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Zenos Boba
ZENOS BOBA SUNDAY
ZENOS BOBA SPECIAL EDITION
IT IS ONCE AGAIN TIME FOR ZENOS BOBA
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My memory of The Birdcage (1996) is always that it's more dated and more difficult to watch than it actually is. You hear "drag-themed comedy from the 90s based on a musical from the 80s based on a play from the 70s" and you brace yourself just a little, right? But the film has a strong gay perspective, so the fruity fag jokes mostly come off as warmly affectionate. There is a surprising amount of poignancy in Robin Williams' portrayal of Armand, grudgingly agreeing to his beloved son's request that he go back into the closet for an evening ("do me a favor and don't talk to me for a while"). The drag club's staff attempting to redecorate the apartment with stuff straight people might like (a taxidermy moose head, an enormous crucifix, and Playboy magazine) is extremely funny. Albert's histrionics are a point of tension because he does often come off as a stereotypically pathetic/comic figure, but towards the end of the movie he makes it very clear that he's aware of how people see him, and asserts that trying to copy a stoic masculinity he doesn't possess for the sake of social approval would be more pathetic. In the 1983 musical adaptation, they give "Albert" (Albin) the only good song in the whole show, "I Am What I Am", which Gloria Gaynor covered to the delight of gays everywhere. Apparently Nathan Lane wasn't (publicly) out yet in 1996, which is amazing because it means that at one point in this movie you're watching a gay man playing a straight man playing a gay man playing a straight man, in a movie about how it's important to be yourself, an absurdity that does seem to encapsulate the state of gay America in the 90s.
I get paid to bully 12-year-olds I love my job
clarification: I work at a school and the students aren't allowed to have the wifi bc cell phones aren't permitted during class.
further clarification: I don't actually bully children??????? I was being hyperbolic about how I tell dad jokes to my children???????
I need to stop going on TikTok because the algorithm just feeds me bullshit that’ll make me angry, but hey, in case there are any people new to witchcraft following me: you can ignore the current grift that is “how to ward your house against evil with food and I’ll teach you how for the low low price of $$$.”
Spiritual grifters really out there claiming that food is a suitable house ward that will “last for months if done right,” then fucking losing their shit for views when the lemon they left next the radiator by the window goes moldy.
“Oh no, my house is under attack! but look, this perishable, prone to molding even under the best of circumstances food item protected me! Here’s how you can do it too.”
Do you want ants? Because that’s how you get ants.
Fucking out here spiritualising mold.
Clean your damn house.
“Did you know that a sudden appearance of flies in your house can be a portent of—”
Gaps in your windows. Fungus gnats, check your house plants for overwatering. Drains that need to be snaked. Spoiled food lurking somewhere. A dead critter in the walls.
Burning incense and buying evil eye charms isn’t going to do shit if you’re not taking care of your immediate surroundings.
Mudane before magical, witches. Mundane before magical.
Louder for the witches in the back
Mundane before magical.
insane news, today a man in my city stole a bus and just. kept making all the stops.
the Assman rides again
an upstanding citizen of our great city
I really hate the moralistic myths surrounding the Prohibition and the motivations behind it. It is a precautionary tale on why letting Evangelical moral outrage win is bad for everyone.
“We need to ban alcohol because it makes people violent and causes crime.” [HIGHEST HOMICIDE RATE OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY ENSUES, GOLDEN AGE OF ORGANIZED CRIME] “We need to ban alcohol because it is really, really, really bad for your health.” [GOVERNMENT POISONS ALCOHOL SUPPLIES, KNOWINGLY CAUSING THE DEATHS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE]
No, the thing was the US government was poisoning the alcohol supplies with methanol and pyridine then turned around and produced propaganda that was like “Oh my God you guys, bootleg alcohol causes you to go blind and have seizures and drop dead. These bootleggers are evil and they are recklessly killing people.”
Alcohol is bad for your health and it is a poison but a glass of alcohol should not be lethal. It is more like if the government laced marijuana with strychnine and then pointed the blame for the deaths at growers and dealers.
I'm about to have a hot take and I would say it shouldn't be controversial but this is Tumblr so who knows.
A few weeks ago, I saw Jurassic Park for the first time, and there is a scene in there I think every aspiring filmwriter should be forced to watch and dissect. You may be thinking it's a Big Moment, like the timing on getting the power back on, or whatsisface IT guy shutting down the system to go steal embryos. You may think it's the kids and whatsisface who kinda looks like but isn't Harrison Ford* seeing the brontosauruses for the first time. Or the moment the first T-rex crashes the fence. But it's not any of those.
No, it's when Ellie finds Hammond in the dining room and he's eating whatever was supposed to be served for dessert and he's like "it was melting. I didn't want it to go to waste."
Because there is so much humanity in that line. It's not some big, grand theme statement. But I guarantee each and every one of us has been in a situation where life is going to hell in a handbasket for whatever reason, and we sit down and we may not be crying outwardly but we're screaming inside, and we wash the dishes. Or fold the laundry. Or eat the leftover Chinese so it won't be thrown away. We have exactly one point of control over one tiny little thing that seems (and often is) absolutely futile, and fuck it all, we need that control. Just for a moment. Just to feel something that isn't black screaming despair.
Hammond's guests and grandchildren are in grave danger. There is nothing he can do about it. Ellie's fiance is one of those guests. There's nothing she can do about it. They're in a severe thunderstorm in a place with mostly dirt roads in the middle of the night and all of the power is out and there are animals that dwarf skyscrapers outside. They. Can. Do. Nothing.
So they sit down and they eat the ice cream.
And then when Ellie says "it is good," Hammond just very quietly says "spared no expense."
His entire dream is in ruins. I know in the book he's more morally dubious, but in the movie I think he really genuinely believed he was doing something that could be wonderful and got stars in his eyes. In this moment he's grieving the potential loss of his grandchildren. The knowledge that even if (if!!) they survive, they will likely never see him the same way again--nor will his children. He's grieving because his beautiful dream has killed multiple people and he's realized he created a nightmare. He's grieving because he's in a hell of his own making and there's nothing he can do about any of this.
The animatronics are amazing, the CGI is top-notch (especially for its era), the story is solid, the cinematography is ace, but the moment that made that movie to me was that scene in the dining room lit only by the lightning, where two terrified human beings eat a dessert they almost certainly aren't really tasting, and say "it was melting" and "it is good" because if either of them says what they're really thinking, even breathes so much as a "do you think--", they will both scream until they go insane.
We've none of us faced dinosaurs run amok but we've all of us eaten the ice cream. And I think every prospective filmwriter out there, and a whole lot of shitty execs who wouldn't know a real emotion if it danced naked in front of a neon sign, need to see that scene and be forced to really sit with it.
I think movies would be the better for it.
*I would apologize for only learning half of these characters' and/or actors' names but frankly my facial recognition was already bad and has gotten worse in the last couple of years so you'll just have to deal with that.
Also.
Nothing actually important happens here. You could cut this scene entirely, and it wouldn't affect the audience's understanding of events. While there's some wonderful character exposition on the part of Dr. Hammond, it doesn't really tell us anything we don't know.
The "deleted scenes" reels of hundreds of movies are full of scenes like this, that were "removed for pacing reasons," because Hollywood seems to think that modern audiences will get bored if there's not an explosion every two and half minutes.
This kind of scene is think used to be called a "breather" scene, where for a moment the characters and audiences sit for a moment and just take a breath from all the whatever is happening around them, a moment to connect or commiserate or consider or what have you, its a moment of pacing both for the characters and audiences to just take a breath between the action or what have you. I think it was also called a beat scene, for just a beat in time we all collectively take a big breath and go "Wow, okay, that happened"
I started to notice a trend of this disappearing in both Television and movies at the end of the 90's through the 2000's and it got worse after 2010.
It's true. It held on for awhile in anime, but it's really vanished there, too.
the henry rollins bisexualism quote. need it on my desk asap
boomer socrates
happy bisexual visibility day
I think about this every year but this trend of American Christmas movies where characters act like Christmas is being forgotten/no one cares about it anymore/it's dying and needs to be saved/etc while the whole country has been flooded with Christmas since Halloween really is a perfect example of how (mainly white) American Christians always see themselves as the victims and persecuted minorities no matter what.
"Nobody believes in Christmas anymore! We need to save it!" Okay well I've been hearing songs about Jesus in grocery stores since November 1st so forgive me for my doubt.
"hero by rescuing my daughter I want to offer you her hand in marriage." Said the king "uh actually your majesty I was hoping to have the hand of your royal sorceress instead." Said the hero "uh sure I have no reason not to I grant your request." Said the king confused
"But who are you, noble hero?" continued the king. "I see that you carry a blank shield."
"I will tell you," said the hero, "if you swear me that you will give me the sorceress."
"On God Almighty, I swear," said the king. "Now tell us your name, and from whence you came."
The hero pulled off her helmet, revealing the sweaty face of the king's daughter.
"Annabel, what the fuck?!", cried out the king.
"Dad, you promised," said the princess Annabel.
perfection
so I had a new roommate move in less than a week ago
…and this morning I discovered a really fun way to learn that he stores things in the oven 🩷
I guess this makes sense except for the fact that his cabinets????
are empty?????????????
(the food there was left behind by the last roommates)
PLUS
as far as I know, this is the only plate he brought 🥸 just the one.
anyway happy carcinogen wednesday I guess!!!!
[Image ID: Photograph of a refrigerator interior. An unseen person is placing a glass tray containing a plastic-wrapped turkey onto a shelf. Text reads: “I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s time to move the frozen turkey to the fridge.” End ID.]
Hello Tumblr, this year I have updated the original post with an image ID. For You.
Anyway here’s the 2025 specifics. American Thanksgiving is 11/27 this year, so fairly late in the month. If your household is looking to cook turkey this year:
10-15 pounds: Start thawing at least 3-4 days before, on Sunday, November 23rd.
16-20 pounds: Start thawing at least 4-5 days before, on Saturday, November 22nd.
20-24 pounds: Start thawing at least 5-6 days before, on Friday, November 21st.
And don’t forget: The economy is shit this year, lots of people are being laid off, and grocery prices are skyrocketing. There has never been a better time to donate to food pantries, and/or to reach out to your neighbors and see how they’re doing.
Which doesn’t need to end when thanksgiving is over, either – there are some charities that are specific to Thanksgiving, but don’t do anything to support people after that date. So.
This spider is in hell. This spider is in hell and youre laughing.
At risk of sounding like a hater and an asshole this looks like AI and if its somehow not, the editor who reworked images and sharpened them up made it look like AI
Edit: yeah its AI
This is the actual image (from a 6 year old reddit post so def not AI). Either someone asked AI to recreate it or AI, being the plagiarism machine it is, was asked for a pic of dogs finding humans in the snow and just ripped off the first image it could find. Another reminder that AI doesn't actually create anything. Also real cute dogs.
Actually a fantastic example for when you need to illustrate to someone that AI art is theft, blatantly, and not in some abstract way
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how am i meant to show my love when i peel an orange but need a shovel to give you a slice
i wish i had the words to express what this means to me.