we are in a media literacy crisis

friendly reminder that characters don't need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.

Brooch with hand forged fine silver lily of the valey flowers on a sterling stem. The leaf is a polished and sealed circuit board inlaid with opals.

Thanks for the suggestion, but I will not be trapping myself inside the house on Shabbos or in a waking nightmare the rest of the time. Hope this helps! 🙂

Just let a dybbuk posses me, it will be less creepy.

actually the funniest character in black sails is Jacob Garrett. the anti-silver. literally trying so hard to be the Main Character but he’s only in like three random episodes and then fucking dies. Iconic

after re-watching season three it has come to my attention that Jacob Garrett not only appears in many episodes but also actually does play a pretty relevant role in the plot, which makes it even funnier that he’s so forgettable

me: maybe I’m finally able to chill, y’know, on the Black Sails front, maybe I’m finally starting to find new content that interests me, maybe I’m 

me: *sees one (1) image of John Silver’s collarbone* f U CK 

Me, but it's this thing Flint does with his eye:

I was a weird kid and am now a weird adult but I wake up every day and thank god I wasn’t a weird kid in the age of tiktok and putting your face and government name next to dogshit takes

My dad used to drive us around all the steel mills and refineries outside of Gary and Chicago when we were little. I have loved them ever since. I feel the same bliss as when I look at a beautiful castle.

Painting I made inspired by the refineries

Film Noirs you can watch free online.

The Letter (1940) / They Drive By Night  (1940) / Among the Living (1941) / High Sierra (1941) / I Wake Up Screaming (1941) / Johnny Eager (1941) / The Maltese Falcon (1941) / The Glass Key (1942) / This Gun For Hire (1942) The Night Has Eyes (1942) / The Seventh Victim (1943) / Shadow of a Doubt (1943) / Double Indemnity (1944) / Laura (1944) / Ministry of Fear (1944) / Murder, My Sweet (1944) / Phantom Lady (1944) / The Suspect (1944) / The Woman in the Window (1944) / The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) / Conflict (1945) / Cornered (1945) / Fallen Angel (1945) / Mildred Pierce (1945) / Scarlet Street (1945) / Spellbound (1945) / The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) / Leave Her To Heaven (1945) / The Big Sleep (1946) / The Blue Dahlia (1946) / The Chase (1946) / The Dark Corner (1946) / The Dark Mirror (1946) / Gilda (1946) / The Killers (1946) / The Locket (1946) / Notorious (1946) / The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) / Shock (1946) / Somewhere in the Night (1946) / The Spiral Staircase (1946) / The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) / The Strange Woman (1946) / The Stranger (1946) / Suspense (1946) / Three Strangers (1946) / Undercurrent (1946) / Born To Kill (1947) / Brute Force (1947) / Cry Wolf (1947) / Dark Passage (1947) / Dead Reckoning (1947) / Deep Valley (1947) / A Double Life (1947) /  Framed (1947) / Johnny O’Clock (1947) / Kiss of Death (1947) / The Lady From Shanghai (1947) / Lady in the Lake (1947) / Nightmare Alley (1947) / Out of the Past (1947) / Possessed (1947) / Riff-Raff (1947) / They Won’t Believe Me (1947) / The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947) / The Web (1947) / Desert Fury (1947) / The Big Clock (1948) / Rope (1948) / Blonde Ice (1948) / Bodyguard (1948) / Call Northside 777 (1948) / The Dark Past (1948) / Force of Evil (1948) / He Walked by Night (1948) / Hollow Triumph (1948) / I Love Trouble (1948) /  I Walk Alone (1948) / Key Largo (1948) / Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948) / Larceny (1948) / Moonrise (1948) / The Naked City (1948) / Parole, Inc. (1948) / Pitfall (1948) / Road House (1948) / Saigon (1948) / Sleep, My Love (1948) / Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) / The Street with No Name (1948) / They Live by Night (1948) / The Third Man (1949) / The Accused (1949) / Beyond The Forest (1949) / The Big Steal (1949) / Cover Up (1949) / Criss Cross (1949) / A Dangerous Profession (1949) / Flamingo Road (1949) / House of Strangers (1949) / Impact (1949) / Jigsaw (1949) / Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) / Knock on Any Door (1949) / Manhandled (1949) / Take One False Step (1949) / Too Late For Tears (1949) / Trapped (1949) / Whirlpool (1949) / White Heat (1949) / The Window (1949) / A Woman’s Secret (1949) / The Asphalt Jungle (1950) / Backfire (1950) / Black Hand (1950) / Born to Be Bad (1950) / Caged (1950) / The Capture (1950) / The Damned Don’t Cry (1950) / Dark City (1950) / Destination Murder (1950) / D.O.A. (1950) / Edge of Doom (1950) / The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) / Gun Crazy (1950) / In a Lonely Place (1950) / Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950) / A Lady Without Passport (1950) / Night and the City (1950) / No Man of Her Own (1950) / No Way Out (1950) / One Way Street (1950) / Quicksand (1950) / Sunset Boulevard (1950) / Walk Softly, Stranger (1950) / Where Danger Lives (1950) / Woman on the Run (1950) / The 13th Letter (1951) / Ace in the Hole (1951) / Appointment with Danger (1951) / Cause for Alarm (1951) / Cry Danger (1951) / Detective Story (1951) / The Enforcer (1951) / FBI Girl (1951) / He Ran All The Way (1951) / His Kind of Woman (1951) / Hollywood Story (1951) / House on Telegraph Hill (1951) / M (1951) / The Prowler (1951) / The Racket (1951) / Roadblock (1951) / Sirocco (1951) / Storm Warning (1951) / Strangers on a Train (1951) / Three Steps North (1951) / Two of a Kind (1951) / Affair In Trinidad (1952) / Beware, My Lovely (1952) / The Captive City (1952) / Clash by Night (1952) / Deadline - U.S.A. (1952) / Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) / The Las Vegas Story (1952) / Night Without Sleep (1952) / On Dangerous Ground (1952) / The Steel Trap (1952) / Strange Fascination (1952) / Sudden Fear (1952) / The Thief (1952) / The Woman Is Dangerous (1952) / The Turning Point (1952) / Assignment: Paris (1952) / Man Bait (1952) Stolen Face (1952) / Inferno (1953) / Niagara (1953) / Angel Face (1953) / The Big Heat (1953) / The Bigamist (1953) / A Blueprint for Murder (1953) / Count the Hours (1953) / I, Confess (1953) / Jeopardy (1953) / Pickup on South Street (1953) / Vicki (1953) / Human Desire (1954) / A Life At Stake (1954) / Loophole (1954) / The Miami Story (1954) / Naked Alibi (1954) / The Other Woman (1954) / Pushover (1954) / Rogue Cop (1954) / Suddenly (1954) / Witness to Murder (1954) / 5 Against the House (1955) / The Big Combo (1955) / The Desperate Hours (1955) / Female Jungle (1955) / Kiss Me Deadly (1955) / Murder Is My Beat (1955) / The Night of the Hunter (1955) / Queen Bee (1955) / Hell on Frisco Bay (1955) / Violent Saturday (1955) / Rififi (1955) / Les Diaboliques (1955) / A Before Dying (1956) / Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) / A Woman’s Devotion (1956) / Crime Against Joe (1956) / A Cry in the Night (1956) / The Harder They Fall (1956) / The Killer Is Loose (1956) / Over-Exposed (1956) / Please Murder Me (1956) / The Price of Fear (1956) / While the City Sleeps (1956) / The Wrong Man (1956) / Yield to the Night (1956) / A Kiss Before Dying (1956) / The Burglar (1957) / Crime of Passion (1957) / The Unholy Wife (1957) / Hit and Run (1957) / Nightfall (1957) / Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957) / Sweet Smell of Success (1957) / The Tattered Dress (1957) / The Girl in Black Stockings (1957) / The Long Haul (1957) / Istanbul (1957) / Murder by Contract (1958) / Screaming Mimi (1958) / Step Down to Terror (1958) / Party Girl (1958) / Thunder Road (1958) / Vertigo (1958) / Touch of Evil (1958) / Party Girl (1958) / Lonelyhearts (1958) / City of Fear (1959) / Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) / The Trap (1959) / Guns, Girls and Gangsters (1959) 

Nearly all the films on this list are American Noir’s, If there are any other Film Noirs that are not on this list that you think should be, let me know and I will add them, also let me know if any of the links are broken and l will fix them. Just click on the title and it will take you to the movie. Enjoy!

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i am not immune to stories in which characters who have endured harsh, empty existences become absolutely transformed by someone’s sincere love for them and learn to live

all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

Isn’t Lady Gaga bisexual?

yes that is indeed why she's on the list of famous women who like women

why have multiple people reblogged this with some horse-assed "um actually most of these people are bi or pan" did I fucking stutter I said they like girls. what is your point. I'm going to kill you.

#op probably has this post muted but the icon is too real.

the icon is because of this post

POV: you make a good post and then encounter tumblr reading comprehension

btw to just clarify for anyone who sees this reblog of this post

op is basically saying something along the lines of "yea ik taylor swift is bi but like. why is she y'all's only lgbtq+ pop icon when there are all these other lgbtq+ people in the pop scene???"

i might have worded this badly but hopefully i got the main point across

hi op here I certainly did not fucking say Taylor Swift is bi

Taylor Swift: "I am heterosexual"

Swiftys: "she is bisexual"

Feeling a lil' bit Ken (my sense of identity depends on others's perception of me and I often feel I'm not perceived at all, which leaves me feeling insecure and makes it tempting to hold onto the first shit that will make me feel half-validated) ✨🌈😎

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companies underestimate how much locking their content behind needing an account will just make me go do something else. oh your website wants me to make an account to view this content? oh your website doesn't show media to logged-out users? okay. i didn't actually want to see it that bad. yeah. bye ✌️

It’s amazing how on the internet I’m like hey here’s a thing that helped me. Maybe it will help you.

And then someone is always like if I do that thing though it will kill me.

Probably don’t do it then. Idk what you want from me, man.

If I’m like adding tomato to your sandwich is yummy and you’re like “but I’m deathly allergic to tomatoes what am I supposed to do”

Idk dude. Not eat tomatoes I guess.

I’ve got this old post where I was like hey sometimes it’s fun to try to get a chore done while you’re waiting for water to boil or something. Might help if you have adhd. It’s free deadline.

And I still get people commenting on that post like uhm no some of us have anxiety so bad that we’d pass out if we did that.

Like. Probably don’t do that then?