flames. on the side of my face

[outermire-deactivated20230210]

the perfect gif combo

[horsesarecreatures]

Irish Cob Foals

[shotofchinaco]

Brian McFadden: Is Google Cooked? (via Daily Kos)

[grimeclown]

diva down

[qadmonster]

[kudeita]

corridors

[notbecauseofvictories]

actually, the central romance of Music Man makes more sense if Harold Hill is wildly desirable, floats from town to town selling the Brooklyn Bridge on the strength of his charisma and how much everyone wants to fuck him.

mostly because that means when he shows up in river city and hears that Marian the Librarian seduced a secure and permanent position out of the elderly town miser, he would think: ah, another creature like me.

(not that “sadder and wiser girl” isn’t a phenomenal song on its own, but it takes on a different tenor if it’s game recognizing game rather than HH just refusing to go after nice, church-going girls.)

plus, leaning into that characterization would mean that marian is sadder and wiser, did in fact befriend (or seduce) specifically to have access to books and then later, to keep accessing them; she’s a con man too, just on a lesser scale due to lack of opportunity.

romance between two people who think of sex as largely a way of getting what you want, except that one of them likes to read, and the other can play the piano by ear.

[notbecauseofvictories]

also….who are we kidding when it comes to her ‘‘little brother’‘ Winthrop.

[notbecauseofvictories]

#let’s all be honest: marian and her mother left to “help out a cousin in Chicago” and then came back with a baby     #marian only ever referred to this baby as her brother. mrs. paroo only ever called him her son.     #but if you were the family doctor. or maybe someone who knows a little bit about gestational math and menopausal women.     #you might have some follow up questions.     #anyway stay tuned for other hot takes about this american musical from the 1960s.  

[notbecauseofvictories]

“What’s the other thing I’m entitled to know?”

[Harold Hill gazes meaningfully at Marian, then looks back to Winthrop]

“Well, the other thing’s none of your business, come to think of it.”

[greelin]

i’ve been thinking about this and desperately searching for it for months

[gahdamnpunk]

This is art! 😍

Link to the thread so you can take a closer look at the photos

[1000-life-hacks]

[lookalivealivealive]

[barnsburntdownnow]

Wall Creeper Rajesh Mahajan, 2022 Parwanoo, Himachal Pradesh

[campesine]

[parakeet]

[firebreathingkoifish]

This is such a cute craft idea, I had to make one out of Honey's molted floofs!

[vintage-bentley]

Source: @/horriblemeanbadwoman on Instagram

[quakerjoe]

[kittyit]

link / archive

[marbleguard]

I’m going to say something that might sound crazy. Suicide and suicide attempts are sort of a societal alarm bell that says “something is very wrong with the environment this individual was in.” A living being choosing to take themselves out of existence is the most extreme act of distress there is. The state stepping in to silence this alarm bell by funneling suicidal people into a state sanctioned euthanasia program, normalizing this act through a socially accepted bureaucratic system, is not a good thing. It goes hand in hand with the state’s interest in maintaining the status quo at the expense of the population and the psychiatric industry’s interest in individualizing societal problems to extract profit and aid the existing system. It’s saying “there are no complaints here, just people with sick brains, carry on.”

[kittyit]

it does not sound crazy

[women-loving-art]

Mary Oliver, from Have You Ever Tried To Enter The Long Black Branches