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Sphinx employee slash bodega cat that blocks the door and asks riddles, the owner has the answer of the day on a paper taped to the door.
it never notices.
please.
equal rights for women will never truly be achieved until we have more female noir detectives
and i don't mean some badass woman who doesn't need a man and can kill someone in 6 inch heels without breaking a sweat or smudging her perfectly set makeup or chipping a nail. she looks like she grew up in a soggy cardboard box on the side of the road all alone. she monologues dramatically to herself while looking over the corruption-riddled city she works in because she has no friends or hobbies and will literally do anything except go to therapy. she gets beat up in alleyways so blood and rain drip sexily from her nose and chin but when she gets to her feet she looks like a sad wet cat. women want her but they also pity her. instead of perfume she smells of coffee, whiskey and cigarettes, which are also more or less all she lives off of. her voice is more gravelly than a pit of rocks as a result of said diet. she hasn't slept or showered in at least 3 days and it's increasingly obvious. she's either divorced or feels like she should be.
this tiktok screenshot ruined my life i need to see the serbian pigeon movie so so badly but it doesn't exist it's so foul to make this bad of a point with something so cool and then take it away from me.
Tiktok marvel fans really will be out here like "movie fan SHOCKED because i'd rather watch superhero movie #54 in blue and not a sensual 1987 french horror film about a man discovering his wife may not exist set in what is gradually revealed to be a space station" as if you're supposed to agree that superhero movie #54 is the clear winner in this comparison
Love the idea of a story about a complex issue that's told from the perspective of something that cannot comprehend or care about the issue. The way the story would be sliced up and moments that a human would consider pointless would be focused on because the pigeon happened to be there would be hype as fuck
Ok FINE I made the movie poster of it
MaliĹĄa, otherwise known as Little One, is a pet pigeon owned by a conservative butler of the Austro-Hungarian aristocracy. She is loved, and she is pamperedâ until her owner is murdered in cold blood, and she is left to fend for herself in Sarajevo.
In the wilds of the city, she feeds from the poor, working nationalist radicals, and the vieux riches alike.
To MaliĹĄa, there are no ethical concerns. No politics. No burgeoning nationalism.
There are only hands that feed her, and hands that do not.
This is compelling. Consider me fucking compelled.
Final shot is the bird hearing, but not seeing, the sound of a .32 ACP pistol, and flying away in shock
"From the studio that brought you Goncharov...."
yeah okay ill reblog that
âthere are only the hands that feed her, and those that do notâ yeah-
i love shipping magazines and i especially love them when they sound like they were written by a mildly aggravated cargo ship
Astronauts are so funny man. Here's just a couple of things I've found hilarious from this past week of space stuff:
It's probably already been spread around here enough already, but in case anyone's missed it; 7 hours after launch, commander Reid Wiseman, dealing with tech issues, uttered the generational quote "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working."
After fixing the issues that were afflicting the onboard toilet, mission specialist Christina Koch (who has quickly become my favourite of the four) laughingly said âIâm the space plumber, Iâm proud to call myself the space plumber.â
On Easter Sunday, the Artemis II crew hosted a makeshift egg hunt, by hiding packets of dehydrated scrambled eggs around their Orion capsule.
The way the crew always makes sure to make it very clear they're in space when doing interviews. From stuff like Wiseman just hanging out floating sideways on screen or Koch letting her hair loose so it can freely span out flowing around her.
While in transit, the crew decided to record a parody of those bad 80s sitcom intros where everyone turns and smiles at the camera.
When the crew reached the furthest point from Earth in the mission, they jokingly clambored over each other in an effort to get to the far side of the capsule, so that they could individually claim to be the furthest person from earth.
At the same time, on the ISS which was at the time on the other side of earth, the 7 astronauts onboard had a light-hearted race to the far side of the station, making jokes about being the furthest humans from Artemis.
On the way back to earth, NASA actually managed to establish an audio call between the crews of the ISS and Artemis II (where they shared the above info), and Koch called one member of the ISS crew, Jessica Meir, her "astro-sister" as the two of them previously spacewalker together in 2019. Meir then responded I'm so happy that we are back in space together, even if we are a few miles apart" (a few here being 230,000).
While Jeremy Hansen was doing an interview, Wiseman and Koch were just in the background swatting the mission mascot (a little moon plush toy named Rise) back and forth between each other.
historically this has been Not Good
âGentleman Jackâ Brings a Quiet Revolution to Ballet
Annabelle Lopez Ochoaâs new ballet, based on the life of one of the first modern lesbians, is changing how dancers view their traditional roles.
by Laura Cappelle - The New York Times, March 2, 2026
One morning last August, the female dancers of Northern Ballet tried something most of them had never done before: partnering each other.
In one of the companyâs studios in Leeds, England, there were giggles and some near falls. Carefully but eagerly, the dancers tried to steady their partners on pointe â in ballet, usually the task of men. By lunchtime Federico Bonelli, the director of Northern Ballet, was demonstrating the correct way to hold out an arm for support â palm up, not too close to the body, at bellybutton level â to women in line for coffee.
âItâs the opposite,â said the dancer Nida Aydinoglu, 20, miming how she usually gives her hand to a male partner, palm down.
âItâs just a new technique,â Bonelli replied with a smile.
Six months later, Aydinoglu and her female colleagues are now flying through closely entangled lifts and turns â and will soon showcase them in a landmark new work that premieres on March 7 at Leeds Grand Theater: âGentleman Jack,â Annabelle Lopez Ochoaâs adaptation of the 2019 television series about Anne Lister, a 19th-century English landowner known as one of the first modern lesbians.
For most of ballet history, heterosexual romance has been the default. Telling Listerâs story is a quiet revolution. Openly queer characters are a rarity in the art formâs repertoire, and allusions to romance between women are always fleeting: a scene in Bronislava Nijinskaâs 1924 ballet âLes Bichesâ; a pas de deux in Roland Petitâs âProustâ half a century later; a kiss in Wayne McGregorâs âWoolf Works,â a 2015 production inspired by Virginia Woolf.
Rachael Gillespie, foreground left, and Gemma Coutts in a rehearsal for âGentleman Jack.â Sophie Stafford for The New York Times
By contrast, Lopez Ochoa offers an intimate, in-depth look at Listerâs relationships with two of her long-term lovers: Mariana Lawton, who has chosen to be married to a man over staying with her, and Ann Walker, a local heiress whom she âmarriesâ in a secret, symbolic ceremony. Both women are described at length in Listerâs diaries, which were partly encrypted to hide her sexuality.
âTo actually have a ballet centered on a queer woman â thatâs a really radical shift,â said Clare Croft, a dance historian and theorist at the University of Michigan, and the dramaturg for âGentleman Jack.â
The idea came to Bonelli, he said, after he was appointed to lead Northern Ballet in 2022. The company of 36 dancers has long specialized in storytelling, and boasts a repertoire of original ballets inspired by literary works and historical figures, like David Nixonâs âWuthering Heightsâ and Cathy Marstonâs âVictoria,â based on Queen Victoria.
Yet Bonelli wanted to diversify the stories ballet often tackles, and âGentleman Jackâ âfelt right in so in so many ways,â he said in February. In Yorkshire, the English region that is home to Northern Ballet, Lister is also a local celebrity: Her estate, Shibden Hall, is about a 20-minute drive from Leeds and open to the public for visits.
When Bonelli pitched the idea to Lopez Ochoa, an in-demand Belgian Colombian choreographer who has created a number of biographical ballets, her answer was a resounding yes. Her interest in gender fluidity had already led her to develop a script with the writer Luke Jennings for a ballet adaptation of âThe Danish Girl,â the 2015 film inspired by the life of the pioneering transgender woman Lili Elbe.
But no ballet company wanted to produce it, Lopez Ochoa said, adding: âThey told us, âWe think our patrons wouldnât want that.ââ
Left, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, the ballet's choreographer. Sophie Stafford for The New York Times
She could relate to Listerâs struggle with gender norms. Lopez Ochoa âwanted to be a boyâ growing up in Belgium, she said, and struggled with balletâs expectations of dainty femininity throughout her training as a dancer. âI wanted to be taken seriously,â she said, âto have a voice.â
In âGentleman Jack,â the women performing Listerâs role have had to undo some of their classical training, too. For most of the ballet, they are in flat shoes rather than the more unstable pointe shoes, to allow them to be more grounded. They also wield canes and have gotten sore arms from lifting their partners, albeit not overhead. âThe more you allow yourself to take space, the better it is,â Lopez Ochoa told them in rehearsal.
To help the dancers, Croft, the dramaturg, showed them video compilations of the commanding walk developed by Suranne Jones, the British actor who played Lister on television. âShe looks like sheâs always on a mission,â said Gemma Coutts, a 24-year-old dancer who is set to dance Lister on opening night. Instead of stretching her feet elegantly, Coutts had to think âheel-toeâ: âIâm not just wafting off the stage,â she said. âIâm going from A to B.â
For Coutts, who said she usually gets ânervous and shy in front of a lot of people,â playing the unapologetic Lister has been confidence boosting. âGemma has come out of her shell,â said her colleague Julie Nunès, who plays Ann Walker.
The women of Northern Ballet have also embraced portraying same-sex romance. âI think they are less prude than I am,â Lopez Ochoa said with a laugh. Coutts said that she was a little anxious at first about kissing a woman, but the feeling went away fast. âFemale or male now, I realized that Iâm just acting,â she said, pointing out that gay men in ballet companies âhave to pretend like theyâre in love with women all the time.â
For âGentleman Jack,â Lopez Ochoa, who is straight, put together a creative team that included several members who identify as queer. Croft, who grew up taking ballet classes and later edited a book on queer dance, was especially elated. âBallet is my first dance love, but the codes of chivalry are so deep in it,â she said. âWhen it shows up in relation to queerness, it tends to focus more on the men.â
Gillespie, center, as Ann Walker, whom Anne Lister âmarriesâ in a secret, symbolic ceremony. Sophie Stafford for The New York Times
Initiatives like #QueerTheBallet, a collective started by Adriana Pierce to bring queer women and nonbinary artists together during the coronavirus pandemic, have improved visibility in recent years. Pierce, a former New York City Ballet dancer who is now a choreographer, said she has gone âfrom being the only person I knew to meeting people every day in the New York dance scene who are young and queer.â
Still, challenging balletâs gender binary through choreography takes the kind of research and time that mainstream ballet rarely provides. âI donât see a lot of larger companies investing in specifically queer voices and stories, or even anything thatâs different,â Pierce said. Queer retellings of ballet stories have come instead from independent artists, like Kade Pyle, who has produced queer versions of classics including âGiselleâ and âThe Sleeping Beautyâ through her company, Ballez.
By contrast, an established company like Northern Ballet, which tours widely around Britain, can bring a story like Listerâs to âa massive audience,â said Croft, who described the âcivic functionâ of the art form: âPeople take pride in their ballet companies.â One worry for Bonelli was that the male dancers of Northern Ballet would have little to do in a production like âGentleman Jack,â with only two soloist roles for them. But Lister âlived in a manâs world,â Lopez Ochoa said, and throughout the ballet, she squares off against businessmen to defend her financial interests, as she did in real life.
The men havenât complained. âPeople are interested that the company is willing to take this direction,â the dancer George Liang said. âAnd having a strong woman challenge me onstage is so much fun.â Aydinoglu, who performs the role of Lister, commented with a laugh: âIâve really enjoyed bossing the men around, Iâm not gonna lie.â
âThe more you allow yourself to take space, the better it is,â Lopez Ochoa told dancers in rehearsal. Sophie Stafford for The New York Times
Northern Ballet hosted an open rehearsal in January to gather feedback from women from Calderdale Friends of Dorothy, a social support group for lesbians, and a handful of younger queer women. They took their role to heart: In the discussion afterward, a sensual pas de deux between Lister and Walker came under criticism because Lopez Ochoa had opted to have two men â embodying genderless âwords,â a reference to Listerâs diaries â carry the women aloft in the scene.
âOne of them said, âYou cannot put men into an intimate moment between two women,ââ Lopez Ochoa recalled. âI let it simmer. Then I thought, I have to fix it.â Now, the women are alone onstage.
The group of queer women who sat in on the rehearsal were âblown away,â said Rachel Lappin, the Anne Lister program coordinator for Calderdale Council, who organized the outing. âOne member commented that it was the best day out sheâd had in decades.â
Support for âGentleman Jackâ has also translated into âincredibly successfulâ fund-raising for Northern Ballet, Bonelli said. Last year, the project, which is co-produced by the Finnish National Ballet, won the Fedora - Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Prize, a prestigious European award that supports the development of innovative stage productions. A crowdfunding campaign that runs alongside the prize ânot only met but surpassed its target,â Edilia Gänz, the director of Fedora, said in an email.
Ahead of the premiere, the dancers of Northern Ballet say the effects of embodying Listerâs bold individuality are already felt. âAs a woman, you often try to blend in, even in real life,â Aydinoglu said. âItâs been really, really different to just be my own person. At the end of the day, you donât need to please everyone.â
And for queer women in dance, âGentleman Jackâ is a special milestone. When asked about it, Croft paused, visibly moved.
âItâs probably telling that Iâm trying to catch myself from tearing up,â she said. âItâs rare you get to do something that you never imagined would happen.â
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this is probably my favorite tiktok of all time and I finally got around to showing it to my dad the other day and now he comes home every day and tells me about all the places he saw crumbling concrete and says "guess they didn't add enough chinchilla flakes"
François Arnaud | Heated Rivalry's François Arnaud Gets Ready for the Saint Laurent Show | Vanity Fair | 01/28/26
canât focus on work. can only think of that one lesbian poem about chivalry
oh god. oh fuck
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