#and witnessed such classics as

[moxielynx]

people should start drawing the aliens from all the shows interacting with each other more often

#poor xlr8 is a innocent witness to this madness #ben 10 fanart #ben 10 #ben 10 classic #ben 10 alien force #ben 10 ultimate alien #ben 10 uaf #ben 10 heatblast #ben 10 xlr8 #swampfire #ben 10 big chill #lynx posting

[tyronepowerblog]

Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

#Tyrone Power #Marlene Dietrich #Witness for the Prosecution #1950s #old hollywood #old cinema #old movies #classic movies #classic hollywood #photos

[mariocki]

RIP Michael Jayston (29.10.1935 - 5.2.2024)

"Well, I played a lot of interesting people. I was Siegfried Sassoon in ‘Mad Jack’, and played Beethoven and Rochester in Jane Eyre amongst others. When I did Equus in 1976, a critic described my work on television as ‘odd bits of TV’, but these are no small parts for an actor."

#michael jayston #rip #death ment tw #character actors #lincoln dowling #the valeyard #doctor who #classic doctor who #the power game #callan #cromwell #nicholas and alexandra #ufo #thriller #the edwardians #the merchant of venice #jane eyre #the homecoming #craze #tales that witness madness #quiller #tinker tailor soldier spy #ladykillers #tales of the unexpected #jack the ripper #:( another icon of old tv gone #a peerless icy villain but just as adept as stiff backed official types or smarmy leerers. the valeyard got him dw immortality but there #was so much more to his career (not least the wonderful Lincoln Dowling in TPG). i always try and rec a lesser known role when an actor #passes but for once there's too many; his Ladykillers ep as real murderer Frederick Seddon is a beautifully realised study of a twisted and #confused amorality; his Edwardians ep as Henry Royce is genuinely very moving; and The Homecoming is nothing short of a masterpiece

[firstdoctorcompanion]

#im not even gonna caption this #there’s no need to #doctor who #classic who #the first doctor #the time meddler #a battle of wits #first doctor #dw #my post

[blackswaneuroparedux]

amoto quaeramus seria ludo

- Horace

Let’s put aside these games and focus on serious things.

#horace #roman #latin #classical #quote #chess #the thomas crown affair #steve mcqueen #faye dunaway #games #seduction #amour #wits #film #cinema #movie #arts #culture

[coquelicoq]

post-canon every single member of kimcom likes to spoon kim dokja. nonsexually. it's just nice to know he's alive and there and feel his chest rise and fall within the circle of your arms. try to do something stupid now asshole. oh you can't? because of my octopus impression? that's right. take THAT. however i will make one exception for yoo joonghyuk. yoo joonghyuk may want to spoon kim dokja, but he never gets the opportunity because kim dokja wants to spoon him more. so the sleeping arrangement is yjh>kdj>all other kimcom members on rotation. actually i take it back there's one other household member who doesn't want to spoon kim dokja and it's yoo mia, but that's fine because she's one of the only people (besides kim dokja) who yoo joonghyuk would be comfortable spooning. so there's probably times when it's yma>yjh>kdj>today's lucky winner.

incidentally this is also the order for the doing-each-other's-hair train because while yoo mia WILL allow other people to do her hair, no one wants to because she always compares their skills unfavorably to her brother's. and she's really articulate about it. just utterly scathing. one time her criticism was so devastatingly, accurately incisive that she made lee hyunsung cry. yoo joonghyuk spooned him that night to cheer him up and yoo mia was so mad about it that lee hyunsung had to leave the country for a couple weeks. the household learned a valuable lesson that day. it's best not to disturb the delicate spooning/hair-train balance.

#i love how often the webtoon shows people giving their injured teammates piggyback rides #like yeah that is way easier than a bridal carry. good weight distribution #but also it means when they go into Spoon Mode they're like. hey this is familiar! #anyway kimcom totally has a schedule for who gets to spoon kim dokja because otherwise shin yoosung and lee gilyoung would #resort to murder #also han sooyoung was hogging him and pretending it didn't count because it was her clones doing it #(classic excuse. it wasn't me. it was my clone! my clone stole the cookie from the cookie jar! my clone ate my homework!!) #kim dokja figures out that there's a schedule but he thinks it's like. a chore for them instead of something they're fighting over #because he is an idiot 😎👍 #the other sleeping arrangement is kim dokja lying on his back and one person on each side cuddling up to him #that's the default when yjh isn't around for kdj to spoon. which doesn't happen very often #if anyone asks no i did NOT start crying the last time someone spooned me because i was incredibly touch-starved. utter lies #totally untrue and also completely irrelevant to the matter at hand #orv #omniscient reader's viewpoint #my posts #f #kdj #orv spoilers #i guess?? #kimcom in the situation room trying to strategize how to turn him back into a squid so they can all have a tentacle to cuddle #kim dokja only has two hands and like ten people who want to clutch him to their bosom...but what if he had MORE than two hands? #he has before and he can again. as god is their witness

[scherzokinn]

It's so insane and funny to me that film directors of biopics feel the need to add fiction to make the film appear more interesting.

Like. why.

You don't need to come up with anything to make history more compelling.

WHY make anything up, when Friedrich Nietzsche had to buy fucking silk underwears for Richard Wagner once, Abraham Lincoln did wrestling, Victor Hugo lived in a street of his own name when he was alive, Alexandre Dumas fucking shut down a racist with an epic comeback, Edward VII had a sex chair, Tsar Nicholas II has nudes, Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso were arrested for pissing in public together, Oskar Kokoschka commissioned an Alma Mahler fetish doll which he likely had sex with, Roald Dahl wrote some weird and questionable fetish-fanfic books, Salvador Dalí sold a blade of grass to Yoko Ono for $10 000 because he thought she could do witchcraft with a real strand of his hair, etc etc...

Do we REALLY need to make shit up when we have all these batshit stories. DO WE REALLY??????

#currently still experiencing whiplash after learning more about ballets russes dancers #and seing that at serge lifar's 1958 duel with marquis de cuevas the marquis' witness was JEAN MARIE LE FUCKING PEN #DJAKZJSBSJB #going insane #anyways #history #history nerd #history facts #fun facts #classical music #art #art history #music history #ballets russes #and there's still SO MUCH more #scherzina ramble

[zerowidthnonjoiner]

My Classic! Agent Stone take ive been thinking about for a whileee

#whoever follows my insta has witness me going crazy over which color his suit would have #sonic the hedgehog #sonic #sonic fanart #sonic the hedgehog fanart #metal sonic #eggman #dr robotnik #robotnik #classic eggman #classic agent stone #agent stone #sonic mania adventures #stobotnik

[sleepinglionhearts]

Conversations about literature

#doodles #non-fandom stuff #daily life #work comic #asked aussie coworker to reorder some of the penguin classics edition books #and she is reeling from realizing some titles just. are not available to us in the states #case in point the copy of white worm she tried to order is apparently not available in the us #but they don't always list that in an obvious place in the catalogs #anyways myself included i don't think any of us on staff knew about it offhand?? hmmm... #ah but i did get to witness such an amazing interaction... #he said “dingoes” so flatly and yet with so much conviction....

[deckardsdwelling]

[Harrison Ford at the Cannes Film Festival photocall for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” 5/19/23]

— WDD

#harrison ford #harrisonford #Indiana Jones #indianajones #indiana jones and the dial of destiny #lucasfilm #harrisance #witness the harrisance #harrison ford movies #love harrison ford #star wars #han solo #grouch #harrisonfordedit #harrisonfordgif #dry humor #classic #typical #silver fox #still got it #legend

[official-darkforest]

it's not really a job, but i CAN see your anthro!firestar as a reporter, especially since he's serving that clark kent realness. maybe he started as a lil journalism major or a kid who was into mystery novels when he rolled into Thunderclan-town and got caught up the murder mystery surrounding tigerstar. also im assuming ravenpaw was just sent off to barley's barn/ranch and not put into witness protection??

this is super interesting and i will consider it but i have to say the implication that being a reporter is not a real job is really funny

#again much 2 consider thinking emoji #also the official witness protection program wasnt a thing until the 1970s-80s so #ravenpaw jsut went the classic route of fucking off to the middle of nowhere and telling nobody #micks anthro au

[finelythreadedsky]

 On one level the book is about the life of a woman who is hardly more than a token in a great epic poem, on another it’s about how history and context shape how we are seen, and the brief moment there is to act between the inescapable past and the unknowable future. Perhaps to write Lavinia Le Guin had to live long enough to see her own early books read in a different context from the one where they were written, and to think about what that means.

-Jo Walton

#thinking of how her last four novels between 2004 and 2008 show a progressive blossoming of interest in classical literary traditions #following nearly half a century's worth of a career where she seems to actively avoid the influence of classical or medieval europe #idk. but i think this explains annals of the western shore as much as lavinia. #she gets so interested in what it means to share the same stories across space and time (and class and gender and nationality) #to be united in a community by having the same poetry #and in such an obvious way thinking about classics as a discipline is an incredible way to work through that #and i do think its an interest that must come out of having witnessed her own work unite people in community across time #if you're talking about the way stories and poems bring people together across time... #i read the texts passed on to me by renaissance humanists and 19th century philologists and byzantine monks and late antique scribes... #and they're the same across time and space but they're also not #and to have seen her own work reach people across space and time and be the same but also not... that must have been incredible #so: did living long enough to see her own early books read in a different context and to think about what that means #drive her to think about classical literature as she clearly was for the better part of a decade? #mine #reception #anyway i gotta think about this and email [redacted] tomorrow

[tyronepowerblog]

Tyrone Power with Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton on the set of Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

#Tyrone Power #Marlene Dietrich #Charles Laughton #Witness for the Prosecution #1950s #old hollywood #old cinema #old movies #classic movies #classic hollywood #photos

[hopefullydreaming]

the besties are working late shifts the last few days so cannot read my utter breakdown over the glasgow willy wonka experience and i don’t know how to sun it up other than everytime i think about it i just start crying with laughter like

THE UNKNOWN

AN OOMPA LOOMPA RESIGNED TO GIVING KIDS A SINGLE JELLY BEAN EACH

THE ENTRANCE

THE ADVERTISEMENT

All for the low low price of THIRTY FIVE GREAT BRITISH FUCKING POUNDS STERLING A HEAD

it’s giving £85 grinch it’s giving storybook Glen pls pls if you haven’t heard abt it look it up right now cause im not physically capable of thinking abt anything else

#willy wonka #glasgow #THE UNKNOWN #classic Roald Dahl villain THE UNKNOWN #I actually can’t stop fucking wheezing with laughter #this is the best thing I’ve witnessed in so long #it consumed an entire hour long conversation between me and my colleague at work today

[mariocki]

Patrick Troughton guests as ruthless racketeer George, out to silence the man who can identify his brother as a murderer, in Dial 999: Key Witness (1.26, ABC, 1959)

#fave spotting #patrick troughton #dial 999 #doctor who #classic doctor who #two #abc #key witness #1959 #as with other Dial 999 posts‚ the episode number and year of transmission are more in the way of educated guesses #tho two separate sources identify this as ep 26 so that's good enough for me #yes it's been a while‚ i got very distracted and wandered away from Dial 999 but I'm mopping it up now #this was a very pleasant surprise‚ not least because Pat had already made two appearances in the series: a minor role as a heavy in 1.5 and #an uncredited appearance as a tramp in 1.16 (both can be found if you follow the fave spotting tag) so i wasn't really expecting him to #turn up again. but he does! and he finally gets a real meaty part! he's the villain of the week‚ a criminal of vague occupation (he has #something to do with gambling? race tracks maybe? idk it kind of gets glossed over) but when his kid brother kills a rival and is easily #apprehended‚ Pat decides it's time to silence the witness... cue a tense cat and mouse as Pat and goon tail their mark as the police tail #them. genuinely one of the most enjoyable episodes of this funny little series i think‚ and a lot of that is down to Pat giving it his #all as a dangerous gangster. he lounges around in a dressing gown‚ he slaps his bro around‚ he jeers at the cops and he #threatens his lawyer with a watery sack grave. he's gone full villain! and it's delightful!

[wakandama2]

Making my toddler nephew watch the OG Ben 10 so he can be cultured 😌😌😌

#ben ten #been rocking wit ben sonce 06' #my lil nigga gonna know his elders classics #ben tennyson #only animated white boy crush when i was lil lol