#cube of truth

[animalsoutloud]

[yutamayo]

we all aware

[reality-detective]

Ice Cube reveals how Rap music was engineered to drive criminal behaviour within the black community, because both industries; the music and prison industry, are owned by the same people. 🤔

[ukuslip]

oobh i got plany of friends

[raayllum]

In season seven we trust

[lizziealsworld]

I will never get over Rusty Lake

Paradox is by far my fav

(art not mine)

[solar-halos]

in my head annie cannot cook but that still does not stop her from packing finnick's lunches. she has peanut butter jellies in the shape of hearts. lil kebabs made out of cheese cubes and cherry tomatoes (she has dip on the side she’s not a monster). fruit in the shape of butterflies. and a sappy note to tie everything together

[ovaruling]

i wish there were 10 of me so i could get done all of the volunteering AND protesting that i want to get done this month 😔

[tattoorue]

[worstloki]

Could you explain tesseroki to me? I thought it was a joke at first, but im beginning to think you are serious, so like, what is the appeal here?

the appeal is that none of the canon characters get along well enough with Loki or even treat him decently (completely fair given the goings-on of canon) while the Tesseract for some reason has ended up with Loki like 3 times and lets him use the space abilities raw when he's halfway across the universe for funsies

[secretmellowblog]

i've never heard anything about valjean's beard being anachronistic, can you elaborate please?? :0

I’ll elaborate! I’m not completely sure about this, and anyone who knows more about fashion history can feel free to correct me! : D

Basically: I’ve heard that in the 1820s-1830s it was generally fashionable for French men to either be clean shaven OR to have facial hair on anywhere but their chin. Clean shaven faces were good, sideburns and muttonchops were good, moustaches were good— but beards/unshaven chins were out of fashion.

So having an unshaven chin marked you as someone out of touch with fashion/too poor and busy to care…or as an eccentric artistic type, part of the Romanticism movement. Thenardier even references this later on when he refers to his beard as “a Romantic beard.” I believe one of Les Amis sees Thenardier at some point and comments that he looks like a poet, probably partially because of the “romantic beard.”

Valjean is bearded after he leaves prison. This is meant to stress how much of an outcast he is, how he’s shaggy and unkempt and someone who hasn’t seen any barbers except the ones in prison who did the bare minimum.

But “Madeleine” is Valjean pretending to be a perfect completely normal unsuspicious member of the bourgeoise. Something like a Romantic Beard would draw attention and be eccentric, but Valjean is trying not to make himself stand out so it might not make a lot of sense.

Most early iconic illustrations/adaptations of Les mis depict Valjean beardless.

IIRC the reason bearded Valjean is so common now is because of the musical and especially Colm Wilkinson. Colm didn’t want to shave his beard for the part, which iirc became a point of contention, with the directors insisting Valjean is not usually iconically depicted with a beard. Colm was only able to keep the beard after he managed to dig up a few old illustrations that depicted Valjean with one. And from there….Colm was so memorable in the role that it had a massive impact on the way the musical was cast going forward. Most later stagings of the musical also give Valjean a beard, in large part because giving a character a beard is a good short hand for “old wise dude.” I’ve heard the 2012 movie is technically more historically accurate because it depicts him clean-shaven.

But again, I’d have to dig around to find actual sources for all this, and I’d take everything in this post with a grain of salt.

EITHER WAY

my argument is that I think Valjean can have a beard solely for the Symbolism. Lots of heavy parallels are constantly drawn between Valjean and St Nicholas of Myra— and St Nicholas is almost universally always depicted with a beard. So I think it’s okay to let Valjean be a bit eccentric/unfashionable for the sake of Symbolism… like? you can’t draw a beardless Santa Claus, it just isn’t right.

[kpopmultifan]

NU’EST alum Hwang Minhyun has released the choreography video for “CUBE,” a track from his solo debut mini-album “Truth or Lie.”

[Apple Music/iTunes] [Spotify] [YouTube Music]

[thebluestbluewords]

I love how organically weird conversations can get sometimes. Walked in on my husband writing an email to his dad where he was listing out the optimal size to cut potatoes, and then ranking them by how often we cut each size (mashed is apparently a cutting method here)

[rosalette-roxburgh]

1 and 3 for the ask game? :3

Ty for the ask 😊💕

the character everyone gets wrong

Void archives. Sorry. Everyone either makes the mistake or making him too normal or too weird, and yet its always for the purpose of shipping him with welt. I’ll add that this is mostly the fault of hsr-onlys hearing that welt traveled with a blond guy and yaoi sensors going off at the mention of two men In proximity which, same, but it certainly doesnt help keep void archives consistent as a character

screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

On TUMBLR? I can list off a few bad takes ive seen on twitter or tiktok but i can only recall the recent discourse about that recently passed scaraseele blog. And i really only disagree with scaraseele because they have bad taste in ships. In my humble opinion. All other bad takes are either going to be otto aligned or elysia aligned

[raayllum]

I love you 6x05 and 6x06 I love you so much (meta here)