six kates for the price of one

she/her (singular) or they/them (plural); older than it’s strictly polite to be; lesbiab af; avatar by @feymilde

[katecetera]

if you told me a decade ago that my favorite instrument would be some kind of squishy piano keyboard, I’d have reported you to the ardents because forseeing the future is of the voidbringers

[kaijuno]

[medb-like-grave]

jan smit looking at jan smit looking at rocks

[refuzz]

the rock looking at jan smit looking at jan smit looking at rocks.

[sleuthgueth-archive-deactivated]

Being a lesbian named Fisher is so hard. I'm Fish. women want me. I'm scared all the time

[sleuthgueth-archive-deactivated]

You CANNOT do this to me

[coruscantknave]

sometimes having a cool name comes at a cost

its the Fisher price

[sleuthgueth-archive-deactivated]

BOOS YOU VERY LOUDLY OFF THE STAGE

[gay-irl]

gay_irl

[formlessdemi]

[alaija]

[i-have-too-much-time]

[katecetera]

honestly the only negative thing I can say about LOVM right now is that damn, the characters must feel way worse about being thrashed by the Off Brand Raven Queen

[katecetera]

i’ll never forget watching reagan’s famous 1987 speech; celebrating the USSR release of the Scorcese classic: “mr goncharov, tear down this wall”

[hmmm-official]

hmmm

[maculategiraffe]

(me, my parents, my sister, and the baby are sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch)

baby, pointing at the light fixture over the table and signing "on": o.*

my sister: we actually can't turn that light on right now, because the lightbulb inside is burnt out! it needs a new one.

baby: ighbu.

sister: yes, lightbulb! granddaddy said after we eat he's going to climb up there on a ladder and change it, and then the light will come on!

baby: gadada! adda, uuu! ighbu o!

sister: exactly!

baby, signing "on" and pointing at the light and then my dad, with increasing urgency: GADADA ADDA UUUU. O.

my sister: we're going to finish eating first though, ok?

baby: nonono. O. gadada adda uuu.

[a split second goes by]

baby, pointing to himself: ba. adda uuu. ighbu.

me: you're going to climb the ladder and change the lightbulb yourself?

baby: dzyeah. *pointing to the buckle where he is buckled into the high chair* ububu.

me: unbuckle you? so you can change the lightbulb?

baby, highly businesslike: dzyeah.

*pronounced like "on" without the n

[synthetic-blanket-hairs-deactiv]

this comment passes peer review

[blog-of-horribleness]

[memewhore]

[ladyofthehouse]

godDAMNit that's the stuff.

[himedanshihozier-moved-deactiva]

voyager is fucking balls to the wall every week. it's just like. tom drove too fast and turned into a lizard and then turned the captain into one too, and he and the captain had lizard sex which resulted in lizard babies. the next week tuvok mind melded too hard with a serial killer and almost broke his brain but in the end wound up bonded to the killer, who in turn left murder behind to grow flowers in his quarters because the telepathic sex mind meld was that good. and then the NEXT week b'elanna had to save everybody from a fucked up sentient death machine that she programmed when she used to be a terrorist.

[himedanshihozier-moved-deactiva]

next week we will debate the ethics of assisted suicide. this is a very sensitive topic which we have handled by having said debate against a morally bankrupt outer space court jester.

[himedanshihozier-moved-deactiva]

it's like the twilight zone if it was vaguely serialised and rod serling did a shit ton of cocaine before writing each episode. like "wasn't that fucked up? anyway, see you next week."

[monarobot]

And don’t they eventually ask the killer to be a killer again??

[willmill18]

Tumblr in 2012:

Tumblr in 2022:

[hickeygenderarchive]

the clock scene is overhyped as hell and film bros ignore the importance of the apple scene bc they're afraid of the homoerotic undertones and i WILL die on this hill!

[clonehub]

Does anyone else feel like every possible star wars ship is kinda dumb or boring in some way

[fluffycatofdooom]

What about this one?

[fluffycatofdooom]

wait I'm an idiot you definitely meant romantic ship

[clonehub]

this is actually my favorite response to this

[katecetera]

me, standing outside, head tilted back, mouth open, not hallucinating: i think i‘ve dramatically misunderstood acid rain

[corsairesix]

This is my Goncharov oc, Guncharov. He’s Goncharov’s brother but he has a gun

[jumpingjacktrash]

all you 21st century goncharov fans are completely missing the cold war context...

[vegacoyote]

Oooooo sounds juicy anyone care to tell us about the cold war context?

[jumpingjacktrash]

i don't have an in-depth analysis prepared or anything, but i do remember what it was like living under the shadow of a hypothetical mushroom cloud, and if someone else wants to take on the task of describing how goncharov's self-destruction resonated with the sort of cliff-jumper urge to get the waiting over with that characterized a lot of cold war cinema, that'd be fantastic.

anyway, what's got me reeling is how y'all don't seem to have noticed that in 1973, you could not reference russia in any way without it being a political act.

not that it was frowned upon or anything. it didn't have to be hidden in subtext like the homoerotic tension was (and yes, it IS there, and for that era it is surprisingly blatant). but it was political by definition. it was also a major risk in terms of making the film's production cost back; while american censorship didn't work the way communist bloc countries' did, there was definitely economic pressure to support the narrative, you know? american jingoism was a major market force in hollywood. far more than it is today, believe it or not.

making you cry over a man with a name like vasily goncharov was a subversive act on scorsese's part. doing it with a film that had no american characters was revolutionary.

[the-real-seebs]

One of my pet theories was that Vasily Goncharov was the American character. There's some pretty vague spots in his history, and he does sort of dodge away from the question of where he was born, no? Also, he estimated someone's height in feet and inches. No loyal Soviet citizen would have done that in 1973. I sorta think he was first-generation American with strong ties to the motherland. He's Russian, sure. He's very Russian. But lots of people in America are very Russian, or very Italian, or very Chinese, that doesn't make them not also American.

The other interpretation is that Scorsese never actually intended that, but had to put in some coding for it to get the funds to produce the film. "Oh, no, he's American. We don't, like, directly say it, but we put in clues."

McCarthy was still a bit too close to get away with just ignoring the question, I think? But I don't know how much it's a sop to the censors and how much it's actual directorial vision.

edited to add: tumblr stop switching me back to rich text editor challenge 2022

[jumpingjacktrash]

not that i think you're at all on the wrong track, but even if the script used metric originally they would've had to change it to keep from breaking the viewer's immersion. even today a lot of americans will hear "184cm" and not know if that's tall or short, let alone get a good enough mental image from it to know which character he was talking about.

before the internet, american viewers would've had absolutely no idea what it meant, and it would've yeeted them out of the film's pov most rudely!