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the cutest little mermaid fairies 🪽
52 Toys.....
the same people that make Beast Box?
UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME NOW!
RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE!
I'M SICK AND TIRED OF NOT BEING ABLE TO AFFORD HAPPINESS!
Reblog and put in the tags a celebrity crush who’s at least 20 years older than you.
The Robert Halmi-produced Hallmark miniseries Merlin originally aired on April 26 and 27, 1998. Sam Neill stars as Merlin in a story that covers his time being raised and trained by Queen Mab as a child and continues to the end of the story of King Arthur.
Directed by frequent Jim Henson collaborator Steve Barron, this is one of my favorite interpretations of the Arthurian mythos, in large part because it leans so heavily on the mythology of the Merlin and the world of fairy. I know the current vogue for the Arthur story seems to be gritty realism mixed with an attempt at plausible historicity, but I don't want that. I want magic and fairies and griffins and the ideals of doing the right thing. It's an allegory. It's a fairy tale. It's a legend. Let it be magical.
A lot of creators I like worked on this, too. Two of the writers are playwright Peter Barnes and Ladyhawke screenwriter Edward Khamara. The conceptual designer was Alan Lee. The cast includes Isabella Rossellini, Helena Bonham Carter, Rutger Hauer, Lena Heady, Billie Whitelaw and Nicholas Clay (from Excalibur!). I especially want to point out Miranda Richardson, who is excellent as Queen Mab, and Martin Short, in one of the best performances of his career, as Mab's gnome servant Frik.
It's a great piece of fantasy work.
Just realized something from the latest episode of Norfolk Wizard Game that relates back to Hunter the Parenting. It seems to be implied that the last people who lived in Arthur Teal's house were Big-D and his family.
We have four rooms most of which reflect the various family members.
Left over vampire hunting stuff, places on the walls where swords used to be, the pink housecoat in the closet, horse soap. This was Big-D's room.
One big bed and a race car bed, very simple furnishings, smells like whisky. This was Door and Boy's room.
Messy yet cozy, with old gaming gear. This was Marcus's room.
But then we have one outlier. Gear for combat sport training, holes in the walls, very sparse yet a lot of broken shit. This doesn't fit anyone we've currently seen in the family. And then I recalled something.
Anton, D's son who was most likely lost to the fae court. If we continue with the logic that family members are inspired by the 40k Emperor and Primarchs, then we can follow that logic with the way these characters are named. Marcus = Magnus Door = Dorn Anton = Angron
This last room is Anton/Angrons. And if the gear in the room doesn't help tip you off, I'd like to remind you that the World Eaters original colour scheme was blue and white.
Door Appreciation
I was thinking about Door. By, erm...The standards of the D family, he's actually quite a good parent!
He's physically affectionate with Boy, rather than being "traditional" and kind of distant with his son. He's unafraid to show concern for him.
He's quite honest with him; he doesn't try to shield him from the truth for the sake of peace of mind. This is probably also partly because in these situations, underestimating how fucked you are will get you killed, but I think it also shows that he respects him. He treats him as being intelligent and capable enough to be told exactly how it is. He isn't the kind of parent that raises their child on heavy condescension and infantilisation. Although, Boy is 11, so, you know, a bit more being treated like an 11 year old might be in order, but, you know, by the standards of this family's way of life, not bad.
He isn't the kind of parent that raises their child on negative reinforcement. When Boy does something well, he praises him. He encourages his skills, interests and sense of humour. He rewards him when he does well. He's not the kind of parent that rules by shame and judgement, causing their children to grow up feeling inadequate and like they're never good enough. His way of parenting is far healthier than that, and I think it shows in the ways Boy is mostly quite open about himself, like freely showing the family his writing and sharing interests such as gaming with them.
Also, again, by the standards of the D family, he shows concern for Boy's mental health. While he does seem to equate being able to get through it with being "strong", he doesn't seem to hold it against Boy that he's having difficulties, or view it as some failing.
Despite bringing Boy into hunting and teaching him how to use a gun, letting him drink booze, etc, he does have concern for Boy's childhood innocence, and he supports his interests like any good parent would do.
TL;DR: Door looks like he kind of smells of BO, but I think he's a good dad by the standards of the D family. His relationship with Boy is super cute and I love them.
I finally watched Father-Son Burger Nightmare! There's so much more Door being good here!
I love how he apologises to Boy like that. It's such a small thing, and that's something that really exposes who he is. He could just brush him off, but he doesn't. He wants Boy to know that he's listened to, and that he, Door, is doing wrong by zoning out while Boy's talking to him.
He puts Boy's safety first. As much as you can while being a hunter and training him to be one too, at least...
He gives him advice instead of just scolding him for not knowing stuff or finding it hard to work stuff out, and talks to him like he's smart enough to engage with them. Some parents really don't do that; they treat it like a bother to have to teach and encourage their children, and use shame to keep them compliant.
He shows his approval of Boy freely, and when he thinks Boy is struggling with stuff, he tries to advise him; he doesn't withhold praise to use shame as a disciplining tool. Even when they're talking about something Boy's worried about, he's encouraging him, telling him that he's smart enough to handle these things, giving him confidence.
Also, this isn't a big thing but I find it really cute how he adopts Boy's eccentricities here with how he says eleven as beleven. It's just really cute, and shows how he's trying to engage with Boy on his level, rather than just talking straight down to him. And look at that lack of toxic masculinity! Telling him it's okay to have doubts, instead of pulling the "men always need to be strong and certain" card.
He's deeply conscious that Boy is a child, which seems to be a feat considering it seems like Big D raised him from the start to be a Hunter; he's not just blindly repeating what was done to him with no regard for whether or not Boy can handle it.
I think it shows a big difference between Door and Big D that Door is very aware of the trauma being inflicted on Boy, and seems to view as a bad thing he'd rather avoid if possible, whereas Big D views it as necessary and beneficial.
Even when he messes up what he's trying to say, he acknowledges to himself that he messed up; he accepts his faults in it instead of letting himself be too proud and blaming Boy, and he tries to explain what he actually meant. He's scolding himself in his head, not Boy. Not perfectly, but that's better than what it could be.
Even though the message he's ultimately teaching him here - that he shouldn't risk kindness to supernatural creatures - is deeply cynical and rather dark, I still think the way he does it is good. He sets the record straight on what he meant, and doesn't let Boy apologise and feel bad for being mistaken. He reaffirms that he's there for him, and that it wasn't that Boy was wrong to be kind; just that monsters will take advantage of it.
He really is a good dad, overall. For a paranoid, gun nut of a Hunter.
Losing it a little over this rental I came across this morning that is for the most part a completely normal unit...
.....except for the Ancient Egypt nook
that nook's for playing yugioh.
And it cannot come soon enough.
With the best will in the world, the cosmetic changes can be made, but the rest seems aspirational.
The oft-touted "checks and balances" within the American system which foreign allies thought they could count on to protect the world from the likes of the current situation have shown themselves to be inadequate.
Trump is the problem, but Trump is the figurehead of a larger issue which I would be surprised to see resolved so quickly.
Trust has been broken and that's a bugger to rebuild.
Almost all of this is nothing but aspirational.
We still haven't fully recovered from the impact of his first term. This first year of his second term is ten times worse. It will take decades to repair the shit he's utterly destroyed. And some of it can't be fixed.
Our credibility with the world is gone. Again, it will take decades to earn it back, and we will never be in the same place on the global stage as we were, again.
None of this will be like flipping a switch and going back to normal. Restoring America will be a very long road, with the republicans fighting us every step of the way. What I'm saying, is this problem does not end once he's gone. That's just step one of a long fight.
anything a republican can break in a day, takes a Democrat 1 year to fix. And dont forget, even IF Trump goes away, we still have to deal with the Republican Majority Supreme Court he installed for the rest of their lives.
Got some cyber truck hot wheels so my mecha kits on display have something to crush
I adore the karmic vengeance of a mecha made of trains crushing some cybertrucks.
"Fuck you Elon, this is for killing the high speed rail program!"
STOMP STOMP
I'm curious, what website do you use to Digibash? I'm looking to digibash AOTP Superion into Nexus Prime after yesterday's disappointing reveal, but I can't really find any websites that work very well.
I use a program call GIMP.
A judge forbid ICE from using chemical agents against bystanders. Just after that ruling Greg Bovino, in his now infamous Nazi march through Minneapolis, personally tossed a chemical grenade at bystanders on live tv. That was a message to the judge that their rulings don’t apply to the Trump administration’s henchmen. MAGA has no respect for law and order.
I love how he's got "self-defense " written on the leaf blower.
Me seeing a bunch of people saying Sinners doesn't deserve the large amount of Oscar Nominations it has because it's apparently “Mid” or “Not good” or they haven't heard of it despite the crazy marketing:
To be fair about people not having heard of it: I also would not have heard of it if it hadn't been for a few specific tumblr users I follow losing their shit about it, because I have heavy ad blocking online and did not see any marketing for it offline so I don't think that not having heard of it or not realizing what it is actually says much on its own.
HOWEVER, that being said I wouldn't use that as a reason to claim it doesn't deserve award nominations, because my awareness of a film doesn't have fuck all to do with the quality of said film, so I'd just be like "oh dip I haven't even heard of this one, what's it about?" Saying "I never heard of it so it can't be THAT good/worth THAT many nominations" is sus as hell.
Same. I have only heard of this film exclusively through Tumblr and John Fugelsang, and I don't have heavy ad blocking.
And for the people saying it doesn't deserve it's nominations because they haven't heard of it, I'd ask them how many of the other films have been nominated have they also not heard of, and why aren't they bitching about those, too?
there isnt any academy award for marketing as far as i know. pretty sure you're supposed to give a movie awards based on how well it was made. not how well people told you to go see it.
watching a video about this cargo ship that blew up in texas in the 40’s and it’s like . i know that with a lot of incidents especially older ones like this the reason that the safety standards were so shitty was because they literally did not know that these kinds of disasters COULD happen (and in many cases these disasters are what MADE the safety standards better) but sometimes you just learn about this shit and you think. how could all these people be so stupid
- cargo of the ship consisted of twine (flammable) peanuts (flammable, oily) and cotton (FLAMMABLE) from houston and POST WAR AMMUNITION (OH MY GOD) FROM CUBA
- additional cargo they were picking up in texas city was LOOSE BAGS OF AMMONIUM NITRATE that the dock workers described as being ANOMALOUSLY WARM UPON BEING LOADED INTO THE SHIP ??????
- small fire breaks out in cargo hold, instead of putting it out with water that could damage the cargo the captain decides to close all the hatches to try to make the cargo hold airtight and smother the fire (stupid but you can kind of understand how they got there)
- the heat of the trapped smoke in the cargo hold instead causes the aforementioned LOOSE BAGS OF AMMONIUM NITRATE to undergo a chemical reaction and turn into nitrous oxide, massively increasing the pressure inside of the airtight hold
- one of the hatch covers fails
- mfw all the pressure in the cargo hold is released at once causing an explosion that fucking levels everything in the port within 2000 feet
- mfw the shockwave shatters windows up to a hundred miles away
- mfw on-fire twine and peanuts and fucking grenades are raining down over texas city
- mfw some of the pieces of the ship got launched into the sky faster than the speed of sound
- mfw they found the ship’s anchor inside of a ten foot wide crater over a mile and a half away
- mfw this was one of the largest and most devastating non-nuclear explosions in world history
- mfw this could have been avoided if they’d just taken the L and put the fire out with water
also worth a mention: the SECOND boat that exploded in a very similar manner the next day which was an even more violent explosion, but less devastating because most of the port was. you know. already leveled and evacuated
someone running rescue and recovery after the FIRST boat exploded noticed that the second boat's cargo was on fire and reported it....and this just went. ignored. for several hours. until someone was like "oh shit better get this under control" and tried to move the boat to no avail and they just gave up and evacuated
next day it started raining glowing-hot metal boat chunks all over the city. AGAIN.
Today's problematic ships are the Grandcamp (first explosion) and High Flyer (second explosion).
https://www.oldsaltblog.com/2013/04/the-texas-city-disaster-the-explosions-of-the-ss-grandcamp-the-ss-high-flyer/
The Return of Everett True
Okay, here's a good argument for modernizing older stories.