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Hello! I go by Frog or Smol online. My pronouns are they/them or he/him. I’m in my early 20’s and just graduated college with a bachelor’s in Marine Sciences! I don’t make very many original posts but reblog a lot (I don’t typically queue things fyi), especially memes, news, and stuff I find interesting. If you want semi regular cat pictures you can follow my blog for my cats -> @nova-the-cat

I do my best to tag things when I think of it but most things go untagged since I often fast reblog from mobile. If this is an issue please don’t follow as I can’t promise to tag things consistently.

Some of my current hyperfixations/special interests and other misc things that I usually tag (mostly for my own reference) are:

  • Balders Gate 3
  • Howls Moving Castle (both the book and the Ghibli movie)
  • Cats (the animal, not the show)
  • Critical Role, mostly campaign 2
  • Weird biology stuff (usually untagged)

Please don’t follow if you are transphobic/homophobic/ablist/etc, I do check blogs as they follow and will block at my discretion. Untitled or empty blogs, especially with default icons, get blocked immediately.

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in more pleasant news: this year is seeing the biggest humpback migration in Australian history, bigger than it was PRE whaling. That's right, there are more humpbacks migrating off the coast of Australia than there were BEFORE industrial whaling started.

A huge, fat W for environmentalists and Greenies. what an achievement

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we did it! we saved the fucking whales!!!!

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These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them
Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is
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Further info for those interested

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from The Memory Palace, by Nate DiMeo

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thestuffedalligator

Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail that’s stuck with me this time is the set design.

The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but it’s all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Truman’s life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic they’ve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesn’t the modern day suck? Let’s go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.

And it’s a lie. Truman’s life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia they’ve presented is a lie. It’s an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory that’s comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but it’s also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. It’s a lie. It doesn’t exist.

I don’t know. I’m spitballing. I’m biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but it’s very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.

drifting-knightjar

Let me tell you a story.

Earlier in the summer, I went to Florida with my friend. We decided to visit a town nearish to where we were staying called Seaside, as we had heard it was a cute place. What I did not know at the time was that Seaside is the place where they filmed The Truman Show. It was a "master-planned community," constructed in the 80s to be the perfect beach town.

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Seaside, FL

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Seahaven

And yes, it really does look Like That. Not just in their tourist-agency photos, in real life it looks like that. Arguably the irl Seaside is even prettier than movie Seahaven, because the the office buildings where Truman works don't exist; the town is 100% cutesy homes and little shops.

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over the garden wall is just like. here is a cartoon. it is ten ten-minute episodes and is about the length of a movie. you can watch it in a little under two hours. its a masterpiece with incredibly beautiful backgrounds and perfect pacing and an absolutely charming autumn atmosphere. it's only seasonally appropriate to watch for about two months out of the year because It's The Autumn Show. you hear the opening song and your heart fills with so much nostalgia it floods into your throat and you want to start crying. it's a rock fact

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It’s a retelling of Dante’s Inferno. There’s a thousand more adventures the characters could have that we don’t see on screen.There’s references to classic tropes from so many different time periods and genres. It’s about brotherly love. It has a Latin reprise of a song called “Potatoes and Molasses” and it’s the saddest most emotional song in the whole series.

savawatari

it cannot be topped in many, many ways

sidolbert

There are several witches. There's a lady who yearns for her long-lost lover, who left three days ago. There's a horse that's a thief. There's a highwayman who doesn't steal anything on-screen (not related to the horse). Everything is a death metaphor. Half the things are death in truth. The president is nude. A little kid has no cents at all. Just sit there in the cold and wait. You can't trust the bird with scissors. You should trust the bird in the end. You wonderful mistake of nature. Dancing in a swirl of golden memories, the loveliest lies of all