[cleolinda]

Brenda Fricker: Oscar-wining Irish actress dies at 81

She won for her role in 1989 film My Left Foot and had well-loved parts in Home Alone 2 and TV's Casualty.

Irish actress Brenda Fricker, who won an Oscar for her role in 1989 film My Left Foot and had well-loved parts in Home Alone 2 and TV's Casualty, has died at the age of 81.

Fricker won the Oscar for best supporting actress in 1990 for playing Daniel Day-Lewis's on-screen mother in My Left Foot.

She played nurse Megan Roach in the BBC's Casualty from 1986, making her final appearance in 2010; and was the Central Park pigeon lady in 1992's Home Alone sequel.

In a statement, her agent Phil Belfield said: "We will never see her like again and the world is lesser for the lack of her."

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

I was listening to a “90s essentials” playlist on the way to the office today and I’m proud to report that I still know all the words to both No Scrubs and All Star.

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[boymounter]

my dad bought a cnc and is going wild

[boymounter]

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

I had to look in the reblogs to see what the sexual meaning of cnc is. I’m not sure why, but that feels like a win for me? Maybe it means I’m not too Terminally Online?

[angelicguy]

i bet girls hated it in 1902 cuz you would constantly go on dates w guys who are working on an invention to present at the world fair

[iamaine]

repeating this to myself as a list of daily affirmations

[depsidase]

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

Apparently a few years ago I put one of my fountain pens away without cleaning it. So it is just completely crusted with dried ink.

I’ve had it soaking in a glass of water for like 24 hours and I keep emptying the water and rinsing and refilling and the nib keeps leaching ink.

Luckily it’s a cheaper/not fancy pen, just a Lamy Safari and wasn’t one of my favorites.

And that brand also requires their own proprietary ink converter, you can’t use one of the cheaper, universal converters, which I think is why I stopped using it.

My favorite pen is a Monteverde and I have no idea which model it is because the model name has worn off the side of the cap! But it’s heavier and metal and I love it! And the universal converters work with it.

I also have a Sailor brand pen that Erstwhile BFF gave me that was like $800! She had a couple and it wasn’t her favorite so I got it as a hand-me-down years ago. Although it’s insane to me that it was $800 because it’s just made of plastic!

But it is a big fat nib with a really fast flow, so it’s super satisfying to write with. You just go through ink super fast, though.

[shutyourmoustache]

Her confidence is up to HERE.

[whos-this-lisa-person]

Her face says it all.

[pelicanhypeman]

“Auntie” is retired WNBA player DR. CHANTEL TREMITIERE. For the record.

[pelicanhypeman]

so this post kind of never stops going around, today it got reblogged with this fantastic tag:

my dude she is 56 😭

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

[rogerchaffee]

July 16th, 1969 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, & Michael Collins set off for the moon, arriving there 3 days later. Over 1 million people watched the launch in Florida. A total of about 400,000 people worked to make this mission a success.

Happy Apollo 11 Launch Day!

[innerchildabortionclinic]

they should give you the option to unblock in these circumstances. just to see the drama unfold

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

I decided to listen to some old school Mariah Carey on the drive to work today and wasn’t prepared for hearing One Sweet Day and having tears running down my face while it was playing.

A girl in my class died our sophomore year in a car crash, and maybe this song was played during a memorial assembly or something? It would have come out a couple years before that.

Because it just triggered a deep wave of almost nostalgic sadness???

She wasn’t really a friend of mine, but she was a friend of a friend I wasn’t super close with anymore by sophomore year, so it wasn’t a real personal loss, anymore than just being a teen and having a classmate pass feels really close to home, I guess.

But maybe the song is just that good, that it will make you cry, no matter what.

Also I can remember the music video SO CLEARLY, just footage of Mariah and Boyz2Men in the recording studio.

The 90s were such a heyday of music videos.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

Hey did you guys know that Lin Manuel Miranda didn’t successfully address and condemn all the racist problems of the founding fathers with the musical Hamilton and that in his loosely historical rap musical interpretation of a historical figure, there was quite a bit of nuance lost about who Alexander Hamilton truly was as a person?

I think some people may have thought Hamilton was like LMM’s history PhD thesis about the Absolute Truth of America’s Foundation or something.

I just saw an iceberg post about how Problematic the musical is.

Next you’ll be telling me that “Assassins” doesn’t tell the whole and truthful story about all the presidential assassins portrayed in the show.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

Holy shit, it took me five episodes to realize that it’s Hugo Weaving in season four of Slow Horses.

The gray beard apparently made him unrecognizable to me!!

It wasn’t until there was a scene of him having a longer conversation that I recognized his voice before I even recognized his face!

[femalegothic]

men just love to run their fucking mouth about what women do or do not want without even once considering consulting any actual women on the matter

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[stealingpotatoes]

you’ve seen project Hail Mary???? Oh my gosh I love Rocky in your style!!!

well now i just havee to draw more rocky in my style

(links // tip jar!)

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

Here’s the birthday present I picked out yesterday at the fancy stationary store! A set of notecards and envelopes and a new bottle of fountain pen ink. It’s a shimmer ink, of course!

I love the store so much, it’s called Tabula Rasa and I’ve been enamored with it since it was a just teeny tiny shop in the corner of a now non-existent downtown mall when I was in college back in 2001. I bought my first ever dip pen there and a wax stamp. I don’t think I still have either of them though.

It was successful and became a larger store and moved to a place called Trolley Square which is an historic building that used to be a trolley depot and now has shops and restaurants and it’s just a gorgeous building and I love going there so much. It also has my favorite bookstore which has a ton of used and rare books.

Being out of the house cheered me up, so I was in the mood for a birthday dinner, so we went to the restaurant we’d been planning for and had a great time.

All in all, a pretty good way to turn 44!