#photoshop pharaoh

[pliablehead]

Heyo, what do you consider the top 5 must-watch EE interviews???

I AM SORRY I TOOK SO LONG TO ANSWER THIS and I think it's because I really don't have a proper answer!! So much of my deep dive into EE was done in one long hyperfixation spiral back when I was first getting fangirl-level into them, a good 6 or 7 years ago, and so I'm running into the problem of most of the interview content I've consumed all sort of homogenizing into one sort of blur of Lore that I've internalized and I am not doing a great job at separating out into its individual components! So, that said, the following list is probably not in line with what I'd actually ultimately believe to be the best, most crucial ones--it's just the ones my brain can call to mind at the moment. lol. BUT HERE ARE SOME:

serious/insightful: • Jon and Alex for Tape Notes podcast. (so not a must-watch so much as a much-listen, but there are a few individual clips from this on youtube in video form as well I believe.) RDF is my favorite EE album and I thought this was a hugely interesting look into their writing process and also had a bunch of cool personal stuff in it! Plus, I think it's a very good look at who the band are, like, "now" -- there's a lot of great content around from MA up through GTH, but by the time they were on album 4 and all like, 30+, and especially once covid hit and sort of changed the trajectory of like.. bands, in general, I feel like it's just been a different animal re: regular interviews etc. • this 2013 3-parter with Jonathan. It's been ages since I watched it but I remembered it almost immediately, and for some reason I'm remembering it as an oddly vulnerable Jon moment. just talking about things. (more good band lore! etc.)

funny/meme-y: • Mike and Jez at Isle of Wight. Unlike many others, I could not possibly count how many times I have rewatched this, and it is funny every time. The interviewer is a buffoon asking totally clueless questions and Jez is having absolutely none of it, he's just chomping his chewing gum the entire time, Mike's doing his best, it destroys me. • Mike and Jez look at memes. Less interview-y and more just #content but whoever edited this video did a TOP NOTCH JOB and it's one I often show to not-in-this-fanbase friends that can still be a fun look at the band and a good laff. • This very sweet one with Alex and Mike being interviewed by a literal child. Contains the infamous "Jeremy, and yes," which is one of my most quoted EE-related sentences ever • this Man Alive track-by-track, also audio only.. the BITS that Jon and Alex are doing. truly incredible stuff

just lads having a nice time :) : • the CAPSLOCK ON talkback - lots of pleasant band and lyric insight, and a great Jez cheese moment at the end • this livestream dot com session is some performing but some Q&Aing, so not really an interview proper, but the energy in the room is delightful alskdghj

other noteworthy bodies of work: • anything with Andy Backhouse. I'll be the first to admit that Andy can grate my nerves sometimes, he often feels annoyingly a little too simp-y or something, but the other side of that coin is that as a huge fan of the band he actually does always ask them questions that are like, Real, he Gets them, so it's guaranteed to be a notch up from just random music journos who are engaging with them on a more surface industry level. Nothing is more frustrating than watching an EE interview where the interviewer just so blatantly doesn't "get" EE's whole deal and doesn't know how to interface. Andy never has that problem ! • any episode of Chips of Chorlton that features them (I think Jon's been on twice and Jeremy once). Dutch Uncles are their friends and hearing them all shoot the shit in an extremely comfortable environment is suuuuch a pleasant and wholly different experience than when the lads are being Professional Music Band guys, even when the latter still consists of them doing fairly goofy things

A VERY LONGWINDED AND NOT ESPECIALLY COMPREHENSIVE ANSWER ?? !!!!! Ultimately I think I was the wrong man for the job. @hellkitepriest has way more of an archivist's nature sort of just intrinsically than I do, he can probably do a better and less ridiculous job akjdshglak

[un-known97]

Luxor, Egypt ..

Shot & Edit by me @un-known97

[flamingplay]

Top 5 Favorite Songs: Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends

GOODNESS YES THANK YOU HI! :D

Violet Hill (one of the most special songs EVER)

Death and All His Friends (helped me through a lot with "so come over, just be patient and don't worry")

Cemeteries of London (Jon having the best moments on the album + nothing will beat his "lalaleleeeiiiiiiii" live)

42 (Jon having THE moments, Max Martin would never allow, Brian Eno kicking out Chris and letting everyone shine is for the win)

Lovers in Japan (gotta be also in my top 3 music videos by them as well!)

Hope you have a great day ahead with only good adventures <3

[beetlejuce]

🎧

Hello! Sorry, just getting to these.

But in your sacred air I am full of light

Your loving arms are the true delight

To which I’m lost

- Persephone by Tamino

Send me a 🎧 and I’ll share my fav lyric from a song I’ve shuffled!

[projectniko]

Day 3, I was having a dilemma of choosing between two ocs to have the complex drip, but screw it, they both dress up in the same outfit. Let me know which one slayed. Sorabel the sad girl, or Niko the probably-not-devilish lady. (I'm really tired please spare me)

[yatiso]

i have gotta get my old windows laptop running again

[sluttynurse]

we need more white pharaoh photoshops

[jewish-microwave-laser]

That was in the 1990s, when Holocaust museums and exhibitions were opening all over the United States, including the monumental United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Going to those new exhibitions then was predictably wrenching, but there was also something hopeful about them. Sponsored almost entirely by Jewish philanthropists and nonprofit groups, these museums were imbued with a kind of optimism, a bedrock assumption that they were, for lack of a better word, effective. The idea was that people could come to these museums and learn what the world had done to the Jews, where hatred can lead. They would then stop hating Jews.

It wasn't a ridiculous idea, but it seems to have been proven wrong. A generation later, antisemitism is once again the next big thing, and it is hard to go to these museums today without feeling that something profound has shifted.

[...]

No, what I'm wondering about is the purpose of my knowing all of these obscene facts, in such granular detail.

I already know the official answer of course: Everyone must learn the depths to which humanity can sink. Those who do not study history are bound to repeat it. I attended public middle school; I have been taught these things. But as I read the endless wall texts describing the specific quantities of poison used to murder 90 percent of Europe's Jewish children, something else occurred to me. Perhaps presenting all these facts has the opposite effect from what we think. Perhaps we are giving people ideas.

I don't mean giving people ideas about how to murder Jews. there is no shortage of ideas like that, going back to Pharaoh's decree in the Book of Exodus about drowning Hebrew baby boys in the Nile. I mean, rather, that perhaps we are giving people ideas about our standards. Yes, everyone must learn about the Holocaust so as to not repeat it. But this has come to mean that anything short of the Holocaust is, well, not the Holocaust. The bar is rather high.

Shooting people in a synagogue in San Diego or Pittsburgh isn't "systemic"; it's an act of a "lone wolf." And it's not the Holocaust. The same is true for arson attacks against two different Boston-area synagogues, followed by similar simultaneous attacks on Jewish institutions in Chicago a few days later, along with physical assaults on religious Jews on the streets of New York—all of which happened within a week of my visit to the Auschwitz show.

Lobbing missiles at sleeping children in Israel's Kiryat Gat, where my husband's cousins spent the week of my museum visit dragging their kids to bomb shelters, isn't an attempt to bring "Death to the Jews," no matter how frequently the people lobbing the missiles broadcast those very words; the wily Jews there figured out how to prevent their children from dying in large piles, so it is clearly no big deal.

Doxxing Jewish journalists is definitely not the Holocaust. Harassing Jewish college students is also not the Holocaust. Trolling Jews on social media is not the Holocaust either, even when it involves photoshopping them into gas chambers. (Give the trolls credit: They have definitely heard of Auschwitz.) Even hounding ancient Jewish communities out of entire countries and seizing all their assets—which happened in a dozen Muslim nations whose Jewish communities predated the Islamic conquest, countries that are now all almost entirely Judenrein—is emphatically not the Holocaust. It is quite amazing how many things are not the Holocaust.

The day of my visit to the museum, the rabbi of my synagogue attended a meeting arranged by police for local clergy, including him and seven Christian ministers and priests. The topic of the meeting was security. Even before the Pittsburgh massacre, membership dues at my synagogue included security fees. But apparently these local churches do not charge their congregants security fees, or avail themselves of government funds for this purpose. The rabbi later told me how he sat in stunned silence as church officials discussed whether to put a lock on a church door. "A lock on the door," the rabbi said to me afterward, stupefied.

[...]

I feel the need to apologize here, to acknowledge that yes, this rabbi and I both know that many non-Jewish houses of worship in other places also require rent-a-cops, to announce that yes, we both know that other groups have been persecuted too—and this degrading need to recite these middle-school-obvious facts is itself an illustration of the problem, which is that dead Jews are only worth discussing if they are part of something bigger, something more. Some other people might go to Holocaust museums to feel sad, and then to feel proud of themselves for feeling sad. They will have learned something officially important, discovered a fancy metaphor for the limits of Western civilization. The problem is that for us, dead Jews aren't a metaphor, but rather actual people that we do not want our children to become.

from "Blockbuster Dead Jews" in People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn, pp. 183–184, 187–189

[dragoneyes618]

"Perhaps presenting all these facts has the opposite effect from what we think. Perhaps we are giving people ideas.

I don't mean giving people ideas about how to murder Jews. There is no shortage of ideas like that, going back to Pharaoh's decree in the Book of Exodus about drowning Hebrew baby boys in the Nile. I mean, rather, that perhaps we are giving people ideas about our standards. Yes, everyone must learn about the Holocaust aso as not to repeat it. But this has come to mean that anything short of the Holocaust is, well, not the Holocaust. The bar is rather high.

Shooting people in a synagogue in San Diego or Pittsburgh isn't "systemic"; it's an act of a "lone wolf." And it's not the Holocaust. The same is true for arson attacks against two different Boston-area synagogues, followed by similar simultaneous attacks on Jewish institutions in Chicago a few days later, along with physical assaults on religious Jews on the streets of New York - all of which happened within a week of my visit to the Auschwitz show.

Lobbing missiles at sleeping children in Israel's Kiryat Gat, where my husband's cousins spent the week of my museum visit dragging their kids to bomb shelters, isn't an attempt to bring "Death to the Jews," no matter how frequently the people lobbing the missiles broadcast those very words; the wily Jews there figured out how to prevent their children form dying in large piles, so it is clearly no big deal.

Doxxing Jewish journalists is definitely not the Holocaust. Harassing Jewish college students is also not the Holocaust. Trolling Jews on social media is not the Holocaust either, even when it involves photoshopping them into gas chambers. (Give the trolls credit: They have definitely heard of Auschwitz.) Even hounding ancient Jewish communities out of entire countries and seizing all their assets - which happened in a dozen Muslim nations whose Jewish communities predated the Islamic conquest, countries that are now all almost entirely Judenrein - is emphatically not the Holocaust. It is quite amazing how many things are not the Holocaust.

The day of my visit to the museum, the rabbi of my synagogue attended a meeting arranged by police for local clergy, including him and seven Christian ministers and priests. The topic of the meeting was security. Even before the Pittsburgh massacre, membership dues at my synagogue included security fees. But apparently these local churches do not charge their congregants security fees, or avail themselves of government funds for this purpose.. The rabbi later told me how he sat in stunned silence as church officials discussed whether to put a lock on a church door. "A lock on the door," the rabbi said to me afterward, stupefied.

He didn't have to say what I already knew from the emails the synagogue routinely sends: that they've increased the rent-a-cops' hours, that they've done active-shooter training with the nursery school staff, that further initiatives are in place that "cannot be made public." A lock on the door," re repeated, astounded. "They just have no idea."

He is young, this rabbi - younger than me. He was realizing the same thing I realized at the Auschwitz exhibition, about the specificity of our experience. I feel the need to apologize here, to acknowledge that yes, this rabbi and I both know that many non-Jewish houses of worship in other places also require rent-a-cops, to announce that yes, we both know that other groups have been persecuted too - and this degrading need to recite these middle-school-obvious facts is itself an illustration of the problem, which is that dead Jews are only worth discussing if they are part of something bigger, something more. Some other people might go to Holocaust museums to feel sad, and then to feel proud of themselves for feeling sad. They will have learned something officially important, discovered a fancy metaphor for the limits of Western civilization. The problem is that for us, dead Jews aren't a metaphor, but rather actual people that we do not want our children to become." 

- Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

[hellkitepriest]

Well, would you be able to beat Alex Robertshaw in a fight?

i ADORE that two separate people want an answer on this. what an environment i have cultivated on tumblr dot com.

to answer your question, wonky, probably not due to him being a whole foot taller than me and seemingly decently strong. unfortunately. to answer @photoshop-pharaoh: having never been in a fight (this surprises people. @qwertyfingers told me the other week he was surprised i didn't get beaten up at school because "i have that energy" jdfsfgh) i have zero experience to back this up but on instinct i would utilise my lower centre of gravity and run into him really hard to tackle him or something or yknow just biting him

tl;dr:

[pliablehead]

Ask Game: 1, 5, 9, and 12

1. what are 3 things you’d say shaped you into who you are? - okay 1. A traumatic experience from my junior year of high school that I don't really care to elaborate on rn but that really messed me up like, socially, and kind of altered the course of the Shit I Was Doing at the time; 2. the 2014 Broadway revival production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch and all the associated experiences I had!!; 3. the online community I joined in the back half of 2019 that kind of carried me through the bleakest stretch of the pandemic/lockdown. I think I'm a very different person now than I would have been if even 1 of these 3 things hadn't been a piece of my life

5. what made you start your blog? - being involved in the EARLIEST days of Team StarKid fandom! there wasn't really a presence on livejournal, my previous fandom space, except for like. me and my one friend nicole. but a lot more people were active and popping off over here (like around 2009/2010, literally before they'd even released a second show on their channel beyond AVPM) and so I got way more active, and then never left, lol

9. tell a story about your childhood - when i was in seventh grade i was runner-up in my school for the spelling bee, but the kid who won was unable to attend the district-wide one due to a scheduling conflict, so I got to go in his place, and I was also the runner-up in the district. i lost out to a home-schooled girl after going like 10 rounds back and forth just the two of us, and the word that took me out was 'tercentenary' (I got lost as to where I was in the process of spelling the word and just said 'tercenary'). my photo was in the newspaper!

12. oh god I don't have more advice. my advice is to try to remember to bring a sharpie to a concert or event where you want people's autographs because inevitably they will either a) not have any of their own or b) only have like, 1 between 4 or 5 guys and it will be beneficial to be able to share yours with other people who also want them to sign stuff. and then you can make friends :)

[flamingplay]

Got tagged by @2-trees to post my five favorite songs right now. Thank you, Maddie, that's so sweet of you <3

1. My Name (feat Ane Brun) by AURORA

2. L'Amour De Ma Vie by Billie Eilish

3. Silence by Atomic Love

4. Something Just Like This mashup with Breakaway by Martin Garrix with Jon guitaring that damn synth during Coldplay Glasto (link for those who're curious 1:03:25)

5. Wild Guess by Everything Everything

Tagging @lisanek, @swallowedinthestars, @sup--ernova, @photoshop-pharaoh, @pitchforkhead, @cursemewithyourkiss, @providnce if someone is untagged and wants to participate please let me know I'll tag you!

[theravenchild]

Hellendil is all dressed up as an Egyptian pharaoh for @boxdstars Halloween party! Thank you so much for hosting this! It's such a fun idea! Haven't done one of these in years! 💙

Setup and rendered in DAZ Studio 4.21 Public Build Beta. Postwork in Photoshop Elements 8.0.

[pitchforkhead]

Uhhh i feel so bad about not answering when I want to, but still, @ybep thanks for tagging ^_^

Do this quiz and this picrew

I'm tagging @veikkoalen @qwertyfingers @photoshop-pharaoh @supyovalk (no pressure ofc) and anybody else seeing this <3

[blueberry-beanie]

was tagged by @2-trees for this tag game! Thank you, Maddie <3

Last Song?: Please Mister Postman - The Beatles

Favorite color?: green and generally an autumn colour palette

Last movie?: Hmm... I think it must have been some Pixar movie, I binge (re)watched many of them last month. Maybe Ratatouille? It was the first time I saw this movie and I loved it a lot.

Sweet/spicy/savory: Savory, but I am also a real sweet tooth

Current obsessions: just a tiny problem with a certain satirist... I started to enjoy Coldplay a lot more after my concert and that feels really good atm! Brings back good memories

Last thing you Googled: Probably the weather forecast. It's been so hot here in Germany for weeks on end. Now they promise rain next week and much lower temperatures, and I really hope that's true. Plants are already dying...

I'll tag @knockmeforsix, @flamingplay, @lagosparislondon, @lisanek, @photoshop-pharaoh, @hellkitepriest

[ardentpoop]

white pharaoh image with jensen’s face photoshopped on