Tuttle Did It

They/them. Recovering academic who worked in Dandyism and fashion, gender and sexual identity. Interests in Old Hollywood, war (anti-war), Irish history, classic TV. Star Trek (esp DS9), occasional angry political post. Queer. Deaf. In love with Old Hollywood queers. Tattooed. I like dogs. Black Lives Matter. Museums and archives. Every character on M*A*S*H is gay. Please don't be a MAGA/Reform racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, queerphobic, ageist, anti-Science, ableist, TERF, anti-choice Tory/American Republican bigot. And if you are, just go away. I generally follow back unless you give me a reason not to.

[tuttle-did-it]

I’m not tech savvy enough to know how to turn things into a gif, but Alda sees his muffin top in the mirror, squishes it and then decides to cover it up with his boxers. Very funny scene, sorry I can’t post the gif. 

[inoculatedcupcake]

[tuttle-did-it]

I have been attacked.

[professional-rat-eater]

Highlight of the episode has to be the unadulterated joy you get from Eric whenever Daniel is on screen. There’s so much more life in Daniel now and that’s obviously deliberate but I also can’t help but think that some of that has to be because of how badly Eric wanted to play a vampire. He was so happy and you could just feel it.

[tuttle-did-it]

This show is traumatising Jacob Anderson.

[citizenscreen]

Groucho Marx and Eve Arden on set of Edward Buzzell’s AT THE CIRCUS (1939).

[lioncourtz]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 01.06 | "Like Angels Put in Hell by God"

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 01.01 | "Detroit"

[jetcat-14]

Just a Reminder of how Jacked Janeway is 🥵

[tuttle-did-it]

I had no complaints when Janeway put on her purple vest and playing John McClaine.

[cosmonautroger]

baby bat

[thecolorofthegame]

I know this trophy is supposed to represent a triathlon, but it looks like a cyclist award for attacking pedestrians

[alansalda]

mike farrell’s photo wall, you will always be special to me (x)

[gypsum8]

So i saw this Facebook post.

Everyone was giving Cillian Murphy guff for not being Latinx, so I made this comment.

AND THEN THIS HAPPENED

My brain is still short circuting.

[tuttle-did-it]

Sorry friend, Brendan Fraser is famously Off Line. As far as I can see, aside from a personal website about photography that was abandoned in or around 2012, he has no online presence whatsoever.

IF he has social media, he has it under different names set private where he only talks to people in his life.

I would be highly suspicious about any social medias claiming to be Fraser, as he's never had socials. Anything you see is almost certainly fan run. And don't forget now you can buy blue ticks on nazi hell scum site (or whatever they're calling twitter these days) so don't trust that if you see "Brendan" on there. I dunno about facebook and whether you can do that, but point is Brendan is not on any socials under his own name.

[striatoncitytoilet]

(repeated like a mantra while rubbing my temples) i will stay silly and not allow the world to make me bitter and cruel. i will stay silly and not allow the world to make me bitter and cruel. i wi

[tuttle-did-it]

[notanupstandingcitizen]

people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

[cavegirlpoems]

tumblr users baffled by the concept of engaing with things that aren't YA fiction and fandom.

[tuttle-did-it]

I'm An Old (and had to look up what Percy Jackson was) but I learnt about Greco-Roman (and Irish, Norse, Indian, Egyptian, and African (and many others) mythology- you're never going to believe this-- through library books and my teacher.

Mythology was a passion of my Latin teacher when I was in school. When I told him I wanted more books about this, he didn't teach whatever he was going to teach that day, and spent a lot of time telling us about ancient Greco-Roman gods and mythology. We were all very excited and asked for more.

He gave us some book titles to look up in the library and said if we were really interested, we would write a short essay on what mythologies we were most interested in.

He then went to the headmaster with all the essays and told her that we were all really enjoying the mythology and wanted do a class on it. Headmaster was like 'cool. Go design it. Start next semester.'

So he started a Comparative Religion and Mythology class for us, though most of the emphasis was on mythology. I signed up for it.

(He later told me that I was one of the reasons the headmaster greenlit the class-- because I was known as a 'bad' kid who rarely showed up for class, and this was one of the few things I showed any interest in. He told me that the headmaster greenlit the class hoping that I would go to some of my other classes since I was already at the school for Mythology, anyway. And I did attend this class regularly, and her scheme probably worked as I did skip a little less often).

There was too much to cover, even though it was a pretty long class. The teacher gave us resources (books and library catalogue numbers to take to the local librarians) to continue researching on the various mythologies that we developed a passion in.

He had an open-door policy for his lunch-break that if we wanted to come in and talk to him about religion or mythology, we could-- but the only rule was that we had to discover something on our own in our research to talk about. Couldn't be something we already covered in class or the main texts we were looking at. So we would all spend time in the library looking through the books and checking out piles of them to come in and chat with him about.

And, if you managed to find a tidbit of knowledge he did NOT know about mythology, we would get a prize. (He had a prize box in the back of his cabinet like Lego figurines and sweets and dumb toys that kids think are fun.)

That is how I learnt about Mythology when I was a kid. And I ended up focussing a lot on Mythology and Folklore for my BA, and nearly went into a specialised MA programme, but decided to go a different direction for the rest of my education-- though I still managed to bring it into my work when I could. But I still have a great love and passion for it. And it was definitely reignited when I went to Greece in February and I've been reading up on Greco-Roman myth again since then.

Even the kid who is trying the hardest to escape school will still have something they want to learn.

[minervadashwood]

English major who learned about mythology because all the English, Irish, and American poets referenced it constantly. It comes up in a lot of classic literature too,it's all over the place in my current read, the count of monte cristo.

It's in video games as well, like god of war, odyssey, and hades.

And every single Assassin's Creed game.

pulls out soapbox

Recency bias is such a scourge on creativity and analysis. modern art, music, literature, film, drama are in constant conversation with what came before. Let's take Christopher Nolan films. Memento? The labyrinth with a minotaur caged with in. Guy Pearce is the minotaur and created the maze to contain is his raison d'etre.

Interstellar? Technically the upcoming Odyssey is superfluous. This film already depicts a man fighting against all odds to get back home. His daughter "weaves" the technology to enable it.

Inception? A journey through the underworld.

You learn these mythological stories once, and you start seeing them everywhere. You mind does connect the dots and all the art becomes much more enriching. Also, no wrong answers. if you see the connections, they exist.

isn't that cool?

[tuttle-did-it]

All the Star Wars, Marvel and DC bullshit are essentially variations of The Hero's Journey.

The Lion King (aside from essentially being Hamlet) is also the story of Osiris and Horus.

Oh Brother Where Art Thou- Homer's Odyssey.

The Lighthouse - Prometheus and Proteus.

Pan's Labyrinth, Persephone in the underworld.

The Matrix is the story of Orpheus's journey into the underworld (where he meets Delphi).

Most of your favourite films and video games probably have a mythological counterpart to some story or another.

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[tuttle-did-it]

[tuttle-did-it]

A clip on the fuckery of AI and google from How To Cook That.

[tuttle-did-it]

#In other words i could upload a youtube video making nyquil chicken #And the next thing i know googke is gonna be calling nyquil chicken a delicacy? #Awesome#totally isnt concerning that all it could take to kill some people is a few cheeky youtube vids

Not only could you upload a video with nyquil chicken (whatever nyquil is) and you could say that it is a HEALTH food that can cure depression, and google will now use that video and present it as a cure for depression in their ai results when someone else enters 'what is a cure for depression.'

And no way will that go well.

Very bad people will have figured this out and use it to get views for things, and people are going to get hurt or even die.

Because research proves that most people do not go beyond the first few results google offers.

Society is already absolutely doomed because of the way Ai has been implemented in every day life, but this is just an utter and complete disaster.

please don't use google. please stop using this shit. It's going to go so downhill so quickly.

[tuttle-did-it]

A clip on the fuckery of AI and google from How To Cook That.

[notanupstandingcitizen]

people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

[cavegirlpoems]

tumblr users baffled by the concept of engaing with things that aren't YA fiction and fandom.

[tuttle-did-it]

I'm An Old (and had to look up what Percy Jackson was) but I learnt about Greco-Roman (and Irish, Norse, Indian, Egyptian, and African (and many others) mythology- you're never going to believe this-- through library books and my teacher.

Mythology was a passion of my Latin teacher when I was in school. When I told him I wanted more books about this, he didn't teach whatever he was going to teach that day, and spent a lot of time telling us about ancient Greco-Roman gods and mythology. We were all very excited and asked for more.

He gave us some book titles to look up in the library and said if we were really interested, we would write a short essay on what mythologies we were most interested in.

He then went to the headmaster with all the essays and told her that we were all really enjoying the mythology and wanted do a class on it. Headmaster was like 'cool. Go design it. Start next semester.'

So he started a Comparative Religion and Mythology class for us, though most of the emphasis was on mythology. I signed up for it.

(He later told me that I was one of the reasons the headmaster greenlit the class-- because I was known as a 'bad' kid who rarely showed up for class, and this was one of the few things I showed any interest in. He told me that the headmaster greenlit the class hoping that I would go to some of my other classes since I was already at the school for Mythology, anyway. And I did attend this class regularly, and her scheme probably worked as I did skip a little less often).

There was too much to cover, even though it was a pretty long class. The teacher gave us resources (books and library catalogue numbers to take to the local librarians) to continue researching on the various mythologies that we developed a passion in.

He had an open-door policy for his lunch-break that if we wanted to come in and talk to him about religion or mythology, we could-- but the only rule was that we had to discover something on our own in our research to talk about. Couldn't be something we already covered in class or the main texts we were looking at. So we would all spend time in the library looking through the books and checking out piles of them to come in and chat with him about.

And, if you managed to find a tidbit of knowledge he did NOT know about mythology, we would get a prize. (He had a prize box in the back of his cabinet like Lego figurines and sweets and dumb toys that kids think are fun.)

That is how I learnt about Mythology when I was a kid. And I ended up focussing a lot on Mythology and Folklore for my BA, and nearly went into a specialised MA programme, but decided to go a different direction for the rest of my education-- though I still managed to bring it into my work when I could. But I still have a great love and passion for it. And it was definitely reignited when I went to Greece in February and I've been reading up on Greco-Roman myth again since then.

Even the kid who is trying the hardest to escape school will still have something they want to learn.