In the English version of one of the Tintin albums (I think
it’s Red Rackham’s Treasure,) there’s
a moment where the characters are in a small open boat, and Captain Haddock is
cheerfully singing the chorus to “Maid of Amsterdam,” moments before a shark
attacks one of their oars. But in the original, Haddock is quoting a bit of
poetry, and through google I now know that he’s recalling “Le Lac,” by Alphonse
de Lamartine, which is an interesting choice for a character who’s supposed to
be a rough English sea-captain.
Un soir, t’en souvient-il ? nous voguions en silence;
On n’entendait au loin, sur l’onde et sous les cieux,
Que le bruit des rameurs qui frappaient en cadence
Tes flots harmonieux. (SHARK BITE)
• Renfield’s channel is full of videos that are just weird, grainy footage of him in the dark with blown-out audio of him eating bugs and talking to the camera with titles like “EXPERIMENT: BECOMING A VAMPIRE.”
• Jonathan runs a channel where he makes vlogs about what he ate each day and posts the recipe in the description and you can see Dracula in the background like, crawling around on the ceiling and everyone in the comments is freaking out and he just doesn’t notice.
– People keep messaging him saying “Hey, dude, what the fuck? There’s something going on with that guy in your videos???” and Jonathan just says “Oh! That’s Mr. Dracula! He’s nice, he lets me read his books! :D”
– The Sisters also sometimes show up in the background of his videos and they always make a big deal out of dramatically waving to the camera together.
• Van Helsing has over 100 multiple-hour long videos of him standing in front of a blank whiteboard, just talking about vampire mythology. He doesn’t edit them at all, he just immediately uploads them, so there are a ton of really long pauses where he’s standing completely still and trying to get his train of thought back on track. Also, his videos are all private because he doesn’t know how to change the settings.
• Quincey runs a channel where he posts videos about his farm (tours of the ranch house, updates on all the cows, etc.) and he does special travel vlogs about his trip to London and his subscribers keep a running count of just how fast it takes for him to mention Texas in each video.
That’s all I can think of for now, but please feel free to add to this, I want to have more.
Very Good Trope: Civillian is told “ stay in the car” while hero goes to confront villain. Hero gets in over head and all seems disaster. Civillian crashes car into villain.
Me, watching: ohhohoho! But they stayed in the car! Yesss, this is very good!
At the dinner party, Otho states that people who commit suicide end up as “civil servants” in the afterlife. This is actually expanded on in the film: the civil servant ghosts Adam and Barbara meet are people who appear to have ended their own lives. The receptionist says she committed suicide, there is a man who hanged himself, and the crushed messenger is implied to have done it to himself. Juno looks normal, but there are scars on her neck that indicate she cut her own throat. Betelgeuse is said to have been a civil servant and Juno’s assistant; it was going to be explained in the film that he hanged himself (incompetently and very painfully), due to heartbreak. While this was cut out of the film for running time purposes, it is hinted when Betelgeuse is surprised at Lydia wishing to die.
I think Burton may have got the idea from Orphee; I can’t recall if Cocteau’s script actually states all the emissaries of the Otherworld are suicides, but Heurtebise certainly is (he almost admits it to Eurydice when he gets triggered by the smell of the gas oven in her kitchen). I don’t know about the Princess.
Oscar Wilde can’t tell us with words that Dorian Gray is a full out twink so he compares him to Ganymede and Antinous and hopes we know enough Roman gay history to understand.
19th century gay lingo is the only language I speak fluently fortunately
from Twitter: North Dakota Native voters who do not have a residential address: here are instructions so you can vote in the midterms. Please print this off and share with others who don’t have internet. Call this number if you have questions: 1-701-255-0460
A new report by Ontario’s environmental watchdog has some strong words for successive provincial governments over the better part of the last half-century related to ongoing mercury poisoning at two First Nations in the northwestern part of the province.
The 2017 environmental protection report by Dianne Saxe, Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner was issued on Tuesday. Part of the document chronicles the history and current state of the historic pollution of the English-Wabigoon River system and its effects on Grassy Narrows and Wabaseemoong First Nations.
Speaking to reporters in Toronto during the release of the report, Saxe called the issue “shameful.”
“Both governments and business have long turned a blind eye to pollution of Indigenous communities,” she said.
The report itself was no less harsh.
“After accepting financial responsibility for the mercury contamination, the Ontario government declined to take action for decades, largely ignoring the suffering of the Grassy Narrows First Nation and Wabaseemoong peoples,” it stated, referring to a settlement reached in the mid-1980s between Ontario, the pulp mill and the First Nations.
If you wanna read an excellent history about this whole goddamn shitty racist mess, read Anastasia M. Shkilnyk’s incredible A Poison Stronger than Love: The Destruction of an Ojibwa Community. Apparently you can download it for free here.
These folks are now on their third generation of Minamata Disease because of the Canadian government’s policies. Minamata Disease is when your neurological system is destroyed due to mercury poisoning.
Many a guy, gal and nonbinary pal have tried explaining the question: what is homestuck. All have perished trying.
I can only advise you to wikipedia it because there’s no way to summarize it beyond “four kids go on a BIG adventure”
four kids want to play a video game together. playing the game causes the apocalypse, but the kids are all fine because they were each teleported to their own unique planet on which they must continue the game or die trying. they do die. they each die at least once (one of them died x infinity because he learned how to time travel; each of the kids is granted a power, but that’s not important).
going back a couple years, shortly after the four kids met, they each started receiving aggressive messages from the same 12 strangers. despite blocking them, the trolls were somehow able to continue messaging the kids.
present day, playing the game: the kids are still talking to the same 12 trolls, who claim to be aliens, and literal trolls. these same trolls also claim to have played the very same game, the end goal of which is to create a new universe, which they did, and that the universe they created is the one the kids were born in.
this is all 100% true
the comic then goes back and covers the 12 trolls ordeals with playing the game. then recaps all the conversations they’ve already had with the kids, until it finally catches up to the kids’ present moment. at this point, the trolls’ game universe had ended and they were all trapped on a meteor (with air, gravity, and buildings and the means for them to survive) drifting through dark space. though they may have only been on the meteor for a few days at most by now, several of them go mad (they were already mad by the nature of some aspects of their biology and culture, but that’s besides the point) and go on a killing spree. only three of them survive, one of which was responsible for most of the killing (AND DISMEMBERING OF HIS FRIENDS!) and one of the trolls who was killed woke up again, now a vampire apparently, because that’s normal? apparently? and she kills the troll that killed her.
from that point things get real messy, as the kids have little to no guidance because of the slaughter, and this is when a lot of dying happens on their end. but they’re fine, because of a game mechanic which can turn them into nigh-immortal pseudo-gods (this is referred to as “god tier”). but they realize that they’ve made bad choices with their game, and their end-boss is now too powerful for them to defeat, even with their combined god-power. so they resort to another game mechanic, called “The Scratch” which resets the universe they were born in, to give their universe a second chance. but to save themselves, and to help their post-scratch counterparts, they use their god powers to escape this now destroyed game universe and travel back to the new/old one. two of the kids salvage an alien ship to get there, while the other two find and meet the trolls in person for the first time, and use their meteor for travel.
this is a very good thing, because due to their post-scratch counterparts not performing a specific game task before being transported to their unique planets, their game session is doomed/dead (there is a difference between a doomed session and a dead one, but i forget what the distinction is) so the original kids NEED to be their for the new ones (who are actually all completely different people, but still biologically related to the original kids)
unfortunately, things get MUCH more complicated at this point, and while i did read a good chunk after this, there’s no way i can feasibly summarize it. i never even finished homestuck. i hope i do someday, though, because it was a big part of my life.
(these are the four original kids after reaching “god tier”)
bless you for the actual explanation
So that’s where the phrase “god-tier” comes from?!
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