A Time of Magic

[where-our-stories-start]

Song of the Lioness covers

[culturenlifestyle]

[memeuschrist]

[weirdmageddon]

[occasionallyomniscient]

Catholics vs Protestants

[funkysafari-deactivated20260131]

You can’t get much happier than a pig in muck, or so we are told.

But when this little piggy arrived in the farmyard she showed a marked reluctance to get her trotters dirty. While her six brothers and sisters messed around in the mire, she stayed on the edge shaking. It is thought she might have mysophobia - a fear of dirt.

Owners Debbie and Andrew Keeble were at a loss, until they remembered the four miniature wellies used as pen and pencil holders in their office. They slipped them on the piglet’s feet - and into the mud she happily ploughed. [x]

[queermobile-deactivated20130906]

WOW GREAT NEWS

[jurisffiction]

#THIS IS THE HAPPIEST I’VE EVER BEEN  #LIL BOOTS  #LIL PIG IN LIL BOOTS  #EVERYTHING’S SO LIL  #ANIMAL FRIENDS  

[girlgrowingsmall]

Having a rough time? Little bitty piggy in little bitty boots.

[randomthingsthatilike1]

those boots are made for walkin

[kimkijeongs-deactivated20200330]

Another layer to this sequence is the moment when the son [Ki-woo] (Choi Woo-shik) instructs his father [Ki-taek] (Bong’s longtime collaborator Song Kang-ho) how to act out the script they had written. “When they rehearse it looks like filmmaking,” Bong remarks. “It’s a humorous scene. In reality, the father is played by one of the most renowned actors and the son is an up-and-coming actor. It’s as if Ansel Elgort is teaching acting to Al Pacino. It’s funnier for the Korean audience.” 

breaking down a scene in Parasite (2019)

[youlooklikearealbabetoday]

while everyone in eve’s life was telling her in one way or another that villanelle is a psychopath incapable of forming lasting relationships / feelings, it’s interesting how in parallel the “i-it” and villanelle is reinforced by others, specifically aaron and raymond, who are somewhere on the psychopathy scale themselves….this all despite the fact the power of her feelings for eve have proven to be something she is actively trying to navigate within her own world, even though she herself may not have the exact language to fully comprehend it. konstantin inferring eve makes her weak / less than, aaron telling villanelle she “can have it all”  and the duality is especially pronounced in raymond’s case and the choice of his words about eve in “you can keep her.” the threat of him taking from villanelle what she covets most is what spurs her to impulsive and violent action which then in a series of tragic ironies echoes later into the ruins with eve herself. moral of the story everyone shut tf up and eve and v for the love of god have an actual, uninterrupted conversation.

[gretagerwisg]

She had very delicate features. Her eyes are sort of catlike. Wide, but alert. Her lips are full, she has a long neck, high cheek bones. Skin is smooth and bright. She had a lost look in her eye that was both direct and also chilling. She’s totally focused yet almost entirely inaccessible.

[neaarty]

[accras]

RIP Toni Morrison, Feb. 18, 1931-Aug. 5, 2019

[mistressvera]

[slowspinningredemption]

physically i’m present but spiritually i’m at bennington college in the 80s striding across campus with a cigarette dangling from my lips on my way to martini hour in donna tartt’s dorm room

[decalexas]

I hope whoever wrote this got a bonus

[mordredfuckingpendragon]

I don’t know why but the fact that there’s a knight in Arthuriana named “Sir Gingalain” is so fucking funny to me.

[cukibola-deactivated20200917]

Yup. In that family almost all males begin their name with G, no matter how stupid it sounds

“No, I’m not naming our child Givilikeallovolcano”

“But it begins with G!”

[epic-summaries]

Then you have Mordred. Lol

[cukibola-deactivated20200917]

Plot-twist: Mordred is a nickname.

He’s actually Givilikeallovolcano

[epic-summaries]

Of course!

[cukibola-deactivated20200917]

No wonder he killed them all in the end

Arthur, agonizing: You could have… Just legally changed your name…

Mordred, dying: Fuck

[epic-summaries]

Arthur: I’m the king, I could have done it for you.

Mordred: why didn’t anyone tell me? *dies*

[listentothestories]

silverspies

[quotemadness]

“Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.”

— Julia Quinn

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Terry wrote to me and he said  ”You have to do this ”- he began this email, I went back and looked at it the other day -  ”I know how busy you are, but you are the only person who has the same understanding of and passion for the old girl that I do, so you got to do it ‘cause I want to see it.” And I said yes. And very shortly after, Terry died. So now he couldn’t see it.

So I had to make the thing that he wanted, which meant it became kind of a mad passion project. The things that if it was a me-project I would’ve given away on, things I wouldn’t have held the line on like some kind of a mad-eyed prophet.

Suddenly I’m going ”No, you cannot take this out. This is going to be in there. Because Terry wrote that scene and he would have wanted to see it, so it’s in there.” And they’re like ”Oh, but do you know how much money we could save if you don’t actually see Agnes Nutter being blown up and arrested and dragged to the stake, we got this idea,” said an early bunch of producers who later left, ”that we could have woodcuts and the narrator explaining what happened. Isn’t that just as good?”

And I sort of mentally run that by the ghostly Terry Pratchett in the back of my head, it’s like: ”Terry, is that just as good?” And he’s like: ”Fuck ‘em.”

[atimeofmagic]

every single criminal minds episode

prentiss: oh boy can’t wait to go gambling this weekend

reid: i personally will be eating an encyclopedia 

hotch: sorry guys, we have a case

prentiss: uch

jj: seven women were found dismembered 

Garcia: d1sm3mbEreddd????

hotch: wheels up in twenty

*at local police precinct*

officer: thanks for coming to help out

Morgan: no problem

prentiss: the bodies have stab marks–

all: SEXUAL SADIST

hotch: we’re ready to deliver the profile

jj: white male

reid: late twenties to early thirties

Morgan: he’ll likely insert himself into the investigation

hotch: he’s trying to regain control over his life

*in serial killer’s lair*

serial killer: I love you

woman: we just met

serial killer: STAB STAB STAB

*back with BAU team. Morgan is on the phone with Garcia*

Morgan: give me what you got, baby girl

Garcia: you’re looking for Evil McEvilface, his father tried to kill him seven times, his mother ran away with the manny, and he lives at 6969 sad street

Morgan: you’re a miracle worker

Garcia: why don’t you come over and see what kind of miracles I can work

Morgan: *smiles and hangs up*

*back at serial killer lair*

serial killer: *about to kill woman*

all the BAU agents: FBI, PUT YOUR HANDS UP

serial killer: *puts knife to the woman’s neck*

prentiss: what happened to you as a child wasn’t fair, but you can’t hurt other ppl

serial killer: *starts crying, drops knife*

voiceover: *obscure quote*

*back on plane*

reid: did you know that there are seven leopards in existence. you have blinked twenty-two times since we boarded this plane. I am smart

all: *laughing* Reid