love that kids are emo again. i love walking into the grocery store or goodwill and seeing some teenage emo kid all decked out walking around with their mom or something
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Lmao @ all the people saying “there can’t be 14 days of paid sick leave in the US because small businesses will suffer and the economy will fail!” you are aware there are countries that normally have paid sick leave that are doing fine right ? Like how much fucking Reaganite brainwashing does one need to think basic care for workers will crash the economy. Death to America
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The world if Reagan’s assassination was successful
If the civilization we've built is so fragile and cruel that basic kindness and understanding would destroy it, then it deserves to fall.
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Damn ok that’s deep my post is 10x better now
Trying to get some pyramid #head it’s been too silent on this hill
Everything about this is a masterpiece: the girl that says “wow” and the girl that says “hi” shyly and bill awkwardly lifting his hand to say hi to them I’m cracking THE FUCK UP
The way they all immediately straightened up their postures like the fuckin pope walked in 😂 the sheer power this cool science man has over the american people is palpable
Awesome in its purest original sense
People will literally see a sage green building and be like "what if it was white" 🙄
People will literally see a unique little house and be like "what if it had beige vinyl siding" 🤢
People will literally see a gorgeous Victorian painted lady house and be like "what if we knock it down and make it a carwash" 🤮
People will literally decide to build a community center for their town and then be like "what if it looked like a prison" 👹
People will literally see a mom and pop store going out of business and be like "what if we had a 3rd Dunkin Donuts there" 💀
People will literally see a vacant lot and be like "what if we had 6th dollar store there" 🤑
People will literally see a 40 year old bowling alley and be like "what if it was storage units" 😵💫
why did they ever even attempt to try and make another actor wear a white-blonde wig after orlando bloom in the lotr trilogy. don’t they understand that we peaked 20 years ago and everything else has looked like shit after that
it’s about the texture it’s about the stray hairs it’s about the color dimension
reasons for this:
- lotr used really really REALLY good, custom-made wigs. we're talking full lace, hand-tied, human hair wigs.
- a good wig like this takes expert skills and time to make and can cost thousands and THOUSANDS of $$. In a fantasy production where each of the main cast needs at least several wigs during the production due to styling needs, damage, continuity issues etc. the cost of those wigs $ can add up.
- Most human hair for wigs comes from Asia and is bleached and then dyed to the desired end-color. Lifting black or nearly black hair to pale blond and then toning it causes a lot of damage to the hair - meaning that even if the end color is good, the hair can still look processed and "crunchy". This can stand out in a fantasy production where stuff like people's hair is supposed to look 'natural'.
- Wigs can also look less natural if the texture of the hair doesn't match the person wearing it - LOTR used virgin northern european hair for their wigs (this is some of the most expensive $$ hair to source for wigmaking, especially in the lengths they needed), which means the texture is more "natural" for the (almost entirely) white cast, and tends to have more 'natural' dimension in tone and color as the hair underwent a lot less processing before it ended up on the actors.
- Additionally, some wigs are synthetic, or a mix of human & synthetic hair, and while there are very nice synthetic wigs, it's very hard to give them those natural whispy flyaways stray hairs, and natural hairline that make a great wig seamless.
- really all of these reasons can be summed up as: 💰 budget 💰 budget 💰 budget
tl;dr: Despite production budgets for big film & tv absolutely EXPLODING in the past 20+ years, that $ isn't being allocated to actual crafts & craftspeople.