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@gingertomcat

he/him(?) - I reblog much too much stuff but I think most of it is good enough - major commie and I don't mind saying it, fuck the tories. Anything that is remotely original goes under the tag #glass door display fridges

The problem with playing a lot of video games is thinking you can take apart old unused things for components and use them for other stuff so you just keep your old broken shit hoping you can use it for something

A 50-kilogram anvil floats perfectly on the surface of mercury, because the density of the steel from which it is made is almost half the density of mercury.

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damn that shit is light lmfao

Fun fact! Many lighthouses with especially large fresnel lenses would have huge fucking tubs of liquid mercury in the lantern room because it’s a super easy way to make these giant lenses rotate quickly!

Shockingly, however, spending most of your time in close proximity to 500 pounds of liquid mercury is Not Great For One’s Health and tons of lighthouse keepers started to go crazy from the whole. Mercury poisoning thing. Hence why there are a lot of “haunted” lighthouses or wickies that lose it and maybe do a bit of manslaughter.

Anyway, people saw a bunch of lighthouse keepers go crazy and get sick and got empirical evidence that it was in fact related to the 500 pound mercury bath they have to visit every day and then they decided nah it’s fine actually. So we’ve kept the liquid mercury thing and I think that’s beautiful

I love how it is so dense it does not "wet" the anvil, the drops all run and leave with nothing behind them unlike water, oil, sauce... it's super satisfying it's like in cartoons

no offense, but what was the point of that cool older lady character in Spirited Away

except, you know, to make me question my sexuality at 12 during midnight rewatches as I looked at her weirdly pretty mouth and had Questions

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me, falling in love with every woman I see whose purpose is to eat and be pretty:

I mean, I’m pretty sure Lin is supposed to represent what Chihiro’s future might be like if she accepted her role in the bath house and didn’t try to maintain her own identity and values. She’s not a bad person, but she’s hedonistic to exactly the extent that the bath house culture allows her to be as an employee and has no ambition beyond the system of favors, bribes, and petty intimidation between low-level workers. She’s traded her individuality and opportunity to better herself for the security of predictable exploitation and she doesn’t seem to regret it.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Lin is the only other major character who looks human throughout the movie - I’m not certain she started out human, but I suspect she may have, and may have fully traded away her humanity. I do think it’s significant that she, unlike Chihiro and Haku, doesn’t reclaim her name at the end of the story.

She doesn’t want her independence or identity back. Her purpose is to eat and look pretty.

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Alternate interpretation: I always thought Lin meant to be a comforting presence.

She’s the first bathhouse worker who is kind to Chihiro, helping her get her clothes and navigate her first work assignment and sneak food. One of the core themes of Spirited Away is finding your footing in a new and terrifying place, and Lin and Haku are key allies in Chihiro’s struggle to gain the skills and self-assurance she needs in order to thrive.

Lin’s human appearance helps us and Chihiro feel more sympathetic towards her . Her familiarity with the system of favors and bribes makes her appealing as a role model who can demystify Chihiro’s new environment for her. Unlike the more inhuman occupants of the bathhouse, Lin looks like someone Chihiro could become in the future, and that’s a good thing! She’s living proof that the bathhouse is not such a monstrous and scary place. Because Lin treats the bathhouse like home, Chihiro begins to see it as a home, too.

And once Chihiro starts to think of the bathhouse as her territory, she realizes that she has agency in this place as well. She uses its rules to her own advantage to free Haku and herself.

And that is the point of Chihiro’s journey in Spirited Away: it’s a metaphor for starting over in a new place and overcoming fear of the unfamiliar. After all, the frame story is Chihiro’s family moving to a new city. At the beginning of the movie, Chihiro is despondent, unhappy to be leaving her old friends behind. By the end, after making it through the spirit world, she’s taking a much more active role in helping her parents settle into their new home.

TLDR: Lin is there to be Chihiro’s friend.

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These theories coexist really well, I think. Lin has accepted her place within this system, and that’s given her the confidence and experience to be a mentor for Chihiro. Because she knows the system, she can make things a little better for Chihiro.

Because Chihiro has a mentor and friend, she learns how to survive and even do well in the Bathhouse. It’s because of Lin that Chihiro is able to not accept her place within this system and instead fight back, and in the end to make things a little better for everyone.

There’s something there about community, and easing the path for those who come after you. Lin doesn’t regret her choices because they were the best choices she could make, and that’s okay. It’s not a tragedy. She got as far as she could get, and because she did, she’s there to help Chihiro get farther. 

And isn’t that what we’re all here for, in the end? To go as far as we can, and then give a hand up to those coming after us? It’s never a tragedy when children can go farther than their mentors ever could. That’s a triumph.

She’s not human, incidentally.  According to the Japanese art book, she’s the spirit of a white fox, and was originally going to be a white tiger (both are “byakko”, with different kanji).  The English version of the artbook translated her species as “Chinese weasel” instead, so you’ll see that around as well.

(This doesn’t make her any better or worse of a character, I just find it an interesting piece of trivia)

Elderly women are an extremely important demographic for feminism. If a woman cannot be childless and then live comfortably taken care of in her old age, then there is still coercive incentive for children. Social security and elderly womens programs are very important.

“The orphaned elderly” is terminology used in the elder law field to describe those who, due to a lack of younger family members/or lack of relationship with said family members, find themselves in precarious positions as they age and need more support both financially and physically.

Oliver:

  • Legion the TV show itself always did crazy things with its walls, but the only character who ever seemed aware of it was Oliver Bird, who would occasionally start narrating, and once appeared to be about to screen the show on an old movie projector.

Olympia and Otis:

  • No propaganda submitted

Doctor Who:

  • The 1st Doctor wished everyone a happy christmas back in 63'. The 4th Doctor- god i cant quite remember, laughed with the audience? Looked/talked directly into the camera? Multiple times i think?? He did a lot okay. [...] Only tangential to the actual character, but a 7th Doctor story set in 1963 had a TV that was turned off right as the BBC presenter was announcing the new show 'Doctor Who'. [...]

Dora:

  • I feel like I’m legally required to submit her

Reposting my propaganda under the poll in question bc Oof the doctor is getting Slaughtered atm. Anyway,,

The Doctor (and the show in general) has broken the fourth wall so many times there's an entire wiki page for it. TV Tropes has even more examples. These include:

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Over the past few months, Fox has used tracks from the band’s latest album 10,000 gecs as transitional music for its afternoon panel show The Five, with co-anchor Greg Gutfeld even referring to Dylan Brady and Laura Les’s outfit as “the best new band out”. He also gave a shout-out to Death Grips and Killing Joke, adding that the music was “amazing”.

The madness began in late March when Gutfeld boldly claimed that “Biden’s green agenda is actually helping China to cash in” during a taping of The Five. As the show cut to a commercial break, viewers could hear gecs song “The Most Wanted Person In The United States” play out while a photo of Biden remained on screen. Then on April 4, as Gutfeld announced that the “Chinese sky balloons” had managed to “scoop up more sensitive secrets than what Joe Biden told us about”, the band’s track “Doritos & Fritos” played the segment out.

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Me: Did you know that medieval cathedrals weren't actually supposed to be dark and rundown places with only stained glass as color? They were bright places full of light... the reason they look like that now is because of the centuries of accumulated grime and dust, here look at this restoration of the Cathedral of Chartres in France:

It's based on actual paint from the times, and when you think about it, it makes a lot more sense, after all a church is supposed to be a bright place of hope. Yet when we think about the middle ages we think about grimy and dark cathedrals. I wonder how much of our conception of history is shaped by our current visions of historical buildings.

My Goth GF: listen, I don't think this thing between us is working,

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