summary: set after Max attacks Jack in 2x08. Jack and Greer have a conversation on a very wet hotel room floor.
Oh this is just too good. And would have been a fantastic scene in the season.
Some handy keyboard shortcuts for Windows:
Also in general, [tab] will cycle between selected things (eg fields on a web site or Excel cells) and [alt] will activate the menu.
Also, if you hold [shift] while pressing the arrow keys in a text field, it'll select text in the direction you press. It'll go letter by letter if you just hold [shift], but adding in [ctrl] will make it select word by word. These, combined with [home] (go to start of line) and [end] (go to end of line) let you do a lot of text manipulation without ever needing to touch the mouse or touchpad!
Some soft and very messy sketches 🌙
CHRIS EVANS flaunting his assets as LLOYD HANSEN in THE GRAY MAN
Okay, don't get me wrong here. I LOVE Jurassic Park. I love seeing their dinosaurs. But after watching Prehistoric Planet, and going back to look at this...
And then looking at this...
Notice how much healthier the second set looks? Their lips cover their teeth, they actually have fat on their bodies, their skin doesn't wrinkle like they're dehydrated. You can't see every single tendon and muscle move because you aren't supposed to. Dinosaurs are animals, not reptilian body-builders.
THIS is the kind of change I want to see in how we create realistic depictions of not only dinosaurs, but all prehistoric creatures. Paleoart has always had a huge issue with shrink-wrapping and making these animals look terrifying instead of making them look like, well, animals.
Well done, BBC.
STOP BACKYARD BREEDING YOUR DINOSAURS
Get your Tyrannosaurs from responsible, DKC registered breeders! Anyone who says your rex should be skinny or 'thats just how they are' is lying to you.
kim kardashian wearing a historic artifact to the met gala is a strong case for nationalizing museums
i was stoned so idk why i deleted my addition but how are you going to pull up to a fundraiser event for an institute dedicated to conserving fashion history in a 60 year old dress that you bribed out of its climate controlled case
“she only wore it for a few minutes it couldn’t handle any longer”
Which is what makes it terrible! How someone decides to potentially harm a 60 year old museum piece because she feels entitled to it, idek.
“But I want a golden goose!!!”
Like, sorry Verruca did we learn nothing from Willy Wonka?? Send her to the incinerator.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
it's too late captain, she's already asleep. this is a category-5 cozy in bed event. there's nothing we can do
J. R. R. Tolkien, undisputedly a most fluent speaker of this language, was criticized in his day for indulging his juvenile whim of writing fantasy, which was then considered—as it still is in many quarters— an inferior form of literature and disdained as mere “escapism.” “Of course it is escapist,” he cried. “That is its glory! When a soldier is a prisoner of war it is his duty to escape—and take as many with him as he can.” He went on to explain, “The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as possible."
Stephen R. Lawhead
"I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"
-J.R.R. Tolkien
"Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of "escape." I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, "What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?" and gave the obvious answer: jailers."
-C.S. Lewis
everyone needs a creative outlet to stick a creative fork into
Elizabeth: You know what, underneath it all, you’re actually quite nice.
Mike B: Repeat that disgusting slander again and you’ll be hearing from my lawyer.
(Early Shield Days)
“You told me I could ask you anything.”
“Yes.”
“And you would be honest.”
“As much as I can be.”
“What’s your favorite color?” He raises an amused eyebrow.
“Purple.”
“Type of music.”
“Rock, mostly eighties.”
“Would have pegged you for a country boy.”
“Wouldn’t have thought you cared about my music preference.”
“I don’t. Favorite food?”
“Pizza. I know. You’re establishing a baseline for me telling the truth.”
“Smarter than he looks. Little known fact about yourself?”
“I can sing and play the guitar. Gave you two. Feeling generous today.”
“Where did you learn to shoot a bow?”
“The circus.”
“Interesting. Do you think I’m pretty?”
“Yes.”
“Do you want to sleep with me?”
“No.” Everything indicates he’s telling the truth, but he can’t be. She leans forward as if she’s going to kiss him, so close she see the flecks of gold in his grey eyes, but she doesn’t blink. Neither does he. After a moment she sits back.
“You didn’t try anything.”
“No. Are there more questions?”
“How many people have you killed?”
“Too many to keep count of.”
“Worst kill?” She doesn’t miss the way he swallows and it turns her stomach.
“A kid.”
“Tell me.” He’s quiet for a long time, sipping on the coffee she’s sure is cold by now. Calloused fingers drum on the side of the cup.
“Her dad was the target. Smugglers ring. I wasn’t with Shield at the time. I was working for the highest bidder. It was a clean shot. Close range. He deserved it. But then this little girl ran out from behind the car, I didn’t even realize she was there. I turned to leave and a voice came over the comm.”
“Leave no witnesses.”
“Leave no witnesses,” he echoes.
“That’s not easy.”
“No. It’s not.”
“Nightmares?”
“Yep.”
“You could have lied.”
“I promised you I wouldn’t.”
“I have nightmares too.”
“I’d be surprised if you didn’t.”
“I won’t tell you everything.”
“You don’t have to.” She nods towards her empty mug.
“When people ask me I tell them I drink black coffee. I don’t. I put way too much cream and sugar in it.” He smiles warmly.
“Tell me more.”
“I like to read. And.. I like plants a lot, but I never really stayed long enough in one place to keep one. There. I gave you two. I’m also feeling generous today.”
“What else?”
“Enough for now.”
“If I come back tomorrow can we talk again?“
“One condition.”
“Name it.”
“Bring me cream and sugar for my coffee.”
“I can do that.”
“Deal.”
“Then I’ll see you tomorrow.”
“One of the most interesting things about Elizabeth Turner was her Kiss of Death. Throughout the trilogy, all of the men she locked lips with has died - including Sao Feng in At World’s End, and (if you want to be petty about it) her father, Weatherby Swann. Usually they would die moments after kissing her for the first time. This excludes Will Turner who has kissed her several times before and beat the odds every time. However, even he succumbed to her kiss and died as well minutes after the two were hastily married by Barbossa. This is most likely a just coincidence and not something that was intentional, but years later it’s still fun to point out to friends and watch a dawn of realization hit their face when they realize that Pirate Queen Elizabeth may have also been the Grim Reaper.”
Alot of people seem to miss these two additional details:
When Jack died, he was killed by the Kraken, summoned by Davy Jones.
When Sao Feng died, was by the damage from the canons of the Dutchman
When Norrington died, it was by Bootstrap Bill, a member of it’s crew.
And when Will died, it was directly by the hands of Davy Jones.
One more thing that has struck me as odd is when she interracts with Davy Jones, he acts as if he’s seen her somewhere before. When the Empress crew point her out as the captain he has a sort of “wtf, you, you are their captain?” reaction, now you could just shake that of as Davy Jones being a misogynistic but i don’t doubt he’s seen female pirate captains before, given how long he’s lived. And when they come face to face on the Dutchman, it feels like a meeting between sworn long time enemies (at least to me).
Elizabeth, what the hell are you even and what exactly is your connection to the Dutchman.
Well…
If the Dutchman and Davy Jones are the canonical undertaker of all sailors, then Elizabeth is the one who marks them. Which makes it very, very poetic that she marries the man who takes over as captain of the Flying Dutchman.
I will remind you all that at the very beginning of the trilogy, Elizabeth is the only one who can see the Black Pearl, which at that point is considered a ghost ship.
And we find out later that Davy Jones resurrected the Pearl from its place on the ocean floor in a deal with Jack.
So whatever her connection is, it long predates her adulthood.
one time my friend had surgery on her hip/knee and we went to visit her in the hospital and she was like “hey guys, check out what i have! it’s this cool button that, when I press it, it gives me more morphine!” and sure enough she had a little tube with one end attached to her IV or whatever and one end with a button on it, and every time she pushed the button it gave her morphine
and she just kept pressing it and pressing it and giggling and getting loopier and loopier, so we went to ask a nurse if that was OK or if she was just going to overdose herself
and the nurse said that the morphine button is on a self timer limit and she had already maxed it out and won’t be able to get more for a few more hours, but she can just press the button as many times as she wants and thanks to her already being on the max dose of morphine she was just placebo effect-ing herself into the fucking stratosphere
it was a great image, my friend over there high as balls like I HAVE UNLIMITED MORPHINE POWER!!!! *press press press press* and the nurse like “nah that button isn’t doing shit but she’s having fun”
March
It’s gonna be
ITS MAY
It’s nearly June
