Ok but I really love how the LOTR films use colors/costume design to show Denethor’s power over the other characters
Like: every character in LOTR has their own set of Characteristic Colors™. Denethor’s Characteristic Colors™ are desaturated black and grey:
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These aren’t necessarily Gondor’s colors (I’ll get to that in a minute) but they’re definitely his. In The Two Towers’ flashback scene, Gondor’s soldiers are dressed in Denethor’s black/grey, including Boromir:
But when Boromir leaves Gondor– and is free from needing to carefully Perform in front of his father– he starts wearing his own Characteristic Colors™ instead. These colors are royal red, gold and blue:
(Literally wearing your true colors)
Meanwhile Faramir, unlike Boromir, doesn’t wear Denethor’s colors in the flashback. He wears his own Characteristic Colors™, which are brown/green, bc Faramir does not do what Denethor wants him to do…
….until ROTK, when Faramir surrenders to his father’s will and exchanges his characteristic brown/green armor for black/grey armor. It’s like his identity is stripped away
Similarly, Pippin’s Characteristic Colors™ are blue/green:
But when he enters Denethor’s service:
No individual expression allowed
“But black and grey with no accents are Gondor’s colors–” Nahhh I don’t buy Denethor’s anti-color propaganda. When Aragorn replaces Denethor, the first thing he brings back is colorful fashion
Aragorn doesn’t wear black and grey, like Denethor did. He wears things that merge the black/white of Gondor with the sort of royal red/blue/gold of Boromir’s characteristic colors
And so at last the tyranny of Denethor’s drab fashion sense was ended
#firstly the lotr art directors knew what the FUCK they were doing#and secondly you think for a second that aragorn son of arathorn would be caught dead in some ugly ass drab grey#even his rugged ranger outfit had tasteful splashes of colour#the man was raised by elves is all im saying
I just had the most satisfying result to an random internet search. We’re on vacation in the Adirondacks this week and the place we’re ate dinner at has a gorgeous view over a lake. As we waited for our food we watched kayaks, paddleboards, and a pair of loons enjoying the water. Each of the loons kept lifting a leg out of the water and shaking it at random intervals while swimming. I wasn’t quite sure what the point of this behavior was but I certainly wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity to add some more weird animal questions to my internet browser history. So I googled “loon foot waggle” and imagine my surprise when google offered me that exact phrase as an auto fill option before I finished typing the word foot. I clicked the top result and became increasingly ecstatic as I read how some ornithologist did an entire study on loon foot waggles. The end result: we’re not entirely sure but we think loons just find it soothing to stick their leggie out and waggle it all about. I love nature, and I love my fellow nerds out there who devote large chunks of their time to studying random bits of it.
“There is a copy of the NES game Golf in the firmware of every Switch system”
Me: Oh haha, what a weird thing, probably some remnant from the debugging process -
“Since that was a game that Satoru Iwata programmed himself, this could have been intended as a way of saying that Iwata is spiritually a part of every Switch and is watching over and protecting every system.”
On July 11th*, the date of Iwata’s passing, doing Iwata’s “directly to you” motion with the Joy-Cons on the home screen will play a sound clip of Iwata and launch the game.
(* Before you try this yourself, note that simply changing the date on your system will not work, as this runs off the Switch’s internal internet-synced clock, meaning that changing the date manually will only work if the system has never been connected to the internet)
I… I can’t…
It goes even further than that.
Firstly, opening the game like this person is in the video is only possible with a brand new unit on system version 1.0.0 that has never been connected to the Internet. Because of this, opening it is pretty hard to replicate, unless if you have a completely brand new Switch. So, even if the system’s internal date is on July 11, it still won’t open if the system version is up to date.
The thing is, it’s not supposed to be opened.
The hidden Golf game has been described as an omamori, which, in Japanese culture, is a charm usually bought at shrines that offers spiritual protection and good luck if you keep it close to you.
Sometimes they’re made of cloth, and look like a tiny bag, which can contain a written prayer. People often tie them to something like a purse or a backpack, so that it’s always with them. Here are a bunch of different ones:
Omamori are not supposed to be opened, as doing so is said to remove its blessing.
Seeing as the hidden Golf game on the Switch is so difficult to run under normal circumstances, it’s probably not supposed to be opened in the first place. It’s likely meant to represent an omamori in Iwata’s honor. Its very fitting, because of how portable the Switch is, since people are likely to take it with them like they would with an omamori strapped to a purse or backpack.
Hey, everyone. Since we’re now in July and this post is still making the rounds, I’m sure there are people who are going to want to try to activate the Golf game on their Switch on the 11th. So I wanted to provide an update to this:
As @lunarhalo24 helpfully pointed out, this inclusion of Golf in the Switch system was meant to be an omamori, a blessing from Iwata. And there’s another important cultural thing about omamori to note here:
An omamori’s blessing is only good until the end of the year, after which it expires and the omamori is traditionally disposed of in a sacred fire. So the files being deleted at the end of last year seems as though it was symbolic of the blessing’s time expiring.
So yes, there is now almost no way to actually access it. Because it was never meant to be accessed.
Reblogging because this is a really interesting way of combining tradition and technology in someone’s memory and as a good luck charm.
i just love the idea that Aziraphale’s animal form would be that of a rock dove/pigeon bc of
a) their role in humanity as a symbol but now denigrated to a “pest animal” despite originally being brought into cities bc of humanities love for the lil guys in the first place
b) want 2 see floofy fat borb aziraphale more often
c) Pigeons are much more cunning than people give them credit for, much like Aziraphale
d) Wing-Slap the shit out of anything that displeases them
e)Something Something Symbolism of Heaven being depicted as the top floor of a skyscraper in the TV series, a thing that Pigeons regularly live Above.
hey y’all, I made some discord emojis who properly convey how I feel sometimes. I can’t really feel these emotions in the other ones. feel free to use them!
Just for anyone who might not know, an exact list of my physical fuckery/better attributes
1. Diagnosed anxiety/depression
2. Was anorexic/bulimic, but am fully recovered now
3. Crohn’s disease
4. Very Powerful Bones
5. A great ass 10/10
6. STRONG like BEAR, can bench own weight and leg press my entire beefy husband and his best friend.
7. Very Strong legs.
Forgot!
8. Very Bendy (thanks dance, martial arts, and yoga!)
9. Had Too Many Teeth, and also Extra Secret Teeth
how did you get diagnosed with a great ass
Everyone who’s seen is is in consensus on that point, and the answer is “I work out a lot”
Fun fact the Extra Secret Teeth are how @gallusrostromegalus and I figured out that we’re cousins!
Sometimes teeth grow out of the middle of the roof of your mouth. Doesn’t hurt except a bit if they errupt. My sister had her extra secret teeth errupt but they didn’t need to be removed, but mine are still under the hood. Scares the shit out of every new dentist.
Wait you’re telling me the reason we call it a romp of otters or a murder of crows is just cuz some jackass back in 1486 was just fucking making shit up???
Good news! This means you can make up your own words too! I’m personally fond of “a gambol of goats” and “a corruption of congressmen”
Any recommendations for books suitable for 8th grade ESL students? My friend is an English teacher looking for books to teach with and have in her classroom, and her students are primarily Spanish first language speakers.
It needs to be interesting and have content that will be compelling to young teenagers, but which is linguistically accessible to lower English reading levels. Most young adult fantasy uses a lot of unusual vocabulary that many ESL readers may find distractingly difficult—like “talisman”—but the books she’s used in the past haven’t been interesting to them.
Question: What is your sister wanting to study in this fair country of ours?
Answer:
My sister wants to get into Disaster Mitigation AKA “What can we do to make the next Hurricane/wildlfire/plauge of locusts/other crisis not as dangerous?” this covers things like:
City Planning (Edible parks, sources of water if the sewers fail, bridge saftey etc)
Public education on disease and resource managment (”This is how you avoid getting Ebola, This is how to store water safely, this is how to dispose of human waste safely etc.)
Protective stucture building (Levees, fire breaks etc)
Building community organizations to get people to safety before the disaster hits, which is CRAZY important in rural areas.
Actions to reduce global warming to reduce the severity of many natural disasters
Changing governmental policy to put Disaster Mitigation procedures and policies in place
Pevention of further envionemental degradation (hurricane bad. Hurricane with no wetland to act as water sponce? VERY BAD etc.)
Breaking up political incentives to aggravate Disasters- On the whole, humanity tends to be super-good to each other right after a disaster but there are some real parasites out there that take advantage- post-disaster gentrifying real estate developers, leaders that don’t send aid or deliberately mismanage it so ‘undesireables’ will die, people who use disasters to cover crimes like gerrymandering and fraud.
There’s a University in Newcastle that’s got an entire program for this. What’s wierd is that it’s the only program geared towards Disaster Mitigation specifically in the world. There’s lots of programs for Disaster Relief AKA “What to do to get everyone back on track after the disaster hits” But this is the only program that focuses on the preventative work.
Im out of my gourd on post surgery meds and my sister hasn’t slept in 36 hours because she’s applying to grad school in Australia, and I just addressed my dog as “Charlie! What the hap is fuckening my dude?” And she’s been on the floor laughing for a good two minutes now.
Either I’m hysterical or neither of us are fit to be in charge of anything right now, in which case I’m promoting Arwen, the smarter dog to head of household.
Given Arwen’s history, I expect your next post to involve being stuck in a tree and/or on top of a building.
Ended up making Arwen a paper crown that Charlie ate, then having to be rescued from the middle of the lake after getting mobbed by herons so yes.
Im out of my gourd on post surgery meds and my sister hasn’t slept in 36 hours because she’s applying to grad school in Australia, and I just addressed my dog as “Charlie! What the hap is fuckening my dude?” And she’s been on the floor laughing for a good two minutes now.
Either I’m hysterical or neither of us are fit to be in charge of anything right now, in which case I’m promoting Arwen, the smarter dog to head of household.
So I’ve had the first of several small surgeries to correct some health issues I’ve had, in this case moving me onto a different hormonal implant, so that went well but also I am very the tired and cannot words good. Love you all, hopefully I’ll be able to start posting again soon.
aka why tf am i procrastinating on The Thing (more like a flowchart, actually)
lots of people who have executive function difficulties worry about whether they’re procrastinating on a task out of laziness/simply wanting to be a jerk or mental struggles. this checklist might help you figure out which it is at any given time! (hint: it’s almost never laziness or being a jerk.) (obligatory disclaimer: this is just what works for me! something different might work better for you.)
1) do I honestly intend to start the task despite my lack of success?
yes: it’s a Brain Problem. next question
no: it’s shitty to say one thing & do another. better be honest with myself & anyone expecting me to do the task.
2) am I fed, watered, well-rested, medicated properly, etc?
yes: next question
no: guess what? this is the real next task
3) does the idea of starting the task make me feel scared or anxious?
yes: Anxiety Brain. identify what’s scaring me first.
no:next question
4) do I know how to start the task?
yes:next question
no: ADHD Brain. time to make an order of operations list.
5) do I have everything I need to start the task?
yes: next question
no: ADHD Brain lying to me about the steps again, dangit. first task is ‘gather the materials’.
6) why am i having a hard time switching from my current task to this new task?
i’m having fun doing what i’m doing: it’s okay to have fun doing a thing! if task is time-sensitive, go to next question.
i have to finish doing what i’m doing: might be ADHD brain. can I actually finish the current task or will I get trapped in a cycle? does this task really need to be finished?
the next task will be boring/boring-er than the current task: ADHD brain. re-think the next task. what would make it exciting? what am I looking forward to?
I might not have enough time to complete the task: ADHD brain wants to finish everything it starts. (if task is time-sensitive, go to next question)
i just want to make the person who asked me to do it angry: sounds like anxiety brain trying to punish itself, because I know I’ll be miserable if someone is angry at me. why do i think I deserve punishment?
no, I seriously want to piss them off: okay, i’m being a shithead
7) have I already procrastinated so badly that I now cannot finish the task in time?
yes: ADHD brain is probably caught in a guilt-perfection cycle. since I can’t have the task done on time, i don’t even want to start.
reality check: having part of a thing done is almost always better than none of a thing done. if I can get an extension, having part of it done will help me keep from stalling out until the extension deadline. i’ll feel better if I at least try to finish it.
no, there’s still a chance to finish on time: ADHD brain thinks that I have all the time in the world, but the truth is I don’t.
reality check: if i’m having fun doing what I’m doing, I can keep doing it, but I should probably set a timer & ask someone to check on me to make sure I start doing the task later today.
8) I’ve completed the checklist and still don’t know what’s wrong!
probably wasn’t honest enough with myself. take one more look.
if I’m still mystified, ask a friend to help me talk it out.
hope this helps some of you! YOU’RE DOING GREAT SWEETIE DON’T GIVE UP ON YOU
you’re not the only person who’s expressed trouble with the first step, so I’m gonna elaborate just a little on the concept of intent.
‘Intending to act’ can be rephrased as ‘expecting yourself to do the thing’.
It’s the difference between your teacher giving you homework (your teacher expects you to do the homework) and you deciding to do the homework (you expect yourself to do the homework).
I don’t think you can lie to yourself about whether or not you intend to do something. even as a person who often doesn’t have a real concept of how much I can actually get done*, I can always tell when I don’t really expect myself to do a thing vs when I do expect myself to do it but I’m struggling to start.
below is a list of things that might help you tell if you really intend to do a thing. if even ONE of these is true, I believe you honestly intend to do the task you’re struggling to start.
do you want to do it? or alternatively: do you want the benefits from doing it enough to do it?
even if you don’t want to do it, do you expect yourself to do it?
can you imagine yourself starting the thing? (even if you don’t have a plan for how to get there.)
do you have even a nebulous plan for doing the thing? (my ‘plans’ often start out: ‘1. go to wherever I have to be to do the thing 2. do the thing 3. ???? 4. profit’, which isn’t much of a plan but at least there’s a sense of starting and ending.)
are you trying to force yourself to do the thing by not allowing yourself to start any other things first (and thus continuously scrolling through twitter/tumblr, or staring at your ceiling, or whatever)?
are you trying to make yourself do the thing by offering yourself rewards for doing the thing?
again:
if even ONE of these is true, I believe you honestly intend to do the task you’re struggling to start.
and this isn’t an exhaustive list of ways to tell you’re planning to do it! you know yourself best, and you can develop ways to tell the difference between your good intent and your wishful thinking.
procrastination is a hell of a monster, especially if you don’t have normal executive function. be nice to yourself! you are a decent person and want to do good things.
*the real problem ADHD people seem to have (or at least, the problem I, an adhd person, often have) is intending to do too much. my to-do list for any given day usually overestimates both how much time I have & how much energy I have. as a result, I can honestly intend to clean my room, do the dishes, and do my budget in one day, but I’ll probably only end up doing 2 out 3 things b/c I’ll run out of time or energy before I get to the last one.
this isn’t a problem of lying to oneself about your intentions: this is a problem of lacking time-awareness & self-awareness, and it demands better scheduling. this list can’t really help with that, unfortunately. :(
@vampireapologist is going to some kind of festival as Snufkin of moomintroll fame, but finding an appropriate hat was proving to be a challenge so I’m making one. WIP shots, so y'all can see how this one is being done.
Paper pattern:
Trace Paper Patten onto Pellon, cut it out:
Arwen is helping by sleeping in the middle of peak foot traffic area:
Put fuseable onto Pellon, fabric onto fuseable, cut out Feat. Mom because I can’t be trusted to use the iron or other heavy machinery:
See crown together, begin hand-stitching to close the crown, tack crown and brim together:
So now I’m going to watch cartoons with my sister and sewing this together.
WAAAAHHHH THIS IS LOOKING SO SO GOOD!!! I Can’t wait to put it on!!! You and your mom are so amazing!!! Thank you!!!
I’m so glad you love it! I’m watching Carmen San Diego while doing the hand sewing rn and now i need to make her Hat too. Couple quick questions:
Flowers are happening, so on a scale of “Cute Daisy Chain” to “minature bird’s nest with humming bird” how much do you want me to go “Feral Nature Diety” on this?
Do you want me to scotch-guard this thing in case of rain?
@vampireapologist is going to some kind of festival as Snufkin of moomintroll fame, but finding an appropriate hat was proving to be a challenge so I’m making one. WIP shots, so y'all can see how this one is being done.
Paper pattern:
Trace Paper Patten onto Pellon, cut it out:
Arwen is helping by sleeping in the middle of peak foot traffic area:
Put fuseable onto Pellon, fabric onto fuseable, cut out Feat. Mom because I can’t be trusted to use the iron or other heavy machinery:
See crown together, begin hand-stitching to close the crown, tack crown and brim together:
So now I’m going to watch cartoons with my sister and sewing this together.
WAAAAHHHH THIS IS LOOKING SO SO GOOD!!! I Can’t wait to put it on!!! You and your mom are so amazing!!! Thank you!!!
I’m so glad you love it! I’m watching Carmen San Diego while doing the hand sewing rn and now i need to make her Hat too. Couple quick questions:
Flowers are happening, so on a scale of “Cute Daisy Chain” to “minature bird’s nest with humming bird” how much do you want me to go “Feral Nature Diety” on this?
Do you want me to scotch-guard this thing in case of rain?
So my phone was.dead while I was working on it today but hat is done!! @vampireapologist told me to go bananas on it so I did. Particularly pleased with the LED safety lights and the humming bird nest.
In case anyone’s wondering:
Hat!!!
Look how stinking cute Mallaidh Anne is in this thing!
Hi I live in Richmond VA and I love my city so much, this morning 60 people woke up to find old television sets just sitting on their porches or lawns. Even better, those with security cameras recorded the person(s) responsible and they cannot be identified because they were wearing a jumpsuit and tv on their head
If you could bring back ONE now-extinct species that existed AFTER the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, for a Jurassic Park-Like Scenario, with the goal of creating Maximum Chaos when the containment facilities fail, what do you pick and why?
Remember: -Your species has to have existed AFTER the nonavian dinosaurs went exctinct -Your species must CURRENTLY be extinct- more things are lurking around than you might think! -Think about what Kind of Chaos you want to create, and the potential for your species long-term -All kingdoms of life are available for play -Your species will re-spawn in a theme park on a small, moderately urbanized and fairly populated tropical island near the Gulf of Mexico, at the smallest number of individuals necessary to have a viable breeding population. -Your species WILL be hunted by park staff attempting to contain the situation. -The island contains an active Volcano and one (1) T-Rex. Use them wisely.
GOD star wars: the clone wars (2008-2014) was the absolute fucking BEST. u do absolutely not anymore buckwild than insane range of emotions that seven seasons can put u thru. obi-wan commits a war crime in the first episode. anakin drinks a space martini. a sixteen-year-old decapitates four men in a single second and it is literally never mentioned again. anakin, obi-wan, and mace windu find SPACE GODZILLA and the entire jedi order collectively drinks We Love Peta™ juice, decide not to kill it, bring it to the capital city, and it breaks out (ofc) and kills, like, a half million people. sheev just hangs out in padme’s office for six whole seasons being, i dunno, evil and absolutely not a single person catches on. there’s a blue guy in a dope-ass big hat who beats every single jedi’s ass and they still only call him, “that guy in the hat.” darth maul’s been living in a literal garbage dump with eight legs for the past ten years. anakin endorses state-sponsored terrorism. padme once contracted the black death. the jedi order tries to prosecute a twelve-year-old for war crimes. maul is forcibly murdered two (2) times over and still lives for some bananas fucking reason. whenever anakin does something mildly risky the darth vader theme plays. yoda asks anakin if they’re friends. the jedi order tries to prosecute a sixteen-year-old for war crimes. a cartoon made for twelve-year-olds has a four-episode arc about government oversight of international banking. this all happens in the range of three years. this show is absolutely fucking nuts.
#Star wars#TCW #literally every word of this is true and they left out more than half of the truly bonkers shit that goes down
It’s come to my attention that people who live along Lesser Rivers don’t have these things
And probably don’t know how to ‘noodle’ for them.
We have a 4-foot-and-change one (Assuming this is a Flathead? That’s what we have) I’d ballpark at about 50-70lbs in the lake I only ever see at night and in the fall when one of my neighbors feeds it leftover pumpkins from his church jack-o-lantern sale and the jumbo-sized zucchini not fot for human consumption, but given that my skin is significantly less tough than that of a large squash I’m not about to go sticking my hand in in it’s mouth.
Okay but consider; soak that baby in salt water or buttermillk to firm up the flesh, and that’s SO GODDAMN MANY CATFISH NUGGETS
NOOOOOOOO Old Man IS A FRIEND!! He eats Zucchini for us! Also he’s a good weather predictor- “Isolated Thunderstorms” could mean anything from “you can still fry an egg on the sidewalk” to “pleasant afternoon cooldown” to “Migrane-inducing barometric drop, hail and maybe a tornado for funsies” but if I see Old Man during the early-morning dog walk it’s gonna be a real bitch of an afternoon.
also we have a goddamn swarm of largemouth bass becuase some idiot (DALE) put an extra zero on the stocking order so we gotta eat those first.
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