#Mid00

[julianalovesmixels]

UN MONDE PARFAIT ! ☆*: .｡. o(≧▽≦)o .｡.:*☆

original upload: feb 28, 2006

[bleachbleachbleach]

Conversation Segues That Could Kill a Lesser Man

My grandfather was explaining that he didn't "get much" out of short stories (this being part of a conversation about how he didn't like repetitive series like Danielle Steele but really enjoyed extremely long books with a lot of historical context--not history books, there still had to be a plot, like Isabel Allende--)

And my father turns to me and he's like, "This is sort of off topic I guess, but what is... 'Naruto'?"

[dorbu]

ioh yeah that last post just made me realize, there's absolutely a clip of andy serkis winning a vma where they have gollum show up as a bit and he drops the f-slur

[modpoppy]

HE FELL INT HE POND THE GENDER POND

HE WEBT IN THE GENDER FLUIOD

[onryou-onryou]

"Living Inside the Speaker - The Bristol Dubstep Scene" - Documentary

[docholligay]

Holligay Tries Things That Aren't Running: Kettlebell AMPD

The answer is a very obvious, 'Because people like it that way' but I swear to god, working out in groups is just choreography, and, why?

I walk into Kettlebell AMPD after a full week of doing strength classes, and I'm not too proud to tell you: I am beat to shit. I literally put dinner on the table and ran out in my Extremely Noble Quest to win an overpriced and unnecessary kitchen item, after having ran in the morning, and the idea of lifting a weight is not thrilling to me.

But, the only way to get a sticker is to do this class, and I've picked it specifically because it's only 45 minutes, and not an hour, and I am lazy.

The teacher's name is Lacy*. I am worried that she will think I'm a lazy shit, because I have every intention of picking up a 10 pound kettlebell and being a lazy shit. Echoes of Boot Camp haunt my mind. She'll see me for sure.

Then she struggles to tell the teenage boys playing hoops that open gym is over, and I offer to do it.

I grab my ten pound kettlebell. She ain't saying shit.

A kettlebell is essentially a flat-bottomed bowling ball with a handle. I've been in enough classes involving weight to have a rough idea of what is going to go on here, but what I could not have imagined is that the squats and bicup curls and whatnot would be set to the beats of That's What I Call Music: Doc is in and around High School.

I want you to imagine trying to get a serious workout in while you're listening to Fall Out Boy and The All American Rejects. You're doing squats in time the Good Charlotte. Am I the dad rock?? I ask myself. I never listened to this stuff really, but there is nothing like the popular music of your generation being used to inspire a bunch of greying women in t-shirts to make you realize that the greying woman is you, DocDoc.

All of which would have been fine until some other unspeakable mid00s hit came on, and she displayed a motion of making a wide swing with the kettlebell, trading it over at the top of her head, squatting down and passing it to the other hand, again, through her legs.

Like most people just this side of 40, I have a handful of infirmities, my only saving grace being that they were caused by something other than being old: Being an idiot.

When I was about 19, I fell through the floor of an abandoned farmhouse, from the second floor to the first, and have a handful of issues to show for it. A few light scars that most people never notice unless I point them out, a knee that gives me trouble occasionally, an elbow with a weak ligament that gets overtaxed easily, but most interestingly, a hand that drops something if I grip it wrong.

I assume this is some kind of nerve injury, as it's the same hand that loses feeling in two of the fingertips if it gets cold, but I don't know as I've never had the money and inclination to chase down an injury for which the diagnosis will be: Hell of a thing! But what it means is I often have to be thoughtful about the way I lift something with that hand, especially something heavy. I have done it so long that people never notice I do it, and honestly it's generally easy to avoid.

Swinging a kettlebell around my legs and through the air to the beat is PRIME TIME for me to be grabbing something incorrectly and sailing it off into Kelsey's head. I stand there for a moment like an idiot, unsure of what to do. Then i just go grab a 5 pound kettlebell and .5% ass it.

I would say I got nothing out of the class, but in fairness I didn't really give it anything to reinvest, it's not like I was actually trying. I don't think I would do it again though, it was weightlifting without any actual oomph. I would go to that class every week and never get any stronger.

We finished with a stretching session to Jimmy Eat World's song about a dead person.

*Or, as with these (reviews? Thoughts? Pointless asides?) a close enough approximation of her name.

[hexhomos]

Why does concept art debonair Jayce looks... like that

cis nerds in the mid00s trying to draw a chad.jpg

[thealogie]

so here's a little rant & i wanna gauge your opinion on the matter. i just finished watching civil war (it's finally available digitally) and... it doesn't look like ass. not that i expected it to but you know how everything looks overly HD right now and it's just awful? well it wasn't like that. and that got me wondering what's really happening with camera/lenses quality right now because i was beginning to think the move to everything looking overly crisp and awful was kinda forced by the way they make camera equipment/technology now, but there are many things that still look fine, not 80s-mid00s amazing, still a bit too HD for my taste, but fine. meanwhile there are things like good omens that look so bad it's legitimately triggering some kind of ocd for me and physically hurts my soul. like apart from lighting/director decisions it's just so damn sharp, it makes MS and DT look grotesque (even though they are objectively good looking, or at least on the nice side of normal looking, guys). do you have an opinion / some technical knowledge on the matter? why is this happening?????? if select movies can still get their cinematography looking nice then what's the deal with all these other productions being offensively ugly looking? i don't get itttttt. like obviously one assumption would be budget differences but you'd think then they would get older equipment that's not ultra HD shit. or is ultra HD shit cheaper. help me out here because i honestly can't watch most things made post-covid they are so terrible looking. iwtv is another example of something that looks too HD to me btw, just so you don't think my issue is like with bad direction (but rather image quality? idk how to put into words my hate of ultra HD in technical terms)

I had the same reaction when I watched challengers yesterday!

It’s film v. digital. I haven’t watched civil war but even to be untrained eye I could guess that challengers was shot on 35mm film, not digital. That’s why it has that beautiful warm grainy quality. I would say 95% of movies and tv shows are now shot digitally - it is much cheaper overall. No risk of the film being damaged or worrying about the literal cost of physical film you’re burning through. and in digital you can choose a lot of your setting when you’re shooting.

Now within digital, you have 2k and 4k (ultra high def) as you call it. And this is where we reach the limits of my technical knowledge because like…better call saul was mastered in 4k and it still looks fucking fantastic!! This is why I will still blame light design/directing because we have proof that 4k can look good. It’s just the way everyone else is color correcting/lighting the scenes that’s the problem

[sharoscylla]

Triple Zero was SO much easier to read and enjoy than Hard Contact but oh my GOD

KAL SKIRATA THE MAN THAT YOU FUCKING ARE... I'm so obsessed. He's the only good dad alive but he had to be the shittiest dad alive in order to learn how to be anything worth the faith his second generation of children gave him. He's the one character that was SO darn common in shit I read in the late 90s-mid00s and I would have been SO obsessed with him as a teen. He's got a stupid fucking knife and a cool leather jacket (awesome) and "60 year old man in the year 2000" opinions about women (dreadful, awful, dumbass) and he bitches at Etain for not telling Darman she's pregnant .5 seconds after finding out and then proceeds to plan to indefinitely never fucking tell Darman about his son. Oh my God I need to sink my teeth into this tiny feral DILF and shake him like a terrier with a RAT

[temporal-mechanic]

tags: #mid00s au, #coffee shop au, #fluff, #period typical homophobia, #lemon

[sweeetbuns]

00s Playlists on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/user/stronglook?si=uKsxThfIRiGTw_8axKMizw 

[sunraize]

santi: did u wanna be gettin bootycalled bc i can totally do that? santi: aha hey... d2f???? santi: jking man... but yea i agree. why r europeans scary??? n OTT. they're doin waayyyyyy 2 much! santi: who the hell drinks CARDAMOM cappuccinos n why the hell would i not think they meant cardigan???? THEY R AS WEIRD AS EACH OTHER santi: ok ur comin over l8r n we're watchin mid00s iykyk ;) i will need ur full attention n thoughts on it btw santi: pls say yes pls say yes

rory: Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii rory: Omfg i thought i was getting booty called at first rory: I think they r cool. Kind of scary, tho. Like all intense..... Idk i know ppl like that 2 at Langston but maybe it's extra scary cuz they're fr European.. rory: I am free tho..........booty call or otherwise LMFAO xP rory: What's got u down :( rory: Weed + movies always the best I will even let u choose how about that Lol

[oswednesday]

have you played gnosia? it seems like something youd like

omg i havnt! but this art fucks severely! and the game play Does sound like something id get really into omg like thank you so much! ill def check it out!

[shrimp-apocalypse-now]

tonight we're fuckin in the bejeweled tube

[snakebitesandflippyhair]

this is rlly stupid but i just started like...participating in this kinda shit (idk any other words wtf) and do u have any tips or somethin

the biggest tip is just be yourself! no one likes posers and no one likes when you aren’t being your true self! there aren’t really tips i can give as being emo doesn’t have rules, but if you want to change your style i’d say ebay is really good or even your local thrift store! look at pictures of old emos (2000s, mid00s, 2010s) if that’s what you’re aiming for and try and hunt for similar clothes! hair can go crazy, also! it doesn’t have to be pin straight for you to be emo, that erases so many hair textures and cultures where hair is important, but go ahead if that’s what you want! :) just have fun and be yourself !!

[just-antithings]

Antis in the whump community are so wild to me. Like... we're a community dedicated to hurting characters we like. There are huge sections of the community that enjoy intimate whumpers, noncon, even something resembling a romantic relationship between whumper and whumpee. WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE.

antis would not have survived the mid00s whump community and I say this as the only one in the system who was there