Hello, Tailor

dailyflicks:

Asteroid City (2023) dir. Wes Anderson

chaumas-deactivated20230115:

what I find most interesting about taylor swift is that she’s probably the most popular contemporary music star, had been for more than a decade, there are whole cults of personality revolving around her….. and yet I have somehow escaped ever learning anything remotely interesting or unique about her via cultural osmosis

I don’t think this actually means that she’s an empty blank slate of a person with nothing original to say but it is kind of an eerie thing to just go about my life with an absolute vacuum of information about her compared to dozens of less famous contemporary stars

Instead of resembling the carefully researched ships of something like Master and Commander, the Revenge’s deck is a wide, uncluttered stage that rarely moves unless it’s caught in a storm. In a relationship-driven sitcom, there’s no need to literally rock the boat. Storms exist purely for emotional punctuation, with weather and scenery acting as a kind of mood ring. So when Blackbeard hits rock bottom, his ship becomes a dark, roiling embodiment of inner torment.

These emotive scenes are when OFMD’s use of the Volume really stands out, suggesting a different philosophy from that of the shows and movies that use it as a catch-all replacement for location filming. In OFMD, it’s one of many visual tools that bolsters the larger-than-life tone. For instance, during Lucius and Pete’s reunion this season, the LED backdrops display a luminously sentimental peach-pink sunset. And on several occasions the show makes judicious use of a CGI moon, carefully placed above Stede and Blackbeard’s heads during romantic moments.

How big is the moon in Our Flag Means Death? As big and as close as it needs to be. A real moon just wouldn’t work as well.

After complaining incessantly about The Volume (ie. LED backdrops) making Star Wars shows look ugly and fake, I’ve come to realize that it’s best used in contexts where “looking fake” is a feature, not a bug.

oneofthosetransgenders:

cant get over how ed was about to cut off ANOTHER extremity and izzy stops him to ask “*tucks hair* so like… what are we?? <333” He wouldn’t know a healthy relationship if it held his hand and asked how his day was

cathkaesque:

pyjnda:

dostoyevsky-official:

afloweroutofstone:

It’s always fun to be reminded how recent European national identities are. Peasants in 1860’s Sicily had never heard the term “Italy” before, the majority of people in France didn’t speak French at the time of the French Revolution, etc.

from the observations of a british diplomat in the ukraine in 1912, quoted in Bini Adamczacks Beziehungsweise Revolution

[when one asks the avarage peasant farmer in the ukraine about his nationality, he will answer, he is “greek-orthodox”; when one pushes him to say whether he is a russian, a pole, or a ukranian, he will answer, he is a farmer; and when one demands demands to find out which language he speeks, he will say that he speaks “the language from around here”. … i.e. when one wants to find out which state he would like to belong to – whether he would rather be governed by an pan-russian or a specifically ukranian government – one will find out, that in his opinion, all governments are a plague on the land, and it would be best, if the “christian peasantfolk” were left to themselves.]

veggiesforpresident:

i just… i need every healthy person reading this to know YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO THIS. i was vaxxed and boosted and hadnt left the house in 3 years. i got sick and i didnt get better. you are not immune to this. i have to take an inhaler twice a day and go up stairs one at a time so i dont get out of breath. you are not immune to this. i have been lying on my prents couch 24/7 for 2 months because i dont have the energy to sit up. you are not immune to this. i got diarrhea from an antibiotic a month ago that has not gone away.

you are not. immune. to. this.

the safety net that is your healthy body CAN absolutely fail you.

you are not immune to this.

hunterrrs:

amazing reporting from taylor

alliswyattonthewesternfront:

there’s a part in Dune where it talks about how quickly Paul Atreides learned and how intelligent he was etc, and it goes something like “he simply trusted that he could learn. it was shocking to him how many people believe themselves incapable of learning, or believed learning itself to be difficult” and boy, am i glad i read that as young as i did. it really helped me not become a helpless baby like some people i see posting out here in front of god and everybody

sapphling:

getting diagnosed with alcoholism because of the scratch marks around my robot girlfriend’s usb pussy