Eider ducks sound as though you’ve just told them a very interesting fact or juicy gossip.
reblog for noises
I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby
English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son
hate how they forced bugs bunny into anti-weed propaganda in the 90s, as if bugs bunny wouldn’t love smoking weed
To be perfectly fair, bugs bunny would also love taking money for starring in anti-weed propaganda and then using said money to buy weed
bugs bunny is not real
oh this is an EXCELLENT noise
Excellent noise, Excellent colors, Excellent lighting, overall 11/10 impeccable vibes, and now I’m thirsty.
Came across this WWI era Navy recruitment poster over the weekend.
It was from the brief period in WWI where women were able to join the US Navy as full service members with equal pay. So this was part of how the US Government explicitly tried to appeal to women.
I felt legally obligated to share it with Tumblr's lesbians because... God damn!
honestly a pity that Luke & Leia being siblings was so tacked on to the original trilogy bcos i think retroactively Leia being Anakin's daughter really beefs up some aspects of A New Hope, namely:
taking the prequels into account, the fact that Anakin fell to the dark side bcos he was trying to protect Padme and their unborn child and then his first on screen atrocity in the OT being unknowingly torturing his own daughter has a delicious irony to it. especially given extent to which Leia and Padme are parallel characters. love that.
the fact that Vader correctly predicts that Tarkin's plan to get the location of the rebel base out of Leia won't work. he's presumably there like 'well she'll just lie. that's what I'd do' and he's right bcos Leia does think the same way as him.
Relatedly another retroactively beefed up moment in ANH is when they're in the trash compactor and Luke & Leia start yelling at Han with the exact same intonation. Love that.
anyway going back to this, another one:
you'll get the urge as an artist or a writer to say out loud the things you're worried about "the proportions are off" "kind of out of character" "i'm not good at summaries" "didn't get as much detail as i wanted" "i made a mistake and here's how" and that's the self-conscious part of your brain telling you "it's bad and if you don't tell them you know it's bad then they'll think you're stupid" but you've got to ignore that little voice and pretend you think it's good or else that little voice is going to ruin your life
Some of the best advice I have ever gotten was from a creative writing professor. She said never apologize for your work. Never critic it before someone else does.
Her reasoning was you are the creator. You made your work from nothing and can see all the flaws and seems and holes. But your audience may not see any of it. Maybe they will; maybe they won't. But if you TELL them about the holes and the mistakes and the problems....they will 100% see them. So don't tell them. Don't sabotage yourself just because you think you're not good enough.
I love making a gag character for D&D, forgetting they’re just a gag character, and then take a step back to look at the original ref
my favorite college class was a lit class called something like "the aesthetics of narrative". I don't even remember.
it was taught by a professor who had us all call her nancy. she was tiny and quite old and walked with a cane and she was the most terrifying professor I ever had. she did not let anyone get away with anything. it was a discussion based seminar and you had to be ready to back up your readings of the text.
one class session right before a break, she asked one guy pointed question after pointed question until he cracked and admitted he hadn't done the reading. she looked around and asked who else hadn't. a few people raised their hands for fear of also being called on and cross-examined.
then she kicked out everyone who hadn't done the reading.
thankfully I am the kind of goody-two-shoes who always did the reading, and I also really liked that book, so I got to stay and witness her little giggle when they were all gone. she looked around at the remaining seven or so of us and went, "I like to do that once a semester. keeps you on your toes."
anyway I really wish the rest of the world had a nancy experience. do the fucking reading if you want to be part of the conversation. support your statements with the text and if you can't, you can get up and leave and come back next week when you've done your homework.
