Omg you’re fucking kidding me. Disney is always a big player in terms of easter eggs. And the big question was where they were going to hide the Pizza Truck famous for appearing in every film.
I can’t believe it. Props to them.
Author: Goldpanner
It never occurred to me to browse through the credits of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien, to find out who was underneath the monstrous black mask.
The man was Bolanji Badejo, a 7ft tall Nigerian design student picked up from a bar in West London to fill the title role. He worked on the film for 4 months. Spending every day wrapped in a suffocating custom fitted rubber suit, working to exude a presence of pure evil.
Despite his incredible contribution to the film’s success Badejo never received any publicity for his involvement. Ultimately, it would be his only film role.
this guy is amazing holy fuck
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I Don’t Want to Be Your Girlfriend, or How the Internet Taught Me About Women
I’ve had some things on my mind lately, a sort of mish-mash of thoughts, and I think it’d be good for me to get them down on paper (er—you know what I mean) and perhaps incite a discussion. This is one of those semi-serious posts, so if you’re just following for the comedy, feel free to skip this one.
So, I’m a girl. As far as I know, I’ve always been one, but I’ve never really put that at the front of my mind. When I was growing up, I knew girls and boys were different, but I didn’t think that meant we weren’t the same also. I never felt left out because of my gender, or like anyone was being unfair to me. I am a middle-class, white American, and that’s a pretty easy life to live.
I eventually discovered the internet, and when I joined TGWTG I was getting into a mostly-male site, in a profession that a lot of women have trouble getting into. That’s when I started feeling different. I’d hear quite a bit of “women can’t be funny.” And I’d never really thought about that. Yeah, I’m a woman, but why does that make my jokes any less humorous? Or I would hear comments about how hot or not I was, and it made me wonder, was that the point of my video? I’ve had comments about having too much makeup, or not enough, or needing a consistent look, or what color my hair should be, and all of this time, I’m thinking to myself, “What about my review? What about my work?” Because it seems to be some people’s mindsets that if you’re a woman you’re obligated to look attractive. If you don’t look good, who cares what you’re talking about?
I’m not saying I don’t want to look good, or feel attractive, or embrace being a woman. But I don’t want that to be all there is to me. And I certainly don’t see it nearly as frequently on a guy’s video. They can look how they want because they’re funny. Who cares what they look like? So why can’t it be the same for me?
There’s also a running gag on TGWTG that all of the guys are in love with me. This started with a joke on Nash’s show with Stickboy, but it really took off when Todd wanted it to be a continuous thing that he was stalking my character. And it was funny, it really was, because there was a joke there, and it was just as telling for his character as it was for mine. But somewhere along the line, everyone started using it, and it started becoming less about the joke and more about me being the “hot girl.” It also made people think that I was either terribly vain, or that was part of my character. I even got the comment that someone disliked me because “unlike everyone else, I don’t want to get into her pants.” All of a sudden, people were only watching me because they wanted to have sex with me. When did this happen?
I’ve never considered myself a hot girl. I’ve never really had a problem with how I look, but I’d rate myself pretty average. It’s just never been as important to me. So why am I suddenly the one with the “hot girl” privileges? I’ve had it too easy because I look good? I don’t understand where it comes from.
But I get that there are worse problems than looking good. It’s not really about people calling me out on how sexy or ugly I look. It’s because when people start to judge you for how you look, they stop seeing you as a person. If I can relate this to films for a moment, think about the last movie you saw in theaters. Who was the most prominent woman in the cast? Was she the love interest? Okay, now name me the last movie you saw where a woman wasn’t linked to any kind of romance. Name me a movie that doesn’t have a romance at all. That isn’t to say a romance can’t be entertaining, but I want a woman who is an actual character. There has to be something more to her. And if there IS something more to her, don’t make it about how sexy or independent she is. We got the right to vote a long time ago. It isn’t about women being allowed to be like the boys, it’s about women being allowed to be like everyone else.
For people who might be wondering just why I make such a big deal out of She-Wolf of London, here’s the primary thing: Randi is a real person. There is the romance aspect of the show, but the story isn’t just about that, and she’s not defined as a sexual character. She wears floppy clothes and big glasses, she trips over things, she has silly insecurities and quirks, and that’s what makes her so endearing to me. That’s what I think more movies, more shows need, is to write a woman as a character first and foremost. Obviously, this isn’t true for every form of media, but it is true for a majority of the things I see nowadays.
This is less true now that I’m dating Phelan, but I find it’s difficult to be friends with guys sometimes. Because there’s always this expectation there that it could go beyond what it is, and if there’s this rejection, there’s a chance he won’t talk to you again. And it’s so incredibly unfair, because if you won’t be their girlfriend, their one-night stand, their whatever, then we aren’t worth the time. It’s not that you aren’t good enough, guys, it’s that we shouldn’t feel obligated to date any guy who asks. I like your company, I think you’re awesome, I love hanging out with you. But I don’t want to be your girlfriend. And that’s okay.
I’m not a girl. I’m Allison. My gender is part of my identity, but it isn’t everything that I am. I want to be a woman, but I also want to be something more than that. I want to be me.
And you know what? I think I am.
Can I take a moment to talk about that structure there? It’s that shrine-looking thing at the end of LoK/episode 12 where Korra gives Lin her bending back.
That up there looks uncannily like a Buddhist stupa, a type of structure found throughout Asia that often houses relics of the Buddha and the bodhisattvas. There are are relic stupas, object stupas, commemorative stupas, symbolic stupas, and votive stupas, each having its own purpose.
The first thing that’s so very strange about it is that it’s surrounded by large, standing rocks. And the second thing that’s really strange about it is that Korra gives Lin back her bending at this specific spot.
It’s in the middle of the South Pole. Why are there stones around it? Why is it colored with earthen tones, rather than the whites and blues of the Water Tribe?
That leads me to believe that it isn’t just some random shrine.
I personally have begun to think it’s Toph’s grave, a relic to her memory and probably where she’s buried. That is, it is a stupa commemorative stupa (and perhaps even a relic stupa, if she is indeed buried there). And if that’s the case, that makes Lin getting her bending back at that particular spot especially poignant and touching because Lin is the carrier of her mother’s legacy and what better place to receive the greatest gift her mother gave her back?
There’s also a few other things that are ridiculously striking about this. According to Wikipedia, there are 8 different kinds of stupas, each symbolic of a different moment in the Buddha’s life. This stupa in particular is bell-shaped and has no extra ornamentation. That is supposedly symbolic of the Buddha’s ascension to Nirvana.
The stupa is also supposed to represent the four elements in total harmony as well as enlightenment:
- the square base represents earth
- the dome represents water
- the spire (or the steps) represent fire
- the lotus on the top of the spire of the stupa represents air
- and the steps can be said to represent the ascension to enlightenment.
And enlightenment in Korra’s case (within context, of course)? Connecting with the Avatar Spirit and realizing that she is the Avatar and that no one can take that away from her.
So whoa. You’ve got both Toph and Lin’s relationship represented here, as well as Korra’s realization of being the Avatar.
That’s how Bryke intended to end the series. And damn, that’s pretty mind blowing.
I still believe that it makes far more sense as Aangs grave since he was found in the South pole and all of the four elements are represented. So yeah still gonna argue its Aangs grave not Tophs.
missmokushiroku, this had me laughing. A lot.
where is your god now
my friend showed me this video of his pet donkey greeting him when he returned home from college after a few months
Christian spanks Anastasia.
Anastasia repeated refers to the spanking as, “He hit me.”
After he leaves, Anastasia gets drunk and cries loudly enough to upset her roommate.
Anastasia sends drunken emails about being “some woman you fuck occasionally” and how she “doesn’t like” Christian because he never stays with her after sex.
Christian comes over in a huff and explains that owning her, hitting her, and controlling her is a turn on.
When Anastasia balks, he reminds her that, even though: she’s hurting; he left her after sex and spanking/hitting; and she’s confused and crying, her hootersnatch was wet – so that makes it A-Ok.
So then they fall asleep together and now she’s crying from happiness.
Not to mention, EL James has used the word “behind” about 30 times in this one chapter. Not ass, butt, derriere, booty meats, cakes, cookies, fanny, end of the road, the dog’s end, buns, afterwhile, the if-and-when… again, millions of words and combinations of words, and the only ONE she uses is “behind”.
This is not a sexy relationship. This is emotional, mental, and physical abuse. Did I mention this is a terrible book?
I’m assuming this is that “50 Shades of Grey” book? I’m a kinky girl, but look: you don’t explain a D/s relationship to the submissive partner AFTER you have imposed it on them (and blamed them for liking it). That is a discussion sexual partners have BEFORE they consent to kink, with a thorough understanding of everyone’s needs (for example, in this case, the submissive partner’s need for emotional aftercare, as it’s called in BDSM, after kinky acts). From everything I’ve seen of this book, it’s rape culture as erotica, not kink. I’m sorry if talking to your sexual partners about their needs and limits isn’t sexy, but that’s what “safe, sane, and consensual” people do.
This book is hilarious at first, when you look at how horrendous the writing is. But it’s also really scary when you realize how entirely unsafe the BDSM they’re practicing is. There are simple ways to make it safe — things like safewords, etc — but they’re never used, or even mentioned. These books are growing increasingly popular — how many people are going to try to mimic this and find that in the middle of it, if they don’t like it, whoops, they have no way to tell their partner that they want it to stop?
There are easy, simple, and fun ways to make sex like this safe as well as fun. Unfortunately, this book skips safety altogether. And that is really, scarily dangerous.
this is a shitty book, and its a very poor example of BDSM relationships. but in a small defensive of it, he did tell her everything about what he was looking for, have her a typed contract, and reminds her time after time about safe words. every time it goes too far, its because she didnt remember to use safe words.
Fifty Shades of Oh My God NO
This book isn’t just terrifying because of its unsafe portrayal of BDSM, but also because it glamorizes an abusive relationship.
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Fits Perfectly into Quentin Tarantino’s Movie Universe and Influences His Entire Filmography
By now, most Quentin Tarantino fans are aware of the connections interlaced throughout all of his films. John Travolta’s Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction is the brother of Michael Madsen’s Vic Vega in Reservoir Dogs, Harvey Keitel’s Mr. White worked with Alabama from True Romance, the plot basis for Kill Bill is described as the synopsis for a TV series in Pulp Fiction, etc.
Now the epiphany that Eli Roth’s character of Donny Donowitz aka “The Bear Jew” in Inglourious Basterds is the father of the movie producer Lee Donowitz in True Romance has inspired a truly mind-blowing theory that the rest of the films (chronologically speaking) in Tarantino’s filmography take place in a world where [Inglorious Basterds spoiler] World War II came to an end when Adolf Hitler was brutally murdered in a movie theater by the Basterds.
This initial connection was brought up in an article on Cracked, but a poster on Reddit (via David Chen’s Twitter) has more eloquently summed up what this means for Tarantino’s movieverse:
As it turns out, Donny Donowitz, ‘The Bear Jew’, is the father of movie producer Lee Donowitz from True Romance – which means that, in Tarantino’s universe, everybody grew up learning about how a bunch of commando Jews machine gunned Hitler to death in a burning movie theater, as opposed to quietly killing himself in a bunker. Because World War 2 ended in a movie theater, everybody lends greater significance to pop culture, hence why seemingly everybody has Abed-level knowledge of movies and TV. Likewise, because America won World War 2 in one concentrated act of hyperviolent slaughter, Americans as a whole are more desensitized to that sort of thing. Hence why Butch is unfazed by killing two people, Mr. White and Mr. Pink take a pragmatic approach to killing in their line of work, Esmerelda the cab driver is obsessed with death, etc. You can extrapolate this further when you realize that Tarantino’s movies are technically two universes – he’s gone on record as saying that Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn take place in a ‘movie movie universe’; that is, they’re movies that characters from the Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, and Death Proof universe would go to see in theaters. (Kill Bill, after all, is basically Fox Force Five, right on down to Mia Wallace playing the title role.) What immediately springs to mind about Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn? That they’re crazy violent, even by Tarantino standards. These are the movies produced in a world where America’s crowning victory was locking a bunch of people in a movie theater and blowing it to bits – and keep in mind, Lee Donowitz, son of one of the people on the suicide mission to kill Hitler, is a very successful movie producer. Basically, it turns every Tarantino movie into alternate reality sci fi. I love it so hard.
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