theamazingadventuresofspider-guy:

viva-machiaveli:

suicideblonde:

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Fits Perfectly into Quentin Tarantino’s Movie Universe and Influences the 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.

AGREE

Woah.

das-uberchicken:

justanotherfinalfantasyfangirl:

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antioxidantsuperhero:

sonneillonv:

autumn-and-eve:

erinsmomma:

How can someone stand behind abortion, when you have a life inside of you that God created for you? How can you say that this life isn’t worth it? If you can’t take care of the baby for whatever circumstances than there is always adoption available to couples who can’t conceive, but still want the joy of being parents. OPEN YOUR EYES! God has bigger plans for us all that we don’t even realize the picture.

Excuse me but it appears your baby is actually upside down
Did you take Sex Ed freshman year because babies come out headfirst

Hi, OP!  As someone who was given up for adoption, allow me to call bullshit on your little post there!  You see, when I was adopted, I was a white-skinned, healthy, neurotypical infant, which basically put me at the top of the list, right underneath white-skinned, healthy, neurotypical MALE infants!  There’s only one kind of infant people wanted to adopt more than me!  I was SOOO lucky!  But if you actually bothered to look at the information readily available on the interwebs, you would be aware that the majority of people who are forced to rely on abortion for family planning are poor people and people of color.  Of course, those two demographics intersect, thanks to the institutionalized racism of our society!  Neat huh?!

Of course, even babies of color are not in high demand with couples looking to adopt.  Many who do want to adopt outside their race choose to go outside the country, where laws are less strict and the process is often less expensive.  Of course, most of the infants adopted this way are obtained in unscrupulous fashion, but who cares about that when you’re saving a little Korean or African baby from the horrible fate of growing up in Korea or Africa???  And all those children who have birth defects, are born with diseases or disabilities, or have other issues… WELL.  Who wants to invest that kind of expense and time?  Why would you adopt someone broken, LOLOL?!

Granted, there are some wonderful people who understand the system a little better, and make it a point to try and give POC and disabled children a good home.  But they make up a very small fraction of potential adopters!  This difference in supply and demand leaves a lot of children stuck in the foster system, where their chances of being adopted diminish with every passing year, and their chances of being physically or sexually abused INCREASE!  Isn’t that wonderful?

And of course, we haven’t even talked about the person who is giving birth to the baby!  I know you probably think pregnancy is a wonderful, happy time, and for some people it is, but it is also one of the greatest health risks a person can take. I love my son very much, and from the day I found out I was pregnant with him, I wanted him!  But I also nearly died giving birth to him.  You see, I had pre-eclampsia, the most commonly fatal birth complication in the world.  My blood pressure was 180 over 130!  At twenty-two years old, I was actually headed for a stroke, hah hah!  How funny is that?  And all it took was missing a single pre-natal appointment during which my blood pressure rose to dangerous levels and my body tried to kill both me and my son.  Those seizures sure were fun, as was the emergency c-section performed without anesthetic!  And being chained down while the operation was performed, because I was delirious and wouldn’t stop trying to fight off the doctors, that was a BLAST!  It was great for my husband too, since he almost lost his wife and child in just forty-five minutes.  You can imagine how thrilled he is at the prospect of me ever getting pregnant again.  Babies are certainly cute, but pregnancy can have massive health complications, and I know it’s such a bummer, but they are PERMANENT.  :(  My abdominal muscles never recovered from being hacked through with a scalpel, and the flood of hormones caused by late pregnancy have changed things from heartburn (never used to have it, now, all the time!) to my emotional reactions (I cry when I see pictures of kittens now.  I used to be tough).  These are changes I did not ask for, cannot control, and cannot fix!  And many people go through worse!  I know, right?  Unbelievable, but go look up the word ‘episiotomy’ and then look up ‘birth rape’ and I’m afraid you’ll find some stuff that just isn’t very shiny.  Plus, the studies actually show that people who carry a baby to term, give birth, then give it up for adoption suffer HIGHER rates of post-pregnancy complications like post-partum depression and post-partum psychosis, general depression, and other mental health issues.  Adoption actually isn’t good for the person giving birth at all!

I’m afraid the picture you chose to use there is also pretty disingenuous.  I know, I know, it seems like nitpicking.  I’m not trying to be mean!  :(  But that picture shows a fully developed, viable infant, and most abortions are performed when the fetus isn’t even a fetus - it’s a blastocyst.  That’s just a clump of cells.  Seriously! You can totally find pictures on the interwebs and they’re not even gross, LOLOL!  Later-term abortions are usually performed because of health complications, though some of our intrepid state legislators are trying to change all that!  They care so much about people who are pregnant, you see, that they want to force them to carry dead or dying fetuses inside them until their body either becomes infected while it rots in their tummies (this is called sepsis, and it makes people very sick, and can even kill them!), or forces it out naturally in a gush of blood and fluids!  Isn’t that so caring of them?  I’m so glad they’re around to make those decisions for me!  And if a pregnant person is not allowed to terminate an unviable fetus, in some states, they have to carry the child to term, give birth to it, and then watch it die in their arms because its lungs weren’t developed, or its brain formed outside its skull, or any of a million possible birth defects that will kill you just as quick as lickity-split!  Isn’t that wild?!  Of course, these people go through terrible grief, and as I mentioned, some of them may get sick and die from not being able to abort dead or dying fetuses.  But I guess that’s just A-okay with you, huh?

Basically, I think before you suggest adoption as a universal alternative, you should actually go do some research on adoption.  And before you condemn abortion, you should do some research on abortions - not the stuff your church is giving you, the stuff the real doctors are saying.  Go to Planned Parenthood (if they haven’t all been closed down, ROFLMAO!) and request whatever information they have on the process, the statistics of who has abortions and why… and actually, all of that is on the interwebs!  Isn’t technology AMAZING?

And in closing, since I’ve been asked this question many times and I know it’s coming?  Yes, I realize I am here talking to you because I was not aborted.  But the thing is, if my mother had chosen abortion, I wouldn’t know the difference, so it wouldn’t matter to me.  And if she decided that choice was best for her, then that choice would have been best for her, and I would never want to take that choice away from her.  As it is, since I was given up for adoption, and since I have seen the statistics on how badly people who give their children up for adoption suffer, I have spent much of my adult life worrying about her, whether she’s healthy, whether she’s okay, and feeling that if she did suffer from any of the common post-birth symptoms, it is at least partially my fault, even though she made that decision on her own.  Which is silly, I know, but at some point, all children have to stare down the consequences of their parents’ having them.  For some, that’s poverty.  For others, a life-time of their parents struggling to treat and care for a severe illness or disability.  For others, it’s wondering if their mother ever got over giving them away, and wishing you could reach out and assure her that it’s okay, she doesn’t have to be haunted.

May your birth control never fail!

This is the greatest rant I have ever seen.

Ever.

have i already reblogged this?

i’m just going to reblog this

I only have one thing to add.

Is there a single person in the world who honestly ‘stands’ for an abortion?

Hear me out here, alright?

Is there a single human being that actually says, “Hm, I just had an act of intimacy with someone I love enough to give a part of myself to, but I feel like getting stuck up my vagina and killing something that is growing inside me because I am a horrible person and I like knowing I killed something that may one day become a human being! LOL, and then I’ll do it AGAIN, because I am such a terrible person!”

No.  No one actually stands ‘for’ abortions.  They stand for the right to /chose/ for themselves if they need to have one in order to continue living a healthy life.  It’s actually sometimes more often, “Oh no!  My partner and I accidentally had unprotected sex, and I feel as though I am not ready to take care of a child!  I am only 23, and I am not ready to settle down to give a child a healthy, happy life.  I also don’t want my child to be given up to a vicious system that is adoption.  I think I may have to have an abortion, even though I have done everything I could to try not to get pregnant.  Right now, it is a small bundle of cells without a heartbeat.  It is my choice, and maybe someday, I will be ready to take care of a child, but right now, I am not.”

Or sometimes, it’s, “I was raped.  I am a girl of sixteen.  I don’t want to have to drop out of school to have a child, when I myself am a child too.  On top of that, this pregnancy was forced onto me.  I am not ready, I don’t want this.  Get the fetus out of me, please, so that I may go through my therapy to try and get over the trauma of being raped without having to worry about taking care of a child as well.”

Or even, “I have an STD that is passed on through pregnancy.  I got it from when I was younger, and did not monitor my sexual partner’s history of STD’s.  My partner knows this, and his condom broke.  He might have an STD now, but he is willing to stay by my side.  But we both agree we should not force it onto a child as well.  I need an abortion because the child would live an unhappy, sickly life, and I don’t want that for a child, especially not my own.”

And, there is something I need to say.

Leave religion out of this.  It has no place in the bedroom, nor in a woman’s vagina.  God gave us brains so that we could chose for ourselves what would make us happy.  If a woman needs to have an abortion for whatever reason, it’s not as though he is going to strike her down with lightening, not if he loves us unconditionally.  And besides, we are giving those children back to God, where he can love them with everything where we sometimes might not be able to.  I think that is the only way it can be said.  Those children shouldn’t have to suffer for no reason other than the fact the mother could not get an abortion.  So think about that.

If you believe abortion is wrong, don’t get one.  Just don’t try to take everyone else’s god-given right to CHOOSE FOR THEMSELVES WHAT THEY NEED TO DO TO  REMAIN HEALTHY AND HAPPY.

You people are beautiful and understanding of what the fuck is really going on and how people actually feel about this subject. I don’t like the idea that ONLY rape victims have the right to get an abortion. The other subjects should be just as important for whatever reason. I hope there is more understanding and more beautiful people out here in the system of the U.S.

teddypup:

YOU ARE THE DANCING QUEEN

YOUNG AND SWEET ONLY 17 

DANCING QUEEN, FEEL THE BEAT

OF THE TAMBOURINE OOH YEAAAAH

fantasticdreamer:

Now, look at this:

That’s “Paul Mounet”, a french actor, who “died” in 1922.

His body never was found.
 

Then, look at this:

An unknown man, painted in 1530 by Parmigianino.

 Compare them:

i believe.

I believe.

becdecorbin:

quillusquillus:

tarteauxfraises:

lildeadlymeesh:

cuddlyxmedics:

harlecumberbatchsvices:

by Peter Mohrbacher

*click to zoom*

His most recent stuffwww.vandalhigh.com

I am in love with the bottom-most-right picture.

Augh I love this guys art. I bought a print of the top one last Dragon*con and spoke to him a little bit about his process. Neat neat neat

sharkie, kate, reblog for you

Oh my goddddddd

It’s like how I want to paint. Right there. hfhgfd

Many of these would be instantly acceptable as extraplanar beings from my headworlds, particularly the one with the sword through it, which actually looks like a Darkbeast I once drew. Arrgh paints my eternal nemesis I will never conquer you like this.

o damn, some of these are right up my alley…

isnarniainyournose:

iamthekure:

diarrheaworldstarhiphop:

mirakuru-taimu:

verticalart:

It’s Rarity!

wow okay this is actually a cool design

holy SHIT

DUDE

DANG

I LIKE

especially those diamond patterns in the hair eee

belovedlights:

(tutorial)

i just did a cool thing that i think would be useful if you’re like me and sometimes have a hard time picking colours / a colour scheme for an image

basically i just took a brush with moderate spacing, turned on colour dynamics and set all the hue/sat/brightness to a low (~10%-30%) jitter, picked a base colour, and drew a line down the side of the canvas

it’s sort of like when some people save colour swatches so they can keep their shading consistent, but more for playing around with different tones and lighting on a single surface. it’ll probably be pretty good for skin which is very multi-tonal by nature.

a lot of colours came out that i probably wouldn’t have picked manually, but they still looked pretty cool. and it saves a lot of time because now i have a broad range of colours without having to browse through my pantone swatches or open up the colour picker.

mothernaturenetwork:

Cavemen’s musical instruments date back 40,000 years
The instruments, along with other signs of artistic creativity, date back to 42,000 to 43,000 years ago, during the upper Paleolithic period.

samparty:

diarrheaworldstarhiphop:

thedruff:

rhydondirty:

amagii:

Slamvender Town - Quad City DJ’s vs. Junichi Masuda