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Straight-up misogynistic, transphobic down-punching.
I found a Facebook thread for what looked like an identical piece, and the context given was:
“Fox”, 1961.
Leningrad Porcelain Factory (Ленинградский завод фарфоровых изделий - ЛЗФИ).
Author: Lev Naumovich Smorgon (February 17, 1929, Detskoe Selo, Leningrad Region) - sculptor, painter, graphic artist, medalist, children’s toy artist, writer.
Why does the last frame of Part II work so well? 👏
At around 1.7 million times the weight of the Earth, it’s not all that light.
This only really works with respect to the GNU Project, as the animal is generally pronounced with a silent “g”.
The gall of knowing let off the worst fart of your life and assuming the resulting smell came from the person opposite farting in response.
I also get jokes sometimes.
It’s just a set photo. It never happened on film.
A video shot across my doomscrolling feed in which Colbert was talking to Peter Jackson about the missing Fellowship chapters to do with Crickhollow and the barrow downs, so I guess it’ll somehow be about those events.
It would be really weird that it stopped exactly at the Kyrgyzstan border if it wasn’t because it’s another mountain range.
If you’re going to punctuate.
Punctuate like you’re
the thousandth monkey
in the typing pool
and brother
ook ook ooḳ
You’re not alone. I went in expecting it to be high-quality based on comments similar to the above, then adjusted my sights for trite but entertaining, then realized I was only even entertained when John Noble was on screen (and to be fair, his performance was very fun).
I do recognize that it broke new ground and wasn’t as cliché when it originally aired, but it’s hard to imagine that it wasn’t just as hammy.
When Lucas first sketched one out to give early collaborators a sense of what he wanted to make, he wrote “TIE” next to it without knowing what it would stand for (or so the story goes). Crew speculated that he’d already thought it looked a little like a bow tie and he hadn’t found the right backronym yet; apparently concept artist Joe Johnston proposed “twin ion engine”.
The logo is from Marvel comics. Schmidt is a Nazi SS Obergruppenführer in charge of special weapons development; his division is known as Hydra and is the revival of an ancient cult. After a drug-induced mutation, Schmidt is known as the Red Skull.
Don’t ask me any more questions, though; I’ll have already forgotten everything I just read!
Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, Bat Individual!
79 symbols if you count punctuation, casing, and accents.
And by extension, Yule and Christmas, Ēosturmōnaþ and Easter, Samhain and Hallowe’en.
See also: funerals, corporate “town hall” meetings, and court cases.
(I’ve not seen it, I’ve only read Weir’s book, so I’m not seriously casting any judgement, I’m just amusing myself – but I was a little dismayed by the huge spoilers in the trailers.)