my cat joined my dad and my dog on their morning walk
those meows: “wait for me, wait for me!”
this video nourishes me
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coffee-and-paint
Despite the fact that 1999 film The Mummy is regularly considered a “bad” movie I have never met a person who doesn’t like it.
It’s considered bad?!
Like critically just on the border of passable
This upsets me deeply and at the same time makes perfect sense because it’s an obscenely dorky and historically inaccurate movie and yet at the same time it (and The Mummy Returns) is in my list of top ten favorite movies ever. I unashamedly love it so much. When it came out on VHS when I was like 11 or something I watched it literally every day after school.
If I had the time or energy I probably still would. I love this stupid movie to death.
The people who hate it hate it because they’re on the wrong side of the river.
🤣
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only1600kids
this scene deserved at least 10 emmys
instant flashbacks to this
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spongebobssquarepants
Breakfast Across the Globe
BY FAR THE SEXIEST POST ON THIS SITE
and the most important one…Jamaican Breakfast
Followed by a Haitian breakfast
Ethiopian breakfast 💚💛❤
Nigeria breakfast 🇳🇬
The one post that everyone can agree on….that food is sexy.
Lovely additions
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mccreesun
frodo baggins the iconic reluctant hero who saved the entirety of arda deserves so much better than “sam gamgee is the real hero” i said what i said
#yes!!!!!! its not that sam’s contributions shouldn’t be appreciated #but frodo bore like impossible psychological torment and despair #and yet clowns still act like this because #he does actually crack and struggle under the stress #and he doesn’t have some aragorn style battle scene #but GO OFF i guess
“Frodo deserved all honour because he spent every drop of his power of will and body, and that was just sufficient to bring him to the destined point, and no further. Few others, possibly no others of his time, would have got so far.” –J. R. R. Tolkien, Letter 192
Let’s be real, at least half the reason people refuse to see Frodo as the “real hero” of the story is because he actively chooses non-violence and mercy.
I remember some YouTube commenter writing “Frodo is so overrated, he never even kills anyone” and if that doesn’t win the award for Most Impressive Failure to Get the Point, I’m not sure what does.
some little hobbit child listening to a story: geez did Frodo even do anything
all the adults in the room: no doN’T
samwise gamgee vaulting in through the window: FIRST OF ALL
Hot Take time:
Neither of them is a hero.
They are two halves of a single hero. (No, this is not a joke about being hobbit-sized.)
Frodo is the one who has to bear the mental torture and hardship of the Ring–but without Sam, he couldn’t have. Who is there to offer a joke, a smile, a hug, an unjudging ear, an extra bite of bread when Frodo looks peaky and ill, a doubled-up bedroll when it’s too cold for a small hobbit used to a good hole with a warm fire? Frodo would have failed long before he reached Mount Doom without Sam to cheer him on.
Likewise: Sam could never have made the journey alone. He doesn’t have Frodo’s mental strength. But he’s a gardener: his job is to make things grow, to nurture them and make them flourish. Who is there to give him a purpose as he travels across a land so big, so far, hoping to save his home?
Separate the pair of them, and neither would have made it. Frodo needed the shelter of Sam’s heart in order to find his way–and Sam needed a leader.
It’s literally love and friendship and camaraderie that save Middle Earth. Neither could be the chosen one alone.
It’s literally love and friendship and camaraderie that saved Middle Earth. Neither could be the chosen one alone.
And that was, in fact, Tolkien’s entire point.
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disasterbidesign
You'll notice that LGBT pride parades are being cancelled, and LGBT people are not complaining and calling it an injustice.
Meanwhile, Christians are calling it an injustice that churches are being closed, and conservatives are calling it an injustice that stay at home orders exist.
That's because LGBT people actually experience injustices, so they know when an injustice is happening. They face way too many injustices to label everything they don't like as an injustice. And they're not defying social distancing orders to have the parade anyway.
We also know the consequences of an unaddressed pandemic.
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disasterbidesign
I’ve just discovered my new favorite painter, Vittorio Reggianini - those smarter than myself probably already know of him as an Italian painter from the 1800s who made satin look even satiny-er than satin. I just cannot get over how much he loved painting women who were NOT. HAVING. A. MAN’S. SHIT.
But there was one hottie that everyone seemed to like, and I can’t blame them…
Vittorio knows what the ladies like.
I love this. Vittorio is throwing some not-so-subtle shade on the misogyny of the era in that last one. Around that time, mass market printing was finally a thing, and people wrote the hell out of some novels, especially fiction. And the people who read the novels were mostly women, because they had somewhat more time on their hands. Middle and upper class men decided they were above reading. They frequently criticized the women for reading novels, saying it was going to corrupt their brains and turn them all into anarchists and lesbians. (Which wasn’t entirely untrue, lots of subversive and queer stuff was distributed in novel form.)
So that last painting is a dude getting over himself and the prejudices of the time and sharing an interest with the ladies, which is infinitely hotter than a dude invading personal space and looming over you like in several of those other paintings.
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disasterbidesign
my wife’s so cute because we both love animals so much but her way is very pure and genuine whereas my family is:
me, holding up my cat: stinky
wife: no!! don’t be mean!!!
me, swaying him back and forth in the air: stinky bastard man
wife: No!!!!!!!!
my mother, not looking up from chopping veggies: naughty boy. brat cat
wife, distraught: NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In case anyone doubted the validity of my claims:
The wife:
The mom:
I t s b a c k
IS THIS THE ORIGINAL OMG
temmiechang