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To quote my hero, Popeye, I am what I am.

Conan O'Brien, Hot Ones: Conan O'Brien Needs a Doctor While Eating Spicy Wings

#conan o'brien #hot ones

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Via @danacea at Bluesky.

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Rest in peace, Yoshitaka Murayama (1969-2024)

Suikoden II (1997)

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I have marvelled at it since, but at the time it seemed the most natural thing that I should go out to her so, and, as she has often told me, there was in her also the instinct to turn to me for comfort and protection. So we stood hand in hand like two children, and there was peace in our hearts for all the dark things that surrounded us.

The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

#the sign of the four #sir arthur conan doyle

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Even a woman who is pure in heart And says her prayers by night May become a Wolf When the Wolfbane blooms And the Autumn Moon is bright

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The Wolf Man (1941)

Curt Siodmak 1902–2000

(Gender modified)

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Graphic - Karina Pavlova

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Dark times paralyze most people, but some very few, for reasons most of us will never understand, are able to set aside all caution and do things even they could not imagine themselves doing in ordinary times.

The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang

#the rape of nanking #iris chang

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The barefoot contessa and her fairy godfather

Ava Gardner and Humphrey bogart in The barefoot contessa 1954

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oppenheimer (2023)

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The Heiress (1949, dir. William Wyler)

#the heiress #olivia de havilland #william wyler

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Billy Wilder on the set of Irma La Douce, 1963

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He was there for the start of (America’s involvement in) WWII and he was there for the end of it.

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse written by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller & Dave Callaham (2023)

#across the spiderverse #phil lord #christopher miller #dave callaham #atsv

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'Tis the story of a girl who's devoured by an ambition to attend a dance in a pair of red shoes. She gets the shoes, goes to the dance - at first all goes well and she's very happy. At the end of the evening, she gets tired and wants to go home. But the red shoes are not tired. In fact, the red shoes are never tired. They dance her out into the streets, they dance her over the mountains and valleys, through fields and forests, through night and day. Time rushes by. Love rushes by. Life rushes by. But the red shoes dance on.

THE RED SHOES (1948) | dir. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger

#the red shoes

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Citizen Kane (1941) // The Incredibles (2004)

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The storyteller’s first duty is always to the story.

Orson Welles

#orson welles

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But bad timing shapes our lives.

The Gilded Age: In Terms of Winning and Losing (2023)

#the gilded age #sonja warfield #peggy scott