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bookwormstarwarsfan · 5 months

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A few days ago I saw some Ducktales here and decided to write about one of my favourite Hungarian historical moments, but then I realized that the anniversary is in less than a week, so I scheduled this post exactly on the 30th anniversary even for the minute, at 18:08 CET. (Edit: fuck Tumblr, it messed up scheduling, but second part is on its way)

So let me to present you the story of the Ducktales generation of Hungary, the children born in the 80s, who were traumatized by the aforementioned cartoon exactly 30 years ago, on December 12th 1993 at 18:08.

The year is 1993. The ill-fated little Central-European Hungary is barely out of the more than 40 years of terrible communist dictatorship, it only elected it's first in decades democratic government in 1990 and the last occupying Soviet soldier left the the country in the Summer of 1991.

The first media war is on full rage, meaning that there is still only two, government owned, tv channel, (and time to time HBO, if you were at the right place at the right time) but unlike during the socialism, Western programmes are allowed. This two facts together mean that every time there is a kid's programme on, practically every children who has access to tv, watches it.

Every Sunday afternoon is for Walt Disney, but most importantly for Ducktales. This one has a chokehold on every kid, the absolutle favourite. (Interestingly never became popular for any other generations in Hungary, unlike other iconic programmes, despite being aired a few more times in the following decades.)

So we get to the Sunday of December 12th. Allegedly 2.2 million children is in front of the tv, accompanied by many adults. The episode "A Whale of a Bad Time" is at its emotional high. Scrooge McDuck (or as we know him, Uncle Dagobert) is histerically jumping on the dinner table, because the ship with his money is lost. At 18:08 one of the most famous last sentence is said: 'A sea monster ate my ice cream!!!'

The screen goes black and white, the programme stops, blackness, then the grey channel logo shows up and Chopin's Funeral March starts playing. For long minutes nothing happenes, except of course for the hundreds of thousands of kids having a temper tantrum. By the time the March is coming to the end, even more adults are in the room, either because of the screaming kid or the sudden change of mood.

After 2 whole minutes again a moment of blackness, then a fat, old man in thight black suit comes up with a flag in the the background.

For many of the children watching, this was the first time to ever come to contact with politics, and for some of them, with death. Because the man, Péter Boross, who at that first moment still unbeknownst to the audience had already been the Prime Minister for less than an hour, had an important message:

'Fellow citizens, Hungarians, here at home and around the world. Destiny gave me a painful duty. Dr József Antall, Prime Minister of Hungary today after 5 pm passed away.'

Of course the passing of the reigning Prime Minister would be breaking news everywhere, especially if he is the first democratically elected one in more than 40 years, but this event became more important for a different cause.

#hungary #hungarian #hungarian history #hungarian politics #magyar #magyarország #magyar történelem #magyar politika #kacsamesék #ducktales #scrooge mcduck #dagobert bácsi #antall józsef #boross péter #rendszerváltás #flashbulb memory #vakuemlékezet #not star wars

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debatablyspicydurian · 6 months

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Birdo lore is one of the ways of all time to introduce myself to vinesauce

#vinesauce #thank you jolly #I'll always remember where I was when I saw the birdo lore #flashbulb memory

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scrimmybingusfanblog · 5 months

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me, listening to Hair Lady Gaga for the first time circa 2016: wow it's so true

me: i love how long my hair is getting now that nobody's making me cut it

me: it's cool how hair is at like, the intersection between body and fashion

me: like i can style my body in such a way that reflects my identity, that's a little bit powerful

me: i like this song:)

me: i'm sure it's deeper for girls

#this memory gives me some kind of retroactive self-unfuckor #it's a weird emotion #like... wow she doesn't get it (affectionate)#flashbulb memory #text #gender #lady gaga

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stanfordsweater · 2 years

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ohh, exciting!! palm tree, chamomile and jasmine please <3

palm tree: do you have a fictional villain you shouldn’t like but love regardless?

do i have a fictional villain i DON’T love??? i’m a fan of villainfucking so i have no moral qualms, but i’ll go with kamakura from dangan ronpa for mass-murdering and greasy hair crimes.

chamomile: what kind of things do you like receiving as gifts?

presents 🥰 i like small but thoughtful gifts, like something a friend remembered me mentioning, or experience presents like concerts/events/skydiving

#i really want to go skydiving............#<3 #.ask #flashbulb memory #ask games

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trans-techpriestess · 4 months

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Someone was being a bit of a brat this morning while I was waking up. After keeping me up all night, @needy-puppygirl needed a reminder about how grumpy I am when I haven't slept well.

Hopefully this lesson will last at least a couple of days

As promised @xenasaur

#flashbulb memories

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lesless · 2 months

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When I was 16-17 I worked at Target in softlines, which is basically clothing & jewelry. One day I was working in shoes, which was always a mess bc people kick them off & leave them everywhere but I was sick of folding so I was happy to do something else. While I was cleaning up the mess in the ladies section I heard a very timid, “excuse me” & was met by a shy, late 30’s man just a bit taller than me. I gave the standard Target greeting, it was something like ‘how may I help you today’ & he kind of fumbled with his words & said he was looking for heels, for himself. I was like ok! Do you know your size? He said no, so I walked him over to the little sizing floor mat & told him to take off his shoes to size. I cautioned that his left foot may be bigger (like mine) but the mat only had right feet to size so he may need a half to full size bigger, also depending on the width. We figured out his size & I asked him what style he liked. He said he didn’t know, the skinny heels look nice & he pointed to a pair of shiny red ones. I liked those too, I said, do you know how to walk in them? He said no. I said, let’s start off with wedges then, they’re easier & that’s how I learned to walk in heels. I pointed out pairs with ankle straps because that gives you more stability. I also stressed walking heel-toe & made sure he tried them on with BOTH feet. He tried on a few pairs & shuffled up & down the aisle. By the end of the exchange he had opened up & looked excited instead of nervous & was hugging a box of wedges with an ankle strap & the red pair he eyed first. He thanked me profusely. I said it was my job to help, & I’m happy he found a few pairs he liked! I remember that for a split second he just looked at me, smiling, like he wanted to hug me. It made me feel warm. Then, he turned & beelined straight to the registers. I never saw him again, & I didn’t think of it much for a long time except that if my job is in service, I really enjoyed helping someone with something I knew about. I still enjoy that feeling. & now that I’m older I can appreciate the exchange more, how scary it must have felt back then to approach a stranger about something you’re excited about, & that fear of rejection or cruelty that someone might unleash instead. Especially in south Texas, where we were. I wonder about the first time others have bought heels, & how it went for them. I wonder how he’s doing, if he got to embrace other clothing that makes him happy, if he’s still he any more. I hope that wherever that person is, they’re happy. I hope that now there’s a confident strut in shiny red heels. I hope everyone who wants to try something new is greeted with someone who’s just happy to be helping.

#me #looking at my heels this morning & I had that flashbulb memory #it is one of the best experiences working in retail #along with fixing the band on someone’s grandfathers watch for free #I showed them how to do it & they were delighted #happy

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milfmaenad · 2 years

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another focus pull/rack focus 🎥✨

s01e09

#spn #sam winchester #dean winchester #special thanks to maddiebwrites and flashbulb-memory and magic-number-3 for helping me figure out what these shots are called!!!

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shutupandplayasong · 4 months

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The way I'm gonna be 87 years old some day talking about "Where were you when you first heard One More Time"

#im being 100 percent honest when you tell you that shit is a literal flashbulb memory for me #i can tell you where i was. what i was doing. who i was with. when it happened.#it was a big deal for me ok #a vck original #blink 182

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meandmypagancrew · 7 months

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Someone made a post to where you can watch each version btw !

https://www.tumblr.com/yagami-raito-kun/727310201249792000/the-bad-news-i-have-fallen-headfirst-back-into-my?source=share

But thank you so much for putting up with my questions!! Hopefully they made enough sense >_<

But Im also was wondering how you got into death note in general if you don't mind me asking? :D

Well. This is sure embarrassing but… I don’t know how I got into Death Note. I can tell you that I got into the demo because Jeremy Jordan (Light) is one of my favorite musical theatre performers and I would follow him anywhere, but I already knew about Death Note and had read much of the manga and seen a lot of the anime.

But… I don’t know how or why. Unfortunately, due to a medical condition, I’m fucked in the head. There are entire chunks of my life that I just… they’re blank. I’m in my mid twenties now and my brother swears that about 15 years ago I loved Code Geass, but I have no memory whatsoever of this. I have no idea what it’s about and I can’t tell you the name of a single character in that series. I looked up the opening, hoping it would spark something, but I would have told you I had never heard that song before in my entire life. There’s only one scene in that entire anime that I even vaguely remember but my brother swears I was obsessed with it.

I can tell you I’m not really an anime person in general. The only animes I’ve watched in full (that I remember) are Shoujo Cosette and Layton Mystery Tanteisha and in both of those, I watched them because I liked the source material first (Les Misèrables and Layton’s Mystery Journey, respectively).

But I can’t tell you how I got into Death Note. I just don’t know. My memory is missing so much… it almost seems like Death Note has literally always been there, because I really don’t remember a time before it or where I didn’t know about it.

#Parker’s asks #yeah like all those flashbulb memories people have #of like 9/11 or whatever #nothing #my grandfather died 15 years ago last week #and I recently realized that I can count the memories of him I have on one hand #and not a single one involves him talking to me or telling me he loves me or anything #there’s just….#my condition stole my story #I don’t remember how I got here

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amrv-5 · 8 months

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There are sooo many movies I wish I could see again for the first time 😭

#thinking of one particular movie I saw for the first time in a drama class in high school #Utterly unprepared for it at 15 and had like. a flashbulb memory about it #I still remember the stomach ache I got from laughing #had NO idea somebody could make something so funny and daring and delightfully in bad taste #like THAT is the power of stories and movies… 1 depressed teenager in the middle of NOWHERE #laughing so hard I remember the moment a decade later…..#GOD!!!! I LOVE COMEDY I LOVE JOKES I LOVE STORIES!!!!!

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skitskatdacat63 · 1 year

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I think if I could make an F1 edit to any song, it would have to be "The Distance" by Cake, like cmonnnn (But which driver 🤔, I say as if I have any editing skills LMAO)

#actually this is bcs i taught my parents the concept of edits and #even tho they dont like f1 they were like 'you have to make this. it would be perfect.'#i said 'which driver' but oh my god while i was driving home i was listenting to it and conceptualizing it w fernando #mostly cause the line abt the sun going down and the moon coming up which made me think of today's testing #(bcs when i tuned in it was dark out there so yep it fits)#and then i got to the line 'shes hoping in time that her memories will fade'#AND ALL I COULD THINK OF WAS FKN MARK WEBBER ALSO BEING AT BAHRAIN #in my head it was jusy him staring forlornly at the track and that mental image killed me LMAO #but like if i ever gained editing skills and made this ideally it would either be seb or nando?#but like agh i like the idea of it being nando especially cause these lyrics:#'no trophy no flowers no flashbulbs no wine//hes haunted by something he cannot define' BRAZIL 2012 AGHHH #okay anyways i have ideas that I prob wont fulfill but just know that this is my ideal f1 song its been haunting me #'cause hes going the distance//hes going for speed' yes perfect good #well and obviously the whole first verse but yknow #catie.rambling.txt #f1 #formula 1

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hoodieimp · 2 years

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oh fuck yeah a fellow bone enjoyer. I knew you had good taste

JDHSJSHE well gosh thanks!!

Yeah I LOVED the Bone comics as a kid, I borrowed em all from the school library but the only one I actually owned for myself was The Crown of Horns, I'd sit in my room and read it aloud from cover to cover and do All the Voices

#asks #eclectic-spaghetti #Bone is one of those pieces of media that I completely forget about most of the time #but then something will remind me of it and the flashbulb memory kicks in and brings every last detail flooding back #like that post I just rbed from Morgan #GOD NOW IM REMEMBERING ALL MY FAVES #TED THE BUG...BARTELBY...THE RED DRAGON....#...that reminds me I have a whole YT video essay on BONE buried somewhere in my Watch Laters #I wanna watch it now thanks

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stanfordsweater · 2 years

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