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Cards for a client's TTRPG party! Thanks again, I had a lot of fun flexing my inkwork muscles!
(commission info here!)
The Lurk of the party, reporting in! These were so cool to receive and see!!
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What English one-night-stands say to each other as one leaves to go home
They actually make physical media for a much larger percentage of movies than they ever did in the past. Often with a lot more care than any small release was treated in the early dvd days. Its just if you only watch streaming stuff or the big new recent box office hits you won't see that. It is so ridiculously easy to get physical media for movies that even 5 years ago you couldn't even find. Like yes Netflix is a stingy bastard but so many things are available on disc WITH special features than ever before
And here is where you can get them! (mostly American)
Diabolikdvd
Grindhouse Video
Deep Discount
OrbitDVD
Barnes and Noble
And specific labels:
Kino Lorber
Criterion
Arrow Films (UK based)
Shout Factory
Eureka (UK based)
Vinegar Syndrome
Synapse
Warner Archive
Indicator/Powerhouse (UK based)
Severin
Second Sight (UK based)
Umbrella (Australia based)
And many of these have sales several times a year so if you're patient you don't need to buy full price for any of it.
Periodic reminder that you should never trust a chiropractor with your body under any circumstances
Chiropracty is a quack medicine in the extreme. It was invented by a guy in the 19th century who said a ghost taught it to him. It claims it can fix cirrhosis by cracking your spine. Chiropractors are one of the biggest groups keeping anti-vaccine fraud alive. Oh, and they can kill you doing a “routine adjustment”
Like I won’t go so far as to say “Ban chiropractors” because doing so would definitely backfire, but you should literally never ever under any circumstances seek their assistance for any health problem at all.
Since this is getting a few notes I may as well attempt to head off one of the inevitable objections that’ll show up if this gets far enough.
“If Chiropractic* doesn’t work, why does insurance cover it?”
Well, it’s very simple you see, insurance hates paying for things, and chiropractors are cheap as fuck.
Let’s say you injure your back scrubbing a toilet or something. You go to a real doctor, a good doctor who doesn’t blow you off. That doctor may tell you to take some Motrin and call them if it doesn’t get better, but they also might prescribe you a stronger anti-inflammatory, or a muscle relaxer. Your insurance has to pay out for the visit and the medicine.
Let’s say they do that and two weeks later your back still hurts. Your doctor orders an MRI. Your insurance now has to pay for an MRI, which can be a couple thousand dollars, well more than the premium you’ve paid this month, which means they’ve lost money on you.
So you’re lucky and the MRI comes back that you’re okay but you need physical therapy. That’s another couple grand that your insurance has to pay out.
But maybe you weren’t lucky. Maybe the MRI comes back and you have a herniated disc. You’re gonna need surgery and physical therapy, and now you’ve not only cost them more than your premiums bring in in a year, you’ve hit your annual maximum which means they have to pay everything from now on. They aren’t happy.
So let’s start back at the beginning. You injure your back, you instead go to a chiropractor. The chiropractor doesn’t have a decade of medical training, they have a certificate from a for-profit college that says they’re a chiropractor. They charge your insurance for an office visit, crack your back a bit, and send you on your merry way.
You might feel better for a while, because the placebo effect is more powerful than you think. But even if you do feel better, there’s still the chance that you’ve got damage. You may still need physical therapy, you may still have a herniated disc.
But if you keep going back to that chiropractor, they’re never gonna tell you that, and even if they do, it’ll be after 2-3 sessions, so 6-8 weeks at a minimum, during which time you’re putting more wear and tear on that injury, and eventually, you have to go to a real doctor.
But here’s where the magic happens. See, you injured your back in December. Now it’s February. Because your insurance put off sending you to a real doctor for two months, some actuary gets a big fat bonus for “reducing costs” in quarter 4. Meanwhile, your real doctor orders an MRI that shows that the damage is, in fact, much worse than it probably was to begin with. And there’s some evidence of injuries after the fact from the chiropractor. Oh, and by the way, there’s a chance you’re gonna be in pain for the rest of your life even with surgery.
But hey, your insurance managed to post a profit in Q4.
* “Chiropractic” is the “official” term for whatever the hell it is chiropractors do. I don’t respect it enough to use it unless I’m mocking someone who’s defending it.
Alright you guys can have this one back but I swear to god if anyone mentions a fucking podcast on it I’m committing arson.
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
(Stephen Gould, "The Panda's Thumb")
Literally every single human on the face of this entire fucking planet has talent and ingenuity in them, it is absolutely not special or exceptional. The ONLY reason some people never demonstrate any skills or ideas that knock anyone's socks off is simply that we live in a world with 100 billion different things in it and we only have at most ten measly decades to find what we're really passionate and good at, with the vast majority of people crushed under the ruthlessness of modern society before they ever have the chance. ANYONE privileged with the resources, time and motivation can be a "MoZaRt" or whatever the fuck. Yes even Elon Musk might have turned out to be like, I don't know, an absolutely amazing baker or sculptor if he ever had a reason to give a shit, but instead he's wasted his life just paying other people to do whatever he thinks will make him look cool. He is what a wasted mind looks like. He could do whatever he wanted with his life and still never tried to figure out an honest creative outlet of his own.
Adding what is obvious to many but clearly not to all: much of the world's greatest art was produced by people who had all of their other needs met and could then devote their time and energy to creation.
And many of those artists' needs were met by patrons whose wealth was stolen from people with just as much of their creative soul to offer had they not simply been born elsewhere at the point of a sword or the barrel of a gun.
I can’t stop thinking about this.
To the best of my knowledge, this was a joke from a behind-the-scenes featurette for (I believe) Last Crusade. The stapler isn't loaded, they were poking fun at the frustrating measures they had to take to keep the hat on during filming (lots of tape).
Here's THE masterpost of free and full adaptations, by which I mean that it's a post made by the master.
Anthony and Cleopatra: here's the BBC version
As you like it: you'll find here an outdoor stage adaptation and here the BBC version
Coriolanus: Here's a college play, here's the 1984 telefilm, here's the 2014 one with tom hiddleston
Hamlet: The Kenneth Branagh 1996 Hamlet is here, the 1964 russian version is here and the 1964 american version is here. THe 1964 Broadway production is here, the 1948 Laurence Olivier one is here. And the 1980 version is here. Here are part 1 and 2 of the 1990 BBC adaptation. Have the 2018 Almeida version here.
Henry IV: part 1 and part 2 of the BBC 1989 version. And here's part 1 of a corwall school version.
Henry V: Laurence Olivier (who would have guessed) 1944 version. The 1989 Branagh version here. The BBC version is here.
Julius Caesar: here's the 1979 BBC adaptation, here the 1970 John Gielgud one.
King Lear: Laurence Olivier once again plays in here. And Gregory Kozintsev, who was I think in charge of the russian hamlet, has a king lear here. The 1975 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here. The 1974 version with James Earl Jones is here.
Macbeth: here's the 1961 one with Sean Connery. Here's the 1971 by Roman Polanski, with spanish subtitles. Here's the 1948 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZrf_0_CcQ">here. The 1988 BBC onee with portugese subtitles and here the 2001 one). The 1969 radio one with Ian McKellen and Judi Dench is here and the 1966 BBC version is here. The Royal Shakespeare Compagny's 2008 version is here.
Measure for Measure: BBC version here.
The Merchant of Venice: here's a stage version, here's the 1980 movie, here the 1973 Lawrence Olivier movie, here's the 2004 movie.
The Merry Wives of Windsor: the Royal Shakespeare Compagny gives you this movie.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: have this sponsored by the City of Columbia, and here the BBC version.
Much Ado About Nothing: Here is the kenneth branagh version and here the Tennant and Tate 2011 version. Here's the 1984 version.
Othello: A Massachussets Performance here, the 2001 movie her is the Orson Wells movie with portuguese subtitles theree, and a fifteen minutes long lego adaptation here. THen if you want more good ole reliable you've got the BBC version here and there.
Richard II: here is the BBC version
Richard III: here's the 1955 one with Laurence Olivier, and here's the 1995 one with Ian McKellen. (the 1995 one is in english subtitled in spanish. the 1955 one has no subtitles and might have ads since it's on youtube)
Romeo and Juliet: here's the 1988 BBC version.
The Taming of the Shrew: the 1988 BBC version here, the 1929 version here, some Ontario stuff here and here is the 1967 one with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
The Tempest: the 1979 one is here, the 2010 is here. Here is the 1988 one.
Timon of Athens: here is the 1981 movie with Jonathan Pryce,
Troilus and Cressida can be found here
Titus Andronicus: the 1999 movie with Anthony Hopkins here
Twelfth night: here for the BBC, herefor the 1970 version with Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright and Ralph Richardson.
The Winter's Tale: the BBC version is here
Please do contribute if you find more. This is far from exhaustive.
(also look up the original post from time to time for more plays)
Oh, I have additions!
A Misdummer Night Dream: Here’s the 2013 globe production (the one with The Kiss, you know it)
Romeo and Juliet: Here’s the one that was going to be a stage show and then lockdown happened so they filmed it! Stars Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley
Richard II, Royal Shakespeare Company feat. David Tennant
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin: A Compilation Compiled by Leblancsvoleur Table of Contents About Legend Websites Stories & Links Arsèn
Here it is, it's finally done. The ultimate masterpost of every single Arsène Lupin story, written by Maurice Leblanc, and where to find them. The majority of which are in the public domain, aka. free to read and download. Have fun.
ARSÈNE LUPIN, PAULINE SAVARI, and the SEVEN OF HEARTS: Part Two
(link to first part here: https://at.tumblr.com/sidekickboywonder/ars%C3%A8ne-lupin-pauline-savari-and-the-seven-of/fhgxo72cxmot )
Pauline Savari (1859-1907) was a French journalist, writer, performer, labor organizer, and feminist. In addition to having written for Le Gil Blas, she founded multiple journals and facilitated trade unions dedicated to forwarding the economic liberation of women, especially working mothers.
For context, “The Seven of Hearts” is usually presented as the sixth story in editions of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar. The fifth story, “The Queen’s Necklace,” tells of young Lupin’s first burglary at the age of six, which he undertook because it broke his heart to see his working mother struggling to get by and being mistreated by the old school friend she worked for.
So! On the one hand, we have Arsène Lupin, the fictional thief whose entire career was set off because he wanted to undo some of the economic inequality that afflicted his mother in his childhood, and who doesn’t hesitate to thumb his nose at both the wealthy classes and the police while doing so. On the other hand, we have Pauline Savari, the real-life woman of letters who worked tirelessly during the same time period to liberate women from those same shackles, to the point of being “the most active individual in the creation of new women’s unions,” according to police surveillance of the feminist movement at the turn of the century (source: DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2020.1711563, ref 83). It made perfect sense to me that Savari was the kind of person that Lupin would gladly cultivate a friendship with and, if/when the opportunity presented itself, support in her efforts. And as an added bonus, Savari actually wrote for the real-life publication where Lupin’s biographer worked in “The Seven of Hearts,” requiring very few changes to the trajectory of her real-life for her to take the biographer’s place in the story.
Having Pauline Savari become Lupin’s confidante served both the logistics of adapting the story and the narrative credibility in several key ways:
* The first scene of “Seven of Hearts” relies on Lupin putting his biographer in a state of mind of vulnerability and fear to keep him in bed when instructed to do so under threat. A situation that might be framed as comical paranoia with a male character would be more like rational caution for a woman, grounding the character.
* Women tend to be underrepresented in adaptations of classical literature, middle-aged women even moreso, and utilizing Savari here would allow for a more balanced cast and provide a role for actors that have too few chances to perform as it is. With the biographer recurring frequently in future Lupin stories, the impact of this swap extends far beyond this one story.
* The B plot of "Seven of Hearts" involves Madame Andermatt coming to the biographer (and by extension, Lupin) for help recovering some compromising stolen letters. Gentlemanly as Lupin is, this would not be a hard sell for him to help with, but having Savari be on hand to take charge on assisting a woman in need (and having a reputation already as someone who cared about women's welfare and understood the stakes involved) smoothed the interaction considerably and made Madame Andermatt's trust more believable without resorting to desperation.
For all these reasons and more, I was delighted to bring Pauline Savari into my version of the Arsène Lupin universe, to evangelize about this real historical figure to anyone who will listen, and to bring her back to help Lupin in future adventures where her personal crusade to protect and advocate for women across France (The Black Pearl, likely The Wedding Ring, likely more) can manifest.
Thanks for reading!
"honey! i'm home!" i say, opening the door and greeting my wife as i return from a hard days work as a 9 to 5 art thief
i do this to supplement her income as a stagnating mid-tier streamer and also because i love it
my hands look like this so hers can look like this
It's important to note that he's the wife.
They really should teach people how to cook in school.
song: in the hall of the mountain king
that is honestly one of the best-timed and best-edited videos as if the music were made for the text or the text were made to the music and perfectly
Okay, but real talk, if I learned anything from game design school, it's that providing instructions is a skill, and not everyone has cultivated it. It's easy to make assumptions about what knowledge base the person they're talking to has, and bad instructions can be worse than no instructions at all.
Like, in this video, someone proffered the addition of an egg. No indication of what to do with which part of the egg or when or any of the risks or consequences around cooking eggs.
Like, consider all the ways "crack egg and throw it at ramen" could have gone comically wrong. Hoo boy.
// was looking through the Queen’s Necklace again and
“hereditary influence” “natural tendency to crime” made it sound like Raoul had some sort of biological thief genes inherited from Théophraste or like if he had kleptomania. But then you look at the original french and it was completely the opposite:
for comparison, another more accurate eng translation:
“his upbringing” “chosen vocation” implies it was more of the environment and outside circumstances, and also a conscious choice to continue with the career of thievery as an adult vs the inherent biological forces of the Thief Genes™
I would love to hear historian perspective on this. It sounds like Leblanc was just ahead of his time in asserting that thievery was an occupation that Lupin could choose instead of being destined for it based on Genes or the Shape of His Head or whatever like Morehead seems to want to suggest.
If you could make a "sports" anime about any less popular game/sport/competition you want, which would you choose?
board game, card game, playground game, sport, whatever. if you could have an anime meticulously describe the rules and play of any game while making it look incredibly cool, which would you choose?
My brother and I always talk about how much we want a disc golf anime.
Agricola. It's a boring-on-paper board game where you play German farmers trying to feed your family year after year. But as an anime? With holographic representations of in-game objects and events? Friendship-ending resource sniping? The revelation of when multiple mediocre improvements synergize into something completely broken out of nowhere? Hell yeah.
I love that the pandemic actually definitively proved a lot of those "hard" questions for us. Masking up reduced cases of the flu to almost nonexistent numbers and we had zero flu deaths for a time. The welfare and social service and unemployment programs helped keep people living paycheck to paycheck out of poverty, and those stimulus checks some folks keep complaining about actually massively benefitted the common man and the economy. Individual personal travel was so extremely restricted on a global scale that we basically have concrete proof that individual restraint in terms of driving cars or travelling means absolutely nothing by comparison because the mass pollution is coming from the fisheries and the corporations with private jets and container ships. Working from home actually has massive benefits for a company like productivity boosts and better mental health of employees while also saving gas
and we're just. Willingly going back to how everything was before. We were shown how to do things better and the people in charge said "that's nice but we just want to get everything 'back to normal' :)"