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[larkandkatydid]

I apologize for being late posting this celebration of Robert Smalls Day, May 13th being 164th anniversary of Robert Smalls stealing the The Planter and sailing it, with its guns and his family and the family of his crew into Union held territory, becoming legally a free man.

But what is often important to me about Robert Smalls is that after his heroic and thrilling heist, after saving the lives and futures of over a dozen people, he could have just kept going. He could have gone to Europe and lived safe and peaceful and famous forever. But he went back. The first thing he did was ask to go back. He wasn’t ever given the appropriate rank or pay or respect, but he captained US army ships back and put his own life at risk, again, to liberate South Carolina. Then he stayed! He became a congressman. He founded the South Carolina Republican Party and made South Carolina the first US state with universal compulsory public education. Like so many of history’s great revolutionaries Robert Smalls spent his life in selfless service to the nation that gave him nothing and created, at great personal peril, a brighter, more prosperous South Carolina because he believed it was right to do so.

[emma-ofnormandy]

NICOLE KIDMAN as GILLIAN OWENS in PRACTICAL MAGIC (1998)

@giftober 2025 l Day #6: Redheads

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third times the charm so they say

[peachfromcmbyn]

A lot of people don't like that there are cop characters in television program 9-1-1, named after the American emergency response number, they call it copaganda, so to solve that in my proposed spin-off to television program 9-1-1, named after the American emergency response number, instead of a police officer there's a grizzled private eye and he's always dealing with noir movie bullshit and he's always smoking a cigarette and it's always raining whenever he's on camera and also whenever he's on camera it's in black and white, and also he has a lesbian daughter, a plucky teenage detective.

[peachfromcmbyn]

Grizzled noir detective taking a swig out of his canteen as he watches a tidal wave of molasses drown everything in its path: Goddamnit, I knew I shouldn't have gotten out of bed today.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

De Vierde Man (Paul Verhoeven, 1983)

[peachfromcmbyn]

The thing about greatest movie of all time 2003's Latter Days is that a shocking amount of people in that movie went on to be at least moderately famous. And none of them played the leads or the best friend character that was clearly being set up for a pop career. Like, Khary Payton has a quite prolific voice acting career, Rob McElhenney (I'm not calling him that) is in It's Always Sunny, and Joseph Gordon Levitt is, you know, Joseph Gordon Levitt.

[mushroomseb]

⏤ I would hear you crying in your room after school. Did the boys bully you, then? ⏤ Not just the boys.

All of Us Strangers (2023) Dir. Andrew Haigh

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if by design is playing near you you should go see it!!

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pitt fact check: literally all medical offices still use fax machines regularly

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main ads I'm getting on tumblr now are for online drama series.

today's feature a woman with a remote control vibrator and some kind of wealthy baby daddy mpreg situation

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what i don't understand about british pronunciation of spanish is spain is right there. you've never heard spanish before? y'all aren't vacationing there? just comes up less i guess

[chamomile-teabag]

WHAT ARE YALL READING RN you must tell me

[outofthefilms-deactivated202604]

Robert Mitchum & Jane Greer in | Out of the Past ( 1947)

film by Jacques Tourneur.

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we set out to change the world... ended up just changing ourselves.

what's wrong with that?

nothing if you don't look at the world.

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what will you do when you get older? will you try to change the world like i did? we failed. but maybe you will not. maybe you will be the one who puts the world right.

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watched peter hujar's day and he mentions photographing lauren hutton. looked up the photos after and i LOVE this one i love her

[vertigoartgore]

French actresses/sisters Françoise Dorléac (R.I.P.) and Catherine Deneuve in 1966 during the filming of the Jacques Demy movie Les Demoiselles de Rochefort/The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967).