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There’s a liquor store near my house that seems to be run exclusively by frat boys. They lovingly curate these bags, which I browsed today while “Oops I Did It Again” played through the store speakers. This is art to me, there is beauty everywhere for those with eyes to see it

hornestoothgap

T. Kingfisher - What Stalks the Deep

chemdoodles

Is it flirting??

marcelshorjian

anatomy of a humiliation

innytoes

hellenicpaganism

effinbirds

sirfrogsworth

Hey, here is some new frustrating discourse.

I’m going to clear this up super duper quick.

And then we can move on and discuss more important things.

Okay?

Here goes…

Nicolas Cage is an incredible actor who is very bad with money so he has to act in terrible movies because otherwise they will repossess his dinosaur skull collection.

But even when he is in terrible movies with terrible writing he refuses to phone in his performances. And sometimes when you are acting your ass off while saying some of the dumbest dialogue ever conceived it can give the appearance the acting is the issue rather than the writing and story.

Hayden Christensen knows that feeling all too well.

So next time you see Nic Cage in a B movie acting a fool, just know he probably bought some new shrunken heads and forgot to pay the mortgage on his volcano island.

luimnigh

He literally has a Best Actor Oscar.

rohirric-hunter

Nicholas Cage is a good actor, he just always acts in extremely funny movies

Also when the movie isn’t an embarrassment to everyone involved (except Nicholas Cage, who does not experience embarrassment) I find people often don’t notice Nicholas Cage was involved, so his reputation is unfairly weighted towards the ridiculous

uchidachi

Some people have never seen Leaving Las Vegas and it shows

aqueerkettleofish

The thing about Nicolas Cage is that he is a very specific type of actor. When he’s in a movie that suits his talents, he shines, and often in ways that other actors couldn’t. The National Treasure movies wouldn’t have worked as well with any other lead actor, and Raising Arizona would absolutely have tanked with anyone else in that role. His role in Kick-Ass was… I’m not saying nobody else could have done it, but I’m glad they understood who this role was for. His turn as Dracula was pure gold.

(I have no idea what the fuck happened with Leaving Las Vegas. That wasn’t a Nic Cage role, it shouldn’t have worked, but man earned the Oscar.)

And the thing is, even when he’s playing whackjob roles that require the actor to put their ego in cold storage, he does the work. Every now and then you’ll hear about an actor who absolutely killed it in a role that they totally hated– Sir Alec as the original Obi-Wan, for example– but that’s not what this is. This is a case of just not being too proud. This is the guy who uses a screen name so that he’s not exploiting his uncle’s name in the industry.

And most importantly, even when he’s in a bad movie– it’s fun, because it’s a Nic Cage Movie™.

emi--rose

I walked downstairs yesterday to find nic cage chewing scenery as Dracula and was like yeah this might as well happen

mystery-moose

There are actors who give committed performances, but they’re still visible through the character, like Leo DiCaprio or Joaquin Phoenix. There are actors who try to disappear into a role, like Gary Oldman or Daniel Day-Lewis. And there are actors who give big, hammy performances for roles that sometimes don’t deserve it, like John Travolta or Samuel L. Jackson. There are very few actors who have the range to do all of the above, and Cage is absolutely one of them.

When I say Nic Cage is a great actor, there’s no nuance there, no irony. That dude rules and it’s because when he’s going for it, he is never boring and always earnest.

soracities

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

paper-mario-wiki

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

meltedgarment

I've been looking for such archives, thanks

kibburs-art-thing

Showing respect for my elder animes

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sappho-hoziers-version

At some point, probably:

Hannibal: Dearest Will, if God reached his cruel hand down from the heavens and altered me, shape and form, to something so minuscule, spineless, and inconsequential that death is but a summer’s morning, would your heart still beat in a language only the two of us speak?

Will: …

Will: Yes, Hannibal. I would still love you if you were a worm.

ghostzvne

a few years ago, i made a flowchart for my partner in order to convince them to leave a pathfinder group that was actively making their life worse. today i revised my original chart to convince a friend to leave her d&d group that is actively making her life worse.

here is the chart. i promise its utility is not only with tabletop RPGs but it does have a high hit rate for those