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TIL that Harvard professor Tom Lehrer was asked at the age of 84 by rapper 2 Chainz if he could sample his 60-year old song. Lehrer replied, “I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?”

via ift.tt

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Cryptic visions of space and time...

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Incidentally there may be no clearer case of having the best taste in men ever known than Eowyn.

Sees Aragorn, son of Arathorn, AKA the Literal Hottest Human Man Alive, and is like oh DAMN. DAMN OKAY. YEAH I WOULD LIKE ME A PIECE OF THAT THANKS.

Finds out he's already taken, gets sad about it, slays the Witch King of Angmar, and then sees Faramir, AKA the Second Hottest Human Man Alive, and goes 'WELL THEN'.

Literally the best taste in men possible. Get it girl.

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Can you guess this meme?

Watch the season finale of Um, Actually on Dropout!

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Me and my cousin have an ongoing bit where we pretend we made "slightly better" versions of things where we'll be like.

"That was a pretty good movie, but not as good as my movie, House of 1001 Corpses," or "I guess this song is okay. Kind of reminds me of a song I'm working on called 'Faster Car'."

Never once has it been funny or made anyone but us laugh.

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Superman: Red & Blue #5 - “De-Escalation” (2021)

written by G. Willow Wilson art by Valentine De Landro

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I have never seen Sam Reich so mortified. Roasted like a burnt Thanksgiving turkey. That man almost immediately bailed on the "don't laugh" game for the "try to survive being up here" game.

There's a Critical Role joke about half way through that I burst out laughing at so hard I had to pause the episode because I couldn't hear it over my own uncontrollable cackling.

11/10. Breaking News writers knock it out of the park.

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The OP uses he/him pronouns.

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Today I am testing tealights for their true purpose. Will this lil candle keep my tiny teapot warm. Let's find out.

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Irish Tesco worker nails church acoustics in work stairwell

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OK, but I love that Essek might be appearing in the Mighty Nein series before he meets the Nein! It's not just me wanting More Essek (though I do) or wanting to see more of what was going on with his dealings with the Assembly (which I also do). I think this could be super fucking interesting from a narrative construction standpoint.

Because I cannot see how you can include Essek from early in the series and not make it clear to the audience that he's the Dynasty traitor loooong before the Nein find out. Essek having stolen the beacons will not be a surprise. It looks to me like the cast are swapping out surprise for a fuckton of suspense. (Suspense vs surprise was explained to me when I was studying narrative structure as 'surprise is when a bomb goes off that the audience didn't know was there. Suspense is when they see the bomb being placed and have to sit there begging the characters to realise it's there.' In this analogy, Essek is the bomb.)

When we watched C2, the question was is Essek the traitor? In the M9 show, the question for new watchers will be when will the Nein realise that Essek is the traitor? When Essek meets the Nein, the countdown starts ticking; people will know that he is a danger. He is manipulating them. He is going to hurt them. Will the Nein realise before it's too late? But then Essek starts really befriending them, showing more of his loneliness and vulnerability, and... I think the mood will shift. Oh, shit, he really cares about them, doesn't he? What will the Nein do if they find out? Do I even want them to find out? What if they reject him and it makes him worse? He can't keep this up much longer, this is unbearable, they're going to find out - OH FUCK THEY'RE FINDING OUT -

It's such a fascinating choice and I think it goes to show that adaptation is an art form in itself! The actual events in the world will be the same, or at least very similar, but a new format means you can show those events in a totally new way and create a completely different tone! Narrative structure is the fucking coolest! I'm so excited for this show!

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From the EW article:

In terms of what story the show is adapting with this first season, fans will surely have theories once they get a glimpse of Essek Thelyss, a drow wizard from the Kryn Dynasty. Matt Mercer, who created the world of Exandria and serves as Critical Role's de facto Dungeon Master, voices Essek, a crucial figure during a certain conflict that involves the Kryn Dynasty, the larger Empire in Wildemount, and a stolen artifact. "One of the things Matt harped on over the years is that, as much as everybody loves their favorite hot boy, Essek Thelyss, he for a very long time was not a very good person," Willingham comments. Similar to how LVM adapted the more nefarious characters to the screen, like the Briarwoods, The Mighty Nein will expand upon Essek's story, showing story material that happened "off screen" (metaphorically speaking, since there are no screens in a table-top campaign). "You'll see the machinations both happening in the Empire and the Dynasty, all the things moving behind the scenes, and really who was Essek," Willingham continues. "How did he get to be in the place where he was, moving these large pieces and affecting a large portion of the world in The Mighty Nein?"

Matt will be voicing Essek! We get to see him at his original dastardly best! Very exciting!! Incredible news for annoying people everywhere (such as me)!!

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