#some direct quotes:

[gromboy]

i got my academic record today and all my elementary school report cards are making me wonder why i wasn't diagnosed earlier

#some direct quotes: #brain on overdrive #overly sensitive and cries a lot #does not really play with other children unless the other kids engage first #easily distracted by own activities and does not engage in class work #needs to learn to do daily tasks #will rush through tasks to get to own activities #oh finally has a friend at age 8 #gets really upset at perceived mistakes #brain like a sponge and really likes to learn and share knowledge #writes really funny point of view stories at a somewhat advanced level unusual for kids of this age #does not go into enough detail in assignments #forgets what questions were being asked in math worksheets but can clearly do the math #ok so maybe these are paraphrased but THIS IS ACTUAL STUFF MY TEACHERS SAID ABOUT ME FOR SIX YEARS #boy oh boy why did i only have an adhd evaluation this year

[ingoodjesst]

have you put the pieces together yet, detective

#goro akechi #akechi goro #persona 5 #persona 5 royal #p5 akechi #p5 spoilers #persona 5 fanart #jesst some art #i may have worked on this for... just under two weeks? i had like. so many fckgin thoughts i might make a process/concept breakdown post #it's honestly just for my own peace (haha piece) of mind because i overthought about. SosoooOoOo many motifs and symbols and i just wanna #idk PUT EM ALL somewhere........ maybe it'll become its own jessay of mine. god. who can say. #also DUDE tumblr rly does crunch up quality wow ouch #unironically a core thematic inspiration for this piece is a quote from the folding ideas' video 'the nostalgia critic and the wall' #'it doesn't all make sense or resolve or coalesce because we don't all make sense' #'everyone is the illusion of order constructed brick by brick out of chaos' #i've watched that video essay through at least. a dozen times at this point. everything about it. yeah. it's good. #this piece initially went many different directions and i have realized ah yes to fully explore just THESE themes that i'm interested in as #they relate to goro akechi i will need to draw. at least two more pieces. sdlfhsdlkfjsd

[sunforgrace]

really cannot be emphasized enough how he didn’t have to do any of that

#asking if people in the audience were introverts extroverts or bisexual. saying you’re all three #walking it back publicly after warner bros tells you gotta go be gay for that poor dead cw show #seeing the article about speculation on a list celebrity sexualities #quote tweeting with a direct @ taylor swift and telling her to dm you some time. you’ve been there #it really must be noted

[ganondoodle]

im quite tired of talking about totk, like im sure you all know by know just how frustrated i am, but something i still strongly believe was the logical, and best thing to do in a sequel.. -

while botw was about you feeling lost in a strange world with neither you nor link knowing anything and both discovering it as you go, the theme of lonelyness and isolation, freeing the spirits of dead friends you need toremember again, in the end finally reuniting with one of the only friends still alive, after a 100 years

totk should have been about community, about working together with zelda at your side, as a companion, after having been seperated for so long, and seeing nothing of the time between titles, this should have been her travelling alongside you, after botw you'd WANT to spend time with her and get to know her more, her being the diplomat, the archtitect, the scientist, the translator of old texts, a historian trying to find out the truth about what her fathers kingdom was built on, to right old wrongs perhaps, for a better future- theres so much that she should have been, so much of her character was primed to go into this direction- and instead she is a pretty prize with no personality you get at the end like this is an 80s cartoon still

(this is disregarding the whole fact that ganondorf, AS WELL, should have been a giant factor in all this, in the history of it all, to explore his character and his actions, to have zelda research and find out about histroy clearly written by the victors- theres so much potential depth here that it dirves me crazy, botw was such a set up for more that was wasted, utterly wasted, for something i wouldnt even want to call paper thin bc even paper has more depth than anything in totk)

#ganondoodles talks #zelda #totk #ganondoodles rants #do not come to argue with me #im done trying to sound all nice about it #im angry and frustrated about this #tin foil hat me is convinced they shipped the “writing” for totk off to some mobile games company bc they wanted to focus on that movie #since the success of the mario movie made them prob more money thant botws sales did #i know it might no line up #which is why i said tin foil hat me thinks that #with the situation of the games industry as a whole and zelda being my thing of interest #its soemthing i wont let go ever #and i have zero faith there will be any good stories to come out of the franchise again #dare i say satoru iwatas presence is dearly missed #espeically knowing how the other main guys think about what games should be #i know miyamoto always had a questionable approach to games #pretty sure it was aounoma who said the “why would you wanna go back to linearity lolol nostalgia blindet idiots lololol” #not a direct quote but you know what i mean #anyway #wont be taking about totk in length anymore #im just tired at this point #getting better at ignoring its existence but it still hurts like a sore spot you forgot you had whenever i hear anythign about it

[write-it-motherfuckers]

Person A: “Why are you being so nice all of a sudden? Ever since you got that phone call yesterday, you’ve practically been doting on me... It’s freaking me out, not going to lie.”

Person B: “Oh come now, me being kind isn’t that strange, is it?”

Person A: “Yes. It really fucking is.”

#write-it-motherfuckers #writing prompt #writing prompts #writing #prompts #story prompt #story prompts #story #prompt #my prompt #original #random #imagine #story time motherfucker #dialogue #dialogue prompt #person a and person b #incorrect quotes #incorrect quote #this could go in several directions. be they fluffy angsty or outright creepy. I'll add some warnings but the tags are only a suggestion #angst #angsty #whump #creepy #ominous #dark #fluff #fluffy #found family #mystery

[hetagrammy]

I’m attached to the idea of Arthur being born post-Rome for migration/cultural reasons, but I’ve been thinking a lot about how that might have shaped him. I don’t think there’s much to add on the setting, most people are aware of England effectively being post-apocalyptic during late antiquity and the early middle ages. However, on top of that I think the memory of Rome imparted to him by others juxtaposed with that is really interesting. He’s not like his mother and siblings who lived directly in fear of Roman occupation and subjugation, but he’s effectively the villain in his bedtime stories. Even though he’s gone, the ghost of him remains in the British Isles family’s behaviors and experiences. Even after their mother’s death, they all hole up in mountains and monasteries to hide for ages until they get the courage to approach the sea again, finally believing there to be nothing beyond it to fear anymore.

And yet, Arthur walks around these abandoned baths and aqueducts and wonders how evil could he truly have been? He brought them these wonders from the Continent, surely there must have been a hint of kindness. Arthur’s naïveté obviously wears off and he trusts his mother’s words more, but I think that his musings linger. It’s his first lesson in empire, even if he doesn’t understand it yet: hide the imperial knife behind a cloak of benevolence, and one day their children will forget why they ever had cause to despise you. They may even aspire toward the ideal you put in place.

#hetalia #my thoughts #hws england #hws britannia #hws rome #i have this quote from bes stuck in my head. ‘i’m not the child i was.’ ‘no that child would see you and run.’ #and i find that to be fitting for some of the other nations as well but especially for arthur #he’s the near direct product of an empire’s fall #yet intrigued by the idea of it despite everything that should prove him otherwise

[frnkiebby]

god his fucking legs~🎃

#to quote my grandfather: #‘got some nice lookin pins there’ #(obviously not directed at me. that’d be gross.) #but frank? #definitely some nice lookin pins #he really needs to wear shorts more often. #idc that it’s winter #i wanna see those tattooed legs of his #frnkiebby #frank iero #mcr #mcr5 #frnkiero #mcrmy #frnkie #my chemical romance #my chem

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

'There's nothing innocent about Miles Kane,' Turner warns, in case anyone was planning to accuse him of luring his fresh-faced co-conspirator into a decadent world of rock star self-indulgence. 'He is the antithesis of innocence.' 'Ooh,' Kane retorts, archly, 'you scampi fry.'

The Guardian 

#YOU SCAMPI FRY #i love them #the greatest rock supergroup of all time #miles 'antithesis of innocence' kane and alex 'scampi fry' turner #also #interesting how sure you are of miles's lack of innocence there alex #almost like you have some kind of direct personal experience in that field #hmmmm #anyway yeah #i stumbled across this little gem of a quote while compiling stuff for another post and i couldn't resist sharing it #milex #alex turner #miles kane #tlsp #the last shadow puppets #milex quotes #lulu posts

[butchladymaria]

#bloodborne #not exaggerating when i say that even wearing PANTS was seen as an exclusively masc thing btw #there are Multiple cases of women literally PASSING AS DUDES by wearing pants. IN THE ARMY NO LESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #this one lady who wore pants to farm was seen so outlandish it warranted public backlash #women were arrested for wearing pants and button-down shirts as recently as THE SIXTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #i could go more into maria's outfit as a whole but the pants ALONE make her canonically masc By Definition in the historical context :) #if ur abt to be fucking stupid on this post im Just going to block u btw #having said that if anyone DOES have normal responses or questions i really love history and i have a lot of resources #comment/reblog/inbox/dm are all fair game <333 #in case anyone was curious what my inbox looked like after making that post #most of these are direct quotes :) its just silly to me #like holy [citation needed] #if u want to know more!!!! #i love her so much and im really tired of (overwhelmingly cis) people literally being so insecure in their own gender #that they just start reinventing gender roles in my inbox!!!!! #and everywhere else they can get their hands on #i think some of yall need to realize that uhhhhhhh #butch lesbians seeing maria as a butch lesbian is not fucking '''''''tokenism'''''''''''' or whatever #that is Literally Not What That Word Means #but it may be worth examining why you are so upset by it? #or barring that........have some genuine curiosity about the history of gender.......because its really cool to research imo

[fictionadventurer]

Rewatching The Muppet Christmas Carol after rereading the book has me wishing we could have seen Michael Caine play Scrooge in a more detailed and book-accurate version of the story. He's got the perfect face and demeanor for Scrooge as Dickens wrote him. There's a fierceness on the surface, and an underlying good nature that's just waiting to be let out. You can believe he was the young clerk who delighted in a good Christmas party, and believe that he's become the cold, hard, grasping miser who won't even spend money to give himself a good fire, and whose humor comes out in cruel witticisms. He would totally be the Scrooge who gets caught up in the the childish delight of watching past Christmas parties and playing along with the games at the present one.

Unfortunately, the condensed story takes the angle of "Scrooge has never liked Christmas". It makes young Scrooge someone who's worrying over what his employer spends to throw a Christmas party (rather than delighting in a simple affair that only costs a few pounds). Caine's Scrooge shows moments of childish delight, but he doesn't really understand the spirit of Christmas until the very end of his time with the Ghost of Christmas Present. And it's fine. Turning a Victorian book into a ninety-minute Muppet musical for children is going to involve significant changes. Caine did excellently with the material he had. I just wish he'd had the chance to do more.

#a christmas carol #the muppet christmas carol #it seems like there's a mystique that's built up around this movie on tumblr #pitching it as a shockingly book-accurate version (plus muppets) #when it's really not (even if we leave aside the muppet parts) #there are fragments of direct prose quotes #but usually amid other sentences that have been heavily altered #a lot of events are altered or condensed #the most direct book stuff comes in the future christmas segments #scrooge clutching at the spirit's robes turning into scrooge clutching his own bed clothes was perfection #and again it's fine #it's a fun muppet christmas movie that does get a lot right #(they even leave in some of the religious references!) #but caine would be so good at book scrooge that i wish we could have had more of it

[surskip]

tried to sew a clothing pattern with confusing instructions incident 39257293847592385 dead 10343141029341 injured

#mine #ive been working on it for like a week☹️ #these pockets are from hell im tempted to just remove them entirely but i dont know if itd sit right without them..... #ill come back to it at some point tomorrow probably #i hope it does not sound like i am outsourcing blame but it feels like it is a bad sign when people have to make imgur albums #trying to explain how the pockets work with captions like #'Inside of pocket seen from the outside when the dress is flipped inside out' (direct quote)

[astranauticus]

So I finally decided to sit down and tackle Set Me Free (超度我) by FloruitShow, aka the most recent holder of the coveted 'oh I love this song but it's fucking untranslatable' spot in my brain, also a song I can confidently recommend by saying I can almost guarantee you've never heard anything like it before. Give it a listen! I promise you won't regret it

Note: the reason this song is such a pain in the ass is because the chorus consists almost entirely of quotes directly from the Diamond Sutra, so translated lines in bold are lines I took from this translation, with some help from this site. Usually I take pride in saying translations by me but let's just say translating the Diamond Sutra is... a bit beyond me

超度我 - Set Me Free

来不及

There's no time left

最后一句想你来不及让你知道

No time left to tell you one last 'I miss you'

再也回不去

We can't ever return

那个有彩虹出现的下午

To that afternoon when the rainbow appeared

再也感受不到你温度

I won't ever feel your warmth again

如果你留我在梦里

If you could leave me in my dreams

我会放弃呼吸

I will give up my breath

请 超度我

Please, set me free

若以色见我以音声求我

If one sees me in form, if one seeks me in sound

是人行邪道 不 不能见如来

He practices a deviant way and cannot, cannot see the Tathāgata

一切有为法 如梦幻泡影

All conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows

如露亦如电 应作如是观

Like dew drops and lightning flashes, contemplate them thus

非空非有 亦空亦有

Present yet absent, existent yet non-existent

不生法相 无所住

Do not conceive of Dharmas, have a mind of no abode

非空非有 亦空亦有

Present yet absent, existent yet non-existent

不生法相 无所住

Do not conceive of Dharmas, have a mind of no abode

对不起

I'm sorry

不经意就在你的影子里活下去

It's so easy to live on in your shadow

我不在意

But I don't mind

不过是白日梦里一瞬息

It's just a moment in a daydream

为何还起念动心

Why does my heart still stir?

怪你名字太熟悉

It's all because your name is so familiar

当我是一花一叶一春木

If I could be a flower, a leaf, a spring sapling

可否回到世界之初

Could we return to the beginning of it all?

请 超度我

Please, set me free

若以色见我以音声求我

If one sees me in form, if one seeks me in sound

是人行邪道 不 不能见如来

He practices a deviant way and cannot, cannot see the Tathāgata

一切有为法 如梦幻泡影

All conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, shadows

如露亦如电 应作如是观

Like dew drops and lightning flashes, contemplate them thus

非空非有 亦空亦有

Present yet absent, existent yet non-existent

不生法相 无所住

Do not conceive of Dharmas, have a mind of no abode

非空非有 亦空亦有

Present yet absent, existent yet non-existent

不生法相 无所住

Do not conceive of Dharmas, have a mind of no abode

我的执念 万千千千

My obsessions, hundreds of thousands

放不下地 放不下天

I can't let go of the earth, I can't let go of the sky

我把红线折折剪剪

I cut and fold at the red string

落入凡间镜重圆

I fall to the mortal realm to seek reunion

#floruitshow #translations i made #cpop #cpop translation #chinese langblr #mandarin langblr #PLEASE i IMPLORE YOU go listen to this song #its possibly one of the weirdest (complimentary) songs ive ever hread #the last two lines of the chorus are actually me stitching together stuff i pulled out of the translations #cuz the original lines are less direct quotes and more just.. concepts in buddhism pulled from the text #so i had to kinda. do some engineering #i mean if anyone has suggestions *please* go ahead #as mentioned. im not buddhist #and my one buddhist friend's chinese is kinda ass LMAO #Youtube

[eros-cestlavie]

miles edgeworth's inner monologue when talking to franziska von karma: "she's so cute when she's mad" "she's amazing" "she's such a brilliant prosecutor"

franziska von karma: "BITES YOU BITES YOU BITES YOU"

#“she's amazing” is a direct quote from aai #and he definitely calls her cute at some point #ace attorney #games

[uyallstars]

Netflix today announced the film City Hunter, a Japanese live action adaptation of the legendary, best selling manga of the same name, set for release in 2024. Ryohei Suzuki (Tokyo MER, Segodon) is confirmed to take the lead role of Ryo Saeba with Yuichi Sato (Kisaragi, Strawberry Nights and The End of the Tiny World) directing.

#i was checking the upcoming section on netflix and what did i see #city hunter #ryo saeba #Ryohei Suzuki #Yuichi Sato #there’s a little more at the source #it seems they’re going to take some liberties #but it’s really vague and very little so #today = 15th dec. it’s a direct quote

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

Not one man on the ex-G.&.S.W. section was ever sat down to watch "Little and Often."

#or if they were they did an admirable job refusing to let some stupid film change their practice one bit #the things they are doing to these poor fireboxes #real true railway stuff #glasgow and south western engines #lms engines #scottish engines #david l. smith #(this post is a summary and a facetious one at that. not a direct quote from mr. smith.)

[blackandwhlteaesthetlc]

Florence was a guest on Zach Braff’s podcast to discuss her career and their new film A Good Person, which is out today!

I especially loved this bit at the end about her thoughts on possibly Directing films one day:

“I’d love to be a Director. I think I need to learn a bit more. I need to soak it up. It’s such a tricky position to have, and to lead, and to be a leader on a film set. You really have to be-You have to know your shit. And if you don’t a lot of people can get, you know, twisted up by that. And I think, for me, I don’t want to go in and not know and then affect an actor badly…It’s something that you really should go in knowing that you can do it. So I think I’m just going to do a bit more learning.”

#quote presented without further comment #I just love her #I was so on the fence about seeing the movie but the reviews are swaying me to watch it in theaters #and I really do hope she considers directing further on in her career #she also talked about her role as a producer on A Good Person and it sounds like she would make some really fantastic choices #as a filmmaker #I also loved how she appreciates fans of Midsommar but acknowledges we’re all weird 😂 #this was your daily dose of Florence Pugh for today :) #florence pugh #team flo #zach braff #a good person #film talk #Spotify