#primatechnosynthpop

[ashortcuttomushrooms]

Do you know the story behind the prettyboy elf extra who appears in the lotr movies for like 5 seconds and spawned a huge fanbase? It's relevant to one of my interests so I'm very curious if you're familiar with the whole "figwit" thing

Omfg Figwit 💀 Yes I have heard of him! But if you would still like to tell me about him I'm all ears because I'm familiar with him but not in too much detail

[mushroomjar]

Didn't want to pester the op about this but the post you reblogged about the power of friendship or lack thereof in horror made me think-- are you familiar with higurashi? That starts off pretty firmly in the horror camp but the power of friendship becomes a stronger force as it goes, and I wouldn't necessarily say it becomes goofy by the end but it definitely doesn't feel so much like horror any more at that point. Given your interest in pmmm, and to a lesser extent starkid's hatchetfield saga and horror franchises like saw, I wonder if higurashi might be up your alley

I've known about Higurashi for a while! As an edgy child I'd always watch the gory scenes on youtube and I was obsessed with those but for some reason I never tried to watch the anime💀 A couple years ago I tried watching it but I stopped after a couple of episodes, even though I don't exactly remember why. Partially it was just one of those "randomly stopped watching it for literally no reason" things, partially it was because I wasn't that amazed by it and also I think I even found it a little confusing

I'd be willing to give it a second try because of nostalgia and also because I don't remember it being bad, I'd just have to make time to watch it. Isn't there also a manga or a game or something like that about Higurashi? I remember reading something about that many years ago, I could also try giving that a chance

[crykea]

If you like elves I've got a piece of fun elf trivia for you. So there's this scene in the first lotr movie with a bunch of elves, and one of the unnamed background elves without any lines happened to be pretty good-looking. A small corner of the internet became obsessed with this background elf, made up a name for him and made a website with fanart and fanfic about him and everything. It became so much of a phenomenon that they got him back for a cameo in the third movie and he even got a line this time.

Now here's the twist: this elf was played by Bret McKenzie from Flight of the Conchords. And the funny thing is, fotc have a song about lord of the rings. So it's sort of a celebrity paradox situation, but not that much of one, but still pretty interesting overall. Really makes you think, doesn't it?

OMG that's so funny n neat hahah it's like a weird scavenger hunt moment that leads u right back 2 the beginning

[random-jot]

Very fun to see you reigenposting. How long have you been into mp100? (I only watched it a month or so ago myself) and apart from reigen, what other parts of the show did you like?

Literally I only just started it last week, binged all of season 1 in a day and am churning my way through season 2 rapidly 😸

Reigen did very quickly reach 100% BLORBO status for me haha 😆

But it is such a fun show all round, I love the sense of humour but also how intense it gets in the more dramatic moments, love Mob himself, I loved Ritsu’s little corruption arc in season one, the energy of the body improvement club is too pure and good. Plus both the ops both slap so far

It’s just good stuff 😄💥

[adulthooliganism]

Completely unprompted confession time: when singing "Starlight Brigade" by TWRP, I often accidentally misspeak the line "turn the cockpit clockwise" as "turn the clock pit cockwise"

THIS MADE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD i'm gonna start saying clock pit cockwise

[keplercryptids]

Oh yeah re: some people not knowing what "ID" stands for, something I find kinda bemusing (not in a judgemental way, though, of course) is the trend of people saying "image ID"-- like saying "ATM machine" or "DC comics", it's technically a bit redundant if you know what the acronym is supposed to stand for, although obviously saying it that way isn't hurting anyone. And if you think of "ID" as standing for identification--like, identifying what the images are--that still kinda makes sense even if it wasn't originally intention of the acronym. Another example of internet language morphology or something, I guess?

yep, i’ve noticed that too! and it’s fine, i mean, most people get the point. there are things i do for my private social media (like on facebook and instagram, for intance, i almost exclusively write “ID” because i’m Lazy) and then there are things i do on a blog as public as this one is. that’s the main reason why i write out image description here lol, just to make it as specific and accurate as possible. it’s not, like, a requirement though by any means.

[doomhope]

Ah, I used to have a mutual who was really into elder scrolls... they deactivated a while back and I never found out what happened to them or where they are now..... but from what I remember from back when I knew them, almalexia is pretty cool. You should be proud, I reckon

epic 💪

[sleepymccoy]

WIP word game: walk

They were at the bookshop, Crowley had assumed he would be invited in but now these steps Aziraphale took indicated he was walking away, not encouraging company.

mate, there were two very good walk lines that i had to choose between for this, but the other borders on spoilers so i went with this one!