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we celebrate life at the end of the earth

[lucy-harker]

SAM NEILL POSSESSION (1981) dir. Andrzej Żuławski

[dolldose]

new game plan called shield yourself at all times and never let anyone in . this will have no repercussions

[lilyofficial]

[rubylang-official]

Reblog to do this to prev

[woman-becomer]

imagine a goat with a hat

STOP-

what hat did you give the goat what is the instinctual hat you gave to this goat

[quietwingsinthesky]

do you think bowser ever gets anxious after kidnapping peach again that he went too far this time and he calls mario up in the middle of the night to make sure they’re still on for tennis and gokarting next weekend

[quietwingsinthesky]

painstakingly dialing mario’s landline on a comically small telephone only for luigi to pick up instead and he has to ask him to put his brother on the phone. not that luigi isn’t part of weekend plans, but like this is really more of a mario & bowser situation and it’d be rude to drag his brother into it if there’s a problem. so anyway then luigi puts the receiver down to go get his brother and bowser sits there tapping his claws on his table and this is agony, actually, he shouldn’t have called at all, it’s late enough at his castle so it has to be even later over in the mushroom kingdom. but just as he’s about to put the phone down, mario answers all chipper—mario mario speaking, who’s-a calling? which is a ridiculous question because there’s no way luigi didn’t already tell him.—and bowser has to ask him. look, mario, i know i dangled peach in a bird cage over a pit of lava the other day, and when you showed up, i let my son throw giant flaming hammers at you, and there’s no hard feelings about that, right? and there’s a few seconds of silence before mario laughs and reassures him it’s all in the day’s work of a plumber, an explanation bowser has never thought to really question since he only knows two plumbers and it does all seem pretty in their wheelhouse. and then he’s embarrassed for worrying so much so he tries to end the call quickly, but mario just ribs him about how badly he’s going to lose the next race, and then he starts asking bowser how junior is, and does bowser want any of the leftovers since he and luigi really do cook way too much for two, be a shame to let it go to waste. and by the time bowser manages to hang up, this has gone from leftovers into him and junior and the koopalings all being invited over to the mario household for dinner, so long as they don’t park their airship on the front lawn and leave the cannons at home.

[quietwingsinthesky]

op approved tags. you’re the only person here who sees my vision

[imjunebitch]

i relate to John Three Doors Down bc I, too, want something else, to get me through this, semi charmed kinda life baby baby. but instead of hard drugs I'm going to get a slurpee and food lion hot bar Mac n cheese

[pawcakes]

i will look at u with my big doe eyes … and u will pay for my iced coffee

[dreamingeternally]

"The fun thing for us for that end sequence was his costume -- what he would have left over from the ship. I don't really think you see it in the film but the trousers that he's wearing, they're cut from one of the flight suits. And we've done a belt buckle that's made of xenonite that Rocky would've made for him. And all of the sewing on it is a little bit - it's nowhere near as good as Jenny would normally do, so we had to purposely ask Jenny to do bad sewing at the top of his trousers, so it'd look like he would've done it.

And then our brilliant breakdown department, run by Tim Shanahan, they break everything down to look like it's 10, 20 years old. So his cardigan and the t-shirt's all faded. And even on the laces -- the laces in his chuck taylors -- because your laces always break after a certain period of time, so we found stuff that was on the ship, like elastics and stuff. There's a nice big close-up actually in the film, so you can see that they're not normal laces, they're like stuff that he would've got from the ship that he's made as make-shift laces."

Glyn Dillon, one of the costume designers on Project Hail Mary

[fucktheflagandfuckyou]

its been 6 months and im still not over this. easily best and most hilarious play in baseball history

[fucktheflagandfuckyou]

for those who dont really understand:

-the first baseman had no reason to chase Baéz, if he just stepped on the bag he was automatically out

-theres two outs, so if hes out, the inning is over. even if the runner on second base gets home, the run doesnt count. its not until hes safe at first that the run scores

-theres no specific rule in baseball about running backwards from first, just that you “cannot retreat to home base” meaning so long as if you dont touch the plate, its fine

-Baéz ran backwards to kill enough to get the run to score, and then stole and extra base on the base on the bad throw

-HE TOOK THE TIME TO UMPIRE HIS OWN PLAY AND CALL SAFE

what a fucking sport yall

[bisexuel]

@fractaldunes

[altospaceangel]

Javier Baéz’s nickname according to those announcers is El Mago which is spanish for The Wizard

Well earned

[philippelebonducdebourgogne]

love how the explanations do not help at all

[officiallordvetinari]

Let me see if I can break this down a little more.

Javier Báez (the batter, a Chicago Cub, wearing blue) has just hit the ball. His job is now to run around the bases - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, back to where he started (“home”), at which point he will have scored a point. In practice, he will probably stop partway, wait for the next batter to get a hit, and try to make it home from there.

The Pittsburgh Pirates (in white) are fielding. Their job is to stop the Cubs from scoring by getting them out, by various combinations of catching the ball and tagging people or bases with it.

The scoreboard (top left) shows that one Cub has already made it to second base, so he will resume running now that Javy has a hit. It also shows that two Cubs are out. If a third Cub gets out, their turn to bat will be over, it will be the Pirates’ turn to bat, and the Cubs can’t score anymore (for now, but that’s not relevant).

The Pirate at first base (the first baseman) has the ball. All he needs to do is step on first base while holding it before Javy gets there, and Javy is out. This is probably the number one most common thing a first baseman has to do.

He does not do it.

For some reason he starts chasing Javy, presumably trying to tag him with the ball directly. This is a perfectly legitimate way of getting him out, but also completely unnecessary.

This has never happened to Javy before. Unsure what else to do, he just kind of… jogs backwards away from him.

Meanwhile, the Cub who was at second base (Contreras) has made it all the way back to home. Because the Pirates’ first baseman has helpfully walked the ball back home, he can easily toss it to the Pirate at home (the catcher) who will tag Contreras out.

The catcher doesn’t tag him in time.

The umpire signals that Contreras is safe (not out).

Javy also signals that Contreras is safe, just for fun. He’s never been nearby when a teammate makes it home before, and he’s enjoying himself.

Notice that the score has not changed, even though Contreras made it home. That’s because Javy is still technically running to first base. If he gets out before he reaches it, the Cubs’ turn to bat is over, and nothing else that’s happened since he hit the ball matters.

Javy remembers this, and heads back to first base. The catcher throws the ball to another Pirates fielder, who is frantically running to do the first baseman’s job.

He doesn’t catch it.

Javy is safe at first. Contreras scores (although the scoreboard won’t change for a second).

Javy notices how far away that ball landed, and decides he can make it to second base before anyone picks it up and tags him out.

An offscreen Pirate throws the ball to second base, where another Pirate is ready and waiting to catch it, tag Javy out, and end the Cubs’ turn to bat.

He doesn’t catch it.

Javy is safe at second. The video doesn’t show it, but he will go on to score as well.

This should have been a very easy out for the Pirates, but through two dropped catches and one truly bizarre decision from the first baseman, they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and turned it into two points for the Cubs.

The Cubs won this game by two points.

[fucktheflagandfuckyou]

HAPPY OPENING DAY OF BASEBALL 2022 YALL. LETS PRAY FOR MORE OF THIS BULLSHIT

[uncahier]

I know I’ve reblogged this before, but here’s a version with an explanation for folks unfamiliar with the game* and this amazing comment:

Never change, Pittsburgh

[rascheln]

There are a bunch of reasons why I like Jean simply from a character design standpoint, but in addition to him hitting multiple buttons for me at once he’s also just interesting because of his significance in-game. Even with the few times he appears and interacts with Harry and others, there’s still so much dense info doled out from him- not just about Harry’s past, but also Jean himself and their relationship.

One of the very base readings of Jean is that he’s simply an asshole. And, like, yeah he is (that’s what’s so fun about him, haha). But that impression also becomes heightened by Harry’s lack of knowledge about why Jean is mad at him. Or who Jean even is to him. So, from the player’s perspective, we also lack that knowledge and have to come to our own conclusions about Jean’s character and who he is to Harry through reading between the lines and picking up the clues the game sprinkles into their interactions and what few memories of Harry’s past we get.

What the game ends up showing us are a couple of important things: Regardless of how Harry is played, his past self was a drunk, an addict, erratic and violent. It may only have gotten really bad in the year leading up to the case in Martinaise, but this is alluded to by Harry’s emerging memories, his ledger and fellow police officers. It’s an undeniable fact that past!Harry had become an awful person.

Jean is mad at Harry and doesn’t believe he’s lost his memory, because as his partner- and likely the closest person in Harry’s life by the time right before the game begins- he’s watched Harry’s self destruction and tried to help him as well as picked up after him for all this time. This is not the anger of someone who hates Harry. It’s the anger of someone who deeply cares for him and who has been let down over and over again, both on a personal and professional level.

I see this especially in the ways Jean repeatedly claims that Harry is drunk, no matter whether Harry has stayed sober in Martinaise or not. He’s seen the attempts at sobriety before and has clearly been disappointed too many times to believe it’s going to last.

Another important aspect is that despite Harry’s seeming inability to understand why Jean is so mad at him, both Jean and the game’s text itself pretty much lay it out for us: Harry told Jean (and everyone else from C-wing) to fuck off. As the highest ranking officer on the case and as the leader of the team and Jean’s partner, he essentially took everyone else off the case. Harry was the one to push everyone away.

The implied part are the hurt feelings.

When Jean returns to Martinaise, it’s not with the expectation that Harry has lost his memory. He returns, because he was worried and in a disguise he expected Harry to see through and find funny. A peace offering. A way to make Harry laugh and pick things up where they left off. 

Instead, Jean gets ignored. Considering the falling out they had a few days ago, his first assumption wouldn’t be that Harry has lost his memory, but that Harry is ignoring him deliberately. He’s reluctant to believe Harry’s explanation of having amnesia, because honestly, it sounds too convenient. Like a mean prank Harry is playing on them, to punish them for turning up again.

Just because Judit starts to believe Harry doesn’t mean Jean is willing or able to allow himself to believe him. It sounds ridiculous, for once. Again, a cruel joke in his head is the more probable answer. But also, and this is the part that’s implied again: It’s painful.  If he accepts the fact that Harry has lost his memory, he’ll also have to come to terms with the fact that the person in front of him doesn’t remember him. His partner, his friend, the person Jean cared about and who, despite all his failures, probably still cared about Jean, is gone.

Getting angry at the version of Harry that now only exists in Jean’s head is easier. It’s less painful than being forgotten. 

[cyber-newtype]

(in the middle of a heartfelt conversation, with concerning sincerity) and dont forget that I am evil, and that my death will be announced with singing in the streets

[transguyarchive]

Satirical guide for cis allies from the March 1997 FTM newsletter, which you can read in full here.

[junglejim4322]

I live a very balanced life of noticing things nobody else does and not noticing the things that literally everybody notices

[thegaymertrainer]

They did it again

[the-quasar-hero]

You can tell a lot about a person by entering their mind palace and encountering their greatest fears and darkest hopes in a labyrinth reflective of their subconscious thoughts.

[so-i-did-this-thing]

I have finally seen an episode of All Creatures Great and Small and boy howdy. You have really pulled off the Siegfried look!!!!

Thank you, this is a deliberate affectation for some of my outfits, so I never mind the comparison here.

The show was the kick in the butt I needed to start dialing in the 1940s silhouette - I was previously half-assing it with mostly modern pieces, but never quite satisfied. I was hesitant to commit to high waisted trousers with wide legs and pleats, because modern cut pleated trousers look *awful* on me. But the vintage style high waist + short waistcoat make a huge difference! *And* it all lessens my hips dysphoria!

The other style coincidence is my hair and beard have been similar to his since years before the show, so the fashion inspiration really has been to 1) commit to the silhouette I love and 2) try out some new colors I was previously avoiding because I didn't think they would look good on me (reds and golds).

Siegfried is a good example of how I roll fandom fixations into my overall style. One of my outfits for funsies is ~90% screen-accurate, but my closet has much more variety. My study is very evocative of his with lots of All Creatures easter eggs, but my fingerprints are nonetheless all over the place.

I think that fandom tributes and shrines are lots of fun, but also feel like you need to leave room for *yourself*.

[gardensandghosts]

I’m so sorry that low waisted pants got both “man cut” and “woman cut” pants.

My first job (2008) was at a Men’s Wearhouse (formal/business dress clothing store) and the amount of guys who would INSIST on yanking their pants down until they looked like saggy diapers was baffling.

Hoist that back up!

Thanks for hopefully convincing many many gents out there to go for the high waist. It looks/fits/feels better, I promise.

[silyaspider]

When my body was running on testosterone I really couldn't go with a high waist on pants. They wouldn't stay up. (I assume suspenders would fix this, but I haven't tried.) So I get why most men aren't doing it. It doesn't play well with testosterone-typical fat distribution unless you're thin or willing to commit to suspenders as well.

Since my body's now running on estrogen & progesterone, high waist fits nicely, stays up, is comfortable, etc. I'd probably have a hard time wearing pants as low as I used to.

Anyways, there's a lot of cultural silliness but also hormones do make a difference.

[so-i-did-this-thing]

You should have tried suspenders. 😭

It's really a shame they are coded as nerdy/uncool.

In classic men's fashion, suspenders are the preferred accessory to hold up high-waisted trousers. They are meant to go together. Not just because of typical cis male lack of hips, but because you want to wear your pants a little on the loose side for certain silhouettes and range of motion.

(And on a tangent, this is why a lot of people like overalls -- a hard working garment that has a loose, high waist that is held up at the shoulders.)

As waistbands crept towards the hips and waistcoats went out of fashion, belts became dominant. And most men I see don't wear their belts tight enough to ensure their pants stay up.

And even the dancer Fred Astaire - who was famously picky about how his clothes should drape when he danced - eschewed belts in favor of silk ties or handkerchiefs that he could cinch tightly.

You either go with suspenders + a loose waist, or belt + a cinched waist. Belt + a loose waist is a disaster waiting to happen. Suspenders + a tight waist is a little weird, but whatever.

While it's fun to mix and match fashion eras, some things really do work best in their original pairings, and I encourage folks who try masculine cut high-waisted trousers to do so with suspenders + a waist fit that is a little on the loose side.

This is why I tend to say that going high-waisted is the point where you are committing to a new wardrobe because of how the fit works. It's also why I believe this cut of pants can look good on a variety of body types. But it's assuming suspenders.

[southernsolarpunk-deactivated20]

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[chicorystreetcoffee]