Batman Begins (2005) Dir. Christopher Nolan

Cillian Murphy as Dr. Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow

what’s up everybody, i brought you angst before, so now it’s time for some comedy.

comedy, y’know? like when tv funnyman is making Funky Puns and snow gets second hand embarrassment and is all like ‘ugh can’t believe this is my life, am i right?’ while kids are literally being forced to hunt and murder each other on the next screen. hilarious!

anyway, this one goes on the coriolanus cringe compilation.

man you guys have got to stop getting mad at people for tagging your post as whatever annoying thing. tags used to be sacred. you weren't supposed to see it. it's the culture. "Stop tagging this as [character]". No!! You have no right to make demands on me!! I can do whatever I want in the tags. Just cause Tumblr decided to set up a camera in my house and broadcast it live doesn't mean you get to make fun of me for going "wheee!!!" when I get into bed it's my fucking house and my fucking business!!!!!

#'why are people being annoying' ma'am you're on the Being Annoying Website

this is the last time you can reblog this

Headcannon #11

No one, not even Molly Weasley could tell the twins apart. Professors confused them, friends just started calling them combination names, in second year, Marietta Edgecomb had confessed her undying love for Fred to George instead, who had simply patted her on the head once and walked away. 

Alicia Spinnet could tell. Alica Spinnet could always tell. George thought it had been luck at first. That she simply always guessed right. But then, as the years went on, she just never got it wrong. 

He came up to her in the library one afternoon, she barely looked at him before going back to her revising for winter midterms. 

‘What do you want, George?’ she asks shortly. She had been moody for weeks. Since Fred and Angelina had started hanging out, leaving her and George to fend for themselves. 

‘How do you do that?’ he asks. She gives him a puzzled look quickly. ‘Tell us apart.’ he clarifies. 

“Well, you’re not attached to Angelina’s neck, so that kind of gave it away.” she snips. he laughs heartedly, a full belly laugh he hasn’t given off in a while. He was always a little bit darker without Fred around. 

“But usually. How can you tell?” he pushes.

“Its not really hard. I don’t understand how no one else can see the differences. You guys aren’t the same person. Anyone who pays attention should be able to do it.” she tells him. 

He thinks about that. He and Fred are different. Fred is all big ideas and grandiose gestures, while George is the pragmatic details guy. Not to say he doesn’t have big ideas on his own. But Fred says ‘Lets make puking pastilles’ and George starts looking into what to add to the chocolate to hide the taste of the potion hidden in the truffle. 

He doesn’t think the people who can’t tell the difference between him and Fred aren’t paying attention. He *knows* his mother is constantly watching them. But thats the thing, she’s watching them and not him. People don’t pay attention to the individuals. Alicia does. 

“so whats the big one? whats the difference that you can see with barely a glance?” he asks her. she puts her quill down on her book, readjusting her arms and leaning on them a bit. She stares into his questioning look and tilts her head. 

‘Your eyes.’ she says simply, like it should be obvious. ‘You each have a fleck of brown in your eyes. It’s so small, it’s almost undetectable. I noticed it on the train our first year. I found it fascinating, because yours is in your left eye, and his is on the right. I call it ‘the mischief’. the mischief in your eyes.” she laughs at her own joke. She does that a lot. George admires that about her. That she doesn’t need the validation of other people like he and Fred do, even if the validation is just from each other. 

Alicia is perfectly okay with just laughing on her own. 

vampire who's married to an archaeologist voice: my love, stop trying to carbon date me

*at the museum* my love, why is my cursed amulet in this display case

thinking about that WoW epidemic

i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.

he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.

a CNN article recently referenced another “viral” event in world of warcraft: leeroy jenkins facepulling as a metaphor for the expedited reopening of businesses. what it fails to mention however is how the video ends. everyone who charges in with leeroy dies. he wipes the raid.

it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.

weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it

The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.

Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldn’t do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have “no symptoms”; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.

The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said “if you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you don’t spread it!!” the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.

They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it you’ll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didn’t do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.

ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.

However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasn’t reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that weren’t cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.

Think about that.

The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences weren’t permanent. “No one would act like that in real life.” But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?

And we can’t time travel.

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Everything about this is a masterpiece: the girl that says “wow” and the girl that says “hi” shyly and bill awkwardly lifting his hand to say hi to them I’m cracking THE FUCK UP

The way they all immediately straightened up their postures like the fuckin pope walked in 😂 the sheer power this cool science man has over the american people is palpable

I’M ?!

you’re telling me that you didn’t have a greek mythology phase? what are you, straight?

She Came Prepared The Daily Politics presenter was chatting to Charlotte and Henrietta about banning unhealthy food in schools.

She came for him

“well maybe when you were my age you were a dumb piece of shit”

I CANNOT

Heroines.

Iconic

that explains why his generation is working so hard to destroy the fucking planet

that head nod/eyebrow tilt combo in the last gif is the single most lethal fucking thing I have ever seen in my life

Not to ruin everyone’s delight, I really want to believe this was a non-scripted thing that happened on TV but I feel like this is one of those things that was scripted and is actually meant to be like. parody.

Knowing the context, we can state definitely that it’s not meant as parody. I’m also confident that it’s not scripted, as such, although it’s not free from contrivance.

The context is that this isn’t from a regular episode of The Daily Politics, but from a CBBC series called All Over the Workplace, where children are given opportunities to gain experience of the jobs they aspire to. In this episode, aspiring politicians Charlotte and Henrietta got to visit parliament, talk to working politicians, sit in on an MP’s meeting with constituents, and try their mettle in a mock debate and a TV interview.

The full episode includes a segment before the interview where the girls are coached on interview technique by a former Downing Street press secretary. There’s a certain amount of nudging – the coach is the one who introduces the idea of using seatbelts as an example of successful government intervention – but I don’t believe the interview itself is scripted, since that would defeat the purpose of the exercise. (There’s also a segment after the interview where the coach comes back and they go over what they could have done differently.) The girls got help planning the outline of what they’re going to say, but the delivery is all them.

The episode ends with the adults who took part saying that they look forward with interest to what the future holds for Charlotte and Henrietta, and so do I.

(The clip is on the BBC website for anyone who wants to check out the body language in full motion.)

Graduation night, 1978

Lily and Marlene are ONLINE and DRINKING

send them asks!!

@thatredlipped-classic

the thing that kills me most about the lantern scene in tangled is that it isn’t disappointing. rapunzel has been “looking out a window for 18 years” dreaming of the day she’ll see the lights; she’s built them up in her mind so much that it would have been so natural if it fell flat. but it doesn’t. it’s everything she’s ever wanted and more and it’s MORE because she doesn’t get only the thing she thought she wanted the most in all the world.

looking out her window from her tower all those years, rapunzel didn’t just want to see the lights. she wanted freedom and she wanted love and so the lights became for her the symbol of everything she missed out on for all those years. and I love the way the movie overlays her voiced desire with her unvoiced, truer, deeper desire so that the moment when the first comes true- when she sees the lights for the first time in all their glory- is the same moment that she sees what’s right next to her, in the same boat, and what she’s really wanted along: a person whom she loves and who loves her back.