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@shamois
IT'S BEEN A YEAR
First year done and dusted, nearly fucked up the exam, excelled in everything else. Clearly I’ve been to busy/disorganised to keep up with this blog despite being VERY aware of it’s existance. I splashed out on an iPad to use as a note book instead of bringing too many with me and sometimes losing them. Gonna install an app on it and use this place as revision consolidation to keep my brain…
"Bliss by Palette Knife" by River Berumen
The Green Dress. Ca. 1896. Source.
The visionary Indian director behind modern cult favourite The Fall reflects on the film finding its audience after 17 years, and the produc
@liciapocalypse
You telling me that Jack Black would not be 1000% down to be kidnapped by the muppets for a shenanigan, or possible a hijink?
Mr. The Frog still sends me more than “we all agreed a celebrity is not a people”
It’s funny to me that I’ve met people named Grace, Faith, Patience and Chastity. It is so funny that Puritan names have survived so long and are still so popular if you take a step back and think about it. She’s getting Starbucks today and accusing a townsperson of witchcraft tomorrow.
AND DESTINY, I’ve met so many Destinys.
Nobody even chooses the COOL Puritan names like Punishment, Humiliation, Refuge, Relief, Obedience. And it’s always girls getting Puritan names nowadays. When am I going to see a baby boy named Submit To His Will.
Thats the name of an ex-fundamentalist kinky gay if ever I heard one
kinky evil former Puritan vampire
i found out i had a quaker cousin from the 1600s named Wrestling. as in, from the torah, Jacob’s wrestling with an angel. She also had a brother named Repentance and one of her sisters was named Fear.
Absolutely losing my mind over Love, Patience, Fear, Wrestling and fucking Jonathan
me and my partner have been obsessed with the unhinged insanity of this video for the last day. I can't stop thinking about it.
I can feel parts of my body shutting down in self-defense while watching this. The amount of damage food like this does should be criminalized. The sheer amount of dairy in it alone is a capital crime.
I'm reblogging this to find it to use as an appetite suppressant in future.
it just keEPS GOING
Can we talk about this video and how I CAN NOT.
...the fuck.
Hashem gave us the laws of kashrut so we couldn’t make the mistake of eating this monstrosity.
oh my god why
@phillycheesesteakcore I know I sent you something already but like...
okay listen. I remember this infamous video. I remembered thinking "it's a little extreme, but it might be good". I remember seeing a post about someone who tried recreating this monstrosity and said it was awful. rewatching the video just now, I can say it wasn't as bad as I remember. maybe I'm built different. verdict: WOULD
before spotify wrapped comes out i have to establish that i am not mentally well and cannot be held responsible for my listening habits
Hey tumblr friends, in case I haven't told you lately, I have no idea what the FUCK half of you are on about and I WISH I didn't know what the rest of you are on about. Great work. Keep it up.
I'm in Reykjavik, at the Nordic Noir festival. I took this photo this evening as the last of the dusk was being eaten by the night.
Sleep thing part two: What time is it a *disaster* for you to get to bed? You may be able to get through the day but it's going to hurt. Like. This isn't a "I'm so sleep deprived that I need to call off of work because it's not safe for me to do my job" thing, it's a "I am going to feel like shit all day and I'm going to crash hard when I'll get home but I'll be able to hang" thing.
What time is TOO LATE for you to go to bed and have a decent day the next day?
9:00 PM
10:00 PM
11:00 PM
12:00 PM
1:00 AM
2:00 AM
3:00 AM
4:00 AM
5:00 AM
6:00 AM
Earlier than 9:00 PM
Later than 6:00 AM
People are often surprised to learn that this is by M.C. Escher! 1919. Source.
Woke Goggles™ strike again.
Also, he really set himself up with that movie list. Hoo boy.
Like, I knew the trap I set was not going to work out for him. And it was extra fun how confident he was with "I dunno" and "need more." All while setting me up for the spike with an oversized beach ball.
Dragonball Z: World's Strongest has the political message of the old generation actively preying on the younger to keep themselves propped up and powerful, literally stealing their bodies for this. It also has an undercurrent of toxic masculinity, for even a genius like Dr. Wheelo values being in the "strongest" body even though there's no special need to have the physically strongest body when in his current state he's a brain in a jar. ...Admittedly, I've only seen the abridged version but I think I get the gist of it.
Really? Because what I took away from the Abridged version was that Kochin was the one obsessed with strength (and the new body having a penis) while Dr Wheelo just wanted any body, and wouldn't have minded being a woman.
Also lots of silly jokes.
>Jaws was a critique of capitalism You mean the movie where the Mayor and council were concerned with crippling the main industry of the town? And leaned on the ME to blame the first death on a "boating accident"?
How is that a capitalism thing?
I'm pretty sure I could dredge up a other few examples from authoritarian, non-capitalist states where the government did things with industry even when it hurt countless people. Like the Holodomor.
Also, I looked it up, and the town had literally never had a shark attack before. Shark attacks are rare, in reality (1 in 1.15 million, after you limit it to beachgoers), and Hooper and Brody lacked solid proof after the first attack.
The audience knows the Mayor is going to be wrong, because it wouldn't be much of a movie if he was right. But what he did wasn't exactly unreasonable from his perspective.
In the book, the Mayor is in the pocket of the local mob, which forces him to keep the beaches open.
>Top Gun
Didn't both movies make the enemy a vague, unspecified country specifically to avoid being about any country in particular? Maverick is political in that it is made about a nation's armed force. But the film itself wasn't really political.
And for propaganda, they put a great deal of emphasis on how everyone on the mission could die, and mavericks like Maverick were on their way out the door.
The Matrix
Neither of the Wachowskis were out as transgender at the point when they were making the film, and wouldn't be out for years afterward. Their retroactive statement 20+ years later on the film's themes does not make it so.
@siryouarebeingmocked
Oh boy.
So, just because you don't like the themes or don't interpret certain themes the same way, does not mean those themes do not exist and were not intended by the creators.
The original novel Jaws was a tale of greed. Same with the movie. That was one of the main intended themes. You can choose whether you think they effectively communicated that theme, but you cannot dismiss the author's intention. Though if you clocked the mayor as a villain, I'm pretty sure you got the idea and just don't like that interpretation.
I think it is pretty clear the novel and the film are trying to tell the audience the mayor prioritized economic interests above the safety of actual people. You could even draw environmentalism parallels where corporations will pollute and make people sick despite the harm it causes.
You can't say it doesn't have those themes because the story would play out differently in reality. That's why it's called a story.
Top Gun was a Navy recruitment film. Literally propaganda. The filmmakers got unprecedented access to military assets and in exchange, the US Navy was allowed script approval and even demanded changes. It is estimated the original movie caused a 500% increase in recruitment. It's still a good movie and I loved the new one too. But I think people need to be aware of the military recruitment goals baked into the story.
@thatsastepladder
The Matrix is a little more nuanced. Some of the trans themes that many see as overt in present day were probably only intended on a subconscious level when The Wachowskis were creating the films.
However, coming out as trans is not a thing where you suddenly go, "Oh wait, I'm trans!" Most trans folks have feelings about their gender as children. I think it would be impossible for them to create something that personal to them without the allegory being influenced by their feelings about their gender.
Beyond that, there were definitely very intentional trans aspects to the film. The red pill was based on Premarin which was the estrogen used for HRT during that time period.
Taking the red pill begins your journey to living in a new reality.
Yeah, nothing trans about that.
And the character Switch was intended to be a man in the real world but a woman in The Matrix. They were unable to get corporate approval for a trans character, but I think if you look at the way Switch presented herself in the movie, you can still see the original intention of that character.
You can watch the video above and see what Lilly has to say about it and decide for yourself, but I think there was definitely some strong subconscious intention behind the trans themes in The Matrix.
And I think the pill and Switch show it was definitely on their mind back then.
Penthouse in the Las Vegas Country Club Estates, Regency Towers - Las Vegas, NV (1985)
Architecture by Marnell-Carreo, Interior Design by Lilyan Parker Interiors
Scanned from a 1986 issue of Designer's West Magazine
The title of a short story about a French girl who sprays a man with a garden hose.
(source: The Philadelphia Times, April 12, 1891)
Dropping a Music OC!! Lucifer "Luci" Star, part of SADULTS, making weird music from angsty punk to science jams. She plays the cello and the Q-chord Omnichord. I desperately need to make music in my life, but I am shit at composing, so I'll live vicariously though my imagination.
