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A real question worth $500,000 on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Air date: November 18th, 1999
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as an American currently living in Japan. can’t stop thinking about modern AU Jeeves and Wooster where Bertie can’t flee from Aunt Agatha to America because she can just fly there and find him so he has to find somewhere even further away, resulting in Bertie and Jeeves taking the most sterotypically white tourist trip to Japan known to man. featuring:
Bertie saying “Konnichiwhat ho, Jeeves!” the second they get off the plane
Bertie getting complaints from the cat cafés because the cats adore him and the other customers are upset that he’s hogging them, leading to a blanket ban from every establishment in Tokyo
Jeeves (who is either inexplicably still Bertie’s valet or is an incredibly dedicated live-in PA) critiquing the technique of everyone working in the butler cafe, leading to a blanket ban from every establishment in Tokyo
karaoke night where Bertie knows all the lyrics to various anime songs but is absolutely not even close on the pronunciation (Jeeves watches him with impassive, amused fondness)
Bingo, for some reason
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Tumblr used to be so easy, so simple.
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i think we should all go back to carrying cheap little plastic mp3 players that look strangely edible and only hold like 200 songs
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OH MY GOD GUYS GUESS WHATS HAPPENING
Danny Jones really sang the lyrics "Makes sense when it don't make sense, I'm a magnet for chaos and sex, I'm the reason you've got no control, I'm your body, I'm your soul." And then didn't release it.
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DERRY GIRLS (2018 - 2022)
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fav activity: staring at a mutual's post trying to think of a non extremely weird way to respond to better befriend them
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"You're his wide angle lens."
"There are going to be any number of areas in which I can't give him expert advice..."
The West Wing Season 4, Episode 1 "20 Hours In America"
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Whether you’re writing for a video game or a tabletop game, the secret to effective lore is cow tools.
Back in 1982, Gary Larson drew the following panel for the newspaper comic The Far Side:
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According to Larson, it was simply meant to be a faintly surreal joke about how cows would be bad at making tools; it intends no deeper commentary. However, in the decades since, it’s become by far the comic’s most asked-about panel. People want to know why cows are making tools, what aspect of society it’s commenting on, and most critically, they want to know what the tools are for. The one on the right kind of resembles a carpenter’s saw, which leads folks to believe that the other three must have some obvious function too, if only they could puzzle it out.
But they don’t. They’re just random shapes, and the comic as a whole was never intended to actually mean anything.
I’ve become convinced that that’s the real secret to effective worldbuilding in gaming media. Certainly, the “core” of the setting should make sense, but all the peripheral stuff surrounding it? Just throw in a bunch of incomprehensible bullshit seasoned with the occasional bit that almost makes sense, and people will seize on those bits and ratonalise all the rest of it for you - and what they come up with is generally going to be way more interesting than whatever your original plan was, if indeed you had one at all.
Then, once they’ve figured it all out, just nod sagely, congratulate their cleverness, and keep your damn mouth shut.
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rosetta, the garden fairy 🧚‍♀️
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Cecil Hepworth’s Alice in Wonderland: The first adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to film. Released in October, 1903.
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MARGARET OF ANJOU | Queen of Swords, Mistress of Grief
Lamentation over the Dead Christ (detail), Sandro Botticelli | To Destroy the Enemy, Olga Orozco | Liber Chronicarum, Hartmann Schedel | All the Queen’s Jewels 1445-1548, Nicola Tallis | Roll of the Fraternity of Our Lady (detail), the Skinners Company of London (1475)
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Alice Liddell (summer 1858) Taken by Charles Dodgson a.k.a. Lewis Carroll “Of all the child studies by Dodgson, his portrait of Alice Liddell as The Beggar Maid, taken in 1858, has caused the most intense speculation. Viewed through the prism of modern anxiety about child welfare, this portrait may seem exploitative. To some, the direct knowing gaze of Alice combines in a telling way with naked limb, cupped hand, and exposed nipple to create a sexually charged image. But to view the photograph from this perspective would be to misunderstand Dodgson’s intentions. The notoriety of the photograph ensures that it is invariably displayed alone, removed from its original context. But, like Rejlander’s genre studies, the photograph was most probably meant to be seen as one of a pair, with the other showing little Alice, then aged six, dressed in her best outfit, complete with white ankle socks and black leather shoes. Since both studies seem to be taken on the same occasion and in exactly the same setting, it is reasonable to surmise that Dodgson originally conceived the pair to be seen as two sides of the same subject, to contrast a demure young woman of good breeding and deportment with a ragged beggar girl whose knowing look and wayward stance were purposefully contrived to tempt alms from the pocket. It is a diptych suggestive of class distinction, as well as a fall from grace and a rise to redemption. The narrative possibilities provided by the two images would have appealed to Dodgson more than any societal connotations, for as we know from his writings, he loved to create complex structures with hidden meanings…” (Taylor 61-4)
Courtesy of Lewis Carroll, Photographer
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Tumblr staff: ten options is enough for polls, right? No one needs more than that on a regular basis. The average tumblr user: Hey guys which element of the periodic table do you think is the most fuckable?
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literally i cannot stress how important it is that everyone has a thing.
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