bed once in a while. I could paint the walls. I could dig up my garden. I could borrow a car and drive for hours. I could paint my dog. Do any of these things have consequences beyond how much I care about them? Not really.
At the end of the day, at the end of thousands of repetitions of effectively the same day, I would still be me. Slightly changed, but not enough that I wouldn't still essentially be myself.
And then there remains this: I don't particularly like murder, and I don't see the point of it. I don't hate anyone enough to commit it. There is nothing in it for me, not even variation. I already know how to cut meat from cooking. I already know the feel death from loved ones.
I'm already in a timeloop, and murder just seems too boring to bother with.
kids who werent raised christian being like "lol baptising children is whack if they tried to do that to me i would start doing things to make it look like i was possessed" no you would not. you would bask in the pride and approval coming from the adults around you and you would quietly wait your turn because you were told from birth that sinning sends you to hell and baptism is The Promise that youre dedicating your life to jesus that youve had hyped up for years and watched other people be fawned over as they cry happy tears about it and you do NOT want to fuck up your One Big True Promise To Love Jesus Forever So You Don't Get Tortured For Eternity when you are literally 8 years old. im begging yall to remember its a thousand times easier to see the church's bullshit for what it is when you're not actively in the church. eight year old you is not thinking about trying to fight back against an oppressive religious group indoctrinating children because You Are The Children Being Indoctrinated. stop acting like you would've magically known better if it were you.
Here's the thing: even as a child who DID see through the bullshit very young, I still had to play the game. That's part of what was traumatizing. I had to play a constant game of make believe to placate the adults around me. I was a child responsible for the emotions of adults, because if I didn't play pretend well enough, they all got mad. Because I knew it was pretend, but they refused to believe it was anything other than stone cold fact, and denying that fact made you a horrible, stupid, evil person. It was the greatest show of immorality (which yes, I also thought was bullshit, but I was nine and being shamed for who I was).
When you're wholly reliant on someone to meet your basic needs, you're forced to play their twisted game or put yourself at risk. If I made us miss church, most of the day I felt like I was a terrible child because it would be made clear that my mom was mad at me for making us miss church - a place I hated being with every fiber of my being. So I had to decide: was it better to feel unsafe for 2-3hrs in church, or feel unsafe for 2-3hrs at home because mom was mad that we missed church and didn't want to listen to me talk about anything?
It was a no-win situation that I, a nine year old, had to navigate, because the adults in my life cared more about their make believe story than my safety and well being.
So no, even as a kid who knows it's all a pile of shit, you don't kick up and point out the bullshit - because it's not safe. Maybe you won't get beat, maybe you'll still have dinner that night (or maybe not - some parents ARE that abusive), but you'll still face the emotional abuse of being shamed and disliked simply for not playing make-believe with the adults. They'll make you feel like you're a fundamentally bad person for not wholly and completely committing to their made up story the same way they did.
And that is a scary, painful thing to realize when you're nine.
Tbh, thats a scary, painful thing when you're an adult too, cause yeah, you might have the option to leave or openly declare your disbelief, but at what cost?
You stand to lose your entire family and in many cases your entire community, to be shamed by them, to be ridiculed by them, you'll turn into the very thing they fear most and chance are you won't have anyone else in those moments. Its very insular and talking to outsiders is only encouraged if it's for the purpose of bringing them to Jesus, so even as an adult you often have no one to turn to and nowhere to go. It's an impossible situation to be in even for adults, a child is even more trapped and even more at risk. And even as a child you know that. It's not said in so many words, but the consequences of losing your faith and having someone find out is taught from very early on.
As a child it's not just you who has to face them, it's your siblings and parents too, it's your entire family, cause as a child your having faith is seen as your parent's responsibility, and they let you know that, if you fuck up, if you for one second look like you don't want to play their game your parents tell you "how do you think this makes me look?" It very quickly stops being concern for your soul and starts being "if you don't decide to stop making this family look bad you won't have one anymore"
And you know this happens, and that your family will do it too, cause you've seen it happened, you've seen another kid's family sitting in the very back of the curch and not staying for tea, you hear what the adults whisper about them, and you realize you have a choice, either play the game and play it well, or be the monster that puts your own family in that situation, and that's not much of a choice
I went through a phase after deconverting where I dwelt heavily on the question of: could I have gotten out sooner? And how would I have done it? The answer I kept coming up with is probably not, because my world was so insular, because I was financially dependent on family that never would've approved, because I had been indoctrinated since I was a child and had to fight through so many levels of shame and guilt and fear to even feel like my unanswerable questions deserved good answers.
If I had tried to embrace being gay as a child, I wouldve been bullied both by my peers and by my family. If I didn't play along, if I didn't repent and hate my queerness, I probably would've been sent to a conversion camp or some sort of conversion experience and have a whole other array of traumas to deal with. I didn't start really seeing through the bullshit until I was in my mid 20s, but even if I had believed earlier that Christianity was false, I wouldn't have had any other option other than to keep acting like it was true.
So I have to forgive myself for the years I wasted serving a false god.
.... could anyone specify? specifically what flavor/brand/subtype of christianity?
I mean, it seems a bit one of the cultier ones, and pretty specific too, I don't know a single one where you get baptized as an eight year old instead of just after birth or as an "I'm an adult now and I choose this" kind of thing.
But seriously, when I came out as atheist the only thing was "knowing you, you put a lot of thought into this, and also, as long as you still live under our roof, you will still come to church on sunday (which is like, an hour long, and sometimes I straight up napped during the sermon? I'm guessing that's very different for the people above) (the preacher was an absolute sweetheart too, I've had some lovely discussions)
and of course a dash of "I hope you find your way back to god/I trust Jezus will bring you back one day" sort of thing, but seriously.
wtf?
Me getting back into One Piece after over a decade thanks to tumblr and finding out whole new background lore on interesting characters.
Anyway, I think this guy is autistic.
Hallo!
Quick question for you! I’m slowly learning Dutch and I wanted to ask if you have any advice for a beginner.
I’m a bit ashamed to ask but I really want to improve and I figured that asking to someone who is Dutch might be helpful.
Also probably by the end of the year I’ll be able to visit a friend that is moving near Utrecht. Do you think I should try to interact a bit in Dutch or people will get upset if I can’t pronounce/catch the answer very well? (I’m autistic and sometimes I have some issues in elaborating what I hear even in my own language)
I hope I haven’t annoyed you too much with my questions
I think the best kind of advice would be from someone who is also learning dutch, since they would run into the same difficulties.
The one thing I can think of is figure out how vowels sound so you can get the pronounciation more easily when reading something, wich is pretty consistent in dutch, so that might be helpful.
A thing you might at first have trouble with spelling 's ochtends, 's avonds, and suchlike, but that's the same rules as how "you're" is short for "you are", it's just that "des" is an old fashioned version of "de", and basically only survives in contractions like that.
Something you might run into is also the difference between "de" and "het". Both of them are basically "the", with "het" ocasionally leaning towards "it", but in casual use, getting it wrong a couple of times isn't a disaster or anything. Pretty sure this one is mostly an experience thing, so don't sweat it too much.
A lot of compound words have a connecting "e" such as pancake being pronounced "Pannekoek" but spelled "Pannenkoek". This is because in casual word use we went the opposite way of the Germans, and rather than not always pronouncing the "e" en words that end in "-en", the dutch don't always pronounce the "n". As such, at the time this spelling rule was established, it was assumed to be lazy/casual language usage, and the "correct" spelling had an "n" put in, despite the fact that the "e" in a lot of compound words is more of an ease-of-pronounciation add-on than anything else.
I don't think anyone would be upset, your biggest issue with trying to talk in dutch will be that a lot of people know a decent amount of english and will switch to that mid conversation once they figure out that's the language you're better in.
Hey, fellow autistic! Anyway, you have the perfect excuse built in right there! Not that you really need an excuse, but "Oh, I didn't quite catch that, could you repeat that?" and similar is a pretty useful response in those cases, and if you're surrounded by people with varying levels of accent or you straight up don't know the entire language, it's even more effective.
What I remember from school, in grammar, the trickiest bit was figuring out wether a verb ended in a d or a t or a dt, which I basically always just always did by comparing it to "Ik loop, jij loopt, wij lopen, ik heb gelopen/I walk, you walk, we walk, we have walked" rather than figure out what kofschip/fokschaap stands for (some grammar trick about letters I never bothered to figure out, as my method worked most of the time)
A fun fact: There is something called "steenkolen engels", literally "coal english", wich is basically what happens when english speaking crews have to work together with dutch speaking harbour workers, and they figure out that if you pronounce things with the other guys accent and add some of the words you do know, you can mostly figure things out together. So it's basically dutch with an english accent and some english words.
second fun fact: if you ever become fluent in dutch, as an english speaking person, your accent has a chance of sounding frisian, even if you don't speak frisian at all. This is because frisian and english are closely related.
third fun fact: You are not annoying. People who try to learn and improve in anything are a delight. You are, therefore, a delight.
A joke (paarden is dutch for horses. Fokken is dutch for breeding a type of animal) A guy was at a party talking to an englishman when he was asked what he did for a living. "Oh, I fok horses." "Pardon?" "Yes, paarden."
How do you spell the name of that mythical creature that’s half eagle and half lion?
Griffin
Griffon
Gryphon
Something else????
Out of curiosity! Any good reason for your preferred spelling?
I love villainesses isekais because they always open to some shit like "I've reincarnated as Evilla Von Lily, the empire's only princess and I'm destined to die after becoming affianced to Prince Rytius de Citrus?!?!?" and you think ok so just not marry him, right. Cant be that hard? But then chapter 1 in kicks in like " Evilla, sweetie your father and I are sooo glad you're marrying your Highness prince Rytius otherwise all these 56 orphans we tend to would spontaneously combust. Like, immediately. don't ask, we dont know how either. anyways proud of you" and youre like oh shit evilla
PRINCE RYTIUS?????
The mad dog of the North, ✨ Duke Sekonde Maiye Leed✨, the best option for a convenient one (1) year contract marriage..? And...
✨✨ My forgotten childhood friend....? ✨✨
If I can break the curse during this one year contract, I can quietly step down from Goodette Goodheart's place .. really looking forward to that peaceful life away from all these good looking men and influence once all this is over wish me luck you guys👍
He doenst want a d Ivorce
Isn't Goodette Goodheart a summoned saintess from the modern world? Also, I have a suspicion she might have a crush on Evilla.
This has got to be the worst recipe in this manga yet
outta my way gayboy Im gonna guzzle the demoncum cocaine slurry
Just make anise milk like a normal person.
Though I suppose you could use protein powder, powdered milk or sugar if you wanted.
Permanent markers tend to be alcohol based, and therefore can usually be cleaned using alcohol.
Preferably a desinfectant, but the drinking sort sometimes does the trick as wel.
Just put some on a clean rag or cloth and wipe it off.
