this relentless existence

"And what if the sky here is no different, And it is my eyes that have been sharpening themselves? Such a luxury of stars would embarrass me. The few I am used to are plain and durable" ~Sylvia Plath

[fkajackiebrownx]

RIP Anthony Stewart Head🖤

📺Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 2x07 "Lie To Me"

[jaysntodd]

The original 80′s Jason Todd vs how writers perceive him now. 

[ivanovaisalwaysright]

Y'know initially i didn't like the change from deceiving Caleb with memory alteration to deceiving him with written accusation. Hearing your parents saying traitorous things yourself is undeniable, whereas seeing their names written on a list tempts one to think there has been some sort of mistake. And it serves as a better loyalty test because he had to inform on his parents himself instead of Trent just telling him, he could have (as far as he believed) stayed silent and saved them. Plus messing with people's memories has always been one of the nastier aspects of Trent's villainy to me. And Caleb with his perfect memory no longer being able to rely on it? *Chef's kiss*

Moreover I couldn't see any purpose or benefit to the change other than maybe being a shorter explanation.

But now, seeing so many criticisms of this change from people who misunderstood the memory alteration as him being mind controlled into killing his parents - who are now upset he decides to kill them himself, I see there was a reason for the change.

To prevent that misunderstanding in the animation audience.

Cause Bren did decide to turn in and kill his parents, obviously years of good old fashioned brain washing was involved in getting him to that point, but he was not directly forced to... And that's why Caleb hates himself so much and why it takes him so long to even begin to forgive himself and accept that he was brain washed as a teen.

And that's a much more important part of his character than the details of the deception, so I see why they prioritised making that clear.

[aralisj]

Me, seeing Daredevil flying and bouncing from rooftops like a rubber ball, using the same shitty physics simulation they've used for Marvel Superhero CGI the past eight years:

[ozymandias-rises]

There was so much bullshit physics/cgi weirdness I couldn’t even take the fight with Bullseye seriously

[prolifecatholic139]

When you see this post, reblog and say a Hail Mary- for the end of abortion.

[kazz-brekker]

in dracula there is a cowboy and the female lead lives. in nosferatu there is no cowboy and the female lead dies. ergo, the existence of a cowboy is highly important for the survival of the female lead in a gothic vampire story.

[cloama]

I know the internet is full of hyperbole but I can honestly say that[to me] every Superman production has missed the mark on the Clark/Superman difference until now. I can confidently say that because it’s irked me for years.

This might be the first production to actually really get into the weeds with some simple changes, use lighting, costuming, hair&makeup (peep the contour!)to convey that Clark and Supes look nothing alike. This is so cool to me!!!!! They finally did it.

Shout out to the departments. Shout out to whoever realized they needed way bigger (longer)eyeglass frames with a thick bridge that would alter the appearance of his nose making him unclockable. Whoever you are, I love this work. I love how the base of the cape on the shoulders and the collar work together. It gets the job done but also looks like it was comfortable to wear during hours of shooting. I love that supes has a bit of contouring in the makeup differing from Clark. Shout out to whoever decided to make Clark’s suits oversized and flimsy! It accurately demonstrates Clark’s attempt to look like a little fish in a big pond. He’s not just like that; everything is a choice with him.

Shout out to Peter King and Lindsay McCallister on the hair design/hair story. They did their big one. Clark’s hair is such a big change(so fluffy and undressed!) and accurately shows how someone would manipulate their curly hair to change their appearance. Superman’s hair really works. Honey, that hair is dressed! It is reminiscent enough to please fans but different enough to feel fresh. I like that it’s rounded on top instead of square.

Also I’ve never seen this actor before in my life but he is embodying my man in the trailer so that is also exciting. I don’t even care if the movie is good. I’m a bit over hero movies but I love me some Supes. Everyone seems to really be invested in the visuals of this project. The commitment to color is commendable after years of dark grey low lit mess. Anyway…

I love new faces. I love movies! I love departments! I love unions! I hate David Zaslav!

[angualupin]

One thing I want to add to this, having seen the trailer:

There are, by and large, two types of Big Guy in the world. The first type of Big Guy is aware that he is imposing, that he is unlikely to be physically challenged, that many people find Big Guys attractive. This gives him a confidence that is reflected in his bearing. He strides through life. The second type of Big Guy is aware that he takes up too much space, that he towers over everyone else, that many people find Big Guys physically threatening. This gives him a crushing insecurity that is reflected in his bearing. He shuffles through life.

One of the things that has invariably driven me up the wall about cinematic adaptations of Superman is that that Superman is the first type of Big Guy. They always get that right. But Clark Kent is the second type of Big Guy, and they almost never understand that. Clark must not only look different from Superman, he must move different from Superman. He shuffles, he bumbles, he shrinks in on himself, he tries to make himself smaller. But I can't recall an adaptation where I've actually seen Clark do that.

I am quite pleased with what I see in this trailer, because I think this adaptation may have actually gotten that right. Not only do I agree fully about the costume choices that draw a distinction between Clark and Superman, but the way the actor moves is very different. Clark is trying to make himself smaller. Props to the actor and director for understanding that.

I hope the story is good.

[cloama]

Exactly! The Kansas of it all is finally showing. Our guy is from Smallville. He’s not gonna lurch around. Clark is blending. He genuinely doesn’t want to be a bother. This actor seems to get it. I cannot believe I’m actually excited for this. If it feels anything like All Star Superman I might lose it.

[thessalian]

I think Christopher Reeves was the one who came closest.

You see him go from the slump that diminishes his height and the indrawn shoulders that hides the muscle under that suit to ... well, Superman. And the costume designer did the same trick with the glasses as they're doing for the new guy

[yeomanrand]

For those of you too young to remember Superman (1978) please do yourself a favor and find it and watch it.

[januarydivide]

I was just WAITING for my man Christopher Reeve to come up, I was halfway to looking up that specific gif in case it hadn't been added already :D

every single entry on this post had me literally cheering like this:

[nanierose]

Orym being the only one to actually see there's nuance in this whole conversation about the gods. He is completely right that if it was anyone else they would not be discussing the benefits and righteousness of wiping out an entire sect of people. If someone has been kind of a dick to me, never listened from my perspective or even done harm to others, it does not give me the right to fucking murder them and their entire people including the ones that actually give a damn about the world and mortals. Especially if doing so would release something that categorically will wreak death and destruction on the world, and actually doesn't give a fuck about mortals. I know they're still going to stop Ludinus, and everything with the Dawnfather and Eidolons has complicated things I won't deny that, but my god the black and white arguments get a bit tedious after a while. I don't mind that some of them have questions about the gods, like that's normal even for those with faith, or even are angry at them because they feel let down and ignored. It's a perfectly natural and valid feeling to have. But saying they're all terrible after minimal interactions (including one who explicitly is asking you to save someone they care about so clearly, you know, is not a selfish being) is a bit much after a while.

[catholic-saint-tournament]

THE FINALE SHOWDOWN: ST JOAN OF ARC VS ST MARY MAGDALENE

St Joan of Arc

St Mary Magdalene

Voting ended onJun 30, 2023

Poll based on winners of each previous bracket!

After this poll is over, our winner will be crowned the patron saint of Tumblr. Then we will have losers brackets, a beatified bracket, Marian apparitions, and more!

[yekoc]

thank you jalopnik for an actually correct take on the new US races. anyone who complains about F1 prioritizing the us market or pandering to us fans doesn't get it at all; us sports/motorsports fans cannot afford these races and aren't going to them. they're corporate package events that happen to take place in ~buzzy locations in the united states and they aren't working. if f1 cared about us fans or the us market, they'd invest in upgrading some of the actually incredibly cool us racetracks that exist (laguna seca, watkins glen, etc!) or go back to indy (existing fia grade 1 track that is the center of motorsports culture in the us) but they aren't doing that. stop complaining about us fans because we aren't getting anything from these races either... we are not attending them... we can't afford them.

[ozymandias-rises]

^^ One of the reasons I got into F1 was because of how much I dislike the way sports in the US become overrun and controlled by money-hungry corporations. So, trust me, US fans don’t want F1 to be “Americanized” like our sports.

[marveladdicts]

[hyah-through-hyrule]

[fictionadventurer]

Every so often (ever since I read that book about Catholic scientists) I think about the guy who discovered the cause of Down's Syndrome and get very sad.

Jérôme Lejeune did his research because he loved children with Down's Syndrome! He wanted to help them! Discovering the genetic cause was a huge breakthrough, and helping to develop the prenatal test was intended to give parents a chance to prepare for caring for a child with Down's Syndrome.

And then his test was used to kill children with Down's Syndrome.

He got the highest honor in genetics because of it, and he used his acceptance speech to tell the world's assembled scientists that their use of his test was evil. Which made everyone mad and destroyed his chances of winning a Nobel. But he stood for life. He stood for the disabled. He stood for the children. Even at the cost of his career. Because his work intended to save the children he loved was being used to destroy them and how do you deal with that? It just breaks my heart every time I think about it.

[barbarian15]

[disgruntled-foreign-patriarch]

beautiful

[schumaclerc]

#DENIAL IS A RIVER IN EGYPT

[ozymandias-rises]

My sister who’s only been watching F1 for 2 months when we saw this: “Oh, wow, the shade.”

[a-treatise-on-velociraptors]

I think what makes Goncharov work as a joke concept *is* peoples' willingness to break the kayfabe about it. I love the Goncharov trend a ton, but I cannot handle humor where people pretend something is real and absolutely refuse to admit that it isn't and/or refuse to let people in on the bit. When that happens it feels like they're laughing at your expense, watching you get increasingly frustrated at the dissonance and taking that frustration as part of the bit, turning you into part of the punchline.

I'm not seeing any of that with Goncharov, at least as far as the more popular users participating in it. Whenever people ask for context, the original post is provided and the situation is explained. People are diligently tagging unreality. It's absolutely delightful and it makes the joke so much more lighthearted than it would have been if the atmosphere was one of "if you don't know the context we won't explain the joke."

[roach-works]

new heresy that makes the bible way funnier:

god genuinely had no idea that people would be able to disobey him, when he made them. angels couldn’t! everything in the universe was just an extension or a reflection of god himself, operating in perfect mechanical order. then he put a spark of his own creative consciousness in an animal and it turned out it could disobey him.

like, that’s why he told adam and eve not to access a perfectly accessible tree. nothing else in the universe up until that point would have done something he told them not to.

that’s why he asks cain a perfectly ridiculous question, given that he would have watched the murder happen right in front of him: where is your brother? what did you do to him? he didn’t know cain could lie. even when adam and eve disobeyed him, surprising absolutely everyone involved, they hadn’t figured out lying yet. cain figured out lying.

that’s why god decides to destroy humans and start over only a few centuries later. he has no idea what to do. not only are people disobeying and lying to him, they’ve started completely ignoring him, too. he can control the wind, the water, the plants, the animals, the angels, the heavens, the earth. but he cut a part of himself loose and gave it to this totally unique new critter and now he can’t get it back. he can’t make anyone do anything, and now they know it. he had to carve humanity back down to the one family that actually, for whatever reason, still listened to him, and he had to ride them pretty fucking hard from that point onward to make sure they didn’t just….. stop. because at any point basically any human, ever, even the ones who liked him, could just randomly decide to fuck off and do their own thing.

then like, according to christians, god thought maybe he could get a handle on whatever the fuck was going on with how bad humans were being by making another human who had even more god in him than all the other humans, and that didn’t work either. and also even jesus himself didn’t know what humans were going to do next, which was kill him young. like, god had to break the news to him based on an educated guess, and it was a big surprise to him! he was really upset! there’s a whole scene!

like, i think this is hands down the funniest fucking thing to conclude about god ever. he didn’t know it was going to turn out like this when he started and he didn’t know what to do when it did. he’s been basically scrambling to stay on top of the situation for six thousand years and he’s totally beefed it repeatedly.

god the omnipotent lord of creation knows everything, except what you’re going to do next. god the supreme ruler of the universe can do anything, except stop you. you have a little piece of god inside you and it lets you defy the most fundamental machinery of existence basically whenever you like.

if that’s not funny, i don’t know what is.

[ozymandias-rises]

I wouldn’t call this heresy, per se, but it is stupidity

*that’s not how God and free will work

[ozymandias-rises]

I rarely post about F1 on here, but I couldn’t let this weekend pass without acknowledging this season, and specifically, what it means now that it’s almost over.

At the end of the day, yeah, i know that to a lot of people it’s just one sport among hundreds, it’s just one season following many, and it’s just one driver lineup among dozens, but I’m going to miss seeing these drivers because this season was so special to me.

This was the year I finally committed to learning all I could about F1, rather than pushing it off. This was the season I decided to actively watch all the practices, qualis, interviews and races, instead of casually watching it, or more accurately, only checking the results every other month, if that. This was the driver lineup for the year I found myself convincing my whole family to get into F1.

I got to share with my family my love of this sport, could rant about qualis, and join in their laughter whenever I danced with glee because of race results. And in turn…I got to watch them do the same thing as they cheered and cried for their drivers too. There are drivers who the first thing I think when I hear their name is: that’s my sister’s/father’s/mother’s favorite driver, and on race days, it’s true, sometimes, I gave a little cheer for their driver’s too.

It’s a silly thing, and this post has gone on far too long, but I needed to take a second to just revel in this sport, to truly be grateful for this season, and to appreciate these 20 drivers for giving this sport their all, and for giving us a race week we will all remember.

It’s been a long season, but yeah, I am going to miss it.