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[bubsyleaf]

i gaf.. . . i gaf,,.... i'm interested in the bubeafy mental illness headcanons ^^

LETS FREAKING GO yay ^_^

DISCLAIMER to anyone reading this is very likely to have ooc parts, I heavily project onto these two and also have my own brain parasites that make everything That Deep, also if my phrasing and commentary is kinda nothing burger I’m sorry everyone in the world has to be nice to me forever

This will be ALL over the place with my thoughts so again .sorry

ANYWAYS bubble and leafy .ouughhhhh boy

headcanon I’ve been the most vocal about is bubble having avoidant personality disorder and leafy having hpd and bpd, while both experience paranoia but in different ways? If that makes sense??? same with their people-pleasing-ier.. ness

bubble avoids conflict resolution and glosses over anything wrong to spare relationships while leafy’s is convinced that she is The Nicest Person In Goiky so HOW could she have done anything wrong??? theres a lot that could be mentioned with bfb bubble and iance and match but i feel like other people smarter than me have explained it better

Okay Randomly Moving On Now- I think the thing that sets apart how and what their paranoia is about or why they try to stay in others good graces is the need for control.

Bubble has rarely had control, she was well regarded in freesmart and held that power of being a full-on member but not any kind of control. Also just how she has to live her life with being.a bubble😭 she rarely has control over her own death and in most cases she’s at the hands of whoever remembers and/or wants to recover her- also just viewer voting in general

leafy NEEDS control. She has to be the one making the decisions and (attempting, in her brain) to be the selfless one all the time + how her obsession with helping others is also (subconsciously imo) a means of control. It sounds bad when saying it out loud😭😭😭😭

this is where I like to go back to my thoughts of them in this constant state of emotional paralysis with eachother; that same keeping-the-peace ‘co-worker’ attitude in bfb. It slips through sometimes (bubbles comment on the sun towards leafy) but it’s so inconspicuous and rare that it doesn’t really register. Also leafy still lacks self awareness TBH 💔

realizing this just went into more of a relationship analysis OOPS my bad .i don’t know what else to add hope this is good enough 🫶

[cyarskaren52]

In 1998, the mainstream Hip-Hop landscape was dominated by No Limit soldiers, Bad Boys, and Wu-Tang killer bees. There was a preoccupiation with floss and, in the wake of the high-profile murders of 2Pac and the Notorious B.I.G., the industry seemed to want to shine as much as possible. Understandable — but out of Yonkers, N.Y., there came a crew. 

With a production wizard, a brash beauty, a trio bred from the streets, and a tortured superstar who was taking the rap game by storm, the Ruff Ryders put the streets squarely on the late 90s pop charts. In doing so, they helped usher in the new millennium of East Coast hardcore: grimy enough for the hood; polished enough for the charts. They owned the streets and the radio. 

Here's 25 of their best bangers.

#26

"JENNY FROM THE BLOCK" - JENNIFER LOPEZ FEAT. JADAKISS, STYLES P [BONUS SONG]

Our BONUS SONG pick is a celebrated classic guest spot! J. Lo got to reconnect with some of that Uptown swag and Yonkers connection when she hooked up w/two-thirds of the LOX. 

#25

"THEY AIN'T READY" - RUFF RYDERS W/JADAKISS, TIMBALAND, BUBBA SPARXXX

They crew from Yonkers made it clear that they had love for that Dirty South swag. VA superproducer Timbaland laced the track, which also features Athens, GA's own: Bubba Sparxxx. 

#24

"WW III" - RUFF RYDERS W/SNOOP DOGG, YUNG WUN, SCARFACE, JADAKISS

Swizz Beatz pulled together a who's-who of legendary emcees for this track from RYDE OR DIE VOL. 2. The song also served as the album opener for the hit compilation.

#23

"NIGGAZ DIE 4 ME" - DRAG-ON FEAT. DMX

X was Ruff Ryders' biggest star, and he had underrated chemistry with the young gun from The Bronx. The lead single from Drag-On's gold-selling 2000 debut album, OPPOSITE OF H2O, is one of the best from Y2K. 

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#22

"WHO'S THAT GIRL" - EVE

The single from Eve’s sophomore album, SCORPION, is one of her most memorable, mostly due to the catchy hook. She’s clearing up any confusion about who she is as a woman and what she brings to the table artistically, carving out space to shine completely on her own.

#21

"KNOCK YOURSELF OUT" - JADAKISS

Never sleep on Jada's ability to craft radio tracks. From his solo debut KISS THA GAME GOODBYE, Jada's second single wasn't a Swizz beat; it was actually produced by The Neptunes. 

#20

"GOT IT ALL" RUFF RYDERS W/EVE AND JADAKISS

Jada and Eve pull off the classic "Battle of the Sexes" with this stellar back-and-forth over a steel drum-driven beat from Teflon. Released a single from Ryde Or Die, Vol. 2, it revived a classic pop music formula (seriously, everybody from Otis Redding and Carla Thomas to Ice Cube and Yo-Yo have done it) for the hardcore bling era.

#19

"WHO WE BE" - DMX

The surging beat is one of the most anthemic X ever rhymed over, and his aggression belies a tour-de-force performance that caps the tail end of DMX's most classic run. The kiddie chorus is the right kind of foreboding:  both a warning and a call-to-arms. 

#18

"MY NAME IS KISS" - JADAKISS

Kiss and The LOX had been well-established by the time he released this declaration of self. It's a showcase for his particular brand of pensive street rap and lyricism, a pronouncement more than an announcement. And proof positive that Kiss has a lane all his own. 

#17

"WHAT'S MY NAME" - DMX

By 1999, the whole world knew who this guy was. But X's hunger was still palatable in every single. Even as the vids got glossier and the collabos got Sisqo-ier, X managed to bring grittiness to hip-hop's surging mainstream over a skittering backdrop by Irv Gotti & Co.

#16

"LET ME BLOW YA MIND" - EVE FEAT. GWEN STEFANI

She'd begun her career on Dr. Dre's Aftermath, but we didn't really get to hear what E-V-E could do with the Good Doctor (and Scott Storch) until this monster hit from the early 00s. Paired with soon-to-be-solo superstar Gwen Stefani, the Philly rhymer delivered a bouncy single that still seems to capture the best of its era.

#15

"SLIPPIN'" - DMX

One of the best examples of DMX's tortured brilliance, the autumnal sadness of this classic perfectly conveys the hopelessness and vulnerability in X's verses. He's an artist who came to embody "write your pain," and this single from his second album is proof positive that few wore angst better.

#14

"LOVE IS BLIND" - EVE

An examination of domestic violence that lingers long after that first listen, Eve's heartfelt single was dedicated to her high school best friend. The Ruff Ryders' First Lady struck back for victims everywhere — and struck a chord with anyone who'd endured, known someone who'd survived, or had lost someone to the pain of abuse.

#13

"WHAT THEY REALLY WANT" - DMX FEAT. SISQÓ

DMX was on quite the singles run, Sisqó was at his post-"Thong Song" peak and over a slinky beat that could only come from Nokio, X rattles off his frustrations as a gruff ladies' man. The infamous name-dropping of "Brenda, LaTisha, Linda, Felicia..." made it one of the most quotable tracks in X's oeuvre and birthed a viral internet challenge almost 20 years after its release.

#12

"GOOD TIMES (I GET HIGH)" - STYLES P

Swizz's inspired flip of Freda Payne is the perfect backdrop for Styles P's ode to herbal refreshment. The hit leadoff single from his A GANGSTER AND A GENTLEMAN album, the track was close to inescapable in 2002; turning up everywhere from Swizz's own compilation to the Kevin Hart comedy SOUL PLANE.

#11

"STOP BEING GREEDY" - DMX

It sounded like a warning, issued from a newcomer ready to take on the flossy chart-toppers dominating the rap game. DMX had a few major hits under his arm when he unleashed this anthem, letting everybody know, regardless of where you stood in hip-hop's hierarchy, you were going to have to contend with the dark rhymer's hunger. 

#10

"WHY" - JADAKISS

Over soulful production from Mobb Deep's Havoc, Jadakiss poses the hood's hardest questions. It proved to be one of his most resonate tracks, and it's not hard to see why. Referencing everything from the prison industrial complex to the early 2002 Oscar race, it became a smash hit in the summer of 2004, skyrocketing all the way to No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. 

#9

"JIGGA MY NIGGA" - RUFF RYDERS W/JAY-Z

NYC-based rap labels were enjoying a friendly competition in the commercially lucrative late 90s. Roc-A-Fella and Ruff Ryders were two of the hottest brands in Hip-Hop. Jay-Z and Roc-A-Fella understood how to walk the balance between ballerific raps and street grit. Hov pairing with Ruff Ryders made all the sense in the world circa 1998. 

#8

"RIDE OR DIE BYTCH" - THE LOX W/EVE AND TIMBALAND

It became a phrase that defined Bonnie & Clyde-esque solidarity for a generation. And it was the single that announced The LOX's second act, as the street rap trio had landed on Ruff Ryders after a highly-publicized departure from Puff Daddy's Bad Boy Records. The Timbo-produced track made it clear the trio from Yonkers could craft radio hits and keep it street. 

#7

"WE GONNA MAKE IT" - JADAKISS FEAT. EVE AND STYLES P

An epic single that served as the first solo hit from Jadakiss, this street anthem (has any song ever epitomized that phrase better?) is one of the best in Ruff Ryders' enviable oeuvre. Alchemist laced Kiss with one of his most inspired beats, and Jadakiss delivers as only he can: the kind of rabble-rousing call to arms that resonated on many a corner.  

#6

"GOTTA MAN" - EVE

There had been odes to thug love before, but none had managed to be so cute, so sweet and so street — all at the same time. Eve's brand of everygirl relatability was unique in the high glamour late 90s, but make no mistake — nobody could blend swagger and sex appeal like the Ruff Ryders First Lady. The kind of song that made many a thug wish they had this sorta girl by their side.

#5

"GO HEAD" - THE LOX

Sometimes you just know an artist is in their element, and just enjoy watching them work. The LOX were, in many ways, the soul of Ruff Ryders. The grimy street tales from the Yonkers trio were always a better fit for Ruff Ryders than Bad Boy, and Sheek Louch, Styles P and Jadakiss do what they do best on this melancholy masterwork from TJ Beatz.

#4

"DOWN BOTTOM" - RUFF RYDERS W/DRAG-ON, SWIZZ BEATZ, AND JUVENILE

Proof positive that nobody does synth-driven fanfare better than Swizz, this epic single gave Drag-On a huge boost leading into his solo career and was one of the few late 90s East Coast/Dirty South collaborations that didn't’ feel forced or awkward. Juvie repped for NOLA’s Cash Money and, circa 1999, this was the two hottest new labels in the rap game joining forces.

#3

"GET AT ME DOG" - DMX FEAT. SHEEK LOUCH

Everybody knew Dark Man X was coming. He’d been making noise via underground performances and several star-making appearances on hit singles by Ma$e and LL COOL J for almost two years. But his first major label single dropped like a grimy bomb in a landscape littered with shiny suits. With his first hit, X made it clear who he was, and also made it clear that the game wasn’t going to drown in jigginess as we raced towards Y2K.

#2

"WHAT Y'ALL WANT" - EVE FEAT. NOKIO OF DRU HILL

She finally had her moment. The "Illest Pitbull In A Skirt" had been waiting in the wings for almost three years, but it was this catchy, salsa-inflected single from the RYDE OR DIE, VOL. 1 compilation that not only let the world know the Philly firebrand had arrived, but made it clear the RR was taking over the radio.

#1

"RUFF RYDERS ANTHEM" - DMX

Could there be any doubt? The song that all but announced the genius of Swizz Beatz, its an anthem in every sense: instantly memorable; a call to arms for the crew; and a song that transcends its time and era. It's the label's theme song, and captures a moment in time that feels immediate and fresh every time you hear that infectious chorus -- but it never feels stuck in 1998. It's a street rap masterpiece. And to think, X didn’t even like the beat when he first heard it

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[helshades]

French prompt! How does one look at être and arrive at fut? (I know "verbs of being" are notoriously unruly, but this was a mystery for me, even though my own language cobbles the tenses from two separate verbs, neither of which have all tenses.) Broader prompt: what used to be the point of passé simple and how did it become "the storybook tense"?

One of my mother’s favourite puns is the following: On ne peut pas naître et avoir été (’One cannot be born and have been’), a play on an old saying, On ne peut pas être et avoir été (’One cannot be and have been’) meaning that one simply cannot live at once in the past and in the present. Grammatically speaking, this isn’t entirely true, though: the French passé composé, like its equivalent the English present perfect, is trying very hard. When you think of it, ‘I have been doing this for the last five minutes’ is telling exactly that: one is performing a continuous action that began some time in the past and is still going at the moment. Every single French pupil learning English was subjected to the example of the vase that one has broken, and is consequently still broken at present. French has one time like this, known as the ‘compound past’, which technically works in the exact same way, except it has come to be used everywhere, replacing even the French equivalent to the preterite, or past simple, to the point that no one uses the French preterite anymore aside from the only people who may get away with reading as highly literary, which isn’t a lot of people nowadays. Children’s books rarely do contain verbs conjugated in the past simple anymore; in (junior) high school, students are only taught the third person of the singular and of the plural for ‘important’ verbs, and a number of people have been pushing for the complete eradication of a tense which they deemed ‘elitist’ for being more complicated than the compound past, which only requires one to know the present-simple forms of auxiliary verb avoir, ‘to have’, plus the past participle of the verb concerned by the action.

Of course, French students used to have no particular difficulty in learning conjugations, no matter how detailed; only, for a few decades now people deeming themselves progressists have imposed new teaching methods based on a supposedly ‘intuitive’ approach to knowledge as well as a downright utilitarian idea of the language itself—what isn’t useful in everyday life will never be of use, and can therefore be dropped altogether. French isn’t taught systemically in French school anymore, grammar rules are generally glossed over and since learning by heart is strongly frowned upon conjugations are more than imperfectly mastered, not to say anything about the basic principles of syntax. Today, it is estimated (by international tests also) that about one third of students enter junior high school (at age 11) without knowing how to read, or write, their own language. Parents usually riot if teachers seek to correct children’s spelling or enunciation, and after each national exam now students take to Twitter to complain about the difficulty of the exceedingly simple tests. In this context, it is very hard to know whether or not the passé simple is meant to fall out of usage definitely—but I suspect it won’t before long, as a matter of fact, as it already serves, along with other grammatical notions, to separate those who do master their own idiom from those who don’t.

In any case, concerning the structure of the simple past and its meaning, I’m reminded of a remark that famous French linguist Émile Benveniste made about the simple past: like narration, in which it is almost exclusively employed, the simple past is non-deictic, whereas discourse as well as the tenses used in it are deictic, meaning they are anchored in the ‘situation of enunciation’, the frame of the dialogue. Being outside the deixis, the simple past operates somewhat remotely from the event which it describes, inducing an impression of temporal and/or spatial distance with it. Quite frankly, it’s hard not to make a parallel here with the postmodern obsession with immediacy and its deep-rooted hatred of the long term...

Speaking of long-term things!

How does one look at être and arrive at fut? Well, that is a splendid question, reaching far into the history of the French language, and in truth all Indo-European languages since they all have the quirky habit of mashing up the conjugations for several verbs expressing slightly different aspects of an action and deciding that they are to be only one verb now—usually, an auxiliary, and the results are just wild. But let’s get a closer look at the conjugation we’re dealing with, here:

You’ll note that I didn’t include (amongst other things) the four tenses of the subjunctive mode, to avoid being too long as I only aim to draw a few explanatory comparisons with Latin, but just in case, I’ll remind you that the present goes que je sois (sois, soit, soyons, soyez, soient) while subjunctive imperfect goes que je fusse (fusses, fût, fussions, fussiez, fussent). And now, hoping you didn’t run away screaming and flailing, I propose a little comparison with the equivalent Latin tenses:

Please fawn over my pedagogical abilities. Once that is over, please note how the conjugation of être was mostly constituted in Old French (from the 9th century onwards), bar a few interesting exceptions, such as the concurrent forms in the future: the older stem, er- or ier-, directly evolved from Latin. Linguists theorised that the stem that ended up in modern French, in ser-, is actually a syntagmatic construction taken from the Latin infinitive (es)sere to which were added special endings borrowed from the conjugation of auxiliary avoir, to have. Romance languages all form their future synthetically. For instance, ‘we will love’, nous aimerons, is literally nous aimer-(av)ons. (Compare to Spanish cantaré, ‘I will sing’, which is cantar + hé.) Where être is concerned, the ser- stem replaced the original infinitive after too many speakers dropped the beginning of infinitive essere, especially in the first person, and a full tense ended up being constituted from that model (hence the ‘syntagmatic construction’ I was mentioning earlier: it didn’t evolve so much as it was reshaped to accommodate usage).

If you know a bit of Latin, you might have frowned upon the infinitive essere, since the classical verb is esse. Esse was a pretty archaic form to begin with, although it was actually conjugated regularly; the -s had mutated to an -r between two vowels in most other verbs pretty early in the evolution of the language, and that is where the French infinitives (-er, -ir, -re) come from. But esse remained unchanged, probably because of its particular role as an auxiliary. On the other hand, in Vulgar Latin, which was Latin as it was spoken by regular people, the strange infinitive got hypercorrected, ‘regularised’, into essere, after getting mistaken for a stem. And since Romance languages are mostly stemming from popular, late-era Latin, rather than the literary language... In Italian, the infinitive is still essere. In Spanish, it evolved into ser. In Occitan, into èser. The t of estre is, as you can see, a French particularity; it’s purely epenthetic, meaning it was only added to ease the pronunciation of the word, in this case after one of the vowels dropped: esre > estre.

The participles of être, however, both in the present (étant) and the past (été, ayant été) don’t come from any version of esse, any more than the imperfect tense, since its Latin equivalent was eram. They come, instead, from an entirely different verb: stare, which evolved into Vulgar Latin estare, which in turn became Old French ester, and which meant ‘to stand, to stay’. Well, it’s actually the origin of verb ‘stay’ in English, which was borrowed from the Old French. In modern French, you’ll find its descendant as rester, ‘to stay, to remain’.

And this is where we come to our strange Latin stem in fui-, and its French equivalence in the simple past. Now where does that come from?! Well, my dear Tatty, it is the last remnant on an archaic verb issued from an Indo-European root °bheu- meaning ‘to grow’, ‘to become’. It’s why the auxiliary in English is ‘to be’, actually! (Proto-Germanic °beuną > Old English bēon > Middle English been). In most languages this Indo-European root gave words beginning in b-. The exceptions are Sanskrit (bh-, with a strong aspiration), Hellenic languages (Ancient Greek φύω, phúô) and Italic languages, where it ended up being pronounced as an f, hence fui. In passing, the original meaning of the Indo-European root, ‘to grow’, has been preserved only in Greek φύσις, phúsis, ‘nature’—hence ‘physics’. Morphologically, though, the root is present everywhere in Indo-European languages, starting with the word ‘future’ itself.

A major difference between Latin (and Greek) and Germanic languages, however, is that fu- in Latin possessed in its meaning the idea of veering towards the completion of an action, but that was expressed differently in the future (participle) and in past-tense narration; eventually, the future aspect was dropped from the language altogether, and all that remained was the stem’s perfective value (the idea of accomplishment, of a done and over thing), which serves to explain how the fu- root came to be specialised in Romance languages as a form destined for the simple past/preterite/perfect tense. (In Germanic languages, the past is defined by the idea of staying in one place, whereas the enunciation is characterised by a general idea of ‘aiming towards’.)

In guise of a conclusion, I heartily recommend the Wikipedia article on the Indo-European copula, which is long and bountiful and makes a few salient points on the topic of this fixture in all Indo-European languages that is a weird, weird little verb corresponding to the English to be, and it tells a lot on the way languages get shaped.

[whydoifeelthisquiet]

@gloss-ier THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHIPPING THIS SO FAST!! I WASN’T EXPECTING IT TO GET HERE SO SOON AND I HAD A HUGE SMILE ON MY FACE WHEN MY MOM BROUGHT THE BOX IN...it’s truly da little things...especially these days <3

[catkowboi]

You know it’s a good day when you get your @gloss-ier package! Going into the weekend like a smooth-dewy ass bitch!

[softcherri]

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[esoanem]

I’m planning to write a sound change applier (like the one over at zompist) for conlanging purposes and probably written up on my conlanging/lingusitics/worldbuilding sideblog glossopoesis as bothj a useful project for my conlanging hobby, but also to help get me more proficient at coding which, given my actual job is definitely something I could use

plan is to duplicate all the functionality of the SCA2 on zompist (except for rewrite rules which, honestly are kinda pointless and I end up wasting more time trying to remember which way round it goes than it saves compared to just putting the changes in explicitly) which means substitution, environmental conditions, deletion, insertion, word boundaries, categories, simple metathesis, nonce categories, category-for-category substitutions, gemination, wildcards, glosses, option characters & exceptions. There are some other bits of functionality I’d quite like to add which are:

multiple exceptionsf

long-range metathesis (e.g. miraculum -> milagro)

explicit indexing of categories (i.e. T{i} > D{i} / _ Z{i} would send a member of category T to the corresponding member of category D when followed by the member of category Z)

updating categories during a set of sound changes (i.e. say you want to use h for a glottal at the start but for whatever reason a velar later, you can move it to the corresponding categories rather than having to leave it in the same one it’s in at the start)

surface filters that apply after ever normal sound change applied (these would also probably need to be able to be turned on and off during the course of the program)

both greedy and non-greedy wildcards (SCA2 has greedy wildcards that match any string only, but also having a wildcard that matches any one character would be useful)

wildcard blocking (i.e. a > æ / _ ... i unless ... includes N; is slightly different from a > æ / _ ... i / _ ... N ... i because the latter would also prevent atini from umlauting when it probably shouldn’t be blocked)

does anyone else have any suggestions on potentially useful features?

Also for code-ier people, any particularly strong feelings on what language to use? It’d need to be able to handle unicode and be fairly easy to develop in on a windows machine (although I suppose I could turn my old laptop into an ubuntu machine) but those are pretty much the only considerations. I suspect bash/awk is strictly speaking the best option here (seeing as awk is literally all about pattern substitution stuff) but for Personal Development reasons I’m leaning towards python or javascript/nodejs.

[wack-ashimself]

Now 'how am I gonna critique a racially motivated movie as a white dude without coming off as an ass?'

'You People.'

Worth the watch?

Definitely. There is more than enough laughs to make it worth at least one go thru.

Original?

HAHAHA. FUCK NO. It's the remake of the remake of guess who basically. 'Guess Who 3: Guess Who-ier?' Just with more current day black culture.

I just want to say 3 things I knew instantly (INSTANTLY) upon watching the movie:

3-It had to be written by a white guy, probably jewish, who was kinda entitled (jonah hill*) and a black person who wanted as much blackness in a movie, without questioning which parts to highlight and which to edit. Just throw it ALL on (kenya barris).

2-Jonah did NOT feel right for the part, and I assumed he paid for it (he did. And wrote it). That is kinda how hollywood started doing it in the 2000s-if you can't star in something, make enough money (or take from your family) to pay for it so you can star in it cuz you own the movie.

1-the director was new, or directing was not their primary thing. The camera work was choppy, at best, editing was sloppy and fantastical (when it was not needed. Only took away from the flow of the movie), and the angles were....just do NOT give kenya barris a fucking camera ever fucking again. Let him write.

So I'm gonna keep this simple:

Cons. -1/5 of the jokes do not work. Either already dated (or soon to be dated) pop culture references, been done before (who had it worse from slavery?), or just bad slap stick (who moves a candle and doesn't put it out? That's just fucking dumb!)

-Jonah hill didn't fit. He's like...the only bad casting decision. Everyone else worked fabulously. side note-him playing 35? HAHAHAHA!

-The camera work. It's so fucking bad for a major hollywood movie. And the 'cool' segue ways just ate up time and budget, let alone, again, messed with the flow. DO NOT FUCK WITH THE FLOW!

Pros: -3/5 of the jokes DO work. (1/5 is dick/child like jokes. That's if you like that stuff). I was laughing far more than I wasn't.

-Eddie was intimidating. I can't name too many movies where eddie made me think he could kill a man, but this movie he was the scary dad in law perfectly.

-Even tho I usually bitch about this, it was predictable. This was a ROM COM. Not a com. I WANTED, nay, NEEDED my happy ending, and got it.

I just felt like they could have had way more scenes between the characters instead of these set ups. Like, why did jonah never meet his fiance's friends? Or her his BEST friend who was a black woman? That would have been interesting as fuck. And we never really dive deep, at all, into jonah's dad or the fiance's mom. Gloss right over them. They could have added to instead of be one trick ponies.

I just felt like they added too much in the wrong places (the longest most boring drake joke of all time is in this movie. You will grind your teeth), and didn't add in the right places (more inter-character development).

you people: 6.8/10.

ps-Best part? Fuck that. Worst part? Jonah being a poser for most of this film, YET, his fiance said she fell in love with him for being real. So...he's real with you, fake with your dad? Best part in PLAY with that worst part? The basketball scene. I ain't gonna tell you; it's worth it. One of the few times my expectations were reverted.

*why does jonah hill have a fucking obsession with hollywood? He like hits every fucking place he can, names and all in the background. Is he secretly working for their tourist industry?

[rememberingthesugden-dingles]

memorieswarm replied to your post “i cannot with people who will gloss over, be all chill and...”

people do a disservice to robert if they woobify him too imo.

god i know, it’s a disservice to everyone tbh!

(this is why antis exist jajaja)

and you know i do sort of do it too sometimes probably, but i believe there’s a way to feel sorry for the stuff that have happened without making him out to be a victim! 

that pub outing with everyone looking at him and him looking so vulnerable? breaks my heart everytime (and i do believe the “with a man” wasn’t necessary, especially in public, for chrissie to let let her anger out but it’s not the point), his face throughout the whole reveal scene? it’s a Lot and i feel awful for him and for aaron because well he wasn’t exactly having the time of his life there

i wish as a fandom we could sympathize with one without crucifying the other, i wish we could recognize both of their flaws etc

bc the fact is they’ve both hurt each other tremendously (we ain’t picked the easiest ship!) but now we get to appreciate their journey and how much they’ve grown to become healthy/ier!

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[strawbkidd]

It just really be like that sometimes

[makinginfinity]

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Maurice

Maurice was a celluloid stasis cable, but please take a moment to appreciate the only character who mattered.

Welcome to the 'highglossfinish' room. thenightetc: Hello! thenightetc: ...Oh dear Knock Out: Oh yes. Knock Out: And hello! thenightetc: Creeping things. Knock Out: Is this how sex education usually works on your planet? thenightetc: Er Knock Out: Are the captions bothering anyone? thenightetc: Not at all Knock Out: Just checking! thenightetc: I like captions; very helpful when I can't make out someone's accent or zone out for a second thenightetc: Ha! Knock Out: Layers and layers of unremitting stuffiness thinly stretched over a torrent of sexual tension...I miss Vos. thenightetc: This is one wild party. Knock Out: They're breaking out the apples and everything. thenightetc: Not to mention the tea! Knock Out: They're attracted to each other by virtue of being the only two humans with personalities. thebes: Hello! My, such stilted reading Knock Out: Hello, Thebes human! Knock Out: You're just in time for apple eating and sitting quietly. thenightetc: You know... tax evasion. Knock Out: That punting was getting a little too wild. Time to take it down a notch with church. thenightetc: Ouch. thenightetc: Ouch again. Knock Out: Very ouch. thenightetc: "Be even later to your class!  I demand it!" Knock Out: They're going to stir up a bull snake. Knock Out: Ouch. thenightetc: Wooooow. thenightetc: I despise people like that. thenightetc: The dean or whoever thenightetc: Throw the wine on him! Knock Out: Breakdown's confused as to why I'm cackling. Knock Out: Best character. thenightetc: Sure, just entrust your letters to random strangers Knock Out: What could possibly go wrong? thebes: This is just going to go 100% according to plan Knock Out: Your planet is awful. Just a reminder. thenightetc: Ohhhh dear Knock Out: Why is the light haired one aging and the other one isn't? thenightetc: Maybe they couldn't make it work for him. Knock Out: Ow. Again. thenightetc: Yeah. thenightetc: Wow. Knock Out: Mmmhmm. Knock Out: Just prod at it. thenightetc: *sigh* thebes: aaaaaaaangst thenightetc: dogs! thebes: good dogs~ Knock Out: New best characters. Knock Out: You know, I picked this movie because no one dies, it might be more interesting if someone did. thenightetc: Eh, that's alright. thenightetc: I mean, the pickings are pretty thin on the ground Knock Out: Entertaining and tragic or this. thebes: period pieces set in this era are practically 80% wheel-spinning anyway thebes: it's part of the genre at this point Knock Out: Are the moustaches that mysteriously come and go also part of the genre? Knock Out: Ew. thenightetc: What...? thenightetc: This sure seems legit Knock Out: This human makes *me* want to go home to my mother. Knock Out: And my "mother" is a hole in the core. Knock Out: Oh please, stop showing us this human's face. thenightetc: This can only end well Knock Out: Oh Unicron, the ominous music! thenightetc: Riveting. Knock Out: Thrilling. thenightetc: Ominous music again thebes: Just absolutely enthralling thenightetc: Eh? Knock Out: If anyone has a more interesting suggestion, feel free to throw it out there. thenightetc: I do want to see how it ends! Knock Out: Likewise, I admit. thenightetc: I just think they didn't need a cricket match. Knock Out: It's an interesting movie when it's not as dull as wet nickel. thebes: And, as movies go, it has only a sub-par amount of nothing happening vs. things happening. I have seen movies where that ratio is through the floor. thenightetc: I know, right thenightetc: He said, like a liar Knock Out: Hah! thenightetc: Well, that got ugl...ier Knock Out: It's a series of increasingly ugly events. Knock Out: Pouncing and Angsting: The Movie. Knock Out: And that would be a human spike. thenightetc: How awkward thenightetc: Ohhhhhh *** off Starscreamapillar: What is all this then? thenightetc: Oh, you missed all kinds of excitement Starscreamapillar: Pity. thenightetc: Even a cricket match Starscreamapillar: The sport, or the insects? thenightetc: The sport. Starscreamapillar: One can never be sure without asking, given the sorts of movies Knock Out has played previously. thenightetc: In all seriousness, it's been all about people's relationships Knock Out: Relationships, angst, and speaking in an even tone. Starscreamapillar: Three terrible things. thebes: Most of this film is empty space they attempt to fill up with banter Knock Out: There's a fascinating story here and a fascinating way to tell it, and we got a cricket match. thenightetc: And a leaky roof thebes: and people we want to smack thenightetc: With exciting piano-moving action Starscreamapillar: I might care more about these people if I had been here the whole time, but your descriptions make me think otherwise. Starscreamapillar: I am waiting for someone to get stabbed, with this score. thenightetc: Wait, that's it? Starscreamapillar: Apparently. Knock Out: Well, that was a whole mess of nothing! thenightetc: Well, we tried Starscreamapillar: I cannot say I am sorry I missed most of it. Knock Out: If anyone's got any interesting videos they'd like to watch for the sake of going out on a lively note, I'm open to them. Starscreamapillar: I can think of nothing offhand... thenightetc: Short notice, buuuuut... here!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVNO6I47G3g thebes: All I've got are horrible nature videos thenightetc: It's, you know, amusing thenightetc: And short...ish thebes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y4DbZivHCY and I have this thebes: whoa, wait, nvm, that one might be too horrible a nature video Knock Out: Sea pig it is! thenightetc: "oooooooh" Starscreamapillar: Earth is home to so many awful creatures. thebes: Yeah, no kidding thenightetc: *leans back* thebes: Yeah, I impulsively picked the worst anmal possible. thebes: That may have been a mistake Knock Out: Well, this has been an enlightening night all around. Starscreamapillar: That is a word for it. thenightetc: That was educational. Knock Out: Thank you for showing us that awful thing. thebes: To be fair pretty much anything in the ocean is going to be awful Knock Out: True. True. Starscreamapillar: True. Megatron was shedding weird organisms for months after his stint as a reef. thebes: and that's just the weird stuff, not the aggressively awful stuff thebes: the deep sea hatchetfish has the face of nightmares thenightetc: Ha! thenightetc: A face made for radio. thebes: oh yeah, size is a factor sometimes too. Like, all the videos about how awful the anglerfish is gloss over that it's eight feet long thenightetc: I may regret this but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-skKMQiBDA thenightetc: Isn't nature amazing? thebes: clipping wolves are one of nature's glories thenightetc: Majestic. Knock Out: I think that's a decent place to wrap things up for the night. Starscreamapillar: That was weird, as always. Thank you for hosting. Until next time. thenightetc: It probably is. thenightetc: Thanks!  It was a good time, despite the best efforts of the director. thebes: indeed it was Knock Out: Always glad to hear it! Knock Out: Good night, everybody! thenightetc: Goodnight thebes: good night!

[valenschirico]

The holidays season is nearing, and everything in town dressed up with baubles and fairy lights. You may want some glitters for you, don’t you? Jolie Beauty has listened to your seasonal wishes with its Bomb Dot Com 24 shade glitter palette…

You can recreate that jolly atmosphere with your makeup looks and the help of this explosive glitter palette by Jolie Beauty.

Jolie Beauty Bomb Dot Com 24 shade glitter palette: product & package

It’s a real glitter bomb! Jolie Beauty Bomb Dot Com is a makeup palette with 24 pressed glitters safe to use on both eyes and face. This palette is featherlight and comes with a matching protective sleeve. Its package runs over you with a light beam: the whole palette is rose gold and a finelly glittery to the touch, inside and out. It has a magnetic closure and a large mirror inside.

Texture and formula As all Jolie Beauty products, the Bomb Dot Com palette is cruelty-free and vegan. These cosmetic-graded glitters are pressed into singular pans in a clear base. In some shades, this base feels pleasantly cooling and with a jelly texture. The clear base eases the application and minimises the use of glue, other adhesives or creamy products, even though I highly suggest them (see how to use). Of the 24 shades, 23 are made of micro shimmery particles, that an optical illusion makes them look varying in dimensions (see chart). Sugar is the only shade in this palette with a crystal-like texture due to its chunkier glitters.

How to use: It may sound straightforward, but these glitters need some instruction: apply the glitters with a synthetic flat brush, preferably with a stiff texture, and tap them over your lids or skin until you get the desired intensity and coverage. The colours can be overlayed; put on the top of a coloured cream base or dabbed with eyeshadows and pigments to intensify the colours and effect. When it comes to glitters or very dark eyeshadows, it’s always better to start from the prep and eyes first. Once the eyes are ready and sparkly in glory, remove any fallouts with a face wipe and continue with your base.

Glitter removal: carefree as a sip of bubbles. Cheers!

… and how to remove: These glitters can be removes swiftly with any makeup remover wipes. If any glitter falls later on, when the face is ready, some washi tape comes in handy. I recommend this Japanese decorative tape because it’s sticky but gentle. I also suggest attaching the washi tape to the back of your hand to dampen its stickiness as a good practice.

COLOUR CHART

24 shades… too much for a single Valens-style post! Here’s an easy chart to define every and each shade.

  Jolie Beauty BOMB DOT COM 24 shade glitter palette

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#1a Lagoon Cyan (sub primary) w/ silver watershine shimmer Microglitters + clear base (easy to build up) #1b Steel Light sky blue w/ silver shimmer Microglitters + clear base (slightly uneven texture) #1c Cocoa Rich brown w/ copper shimmer Microglitters (different sizes) + clear base (easy to build up) #1d Princess Light hot pink (bubblegum pink) + iridescent shimmer (green, celeste, orange) Microglitters + clear base (good application) #1e Ballet Carnation pink w/ silver shimmer Microglitters (different sizes) + clear base (need more layers) #1f Sugar Clear to white w/ shifting silver shimmer Chunky glitters + clear base (drier base, uneven application) #2a Ignite Carmine w/ full red/orange shimmer Microglitters (different sizes) + clear base #2b Mermaid Aquamarine w/ shifting shimmer (mint green/aqua green) Microglitters (different sizes?) + clear jelly base (need more layers) #2c Firefly Light lavender w/ iridescent watershine shimmer (green, yellow, pink) Microglitters (different sizes) + clear jelly base (needs more layers, great light point) #2d Infinity Light celeste (on the pan)/light lavender (on skin) w/ holo shimmer (yellow, green, orange) Texture and base like Firefly but packed like Disco and Golden Ticket #2e Showgirl Magenta dye w/ full fuchsia shimmer Microglitters + clear base #2f Crowned White gold w/ metallic shimmer Microglitters (different sizes) + clear base (great light point) #3a Swell Electric medium blue w/ full blue shimmer Microglitters + clear base (very packed) #3b Amazon ‘GO’ green w/ iridescent shifting shimmer (yellowing/mint green) Microglitters + clear jelly base (very packed) #3c Regal Deep purple w/ shifting purple/red shimmer Microglitters + clear jelly base (very packed) #3d Cherrybomb Red/magenta with ton sur ton shimmer Microglitters + clear base #3e Superstar Bright Barbie pink w/ strong blue component + full pink shimmer Microglitters + clear base #3f Golden Ticket True gold w/ full yellow gold shimmer Microglitters + clear base (very packed = foil effect) #4a Seabed Deep lapiz-lazuli w/full blue shimmer (on skin)/purple w/ red microshimmer (on the pan) Microglitters + clear base #4b Zest Lime green w/ full metallic shimmer Microglitters (different sizes) + clear jelly base (like Mermaid and Amazon) #4c Disco Silver w/ holo schimmer (blue, mint green, orange) Microglitters + clear jelly base (very packed = foil effect) #4d Rosy Vintage rose w/ silver hue (salmon on the pan) + full rose shimmer Microglitters + clear base #4e Blossom Cherry blossom pink w/silver hue + w/ full pink shimmer Microglitters + clear jelly base #4f Just Jolie Honey gold w/ warm component + full golden shimmer Microglitters + clear base (apply almost like Golden Ticket)

  In short, this palette has many bright colours mainly in the blue and red spectrum but lacks dark shades, except for Cocoa, a very intense brown. These glitters have a crazy metallic finish and, interestingly, a portion of this palette has a ‘watershine’ effect, an iridescent and holo shine. Some shades, like Disco, Golden Tickets and to some extent Just Jolie, can be dabbed until creating a metallic foil effect like a pigment. This ‘trompe l’oeil’ (a French, hence chic, way to say ‘optic illusion’) is due to the glitters being heavily packed in their clear base. Most of the glitters, instead, look sparse and need more layers.

PROS:

it’s vegan and cruelty-free;

(23 out of 24) the glitters have a fine in texture;

(23 out of 24) the glitters are very gentle to the skin;

very shiny;

easy to remove;

relatively easy to work with;

have a buildable coverage;

have different finishes;

the package is sturdy yet light;

includes a large mirror.

CONS:

a sticky base is always needed;

one shade is grittier and harder to use;

(lack of dark shades).

SWATCHES

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If I could describe this palette with an image, I could say it’s a loud and instant party! The ace in the hole: when you need something spectacular and shocking, this palette has it. The Bomb Dot Com palette comprises 24 shades for a total of 19.2 grams at a regular price of £27.99 online at JolieBeauty.com (now at £20.99 for the extended Cyber Monday and payable with Klarna small payments).

I played around with this palette because it’s made for that! I created two sparkly looks for the holidays I want to share with you. Nice or naughty, how are you going to be these holidays?

When I think of glitters, Christmas tinsels come to my mind. For how much it may sound typical, I still like and wear glittery eyeliners. I made this daytime ‘nice look’ with an organic white kajal (L’Avril Blanc Lunaire) as a base where to stick three glitter shades from this bombastic palette: Rosy, Regal and Amazon. At the bottom of the lower lash line and right at its centre, I dotted Firefly with a pinch of Just Jolie to add an unexpected drop of light in this simple look.

A paired this with fuller and bright lips: Lord&Berry Ultimate Lip Liner in Vintage Rose with a touch of MCo. Beauty Peachy Gloss.

‘Nice’ daytime holiday look Face: Ciaté Watermelon Burst Hydrating Primer + Joah Beauty Pore De-Activator Pore Minimizing & Mattifying Primer + Esteé Lauder Doublewear Stay-in-Place Foundation 1W2 Sand + Jolie Beauty Second Powder Bronzer in Latte + Blusher in Rendezvous + Highlighter in Dreaming Eyes: WinkyLux Peeper Perfect Concealer in Medium + Boutique by Sainsbury’s Flawless Hydrating Illuminating primer + Joah Beauty Lash Up rising in Blackest Black + MannaKadarBeauty Goddess makeup palette (eyebrow and eye base) + Marc Jacobs Beauty Highliner Matte Gel Eye Crayon in Iron(y) (tighline) + Mist me? (waterline) Lips: Lord&Berry Ultimate Liner in Vintage Rose + MCo Beauty Peachy Gloss (centre)

If this is for the day, what would be my night holiday? Get naught(ier) with this glittery crease. The neutral eye base created with MannaKadar Beauty Goddess makeup palette has been spiced up with a reddish glitter liner (Cherrybomb) to which a sharp crease connects (Cocoa).

To keep these shades in place, I used the same white kajal as a guideline and base for winged eye and an e.l.f. brow pomade from an eyebrow kit to fill in the crease. I created a light point in the inner corner with Disco, and layered the glitters several times and topped with coordinated eyeshadow palettes (from MannaKadar Beauty Goddess palette and Forgive Me Suzie x Birchbox red/gold/copper eyeshadow palette). With such dramatic eyes, I dressed my lips with a caramel gloss by Neve Cosmetics (Venissage in Dama con l’ermellino).

‘Naughty’ holiday look Joah Beauty Pore De-Activator Pore Minimizing & Mattifying Primer + Esteé Lauder Doublewear Stay-in-Place Foundation 1W2 Sand + Jolie Beauty Second Powder Bronzer in Latte + Blusher in Flushed + (new) Highlighter in Saintly Eyes: WinkyLux Peeper Perfect Concealer in Medium + Boutique by Sainsbury’s Flawless Hydrating Illuminating primer + Joah Beauty Lash Up rising in Blackest Black + MannaKadarBeauty Goddess makeup palette (eyebrow and eye base) + Forgive Me Suzie (Birchbox) eyeshadow palette in Eye Swear + Marc Jacobs Beauty Highliner Matte Gel Eye Crayon in Iron(y) (tighline) Lips: Neve Cosmetics Vernissage lip gloss in Dama con l’ermellino

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Nice or naughty is such a subtle difference, a thin line of glitters…

It’s all about eyes but my face has something interesting: for the day makeup, I used Jolie Beauty Second Skin Powder Bronzer and Blusher Latte+Rendezvous. The night look includes the combo Latte+Flushed. There’s more! This review wants to be a preview of the new launches from the Second Skin Collection: the highlighter Dreaming for the day look and Saintly for the night. Trust me, these newest highlighters are as light as the Second Skin compacts (complete review) but with an ethereal glow.

‘Ethereal glow’: Jolie Beauty Second Skin Powder Highlighter in ‘Saintly‘

These glitters lasted for more than 8 hours before I could see the first fallouts, but the glitters placed closer to the crease tended to move earlier. Although a glitter glue isn’t a strict necessity, it would be very welcome, especially in case of long and lively events as New Year’s Eve. Nevertheless, with minimal expense and effort, I made both looks last longer than expected.

A last look inside…

Of course, an extended glitter palette like the Bomb Dot Com isn’t for everyone and doesn’t fall into the essential makeup list, but it’s ideal for artists and playful people. I had fun and magic all over my carpet these weeks, and I will play more often with it. Even if it isn’t an essential item, this palette offers great quality and an incredible gentle touch to the skin. I simply wished for more dark hues… Holidays season is coming, and this Jolie Beauty palette is like fairy light for your eyes only!

Valentina Chirico aka Valens

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Jolie Beauty Bomb Dot Com 24 shade #glitter #crueltyfree palette - #review, swatches and holiday looks The holidays season is nearing, and everything in town dressed up with baubles and fairy lights.