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I'm Rachel Beth Hines,professional animator and animation historian Favorite Fandoms All Things Disney Non/Disney Doctor Who Star Wars Digimon Boy Meets World Archie Sonic Comics Ballet

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[croxovergoddess]

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[rachelbethhines]

Princess Tutu and Corresponding Ballets - Episode 4

Giselle

Giselle 

Reasons for inclusion 

Episode’s Title 

Heavily incorporates music from ballet into episode 

It’s Giselle’s story that Edel tells, although in the ballet Giselle is not just the girl who dies, but also the girl who saves the nobleman she was in love with through dance. This casts not just the Wili Maiden, but also Rue and Duck in Giselle’s role. (This is interesting because they’re both interested in Mytho, who is after all a prince, and so of a higher class than them - just like Giselle and Albrecht in the ballet.)  

The Wili Maiden’s clothes are based on Giselle's 

Episode 3 -> http://rachelbethhines.tumblr.com/post/138883705521/princess-tutu-and-corresponding-ballets-episode

Episode 5 ->  http://rachelbethhines.tumblr.com/post/138937286581/princess-tutu-and-corresponding-ballets-episode

[rachelbethhines]

Daily Self Care Tasks 6/20/26

Volunteer Or Donate To A Non-Profit

Post Something Positive Online

Repeat An Affirmation

Do A Good Deed

Exercise

Practice A Hobby

Tidy Up One Area In Your Home

[burntundertones]

[probablyasocialecologist]

“Musk talks about Mars as a lifeboat for humanity, which is among the very stupidest things that someone could say,” says Adam Becker, an astrophysicist and author of the book More Everything Forever, which outlines the messianic, sci-fi fantasies of the tech oligarchs. “There are so many reasons why it’s such a bad idea, and this is not about, ‘Oh, we’ll never have the technology to live on Mars.’ That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that Earth is always going to be a better option no matter what happens to Earth. Like, we could get hit with an asteroid the size of the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could explode every single nuclear weapon, and Earth would still be more habitable. We could have the worst-case scenario for climate change, and Earth would still be more habitable. Any cursory examination of any of the facts about Mars makes it very clear.”

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[wire-smith]

I really like sci-fi stories where people have to go off and terraform a planet, or figure out how to rebuild civilization after some disaster, or ideally both. "The last ark-ship leaving Earth right before it becomes uninhabitable" sort of deal. But lately I've been coming around to this same idea, that it will always be more practical to try to save Earth than to try to start over elsewhere.

I was reading one story where the apocalypse was impossibly-rising oceans. Like, water is appearing from *waves hand* the Earth's crust or something, and literally all dry surface land on Earth is going to become underwater in X years. Part of the story was about a giant research project to invent FTL to send a few hundred humans to a nearby star which might have a habitable planet. You know what they were hoping to find? A planet with liquid water. Their plan was to descend from their starship and restart civilization using just the tools they brought with them, on a world with no life and no breathable air and the wrong gravity and the wrong temperate and the wrong sunlight and the wrong day-night cycle, just because it had liquid water. You know where else has liquid water? The flooded Earth you just abandoned. Instead of researching starship technology, you could have spent that time loading up all the same civilization-restarter tools into boats.

And this is really true of any futuristic apocalypse scenario. If you can terraform Mars to have a thick oxygen atmosphere, why not just do that to Earth? Even if you smash an ice comet into Earth and destroy basically everything, Earth will still be more habitable than Mars! It'll still have roughly the right atmospheric pressure, and magnetic field, and heat balance, and it'll still have whatever life the comet didn't kill... Same with a starshade to cool Venus. Same with excavating asteroids into city-stations. Same with abandoning Sol System entirely and heading to another star. If an ark-ship arrived in a new star system and found Earth-but-choked-by-climate-change, the crew would be ecstatic. They would never have thought to get that lucky. So why bother with the trip? Just stay and fix the damn Earth.

[sick-jan]

[whenweallvote]

Many of us are taught that slavery came to an end with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, but for enslaved people in Texas, freedom didn’t come until June 19, 1865.

Swipe to learn about the history of Juneteenth, and why it’s a celebration of freedom, culture, and progress.

[bitchesgetriches]

Hey bitches! I had an unexpected death occur back home while I’m currently living internationally. Despite the expensive plane tickets (damn you, American Airlines!) I made the decision to buy the tickets on my credit card. However, now I’m worried that I’m going to snowball into debt. I’ve always paid my credit cards on time and in full and my statements are always $0/month because I pay everything off. Do you have any advice for how I can make this unexpected expense go away quickly?!

Deep breath, babycakes! We gotchu. Here is our guide for the best, easiest, and fastest ways to pay off that unexpected credit card debt:

The Best Way To Pay off Credit Card Debt: From the Snowball To the Avalanche 

Stick to a plan and be a little more frugal in the coming weeks if you can. A credit card is a tool, and you shouldn't be afraid of it.

Weirdly enough, I ALSO had to buy some expensive airline tickets to visit a dying family member recently. And I ALSO put it on a credit card because it was an unexpected expense. I will literally be using one of the methods in the above article myself. Call it Bitch-tested and Bitch-approved!

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[batmanisagatewaydrug]

bringing a sort of "slavery is still alive and well in US prisons" vibe to the office Juneteenth post that my higher ups don't really like

[hunter-gratzner]

From what I understand slavery was never actually abolished in the us. It is still legal and all.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the amendment that "ended" slavery specifically left permission for slave labor as punishment for convinced criminals and our inmates have been legally exploited ever since, yes

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

not a bummer, say it louder

[were--ralph]

personally i think miucrosoft should be sued for what they're doing to the game industry

[were--ralph]

Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory

The future of Senua, which Xbox just announced, is unclear.

Game sold badly? Fired

Game sold well? Fired

Game just came out? Fired

Game not out yet? Fired

Game literally just announced? Fired

Xbox is an active hindrance to the games industry and i think we'd genuinely be better without them and their shitty console no one buys

[were--ralph]

[Source]

Death to Xbox

[kazzikuzzi]

[krudman]

The year is 2026 and every company with a brand called X is striving to make it as bad as humanly possible.

[professionalowl]

it is of course easier to performatively ban children from social media than to do things like "actually challenge and regulate the abusive tactics tech companies use to extract people's data and money via social media" but if we did the second thing we wouldn't have any excuse to force people to use digital ID :(

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[rachelbethhines]

I really wish people would tag blood and gore properly. Even if it's just a silly reaction gif.

[mylesbianromance]

this came to me in a dream

[retropopcult]

Cosplayers at a Star Trek Convention, 1976

[foone]

in this house we have endless respect for cosplayers from the days before VCRs.

You couldn’t just rewatch the episode to look at all the details of the costume. You got lucky with press photos showing up in magazines or you just watched the episode/movie while sketching furiously

[silencedrowns]

thinking about that one woman who made a Star Wars flight suit in 1977 entirely from trading cards and sketching details in the theater. or stories I’ve heard about old school Trek cosplayers getting the bizarre seam placements right by photocopying magazines onto overhead transparencies and projecting them onto butcher paper.

I’m a semi old school cosplayer (started in 2001) so some of the old school techniques are still things I learned on (I’ve sketched from stuttering VHS tapes on pause and used the overhead transparency trick)… what we have access to now for costume recreation blows what they had out of the water just in terms of reference material, let alone specialty costume supplies like thermoplastics and cosplay wigs.

[meeedeee]

That Star Wars fan who made the flight suit from trading cards and movie sketches is TJ Burnside and she is still with us. In fact, I am adding to her Fanlore page with info about the flight suit (and how it went viral on Twitter and Redditt a few years back). Fanlore.org, is a fan run fandom history wiki. Stay tuned.

Her (sadly) barebones Fanlore page is here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/T.J._Burnside

[durnesque-esque]

The flight suit in question:

[uncleromeo]

if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.