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FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT you are allowed to feel proud of yourself for things that might seem silly to other people, like getting better at a video game or putting together a nice outfit for the next morning or finishing a book. You deserve to feel proud for your accomplishment.

[aropride]

cool captions for an image of your newborn child

erm… THAT just happened

look at my thing i made

i love my baby! #mybaby

soooo… i just did a thing

new baby just dropped

this vs hydrogen bomb

[circle factory image] i guess we doin babies now

if youre in line to be born STAY IN LINE

[evilwizard]

gnome scientists have discovered how to split the atomberry

[wizard-council-bureaucrat]

The invention of bombasticly berry flavors, and their death toll, based on this break through, ended up becoming gnome physicist Alberry Tinystein’s biggest regret in life.

[evilwizard]

upon hearing the term, “mushroom cloud,” many gnomes ran outside their houses laughing and giggling, only to be caught in the shockwave

[seat-safety-switch]

Recently, I bought a firetruck. That's a thing you can do: after all, your local firefighters are not tooling around in stuff that was built in the roaring twenties. They gotta sell off the old stuff eventually, and there's only so many museums with room to accept "old" (the phase before "vintage") things the size and leakiness of a firetruck. If you turn up to a municipal auction and hold out a brick of twenties, they'll probably take it before noticing that the inside of the brick is a literal brick.

So: fire truck. There's just one problem, and that is that fire trucks use a lot of diesel. They're big and heavy and, I suspect, geared for getting to a fire quickly, rather than sipping on fuel and adopting a more leisurely pace while the orphanage is engulfed in orphan-melting flames. Especially with the current price of petrochemicals, I had to figure out a way to make this firetruck make money.

Children's birthday parties are the obvious answer, but I got no calls. It turns out you can get firefighters to come to your kid's party for free, just by calling 911 and starting a small fire in your backyard. Unethical, certainly, but a lot cheaper than paying me my rate (and accepting my thoroughly-complicated liability waiver.)

It was when I was stuck in traffic that I came up with my brilliant business idea. In front of me was a very filthy pickup truck. Were they too busy to go to the car wash? My firetruck was always gleaming clean, because it carried its own water with it... hold on a second.

Your town may have squeegee kids that offer to (poorly) clean your windshield for a couple bucks. That isn't shit compared to what I've got lined up for the denizens of my town. What I do is: I'll turn the high-pressure hose on your car when we're both stopped at the red light. Sometimes I'll even do it before you pay me, or agree to a car wash, or have time to close your sunroof. They're short lights around this neighbourhood, so we gotta cut out some of the bullshit in the name of keeping things moving. You didn't want a car wash? What are you gonna do, argue with a firefighter? You might have a little accident in the kitchen later, and then you'll really regret pissing us off while your house is burning down.

[charmwasjess]

Having someone ask ChatGPT in a meeting is like being a grown-ass professional adult in a room full of other grown-ass professional adults trying to solve a problem, while a colleague with one of those baby toys that makes animal sounds repeatedly presses the cow button. And we all have to stop what we're doing and listen to cow go moo and say "wow hm yeah that's not really what we're asking but the cow does definitely go moo, good thoughts"

[wizardshark]

*in the middle of sex* hold on homestuck update

[wizardshark]

hey what the fuck. Who dug this up? What are you doing?? I’m not a historical artifact!!

[wizardshark]

why are replies restricted for this post? I’m the OP I didn’t even turn them off. If tumblr users want to drag my rotting corpse through the streets that is their god given right

[fliits]

Nothing in the world feels as unjust as the fate of the Disco Elysium developers.

Imagine you build this in-depth fictional setting over the course of decades with your friends, and then decide to turn it into a game for fun. You end up creating one of the most celebrated and well-written RPGs of all time and become celebrated for reviving a dying genre.

A few months later, you're fired from the company you founded for criticizing the new direction its taking. The company has the copyright not only to the game you made, but literally everything in the world of the game, which spans decades of lore you built for no profit with your group of friends.

Like, this is a nightmare that I didn't even know existed before I ran into it. To have, what is essentially a passion project that branched off from a TTRPG campaign, be pulled from your hands by a corporate entity that only yearns to abuse your creation for maximum profit. I couldn't imagine myself going on creating anything after that.

[loveridden1999]

i am not going to lie i quite enjoy talking to myself out loud like a weirdo

[moldavite]

[spookyboywhump]

A small pet peeve I have is when people try to discuss whumpees having to deal with having a period in the midst of their whump and use words like “female whumpee” “afab whumpee” “lady whumpee”. I don’t think it’s intentional or anything but I just want to grab people by the shoulders and remind them that it’s okay to just say “whumpee who menstruates” “whumpee who gets a period” ect. Men or male people can also get periods. People who were not assigned female at birth can also get periods. People who don’t identify as men or women can get periods. In general I think there needs to be more gender neutral language involved with all general prompts but this in particular irritates me.

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the other day in the groupchat we were talking about how historical fiction will often try to code aristocrat characters as more sympathetic by only having them have a single servant instead of a whole household of staff but instead this just makes them look like an exploitative employer who’s so cheap he would rather pile impossible amounts of labor upon a single guy than hire enough help to actually run his house

[yb-cringe]

i feel like your group of close knit characters would work better less as a found family and more as a ride or die indie rock band a la lemonade mouth. “whos the mom friend” shut up. whos the bassist.

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdQuxw52/

I think I found my new favorite rabbit hole. This voice actor does Shakespeare scenes in a southern accent and I need to see the whole damn play. Absolutely beautiful

[saint-batrick]

if you're not from the us american south, there's some amazing nuances to this you may have missed. i can't really describe all of them, because i've lived here my whole life and a lot of the body language is sort of a native tongue thing. the body language is its own language, and i am not so great at teaching language. i do know i instinctively sucked on my lower teeth at the same time as he did, and when he scratched the side of his face, i was ready to take up fucking arms with him.

but y'all. the way he said "brutus is an honourable man" - each and every time it changed just a little. it was the full condemnation Shakespeare wanted it to be. it started off slightly mock sincere. barely trying to cover the sarcasm. by the end...it wasn't a threat, it was a promise.

christ, he's good.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

the eliding of “you all” to “y’all” while still maintaining 2 syllables is a deliberate and brilliant act of violence. “bear with me” said exactly like i’ve heard it at every funeral. the choices of breaking and re-establishing of eye contact. the balance of rehearsed and improvised tone. A+++ get this man a hollywood contract.

[ruffboi-mags]

Get this man a starring role as Marc Antony in a southern adaptation of this show PLEASE.

[amodernjunecleaver]

This man is fantastic. 💕

[finnglas]

The thing that just destroys me about this, though -- we think of Shakespearean language as being high-cultured, and intellectual, and somewhat inaccessible. And I know people think of Southerners as being ill-educated (which...let's be fair, most are, but not the way it's said). But that whole speech, unaltered, is so authentically Southern. And the thing is: Leaning into that language really amps the mood, in metalanguage. I'm not really sure how to explain it except... like... "Thrice" is not a word you hear in common speech...unless you're in the South and someone is trying to Make A Fucking Point.

Anyway. This was amazing and I want a revival of Shakespeare As Southern Gothic.

[thornheart-needs-a-break]

One of the lovely things about this, and one of the reasons it works so well, is that from what we can piece together of how Shakespeare was originally pronounced, it leans more towards an American southern accent than it does towards a modern British RP.

In addition, in the evolution of the English language in america, the south has retained many of the words, expressions, and cadences from the Renaissance/Elizabethan English spoken by the original British colonists.

One of the biggest examples of this is that the south still uses “O!”/“Oh!” In sentences, especially in multi-tone and multi-syllable varieties. We’ve lost that in other parts of the country (except in some specific pocket communities). But in the south on the whole? Still there. People in California or Chicago don’t generally say things like “why, oh why?” Or “oh bless your heart” or “Oh! Now why you gotta do a thing like that?!” But people from the south still do.

I teach, direct, and dramaturg Shakespeare for a living. When people are struggling with the “heightened” language, especially in “O” heavy plays like R&J and Hamlet, a frequent exercise I have them do is to run the scene once in a southern accent. You wouldn’t believe the way it opens them up and gives their contemporary brains an insight into ways to use that language without it being stiff and fake. Do the Balcony scene in a southern accent- you’ll never see it the same way again.

This guy is also doing two things that are absolutely spot-on for this speech:

First, he’s using the rhetorical figures Shakespeare gave him! The repetition of “ambition” and “Brutus is an honorable man”, the logos with which he presents his argument, the use of juxtaposition and antitheses (“poor have cried/caesar hath wept”, etc). You would not believe how many RADA/Carnegie/LAMDA/Yale trained actors blow past those, and how much of my career I spend pointing it out and making them put it back in.

Second, he’s playing the situation of the speech and character exactly right. This speech is hard not just because it’s famous, but because linguistically and rhetorically it’s a better speech than Brutus’ speech and in the context of the play, Brutus is the one who is considered a great orator. Brutus’ speech is fiery passion and grandstanding, working the crowd, etc. Anthony is not a man of speeches (“I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man”) His toastmaster skills are not what Brutus’ are, but he speaks from his heart (his turn into verse in this scene from Brutus’ prose is brilliant) and lays out such a reasonable, logical argument that the people are moved anyway. I completely believe that in this guy’s performance. A plain, blunt, honest speaker. Exactly what Anthony should be.

TLDR: Shakespeare is my job and this is 100% a good take on this speech.

[krakenartificer]

definitely one of the challenges I have with reading Shakespeare is that it sounds so weird to me. “The good is oft interr’d with their bones”?? Who talks like that?

Well,,, rednecks. Despite being Elizabethan English, none of this is really out of character for a man with that accent; southern american English has retained not only (I am told) the accent of Shakespeare, and the “Oh!” speech patterns, but also so many of the little linguistic patterns: parenthetic repetition (“so are they all - all honorable men”), speaking formally when deeply emotional, getting more and more sarcastic and passive-aggressive as time goes on, etc.

[headspace-hotel]

Someone sent this to me a while ago and I dropped it in my drafts because I wanted to comment on how RIGHT this sounded but I couldn't express why it sounded right, so I'm glad other people have picked it up

There's a theory that Appalachian English in particular retains a lot of the qualities present in Shakespearean english that are now gone elsewhere. Thinking of my Mamaw, who says "twice't" instead of twice and other things like that...

[whumpster-fire]

This is right up there with Gary's Cook's Hamlet soliloquy

[iwhumpyou]

First of all, this is brilliant acting. Second of all, the language analysis above is great for anyone interested in it. And lastly, this video, to me, does a great job of pointing out the effect of type of media on the story you're trying to tell. Shakespeare's plays work best as plays. Not as scripts, not as movies. Plays.

[amuseoffyre]

This is the thing that drives me nuts about Shakespeare always being filmed in RP in the past. The actors weren't upper class. They were working in theatres. They had regional and scattered accents. Shakespeare was from Stratford. THere's a whole bunch of of the rhyming structures in the plays don't work in RP accents, because the emphasis and intonation of a sound is different for people with non-RP accents.

There was an incredible version of Julius Caesar done by the BBC a few years ago set in modern Africa and once again, their accents worked beautifully with the language

[imsorrybruce]

It seems that people in fandom think that Bruce's civilian persona is one of complete hedonism, carelessness, cowardice, lack of responsibility and authority, that fanon takes to the absolute extremes. And while yes, Bruce does try to appear unassuming as Bruce Wayne, that doesn't mean that he would close his eyes on something wrong happening in front of him while he is in his civilian identity. In fact, he pretty consistently does the exact opposite - opposes the wrongdoing/asserts his position even if it's unpopular/helps the civilians even if it might risk exposing his identity. Some examples below

Long Halloween #1 // Batman and the Mad Monk #3 // Batman Legends of the Dark Knight #2-4 // Batman #3 (2025) // Batman Year One

So the idea that he would let any of his family be abused for the sake of his persona is ridiculous.

[sexchangedotcom]

my beautiful baby who i'm naming untitled document

[sexchangedotcom]

i can't seem to find my baby

[robs-your-robins]

Bruce speaks Japanese like a Yakuza. He spends too much time listening in on Yakuza to foil their plans and the other assassins he hangs out with also don't speak particularly polite Japanese because they're on the job so Bruce in business meetings is Japan is coming in sounding like a Gotham Mob Boss when he forgets himself and starts speaking Japanese the way he's used to.

Yes, absolutely. I think Bruce has this with most languages, he speaks Parisian French, formal German, throws around casual every Russian and speaks very formally in Arabic. Even English, he has old money Bruce and Gotham Bruce.

[100newfears-archive-deactivated]

and then romeo-kun and juliet-chan inevitably committed the seppuku

[pkariya]

sugoi. what light through the window comes, desu? it is the east, and my waifu is the sun. 

[bearxing]

did my kokoro doki till now? forswear it, sight! for i ne’er saw true kawaii till this night.

[officialrobbycoates]

o romeo-kun, romeo-kun, doushite art thou, romeo-kun? deny thy otou-san and refuse thy namae, or, if thou ja nai, but be sworn my daisuki, and i’ll no longer be a capulet-sama.

[iwasthinkingofanimeagain-deacti]

I’ve only seen this legendary post in screen shots