Cheese Bong Dynasty

No one of consequence.

[ussthunderquack]

Chris Evans of "Captain America" fame to star as My Pillow Guy in Pure Flix biopic

From Movie Web:

"My Pillow: the Story of Mike Lindell" is set to debut on Pure Flix this Easter. Staring as the titular My Pillow Guy is Chris Evans, best known as Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the director's seat is Mel Gibson, director of "Passion of the Christ" (2004).

Though production is largely under wraps, we do know that the film will chronicle Lindell's famous battle with cocaine addiction, and his spiritual awakening. The latter ocurrs when a destitute young Lindell receives a visit from the Archangel Gabriel (Kennan Thompson), who informs young Michael that his destiny is to create a pillow "soft enough for baby Jesus to lay his haloed head upon." According to this movie, it was in fact the Archangel who inscribed the words "My Pillow" onto Lindell's wall with divine lightning, rather than a cocaine-addled Lindell himself as many a Godless tax-raising liberal has claimed. The film will go on to depict Lindell's political battle to legalize packing-peanuts as pillow stuffing; his forbidden love affair with Donald Trump; and his final standoff with Bolivian police in Buenos Aires.

Millions have already purchased subscriptions to Pure Flix in anticipation of the biopic. And yet, the film is not without its critics. Feminists are accusing the movie of glorifying rape-culture, in its depiction of Lindell forcing his pillows on several unwilling customers who initially resist, but relent romantically upon realizing that this is the best pillow they've ever used. Sleep experts meanwhile are pointing out dangerous inaccuracies being pushed in the film, where characters' insomnia and neck pain is cured overnight by pillows stuffed with sawdust, slinkies and live pultry. Even some Christian leaders are taking issue with the film's inaccurate depiction of Biblical scripture (such as Gabriel wearing a feathered pimp hat). Finally, President Trump slammed his own depiction in the movie, calling actress Rebel Wilson "a fat liberal cow" and citing that her makeup is the wrong shade of orange. Will "My Pillow" be the flop some are anticipating? Or will it make it to the Oscars? Only time will tell.

[ussthunderquack]

Chris Evans of "Captain America" fame to star as My Pillow Guy in Pure Flix biopic

From Movie Web:

"My Pillow: the Story of Mike Lindell" is set to debut on Pure Flix this Easter. Staring as the titular My Pillow Guy is Chris Evans, best known as Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the director's seat is Mel Gibson, director of "Passion of the Christ" (2004).

Though production is largely under wraps, we do know that the film will chronicle Lindell's famous battle with cocaine addiction, and his spiritual awakening. The latter ocurrs when a destitute young Lindell receives a visit from the Archangel Gabriel (Kennan Thompson), who informs young Michael that his destiny is to create a pillow "soft enough for baby Jesus to lay his haloed head upon." According to this movie, it was in fact the Archangel who inscribed the words "My Pillow" onto Lindell's wall with divine lightning, rather than a cocaine-addled Lindell himself as many a Godless tax-raising liberal has claimed. The film will go on to depict Lindell's political battle to legalize packing-peanuts as pillow stuffing; his forbidden love affair with Donald Trump; and his final standoff with Bolivian police in Buenos Aires.

Millions have already purchased subscriptions to Pure Flix in anticipation of the biopic. And yet, the film is not without its critics. Feminists are accusing the movie of glorifying rape-culture, in its depiction of Lindell forcing his pillows on several unwilling customers who initially resist, but relent romantically upon realizing that this is the best pillow they've ever used. Sleep experts meanwhile are pointing out dangerous inaccuracies being pushed in the film, where characters' insomnia and neck pain is cured overnight by pillows stuffed with sawdust, slinkies and live pultry. Even some Christian leaders are taking issue with the film's inaccurate depiction of Biblical scripture (such as Gabriel wearing a feathered pimp hat). Finally, President Trump slammed his own depiction in the movie, calling actress Rebel Wilson "a fat liberal cow" and citing that her makeup is the wrong shade of orange. Will "My Pillow" be the flop some are anticipating? Or will it make it to the Oscars? Only time will tell.

[mermaidenmystic]

吉井千恵 Chie Yoshii

[cheesebongdynasty]

This is gorgeous!

[leroibobo]

in the yazidi religion, god lives in the nineveh plains' lalish valley, the meeting point between earth and heaven. lalish is the place yazidi face when praying, a place yazidi are expected to make a pilgrimage to at least once in their lifetimes, and the site of many yazidi sacred places. most notable are several tombs and surrounding sanctuaries, and kanîya spî (white spring), a baptistry where children are baptized to be initiated into the religion. click on the alt text to learn more about the sites.

there are no inscriptions on most of these buildings, and there's no particular architectural styles associated with different periods of yazidi history, so the buildings are difficult to date. what is known is that the valley has been inhabited for some 4,000 years. the yazidi ethnoreligion is thought to be just as old.

[dominiqueramseyart]

Primary tigers

[howtobeaconartist]

How long does it usually take to get ready for a convention? Like prep time including printing (excluding drawing and creating the actual product)?

kiriska​: For the first time? A month or two, maybe. Make a list of the things you need to do and how much time each thing takes and go from there. Deadlines are important. I wouldn’t discount the time it takes to create actual product too – printing takes time, and if your art isn’t ready, then you can’t print, and everything gets pushed back.

I would start prepping a minimum of a month before your con, but probably two months, just to be safe. After your first con, a lot of the setup will be ready to go for subsequent shows, so it’s mostly a matter of re-assessing your stock and seeing if you need to order more stuff accordingly. I generally do restock orders 2 weeks out from a con to allow for shipping. If your supplier is overseas, order at least 6-8 weeks out.

There are numerous AA supply lists floating around the Internet, so this will hardly be exhaustive, but here’s a short list of things you’ll probably want to remember to do and get ready:

Local supply gathering (1-2 days of shopping)

Tablecloth

Business card holders

PVC or grid cubes or some other vertical display

Other props or display aids

Online supply gathering (1-2 days shopping, 2 weeks for shipping (add 4 weeks if overseas))

Prints and/or other printed products

Business cards

Packaging, if desired (bags/sleeves for prints, etc)

Banner

Additional display goods (racks, stands, etc)

Practice setup (1 day)

If you can, definitely build your setup and test it prior to the convention. This will help you figure out what you might still need. If you manage a practice setup 2 weeks ahead of the convention, you’ll still have time to order anything you’re missing.

Nattosoup:  Since Kiri did a great job giving an actual timeline for con prep, I’m going to focus on what you excluded for our readers who are looking for a creation timeline.  

If it’s your first ever con, and you’re starting from scratch, I would start prepping and planning 6 months in advance.  I recommend six months so you aren’t rushing, you have plenty of time to think things over, scope out where fandom is, and adjust your stock.  I like to work on things leisurely months before the convention in my downtime (assembling buttons, cutting stickers, scoping out new merchandise options), and rushing to have new things the week before the show is miserable and usually leads to me having a panic attack. 

The basic rule of thumb is:  The less time you have to play with, the more everything is going to cost you.

Sticker sets- Aim to complete one design per day, from concept to colors, give yourself a week for a set of 5-8, and one day to cut.

Prints, printed at home- Give yourself one week per design, if this is the first time you’re doing prints.  More elaborate prints need exponentially more time to prepare, so be aware of that.  If you run out of ink at the last minute, a trip to Walmart for more ink is going to cost you more than ordering a decent knockoff brand of ink online.

Prints, printed at a local print shop- Give yourself a week for the design, and a full day to get everything printed at the store and organized.  Make sure you go in with your files clearly labeled, and with your instructions written down.  Be prepared to argue to make sure your stuff is done right (don’t be rude, just make sure you are clear, and don’t settle for lazy/incompetent/didn’t want to do it).  There have been times when I’ve gone to Office Max at a down hour and was able to check out in a half hour, there have been times when the store SHOULD have been dead, but it takes four hours to get anything done because the people ahead of me don’t really know what they want.  Plan for this to take awhile.

Prints, ordered- I order my mini prints from Shutterfly when they have sales, so it’s more dependent (for me) on when their sales are, not when my shows are.  It takes two to three weeks for my prints to come in- I do not use express shipping, I go with the cheapest options available.  Heidi uses Catprints, so she could give a better timeline for that.

Mini Comics- If you haven’t drawn it yet, give yourself a month.  If it’s drawn, give yourself three days to get it laid out, to get it printed, and to assemble them.

Perfect Bound Books- ASSUMING YOUR CONTENT IS FINISHED AND ASSEMBLED, it takes about a month for CreateSpace to get your proof to you, two weeks if you’re reordering books from them.  Other companies differ.

Buttons- If you own a button maker, give yourself a week for every set of 7 designs (or utilize designs created for stickers, with slight modifications), and a day to press ever 100 buttons (your arm will be super sore after, the longer you can stretch out working on these things, the better).  If you don’t own a button maker, and you are borrowing one, give yourself an additional week.  If you are sending your designs off to be printed and pressed, give the person you are sending your designs to a month, regardless of what their site says the turnaround time is.

Ordering stuff:  Give yourself at least four months for things to come in.  Artscow can be super speedy, or it can take forever, so give companies like that at least two months to deliver.  Charm companies can take awhile, and it may take awhile on your end to get your files ready, so give charm companies at least three months the first time you order from a new company.  

Other:  I order my vinyl banners from BuildASign (if you need reviews, search our tags, I’ve posted about them before), their turnaround time is approximately two weeks, but I give them a month.  My business cards from Moo take about three weeks, my cards from Overnight Prints take two AFTER THEY HAVE APPROVED YOUR DESIGN (which can take up to a week, and isn’t always accurate in terms of what you get)

PR:  Start talking about the con you’re attending at least a month ahead of time- show lots of WIP, make sure to tag related fandoms, try to get people excited about the fact that you’re tabling.  In the week before the con, make sure you update with FINISHED products daily, utilizing the convention’s tags.  Two weeks before the show, start checking the tags on Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram to see who else is going, and try to make new friends.

Monday before the show:  Convention demo table, takes all evening.

Wednesday before the show:  Go buy con snacks

Thursday before the show:  Leave for show.

Heidi: Both of these ladies did a great job, so I have little to add.  Because I do conventions regularly and often have a back-stock and many items already ordered, I generally start my to-sell item prep for any given show about a month in advance.  This gives me time to order any prints or supplies I may need, and usually enough time for any mistakes or shipping delays.

The best answer I can give though is the sooner the better.  Real life things will happen.  Hotels will be sold out (try to book this as soon as you confirm your table!  This also help get the con block, which is usually significantly cheaper!)  Stores won’t have what you need in stock, printers will be broken, the USPS will lose stuff (the USPS will lose SO MUCH STUFF), and you’ll probably panic and freak out at least once.  You may also need to do time-sensitive things such as apply for a seller’s permit.  And there are always things that you can’t do until the week of the show - like actually driving there (give yourself extra time here too!  In case of emergencies such as weather or car issues!)

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

so are we not going to talk about the Italian politicians that used charities to fund a terrorist organisation???? I guess not since Jews were targeted

Italy arrests nine over alleged Hamas funding through charities | CNN

Italian prosecutors said on Saturday they had arrested nine people on suspicion of financing Hamas through charities based in Italy, in an o

[outraged-honk]

Nine now! Whao almost like people were lying to launder money to funnel into a terrorist regime!

[cheesebongdynasty]

This is why I stick to professional charities with background checks.

[dominiqueramseyart]

Huevember

Day 8 - Vermilion

[miamaimania]

“Russia, Norilsk” (2023) by Christophe Jacrot ▢ -40°C city fog

[stamenpistil]

“The state came to massacre, it wasn’t a [police] operation. They came directly to kill, to take lives,” one woman in Penha Complex told the AFP news agency.

“There are people who have been executed, many of them shot in the back of the head, shot in the back. This cannot be considered public safety,” said 36-year-old resident and activist Raul Santiago.

Brazil’s Justice Minister Ricardo Lewandowski said President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is “horrified” by the scale of fatalities and surprised that such an operation went ahead without prior knowledge of the federal government.

(source 1) (source 2) (source 3)

[stamenpistil]

Adding my own previous tags:

I’d sincerely appreciate it if non-Brazilians reblogged this. Media outlets all over the world (and especially in my homeland) will try to sweep this under the rug but the horror has spread nationwide. We call it chacina for a reason.

It would be of great help if other countries and their citizens held Brazilian politicians/figures of authority accountable. Or, at least, acknowledge very publicly that there's an ongoing effort by the Brazilian police force to exterminate black and brown people, especially in Rio.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

“Ugh can’t stand babies they cry so much!”

That tiny Human spirit has shat himself 4 times today if you’d shat yourself 4 times by noon you’d be in hysterics too

[asteroidtroglodyte]

He fell asleep in his bed, at home, and woke up at the goddamn grocery store with an overhead light in his face if that happened to you you’d become The Joker

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Poor guy’s only been here for like a dozen weeks he doesn’t even have a favorite show to distract him yet he’s just raw-dogging reality unfiltered with no goddamn Blorbos to rotate whatsoever

[lyricwritesprose]

Dude has, at this point, one communication signal.

Fortunately for him, it is a very important communication signal, especially given what he's going through right now. It says, "This is, in some way, unsatisfactory." Unfortunately, it's not very specific and he doesn't understand much about how to deploy it.

You have to understand, the stomach ache that he has right now is the worst stomach ache in the universe, because as far as he's concerned, the universe is maybe a month old and there's been a limited number of stomach aches in it. Or, the loneliness and anguish he felt when he couldn't see you was the most terrifying isolation in the universe, akin to being adrift in the Boötes Void, for the very same reason. He does not have guidelines to cope with these things. He has barely accumulated enough of a dataset to start evaluating things like, "Most times, when people I know go away, they will reappear eventually," or, "that particular stomach ache will go away if I eat something." He doesn't even know which particular problems can be cured and which can't. He just knows that "technique: scream like fucking banshee" does have some sort of a success rate.

And it's his only move, you think he's not gonna spam it? Get real.

[arinzeture]

[mermaidenmystic]

Spreading Starlight by Amelia Jane Murray (Victorian fairy artist from the Isle of Man, 1800-1896)

[playwrongs]

In King Ludwig II’s defense, if I had basically infinite discretionary funds, was accountable to absolutely no one, and was king of a country full of picturesque landscapes, you couldn’t stop me from building myself a big gay fairytale castle on a mountaintop either.

[playwrongs]

This post is spreading and I feel bad about it because it contains misinformation, so for the record: Ludwig II did not in fact have infinite discretionary funds. He only acted as if he did. He never dipped into the public coffers for his building projects, but he spent his own fortune extravagantly and borrowed heavily from everyone he could think of. By 1885, the year before his death, he was 14 million marks in debt.

[insomniac-arrest]

~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~

[centrally-unplanned]

I always find this inspiring because try to name another prince of a German state. What did the rulers of Hamberg do? The Grand Duchy of Hesse? Gone with the wind, no one knows them anymore. But Mad Lad Ludwig built a top 5 most famous castle in the entire world. Money is fake, castles are real. Go broke and die like a winner.

[the-barefoot-hatter]

EXCUSE ME, this is still wrong. He built 3.

Neuschwanstein, literally the inspo for the castles in Disney's Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella

Hohenschwangau, the practical castle

Linderhof, the final, the smallest, and the MOST fab.

Every room is incredible and the park is beautiful, but shoutout to The Bedroom, the biggest room

The Hall of Mirrors, which he probably wandered by candle light because he was a serious night owl

The Dining Room, with a wishing table that lowers to the kitchen, and rises with a crank, returning magically full of food

The Venus Grotto, constructed for the sole use of Ludwig to larp to his heart's content

A full artificial cave, it features a waterfall, fake stalactites, and a custom-designed swan boat floating on an artificial lake. The first electricity in Bavaria was generated here, to change the colors of the stage lights and to power Ludwig's fountain and wave machine.

Now THAT'S ~ ✨✨ 14 million marks in debt ✨✨~

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

Boos in the Nite | 1950

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This beautifully detailed gown, designed by Walter Plunkett, was created for the 1956 film 𝑫𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒆, where it was worn by Lana Turner as Diane de Poitiers. The film was a big project for MGM, and publicity photos show there was a great emphasis on the costumes in the film, staging its star amongst Plunkett’s creations.   In 1966, it appeared in an episode of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑼.𝑵.𝑪.𝑳.𝑬. called 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝑨𝒇𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓, where it was worn by Valora Noland as Grand Duchess Vicky.   The gown is owned by @thevintagecostumecollector You can learn more on his social media, or read his blog post about this fantastic gown on his website, which contains many more detailed photos of this incredible piece.   Tell us what you think of this beautiful costume at Bit.ly/TudEliz249  

[cheesebongdynasty]

[recycledmoviecostumes]

This uniquely shaped gold crown was first worn by Christel Bodenstein as The Princess in the DEFA produced fairytale movie 𝑫𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆, 𝒌𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆 𝑩ä𝒖𝒎𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒏 (𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑹𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑻𝒓𝒆𝒆).   Three years later, it appeared again in 𝑹𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒛𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑫𝒂𝒔 𝒁𝒂𝒖𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒎ä𝒏𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒏 (𝑹𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒍𝒕𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒕), another DEFA production, on Karin Lesch as Marie.   Learn more at Bit.ly/Acces202