This man holds my heart just like he holds these ducks

Abiodun Olaku (Nigerian, b. 1958)

Hedy Lamarr as Sandra Kolter Ziegfeld Girl (1941) dir. Robert Z. Leonard

@hotvintagepoll

The thing that Baldur's Gate got right is that each companion is both extremely cool, tempered with an appropriate dose of cringe.

Gale is a powerful wizard. He uses the phrase 'pish posh' unironically.

Lae'zel is a badass. She asks you to fight her and then gets emotional because you're fighting even though that was her idea.

Karlach. Badass. But we've all seen her idle dance moves.

Wyll is this swashbuckling vigilante and he has a pose he does whenever he says his own superhero name.

Shadowheart. Dark backstory, still striving so hard for the light. Makes a joke about poisonous flowers that falls incredibly flat.

Astarion. Capable rogue and a dangerous vampire. He practises his one-liners ahead of time. Within earshot of the people he wants to use them on.

such constant barrage of bad news and i feel like i need to be saying something about it to keep at least the handful of people following me from assuming that ukraine is doing alright but i just have nothing to say anymore

you know the funny thing is that in these past 2+ years there has never been a single day when ukrainians felt secure or confident in our quote-unquote "allies". there has never not been an underlying fear that they're gonna get tired/bored of us any day now, they're gonna be too scared to help, they're gonna choose the short-term profits from doing business with russia over the long-term benefit of sticking with us, they're gonna be too enamoured with that high culture ballet intelligentsia chic to listen to some poor mail bride folks, they're gonna get offended that we don't kowtow in gratitude enough, they're gonna get annoyed that they've given us so many bananas but we keep insisting we need apples, etc.

and we were right on every point, and we keep asking for apples because there's literally no one else on planet earth to ask, and we keep cooing about the whole "civilised democracy western values" nonsense (yes, it's cringe to hip lefty people, i know, i am a hip lefty people too) to maybe flatter them into moving their asses, very aware that if they think we're losing they'll dump us because it's a waste to help us but if they think we're winning they'll dump us because there'll be no sense of urgency to help

and all people internalised was this "the west has past tense helped ukraine" narrative, whether they bring it up to pat themselves on the back or to """point out the hypocrisy""" and say that it's time to move on to something else

no the fuck you didn't. you were in the middle of helping, then you changed your mind and dropped your hand, and so far it seems that no amount of bleeding and carnage will shock you into lifting it up again

@starlightomatic re: your tag, and to any kind person who wants to help but is unsure how, here's my two cents:

i understand there's a lot happening in the world right now and everybody's only got so much energy to keep track of it all, but don't let ukraine be an afterthought. we're still here, we're not winning, we're not losing, we're hard at work and it could still tip either way. every effort counts.

THE OLD GUARD CAST + FILMOGRAPHY — MARWAN KENZARI

Yumna Al-Arashi, Axis of Evil (Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq), 2020

in Leica Fotografie International (LFI) magazine:

you call this place "wall greens" yet its walls... are not green? how very pecuilar...

ah i see now. so "walgreen" was a clan of bandits who conquered various, smaller apothecaries in order to acquire the vast empire they now sit upon. how very cruel, this "america". you are ruled by warlords and do nothing to usurp them?

Hemen Majumdar (Indian, 1894–1948) - Untitled

I love the characterization of Lae'zel as a deliberate, reasonable person who through no fault of her own is wrong about almost everything

Willi Geiger Sankt Sebastian

Oil on canvas, 122 x 100 cm, 1914

"Inej is the mom fri—" *loud incorrect buzzer noise* Wrong. You are looking for Matthias Helvar.

two bros, both alike in sexuality

in a hot tub, where we lay our scene

This is more punk than the whole of punk history.

I’ll tell you what’s ferocious. Freddie’s comeback to Sid calling him “Freddie Platinum” when they were recording down the hall from each other at London’s Wessex Studios (Queen for News of the World, Pistols for Bollocks).

Sid Vicious made the mistake one day of bursting into Queen’s control room and antagonizing their frontman. “Have you succeeded in bringing ballet to the masses, then?” he sneered. “Oh, yes, Simon Ferocious,” Mercury replied. “We’re trying our best, dear.” 

Then, according to Queen biographer Daniel Nester, Freddie rose from his chair and began to playfully flick the safety pins displayed on the front of Sid’s leather jacket. “Tell me,” he asked, “did you arrange these pins just so?” When Sid stepped forward in an attempt to intimidate Freddie, the singer simply pushed him backwards and inquired, “What are you going to do about it?” Sid immediately backed down. [x]

Freddie Mercury may very well have had the biggest dick energy of anyone who ever lived

Tags from @thirddeadlysin

what's the opposite of feeling sand slip through your fingers because I feel this poem more and more as time passes

Normalize “◉‿◉” on Snufkin

Yip Yip! ◉ >◉

Wyll Week Day 7: Family / Found Family

A very late end but an end nonetheless