athousanderrors | May. 6th, 2018

May. 6th, 2018

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i can’t believe tessa thompson was too busy being eaten out by janelle monae to be in infinity war

i can.
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Remember that scene in The Princess Bride where Westley challenges Vizzini to a battle of the wits—you know, the one with the iocane powder?

The last few times I watched the movie, something about that scene didn’t set quite right with me, and I’ve been developing a theory about what’s really going on.

Westley was involved in a battle of wits against Vizzini, a battle which, necessarily, involves a certain amount of deception. I think that Westley was deceiving Vizzini about his use of the iocane powder.

Westley describes iocane powder to Vizzini as being “odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadly poisons known to man.”

When presenting the poison to Vizzini, Westley also gives him the explicit instructions “Inhale this, but do not touch.”

While I believe Westley may truthfully have spent several years building up a resistance to the effects of iocane powder, I propose that rather than poisoning both goblets as he claimed to have done, Westley didn’t pour the iocane powder into either cup of wine!

Especially since the iocane was in powder form, I suspect that rather than being an ingested poison, it was an inhalation poison!

Vizzini wasn’t poisoned when Westley poured (or didn’t pour) iocane powder into the wine goblets, but when Westley told him to waft the vial of iocane powder. Since iocane powder is odorless, Vizzini wouldn’t have noticed that trace amounts of one of the “more deadly poisons known to man” had been introduced into his system…trace amounts that were still enough to kill a man within minutes.

And since iocane powder came from Australia, and it’s well documented that Australia is home to some of the most venomous species of plants and animals on earth, there’s no reason not to believe that such a small quantity iocane powder could have killed a man of Vizzini’s stature.

Westley had already won the battle of wits before it had begun, and was simply stalling for time until the poison took it’s effect.

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This is, in all likelihood, the most important post I’ve ever made on this blue-bordered website.

holy shit.

Has anyone asked William Goldman about this?

I showed this post to my husband, and this was his assessment:

Watch it again.
I just noticed something.
“It’s odorless, tasteless, DISSOLVES INSTANTLY IN LIQUID.
“It’s a two-stage bomb. A binary explosive.
He sniffs the vial, and now he has HALF of what will kill him sitting in the back of his throat. Westley doesn’t put anything into either glass of wine and simply waits for Vizzini to dissolve the powdered poison by drinking the wine. Westley’s not stalling, he’s waiting for the inevitable.
It doesn’t matter how long it takes Vizzini to come to a conclusion. The moment that the wine hits the poison, he is toast.

@prismatic-bell

I’m here for this.

If William Goldman is half the writer I know he is, he’s sitting somewhere going “shit, shit shit that’s brilliant - YES of course, that’s exactly what I meant, so CLEVER of you to finally figure it out!”
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If there’s one thing I hate about horror movies, it’s the “demons will turn your crosses upside-down!” trope.

Y’all know what I’m talking about:

Except apparently demons have the same understanding of how Christianity works as the author of My immortal, because guess what? Turning a cross upside-down is not blasphemy.

It’s called a St. Peter’s cross, and it’s a symbol of Christian humility. That demon just made the room more Catholic.

Also, guess who else doesn’t have a problem with upside-down crosses?

THANK YOU

My god it’s bad enough you get edgy teenagers wearing/drawing these things everywhere “in the name of Satanism”

This is one so frustrating.

Even Supernatural made this error despite how well researched it usually is with real-world religious and occult symbols.

Yeah, this was a few months after the great fire of Rome in which Emperor Nero blamed the Christians for

When peter was sentenced to death, he asked to be crucified upside down because he believed that he was unworthy of dying in the same way Jesus did

Ever since, it’s been a symbol of humility. Yet somehow edgy internet atheists and satanists think it’s a demonic rune, I guess

I love explaining this to people and seeing the looks on their faces…

I picture Jesus and Peter having a drinking game upstairs about all the times movies make this mistake

Peter is never sober
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Can we just… normalize teens loving their parents? Like obviously you’re not obligated to if your parents are shitty, but damn, I love my mom. She’s there for me all the time and sure we have rough patches but honestly she’s the greatest. Like. We need teens to know that they don’t have to hate their parents just cause.

It must be nice to come from a nonabusive family. One that doesn’t traumatized every emotional interaction to the point where you drive away any sign of love as a form of manipulation because that’s all that you were raised with. 🤷‍♀️

It is.

Reading Comprehension

but loving ur parents is already normalized and its the kids w/ abusive parents that actually have to deal with misunderstandings and ignorance from others regarding this topic.

Hey there, I’m talking about the trope where it’s seen as super uncool to like your parents that was literally pushed on teens through the media since the culture shift in the early 60s. The post has nothing to do with abusive parents. I was abused as a kid and honestly if the trope where teens have to hate their parents to be cool died, then kids with actual abusive parents would have an easier time recognizing abuse this has been a psa

“if the trope where teens have to hate their parents to be cool died, then kids with actual abusive parents would have an easier time recognizing abuse”

Teen with abusive parents: I hate my parents

Teen influenced by society: Me too mine are the worst

The takeaway for teen 1: This is normal and it’s supposed to be this way

The takeaway for teen 2: My friend’s parents are like mine

The takeaway for any adult listening: All kids who complain about their parents are just being rebellious

Agreed. People go around saying “yeah, i mean, all kids hate their parents as teens”. And so you have the parents who won’t let you cross-country-road-trip at 13 to see a band with a reputation for drug use at their shows, and their kid is unhappy, and you have the parents who have been stealing the kid’s money and subjecting them to unnecessary medical treatments as part of a scam, and also hitting them, and their kid is unhappy, and doesn’t realize this is different, because it’s a trope to say “haha yeah kids hate their parents”.
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JK Rowling only said Dumbledore was gay because there weren’t any risks, the books were finished. Now she’s decided they aren’t, there are risks again and she’s chosen the same spineless path she’s used to. She is no LGBTQ ally.

the saddest death in harry potter is my respect for jk rowling.

I don’t think I’ve seen that sentence in a more appropriate context

bolding for emphasis:

the saddest death in harry potter is my respect for jk rowling.
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young Leo was truly something

This is the twink butch look so many lesbians aspire to
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For height-dysphoric trans men - list of shorter male celebrities.

Posted by @ TRANSFlNN on twitter

Anyone got something like this for trans women because like…Being 6ft tall doesn’t exactly inspire confidence in this fight

ask and you shall recieve :)

6′0 Aisha Tyler

6′0 Allison Janney

6′0 Brooke Shields

6′0 Elle Macpherson

6′0 Famke Janssen

6′0 Geena Davis

6′0 Jane Lynch

6′0 Jeanene Fox

6′0 Jennie Finch

6′0 Kristen Johnston

6′0 Margaux Hemingway

6′0 Natasha Stefanenko

6′0 Saffron Burrows

6′0 Uma Thurman

6′1 Adriana Karembeu

6′1 Ana Hickmann

6′1 Brigitte Nielsen

6′1 Faith Minton

6′1 Janet McTeer

6′1 Julie Strain

6′1 Michelle Wie

6′1 Monika Schnarre

6′1 Pam Stone

6′1 Penny Lancaster

6′1 Tara Moss

6′1 Venus Williams

6′2 Dorothy Ford

6′2 Elizabeth Debicki

6′2 Ireland Baldwin

6′2 Jodie Kidd

6′2 Karlie Kloss

6′2 Lindsay Davenport

6′2 Maria Sharapova

6′2 Natalia Bush

6′2 Suzie Plakson

6′3 Dot-Marie Jones

6′3 Gabrielle Reece

6′3 Gwendoline Christie

6′3 Judy Gold

6′3 Kerri Walsh Jennings

6′4 Candace Parker

6′4 L'Wren Scott

6′4 Rebecca Lobo

6′5 Lisa Leslie

Runway models are like 8 feet tall. Congrats tall trans women, y’all just some runway models that ain’t been discovered yet
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