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one of my favorite facts about gekko hayashi (artist who drew gay erotica) is that he was straight guy who pivoted from sci-fi & monster stuff to illustrating for gay & bdsm mags at like 50 years old because he wanted to expand his artistic horizons, and compensated by lack of lived experience by setting up a phone line for gay men to call in & recount their stories so he could illustrate them...legend

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Okay, but that moment in Return to Oz when the Nome King uses "There's no place like home" as a temptation/taunt and the moral of the MGM film is turned on its head by a figure trying to curtail a child's sense of identity and selfhood and (echoing Dr. Worley) make her "normal"...

...that moment when we see Dorothy reflecting with Fairuza Balk's extraordinarily expressive eyes...

...and then with no hesitation turning from him, swallowing, and with a face of plucky resolve moving forward into the cavern to save her friends anyway...

...saying, without words, "No, they matter. Oz matters. I matter," to the Nome King and the echo of Dr. Worley reflected in him...

...as the cave closes behind her and swallows the screen in blackness...

...is unironically one of the most powerful moments in cinematic history.

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The X-Files as Vintage “READ” posters from the 80s/90s

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some more mr and mrs Spooky studies because the lighting in the first couple seasons is just incredible and i couldn't resist

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David Duchovny in hair and makeup for his role in Twin Peaks

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Mississippi’s first interracial marriage, August 1970.

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twin peaks postcards :)

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Rene Magritte, Memoirs of a Saint, 1970 /// Twin Peaks, 1991

Rene Magritte, La Belle de Nuit, 1940 /// Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, 1992

Rene Magritte, The Pleasure Principle, 1937 /// Twin Peaks: The Return, 2017

Rene Magritte, The False Mirror, 1929 /// Twin Peaks, 1990

Rene Magritte, Image Not to Be Reproduced, 1937 /// Twin Peaks, 1991

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→ Naheem Garcia On Playing Tashi Duncan’s Father In Challengers Starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist

“A lot of my young students, when they found out I was doing the film, they were very excited. They said they wanted to be an entrepreneur like Zendaya is. She’s a very warm, very nice young lady, and very about her business.”

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This elderly woman was one of the leaders of demonstrations against the Vietnam War in 1968, when she was a student at Columbia University. Today, 56 years later, she returns to the same place and says, "Palestine must be free."

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Saturn Devouring His Son, Me, BALLOONS, 2021

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"May thy riot gear chip and shatter"

Seen inside the occupied Portland State University library, where student protesters are preparing for a police raid

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he found a poster for a phineas and ferb theme party and just. decided to go. oh my god 😭

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Rebecca De Mornay in "Risky Business" (dir. Paul Brickman - 1983).

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"Every now and then say 'What the fuck.' 'What the fuck' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." - Risky Business (1984)

#risky business #tom cruise #movies #movie #movie quote #what the fuck

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we don't talk about it enough but duck and billy's relationship in amnesty is truly a tragic one.

imagine: you rescue a mindless drone. you save his life, you give him autonomy, you give him language. you teach him trust. you protect him at your own expense. you name him billy. he knows three words in your language, and one is your name. you promise to keep him safe, and he betrays his programming to help you in return. he defies everything he was designed to do in order to aid you.

you save him from being a drone, but in doing so, you kill him. he was never supposed to be here this long. you gave him freedom at the cost of rapid decay, and now he's dying. and if he could just go back to his home planet, he would live, but he doesn't want to. because you're here. duck newton, his first friend, his savior, his guardian. you showed him that there is a better way to live - with free will, with pizza and playstations.

he's damned if he stays and damned if he goes. but you can't watch him suffer. that's not who you are. you're duck newton, local beefcake, defender of the disadvantaged. so you wait until he's engrossed in his video game - in humanity, in freedom of choice - and you strike him down out of mercy.

billy reverts to his original form: a four-armed being of light, once a drone, now a friend. he's beginning to disintegrate, but he has unfinished business here. he never finished his video game. and you give him one last gift of mercy: you lie to him. don't worry, you tell him - that character you're worried about? she's fine in the end. no, i know it seems bleak now, but she turns out okay.

you can't give him anything else, so you give him hope. it's the same thing he gave to you, all those months ago when you saved him.