The Mayor’s Son

I dunno, man. I'm sure as shit not gonna put any identifying information in here, that's for certain, but I am at the very least not a minor. (Born in '99) Music hoarder and soundtrack setter, neither of which professionally. (Header by towerofthemoon). Dedicated to some form of quality on this site, I guess.

[thej-key]

god damn, man. you ever just spend a moment and realize you’ve had some real garbage takes on shit, and that’s just gonna sit on this website for forever, and people are gonna see your posts out of order the second they click one post of yours. They’re gonna see something you reblogged from someone 3 years ago when you were younger and dumber and held different opinions than you did now, or had a different way of trying to figure things out, or found other things entertaining. But then you’re always just going to be dumb, to them, because it might as well have been yesterday.

like, I’m never gonna be perfect, but I don’t wanna be as stupid as I’ve been in the past, man. This whole blog might as well be a memorial to my younger, dumber self, and I’m gonna fuck up now and in the future as well. But like, I try to figure things out by talking them out with people, man, and I can recognize between serious well-cited discussions and condescending “well duh obviously” takes.

Block list is always empty.

Oh, and to those new to my blog seeing some of the horrible shit I believed in 2016, or the more terrible people in my old reblogs recommended to you? Keep it in mind, I decided to follow you because I vehemently disagree with your politics and hate to see your point of view. /s

TERFs can die, shoutouts to my trans friends, I'm gonna keep being benevolently stupid over here.

[donnasweettttttttt]

when people are like “the hunger games just stole the plot of battle royale” like listen everything steals from the plot of everything the lion king is just furry hamlet westworld is jurassic park but sexier lost is edgy gilligan’s island there are no original stories and the only good piece of media is jennifer’s body

Michael crichton wrote westworld and jurassic park tho so he just pirated himself

michael crichton keeps TRYING to tell y’all about the evils of capitalism impeding on the progress of science when will y’all LISTEN

[kryptonians]

Maybe he just doesn’t like theme parks

michael crichton in line for a roller coaster at six flags: fuck this

[onion-souls]

Jesus Christ, that’s the height at which every rollercoaster and dark ride is a decapitation threat

[sonatine]

[madlori]

how am I ever supposed to leave tumblr when it takes me on journeys like this

[dewyatt]

It would be more accurate to say Jurassic Park is Westworld with dinosaurs, because Westworld (book and movie) came first.

[nudityandnerdery]

Michael Crichton in the late 80s: “Well, they didn’t get it the first time, maybe if I make it about dinosaurs instead…”

[pancakeke]

PEAK's stamina bar is like the perfect way to illustrate energy when living with chronic health issues.

sorry, can't deal anything today. I mean look at this shit.

[scope-dogg]

[magicratfingers]

I know some of you will love this

[nsomniacsdream]

that looks awesome. tybalt is a mitsubishi forklift. the real understand

[nsomniacsdream]

[nsomniacsdream]

[magicratfingers]

wake up babe new blorbos just dropped

[zanylibrarianorchestra-deactiva]

this is the funniest scp and yet i've never seen anyone posting about it:

[thej-key]

fuck it, the world sucks enough, I guess I'll be here for a bit.

yadda yadda i denounce a lot what I was previously about on here yadda yadda etc.

[darlingofdots]

been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter

[bill-blake-fans-anonymous]

Tags via @deadpanwalking, editor and ass-kicker extraordinaire

[pencil-line-deactivated20241029]

method actor this method actor that. toshiro mifune played a guy getting shot at by arrows by getting shot at by arrows

and yeah i believe it. ^ this is the face of a guy getting shot at by arrows

[lysenkoite]

[prismatic-bell]

SO I SHOW PART OF THIS FILM AT AN ANIME CON PANEL AND IT GETS BETTER/WORSE

(For those who are about to ask, it’s called Throne of Blood in English but its actual name is Spiderweb Castle and some Shakespeare scholars are big mad about it because other Shakespeare scholars consider it the best film adaptation of Macbeth ever made and we can’t have that)

THE ARCHERS DIDN’T KNOW MIFUNE’S BLOCKING. Every time you see him fling out an arm he’s actually signaling to the archers which way he’s about to go. That’s it, that’s what they had to go on. And they were shooting on location on Mount Fuji, which Akira Kurosawa had chosen SPECIFICALLY FOR ITS DENSE FOG.

However, BECAUSE this was Akira Kurosawa—if you don’t know that name think “Stanley Kubrick but earlier and Japanese and not quite as much of an asshole to his actors”—and he was insane, Mifune is also wearing real 19th-century feudal lord armor, in the sense that while it’s a modern reproduction it is completely functional. A feudal lord from the early 1800s could have been resurrected in the 1950s when this was filmed, handed this armor, and would have gone “yeah, that’s correct.” There are actually a couple of shots where you see arrows hit his torso and bounce off, or stick in the armor but they’ve very clearly only just barely stuck rather than going through.

So his torso is protected, and there’s a railing in front of him that provides some protection to his legs, and yes, this means THE MOST VULNERABLE PART OF HIM WAS ALSO THE ONLY PART THAT WOULD DEFINITELY KILL HIM: his face. I’m sure it was of very little comfort to him that the archers also weren’t very powerful shots.

Oh, and his character dies by taking an arrow through the neck. You can tell that one is a trick shot because it’s the only shot filmed from that specific angle, but I can imagine Mifune was none too eager to do it after all this.

While I’m here: you should watch Spiderweb Castle. I show it because it is a GORGEOUS retelling of Macbeth, which is relevant to my panel, but more importantly Kurosawa decided to shoot it in the style of Noh theatre drama, and that’s what I like to highlight. Although the story that inspired it is Western, Kurosawa took one look at it and went “oh that is 1000000% a thing that would have happened here” and the story as he tells it is so clearly, fully, and unashamedly Japanese in both style and tone. It’s a fantastic look into another culture and a masterful film.

[petermorwood]

Another fascinating snippet:

"Lady Asaji" (the Lady MacBeth equivalent) never blinks while the camera is on her. Not once.

It's not easily noticed unless forewarned and looking, but it does contribute to an uncanny-valley feeling that there's something not-quite-right about the character.

I can't remember if the actress (Isuzu Yamada) went all the way with her court makeup and blackened her teeth as this one has done.

Probably not, or there would definitely be comments about it on-line.

I've seen on-line claims that the makeup is based on Kabuki theatre.

Noh, it isn't. :->

It's actually period-correct for a noblewoman of the Heian period (794-1185) and IIRC preceded - also may have inspired - that "female" style of Noh mask.

Here the makeup's being worn by Lady Murasaki Shikibu, who wrote "The Tale of Genji" about 1000 years ago.

If interested in this period and its customs, both very different to the later, better-known Tokugawa-period samurai stuff, "The World of the Shining Prince" by Ivan Morris is a fascinating read.

*****

More method acting with projectile weapons:

James Cagney was shot at with a REAL Thompson submachine gun during the making of both "Public Enemy" (1931) and "Angels With Dirty Faces" (1938).

I blogged about it years ago here, a long-ish post about safety vs realism in movie fights.

Here's Cagney talking about the Public Enemy one.

Get that particular "special effect" wrong, and you'll definitely need more than just a retake...

[dduane]

Peter explains it all to us. :)

[sniffanimal]

god I could be so wealthy if I had no ethics. that's so fucking frustrating. I'm living paycheck to paycheck because I'm not grifting vulnerable idiots on TikTok. I feel like I have the ability to very easily scam people. I could make a killing with AI. but god. I have morals and ethics and so I get to be poor as shit. I hate this fucking world

[madfishmonger]

I could have made a killing as a psychic, but noooo I have to feel bad about lying to people ugh

[contact-guy]

I think abt this all the time because the thing is, evil rich people truly believe that they’re geniuses who have discovered a way to make money that the rest of us dummies haven’t…but the truth is that they are just willing to do evil shit that everyone else would prefer to not to because we have standards

[cute-catts]

[whatcoloristhatcat]

red spotted tabby

[wildlifepsas]

You might find something like this on your property or along public forest trails. It’s about the same size and shape as a ketchup packet and smells like rotten fish. Believe it or not, this little packet protects you, your pets, and your family. The USDA drops these in areas (including Hamilton County) where raccoon-variant rabies has been known to occur. Raccoons find the packet and eat the contents, and it provides them with immunity to rabies. If you find one, simply leave it where it is, or, if it’s in an area accessible to a pet or child, just put on a pair of gloves and move it. Don’t worry, though— even if it was handled by a human or pet, it doesn’t pose any danger besides an unpleasant odor.

~ For Fox Sake Wildlife Rescue

[beardedmrbean]

It's Not Ketchup Packets Falling From The Sky, It's Rabies Vaccine

The Allegheny County Health Department just completed its 20th year of raccoon rabies mitigation. County employees and volunteers distribute

Because everything like this should have a clickable source, first one is a news report second one is the NYC department of health official site.

[skipppppy]

Fuck it. So many of you asked for this so I’m delivering. English Willy part 2. Enjoy

(part 1)

[skipppppy]

Something about FNAF 3 and Fazbear Frights taking place in 2023 in our current social media landscape

(part 2)

[woolandflax]

Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-

[woolandflax]

Has a Chinese son, names him bèng-dá, and he hates me

[woolandflax]

My beloved son 䨻龘 just trying to write his name in kindergarten

[inthefallofasparrow]

[curlicuecal]

[weaselle]

let’s look at “da” which says it takes 48 strokes and means “the appearance of a dragon walking” Now i’m not going to count the strokes but that’s 29 letters and if we assume it takes and average of 2 stokes per letter then we are talking 58 strokes to say the exact same thing, so i think Chinese is winning the efficiency race here, actually

Also, Ballchinian Cable, i don’t read write or speak any of the Chinese languages, but purely based on the definitions given, i think your son’s name would be closer to 

“Boom, Dragon Stroll”

which miiiiight even be cooler, in a beach-y sunglasses kind of way

[stinkybrowndogs]

Attempting to make him aware of his mortality (he does not care)

[etakeh]

[thecygnetcommittee]

"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")

[fromchaostocosmos]

When ever people talk about Einstein's brilliance and genius in this way this is part of me that feels like sand has gotten trapped inside of me.

Because they all seem to be so willing to ignore that Einstein was Jewish. And that matters. Einstein did not get to where he got easily. He had to face antisemitism including academic antisemitism. He face systemic antisemitism.

The man had to flee Europe because of the Nazis because he was Jewish. Even once he came to America he still dealt with anitsemitism.

Einstein reflected about what him being Jewish meant in regards to his theories.

As he famously said “If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.”

You can not ignore that Einstein was Jewish and what that comes with.

Because you know what I would like you to contend with just how much genius has been lost, how much potential has been lost, how much hope and change that could made a positive impact on our world that has been lost due to antisemitism.

Because if you are going to have that kind of conversation and you are going to bring up Einstein then you have to bring up just how many Jews have been murdered over the millennia for being Jews and what has been lost because of their hate in their killers hearts.

[gehe-lihiyot-androgynos-varda-d]

Also the ignorance of Einstein dedicating his post war years to the advancement of African American Education and his position as a vocal/politically active opponent of racial segregation,

Albert Einstein, Civil Rights activist — Harvard Gazette

Einstein’s response to the racism and segregation he found in Princeton was to cultivate relationships in the town’s African-American commun

This position being founded both in Jewish values and his own experiences of academic discrimination in America on the basis of being a Jew.