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it’s so funny tht on here i’m like, mostly a normie while irl i’m consistently the weirdest person in the room at almost any given time. i’m like between two worlds., too normal for online but too weird for real life… i’m like junkrat from riverdale i don’t fit in
jughead
everyone check out my new ya fantasy novel called a court of blood, bone, ash, roses, thorns, fire, ice, stone, ravens, enemies to lovers, fake dating, two number 9s, a number 5 large, and an extra large fries
Has anybody seen my pet Weather Balloon she didn't come home last night and her food bowl is still full.
The funniest sword fight scene in the history of cinema.
BEST. SWORD FIGHT. EVER.
Let’s be honest, this is how I would sword fight.
@warmageragnar Lewis Vs Otranto, a realistic version.
The Court Jester starring Danny Kaye, Basil Rathbone, and the amazing Glynis Johns, and Angela Lansbury and it is all around a fun time.
All kidding aside, watch Basil Rathbone’s foot work. He knows fencing, and sets up the form even though he’s still playing up the stage blows for Danny Kaye to flail at for comedic effect.
Okay, but I need to talk about this because it’s even funnier if you know the context... Basil Rathbone was one of the greatest swordsmen in Hollywood history. Which is why he almost never won any of his onscreen fights–he was good enough that he knew how to effectively make the other guy look even better. That’s why the swordfight in The Adventures of Robin Hood looks so awesome even though Errol Flynn is nowhere near Rathbone’s level.
But this fight, right here? Was one of the only fights where he needed a stunt double. Because while he was able to keep Danny Kaye from being seriously injured, Rathbone himself nearly got skewered a few times by Kaye’s flailing around. So in a bizarre way, this is probably the closest to an even match Rathbone had in his career… just not for the reasons you’d expect.
“Don’t you know, there are some things that can beat smartness and foresight? Awkwardness and stupidity can. The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn’t do the thing he ought to.”
-Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)
The origin of a saying I’ve seen quoted in various works of fiction - “The best swordsman does not fear the second best, he fears the worst since there’s no telling what that idiot is going to do.”
ABOYNE (vb.)
To beat an expert at a game of skill by playing so appallingly that none of his clever tactics or strategies are of any use to him.
-Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, The Meaning of Liff
Finally
i am attracting the hoes
[doesn’t really understand conspiracy theories but wants to be involved] jfk didn’t kill himself
Tupac was always on the moon
flat bigfoot
Jet fuel can melt Harvey Weinstein
some people haven't been fans of media that got so bad they can mentally edit canon for their own sanity and it shows
ah, out of weed . i guess the only thing left to smoke is... myself..
I've been waiting for him to say this lmao
He's responsible for this beauty
There are more but I don't have them
all classics
just saw a billboard where all you could see was "yippee here's"
drove by it again
VIETNAM HAS MOSS FROGS.
THEY LIVE IN MOSS.
THEY ARE CUTE AS FUCK!
Thank you for coming to my ted talk. Now lets go live the way of the moss frog.
They fucking greebled him
thinking about this convoluted nonsense again
my villains are peak but my heroes need some work
“Heroes are hard because they have to have morals that the villains can be free of (or at least play with in a way that a hero "never" could)”
tumblr won't just let me... fucking... comment on anything anymore (idk why so yeah)
but yes there is definantly an element of that. my three favorite characters, the old waterbender, the fire prince, and evil air lady (they actually have names now btw) are all on the villain “team” and only the Fire Prince Kazan is a halfway decent person. the other two are fucking sociopaths and as a result end up having the most agency and power within the plot (everything bad that happens is somehow either Tuvaq or Zoljue’s fault ultimately)
my heroes by contrast have very little. the mother character Kalia is a “strong female character” and all that (i have one absolutely spectacularly badass scene for her at the end of the first book but just being a badass doesn't mean you have agency in the plot), but she and the rest of her pseudo team avatar just get pulled around by the plot, or the schemes of the older characters. it also doesn't help that three other different element bending little wackos have to show up and be let into her adventuring party.
I have those 3 somewhat sketched out, the air girl Tashi I think being the strongest character and as of yet unnamed waterbender pirate boi being the weakest, but they are all just pretty decent 2D characters while my bundle of morally grey assholes in ba sing se are all layered and nuanced. some of them aren't even evil like the queen but she's seen enough shit to act dastardly when she needs to
