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SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN dir. Stanley Donen + Gene Kelly

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BONUS:

reblog for good luck!!

bennyboy721

It was 1:25 when I saw this, I have to

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godstiel

the best part of being alive is seeing people you know use your little turns of speech. actually

happyheidi

When C.S. Lewis wrote “but some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

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When I read this age 6 I didn’t understand it at all. I didn’t believe you could grow out of fairytales. Age 24, I understand it now. It’s not about growing out of fairytales, but discovering them once again, and fitting the last piece into a puzzle you didn’t quite know you were trying to solve.

At some point, sooner or later, the grief of the world hits you like a sledgehammer, and you’re left reeling and hollow. Everything is wan and grey, beaten down and hard, cruel and senseless. You are unmoored, so you go back to what has moored humankind for the millennia that our species has defied death to survive - you go back to stories.

You go back to the heroes, the knights and the castles, the brave stable boys with naught to their name and the villainous sorcerers that can be outwitted by guileful princesses. You go back to magic. Fairytales remind you of when the world was new (to you) and the boundaries of belief did not exist, for magic was in the everyday, equal parts ordinary and extraordinary. You recover what was lost.

I get it now, Jack. I get it.

valtsv

i can't vibe with anyone who thinks icarus was an ignorant idiot for flying too close to the sun. "oh i'd never do that i would have remembered my father's warning and been fine". do you seriously think that after years of imprisonment, feeling the sun on your face and the open air beneath your wings, you would be able to focus on anything but the joy of being alive and free? do you actually think that if you were given the opportunity to go where nobody has never been before, you wouldn't want to push it to the limit? to dare to be the first to try what no one else has ever even thought possible? do you honestly think you're too good for your own human nature? look me in the eyes and tell me if i strapped a pair of wings to your back that could take you wherever you wanted to go whenever you pleased that you'd be careful and sensible about it. you are not better than icarus just because you have the benefit of his example.

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bennyboy721

Where is my Hadestown-esque musical for Daedalus and Icarus based on this text post?

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some company

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—taylor swift, “cardigan” (2020)

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Kim Novak in a portrait by Robert Coburn, 1955. Given the publicity nick-name “the lavender blonde” when she signed with Columbia Pictures the year before in order to set her apart from Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Mamie Van Doren (all platinum blondes, Columbia touted that Kim’s hair was given a subtle lavender rinse), this photo-shoot was carefully orchestrated to feature Novak wearing various shades of the pastel purple color for publication in movie magazines.