Adam Hughes: Mary Jane
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tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse
No, no, no, you see on tiktok an algorithm feeds you misinformation. On Tumblr I feed myself misinformation from my charcuterie board of hand-selected unhinged mutuals.
None of that mass market junk. Only artisanal, small batch, sustainably cultivated, fair trade horseshit.
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the capricorn anger in this video
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Person who really wants to be dominated by a strong-armed authoritarian in a snappy uniform, but also they want to keep their kinks ideologically pure, so they split the difference and fantasise about getting their ass beat by the inspector-general of the US Postal Service.
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There's a cinematic equivalent of "this meeting could have been an email" where you get about two hours into a feature-length blockbuster and it occurs to you that this would have lost nothing meaningful if it had been a ten-minute short film on YouTube.
I would also volunteer "this miniseries should have just been a movie".
See Kenobi. It's a good story ... that only really needed ninety minutes to two hours to tell. They had to really pad out the middle to stretch it out to a full season when it could have just been a movie.
Level 1: Miniseries that could have been a feature film.
Level 2: Feature film that could have been a short film.
Level 3: Short film that could have been a TikTok sketch.
Level 4: TikTok sketch that could have been a rage comic.
Level 5: Yeah, maybe just keep that one to yourself.
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No fucking way LMFAO
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Toby Keith dying is kinda funny I have to admit
like imagine writing this song in response to 9/11 and ruining the entire genre of country music for an entire generation and then your country loses to the taliban 20 years later anyways and then you die. huge L.
holy shit lol
that last line has *destroyed* me
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leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this
Sometimes something fucked up happens to the guy and their melody gets fucked up too. Sometimes the thing that fucked them up also has its own melody and when the first melody gets fucked up the second melody gets mixed in
no fucking way dude. are you serious
OMG every time somebody brings this up (or even when they don't) I have to mention my favorite, and now that I have a Tumblr I can inflict it on many people simultaneously!! :D
So. Particularly bookish Tolkien fans will have read The Silmarillion, which depicts the creation and early history of Middle-Earth. Bear with me here: this actually does relate to leitmotifs. See, it begins with the Beginning, when the angels and archangels (of whom Gandalf is one but that's a whole other story), under the direction of God, literally sing the world into being in harmonious delight and joy.
But there's This One Jerk who doesn't want to participate in the harmony. He wants to run the whole show. So he starts doing his own thing. And it's awful. Loud, brassy, repetitive.
God is a very good director. He adjusts the music to work the bad theme into the harmony and compensate for its dissonance.
This One Jerk no likey. Violence ensues.
He is, essentially, Middle-Earth Lucifer, and there's a lot about finally getting him the hell out of Middle-Earth so that life can go on, although damage has been done. Long story short, he is eventually evicted, but not before he attracts less powerful followers and imitators to his cause.
Including Sauron, the Dark Lord of Middle-Earth.
Howard Shore, who wrote the score for the 2000-2004 Lord of the Rings movies, was aware of all this before he started composing it. Whenever the forces of Sauron are onscreen, you can hear their leitmotif. Loud, brassy, repetitive. And then. Listen very carefully to the music that plays during Sauron's final fall, and only then.
I shouted for joy when I heard it in the theater, because I am that kind of nerd.
Huh, okay, so I love the Silmarillion and have seen the LOTR movies a dozen times, but I have a terrible ear for music. When I watched this scene again just now, I couldn't pick out anything familiar other than what I think was a liiiittle bit of the Ring's leitmotif as it plopped onto the lava? The music that plays when Sauron's tower falls didn't ring any bells though.
Can anyone help a music idiot out and explain what the previous post is talking about?
This is a modified version but the description has some additional technical info. Listen at 7:10
or here at 2:54. This single motif that plays once is the theme of Sauron. You can also hear it when the Witch King’s fortress lights up the sky and begins its army’s march in ROTK, but I can’t find the exact piece it plays in now.
To put it in bad terms, it’s the BWAAAAH BWWAAAH BWAAAH badadadaaaa.
Now go to when Sauron’s tower starts crumbling. There is a BWAAAAH BWAAAAAH but it sounds different. It’s no longer just brass, and the pitch is different even though it’s the same tune.
If you can’t hear it, have a less musically deaf friend listen to both and show you. It’s really cool, and I can’t believe I didn’t put it together before now.
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is a man not entitled to the sweat dripping down his own balls?
‘No!’ Says Lil Jon, ‘it belongs to the window.’
‘No!’ Say the Ying Yang Twins, ‘it belongs to the wall.’
i hate this
I LOVE THIS
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A male common agama (Agama agama) basking on a rock in Cameroon, Africa
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Generic Medieval Fantasy™ role reversal where the royal chancellor is a jocular goofball with a strange preoccupation with dad-joke-level puns and the royal jester is just intensely sinister in ways that only outsiders ever seem to notice.
@battybiscornu replied:
is the jester even funny or do they simply jingle ominously
The king thinks they're hilarious.
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It's a lot healthier to go for a daily walk than to sign up for a gym membership you won't be using because you hate that kind of exercise. It's a lot healthier to eat a frozen meal than to skip a meal because you were too tired to cook something healthy. It's a lot healthier to take a quick shower than to procrastinate an elaborate routine for days. Don't aim so high that you won't be hitting anything!
this is actually really helpful and affirming thanks
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To all the people in the notes wondering how we got anywhere before GPS: we got lost a lot. Like a lot. If it was a new place we would pull out the maps, we all had local maps in the car and then these huge huge huge books of maps called atlases and we'd have one for every state we'd be driving through
And before a trip we would plot our whole entire route, and go back over it every night at the hotel, and we would write all the directions down on a little note and someone would be in charge of navigation and making sure we didn't miss any turns.
For local stuff all directions would be described in reference to other things. You still see this when older folks give directions. Do you ever get the "do you know where the ruby Tuesday is? No? How about the Buffalo wild wings? Yeah okay so from there go down til you see a Wendy's and turn left..." instead of them just telling u the address so u can plug it into ur GPS? That's why.
I have fond memories of getting helaciously lost in Kentucky because we had to go around a bad accident, and we didn't have a Kentucky map because we hadn't planned on going thru Kentucky and we stopped at a gas station to get a map but they didn't have any and my dad came back to the car swearing up and down about these goddamn Kentucky communists who didn't even sell maps in their gas stations,
honestly the funniest thing about this post is referring to kentuckians as communists.
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oh ok. the dwarves in dungeon meshi live in a steampunk world. good to know. But i love the juxtaposition between elves using magic birds to communicate while the dwarves have straight up telephones
and the gnomes are hopelessly dependent on the orb
I want to meet the person who was given the job of designing the communications standard which allows real-time three way calling between a telephone, a crystal ball, and an oracular parrot.
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