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❝ It’s impossible not to remember wild and want it back. ❞

Of course he’s going to not take anything seriously. Of course he can shoot. The drinking, the skittishness, the recklessness, the sense of ‘keeping your head down’, the scepticism about traditional heroism….

The one with more actual experience of death, carnage and fighting is Jonathan. Not Rick. Not Ardeth Bey. Jonathan.

When Rick says ‘I’ve had worse (situation/odds)’ and Jonathan replies “ Me too”. That’s probably true. 

Drop The Mummy into the real world context and that’s a character who’s going to have seen a lot of his school friends die, along with the myths and tales of heroism they were raised on. Sort of makes the line where Evie’s scolding him for drinking/messing about a lot darker…

Wait a minute. Why is it being assumed that Rick and Ardeth wouldn’t have fought in WWI, as well? Johnathan isn’t that much older than any of them–in fact, there is a good chance that he, Rick, and Ardeth are all of an age. Just because Johnathan’s hair is thinning doesn’t mean he’s a decade older.

It was a LOT easier to lie about your age back in the day. So much easier.

Johnathan is the soldier who fought in WWI and became disillusionsed with pretty much everything except wanting to live (most of the time) and live well–and where is the shame in that? He would have seen some of the darkest shit humanity has to offer, and he kept going. And the thing is, though, archaeological digs at that time were DANGEROUS. Not from curses (usually) but from assholes who would turn up with guns to try and steal anything you discovered. Johnathan never really STOPPED having to deal with dangerous pricks, it was just less dangerous than death raining down from the sky in bomb, bullet, and mustard gas form all the time.

Rick grew up in Egypt as an orphan. What paperwork? He joined the French Foreign Legion, which fought in World War I in some seriously critical battles on the Western Front in Europe. Rick is the soldier who quickly grew disillusioned with everything, but he didn’t know how to stop being a soldier. Johnathan had a career and schooling to fall back on. Rick had guns, the talent of not dying easily, and not much else. When the army finally left him behind because he was literally the only survivor of his last FFL battle, he literally didn’t know what to do. At all. “Looking for a good time” was code for “Please someone give me a fucking purpose.”

Winston: “Is it dangerous?”

Rick: “Well, you probably won’t live through it.”

Winston: “By Jove, do you think so?”

“The Mummy” is set in 1926, so Winston is far too old to have been a pilot in WWI (actor Bernard Fox was 72 at time of filming). He should have been a “young soldier” or more correctly, “young airman” of about Rick or Jonathan’s age.

The script was also a wee bit confused about what he served in…

The British air arm was the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) until 1918, when it became the Royal Air Force (RAF).

His survivor’s guilt and heavy drinking is spot on, though: average aircrew life expectancy was between ten days and three weeks. In “Bloody April” (1917) when superior new German aircraft were introduced before the Allies had anything to match them, average life expectancy dropped to about two days. The RFC lost almost 250 planes during that month, the Imperial German Air Service lost just over 60…

WWI pilots didn’t have parachutes until 1918, and even then Allied pilots NEVER had them: the top brass, who of course didn’t fly, considered they would “impair a pilot’s nerve” to continue fighting.

Pilots who saw combat soon saw the results of that policy when a plane caught fire (gasoline, linen and canvas in a 120 mph draft makes a great barbecue). No parachute left three options: a long jump, a slow roast or the service pistol carried “in case of being forced down in enemy territory”. Seeing that happen, and the thought of experiencing it personally, would make anyone hit the bottle.

The pilot of this German aircraft is having a very bad day final few minutes…

Also, in WWI the only oil that didn’t thicken at altitude was castor oil - it’s where the “Castrol” oil company’s name originated - so aircraft engines were lubricated with that. Breathing the vapour had the same laxative effect as swallowing the stuff, so aircrew fought diarrhoea as well as enemy aircraft, trying to stun their insides with enormous amounts of booze. US ace Eddie Rickenbacker swore by cherry brandy. Pints of it.

Funny thing is that Winston could have been Biggles - not the silly subject of Monty Python skits, but the original character from WWI air-combat stories written for late-adolescents, before they were revised for children with the removal of serious adult elements like alcohol abuse and PTSD.

Biggles in those early stories was like many real-life WWI pilots, a chain-smoking, heavy-drinking young man of about 20, living on his nerves and skating along the edge of a breakdown, whose principal talents were killing the enemy, not being killed himself, and not letting the deaths of his squadron mates affect him. He wasn’t as good at that last one as he thought he was.

Left to right: Major James McCudden, VC, DSO & Bar, MC & Bar, MM, killed in action July 1918, aged 23. Lieutenant Arthur Rhys-Davids DSO, MC & Bar, killed in action October 1917, aged 20. Captain Albert Ball, VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC, killed in action April 1917, aged 20.

The unrevised stories suggest Biggles might well have turned out like Winston. By the time of “The Mummy” he’d have been about 27-28, and looking like this pilot painted by J.C. Leyendecker.

I agree with the probable motivations for age adjustment of the character. Balancing the worldbuilding and the way the audience will most likely relate at the time any given story hits the public eye seems astoundingly challenging.

Its a little unsettling how 1999 feels a world away right now.

Example: Alec Guiness, in 1975, filmed his role with Harrison, Mark, Carrie, & Co. at the tender age of 57. In today’s terms of fifties, he looks like he’s in his late 70s to early 80s.

Peter Cushing, same year, same film: age 62, looked like a healthy and well-groomed modern era mid-to-late 80s.

journalist gets real yakuza members to play yakuza 3 and asks for their opinions on its authenticity

“What’s with all the fucking gaijin in this area?” “Dude, don’t say that, use gaikokujin, it’s nicer.” “Oh, shit, right. What’s with all the fucking gaikokujin in this area?”

“The breaded pork cutlet bento box is like mega power. More than ramen. That’s accurate.”

all of them start dragging kiryu for his shitty cheap shirt for five minutes

“Shooting people sends a message.” “So does shooting anything.”

FURTHERMORE, Atilla the Hun, the guy who got the Huns to do actual invasions, died in 453 AD. Genghis Khan, who lead the Mongols on a VERY successful invasion of China, followed by anywhere else he could get to, died in 1227, nearly eight HUNDRED years later.

They are Mongols.

They’re supposed to be working on a typical coming-of-age story but after living with the Addams for just a week the project is becoming a horror-Gothic-romance

Fester and Pugsley find out one of the college students is trying to get into chemistry and woo boy, there has never been a faster study of how to counter various acidic chemical reactions due to “water” balloons in campus history. 

Morticia and Grammy are keeping the horticulturalists on their toes with their Black Tulip/Rose hybrids, which can flick their barbs a foot away from their stem system. But it’s fine, one of the kids has managed to breed Aloe with the anti venom. 

Lurch makes sandwiches for everyone who’s too much of a coward for Grammy’s cooking. Any music major will find him looming over them, utterly stone faced as they practise until they finish, when he’ll smile, and slowly applaud. 

And the spookiest thing of all

Wednesday and Thing will find your thesis. They will critique it in every way imaginable. 

There is no escape. 

In court that day, the judge asked the boy, “Are you afraid?” No, the boy said.

Pipes says the judge seemed surprised, and asked, “Why not?”

Chief’s thesis was that a child who has been abused by an adult can benefit psychologically from the presence of even more intimidating adults that they know are on their side. “When we tell a child they don’t have to be afraid, they believe us,” Arizona biker Pipes told azcentral.com. “When we tell them we will be there for them, they believe us.” ( Article)

They go on runs to protect the child if they feel even the slightest threatened no matter where. If the child needs them to go on vacation with them, they do. Bikers come from across the nation to watch over and take shifts for these kids. And the best part is once you’re adopted into this family as a BACA kid, you’re always one. Even when you’re 40 and the perp gets released from jail, they’ll come meet with you and find your best options for avoiding the person and maintaining the life you’ve built for yourself. Once a BACA child, always a BACA child. In Florida, there’s 100% rate for identifying the perp based on the child’s testimony. Why? Because BACA stands with the child and supports the child so they feel comfortable enough to point out their attacker.

They’re in Canada as well and probably other countries. I met and talked with a native guy who runs the place near me. His name is Shaman. I got in, and I’m considered a BACA child now. Despite being 17, turning 18 when I talked to them. They spent time with me when my abuser was over, they gave me therapy resources. They give you something called a ‘level 1′ where they go to your house with as many bikers as they can, i shit you not a solid 20-40 bikers came from even out of province, and met me. I got to choose my biker name and I got a vest with patches on it and my name on it. They all hugged a Teddybear before giving it to me, and told me if I ever felt the BACA bear was running out of love, to give them a call and they’d refill it for me, and then I got a ride on one of their bikes. Just a day or so ago I went to an annual party with them and they we ate food one of them cooked and had a lot of laughs. 

I’ve never felt as loved as I did being a part of the BACA family. They also gave me dog tags with the names, and phone numbers of my 2 workers.  So I can call them whenever I feel scared. 

BACA is an absolutely wonderful group that will do everything in it’s power to help any child whos been abused. 

And it doesn’t end when you’re 18 either. As long as you get in contact/get your level 1 before you’re 18? you’re ALWAYS a BACA kid. I’m 18 now and they still invite me to parties, ask me if I’m okay, and are there for me. They’re still trying to find me resources for therapy. 

BACA has changed my fucking life. 

TRULY THE BEST PIECE OF CONTENT TO COME OUT OF THIS PROMO STINT THANK U MR JAMES CORDEN I haven’t laughed this hard in so long 

opening with Joon talking about how traffic is so bad in LA????? YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE WHO DOESN’T HAVE A DRIVERS LICENSE MY DUDE ft. Jin’s squinty smiley face in the back

u already had me in the first 15 seconds mr. corden, well played sir well played

james knowing all the lyrics to mic drop and keeping up with the rap made hobi so surprised and happy and impressed !!!!!!!!!!! not to mention tae’s face in the back SENT ME lmfaoooo 

i could tell the boys started liking and respecting james a lot more from then bc he made the effort and he was genuinely jamming to their songs it wasn’t just on camera :( <3

I LOVED THE EDITING OF THE VIDEO it genuinely had great unscripted comedy omg 

hag line being salty they watched friends too but didn’t know english 😭

also I lost it when trunk line was like ‘we don’t know whats happening but lets laugh anyway ahaha ha’ and middle seat line followed along….like……………..TRULY ONLY ONE BRAIN CELL IN THAT ENTIRE GROUP and namjoon has it sometimes

don’t get me started on namjoon and those fucking grandma glasses i don’t know what to do with him i really don’t hOW IS HE A BIG BAD RAPPER but hes wearing the most delicate yellow sweater and he could be a hand model for rings looking so perfect and delicate and poised HIS DUALITY IS WHY I DONT TRUST MEN

suga had the worst fucking camera angle and it was SO FUCKING ADORABLE bc he was dressed like yoongi not suga or agust d and the camera angle contributed to making him fluffy yoongi instead of big bad rapper suga

seeing him perform black swan like that was, im not gonna lie, a religious experience

also….. just suga. period. in the back being cute and bopping along my entire heart belongs to him. i’m glad he was lowkey because fucking jhope man

the universe needed jung hoseok singing ‘my big fat ass got all them boys shook.’ i can now confirm god’s creation is officially perfect and complete.

james going ‘this shouldn’t shock u but my koreans not that great’ and kook going ‘me too’ 😩

sjkhdfljks when james said ‘oh, worldwide handsome was my nickname in highschool’ and jin said ‘oh you a joker man!!!!!!!!!’ without a MOMENTS HESITATION like JIN!!! HONEY!!!!!!!  YOU DON’T JUST CALL PEOPLE UGLY LIKE THAT SJDHFLKSJDHFLKJ it was truly comedic genius bc it would have fallen flat if he had said it any other way, a second too late or his tone off

im gonna be honest, seeing how jin’s comedy translated across cultures and languages was probably the best part of the video for me no i am not a jin stan yes i am lying

tae going “im good boy” in tiny

james making sure everyone was happy and included!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????

jimin was a little stiff at the beginning and thinking too much about how to appear on camera and what the right thing to do/say was and james saw he was zoning out and called him mochi and it took a second for jimin to register it but then hE JUST CRUMLPED INTO HIMSELF AND BECAME A GIGGLY MESS and for that , kind sir, i will never forget u. mr james corden

ummmmm don’t get me started on jk and high high notes for both the bruno mars song and ON, i won’t shut up 

ALSO FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION: jungkook cocking his head like a little puppy when james was talking in english and trying to figure it out????? PEAK GOOD BOY BEHAVIOUR I want to give him all the treats and my soul too if he wants that

v didn’t talk much but he was serving LOOKS the whole time, HARD LOOKS and sir, that was unnecessary for a fucking carpool karaoke. save that for your sold out stadium shows thanks

i can’t get over the happy and embarrassed puddle of jelly jimin became at being called mochi i really can’t he’s so SOFT

baby mochi and papa mochi WHYS JIMIN ACTUALLY A COMEDY KING

“i want to see papa mochi dance” 

knowing jimin and tae are soulmates and they’re also the ones that bicker the most is my every favourite trope come to lifewhats the mandu incident????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was in the soulamte song and now they refuse to speak about it on camera???????????????????????? im that crazy conspiracy meme guy rn

james taking every fucking opportunity he can to join bts is honestly #ME

namjoon being SHOOK when james was telling him about his exercise dance class and he didn’t know if it was a joke or not and he didn’t want to make james feel bad in case it was real so he didn’t laugh and translated it as ‘oh james actually takes dance classes twice a week’ WILL YOU LET ME LIVE FOR ONE FUCKING SECOND WITHOUT TRAMPLING ALL OVER MY HEART KIM NAMJOON

jin was such a pro fucking dancer at the dance class omg he shone so much and wHY IS SUGA MY SPIRIT ANIMAL ‘this is actually pretty hard’ I SNORTED

yoongi was genuinely laughing and having so much fun at the dance class it made me heart so fucking full to see him hopping around in his sweater paws i got so emo it was embarrassing

hobi proudly letting jimin do the dance tutorial :( :( :(

after slapping his ass

and joon hyping him as Baby Mochi like it was a badass rapper name

i didn’t know i needed a room of 30 something suburban people sweaty and jamming to bts and genuinely having the time of their fucking life but u mr corden sir have seen to my needs before i was ever aware of them and i am eternally grateful

WHY DID HOBI HAVE TO GO SO HARD ITS FUCKING JAZZERCISE

AND JIMIN AND HOBI COLLAPSING TO THE FLOOR AFTER IT WAS OVER u know what i think jimin and hobi were being reaction kings and faking it bc hello their concert choreographies are a million times more exhausting lmao they’re such drama queens but they did it because its their job to entertain us and it worked and i respect that and love their commitment 

im drained omg i feel like i’ve ascended to the next dimension

what a rollercoaster of emotions fuck

god, if i wasn’t army already, this would have been the video that converted. thank u for doing gods work mr james corden, i love u

i’m on such an intense high rn and oh god guess what i just fucking realized: there’s tons of footage we haven’t seen yet and james is probably gonna roll it out bit by bit depending on how much we beg him

For any two distinct real numbers, we can always find a rational number strictly between them, i.e. that rational number must be able to be expressed as a terminating decimal or a repeating decimal.  To be clear, that rational number is strictly between the two values; it is not allowed to be equal to either.

You usually CAN’T find water or shelter for free or even cheap in any given large American city, and a lot of us (especially who grow up in hotter American climates) are taught from a very young age to always bring your own water, along with an umbrella and a jacket. 

everything is happening 0.5 times too fast

numb

everything but a little bit to the left

Numb™

it feels like Monday the 17th at 3:31pm but also like Saturday at 4:57am

….. existing?

hahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

why are the end credits playing I didn’t even hit play

Current emotion is coma

I need to self-harm but I physically cannot move

feeling panic rising up inside but being too numb to physically react

Must Do Thing. Do Not Know What Thing Is.

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everythingeverythingeverythingeverythingeverythingeverythingeverythingeverythingeverythingevery

…I should start a religion

I A M G O D

*vibrating softly* everything in the world is my fault

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Existence Is Fraud