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Many of the families that have reached out to me, families on this list, are in Rafah or have family members in Rafah. It is imperative and EXTREMELY urgent we fill these fundraisers as swiftly as possible, the IOF is planning to invade any day. Please, I urge you, to donate whatever you can. People’s lives are at stake.
I will be honest guys, the Red portrait of king Charles is gorgeous asdfghjkl
it’s a bad portrait. Like. Objectively. It does the opposite of what’s intended. It looks like the painter is insulting him. If it was in a contemporary gallery with no context you would see it immediately as the ambivalent criticism of Charles’s reign, how he fades into the overwhelming red background as a tiny little figure, small and insignificant, insufficient for the clothes he’s wearing. It reminds my of Goya’s portraits, how they were so ‘realistic’ that they ended up making these great figures look pathetic to the viewer. So these are our rulers?
the sheer novelty. the surprise and shock, the kinda cunt it’s serving for no reason. I. I love it. It’s an incredible portrait by Jonathan Yeo. By the sheer fact that Charles, the man, is impossible to portray as greater than man because he’s just such a nothingburger of a dude. So a portrait made to make him look huge and interesting made him be swallowed in red brushstrokes. The butterfly, that reminded me immediately of “ we will all laugh at guilded butterflies”, draws more attention than him. It looks like an omen. It looks like a warning in all this red. Something is not right here.
This is the best royal portrait ever 10/10
This is a painting of a monarch whose individual personality and even bodily presence are a mere footnote within the legacy of bloodshed that built the throne he occupies. This is the only way it’s possible to depict him. It’s a photograph of his soul
Me, on the welcome desk in the library: Good morning, how are you today?
Customer: I have welcomed Jesus into my heart and so I am well today and every day.
Me, a little unnerved: Okay then! Is there something I can help you with?
Customer, digging around in his bag and pulling out an iPhone in a box: Unfortunately, Jesus can’t help me with this fucking phone, so I came to the library.
Back in 2014 my fancast for Emily was Lena Headey (Cersei from Game of Thrones). I remember making a little edit of her with Dane Dehaan’s Harry. I reckon she looks the part.
I also think Rosamund Pike (from Gone Girl) looks the part when her hair is brown! I like her as a fancast for 616 Emily.
But ya know what, if someone came to me and was all like, “We’re remaking the Raimi Spider-Man movies and Emily Lyman will appear in the flesh this time, who would you cast?” I would TOTALLY cast the now 42-year-old Kirsten Dunst because of how much a delicious mindfuck that would be
I spent ten years with that company. TEN YEARS and all I got was a message in my inbox saying “We regret to inform your your contract has been terminated.” TEN YEARS. Everyone else was fired too, because we’re worth nothing to them. TEN YEARS of work. I can’t get over it. I’m so fucking angry and depressed.
something inherently wrong to me about doctor who getting released to suit a US audience this year after being a british production and national treasure for 60 years
I have seen this Roger Ebert quote being passed around Twitter in the past few days, making fun of people.
Extreme fandom may serve as a security blanket for the socially inept, who use its extreme structure as a substitute for social skills. If you are Luke Skywalker and she is Princess Leia, you already know what to say to each other, which is so much safer than having to ad-lib it. Your fannish obsession is your beard. If you know absolutely all the trivia about your cubbyhole of pop culture, it saves you from having to know anything about anything else. That’s why it’s excruciatingly boring to talk to such people: They’re always asking you questions they know the answer to.
And it drives me mad because he’s describing autism! What he is condemning is the thing that I, painfully obviously, am! I have read reactions to this quote on Twitter and Reddit and while some people are not impressed, plenty more commented things along the lines of “Yeah, you tell those autists.” (God, I hate that word.) I watched a documentary today about autism that touched on obsessive behaviour and special interests so I suppose it’s on my mind. Why does everyone mock instead of help people with bad social skills? Why don’t they accept it when they find something (in some cases, fandom) that does help?
If you are Luke Skywalker and she is Princess Leia, then you have found a sibling. What’s wrong with that?
Seein’ too many Twitter refugees asking if they’ll get in trouble for saying “kill yourself” to people and while no, you’re not gonna get nuked from orbit, that is maybe something you just shouldn’t be doing in general perhaps?? Maybe telling people to kill themselves is bad actually?? Some of y’all are wild, why is the first thing you can think to ask on a new platform if you can send one of the worst kinds of harassment to people?? Grow tf up and learn how to use the block button. It’ll do wonders for your mood, trust me.
“It’s a joke!”
People in the notes desperately trying to come up with a group subhuman enough to warrant suicide baiting: I don’t trust you.
You’re told “this is a cruel and evil thing to do” and your first instinct is “okay but what if I find an acceptable target”, and that tells me everything I need to know about you as a person, which is I don’t want you anywhere near me.
The problem with dehumanizing others is not that you chose the wrong target, it’s the fact you’re ghoulish enough to do it in the first place. Congratulations, you’re actively part of the reason we’re having a human rights crisis world-wide right now: assholes like you keep thinking if they find the right target demographic, they get to unperson people.
