lotta talk about how good or bad a movie adaptation of a book can be, but no one talks about how a good novelization can be absolutely devastating with the extra details you can fit into text that wouldnโt fit on-screen.
let us never forget our roots.
Depending on how literal each meaning is, a word combining the concepts of "brother" and "lover" at the same time is... open to not particularly healthy interpretations.
we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?
this fucking problem is how they caught the unabomber
hey you should uh. elaborate. for my own personal satisfaction
the unabomber was pedantic about idiomatic phrases like "have your cake and eat it too" and rephrased it to "eat your cake and have it too" (which to be very fair makes sense). fast forward to when he starts writing manifestos. he uses the phrase word for word in his pedantic style and his brother (who has been keeping his eyes on the unabomber shit for obvious reasons) notices the phrase and is like "oh fuck that's my fucking brother no one else fucking says that" and calls in an FBI tip
Well you can't deliberately speak in a way nobody else does and also stay anonymous you know. Can't eat your cake and have it too.
hey did you know??? that if you stop stretching and maintaining mobility in your body then it goes away?? things get tight and you can't move the way that you used to??? and when you decide to try getting a stretch routine going that the first week fucking sucks because you keep going 'damn i used to be able to do this no problem' and then you have to switch gears and be kind to yourself and just focus on getting better from here instead of berating yourself for dropping the good habits in the first place??? and your body never stops aging so you gotta keep taking care of it and sometimes you gotta take care of it extra in certain areas because of things that happened when you were younger and it's boring and sometimes hurts but it's so necessary???
i am yelling this at myself right now i am going through An Experience (trying to get into a routine of body maintenance again for my physical and mental health)
oh, Sisyphus! i got you
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is kinda funny in how mean it is to Han's character.
Like, after A New Hope you can be like "Han is cool! He's a rebel, doesn't take any shit, he's that quintessential bad boy who does the right thing in the end". There's jokes about him not being as cool as he might seem, but sure. He's a cool dude with a sweet-ass car!
Then Empire starts with "Han is an idiot who can't talk to the girl he likes, and can't fix his car".
Then towards the end we meet Han's old buddy. We get that he goes way back, that him and Han were on the same path once...
Lando is now a mayor. That cool car? It was his, Han swindled it out of Londo somehow.
The movie is like "oh, you think Han is cool? Han's bud is now running a city, while Han is stuck doing Craigslist gigs in the middle of bumfuck nowhere. He's a loser! And Han's bud is objectively hotter."
And I mean the "objectively": I would argue that they cast/dressed/made-up Lando as "guy who can be the most handsome guy in the room while standing next to 1979 Harrison Ford".
Then Han gets tortured, used as bait to trap his new (second) best friend, and gets turned into a popsicle. The End.
It only made us love him more
โlol why are you following the boobs and ass artistโ why do you think Iโm following the boobs and ass artist. do you think I go to the grocery store ironically too
His face when he realized he was about to fall
I know there's a couple of these going around but I wanted to make one using the results of @haveyouseenthismovie-poll to determine what tumblr's favorite movies were.
not to be all i told you so about ancestry tests but 23 and me went bankrupt and can now legally sell human genetic information to the highest bidder, as per their privacy policy which was signed by approx. 15 million test takers
im still mind blown that people really readily submitted their dna so they could be classed by ethnicity on paper permanently. like yeah theres no way this could go badly huh
โSome years ago, I was stuck on a crosstown bus in New York City during rush hour. Traffic was barely moving. The bus was filled with cold, tired people who were deeply irritatedโwith one another; with the rainy, sleety weather; with the world itself. Two men barked at each other about a shove that might or might not have been intentional. A pregnant woman got on, and nobody offered her a seat. Rage was in the air; no mercy would be found here.
But as the bus approached Seventh Avenue, the driver got on the intercom. โFolks,โ he said, โI know youโve had a rough day and youโre frustrated. I canโt do anything about the weather or traffic, but hereโs what I can do. As each one of you gets off the bus, I will reach out my hand to you. As you walk by, drop your troubles into the palm of my hand, okay? Donโt take your problems home to your families tonightโjust leave โem with me. My route goes right by the Hudson River, and when I drive by there later, Iโll open the window and throw your troubles in the water. Sound good?โ
It was as if a spell had lifted. Everyone burst out laughing. Faces gleamed with surprised delight. People whoโd been pretending for the past hour not to notice each otherโs existence were suddenly grinning at each other like, is this guy serious?
Oh, he was serious.
At the next stopโjust as promisedโthe driver reached out his hand, palm up, and waited. One by one, all the exiting commuters placed their hand just above his and mimed the gesture of dropping something into his palm. Some people laughed as they did this, some teared upโbut everyone did it. The driver repeated the same lovely ritual at the next stop, too. And the next. All the way to the river.
We live in a hard world, my friends. Sometimes itโs extra difficult to be a human being. Sometimes you have a bad day. Sometimes you have a bad day that lasts for several years. You struggle and fail. You lose jobs, money, friends, faith, and love. You witness horrible events unfolding in the news, and you become fearful and withdrawn. There are times when everything seems cloaked in darkness. You long for the light but donโt know where to find it.
But what if you are the light? What if youโre the very agent of illumination that a dark situation begs for?
Thatโs what this bus driver taught meโthat anyone can be the light, at any moment. This guy wasnโt some big power player. He wasnโt a spiritual leader. He wasnโt some media-savvy โinfluencer.โ He was a bus driverโone of societyโs most invisible workers. But he possessed real power, and he used it beautifully for our benefit.
When life feels especially grim, or when I feel particularly powerless in the face of the worldโs troubles, I think of this man and ask myself, What can I do, right now, to be the light? Of course, I canโt personally end all wars, or solve global warming, or transform vexing people into entirely different creatures. I definitely canโt control traffic. But I do have some influence on everyone I brush up against, even if we never speak or learn each otherโs name. How we behave matters because within human society everything is contagiousโsadness and anger, yes, but also patience and generosity. Which means we all have more influence than we realize.
No matter who you are, or where you are, or how mundane or tough your situation may seem, I believe you can illuminate your world. In fact, I believe this is the only way the world will ever be illuminatedโone bright act of grace at a time, all the way to the river.โ
โElizabeth Gilbert
I think itโs time this got another airing.
it has been like at least eight years and sometimes I still think to myself, when I am tired, โbut I am le tiredโฆ well then take a nap! AND THEN FIRE ZE MISSILESโ even though in retrospect that is like one of the most embarrassingly unfunny videos to ever come out of the internetย
tbh i still start sentences withย โhokay, soโ at least 3 times a dayย
same, aggressively so. I also still useย โwtf, mate.โ
who doesnโt think this is STILL AS HILARIOUS as it was when we all watched it over and over and over again 15 years ago?
Iโve reblogged this before and will doubtless reblog this again because MY ENTIRE GROUP OF FRIENDS WAS SO OBSESSED WITH THIS VIDEO IN 2002/2003 THAT WE COLLECTIVELY BANNED ANY MENTION OF IT EVER AGAINย
AND YET
WE ARE NOW GROWN-ASS ADULTS IN OUR THIRTIES
AND IT STILL GETS QUOTED FROM TIME TO TIME
I HAVE THE WHOLE THING MEMORISED
TO THIS DAY, MY MOTHER REGULARLY SAYSย โBUT I AM LE TIREDโ BECAUSE OF A VIDEO I SHOWED HER IN FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL
THIS IS AN ICONIC PIECE OF INTERNET HISTORY AND I WILL FIGHT ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERS
my wife and I still regularly sayย โhokay soโ,ย โbut I am le tiredโ andย โand some big meteorโs likeย โwell fuck thatโ.โ Fucking iconic.
I HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE AND IโM SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS POST BECAUSE IโVE SEEN IT NOW AND I CANโT STOP FUCKING LAUGHING
God how has it been that long
AND IT IS UNFORTUNATELY SOMEWHAT EVERGREEN 2025
Literally 3 days ago during load-in at a show I overheard one of the guys in my band go, โHokay,โ another one go, โSo,โ in the same inflection, and I completed it with, โHereโs the Earth.โ We are all in our 30s.
I JUST introduced @raeseti to this not that long ago. Somehow it has sprung up again in the collective subconscious of '80s and '90s kids.
