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Substack combining Apsley Cherry-Garrard's account of Robert F. Scott's disastrous Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole - which, despite his many virtues, Cherry-Garrard basically bought his way onto - with Scott's actual diary.
Scott's diary spans Nov through March, so the emails will come out "in real time", just like Dracula Daily.
But this one's going to hurt a lot more.
tramell tillman on colbert talking about how his swedish accent was inspired by the golden girls ..... theres something about this thats so........... its like he escaped containment from a lab where they were trying to distil charisma down to its purest essence .....
top gun is great because tony scott was like “i want to make a movie about sunsets” and the us navy was like “No you’re gonna make recruitment propanganda for the navy” and val kilmer was like “the studio has tricked me, juilliard trained val kilmer, into being here, so i’m going to portray a closeted homosexual” and tom cruise was like “i’m in a ray bans commercial!”
okay it’s come to my attention that absolutely NONE OF YOU know ANYTHING about how cutie marks work. let me say this simply. a cutie mark isn’t a job being assigned, it’s a special TALENT OR SKILL that the pony enjoys. Most of the time it has a directly transferable job for that skill, like if you enjoy baking and are super good at it WOW! baker. If you are really good at writing and telling stories, author. However, there are some cutie marks that could go multiple ways.
twilight sparkle has exceptional magic ability, so she became a scholar, but she could really do anything that required a good magic skill. same with rainbow dash, her weather controlling job isn’t directly linked to her cutie mark, but it does fit the bill for the job.
i was posed the question of what would a murderer pony’s cutie mark be and wouldn’t everyone know. NO. if somehow murder were to be a special skill, the cutie mark might be something like a knife or a shovel. other ponies might just assume you’re good a cooking or gardening. now with cutie marks like apple jacks, their family has a ‘green thumb’ kind of deal so obviously the cutie mark would be hereditary.
so, the reason i made this post. walter white pony’s cutie mark would NOT be blue crystals. it would be a CHEMISTRY FLASK.
The more you repress your emotions, the stronger your elemental eruption attack is going to be. Bottle it up!
What's your opinion on the love me tender scene from mostly harmless
i love it!! it’s scenes like these that make me wonder why douglas adams put them into the story and what he was trying to say about ford and arthur’s relationship, if he was saying anything at all.
i enjoy that ford paid specifically to hear those songs, and it’s always just a nice surprise to be reminded again that ford seems to prefer love songs and romance movies which seems uncharacteristic but cute. but there’s no prior context to explain why ford is so affected by those songs or why love me tender made him tear up. there’s no past girlfriend who liked the music or not even one of his mothers. it’s a moment very much isolated to that scene in the bar. i also found it interesting that the next song after love me tender is heartbreak hotel, and it’s only two pages later that ford and arthur check into a fancy hotel that ford brings him to. the song heartbreak hotel was also inspired by a suicide of a man jumping out a hotel window. both ford and arthur are very passively suicidal by the start of mostly harmless, and ford does find himself jumping out of a high rise building to his presumed death twice. it’s in between his first and second jump that ford thinks he wants to retire, have a farm somewhere and keep sheep. it’s also mentioned in so long and thanks for all the fish that arthur lives (lived) in the countryside and there were sheep nearby. also, when arthur asks ford how much the two songs and the space ship cost him, ford said it was the equivalent of buying switzerland. earlier in mostly harmless, when arthur is explaining where watches are made and showing random his wristwatch—presumably the last earth watch ever and something arthur holds very close to his heart, constantly fiddling with it even though it no longer functions properly—he tells her it comes from switzerland. it’s just interesting information to me.
Me at the beginning of this year: I’m so gonna fix my life dude this is gonna be the year everything changes I’m not gonna let anything slip through the cracks it’s time to live
Me approaching the end of March:
They need to stop packaging pop tarts and their generics by twos. Two pop tarts is too many. I'm 25 years old. I'm practically geriatric. Two pop tarts is too many. Two pop tarts will kill me.
would you hit the blunt if it had christian baby ashes in it?
I wouldn't hit it otherwise #DarkWoke
Vice has been takin down stuff from the original ntbts webseries from youtube, so I’m putting the most important video up here for posterity.
Transcription, again, under the cut:
basically he used his rare uncle technique
"not my circus, not my monkeys" = not your problem
"not my circus, but those are my monkeys" = it's only your problem as far as figuring out how to retrieve them without being caught
"my circus, but those aren't my monkeys" = it's your problem until you figure out whose monkeys those are, and after that you make it their problem
"my circus, my monkeys" = this is 100% on you. On the bright side, if you decide you're chill with the shitshow currently happening, nobody can walk in and make you do anything about it.
she took my scarab in the divorce
there should be more problems that I can cleave in twain and fewer problems that my friends and I have to quietly endure day after day and week after week and year after year
ONE is the master of omakes. Every single one makes me laugh.
