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Stabilised footage of the Bigfoot film from 1967.

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So I tried this recipe.

And it is GREAT.

It basically makes the platonic ideal of commercial sugar cookies, only in bar form. When I give them to people (which I do a lot, because this is one of those simple recipes where the results seem very impressive), I just tell them they’re sugar cookie bars.

Life hack: add white chocolate chips and sea salt

I made these today for the equinox with sea salt caramel chips and they are simply amazing. Let’s see how long they last with six people in the house!

Noting for later (as we need more butter for this, and probably won’t do a grocery shopping till the weekend).

The OP version of this has become my go-to cookie for basically all things and I have a whole cohort of friends and colleagues who would murder each other to get them. Haven’t tried any add ons yet, since the base recipe is SO GOOD.

I’ve reblogged this before and I’m reblogging it again because I’m about to make it again tomorrow and I wanted to add my own tale of just how amazingly delicious it. it was SO incredibly simple to bake and with an extra dusting of brown sugar on top and served warm and soft they gift you with the taste of the nectar of the gods when paired with a small glass of milk. this image is from when I first made them a couple years ago:

GO. MAKE THESE !!!!

Needed to make a dessert in a hurry to bring to Thanksgiving, and this recipe worked excellently. I did not have the right kind of sugar for the topping, so instead I used a packet of lemonade powder, which gave it a nice citrusy zing.

Making these for myself as a reward for doing the no fun thing I’ve been putting off. Added half a lemon of lemon juice and a bit more flour. Let’s see how it turns out. >:3

Verdict: tasty.

These are really, really good, btw. (sorry, no pics…) :/

Fuck it. I'm no longer gender neutral, I'm gender evil

Okay, I know this is going to come off as me holding queer creators to higher standards, given how many urban fantasy tabletop RPGs there are out there whose default premise has the player characters fighting blood-drinking Illuminati cultists, but any time I see a self-labelled Queer Anarchist Revolution RPG with an urban fantasy bent whose default premise still has said queer anarchist revolutionaries fighting blood-drinking Illuminati cultists, I'm struck by a certain sense of, well, clearly you want me to receive this as a politically aware text, but you couldn't do ten minutes of reading up on the origins of the conspiracy theory tropes you're name-checking here? Really? Really?

Punkitt's Susan Taxpayer and Franky Cowurker wish you a happy friday

Armageddon is one of the few DVDs I didn’t sell because Ben Affleck on the commentary track is relentless. Below is the clip of the commentary from where this tidbit of trivia came from. Please take a moment to witness the magic.

this is so fucking funny

“aim the drill at the ground and turn it on”

so, the thing about affleck’s commentary is, it gets, if anything, more entertaining with a little historical context. (and also the context, i think, adds a fair bit more interesting complexity to the picture than simply assuming affleck laid down a diss track without anyone knowing what he was doing in the process.)

you see, to most people nowadays i imagine the idea of a commentary track is commonplace, if not necessarily a given on every home video release then at least understood to be one of the most prevalent extras for anything above a budget writeoff. much like how, to most people these days, criterion has something of a reputation for being a “classy” distributor of art-house film, such that whenever they dip their toes into the domain of anything seen as too low-brow there’s always someone with a titter about their reputation.

but back in the day, criterion was still burnishing their reputation, and they didn’t have many releases to their credit, and they were far more of a boutique label than a publishing entity in their own right; their goal was not merely to secure a release for a film, but to provide the most comprehensive, bells and whistles release of it imaginable - a “criterion” above and beyond what your standard home video release could be. and this was before the omnipresence of the DVD, too, you must remember - the home video release of armageddon predates the universal adoption of that piece of technology. meaning for the average viewer, they’d have bought it on VHS …

and for people buying the boutique editions, they would have been the people taking advantage of the much higher-quality options available to them via laserdisc. not DVD, as DVD technology was only in its infancy and early DVDs boasted truly horrendous digital artifacting; it would be a year or so before the DVD was truly able to offer video encoding competitive with VHS at all, much less the pristine transfers of particularly the mature technology that was a laserdisc production of the late ‘90s.

the other advantage laserdiscs had as a boutique home video technology over the VHS competition at the time was their ability to allow multiple information sources to coexist on the same surface, and permit the audience to swap between them at will, even play more than one data source at once off the same disc object - in other words, they had disc menus. criterion took advantage of this novel technology to recruit, for their boutique releases of notable films, either experts in the field of film history or members of the cast and crew to sit down and record themselves providing interesting facts or what you might have just called “color commentary” about the film, and then they’d include that as a separate dialogue track the audience could choose to play simultaneous to the film. the first such “commentary” track, as they decided it might as well be called, was featured on their laserdisc release of king kong - a release so embryonic to the label that it predates their signature spine numbering entirely. naturally, other companies did follow suit - and likewise, on laserdisc alone - but for the first decade of the commentary track’s existence, it was synonymous with the criterion collection first and definitely foremost.

and so it was, when they decided on their next release slate of noteworthy classic and contemporary films, that the 40th spine number of the criterion collection - just after seijun suzuki’s tokyo drifter, #39, and just before laurence olivier’s adaptation of henry v, #41 - was assigned to michael bay’s armageddon, and included on that remarkable laserdisc release was that standardbearer of the criterion collection, the commentary track, alongside the usual essays, examinations, and critique alike, to be played over what is, i believe(?), still a criterion-exclusive director’s cut of the film. i do not believe they were all in the same room as it was recorded, but the commentary was, in fact, signed off on by bay as well, given he himself is present for it and provides his own take during it alongside affleck, willis, bruckheimer, and more besides.

and this clip is from that commentary.

lest we forget

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today is her day. Taxpayers you know what to do

Jesus fucking Christ

This is DFC’s…I don’t know what…lava man? Wet red sasquatch? Whatever it is supposed to be, it is probably my favorite figure from their underrated Dragonriders of the Styx line.

Actually, I can tell you what it is supposed to be: a shambling mound. Just look at David C. Sutherland III’s illustration from the Monster Manual (how come all these jerks ripped off poor DCS?). For some reason, though, TSR’s lawyers limited their lawsuit to the DFC orc and naga toys. Is it because this little dude is red, thus making enough of an intellectual property distinction?

I have a theory that they didn’t go after the lava man because of TSR’s own, let’s say creative, relationship with intellectual property. While many D&D monsters can be traced to sources in mythology, the shambling mound has a clear ancestry in pulp horror. Horror writer/historian Scott Nicolay charts the course in the 8th installment of his Stories from the Borderlands series (http://scottnicolay.com/horrer-howce-by-margaret-st-clair/). He connects the swamp monster dots between Ted Sturgeon’s It (1940), the Heap from Airboy Comics (1948), Looney Tunes’ Gossamer, Marvel Comics’ Man-Thing and DC Comics Swamp Thing, among many others. I suspect that TSR was hesitant to draw attention to the similarities between the shambling mound and these last two (I mean, seriously, that LJN shambling mound may as well be a Man-Thing toy), both owned by well-established companies, thus saving the DFC lava man from a faceless future and TSR from its own lawsuit.

Given DFC copied full poses and details it’s probably the only IP case where TSR wasn’t fully hypocritical.

TSR and later WoTC have always been very glad to file off serial numbers and take advantage of fair use when it comes to their own inspirations, but accuse others of theft for doing the same to them.

Particularly ironic that one of the creatures they like to pretend is “new D&D IP” is the displacer beast, which is straight lifted from A.E. van Vogt’s Voyage of the Space Beagle. The owl bear, rust monster, and numerous others are straight from bagged toys. Lets not forget how they used to call halfings hobbits until they were forced to stop. It’s a veritable grab-bag of pastiche.

Beyond the hypocrisy around using their lawyers to bully everyone in the space for decades, however, this isn’t a criticism. There is no fully original concept. We are all remixing from our media diets and our lives, and ex-nihlo creativity is either a myth or it is “neolithic genius inventing a future tense”-type rare.

Ironically, Marvel and DC were both loathe to sue each other over the nigh simultaneous Man-Thing/Swamp Thing, because they were both aware that they’d stolen the aforementioned Heap.

Star Wars is Flash Gordon and the Seven Samurai. Ben 10 is Dial H for Hero but cool. Jack Kirby was drawing the Aurora Model kit when he made Devil Dinosaur, Star Trek was Space Patrol for grownups, Superman is backwards John Carter.

Hiromi <3

HERBERT WEST from RE-ANIMATOR (1985) hates TERFs!

Ok, most of these are jokes, but I honestly believe that Herbert West *would* hate TERFs. I bet that he hates all bioconservatives, anyone who describes themselves as "biophile", and anyone who equates "naturalness" with legitimacy or morality.

Like they're out here calling us "surgical monstrosities" and "proponents of medical mutilation" and I feel like Herbert West would absolutely vent his spleen at them like "How DARE you presume to stand against the progress of SCIENCE, you vacuous , fearful little ignoramus!"

My favourite bits of Tumblr slang are the ones that sound like they’d just be Starfire from Teen Titans’ actual, legit word for that thing.

I just realized “you kick her body like the football?” Would 100% be how she’d say that

yes yes yes. consider also:

“This is my [relationship] [name], he has every disease.”