don't want your sympathy

(oh!) anna too old for this

[avantgarden-er]

i'm the stripper that Loves you

[didhewinkback]

one direction will always be so so so bittersweet to me like they were such a foundation of my teenage years while at the same time those boys were spending most of their days trapped in hotel rooms or waking up at 2 am to record an album and non stop touring and working so much more than anyone let alone a bunch of teenage boys should work and its always been hard to reconcile those two realities especially on a day like today because god when they were good together, they were so good together.

and i just don't think anything like them will ever happen again. 5 boys from basically working class backgrounds thrust into a level of fame the height of which hadn't been seen for decades, all of them becoming the breadwinners of their families before the age of 18. the immense pressure but also the amount of fun they were. the tragedy and joy of it all intertwined. really impossible to put into words

[sorry1975]

Ross. Ross. Ross. Ross. Can’t get enough

[tranquildeath]

born to always mourn the present like it’s already become a memory

[melodicpianist]

[farmlesbians]

MUCH TO THINK ABOUT

[closet-keys]

the thing I really like about The Good Place is that it thematically revolves around ethics and what makes a person good or bad (both in the sense of– how do we define good and bad, and in the sense of–what aspects of someone’s formative environment and social group influence how they will treat other people). 

and the conclusion that the show comes to over and over is both that it is possible to become a better person, and because it’s possible we owe it to each other to keep trying to be better– for all eternity if we must. 

there’s no end to it, and (should I make a prediction) no real “good place” where you’ve gotten to the finish line and “won” at being a good person. it’s an eternal commitment to other people. 

you create your own good place, because whether you’re in a good place or a bad place is defined by how people treat each other. when your community has collectively learned to respect, value, and help each other, you experience the peace and support that you might have once imagined in the abstract being awarded to the truly “good” 

[alex51324]

Sartre famously said that the Bad Place is other people.  The Good Place argues that the Good Place is, too.  

[aimmyarrowshigh]

That’s because Mike Schur is Jewish.

The underlying theme of all of his shows is essentially chesed (חֶסֶד), which basically translates to loving-kindness. But not just like, loving kindness? But a DUTY to loving-kindness, a duty to tikkun olam, or repairing the world through acts of genuine chesed.

Tahani was committed to good works, but not out of a commitment to loving-kindness. Not for others and, tbh, not for herself, since she spent her whole life feeling “less” than Kamilah. To love others as yourself, you have to love yourself.

Similarly, Chidi was desperately unkind and unloving to himself, and thus denied the *whole world* loving-kindness. TGP shows this in the way Chidi’s thought- and behavior patterns that hurt him throughout his life were also inherently harming the people around him who loved him.

Eleanor purposely acted against loving-kindness, to the point where seeing others engaged in it made her angry.

Jason, honestly, had a very kind and loving soul, but his actions caused harm to others (whether that was his intention or not, and honestly it seems like he mostly just didn’t understand the impact of his choices a lot of the time… but harm is harm).

“You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it,” “learn to do good,” etc. I’m not saying that TGP ~is Jewish, because it’s not, but I AM saying that you can see Schur’s ethical framework in his art, and trying to look at any of his shows through a Christian lens is going to skew them.

Also the whole thing where there’s not really a heaven nor a hell, and that it seems like in The Good Place’s eschatology, actions are ultimately judged solely by the impact they have (on the self AND/OR on others) – which I feel like was also one of the main themes of Parks & Rec, and is wrestled with in B99. The highest ethical order is chesed.

[marcywar]

Read ops post and was like “wow that’s very Jewish of this show. I like it” and then read the reblog and now I have a greater understanding

[maleksrami]

Congratulations Rami Malek!

Academy Award winner of Best Actor in a Leading Role for Bohemian Rhapsody

[harrystylesdaily]

Dallas, TX - June 5. Photography by Hélène Marie Pambrun.

[timelesslulu-deactivated2020070]

Water and fire signs when their emotions is destroying them but they got to make sure that you won’t worry about them cause they don’t like being a burden for someone

[jitterslug]

[phillipiscrying]

​theres no possible way to know where this is going

[rainbowkarolina]

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again + songs

[tachylyte]

*realizes I exist outside of my own perceptions of myself and that people probably talk about me sometimes* what the fuck

[shazadlatifgf-deactivated202301]

I don’t dance. What’s the point of having all this music, then? To listen to. I sit very still and appreciate the music.

[huccimermaidshirts]

When you love being praised

[fakehistory]

Deadly US airstrike on ISIS training camp (2016)

[hstylesgallery]

Harry for The Sunday Times Magazine. (photo by Mary McCartney)

[hstylesgallery]

Photo by Harley Weir.