Clint Eastwood hand appreciation post

we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen

also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote

suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response

“Inside us the dead, like sweet-honeyed tamarind pods that will burst in tomorrow’s sun, or plankton fossils in coral alive at full moon dragging virile tides over coy reefs into yesterday’s lagoons. […] Inside me the dead woven into my flesh like the music of bone flutes–”

— Albert Wendt, from ‘Inside Us the Dead’. Published in Lali: A Pacific Anthology (Longman Paul, 1980).

Blondie (without the squint)

"i mean our partnership has been untied. oh no, not you. you remain tied." it's one thing to leave a man in the desert but did he really have to announce it with a pun. and a shitty one too. blondie really made a fucking pun there what the hell is wrong with him

Blondies

Just found out that there is a dessert called a blondie please someone draw Blondie eating a Blondie

When Daphne transforms into a bay tree, the moment is one of both horror and deliverance. She is no longer what she once was, but the metamorphosis frees her from the unwanted attention of Apollo. This duality of horror and emancipation sits, I think, at the core of female transformation. Within the horror genre (and arguably everywhere else), bodies read as female are always subject to pain, and to the threat of violation. Becoming something else—a tree, a freak, a monster—preempts this pain and reduces the risk of harm. It may even, if the transformation is the right one, allow you to cause harm in return.

Julia Armfield, On Body Horror and the Female Body

i drew this because i. wanted to, i guess

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Went on Pinterest for the first time since the AI boom. Baffled and dazzled by a bizarrely high-quality image of Lee Van Cleef. It looks high-def digital. His skin is so smooth. The texture of his costume looks wrong. I'm staring at it trying to figure out what feels Wrong about it and where they got such a clear image and if it's edited and oh. Of course. It's AI. I close Pinterest.

Nothing much just some blondie doodles for practice. And now I'd say his face is very much fun to draw

if you asked blondie his pronouns he'd look at you mildly bewildered and cautiously say "i don't have that" so then you ask "oh just name then?" and even more bemused he says "i don't have one of those either" so you ask "ok how should i refer to you then?" and he says "don't"

if you asked blondie his pronouns he'd look at you mildly bewildered and cautiously say "i don't have that" so then you ask "oh just name then?" and even more bemused he says "i don't have one of those either" so you ask "ok how should i refer to you then?" and he says "don't"

Saw the Good the Bad and the Ugly in theaters just now and it was like 3 hours of the worst people you’ll ever meet involving everyone in their kinks