The women of Crazy Rich Asians for Entertainment Weekly’s 2018 Entertainers of the Year
Bed time!
This tweet is a winner, hands down. I was thoroughly amused.
i’m reading a very manly 1950s account of a hunt for el dorado but i’m thirty pages in and the narrator has already described his traveling companion as “handsome” 4 times, “extremely handsome” twice, “exceedingly handsome” once, his voice as “quietly husky” and “a husky whisper,” his fingers as long and deft, his body as “tall and cat-like,” and his eyes as some variation of ice-blue at least three times.
just men being dudes. dudes being pals. it’s great. this is great.
“Ever since he had aimed that gun at my throat, I had liked him immensely. And now I liked him even better.”
oh my god
“I awoke when a beam of light fell across my eyes. Jorge had come into my room carrying a lighted candle.
‘I’m going with you,’ he said quietly.
‘I can’t pay you.’
He smiled. ‘I thought I was a partner?’”
OH MY GOD
according to apparently every adaptation of a search of el dorado, i think we can conclude that maybe the real el dorado was the homosexuality we found along the way
#i’m adopting this as a term for someone working to understand their sexual orientation #‘oh megan dated dudes exclusively in college but these days i hear she’s on the road to el dorado' ( @buetterfliege )
frank-schlongbottom
i used to think that a foot of parchment was a lot and feel bad when harry potter characters were assigned to write that much
but then i realized the paper i write on is 8.5 by 11 inches.
so a foot of parchment is the equivalent of like, a page and a half of paper.
they complained SO MUCH about essays that were like
a page and a half
wtf guys
get your shit together
No wonder Hermione always got onto the boys for not doing their homework.
it’s honestly not even a foot and a half it’s just one sheet of paper. a foot is 12 inches. like dang if i had to only write one page long essays in school about cool magic shit then i would have been ecstatic.
also 12pt times new roman— the standard assigned size and font for a lot of essay assignments— produces significantly smaller text than a muggleborn teenageer with a pen and ink quill would be able to manage on the regular, no matter how dedicated she was. ron and harry are frequently noted to be using large handwriting on unlined paper. their homework would have been about three short paragraphs if they were feeling studious.
no wonder hermione was so fucking exasperated! muggle students their age would have strangled them.
Oh
No, but seriously, do you know how amazing Vincent Price is?
Not just as an actor, although he was a blast to watch in everything he did. He’s one of those actors who’s just clearly having a whale of a time, no matter how bad the film is. He’s just genuinely happy to be there (it makes his villains a particular delight, and he played a LOT of them).
But did you know that he was also on the PFLAG board after his daughter came out to him? And that he was one of the earliest celebrities to speak out against the silence surrounding the AIDS epidemic?
Did you know that when his daughter came out to him, he admitted to her that it had been difficult for him during his first two marriages, because his wives had not been pleased to find out that their husband was just as interested in men as they were?
That’s right, kids, Vincent Price was BISEXUAL AS FUCK, and it was one of those open Hollywood secrets. And his wife Coral Browne? The one he grew old with and wrote cookbooks with and was basically ridiculously sweet with?
Also bisexual as fuck. They were the queer power couple of Hollywood in the 70s. His daughter, Victoria, grew up around Rock Hudson and members of the LGBT community. When she came out, Vincent Price became a board member of PFLAG and was just about the most accepting and awesome dad.
Did you know that Vincent Price played Oscar Wilde in a one-man play, and when it was denounced by anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, he dismissed her right back, saying that Oscar Wilde had already come up with a term for her: a Woman of No Importance? Because Vincent Price was deliciously witty and an awesome person.
Let me conclude with a quote from his daughter (from this article, where I got a lot of this information):
‘“In a funny way, and I think I’m going to cry, he understood me at 22 better than I understood myself then,” Price concluded. “Of course, he was in his 70s and lived a hell of a lot longer than I had, and he understood that at the end of the day it’s about who and what and how we love. And I have not been a person who has been very successful at conventional relationships, but loving well and loving deeply has been the most important thing to me.”’
Happy birthday, Vincent Price. You were a gem of an actor, and an even greater human being.
I’m always delighted when I’m watching a vintage movie and Vincent Price appears in even a minor role.
My mom used to work the front desk at a fancy hotel that celebrities would sometimes stay in. When asked about her interactions with celebrities, she always says Vincent Price was by far the nicest and was always super polite.
She says it was also hilarious sometimes because he’d call down to the front desk for something totally normal, like extra towels or something, but the poor guy couldn’t help but sound sinister while doing it.
God I love him. What a hero.
The sedentary statue of Senju-sengen Kanzeon Bosatsu (Kannon with 1,000 arms, each of which has an eye), enshrined in the Fujiidera Temple, is a national treasure, said to have been created by Kei Mon'e and his son Kei Shukun, both renowned sculptors of Buddhist statues in the Nara period. The statue is exhibited only on the 18th day of each month and on August 9, the day of sen-nichi mairi.
葛井寺千手観音像
it’s 👏 not 👏 slow 👏 burn 👏unless 👏 it 👏 takes 👏 them 👏 six 👏 thousand 👏 years 👏 and 👏 the 👏 end 👏 of 👏 the 👏 world 👏 to 👏 hold 👏 hands 👏👏👏
what’s the punchline here
wait
it’s the (except to spider) that really gets me
my favorite thing about spider gwen is telling people what spider gwen is. like literally every time its like
me: ok so imagine gwen stacy didnt die and she got bitten by the spider instead of peter parker
them: yeah ok
me: she’s in a punk band with mary jane and she chills venom out with their music also daredevil is evil in this one
them: wtf that owns
Those pink flats really tie the whole aesthetic together
GWENOM
Harley And J aka Jasmin Meier (Australian, b. 1989, Surry Hills, Sydney, Australia, based Byron Bay, NSW, Australia) - Flower Offerings, 2017 Graphic Arts
More photos of Mongolia’s reindeer-herding minority ethnic group, the Tsaatan, by Joel Santos.
Children are responsible for training reindeer for riding, because the reindeer are not strong enough to carry an adult until they are fully grown, and it works best to introduce them to the idea early. A two year old reindeer, old enough for a child to ride, is called dongor; an adult reindeer is a hoodai.