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izzy's playlists!
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Clark Kent is not a coward, he just hates Superman. The reason he runs off every time disaster occurs is cause he knows Superman will be there soon and he canāt stand the guy.
Clark Kent has to remove himself from the scene to keep from throwing hands at Superman.
Not Nick crossing out that heās been arrested before
My favorite auditory part of this scene is that before Judy launches herself into the red tube like a rat into a fast food deep fryer, Nick doesnāt say weāre gonna run of air, he says YOUāRE gonna run out of air
His own life does not matter if Judyās life is at just as much risk as his
every time i listen to āyouāre a mean one mr. grinchā i canāt help but sit there and think āwhat did the grinch do to hurt you?ā because dude just stands there for 2 minutes and 58 seconds and drags the grinch into the dirt
he stole christmas, kayla! stop with your #notallgrinches propaganda!
you know what if someone told me i was a three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce iād probably be bitter enough to steal christmas tooĀ
Interestingly, though The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is narrated by Boris Karloff, the big musical number is sung by the late Thurl Ravenscroft - an American voice actor better known as the voice of Tony the Tiger.
My headcanon is that the Grinch and Tony the Tiger had a bad breakup, and āYouāre a Mean One, Mr. Grinchā is the resulting breakup song.
Did this really HAVE to be the first thing I see when I opened up Tumblr?
Yes.
oh god theres art
@altadude you know what must be done.
ive been avoiding reblogging this honestly but just. What the fuck. What the fuck tumblr
I apologize to all my followers for this
if i had to read this you do too
I have a hate-hate relationship with this
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Good griefā¦ Iām sorry, but I canāt not reblog thisā¦
Tis the season bitches
DAMN IT WHY WOULD YOU BRING THIS BACK YOU HEATHEN
Why is this on my dash?
ā¦..Iām.. Bothered? by the fact that Iām not bothered by this.
Youāre not bothered?? Iām not only not bothered, Iām freaking invested. Iām having actual empathetic sadness for The Grinch. I want them to go into coupleās counseling. I want theĀ āten years laterā when Tony visits Whoville on business and meets the reformed Grinch whose heart has grown 3 times its usual size. I want them to reminisce over a shared dinner of roast beast and wine, then spend a drunken night together, then realize that maybe things are different and people really do change. I want a 3-act story where thereās a long dark night of soul searching and the realization that maybe weāve allĀ got a little bit of bad banana with greasy black peel inside us, but that doesnāt mean we canāt make a damned fine banana bread if someone will give us a chance.Ā
@hellsite-hall-of-fame
Iām bringing it back 5 years later, tis the season!
Oh itās deeper than that folks. Right @biggest-gaudiest-patronuses ??
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If I like a headcaonnon enough, then I'll adopt it as my own. One of these headcannons is that the Bats act less human than they really are.
They are human! It's just that adopting mannerisms of the actual animals helps them keep their civilian identities away from their vigilante ones. And it's not much, not really.
It started with Dick. Kids have a tendency to stare at things the younger they are. Eight year old Dick Grayson thought that staring at the crooks and tilting his head was perfect for catching people off-guard. He found that cackling added to the effect, and he really did find it funny how these adults with scars and tattoos and such would scream like little girls and stumble right to Bruce. Dick managed to perfect this so that he acts like a real bird while in his suit, flying through the sky and being a blur of color that cackled at thugs pain.
Head tilts just a little too bird-like. Whistles and chirps to call out to Bruce without anyone knowing what was being said. A call sign for checking in as Dick got older and started to patrol areas on his own.
Bruce saw the usefulness in Dick chirping like a bird. He worked with Dick to create a language based on bat and bird sounds, and it's a small portion of why they work so well together.
Jason picked up on it. The head tilts, the chirps and whistles that Bruce made sure were distinctly different from Dick's calls. A way to tell which of his chaotic little shits he was calling out to.
Babs also picked up on it. She wasn't one of Bruce's kids, but she learned to be more bat-like and how to call out to the others, just in case.
Each bat kid has their own call, their own bird. Cass chose to use the sounds of a young bat calling to it's parent or others around it. Most of the Robin's have sounds that are similar yet different.
There's one thing that's true through Gotham. The sound of Batman's kids laughing echoing through the streets like some disembodied voice from a horror movie isn't something to be scared of. Their laughter said that they were in good moods.
It was the chirps, the narrow eyed, birdish head tilts, the sound of birds in the dark of night, that you had to look out for.
But I think it would be so funny if, because Dick was so young when Bruce took him in, that so many people forget that Dick isnāt Bruceās biological child. Like once Dick is older than say 16/17, most interviewers and reporters and journalists drop the āadoptedā part of āadopted son,ā and sometimes they might even comment on how much Dick looks like Bruce, how similar they both are.
And maybe sometimes Dick and Bruce even forget. Like Dick knows Bruce isnāt his biological dad, but maybe he thinks of his parents as like āmom and first dadā and Bruce is āsecond dadā and he sort of forgets that heās not actually related to Bruce.
Bruce knows that most of kids are adopted. But the others were all older when Bruce first took them in (maybe they were all at least 13, so already in their teens) but Dick was an itty bitty little thing. He was only 8. And he didnāt go to school at first when Bruce took him in, because he had been home schooled and heād been nervous about going to a normal school, so Bruce didnāt make him start going to Gotham Academy until the following Fall, and even then he was only in the third grade. Practically a baby.
Maybe when Dick is in his 20s, he and his siblings are being interviewed before a gala. And something comes up about being adopted, and the others all say their bits, but then when the interviewer turns to Dick, heās just chilling with his arm around Damian, and he looks at the interviewer like heās waiting for the next question. And maybe the interviewer is looking at his notes, looking for the next question, and Jason elbows Dick in the ribs and just says, āDickface, donāt you have anything to add?ā
And Dick hisses and swats Jasonās arm in retaliation, but he looks confused. And then he just, āOh, Iām adopted too! I forgot lmaoā and all of his siblings are so confused at how he can forget that, but Dick just smiles and chats with the interviewer (whoās looking very sheepish bc he also forgot). The only one who doesnāt look baffled is Damian, because Damian firmly believes that if any of his siblings turn out to secretly be his blood sibling, it will be Dick. He maybe sort of hopes it will happen sometimes.
Maybe when theyāre around the Justice League as Batman and Nightwing, a newer member might ask how old Batman was when Nightwing was born. And they both sort of blue screen for a minute before Dick laughs and says, āoh, thatās right, Iām adopted! Heās only like 15 years older than me, give or take.ā
āDonāt you dare age me,ā Bruce hisses. āIām only 14 years older than you.ā
Dick just snorts at him. The other JL member looks so startled that Batman seems to actually have a sense of humor.
You know how the Robins were trained to be able to fight enemies way bigger than them, since they started really young and also were taught by Batman (a Very Big Guy)?
It just occured to me that the reverse is also true: Batman is very good at fighting very short enemies.
I wonder if it ever came up.
Like if someone was trying to use their smaller size to their advantage and surprise Batman but it's just. Impossible. There is no move his little hypercompetent gremlins didn't already try against him.
the genius of megamind (beyond the obvious genius ofc) is that it's superman parody actually presents a genuinely unsettling depiction of the "hero" that I like wayyy better than "what if superman was evil" or "what if superman was wrong"... it's "what if superman didn't care"
I wouldnāt say heĀ ādidnāt careā more like he was burnt out
He played the role since he was a child and now is in his what 30s? 40s?
He knew there was never any real danger with Megamind in charge so decided to pursue something thatās a passion and doesnāt come naturally easy to him
but it was still a dick move
(via @uwugenides )
One of the things that always jumped out to me about this reveal is that it implies that Metro Man was also the very first person to recognize that MegaMind wasnāt really evil. He knew his nemesis wouldnāt actually hurt anyone if he won, he knew that this universally reviled pariah never really had any more choice than he did.
The rest of Metro City treats MegaMind like a real, sincere, serious threat once heās unopposed, and it takes them a while to learn otherwise. But Metro Man? Heās not surprised to see him and Roxanne working together, he doesnāt act like thereās any kind of threat beyond his cover being blown. He wastes no time in coming clean once the catās out of the bag. Heās been working with this guy all his life. Besides his own mental health, I get the impression that he also recognized that this would be good for MegaMind too.
I just really love how in a superhero pastiche that asks āIs the villain really so bad, and the hero really so good?ā the answer is āno, but thatās okayā. Itās okay that Metro Man isnāt a paragon. Itās okay that he has to take care of himself. Itās okay for him to step down and live his own life. It wouldnāt be okay for him to leave people in danger, but itās pretty clear he knew he wasnāt doing that.
And it carries to the end. MegaMind becomes the cityās new protector, but itās clear that heās still got some issues to work through, and heās getting help working through them. Heās got a support network, heās willing to put in the effort, but heās not the shining paragon Metro Man was believed to be. And he doesnāt NEED to be that paragon. Heās still good. Heās still protecting people. And heās not alone in it.
God, thereās just so many shitty āSuperheroes would have character flaws too, and thatās why theyād actually suckā deconstructions floating around, itās nice to see a story that acknowledges that no one can live up to that kind of role, but thatās okay!
megamind once again proving to be the best modern superhero movie
I feel like any aliens that were prey at some point in evolution would have an odd fear of humans. Mostly cause they look like predators, act a bit like predators, and ARE predators. One perfect example is when we're focused on something like a mosquito that's been bugging us for a long time and we are just done.
Alien: "What. What..?"
Human: *HUNTING down a mosquito it saw*
Alien: ".... yeah I am really uncomfortable...."
Human: *quiet footsteps, pupils dialated, intense focus,*
Alien: *WAR FLASHBACKS*
Human: "Found you." *absolutely desimates the mosquito, squashing it into a million pieces as it's guts and various body parts liquidize into blood of the bloodthirsty, now stained on the palm of the human. A living being now reduced to a useless corpse as the human wipes the remains on their pants*
Alien: "I feel like I've just gained trauma."
Bless the tiddies
Growing up with Predator thirst, I feel so validated as an adult. Just don't let the dudebros find out the only humans recognised and honoured by Yautja are all women...
But what if all of Gotham knows that Brucie Wayne is a persona Bruce puts on for the public? Like they all saw him be a weird, quiet little boy even before his parents were killed. They saw him be a weirder, quieter little boy after they were killed. They saw him be a loner teenager who hated talking to people, who was always more comfortable keeping to himself.
Then he comes back after traveling the world and heās suddenly a himbo playboy socialite? Either itās all an act, or someone finally introduced Bruce Wayne to the good drugs. Theyāre more inclined to believe itās the former considering they all start to notice that, while Bruce may always have a drink in his hand when heās out and about, he never actually drinks it.
But they donāt say anything. They donāt call him out on it. He may be a weirdo, but he does his best to make Gotham a better place for everyone to live. He donates money to all sorts of local charities, he volunteers his time at soup kitchens, he donates brand new clothes and bedding and toiletries to shelters. Heās a good guy. Who cares if heās a little odd.
Most Gothamites actually feel kinda bad that he must think he needs to play this goofball character in order to fit in, in order to be a contributing member to society.
So they let him play his role.
Then he adopts Dick Grayson, the little circus boy whose parents were just killed in front of him. Whoās eight years old, the same age Bruce was when his parents were also killed in front of him. And everyone knows exactly why he adopted him, because the parallels are too much, and they see so clearly in the way Bruce interacts with him that Bruce just wants to help him, that he understands exactly how Dick must be feeling.
And Dick is a very serious child, at first. He hardly speaks. He clings to Bruceās hand if Bruce isnāt carrying him. He glares at people. When he does speak, itās scathing, and he has a sharp tongue.
Then a couple years later, itās like his personality has completely flipped. Heās goofy and silly and so very similar to Brucie. And theyāre all reminded that Dick grew up in a circus, heās a showman through and through, and they all know itās an act. They all know Richie isnāt the real him.
But they let him perform, let him put on his show along with Bruce. Because Gotham loves the Waynes, and if they want to have a public persona to have some sort of privacy, then they arenāt going to stop them.
So, something I learnt the other day. So, you know how dinosaurs supposedly can't see you if you stand still? Well that myth is based on real-life lizards/etc and how eyes in general work. So, once my dad starts infodumping, here comes some other cool information. We, humans, can in fact, also not see something unless it's moving. We fixed this by having our eyes constantly shake. And then our brain compensates for us, so we don't have to have shaky vision.
What if aliens don't have this? Like. What if they find out when one of us was looking at something in the distance, and they walk around this thing that's in front of them, and the alien is confused so they bob their head and oh, there's a thing there, but how did the human know that, and then we explain and they're like, horrified.
Humans are apex predators. They can hunt in packs. They can hunt in pairs. They can hunt on their own. They're persistance predators, which is unheard of. They get stronger when they're mad or scared. They have this thing called 'body language' which acts like a type of hivemind, even if they'll claim it isn't. And. They can see you. When you're not moving. They can still see you. If you ever find yourself in a fight against a human, for whatever reason? Run. Run as fast as you can. And hope, pray if you have a religion, that they won't follow.
ok thats a really neat concept but what do you mean our eyes are always shaking
If you hold your hand at arms length and look at your thumbnail, thats approximately the size of area your eye can actually focus on. Everything else is a composite image generated by your brain.
Your eyes constantly dart around a little bit to fill in the composite.
the scary part? when your eyes move, you go blind. Your visual system has to cover up the periodic blindness but it does it "backwards" from how you'd expect: instead of "lagging" vision, it shows you what you see after the blindness, but makes it seem like you saw it the whole time.
You can see this by looking at a clock with a ticking second hand. The first time you move your eyes to it, the tick you see will seem to take longer than usual. That's because your visual system lied about how long you saw that tick, because you were blind for part of the time you thought you were seeing it. (fun fact: we don't see the same thing with moving objects, but only because our vision system "fakes the footage" of them moving while we were blind, because it understands consistent motion)
The human vision system is a marvelous clusterfuck of hacks.
Ok, I'm gunna link a YouTube video that touches on something that connects to this, ok? But from the starting point of SOUND, not just vision. Basically it breaks down what the human brain's perception 'FRAME RATE' is, and compares it to other animals, and it's so cool omg one second~
https://youtu.be/Gvg242U2YfQ?si=UdVh8rMbI-Xmn5oy
poking away at the "Lady Emerald" fic and this idea popped into my head and refused to leave. š
(incorrect quote paraphrased from the famous ending of Some Like It Hot)
And what makes this even better is that Veldoraās English voice actor also did Mr. Satan.
The hobbits invent a fun game called āhow close can we get to our friends before they notice usā
easy mode: Gimli (makes a lot of noise himself, very easy to sneak up on)
medium mode: Boromir (challenging enough to be great fun)
hard more: Aragorn (VERY attentive to his surroundings)
expert mode: Legolas
it takes them a LONG time to get Legolas but Frodo eventually manages it and itās magnificent
Legolas: *sitting around minding his own business*
Frodo: *two inches from his ear* hi Legolas whatās up
Legolas: ANDAGNDOAHGDLKHNKDLFHLKFDANGLKFDAGN????? *backflips to his feet in confusion*
*cue the rest of the fellowship losing their fucking minds*
after that heās onto them and they never manage it again
from all i can gather this is entirely cannon except the fellowship hobbits didnt invent it, its been a traditional hobbit game on par with humans and ātagā for about 500 plus years to the point the average human will routinely fail to notice an entire picnic of hobbits at ten feet, blanket and potato salad included like hobbits dont realize they legit have a supernatural ability to not be noticed on par with elves physics bending sniper scope vision
okay but is āpicnicā the collective noun for hobbits because thatās brilliant
a picnic of hobbits
perfection
So yeah, itās canon that hobbits are the stealthiest of the races of Middle-Earth, even more so than elves. Which is an amusing trivia fact, until you start realizing how much of the plot of both The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings is based on this.
Why did Gandalf randomly decide that a plump gentle-hobbit was the right person to be a burglar for an adventuring party? It seems like wizardly eccentricity, until you realize Bilboās got a racial bonus to Stealth of like +20. Why does he get the Ring? In text, itās partly coincidence, but also - which party member do you give your Ring of Invisibility to? The Rogue with a crazy Stealth bonus, of course. Bilbo uses his Stealth, boosted by the Ring, constantly, and the dwarves would have been dead a dozen times over without it. Heās able to get the Ring in the first place because he stealthed out of the middle of a horde of goblins. Then heās sneaking up inches from trolls, secretly living inside the elvesā freakin palace (with Legolas) for months, rescuing a whole pack of dwarves from under the elvesā noses, regularly pick-pocketing people including elves, sneaking past a dragon, sneaking to deliver the Arkenstone.
Then we follow up into Lord of the Rings. Gandalfās now bred up a second-generation Rogue. Frodo, Sam, Pippin, and Merry have that same massive racial Stealth bonus, and Frodo also has been raised by an adventurer. He speaks Elvish fluently, heās friends with dwarves, he studies maps obsessively. Then he inherits Bilboās Stealth-boosting magic item - now upgraded to cursed McGuffin. When Gandalf decides itās time, he collects Frodo and assembles a party. Their goal isnāt to march into Mordor, or to battle the Boss: itās to sneak through enemy lines, past an entire army (or two).
The humans, elf, dwarf, and wizard angel keep drawing too much attention and getting them attacked (plus admittedly Pippin, the low-WIS darling), so eventually Frodo and Sam ditch them and head off on a pure stealth run. They canāt use the Ring of Invisibility anymore, but fortunately Galadriel gave them another Stealth-boosting magic item, the cloaks. They sneak halfway across Middle-Earth, past armies, through miles and miles of enemy territory, while being hunted by every evil being on the planet, particularly a literal giant All-Seeing Eye. Not to mention the Palantiri, extremely powerful divination items which are being actively used by three different groups of enemies/competitors.
The other main canonical Hobbit power is that theyāre āvery hardy folkā, meaning they have incredibly high resistance to various things from poison to mental influence. So they can survive the literally poisonous air and water of Mordor, which was designed to kill every species but orcs. And they can survive close contact with the Ring for decades or centuries, not only physically but also maintaining some degree of mental independence, when any other race would succumb in minutes to hours. (Note the most āpowerfulā characters - Elrond, Galadriel, the literal angel Gandalf - refuse to even touch the Ring, as do the most morally sound, Aragorn and Faramir.)
Why did Gandalf choose a minor member of the country gentry, the size of a toddler, with no combat training, to save Middle-Earth? Because absolutely no other creature on the planet could have done the task. Frodo was all but created as a weapon against Sauron. He, and he alone (with Sam), was capable of saving Middle-Earth.
TL;DR: Legolas would get jump-scared by Frodo every single time, because Frodo is the greatest Rogue in Middle-Earth, and the plot of the entire series depends on that fact.
Gonna print this out and staple it to the face of the next person who asks why they didnāt just give the ring to the eagles to drop into the volcano. BECAUSE POISONOUS AIR AND AN ARMY WITH TREBUCHETS YOU TWIT.
Also SmĆ©agol/Gollum, mentioned by Gandalf to be a hobbit or close relative of hobbits.Ā The elvesĀ canāt catch him in Mirkwood, and this is afterĀ he lost the Ring and is out in the open for the first time in ~500 years.
i luv this concept so much lmao
just the idea of the hobbits playing hide and seek with the rest of the fellowship is so hilarious to meĀ
@unsteady-states !!!
It bugs me a little bit that The Ring canonically turned Isildur invisible.
Canonically, The Ringās whole thing is that it enhances the pre-existing abilities of whomever wears it, in addition to driving them insane. This is why it would be so devastating for Gandalf, or Galadriel, etc to get their hands on it. Theyāre already super powerful, the buff would make them unstoppable.
And the stealth thing is established really early on in the Hobbit as the thing hobbits were amazing at. It would kick ass as a detail for The Ring to only turn Hobbits invisible. Among other points, it enhances the plot-point of Gandalf not being able to recognize the thing and then after his suspicions were raised taking so much time studying ring-lore before he could. If The Ring only turned Hobbits invisible, then Gandalf literally has nothing to go off of for identifying the damn thing until heās gotten his PHD in Ring-ology. Which is canonically what it took for him to figure it out.
This is still plausible without the alteration to The Ringās exact properties, but I feel that the narrative is a bit stronger with it.
Amusingly, as far as I can tell its also canon-compliant.
What the fuck does that mean, didnāt I already say that Isildur is canonically turned invisible by The Ring? Ah, but you misunderstand the nature of Tolkienās canon. The Hobbit exists within the fiction of The Hobbit. It is written by Bilbo, with Tolkien himself merely translating it from Westron to modern English. The Lord of The Rings is compiled by Frodo, the Silmarillion is a Noldor history book.
We know that The Ring turned Isildur invisible because of how he died; his party was ambushed on the road by orcs. Isildur donned The Ring and leapt into the river to escape. But The Ring betrayed him, enlarging itself on his finger and falling off, thus allowing the orcs to see him and fill him with arrows.
Except.
Thatās the translation of what happened, and we donāt know how reliable the original source was in any case. Recall that ordinary humans are already remarkably resistant to death by injuries that would fell other creatures, and Isidur was a full-blooded Numenorean besides. It is entirely plausible that The Rings enhancement of these properties would make Isildur very difficult to kill indeed. Maybe he was already full of arrows when he went into the River, but his wounds only became fatal retroactively, with the loss of The Ring.
Perhaps the āoriginal textā Watsonian-Tolkien was translating more simply indicated that Isildur went into the river, was betrayed by The Ring, and this caused his immediate death-by-arrows. Watsonian-Tolkien could, in this case, be forgiven for assuming that it was a matter of loosing the invisibility which The Ring emparts to so many Hobbits in the texts Watsonian-Tolkien has read which led to Isildurās death.
Alternatively, it could have been the mistake of an earlier chronicler or transcriber whose error Watsonian-Tolkien was simply passing on.
you know what really gets my goat?
el chupacabra
Iām sorry!? What?!
Whoa, chupacabraās a millennial?
Just realized I got 5 years on them.
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Elmoās voice saying āIāll fuck u upā is the best and worst thing ever
YO I SWEAR THIS SHIT IS TOO FUNNYšš¤£
I WATCH THIS EVERYDAY
