Octember First

Doug. A cubicle in Seattle. I write and make up stuff. Let's be cagey internet acquaintances.

[giffing-su]

[riverselkie-deactivated20190510]

i want to run away…but like in ghibli movie. like i take a block of cheese a loaf of bread and some apples and wander through the flower-specked mountains wrapped up in a shawl and i happen to wander into a moving castle and fall in love with a cute wizard

[samalsoblogs]

me (deep in the woods, dragging dufflebag of Kraft Singles™  and hopelessly lost): where’s totoro

[kontextmaschine]

Today’s news: the people who expected to be running an insurrection by now try to slap together a government at the last minute, while the people who expected to run a government scramble to slap together an insurrection.

[cinemagorgeous]

By artist Ryo Takemasa.

[ladysparklefists]

idk I just love how we Young People Today use ~improper~ punctuation/grammar in actually really defined ways to express tone without having to explicitly state tone like that’s just really fucking cool, like

no    =    “No,” she said. 

no.    =    "No,” she said sharply.

No    =    “No,” she stated firmly.

No.    =    “No,” she snapped.

NO    =    “No!” she shouted.

noooooo    =    “No,” she moaned.

no~    =    “No,” she said with a drawn-out sing-song.

~no~    =    “No,” she drawled sarcastically.

NOOOOO    =    “No!” she screamed dramatically.

no?!    =    “No,” she said incredulously.

[allthingslinguistic]

I’ve been calling this “typographical nuance” and I have a few more to add: 

*no* = “No,” she said emphatically. 

*nopes on out of here* = “No,” she said of herself in the third person, with a touch of humorous emphasis.

~*~noooo~*~ = “No,” she moaned in stylized pseudo-desperation.

#no = “No,” she added as a side comment.

“no” = “No,” she scare-quoted.

wtf are you kidding no = “No,” she said flatly. “And I can’t believe I have to say this.”

no no No No NO NO NO NO = "No,” she repeated over and over again, growing louder and more emphatic. 

nooOOOO = “No,” she said, starting out quietly and turning into a scream.

*no = “Oops, I meant ‘no,’” she corrected, “Sorry for the typo in my previous message.”

[what-eats-owls]

[sizvideos]

Sir Patrick Stewart Loves A Male Kiss

Video

[spookychan]

Sir Patrick Stew going in for the hetro male kiss. This is kinda amazing the fact that it tears down all that macho bullshit and is closer to love and compassion of one’s fellow man. 

[mattfractionblog]

O CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN

[orphyis]

[topaz119]

[withsugarandlime]

Mark Hamill confirmed as excellent cuddler by extremely reliable source. somebody crowdfund my funeral.

[fauxginger]

Stuff Mad Max addresses:

Physical disabilities

PTSD

Objectification

Toxic masculinity

How fucking sick it would look if we had a guy playing a guitar that shoots fire suspended from wires ON A MOVING VEHICLE

[carudamon119]

[expressions-of-nature]

by Ellen Flipse

Routeburn Track, New Zealand

[ramenuzumaki]

1•2•3 | 小渕 {twitter} | Please do not remove the source!

[dpcphotography]

Up

[rinakoverza]

[edigarsaenz]

flow ~Instagram

[thefederalistfreestyle]

What I can tell you is that works of art are the only silver bullet we have against racism and sexism and hatred. Joe Biden happened to see Hamilton on the same day James Burrows was here. James Burrows directed every episode of Will & Grace, and remember when Biden went on Meet the Press and essentially said, “Yeah, gay people should get married”? He very openly credited Will & Grace with changing the temperature on how we discuss gays and lesbians in this country. It was great to see Jim Burrows and Joe Biden talk about that, and Jim thanked Biden and Biden thanked Jim because that was a piece of art changing the temperature of how we talked about a divisive issue. It sounds silly. It’s a sitcom, but that doesn’t make it not true. Art engenders empathy in a way that politics doesn’t, and in a way that nothing else really does. Art creates change in people’s hearts. But it happens slowly.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, ‘Hamilton’s’ Lin-Manuel Miranda on Finding Originality, Racial Politics (and Why Trump Should See His Show) (The Hollywood Reporter)

WORKS OF ART ARE THE ONLY SILVER BULLET WE HAVE AGAINST RACISM AND SEXISM AND HATRED. 

AKA REPRESENTATION MATTERS 

(via runwithskizzers)