#incredible discoveries

[dougielombax]

Holy SHIT!

No way!

No FUCKING way!

New shit has come to light! (To quote The Big Lebowski)

Somebody found the original source for the backrooms image!

(Screenshot is from the backrooms subreddit, credit to the uploader (I forgot their username))

And an additional pic from Tw*tter as well.

Holy shit!

At LAST!

I’m gonna include a few web links for good measure.

(THE NEW!)

I knew it would happen eventually but still.

This is incredible.

To me at least (shut up).

Feel free to reblog.

Apparently it’s an indoor racetrack now or something like that. Somewhere in Wisconsin.

Backrooms Kart when? (PLEASE DON’T! THIS IS A JOKE!)

[echoeyee]

[tathrin]

Hey, so do you ever stop to think about how the premise of Lord of the Rings being an in-universe book written by some of the characters who lived through that story means that they decided what parts and perspectives to use to tell that story...?

And when our authors weren't there to experience the events themselves, they have to rely on what they're told about them by the characters who were there, right...?

Okay so stop and think about the Glittering Caves.

We never actually go to the caves in the narrative. Tolkien LOVES describing nature and natural beauty, but we don't actually see the caves described "by him" the way we do other places. Obviously Gimli's words are Tolkien's, yes; but we only see the caves filtered through his words about them, after the fact.

When Gimli and Éomer and the other Rohirrim take refuge there, the narrative doesn't follow them. Obviously from a narrative standpoint this is to keep the focus narrow, and not to interrupt the battle-sequence with a long ode to the beauty of the caves, and to create tension in the reader who doesn't know if these characters are okay or not. Which all makes sense!

But think about it in terms of the book that was written in Middle-earth by the folk living there. Why DON'T we get to have a direct experience of those caves? Gimli obviously related several other parts of the story that none of the Hobbits were there to witness to them, and which were written into the books as Direct Events Happening In The Narrative (think of the Paths of the Dead scene, for one of the more visceral moments!). So why not the Glittering Caves?

Was it because they wanted to keep that narrative focus and tension, and so they didn't include his perspective on that part of the battle? Perhaps, that's certainly a possibility to consider.

But also consider: when we do hear about the Glittering Caves, what we hear is Gimli telling Legolas about the Glittering Caves. THAT is the part of that event that is considered of importance to include in the book: not Gimli's actual experience when he was in them, but rather the part where he relates that experience TO Legolas.

And I kind of just THOUGHT about that today.

And went HUH.

[autisticburnham]

I have personally always disliked Amanda on account of first appearance involving slapping Spock for having medical autonomy, but the fandom has always loved her and talked about what a great mom she is. So it is on some level gratifying to have Discovery confirm that she does indeed suck as a mom, but oh, it's so awful to watch Michael go through all of this

[arson-is-the-answer]

THEIR SHIP NAME IS DYHARD?????

[ifwebefriends]

“Oh look at that! A short little video essay on YouTube about a movie I liked as a kid! Maybe I should watch that movie again…”

*15 hours later*

“What do you mean that there’s a spiritual successor to Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons and it’s mostly goth/nerdy tweens from 2000s-era experimental Disney movies?!”

[moethh]

i was yesterday years old when i found out Anthony Perkins could literally sing. forever cursed to wish that he had played Javert in the musical now

like

just listen to these:

[dogd0m-charlie]

omg guys you're never gonna believe what i just found out recently.. turns out having sex is a lot more fun and enjoyable when you don't approach it with the expectation that the other person intends on taking advantage of you and making you uncomfortable at any possible opportunity they're given and it's your job to make sure you don't give them one. who would've thought

[rukafais]

fascinated by people implying that all DnD campaigns run on homebrew because the game system sucks, i thought it was the huge monopoly and the capitalism problem that made DnD suck and not the perfectly solid system that lots of people play because they like it and not because they're ignorant hooligans who homebrew to cope with the fact it can't be Pathfinder 2E or whatever

Edit: Everyone reblogging this saying the person who wrote the massive essay on my post is SO CORRECT can go and get their own damn post because that's not what my post was about. Good christ.

[kindlythevoid]

Okay, so, full disclosure I have only seen Top Gun 2 (I know it’s not called Top Gun 2; I apologize) BUT I wanted to say that I absolutely LOVE the different ways Tom Cruise’s characters approach Things That Can Fly.

Like, in Top Gun, Maverick (?) is, obviously, a Maverick, and very skilled at what he does, the hallmark of a genius is when they can teach it, etc. etc. Like the man sees the thing go up and just vi br a t es with the thought of Go Up!!!! I love that for him, but he also knows exactly what every button is and why he can do certain things that he does. Pretty sure you have to have some sort of masters or PhD in Air Flying Vehicles or something equally smart.

Now, with this knowledge, watching Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible is so funny. This man has a PhD in hanging off airplanes. He stepped foot (metaphorically) into a helicopter and was only able to figure anything out because it was labeled. The entire time!! he was flying!! it was screaming at him!! and he decided to keep going through pure willpower!! It was ON FIRE!!!

Like, circumstances aside, Maverick is a Certified Pilot (tm) while Ethan Hunt is a Certified Mess (tm).

[ambientwitch]

Laura Les doing the I’m Not Okay video intro before Hollywood Baby in Alpharetta. Recorded on someone’s 3DS x

[dent-de-leon]

would read a whole dnd book that's just cataloguing different entries of weird relics scavenged from the ruins of Aeor, archives of the Cobalt Soul, little curiosities of Nana Morri's, etc.--

[incorrect-fnaf-quotes]

Other than Lefty, Scraptrap, and the other two, here, there were a couple more that ended up in the pizzeria—more that Henry happened to try and lure.

Eleanor’s chilling in there. In the earlier stages of making the Funtimes, William made her—and he’d let Elizabeth name her.

Although, he didn’t do too much for Eleanor—she was more of a prototype that William was doing for a little while.

He made the regular Circus Baby, Elizabeth gets caught, etc—Eleanor just happens to escape on her own, rather than an Ennard deal. She tricks one of the other workers.

So for all those years, she’s just wandering somewhere completely different, causing trouble, and then she ends up at Pizza Sim’s location, because Henry managed to discover her.

[foxovobear]

Geneticist ✓

Hella tall ✓

Anger issues but cares deeply ✓

Superhuman abilities ✓

Desperately wanted a family, lost said family ✓

Your honor, Matthew Clairmont and Miguel O’Hara are the same person.

[slutdge]

the absolute steel fucking balls that ancient humans had to have to sail out thousands of miles from land in the pacific ocean, the massive scariest most fuck-off horrifying ocean in the world, in boats that were VERY SMALL for that kind of task by todays standards with not even the guarentee they would find new land, and became the first people to discover and inhabit islands in the pacific are my roman empire