#The irony of fate

[victusinveritas]

Soviet architecture in Tartu, Estonia.

#tartu #estonia #soviet aesthetic #soviet architecture #warsaw pact #the irony of fate

[the-tenth-arcanum]

#my toxic trait is liking depressing russian songs #по улице моей #Ирония судьбы #the irony of fate #russian things #videos

[kaeyaswifefromsnezhnaya]

mu kin list 🤐

женя лукашин это тот момент, когда вейрдо часть переходит в герлбосс

#Kin #Genshin #umaru doma #kaguya sama: love is war #komi can't communicate #demon slayer #The irony of fate

[rusalkarusa]

Me who has hated Argentinians since 2018: starts falling in love with an Argentinian

#the irony of fate

[alightinthelantern]

film reviews: The Irony of Fate (Soviet film)

The Irony of Fate is a 1976 Soviet romantic comedy television film directed by Eldar Ryazanov.

Synopsis: An introduction describes how the mass-production of bland concrete housing blocks and uniformity of city planning during the Brezhnev era has made all cities in the Soviet Union look the same, with identical buildings on identically-named streets boasting standard apartments filled with standard  furniture and front doors fitted with standard locks.

In Moscow on New Year’s Eve, 36-year-old Zhenya goes with his friends to the bathhouse, where they all get drunk. Friend Pavlik needs to catch a flight to Leningrad (St. Petersburg), but when they get to the airport no one can remember who’s supposed to be on the flight, and the friends mistakenly put Zhenya on the plane instead. Zhenya disembarks in Leningrad airport, takes a taxi to his address, and is dropped off at an identical apartment building to his own. He takes the lift up to his apartment number, puts his key in the lock, which fits, and goes inside and falls asleep in the apartment of a complete stranger.

Nadya comes home to find Zhenya asleep in her bed. She tries to get rid of him before her fiancé Ippolit walks and sees Zhenya. He believes Nadya has been cheating on him and storms out in fury. Through various incidents Nadya and Zhenya are repeatedly thrown together, and though they try to explain things to their respective partners both refuse to believe them. Eventually the two realize they are the only ones who believe their story. Slowly their mutual loathing turns into liking each other, and they consider becoming a couple but change their mind, and Zhenya flies back home to Moscow. But after thinking it over Nadya changes her mind and flies to Moscow herself, and goes to Zhenya’s apartment building. She tries her key in the lock, which fits, and opens the door to his apartment.

Review: No. The film is just over three hours long in total, and had no business being as long as it is. The scenes go on forever, and I stopped watching 50 minutes in. The film’s premise is a funny one, but the humor of the film is more subdued compared to American films, which would play the action much zanier; but, in contrast to some Soviet “comedy” films, this is a Soviet comedy that is actually funny. But the film is unbearably slow and the scenes go on forever. I can see why Russian audiences like this film, but I don’t agree. Don’t bother watching it.

#film reviews #movie reviews #films #movies #cinema #film #The Irony of Fate

[3eanuts]

February 4, 1956 — see The Complete Peanuts 1955-1958

#peanuts #comics #humor #existentialism #linus van pelt #stubborn #stubbornness #fate #irony #snoopy #dogs #kids #children

[hellneedsaruler]

There’s just something about how by the end for Arthur to play the role he needed to play , be the once and future king who would unite Albion and rule justly, he had to learn to be gentle to be softer and kinder and more compassionate .

And he had to learn it from Merlin . The person who in order to become Arthur’s protector had to learn to be Ruthless . He had to be cold blooded , merciless and vicious to keep Arthur safe .

#idk if fate intended this for Merlin #or if Merlin willingly chose so #because he always had that feral desperate kind of fierce protectiveness towards the things he loves #either way #i wanna cry #i’m in my FEELS #you don’t understand the irony #ig the two sides of the same coin always have to balanced #i just #fate was so so so cruel to Merlin #I’m crying #i feel like this needs to be a post of minimum 15 paragraphs when it’s my turn with the braincell #bbc merlin #merlin #arthur pendragon #merthur #screaming into the tumblr void #random thoughts #rewatching merlin

[bhimahasmoved]

It was my destiny to draw this one I think

#arty party #fgo arjuna #fate arjuna #if you think this was done as an irony haha funny: you're so fucking wrong bucko

[madame-helen]

#meme #memes #shitpost #shitposting #humor #funny #lol #satire #funny memes #funny humor #funny meme #star wars sequel trilogy #captain marvel #movies #birds of prey #terminator dark fate #etc #irony #joke #true history

[thesweetnessofspring]

The last tribute alive receives a life of ease back home, and their district will be showered with prizes, largely consisting of food. All year, the Capitol will show the winning district gifts of grain and oil and even delicacies like sugar while the rest of us battle starvation.

HungerTown 14/?

#hungertown #the hunger games #hadestown #way down hadestown #this is another nytw lyrics #but got kinda obsessed at how the fates' version and orpheus's version are both true in panem #and the irony of how all of the fine things when used by a corrupt system are still traumatizing for the victors #also side note the costumes in thg are soooooo ugly i really can't #“clothes so fine” ok yeah this cheap ass looking jc penny prom dress #JUSTICE FOR CINNA

[grandorderconfessions]

#dramatic irony of this ask being sent in just days before we found out they used AI for the ordeal call PV #sfw #fate grand order

[nicandros]

The things that greek tragedians could have written if time travel had been a concept back then

#classics #tagamemnon #sophocles: *slaps time loop* this bad boy can fit so much tragic irony inside it #it's about Fate and the lack of Free Will and and and #greek tragedy #sophocles #euripides #aeschylus #in other news i've been watching dark (2017)

[mehoymalloy]

Writing is hard, so instead I organized my Otohan playlist; loosely follows the vague backstory I made up for them:

A cursed child raised beneath the warped teachings of the Duskmaven, coming into their power during the Apex War, climbing the ranks and misguidedly fighting in the Matron's name only to be abandoned and condemned for their atrocities, embracing the storm, seeking vengeance, and finding the Vanguard, before finally meeting their end on Ruidus.

Some of my favorite songs:

The Gift of the Rose / Isabella Summers, Elise McQueen

I Didn't Ask For This / Beth Crowley

Apprentice of Death / Mors Principium Est

Ruthless / Bookish Songs Collective, et al

Seven Devils / Florence + the Machine

No More Heroes / Unleash the Archers

Become the Beast / Karliene

Witness the Masterpiece / Ganyos

Witness the Masterpiece in particular is just a whole vibe:

Gracefully I've carved my path from moments to eternity Paid the sacrifice Fulfilled the prophecies Kingdoms that oppose me turn to dust So fan the flames I'll walk through fire Cut me down I'll still go higher Save you praise I'll take the honor Glory and legacy This is my destiny Witness the masterpiece

#anyways i love them y'all know this #something something the irony of an ex-follower of the god of fate obsessed with some greater destiny and grand designs #mr mercer please tell me their story i beg #chose especially dramatic songs because Otohan is dramatic af it just fits lol #I hadn't actually touched this playlist in a while since i've been writing either imotohan or moon moms #which both have their own playlists with different vibes #so this was really fun to go through song by song and arrange them just so #otohan thull #critical role #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #Spotify

[per-asperaa-ad-astra]

So, I was having a late night walk and while walking I was listening to Alan watts discuss "what is love". Then, I stumbled upon this scene; a bouquet of flowers abandoned on the sidewalk. The irony of encountering such a sight while pondering the nature of love was not lost on me :)

#benimpost #love #fate #irony #alan watts #philosophy #psychology

[dykedvonte]

If Ulysses has a million haters, then I'm one of them. If Ulysses has one hater, then I'm THAT ONE. If Ulysses has no haters, that means I'm dead. If the world is with Ulysses than I’m against the world.

#this is slightly joking but like also not but also like am mixed on Ulysses on many factors #infuriating because i sympathize with his pain but it’s like #he is a well written and fundamentally flawed character whose hypocrisy I found doubly in #black characters I can tell were designed by white people with a semblance of an understanding of activism and bipoc oppression #but not enough for the character to not feel like hand holding for the majority white audience #plus personal grips with the whole twisted hairs thing and reference to slave braiding patterns #Ulysses irks me as a black person on a weird personal level and I can go into debt on why him being black is a big detractor for him to me #like he continues this cycle of distancing himself from his roots before remembering over and over again through his actions #he leave so much in his wake that the courier ends up correcting or helping like in honest hearts and old world blues because he’s self #righteous in a subtle way even to himself that he believes he stand out of his one man rule when he does not play an active hand #saw a post talk about how you choose to continue moving through his story and can leave at any moment and this it is partially your fault #but what of the oath that is set before you and is forced to take that he set up #I do not have to walk it but when I do the steps are not my own but those taken for me #you have to go out of your way to change it which is not something he expects because he’s playing by a story he’s been perpetuating in his #head about you two and the effect one man has when he’s continually been that one man more so than you as many of his actions directly lead #to the one you go through also the irony in the flag he continues to bear being the real reason he has no home #like he reps it when the package is likely enclave and thus use the same symbol #also still can’t get over how anyone could have delivered the package and he tries so hard to act like it was the couriers destiny or fate #when this was the one case of chance and that once man was likely a enclave engineer and how it’s really is never one man #it the process and he’s so annoying about it like he’s a cool character but if you don’t believe in his philosophy or already went through #these ideas cause they are very common talking points in poc especially BIPOC spaces he’s just old hashings and stunted #fallout #fallout new vegas #Ulysses you upset me but I’m like I feel you could be better if you weren’t so incessant #I don’t think I ever want to make a serious post stating this about him just because I’d start yapping and it’d never get finished #ulysses fnv #fnv ulysses #lonesome road

[sovamurka]

FIRST THREE PAGES OF ALTAN'S BACKSTORY

Buryatia, Ivolginsky Datsan Khambyn Sume

*Altan, Yuma, their mother and grandmother speak in Buryatian here, Russian translation is in square boxes and I took them as a base for English translation

Mother: ...now take three sips and pour the rest on your head.

Yuma: Hey, are you finished?

Mom: Not yet. Wouldn't it be a shame to leave without touching the wishing stone?

Altan: Wishing stone? I want to go to the wishing stone!

Yuma: What kind of stone, Mom?

Grandmother: And where did you get this boldness from?

Yuma: From you, grandma, who else?

Grandmother: Well, I guess you are right.

Mother: According to legend, Green Tara touched this stone and left her palm print on it. If a person touches it, asking for the fulfillment of his most cherished wishes, they will surely come true. You need to stand on this line, close your eyes and go straight towards it.

Altan: Will my wishes not come true now?

#*screaming* GUYS I WAS THERE!!! I WAS THERE LITERALLY ONE YEAR AGO!!! I STOOD WHERE THEY STOOD!!! I WAS THERE- #I screamed the same way when I realized that Pasha spent his childhood in Kurortnoe village because I was there too but THIS ONE HIT HARDER #mostly because my life is strongly connected to Buddhism and by the irony of fate I got medical help in this exact datsan 😂 #also!!! fun fact! Green Tara is actually my spiritual protector in Buddhism! so it's always nice to hear and see something about her! #Phobs already used her image in Balor's jacket design and now here as a part of this story #now about these three pages... ALTAN!!! BABY ALTAN!!! ЗОЛОТЦЕ МОЁ!!! YUMZHIT IS SO GOOD TOO ToT #bubble comics #altan dagbaev #алтан дагбаев #plague doctor #чумной доктор