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Feel The Fear But Do It Anyway

@alljuststardust

Kristin NY 22 Bi

Guillermo del Toro was like "I hate it when the happy ending is the monster turning human" and by God he's right (he also hates fascism.)

i hate to say this but i just had the best meal of my life and it was ceviche at a mexican restaurant called “mas margaritas” in cedar rapids, iowa

literally after every single bite i was internally like “holy SHIT this is divine” but i had to keep it inside bc i would lose all credibility with my family if i let them know this ceviche from mas margaritas (restaurant in cedar rapids, IA) was better than any mexican cuisine i’ve ever had in LA or uh. mexico. and you know when people say that a food is better than sex. it was like that but it was like when i was in middle school and repressing my sexuality and had to pretend i wasn’t turned on when my friends played gay chicken at sleepovers and slowly moved their hands up my thigh asking “are you scared? are you scared?” get this to 10k and i’ll post it on yelp

when I say “everyone’s on their own timeline”, I mean it.

there’s no right age to learn something by. there’s no right age to be settled down, to move out of home, or to start your own family. there’s no right age to start working, if you work at all. there’s no right age to graduate.

life isn’t a series of boxes you need to tick. do things at your own pace. slow down if you need to. it’s okay.

if i had seen the transition from sepia to color in wizard of oz in 1939 i would have lost my shit i would've started screaming in the theater

Okay no but like, I am still SO ENAMORED by this transition y’all, ‘cause when Dorothy opens the door of the house onto the colors of Oz, the inside of the house is still sepia toned. And they did that by literally making the interior and the costume and everything SEPIA TONED. You had a double for Judy Garland in a specifically-created sepia-toned dress, in a sepia-toned set, opening the door, backing out of frame, and then the Dorothy that steps back into frame is Judy Garland in her full color costume and makeup, stepping out into the color set.

It’s just

Y’all it’s such a GREAT EFFECT, and this was before computer effects and green screen, it was all practical and yeah it feels like nothing now, but at the time, man, not only was technicolor new, but I’m pretty sure no other movie had done a transition out of b/w or sepia into color, and even knowing it was a technicolor film, that must have just been fucking wild to see! It still is wild to see!! It’s so good.

children’s book illustrators r literally the cornerstone of society im not kidding. where would we be w/o that little business worm in the apple car or the brambly hedge animals making their feasts and flying their kites like literally WHERE  . do not even get me started on frog and toad