Vivaldi played by the South African elementary school Goede Hoop Marimba Band

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AMAZING

Slow down, turn on the sound and take a couple of minutes to enjoy this!

I think Vivaldi would have been tickled by this as he actually wrote so much of his music for an all girl orphanage/school. So to see a group of girls still playing his music hundreds of years later?!?!?! On an instrument he'd never seen?!?!?!

Wow, the drama in this performance. Genuinely amazing.

This made me so happy that I'm going to close Tumblr and go take some time to bask in the feeling instead of scrolling right on to the next thing.

middle aged lady on my bus just called someone's partner "your whimsical idiot boyfriend" over the phone . with sincere frustration might I add

tumblr where are they

I answered yes before I looked at the year.

I played the 1993 SEGA Genesis game and wrote a walkthrough for it.

Wait what the fuck

CLICK THE FUCKING ALT TEXT

hey everyone its april fools. but dont worry i dont have anything planned. just going to sit here and...

I LIED !!!! GET PRANKED

POST BELOW ME GET FUCKING WET

EVERY YEAR

i need pepple to understand that in the first place leather has always been made from the byproducts of butchering animals for meat, otherwise the skin is just tossed and unused. there were some companies farming for leather for a while, particuarly alligator leather, but those were not the norm. peta did so much harm in their campaigns against leather as a concept (its not unethical. yoi get the skin when an animal dies. thats why most leather clothes in the usa are cow leather, bc thats the biggest meat animal here) that its almost impossible to buy anything "leather" that isnt made of plastic that it so fragile and shitty that the very Thread Holding It Together rips the fibers apart. it will last for maybe a year two if youre lucky, and wont biodegrade and was made out of something that isnt naturally occurring in the first place and is one of the biggest causes of pollution globally

i do not care if you personally think nobody should slaughter or eat animals, it is Going to happen anyway. you cannot be so obtuse thst you think making more plastic that causes pollution endless damage to the animals you claim to care about so much is better than omnivorous human beings eating other animals and using their bodies completely.

Man, when I was like 16 I got so sick of being made fun of for being the fat kid that I took an axe down inna woods, chopped down a tree, and started doing log-lifts all the time. I got strong as fuck, but I didn’t lose no weight. I actually got bigger.

Same thing happened when I got into fighting. I got even stronger, and I got *fast*, man, and nimble, like a cat. Still chubby.

Body-building culture is a bunch of crap, my dude. Functional muscle is not necessarily toned or lean. You can be swole as hell and still be heavy. And that’s cool.

Embrace your inner barbarian. And when fatphobic little gym twinks try to body shame you, you should DESTROY THEM with your MIGHTY AXE

Can comfirm, i am Quite Fat ™ but i still hit my punching bag hard enough last week make it touch the ceiling and broke a finger in the process

You know, I train with (martial arts) a bunch of dudes, and a few bodybuilders have showed up over the years. 

And every damn one of those huge shredded motherfuckers has the endurance of a fucking newborn puppy. Fifteen minutes into warmups and they’re panting for air like like they’re about to die. I’ve sparred them and every one of them telegraphs their moves about two weeks in advance, and are slower than my dead grandpa because their huge useless muscles get in the damn way. 

Now. I also work with a couple of guys who are not weightlifters. They do, however, do very physical jobs and are Big Dudes. Picture this sort of build. 

No abs to speak of, a bit of a tummy, and those motherfuckers can pick up one of the weightlifters and throw them. 

And they’re fast. Like, unfair fast. 

Bodybuilding culture is bullshit. Embrace your status as a giant barbarian and if anyone gives you crap throw them off a mountain. 

i love and support all strong, fat people

respectfully sir. What??

CIRCLE TIME!!!!

I still think Moana deserved an Oscar for this part

To me, the moral of Moana is that only women can help other women heal from male violence. 

The movie starts with the idea that the male god who wronged Te Fiti must be the one to heal her. This seems to make a certain sort of intuitive sense in that I think we all believe that if you do something wrong you should try to make it right. But how does he try to right it? Through more violence. Of course that failed. 

It was only when another woman, Moana, saw past the “demon of earth and fire” that the traumatized Te Fiti had become (what a good metaphor for trauma, right?) and met her with love instead of violence that she was able to heal. Note that they do the forehead press before Moana restores the heart, while Te Fiti is still Te Kā. Moana doesn’t wait for her beautiful island goddess to appear in all her green splendor before greeting and treating her as someone deserving of love.

Moana is only able to restore the heart because Te Kā reveals her vulnerability and allows Moana to touch her there. Maui and his male violence could only ever have resulted in more ruin.

@i-want-cheese

This is a touching anaylisis but it’s extremely racist as not only have you completely ignored the whole point of Maui’s character, but have managed to incriminate a man of color on a tumblr wide scale.

First of all, Maui’s character does not represent male violence—it represent human greed. Maui did not take the heart because he is a man, and Te-Fiti is a woman. He took it because the humans asked him to. The humans asked Maui to do everything for them, not caring how greedy or selfish their requests were and in the end it was Maui who suffered for it. Maui is supposed to show the flaw of humanity.

This has nothing to do with sexism, it has everything to do with the fact that Maui gave and gave to the humans who could never stop being greedy. Moana giving the heart back wasn’t supposed to be her “making up” for the male violence that Maui represents. It was her making up for the greed she and her people represent. It was touching however because yes it was an important moment between two women, but you missed the point and you’ve come off racist and very disrespectful to a culture at that.

Yes, Moana is an empowering movie for women, especially women of color. But the last thing this is about is Maui being an abuser/rapist or whatever. That is not the point of Maui’s character.

And to assume so is racist. You are a white woman completely dehumanizing a man of color and ruining his image because of how you see him. And other white girls here on tumblr have happily picked up that image and interpretation and rolled with it. Maui’s character is now seen as an abuser or as someone who is violently because of white girls here on tumblr—which it doesn’t surprise me. (an in a historical context this is even MORE racist because white women would always make Maui’s people out to be savages and abusers etc., simply because of the color of their skin and their culture so yea, this is bad).

You can see the morality of the movie however you want, but do not be disrespectful toward a character and in this case a culture.

@i-want-cheese Please don’t write this off as another “butthurt comment” or “male guilt”, because this is really messed up. I see how you’re brushing off some other people’s comments and I honestly hope that you don’t see mine the same way because this is an issue I think you need to face/realize. You are being racist and brushing it off isn’t going to change that. the 

@visibilityofcolor THANK YOU FOR THIS. As a Polynesian woman, reading that post and other replies painting Maui and even Tui as aggressive and violent men had me feeling some type of way, especially since White people have always regarded Polynesian men in such a manner.

I’ve thought about replying because I’m tired of seeing these kind of “Moana is a feminist movie” posts collect hundreds of notes despite the fact that these posts always conveniently fail to mention Pasifika people, but it always stressed me out, so thank you.

As an aside, Maui taking Te Fiti’s heart and Moana restoring it was symbolic of environmental preservation. Because the people who inspired Moana–Pasifika people, not just Polynesian–are always affected first when the environment is threatened. Our way of life is greatly influenced by the ocean and we believe that if you take care of the ocean, she will take care of you.

You’re very welcome.

This is insight for me as well (as I wasn’t aware that the movie also came fro the culture of the Pasifika people), and does give a very important perspective. I do agree with you, this movie is about environmental restoration, not some white fem bullshit.

I tried over and over again to explain to I-want-cheese about how she was being racist, but she responded by blocking me and other poc who called her out (even other polynesian people). People to this day are still trying to explain that she is being racist and culturally insensitive but she ignores us.

I’ve made a few posts about this, hoping that people realize how problematic it is to agree with i-want-cheese.  Explaining to her racist white ass that this was problematic was like explaining to a bird. She wouldn’t listen and neither would have of her racist friends.

Sorry you’ve had to see this on your dash every so often, but I’m glad my portion of the post is starting to get around. (reblogged to the wrong blog at first lols)

dang reblogging this as a correction for the very first reblog. this why feminist analysis always needs to be intersectional

My heart just cried

the portrayal of Maui is super important here, the disney crew put a LOT of effort into getting him right because he IS a crucial figure to an entire culture- basically a cross between a central religious figure and superman so handling him poorly would be catastrophically disrespectful there are basically only two parts of Mauis legend that they flub- they only tell half of the story of when he was abandoned as a baby, and they skip over that stealing the heart of Te-Fiti so he could give it to humanity was the legend in which he dies yes, canonically Maui dies in his quest to give gifts to humanity, its an important element of why Maui is such a profound character, not just ‘man who hurt someone’ strawman it gets worse when you discover the OTHER legend they fudged, the story of his birth, reinforces this. Mauis mother had several (Hawaiians only say three, new zealand says five) sons, all named Maui, so when she had ANOTHER son she named him Maui as well, but then cast him into the sea for there was no way she could support another son. the gods did not save Maui, as Moana says, instead they return him to his mother and say she must give him a chance. to which his mother states that for her to take care of him this infant must remove the roof from her house by throwing spears at it. that is the story of Maui the skillful, abandoned as an infant and then immediately told that he must PROVE his worth, after which all he ever does is prove his worth

his brothers mocked him for being a poor fisherman, he crafts a fishook from a jawbone and proceeds to raise new islands from the sea the sky is so low the trees bend, maui raises it for everyone, then fills the new sky with wind

the sun flies so quickly there is not enough time in the day to do the labors for everyone, maui has to lay traps for each of the suns many feet, chase after it as it was slowed, and then threaten to chop its legs off if it would not slow down

he then due to the complaints of the now longer dark night creates the moon and is upset his creation will not please humanity for it does not make sufficient light, then shows it to the sun so that it may learn how to be bright maui was credited with having invented as gifts for humanity the outrigger canoe, stone tools, and seaworthy boats that had no mast or sails. he was credited with inventing tattoos as a gift to dogs, however humanity is still not content so maui descends to the land of the dead to ask the secret of creating fire from the grandmother, who kept it hidden in her fingernails. he dropped the fingernail in the water as he tried to return to the land of the living, came back for another, dropped it as well, and went through all ten fingers and toenails untill he had to then interrogate birds the grandmother had shared the secret with to tell him how

a monstrous eel tried to put the moves on his wife, and again maui had to prove his worth to reclaim her by breaking the monster eel’s spine, shoving him into the ground to create the first coconut tree, the single most useful thing for polynesian life, as a gift to humanity yet again Maui, as a mythological figure, did nothing but give from the day he was born. he gave humans tools, land, fire, boats, light, the wind, everything except life itself and he even tried to give them that- and it killed him, he was bitten in two a crucial part of Maui as a legend is that he failed, its literally part of the point, also that he was driven to prove himself endlessly to the (during his life) ungrateful. do not try and drag Maui, its disrespectful on a level i cant express thank the man, you asshole Moana succeeded where he failed, for she saw that she did not have to prove herself. the whole movie up untill then she was trying to put on a brave face (there was literally a cut song ‘warrior face’ where maui teaches her Haka), shout her courage, announce to the world at large that she WILL do the thing and fix the world and be the hero, just like Maui

its easy to miss, she stopped trying to prove who she was to anyone, there was nobody she needed to prove herself TO she just WAS herself, and that brought her peace

Oh man…this is why it’s so important to hear the perspectives of the peoples actually represented. When I was reading through this, the first part seemed to make a lot of sense on the surface, but I could *never* have imagined how racist that perspective was. It makes so much more sense now. Thank you to the folks in this thread who were willing to take the time to share their perspective so that oblivious folks like me could do a little more to chip away at our own internalized racism. 

(Also the story of Maui is heckin’ sad, gosh :( )

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@chaos-triangle @mildlybizarrecorvid @a-being-of-chaossss @the-trash-eating-llama

Thank ya! Moana shoulda won for that!

Reminder that, in The Before Times (before the internet was common), almost all of our memes (not that we knew that's what they were) came from commercials or funny TV shows

before TV, they came from radio and print

before that, word of mouth (or perhaps a lot of people witnessing the same memorable action)

and, while some of those memes are still recognizable as memes today, most of them are as opaque as the next generations' memes will be to the previous generations, when there's no context. (Or as, say, Tumblr memes seem to nonTumblr users.)

(I am of the opinion that it's fun to learn the context, instead of just dismissing any other generation--past or future--as inscrutable, or, worse, having no sense of humor.)

@masterkree replied: "Please make a post with examples of vintage memes? I love this kinda stuff. ex: my Dad's favorite meme of all time is still "Come with me if you want to live" "

Oh, this is one I'm going to have to open up to other Old People, because I'm better at identifying them when I see them than I am at thinking of examples XD

The big one I do think of is "Where's the beef?" from some early 1980s Wendy's commercials

"Where's the beef?" was everywhere for a while, even making its way into the 1984 presidential election. I think, when people hear "Where's the beef?" now, they do still have a vague idea where it comes from.

From the late 1960s is "Sock it to me," from the comedy variety show Laugh In. Laugh in didn't coin "Sock it to me," but they certainly used it a lot. A lot. There's a section on the Laugh In wiki listing all the "catchphrases" made popular by the show; I'm pretty sure we'd call any phrase started in one place and used in general pop culture a meme now?

That got a presidential candidate involved, too

An even older example (which, as far as I know, wasn't referenced by a potential president) is the ACME corporation from the 1940s Warner Brothers Wile E Coyote theatrical shorts.

Now, young people today see the ACME gags, and can tell they're supposed to be some sort of joke, to the point that I've seen posts claiming it's an acronym, standing for A Company [that] Makes Everything. This is incorrect.

When the jokes were written, people would have turned to the phone book to find things. With the phone book entries being listed alphabetically, a lot of companies tried to give themselves names that would not only put them near the top of the listings, but also denote quality...whether they were quality or not. This led to companies having names like A1 Supply, with A1 not only being associated with things that are high quality, but also being, y'know, right at the top of the listing in a phone book category.

Acme also fits this scheme, because the word "acme" means "the top, highest point, peak, or summit." You also can't find too many superlatives that will be closer to the beginning of the alphabet.

References to companies (of dubious quality) named acme predated the Wile E Coyote shorts

but the Warner Brothers writers really ramped up the irony, by not only showing that their Acme's products were very much not the summit of anything, but also heavily implying that Coyote was just ordering his stuff from the first listing in the phone book, with no research whatsoever. There's also room to interpret it as being not one single Acme company, but a series of shady companies that are just trying to get the early 20th century version of SEO.

I don't see this quite so much as making a meme that went on to be used by others as I see it as using an existing meme, a cultural reference that viewers would ~get~

Those are the only examples I can think of offhand. I know there are more--and older--example out there!

If I may add, as someone probably from a gen a bit later than yours

France had a lot of quotes from adverts on tv and one liners from movies that I hear people still quote, but the younger generation is baffled about.

My parents know about these quotes. I am in between where i grew up on both tv memes and internet memes so most of the memes I reference, they don't get. Most of the memes they reference, my nephew (who grew up with a tablet in his hands, not on tv) does not get.

I'll give a few examples of stuff from ads we used to say if people are interested

Tu peux te brosser, martine. (Sometimes shortened to tu peux te brosser) means "dream on". From a biscuit advert

Tu pousses le bouchon un peu trop loin, maurice. (Same, name is often omitted) meaning you're taking the piss. From a dessert advert.

Et la marmotte, elle met le chocolat dans le papier alu. (Followed with "mais bien sûr") meaning someone is talking utter shite (mais bien sûr is sarcastic) from a chocolate advert

C'est cela, oui. (Meaning you're not interested in what someone is saying and they're potentially talking shit) from the movie le pere noel est une ordure

Anyway you get the idea. Some of these older movie references had a revival on msn messenger back in the days with the ability to send sound clips as reaction (same way you'd do with a gif nowadays) so people would uploads clips from movies to use in reply. Honestly we should maybe bring reaction sounds back.

Most of these make you sound like an old fart now btw, they're "old refs" as in old references (shortened). People sometimes say "J'ai pas la ref" when they identify something is a meme but they don't have the reference.

when I (Russian-speaking Ukrainian immigrant to the United States) was growing up my family had SO MANY sayings that I thought were folk or family sayings that turned out to be quotes from the movie Бриллиантовая Рука | Diamond Hand (1968) which had so so many memeable lines. I watched it for the first time in college and spent a lot of the film just being like "THAT TOO?!"

Off the top of my head the only one I can remember is "Легким движением руки..." but there were many more