You know, there’s only two things more beautiful than a good gun: a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere. You ever had a good Swiss watch? —Red River, 1948.

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You know, there’s only two things more beautiful than a good gun: a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere. You ever had a good Swiss watch? —Red River, 1948.
Rupert Giles + 🔥 🔥 🔥 [requested by Anonymous]
In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.
Taylor Swift does this
no she doesn’t
You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.
#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic
i went to queer history and signaling and i didnt see taylor swift
New type of guy just dropped.
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we got a full redbox and now we're playing go fish with the redbox movies
I would never pay money for a redbox. if you ask politely and are very very persistent (i.e. annoying) they will let you take it away
here's my dad and i taking it away
a redbox makes a wonderful addition to your patio
for those wondering why they're free to take now, it's because the company that made those "chicken soup for the soul" books bought them a few years ago and then completely collapsed so bad they couldn't afford to dispose of or even take the blu rays and dvds out of their kiosks all over.
so any of them is free game because they're all located on other business' property and they usually don't want to have to pay to get rid of them either. so asking the store manager usually gets you the ok to pull it out and keep it.
there was a period of time right after their bankruptcy where you could put in any debit or credit card and it would spit out movies without charging you. you could even put in like an expired or deactivated card, or a visa gift card with a $0 balance, didnt matter, they'd just start spitting discs out. a lotta people raided redboxes for movies for a couple months, with some people doing what me and my brother and my dad did here, taking the whole box and signs and marquees as well. because managers sure as hell don't want a big abandoned piece of trash on their sidewalk disappointing customers. BUT they're also often too cheap to pay someone to remove it. so they just sit there.
luckily there are no shortage of freaks like us who will just take them away on our own volition. we did it all "by the book", too: we set up cones and caution tape, disconnected electricity properly, used an angle grinder to grind down the bolts in the concrete so nobody would trip on them, then cleaned everything up afterward and sealed off the electrical panel so the store would know everything is safe and tidy. though they were hesitant when we were first contacting them, they were honestly very relieved and grateful when we finally took it away, especially once they saw that we "knew what we were doing" (we don't) and look like we've "done this before" (we haven't).
the fun part: the reason why this redbox, in particular, was completely full and unraided is because the computer hardware inside had failed some months before the bankruptcy, and a failing company sure as hell wasn't gonna send a tech out to our podunk dipshit city to fix it, so it was impossible to rent movies or take any discs out. plus, for who knows how long, people were returning old redbox discs to this machine and not taking any out, leading to a much higher variety of movies than your average redbox.
there is a thriving community of redbox hackers and modders out there, as well, creating open-source software for repurposing the machines and not letting their very interesting and robust disc-management hardware go to waste. this one belongs to my brother (who was very annoying persistent and did all the legwork of contacting managers and securing permission) who is a programmer by trade and will be hacking it into a family-access movie library, with whatever discs we want. i mean the machine is completely weatherproof and has a built-in AC unit, it would be such a waste to not try to turn it into something cool.
if we get another one, i'm gonna try to mod it into some sort of art or zine vending machine. the disc boxes are just the right size for small print art or stickers. would make a great "little free library" too.
remember: the rules are made up. act like you belong there and you can get away with anything. this applies to your own life
Contender to be one of the best anecdote ever said
amazing
needed this on my blog
I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve seen this, but I still have earworms from this pop up in my head at least once a month.
I was wondering if you had seen the Doctor Who Columbo post! (I thought about tagging you, but then I. forgot.) FYI I'm choosing to treat all your casting polls like Doctor Who regenerations, all of the actors played the role and some eras are just more beloved than others.
thank you <3
who could have played Doctor Who if given the chance
Thelma Carpenter
Myrna Loy
Isuzu Yamada
Dev Anand
Lillian Randolph
Machiko Kyō
Lupe Carriles
Jack Soo
William Marshall
John Carradine
Cab Calloway
Gloria Swanson
Check this out: there maybe wasn't a worse A-list cast for Odysseus alive and working than Matt Damon. There is absolutely no aspect of guile. Of reckless self creation. Of wild creative force. Of microdosing getting high on your own supply. The man can't even effectively lie to himself, much less to others?
To me the allure of Odysseus, and one of his great unique powers, is his ability to make EVERYONE feel like he's their friend. He can land on any shore, speak to any king, and to a man they'll come away feeling like: Odysseus understands. "You can talk to me (=you can listen to me)." THAT'S what true persuasive power looks like. It's Odysseus they send to negotiate with Achilles, sullen in his tent, and Achilles makes a special point of saying "fuck all of them and I hope they die, but know I have nothing against you, buddy." In a real way that I'm sure people have written papers about, it's arguable that Gatsby is one of the closest literary successors to Odysseus, in no small part bc he sits on a throne of lies, but you kind of love him for it—you even love the lies—bc of the way HE can uniquely make YOU feel. That's the only reason a character like this can survive & thrive the way he does. You have to fill in the blanks. This is Odysseus's great power to ME:
He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.
This is, by definition, the polar opposite of Matt Damon's entire self-created public persona, bc Matt Damon is defined by his smarminess. He somehow manages to feel "ivory tower" without even being in the ivory tower. He attempts to isolate you with his unique accrued wisdom as an Actor who is so very and unusually thoughtful, and it's especially painful to actual knowers bc they know there's nothing THERE. There's just nothing to him imho. Matt Damon has never once said something that made me feel he Understands a goddamn thing, in any general or specific sense—much less that he understands ME. I swear to god his best role of all time, in terms of his character's personality aligning with my impression of his true self, was fucking LaBoeuf in True Grit. It's some kind of miserable irony that he's probably jorking it every night to being cast as Odysseus—ah yes, my actorly Wisdom has earned me this—when the true Odysseuses are lovably chewing up the scenery in Galaxy Quest. And yeah, I'll name names. Sam Rockwell could have been a great Odysseus. Gary Oldman could have been a great Odysseus. He's exceptionally hard to cast, but not impossible.
tldr: Imagine willingly turning off your TV and self-selected streaming services (=bards) and asking Matt Damon to recount his life's story for you in over a period of multiple days in your living room (=court); imagine what the lived experience of THAT would feel like. Now imagine asking Sam Rockwell to do the same.
Anyways, that's all just my incredibly informed and correct Opinion. It's the discourse around this blighted ass movie that I'm going to have to self entomb like a frog or beetle in cool insensate mud to avoid. God, on reddit it's already begun. The trolls and bots eat hearty. Chris Nolan. easy pete you son of a bitch there isn't a sign on this earth that could deliver you from my fury
How Interview with the Vampire changes its tune with The Vampire Lestat
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William Etty's Male Nude, with Arms Up-Stretched (1828) revamped by Astra Zero
I didn't notice that note 'revamped by astra zero' until a friend pointed it out. so, here's the original painting by william etty:
and here's the website of astra zero, the artist who did that incredible painting based on this one
oh I’m sure
fuck, marry, kill: the wound that won’t heal, the past you can’t undo, the ghost that keeps returning
FMK - In order
The wound, the past, the ghost
The past, the ghost, the wound
The ghost, the wound, the past
The wound, the ghost, the past
The past, the wound, the ghost
The ghost, the past, the wound
Variation I forgor/bald/vanilla extract/results
[Video of venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough standing amid vegetation. On a near-horizontal branch above his head is a brown and yellow greater bird of paradise, about the size of a crow, with big floaty yellow plumage puffing out along its back.]
Bird: Pwuk. Pwuk. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: This, surely – Bird (hopping along the branch): WUKWUKWUkwukwukwukoooh. Oooh. Oooh.
[Cut. Same shot.]
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: This, surely, is one – Bird: Kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark kark. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: This, surely –
[Cut. Same shot but the bird is on the other side now and venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough has his hand on the branch.]
Bird (hopping up and down on venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough’s fingers): Eh-eh. Eh-eh. Eh-urrrr. Eh-urrrr. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: Close up – Bird (hopping away from him): Tiktiktiktik. Tiktiktiktik. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – the plumes – Bird (hopping around): Huek. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – are truly – Bird: Huek. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – exquisite. Bird: Huek. Eh-eh. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: The gauzy – Bird (hopping and spinning on the spot): HukWUKWUKWukwukoooh. Oooh. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: …
[Cut. Same shot but the bird is back on the original side of the branch.]
Bird: Aark. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: Of course, by the eighteenth century – Bird: Ehhh. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – naturalists realized that birds of paradise – Bird (hops across to the other side of the branch) Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – did have – Bird (hopping back again): Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – legs. Even so – Bird: WUKWUKWUKWukwukwukooh.
[Cut. Same shot.] Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough (apparently trying to tickle the bird’s tummy): – by about the eighteenth century – Bird (hops away and spins round) Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – and so – Bird: AAAAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK AAAK aaak. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough (wearily): … Very well.
[Cut. Same shot.]
Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – but Karl Linnaeus, the great – Bird (vibrating rapidly on the spot and then flapping its wings): PWAAAAAAAK. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – classifier of the natural world – Bird: AAAAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAAUUUH AAUUH. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – when he came to allocate a scientific name – Bird: … Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – to this bird – Bird: … Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – called it – Bird: Wooo-ooo. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – wooo-ooo – Bird (surveys the surroundings with a dignified turn of the head) Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: ‘paradisia apoda’: the bird of paradise – Bird: Hoooo. Venerable TV naturalist David Attenborough: – without legs. Bird: Eh-eh.
[Close-up of the bird.]
Bird: WUKWUKWUKWUkwukwukwukwukoooh. Ooh. Bird: Ooh.
[Fade to black.]
first time staying the night
There was a part of him that enjoyed Duncan's reaction.
The night before had been a strange and unsettling if wholly satisfactory affair, Duncan's sure hands on him, in him, chuckling darkly at the sounds he coaxed from Baelor's throat. He had lain quiet and slightly shaken in Duncan's arms afterward, listening to the murmured nonsense and praise that threatened to wind him up all over again, and wondered anew at what on earth had made Duncan Pennytree find him so attractive.
So he had not precisely sought to turn Duncan's face bright red when he'd emerged from the shower, after having taken careful inventory of his aches and bruises — fewer than he'd expected, given the givens, but one or two that might prove awkward unless he wore a high collar for the next few days. Fortunately, London's summer rarely made it past a churlish sort of spring, and he was already thinking of pairing his black turtleneck with a pair of grey slacks and perhaps the pair of Barker Alderney he'd been putting off breaking in for the past month.
Duncan's expression — and the flush that began at the top of his head to spread down his neck and chest — soon drove all thoughts of his wardrobe from his head. "Really?" he asked, more intrigued than flattered, even as Duncan reached out and hooked his fingers into the ersatz waistband of the towel that circled his waist.
"You didn't think I liked you for your personality, did you?" Duncan laughed, tipping back to lie on the bed, bringing Baelor crashing down upon him.
IT'S LOVE I'M AFTER 1937, dir. Archie L. Mayo
tagging @hotvintagepoll for many reasons
#olivia is all of us moving from hot guys to scrungly guys
i genuinely thought you were tagging me in this because of patric knowles' flop acting in the background <3 that's MY actor who's only ever been good in 1 thing