Month: August 2018

mariasgf:

The world is changing. Who now has the strength to stand against armies of Isengard and Mordor? To stand against the might of Sauron and Saruman and the union of the two towers. Together, my lord Sauron, we shall rule this middle-earth. The old world will burn in the fires of industry. The forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machine of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the orc.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Dir. Peter Jackson
DP Andrew Lesnie

letitiawrights:

“The outfit Shuri is wearing in this scene features an Adinkra symbol (cultural visual symbols from the Asante/Ghana region of Africa) on it. This Adinkra symbol means ‘purpose,’ and she certainly has a purpose in Wakanda.” 

— Ruth Carter, Black Panther’s costume designer

Florida. The armpit of the nation (USA). I will never understand why anyone wants to live there. It’s basically moving to (year-round) Spring Break, USA. Totally trashy. Not to mention alligators and decreasing shoreline with global warming. It wouldn’t surprise me if Chris & Madeleine move somewhere else after the next huge hurricane comes through southern Florida.

duchessofostergotlands:

Man. People really don’t like Florida, do they?

Anyone who wants to see how bad Florida is can checkout this website: floridaman.com 

There are lots of lovely stories about Florida given these links:

And my personal favorite: Florida Man Says He Wasn’t Drink and Driving Because He Only Drank At Stop Lights. 

That’s Florida for you.

But ive seen many recent readings where readers are saying that h&m are happy “right now”. Harry is happy with how things are going? Even right now? Really????

Well, I haven’t seen every reading. I’m not responsible for what other people say. But as of right now at this very moment, things aren’t so bad. I mean, they’re not great, but it hasn’t gotten worse, yet. And I’m sure that’s probably because Harry is on vacay and thinks they’ve outplayed the last round of Markle shit. 

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That article about M’s childhood homes is working in Tom Sr.’s favor. Doria, though, is taking quite a hit.

anonymoushouseplantfan:

Yep, the comments are very interesting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6012295/Photos-inside-Meghan-Markles-childhood-homes-Los-Angeles.html#comments

I’m kind of wondering if this article is prepping for a bigger article this weekend. Looks purely like an article for background information that can be referenced later…

I loved your analysis on if/when these 2 break-up. One thing that puzzles me is how far Megs got (a freaking marriage!) & how much she is getting away with (merching, embezzling from PC – allegedly). This to me indicates that there is an unseen variable(s) that is skewing all logical reasoning & all readings. Perhaps this is why many think she has something she’s holding over PH (or the BRF). It’s hard to believe it’s just all because he’s in love. But it could be that simple, occam’s razor…

Well, regarding the alleged embezzling, I think it’s good to keep in mind that not everything that CDAN publishes is accurate. There are always a lot of people in Hollywood submitting things to that site with various agendas. Those agendas are never held in check or verified by the publisher (CDAN) to ensure accuracy for the readers. There are a LOT of things submitted to that site that seem purely based on fan speculation or a pr rep needing to get a certain rumor out to benefit a certain pr agenda. I do not believe that everything published there should be taken as fact.

That said, I think what some people like to forget is that Harry got in this situation by not listening to what his family likely told him. Harry was dumb, lonely, and desperate to get married. So now he is. He could have waited to get married for another 6 months. If it’s the true love that Harry and Megs fans like to say it is, then there is no reason they couldn’t have had a wedding further down the road. Except they didn’t. And now it probably isn’t going to work out for a bunch of reasons including that Tweedledee and Tweedledum aren’t suitable for a long-term relationship. 

Prince Fuck-Up will do what he does best: fuck up.

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No, the ask that Tumblr ate was basically everyone seeing 1 marriage for Harry yet his venus is in virgo… Great breakdown, thanks! I think one thing that makes this even more intriguing is that the BRF are not acting like we thought they would/should. Megs should never have got this far, yet here we are. They just might be outplayed by Megs during the break-up & she could get away with claiming violence, a separation prior to divorce or the first British irreconcilable differences divorce!

Let’s always remember that Megs got this far because she had one particular person behind her: Harry. 

As long as Harry is behind her, then the palace will be behind her. Once he’s not, then she truly has problems that her pr games will not fix. She doesn’t have the money or the power to take on the palace in the press. 

She’s not Diana, and she never will be.

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couple things so please forgive if I make this a multi parter. Notice that Naomi as an example some tarot readers make assumptions that what they read in the tabloids is true. This affects their readings and makes them IMHO unreliable. a great deal of the tabloid coverage is flat out nonsense so I am tending to disregard these readings. I know that she is merching which is clearly unacceptable for a royal yet I have never seen a single tarot reading which picks up on this. Pt 1

Pt 2 I know she has a pr firm pumping out content like crazy especially in the US media. Anyone who knows pr can recognize this and also recognize where she is going with this – a very ugly divorce. Yet the tarot readers don’t see this. You however do not seem to be making these assumptions and so you seem more reliable to me. So to annulment. Harry’s best chance for his future is the annulment and the “sources” have been saying that will be the attempt. con’t

Pt 3 so kudos to you for picking up on that. She needs the “I a martyr to their suffocating ways just like Diana” divorce so how do they get to annulment? I’d bet Harry does not want to be seen as the bad guy so he won’t initiate break up what do you think? Consistent great observations from you – love it!

1) Which tabloids are you referring to? There is a wide variation in reporting amongst various publications. You have to consider that there are US and UK tabloids. Both of which come from a variety of angles.

2) As I understand it, tarot readers read the cards based on the questions asked. If the tarot reader isn’t asking about merching, then they’re not going to get cards about merching. I have seen references in Naomi’s readings about a possible loss of money for Harry and Megs. Some people assume that could be a loss of merching money. Generally, the tarot readers are going on about the relationship between Harry and Megs, and whether or not she’s going to bail or if they’re going to break up. I don’t know that everyone is aware of the merching issue outside of close royal watchers. And even then, some royal watchers give Megs a pass anyway. 

3) Regarding the pr firms, same thing. The tarot readers are reading the cards about the relationship between Harry & Megs. They’re not asking about whether or not Megs will run out of money to pay her pr firms. Or what new thing she’ll have them issue a press release on. That’s an entirely different issue. 

4) I think it’s totally possible that Harry initiates the process, but that doesn’t mean we’ll see it as publicly as we would like. He’s a fickle, whiny bitch. Once he realizes that his new life will always revolve around having to deal with his wife’s bullshit relatives and her drama, the newlywed glow just kind of instantly fades. I mean, does Harry get press on his own anymore? Not really. And that’s got to burn his inner famewhore to no end. Megs really has nowhere to go. The divorce process in the UK means that she can’t ditch people as easily as she ditched Cory and Trevor. Fleet Street will be on her ass, and once the palace pr isn’t going to protect her, things will be much more difficult for her on the public relations front. In fact, let’s remember that the reason she’s able to flood the presses with her pr rep’s emails is because the palace is backing her due to Harry. Fleet Street isn’t going to come at her with all the resources that they could when the palace is still backing her. Her only real audience is the US, but even then she pales in comparison to regular celebrities and the daily Trumpalooza. Odds are, she would get lost in the US press if/once Trumpy gets impeached next year.

5) Annulment itself only has a certain number of legal options per the UK.

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the BRF and the UK in general is more title heavy than Norway, I imagine if a high ranking Royal man married a single mom of a young boy he might be granted a title (Earl most likely) at some point

duchessofostergotlands:

houseofbrat:

duchessofostergotlands:

No he wouldn’t. The royal family is about blood. Perhaps when he married they could grant him a title, maybe, but he wouldn’t be given anything. That’s just not how it works. The royal family have a lot of titles because they have a lot of people but they’re actually very strict about who can get what. 

Norway doesn’t have titles anymore beyond the immediate royal family. Nobility titles were done away with through legislation in the 19th century.

You’ve misunderstood the question. It relates to an earlier discussion about titles in Britain if Meghan had a child. No one is saying Marius will get a title, we’re talking about the imaginary British title. That’s why it’s tagged with British royal family and not Norwegian royal family

I understood the question quite well thank you. I stated what I had to say because Norway no longer has nobility like Sweden or Denmark. And it’s been that way for a long time. 

I said what I had to say earlier because using Norway in the question regardless of Marius’s status doesn’t make any sense. Marius cannot have a title not just because he’s not born from the royal line, but because Norway does not have nobility at all. There are no earls or duchesses in Norway. Nobility was abolished in the 19th century. King Harald cannot make Marius an earl even if he wanted to. It’s against the law. Literally. Huge difference compared to Sweden and Denmark where Carl Gustaf and Margrethe can bestow titles.

So, OF COUSE, the UK is more title heavy than Norway. The UK gives out honorary titles to those who are not even citizens, e.g. Angelina Jolie. The only people in Norway allowed to have titles are those born into the royal family. Sweden or Denmark would have made a more suitable mention in the question. 

Just some annulment info – in the CoE consummation also refers to a psychological ability to make a commitment. In that sense if you take vows and do not “mean it” you lacked the intent to consummate the marriage spiritually. Also being high drunk drugged nullifies your ability to give consent. MM was clearly xanaxed she did not even have a reflexive action when the fly dive bombed her face. Harry seemed pretty chemically enhanced too. That would be grounds for an annullment.

I have a hard time believing that the CoE would go for that one. Video exists of the event. None of the commentators were saying that they didn’t look like they didn’t know what they were doing. There was months of buildup. The wedding didn’t come out of nowhere. Megs had a chance to bail well before she took whatever to deal with the stress of walking down the aisle with millions watching. Same with Harry.

What you’re essentially describing is what happened to Ross & Rachel during a Friends season finale where they were in Vegas and got married while drunk. 

That is clearly not what happened at Windsor on May 19th this year. 

Sorry, but the Xanax excuse isn’t going to cut it. If you stop and think about it, then it would set a precedent for all sorts of annulments within the CoE. For that reason alone, it’s not going to happen.

the BRF and the UK in general is more title heavy than Norway, I imagine if a high ranking Royal man married a single mom of a young boy he might be granted a title (Earl most likely) at some point

duchessofostergotlands:

No he wouldn’t. The royal family is about blood. Perhaps when he married they could grant him a title, maybe, but he wouldn’t be given anything. That’s just not how it works. The royal family have a lot of titles because they have a lot of people but they’re actually very strict about who can get what. 

Norway doesn’t have titles anymore beyond the immediate royal family. Nobility titles were done away with through legislation in the 19th century.

Behind-the-scenes footage shows how the Mission Impossible: Fallout stunts were done

jkottke:

Tom Cruise is not scared of heights. And he can fly helicopters? (Not only can he fly them, he does it well enough to perform stunts.) In this rough 30-minute reel of behind-the-scenes footage from the filming of Mission Impossible: Fallout, you get to see how many of the movie’s best stunts are done. Note: you’ll need to skip around a bit…there’s a lot of less exciting bits in there too. But don’t miss the car/bike stuff at the beginning, Cruise flying/hanging from the chopper, and, holy shit, the skydive choreography at the end, where the actors and camera folks dance intricately in a military cargo plane with the back hatch open before just jumping out of it, Cruise acting all the way.

You can tell when watching the film that you’re seeing practical effects. Special effects are getting really really good, but movies like this with real people driving real vehicles…they just feel different. Special effects sometimes break the fourth wall (and not in a good way); if it looks fake, your brain says “that’s fake”, and then you’re just a little less invested in what’s going on in the story.