The dead do not suffer the living to pass. You will suffer me.

The wonder woman

hello adam savage calling the mythbusters "ambiguously gay weirdos"

Important psa, thanks prev for pulling it out of the tags

Robert Aramayo as ELROND ✦ LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER ✦

requested by @queen-rhaenyra-t-targaryen 

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A Night Sky in the Woods

The Night's King and his Corpse Queen

arte pixel de uns personagens de asoiaf! (fiquei meio obcecada nos últimos dias pela ideia de um jogo de luta com os personagens dos livros)

eng: pixel art of some asoiaf characters! (over the last few days i've become kind of obsessed with the concept of a fighting game with the book's characters)

Pied Harrier (Circus melanoleucos), male, family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Maharashtra, India

photograph by Digvijay Lande

RABID DOGS GET PUT DOWN

I know y'all did not read the books but Roald Dahl talks about this in the book. Charlie’s teacher points out the fact that unless you buy a shit ton of bars you’re probably not gonna win. Just like the lottery. Just like how all of the other winners of the tickets bought a shit ton of bars. Except Charlie, who just got lucky. And Charlie was originally black. Literally the whole point of the book was that wonka wanted to give the less fortunate a fair opportunity and it wasn’t fair because the system isn’t fair.

Stop the car.

Charlie was originally black?!?!

!?!!

He was and Mr. Dahl was forced to make him white. Also his widow has spoken and confirmed that as well.

because you shouldn’t believe everything you read on a tumblr post at face value, here is a guardian article confirming that charlie was originally conceived as black but dahl made him white at the behest of his publisher

WHAT

But yeah, coming back to the original point, the other kids, especially Augustus Gloop and Veruca Salt, cheated the system by claiming a ridiculous amount of chocolate bars. News reports mention people hoarding Wonka chocolate bars in hopes of finding the Golden Ticket. Mr Salt even admits that he refitted his staff at a nut-shelling factory for opening chocolate bars, without a doubt losing a huge amount of capital in lost profits and mass bulk-buying of chocolate, just to win. The working-class lady who actually found that ticket didn’t benefit from that luck or labour - she was immediately made to hand it over to her boss for his spoiled daughter, who holds it as ‘his’ victory and good luck.

Charlie didn’t even find the ticket in his first bar, or his second. His first bar, his birthday present, was a dud, and he even failed to enjoy it like normal because he dared to hope, just for a moment, that he might actually be lucky enough to get the one. Later, he is lucky enough to find a dropped 50p piece in the street, and goes to buy a chocolate bar for himself. Finally holding a treat that is all his, he wolfs the thing down, stopping only long enough to realises that he didn’t get lucky and win a Golden Ticket. It’s only on the third bar that he gets it, and, smelling blood in the water, the shopkeeper tells him to immediately go home and not tell a soul that he has it, knowing what people might do to this small starving boy if they find out what he has.

And Wonka knows! He knows he done goofed! He realises almost immediately that the people who have been attracted to his lottery, who have stacked the decks in their favour, are awful, cruel, entitled people! Augustus Gloop, the glutton, doesn’t care what placed in front of him so long as it’s food - and the first obstacle? A room where everything is a kind of sweet. Violet’s gum-chewing is excessive, but the modern film adapts this into a more realistic and sinister flaw - overcompetitiveness. It’s not just that she’s been chewing the same piece of gum for months, it’s that she’s been chewing the same piece of gum, weeks after its taste is gone, whether it is socially acceptable or not, just to break a record. So when Wonka promises a new treat, a personal favourite of one of the kids, but says it’s not ready yet and you can’t have it, of course Violet seizes it, because damn the consequences, she will be the first to try it. Veruca is shown a collection of unique animals, and immediately declares that she wants one, because she’s always had the bragging rights and luxury rare items. And when Mr Wonka refuses to sell? She steals it, because dang it, she will have that golden goose/trained squirrel! Mike Teevee, in his hubris, mutilates himself almost beyond recognition because he had to challenge Mr Wonka’s outlandish claim of transmitting physical objects via television. Charlie was the perfect heir, not because he was humble and poor, but because he had the wonder and appreciation for the treats Wonka made but also the sense and caution not to risk messing with the many dangerous things in an active factory. If the lottery was more fair, maybe Charlie would have had more stiff competition, but as it stands, Charlie is almost the poster boy of ‘won by doing nothing’.

Sorry, got sidetracked

TLDR: Apart from Charlie, most of the other kids were entitled rich (white) kids who gamed a system that should have been fair, and were punished for it by revealing to them their greed and hubris

Well I got a lesson in history

Damn this was so good

Damn I should read that book

I apologize for breaking the cardinal rule of Only Putting Thoughts In The Tags TM, but I simply have to add specifically how Charlie finds the 5th golden ticket (in the 1971 film) because it encapsulates everything about his character and why he deserves Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory.

That long comment is correct. Charlie finds 50p on the ground and goes into the candy store. He asks for a bar of chocolate. The candy man asks him which kind he’d like. Charlie says “whichever one is the biggest.” The candy man gives him a “Scrumdibblyumptious” bar, a tall, skinny bar of chocolate. It’s NOT the regular square kind that can contain a golden ticket. AND at this point, everyone is convinced the 5th ticket has already been found by someone else (which is later revealed that it was a fraud, the 5th ticket is still out there!)

So Charlie scarfs down the chocolate bar. But before leaving the store, he goes BACK to the candy man and says he’d like to buy one more bar of chocolate. FOR HIS GRANDFATHER!!!!! The shopkeeper says, “try a regular bar instead” and THAT is the chocolate bar that contains the golden ticket.

The chocolate bar with the golden ticket is the one that Charlie was going to buy for his grandfather. Not for himself. If Charlie had not loved his grandfather, if he wasn’t a selfless, kind boy, he would not have won a golden ticket. Even if he wasn’t looking for the ticket anymore, he still thought to get some chocolate for his grandfather. I know many of us have some choice words about how that old man stayed in bed for 25 years lol, but it is Charlie’s compassion and honesty that grants him access to this opportunity. And Mr. Wonka sees this throughout every obstacle and test that Charlie and the rest of the kids are put through while touring his factory. Charlie does not think just for himself. He thinks for others, too. You have to be able to think about the consumer and bringing joy to children and having an imagination and being an honest person if you are going to run a chocolate factory!

Also, that scene of Charlie’s teacher doing a math lesson on the probability of winning a golden ticket is in the 1971 film too!!

Thanks for letting me yap on about this special interest lol, I’m glad there are other folks out there who also know A Little More Than The Average Person about Roald Dahl’s Charlie/Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory :)

one last lil rhaenyra w a sword sketch for this week