MaMadalena

Back on track

[vibe-stash]

Strictly Ballroom (1992) dir. Baz Luhrmann

[mamadalena]

And this is why i'm addicted to the ugly duck trope

#strictly ballroom

[lluviagf]

COLORFUL SUN CATCHERS

[lesbinewren]

we need to make using chatgpt embarrassing bc sorry it really is. what do you mean you can’t write an email

[lesbinewren]

“ikr i only use it for-“ whatever you use chatgpt for is also embarrassing. you do not need the plagiarism machine that lies and evaporates water for anything actually

[expressions-of-nature]

by Claudio De Sat

[cuxjmber]

[overwelmd]

nia gould

[deadlything-deactivated20250212]

so, so valid of anthony to barely be in this season because he canonically can’t stop fucking his wife long enough to be a functioning member of society

[yvfu]

*examines your pdf folder* have you read them all?

[nathanielbuildsatesseract]

Is a wine cellar meant for storing only empty bottles?

[theoutcastrogue]

"The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others — a very small minority — who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary."

– Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

@wearelibrarian

[davinafray]

do you ever lie awake at 5am and remember that Still Star-Crossed was cancelled because of the ratings that were low because the network didn’t promote the show? because i do

like, it had everything to become popular.

badass WOC as main characters? check

lesbian princess? check

enemies to lovers? check. arranged marriage? check. forced proximity? check.

incredible chemistry between the main couple? check

actually interesting plot? check

incredibly talented cast? check check check

it had EVERYTHING and could potentially have even more, if only the network actually promoted the damn show

[chenfordsbee]

Kanthony’s mini vids through the years

[convenientalias]

Feeling encouraged about responding late to comments today bc someone just responded to a comment I left in 2019 and you know what, I did still have fun reading their response and remembering the fic. I should really reread the fic, for that matter.

[lotusinjadewell]

Illustrations of Vietnamese food. Credit to Le Rin.

[dolorygloria]

Film stills from YENTL (1983)

[catastrofewaitress]

The Way We Were (1973) directed by Sydney Pollack.

[fordarkmornings]

John Reinhard Weguelin (British, 1849-1927)

Gladsome Spring, 1911

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustrations from The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Warwick Goble (1912)

[leekpotatosoup]

Yentl is such a fascinating movie right, because it’s very heterosexual, but very, aggressively, queer at the same time