Aaraku the ValiDrava

• 2020-12-27 72 notes

  Actual thing I’ve said to my parents

  ”I’m stupid, not dumb. There’s a difference”

  Swedish original: Jag är korkad, inte dum. Det är en skillnad

• 2023-10-29 40,787 notes

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  McDonald’s giving away free fries if you use their mobile app and then updating the terms and conditions to say if you use this app you waive your right to trial in any class action lawsuits and have to do mandatory arbitration is INSANE

  

  

  this is likely because mcdonalds is subject to BDS (https://www.newarab.com/features/boycottmcdonalds-bds-and-battle-golden-arches) and so theyre introducing the free fries to try to entice people to spend more money on them. do not give in.

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  werechicken:

  8-xnny:

  People:”Ew sharks are so ugly and mean and terrifying,their literally the most dangerous thing in the world”

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  Dolphins literally kill porpoises for fun

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  idiopathicsmile:

  you know what really grinds my gears?

  okay, bear with me: so as you may know, harry houdini and arthur conan doyle were friends, at least for a while.

  by the early 1920s, both arthur conan doyle and acd’s wife jean, aka lady doyle, believed whole-heartedly in spiritualism, talking to ghosts and all of that. (sidenote: this was of course right on the heels of a devastating world war and a devastating pandemic, both of which had created a huge population of grieving people, so spiritualism was having a moment.)

  lady doyle sincerely thought she had the ability to go into a trance state and pass along messages in writing from the dead. she offered to do this for houdini. houdini agreed.

  lady doyle attempted to channel houdini’s late mother. she basically drew a cross at the top of the paper and filled it with generic platitudes addressed to “harry.” houdini’s mom was jewish and didn’t talk like that, so houdini knew the jig was up, even if lady doyle didn’t. but not wanting to make the situation awkward, he kind of went along with it to their faces.

  then acd decided to publish a glowing account of the seance, and since both he and houdini were super famous, it got a lot of attention, and letters started pouring in for houdini, asking if this was true. ultimately, houdini couldn’t life about it. so he essentially said, like, “yeah, i think lady doyle THINKS she can talk to ghosts but she absolutely can’t.” and it ruined his friendship with acd forever.

  and then of course a lot of the people running seances weren’t even well-intentioned like lady doyle, they were just simple charlatans taking advantage of traumatized people mourning loved ones. in houdini’s youth, he and his wife had traveled the carnival circuit where he did an act pretending to commune with spirits, so he knew all the tricks of the trade AND he had lingering guilt over having done this, AND he was infuriated by this increasingly popular wave of con artists so he decided to assemble a team of anti-grifting grifters and together they went on the road exposing whichever spiritualists were preying on the locals.

  houdini’s best agent was a young woman named rose mackenberg, who donned disguises to visit the fraud de jour and then importantly sussed out what non-supernatural thing was actually happening, and then houdini would demonstrate the techniques onstage to packed audiences.

  (if you want to know more, check out episode 175, “ghost racket crusade” of the podcast Criminal or read Tony Wolf’s book The Real-Life Ghostbusting Adventures of Rose Mackenberg.)

  but yeah, what really gets my goat is that all this happened and as far as i know, we still don’t have like four seasons of a Leverage-style historical procedural about rose mackenberg and the rest of the crew having adventures in the 1920s as they unmask craven hucksters all over the united states. (what we do have, apparently, is one season of a show called “houdini and doyle” which is about the oddball friendship of two contrasting men solving sometimes-actually-supernatural mysteries, and whose premise does i think at the very least a real disservice to houdini’s whole quest and also totally erases rose, who is arguably the most interesting part of this story to me.)

  i am just steamed about this. steamed.

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  This.

  👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

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  assiraphales:

  I am in love w the way pre 2000s films have that hazy feel to them. hd honestly kills the vibe

  I think that’s one of the reasons why “period” media that’s marketed off the Aesthetic sometimes bothers me…….like they get the music, the clothing, the cars……and yet it always feels like something is missing

  like,

  

  

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  or even compare the early x files to the reboot

  

  

  something is just lost with the crispness

  someone in the tags said early spn vs new supernatural and tbh 100% yes !!

  

  

  

  

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  I never realized how much I missed the grainy undersaturated filing …… “good lighting” and sharpness strike again

  Seasons 1-3 were shot on 35mm film

  4-15 were all shot on digital cameras, a change that the network insisted on

  Yeah the exact thing that changed is that all the old stuff was recorded on film and all the new stuff was recorded on digital media.

  i was going to say the film thing and the someone brought up supernatural and i was like “nah” and then @aphony-cree out here dropping that bomb…. in *2005,* to *2008?* there was a show shooting on film???? god you guys MOST shows went though this transition in the 90s how the fuck was SPN on FILM

  In the 2000s dramatic shows had a good shot of convincing networks to let them use film. The network still had film cameras they’d bought and maybe hadn’t gotten enough use out of before the switch to digital. Most dramas can’t be shot entirely in the studio, they need to go on location, so it made sense to let them use the older cameras while the new expensive digital cameras stayed in the studio where they were safer

  Supernatural wanted the 35mm film aesthetic and hated when they were forced to switch to digital

  They just recently released a 4K version of Lord of the Rings and they’re so Crisp. None of those soft fantasy vibes

  

  

  

  

  

  

  one of my least favorite things about these 4k updates to films (especially ones that used actual film) is that they also go and try to do color correction. like there’s a REASON that some scenes are heavily blue saturated. that wasn’t purely an effect of using film, but also a choice during the editing process. color is just as important to a movie as anything else.

  it’s the exact reason why the matrix was shot with blue heavily filtered out to give that greenish-gray appearance, which added to the feel for a grungey dystopian machine-ruled future. The 4k version of it still has that there for the most part, but you can tell they did some color correction too and it throws off the entire vibe.

  not to mention 4k updates of older movies REALLY makes the CGI stand out in a bad way and often times reveals imperfections in makeup that they knew, at the time, wouldn’t be noticed once everything was edited and it hit the big screens.

  There’s something a theatrical costumer told me about, the 10 foot rule. As long as the costume can pass muster from 10 feet away, it’s good enough. Too sharp attention ruins the illusion.

  Sacrificing film techniques for capitalist re-release since 4k.

  That’s why, if you want to support old tech nerds who find the most obscure lenses possible and shoot in natural light, or crazy ass black and white, you need to throw your money at Robert Eggers!

  

  

  

  His next film is going to be a retelling of Nosferatu and I can’t wait for it. This guy makes film that are visually arresting while everyone is lost in the world of digital hyper crisp crap.

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  noelledeltarune:

  EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of “weird older cousin” or “step-sibling that moved out before you were born” is 1000000x more apt a description

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• 2023-10-28 26,480 notes

  necromosss:

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  As the person who got their R keyboard broken and the world mocked me for being forced to use the uwu language as replacement

  

  My condolences

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  pyrrhiccomedy:

  those posts always go around that are like “if you’re on Tumblr and you’re over 25 blah blah blah” but honestly if you’re on Tumblr and you’re under 25, I don’t know how the fuck you found this place. like I came here when it was actually kind of cool and then just never left because all my stuff was here. what’s your excuse

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  todays-xkcd:

  ALT

  These anomalies are known as Miyake events, named for the pioneering scientist who discovered them and was tragically devoured by a carnivorous tree.

  Dendochronology [Explained]

  Transcript Under the Cut

  Keep reading

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  @hellsite-hall-of-fame @worldheritagepostorganization

  is this the ORIGINAL?!???

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  finchcrs:

  I’m crying

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