Month: January 2019

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slepaulica:

brin-bellway:

slepaulica:

brin-bellway:

slepaulica:

Synaesthesia conversation!

To me this song is predominantly Slate blue, Dark Slate blue, with highlights of periwinkle. There are some midnight blue and indigo parts. Your synaesthesia might be showing you different colours. that’s okay! reply by showing me a song that has similar colours to this one (so if you see this as yellow, show me another yellow song). Your song can be any genre of music as long as the colours look similar to you. and then i will reply with a different song that has similar colours to what you showed me. and we can talk to each other with music.

if you see movement instead of colour then give me a song with similar movement. (i see movement too, but colour is easier for me to describe in words) if you smell something, then give me a song with a similar scent. so equal opportunity, any kind of music related synaesthesia welcome.

colour chart here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors

This was a tough one. It’s not very strongly coloured, and it’s hard to find the right mix of grey and brown.

This isn’t quite right, but I had to settle.

:)

Phil Collins voice has a lot of bronze in it, yeah. I had to listen to it a few times, the one you picked isn’t very strongly coloured for me, but i can hear the grey like raindrops in parts of it. and in some ways the movement is similar to my song in parts.

I reply with Cowboy Mouth – Jenny Says because of those grey polka dots and because there’s some browns in the chorus, not quite the same as your song, but i think it matches it or complements it, and they both have some bits of yellow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEfpoUuKFOY

Black with grey stripes. (Somewhat less stripe-shaped in that one.)

oh wow that’s gorgeous. never met that band before. yay new music. dark blue mostly but it has uterus red in it, which is a very addictive colour. i’ve been listening to this practically non stop with breaks to listen to my other favourite songs to find the perfect one. i think this is the closest, different shade of blue + uterus red http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzOnZ4rj6b0

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#(November 2013) #conversational aglets #I never did respond to this #a while later slepaulica had a brain injury that worsened their pre-existing verbality issues #I think the reason they stopped using Tumblr was because they didn’t have enough language spoons anymore to do that much blogging #for a while there‚ they would scrape together enough spare words every few weeks to post a life update on Dreamwidth #but it’s been a long time since they even did that #I hope they’re doing okay #a few months ago I stumbled across a forum post they made in the spring of 2017 #(it was a different username but it was the kind of username they might have chosen) #(and I recognised the childhood story they were telling as one they’d told before) #so I know they were still around as of then at least #music #synesthesia #tag rambles

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ophiuchusdenied:

brin-bellway:

ophiuchusdenied:

oh, and you can get detention if you refuse to say the pledge at some schools.  or at least get scolded by your teacher, get your parents called, or be socially ostracised.  all because you refuse to swear fealty to a piece of fabric as a daily ritual.

How do they know if you refuse to say the pledge?

Being homeschooled, my first exposure to routine Pledging was when I tagged along at my little brother’s Cub Scout meetings. By which time I was nearly eleven, had read Guardians of Ga’Hoole, and therefore knew how to look like I was taking part in a group chant without actually doing so.

(Yes, that does mean not Taking a Stand, but I personally think one should not Take a Stand against brainwashing cults until after one has escaped them. And I was still slightly too young, by my parents’ standards, to stay home by myself on a regular basis. (Mom was helping out with them, so I couldn’t stay home with her.))

in smaller classrooms, it’s hard to get away with pretending, especially if you’re with a teacher who knows you/your voice or if you’re in the front row.  at assemblies, it’s obvs easier, but we had to say it in our first period class or homeroom (depending on grade), and being a C, alphabetically, and something of a teacher’s pet, i was usually on the first row anyway.  besides which, to me, standing up and mouthing along is basically the same thing as actually saying it–ymmv, of course, and if that’s not how you view it, that’s totally cool.

usually, though, in my schools at least, you get caught because you just plain don’t stand up.  it’s continue-reading-your-book-for-the-duration-of-announcements-time.  luckily, in high school, my first period class for all three years was choir, and i was not the only person who refused to say it, and our choir director was live-and-let-live enough that he wasn’t about to send a handful of his best students to detention over it.

(this thread was truncated; here is the first part)

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justice-turtle:

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yuletidetreasure:

pentapoda:

Self, I thought, you should check on Yuletide and see if the ball has started rolling yet. ANSWER: YES, DEAR GOD. 

PSA for all those like me: 

Yuletide signups close Monday, October 14, 2013.

We were just going to post a plain countdown to the end of sign-ups, but this was too awesome not to share. :)

48 hours till sign-ups close! (Mon 14th, 6pm EDT)

And just in case anyone on my Tumblr hadn’t noticed already: Yuletide sign-ups close at 6pm U.S. Eastern Standard Time on Monday, October 14 (about 36.75 hours after I’m reblogging this).

(The reblogged YuletideTreasure post says EDT or Eastern Daylight Time, our equivalent to British Summer Time. This is a typo. We are not currently on Daylight Time in the US.)

If you want to request fanfic for at least four different small fandoms (of which you are guaranteed to receive a 1000+ word fic for one fandom) and offer to write a 1000+ word fic in a randomly selected one of at least five small fandoms, all fandoms to be chosen from the tag set here… go for it! You have 36-ish hours to sign up, and must have your fic written and uploaded to AO3 by December 22.

(If you don’t have an AO3 account and want to sign up in order to participate in Yuletide, tell the mods. They will expedite your account request.)

If you just want to write fic of any length to a Christmas deadline in these small fandoms, but would rather pick out individual prompts that inspire you — go here! You can browse the comments directly or look through the spreadsheet linked at the bottom of the post which shows requests sorted by fandom. There’s no strict deadline to this part of writing for Yuletide. :D

And if you just want to read fic in any of these small fandoms — well, wait till gifts are revealed sometime on December 25, and revel in the awesome! ;-)

»This is a typo. We are not currently on Daylight Time in the US.«

But…it’s October. North American Daylight Savings doesn’t end until 2 AM the first Sunday of November. (And even Europe isn’t until the last Sunday of October.)

…I’m wrong? Okay, ONE of them is a typo, because another official Yuletide place said “EST” and I saw that one first… bleh. It’s too dark out to still be Daylight Savings TIme.

*wants the world to stop being confusing now plskthx*

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#(as you would expect from the post body this is from October 2013) #conversational aglets #Daylight Savings Time #Yuletide #(btw I hear the Yuletide 2018 fics were released recently)

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evolution-is-just-a-theorem:

fermatas-theorem:

gasmaskaesthetic:

evolution-is-just-a-theorem:

gasmaskaesthetic:

There’s a party tonight, help me summon a happy mood.

I will teach you the spell of phenibut in return for your first born

I have learned the spell of phenibut and intend to cast it later.

*chooses to interpret this chain as ‘Mack has given Evo her firstborn’*

I am not ready for this. I should have thought this through.

Anyone want a baby? Undamaged! Original packaging!

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #drugs cw

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blue-corvid:

dressesandalchemy:

hippity-hoppity-brigade:

ginathethundergoddess:

darlinghogwarts:

My favorite thing ever is how Ron just sent Charlie a random letter like “hey yo there’s an illegal dragon at hogwarts, could you come and smuggle it out of here, please?” and Charlie was just like “yeah sure, I’ll trespass into the castle and steal a dangerous magical creature, of course, lemme just hit up my friends”

It’s better if you imagine Charlie and co as a group of Grad Students trying to avoid their other responsibilities.

Charlie is drunkenly revising the third draft of his thesis on proper care and feeding of greenhorns when his family owl slams into the window. 

Three of his friends jump and look around. Glinda doesn’t raise her head from her folded arms; only groans, “Is that Baines coming to do me in?” 

Charlie totters to the window and fetches Errol from the window pane. “No such luck,” he says. “You’re still going to have to take the exam.” After some consideration, Charlie lays him on a clear patch of floor to recover. “Do owls take firewhiskey?” he asks the room at large. 

“It’s not fair,” Glinda wails into the tabletop. “I swear he didn’t say anything about Bridgewort’s handling practices when we did the review in class.” 

“Oh, Merlin,” says Ali, freezing over their notes like a Medusa wyvern had bitten them. “Oh, Merlin’s sweet saggy socks. Is he covering Bridgewort?” 

“That’s what he said when I went to his office hours.” Glinda sits up. “You know his lapdragon singed my new sweater?!” 

Charlie decides not to give Errol a nip of whiskey. Flying under the influence is really not done. He unties the letter from Errol’s leg. Ron’s childish spiky handwriting spells out Charlie’s name on the front. Inside is a hastily scrawled message. 

“Yes, we know it ruined your sweater,” snaps Ysabelle. “You told us twenty times. Why didn’t you tell us Baines told you we’re going to be tested on Bridgewort?” 

“I meant to,” says Glinda. “Sorry.” She flicks her pile of notes. “I was lost in the miasma of gloom and desperation.” 

Ali puts their head back and groans. “I’m gonna die. I’m gonna say ‘fuck it’ and just fucking walk into a dragon’s mouth so I don’t have to do this.” 

“Hey,” says Charlie. They don’t hear him. 

“How much is this worth again?” Glinda asks her bottle of butterbeer. 

“Twenty-five percent,” Ali and Ysabelle chorus. Ysabelle adds, “and the thesis is fifty percent of our total grade.” 

“Hey!” Charlie repeats. They look at him. He waves Ron’s letter. “My littlest brother at Hogwarts has an illegal dragon he needs to get off campus. Anybody up for a midnight flight?” 

Ali slams their hands down on the table and stands up. “Fuck yes,” they say decisively. “Maybe I’ll fly into the Whomping Willow and die a quick death.” 

Welcome to grad school

Charlie’s friends: I want to die

Charlie:

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Eddie Redmayne concedes that he gave “a pretty bad performance” in Jupiter Ascending

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fuckyeahjupiterascending:

“My character had had his larynx ripped out by this wolf man, and so I made the slightly bold choice—which I thought was right—of talking like this,” Redmayne says, putting on the breathy, choked affectation he uses throughout the film. He adds that at the time he thought the voice suited the costume and elaborate sci-fi world of the film, but in retrospect can see that it may have been a bit much. “I won a prize for it for the worst performance of the year,” Redmayne adds, referring to his 2016 Razzie award for Worst Supporting Actor. “So, yeah, it was a pretty bad performance by all accounts.”

Eddie, sweetie – you’re breaking my heart. You’ve got to ignore the basics. You’ve got to know that you gave a tremendously OTT and dialled up performance in a tremendously OTT and dialled up film (which I continue to love from the depths of my being). You gave no fucks and threw yourself into it, and because of that people love your performance. I can confidently guarantee that you gave the best performance as a vocally impaired intergalactic overlord with monumental mother issues and stomping lizard servants ever committed to film. Own it!

 

bemusedlybespectacled:

okay but we’re ignoring the most important part of this interview

“My character had had his larynx ripped out by this wolf man, and so I made the slightly bold choice—which I thought was right—of talking like this,” Redmayne says, putting on the breathy, choked affectation he uses throughout the film.

THE ENTITLED WHOSE THROAT CAINE RIPPED OUT WAS BALEM THE WHOLE TIME

LONGTIME CONSPIRACY THEORY #CONFIRMED FUCK YEAH

 

evilroachindustrial:

D-Did they ever say in the movie that Redmayne’s character had had his throat ripped out in the backstory?

Cause I feel like that voice/performance immediately becomes less bizarre once you fill in that particular detail.

 

bemusedlybespectacled:

okay so you’ve unlocked one of my top five special interests just be aware

so jupiter ascending actually goes hard on the infodumping (which is why I get really annoyed by criticism that it’s hard to follow – if anything, the criticism should be that too much is explained and not enough is left to the audience), but there is one thing that’s never fully resolved (but it’s not plot relevant so it’s not the biggest deal)

anyway, this is what we know about caine:

  • he was born genetically defective and was sold to the Skyjackers (like, Space Air Force? with rocket boots and angel wings?) by his creator for cheap
  • he managed to rise to be a great Skyjacker anyway, despite his genetic deficiency
  • ~something~ happened where he ripped the throat out of an Entitled. WHY he did it or WHO the Entitled was is never explained in canon.
  • he himself has no idea why he randomly went berserk and tried to kill someone, but everyone blamed it on his genetic defects and he believes them
  • his belief in his own inferiority and inherently violent nature is why he tries to avoid a relationship with jupiter. this is the context for the “I have more in common with a dog than I do with you”/ “I love dogs, I’ve always loved dogs” scene and THAT’S WHY IT ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE IN THE TEXT, FOLKS
    • also there’s that whole romantic scene after jupiter becomes an entitled where she’s like “so I’m an entitled now, does that mean you want to bite me?” and caine’s like “uhhh no? ….actually maybe” and she’s like “go ahead ;) ;) ;)”
  • for this he was stripped of his angel wings and exiled to a hostile prison colony planet until the events of the movie

so the fan theory for a long time was that balem was the entitled who caine attacked, and there’s an extension of that fan theory where one of his siblings – either kalique or titus, probably kalique because she’s way smarter – somehow mind-controlled or otherwise forced caine to attack balem as an assassination attempt, which is why he doesn’t remember why he did it

but ultimately it doesn’t actually matter to the plot? so it’s not a bad thing that it’s never resolved. but FAN THEORY #CONFIRMED.

 

fuckyeahjupiterascending:

I’m reblogging this since @bemusedlybespectacledprovides an A+ summary of the known facts surrounding Caine’s history and his attack on the no-longer-so-mysterious Entitled.

 

ekjohnston:

i love this movie so much

 

eilisoneal:

One of my comfort movies.

 

teapotsahoy:

Cannot believe we are being gifted with new Jupiter Ascending canon in this godless year.

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