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Emma (2020), cin. Christopher Blauvelt Lady Macbeth (2016), cin. Ari Wegner Jane Eyre (2011), cin. Adriano Goldman Mary, Queen of Scots (2018), cin. John Mathieson Belle (2013), cin. Ben Smithard The Favourite (2018), cin. Robbie Ryan The Duchess (2008), cin. Gyula Pados
I find the fact that the closest mountain point on earth to the moon, the highest mountain and the tallest mountain are 3 different mountains to be a tiny bit disturbing
Explain
The world's highest mountain is the most beloved, it is mount everest, the mountain that's farthest from sea level. If you connected the other two to everest by a slide and put a ball on everest, it will slide down to the other two (in a frictionless perfect world)
The world's tallest mountain is mauna kea, it's almost 4000 feet taller than everest if you measure from base to top, most of it is underwater though
The world's closest mountain to the stars is mount Chimborazo, it is both shorter and less high than the other two, but it is closer to the equator, so the bulge of earth makes it ever so slightly farther from the center, so it is closer to the stars
So yeah, 3 ways to measure, 3 results
Earth is weird
how i love being a woman ♥︎
"Goddess of Beltane, Sacred Mother, Queen of May, Wild Lady of the Woods, Guardian of Love and Life, welcome to our circle. We women, powerful and sacred, declare upon this Hallowed Night, our heavenly bodies belong solely to us. We shall choose whom to love, and with whom to share trust. We shall walk upon this earth with grace and respect. We'll always take pride in our great intellect. We'll honor our emotions so our spirits may soar! And should any man belittle us, we'll show him the door! Our spirits are unbreakable, our imaginations free! Walk with us, Goddess, so blessed are we!" — by the young women of Avonlea
happy international women’s day
Not trying to be depressing but yeah.. it's a feeling today.
Got denied an adhd diagnosis because of too little signs in my childhood, which is basically because I thrive on structure, being told what to do, a good support system, a parent who knows how to handle me (and didn't keep me sequestered), and liked school/learning. Now as an adult I am having massive trouble. I can manage working, but not to my true potential. Probably would have had a breakdown/burn out years ago if I wasn't living with my mother.
Had some bad sleeps this week, my headphones gave up during work.. so spend almost two hours out in the world unprotected on a friday in this town, which is always chaos.. then my car wouldn't start (because I apparently left the inside light on on wednesday night) and almost had a breakdown and cried because I would have to call the mechanic, and had to go to a cat and give him meds. Feeling better now, now that it turned out that it was most likely the light and so the battery and not the starter. I love knowing what is happening and being able to focus and try things myself (or with dad in this case as he is gonna jumpstart me tomorrow).
It’s October! You know what that means... 🎃 (via kxvo)
all my life I’ve somehow only ever seen the gifs of this. I never even knew that the pumpkin man was dancing to the Ghostbusters theme. This whole thing is so much better than I ever could have expected from the gifs omg
I deeply appreciate the fact that Discworld translators add their own terrible, terrible puns.
Patrick Couton, who translated the entire Discworld series in French, is absolutely excellent, and even won an award for the quality of his Discworld translation. For every untranslatable pun, he adds a new one (so the final translation has roughly the same amount of puns as the original) and they blend in so well it's sometimes very hard to tell they weren't from Pratchett himself He actually wrote footnotes about Death's gender in most of the earliest books, not just the first, going from "probably to the surprise of French readers, Death is male" to "Male, yes" or "once and for all, Death is male!", until at some point the footnote went basically "fuck it you should know it now"
I went to a convention years ago and Couton was there doing a talk on his work translating Discworld - here are a few highlights
- When asked why he chose to translate Discworld, he said "I didn't have a job and my buddy offered since he knew I speak English. I don't really like fantasy actually I'm more of a noir novel guy."
- like the previous reblog said, he added a pun for each one he couldn't translate, sometimes puns referencing specifically French culture when the original joke referenced something most French people wouldn't know about
- at first, Pratchett hated his guts because Couton would call Pratchett's editor to ask questions - about words Pratchett made up, about specificities of the names of places and people - so he could make sure that he was translating it right. Pratchett found this irritating and thought that if this translator had to call him this often, he had to be a bad translator. "He said none of the other translators ever called him. When I checked out the German translation of one of the books - I am fluent in German - I noticed that it was a lot of nonsense. They clearly had never called Pratchett, but not because they were better than me."
- at one convention in Nantes, Pratchett was invited to sign autographs. Couton was there too but just as a guest. When they opened the line for the autographs, the Frenchies refused to advance. They said they wanted the translator's autograph too. The organisers had to run after Couton and fetch him a chair so he could also sign the books. "After this day, Pratchett never gave me trouble about my calls. I think he understood that my work was important."
Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care
Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck
Well, OP, I’m officially invested in this shit. Your whiny ass is doing self care if I have to drive to your goddamn house and do it for you.
By Talos this can't be happening
reblog this everyone i wanna see what happens when op’s reverse-hubris forces them to practice basic self care.
why? because it’s funny and completely possible actually so good fucking luck op
I figured out roughly how many notes it's been getting per day and multiplied that by the number of days left until the end of 2023
If we keep it going at this rate we'll be far past 666k
IMPORTANT
Okay so clearly I've underestimated y'all
So how about we make this more interesting?
I will practise self care if this post reaches 666k BY THE END OF 2022
Op you have fuckethed with the devil this post has gained 30,000 notes since I reblogged it last night
OP I hope you are ready to practice some self care because if there's one thing the gremlins of tumblr love it's a challenge.
i normally hate these "oh noo don't give me a ton of notes" posts but this one? this one i love.
posts that have 666k notes TO ME. and hopefully to you, too, OP. 💜
Let's all practice self care if this post hits the magic number…
YALL HELP US
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Op telling us we'll never make it to 666k by the end of 2023 (only having to make it 2022 after all):
Us:
I was going to wait until y'all hit the mark, But I feel like I should say this now
When I made this post, it was supposed to be a joke
I mean, none of my posts ever get more than 20 notes if I'm lucky, so what are the odds of one reaching 666k? Impossible, haha
But then, something happened, something I didn't expect
People actually began to... like it? And... reblog? And comment?
Before I knew it, my notifications were swarmed with comments after comments after reblogs after comments all on this one post
Then, still in the mindset of this being a joke, I realised I'd made the goal too easy, so I upped the stakes
But... the notes just got more frequent from there
And it started to hit me just what was happening
For a while, I was overwhelmed with a feeling
A feeling I wasn't used to
It was like... all of a sudden... I mattered...
My existance was actually noteworthy
People actually... cared?
It wasn't a game anymore, it was a race to assure a stranger on the Internet that they were actually worth something
Hundreds of people all gathering in one online place to help out
Leaving messages and well wishes
Making me smile
Making me laugh
Funny comments
Jokes
Fun facts
Even simple comments
It all suddenly felt so real
This was never a joke to you
This was important
And I won't let any of that go in vain
So... stay tuned I suppose
I'll look after myself, and I'll post proof of it too
I'll catalogue every time I put my health first
Physical and mental
I'll acknowledge my bad days and celebrate my good days
But most of all
I won't forget this
Any of this
Ever
(Tagging all the people in that screenshot)
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Bees choose to live in the box where they know damn well that a large fraction of the honey will periodically be removed, instead of simply leaving that place like they are perfectly able to do, because the human box comes with an invulnerable titan to guard them against all threats. The bees consider the payment offered to this colossal mercenary to be a pretty good deal.
Bees know about supply and demand
Protection money
Protection honey
glucose guardians
Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care
Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck
I think this is reachable and we can do it SO PREPARE FOR SELF CARE
I've reblogged this every day so far. It's happening OP! I can feel it.
Almost there, OP!
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Please make a post about the story of the RMS Carpathia, because it's something that's almost beyond belief and more people should know about it.
Carpathia received Titanic’s distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.
(Californian’s exact position at the time is…controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic’s distress rockets. It’s uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)
Carpathia’s Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic’s aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.
All of Carpathia’s lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.
I don’t know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.
Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake–prepping a ship for disaster relief isn’t quiet–and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.
And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.
Here’s the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms–which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she’d done that, he asked her to go faster.
I need you to understand that you simply can’t push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless–it’s difficult to maneuver–but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can’t do it. It can’t be done.
Carpathia’s absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can’t-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.
No one would have asked this of them. It wasn’t expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.
They damn near broke the laws of physics, galloping north headlong into the dark in the desperate hope that if they could shave an hour, half an hour, five minutes off their arrival time, maybe for one more person those five minutes would make the difference. I say: three people had died by the time they were lifted from the lifeboats. For all we know, in another hour it might have been more. I say they made all the difference in the world.
This ship and her crew received a message from a location they could not hope to reach in under four hours. Just barely over three hours later, they arrived at Titanic’s last known coordinates. Half an hour after that, at 4am, they would finally find the first of the lifeboats. it would take until 8:30 in the morning for the last survivor to be brought onboard. Passengers from Carpathia universally gave up their berths, staterooms, and clothing to the survivors, assisting the crew at every turn and sitting with the sobbing rescuees to offer whatever comfort they could.
In total, 705 people of Titanic’s original 2208 were brought onto Carpathia alive. No other ship would find survivors.
At 12:20am April 15th, 1912, there was a miracle on the North Atlantic. And it happened because a group of humans, some of them strangers, many of them only passengers on a small and unimpressive steam liner, looked at each other and decided: I cannot live with myself if I do anything less.
I think the least we can do is remember them for it.
How do movie people even know if a movie is good or not I finish watching a movie and my brain is just like "well that certainly was a movie" and that's it
The only way my brain knows how to rank movies is:
I had fun watching it
I didn't have fun watching it
so sorry for the helmet shame ur experiencing, usamericans are fed a bunch of bike safety videos as children about how if you Do Not Ride With A Helmet you will Fly Off Your Bike and your brain will be jello on the sidewalk
https://youtu.be/9OSVeMVJDIk?t=65 this is Ride Smart It's Time To Start, the one I was shown repeatedly in school. link should skip to relevant content
why are they using a racing bike wtf none of this makes sense YES YOU SHOULD WEAR A HELMET ON A RACING BIKE THOSE ARE FOR RACING WHERE IS THE CITY BIKE
WHAT
WHAT THE FUCK
Yeah Americans only know about racing bikes. Notjustbikes even mentioned a store that claimed to sell regular city bikes but only sold racing bikes
okay uh
a city bike is like this, the handlebars are higher than the seat so you can sit straight up and bike casually, as opposed to a racing bike where they’re level so you’re bent over so you get less wind resistance.
you just. sit on it. and bike through the city. when a Dutch person says “bike” they’re referring to a city bike 99% of the time
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