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[lostinurbanism]

Ghana (1970)

Photograph by Owen Franken 

[wetheurban]

You've got to be more afraid of abandoning yourself than disappointing other people.

[ormundshightower]

[eloiscbridgerton]

VERMITHOR & SILVERWING HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 3.06 – Faceless Men

[achillesinhighheels]

makeup by hely doan

[soundcarvings]

when you say you’re searching for your life’s purpose what you actually mean is you are searching for a box, an identity, a way to compress yourself so that you are more digestible for yourself and others. You don’t have a life purpose, you have identities and roles, you have a desperate desire to relate.

[sleepythug]

learning that benicio del toro's character subplot in one battle after another wasn't originally in the script as it exists in the movie, and was built in after conversations benicio had with pta. him (benicio) coming in later in production firing off ideas, coming right off his work on phoenician with wes anderson, incredible.

blows my mind because those scenes of sensei sergio leading bob through this sanctuary community of baktan cross, him being a harriet tubman for the undocumented: making phone calls, pulling strings, organizing his people, etc is the most moving stuff in the movie and would be half as good without it.

[ladystoneshart]

unironically I think this might be my favourite dragon design in anything ever like this thing looks like it's a part of nature not someone's prize horse/nuclear weapon

[stuckinapril]

Always always always tell people you love they are so smart and capable. I will die on this hill. More often than not people are raised in unforgiving environments that tell them they are inherently “stupid” and not good enough for things, whether that be parents or cruel bosses or unsupportive friends. An underrated way of supporting people is reminding them they are brilliant no matter what anyone has ever said about their intellect and potential. People can do wonders when it’s affirmed to them their limiting beliefs are just that: limiting beliefs.

[alvsanne]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.05 // 3.04

[welightthewaysource]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON S03E04: Tumbleton

[slaybey]

[alysmond]

My boy. I'm here.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 2, Episode 4 | Season 3, Episode 4

[sapphireh3arts]

i know folks are gonna call me a pedo for this one, but i grew up seeing my mom and grandma naked. they had health issues and at times needed care and help showering. and i truly think more kids need to be shown the nonsexual reality of naked women at a young age. there is nothing sexual about my grandmothers breasts, they were simply body parts. more women die of heart attacks because people are too afraid of breasts to do real chest compressions, because they are scared to touch their breasts. the sexualization of our bodies literally kills us. i need people to be more normal about naked bodies and i'm 100% serious.

[justgivemeabookplease]

Shrek 2, while a cinematic masterpiece, is also an interesting look at queerness and comp het.

Fiona is married so it's time to reunite with her parents. But instead of marrying a prince, she's married to an ogre. Not just that, but she's also an ogre. (Yes everyone knew she would sometimes be an ogre but that was when she was a child, she didn't know she would be an ogre for the rest of her life, and besides once she met the right prince she would stop being an ogre. She was supposed to stop being an ogre.)

But okay they're both ogres. We can still ask about when they'll have children because even if they're ogres they can still have kids, right? That's what married princes and princesses do so naturally that's what everyone does. Even if ogres might not be great parents (I've heard that ogres eat their young, is that something you people do?) it's still something that should be discussed.

And okay you can stay in Fiona's childhood bedroom filled with all the reminders that hey, everyone thought she was just a princess and princesses marry princes. Her toys left out from the last time she played with them. The prince slays the ogre. The princess offers a token of gratitude for slaying the ogre. Fiona wrote Mrs. Fiona Charming a million times in her diary because what else was she supposed to grow up to be?

And Harold you have to fix this, your country can't be ruled by ogres. You were unfit to rule when you were a frog but I changed you, I made you better, I made you a prince. You know how this works. Think of your daughter's safety.

Shrek goes to the Fairy Godmother and oh honey, ogres don't live happily ever after. It's just not done. It hasn't happened in all of fairy tale history. You have to change the both of you to be happy. You have to present as a prince and a princess. It will be better. You'll fit in better that way. You'll be accepted that way.

[fitzchivalry]

[les-fleur]

[hellagross]