#I know i know

[vacz]

The tape player || The Hunter AU (Comic)

Happy Valentine's Day! 🥰💕

[deepdwellingsteamboat]

RE-ANIMATOR 1985・dir. Stuart Gordon

[frenchublog]

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[cookinguptales]

Now that the post is over 10k and my notes are straight-up unusable...

One thing I wish I'd spelled out more explicitly in the original post because I see this point getting lost on a lot of rebloggers who don't understand why the healthcare thing was such a big deal is like

The subtext I thought would be understood bc I lived back then but apparently has been lost today is that making sure queer employees and their partners had healthcare in the early 90s meant Disney was paying for a lot of AIDS treatment.

This is one reason fundie Christians were so upset and queer employees were so grateful. It's one reason why it was such a controversial decision. It was a major talking point amongst my family, who believed back then that AIDS was a punishment from God.

(Some still do, I think. We don't talk.)

I keep seeing people saying that Disney only chose that option "because of their bottom line" and it's like??? Were you listening??? Disney has been paying for that decision for literally decades, but they've stood by it.

Like... the 90s weren't like now! It wasn't profitable to cater to the queer population of the country back then. They weren't raking in money with this.

It's in no way a perfect company but I fully believe in criticizing people for the specific things they do wrong and praising them for the specific things they do right. Disney has fucked copyright, monopoly, and labor laws and I'm not about to defend that. But they are well known in FL for being friendly to both queer people and disabled people, and that is unambiguously a good thing.

(Like side note, I could talk about Disney and accessibility for days. I have traveled extensively while disabled and no one does it like Disney.)

I've had people reblogging the post like "I straight-up don't believe Disney is an industry leader in equal protections for queer employees" and it's like ??? do you think I just pulled this out of my ass? If you want more information, go look it up! You'll see that this is well-established history. It's not my fault y'all don't read! :|

[daisynik7]

me: nah I'm not really into facial hair actually

the line-up:

[reynolds-jackman-lively]

I'm sorry guys, I don't remember posting this...

[wehavekookies]

First of all, how are these five years old already.

[shipmistress9]

Sgaeyl: Hurry, Tairn, I need you.

Tairn *already on his way*: What happened? Is the Golden One in danger?

Sgaeyl: No, no, I have that covered. But my idiot of a rider is horny as fuck for this pint-sized woman here and if she gets herself killed before he can mate her, he'll mope around forever. So I need a way for her not to die too quickly.

Tairn:... you've got be kidding me...

[abigmessofablog]

I'm sure I'm probably not the first person to note this but the reason so many works derivative of The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings fails to capture the magic of those works is the lack of the hobbityness

Tolkien was, obviously, entirely aware of he common fantasy and fairytale tropes he was playing off of and they're present in his work (placing the proper king on the throne, elves and dwarves, main character who's hesitant to start his heros journey, dragons, ext) but if need be, these elements will be sidelined to emphasize the Hobbitish philosophy about the importance of comfort and good food and so on and so forth. (Thorin's death speech, Frodo's "I can't recall the taste of food, nor the touch of grass" ext)

Warning; super long, barely readable meta rant written at 2AM below

I've seen people say in any other story, Aragorn would be the main character of LOTR and I can agree with that but I'd argue you can kinda say the same thing about Thorin. Aragorn has his whole "rightful king" plot not dissimilar to how Thorin has his "reclaim the homeland, fight the dragon" plot. In the movies our emotional involvement in Aragorn and Thorin gets beefed up a little as they get some more brooding to the both of them. Aragorn gets his angst over his ancestry, Thorin is taken more seriously (ie: his updated, much more dramatic introduction giving him an air of mystery vs his book introduction, movie Balin's speech about his loyalty to Thorin, the treatment of the whole "gold sickness" thing, Thorin's speeches being taken seriously rather than being lovingly made fun of by the narration, ext) You can easily see a version of these stories where these two kings are the main characters of the story but they aren't! but neither of these characters are our main characters. Frodo and Bilbo are, respectively. And Frodo and Bilbo are simple hobbits with simple likes and the desire to live their simple shire life before getting dragged into adventure by the narrative.

I do genuinely like that in the Hobbit movies Bilbo gets to decide to go on the adventure by himself instead of getting unceremoniously shoved out of the house by Gandalf. It gives him more agency and we get the fun adventure that is supposed to take Bilbo out of his shell. Thats the message most people took from the story (ie "the world is not in your books..." I love this message/interpretation as much as anyone to be clear. I'm very guilty of loving my "Bilbo stays in Erebor" fanworks) but it is worth noting that Bilbo returns back to the Shire after his adventure and he gets the big speech about how more people should value the simple things in life before Thorin dies. Bilbo positions himself as sort of an unconventional hero by modern standards. Bilbo gets out of his situations more often than not through his wit and cleverly talking his way out of it rather than any displays of strength. He talks his way around Smaug, he cheats at his game of riddles with Gollum, he stalls the trolls. Bilbo wasn't even awake for the big climatic battle that gets turned into a climax for one of the movies. Bilbo, while getting braver more capable and more accepting of the situation, is still a hobbit! He wants his home and hearth and if he is dragged on an adventure, he will very loudly let you know about it. Frodo is similar in the sense that his strength doesn't come from any physical strength but from his ability to shoulder the horrors™ and then accept help from the people around him (mainly Sam) because he shouldn't have to shoulder the horrors™ alone. Again, the entire time Frodo is going on his adventure he's thinking about how much he'd rather be home. Sam sort of acts like this beacon of what the home represents and he’s the only thing keeping him emotionally stable and tries to comfort him through keeping him tethered to those memories of home. There’s the obvious scenes where Sam straight up tells Frodo to imagine home but there’s also just things like Sam cooking and insisting on making sure Frodo is fed (please note that sharing food is basically the universal signal for closeness, domesticity and the idea of a family unit. Think Norman Rockwell) or them turning their traumatic events into stories that they (again mostly Sam) expect to tell to their family and friends in a very domestic setting and then have those stories be passed down in the “Samwise the brave”, “Frodo wouldn’t have made it far without Sam” scene

You can also use this theme to sort of track the change in tone between the two stories. Bilbo's craving for the simple comforts of a warm meal, his bookshelves and a comfortable are played for jokes a few times, it's ultimately validated by the narrative. Frodo's drive to get back home is ultimately very melancholic and downright heartwrenching and when he can finally go home, it's not the same. In Bilbos case this change is sort of implied through the way Bilbo is treated very differently and treated like the neighborhood crazy guy by his peers post-adventure and this is played for laughs mostly but with Frodo it's outright stated and it is played completely straight. He's been so traumatized, so changed by his journey that he's simply not the same person he was when he left and he struggles to enjoy the aspects of the home that were previously used as an attempt to comfort him. Hence, “the Shire has been saved, but not for me." And he ends up leaving the Shire for good. As much as we know Tolkien hated the war allegory, it does bring to mind a soldier coming back home with severe trauma.

I feel like so much of this is lost in works that try to emulate LOTR and The Hobbit because of the simple fact that action sells much better. I mean, that's why the third hobbit movie is called "The Battle of The Five Armies" isn't it? There's also the want for grimmer, darker stories, since so many people view those as more "realistic" Maybe it's just the result of more cynical creators and audiences who want to watch more of the killing the dragon and cool battles with the big armies and less of the writing about trees and the value of home. I dunno I'm tired

[the-boney-rolls]

I recall a Christmas dinner where I went to a restaurant and spent the afternoon with John and Yoko and Paul and Linda. We spent the day together. We had our meal and we returned to the Dakota. Interviewer: What was the chemistry like between John and Paul? Tempered. Measured. I don’t know why I was invited along. The only reason I could think of was as some kind of buffer. (The song “I Know (I Know)” begins to play) I know and I’m sorry but I never could speak my mind Yoko loved Linda McCartney. I mean the two of them were real friends. They spoke the same language. And they spent most of their time on that occasion talking to each other. John was talking primarily to Paul and I was talking primarily to the couch. But I had an opportunity to observe them and hear them, and there was no turmoil, no poor conduct. By the time that John was taken from us, all of his issues with Paul had been laid to rest. He loved Paul. Today I love you more than yesterday, right now I love you more right now They had their moments, you know, he described it as something like a marriage where there were disagreements and of course, in their case, played out in a public stage And I know it’s getting better all the time as we share in each other’s minds But he loved Paul dearly and by the time that it ended, Paul had that special place in his heart.

Elliot Mintz, spokesperson for John and Yoko in the 70’s, interviewed for LENNON 360, an audio docuseries produced by the Lennon estate. (Transcript includes lyrics to the song "I Know (I Know)" as they were featured in the interview)

[geekgirles]

The funniest part of this short has to be the fact that it proves Verosika was in no way, shape or form exaggerating when she said Blitzo was a shitty lover back in Ozzie's. If anything, it makes you wonder just how goddamned awful Stolas' sex life was with Stella for him to become so enamoured with Blitzo after that first time.

[archduchessgortash]

I wish there were more Durgetash fans who liked them softer. I'm not knocking those who want them full-blast evil and ruling Faerun because that is fun to imagine. But, am I the only one who doesn't buy Durge as a feral animal? Or Gortash as a completely irredeemable waste of flesh?

Eh, I probably am.

I just... I think the Gortash we get in-game is not the same person that he was with Durge, and truth be told, many Durge 'facts' are highly debatable as facts at all. What if they really were good together? And not in a 'I'll hold them while you gut them sort of way.' In a 'holy Hells, THIS is what it feels like to be happy' sort of way.

Yup, just me being crazy over here.

[youokaybucky]

For today's #ddoab I'm just straight up going for angry fighty austin of any kind... because that boy don't give a flying fuck!!

Bit of angry austin!elvis...

Bit of Sebastian Kydd...

And my fave, a bit of angry gale...

@dailydoseofaustinbutler

[dangraccoon]

do you think the other rebels marvel at Sargent Omega’s uncanny ability to tell others everything about every imperial ship?

do you think they ever wonder how she managed to learn that much about their enemy’s fleet?

do you think some even suspect her at first?

do you think they have to tell the new rebels that join up not to ask how Omega knows so much because she would just stare sadly at the dashboard of her ship?

[miss-americanbi]

absolutely in love with how star trek is set in a near-utopian future where discrimination and inequality are almost non-existent and then you just have leonard “i will call you a slur without hesitating” mccoy looming in the corner like >:)