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Stalker (1979) dir. Andrei Tarkovsky

#andrei tarkovsky

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I got a loud bark Deep bite A loud bark Deep bite

#song of thee year #mannequin pussy #audio

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I Love You - Fontaines D.C.

“It’s like the most normal title ever. I wanted to write a song called “I Love You” because I thought that it was a challenge that interested me to write a song about so kind of an ostensibly cliché topic and attempt to make it interesting and my own, unique. It just turned out to be another song about Ireland, of course.  I kind of feel like it’s in two parts. Spiritually, there are two parts to it. I’m in a position where I’ve made something of a career from trying to connect with and render the culture and country that I come from and try and express it and in turn and in doing so, understand it myself and help other people understand it. That’s what I think I’m doing.” - Grian Chatten

#fontaines d.c. #music

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daily affirmations: you are isildur’s heir, not isildur himself. You are not bound to his fate.

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#peep show

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from the Redwall cookbook

guys I had this realization the other day that Redwall works really well for reading aloud, and kinda half-remembered something about the author reading to kids? So I looked it up to see if I had made a connection.

And it turns out, yes, actually, because he read aloud to kids at a school for the blind. But all the books they gave him to read were depressing. So he wrote Redwall, a story about heroism and courage and making it through struggles, and filled it with so many sensory, visual details so he could give them something better and I just-- that's so wholesome-- help

#brian jacques scouse king!!!

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Persona (1966) dir. Ingmar Bergman

#ingmar bergman

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It took too long for you to get yourself together. Essentially, what's happening here isn't really about time, because true love is beyond time. It can, after all, wait an entire lifetime.... The cause of what's happening here all lies in the absence of an internal fire. Your trouble, if you will, is that reaching final conclusions just isn't your thing. You're afraid the decision you make will deprive you of further choice, so that paralyzes your will. Even now, you don't know why you've come. Meanwhile, you've missed out on the best thing life had arranged for you.

Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin, 2016. Translated by Lisa C. Hayden.

#laurus #books

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anyone who calls all individual actions like thrifting, going vegan or using public transport bad or useless, and instead encourages people to just wait for some kind of big revolution to happen before even considering making any change in their own lives is not actually that interested in things getting better

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You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".

Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.

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The Sword in the Stone (1963)

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AUTUMN SONATA (1978) dir. Ingmar Bergman

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Old willow at the sacred spring on the summer solstice

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Billy Collins, “Marginalia.” 1996

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so many people are failing so hard at the most basic fundamental question of democracy that faces as voters in 2024:

fascism or nah?

democracy or nah?

authoritarianism or nah?

but the way some of you talk about Joe Biden it makes me think you wish that he was more authoritarian. I choose to believe people simply don't understand the legal separation of powers, I choose to believe it's a civics failure

but more and more I think there's just an appetite for authoritarianism. I think that's what draws people to Trump, actually. I think that's where you get dummy leftists saying "Why didn't Biden just sign an executive order to [insert thing that the courts would CERTAINLY immediately overturn here, like student loan cancellation, which is exactly what happened]?" and you're like "well, the courts" and they're "why didn't Biden just stack the courts" and you're like "well, the Senate" and they're like WHY DOESN'T HE STEAMROLL THE SENATE and it's like BECAUSE HE FUCKING CAN'T IT'S AGAINST THE LAW. And why isn't the senate better? because stupid fucks don't vote

people just want a benevolent dictatorship without realizing that such a thing has always been a fucking fantasy. a dictator is a dictator is a dictator.

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Lizzy Mercier Descloux by Michel Esteban, New York, 1975

#Lizzy Mercier Descloux #!!!! #music

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She was reading a book

Jess Allen, 2022

#art