Has to be one of the best passages of a book I’ve read in a long time
it’s not an understatement to say I think about this all the time
Barbie is following the lead of a lot of other Hollywood movies in showing the nine-dash line version of China on a world map, which means acknowledging China’s ownership of all of the contested island territories that are also claimed by its various neighbors. The reason Hollywood keeps doing this is pretty simple: there’s more money to be made in Chinese film markets than there are are in the combined markets of other countries in the region
You are the last remnants of a falling noble family. But instead of going around being aristocratic, you have decided to retire in obscurity with your very niche hobby. You're pretty sure all your ancestors are rotating in their graves at your antique. Some days, you ask yourself if this is all there's to be expected out of life, but you're grounded. You know how much worse it can be.
Then a dashing man in a uniform drops by. He shows interest in your work. He pats the most pathetic of your pets. He treats you, not like a nobility, but a person. And he risks his life for you.
"Memories can be painful. To forget may be a blessing!" | "I never knew you were so deep." Kung Fu Hustle (2004) dir. Stephen Chow
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You know, I bet the Ferengi have someone like Ea-Nasir and he's like. a saint or something
By the Prophets this can't be happening
This looks like a fucking parody post, or an edgy edit, but it’s 100% official real Flintstones.
Clarification: I don’t hate this book, I love it, it’s amazing. It’s just that taking a step back and looking it out of context is still really funny. Especially the line “We participated in a genocide, Barney.”
boyonetta
ok but imagine them in their cartoon forms saying this dialogue i’m
wonder-meathead
can we have some context to this, perhaps?
Bedrock is having a mayoral election. One of the candidates is a violent war mongering asshole that riles people up against the lizard people. This reminds Fred and Barney of their time in the army.
Back then the father of said violent candidate was riling people up against the “tree people”. Fred, Barney, and other soldiers fought what they believed to be a defensive measure against the tree people. Turns out, it was actually an invasion, in order to kill off the tree people and take over their forest to build Bedrock.
That’s what Fred means when he says he and Barney participated in a genocide. They literally did.
(Extra fun fact, Barney adopted a tree person baby after the war, and his son Bamm-Bamm is the last tree person.)
just fucking read it
There are a lot of interesting things about this post but the AK-47 shaped spear is what really got me
This is just as wild with the context
birdscreaming15
Some of my favorite moments in the series
From the foreword to 2021 print of the comic.
messiest gay "betrayal" in the kingdom
go stream Nimona right now I missed Ambrosius' long hair and cape from the comics but the undercut was a gay slay so
i love the pedestrian-to-car staredown when you see them go from a rolling stop to a full stop. like that's what the fuck i thought. vehicularly manslaughter me about it
#Every fucking day#hit me you little bitch let’s see what happens#especially on the run routes it’s just ridiculous#yeah motherfucker you’re on post it’s PT hours weirdly enough people are RUNNING ON THE CLOSES RUN ROUTES YOU FUCKING IMBECILE#HOW DID GOU GET AROUND THE CONES ARE YOU BLIND#the amount of sass these cunts try and give me when I wave them down#Hi there mother fucker did you know the commanding general of this post closes this road at this Fucking Time???#every fucking day????#im sure the dudes in orange vests standing next to a road block that you just drove around would have loved to have told you#PEDESTRIANS ARE KING#YOU SEE ONE YOU STOP#THE BIGGER YOU ARE THE LESS POWER YOU LEGALLY HAVE ON THE ROAD YOU FUCKERS
ROMEO + JULIET (1996) dir. Baz Luhrmann
#the unfiltered unmitigated unstoppable cunt of harold perrineau in this role via @whatimages
i love when a character has something terrible happen to them and as a result they see themself as, essentially if not literally, a ghost. and so that means they only can (and have to) do what ghosts do, ie get revenge and then cease to exist. easy as that. but then halfway through this ghost vengeance they realize hey actually i might still be a human person. with human needs. that’s incredibly inconvenient, considering how much i’ve invested in this whole ghost thing
“When I first heard it, from a dog trainer who knew her behavioral science, it was a stunning moment. I remember where I was standing, what block of Brooklyn’s streets. It was like holding a piece of polished obsidian in the hand, feeling its weight and irreducibility. And its fathomless blackness. Punishment is reinforcing to the punisher. Of course. It fit the science, and it also fit the hidden memories stored in a deeply buried, rusty lockbox inside me. The people who walked down the street arbitrarily compressing their dogs’ tracheas, to which the poor beasts could only submit in uncomprehending misery; the parents who slapped their crying toddlers for the crime of being tired or hungry: These were not aberrantly malevolent villains. They were not doing what they did because they thought it was right, or even because it worked very well. They were simply caught in the same feedback loop in which all behavior is made. Their spasms of delivering small torments relieved their frustration and gave the impression of momentum toward a solution. Most potently, it immediately stopped the behavior. No matter that the effect probably won’t last: the reinforcer—the silence or the cessation of the annoyance—was exquisitely timed. Now. Boy does that feel good.”
— Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Secret History of Kindness (2015)
memories-lost-in-rain
This is probably the worst that anything has ever aged
conducting a new experiment called maintaining a normal conversation. i'll let you know how it goes
brought up the eel sex discovery again :/
speaking of: did you guys know that the mystery of eel breeding has finally been discovered??
the reproduction of eels has been a mystery since ancient fucking greece and they JUST discovered how they do it. scientists followed european eels that migrated thousands of kilometers from freshwater streams and rivers to the Sargasso sea (which is by north america) where the females released millions of eggs into the water and the males fertalized them and then the eels just died. because appearantly thats the end of their lifespan.
its insane. its bonkers. ALL european and american eels reproduce IN THE SAME PLACE. european eels swim across the north atlantic ocean just to reproduce. these eels live for about 20 years and go through multiple complex life stages but they begin and end their lives in the same place, despite how far they travel. and god dont get me started on other species of eels-
absolutely FUCKED that Disco Elysium
1.) let you play as a character with a penis
2.) introduced the plot point of a hole in the world
3.) didn’t let you fuck it. didn’t even let you TRY to fuck it. didn’t even let you DISCUSS THE LOGISTICS of fucking it. I tried every dialogue option that I thought might lead to the subject of sticking my dick in it and the game let me down every time. there’s a hole? in the world? you should be able to fuck it. you can wear a jacket that says FUCK THE WORLD but you never fucking act on it. what the fuck! it’s even called THE SWALLOW. why call it that if you’re not gonna let me fuck it?! JESUS IN HEAVEN. fuck!!!!
Happy birthday, Taeju-ssi.
박쥐 — THIRST 2009 | dir. Park Chan-wook
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) dir. Frank Capra
When Lorre had an idea, he didn’t tell Capra, “I think I’ve got a great idea for you.” He respectfully offered, “How would you like this?” Before filming a scene in the cellar where Dr. Einstein tries to dissuade Jonathan from using the gruesome, bloody “Melbourne” method to kill his brother, Lorre suggested, “Would it be good if we would just play part of it in the shadow? I don’t see anything, just the shadow doing some terrible things, and I can react to it.” Capra thought this “very professional” and also a “very wise thing to do because he had himself a scene.” So Lorre sat on a cellar step and played opposite Massey’s hideous profile in shadow, creating a macabre scene to match the grisly dialogue of murder. — Stephen D. Youngkin, The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre
Me when i like and reblog a post
Can we get this post to two million notes
That sucks for you but this animation makes me feel alive for the first time in years
So glad you asked
Stop calling this cursed, this is true gay love you're witnessing right now
I'm just mad because WHY IS THE MEDIC WITH THE SNIPER?! He's CLEARLY got better chemistry with the Heavy!
Clearly they're all in a polycule together 🙄
