Corn Is Not a Vegetable

- Timothy Snyder. The first and perhaps most important lesson from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century (2017)

Only this morning did it occur to me it could be Gabriella! *sob*

Can you tell me anything?? Do we even find out definitively who it's for??

Learning about flyovers and pyrotechnics at American games being a thing

Non-americans discovering the size of American football stadiums....for high schools in texas. Also the size of our stadiums in general.

Going to baseball games as a side treat! Lmao.

Non-americans losing their minds over "like, 100 petrol pumps," at buc-ees.

Related: Americans often forget how huge target and Walmart is.

People discovering American BBQ

Non-americans being obsessed with mid American restaurant chains like Golden Corral and Taco Bell

A lot of them really did feel god in this chile's apparently

The rightful obsession with waffle house

New understanding of American Big Drink With Ice supremacy as summer creeps in

Begrudging acceptance of mandatory water breaks during games

Americans realizing we have a Team USA and we are not, in fact, just "hosting our friends" from around the world — mostly because we won our first match and our team is decent??? Not amazing but not the worst.

Side rant: us women's football team is legendary good and we should care about that more like. Hello???

Admitting Americans are right about air conditioning

Related: the english team did warm ups in Florida RIP, and also the there's a video of the French team just being like fuck the heat, fuck the sun, this is so hot...

Americans who do not normally care about international football but fucking love a sport and cheering so we're just hyping whatever team is nearby, like we see a party and just show up and learn the chant. Like sorry many of us don't know shit about soccer but if we see a bunch of people in viking helmets or kilts or holding a bunch of flags and cheering we're game.

TAILGATING!!!!

I already said this but American yellow school bus is an international celebrity

The Scottish drank Boston dry of beer apparently, like they quadrupled what Boston normally sells for fourth of July weekend. SAM ADAMS HAD TO GET AN EMERGENCY BEER DELIVERY.

Also the English team fans got kicked out of The Londoner pub in Dallas after drinking 5,000 beers and going over max capacity lmao

Free refill drinks, tortilla chips & salsa.

So many non-americans are going to be here for the 4th of July for our 250th anniversary which is going to be great and hilarious

Non-americans discovering ranch as a beloved condiment

Non-americans understanding American obsession with hamburger now

Japan's homebase is in Texas and the cultural differences are frankly great and also the Japanese fans are SO NICE and helped clean up the stadium after a match???

I'm giving the paps my pussycat with no idea I would be in a fang fight less than an hour later.

[Fallen]

After 11 hours of work and gallons of tears, I finally finished my Renaissance like painting of Crowley's fall!!

Probably my best artwork for now (pls reblog it~). It was supposed to be a sketch. AH. AH. Anyway, I'm really happy about the result! It feels good to challenge myself with some impossible projects 😈

Btw it's Patreons monthly A5 print! You have until end july to join and get it in your mailbox 😊

If you want a bigger version, it will also be available soon on my shop.

Sam Reid as LESTAT DE LIONCOURT

New fan artwork: „The Vampire Lestat“ (played by Sam Reid). Season 3 of „Interview with the Vampire“ will be released starting tomorrow and I cannot watch it right away, but I found some nice photos on the IMDB page of the series, like the one which this drawing is based on.

I used a pencil and coloured black pencils.

Dangers of working on a set.

he would spend multiple days walking overland to locations in full pack, sword, & armour when everyone else was travelling in trucks

refused to use any prop swords that weren’t actual steel

basically lived in the forest in-costume, sleeping rough under the sky, even fishing & foraging for his food when possible

often spent hours in the barn just bonding with the horses. He adopted the horse he rode, Uranus, after filming ended

repaired all his own gear by hand, which was often since he never took it off

had a tooth knocked out during filming but had the crew simply glue it back in place so they could keep filming

the instructor who taught everyone swordplay said Viggo was the best swordsman he had ever trained

carried his sword literally everywhere & practiced non-stop, resulting in the cops being called when locals reported “a wild man swinging a sword around his head" outside a gym in Wellington

an orc actor fucked up & accidentally threw a dagger directly into Viggo’s face, but Viggo just deflected it with his sword. They kept that shot

infamously broke 3 toes kicking that helmet but stayed in-character & sold his very real scream as part of the scene. They also kept that shot

Viggo insists on doing his own stunts; in The Two Towers where Aragorn is unconscious & floating down the river, the strong current pulled him underwater for so long that a rescue team had to go in to save him. Viggo survived by grabbing a boulder on the riverbed and pulling himself to the surface

1. He did camp out in his gear. They were deep into filming and he was playing a frantic game of Catch Up. This will be important later. Also, almost the entire cast and crew camped out to get the sunrise shot during the race to find Merry and Pippin. It wasn't that weird.

2. You got me here. All I know was he was trained with a full sword -QUICKLY- and wanted to match the stunt guys.

3. Again, he did something like 2 nights camping to get a feel for the costume. Ripped out stitches and redid them himself so it could be seen. The fishing was the night they ALL were camping.

4. They wanted to do the stunt on the river bed, that meant becoming a co-worker with an unfamiliar horse. It takes a minute. And yes, they got along famously. He also bought Arwen's stunt double her horse in the film because she couldn't afford him.

5. If it was small enough, yes. But this goes back to him doing it deliberately for the look. Which had the approval of the costume department.

6. It was a joke. It was not glued back on by crew. He went to a dentist and was back shooting in the afternoon.

7. Bob Anderson (i might be wrong on his name, to lazy to check) choreographed e v e r y b o d y who held a sword in a movie for many decades. It's a hell of a compliment, especially when you add no previous experience and an extreme time crunch.

8. E X T R E M E T I M E C R U N C H. There was a local diner or pub that he went to just about every day that had a spot for him to keep the sword so nobody tripped. The cops were called in the first few days because he had to make up for the first 3 months of practice he Did Not Get.

9. Many of the stunt coordinators were quite impressed with him. That was a planned shot. When the stunty tried to show Viggo how to do it, he couldn't get it. They were going to scrap it and that's the accident. The guy did it the old way and Viggo just knocked it out of the air. OF COURSE they kept the shot.

10. Again, if your actors do something great, it goes in the movie. Why is this a question. For a bunch of those running shots, Viggo had his toes, Gimli stunt double (Brent?) had bad knees and Orlando had a cracked rib from a horse stunt they kept in the movie.

11. Yeah, that scared the shit out of everybody.

They filmed this for over a year. Several second directors, can't remember the actual title, multiple locations at the same time. Everybody on Helm's Deep went a little off, that's where to headbutting came in. Astin was hurt. Bean does not fly in helicopters so he got dressed and ready and climbed the damn mountain every day to film in the snow. It took him over 2 hours and he did most of it in the twilight because he had to start so early.

I'm crying all over again.