flekitual-deactivated20250406:

which of these lower 48 usamerican cultural regions do you identify with

none/multiple/other/nuance/bald/vanilla

southwest

“the south”

great plains

midwest

new england

appalachia

rocky mountains

cascadia

norcal

central valley

socal

if you complain about this poll missing an option you are getting blocked. click the first one and explain in the tags. i only have 12 options and cannot change this after it is published. i tried to include the most substantial, unique cultural identities in the usa. if you are unsure, reference this

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parentheticalaside:

DNC Chair Ken Martin Launches “People's Cabinet” to Fiercely Counter Trump Administration Chaos and Lies - Democrats

Democrats

There’s a lot of news this week, so I understand if people haven’t seen this yet, but I want to be super clear that the Democrats are doing another thing that the “Do something!” people want: create a shadow cabinet.

This, by the way, is in addition to the other thing that the “Do something!” people want that the Democrats have already done: Start a town hall series.

I mention this because I’m not doing the thing anymore where you don’t pay attention to what Democrats are doing because you aren’t informing yourself and then you complain that Democrats aren’t doing something that they absolutely are doing, and then 100 idiots share your uninformed post and you all help Democrats lose elections while insisting you had nothing to do with it.

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caramelchaitea:

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hi-raethia:

underrated form of humor: just making shit up in past tense

My personal favourite:

official linguistics post

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computer-girlfriend:

sp8sexual:

fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

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lies:

Sometimes when I’m birdwatching

kragehund-est:

kragehund-est:

have you ever owned one of these cars

honda accord

honda civic

nissan altima

ford escape

toyota corolla

jeep grand cherokee

honda cr-v

toyota tacoma

toyota camry

ford focus

yes, multiple

no

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background: these are 9 popular cars and 1 popular truck for american women. i’ve owned 2 before and most women i know who drive have owned at least 1. also yeah i probably couldve added an “i dont drive” button but eh.

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fictionadventurer:

incomingalbatross:

Enough Goncharov. I want to see more discussion of revolutionary 1928 film The Dancing Cavalier starring Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont (and the uncredited voice of Katherine Selden)

I want more discussion of S. Morgenstern’s original unabridged version of The Princess Bride. It’s so irritating that it’s now literally impossible to find anything other than Goldman’s abridgement. And this is presented as a good thing! Some of us like complicated social satire, William! Yet all that brilliance has been thrown out so we’re left with only the parts that are comprehensible to a ten-year-old boy! Absolutely maddening!

Wait wait wait Katherine Selden was in that movie?! How did I not recognize her voice, I tracked down so much grainy footage of her role as Wilma in A Night of Music when I was a kid just to hear her high notes in the bridge of Winter Song! *sigh* I guess I need to go watch The Dancing Cavalier again, it’s been ages since I’ve seen it. I just remember that green dress Lina Lamont wears in the second half, I want it so bad.

No yeah the crediting situation around The Dancing Cavalier is SO weird.

Apparently at the time it came out you could barely AVOID knowing she was in it? It was a massive scandal on opening night because apparently everyone was REALLY invested in Lina Lamont (who I’ll admit I’m not really a fan of in other things, but then I don’t watch a lot of silent film and that was her niche), and the revelation that she wasn’t the one talking OR singing absolutely torpedoed her career. Wild that lipsync controversies are as old as film with sound.

BUT, on the other hand, Katherine Selden wasn’t formally credited anywhere in the film itself. I have a vague impression there were contract complications with her or Lina Lamont or both? But the upshot was, even though it literally launched her career, she’s not “officially” in it. And so, nowadays, it’s really easy even for people who love Katherine’s voice and old films to assume it’s actually Lina Lamont singing!

Look, I’m not going to defend Lina Lamont’s actions, because she really did try to screw Selden out of getting any recognition for her work. However, she was trying to survive in a rapidly changing film landscape that seemingly had no use for actresses with unconventional voices. If you’re only familiar with her from The Dancing Cavalier and the few comedies she did in the 30s, it’s worth going back and watching a few of her silent movies to see what she was like as a leading lady. Most of them are lost media now but The Royal Rascal is really good and actually has a very sweet love story. Plus Don Lockwood got to swordfight and we all like that lol

Okay but who would win in a swordfight? Don Lockwood or Manny Patinkin?

I don’t know how much of a swordfight that would be seeing as Don Lockwood would LITERALLY dance around Mr. Patinkin. Manny definitely knows his footwork and timing though, I’d love to see him in a musical- Hell, why not adapt all the nonsense behind The Dancing Cavalier as a sort of Musical Mockumentary?

Hold up, can we go back to the person who mentioned Lina Lamont’s green dress? Is there a colorized version of Dancing Cavalier I don’t know about??

*MANDY Patinkin, fucking autocorrect

-And Yes! There was a colorized version released in 1952 but due to the aforementioned crediting fiasco, the colorized version had the Original Lina Lamont dub which…

Well, the only reason *I* know about the color version is because it appeared in the lost Season “Ten and a Half” of Mystery Science Theater 3000, which was slated to air in 2000 but the show was cancelled when the Y2K bug accidentally sent the Satellite Of Love into a tidally locked orbit on the dark side of the moon until is was recovered in 2017. My science teacher at the time was a huge MYSTy, and had built a less-than-totally legal satellite dish on the school roof to pirate the episodes from Gizmonic Institute as they were beamed down, so he and a couple other guys in silicon valley had VHS copies of the unaired season and

OOF

I’ll call him and see if he’s still got his copy.

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an-ruraiocht:

Ballet, like opera, is wonderful because it is monstrous, the hyper-development of skills nobody needs, a twisting of human bodies and souls into impossible positions, the purchase of light with blood.

Irina Dumitrescu, “Swan, Late: The unexpected joys of adult beginner ballet.”

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