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[kyoshi-lesbians]

my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”

[kyoshi-lesbians]

he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.

[kyoshi-lesbians]

his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’

[edgar-allan-possum]

The only really new information was that that was Sokka’s girlfriend

[library-graffiti]

Important opinion in the tags that I need to have be part of the post:

[clearascountryair]

Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”

[terriwriting]

Sokka: “My girlfriend turned into the moon.”

Zuko: “I know.” “Yes.” “She sure did.” “Uh huh.” “Tell me something new.” “Are we still talking about that?” “That’s rough, buddy.”

[alexseanchai]

[image: tags by samwisethebold: #it’s not that he doesn’t get what sokka means #it’s that how on earth do you respond to that]

[uberguber89]

When you put it like that, this is actually a legendary display of tact on Zuko’s part

[targetedknowledge]

[raven-matrices]

Absolute gold in the replies

[zolltraak]

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

We would fully accept any Japanese buckaroo

[theconstitutionisgayculture]

Foreigners will never understand how someone like Rawhide Kobayashi would immediately become a beloved local fixture in whatever small American town he ended up in.

[brazenautomaton]

every single time someone pulls the "How would you AMERICANS like it if someone came to AMERICA and" reversal, the answer is always "we'd fucking love it"

[not-so-innocent-bi-sander]

@kurtwagnermorelikekurtwagnerd

Your tags summed up the exact feeling I had about this

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I just Googled the Swedish-Japanese guy in the OP, and according to this interview, his Japanese name was given to him by the master gardener he was apprenticed under:

“The family name ‘Murasame’ was given to me by my master. The given name ‘Tatsumasa’ is a combination of ‘dragon’ (tatsu), the [zodiac] year when I was born, and one character from my master’s name,” says Murasame."

So I think maybe it's less like naming yourself 'Brandon McFreedom' and more like moving to the states to work under a veteran car mechanic named Bud McLean, and then having him turn to you after a few years on the job, and say "Son, it's time for you to become an American so you can open up your shop. And when that day comes, I think the world should know you by a new name: McLeo GM Corvette."

[teaboot]

Named by his superior by conventions one would apply to a super chill stray cat

[animentality]

we as a society got over Pacific Rim too fast.

- banging soundtrack just awesome

- lead female character with her own fully realized arc that had nothing to do with a love interest

- the concept of drifting is so fucking cool and prime fanfic material

- those two gay fucking weirdo scientists who drifted together inside a fucking alien brain like hello

- IT PULLS OUT A SWORD IN OUTER FUCKING SPACE

- kaijus are cool. that's all.

[currentlylivingonaprayer]

Also, consider the fact that after that giant shockwave, everything went offline, and they were like, 'How are we gonna fight now?' and the main character just goes: 'well, mine's analog. I don't need any of this stuff'.

They really said; sometimes old-school is better than the new high-tech stuff.

[zubenpics]

Also, like the Honest Trailer says, "Watch as these two awkwardly flirt in the classic will-they-won't-they relationship, and then for the first time in movie history: WON'T."

[aw-dag]

You know every show that the premise is like “people find out ghosts/monsters/demons are real and are charged with stopping them” appeal to me way more now as a post-graduate not because I believe in ghosts more or whatever but because can you IMAGINE just being handed a job that you don’t even need to apply for? Like just being told “basically there’s this bad thing and all you do is make sure it doesn’t do what it wants” that’s just customer service baby and I worked that for 6 goddamn years! Just TRY getting past “I have a job to offer you” before I can jump down your throat agreeing.

[aw-dag]

some idiot with a dumb ghost-hunting name who joined the Cause because they love the paranormal: oh fuck oh shit this is really scary guys I’m having second thoughts

me, who knows that if we run away I have to apply to like, a real actual Jobbe again: wakey wakey demons it’s this or retail so guess who’s got nothing to lose

[meret118]

[universeleads]

I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby

[universeleads]

English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son

[overwhelmedfernfrond]

I explained the “x before gta6” meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named Gică Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: “This happened and Gică Petrescu hasn’t even died yet?!?”

So. He understood the gta6 meme immediately because they apparently had the same thing in Romania when he was young, except way, way more morbid

[venort]

OP are you telling me we got the death of Gică Petrescu before we got gta6

[rowark]

(X)

[goomymegpoid]

I wish this feeling upon everyone who wants to wear a dress, its really the best

[ghostlynblm]

this makes me so happy as a fat hairy guy who likes skirts and dresses i never get to see guys like me in dresses it’s always skinny twinks this makes me so happy 🥺🥺

[my-quirk-is-fred]

Soundwave is busy

[willdlillyfoxyt]

Soundwave as a 911 operator would be very interesting.

[mapsontheweb]

Hungarian language and its two closest relatives: Khanty and Mansi

[hazelsmazecave]

The whole Finno-Ugric map is pretty great:

[tulegyszerueletu-deactivated202]

Ez tök menő. Kis taktikai érzékkel elfoglalhatnánk Moszkvát

[hazelsmazecave]

[petefoxshend-deactivated2018062]

“Big Pharma” okay are we talking about how privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of medicine or are you talking about how you think chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay

[greyramblings]

“GMOs”? Are we talking seeds that grow sterile plants and patenting genetic modifications then destroying any competition no matter how small they are? Or are we talking life saving rice with vitamin a to make sure kids don’t go blind in regions not suited for other high vit a veg? … or are we talking about your chidoodle?

[flyin-shark]

I feel cheated. no one on Reddit told me that tumblr is a serotonin factory. Keep liking and reblogging my posts please thanks

[felixcloud6288]

Just don't fly too close to the sun.

[flyin-shark]

Throw me to the sun and I’ll get it pregnant

[strangehorse]

he understands the website your honour

[kreechurthecrazykat]

Grace, explaining how humans evolved: yeah so basically we evolved to be persistance predators where we would just slowly walk towards our prey and track it until it got so tired it couldn't fight back or run away and then we killed it :)

Rocky, who is an Eridian, an AMBUSH predator, who can't see light and so cannot track things the way humans can, and that doesn't have a lot of stamina and literally won't be able to wake up once they fall asleep: grace what the fuck statement--

[mevil]

[signawyvern]

Here's a list of non-English musicals I've seen submitted to @dyk-this-musical-song and links for how to watch/listen to them with English subtitles or the best equivalent. There are a bunch of non-English shows that have been submitted and seemingly some interest in checking them out, but I think a lot of people just have no idea how to go about that, or if it's possible. Disclaimer: I haven't watched these links, or if I have, it's been years, so possibly songs are out of order in playlists or shows are just linking to the first act. If that's the case, let me know and I'll make a note. A lot of these are pro-shots, which is fun. I listed shows here that have been submitted to the dye-tms blog, because that's a good way to gauge which have a decent amount of interest, but please let me know any you'd like added to the list.

Of all the ones I've checked out already on here (Tanz, Elizabeth, Marie Antoinette, Rebecca, Mozart l'Opera Rock, Kristina), Elisabeth is by far my favourite and probably the most popular internationally. It's historical but with heavy Phantom of the Opera vibes, if you're into that. But it's a good place to start, maybe.

Also there are a decent number of musical movies in non-English languages, often with English subtitles. I haven't included anything that exists more as a movie than as a stage show; this is more about stage shows, but a musical is a musical. To list the two I can think of, there's Les Paraplouies Des Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Women of Rochefort), both in French.

Friedrich: Mythos und Tragödie (Friedrich: Myth and Tragedies) (German) there’s just the German album and you can follow along with the Wikipedia summary if you want , but this lovely person made a post about subtitles they made

Tanz der Vampire (Dance of the Vampires) (German) Here

Elisabeth das Musical (German) Here; there are actually multiple German-language productions with English subtitles, since this show is so popular. If you want, you can also find English subtitles on productions in several other languages (mostly, Japanese and Korean). I picked this one randomly, hopefully it's a decent enough video and isn't missing any critical scenes, if it's an early version.

Rebecca (German) Here; there might also be English-language videos/audios out there, this did get a few performances in English, but it's been a whole Thing and is mostly put on outside of English-speaking regions.

Mozart! Das Musical (German) Here

Marie Antoinette (German) This is just act 1, not act 2. I can’t remember if it’s sung-through or not. I can't find any translations of act 2.

Artur--Excalibur (German) Here So this premiered in Switzerland but it's written by Wildhorn, so originally was more an English show, but I don't believe has ever been performed in English. There are a few shows like this, Wildhorn is weirdly popular abroad as compared to in the English-speaking world.

Starmania (French) Here

Robin Des Bois (Robin Hood) (French) This has Russian open captions and closed captions, so you could use auto-translate on the closed captions, but it would be hard to read them with the open captions behind that so maybe set the subtitle background to opaque.

Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) (French) Here

Notre Dame de Paris (French) This is actually an English version; here is a French-language one with English subtitles

Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour (Romeo and Juliet: from Hate to Love) (French) Here

Le Roi Soleil (The Sun King) (French) Here

Mozart l'Opera Rock (Mozart: the Rock Opera) (French) Here

Anne de Bretagne (Anne of Brittany) (French) I couldn't find any translations but here's a proshot

A Dzsungel Könyve (The Jungle Book) (Hungarian) I don’t think there’s anything besides the Hungarian-language album, so try that and the wikipedia summary and maybe that’ll work.

István, a király (Steven the King) (Hungarian) Here, also here

A padlás (The Attic) (Hungarian) Here

Jónás Könyve (Book of Jonah) (Hungarian) Here

Valahol Európában (Somewhere in Europe) (Hungarian) translations of lyrics are here; I'm not sure if those are of all the songs. Here is the show in Hungarian.

A Pál utcai fiúk (Paul St. Boys) (Hungarian) Here is a playlist with some videos of songs and those are translated, the rest are from the cast recording and are not. I'm not sure if the playlist is in the proper order or not.

1989 (Polish) Google drive link to a video with subtitles; made by @perplexingly; thank you so so much!!!

Mieszko Pierwszy (Mieszko the First) (Polish) Here

Kristina från Duvemåla (Kristina from Duvemåla) (Swedish) Supposedly there is a movie but idk if it’s subtitled; there is an English-language translated version of the album and it’s sung-through; that’s available on YouTube

데스노트 (Death Note) (Korean) (there is an English version of this show; I’m not sure if it’s significantly changed or if it’s just a direct translation, but you can watch that) japanese production from 2017 korean production from 2015

프랑켄슈타인 (Frankenstein) (Korean) on Disney Plus, if you use a VPN to claim you're in Korea, but English subtitles probably aren't available.

Xcalibur (Korean) on Disney Plus, if you use a VPN to claim you're in Korea, but English subtitles probably aren't available.

Doornroosje (Sleeping Beauty) (Dutch) no translations filmed show, no subtitles, Dutch album, no subtitles

Tarzan (Dutch) Dutch album,  English version of the album Scenes are missing from both; the English Broadway production can fill in those gaps

Soldaat van Oranje (Soldier of Orange) (Dutch) no translations I could find; here’s the album

[eliotheman]

”This portrayal of a marginalized group was wrong then and is wrong now” and “This portrayal of a marginalized group was very progressive for the time period and paved the way for more representation while likely limited by factors outside of the creator’s control” are two statements that can and should ABSOLUTELY coexist and be kept in mind when interacting with older media

[lemonylemus]

Great example

[accelerationist-king-piccolo]

[rimonoroni]

Day 180 since Craig moved in. he clearly thinks he’s dating one of us but we can’t figure out who. it’s possible one of us is lying about it for some reason but so far our efforts at inquisition has led nowhere. we would kick him out but he’s been doing the dishes for us. we’ve decided that for the sanity of the polycule we’ll keep up the charade. if all of us continue to be flirty with him, he’ll project his attraction onto whoever the hell he thinks is into him. this house of cards is delicate but necessary

[elamarth-calmagol]

It got funnier

[lmtyl]

This is how cats domesticated themselves

[sharp-tender-shock-deactivated2]

This is a comment someone appended to a photo of two men apparently having sex in a very fancy room, but it’s also kind of an amazing two-line poem? “His Wife has filled his house with chintz” is a really elegant and beautiful counterbalancing of h, f, and s sounds, and “chintz” is a perfect word choice here—sonically pleasing and good at evoking nouveau riche tackiness. And then “to keep it real I fuck him on the floor” collapses that whole mood with short percussive sounds—but it’s still a perfect iambic pentameter line, robust and a lovely obscene contrast with the chintz in the first line. Well done, tumblr user jjbang8

[headspace-hotel]

I hate that my aesthetic sense agrees with this but everything you just said was correct

[headspace-hotel]

I went back to dig up this post because I was thinking about poetry.

This is one of those non-poem things that are among my favorite poems.

As the OP stated, the use of alliterative consonants is aesthetically just great, especially the placement of the strongest use at the end: “fuck him on the floor.” The use of “chintz” is indeed great word choice.

Because I’m insane, decided to scan the poem:

Not only is the second sentence, indeed, perfect iambic pentameter, the entire poem is perfectly metered, though the first sentence has four iambs rather than five.

There are further things I love about this poem, though: I like the casual connotations of “keep it real” juxtaposed with “chintz.” It causes me to interpret the “chintz” more strongly as meaning something fake, a facade. There is also of course the coarseness of “fuck,” which is a contrast with “chintz” but a different kind of contrast, gutsy and carnal where “chintz” is flimsy and inanimate.

And then there is the storytelling: there is SO MUCH storytelling in just these two lines. To break it down: The speaker is having sex with a married man, in the house he shares with his wife, which is “filled with chintz”—something that here connotes fakeness, in contrast with “keep it real.”

The illicit encounter in the poem takes place within a house filled with facade, the flimsy construction of the wife’s marriage and domestic sphere, but the encounter itself is a taste of something “real.” That’s a story, and it’s just two lines.

This is EIGHTEEN SYLLABLES, y’all. The amount of meaning condensed into these eighteen syllables is stunning, and it is so elegantly done.

From a technical standpoint (and ive taken 300- and 400-level poetry classes so I can say this) this is damn near flawless as a poem.

[agent-octopus]

Kept thinking about this ever since I saw it and had to do something

[headspace-hotel]

there's art now

[jetlaggingbehind]

[questions-within-questions]

Ah dang to go further; the floor is framed as a refuge. As if there is literally no other space in this house that hasn't been populated by his wife with flimsy inanimate fakery. There is no space for this man in this house save for the floor. There is no space for him on the sofa, oon the counter tops, and most notably, no space for him in the marital bed.

[normal-horoscopes]

I’d also like to point out the use of the word “has.” The wife has filled the house with chintz. She isn’t filling the house with chintz. She doesn’t fill the house with chintz. She has filled the house with chintz. Use of the past-tense makes the wife a subtly removed element in the story, someone whose presence we see in the environment, but who is blissfully distant during the actors throes of passion. There is an element of physical as well as emotional separation from the wife that is catalyzed by being fucked on the floor. Use of the past tense is an end to the wife presence in the actors life, a carnal catharsis amid cold fragility and emotional distance.

[stargazing-enby]

This is my new favourite post in the world

[astronomical-bagel]

everyone cheer for the one (1) time tumblr had reading comprehension

[trekkiesagainstchastity]

And, predictably, it's because it was about gay sex