thatlittleegyptologist:

Now I don’t subscribe to Dracula Daily, but the whole “sweet/spicy” paprika debate is really fucking funny. You know all those posts you guys make about how academics have decades long back and forths about something that seems really niche and inconsequential? You’re all doing it now. Over paprika. I love it.

Genuinely can’t wait to see the conference proceedings on this where it turns into a fist fight over when the sweet paprika was introduced to Hungary, and then the subsequent blacklisting and ritual humiliation in academic tumblr journals of anyone who fell on the losing side.

celluloidvampire:

always thinking about the production of hamlet i saw at the pop up globe a couple of years ago where everyone was costumed in typical shakespearean dress and the set was fairly minimal BUT! they gave polonius an iphone. it was like a running gag that his ringtone kept going off when hamlet or claudius were trying to speak and they would get more and more impatient with him every time. the cast had perfect comedic timing and it was such a perfect modernisation of typical shakespeare humour

but oh my God. the nervous laughter that rippled through the audience when his phone went off behind the tapestry. the heavy silence that followed, interrupted only by the incessant chime of polonius’ ringtone and a muffled “shit, shit!” while he tried to decline the call. it keeps ringing even after hamlet has already put his sword through him. hamlet picks it up in his bloody hands and ends the call, puts it back in polonius’ grasp before turning back to face gertrude.

hands down the best set up and pay-off of any addition to a shakespeare play i have ever witnessed

yardsards:

bernardo-draws-and-cries:

The thought of Darius having to force-bath Alador and Eberwolf it’s too fucking funny

he’s probably also gotta do this to hunter. just slam dunk the child fully clothed into the nearest bathtub.

lance-thunder-reporting-live:

Good morning Amity Park, I’m Tiffany Snow, here with the weather. Today’s Friday, June 10, and it looks like a 30% chance of rain with highs are in the low seventies and lows are in the high fifties.

It’s been strangely quiet here in Amity Park recently, with no attacking ghosts since the strange two day nap Amity residents experienced not long ago, but there have been multiple sightings of ghosts within the past 24 hours. All of these ghosts have appeared calm and mellowed out, but it is unknown if this is caused by any sort of outside force.

The usual 9:30 AM reporter here, Lance Thunder has gone missing. He was last seen yesterday at 2:00 pm picking up a suit from the dry cleaners. If you have any information regarding his whereabouts please contact police about it.

Our sources say that the Fentons are working on a new invention and likely will not be done anytime soon, so the roads are safe from their rampaging RV for today.

thefloatingstone:

Still watching this youtube channel about what I can only describe as “Dark Classical art” and this one absolutely floored me because I was unaware of it and I want to share it because it changes my perspective on this artist completely.

You might be aware of Louis Wain. If not by name then by his art. He’s the artist behind that series of cat drawings that slowly became more and more abstract and bizarre.

This series of paintings of cats are often labelled as a visual representation of Wain’s deteriorating mental illness and schizophrenia. Even more so often labelled as “a tragic display of a painter’s failing battle with schizophrenia.”

The paintings look like this and were painted around the very early 1900s.

Ok got all that?

So here’s the thing.

Although Wain did suffer from a mental illness that was strong enough for him to be institutionalized, his mental illness was never diagnosed with clear certainty. Although “Schizophrenia” is so heavily applied to him based purely on how his series of paintings LOOK, despite actual specialists widely disputing this. On top of this, although he did paint the kaleidoscope cat portraits during this time, it was not the only things he painted, and he was quite capable of painting “normal” pictures of cats.

The Kaleidoscope Cat portraits are more images of him experimenting with colour and shapes, something the Smithsonian themselves state on their website.

Wain had actually made his entire living painting whimsical images of cats, often for product adverts, before he was incarcerated and was actually a very beloved artist at the time. When his friends learned of his incarceration, they started a collection of donation money to help transfer Wain to the Bethlam Royal Hospital instead, one of the best mental health facilities of the time. Even the Prime Minster of the time donated, and they raised a large amount of money across England to help him.

4 years later, Wain drew this as his final image which he released publicly

I knew all about “the Schizophrenic cat Guy” but he had always been presented to me as some tragic case of an artist going mad and his skills and work unraveling as he went insane.

Which is why I wanted to share this information which was new to me. And because I think it’s important.

i-cant-thinkof-anything-new:

things to take away from the sonic movie 4 minute short

• knuckles and tails confirmed to be living with tom and maddie
• knuckles fears maddie’s wrath (me too, knux. me too)
• sonic has the brain cell between these 3
• knuckles imitated sonic which was honestly so cute???? sonic narrated at the start and then knuckles did it right before they fought the drone and it was so precious
• tails got to keep his gun (that he just keeps on him at all times?????)
• knuckles refers to books as ancient tomes and that’s so fucking funny
• sonic and tails just listened to this bot recite poetry for hours on end???
• tails has a pet drone now

wickedwonderlandd:

misshoneywheeler:

thegreenthingslivebeforetheydie:

thegreenthingslivebeforetheydie:

my favorite is when Kermit’s facial expression is simultaneously an obvious hand in a puppet but also an instantly recognizable and relatable emotion

headspace-hotel:

bellsblargbin:

upandoutcomic:

checkin in on the teens

No for real. While online, teenagers tend to be really cruel (the internet makes the worst out of adults, let alone someone who’s brain isn’t done cooking) in real life teenagers have gotten a lot kinder through the years and that’s really nice.

Also I talked to one of my professors who has a 15 year daughter and apparently teens are now greeting each other by saying “Prrrr”, like a cat.

Alrighty

In the age of the internet, autistics are becoming the movers and shakers of culture

sighinastorm:

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darthvaderofmiddle-earth:

sighinastorm:

sighinastorm:

There’s a tornado warning out (two, technically), so of course I went for a walk outside to see if I could spot it.  Never have I seen so many of my neighbors at one time, when there wasn’t a firework show or a picnic.

There was a tornado warning and a bunch of people gathered outside to set off fireworks. I wish I was kidding.

How cool would it be to shoot fireworks intoa tornado?

gabrielebarnes replied to your photoset

Where did you found this gif? In which video?

It’s from the Blu-ray edition of the Hobbit, in the Behind the scenes special features. :)