Look at this! Look at this fucking thing! This was done in 1986, and used absolutely no CGI whatsoever. It was ALL practical, and ALL done through puppetry. Look at the last gif. Over a dozen vines are moving at once along with its head, lips, and tongue! In interviews Rick Moranis has stated he often forgot he was working with a puppet, as opposed to a really ugly guy. Even today it looks so real. Audrey ii is nothing short of miraculous

IM SORRY WHAT

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It took over 60 puppeteers to operate Audrey II’s final form in the film. You can read more about the puppet’s creation and operation here.

The practical effects of Little Shop of Horrors was fucking astounding.  It’s worth it to mention that, in the scenes where the plant is moving, the filming was slowed to 12 to 16 frames a second, so that the film could be sped up to give the Audrey II a more lifelike appearance.  In such scenes where actors like Rick Moranis had to speak with the plant, he had to mouth his lines at a slower-than-normal speed while still looking convincing, only to have his voice added in post. 

It’s also worth mentioning that a crew of 60+ puppeteers were needed to operate the plant, as the entire puppet weighed over a ton. 

It’s no coincidence that the movie was directed by Frank Oz, whom Jim Henson called the best puppeteer in the world.

I wonder how rich christians keep themselves convinced that they're not, like, the super villains of real life

Because they have the Lord and you, probably, don't. You hate them because they're rich. They don't hate you, they hate what the Lord hates; I'd say they don't have to do any convincing at all.

The fuck are you doing on Tumblr don't you have gay people to oppress or something? Abortion clinics to bomb?

This is where all the gay people congregate, so like

Wow y'know I was being hyperbolic but I took two minutes to scroll through this account and wow no this is an actual legit evangelical christian. Homophobic, anti-abortion, tagging all their bullshit with "faith", the whole shebang. Amazing. You rarely find someone who makes hating someone so morally uncomplicated. How refreshing. Gold star. I genuinely hope you die sad and alone because you're just a really horrible person 👍

You’ve just realized something strange about the humans. They’re a race that joined the galaxy recently, but you’ve just found evidence of them already been part of it for many millennia before, but it feels like everybody’s forgotten.

We were delighted when the people calling themselves ‘humans’ joined the spacefaring races. They were clever and agile, hot-tempered and humorous, fierce and yet friendly, a young species with much to offer us. 

Most species are still delighted. But we are the Bybleotekar, the recorders of the spaceways, and we have begun to wonder. Our merry companions are… not different, but too much the same. They understand so readily, accept so quickly - most new species have trouble adjusting to dealing with aliens, to the realities of space travel, to the sheer bigness of the universe. But the humans are so adaptable, so ready for it all, they might be remembering something they’ve forgotten, not learning something new. 

Some of us, the Izaslanik of the Bybleotekar, the gatherers of information for the record keepers, began encouraging humans to join us, that we might study them more closely. They like the work - they are a curious species, delighting in new knowledge, and they make able assistants. My human companion is named Mira, a young female. She is a good companion, who sings sweetly and laughs often. 

When Mira struck the first blow against what I thought I knew of the universe, against illusions soon to shatter that I had thought were truth, we were attending the coronation of a lesser Netar of the Kktil, recording the customs and ceremonies and unofficially enjoying the colourful celebrations. Mira was watching the dancing, her mouth widened in a ‘smile’. “It’s so pretty,” she said, her hairless face sheened with sweat under the hot sun. “I love the turquoise jewellery.” She pointed to the bright blue stones that bedecked the dancers. “I should buy some. Our homeworld doesn’t have any turquoise, you know. Only a few pieces we brought with us when we came.” 

It takes me a little while to understand what she said. It is only later, during the feasting, that I turn to her again. “You said your homeworld doesn’t have turquoise. Only… what you brought with you. Do you mean turquoise you have bought offworld, since you joined the spaceways?” 

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Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

I am in love with you /p

Adding Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella

21. The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

22. The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

adding the Doctors Without Borders one

I LOVE tumblr storytime, so here’s a bunch more your weekend reading. Enjoy!

24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children

25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard

26. Haunted house

27. Shark hero was about to go rogue

28. Grandma lives in the woods comic

29. A Different Aftermath comic

30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)

31. It’s A Date comic

32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay

33. Narrative Town

34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic

35. Robot Apocalypse

36. The Statues That Do Not Weather

37. Kushiel

38. Tooth Fairy

39. Alien abduction

40. Felonious wish-granting

41. When humans met actual space orcs

42. Space cousins

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The Supervillain Wrangler definitely needs to be on this list.

something something you won't avoid being sent to the death camp just because you coddle your oppressors instead of siding with other oppressed people something something you're not and never will be the exception something something first they came for the communists something something history repeats itself

i know 196 is a reddit thing but like. what does it mean. what do those numbers represent

r/196 is (was?) the successor subreddit to r/195.

r/195 was just a place for some roomates to post memes, and it was named after their apartment number. There was only one rule: if you visit the sub, you must make a post before leaving. The sub eventually grew in popularity, the original members couldn't keep up with the demands of moderating it, and they closed it down. Soon after, r/196 was born and eventually far outgrew its progenitor.

r/196 also kind of just organically grew into a left-leaning, LGBTQ+ positive space. This was possibly helped because at the start, the only available user flair (a little phrase or icon that appears by your username on posts and comments) was "trans rights".

oh my god the king of norway from 1046 to 1066 harald iii aka hardrada hi thank you so much welcome to tumblr in the year 2023

Thank you, my thane, for the kind welcome! If only the rest of my subjects were as loyal as lathiat! Truly all that other vikings know today is how to polish their armor and drink mead. They can't even navigate by the stars or raid a monastary!

hahaha! *quickly glances at harald iii of norway's wiki*

couldnt be me! im extremely loyal and i love invading places for my king! *wipes sweat from my forehead*

I have never felt so validated in never having given up on Tumblr.

IT GETS WORSE!

So he artificially limited the number of tweets you can see per day with a "free" account.

Once you hit your limit, it stops you from loading the page. But it also doesn't know WHY it isn't loading, so it keeps TRYING.

Twitter is literally hitting itself in the face ten times per second per user.

This is so completely amateurish it's unbelievable. It's like putting your car in neutral and slamming your foot on the gas until your engine redlines and then wondering why it's making a horrible noise and a terrible smell but not going anywhere.

“Author of 25+ best-selling Pride & Prejudice variations”

Yeah, no.

The title's a joke--this is written by Robert Evans of Cracked and Behind the Bastards, and shares a name with a 2-part Behind the Bastards episode--but the article/podcast is genuinely upsetting.

So, going by the idea of "every truly great story has a random Texan" (see: Dracula, His Dark Materials), I asked my Tolkien encyclopedia wife what race/culture in The Lord of the Rings is the Texan equivalent. They got real mad when I suggested the Rohirrim (because horse culture, I didn't actually think that was the answer but I wanted to provoke my wife), and... I'm gonna step aside so my wife can rant about who in LotR is the actual Random Texan.

Horse =/= Texan.

See the thing about the Texan is that they’re alien, they think overly much of themselves, and they’re not actually as good at shit as they think they are.

You know who hits all those buttons?

LEGOLAS GREENLEAF.

1) he’s not familiar to the POV characters, being an elf.

2) He and all Silvan elves think very highly of themselves even when it’s not really justified anymore.

3) he foregoes a saddle in a situation where riding bareback is actively harder and more inclined to overexertion, probably bc he doesn’t actually know how to handle a saddle but is, bc of point 2, unwilling to reveal he has no idea what the fuck he’s doing.

Legolas Greenleaf is the Texan of Lord of the Rings.

I was thinking the dwarves myself, but yeah, this fits.

dwarves are miners, misunderstood, and live in the ancient mountains. Dwarves are Appalachian.

This is going to sound like I'm taking the piss, but I swear I'm not.

Where would we put orcs geographically, then? New Jersey?

A cursed hellhole that was once fertile earth, but is now blackened and twisted, and there is a toll to all who enter and leave? A place where petty status-boasting and backstabbing are the rule of the day? Yeah, I'd say that orcs are from New Jersey. 😉

....I mean I was going to say "bloodthirsty and hostile," but you went way more poetic than me.

this bitch empty, TWEET

Have any of you heard of the Harvard MIT Pigeon Prank?

Ah yes, classical conditioning put to good use

Me: “I want to be a better and kinder person, and one of the ways I wanna do this is to stop cringing so much” A youtuber: *is accused of grooming a 13 yr old fan and was told by her legal team and friends NOT to release a statement so instead she… released her apology video in song form (“but I can sing it instead” kind of logic), complete with the ukulele* Me: “…. I will fall short of my goals sometimes”

#THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED???? 

I’m sorry, I messed up a fact. It was more than one underage fan, not just one 13  year old like I thought at first. 🙃 🙃 🙃 like creepy texting w/them and whatnot

#the fart joke she mentions in the song is when she had an underage fan come on stage#had her lay on her back and colleen spread her legs and it was supposed to be a yoga segment until she played fart sounds#and the fan was like i was afraid that my clothes wouldnt cover enough and something would get revealed on stage in front of all these ppl#but yea fart joke 👍

whgat the fuck actually

Okay I was only hearing snippets of all this but I just watched the “apology” video and actually read up on it and what the fuuuuuck

I had managed to not really know about her (she’s been around long enough I’m sure I’ve seen stuff about her in passing but it didn’t stick in the mind) so it’s weird seeing all these people saying she’s a “classic youtuber” when apparently her routine was intentionally putting on bad makeup and intentionally singing poorly to make fun of people, sometimes directly targeting a specific person. Apparently she was studying at a music school and got mad at seeing amateurs having fun goofing around on youtube and decided to mock them as being cringe.

So it’s kind of funny calling her ukulele apology cringe. Live by the sword die by the sword.

….dare I ask who this is?

reblogging SPECIFICALLY for the End Note which is widely applicable

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Interesting to call this “confiscating” when it’s just making the rich pay their fair share, especially considering all the stolen wealth from the bottom 99% and historic tax evasion.

Besides the obvious, the hidden benefit of this is that it provides an endpoint to runaway growth.

The biggest problem with capitalism, the reason it's so destructive to the planet and to the workers and even, ultimately, to the capitalists, is that, after a certain point, the money's just a way of keeping score. The number at the bottom of the column has no bearing on what you can buy or do; as a result, there's no such thing as enough. The number can always be bigger.

Under this proposal, once you hit $1 billion, you've won capitalism. You beat the game, achieved the maximum score; you're finished. There's nothing more you can accumulate. You now have to find a purpose in life other that the relentless pursuit of profit. (And if we're really lucky, it might be something that actually benefits other people, but even if not, it's unlikely to be as damaging as whatever it is you were doing to get that $1 billion.)

Instead of companies expanding endlessly, like tumors, there's a point where, when all the major stakeholders are maxing out on profit, it makes sense to just hold steady. Keep doing/making/selling whatever it is you do/sell/make, but stop trying to do/sell/make more of it every year.

The problem with a tumor--what makes it cancer--is that it keeps growing and growing, until eventually it's taking up so much space and consuming so many resources that the surrounding tissues can't function. The tumor doesn't have to do anything better than the other tissues in order to crowd them out; it just does it faster. Stop the uncontrolled growth, and it's something you can live with.

Stopping the uncontrolled growth of capital means more opportunities for multiple businesses--big and small--operating in the same sector, since it doesn't make sense for any one company to gobble up too much of the market share. That, in turn, means more choices for customers--and workers, since they can take their skills to another employer doing similar things. It means less waste, as there's no longer an economic upside to spewing cheap goods out of a fire-hose before you even know whether anyone wants to buy them. That could mean slower, more thoughtful use of resources in the first place, but at minimum, it's going to mean not manufacturing products only to immediately throw them away.

If you REALLY wanna give your plants a treat, when you're planting them dig the hole extra deep and plop some leftover chicken bones in the bottom of the planting hole. Cover with some compost. Plop your plant in it. Watch your roses go apeshit as they feast on all that tasty phosphorus and calcium!

Man, I hope that girl managed to figure things out.

I distinctly remember during Ye Olde Hellish Childhood Days of being dragged to Baptist churches this one guest preacher that went on and on about how important it is for Christian men to be friends with other Christian men but how difficult it is for men to have friends, because of course when you become friends with another man you will naturally want to have sex with him, so the temptation, y'know? It's tough, resisting those urges to have sex with all your man friends when you're a man, all you men know what I mean. It's so hard. You must be Very Strong In Your Faith before you can handle the responsibility of being friends with another man, so you will be able to Resist The Devil and not have sex with them.

14 year old me sat there in my pew, thinking. I think I know something about this man that he does not know.

so funny to me when white american christians are like “ooh i incorporate my religious trauma into my art and thats why i draw these stained glass gothic church gold multi eyed reneissance sculpture angels agnus dei” like i know your protestant southern california ass didnt have any of that. go make some art about this

ok

Damn way to read the assignment and go above and beyond.

the bleakness and sanitized feel of most American protestant churches really is an underused medium.

So she is being investigated for the (as admitted to by the complainer) extremely slight chance that she could "financially benefit" from medicaid that is literally impossible to obtain.

This is just clear retaliation against a mother trying to advocate for her child.

It's infuriating, conservative politicians push laws that financially benefit them and their donors daily, but a mom tries to protect her child against powerful bigots and she is the one that gets investigated for conflict of interest. Absurd.