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The Ocean, Me, MS Paint, 2022

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Colin Firth (Part 2 - THE DATA)

You can read my intro here.

When I ran the data, Colin Firth had 90 acting credits on IMDB (in 40 years! The man's been busy!)

I wanted to set some parameters, so I excluded anything where the overall project was under an hour of runtime.

(DVD bonus content, short films, one off TV episodes. You'll notice Crown Court is over an hour, but as a one off TV episode, I excluded it as well. PS it was his first onscreen appearance, as a baby face cop)

I also excluded anything where he has <5 minutes of screentime.

(The record might be the 1987 Secret Garden, where he's got about 90 seconds. Honestly forgot I was watching a Colin Firth film until he showed up right before the credits)

I also excluded this

because dear god, no thank you I didn't want to watch that shit (I'm only partially kidding. I'd watched literally everything else so I watched this one too, it wasn't that bad)

This left us with a very respectable 76 films that I tracked data for!

SMOKING

The highest percentage of what I tracked was whether he smoked.

(sidenote, check out that 10 year period where he had TWENTY FOUR PROJECTS)

I assume this is common for anyone who made films in the 80s or 90s, when smoking onscreen was more prevalent. Out of curiosity I broke it up by when the film was set, because he does a lot of period pieces, and found that yes! Things do taper off as the public perception of smoking changed.

(I was very broad with what I considered a "period piece", mostly because I didn't start making this powerpoint until 10pm the night before I presented, because that's who I am as a person) The numbers didn't show for actual movies, but in the 2000s there were only 2 movies where he smoked, out of the 19 that he filmed. Probably because it shifted to instead of everyone or cool kids, only villains and bad guys smoke.

INFIDELITY

I also tracked infidelity, separating out whether his partner was unfaithful to him, or whether he was the one to be unfaithful or help a committed person be unfaithful.

These percentages are of all his movies. He gets cheated on 15.8% of the time, poor guy.

GRIEF

Did you know that in a quarter of his projects, he explores grief?

I determined that there were two main types of grief - the death of an intimate (mostly a partner, occasionally a family member), and wartime PTSD.

But that's not what you're here for. I know you. You wanna see how often he got

WET

THIRTY PERCENT. That is almost every third project!

I separated it out where the water goes on him (rain, shower, fountain, fire hose) or where he goes in the water (ocean, pond, lake, bath). A Single Man is special, because there's a scene where he's in the rain, and a scene where he's in the ocean (and in the credits, he's floating nude underwater, just saying).

That seems like a lot! I don't have any comparison data (yet, waiting for my brain to embark on another unhinged project) but that seems like more than other people.

I have one more point to share with y'all

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Colin Firth (Part 1)

In 2010, Colin Firth won an Oscar for his performance in The King's Speech.

You may also recognize him from things like

Pride & Prejudice

or the Bridget Jones series

or Love Actually

or Mamma Mia!

or Kingsman

He's talked about how he likes to take roles that were different than the last one he played, and often overlaps jobs, which means that he was alternating filming for Mamma Mia, an Abba musical about a wedding

at the same time that he was filming A Summer in Genoa, a film about dealing with the grief of the death of his partner in a car crash

Not to be confused with Trauma,

a film about dealing with the grief of the death of his partner in a car crash.

Not to be confused with A Single Man,

a film about dealing with the grief of the death of his partner in a car crash.

Not to be confused with Supernova,

a film where he's in the car with his partner, dealing with the grief of his imminent death. Very different.

But that's not what we're here for. The real question is,

How often does Colin Firth get wet??

I found out -

Check it out here!

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Colin Firth (Part 2 - THE DATA)

You can read my intro here.

When I ran the data, Colin Firth had 90 acting credits on IMDB (in 40 years! The man's been busy!)

I wanted to set some parameters, so I excluded anything where the overall project was under an hour of runtime.

(DVD bonus content, short films, one off TV episodes. You'll notice Crown Court is over an hour, but as a one off TV episode, I excluded it as well. PS it was his first onscreen appearance, as a baby face cop)

I also excluded anything where he has <5 minutes of screentime.

(The record might be the 1987 Secret Garden, where he's got about 90 seconds. Honestly forgot I was watching a Colin Firth film until he showed up right before the credits)

I also excluded this

because dear god, no thank you I didn't want to watch that shit (I'm only partially kidding. I'd watched literally everything else so I watched this one too, it wasn't that bad)

This left us with a very respectable 76 films that I tracked data for!

SMOKING

The highest percentage of what I tracked was whether he smoked.

(sidenote, check out that 10 year period where he had TWENTY FOUR PROJECTS)

I assume this is common for anyone who made films in the 80s or 90s, when smoking onscreen was more prevalent. Out of curiosity I broke it up by when the film was set, because he does a lot of period pieces, and found that yes! Things do taper off as the public perception of smoking changed.

(I was very broad with what I considered a "period piece", mostly because I didn't start making this powerpoint until 10pm the night before I presented, because that's who I am as a person) The numbers didn't show for actual movies, but in the 2000s there were only 2 movies where he smoked, out of the 19 that he filmed. Probably because it shifted to instead of everyone or cool kids, only villains and bad guys smoke.

INFIDELITY

I also tracked infidelity, separating out whether his partner was unfaithful to him, or whether he was the one to be unfaithful or help a committed person be unfaithful.

These percentages are of all his movies. He gets cheated on 15.8% of the time, poor guy.

GRIEF

Did you know that in a quarter of his projects, he explores grief?

I determined that there were two main types of grief - the death of an intimate (mostly a partner, occasionally a family member), and wartime PTSD.

But that's not what you're here for. I know you. You wanna see how often he got

WET

THIRTY PERCENT. That is almost every third project!

I separated it out where the water goes on him (rain, shower, fountain, fire hose) or where he goes in the water (ocean, pond, lake, bath). A Single Man is special, because there's a scene where he's in the rain, and a scene where he's in the ocean (and in the credits, he's floating nude underwater, just saying).

That seems like a lot! I don't have any comparison data (yet, waiting for my brain to embark on another unhinged project) but that seems like more than other people.

I have one more point to share with y'all

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last year when i posted this people melted down and went out of their way to misinterpret the purpose of this exercise and just say insane racist shit; the goal is to get you to reflect on whether or not you engage with black music and black art and artists, and if you seem to avoid doing so, to ask yourself why that is

if you would like, feel free to share the song/artist in the tags to share recs! always easier to begin or continue diversifying your listening habits with suggestions :)

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Good morning! I’m salty.

I think we, as a general community, need to start taking this little moment more seriously.

This, right here? This is asking for consent. It’s a legal necessity, yes, but it is also you, the reader, actively consenting to see adult content; and in doing so, saying that you are of an age to see it, and that you’re emotionally capable of handling it.

You find the content you find behind this warning disgusting, horrifying, upsetting, triggering? You consented. You said you could handle it, and you were able to back out at any time. You take responsibility for yourself when you click through this, and so long as the creator used warnings and tags correctly, you bear full responsibility for its impact on you.

“Children are going to lie about their age” is probably true, but that’s the problem of them and the people who are responsible for them, not the people that they lie to.

If you’re not prepared to see adult content, created by and for adults, don’t fucking click through this. And if you do, for all that’s holy, don’t blame anyone else for it.

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Austen adjectives cheat-sheet

I made a venting post about the struggle to not use superlatives in Jane Austen fanfic, but now I want to more seriously share my cheat-sheet of Austen adjectives with you, for use when trying to write in Austen’s style.

Some of these words have changed from how we typically use them nowadays, at least in US English (my native language); I’ve marked these with an asterisk * so you can pay special attention and be careful how you use them.

Please note that I’m no linguist or literary scholar; this is just a casual collection I pulled together for personal use writing fanfic, and is based on my own interpretations of Austen’s wording. I make no claims for this being academically robust, flawless, comprehensive, or nuanced. Again, it’s just a cheat-sheet.

Adjectives:

Mid: tolerable (do not use fine!)

Good: good, nice, well, pleasant, agreeable, fine*, amiable, pleasing, lovely, estimable

Really good: very good, exceeding(ly) good, very agreeable, delightful, excellent, splendid, first-rate, exemplary, exquisite, capital (do not use great!)

Satisfying: satisfactory*, acceptable*, gratifying

Sufficient: satisfactory, acceptable

A lot/very: great*, exquisite*, amazing(ly)

Strong/intense: great*, impressive*

Impressive: great*, glorious, magnificent, remarkable, extraordinary, awful* (do not use impressive!)

Important/weighty: important, great*, remarkable*, awful*

Interesting: interesting, remarkable

Surprising: surprising, amazing*, wonderful*, incredible*, exceptional*, remarkable, extraordinary

Scary: terrific*, tremendous*, horrid, terrible*, awful*

Bad: bad, poor, disagreeable, unpleasant, unbecoming, grievous, direful, ill*

Really bad: very bad, wretched, dreadful, horrible, horrid, odious, despicable, terrible (do not use awful!)

(Apologies to Mr. Tilney: though “good” was not the primary meaning of “nice” in Austen’s work, it was one of the meanings of it in her work!)

Superlatives not used in any Austen novels: superb, breathtaking, fabulous, fantastic, marvelous, phenomenal, stunning, spectacular, outstanding, supreme, sensational, stellar, top-notch, awesome, divine (divine is used but only with its literal meaning, never as a generic superlative)

Also of note: quite vs rather in Austen’s time aligns pretty well with the modern-day US English usage and not with the modern-day UK usage, generally speaking.

Quite = very

Rather = somewhat, kind of

Further reference:

The Jane Austen Word List: every single word used in Austen's works

Austen Word Frequencies: per novel, character, etc.

Etymonline: dictionary with historical meanings

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: digitized version of an actual 18th century dictionary

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no matter how bad things are going at least you aren't watching instagram reels right now

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One of the stranger things about training brand new nurses is explaining how to min max small talk. It feels very weird to coach people on how to chat.

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ADHD at night: I could write a book. I could get my Master’s Degree. I could go to the club and come home with 12 new friends. I could get a job at that club and meet the mother of my children. I could cure every disease and use my wealth to bring world peace.

ADHD during the day: Fold laundry too hard :( Come back next week

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"Why are you still on tumblr, it's a dead site" Tumblr is the ONLY site that still works in the way of -Follow this person, see their posts- instead of -you stopped scrolling and stayed on this post for .2 seconds longer than others, here's 100 more posts like it- I hate algorithms. Tumblr has its many issues. But at least I keep my choice of what I see.

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we’reくコ:彡 entering squid territory

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gilf of all time im so serious

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I will not be able to look at Colin Firth in any movie and not be mildly amused in a joking manner. Seeing his face is somewhat a silly thing to me.

I can't rewatch Kingsman and be seriously awed at the church scene because I'd giggle through it all. Seriously, he's adorable, it's like a cat wreaking a whole living room.

Fitzwilliam Darcy? Disgruntled cat, things inconvenience him but he'll do it for his end goal.

Lord Wessex? Such magnificent arrogance. He's parading around like a cat who just killed a bird and everyone should know it.

then there's my beloved Harry Bright. Nothing much to say about him, he's wonderful. No thoughts, head empty kinda cat, just pure vibes, very spontaneous

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“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”