that-catholic-shinobi:

taciturn-nerd:

disasterbipippin:

doctor who van gogh scene but it’s showing boromir gondor restored

ok why you got me crying so early in the day

Imagine being able to tell Boromir that he did not fail Frodo. The ring is destroyed. Evil did not triumph.

Merry and Pippin are safe. They are safe because of him.

Aragorn is king. Gondor is restored to glory.

Faramir, his brother, is safe and loved. Alive. The line of Ecthelion is unbroken.

The Men of the West prevailed against Mordor and Boromir can rest easy knowing that the love he had for his people was not in vain.

😭

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library-moonchild:

★﹒spotify playlists i made inspired by academia aesthetic: °.•☆彡

• the song of achilles
• greek mythology
• dark academia
• bonjour, y'all
• the diaries of franz kafka
• you’re in a haruki murakami book
• the art school dropout
• a pride and prejudice playlist
• kill your darlings
• dead poets society
• the earth was made for lovers
• orpheus and eurydice
• i also have nature and art and poetry, and if that isn’t enough, what is?
• light academia

clustxr:

unculture:

rifleweeb:

studentofetherium:

studentofetherium:

CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it’s part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators

THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS’ UNION RECOGNIZED

this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!

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myownclouds:

hologramcowboy:

soratayuya:

winds-and-whispers:

guerrillatech:

this leaves out the most crucial tip you’ll ever need:

-site:pinterest.*

excludes the entirety of pinterest’s evil domainverse from image search

Reblogging for the Pinterest addition

ILU for that Pinterest tip. 🧡

Reblogging for the Pinterest.

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flightyquinn:

anarchistmemecollective:

anarchistmemecollective:

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No, but please understand; When you apply for a job, you are offering them something. They are not offering you something.

You are the one with something that they need. Your time, your effort, your knowledge and skills, these are the things you are selling to them and they have value. They are asking you to expend something you possess of worth on their behalf, and the understanding is that in exchange they will provide compensation for your not being able to use those things for your own sake while at work. You deserve to be reasonably compensated for what you give to them. Do not let them make you feel pressured to sell yourself for less than you are worth.

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twilight-trix:

chronophobica:

spooky-space-kook:

jewishtrentcrimm:

just a reminder - do NOT boycott streaming services or not watch new things. the unions have not called for one for a reason. for one, it affects residual payments, which as minimal as those currently are, actors are still getting them during this time, and for two, studios will use lack of viewership as an excuse to cancel shows because you are showing them there is no demand. it deeply affects the industry the writers and actors stand to come back to once the strike is over

Also: going to these places puts pressure and demand on the company. Demand they can’t meet without actors and writers. That puts stress on them, and stress is good.

^^^^ive been looking for a rb with this addition because YES. if a customer wants a burger and there is no cook to make it, that puts pressure on the owner to pay the cook what they want so the customer will still give them money. if there is no customer, the owner has no reason for the cook to make burgers

Stop watching IF AND ONLY IF the unions call for a boycott. For the time being since they haven’t, streaming the shows actually helps. You’re not crossing a picket line to watch because that picket line does not exist unless a boycott is called for.

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lizardsfromspace:

alcibiades-hacks-it:

lizardsfromspace:

Holy shit, someone on Youtube is uploading HUNDREDS of unaired TV pilots from the 2000s-2010s

Somebody please archive these in case YouTube takes them down

Don’t worry, someone on Reddit has downloaded them all and will upload them to the Internet Archive later

The uploader apparently has a lot more of these, and is taking requests for more in the comments, so if anyone has anyone they want to see shoot ‘em a line

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elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey:

cicadacalling:

scruffylookingpiratecaptain:

I think people have truly lost any ability to be patient with storytelling.

‘I don’t understand this’ They’ll explain it if you wait.

‘I don’t like how this episode left things hanging’ There’s a continuation next week.

‘This character is flat’ Wait for them to be fleshed out.

So many of the complaints I see about shows lately are people being confused by things THAT THE SHOW WANTS YOU TO BE CONFUSED BY THATS THE FUN OF MYSTERY AND FORESHADOWING YOU ABSOLUTE GOBLINS THE MAIN CHARACTER IS ALSO CONFUSED AND THEYRE GONNA DO A BIG REVEAL AND EXPLANATION LATER IF YOU WOULD JUST FUCKING WAIT

to be fair to people, the current state of how film and TV is made (which is half the reason writers and actors are striking right now), has made it so that there are less episodes, shorter seasons, and cancelled shows, which leads people to both expect but also NEED information faster to decide if it is worth spending time (and in the case of movies in the theater, limited ticket money) on. you have people of all ages now trained to expect something to play out in the first 1-3 episodes or a certain number of MINUTES even, because if it doesn’t go insta hit viral in those first few weeks, the streaming service will cancel it and then pull it from the service before most people have even heard it exists down the grapevine of word of mouth.

some might say “oh this is tiktok shortening people’s attention spans” and i do think there is some merit to that, but it is also that because of how algorithms work, and how companies/executives/etc are often wrongly interpreting them, our brains have been trained to see patterns and make decisions faster. i scroll to the next tiktok not because it’s too long and i can’t concentrate on it, but because the tiktok algorithm prioritizes longer watch times, so people put all the important or enticing info at the beginning to keep people watching and stop them from scrolling away, and my brain has been trained to see the patterns of how they do that, and it can now recognize if i will want to watch that video in the first 3 seconds based on that pattern i have learned. someone might stop watching a TV show and try something else because they have literally infinite options of movies, TV, youtube, twitch, tiktok, books, games, podcasts, and more to entertain them that they didn’t have before, and even more limited time and money than they had before, and if they’ve been TRAINED to know what they’re watching will end quickly or get cancelled or disappear, they’ll come to expect the information to make the decision “is this worth my time” faster. if a movie you spent money and gas to see in a theater that you could barely afford doesn’t get to the point or to something enjoyable or worthwhile to you fast enough, you’re less likely to enjoy your theater experience and go again, in a climate where people are seeing less in theaters anyway.

all of this is because the studios don’t want to pay actors, writers, directors, crew, etc more money for additional seasons, or additional episodes. all of this is because our society internationally is collapsing so that a middle class barely exists and we are all choosing between seeing an expensive movie and the gas budget that week, or we’re exhausted after being overworked and don’t have the energy or time to get into something new that takes some time to unfold, and want to turn our brain off, and have so little leisure time that we don’t want it to be wasted.

one great example of this is my current favorite anime, trigun stampede, a reboot of a cult classic hit that was a really big gamble because it is a CG reimagining of its source manga, which wasn’t that popular in japan, but the original anime was beloved especially in the US. after season 1’s release, info has come out about how lovingly crafted it is, as an expansion on the manga’s story and lore, with the original writer and artist’s blessing and participation. but most people didn’t know this when it was announced or initially marketed, and it was panned by people upset at the changes that were for really good and interesting storytelling reasons, because they didn’t know the context and came to a quick conclusion. (there is also a lot of pushback on the CG animation, which is a discussion for another day.) season 1 ended up being a sort of prequel to the general storyline people knew from the manga and the original anime, and everything from the story to the character designs was developed knowing the characters would evolve over time. but this would require people to wait and see, especially for a season 2 or whatever the next continuation of stampede will be, and to hope season 1 was successful enough both domestically and internationally to warrant further continuation to see those planned changes through.

the key here is that people don’t have the time or expectation to watch something unfold slowly, because they, very realistically, don’t think it’ll happen. the late capitalist media machine, whether it is in the US, or japan, or on tiktok, or anywhere else only allows for 1 chance for something to sink or swim, and if it even marginally sinks for 1 second it is deemed unworthy and can never go further.

there is ALSO the cinemasins-ification of movie/film discussion online that prioritizes nitpicking, but also in general the week to week examining of minutiae magnified by algorithms that PRIORITIZE engagement so they mostly surface criticism and bad takes people fight over, so people are almost primed to see fault in things, and pick them apart without giving them time even to finish. (add on to that the fact that they assume some things won’t get finished at all, and it compounds the problem).

scrubfeast:

scrubfeast:

crabs-but-better:

fun fact! did you know that you can gain extra ‘forbidden time’ by staying up late in the night? but Watch Out

Shit this is great! You can get so much done if you don’t sleep!

THE CONSEQUENCES

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zoreta:

parotcardsroxy:

dragoncarrion:

Fucking hate ai bitches this shit is poisoning my search results just like that tumblr baby crow post fuck y'all for real

LITERALLY LIKE SHUT THE FUCK UPPPP. IS SHE NOT GOOD WNOUGH FOR YOU

The baby males will practice their tail display with little hatchling feathers! They also get ‘top knots’ which will develop into adult crests!

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