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Yes! I'm so fucking tired of this corporate sanitization. Let subtitles say fuck!

STOP CENSORING SUBTITLES/TRANSCRIPTS/CLOSED CAPTIONS

LET DEAF AND NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE READ “FUCK”

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Jaculinykus😪

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#TextileTuesday:

“Border fragment of wool with a continuous band of #hummingbirds and fringelike appendages representing beans. Early Nasca [Nazca, Peru, c.1-450 CE]. Pollination of bean plants by birds may be suggested here. Border was formed using a needle-knit stemstitch.”

On display at American Museum of Natural History [41.2/6321]

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classic cinema is such a great pastime cause you'll hear somebody say yeah this movie changed cinema forever and is still the standard 70 years later and you'll go into it like surely it can't be good and come out of it like wow no it is that good actually. like this every time

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This is Rexy V2, I'm so glad I stuck to it and spent more time on his design. The next step is to learn animation ^_^ Rexy and Cera are friends not food.

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Watching this country unravel from the seams is the scariest fucking thing I've ever witnessed. Can we ever go back? Knowing that people like Trump and his cabinet can so blatantly abuse the power structures in this country? Knowing that so many normal citizens support this behavior? Can we ever go back? I don't know, but I don't think so.

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What my dog, Max (aka Bubby) does every single time I approach him, haha.

Sorry for the breathing at the end, I was trying desperately to keep myself from laughing. In fact sound off for this one x.x

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stolen from that social media site gay millennials and grumpy boomers use

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“Covid game me narcolepsy” no you fucking pervert it didn’t. You’re just a weirdo with a gross fetish. Covid didn’t make you suddenly want to fuck dead people. Keep that shit to yourself you gods damned weirdo

I have type 2 Narcolepsy. Studies have shown that serious viral infections can cause people to develop Narcolepsy if they are already genetically susceptible to having it. This includes covid. That is what happened to me.

You on the other hand might want to google the difference between Narcolepsy and Necrophilia….

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Keep up the great work, lads

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What video game hoaxes did you fall for as a kid?

Mine were all Pokemon Red/Blue related.

1. You can get mew by using strength on the truck.

That one is pretty famous, I don't know a single person who didn't fall for it at the time. It just seemed so probable.

2. You can access Bill's garden/backyard.

Another semi-famous one. The rumor was of you did a series of events you could access Bill's backyard where you could catch togapi and pikablue (marill, but nobody knew the name at the time, we just knew it was a blue Pikachu look-alike.) I eventually did glitch myself into his backyard, but of course nothing was back there, lol.

3. You could access a secret area behind the Indigo Plateau if you beat the elite four 100 times.

Yes I fell for this one, even though it was extremely stupid. This rumor was after Pokemon the first movie but before gold/silver in the US, so you were supposed to be able to catch togapi, pikablue, and donphan. I did wise up before finishing all 100 runs because it took forever and was boring, I barely got to 30 and that took like a day. The battles are quick, but you have to wait for everyone to talk, and to slowly walk on and off screen, and then watch the credits. Over. And. Over. Again.

So those are mine, tell me yours!

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Thank you for breaking it down into something simple and easy to understand.

Most of my idiot relatives think teriffs cost other countries money, as in those countries pay the terriff and not the small businesses they claim to support. My aunt constantly claims to do "research" while spewing that nonsense. These are people who used to be competent and compassionate, and I honestly don't know how they got here.

Lol, well that went off topic. Anyway good break down, thank you.

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Love when I'm reading and the phrase "two-way glass" comes up because I'm like...

Did they mean one-way glass?

Or are they trying to think of a silly way to say window?

Usually the former, but I like to imagine they meant a window and it usually makes the scene a whole lot funnier.

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Memory is such a tricky thing.

Yesterday I was trying to find this song. I remembered it was a country song about two people crossing paths in a grayhound bus and falling in love, then later in life finding each other again and staying together. I was convinced this was a real song, I remembered it but couldn't remember the lyrics.

After searching for over an hour I realized that somehow my brain had combined "Don't Stop Believing," with "In the Backseat of a Greyhound Bus" and decided that was a real and true song that I definitely heard on the radio when I was younger.

It's so bizarre every time I realize something like that is happening to me, lol.

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Okay, I'm reblogging this again because I've now watched the film.

First of all, I want everyone to know that the entire movie is absolutely full of shots like this. Big sweeping shots done all in one take. Every single one of them is beautiful and they all tell a story all on their own. Not a single second of this movie is without amazing camera work. I don't even agree that this shot is the most impressive because I don't think any of the sweeping shots are more impressive then one another. However, the sweeping shot over the pool, then into the pool, before we enter the casino is honestly jaw dropping.

My personal favorite sweeping shots are the casino arch. We follow a singer for a while, we see Americans indulging in the opulence, we see crowds, at one point we go into a pov of one of the Americans and people make eye contact with the camera very deliberately. This same arch then has another sweeping shot through a shanty town following the same American. Again we get a pov of him, very deliberate eye contact, then a pull back to see his reactions. It's fucking beautiful and haunting.

I Am Cuba is two and a half hours long, and most of that runtime is voiceless, sometimes even silent, but it is never quiet. It is deliberate, it is letting us breathe and see, it has something to say.

I expected much more propaganda, mostly because of the time. It's true, this movie is propaganda, but none of it is unjustified. This is a movie celebrating an independence that was hard won, it is telling it's story and it is celebrating. Do not make the mistake of thinking this is a war movie, it is not. When people are shot there are no wounds, no blood, only the camera hanging on those people as they use their last moments to keep going. The wounds aren't important, the blood isn't important, it's the message that is important.

I am telling you, watch this movie. It has been restored to 4k with the original Spanish audio. It has English subtitles, it's very easy to find and watch. I have honestly never seen camera work quite like this. I can only compare it to Kurosawa. We just don't see movies with camera work like this anymore, I was blown away.

Please watch it, I'm begging you.

This 'impossible' crane shot from Mikhail Kalatozov's SOY CUBA (1964) ...

IS the greatest and quite remarkable one shot scene of them all.