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🎧 NPF audio player ⋆

On Tumblr's process of changing everything to NPF, staff has added metadata (details) to NPF audio inserts to reflect what was originally entered when it was posted. Unfortunately, they're unstyled for now, so I wrote a plugin that mimics the appearance of Tumblr's legacy audio player.

☆ Features:

functional play/pause buttons with customizable sizes and colors

[optional] preceding labels, e.g. "Track:" / "Artist:" / "Album"

[optional] placeholder text for empty fields, e.g. "Untitled Track"

shows album cover image if its comes with one, with customizable dimensions

customizable player padding and background color

☆ How to install:

https://gitlab.com/tmblr-npf-audio/s#preview

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So Netflix is making a "Pride and prejudice" movie??? God please have mercy on us!!!

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Another show got ruined by feminist propaganda.

Yeah let's strip female characters from all their political ambitious and character complexity because all women in every tv show must to be victims of the evil patriarchy world "FuCk MeN ThEy ArE aLl StuPid #feminism #allmenmustdie"

Every Sunday night I mourn the way House of the Dragon robbed us of absolutely vile, selfish, self-centred and power hungry Rhaenyra and Alicent

No, Rhaenyra wouldn’t choose restraint and consider peace talks with the greens after the death of Luke, nor would she let her council shy away from war and battle. No, Alicent would never belittle the son she made king or mistrust the son she made a warrior as they want to viciously fight a dirty war SHE willingly started (in a delirious attempt to keep them safe).

No, neither of them would be trying to be a voice of reason in the midst of patriarchal chaos. They would join the mud fight and come up as dirty as anyone else.

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THEME CADILLAC preview / download / alternative

Columns: 1 or 2 Show favicon optional Show networks optional Show caption optional Search bar keywords not optional Pagination optional 4 links customizable Three body fonts for use Dark control optional

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I love you "boring" female characters. I love you ingenues. I love you female characters who aren't "modern" enough. I love you female characters who aren't "badass" enough. iI love you female characters who aren't "empowering" enough. I love you quiet female characters. I love you unappreciated female characters. I love you polite female characters. I love you female characters who "can't appeal to modern audiences." I love you frightened female characters. I love you female characters labeled as not complex just for being nice. I love you female characters who get criticism just for not being their tomboy or femme fatale counterpart. I love you silk hiding steel trope.

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"Why would I show my daughters Snow White when Anna and Elsa exist?"

Because girls need to see more than one type of female character in their stories. We don't want girls to see "damsel-in-distress housekeeper" as their only option, but its equally dangerous to show them the currently-popular flavor of "take-charge Strong Female Character" as the only acceptable kind of woman to be.

Because Snow White is confident. While the Queen is obsessing over her own insecurities, Snow White is going through her day completely comfortable with who she is.

Because Snow White is skilled. While the Queen's treatment of her is unjust, Snow White's acceptance of her work as a scullery maid makes her, not just an idle princess, but a working woman. She has cleaning and cooking skills that are recognized as valuable contributions to society. She is then able to use those skills when she needs a place to stay--instead of just a helpless damsel-in-distress who has to beg for a place, she is someone they want to have living with them because she has valuable skills to offer.

Because Snow White is kind. She is so kind that animals immediately trust her, that a hardened assassin can't kill her, that dwarves love her. She is sensitive to the feelings of others rather than embittered by her own fears. She is friendly to everyone she meets, showing interest in their lives and concern for their problems.

Because Snow White is a caretaker. Though young and mistreated, she is always looking to care for others. She immediately comforts a lost little bird. When she finds a cottage belonging to what she believes to be lonely orphans, she takes it upon herself to make their home comfortable. She even takes this a bit too far in setting rules for the dwarves' household, which offers depth to her character. She does take charge, but instead of seizing power like the Queen, Snow is looking to serve others and seeks their good.

Because Snow White is brave. After her panicked flight through the forest, she is sharp enough to recognize that her fear made the situation worse than reality, and she consciously decides to adopt a cheerful, hopeful outlook.

Because Snow White is intelligent. She's a good-enough judge of character to recognize a worthy love interest when he appears (and unlike certain princesses, she's right about it). She recognizes when her fear makes things worse than they are and is able to make better plans for the future. She is able to coordinate a housecleaning effort among a huge variety of untrained forest animals.

Because Snow White is humble. She is willing to take on the humblest work in the castle and is not humiliated by it. She asks the animals and the dwarves for help when she needs it. She even recognizes the need for prayer.

Because Snow White is good.

Because she is innocent.

Because she is patient.

Because she is loving.

Because little girls should learn to be all those things, and Snow White is a character who shows them what that looks like.

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fun girly things to do!!

~ zone out!

~ daydream about being somewhere else!

~ listen to unreleased ldr!

~ cut your hair and then cry about it later!

~ listen to sad songs!

~ read a book about a girl just like you!

~ shamelessly sleep till 4pm!

~ exercise till your legs go numb!

~ cry in freshly done makeup!

~ obsess over fictional men!

~ obsess over men who are twice your age!

~ bite the inside of your cheeks!

~ look in the mirror and sigh!

~ scream “why why why”!

(this is ironic i am not encouraging these things i swear)

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some sites for when you’re bored and looking for new music

spotalike creates a playlist based on a song

magicplaylist  creates a playlist based on a song

dubolt  creates a playlist based on an artist

boilthefrog creates a playlist between any two artists 

predominant suggests you albums based on cover art color   

music-map  suggests similar artists

gnoosic  suggests similar artists and songs

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Free Palestine Reading List

Haymarket Books: Free Ebooks for a Free Palestine!

Verso Books: Solidarity with Palestine: Free Resources and Further Reading

OR Books: THE FREE PALESTINE READING LIST

City Lights Books: Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha

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7 headers under the cut

credit not needed

happy fall!

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I Hate How She Talks About Snow White

"People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, where it's like, yeah, it is − because it needed that. It's an 85-year-old cartoon, and our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond 'Someday My Prince Will Come. "

Let me tell you a little something's about that "85-year-old cartoon," miss Zegler.

It was the first-ever cel-animated feature-length full-color film. Ever. Ever. EVER. I'm worried that you're not hearing me. This movie was Disney inventing the modern animated film. Spirited Away, Into the Spider-Verse, Tangled, you don't get to have any of these without Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937.)

Speaking of what you wouldn't get without this movie, it includes anime as a genre. Not just in technique (because again, nobody animated more than shorts before this movie) but in style and story. Anime, as it is now, wouldn't exist without Osamu Tezuka, "The God of Manga," who wouldn't have pioneered anime storytelling in the 1940s without having watched and learned from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the 1930s. No "weeb" culture, no Princess Mononoke, no DragonBall Z, no My Hero Academia, no Demonslayer, and no Naruto without this "85-year-old cartoon."

It was praised, not just for its technical marvels, not just for its synchronized craft of sound and action, but primarily and enduringly because people felt like the characters were real. They felt more like they were watching something true to life than they did watching silent, live-action films with real actors and actresses. They couldn't believe that an animated character could make kids wet their pants as she flees, frightened, through the forest, or grown adults cry with grieving Dwarves. Consistently.

Walt Disney Studios was built on this movie. No no; you're not understanding me. Literally, the studio in Burbank, out of which has come legends of this craft of animated filmmaking, was literally built on the incredible, odds-defying, record-breaking profits of just Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, specifically.

Speaking of record-breaking profits, this movie is the highest-grossing animated film in history. Still. TO THIS DAY. And it was made during the Great Depression.

In fact, it made four times as much money than any other film, in any other genre, released during that time period. It was actually THE highest-grossing film of all time, in any genre, until nothing less than Gone With the Wind, herself, came along to take the throne.

It was the first-ever animated movie to be selected for the National Film Registry. Actually, it was one of the first movies, period, to ever go into the registry at all. You know what else is in the NFR? The original West Side Story, the remake of which is responsible for Rachel Ziegler's widespread fame.

Walt Disney sacrificed for this movie to be invented. Literally, he took out a mortgage on his house and screened the movie to banks for loans to finish paying for it, because everyone from the media to his own wife and brother told him he was crazy to make this movie. And you want to tell me it's just an 85-year-old cartoon that needs the most meaningless of updates, with your tender 8 years in the business?

Speaking of sacrifice, this movie employed over 750 people, and they worked immeasurable hours of overtime, and invented--literally invented--so many new techniques that are still used in filmmaking today, that Walt Disney, in a move that NO OTHER STUDIO IN HOLLYWOOD was doing in the 30's, put this in the opening credits: "My sincere appreciation to the members of my staff whose loyalty and creative endeavor made possible this production." Not the end credits, like movies love to do today as a virtue-signal. The opening credits.

It's legacy endures. Your little "85-year-old cartoon" sold more than 1 million DVD copies upon re-release. Just on its first day. The Beatles quoted Snow White in one of their songs. Legacy directors call it "the greatest film ever made." Everything from Rolling Stones to the American Film Institute call this move one of the most influential masterpieces of our culture. This movie doesn't need anything from anybody. This movie is a cultural juggernaut for America. It's a staple in the art of filmmaking--and art, in general. It is the foundation of the Walt Disney Company, of modern children's media in the West, and of modern adaptations of classical fairy tales in the West. When you think only in the base, low, mean terms of "race" and "progressivism" you start taking things that are actually worlds-away from being in your league to judge, and you relegate them to silly ignorant phrases like "85-year-old cartoon" to explain why what you're doing is somehow better.

Sit down and be humble. Who the heck are you?

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I love your tumblr 🩷 can you make a list of old movies with the best fashion? Thank you 🫶🏻

hi there! here's what i came up with ☺️ the first two have literal fashion shows in them

♡ the women (1939)

♡ how to marry a millionaire (1953)

♡ fashions of 1934 (1934 lol)

♡ roberta (1935) really any ginger rogers movie from the 30s (swing time also has some of my favorite looks), but this one takes place in an actual dress shop

♡ ziegfeld girl (1941)

♡ funny face (1957)

♡ sabrina (1954)

♡ breakfast at tiffany's (1961) tbh not my favorite but even i cannot deny how i want to dress like holly golightly every day of my life

♡ if a man answers (1962)

♡ rear window (1954)

♡ what a way to go! (1964)

♡ gentlemen prefer blondes (1953)

♡ pandora's box (1929)

♡ one way passage (1932) kay francis, another style superstar

♡ dinner at eight (1933) jean harlow is everything in this movie

♡ zouzou (1934)

♡ gilda (1946)

♡ camille (1936)

♡ the merry widow (1934)

♡ marie antoinette (1938)

♡ scaramouche (1952)

♡ gigi (1958)

another fun thing to do is to look through lists of movies with your favorite costume designers! my personal favorite is adrian, and i also love edith head, orry-kelly and travilla

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✨ This is a small reminder to everyone that I stand with JKR ✨

If JKR really is on tumblr then I just want to say that the incessant, baseless hate from the internet does not outweigh my love and admiration for you. Thank you for your bravery and continuing to advocate for women. You are an inspiration and I’m so grateful for the work you do to make the world a better place ❤️

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Apparently young girls are not allowed to be Tomboys anymore this days 🤦‍♀️

My friend recently found out that her 7 year old sister, who is very much a tomboy and is friends with mostly boys, was being referred to as he/him at school because her teacher thought that she was having "troubles with her gender" and asked her if she wanted to experiment with being called a boy. The kid basically said sure but she told my friend that she doesn't really care and knows that she is a girl. Tell me how this is supposed to be helpful for her. This is just reinforcing gender roles. Adults need to fucking leave gnc kids alone.

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Jesus Christ, I've just read the plot of the upcoming Barbie movie for the first time:

(The End)

Because of all the memes, I really just thought it was going to be a fun Summer movie; I honestly had no idea it was going to be this mean-spirited, power-obsessed, hateful feminist propaganda with the final message that human beings shouldn't need or love one another and should just focus on their careers instead.

What an utter horror show: I'm not surprised its makers kept its true nature under wraps for so long. Pretty clever of them, really, to give them their due.

I hope it's not too late for people to find all this out before actually going to a cinema and handing over money to the ghastly misanthropes who made it.

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@beardedmrbean at least Lin-Manuel Miranda never claimed that Aaron burr or George Washington were really black he made them black because he wanted diversity and let’s be honest making a musical about a bunch of white slave owners talking about manners played by white actors will put him in a very very big trouble by the woke mob 😂. But when it comes to Netflix projects like cleopatra they really claimed she was black and asked us to forget what we learned in school 🤷🏻‍♀️