[motherlennon]

The Beatles return from Paris (February 5, 1964)

[psikonauti]

Marion Stephan (German,b.1968)

Der Fuchs ist zurück (The fox is back), 2010

Oil on canvas

[undying-love]

Alec Baldwin clarifies his comment

"I wanted to post a little quick thing about... I was commenting about McCartney and Lennon and the beauty of their relationships and with "these guys were obviously in love", I meant creatively, as dear friends they went through this remarkable period together. I would never in a million light years expand any observation about other people's private life. I would never do that. But of course, this...Daily Beast, TMZ, all that tabloid garbage... And I would never suggest anything beyond that. I love their work, and I was making a comment about their friendship and their collaboration, creatively and as friends. So this idea that I'm gonna...make a remark about their private lives and the details of that is absurd. I would never do that. No matter what information I had [chuckles]...about anybody. Never. It's not something I would do." (You can watch the full video on his TikTok account. The rest of it it's just him ranting about the tabloids)

[blasteffect]

The clearest image of Venus ever taken !

by Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft

[bunniope]

not my labyrinth not my minotaur

[endlace]

shrimp colors this shrimp colors that, nobody ever appreciates BIRD colors

[endlace]

birds have one more cone than us that is UV sensitive, and drab or monocolor birds have hidden colors and patterns we can't see

[endlace]

lots of birds straight up glow under UV

[square-r00t]

[artylla]

we will never be apart

if i'm part of you

[robomartyr]

This is the funniest thing I have ever seen. If I were a professor I would pin this to my office door.

[zanabism-deactivated20200529]

LMAO

[nitewrighter]

There were like 30 seconds where I was like, “Ah the joke is that Orcas are technically the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family–this is a joke about the whale making false claims about its whale heritage on an admissions form, hence why its lawyer is also a dolphin.” And then I realized, “Oh. KILLER whale.”

[wizardarchetypes]

one time when I was a barista I was telling my coworker that I suddenly really missed cows. I used to work with cows all the time back home and then I moved away and suddenly it had been four years and nary a cow.

15 minutes later this old guy came up to the counter with his address written on a napkin & he said “me and my wife have a whole herd of dexters and a couple of new calves. come on over any time”

so after work I was like ok fuck it & I drove to the address and I parked at at the gate & I walked down the driveway to the barn and this woman was like “oh my husband told me you might stop by! come see our cows” and she introduced me to every single cow. made my whole week.

thank you cow couple

[matmiraculous]

I would cry

[delladilly-deactivated20161011]

do you ever see someone in some quiet intimate moment and suddenly love them so desperately you feel like you’re dying

#like when they pass a mirror and make a face and mess with their hair a little #or when you hear someone singing in their car with the windows rolled up as they drive past you #i don’t know how to express this i just. people are people and it makes me so sad and filled up sometimes

[mrrrl]

I love seeing grown humans setting about little creative tasks out of boredom and then looking quietly pleased with themselves, like maybe a middle-aged woman on her train home from work manages to make a tower out of empty coffee creamers and gazes at it proudly for a few seconds.

I love seeing other people make the overblown OOPS I FORGOT SOMETHING performance for no-one that most of us do when we have to turn around in the middle of the pavement.

I love seeing stony-faced people in queues unable to contain a smile when a baby looking over its mother’s shoulder in front of them locks eyes and does that astonished stare.

[brittascribbles]

- when someone is standing in line and they don’t quite dance to the music playing, but you can SEE their head bop and them mouthing the words

- when someone thinks no one’s paying attention and they sing-talk themselves thru a task

- when they laugh or try to hide a laugh when looking at their phone

[elodieunderglass]

- when someone does the thing where they enter another space (such as a supermarket aisle) striding with total purpose, then suddenly forget what they’re doing/looking for, and stop there looking blank for a millisecond while they reboot. 

- when people are looking for scissors, in their home or in a store, and they make the scissors gesture with their non-dominant hand as an aid to remind them what they’re doing.

- when automatic social interactions glitch, like when you tell a waiter that you hope he enjoys his food too, or tell the stranger on the phone that you love them. 

- the hand gesture people make when they’re thinking at their computer, not typing, and their elbow rests on the table, and they feel the edge of their fingernail with their thumb. This is such a lovely little gesture and to my knowledge I have never seen it in fiction. You’d think it would come up all the time in fic.

- when you’re sharing an experience with a complete stranger (like watching a seagull throw up in public, or waiting for a late train) and you make eye contact, and some comment to each other, and then you guys are, like, ALLIES now. Like you would willingly ride to war to save them. You can’t make eye contact again, but you are very aware of them. 

- just evidence of other people’s rich, baffling and complex inner lives.

[liquidlightning]

i love watching couples or friends walking in tandem. i love seeing when they make each other laugh

[wholesomepostarchive]

12/23/2024

[bonivers]

[thefab4archive]

Paul McCartney in his last live performance with the '61 Hofner before it was stolen and his first live performance after recovering it.

[gardenwalrus]

Linda and Paul McCartney photographed by Humphrey Ocean, May 1976

[m4ge-deactivated20210331]

a quick step by step guide on what to do if you come back to your apartment and find yourself locked out because your front door is frozen shut

kick the bottom of the door for 10 minutes

text your landlord

remember your landlord is on vacation and also in her mid 50′s so it takes about 36 hours to receive a response

briefly wonder why the fuck you moved the canada

remember that college tuition is significantly cheaper here than in the united states 

look up and notice your cat is at the window, staring at you. he paws at the window lightly and meows. it’s devastating. his eyes are so big and imploring. decide that you have to get inside your apartment at all costs. not even god himself can stop you from feeding your cat his chicken wet food dinner. frida kahlo herself could descend from the heavens and ask “hey you wanna bang?” and you’d say “hell yeah but first let me open this door so i can feed my cat his dinner”

remember there is a starbucks 3 blocks down the street from you

enter. the barista gives you a weird look for entering a starbucks at 7pm on a tuesday

order a venti cup of hot water. you order in french because the barista just said “bonjour” instead of “bonjour, hi.” you have a strong american accent. you hit the r in merci a little too hard to compensate. you embarrass yourself.

exit the starbucks clutching the massive cup of hot water in your hands. it’s burning your fingers.

return. methodically pour the starbucks cup of water all over the the door frame. it begins moving a little but still wont open

back up

ensure your doc martens are properly gripping the sheet of ice covering the ground. many people have told you to stop wearing doc martens in the winter, despite your protests that theyre actually the ideal winter boot. also, you’re a lesbian and punk’s not dead

release a pterodactyl screech and sprint towards the door, slamming the full force of your pathetically tiny 5′2″ 110lb body into it

you dont know any of your neighbors so you dont care about maintaining your pride anyways

the door swings open

run up the stairs

open the actual door to your apartment and yell MOMMY’S HOME MY LITTLE BITCHASS BABY BOY DONT WORRY at your cat

cat flings his body to the ground and starts purring like he does every time you come home

write tumblr post

[homoslovenc]

this has a better plot than 90% of action movies

[herheadinfilmspodcast]

James Baldwin: From Another Place (Sedat Pakay, 1973)

A short but intimate film of James Baldwin in Istanbul.

Istanbul offered Baldwin a refuge during the tumultuous decade of the 1960s. In a 1970 conversation with Ida Lewis for Essence mag­azine, Baldwin said of his decision to move to the city, “It was very useful for me to go to a place like Istanbul at that point in my life, because it was so far out of the way from what I called home and the pressures.” As the scholar Magdalena Zaborowska shows in her book James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile, which is the essential text about Baldwin’s Turkish sojourn, Baldwin was a pioneer of intersectional thinking and aesthetics, and his survival during the height of the civil rights era depended upon becoming a transatlantic or supranational writer living in transit among differ­ent cultures and languages. Baldwin had first left the United States, for Paris, in 1948, and had lived out of the United States for years prior to his arrival in Istanbul. But the clarity and safety afforded by his time there allowed him to more sharply articulate America’s assaultive realities and to give expression to the connections between his personal wounds and the scars of racialized political history. –Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, "James Baldwin in Turkey" (The Yale Review)

[modernmanblues]

no one ever:

Neil Young: i’d like to speak to your manager about this bootleg record. i’m Neil Young and i’m stealing this record bc there are songs on it that have not been released to the public so i’m taking it. go ahead call the cops on me. what of it?

[meadow-dusk]

The best part of this

And later

[grahamnashofficials]

[aptronyms]

stop… making… her… a… MOM FIGURE !!! *my psychic powers throw everything across the room*

[aptronyms]

everyone who has said "yeah! she's not a mom figure, she's an OLDER SISTER FIGURE!" on this post owes me $200. WHY DOES SHE HAVE TO BE ANY OF THESE STUPID FAMILIAL FIGURES!! WHY CAN'T SHE JUST BE FRIENDS WITH HER FRIENDS!!!