I found this camera on the subway and look what was inside...

I would marry this man

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who was the fool who was tasked with naming the galaxy and the only adjective they could think of was ‘mmmmmmmmmmmmilky…’

scientist: (gazing up at space)  scientist: ……….. it sure is a milky boy 

NO

YOU DONT UNDERSTAND

ASTRONOMERS ARE THE SHITTIEST EVER AT NAMING THINGS I KID YOU NOT.

When it came time to name the two theoretical particle types that might be dark matter THEY INTENTIONALLY CHOSE THE NAMES SO THAT THE ACRONYMS WOULD SPELL “WIMPS” AND “MACHOS” I SHIT YOU NOT

THEY ARE FUCKING TERRIBLE AT NAMING ANYTHING

I just listened to a talk by Neil deGrasse Tyson himself LAST NIGHT and he went on about this more than once.

“I’m walking down the street and I’m like ‘ooh pretty rock…’ and some Geologist is like ‘actually, that’s anorthosite feldspar’ and I’m like ‘Nevermind, I don’t want it anymore.’ Any biologists in the audience? [some clapping] Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. The most important molecule in the human body, what did you name it? It has NINE SYLLABLES and it’s so long that even YOU GUYS abbreviate it as ‘DNA’!

But astrophysicists and astronomers? No, man, we call it like we see it. Star made of neutrons? NEUTRON STAR. Small white star? WHITE DWARF. You know that big red spot on Jupiter? Know what we called it? JUPITER’S RED SPOT.”

okay i’m glad you mentioned the biologist nonsense bc their naming methods are the bane of my existence

I see your astrophysicists-are-shit-at-names and raise you Marine-Biologists-Are-Fucking-Maniacs.

See this beautiful creature?

It’s a carnivorous deep-sea sponge that lives off of Easter Island and never sees the light of day, as it’s about 9000 feet down. Those delicate-looking orbs are covered in millions of tiny hooked spines, which latch onto anything unfortunate enough to bump into it, and hold it in place as it is digested alive by the sponge’s skin.  Amazing, beautiful and profoundly creepy.  They could have given it so many cool names.  Could have drawn on mythology (I think Scylla would have been an appropriate reference), the region it was found in, the textured skin, PHAGOCYTOSIS, anything!  

You wanna know what they called it?

PING-PONG TREE SPONGE.

Good job, marine biologists.

I will always remember Christopher Lee as that horrifying moment in the LOTR commentaries where Peter Jackson says he started to direct him on how to act like he’d been stabbed and Christopher Lee goes “no no peter dear, when someone is stabbed like this, THIS is how they look, they don’t make a sound, air just leaves them all at once” and peter jackson remembers in that moment that lee was in the secret service and just slowly backs away.

Y’all… Christopher Lee was literally James Bond. He and Ian Fleming were cousins, he was one of the real life sources of inspiration for James Bond, and was Fleming’s first choice to play Bond in the movies. Saying that he was in the secret service doesn’t do it justice. His unit was informally referred to as “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” and his service records are still sealed. When an interviewer asked him about his service, he asked “Can you keep a secret?” the interviewer of course said yes, so he leaned in, lowered his voice, and said “So can I.” He also performed for a metal album in his 80′s. Christopher Lee was one of the most awesome humans ever to walk the Earth.

To quote my favourite article about his life, written before his passing:

“Christopher Lee is a 6'5" tall world champion fencer, speaks six languages, does all of his own stunts, has participated in more on-screen sword fights than any actor in history, served for five years defending democracy from global fascism as a British Commando blowing the shit out of Nazi asses in World War II, and became the oldest person to ever record lead vocals on a heavy metal track when, at the age of 88, he wrote, performed on, and released a progressive symphonic power metal EP about the life of Charlemagne (because why the fuck not?). 

The most prolific actor in motion picture history, Christopher Lee was born somewhere in England in 1922. His mother was an Italian Countess who was actually descended from the line of Charlemagne, and she was so important that she was allowed to wear the royal seal of Frederich Barbarossa and so MILF-y she had her portrait painted by something like a half-dozen famous Italian artists. One of Lee’s ancestors on that side was the Papal Secretary of State who refused to attend the coronation of Napoleon and is buried in the Pantheon in Rome next to Raphael (the painter not the ninja turtle), which seems like kind of a big deal. Lee’s father, meanwhile, was a distant relative of Robert E. Lee and was multi-decorated war hero who’d served as a Colonel in the 60th King’s Royal Rifle Corps during World War I and the Boer War. Growing up, Lee studied Classics at Wellington College, where he was also a champion squash player, a ridiculously-badass fencer, and spent his spare time playing on the school hockey and rugby.

Shit got real in 1939 when Christopher Lee quit his day job, caught a boat to Finland, and decided to enlist in the Finnish Army to help them fight off the Soviet invasion of Finland. Lee got geared up to kick some commie asses up and down the frozen wastes of mid-Winter Finland, but didn’t see much action, returning home in 1940 to deal with a much bigger and more England-centric problem: Nazis. Christopher Lee enlisted in the Royal Air Force in 1940, where he worked as an intelligence officer specializing in cracking German ciphers and skulls and any other Nazi bullshit he came in contact with. In North Africa he was attached to the Long Range Desert Patrol, the forerunner of the SAS, where he would jump in a badass fucking four-wheel-drive jeep with a gigantic machine gun mounted in the back, drive hundreds of miles behind enemy lines, survive the scorching heat of the Sahara Desert, then sneak-attack Luftwaffe airfields by rolling up on them at sixty miles an hour with his .50-caliber machine guns blazing out curtains of white-hot Nazi-smiting justice, planting dynamite on their airplanes, then peeling ass out of there leaving nothing but bullet-riddled corpses and gigantic explosions in his wake. After working with the LRDP, Lee was assigned to the Special Operations Executive – better known as Winston Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare – a group that did shit like lead a twelve-man assault that destroyed the German top secret nuclear weapons development facility in Norway and assist brave Eastern European partisans and rebels sabotage Nazi supply lines to prevent them from bringing reinforcements up to fight the Soviets. His service records are sealed and Lee doesn’t talk much about his service (when pressed on the subject, he reportedly asks his interviewer, “Can you keep a secret?”. When they excitedly say yes, he leans in close and says, “So can I.”), but we do know that by the time he retired as a Flight Lieutenant in 1945 he’d been personally decorated for battlefield bravery by the Czech, Yugoslavian, English, and Polish governments and was good friends with Josip Broz Tito, so draw your own conclusions.

In addition to his iconic, definitive role as Dracula, Christopher Lee has also portrayed some of the most memorable villains of all time. Sure, everyone knows him as Sauroman the White from Lord of the Hobbits: Return to Fellowship Towers and Darth Tyranus from those otherwise-terrible Star Wars prequels…  he played the ultimate Bond Villain in The Man with The Golden Gun – a role he got thanks in no small part to the fact that Bond creator Ian Fleming was not only Lee’s cousin, but the two men had fought together in the SOE during WWII. So Lee was basically part of the team that inspired James Bond, then he went on to play a fucking Bond Villain

I won’t get too much into it, but Christopher Lee has basically been in every movie ever, from billion-dollar Academy Award winners to the sort of shit that Elvira pimps on Channel 875 at four in the morning on a Tuesday. He’s almost always the villain, and as such has probably died on camera more times than anyone ever. He’s been Fu Manchu five times. He was the definitive Count de Rochefort in a couple Three Musketeers movies. He’s been The Mummy, Frankenstein’s Monster, Willy Wonka’s Dad, the Emperor of China, the Grim Reaper, Lucifer, Grigory Rasputin, Charles Marlow, Ramses, Tiresias the Blind Prophet of Thebes, Vlad the Impaler, one role where he’s simply credited as “Ship’s Vampire”, and another where he’s “Resurrection Joe.” He’s hosted SNL and been in Police Academy, the Last Unicorn, Charlie’s Angels, Season of the Witch, Gremlins II, a Polish Tales from the Crypt-style TV series and a softcore porn based on the works of Marquis de Sade, but he was also in Lord of the Rings, Shaka Zulu, A Tale of Two Cities, The Wicker Man, Moby-Dick and the Hamlet with Lawrence Olivier. He’s worked with Peter Cushing, Jimmy Stewart, Charlton Heston, Errol Flynn, Patrick Stewart, Stephen Spielberg, Orson Welles, Vincent Price, Christopher Walken, Sam Eliot, Jeff Bridges and Jayne Mansfield, but also Nicholas Cage, Heather Graham, Sacha Baron Cohen, Tom Arnold, Casper Van Dien and Armand Assante, and he once appeared in a movie called “Howling II: Werewolf Bitch” with the dude from Space Mutiny.

He’s the only person to play both Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes (he was also Sir Henry Baskerville). His characters have executed both Charles the First of England and Louis the Sixteenth of France (and, as a badass side note, Lee is so into the idea of public executions that in real life he can recite every official executioner in England since the 15th century). He’s portrayed Englishmen, Egyptians, Spaniards, Transylvanians, Frenchmen, Greeks, Poles, Chinese, Indians, Italians, Wallachians, Romans, Germans, Arabs, Gypsies, and Russians, played the lead role in the biography of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, speaks English, German, Russian, Swedish, Italian, and French, can do any English accent he wants, and sings everything from opera and death metal in a hardcore bass voice. IMDB credits him with 274 acting roles, Guiness says he’s appeared in more films than anyone ever, and the Oracle of Bacon lists him as the Center of the Hollywood Universe because anyone in history links to him in 2.59 steps (he links to Bacon in 1). If that’s not enough, Lee’s movies have grossed more than any actor ever – his top five alone grossed $4.4B (number two is Harrison ford with $3B) and that doesn’t even include the new Hobbit stuff

Lee also belongs to three stuntman unions, does all of his own stunts, once busted his face smashing head-first through an actual plate glass window for a scene, injured himself falling into an open grave while portraying Dracula, and once had his hand slashed open during a drunken sword fight with Errol Flynn.

Oh, and while we’re on the subject of swordfights, Lee has appeared in more on-screen sword duels than any other actor ever. A masterful fencer, he’s been in everything from cutlass fights on the decks of waterlogged pirate ships to rapier duels in seventeenth-century France to taking on a couple guys one-third of his age with a lightsabers and a fistful of force lightning on the deck of whatever the fuck they called Imperial Star Destroyers in the prequel movies.

A classically trained singer, Christopher Lee also released a heavy metal hardcore symphonic power metal concept album about Charlemagne when he was 88 years old. He’s played with Rhapsody and Manowar, and on his 90th birthday he released a metal single called “Let Legend Mark Me as the King” with music written by some of the guys from Judas Priest.

He is [was] still acting at ninety years old.”

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Just so you know, the Finnish repulsion of Soviet forces is sometimes referred to as The Winter War because of the harsh freezing whether conditions and the Finnish fighting forces were so fierce that the Red Army - who are pretty much responsible for the Allied victory in WWII in part because the Nazis made the fatal error of trying to attack in, oh the irony, winter ❄️ - retreated. Christopher Lee VOLUNTEERED to be part of that.

I will never not reblog this post because Christopher Lee.

The best part about @eirenical‘s addition is that Christopher Lee ALREADY played the role of Death while still alive - in the animated adaptations of terry Pratchett’s Soul Music and Wyrd sisters. 

And honestly, the idea that he’s replaced Death of the Discworld makes even more sense.

happy april fools. please take this egg

hahahahahha………………..

youve been fooled………………by the april fools beeper……………..it was a fully grown bird the entire time…..no egg………………it tells u it hopes u hav a good april 1st

i have been feeling really great recently !!!

april fools im dead inside

My Top Eleven Favorite NES Games

11) Kung Fu

The beat em up genre is not one that has ever exactly engaged me, with the exception of Turtles in Time and this awesome little title. Kung Fu is short, sweet and to the point, with an awesome martial arts movie aestetic that’s all the more awesome when you consider that Kung Fu is an adaptation of the Jackie Chan film, Kung Fu Master. The fact that Kung Fu is so short might seem like a drawback for some people, but as someone who has ADHD, spending an hour in any given game is an exhausting prospect. In that time, I could beat this game a five times over while listening to an audiobook and enjoy every minute of.

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10) Solomon’s Key

If all this had in it’s favor was genius puzzles and a feindishly clever block mechanic, that would be enough. But the fact that the game also has one of my favorite NES protagonists, Dana the Wizard, gives it that all important edge.

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9) Life Force

There really isn’t a lot to say about this one. It’s a Gradius spinoff with even cooler visuals and vertical levels. The Vic Viper has never looked so awesome.

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8) Kabuki Quantum Fighter

The aestetic. That’s all I should have to say. This game’s aesthetic Fucking Rules. End of story no question asked. But this game isn’t just a pretty face with a headbanging Kabuki superhero: It’s action platforming is among the best of the system, and the hair swinging turns an already good game into one hell of a ride.

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7) Solomon’s Key 2: Fire n’ Ice

Better and deeper puzzles, yes, but there is one reason why I love this game so much more than the first: Those beautiful, beautiful cutscenes.

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6) Super Mario Brothers 3

You’re shocked, I can tell. There is nothing that I can say about this game that hasn’t been said by a thousand other people already, but imma try anyway! The controls, and the ever important jumping, are spectacular, the graphics are damn near perfect, and level design, as always, is awesome. Objectively one of, if not the best platformer on the NES. But this is a favorites list, not a best ever list. And for one reason or another, the following games just speak to me more than this game. And for what it’s worth? This game is not perfect. Something something no save feature.

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5) Dragon Warrior

Relaxing music, soothing gameplay, awesome aestetics and monster art, and an extremely easy game to get into and pick up. By far the most pleasant and mellow RPG I’ve ever played.

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4) Final Fantasy

Final Fantasy is a deeply unbalanced game, with a ridiculously tedious grind to it. But I have never and will never care about that, because Final Fantasy is a joy to play from beginning to end, and the scale of it’s story is deceptively wide in it’s scale, the music is awesome, the sprites are beautiful and creepy, and whenever I see the Fighter, Red Mage, White Mage and Black Mage, I feel like I can take on an army of time traveling chaos gods.m

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3) Megaman 2 + 3

I went back and forth on which one of these games I liked more, and eventually I decided on both, for one simple reason: 3 is the cooler, overall more fully realized game, but 2 has an EASY MODE!! YAY!! It’s a Megaman game I can actually finish!

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2) Castlevania 3: Dracula’s Curse

This one took me by surprise. I knew it was going to be a.good game, but I never knew how much I was going to love it. It has one of my favorite soundtracks in any 8 bit game, the game play is addicting as it is deceptively simple, the aestetic is one part Universal Monsters and one part Scooby Doo. This is one of the few games I’m able to pick up and play at any time. I love this game so much that I did indeed have a fangirl freak out when it was adapted into a truly awesome anime.

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1) The Legend of Zelda

What really needs to be said about this game? Iconic music, a mysterious world that never felt bigger, dungeons that challenged your skills and tested your patience. One of the best adventure games in the third generation of consoles, the first game in the aclaimed Zelda franchise, and my favorite game on the Nintendo Entertainment System.

You know what line gets me every time I watch MAD MAX FURY ROAD? 

“Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.”

Think about that. “Addicted to water.” It makes it sound like water is an extra luxury that people don’t need but are greedy for, something they should be able to go without, and if they are desperate for it, it’s their own fault, and not the fault of the man who has all of it, and withholds it.

Think about how the people in power tell us not to be greedy for the things we need, like healthcare, like a living wage, like the right to be free of fear and violence in our own communities. The people in power tell us not to be greedy for these things, when they themselves already enjoy them freely, and withhold them from us.

Don’t trust the narrative that tells us we’re being greedy by asking for things that we need.

Don’t trust the asshole sitting on a grassy hilltop with his hand on the spigot telling us not to be greedy for water.

Fury Road is a fantastic criticism of capitalist property rights over common necessities

I mean, I agree

But in that very specific example, Metal Face did have kind of a point, since clean water is probably a limited af resource. The only thing I can really fault him for with that part of the movie is his shit distribution method.

Hi, no offense Lily (actually yes offense), but I’m pretty sure no one has the time to listen to you explain why you didn’t like a flawed but ok show.

I mean… the video has 74K views so you’re literally wrong

Also, getting into technical terms, YouTube endorses long form content, so an hour and a half video essay is rather apt for the algorithm in place.

Did you just go out of your way to make a slightly rude comment about a video you didn’t wanna watch?

I mean, if this was meant to be some kind of burn on her or whatever, is this really the thing you wanna go with?

Wow, it’s amazing, they were 100% wrong. I mean nothing they said has been right.

I watched it like, three times

 SNES Posters from Nintendo Power

Masakazu Eguchi, level designer for Mega Man 11, hits the nail on the head.

It’s wonderful to see even one of the devs understanding that a core element of the Mega Man series – and the franchise at large – is sadness. And looking cool despite that.

It’s very encouraging. It shows they get it.

S-such language!