Noise and Kisses

&? Whoa...turns out Tumblr didn't stop existing once I moved into to other dissociative apps. Zane M Māori Tāmaki Makaurau Āotearoa

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This lil holiday at home has been amazing. Lots of family time and heaps of opportunities to test the mind🙌🏾 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpjgo0anMle/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=na47u8bpzaib

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This lil holiday at home has been amazing. Lots of family time and heaps of opportunities to test the mind🙌🏾 https://www.instagram.com/p/BpjgcwvH_c0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q17uwedxmbgp

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This lil holiday at home has been amazing. Lots of family time and heaps of opportunities to test the mind🙌🏾 https://www.instagram.com/p/BpjgUQunMA1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yuf0qlrcanxp

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This lil holiday at home has been amazing. Lots of family time and heaps of opportunities to test the mind🙌🏾 https://www.instagram.com/p/BpjgHNJnfcN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uthsbpud32do

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This lil holiday at home has been amazing. Lots of family time and heaps of opportunities to test the mind🙌🏾 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpjf-OlnGie/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7chi8bvy9det

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Gomez gives out better relationship advice than like 90% of dudes.

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Gomez Addams is a suave motherfucker who loves his wife more than his own life.

Everyone should want a Gomez. He’s p cool.

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Gomez and Morticia Addams actually have a very loving and extremely healthy relationship, both in the old TV show and in the more recent movies. They were also one of the first television couples to be shown to have an active (albeit offscreen) sex life. Their frank attitude towards sexuality was shocking in its’ time, but their relationship and their family dynamic is actually more functional and more…dare I say it…sane than most families portrayed on TV.

The comedy in the show came from the family’s “odd” lifestyle, rather than from infighting and petty bickering, or worse, as was common on other shows of the time, thinly veiled references to spousal abuse. They didn’t make fun of each other or act like their children were creatures from another world. Were they strange and outside of social norms? Yes. Were they united in creating a loving home and being good, supportive parents? Absolutely.

These two support and adore their children, care for an aging mother and an estranged brother, put family before everything, and they love each other, wholly, fiercely, without reserve. They are every bit as much in love after at least a decade of marriage as they were the day they met.

Relationship goals. LIFE goals.

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Just remembered in the second movie when their third child became “normal” for a period and although they were shocked and didn’t know how to handle it, they didn’t mistreat the child or love it any less. They accepted the difference, even though it was hard for them. 

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Reblogged for truth.

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Posts about Gomez and Morticia Addams are almost always uplifting and I’m happy to have them on my dash, but I think my favorite bit about this conversation is what Gomez is actually saying to Fester.

It’s nobody’s surprise that many of the aesthetic and thematic elements of The Addams Family in its various incarnations are influenced by Gothic tradition (not goth, that mostly came later. And not Goth, that was much much much too early), and I think Gomez’s words are a dead bullseye in terms of Gothic mentality.

“Make her feel like she’s the most sublime creature on earth”

The sublime is a recurring theme throughout Gothic literature. Although the word (like “awesome”) has lost a lot of it’s original luster over the intervening decades, sublime doesn’t really mean elevated and lofty (or even heavenly) as it’s often used today, but rather something possessing the power and grandeur to induce awe and veneration in the mind of the beholder. Although less than divine, something sublime possessed a wildness and power that transcended human ability to control…or even to comprehend.

Sublime is standing at the edge of the Grand Canyon leaning as far as you dare over the railing and still not being able to see the canyon floor below. Sublime is warrior-queen Galadriel being tempted by the One Ring. Sublime is waking up in the middle of the night in the heart of a wild thunderstorm.

“Make her feel like she’s the most sublime creature on earth”

Gomez isn’t advising Fester to treat a woman he fancies like a princess, or even elevate her to pedestal of angelic nature (who’s idea was it to equate femininity with purity anyway? What a laughable and historically damaging idea. Shame on whatever dead (probably) white dudes promoted that!)

Gomez is advising Fester that if he truly loves a woman he must do everything he can to remind her of how she’s an untameable force of nature who’s grandeur brings him to his knees in awe and terror. Just like Morticia, for Gomez.

I’ll sign off with one of my most favorite quotes of all time, because it feels suddenly very relevant:

“When I find myself surrounded by so much beauty, I feel as if I am the eye of a hurricane.”

- -Sanjay Kulkarni

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Sweet n sour #scalpmassage #tapuūpoko #therapeutic #notreally

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This Saturday we went to the birthday of my nephew Wētini who turned 2! Doesn't seem that a year ago we were here ❤️ Olive had a mean time meeting his friends it was mean catching up with whānau too

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Last few days have been pretty healing. Especially today! Got an opportunity to do a massive bike ride and then an unplanned hang with my brother @shaunvanriel listening to the unreal experiences he's been having the last few years and it's trippy how much he's grown. Living those adventures we joked about as kids. So proud of you dude. Also huge shout outs to @abrahamlarsen for what I'm assuming is your Koha you had sent to me! It's super sick and fits me really well ✊ tēna koe ē hoa!

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Plotting world domination 🌏😂✌️😎

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This is super later(sozzzz) but huge shout outs to my mahi team #VFSM squad for chipping in to get my Tama a sick as blanket for his birth with his full name(macrons included ✊✌️🙌) printed on it. You guys are the best and have looked after me really well over the years. Last month also marks 3 years since I joined and other than my managers, makes me the longest standing team member left......lol. Hopefully they aren't too sick of me yet! Ārohanui to you all e hoa mā! We really love it ❤️😎 (at Vodafone New Zealand)

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@maoritelevision plays Avatar: The Last Airbender fully dubbed in #tereo right down to the names and even though it's been level beyond my level of language comprehension nowadays, I still get what's going on cos I watched the series so much 😂✌️ - - - - - I /think/ Olive enjoys it too 😅🙏😂

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I totes thought biking to the top of Mt. Vic was a realistic goal. It wasn't. Regardless, our tīnana got us up there and we had a mean time exploring before sunset - - - - - - - - #mountvictoria #Devonport #explore #maunga #Takarunga #Rangitoto #moana #mountain #devo #Olive #finallysussedheraflatpeak 😂✌️ (at Mount Victoria)

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NĪKAU!🌴

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Olive and I met this cool #cat at the #papatākaro today who was maddd friendly and cute. Ver fat and ver patable aka: perf. He chilled with us for ages and may or may not have shared some of Olives kai......😂❤️😻 #blip #ngeru #spokeydokes #tākaro