[dealmeout]

Interviewer: Are women in this country going to be better off... uh, with President Reagan in office?

Alan Alda: [laughter] No. (x)

[humorblr]

A foundling is in your care. By creed, until it is of age or reunited with it’s own kind, you are as it’s father… You are a clan of two.

THE MANDALORIAN 2019- | cr. Jon Favreau

[ryancoogler]

NOTTING HILL + references in pop culture

NOTTING HILL (1999) DAWSON’S CREEK (1999) 30 ROCK (2009) HAPPY ENDINGS (2011) THE GOOD PLACE (2017) WE ARE LADY PARTS (2021) TED LASSO (2021)

[tiktokstowatch]

[simonalkenmayer]

...

No...

I thought I could figure out the referent, but no. I can’t. Which murdered British boys? Someone go back and ask that elderly neighbor or I’ll never be able to sleep again.

[starkie-md]

King Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York! They were murdered by their uncle!

[knightsintodreams]

She... she does

[miriammaisel]

@pscentral​ mini event: get to know the members

THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL (2017-) | MIDGE MAISEL + FAVORITE LOOKS

[tvneon]

HBO used to know how to really get you hyped to watch a movie…

[adulthoodisokay]

as a kid in the 80s, seeing this made my brain vibrate with excitement

[tvneon]

HBO used to know how to really get you hyped to watch a movie…

[adulthoodisokay]

as a kid in the 80s, seeing this made my brain vibrate with excitement

[marvelfandom]

WONDER WOMAN 1984 (2020) dir. Patty Jenkins

[marciabrady]

EVA GABOR, the original voice for DUCHESS and MISS BIANCA

“I do a scene and the animators watch carefully. My voice is taped. Then the animators imitate my gestures. I play the character. When you see the character, you see me. The animators are absolute genius. It is incredible. I work with the writers to suit my way of performance…I gave up trying to lose my accent. It’s been too lucrative to lose it. The trouble is I don’t hear my accent. I hear everybody else’s…I play tennis like mad, and then I go out in the evenings. I couldn’t do it without wigs. I still believe everyone should look their best or shouldn’t go out. It takes a lot of effort.”

[fimbry-talks]

Love when my cat flings himself into the air after a toy, but he has no style. Straight up ragdoll physics.

[followthebluebell]

One day i want to take a video of Yardstick straight-up hurling himself into the void. Cats have no conception that there is a future. There is just now and the jingly toy.

[kleppy02]

Your cat’s name is Yardstick?

[followthebluebell]

He has three feet.

[dontliveinthefuture]

fast car by tracy chapman isnt even a song thats God

[nicola-coughlan]

TED LASSO APPRECIATION WEEK ⚽️ day two: favorite dynamic

[prokopetz]

Honestly, about 80% of the blame for my insufferable preoccupation with metatextual bullshit can probably be laid at the feet of the fact that I grew up reading Choose Your Own Adventure books.

[prokopetz]

I don’t just mean the branching narratives or the worryingly graphic death scenes, either. I grew up with the classic series back in the 1980s, which – as an incomplete list – features the following: 

Multiple books where the protagonist’s own actions end up retroactively causing the disaster they’re currently dealing with  

Multiple books where the solution to the mystery changes based on what the most fucked up possible outcome of your choices would be (e.g., whether the monster is real or not depends on which option would have the worse implications)  

Multiple books that deliberately trap you in an infinite loop of forced choices, then make fun of you for falling for it  

A recurring quasi-benevolent mad scientist character who’s repeatedly implied to be aware that she’s a fictional character, and at one point breaks the fourth wall to remind you (as in you-the-reader, not you-the-protagonist) that you’ve encountered her in other books in the series  

A book where a particular series of choices results in you running into Edward Packard, the author of the book that you’re currently reading  

A book where there’s no valid sequence of choices at all that leads to the “best” ending; if you happen to stumble across it by randomly flipping through the pages, the ending’s text explicitly acknowledges this and claims it’s for thematic reasons  

A book that uses misleading page formatting to make it appear as though you’ve received a bad ending, but if you read closely you’ll notice that you can turn the page and get a twist ending where your dog saves the day  

A book with a time-travel framing device where one of the several twist endings has the protagonist turn out to be the reader’s own past self, confirmed when the narrative “catches up” to the present and begins describing the protagonist reading a paragraph of text describing the protagonist reading that paragraph (i.e., what the reader is doing at that exact moment)

Bear in mind that all of these are written in the second person (i.e., the protagonist is “you”) and the present tense, and you may appreciate why an eight-year-old reader’s brain might possibly explode.

[fipindustries]

choose your own adventured walked so that homestuck could trip down a flight of stairs and crack its head on the pavement

[prokopetz]

I mean, we were warned.

[prokopetz]

Since I’ve received multiple follow-ups wanting to know the name of the series, I feel I should point out that it’s literally in the first sentence of the initial post. Title-cased italics denote a proper title!

(The original Choose Your Own Adventure series was published from the late 1970s through the mid 1990s; the phrase’s modern usage to designate a genre is an example of a genericised trademark, like “kleenex” or “dumpster”. You can find a list of books in the series here. In general, the early entries by Edward Packard are your best bets for the brainfucky stuff, with Inside UFO 54-40, Hyperspace, and the Cave of Time duology being particular stand-outs, though I recall R A Montgomery’s House of Danger getting in a few good ones as well.)

[pionoplayer-deactivated20241125]

The thing I always remember of when I read these books as a kid was that I felt like it was terribly unfair and bad writing to change the details of events based on what actions I choose. If the adventure itself changes depending on what I want to do, then what’s the point of giving me choices in the first place?

In retrospect, there really was a lot of clever things in some of them but I stand by the statement that as CYOAs the original Choose Your Own Adventures are actually pretty garbage.

[prokopetz]

To be fair, it depended on what kind of book it was. Packard’s CYOA murder mysteries – e.g., Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey? – are scrupulously fair play; he mostly reserved the metatextual rug-pulls for the less investigative, more surreal instalments.

(Heck, Harlowe Thrombey was actually criticised by contemporary readers when it was first published for having the murderer’s identity turn out to be the same in every route, as many felt that it robbed the book of replay value!)

[jennortegas]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)

How much do you know about show business, Mr. Valiant?

Only that there is no business like it, no business I know.

[olympain]

It’s not a math test.

[gjoeyjoe]

[rossthenerd]