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Aqua Utopia｜海の底で記憶を紡ぐ
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we're not kids anymore.
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If everyone is born a baby but then dies sometimes after, then the most common knowledge in the world is a sequence of firsts, but also this knowledge is largely forgotten by the general populace. What then is the most common knowledge?
"We're all of us curiously bad at living. We can do things—but we can't get on with life at all."
- D. H. Lawrence,
Women in Love
Good Omens AU, but instead of Crowly being played by this longhaired snake,
He's played by this longhaired snake:
Do you mean
Yes. This is beautiful.
Good Omens AU, but instead of Crowly being played by this longhaired snake,
He's played by this longhaired snake:
lifehack: when you see a Take One candy bowl in a restaurant, wait until noones looking and shovel candy into your pockets. god may judge you but his sins outnumber your own
“God may judge you but his sins outnumber your own.” We really need to start collecting and sourcing these Potent Quotables.
I’ve been doing this for years
It’s all on a google doc of mine (x)
It’s actually the 2nd SpyKids movie.
Cinnamon, Ketchup, great when separate, but when they combine they make the morning time messed up!
Captain Marvel Spoilers
Somehow, I didn’t like this movie. I didn’t feel like it earned its spotlight as the powerhouse of the MCU right before the big endgame, and I hope to god that it is not the solution to Thanos’s snap. I think the big part of it for me was the questionable morality of the character for Carol. The amount of screen time it takes for her to piece together her own identity takes away from the amount of screen time she can be establishing herself ad a person.
Her morals are so grey at the beginning, because she is a semi-deviant soldier for an empire at war. She follows orders, has good ideas, and is a volunteer for a risky part of the mission. She wants to prove herself to her trainer, and shut out her emotions to better harness her powers.
Carol’s defining motivation is finding the truth behind the memories in her dreams. But when the skrull originally offer her the ability to dig deeper, she doesn’t even wait to talk to them and instead rushes to break out of prison. Even if she had taken over the ship, but then used their equipment to dig deeper, I think it would have been better.
Later, we find that she is on the wrong side of the war. This is the main conflict of the movie: who is she fighting for? Her former enemies (the skrull) use underhanded tactics, but they are refugees on the run. Her commanders are the Kree (better known for their attempted genocide of the Nova Corps and their creation of Inhumans). She seems to bounce back with this information very quickly, not even questioning her own actions or even mourning the countless people she has previously killed.
When she cries about not knowing herself, her friend steps in and describes her, except Carol isn’t this person anymore. A new consciousness has arisen and is in the driver’s seat. It feels unearned, especially because so many of the shots of a younger Carol are so short, silent, and often alone.
Carol easily over powers her enemies, but I think this works against her. She is so powerful that she could singlehandedly destroy Hala (the Kree planet) and end the war that way. She doesn’t suffer any major injuries, nor does she suffer any great loss (because she doesn’t mourn visually).
I want to see her actively choose more. All we know right now is that she thinks “genocide is bad” which is a very base moral. Compared to the complicated moralities of the other characters in the MCU, I think she’s just not as interesting. She wanted to be a pilot, fought hard to be a pilot, and became one. She was caught in a war she didn’t sign up for, manipulated, and broke free.
Captain America was similar. He was also given powers beyond his means, but his story spoke better. He was an artist, trying to get into a war out of duty, but he couldn’t. He wanted to end the war, but he didn't like bullies. He lost a friend and grieved. He fell in love, but also self sacrificed. And this, all in the one movie. Carol doesn’t seem to have this amount of personality.
So, like, I just watched Mary Poppins Returns, and I’m pretty sure they just stole some Newsies for a few days. Like, Disney just shows up on Broadway and says, “Um, we’re Mary Poppins. Could we borrow some of your dancing, flipping, singing boys and use them as lamp lighters? They don’t even have to change costumes, except the fake injuries.” and then they all danced and sang and some hired stuntmen got to BMX bike through them for a few hours, and then they went back.
But he never said anything about a Spider-ham...
I’d like to introduce everyone to my new theme song
fuckin MOOD
I love the contrast between the lyrics and the melody this is art
pfffffffft nooooo I didn’t just learn this song on ukulele… at midnight…
you can buy the song on Amazon and iTunes
Imagine your otp. Person A and person B are in the same class. Person A drops their pencil. Person B bends down to get it, then realizes that it’s actually just a stump of a pencil. Person A keeps the old one and hands back a new pencil, already sharpened. Person B is mad because they were trying to make the shortest possible pencil.
Role swap au where Zuko was the Avatar who got frozen for a hundred years, so when he’s rescued from the ice instead of a goofy twelve year old Katara catches this mysterious teenager with long hair and a cool scar and a fucking DRAGON
Katara: BOY???? HOT BOY?????? HOT TEENAGE BOY?????????
Zuko: *speaks*
Katara: nevermind I hate him
How does Aang factor into this? I ask because the more I think about it the more I want him to somehow be trying to capture the Avatar.
Aang is 112 years old, decided he was going to be Zuko’s airbending teacher, and refuses to take no for an answer
Aang: Aw, the new Avatar doesn’t want me. Aang: *gets out a weighted net* Time for Plan B then.
JDJSHJABDBFJSH
Look, you know how you keep a net from falling on you? YOU AIRBEND IT, SUCKA. Air comes right after fire in the cycle so it’s not like the guy has any other options. Do you want a flaming net falling on you? No? Then learn to airbend. Or this tiny old man will cart you away like a trussed turkey and lecture you about the power of laughter, going with the flow, opening your chakras, and other hippie shit.
Sokka, slouching against a fence, not moving: Oh nooooooo, that creepy old man stole the Avataaaaaaaaaar. Sokka, sitting down on the ground: We should dooooo something. Sokka, pulling out his lunch: Otherwise he might actually learn something. That would be teeeerrible. Katara, indignant rage coursing through her body: Sokka!!!!!!!! We have to go look for him!!!! Sokka: Might! Actually! Learn! Something! Katara! Katara: *wavers* Katara, also sitting down: We have to go look for him…. *gets out her own sandwich* But, maybe after lunch.
I love that this transforms Aang’s role in the full Team Avatar familial situation from the baby of the family to the Grandpa with weird hobbies
But like the Fire Nation is still the ones who attacked right? So Zuko is a young kid, and the whole “kill your son or kill me” Azulon thing happens, and Iroh steps in for Zuko, because he just lost a son and he doesn’t want to lose a nephew. Iroh looses his rights to the throne, right before Azulon is assassinated (by an unrelated party, but probably actually Ozai this time). And Zuko is still burned on his face, and banished to find the avatar (and his helpful uncle comes too), only to figure out after a year that he IS the avatar. And this time, Iroh takes him to the white lotus, and lo and behold, Aang and Bumi are hamming it up.
Read this to the tune of “Skater Boy”-Avril Lavigne.
goddamnit if i'm crying all of you guys are going to have to cry too
hamlet knows he’s the hero of a revenge tragedy.
of course he knows he’s the hero of a revenge tragedy; it’s pretty obvious. he knows enough about the theater to identify the genre that best describes his life (and because he’s an overly simplistic teenager, he does describe his life as a story.) he spends the whole play referencing actors and acting, he consciously makes claudius into a villain and himself into the hero— he knows what he’s doing.
he’s playing the part, of course. when he fakes madness, that’s playing the part. when he makes up elaborate plans and schemes, that’s playing the part.
but revenge tragedies are called tragedies for a reason. it’s because at the end, even the hero dies.
hamlet casts himself as a hero doomed to die. hamlet identifies as someone who is going to die. hamlet knows he is going to die from the moment the play begins.
but a revenge tragedy only ends when the revenge has been had; a revenge tragedy only ends when not only the hero but the villain is dead.
it’s the great question of the play: why does it take hamlet so goddamn long to kill his uncle? what is the cause his indecision and inaction? why can’t he just get on with it and stab the man, for god’s sake?
hamlet doesn’t want to die.
hamlet isn’t ready to die. he can see the curve of his destiny approaching, and he doesn’t want it to. he wants to hold off that climax just a little longer, because he doesn’t want to die yet.
at the beginning of the last scene of the play, he’s invited to a duel organized by a man who’s tried to kill him already. hamlet figured out r & g were working for claudius in about five minutes; he knows this is sketchy, for god’s sake. and horatio tells him, horatio begs him, don’t go if there’s something that frightens you. be cautious. be afraid. don’t go, stay with me.
hamlet walks into his death with open eyes, because he is ready to fulfill his destiny, because he is ready to kill his uncle as his father told him, because he is ready to do the last thing the hero of a revenge tragedy will ever do. he knows how this story ends and he chooses this ending. he knows he will die and he chooses to die.
the rest is silence - it’s almost surprised. there’s nothing else. there’s no more to tell.
what do you say to children, once the storybook has been read and put away?
good night, sweet prince. flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
i’ll see you in the morning.
it’s always a strange moment when you see the contents of a critical essay expressed as feels on the internet
Slytherin Ideal
Well, according to JKR the slytherins didn’t fight in the battle of hogwarts Because they would be fighting family and she didn’t want that for them. But Regulus and Sirius both fought their families. And every pureblood is related somehow, making Harry Potter fight his cousins. And you cannot tell me all the purebloods were in slytherin. So like?
I made a Guess Who: Infinity War! After having tossed around the idea of a themed Guess who for a while, I saw this poster. This poster has 24 unique and recognizable characters for the true marvel fan. More importantly, the marketing team made individual posters for each of the characters shown here (except Thanos himself). So I could keep a very similar color scheme going. I think it turned out great. “Is your character emotionally stable?” “Yes” *closes the whole board*.
How to make your own Guess Who Set
What you will need:
A color printer
Printer paper, or card stock
A marker
Some sort of screen with a high brightness.
The ability to make google docs
Your own Guess Who game
(Double sided tape, glue dots, glue stick, or some sort of sticky thing)
Process:
Open Google docs. Set the view percentage to 118%, or until the page on the screen matches the measurements of the printer paper when you hold directly in front of the screen.
Make a list of 24 unique characters or people who you want to be your characters.
Open your guess who game and take out one of each sized card, one large and one small. Make a clear tracing of both of these on the paper
Find a picture for each of the characters. Insert one picture per character into a google doc labeled “Guess Who:_________ big cards”.
Make a copy of the google doc, and label it “Guess Who: ________ Small Cards”.
Size all of the pictures in the “big cards” doc so that they match the big card stencil when you place the paper in front of the bright screen. Size the pictures in the “small cards” deck to the smaller stencil.
Load the card stock into the paper tray (or if you don’t have card stock, but happen to have double sided tape, glue dots, a glue stick, or adhesive, just print it on normal paper and stick it on to the set of Guess Who that you already own.)
Print the “big cards” once and the “small cards” twice.
Cut out the pictures.
Insert set into the Guess Who game boards and play. (Or glue/tape the pictures onto the existing set that you own.)
-you might want to add name tags onto the bottom or top of all of your images so people unfamiliar with the source material can play.
The three ways to play Guess Who fandom addition.
Level 1: Just use their physical attributes and their surroundings to pick out the characters. (i.e. “Does your character look human?” “Yes.” and thus Loki would still be up, even though he is a frost giant who has lived on Asgard)
Level 2: Strictly story based things. You can only ask about the elements of the plot and possibly one-liners that they have said on camera. (i.e. “Has your characters ever been off Earth?” “No” Then all the aliens and Quill, Dr. Strange (?), Hulk, Tony and Parker would go down. )
3. Completely subjective. These questions have nothing to do with the plot of the films/canon/reality, but exist solely within your ideas about the characters or your perception of them, as well as relying on your ability to accurately predict the perception of your opponent. The hardest level, because you will often get their idea wrong and they get to be smug while you struggle, but also the most entertaining one, as you go over each character and the endless subjective possibilities of them. (i.e. “Would your character have sex with me?” “Yes” and then proceed to wonder If they’re being cruel or maybe pitying you, and try to guess whether they think Thor would be up for it with you.)
lolita fashion (NOT to be confused with loli/lolita cp) is so cute I just wish it were named something else
lmao then call it something else because there’s a reason it’s called lolita and they aren’t at all using it because of cute fashion.
The name Lolita has nothing to do with pedophillia. It was chosen by Japanese designers in the 70’s because it sounded old fashion and European so it fit the style. Due to a language barrier they did not know what connotations it had outside of Japan
The Lolita fashion community is very anti pedophillia, please do not try to say that we are fetishists for using the terminology our community has used since the 70s it is not our fault
Lolita fashion was intended to be intentionally childish, but not because it would be sexual to pedophiles. The original lolita fashion movement was a symbol of rebellion, of girls reclaiming their sexuality from a society that told them to dress formally at all times to find a husband.
These girls created fashion based around a little girl’s idea of fancy. It wasn’t good looking to men, but the women who wore it loved it, and that was the entire point.
Lolita fashion is basically the Flapper movement of Japan (which, for those who don’t know, was also a movement of young women defying traditional gender roles by dressing in ways they found fun instead of in ways that were deemed appropriate).
