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every spelunker should go in with a cyanide tooth capsule so if they get stuck they can take the gentle way out instead of being tortured by the earth for 72 hours and then dying anyway
@kropotkindersurprise said:
it should be an explosive device, so they widen that part of the cave at the same time and no other spelunkers will get stuck there
beautiful vision. i love the idea of a minecraft-style world where if you explode underground it just clears a radius
I mean. That obviously wouldn’t work for many reasons, although I do believe if you required spelunkers to wear a suicide bomb to go caving, it would not be a major deterrent.
They'd be pissed off that the belt is too bulky and they can't squeeze through teeny tiny crevices that require you to avoid breathing until you're through or your ribs won't fit
Personally I think we should make all spelunkers wear bulky vests like those people who tie a wooden spoon to a tiny dog's back so it can't slip through the bars of a property fence. Stop 'em from getting in those positions in the first place.
Fun fact on the farms I grew up on the farmers used to keep their jack russel terriers a lil bit fat. Because jack russels are rabbit/fox dogs, whose job is to go down burrows and flush out prey for the hunters to shoot, and if a tunnel is too narrow then your dog can get stuck underground somewhere in a maze of tunnels and be impossible to rescue. (They can dig pretty well but a dog is not a burrowing animal and there are limits depending on how they get stuck.) So if they're a lil bit tubby and they get stuck then after a day or so they're thinner (because there's no food or water down there) and they can pull out and come back up. I never saw a dog actually get trapped but this was the common wisdom re: why these tiny hunting dogs were all kept a little bit thick around the middle.
They also burn through energy and fat like anything so you want them to have a bit extra to spare in the best of circumstances just in case they get sick or something. Working dogs love to drastically lose weight if you look at them funny because they are small and never ever want to not be moving. But we were always told it was about being trapped underground.
Got to keep our spelunkers a little bit thick around the middle so if they get stuck they’ll loose weight eventually and be able to wiggle out
Ask not for whom the gurdy hurds. It hurds for thee.
Booktok controversy that's broken containment: a writer told one of her friends the concept for a book, and he took that concept and AI-generated a book based on it and then gifted to her like 'there you go, sweetie, you're welcome ;)'
BRO WHAT.
OMG, I'm watching a video about this, and it's even weirder. That wasn't even a friend, it was a rando who saw her tiktok talking about the concept and randomly emails her this AI-generated book. That's even weirder.
And then when she says she doesn't like it, and several NYT BESTSELLING AUTHORS who all happen to be women all explain to him why he's in the wrong, he talks down to them and doubles and triples and quadruples down. But then the moment the woman's husband gets involved, he immediately apologizes to "him and his wife." Just breathtaking levels of misogyny.
He wanted credit SO HARD for doing basically NOTHING. Worse than nothing! He wanted headpats so hard that when she ignored his email he hounded her to respond publicly.
He's like a microcosm of everything that's wrong with people who use AI to generate stories.
He was talking about releasing the shit he generated with the idea he STOLE FROM HER for free if she continued not responding to him, and then acted like she was being insane when she clarified that she didn't respond on purpose 😭😭😭 What goes through these people's heads!!!!!!!!!
Something profoundly wrong with this dude and yet he's incapable of noticing.
*logs in* it's time to be annoying about some guy

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"I'm so sick of sports movies that follow the conventions that make it a sports movie!" says Ino Bettranyone, the director and producer of an upcoming film about your favorite historical baseball player.
"I mean, what's with those helmets that batters wear? It's so unfashionable. Those have got to go. And those pants are so restrictive. I'm going to show that the protagonist is a rebel and an independent thinker by having them wear cut-off jeans and run to third base instead of going to first. They'll also have waist-length free-flowing hair that they never tie up when they run."
"What? No, of course I didn't read up anything about sports history or the rules of baseball."
(Yes, this is satire about how the makers of period dramas sometime completely dismiss the social constraints and conventions of that era that make period dramas interesting, and you know, true to the time period.)
How dare you leave this in the tags???
Even Ben Fensome did a parody of the Sense and Sensibility trailer.
Apparently Ben Fensome's adaptation of the adaptation trailer has inaccuracies... which makes it quite accurate.
#he should be wearing a dress in the most drab shade of brown#but otherwise this is perfect -@firawren
#sumsup my feelings about the trailer quite well 🤭#although it's far too well lit -@mythic-magpie
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realizing that the online sphere and especially tumblr is NOT a good sample for ‘what everyone thinks’ is so, so, so good for your mental health and moral OCD. i swear to god. realizing that you don’t have to live your actual life like you’re being hunted for sport because the average tumblr user will hunt you for sport for wording something slightly weird or engaging in the wrong stuff or whatever is so incredible. like no you’re actually not fucked up and evil for not donating or for watching that one indie cartoon or questioning a post that everybody is agreeing with. that’s just tumblrs georg making you feel that way
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Story is simpler than real life, because it has to be. A perfectly representative map is perfectly useless because it’s an exact copy of the terrain. Story leaves out almost everything from real life, and therefore what is included should be done to advance the purpose of the story, whatever that may be.
If you are intentionally adding elements that make no watsonian or doylist sense, you are doing it on purpose to advance a message you believe to be virtuous at the expense of the actual purpose of the story. I use for tonight’s example, the bodily habitus of Miss Elizabeth Bennet, because I was already asked about the topic. You may substitute any virtuous message you like in place of this.
I will note two important disclaimers: first, I do not believe that the creators of the BBC miniseries were acting in the manner I describe below, I think they just…didn’t do a very good job, visually speaking, probably because of a combination of factors to do with having a shrugging attitude towards visual messaging in film because they were making a made for tv miniseries and not a high art concept film or even a blockbuster film made by a guy who clearly really loves going to art galleries. Second, and this is incredibly tiresome, I’m not making a moral judgement about being fat. I’m fat myself and have been for most of my life. But I don’t need to be pandered to by media makers about how hot and brave I am and in fact I find it pretty insulting.
Does it make doylist sense (that is, sense in the real world) for an unmarried young woman who lives in the countryside, famed for her beauty, living in an era of slim cut dresses and restraint-as-virtue, to be fat? No. In the real place and time which the novel is based in, slenderness was an important part of the beauty standard, and Elizabeth’s beauty and its maintenance is important both to her and to people with influence over her life and diet (her mother). Does it make sense in a watsonian sense (that is, sense within the fictional world, or a representation of that fictional world as a video adaptation)? Again, no. Elizabeth is active, light on her feet, pointedly not a gourmand.
So. The only reason to style a representation of Elizabeth as fat is to go ‘hah! Got you, audience! Yooooou thought only skinny women (slender is not skinny) could be restless tomboys with no interest in food who are also super hot protagonists who get the prize of the Sexy Leg Lamp Love Interest! Well, that’s not universally true!! This story is going to Subvert Your Expectations so that you stop being a bigot about fat people.’ (This itself, as a stance, makes many assumptions, mainly about the audience.)
And the second that you do that you’re placing your message about subverting expectations as something that is more important than the message of the piece of media you’re making. It’s annoying and distracting. The art should stand for itself. If your message doesn’t fit your story, just make a piece of media about the message you so clearly want to project. Think about what your position is and then defend it openly. Make good, cohesive art that has meaning and is engaging to consume.

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using "what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament" to mean "yeah i made an embarrassing reference but you understood it which is also embarrassing" is very funny to me
my favorite part is that absolutely nobody says this except here. so if you use it in public, it's a dead giveaway that you spent the last ten years on tumblr. but then again, they recognized it, which means they were at the devil's sacrament
I tested this theory in the wild the other day at work. I was on a call with my department lead and a few other folks and I replied to an email the DL had sent me, thinking that, because he was on this call, he wouldn't notice when I sent it and would not catch me multitasking.
However, he replied to said email within five minutes, asking a question that required an answer. So I answered and was like "Also, I was going to apologize for answering emails during this call, but I see we're both here at the Devil's Sacrament, so I don't think an apology is necessary."
I watched him read that on screen and try not to laugh. And then at the end of the call as everyone started saying goodbye, he goes, "Hey, MJ, I meant to tell you. I like your shoelaces."
And I looked straight into my camera, stone cold serious, and said, "Thanks. I stole them from the president."
And the rest of the team was like, "What...the fuck...?" before he abruptly ended the call for everyone.
So now my DL and I know this about each other. He could be any one of us.
At a certain point, the appropriate response to "What were you doing at the devil's sacrament" becomes "stealing shoelaces from the president."
Reblog if you were stealing shoelaces from the President
Me, a lover of symbolism: cram the message into every scrap of text. Get me the foley artist and the lighting director I need to talk about mood and theme and a painting I can’t remember the name of it was by…*frantic finger clicking* a French guy hold on let me check my bookmarks.
‘The curtains were just blue’ people: it says here you walk across the room so I guess you just walk across the room. Yes, static camera angle. Why are you walking? Fuck knows.
I’m sorry, you think the actors in the 1995 P&P are too fat?
Yes.
I will add, to be charitable to the actors, that this is in part a styling issue to do with choices made about how the costumes were constructed. But, in the same way I think Colin Firth was too short, Jennifer Ehle was too old and bosomy (in the discworld sense of a young woman has a bust and an older woman has a bosom). Elizabeth is a twenty year old who likes hiking. She should be a little more tan, thin and muscular than the beauty standard norm. I don’t think she was obese or even overweight at the time of filming, but she also wasn’t and more importantly wasn’t styled as almost-indecently-fit-for-a-regency-gentlewoman. The necklines, stay styling and sleeve hems make her look heavy, and the makeup makes her look old and staid.
A cat is a machine that turns proteins into violence.
#Helios was declawed by his former owners so he doesn't just slap things he dislikes like most cats#he really only feels confident in hissing at them#Especially because a lot of the thing he doesn't like are bugs and those are sharp sometimes :(#Selene has figured this out and now when she hears him hiss she sprints over the kill the fuck out of the bug#Helios has learned she will do this so he'll hiss at stuff louder and louder until she hears him#A nervous old man and his emotional support homicidal maniac tags by @gallusrostromegalus
I couldn't reblog without the tags because the context is hilarious
A Nervous Old Man (right) and his Emotional Support Violence Machine (Left)
Yes, he is more than twice her size. Yes, he is five times her age. Yes, he cries like a big baby until she kills Unacceptable Scary Things (earwigs) for him.
I couldn't get these two and their dynamic out of my head, @gallusrostromegalus I doodled them (guessed on their collars)
OH MY GOD MY CATS HAVE FANART
I’m sorry, you think the actors in the 1995 P&P are too fat?
Yes.

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1995 purists: the miniseries is better because it was a beat for beat adaption
2005 enjoyers: yeah but the movie has actual emotion in it, an absence of minor roles being played with all the subtlety of a panto dame projecting for the gods, and everyone doesn’t look 5-10 years too old and fat to be playing their character. We’ve all read the book just fill in the blanks in your mind.
Me, a hater: what we really need is a miniseries that gets all the scenes in and is styled by someone with an eye for actually making things look good but is also 90% people wearing their society manners and 10% Elizabeth really losing her shit in the style of a scene from The Thick Of It.
>#I love how this gag would be funny at any point since the third century BCE