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09/04/2026 • every time @softinvasions writes a villanelle about how sonnets suck i write another suckful sonnet*. metrical malpractice!

*sonnets do not even have to have 14 lines if you are pure of heart and sonnetpilled enough

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Lèvres de sang / Lips of Blood Jean Rollin. 1975

Ruins Château Gaillard, 27700 Les Andelys, France See in map

See in imdb

Bonus: also in this location

[aheathenconceivably]

thinking about when i mentioned tom and jerry by title alone to my 65 year old father and his only response was to laugh REALLY hard and say "him and that fucking mouse.." while staring into the distance. and then the conversation was over

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Smurf Bible Scenes IV (2007)

"I put this up before but it disappeared, it is Gargamel from the smurfs tempting the band Audioslave in the desert with a crate of magic pineapples. It is not clear whether they will accept or not."

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[kino-ani]

Jean Harlow as Vantine Red Dust (1932) Dir. Victor Fleming

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some favorites from Carrie M. Becker's miniature diorama work

[praguegirl]

they just don’t do any classic homophobic children moments like this anymore 

[coughloop]

There was really no winning that one

[hollisbrownthornton]

VHS — permanent marker on paper, 23 × 30 inches, 2010

Website — Instagram

[davidhudson]

Happy 56th, Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Poster for Memoria (2021) by Tawan Wattuya.

[davidhudson]

Happy 70th, Tony Kushner.

1992 photo by Ken Schles.

[nobrashfestivity]

Ida Applebroog Mother mother I am ill 1993

[donnabrutta]

The founders of Jane, an underground network in Chicago, US that assisted people in getting abortions. From the left moving right: Martha Scott, Jeanne Galatzer-Levy, Abby Parisers, Sheila Smith and Madeline Schwenk.

Martha Scott was 19 in 1965, when her friend's sister became pregnant and Scott helped her find a doctor to perform an abortion. The group connected individuals seeking abortions with doctors, and later, performed abortions themselves. Their clients were informed they were not doctors, but doing abortions themselves allowed them to keep costs low. They made people aware of the services through signs with slogans like "'Pregnant? Don't Want to Be? Call Jane." The group operated for seven years and performed an estimated 11,000 abortions; no deaths were ever reported.

Quote from Scott: "You're messing around inside somebody else's body. It's not necessarily given that you won't do harm. It wasn't perfect, by any means. But we were dealing with women who really didn't have other options."

Quote from Galatzer-Levy: "I hadn't had so much as a speeding ticket [when I joined]. But abortion really was the front line, it was where women were dying."

In 1972, two women reported Jane because their sister was seeking an abortion, and the women believed it was murder. All seven founders were arrested. Six months later, Roe v. Wade was decided and the charges were dropped. Read more here (link).

[womansfilm]

Lold out loud he’s real asf for this

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Robert Mitchum giving his biographer a joint in his 1971 biography

[ryanhamiltonwalsh]

Today, Richie Unterberger's remarkable, comprehensive, narrative history of the Velvet Underground hits bookstores. Here's the blurb I wrote for it:

"The legend has been told in scraps and patchwork for decades but now, finally, the story of the Velvet Underground is delivered to us in a way that feels very much complete. Unterberger's story treats the band with reverence without ever fawning and considers the legends alongside the facts with great expertise. It's a highly entertaining, informative creation worthy of one of the greatest bands of all time." — Ryan H. Walsh, author of Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968

In addition to this being a great book, it also begins to reveal a secret I've had to keep for many years. Here's the relevant sections from the acknowledgement section and the text of the book itself:

What if I told you, that during the pandemic, Phil Milstein, founder of the Velvet Underground Appreciation Society, reached out to me to see if I wanted to work with him on a VU mystery he had stumbled upon, and that this led to the discovery of an unheard Velvet Underground recording, and, most astonishing of all, a "new" VU song no has ever heard before that is pretty darn fantastic? Phil and I were calling it "I Don't Really Care About You." Richie's going with "I Don't Much Care for the Things That You Do."

Phil and I shepherded the recording along to a party that aims to get it officially released. I still have high hopes that's going to happen sooner than later. But that's all I can say about it for now.

I cannot wait for people to hear this tape and to tell the story of our little adventure to hear it, catalog it, and try to track down additional details about what it is and when it happened. Stay tuned.

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Robert Crookall - Out-Of-The-Body Experiences: A Fourth Analysis - Citadel Press - 1977