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“I like you to be exactly the way that you are, because in all my experience, I have never known anyone like you.”

— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (via wordsnquotes)

One of the inspirations for cinematographer James Laxton for his work on the film Moonlight was Dutch art photographer Viviane Sassen. Her work had a huge influence on Laxton’s choice of colors for some of the film’s most iconic scenes like the swimming lesson, set in it high contrast colors and crystalline blues. The moment feels biblical as Juan holds Chiron in what looks like a pieta over the waves. As Juan releases him to float, Chiron quickly steadies himself and Juan says, “Right there, you’re in the middle of the world”. In the midst of this pivotal moment of self-discovery there’s a real awareness of the camera as the water is lapping against the lens. Laxton had to maneuver a 200-pound camera in an underwater housing for the scene. The waves distort the lens to accentuate the feeling of being present at such an intimate moment.

Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins

misscrazyfangirl321

Hey someone suggested I use ChatGPT to figure out adulting today, and as I was going through the mental list of places I'd rather look, I realized "beloved strangers on Tumblr dot net" was on that list.

So if you have an aspect of adulting that you're really good at-taxes, budgeting, cooking, insurance, credit, time management, house upkeep, anything-please feel free to reblog with any tips.

notcruvusmemes

Not me, but @bitchesgetriches has a lot of great resources for many of these topics on their website.

bitchesgetriches

That's us! Professional internet adults, specializing in financial stuff! We recommend starting with our Grand List of All Articles, or one of our Masterposts:

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need To Know About Taxes

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about How to Increase Your Income

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Retirement and How to Retire

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Credit and Credit Cards

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Investing for Beginners

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about How to Pay off Debt

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need To Know About Living Independently for the First Time

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Repairing Our Busted-Ass World

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Self-Care

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Getting a Job, Raise, or Promotion

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Saving Money and Being Frugal

skyberia

here's a list of programs/sites/whatever that were helpful to me when i was moving away from using spotify & back to downloading music:

soulseek - peer to peer downloading program, has most music you'd want. there's "rules" to it though and the UI is a little confusing, but you can figure it out. there's tutorials. i believe in you

cobalt.tools, ytiz.xyz, yt-dlp - mp3 downloaders, for the songs that you can't find on soulseek

musicbee - music player, extremely customiseable. reminds me of when i used itunes back in the day. has a lot of good features, including syncing music over to your phone

lastfm & listenbrainz - sites that keep track of your listening stats. i'd recommend this even if you still choose to use a music streaming service

syncedlyrics - cmd thing that gets you timed song lyrics, like the ones spotify has. there's no UI but it's easy enough to use. just grab the lyrics and timestamps it spits out and paste it into musicbee

music presence - program that shows what song you're listening to in your discord status, in case you use discord and enjoy the thought of other people seeing what you're listening to, which i do for some reason

i'm not going to lie to you and say that switching away from spotify/streaming services is an effortless task, it took me half a whole day of nonstop Work to get all my music downloaded and sorted out, but i will say that it was worth it!! and you should do it 👍 if you want to

yepthatsacowalright

Am enthralled by this visualization NASA shared of Artemis II's path through space. The most mathematically accurate little dance. <3

widefuturesss

Afropessimism says we are continuously at the end of the world, me n my seaStars ask: what beauty can we make of dis ending? what do we choose to born thru the decay? what do we allow to die alongside everything else?

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holy quaternity

philsmeatylegss

Btw, if you’re every really bored and want to do something nice, there’s a website that lists about twenty-ish elderly people, a small blurb about them, and an address that you can send cards to. It changes monthly and you can write whatever you want (even if it’s short or just drawings). Been doing it all month and it’s such small thing that makes me feel so good and I know is making others smile. Random ass post, but genuinely is making me so happy every time I do it.

koloocheh

List of some Resources and stuff related to Iran and more specifically the 1953 coup d'etat, that I've read and watched and listened to this year.

istg if one more person recommends me "All the Shah's Men the ROOTS OF MIDDLE EAST TERROR" I'll start eating gravel. I do not care for the writings of an usamerican liberal journalist.

If there's anything I haven't given a direct link to, let me know and I can just send it. My favourites are in Bold :D

5 part series on Iranian history from 1906 to present day by The Dig (podcast)

The History and Impact of Sanctions on Iran by Guerilla History (podcast)

End of Empire (1985), chapter 7: Iran (documentary)

Coup 53 (2019) dir.Taghi Amirani (movie)

Behind the 1953 Coup in Iran: Thugs, Turncoats, Soldiers, and Spooks by Ali Rahnema (book)

The Rise of Modern Despotism in Iran: The Shah, the Opposition, and the US, 1953–1968 by Ali Rahnema (book)

Call to Arms: Iran's Marxist Revolutionaries: Formation and Evolution of the Fada'is, 1964–1976 by Ali Rahnema (book)

This Post and This

Short History of Modern Iran by Ervand Abrahamian (book)

The Cat and the Coup (2011) (game)

Persian Poetry (resources)

I'll add to this later if I missed anything. I might make a post about Persian language resources as well if I remember to :P

hagiomoto

ICE depends on a web of private companies, local law enforcement, and elected officials around the country to support its work. This map i

These are the private companies helping ICE build death camps and detain immigrants

marejadilla

"I always knew it. No one can stand the freedom of others; no one likes to live with a free person. If you are free, that is the price you have to pay: loneliness." — Chavela Vargas

duckbunny

don't infantilise yourself. you are not a child who needs an adult to make your decisions for you. you are a splendid and magnificent autocrat and you are consulting your trusted advisors. you are exercising great wisdom by inviting an expert to give their opinion before making your ruling. often the path of wisdom is to say "good morning, I'm trying to [perform task] and I have a question about [aspect], can you tell me who I should speak to for advice?" before you do it. sometimes the path of wisdom is to hire a plumber. there are times when you cannot do things for yourself but that doesn't mean you are not an adult. you don't need a grown-up. you need a specialist.

duckbunny

this has come up a couple of times so let me be really really clear:

the path of wisdom is sometimes to hire a plumber.

the path of wisdom is always to hire an electrician.