redlove

28. Female. Australian Vietnamese. Proud mama.

[freddie-my-love]

“Of all the actors and actresses I’ve ever worked with, the hardest worker is Fred Astaire. He behaved like he was a young man whose whole destiny depended on being successful in his first film.”

— Rouben Mamoulian, who directed Fred Astaire in Silk Stockings, 1957

[sarahtran]

2021 Resolutions

1. Quit half-assing shit. Your work ethic needs improvement. You do the bare minimum to get by; you only do well if someone’s watching. Don’t be lazy like that. You have to care about doing a good job, don’t just go for the appearance of being put-together. If you don’t really care about what you’re doing, figure out why. Follow what you do care about doing, and actually do it well. Get your shit together. For real.

2. Watch more movies, less TV shows. It’s okay to be a fan of TV shows, but you tend to binge-watch them as a coping mechanism. Instead, how about watching those movies you’ve left on your list forever? If you can commit to a nine-season-rewatch of another sitcom, you can commit two to three hours to a movie. If you still want to follow a TV show, try something new, something well-rated, something different. Get quality content back into your life.

3. Enjoy the pain of working out. Learn to enjoy the process, not just the results. It gets less painful the more consistent you are. You don’t need to chase the benefits of working out, of feeling good and looking good - that’s obvious. You need to be willing to sustain the pain of working out, the commitment to waking up a little earlier, to pushing yourself a little harder, to getting sweaty and tired and gross. Chase the pain, learn to love it, and the rewards will come easy.

4. Keep stepping out of your comfort zone. If the past year has taught you anything, it’s that some of the things you were previously afraid of aren’t that scary when taken into perspective. Go to that concert. Go on that hike. Go on that day trip. Say yes to that invitation. Make that invitation. You’re allowed to have new experiences and live your life. When you take that leap of faith, most of the time, you don’t regret it - and even if you do, it’s okay. You’ll survive. You make more memories outside of your comfort zone.

5. Take care of your body. Your teeth need to be cleaned. Your skin needs to be exfoliated. Your eyes need to be rested. Your lips need to be moisturized. Your nails need to be trimmed. Your stomach needs to be fed. Your muscles need to be stretched. You are your own baby, no one’s gonna take care of you for you. Self-care is adulting, and adulting is self-care.

6. Buy shit that you need. You need a new bed frame. You need some apartment decor. You need new clothes, new makeup, a new wallet, new jewelry, a real adult-woman purse. “Managing your money” doesn’t just mean holding onto it forever and not buying yourself anything. You don’t have to wait for Christmas or your birthday. You don’t have to “earn” things. You deserve nice things, and you can’t just let yourself “make do” with what you have if you have the means to make it a little better. You are your own baby, no one’s gonna take care of you for you.

7. Maintain your relationships. You’re a big girl, now. You don’t need permission to spend time with your friends anymore. Growing up, you need to actively keep the people you want in your life or they’ll naturally drift away. Check in on them every once in a while. Keep up with their lives. Say yes to their invitations, make concrete invitations yourself. You’ve learned the ropes of making friends outside of school obligations. There are no excuses left - be a good friend.

8. Be intentional with your technology. Let’s pretend like the past year wasn’t just a crazy episode of Black Mirror. Let’s pretend like your screen-time wasn’t 6+ hours a day on your phone (let alone your iPad or laptop). You know the drill - don’t fixate on your life on the screen. Don’t fixate on the number of screen-time hours, either, because you can’t help it if life demands more and more technology. Just make sure that technology does something for you, that it’s not just another escape from reality. It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

[smilecapsules-deactivated202106]

I grew up around theater and showbiz people, and when you’re brought up in a circus life, it makes you a little off-center.

HAPPY 52nd BIRTHDAY SAM ROCKWELL (November 5, 1968)

[redishlove]

As if this man is 52! Probably looks so young cause he doesn’t have a care in the world.

P.s. If RDJ didn’t land the Iron Man role, Sam would have been a great Tony Stark 😍

[adz]

one time this nondescript guy came into my dunkin donuts and ordered a small black coffee with blueberry flavor shot, and for some reason that peculiar order stuck with me so much that when, seven months later, i saw him in the parking lot walking towards the door, i quickly made a small black coffee with blueberry flavor shot. he ordered it and i was already holding it. 

i would describe his demeanor that second time as “incredulous”

[honeylemony]

What the fuck who drinks that

[adz]

it’s such a perfectly bonkers order because like, most unusual orders are maximalist and sugary but this one just combines the most basic drink with the most incongruous little add-on. it’s the order of a simple, regular man who has something wrong with him

[phage-necro]

this post always makes me laugh. this guy has the weirdest drink order and he probably never goes to this dunkin’ if it took seven months for the barista to see him again. so think about a coffee shop you go to so little you’re not even sure if you’ve gone there before and you walk in and the barista hands you the drink you were about to order before you even ordered it. he will remember that for the rest of his life

[it-is-ineffable]

[snqa303]

GILMORE GIRLS  Luke and Jess: Through the Years

↳ “You’re hoping for reciprocation? You got it. I’m here, Jess. I’m always here.”

[macaknight]

[la-laborista-republiko]

[flavoracle]

I’m not a brave man. I’m not a violent man. But I am a man who knows my strengths, and I’m prepared to use them.

So if I encounter any ICE agents in my neighborhood, I will smile and waive and as soon as they make eye contact I will engage in the most aggressively friendly chitchat ever witnessed on my block.

I will ramble on and on about whatever pops into my head. I will ask them about their day, their hobbies, their home life, and their personal backstory until I find a common area of interest, and then I will crank my smalltalk game UP TO ELEVEN.

I will force them to look awkwardly at their wristwatch DOZENS of times without taking the hint. I will ask seemingly simple questions that do not have ANY simple answers. I will pretend to wrap up the conversation with, “Anyway…” and then segue DIRECTLY into another topic.

Because every minute an ICE agent wastes chatting with me is a minute that they’re not targeting my neighbors and disrupting their lives.

I’m no superhero, but I do have a super power, and I’ll use it to fight oppression in any way I can.

[outerspace-froggy-deactivated20]

Love you, Dave

[sunflower-key]

@flavoracle I’m not a brave man, and I suck at small talk, but I would say I can be violent, what should I do? Because I’m not brave enough to act out but I wanna help

[flavoracle]

I mean, I’m not gonna ask anybody to engage in violence, but if you’re looking for something to do, what about this? 

Get a copy of the song, Cotton Eye Joe. Carry around a big, loud speaker. If you ever see ICE show up in your neighborhood, start playing it at full blast. 

Best case scenario? You can motion for them to come over your way and challenge them to a dance off. (Probably not likely, but it never hurts to dream.) 

Worst case scenario? They think you’re weird and like Cotton Eye Joe. 

Likely scenario? If you’ve let your neighbors know ahead of time that hearing Cotton Eye Joe means ICE is in the neighborhood, it may give them the head start they need to avoid harassment. 

Now you might be thinking that picking Cotton Eye Joe is a really random choice, but consider the following reasoning: 

The song has a very loud, clear, and distinctive opening, so it gets the message across right away without spending time on any kind of intro 

The song was once popular enough that people can easily recognize it 

While the song is catchy, it’s not very likely to be anyone’s favorite, so you don’t have to worry about ruining it for them 

The opening line ‘Fit’adn’t is nonsensical enough to be used as a secret tipoff if you’re unsure who’s listening 

It’s upbeat enough that it likely won’t get on your nerves too fast 

When played really loud, it becomes nearly impossible to talk over 

Would this actually work? Honestly, I have no idea. I’m no expert in active resistance. But I figure it’s worth putting out there. And who knows, maybe it could catch on. 

Stay safe everybody. 

‘Fit’adn’t 

[ultimatebottom69]

A hero

[andthwip-deactivated20220219]

In case you needed it, here is Sebastian Stan validating writing fanfiction.

[rainbowstickersandunicorn]

total makeover in less than 5 minutes

bonus 🤣

[lorelaigilmo]

Gilmore Girls 20th Anniversary Week ∟Day 6: Favorite relationship - Lorelai Gilmore and Luke Danes 

[freddie-mercurys]

[msjosephinemarch]

❤ Boys from The Bay ❤

[firemoon42]

Ways to un-stick a stuck story

Do an outline, whatever way works best. Get yourself out of the word soup and know where the story is headed.

Conflicts and obstacles. Hurt the protagonist, put things in their way, this keeps the story interesting. An easy journey makes the story boring and boring is hard to write.

Change the POV. Sometimes all it takes to untangle a knotted story is to look at it through different eyes, be it through the sidekick, the antagonist, a minor character, whatever.

Know the characters. You can’t write a story if the characters are strangers to you. Know their likes, dislikes, fears, and most importantly, their motivation. This makes the path clearer.

Fill in holes. Writing doesn’t have to be linear; you can always go back and fill in plotholes, and add content and context.

Have flashbacks, hallucinations, dream sequences or foreshadowing events. These stir the story up, deviations from the expected course add a feeling of urgency and uncertainty to the narrative.

Introduce a new mystery. If there’s something that just doesn’t add up, a big question mark, the story becomes more compelling. Beware: this can also cause you to sink further into the mire.

Take something from your protagonist. A weapon, asset, ally or loved one. Force him to operate without it, it can reinvigorate a stale story.

Twists and betrayal. Maybe someone isn’t who they say they are or the protagonist is betrayed by someone he thought he could trust. This can shake the story up and get it rolling again.

Secrets. If someone has a deep, dark secret that they’re forced to lie about, it’s a good way to stir up some fresh conflict. New lies to cover up the old ones, the secret being revealed, and all the resulting chaos.

Kill someone. Make a character death that is productive to the plot, but not “just because”. If done well, it affects all the characters, stirs up the story and gets it moving.

Ill-advised character actions. Tension is created when a character we love does something we hate. Identify the thing the readers don’t want to happen, then engineer it so it happens worse than they imagined.

Create cliff-hangers. Keep the readers’ attention by putting the characters into new problems and make them wait for you to write your way out of it. This challenge can really bring out your creativity.

Raise the stakes. Make the consequences of failure worse, make the journey harder. Suddenly the protagonist’s goal is more than he expected, or he has to make an important choice.

Make the hero active. You can’t always wait for external influences on the characters, sometimes you have to make the hero take actions himself. Not necessarily to be successful, but active and complicit in the narrative.

Different threat levels. Make the conflicts on a physical level (“I’m about to be killed by a demon”), an emotional level (“But that demon was my true love”) and a philosophical level (“If I’m forced to kill my true love before they kill me, how can love ever succeed in the face of evil?”).

Figure out an ending. If you know where the story is going to end, it helps get the ball rolling towards that end, even if it’s not the same ending that you actually end up writing.

What if? What if the hero kills the antagonist now, gets captured, or goes insane? When your write down different questions like these, the answer to how to continue the story will present itself.

Start fresh or skip ahead. Delete the last five thousand words and try again. It’s terrifying at first, but frees you up for a fresh start to find a proper path. Or you can skip the part that’s putting you on edge – forget about that fidgety crap, you can do it later – and write the next scene. Whatever was in-between will come with time.

[kyttwrites]

Bloody brilliant advice.

[forchrisevans]

Chris Evans | Behind the scenes of Snowpiercer

“His action, his physical stuff is just amazing. He’s like an action machine. The stunt coordinator was shocked because his timing and precision was just unbeatable.“   - Dir. Bong Joon-Ho on Chis Evans in Snowpiercer -

[redishlove]

If yall haven’t seen Snowpiercer, watch it. Not just for Chris Evans.

[tastefullyoffensive]

[officialdamonalbarn]

where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop

[officialdamonalbarn]

THANK YOU

[hickeywiththegoodhair]

somebody please explain

[dykemisspiggy]

Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.

[iwilltrytobereasonable]

…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle

[caecilius-est-pater]

There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.

[crtter]

In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:

It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.

[midnightvoyager]

honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here

You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!

jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!

HANS OH MY GOD

anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit

[queen-sammie]

No, I think you’re missing the real deal here

[anais-ninja-bitch]

as an art historian, i think this is the best post on tumblr

[marvellegends]

Black Panther (2018) dir. Ryan Coogler