A new chapter of the “Epic of Gilgamesh”is revealed when the fragment of TABLET V was finally recovered. It was written in Standard Babylonian and dates back to Neo-Babylonian period (626-538 BC), according to researchers.
#archaeohistories
i mean this with no malice in my heart, but after finally watching more 80s and 90s popcorn movies and seeing how comparatively beautiful they are, i don’t think i will be able to return to my mcu journey. they’re nigh unwatchable to me
my favorite party trick is showing people that they sampled the volleyball scene audio in top gun 1986 for the beach football scene in top gun maverick
comic book movie fans keep getting successfully manipulated into harassing martin scorsese for saying things like "movies that mean things should get made too" and it's so embarrassing
@TheEricGoldman
imagine if you were in middle school and people were constantly doing an impression of her all day every day. welcome in my world as an 11 year old
there’s not enough terminal actor brain happening anymore. one time val kilmer said he understood what it was like to fight in a war better than real life veterans. i wanna hear more indefensible bizarre shit like that
@hyzkoa
you can get none of the military propaganda, all the scientific silliness, and three times as much charisma and color from martha coolidge’s 1986 masterpiece Real Genius as you can from any marvel movie imo
dropout is consistently making a case for itself as the american answer to those british panel comedy shows where a bunch of comedians just kind of hang out
dimension 20 fan spaces are so funny bc it’s always the people with usernames like “rizgukgakfan4life” bringing up complex critiques of the show’s perpetuation of orientalist tropes while firstname lotsofnumbers
#5
is replying out of nowhere to tell them they’re not a real fan
He was never supposed to be Jinchuriki. He never asked for the burden of the Nine-Tails. He lived after it sent his father and mother to an early grave.
But for the last thirty years, he has been Our rock. Our strength. Our stay. Our Hokage. He has devoted his life to Konoha.
She was never supposed to be Queen. She never asked for the burden of the Crown. She watched as it crippled her father and sent him to an early grave.
But for the last seven decades, she has been Our rock. Our strength. Our stay. Our Queen. She has devoted her life to service.
very interesting how many prominent white writers have gone by asian pen names for many years, often facing no consequences. akira yoshida (c.b. cebulski), david wong (jason pargin), yi-fen chou (michael derrick hudson), the list goes on
having now seen killers of the flower moon, it feels even more ridiculous and trivial that we spent any time at all arguing about runtime or box office. i hope that instead the conversation can shift to something that matters
parents, please check your kids' halloween candy! just found Fantasy High, the first season of actualplay TTRPG series Dimension 20. Led by Brennan Lee Mulligan, Fantasy High mixes comedy, pathos, worldbuilding, supportive werewolf guidance counselors, & more inside this snickers
@emceebois
yep!!!!!!! i think the worst part of it is remembering that i did laugh at these things back in school in order to not seem like the asian kid who couldn't take a joke 😔 idk it's pernicious it affected my self esteem
it's so silly to point to m:i7 as an example of ballooning hollywood blockbuster budgets, because no other budget for a movie of this scale has absorbed months of wages during a pandemic-related work freeze AND included filming 40% of an entire second movie
the d&d movie is just like a real d&d campaign; loose, meandering, has a bard with a bad case of main character syndrome, but all in all not a bad way to spend a few hours with your friends. it’s a good time!
we need to collectively understand that it’s a fundamental human right to say embarrassing and even incorrect things sometimes without facing massive public backlash
if you told me last year that people were choosing to spend more time talking about brendan fraser’s 3 minute cameo than any other aspect of a scorsese movie about indigenous genocide i would have been like oh ok yeah sounds like film twitter
we have to stop bullying actors for being little freaks about the craft of acting. we scared them away and now they aren’t giving bizarre interviews like they used to
today’s elon musk twitter purchase/lea michele pussy reveal/misha collins coming out as straight triple whammy is sending me back to the usa election/destiel confession/putin stepping down rumor day. big things come in threes
I DID IT I TALKED ABOUT VIDEO GAMES*
*okay this episode is really about the nature of adaptations but it focuses on the Mario movies so close enough stop complaining just go watch it
it’s so important that the narrative around atsv avoids the notion that the movie is good *because* of the approach executives and producers took to the workflow, rather than *in spite* of it
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Hi friends, I want to share with you that I am trans, my pronouns are he/they and my name is Elliot. I feel lucky to be writing this. To be here. To have arrived at this place in my life. [1/10]
the nerd persecution complex is so funny because it makes people act like all of their opinions are subversive and countercultural even if it’s in support of a billion dollar franchise
Imagine the hottest woman in the world. Now imagine she injects herself with a deadly virus to keep it away from her ex because you made her fall in love by nearly driving her off a cliff and now she has 19 hours and 58 minutes to live. This is the plot of mission impossible 2
may is almost over so i want to say happy aapi heritage month to revolutionary marvel author akira yoshida. you should all google "akira yoshida american" to better contexualize his exciting contributions to the asian american comics space
in a very real way, i think you would suck if you bought one of dimension 20's handpainted minifigures and destroyed it, no matter who the character was