Jan. 25th, 2020

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ruinedchildhood:


WHAT THE FUCK

OK so yesterday I was at work. [Manager] comes upstairs to our department with his laptop and says to my coworker, “I have to show you the stupidest thing ever.” I had an errand to do downstairs, so I left them to it– they’ve been pals since the 90s so usually I don’t involve myself in their shenanigans.

I got downstairs and there were no customers so there was a movie playing on one of the photo lab computers, and there was a bunch of banging and yelling and the two employees present were staring at it with bemused expressions. So I wandered around behind the counter just in time to see a bunch of ninjas fighting a man in a very unconvincing dinosaur costume. (Like… the body was upright until about the level of a man’s head, and then bent 90 degrees forward and became a sideways dinosaur torso, and there was very clearly nowhere for the person inside it to look out, so they were just flailing around.) One of the ninjas shot the dinosaur costume with an arrow, whereupon there was a quick cut and then there was a man there, screaming, holding the arrow protruding from his leg.

“Hey guys,” I said. “What the fuck?”

“[Manager] put this on and left,” one of the employees said. 

The ninjas were attacking the man, and he grabs the lead ninja’s head. There is a cut, and then he is holding the head of a mannequin with bushy eyebrows glued to it. He wrenches it off, and holds it up, screaming.  “AAAAAAARRRRGGHHH,” he goes, vibrating slightly, for an awkwardly long time, I’d estimate about a minute and a half to two minutes. There is ample time to notice that 1) the body he wrenched the head off has a mechanical pump squirting blood across his face, 2) the mannequin head is really obviously a mannequin head, and 3) the man’s hands are covered by unconvincing dinosaur gloves.

After he has finished yelling for two minutes, the man tosses the head into the air, flipping it around to catch it so that the extremely unconvincing glued-on bushy eyebrows are facing the camera. He then proceeds to yell “AAAAAAAARRRRGHHH” again for about a minute and a half. Then there is a freeze-frame, and yellow text appears overlaying his gore-streaked face. I don’t remember the exact quote, but it says something to the effect of, “Only when violence has been destroyed can we know true peace,” more or less. The text hangs there for approximately forty-five seconds, and then beneath it, an attribution appears: “Gandhi.”

“What the fuck,” I said again.

“Yeah I don’t know either,” said the employee. 

I went back upstairs. “He’s a pastor, see,” [Manager] was saying. “But also he can turn into a dinosaur.”

“You’re right,” my coworker said, “that is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.”

So, by sheer coincidence, I have actually seen the climax of The VelociPastor, approximately twenty-four hours before having this shitpost cross my dashboard. 

What the actual fuck you guys.
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folhadecomer:

To say veganism will save the world is to oversimplify a complex subject in a very misleading way. I don’t agree with everything the author says in this text (the title is a bit over the top) but he makes some very important points.

“Instead of clustering around a moral high ground, I would like to encourage us all to accept the fact that life feeds on life, and to examine the real and important differences between regenerative agriculture and the chemical and GMO-based agriculture that now dominates the landscape, with unclouded eyes. We need to begin the healing process on the land by adopting regenerative practices, cultivating the spirit of respect, by acknowledging the life energy that resides in everything that we eat.

So what is really anti-vegan, what really harms animals, is this idea — that we need to produce annual crops on every square inch of land, creating a wildlife graveyard on 17% of America’s land in order to feed our endless hunger. When we get right down to brass tacks, I don’t think that the majority of the people on the planet really understand what it takes to grow our own food. And this disconnection plays out across urban centers all around the globe, where people make a thousand choices trying to do the best they can with the panoply of annual agriculture products available, but think little of the variety of perennial based whole foods that pepper the outer shelves of the supermarket. Cheap food is killing our connection to the landscape.

More people on the planet means more resources being extracted from the earth, regardless of whether or not we are vegan. Avocado producing countries are feeling the avocado squeeze because of American’s high demand for guacamole. Acres of rainforest are being bulldozed to plant more avocado trees. Demand is so high that Mexico, which produces about half of the world’s supply, is thinking about importing avocados, while an average Mexican can’t even afford to buy them to eat. Farmers in Mexico are cutting down pine forests in order to grow the lucrative crop and may threaten the habitat of Monarch butterflies. All this to say, having your vegan raw food avocado chocolate cake isn’t as harmless as you may think.“

full text on Medium

The article is very good and says things I’ve been ruminating on a while. 
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HA. Well, I figured that was it, because if it were anything more elaborate they’d mention it.

Says a lot about him, I suppose. 

I’ve had a number of replies/reblogs confirming that’s the game/book canon for sure, so.

But I wonder how many viewers of the show will just never… consider that. I mean, to be fair, the timeline’s so screwy it’s perfectly likely that if you don’t dork out and Google it, you’d never really understand that it’s been something like, what, seventy years? Fifty at least? between the earliest scenes and the last. Since nobody ages– and like, ok Geralt doesn’t, Yennefer’s unchanging, but Jaskier is supposed to age twenty years at least and they made zero effort to change his appearance, not even changing the style of his dress or his hairstyle at all, and that’s seriously confusing. (Having Yennefer comment on his crow’s feet is a reasonable approach except I looked it up and literally two years are supposed to have passed between those scenes, so like– not super effective, there.)

I get not putting age makeup on him, that’d look corny, but at least give him different hair or something. Yeesh. 

Anyway. Good to know that Geralt is a fucking dork who can’t come up with names in the TV show too. 

If I were going to write fanfic in this fandom it would definitely be about Roach, but I am not convinced I actually want to take the time to do it. We’ll see, LOL.
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mosylu replied to your post “I’m listening to a Behind the Scenes Witcher podcast and the creator…”

I am privately headcanoning that Jaskier is ageless too, the show just hasn’t bothered to mention it and Geralt has perhaps not noticed. Or maybe his bards die and he gets new ones and names them all Jaskier. Also I said creator when I meant showrunner! The original author is a Polish dude and the showrunner is an American lady and they interviewed the latter in the ‘cast.


I laughed awkwardly out loud at “his bards die and he gets new ones and names them all Jaskier”, which offended my cat, so congrats, that was really funny. 

ok if I were going to write fic, <i>that’s</i> what it would be about, that is a truly wonderful crackfic premise.

I wondered what you meant by creator but I had noted there were several prominent women in the credits so figured it was likely one of the Important ones, lol. 
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A rainy midday, somewhere along the east west (ed. note: i do not fundamentally understand the difference between these two words, thanks to dyscalculia) coast of Iceland. Look at that shape, with the clouds! I had to do some work to crop this one and couldn’t get out all of the blurry guardrail but I think it came out all right. Photo by [profile] zobar2 .
If I stop posting Iceland photos I’ll have to think of something else, so. Lol it’s almost St
Bridget’s Day (aka Candlemas/Imbolc), which is the last gasp of winter and the time to formally prepare for spring, so just hang on, guys.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7vrzkTBqEe/?igshid=18mnr6uo3r0po
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socalledunitedstates:

Before we can live in a world of vertical gardens covering stained glass skyscrapers, we need to build a world of backyard garden boxes made of reclaimed wood. Before we can cover every rooftop with solar panels, we need to equip every home with solar smokeless cooking made of scrap metal

The appeal of those green cityscapes in the pretty pictures isn’t just that they’re hi-tech and clean, it’s that they sprout from a society that values compassion, the environment, and human lives more than it values profit. We need to build that society first, and we need to build it from the ground up with what we have available

The solarpunk future is for our grandchildren. Our job is to pave the way for it

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