they do not go in the direction you think they will go

Dylan's realizing that he was being cruel to Dylan G and is reaching out in reconciliation. Helly is starting to understand why Helena is Like That, which lays the foundation for them to build shared allegiance and goals (like killing their dad). Irving's like "damn maybe my innie was onto something with this love shit." meanwhile the two Marks are going to fight to the death in there

Lion King (1994) explaining the importance of stylized 2D animation: Lion King (2019) and Cats (2019):

Kimba The White Lion (1965) explaining the importance of an original idea:

Lion King (1994) Lion King (2019) Cats (2019)

Shakespeare (1564) explaining the importance of an original idea:

Kimba the White Lion (1965), The Lion King (1994), The Lion King (2019), Cats (2019):

Saxo Grammaticus (c. 1160 – c. 1220) explaining the importance of understanding that all creative work is inherently derivative once you study the oral tradition of storytelling and history and that’s okay because generations have always reformatted tropes and themes to make them relatable to their current audiences 

Shakespeare (1564), Kimba the White Lion (1965), The Lion King (1994), The Lion King (2019), Cats (2019):

Tyrannosaurus rex (Late Cretaceous) explaining nothing because he’s a don’t give a fuck

got stuck on the toilet earlier and my inner monologue started coming in cookie monster's voice for some reason

#man cookie monster you're fighting bc the lid is closed!

me pretending there was artistic intent behind me bad drawing

ok so responses to this post have mostly been in one of three camps:

but there is one response that i found, well, extremely jarring:

these tags from @wingstothesun put an image into my head that i now inflict upon them and the rest of you:

sometimes I read a radioactively bad take and just sit there like "not only do you not understand this story but you fundamentally do not understand how stories work in general, and you have never considered that your discord with every piece of fiction you come across could possibly be a problem on your end"

EXCELLENT TAGS OP SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder

i think one of the worst things is that as much as we say, “we never thought stevebucky was going to be canon”….. it could have been canon. i don’t mean it in the my ship is better than your ship kind of way, more like marvel has meticulously crafted an intimate and intricate relationship between two people who love each other so deeply, they’d defy all odds for each other. steve & bucky is THE underlying relationship that the cap movies have revolved around. marvel has placed them in traditionally romantic tropes like the ‘damsel in distress’ trope, the ‘i’ll avenge your death or die trying’ trope, and the ‘i’ll break through amnesia for you’ trope. when bucky died in the snap, he died saying steve’s name. at some points in the films, subtext borders something very different. they ARE the most important people in each other’s lives and always will be. it’s a shame what endgame did to them, especially considering after dedicating 3 movies to their relationship, marvel could have done something groundbreaking. it would have been so easy.

the torse (tooth horse)

she is clean and happy

@elodieunderglass

Thank you so much, what if we invented fake correspondences for all of them and printed them off and left them in the printer trays of public libraries

That would be a terrible idea

Why was Odysseus’ bow so hard to string?

(The bow I use in this is Chinese in design rather than Greek, but it hits some of the key shape points)

People are like “these animals have exoskeletons and these ones have endoskeletons” but no. It’s all exoskeletons, your exoskeleton is protecting your bone marrow which is where your soul (which is you) is. The rest of the stuff is extraneous decoration that Big Pharma wants you to think is important/

Why do you think there’s so few ghosts around? Why are most ghosts people who died violently? You gotta crack the bones to let the soul out. Most souls are trapped alone in the dark and silent ground (or teaching hospitals) for hundreds or thousands of years until the bones eventually start to break. People who are cremated get their whole soul released and it can reincarnate. But if someone dies violently then maybe only a couple of their bones are cracked and a little scrap of the soul escapes but it’s incomplete and confused. Can’t figure out how to leave, gets obsessed with its own circumstances, repeats actions, CANNOT be reasoned with. PROOF that the soul is in the marrow.

See I know what I’m talking about.

Sin is stored in the teeth btw which is why young children are innocent (they’ll get a do-over with replacement teeth) and the elderly are shameless (once you have no teeth to remember your sins, you have nothing to fear).

Upon review I think that maybe vodka isn’t for me.

Greek philosophers be like

Something something the blood is made in the bone marrow and the flesh keeps it floating around the bones like a nebula

I remember meeting a guy at a bar a year or so ago who told me he worked at the international consortium that does the porn parodies of all the top-grossing film releases. He said that the whole Barbenheimer situation presented his combine with some spectacular highs and lows. Because he said that with Barbie, right, the thing about Barbie is that there's already kind of a three-way ideatic, structural parallel between the curated artificiality of Barbie as a children's toy, the curated artificiality of Barbie as a mass market film, and the curated artificiality of pornography as a genre. Add on top of that that Barbie as a film is already feeling this tension, right where it's trying to be about a character graduating from the platonic sexlessness of a children's franchise to the functional-and-frank sexuality of being a living human woman, but it's also being bogged down in the "Everyone-is-beautiful-no-one-is-horny" aesthetic restrictions of any contemporary big-budget mass-market film so the two states end up looking pretty similar, he said. I mean the film itself is very aware of that tension, right, with that joke about how "casting Margot Robbie is the wrong move if you want to make that point," all that jazz. So, all that in mind, Barbie-themed pornography, he said, is in a weird way actually kind of complementary to the extant project, gesturing at unaddressed tensions and ideas, a dark mirror, the shadow self it wants to deny but can't, there's a lot of room to play in the space. He used the adjective "Lynchian" a couple of times, he seemed super stoked, he was talking with his hands. Oppenheimer, on the other hand. Oppenheimer he said presented a problem. Because obviously you can eroticize the detonation of an atomic bomb, we're all probably three mutuals removed from someone on this site who does exactly that, but obviously that's a niche market, and moreover it's a market that has a ton of overlap with high-minded thinkers who treat the historical use of atomic weapons against Japan with the level of gravity that atrocity demands. So they were stuck. They were really stuck. He told me that they'd been pulling their hair out for months trying to square the circle and all they had to show for it was a big whiteboard with the phrase "Grope-nheimer" written on it

yeah no offense to confucius or anything but if i was about to embark on a journey of revenge i would simply not dig two graves

jesus christ, getting laid in your enemy's grave? that's some freak shit but honestly i kinda dig it

well yeah you dig it thats how you make a grave

A feel like this is a conversation between  Shakespeare's clowns, and I love that.

This is like one of those art house horror movies with symbolism I don’t understand except I understand what this is trying to convey perfectly holy crap

Same energy 

nominee for best tiktok of 2020 holy shit i got chills

This was originally about the inital phase of the pandemic and lockdowns but honestly? This is the exact mood I’m feeling right now watching the US descend into fascism

the template would later branch out to any negative word, but the original naming scheme for sith lords was darth + a negative word starting with 'in', with the front cut off. e.g. Darth (In)vader, Darth (In)sidious, etc. in a return to tradition, my star wars property centres the fearsome Darth Cestuous

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Tolerance the Woke? I thought not. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you.