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MICHELLE PFEIFFER 

as Selina Kyle/Catwoman in BATMAN RETURNS (1992) dir. Tim Burton

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SUICIDE SQUAD (2016) // BIRDS OF PREY (2020) // THE SUICIDE SQUAD (2021)

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Here’s the thing, Romy baby: your protection is based on the fact that people are scared of you. Just like they’re scared of Mr. J. But I’m the one they should be scared of! Not you, not Mr.J! Because I’m Harley Fucking Quinn!

MARGOT ROBBIE as HARLEY QUINN in Birds of Prey | 2020

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Morena Baccarin as Allison Garrity in Greenland (2020), dir. Ric Roman Waugh

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The Uninvited (2009) dir. The Guard Brothers

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RIP Elisa Lam;

january 31, 2013 in los angeles, california, united states. twenty one year old elisa had called her parents daily while she travelled abroad. when her parents had not heard from her in a few days, they reported her missing on january 31. while she had been due to check out of her hotel that day, surveillance cameras caught her inside the hotel on february 1. elisa was stepping in and out of the elevator, looking behind her suspiciously, moving and speaking as though interacting with someone - while, according to the cameras, she was alone. elisa also rocked back and forth and rubbed various parts of her body, including her head as though in pain. her family noted that elisa was wearing clothing that likely did not belong to her as they were uncharacteristically sized and styled. on february 19, authorities found elisa’s body in the hotel water tank. she was naked with her clothing on top of her, she was not a victim of any trauma or sexual assault, and she was not drunk nor was she on any non-prescribed drugs. her cause of death was drowning. elisa’s death was considered an accident, though this ruling has become highly suspect.

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— Elisa Lam

1991 - 2013

may she rest in peace

(from Netflix’s true crime documentary; Crime Scene: the Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEGAN THEE STALLION (FEBRUARY 15TH, 1995)

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ROSÉ ♡ Pretty Savage // The Late Late Show

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Evan Peters as Pietro Maximoff in WandaVision s01e06 (2021)

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Just a nice little photo tribute to my favorite Stooge, Curly Howard.

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Joseph Merrick, aka The Elephant Man, was an actual real person.

I think a lot of people forget that.

They remember the play, or the movie, but not that he actually existed.

His first few years were normal. His body developed as it should. Around age three, things took a sharp decline. His right arm grew exponentially larger than his left. His face contorted, the muscle and bone beneath twisting and contorting in strange ways. He developed strange rashes on his skin, boils and warts that stank.

Joseph’s mother and father ignored him. He ran away. He tried to find work where he could, and had some success before the tissue around his lips bulged out in such a way that he couldn’t speak.

He decided to do something with his disability. He chose to be displayed as a freak with a traveling circus. People would “ooh” and “ahh” from far away. An announcer would warn the audience of the grotesque thing they were about to see before pulling back the curtain concealing Joseph.

But he made money. And he had a place to sleep, and food to eat. It was an improvement over his previous life (though everyone thought he was an imbecile, on account of his being unable to speak). 

In the late 19th century, England’s attitude toward these freak shows soured. They pitied the participants, and so the police cracked down hard. Joseph, his manager, and all the other freaks of his little circus decided to try their luck in other countries. It didn’t work.

Joseph’s manager abandoned him in a foreign country one day. He stole all of Joseph’s savings from over the years (which would have amounted to about 4,000 dollars today) and left him on the side of a road.

Joseph wandered and wandered, but he couldn’t speak, and everywhere he went, people pointed and laughed and stared. A policeman finally intervened and led Joseph to a small room, where Joseph procured a card. On it was a name: Frederick Treves.

Frederick was a doctor in London that Joseph had spent some time with. Frederick liked to poke and prod and measure him, something that Joseph had consented to before he was fed up and stopped visiting the hospital altogether.

Various people helped Joseph make his way back home to England, where he stayed in the attic of Frederick’s hospital. The two struck up a friendship, and Frederick began to see a man under the monster. He gradually was able to understand Joseph’s distorted speech, and he learned that Joseph was far from an imbecile.

And so Joseph stayed in the attic, enjoying a roof over his head, books stacked by his bed, and the daily visits by Frederick. They would talk for hours each day.

But Joseph would fall into bouts of depression. He had never been looked upon favorably by a woman; whenever he encountered a lady, they shriveled away. Frederick called upon a friend of his, a pretty young lady by the name of Leila Maturin, to meet Joseph. He warned her about his condition, and then up into the attic she went.

The meeting was short. Joseph told Frederick sometime later that Leila was the first woman to shake his hand; the first lady to ever smile at him. She gifted him a book, and she wrote him a little after that. He responded with a his own letter (it is the only letter that Joseph wrote that exists today). He said:

Dear Miss Maturin,

Many thanks indeed for the grouse and the book, you so kindly sent me, the grouse were splendid. I saw Mr Treves on Sunday. He said I was to give his best respects to you.

With much gratitude I am Yours Truly, Joseph Merrick London Hospital

Joseph told Frederick that he one day hoped to live in an institution for the blind, so if he were to meet a lady, she would not know of his deformities.

Joseph Merrick became something of a celebrity. Powerful figures, curious about his nature, stopped by to visit him frequently, and he received many letters. The Princess of Wales herself visited, and she sent him a Christmas card each year.

He loved the visits, but he also dreamed of one day going to a theater production, and he did three times. Each instance he was hidden away in a private box with his team of nurses and doctors, but the experience inspired him so much that he would speak of what he had seen over and over again for the weeks that followed.

The Elephant Man died at the age of 27. He was found lying down, something he had never done before, because he feared that the weight of his head would suffocate him (he always slept sitting up, knees pressed against his chest, head resting on them). Frederick found him and hypothesized that Joseph had tried to sleep the normal way for the first time.

I’m sure there’s a lot to take from his life and story, but I don’t see it all. Not right now. I guess the easiest take away is that an outward appearance may not mean as much as we think, and to always give kind gestures to everyone; the smallest niceties can go a long way to people who are hurting. And we never know who is hurting.

And I guess there’s another message, too. The idea that we should never give up. Joseph didn’t, and honestly, if I were in his position, I think I would have. At least with the mindset I have now. Alone, wandering the streets of London, without family or friends, being the object of stares and hate caused by misunderstanding. I don’t think I would have continued on like he did. But the least I can do today is remind myself how lucky I am. Things may not be perfect, but when I contrast my life against Joseph’s, I have no right to give up and call the quits. Not ever. I owe that much to him.

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People are frightened by what they don’t understand. THE ELEPHANT MAN 1980 | dir. David Lynch

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FINAL DESTINATION 3 2006, dir. James Wong

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Tenet (2020) dir. Christopher Nolan