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Amy, 30, she/her.

(Waves this around in executives faces) wow it's almost like profitable art happens without exploiting workers. Wow. Imagine that

Also it's good. The movie is good. It's nice to see something where you can tell the people working on it didn't just love the movie, but had fun working on it. Let film making be fun instead of detrimental to a person's physical and mental health

New year, new deathclaugust, continuing on at twenty three with Gemstone! A very rare process of living mineralization, and one that has few seen specimens as most never make it to hatching due to their organs being petrified. Lucky survivors only have it affect scale growth.

get to know me meme >> Favorite TV Shows [22/?] Over the Garden Wall

Welcome to the unknown, boys. You’re more lost than you realize. 

The band, the music, the dance.

puts on sound 📣🎶🎵

Ok, I NEED you to understand just how insane even ATTEMPTING this was for them.

1. Playing an instrument is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Don’t think I’m stepping on any toes saying that.

2. Dancing is difficult. Doing so in sync with others even more so. Still not controversial.

3. YOU AVOID, AT ALL COSTS, MOVING YOUR BODY WHILE PLAYING A WIND INSTRUMENT.  To make the correct, pleasant sounds, you need to be in the correct form. And that form involves your ENTIRE body, even your legs when sitting down.

4. “oh, but I’ve seen marching bands before and-” MARCHING BANDS HAVE ENTIRE SCIENTIFIC FIELDS DEDICATED TO FIGURING OUT HOW TO MARCH WITH MINIMUM BREAKING OF PROPER FORM. A marching band tries to be as smooth as possible while moving, so as not to jar their instrument, mouth, neck, arms, torso, or anything else.These ladies and gentlemen are BOUNCING and still playing properly, what the FU-!

5. AND ANOTHER THING! Wind instruments and dancing BOTH make demands on your breathing, so the fact that they are dancing (making you breath faster for extra oxygen) AND playing wind instruments (making you effectively hold your breath) AT THE SAME TIME is HUGE. Their lungs must be MASSIVE.

All of that also; the song is Sing, sing, sing (with a swing). If you wanna listen to some of THE SPICIEST big band ever recorded. Its a big hard song and this band does it expertly.

A room called ‘The Doll Room’ that’s full of dolls is… mundane.

But a room called ‘The Doll Room’ that only has one doll in it? That’s fresh

If a person shows you their Doll Room and it’s full of dolls, they probably just like dolls, y’know? It’s normal, it’s a hobby

But if they show you their Doll Room and it only has one doll… something’s going on with that one doll!

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room called the doll room and theres a mirror and nothing else. the door closes

Chris Pine refuses to answer the question “Would you swipe left or right for Anna Kendrick on Tinder?” and instead gives this response

the clip in the link took me from having kind of a standard, pretty-celebrity crush on Chris Pine to being like “holy shit, I think I would genuinely and in a non-horny fashion like this guy if I knew him in person.“ I mean, he takes a super fucking inappropriate question, gives it the complete lack of acknowledgement it deserves, and says something so intelligent and thoughtful instead of whatever weird answer he was expected to give that nobody even remembers what the original terrible question was by the time he’s done talking.

If Chris Pine ever stops being a class act, please nobody tell me, my heart can’t handle it.

Because of the above comment, I went and listened to the clip as well, and I think it’s worth sticking the transcription of the whole here, because it’s even more in-depth than what the gifs show– including the stall time Pine has and the absolute English-major vibes of pulling complete paragraphs out of one’s pocket when faced with awkward questions, culminating with the absolute finesse of “So anyway, yeah”:

James Corden: Chris. Would you swipe left or right on Tinder, if Anna came up on Tinder? Would you swipe left or right?
(crosstalk) Anna Kendrick: Say something– say something that’s less of a bummer.
Chris Pine: Um, I think–
(crosstalk) Corden: Left or right?
(crosstalk) Kendrick: Answer the question, Chris.
Pine: I think that, uh–
Corden: Chris Pine doesn’t need Tinder. That’s what we’re all realizing. He just steps out– life is Tinder for Chris Pine. He literally steps out of his door into a virtual Tinder. That’s every day.
Pine: Um. You know, I think– I think, obviously we tell each other stories in life, and, as storytellers, that’s what we do. We tell each other stories so we can understand the world better, and there’s catharsis, and we understand the models of what a hero could be, and what the hero’s journey as a human being is all about.
But of course, I think sometimes, too, those stories too can be very prohibitive, confining, and this idea that we – especially in Western culture, in Western literature, Tristan and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet – there’s some kind of all-encompassing, burning passionate love that will never die out unless you both die. It’s so depressing and not real.
And that these two people– the Prince living out this storybook life all the time in a completely non-relational manner with the woman that he’s apparently in love with– I think it’s very telling that in this relationship, there’s not one conversation until the last moment when they break up.
Kendrick: It’s just chasing and [indistinct]
(crosstalk) Pine: If you look at the film, it’s just these little eighth-page things, looking up, gazing fervently at one another– it doesn’t mean anything. And I think the beautiful thing about it is, here’s a woman that chooses to get out of the story, of Romeo and Juliet, of Tristan and Isolde– it’s like, “check it out, I don’t want you. ‘Cause you’re lame. And you don’t listen to me, and–”
But actually, in that final moment, he does listen, and I think it’s very telling for the Prince, that he says, “Is this what you want?”– he’s actually, he’s being very respectful, the boundaries are very clear. Whereas I think what we’re–
Kendrick: It’s the first time he asks anyone a question.
Pine: Yeah! But I think there’s this – there’s this trope in – in literature that somehow we’re not whole unless we have another? Which I don’t think is corr– I– personally, for me, I think it’s not fair to the uniqueness and wonderfulness of the individual; that we can complement one another greatly, but we’re not the source of each other’s happiness. Especially if you don’t even know who the hell you’re talking to.
So anyway, yeah.