[angelicguy]

hard day? dont worry. i just doordashed you a big angry live bug in a really thin box.

[san-sebastienne]

Dashiell Hammett, who basically invented the noir genre (think: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man) hung out enough in the queer scene in San Francisco in the 20s-30s that he picked up some contemporary queer lingo that he folded into his stories. In The Maltese Falcon, there’s a scene where the wildly gay-coded villain shows up at a meeting with a skinny little blonde with a bad attitude and a gun in tow, and detective Sam Spade tells him to “leave the gunsel outside” — gunsel being contemporary gay slang for a young, effeminate man who probably bottoms (from the Yiddish gansl, meaning gosling). Basically, he’s saying “I’m here to talk to you, not your twink.”

However, a lot of writers mimicking Hammett did not know gay lingo or Yiddish, saw the word “gun,” and assumed “gunsel” meant “scary bodyguard with a gun.” They took off with a word they didn’t understand and spread it so fast that it’s now basically impossible to read a noir story written between 1930-1960 without someone accidentally being called a twink at least once. Look out for it next time you’re reading Raymond Chandler or his ilk, I guarantee you’ll find it.

[prokopetz]

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.

[rock--lobster]

From now on I’m niche posting about stupid movies #newmonthnewme reblog if you love cinema or want to take down Nixon

[rogersandclarke]

we're uncovering public information about robber redford

[barstoolblues]

robert redford was like fuck yes i love gay people put me in the sting

[janetwirkin]

[yikestm17]

Very funny that George Roy Hill shot a movie with Paul and Bob and was so obsessed with their chemistry that he just decided to put their asses in another scenario. Straight up AU for Butch and Sundance. Real fan behavior, if I had access to them I’d also trap them in an age gap fated lovers doomed yaoi cycle

[5bi5]

Why did they phrase this in the funniest way possible. Al Pacino’s horrible emotional support moustache to help him cope with his character’s bisexuality.

[spookyshadows303]

uhh. midnight cowboy memes be upon ye

[fairweathermyth]

KLUTE (1971) director, Alan J. Pakula director of photography, Gordon Willis

[hellfiredemon]

i can't believe robert redford and paul newman made butch cassidy and the sundance kid and the sting, two movies about fiercely loyal outlaws who are willing to die to protect another and there are fewer than 200 fics on ao3 for those movies 😔

[yikestm17]

why are there so many adaptations pedaling lies about frankensteins’ monster (fucked up and evil, wants to destroy all of humanity) and none telling the truth (has a heart of gold and a massive cock)?

[cowboysmp3]

there’s something sooo sickening about how dunmeshis whole energy is like sometimes something terrible and awful happens to you and it changes you forever and nothing can make you the person you were before but there’s still love and there’s still sharing a meal together and there’s still living

[void-theorist]

I love Dungeon Meshi because every (main) character has a version of this. Every character is deeply affected by something they have no way of fixing or changing, but they're all still drawn together by love, passion, and kindness

[eldin-tower]

no matter the struggles there is always ao3 in bed

[thunderbottle]

drew this as fast as i possibly could. yay okay now you do it too

[crazysodomite]

Agony I

[weaver-z]

Every romance book promoted on tiktok is just full to the brim with horrible "steamy" taglines that are just like... Eyes on me, Little Beast. I'm here to make you Damp

[drarryking]