Somethingsomething Inspirational

I’m doing what makes me happy, so over 18+ please for everyone’s safety

[safedistancefrombeingsmart]

Martin Freeman attends the Jazz FM Awards 2026 at KOKO on April 16.

I didn't expect this at all. 😄

[alleyj]

Tuesday evening, an unexpected rainbow

[dduane]

Over on Bluesky...

Via Fiona Tribe: "Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term 'dark matter' which is impressive, but he also coined the term 'spherical bastard' to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more."

[littlestpersimmon]

hey everyone, I posted a great deal of new art on my patreon, here are some crops! I get paid tomorrow.

It would mean the world to me if you guys could come and check it out, and if you'd like to subscribe- I only charge literally one dollar a month for access to almost 400 pieces of exclusive artwork.

I am trans and disabled from the global south, and more opportunities to create art so I can make ends meet for my family is immense, and something I do not take for granted.

Get more from Caleb on Patreon

creating eerie crests, and other things.

[saphrodoe]

yuri bagginshield + premarital hair braiding??? 😳😳

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[frankensteinsmonst3r]

Don’t know what’s better, Thorin knowing that Dwalin likes Nori and they both have deep grumpy yearning conversations about their loves, or Thorin having absolutely no clue about it at all and Dwalin and Nori have a whole ass courtship going on during the quest Thorin doesn’t find out until they reclaim Erebor and Dwalin and Nori kiss in celebration and he’s like “?!!!????!”

[pseudomantis]

What the fuck

[astarlingdiscovery]

It's a yellow bittern! They are very creechur.

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[bogleech]

Nature is incredible, you can really see just at a quick glance how these evolved to speak together in rhyming riddles while performing a spooky dance, laughing at you because they're The Wee Creatures Three and you will Never Get Their Key.

[ceanothusspinosus]

foot to head ratio off the charts

[cruelladejill]

BEHOLD A MAN!!

[smokinshield-blog]

“Goodness Thorin! I never noticed how large your hands are! You could crush me with them– !”

“I wouldn’t dream of it.”

[stellaluna33]

I can't believe we live in a world where there's an AI company unironically called "Palantir," and it isn't a parody. It's a real thing. I remember seeing a picture of an advertisement on here and thinking, "This HAS to be a joke. This is too on-the-nose to be real. They wouldn't honestly name an AI company Palantir, after the Seeing Stones from Lord of the Rings that are supposed to offer knowledge, but famously also might be feeding you misinformation from evil sources because 'we do not know who else may be watching.'" But then here I am listening to the BBC News discussing why the CEO of Palantir just published a Manifesto that sounds like it was written by a supervillain.

[pangur-and-grim]

I feel so insane about ai. I've had face-to-face conversations with people who use it for therapy, who use it to calculate the safety of pill interactions, who use it for all their emails and grant applications and legal documents and academic papers and finance sheets and for every single question they have about the world, and if you tell them about the ecological costs they just laugh and say "I guess I've used a lot of water." and I've been in multiple gatherings of 10+ people where I'm THE ONLY PERSON who doesn't use chatgpt. it's turning me into a ranting raving pariah, because how don't you people see??? why don't you understand??????? this bullshit didn't exist five years ago, you absolutely do not need it, and it is destroying everything

[britcision]

And it Literally Cannot Do 95% of what they want it to do!

No! Cited! Sources! It makes shit up! It lies about making shit up! We can’t tell it to only look at good sources yet!

Any time “saved” by asking AI goes into fact checking the fucking AI or you are legally fucking liable for whatever it made up!

Or you read the AI mushroom foraging book and poison your damn self!

You might as well pose your questions to a human 3yo with an open google tab

[britcision]

Hey guess who has a new work client who on day 1 sent us SIX different AI generated requirements documents of the thing he wants us to build

I KNOW for a FACT he did not read through or edit a goddamn one of them because almost all of them were entirely different

I’m gonna kill him

He’s so lucky I have no fucking clue where he lives

I’m gonna sign his email address up for 50 crochet blogs

AI can’t do shit right and it is beyond parody that quality control was the first casualty of its rise

My favourite client said she felt bad she wasn’t using AI properly after seeing him and I swear to fuck I sat on both hands to not assure her that no no no she is so much better she actually thinks about what she wants and comes to real human decisions and that’s why she’s my favourite

Fuck AI

It is not a substitute for using your own fucking brain, even to give yourself therapy

Warrior thoughts > AI garbage

[dduane]

If you don't want LinkTree putting your imagery into AI... get out now

Just canceled my account (not that I used it that much). But I won’t permit this. Via @unaminh.bsky.social:

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI.

…Just so you know.

[tatooineknights]

Academy Award winner Marcia Lucas has died. While winning major awards for her work as an editor for Star Wars (alongside a team of editors, including Paul Hirsch and Richard Chew; some of her contributions outside of her work with George Lucas include Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver, and New York, New York), she mostly disappeared from the public eye following her divorce and essentially retired.

While Marcia dispelled the belief that she singlehandedly saved Star Wars in the edit (and very passionately defended George's craftmanship and ideas, which she felt were undercredited, as well as the work of their team in general), there was a lot of work she specifically did and I thought it would be good to highlight just how much she did and give her credit where it is due. There is a lot that came from her that most don't know about. Most of those examples are from Howard Kazanjian's biography, A Producer's Life, published in 2021.

On some of the uncredited dialogue and story revisions for Star Wars:

On some of her work in Star Wars:

On having the iconic trench run on the Death Star as her biggest work while working on Star Wars:

On her uncredited work in The Empire Strikes Back:

On how her input changed the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark:

On her joining the Return of the Jedi crew, an emphasis in finding the right cut for actors, cutting together footage of Luke in ROTJ after she and George disagreed with the characterization the director had given to Mark Hamill and unable to reshoot footage:

On editing the climactic ending in the Throne Room in ROTJ:

[countesspetofi]

I keep seeing tags is the reblogs to the effect of "the movies would have been worse without her" and I need you younguns to realize that THERE WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MOVIES (PLURAL) without her. The first movie, which wasn't even called "A New Hope" when it came out, was released in a day and age when sequels were not a given. The kind of meteoric, runaway success that Star Wars and Jaws had was what established the paradigm for big summer blockbusters having guaranteed sequels and setting up "movie franchises." That wasn't really a thing until then. (The movie series of the old studio days were a completely different thing.)

Marcia's contributions took Star Wars from a high-concept but awkward novelty into something that was undeniably fun to watch and emotionally resonant to an audience of all ages, and more importantly, something people could watch over and over again without getting bored. In the days before home video, people paid to see it over and over in the cinema. I'm sorry, but that simply wouldn't have happened with George's original draft, without Marcia's editing and other contributions. Paying audiences DEMANDED to see more, and that's why sequels were financed and made. If the movie hadn't had the unprecedented success it did due to Marcia's work, it would just have been a footnote in film history as George's weird little one-off Flash Gordon-type space robot movie, no matter how much he would have liked to make a sequel to it or not.

[olloollo]

Also: tumblr.com/hellalena/780532256640057344/hey-ever-wonder-why-the-prequels-werent-as-good

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This doublet is a great example of how high-definition television has transformed what audiences can see on screen. Every stitch, trim, and texture is now visible, pushing makeup artists, set designers, and costume designers to elevate their craft and focus on even the smallest details.   In 2016, this richly detailed piece was worn by Timothy Omundson as King Richard in 𝑮𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒕, where the clarity of HD truly showcased its smaller details.   But that’s not where it began its life! Several years earlier, it appeared on Henry Cavill as Charles Brandon in the third season of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑻𝒖𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒔.   The piece likely originated with Benedick Blythe as Phoebus in the 1997 television production of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒓𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒎𝒆 (also known simply as 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌).   Interestingly, while the craftsmanship was always there, it’s far more difficult to appreciate with the lower resolution of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌. It isn’t until 𝑮𝒂𝒍𝒂𝒗𝒂𝒏𝒕, with its crisp high-definition image, that the full detailing of the doublet truly comes into view—revealing just how much care and detail went into creating this remarkable costume.

[be-thou-brave-deactivated201608]

If you can't handle me at my Third Marshal of the Riddermark, you don't deserve me at my 18th King of Rohan.

[henk-heijmans]

Herdwick sheep, crossing the beck - by James Rebanks (1974), English

[femmefaramir]

older lotr illustrations sometimes depict éowyn wearing ridiculously small armour. apart from the problem general sexualisation of the only female character (who really does anything), there’s another hilarious thought:

éowyn pretended to be dernhelm, a man. to fit in, she must have worn men’s armor. so the armor in the illustrations is normal for rohirrim.

therefore, all the rohirrim rode to war just like that:

[hobbit-hole]

there’s a thundering sound in the distance as the rohirrim ride into war but rather than hoofbeats it’s the collective sound of all their cheeks clapping

[delicatelytoobear]

the artist for this particular piece is Frank Frazetta and to be fair to him this is how he drew the orcs armor 

so the rohirrim comment is probably not that far off

[adhd-trash-mammal]

That’s a man who just straight up had a problem with the concept of wearing pants into battle, and I respect that

[cumaeansibyl]

male or female

hero or villain

sea or land

even in the snow

I guarantee you Frazetta’s Rohirrim were 100% pants-free

[missmollyetc]

Good Old Frank. That man loved bodies and hated clothes so much

[thebyrchentwigges]

[trist-pkmngal]

Frank Frazetta was the reason He-Man was designed like that; the producers conduct a study to see what art appeal the most to children, and Frank’s work came out on top in popularity. So everyone in He-Man is dressed the way they are directly because of Frazetta.

[snugglebunchesofeyes]

That man gave us the gift of warrior thighs and tits for everyone.

[olderthannetfic]

Ah, it has been too long since I have seen the no pants post on my dash. And yes, this is a rare case where it wasn’t some sexist nonsense but an egalitarian No Pants Agenda.

[olderthannetfic]

It’s time for my regular reblog of Gondor Needs No Pants

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Frank Frazetta - Wikipedia

Frank Frazetta - Wikipedia

“I am definitely an ass man. It blows my mind. Talk about simple shapes. Two very simplistic curves. It’s so dumb, but they are fascinating as hell. It’s more than that. It’s the way the rest of the anatomy ties into that area — incredible beauty”

- Frank “godfather of fantasy art” Frazetta