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if i look back, i am lost
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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oozey mess
trying on a metaphor
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occasionally subtle
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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#extradirty
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*slams reblog*
Klezmer dolphins.
I don’t know that I’ve reblogged anything faster in my entire tumblr life.
honestly they’re better than the band that played at my bat mitzvah
I like dolphins.
I love klezmer.
But as a former band kid, this made me die laughing.
It’s been a while since I got a wild text from a wrong number
Uhhh so warning for nsfw conversations below the break but I had to ask
They sent a picture as proof ig??? and I would like to bleach my eyes
PROOF??? pls tell me it was just a pick of the stuff together and not the activity 😭
The second one
Update: woke up to this
Yall I am devastated that I haven’t heard back (a part of me wonders if there’s any way he’s seen this post)
Update: the saga continues
Another update because I’ll be honest I forgot about this until a few minutes ago
My parents met while working at Busch Gardens
You should tell your parents this guy is plotting something sinister there
Sorry smg4 community, I had to
New challenge just dropped, draw this as your otp
Draw this as 2 characters from different Fandoms
You didn’t specify which fandoms
Just realized that we’ve got new members to the council since this was last reblogged
He’s back
She played bass on 10,000 songs, including the most-played track of the twentieth century. She was paid $55 per session. Her name never appeared on the albums.
Gold Star Studios, Los Angeles, 1964. A woman in a cardigan walks past the receptionist, a Fender Precision bass in her hand like a briefcase. She doesn’t sign autographs. She signs a timesheet.
Her name is Carol Kaye. In three hours, she will record what will become the most-played track of the twentieth century. She’ll pocket fifty-five dollars and head to another studio, on the other side of town, for the next session.
The record label will never put her name on the album.
Between 1957 and 1973, Carol Kaye took part in roughly 10,000 recording sessions. Not as the featured artist, not as a guest, but as a hired hand. She was part of an anonymous collective nicknamed The Wrecking Crew—elite studio musicians who actually played the instruments on your favorite records while the famous bands posed for promotional photos.
The work was relentless. Three albums before the day was over. Stale coffee in paper cups. No rehearsal. The charts arrived minutes before the tape rolled. If you couldn’t read a chart and nail the take in two tries, you didn’t get called for the next session.
Carol could do it on the first try.
She started playing guitar in grimy bars at fourteen because her family couldn’t pay the electric bill. Music wasn’t a romantic dream for her. It was survival. It was a job—factory work with better acoustics and lower pay.
But she was faster and sharper than almost everyone else. She corrected charts in pencil while the producer was still explaining what he wanted. In one session in 1968, she told a famous producer his arrangement sounded like a dying dog. She chose her own line. They kept her version.
That descending bass line that drives the Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”? Carol Kaye. The propulsive groove of “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”? Carol Kaye. The acoustic-guitar intro to “La Bamba”? Carol Kaye. The iconic theme from Mission: Impossible? Carol Kaye.
She invented techniques on the spot, out of sheer necessity. When the bass sound was too muddy for AM radio, she stuck felt under the strings and used a hard pick instead of her fingers. The tone cut through the static like a blade. It became the sonic signature that defined 1960s pop.
Bassists spent years—decades—trying to crack the secret of the Beach Boys’ gear to get that sound. They were studying the wrong people. They should have been studying Carol.
She received no royalties. No residuals. No gold-record ceremony. No credit on the album sleeves. When “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” hit number one, Carol was already back in a studio cutting a soap jingle.
The biggest bands mimed her bass lines on TV variety shows. New York marketing departments decided a mom in classic clothes didn’t fit the rebellious-youth image they were selling. So they simply left her name off the album credits.
For thirty years, almost no one cared. The truth only began to surface in the late 1990s, when music researchers found the same union contract numbers on thousands of hit records. The very documents meant to preserve studio musicians’ anonymity betrayed them.
Think about it. Every time you heard “Good Vibrations,” “River Deep – Mountain High,” the Righteous Brothers, Nancy Sinatra, or Sonny and Cher, you were hearing Carol Kaye. She composed the soundtrack of an entire generation’s youth.
And yet the records still say nothing. She’s now over eighty. She wrote instructional books. She trained countless bassists. She is finally starting to be recognized by music historians who uncovered the truth about The Wrecking Crew.
But she never got what she deserved: her name on those albums. Credit for the music that defined an era. Recognition that those bass lines everyone associates with the “Beach Boys” were, in fact, Carol Kaye’s.
Fifty-five dollars a session. Ten thousand sessions. The most-played track of the twentieth century.
And the world didn’t know her name.
She was admitted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2025 but refused, fuck yeah, Carol. Her official website is incredible.
Today I learned 3D animation is a horror show outside the camera's field of view.
Just to add context, the director wanted the scene to use an 85mm lens which is slightly telephoto. Telephoto lenses give a very intimate feel because they compress the scene. Background and foreground objects can appear larger at longer focal lengths.
But that compression can also make objects look the wrong size in context with the subject depending on the framing.
This is done in live action as well using another person's hands in front of the camera.
Or sometimes they create giant fake hands like in Hellboy.
they did this in lord of the rings too!
via @suppermariobroth :
“In the main menu of Mario Power Tennis, Toad is present to explain the selection options. It appears as though Toad is close to the background and roughly the same size as the icons. However, moving the viewpoint reveals that Toad is actually extremely tiny and extremely close to the camera (note Toad near the left edge of the screen in the bottom image).”
TOAD IN THE VOID
OP mingbi on TikTok
Finn not leading a massive stormtrooper rebellion and inspiring them to fight back against the First order who kidnapped and brainwashed them, will always be one of the most wasted potential arcs and plots in modern film history.
Who wants to get fucked up on the green neolithic slime that makes you hallucinate to death?
Me: I won't repeat my father's mistakes
Me [2 hours later]: I should build a porch
who says brunette girls with dimples can't build patios…. not me thats for sure! I have sandy hair and am male and don't have dimples and I built this patio alone, but I just wanted to let you all know that i support women.
(so 1000 people don't "um actually," yes 1st post says porch, I meant patio, got my P words mixed up)
*gently takes your face in my hands* hey. remember that fandom is for fun. if you're not having fun it is ok to step back. if you're intentionally making it unfun for others it is ok to step back. none of this is real. go sit in the sun and smell a flower. i love you.
tumblr is like an abandoned space station & you all are the thing in the vents
not me though. im girl with tanktop
they got married btw
oh you’re not kidding
"No Gas! Reading is not Rationed. Let's Go Read! Kalamazoo Public Library"
[ID: A black and white scan of a card produced by Kalamazoo Public Library with three panels, illustrated in 1940s style: The first shows a person looking at a gas pump with a No Gas! sign hung on it. The second shows the same person walking away with the text Reading is not rationed. Let's go read! The third panel shows the person walking up steps under a grand arch, to the library. Kalamazoo Public Library is typed in all caps along the bottom. /ID]
This is such a neat piece of history, I reached out to Kalamazoo Public Library to try to learn more about it. Ryan Gage at their local history department took up the challenge. He had to do some digging to find it but he persisted and eventually found a trace of it in the library archive scrapbooks! Here's what he shared:
The Reading is Not Rationed card was produced by KPL's director of public relations. This was a two-color card placed in Kalamazoo buses beginning in the spring of 1943. Tire and gasoline rationing meant the trend of local bus travel would be definitely upward.
The library didn't save any copies of the card for their own archives, so it's extra cool to see it preserved here!
The Muppets s01e01
Fozzy getting hit on by lots of twinks
Happy Pride Month
Ten years later, this bit still slaps. They made a great pun and realized they could be nice/inclusive with it too.
guys i just found out about this site that does a daily guessing game, it’s phylogenetic wordle- so fun!!!
guys i just found out about this site that does a daily guessing game, it’s phylogenetic wordle- so fun!!!
