rocky horror is the worst and is also transmisogynistic can we please finally get over this shit movie

ok but like the writer is transgender nonbinary and the language used in the play was the preferred language by trans people of that time can we not deny parts of our history because we’ve evolved since then thanks

So fucking much this.

PS, youth of today: you’ll be saying the same damn thing about art from this time before too long, for good or for ill. Terminology will, in fact, change. Definitions will, in fact, shift. It always does, they always do. 

PPS, it is pretty much impossible to overstate how life-alteringly important this movie was to kids who didn’t conform to standard expectations of gender and sexuality, back in the day. Especially when back in the day was the mid-to-late 1980s, when the only queers you saw on TV were neutered AIDS tragedies, Bowie was playing straight, and even Elton John was married to a woman, and midnight showing of RHPS were pretty much the only place that felt like home. It was mental life raft for a lot of people.

I was one of them.

#the queer youth of today has forgotten all its history and is spitting on its ancestors and i hate it (via @gaythreats​)

beautifully phrased

ALSO IT’S A SATIRE IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE AN “OFFENSIVE” PORTRAYAL IT’S MAKING FUN OF STRAIGHT PEOPLE WHO ARE AFRAID OF US IT’S EXAGGERATING THEIR IDEAS OF US TO THE POINT OF LUDICROUSNESS THAT’S THE ACTUAL POINT

also you fail to understand just how many, many people were allowed to be queer for Tim Curry and how many doors that began to open

we say this as someone who was in several closets and first saw the film when we were 18 and that was 1981 ffs this film MATTERED

Rocky Horror kept me alive.

Dear children.

I know your pitchforks are shiny and sharp and you’re dying to use them.

But please. Before you go a’pokin’

Learn your history before you burn your history.

sounds to me like some sluts need to find their asshole

one fun thing about being a teacher in march 2023 is that chess is a literal epidemic among teens. we are starting to have meetings about how we can STOP teenagers from playing too much chess which is like if we were trying to figure out how to stop them from reading for fun. When i was in high school five years ago chess was nerd shit only but now it is transcending every social and language barrier and is absolutely rampant. kids aren’t on their phone texting in class anymore it’s ONLY chess.com. kids are playing chess on their phones while playing chess in real life. this is still better than tiktok because at least the kids are developing an attention span from this

My favorite actor in this picture is the one who has also played a beleaguered dad named Joel who gets in way over his head dealing with zombies

So remember Grenfell Tower?

The tragic fire that killed 71 people when the highly-flammable building cladding turned the structure into a death trap.

The news just came out that the firefighters who attended the scene have got cancers from the toxic fumes created by said cladding.

Who could have known this would happen?

... Oh.

This is what happens when governments neglect to regulate the housing industry, leading to poor quality and dangerous housing. And even in light of Grenfell, nothing changed. Make no mistake, there is blood on the Tories hands.

And 4 years on, the residents still seek justice.

Google maps loves to be like "your bus arrived 2 minutes ago" ok it didn't though. I was here

leaving gold in the tags etc.

Joel protecting Ellie on the ground while he's up in the building. Him seeing the truck at the same time she did, following her as she ran to it for shelter. Him being so zoned in on her and only her. Him seeing that she's going to make a run to save Henry and Sam, and her looking to him for cover, and him knowing what it means and nodding, "go for it, I've got you."

Holy fucking shit.

bruh wtf

the last of us on hbo: here’s your first two episodes, full of the TERROR of humanity!! infected!! corrupt government!! marshal law!! senseless killing!!

us: ah

the last of us on hbo: and now for your third episode. the gut wrenching love story between two men who found each other at the end of the world and became so entangled in one another that when time finally wore them away, they left together. also on the nature of daylight plays over their last day together

us:

unlike in texas the damages are uncapped due to his having profited from the defamation in question

i am not a lawyer and i could be wrong but my understanding is that in connecticut the jury only decides compensatory damages and the judge determines punitive damages by calculating attorney's fees after the fact

after all is said and done he will likely be well above a billion

Also worth noting that this is the highest defamation decision in the USA by about $700,000,000. The previous record was close to $250 million.

His legal strategy of "don't attend the trial" and "mock the judge and the courts on TV" really paid off, huh?

not to be a nerd but it’s so crazy how he (Bernini) really did that from cold hard stone……. truly a spectacle, truly breathtaking, an honor to behold

I think you should know he was 23 when he finished this and the ass gets a lot of attention but the hand on Persepina’s side/tummy is also exquisite

before i saw the caption I knew that HAD to be bernini.

I try not to make sweeping statements but I think there’s a case to be made for bernini as the greater sculptor there’s ever been.

here’s his bust of costanza bonarelli

here’s apollo and daphne from the front, where she’s mostly human

from the back, where she’s mostly tree

and details

this is the one art form I genuinely just cannot get my brain to accept as real. I’ve watched sped-up videos of it being done, read about it, seen in-progress marble statues and I still just can’t get it to sink in or stick. My mind doesn’t want to believe that any person has ever been able to start with a big block and break little bits off of it until it looks like a finely detailed person. At some point it has no recognizable shape and they still know where and how deep they should take a chip out of it that’ll still be the right decision 50,000 fucking chips later?!?

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (2022-) S01E08: Perfect Game

“Stealing Home” — 1x06 A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN S01E08 | “Perfect Game"

LUPE GARCIA + JESS MCCREADY A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (2022-)

like EXCUSE ME 

LUPE GARCIA A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN (2022-)

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN — 1.04 “Switch Hitter”

1.04 | 1.05