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jazzforthecaptain:

phipiohsum475:

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people who ship two characters from completely separate films or series are metal as fuck like they will literally never have any canonical interaction between their otp and they still believe in their true and perfect love like bless you guys you are some hardcore romantics

merindab, jazzforthecaptain

You made my day with this. Thank you. 💟

😀 thank you for tagging me in this.

Ya’ll know my Harkstiel love

andletsbehonest jack/most sentient lifeforms

I’m most definitely looking forward to having Misha sign that piece of Harkstiel art I had John sign. Only a month or so to go.

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personally-purple:

lovecastsoutfear:

heydrichs:

warfilm:

imjustagirllivinginherownworld:

warfilm:

if you ever think history isn’t an important subject just remember that my friend’s solution to poverty was to “just print more money”

Well isn’t it?

tell that to the weimar republic

[horrified german screaming in the distance]

Ok so many people may not know what this is about.  After World War I in Germany the country was pretty much bankrupt and on top of that they were being forced by the allies to pay restitution for the war.  In order to try to fix these problems the Weimar Republic which was the government that took over after the war decided to just print more money.  Because of this the country faced hyperinflation which basically means that everything became majorly expensive and the money was pretty much worthless. This is a picture of a man that is  literally carrying money around in a wheelbarrow because that is how much money it took to pay for things: 

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These are some children playing with stacks of money because they were cheaper than toys:

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And here is another:

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So in short no you cannot fix poverty by printing more money.  

I used to think that was a solution so I’d like to thank this post for explaining it to me

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8 questions

I was tagged by jazzforthecaptain

1. Why did you choose your url?
It’s my first name and last initial. It’s the same thing I had on livejournal and a regular blog, so it felt natural to do that here. By the time I realized that maybe I could/should have gone with something more geeky and/or my ao3 name, this had already stuck. I’ve quite literally never changed it and probably never will.

2. What is your middle name?
While my first name is unique, my middle is probably the most common white girl middle name out there. Marie. It’s supposedly a family name, but yeah. Also, random fact, when I got married I dropped my maiden name completely and kept my middle. I really couldn’t tell you exactly why other then people always spelled/said it wrong and I get enough of that from my first name.

3. If you could own a fiction pet, what would it be?
Does a luckdragon count as a pet?

4. Favorite color: Blue

5. Favorite song: “Fields of Gold” by Sting

6. What are your top 5 fandoms:

  • Doctor Who
  • Torchwood
  • Superwood
  • Sherlock
  • ummm does John Barrowman count as a fandom?

7. Why do you enjoy tumblr?
The connections I’ve made. It’s literally changed my life. I wouldn’t be taking my writing as seriously as I do if not for the support I’ve had for my fanfiction. I changed my major because of this. And I’ve made some amazing friends.

8. Tag 9 users (they do the 8 questions too): phipiohsum475, hums-happily, tiger-in-the-flightdeck, justahawkinthenest, fangirlscout, type40consultingdetective, sarah-the-artiste, pointless-posts-and-fandoms, janto-owns-my-soul  if you want to

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I’m curious, just found the blog courtesy of a Labyrinth pic (Good job btw), and was curious-what’re the reasons you enjoyed Mad Max? Just isn’t my thing, so I’m curious to hear from someone.

hattedhedgehog:

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(^ Me when someone mentions this movie)

Ok where do I start…well first, I was completely taken by surprised at how much I enjoyed this movie. I don’t go to the movies often and I rarely see theatre movies twice but I left the first time pumped up and starry-eyed. 

Apart from being an extremely visually-appealing adrenaline rush with an amazing soundtrack and stunts:

  • Appreciation and utilisation of weapons and supplies, rather than taking them for granted.
  • The movie requires you to think about the logic of the world; rather than spoon-feed you explanation for why things are as they are, it gives you just enough to get the gist of it and then leaves you to come up with theories.
  • The most moving scene in the movie was an act of compassion and healing, not one of violence.
  • “Strength” wasn’t measured by how masculine a character was. Furiosa wasn’t gruff and emotionless and didn’t use any gender slurs against the Sisters (I don’t like calling them Wives) or try to distance herself from femininity.
  • 5 of the main characters were escaped sex slaves and there wasn’t a single rapey flashback to “prove” how shitty their lives had been. They weren’t defined by their past experiences. (this is why I hate the comics with all my heart, it goes against all of this). 
  • The women’s pain wasn’t used to fuel a male character’s pain/story arc. They were all unique and utilised what skills or resources they have, despite some of them being unused to surviving in such a world.
  • No forced hetero relationships in your face (I argue that Capable and Nux share a platonic bond but not a romantic one, because she’s the first person to treat him with softness and care and forgiveness like that, and he’s the first guy apart from Max to treat her as a person and not as an object. That mutual respect is really important especially in a world with such a strong gender divide).
  • Death mattered and it could happen to anybody. Everyone was equally mortal but therefore treated equally. Women weren’t kept alive just to show ‘look we have a girl in the cast’ or as a rare/precious commodity, nor were they killed for the sake of it. As for the violence in general, yeah there was fighting but very little blood shown onscreen (for which I was grateful). And those who did die? It was sad but what they did mattered, and they didn’t die in vain.
  • It was really visually appealing and there was always SO MUCH to look at, and so little time to do it because it was so fast paced. Which made me appreciate what I got to see.
  • Max isn’t rewarded for his help, and he leaves without expecting one. 
  • Also, Furiosa *swoons*

Even like this I don’t feel like I can do this movie justice in words. 

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dduane:

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ellenkushner:

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plaidadder:

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argonauticae:

im putting together a couple of scottish folk mixes bc that’s what i do and im honestly curious if anyone in my country has ever been unequivocally happy about anything ever

scottish trad music genres:

  • Everyone I Love Is Dead
  • The English Have Stolen All My Sheep
  • You Want To Be My Boyfriend? First You Must Answer These Riddles Three
  • The Protestants Have Stolen All My Sheep
  • I Love You A Lot But You’ve Left Me And It’s Raining [fiddle solo]
  • The Sea Is Treacherous, Just Like The English
  • One Time Bonnie Prince Charlie Punched Me In The Face And It Was Awesome
  • The Fairies Have Stolen All My Sheep

We have of course the traditional Irish music genres to go with them:

* Everyone I Love Is An Allegorical Representation of Ireland

* The English Stole My Farm And Put Sheep On It

* You Were My Boyfriend But Now You Won’t Even Come To The Window To Look Upon Me And Our Dead Infant Child (In The Rain)

* Whack Fol Too La Roo Umptytiddly Good They’ve Stopped Listening Now Let’s Talk About Revolution

* Something In Irish, I Think It’s About Fairies, Or Maybe A Cow

oooo can I add to this? don’t forget Appalachian folk balladry, the American cousin of Scottish and Irish traditional music and just as uplifting as its Anglo-Saxon highland forbears!!!

genres include:

  • I Left Everyone I Love Back Home In The Holler To Be With This Guy Who Doesn’t Wear Shoes Or Have Teeth But He Plays A Mean Jug
  • The English Told Us Not To Move West Yet, We Ignored Them, My Entire Family Was Killed
  • You Were My Boyfriend But You Tied A Sack Of Rocks To My Petticoats And Threw Me In The Creek (And My Baby Too)
  • Mama Loves All 14 Of Us A Lot But She’s Weary Of Our Shit And Now She’s Dyin’ (Gather Round)
  • The McCleans Stole A Firewood Log From Our Pile So We Won’t Rest Until The Last Of Their Male Kin Is Laid In The Cold Ground
  • We Knew The River Would Rise But We Still Didn’t Fix The Levee 
  • The River Rose, The Levee Broke, Everyone Died, It Was Just As We Reckoned (dulcimer twang-a-lang) 
  • When The Rebels Come A-Marchin’ I’m A Southern Man And I Feed Their Horses My Best, When The Yankees Come A-Marchin’ I’m A Northern Man And I Feed Their Horses What The Rebels Left
  • The Tennessee Valley Authority Killed All My Sheep Somehow

Don’t forget that old standby “The Mine Collapsed and Everyone Died”!

I think someone needs to put in a word for the English folk tradition though:

  • I Met a Girl and We Went Hunting (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)
  • I Met a Girl and We Caught Some Birds (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)
  • I Met a Girl and We Found Her Lost Pet (It Was a Metaphor for Sex)
  • I Met a Girl By Staying At Her Parents’ House and She Made My Bed (It Was an Especially Thinly-Veiled Metaphor for Sex)
  • I Am a Girl and I Regret Engaging In Metaphors for Sex Because Now I’m Pregnant
  • I Met a Girl and Bribed Her Into Sex But She Stole My Horse and Ran Away With It
  • I Met a Girl At an Inn and We Had Non-Metaphorical Sex But She Stole My Stuff The Next Morning and Now I Have Syphilis
  • Your Fiance Died Either at Trafalgar or Waterloo, Let’s Get Married, I’m Glad You Said No Because I’m Really Him In Disguise
  • Lord Nelson Sure Was Awesome
  • The Press-Gang Dragged Off All the Important Men in My Life (And Now They Are Dead)
  • Farm Laborers Are The Salt of the Earth And Are Never Grindingly Poor
  • Begging Is a Completely Viable Career Option With Flexible Hours and Unlimited Access to Alcohol

OH GOD HELP ME I AM LAUGHING SO HARD I CANNOT BREATHE

(plus I know every variant of each and every one of these songs and I’ll send you the links if you want)

Jeez, you guys left off

“I Am A Gambler Who Will Come To No Good End”

“Cuckoos Are Extremely Interesting Birds, But Alas I Am A Gambler Who Will Come To No Good End (Cuckoo Solo)”

“I Was A Cowboy And Then Everyone Died So I Came Home”

and that old favorite, “My Boyfriend Left Me So I Dressed Up As A Man And Shot His Cheating Ass.”

There is also a peculiar Southern variant that seems to be “My Horse Is Extremely Fast And Also Sexy And Then I Met A Woman On An Equally Sexy Horse And Married Her.” That one worries me a little.

attn petermorwood (”ahem, somebody left this bonny black hare running around loose in here…”)