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David Tennant and Cush Jumbo in Macbeth
Donmar Warehouse, December 2023 - February 2024
Photographer: Marc Brenner
#david tennant#cush jumbo#macbeth#donmar warehouse#all of the photos from this production are stunning#as was the production itself#there will be a part 2 to this set#sadly this is the first play of David's I missed seeing in person#in many many years#the timing was really off for me this time around#but there's still hope#stuff i posted#praying for a dvd release#tennant macbeth
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“the gore and grit and violence and manliness and faggotiness of Black Sails / Hannibal / Interview with the Vampire would make the childish q-slur-tagging Steven Universe pansies who watch Our Flag Means Death scream and cry and shit their pants”
you are all watching Television Show.
#like. I hear what you’re saying. but it’s Television Show#(by which I want to refer to the material circumstances surrounding the production of any major media undertaking#and not really the medium itself)#f slur /
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i know a lot of people are trying to put ivan and till's relationship and feelings into a clearer perspective but i think yall r forgetting that like. they were put into anact garden as children. their whole lives theyve only known other children and alien overlords. theyve probably never had an adult human to look up to. its only natural that the relationships they have with each other exceed the titles and definitions we're used to, because the conditions of their lives are fundamentally different than ours.
#we dont actually know how long its been since earth was invaded either#i personally think most of them are the product of some kind of human breeding program. tagged with their names on their body like livestoc#i have no proof of course but how else would they be owning and selling children from such a young age#unless the names are a brand of anact garden itself and not just being a human born in alien captivity#that might make more sense actually i dont think they had them in mizisua#alnst#alien stage
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Mandatory TF2 seal post
#y0rkie productions#tf2#tf2 fanart#tf2 seal#seal tf2#what I'd give to play the game and see the legend itself in person
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Very excited and pleased to report that I have purchased a ticket to see Macbeth in October!!
Logistics will take a bit more time to iron out, but I pushed past my anxiety and decided to get the ticket because I didn't want to miss out again. I'm also interested to see how this production compares with the one I saw Alan Cumming in years ago, but I know this will be a singular experience with David in the lead role.
I hope everyone who wanted a ticket was able to get one! ❤️
#david tennant#soft scottish hipster gigolo#macbeth#donmar warehouse#harold pinter theatre#the Alan Cumming production was also a one-man show and was set in a mental hospital#so that was something incredible all by itself#but i know David and Cush and the cast are an experience unto themselves#i felt slightly insane buying the ticket but here we are#hoping everything works out in the end#fingers crossed#<3
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Been thinking to myself, "hey, wouldn't it be cool to animate Ghost entering Limbo?"
I'm animating for uni a lot these days, so I got a process down. This particular scene is from chapter 3 of the fic, the first time I describe Ghost using his powers.
Idk why the whites go blue at the end... just imagine it's black and white (the video has the right colors)
Slower version+higher quality video under the cut
#call of duty modern warfare 2#cod mw2#cod ghost#simon ghost riley#cod fanart#animation#fan animation#revenant au#look at this silly man go!#Limbo itself looks a little drab because I can't animate like 20 figures and stay sane...#well it's literally the realm of nothing so that's my excuse.#this took like... 4 hours#damn 2 chapters of the fic and an animation in the same day? I feel productive lmao
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two questions to ask yourself when you start looking for pre-christian material in medieval literature:
1. when are these texts from
2. when did christianity come to this area
i can guarantee you in the vast majority of celtic-language sources (and others) the answer to 2. is several centuries before 1. and at that point you gotta ask yourself... how likely is it that these people would be writing about something that has not been a thing for them or anyone they know for, like, four hundred years (or, in many cases, eight or nine hundred years), especially given that most of the people doing that writing are not merely passively existing in a christian society but are, yunno, monks
there are exceptions! but there are way fewer exceptions than you think there are gonna be! and the exceptions are almost always extremely nebulous sub layers that can't be disentangled from the other layers (which are christian) with any certainty so are always somewhat speculative!
and most importantly those other layers are interesting too, but if you only ever treat them like dirt to dig through to get to something "real" underneath you're sure gonna be disappointed a lot of the time (and you're gonna miss a lot of cool shit that would be really exciting if this was an actual archaeological dig and not a metaphor)!!
#this feels a bit like lobbing a grenade into a crowded theatre#but tbh everyone who is mad at me for saying this has probably already blocked me#given that I've been saying it for several years at this point#i think these days people are so used to religion being a personal thing#they don't really comprehend what it meant to Live In A Christian Society As A Medieval Person#like. we're not talking primarily about faith or what someone personally believed#but how society is structured and ordered and the paradigms its literature lives within#AND WHO PRODUCES THE LITERATURE#education is ecclesiastical. book production is ecclesiastical. literacy itself is in many cases ecclesiastical#the christianity is coming from inside the house#anyway whatever why am i trying#i had two (2) entire sips of wine this evening (i don't drink and don't like wine)#so maybe that's why i'm posting this lol
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Giant Bomb's Jeff Grubb notes that the next Mass Effect game (which it sounds from this is what the N7 Day 2023 teaser & previous ones pertain to) is a very long way off still [source]. he implies that he has a bit more to say on the topic on his show Game Mess Mornings today (Nov 8th). (here's a transcript of relevant quotes from the last time GMM discussed BioWare, ME and DA/DA:D, as an example).
#bioware#next mass effect#mass effect#mass effect: andromeda#(idk i figure the mea tag is relevant on these posts since “andromeda” was in one of the code teases)#video games#dragon age: dreadwolf#dragon age 4#the dread wolf rises#da4#dragon age#makes sense or at least isnt a surprise kinda thing#nme is still in pre-production iirc & DA:D is due to come out first#& DA:D itself may still be a ways off
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Yeah it’s cool and all that Lyanna Mormont and Wylla Manderly are such vocal Stark loyalists. But it’s actually quite important that they share names with two of the most important women in Jon Snow’s life: Lyanna Stark - his mother, and Wylla - his wetnurse and rumored mother in universe. Such stunning loyalty from these two girls who are named after women so important to Jon just tickles all the key parts of my brain. These are the women who gave him life. And it’s even more poignant when we realize that by ADWD, when the girls are declaring their loyalty, Jon is the KiTN who bears the name STARK per Robb’s decree.
#jon snow#asoiaf#valyrianscrolls#lyanna mormont#->#lyanna stark#wylla manderly#<-#wylla the wetnurse#Lyanna couldn’t press her son’s claim and wylla had no power#so little Lyanna and young wylla step in for them#and do what they can with the little power they have#though they may not truly know what it means#I’m sorry but jon is like at the very heart of the gnc - however big or small#the conspiracy by itself is really about love - love the north has for the Starks and esp ned stark#but then we have Jon a product of love - lyanna’s wylla’s and ned’s#and he has been named KING#it’s why a stark comeback can’t be punitive vengeance#it has to be about restorative justice - the return of love to the north where fear and hate once ruled#let stannis do the avenging#but let jon bring love when all is said and done
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BB!Houndstar
An ancient leader of ShadowClan, who saw Darkstar's Commandment be added to the code following the death of Mapleshade's kittens.
[ID: The Better Bones version of Houndstar. She is a brown-and-white molly with smooth fur and amber eyes. She has a brown hood, fingerless 'gloves,' and cape, a flopped ear, and a beauty spot under her eye. There is a resin star in her claws.]
Clanmew Name: Bayaoshai
(Bayao = A gigantic, baying dog + Shai = Star)
Alignment: ShadowClan
Children: Batear, Mousewing
Time Era: Chivalric Period
I just think she's neat!
Houndstar inherited ShadowClan from Marshstar, who was thrust into power when Ripplestar's rebellion ended in disastrous failure. For his entire reign, Marshstar resented the circumstances that gave him power and only did the bare minimum to keep the Clan together. Once the ambitious Houndfang became deputy, he simply allowed her to run things how she pleased.
And when she took power, Houndstar decreed a new age for ShadowClan, one of renewed honor and glory. She became known for being one of the most ferocious leaders in modern memory, launching vicious, brutal attacks on the other Clans and laying claim to anything she could win. Houndstar was a notorious kitten stealer, even claiming two for herself!
So, when Darkstar and Oakstar were commanded by StarClan to amend the Code, that all kits should be protected regardless of their origin, Darkstar knew that Houndstar would be an opponent. The fearsome leader was only cordial at Gatherings, a sacred time of truce.
But in the end, Houndstar's ferocity was only outmatched by her piety. Her tune changed as soon as Redthistle, her loyal cleric, advised her that this truly was the will of StarClan.
Bonus trivia below the cut!
Batear was her son! It did not help him after Palefoot's mysterious disappearance. Houndstar did not need direct evidence, she knew Batear did it.
It was only by the grace of being her child that she offered him the ability to escape exile by telling the Clan where Palefoot's body was.
Unfortunately, he's just as proud and stubborn as his mother.
Houndstar's reign ended about halfway through the Crusade Era, she jumped on board with Oakstar's idea in a heartbeat.
ShadowClan was full of enthusiastic Crusaders, and she herself lost several lives and a deputy in the raids.
She chose Cedarpelt as her third deputy, a practical and organized cat, to run ShadowClan so she could spend more time fighting.
Canon!Houndstar is a tom but I said no. ShadowClan needs more female leaders.
The little resin star is the closest I can get to a valuable in-universe cross. For the record, Clan cats don't have access to true amber (a type of fossil), but they can make resin (which can become amber over a few million years of heat and pressure)
Houndstar owns a few religious items like this.
Mousewing's daughter was Foxheart, whose son was Wolfstep, whose son was Badgerfang. The line named their children after animals, until the horrible death of Badgerfang when Wolfstep decided to end the practice out of grief.
Her flopped ear is actually because of an injury. There's a hole in the middle; it is not a feature she was born with.
I'm unsure of who Mousewing and Batear were stolen from; but I have half a mind to make them the stolen siblings of Perchshine from RiverClan. Darkstar's nespring. More reason for Houndstar to accuse her of just trying to make a commandment for sore losers.
After her death, she's one of ShadowClan's favorite War Patrons. Skystar is more popular across the Clans, but Houndstar is more personal to ShadowClan specifically.
She's also sometimes invoked for faith in StarClan.
#Better bones au#Houndstar#Character Summary#Very obscure background character BUT an interesting one#she has been in my head... the girl#One thing I care a lot about for BB is how culture and society itself change through the ages#And there are characters who are 'products' of their time#So Houndstar here is one shining example of a product of her time
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they are the definition of right person, never enough time.
#i love them so much#literally in tears while making this#bbc merlin#merlin emrys#lancelot du lac#mercelot#merlance#i avoided working on my fic to make this#but i think it’s productive since the fic is basically writing itself in my head#colinmorgiveawy on twitter made the scene pack i used & it’s so good
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i don't care about the kumatora "age confirmation" she'll always be 16 post timeskip in my heart
#kinda silly tbh to assume google translate & a product blurb are even like. accurate / definitely canon / word of god or whatever.#in the game itself her age remains Ambiguously Teen Or Young Adult and up to player interpretation 🤷
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When I was a young excited physics student I went down to my advisor and asked for a job in a lab. Those of you who are in the sciences may recognize this as exceedingly common, most schools with science departments will hire undergrads for their labs both to give the undergrads experience and to have someone comparatively cheap to do the least skilled labor in those labs.
For me, the lab I was sent to was one doing cool photonics projects and I was assigned to a guy who was doing the theoretical modeling for them and I got put on a side project for them to develop a method to double check their results using Monte Carlo simulations.
Put bluntly, I toiled away in the little cubicle they had me in for about half a year before I transferred to a different school without ever having produced anything of any particular value other than a Monte Carlo simulation whose temperature readings were not taking into account the existence of a heat sink and therefore got overwhelmed by thermal photons in a completely inaccurate and unhelpful way.
Ultimately, many tasks, farmed out like this in a speculative way to undergrads, fail, certainly it's not exceptional that mine did and I learned a lot about the process in the process, so it wasn't wasted time for me, but it produced absolutely nothing the lab could use to further its results.
This is where it turns from a little anecdote about my work history into a morality tale, because what I have thus far deliberately failed to tell you is that the lab I was assigned to is a provider of radar services to the US Military. Had I produced anything of any value whatsoever the work I did would have been used by the US military to help with its capacity to deliver bombs. This is, unfortunately, as those of you who are in the sciences may recognize, also exceedingly common. Luckily, and through no foresight or moral thinking of my own, simply the inexperience of youth, I produced nothing of value but view the path they tried to set me down as a grim warning of what might have been.
I'm not asking for forgiveness, the harm I might have done was not done by me, although I'm also sure was done without my help. They didn't need it to be me they just needed someone with basic calculus knowledge who wouldn't think too hard about the connection between the work and the world, and they were happy enough that particular warm body was me.
So this is my plea, if you're young and getting involved in the sciences because you're passionate about knowledge and understanding our place in the universe. When you go to get that job in that lab that's such a good stepping stone to the next thing you want to do, take a second and look into where that lab's funding is coming from. If it turns out it's the military, maybe then take another second and really deeply consider what kind of thing your work can be used to do and if you would like some of the most bloodthirsty people on the planet to be able to do that thing because of your help.
I got lucky that I didn't help, but I'm hoping that with this warning you might be able to not help on purpose which is a greater moral good than what I managed.
#IDK been thinking about this a lot recently for obvious reasons#I should've known better at the time too to be clear I was just blinded by excitement#If I'd stayed at that school and that lab and got to the level where I could contribute#They would have happily sent me to the Raytheon office down the street#Where I would've been well paid as my soul chipped away at itself#And I will never not resent the structure of the system that had that future in mind for me#I feel extra foolish for having nearly fallen for it considering my grandfather's history as a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists#Which is in part because he didn't talk much about that with us grandkids in large part because we weren't old enough early enough#There's a lot I wish he could've talked to me about now that I'm old enough to really understand it#But back to the point tell your advisor 'I'm not comfortable working in a military lab do you have any other options'#That's what I wish I'd said#Meanwhile my dad (the legend) claims to have cost the military millions of hours of productivity and credibly so
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Intensely Spicy Curry Training: Hypmic Curry Drama Track TL
Kuukou: Y’all sure took your sweet time getting here! I’ve already got everything prepared!
Jyushi: But didn’t you tell us to meet you at the temple?
Hitoya: If we’re making curry, why the hell are we way out in the mountains to do it?
Kuukou: Because I just had a great idea. Check this out!
Jyushi: Ooooh, look at all this meat! So, we’re going to be using all of this in our curry?
Hitoya: Beef and chicken, huh? I guess it would make sense not cook these while inside your temple.
Kuukou: You’re half right, and half wrong.
Jyushi: What do you mean?
Kuukou: I don’t plan to make just any ol’ curry. Now it’s time for the both of y’all to mince the hell out of this meat!!
Hitoya: I didn’t know whether to expect if a corrupt little monk such as yourself knew how to cook, but I’m surprised. Instead of using something pre-made, if we pound and mince the meat ourselves, we’d get a far more superior product. Is that what you were thinking?
Jyushi: Oh, I see! That’s amazing, Kuukou-san!
Hitoya: So, where’d you put the food processor?
Kuukou: Ah?? The hell are you on? You’re grinding this meat with your bare hands.
Jyushi: …Eh?
Kuukou: Jyushi, you’re on beef! Hitoya, you’re taking the chicken! Punch it with everything you’ve got and make minced meat out of it!! This is a new training session I thought up!
Hitoya: What the hell is this fool saying??
Jyushi: B-But there’s so much meat!! Grinding it by hand is impossible!!
Kuukou: I don’t want to hear any complaints!! You don’t know that unless you try!
Jyushi & Hitoya: *reluctantly pounds the meat by hand*
Jyushi: *tearfully* …My body’s going to become minced meat before the actual beef!
Hitoya: Damn it, I can’t believe I let my guard down like this…! I shouldn’t have expected we’d simply make curry…!
Kuukou: You can’t expect to get anywhere with a weak spirit behind weak fists like that!! Lemme show you how it’s done!
Kuukou: *starts punching*
Hitoya: You bastard, those are vegetables!!
Jyushi: E-Even I could mince a tomato by hand!
Kuukou: It doesn’t matter either way!! Whether it’s vegetables or meat, all that matters is the heart you’re putting behind it!!
Jyushi: T-That doesn’t make any sense…!!
Kuukou: “Enlightenment can be attained through one thousand fists!” Don’t just keep yapping and put some energy into your hips and legs too!
Hitoya: Tch, I don’t see any way out of this… Then, I might as well get it over with…!! UWOOOOOOOOOAAAARRRRGHHHH!!!!!!!! *maximum effort punching*
Jyushi: H-Hitoya-san??
Kuukou: Hyahaha! There’s the effort I wanna see!
Jyushi: Guh… Because My God has unshackled the chains binding his true power, I, too, must unlock mine to continue alongside him…! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!! *maximum effort punching*
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Jyushi: I-I can’t move another inch…
Hitoya: Ugh… I can’t even take the cap off my water bottle…
Kuukou: *sighs* It’s pretty pathetic to be that exhausted just from cooking.
Hitoya: You…!!!
Jyushi: But, I think it would be really nice if our training efforts could be felt by those eating our curry…!
Hitoya: …Well, I don’t think I’d say it like that, but I agree with the sentiment.
*the trees rustle and the birds chirp and there is peace*
Kuukou: The fuck are y’all talking about? There’s no point to this if the people who eating aren’t going through training too.
Jyushi: Eh?
Kuukou: Training can only be felt when you grow from the trials you’ve experienced yourself. Hopping off from other people’s efforts won’t mean shit.
Jyushi: B-but I mean, we’ll still be serving the curry to others once it’s finished cooking, right?
Kuukou: Yup. Which is why I’ve got…!
Hitoya: UWAH!! MY EYES!! IT’S IN MY EYES!!
Jyushi: That powder…!!
Hitoya: It’s red chili pepper!! Jyushi, run!! Move upwind so it doesn’t blow and stick to your mucous membrane!!
Jyushi: Eeek!!! *runs away sobbing*
Kuukou: HYAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Hitoya: Kuukou, you bastard, what are you doing? Are you trying to ruin everything we worked on??
Kuukou: I’m not ruining a damn thing! This curry will be spicy so I can provide a remote kind of training!
Hitoya: Stop fucking around!! There’s gotta be a limit!!
Jyushi: *runs back over* I think there’s more chili pepper powder than ingredients now…!!
Kuukou: Then it’s just right! Now try it.
Jyushi: NO!! I will not be eating!! I absolutely refuse!! Don’t even try me!!
Kuukou: Hey stupid, watch it, that’s dangerous!! Stop fighting me and just—Ahh??
Jyushi: T-The inside of the pot is pitch black……!!
Hitoya: Obviously. Chili peppers burn easily. Haah… Let’s just remake the curry.
Jyushi: But doesn’t that mean we’ll have to mince more meat??
Kuukou: Whatever, I was thinking our “Intensely Spicy Curry Training” was made too halfheartedly anyway!! Time to give it all I got and win this championship!!
#kuko harai#jyushi aimono#hitoya amaguni#bad ass temple#hypmic#hypnosis mic#til that you can make a meat paste at the very least by using a mortar and pestle LOL#the curry pissed me tf off lmao it was so spicy but underneath all that spice was a ridiculously flavourful curry#it's spicy enough that i can tell it's comfortably spicy for people used to eating spice tho!!#habenero is the worst experience with spice i ever had and it wasn't that bad lol but i got the sense it could have been#so i assume jyushi and hitoya talked kuukou down lmao or we didn't want a repeat burnt product lol#i decided to tone down how i usually write bat to try and not show my very obvious bias lol hopefully it worked#i remember slug mentioning sometimes a tl will come off vague in order to not get in the way of future developments#and i actually felt that tling this lmao like when hitoya was telling kuukou there's a limit for everything#i had to choose whether to make this about kuukou and training or kuukou and the chili peppers#the statement itself was a vague warning so my own interpretations of bat were getting in the way probably lol#statements without a clear subject usually default to the person speaking so kuukou saying give it everything and win the championship#is me assuming he's talking about himself and again i'm a little worried my own interpretations of bat are getting in the way#since kuukou's self reliance is blatant but also not if you're casually looking at bat SO IDK LOL I THINK TLING IS HARD#curry tl
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Me (an lotr fan): wow I don’t think I could be more heartbroken over the way giant corporations have taken the story I loved and reduced it to a hollow financial asset that does enormous real-world harm. I hate how the story is irrelevant and meaningless to executives who only see it as a hollow spectacle they can manipulate for profit. But thankfully I can’t be surprised anymore there is no way they can possibly make it worse
Warner Bros:
Me:
#FUCK ALL THESE HORRIBLE GODAWFUL MONSTERS I HATE ALL OF THEM#I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE IT.#I KNEW THE STUPID GARBAGE AMAZON TRASH WOULD LEAD TO MORE GARBAGE LIKE THIS#*cough cough*#anyway#Lol love to see something you care about turned into a hollow empty product that exists only to burn down rainforests#though because the nft market crashed#itD be super funny if Warner bros invested everything in the stupid nft thing and bankrupted themselves#like the way the One Ring destroys itself#you know? the whole evil destroying itself thing#every day I go on Twitter but limit myself to thirty minutes because all the massive psychic damage I receive#but yeah it Sucks when a thing that was important to you becomes a tool for actual objective Evil
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Forcemasc to Me is really the tits when it's validating.. Like autofellatic, masturbatory, creepy, corny, just like cis men talking about What It Means To Be a True Man and the power of their balls, feeling like a fucking loser for being exhilarated by it, hell even cringy ... Ik when you pop off to some kink that is frankly horrible you get kind of a dopamine rush cus oooh im breaking the rules even tho u know psychologically its probably not the best thing for you. Its harder to do it and believe corny 80s shit right? Like omg, these cringe trans men on the internet, if i partake that makes me cringy too. Like... Yeah. Cringe and being uncomfortable and creeped out.. I thought thats how we roll here
#seeing transmasc hate like wow you really only save your kink nuance for trans men getting beaten and misgendered huh#plus transition truly is scary and horrible in itself like really shows being trans isnt a choice cus who the fuck would do that#if you wanna be humiliated and demeaned why not do something productive with it. is what im saying
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