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Fun times were had by all

@hug-me-brutha

any pronouns, 22, Australian, really tired (like, all the time) Into a bunch of fandoms that I will randomly post a lot about in bursts. So... nothing new here. I also have a writeblr at @confused-writing. Check that out if you're interested.

The only significant difference between heaven and hell is whether you enjoy what you're doing. Both consist of unlimited work to do and unlimited time to achieve it, all the difference is between whether you fucking love doing it or if you fucking hate it. Think about the chocolate guy. He seems so genuinely thrilled to do what he does. Imagine being in his position yourself. Having a whole kitchen and an insane amount of chocolate in front of you and being told like "hey craft a functional 1989 Ford Fiesta out of this. With all the screws and engine parts inside. Life-sized. Capucchino flavoured, but the lamps taste like black olives (but sweet, of course)."

And you're not allowed to leave before you figure out how to do that.

And you’re not allowed

to leave before you figure

out how to do that.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

growing up being autistic but not knowing is just *hiding in room while people are over* *getting tired and needing to recharge after the smallest chores* *getting called a gifted kid* *knowing that you’re “weird” because people are making fun of you but not knowing how to stop being weird* *having adults tell you how “mature” you are* *getting in trouble for not doing work* *convincing yourself that you’re just lazy and stupid because you can’t make yourself do work* *getting really invested in “weird” media*

not to be a misogynist doctor from the 1800s but i’m pretty sure my uterus is moving around my body, biting my other organs, and also is possessed by the devil

tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva

it's always funny when someone's like "why can't we have a serial killer that targets awful people like abusive ceos" because like...the thing is serial killers are generally not great people who want to make the world a better place . this can be seen in the killing and torturing.

we’ve gone from the yee haw agenda to the ye olde thot programme

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Ah yes, those slutty slutty Landsknecht shorts:

The bare-legged / hot-pants look was fairly common, since the whole point about being a Landsknecht (or Reislaufer, their Swiss equivalent) was to look outrageous.

Most period illustrations of Landsknechts are black-and-white woodcuts…

…though in 1905 a book called „Geschichte des Kostüms“ - History of Costume - assembled a bunch of black-and-whites and added colour.

If they look excessively gaudy, they’re not, because these next prints were coloured in-period by an artist called Erhard Schön, and it’s fair to assume he was representing what he saw.

In short - or in shorts - those reenactor costumes are spot on. :->

Something mentioned nowhere in this post that I have just learned from googling: these guys were not Ye Olde Medieval Dandies. They were 15th-16th century mercenaries. Pretty hardcore, too. They were exempt from sumptuary laws (ie the rules that said you couldn’t wear certain colours or cloth or styles) and apparently their response to that was technicolour thotpants.

I love the word “transgender” but it’s really been sanitized for me. Transsexual though? that one is hot. It makes cis people flinch.it’s one of those words that people write songs about. makes you feel like a rockstar.

Bonus points if you hiss it like Tim Curry does in Rocky Horror

Bonus points if you

hiss it like Tim Curry does

in Rocky Horror

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Big shout out to the coalition of Catholic nuns who just told the US bishops to stop being transphobic.

“As members of the body of Christ, we cannot be whole without the full inclusion of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive individuals,” the letter reads. It goes on to argue that “we will remain oppressors until we — as vowed Catholic religious — acknowledge the existence of LGBTQ+ people in our own congregations. We seek to cultivate a faith community where all, especially our transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive siblings, experience a deep belonging.”

The letter also states transgender people are “experiencing harm and erasure” in various ways, listing daily discrimination, a groundswell of state-level legislation aimed at LGBTQ rights and “harmful rhetoric from some Christian institutions and their leaders, including the Catholic Church.”

Read about it here

Here are my reviews of the nine Phantom of the Opera adaptations I own on dvd (I have than these digitally but for now I'm just doing my dvds)

Phantom of the opera (1925) - Lon Chaney
  • Accurate to the book in a lot of ways, good soundtrack and atmosphere, amazing makeup for Erik
  • The changed ending takes away from the story and the silent movie format doesn't work well with the emphasis on singing
  • 3.5/5
Phantom of the opera (1943) - Claude Raines
  • Christine just vibes the whole time, fun interactions between the two normal suitors
  • Less sympathetic Erik, all the names are changed, less horror, weirdly would have worked better if they did their original plan of having Erik be Christine's estranged father
  • 3/5
Phantom of the opera (1983) - Maximilian Schell
  • Keeps the horror part intact I guess?? Prosthetics good
  • Everyone has different names, the main plot is changed for the worse and there is no levity, Erik is a creep even before his "transformation"
  • 1/5
Phantom of the opera (1989) - Robert Englund
  • Good song as Erik's hallmark, good prosthetics, good casting and references to the book
  • Supernatural elements and changed backstop for Erik lessens sympathy for Erik, somewhat hard to follow plot
  • 2/5 (ignoring my general dislike for medical-related gore)
Phantom of the opera (1990) - Charles Dance
  • Great cast, keeps the spirit of love and tragedy from the book, all plot changes work well, SO SAD
  • Why change Raoul to Philippe? Some lip-syncing not so good
  • 4.5/
Phantom of the opera (2004) - Gerard Butler
  • THE VIBES! THE EMOTIONS! WAAAAAAHHH!
  • Some of the singing is iffy, having old man Raoul popping up all the time is kinda boring, all the age changes (especially the age at which Erik started teaching Christine) are for the worse
  • 3.5/5
Love never dies (2011) - Ben Lewis
  • Some songs are pretty good, the cast tried their best?
  • What is that plot? No, really. What is it? Also. BATHING BEAUTY
  • 2/4
A monster in paris (2011) - Sean Lennon
  • Great soundtrack, character design (especially Francour) is amazing
  • VERY loose adaptation, some animation is kinda wonkypretty much no horror
  • 4/5
Phantom of the opera (2011/1986) - Ramin Karimloo
  • Everything good about the 2004 movie but add in great singing and better pacing
  • Why replace the Daroga with Mme Giry? Shame it didn't have the original production's set design
  • 4.5/5

I love talking about PotO so feel free to leave your own reviews of the ones you've seen! I'm always up for friendly debate when it comes to phantom adaptations lol

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🪴 gildatheplant Follow

Literally just making it any solid color would've been better guys.

🚛 mintymaiden Follow

I'd like to point out that the rainbow has more positive than negative meanings.

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im sorry but this reply absolutely killed me the rainbow can mean whatever the heck you want it to mean, that is never going to change that this straight up looks like they DRAGGED BLOODY BODIES ACROSS THE FUCKING FLOOR 😂

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Hi fun fact, colors do have meaning and there is a legit thing called color theory. The rainbow does have more positive connotations than negative like the @ mintymaiden said. For example, violet is associated with more money, wisdom, and elegance than with blood and death just like the chart shows you. Also, check out "The Designer's Dictionary of Color" by Shaune Addams. Have fun learning something

Xoxo

-Designer

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i think y'all are missing the point here.

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You can theorize to Thrashthrust and back but that doesn't change my immediate reaction which is that someone is literally dragging corpses around

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I like that the presumption here is that "No One On Grumblr Has Heard of Color Theory. Let Me Explain in Depth" rather than simply acknowledging that the VISUAL EFFECTS of this particular color choice, applied in the manner it was, can still amount to "this is a hospital and that looks like blood"

like, color theory doesn't exist in a vacuum. If your design of choice for Hemospectrum Paint is asymmetric splatters and splotches against the wall, or in this case, a shellbeast trail on the hallway's floor, and infographic won't override the viewers' instinct

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this post is the perfect summation of grumblr's reading comprehension and critical thought abilities

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help i think my dashboard is showing me posts from an alternate reality

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my bf and I have started playing a game called Silly Scrabble

it’s like regular Scrabble except you can play words not in the dictionary as long as they make the other person laugh

this ends up exactly how you’d expect:

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oh the one thing I forgot to mention is that you also have to come up with a definition for your ‘word’ >>>:)))

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update:

(shout out to @zukana24842 for the lovely poem)