when you see hollywood action stars groaning about how hard their physical regime and stuntwork is, remember that asian movie stars have long been expected to act, sing, and fight with very little body-double work. (honestly, it makes hollywood’s tendency to cast asian roles with less qualified white actors even more infuriating – i’m look at you danny rand.)
while i’m here, check out one of zhang ziyi’s last fight scenes before she decided “fuck it, i’m not doing this again” (and who can blame her): the train sequence from the grandmaster.
THE TRAIN SEQUENCE FROM THE GRANDMASTER IS FUCKING POETRY
never not reblog that fight scene. it is one fucking masterful ride of a fight scene. (and so is the one from the grandmaster.)
I just had this hyper-realistic dream and like. I don’t even know what to make of this lmao
I was sitting in this park, on a bench, looking up at the night sky and all the stars and stuff, and I blinked and suddenly the entire sky was different. I’m talking different constellations, the sky absolutely packed with billions more stars, some so close they’re massive. I’m like wtf and suddenly I realise there’s an old man sitting next to me, dressed in like 1940s clothing, also looking up at the sky.
before I can ask him if he’s you know, noticed, he speaks, without looking away from the sky.
“this is what the universe really looks like,” he tells me.
“oh,” I say. a pause. “…can you put it back?”
he smiles and nods. I look up. the sky has gone back to normal.
“what do I do with this information?” I ask, looking at him again.
he turns his head and, smiling, looks me dead in the face. "be careful.“
hey op im pretty sure you mightve just met god or something like that
so you’ve seen gifs of simone giertz’s shitty robots, right? of course you have.
she’s amazing. she’s hilarious. she’s a woman in STEM, kicking ass.
she just found out she has a brain tumor.
the doctors are pretty sure it’s benign, but it’s big, and she’s gonna have to have pretty major surgery which is gonna keep her from making videos for a while.
while she’s recovering, her patreon is pretty much gonna be her only source of income, so if you enjoy the gifs of her videos, or just want to support a pretty awesome chick who needs some help, you might want to kick a few dollars over that way.
(i’m not associated with simone in any way, i don’t know her – other than the fact that she favorited one of my tweets once! – but i absolutely adore her personality and her work and i haven’t seen any posts about this, so i figured i’d put something up.)
