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thefunkyweapon:

professorsparklepants:

I was talking to my sister about it last night in the car and I’ve concluded that the best movie adaptation of Hamilton would be randomly anachronistic for seemingly no reason. Like, the characters all dress like it’s the late 19th century but the props and setting change wildly.

• It’s Quiet Uptown takes place in The Grange surrounded by historical estates and brownstones, but the entirety of The Schyler Sisters takes place in like, modern Times Square
• The start of the Aaron Burr, Sir sequence starts in a dark period appropriate tavern and then Laurens kicks the door open carrying an actual six pack of Samuel Adams
• Both the one v one Hamilton & Washington scenes are set in the oval office (despite the White House not actually existing yet) but the cabinet battles are set in… whatever building they were using to house the government in Philadelphia and NYC at that point
• Hamilton’s line about “We have resorted to eating our horses” is angrily shouted into a corded desk phone that he slams to hang up
• Phillip Hamilton interrupts an actual play in a period theatre but the ushers that show him out at the end all have flashlights
• Farmer Refuted takes place in Central Park and the accompaniment is from street musicians, including the harpsichord
• The hard cut to King George’s declaration has him with in the set they use for the Queen’s Christmas Speech, except instead of a photograph on the desk there’s a big portrait of Queen Victoria behind him
• Cabinet battles have a stenographer using a type writer

Basically, anything that could be quickly googled to provide a date is allowed to be anachronistic, and everything else has to be period accurate. Add your own!

andreburkovsky:

this sure is a hot take (x)

I’m not a hockey fan, but I think I once saw a game on tv as a kid where the ice was sublimating and the players were all skating through fog.

starseedjenny:

adobe-outdesign:

sparkytheandroid:

sparkytheandroid:

the slogan for campbells soup in the 80’s was just “Soup is Good Food” and i wanna meet the young hotshot pussy destroyer who came up with that one

Old slogans were just… like that. My personal favorite is Steak n’ Shakes’ very descriptive “It’s a meal.”

we’re not saying that it’s a good meal, just. A Meal. no fucking false advertising here folks

Allow me to introduce you to the wonderful world of Canadian advertising:

uisce-bitch:

sarahgrowls:

aegis-of-the-sufferer:

teenagerposts:

Am I the only one whose internet addiction started with my parents not letting me fucking go anywhere

This but I also had no friends so I wouldn’t have anywhere to go if I was allowed

this is a thing! danah boyd is a researcher who has been studying social media for over a decade and in her 2014 book it’s complicated she argues that teenage social media “addiction” (which she also contends is like…..not actually a thing) is a result of the fact that “today’s teenagers have less freedom to wander than any previous generation” because “parents argue that these restrictions are necessary in an increasingly dangerous society, even though the data suggest that contemporary youth face fewer dangers than they did twenty years ago.”

as a result, teenagers are reclaiming these lost social spaces (which their parents and grandparents had in the form of mall hangouts, drive-in theaters, after school parking lots, etc) by using social media, where they can continue to “engage in crucial aspects of maturation: self-presentation, managing social relationships, and developing an understanding of the world around them,” aka stuff that teens are Supposed to be doing

glumshoe:

glumshoe:

glumshoe:

I like haunted houses in theory BUT I have no idea how to react when the actors speak to you. They ask me a question and I just… answer it…

The scariest part of a haunted house is the unscripted social interaction.

Scary nurse in a creepy voice: “Do you have an appointment to see the doctor?”

Me: “Uh. Do you accept walk-ins?”

Scary farmer: “I like to kill people!”

My friend, brightly: “I like to die!”

ark-of-eden:

snowflakeeel:

I’m reading the first chapter of my Ichthyology book for homework and so far my favorite quote is:

“Humans are not the pinnacle of evolutionary progress but only an aberrant side branch of fish evolution.”

(R:) From the textbook Man’s Return to His Origin: A Scientific Examination of the Innsmouth Method and Related Techniques by Obadiah Marsh, MD (1910). Assigned as required reading for ICH 101 (Basic Marine Life Propagation), Miskatonic University, Spring 2018.