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I realized how phallic this was halfway into drawing it but decided to just go with it

Anyways here's a gee speedpaint

"You're insane, but I love you!"

I love tumblr. I love that tumblr is the best social media site of 2021.

Every other site has spent the last decade perfecting the art of targeted ads. I am a wallet of flesh and blood which must be stripped bare and profiled and picked apart for the maximally efficient way to squeeze profit from my presence. Every other site will fold and morph itself to a shape of my liking - like a fairy tale trickster stealing memories and taking their mold - to lull me into compliance and loosen my coin purse.

Facebook sees me searching fitness equipment and injects my timeline with athletic wear ads. Reddit profiles the subreddits I follow and eagerly promotes a new coding bootcamp or cloud service at every turn. Google overhears me lamenting over my moving to-do list on voice call and fills in my “how much to tip movers” query before I’ve gotten the third word typed out.

Tumblr never even tried.

They could have. The information is there. The basic infrastructure, presumably, exists. Tumblr can recommend me tags based on tags I follow, blogs based on blogs I follow, even posts that for one reason or another may strike my fancy. Tumblr could be - SHOULD be - funneling this framework into advertising, as the only means that free-to-use social media platforms can turn a profit in our capitalistic hellscape.

They just don’t.

Today I saw an ad for treating Hyperhidrosis - a condition, I think, in which a person sweats too much - and I saw it twice, four posts apart, and it is so incredibly benignly impersonally ineptly untargeted toward me compared to all other pinpoint-aimed advertising that I’m endeared to it. Tumblr knows NOTHING about me. 8 years, 51,000 likes, and tumblr has not learned a THING about me.

Advertisements for a mattress? Shitty mobile game ads that don’t make even the slightest pretense at being anything other than a candy crush rip-off? Choose-your-own adventure games either about Royal Espionage or Choosing The Wrong Dress For Your Date with ZERO in-between.

And then this. This here. The culmination, the crown-jewel of tumblr’s nihilistic non-compliance with the state of social media advertising. Any pretense of capitalistic exchange is abandoned at the gas station by the side of the road. This is not a company. This is not a product. This is not anything that fulfills the contract of consumer and seller. 

THIS. THIS IS WHAT TUMBLR HAS TO OFFER INSTEAD.

“Pour vinegar on your bread, fuck you.”

“Put it in the garbage, fuck you.”

“Your wife says you’re a fucking dumbass, fuck you.”

That’s it. That’s the advertisement. You vinegar-breadless cuck. You virgin extraordinaire bereft of bread and garbage can. I am fucking your wife right now in our vinegar-soaked motel bed. She puffs a cigarette which I pulled from the trashcan and we both laugh heartily at her recounts of your immasculine ineptitude. I don’t want your money. I don’t want anything from you. Fuck you. 

Amazing. Amazing. What a state of things to ring in 2021. What a great platform we all collectively choose to be on.

Joey Tribbiani could probably write a poorly organized but thorough, detailed, and heartfelt essay on why he loves Rachel Green, with specific examples centered around the woman she becomes over the course of the show, and Ross would just be like "because she's Rachel"

if i bring a book someplace it doesn't necessarily mean i want to read it mayb i just want to take her on a walk. Get her some fresh air and a change of scenery

NuWho Doctors and the feeling with which they say their iconic phrase “I am the Doctor”

ok so there’s a game me and my friends play called “don’t get me started” and basically someone gives another person a random topic and they have to go on an angry rant about it and it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to us at parties and car rides so I highly recommend playing sometimes with your friends

Hey runners (and walkers)! Thought this might be helpful :)

rdj kissing josh brolin on the lips is such a power move. the man doesn’t give a single fuck. he’s the male protagonist archetype of this century but he will kiss as many guys as he pleases because he can and there’s nothing hollywood can do about it

thankyou 2022 award season !!

carry your whole family challenge!

repost with permission @geedraws on twitter (go check them out!!)

obsessed!!!!!! oh my god. (art is by @ ada_lovegood on insta!) might be one of my favorite pieces of wolfatar fanart, i feel like they’re just captured so well. brb very inspired to write now xx

wolfstar big bang is over so here are the illustrations I did for @bigblckdog s incredible fic. which is here. I still strongly urge you to go read it if you haven’t yet.

Reblog this to prove your blog was made before the February 2022 tumblr resurgence

Anonymous asked: Much appreciate your homage posts to the late Sean Connery. Made us proud for all us Scots. Sorry to put you on the spot but in your opinion who was the best James Bond and why? What’s your favourite Bond line?

I feel terribly sad too at Big Tam’s passing. But Sean Connery had - and I hope he forgives me as a half Anglo-Scot for using a very English idiom - a very good innings to go out at 90. He left us with a huge legacy of a surprisingly good body of film works but he also left his mark on how we talk about modern masculinity.

So who was the best James Bond?

It is a question that has been asked time and again, and we can be certain it will get a whole new airing when Daniel Craig’s tenure eventually comes to an end. Answers generally come in three categories. The first are the traditionalists. Sean Connery was Bond, he will always be Bond and anyone else is a poor imitation. The second camp - the majority of whom seem to be Generation X-ers in my millennial experience - who think Bond is about driving a Lotus underwater, wrestling in space with Jaws and – ahem – attempting re-entry with Lois Chiles, and so Roger Moore is their man. Finally, there are those who are not afraid to move with the times, and think the modern day production values mean the films of the Craig era are on a superior level than all that has come before.

These are all reasonable enough views, but they leave out one important consideration: which Bond are we talking about? Because there were only two kinds when we look across the range of actors who portrayed the iconic British spy. There is the cinematic Bond and there is the literary Bond.

Let me explain.

Because there’s nothing like Ancient Greek Philosophy to look at this vexed question of who was the best Bond. So let’s first consider Plato, Forms, and the Allegory of the Cave. Way back when in the long, long ago, Plato, and by extension Socrates, postulated the idea of Forms in which a second, ethereal world contained the eternal, perfect “Forms” from which all physical manifestations derive. To explain this, Plato proposed the concept of prisoners chained in a cave since birth and forced to gaze at a wall in front of them, lit from behind by a raging fire. In front of this fire, and behind the prisoners, puppeteers would hold up puppets that cast shadows. In time, these shadows became reality for the prisoners, for they would have no concept of the physical items themselves. Thus I, very much a modern day Plato, propose that were the puppeteers to hold a tattooed toupee-wearing former coffin polisher in front of the fire, the prisoners would rub their eyes and see… James Bond.

In other words, Sean Connery was the best cinematic James Bond. He is the Bond of cinematic imagination and hence more popularly known in our wider culture.

What Connery offered in his seven-film tenure is a near-perfect balance between all subsequent imperfections and a command of the role that prompted either below par impressions or a significantly different approach so as not to overlap with Connery’s sizeable footprints – footprints too deep enough for the other Bonds that followed to fill. Some people might suggest it was simply because Sean Connery has the luxury of being the first actor to play Bond. However, being the first actor in a role doesn’t always guarantee audiences will consider you the best.

It’s telling that Connery never fancied himself as Ian Fleming’s James Bond. Nothing in his training (largely classical theatre and romantic melodrama)€“ let alone his working class Edinburgh background had prepared him for playing a part that Michael Caine remembers everyone thinking would go to the smoothly cultured Rex Harrison.

Nor did Connery help matters when he turned up to audition for the part of Ian Fleming’s gentleman spy wearing a lumber jacket and torn jeans. “You take me as I am or not at all”€ he told the producers Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli, but though they were eventually won over by what Broccoli called “€œthe most arrogant son of a gun you’ve ever seen”.

As the creator of Bond, Ian Fleming remained unconvinced. Indeed Connery’s casting was much to the chagrin of Bond creator Ian Fleming, who had envisioned Bond in his own image of an upper-class Eton educated Englishman and an officer and a (rogue) gentleman - Fleming himself was a lieutenant-commander in Naval Intelligence, Connery was also in the navy but as an able seaman on HMS Formidable. Fleming remarked, “I’m looking for Commander Bond and not an overgrown stuntman.” Fleming wanted Cary Grant, David Niven or Roger Moore to play his character. Not until the Bond movies were earning him far more money than his books ever had would he stop referring to Connery as, “that fucking truck driver”€.

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korean bl dramas ~ part 1

Reblog the writers’ fortune cookie for luck!

queer books that didn’t disappoint me the way everything else has. please enjoy.

RIGHT THROUGH ME EVEN OF DAY (2021)

Your words pierce right through me Even if I leave You would never blink an eye

Right Through Me — DAY6 (Even of Day)

RIGHT THROUGH ME – EVEN OF DAY (DAY6) | DOWOON

Story of my life people. You know what’s real ? The struggle.

Happy Pride Month ♥

we’ll dance into eternity

the moon is on ice

We’re the ones who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition.

To the power of a group of people unapologetically loving something silly and taking control of the stories that matter to them.

To the power of saving your favorite characters as a form of saving yourself.

To positive and healthy expressions of queer love, shared art, and making something beautiful together.

To the realization that “canon” merely indicates the version of the story preferred by the copyright holders - often corporations - and the rest is just fan fiction fodder, baby!

To fan fiction as an outlet for majority queer and female creators, perpetually blowing paid male writers out of the water.

To better fucking representation on every front moving forward.  

To blackout poetry, its own form of rebellion.

To family.

To family found.

To asserting that we, too, can live to see our own happy endings.

And,

of course,

to Fergus Crowley,

who is currently hogging the karaoke machine.

Dean and Cas are getting married today. They’re both very nervous.

PRESENTING: Ateez

Good videos to watch;

Kq fellaz

Jongho breaking apples

Yunho, mingi, wooyoung and San dancing

Ateez performance video

Ateez dancing to growl

Sorry for my rubbish editing skills, hope this helps though x

-admin kya

Hi 👋 you seem very nice and I keep seeing your BL drama posts on my blog and their got me really interested to the genre 😊 I would really like to start watching and wanted to know if you could recommend the ones you like the most or would recommend as a start ? 💕 I’m already watching kdramas and cdramas but I would really like to watch shows with more lgbtq+ representation!

Hii there!! 😊

first of all thank you!! 💕💕

You can find a list of my drama recommendations here, though those are bl- and non-bl dramas and also only from Thailand. My general bl recommendations are (sorted by release date with link to stream w/ EngSubs):

SOTUS 1&2 (2016, 2017) STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLszepnkojZI5tID5gmStSvLef-eKcZxO-

Diary of Tootsies 1&2 (2016, 2017) STREAM1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLOdzjoplpj1AvOpLIN_pW6NQQ1-uvdQO STREAM2: http://gcinee.com/1153-2/

Together with me (2017) STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3pyPJdd1J4OWCTnUd0ychA/search?query=together+with+me 

Together with me: the next chapter (2018) STREAM: https://www.facebook.com/LazySubber/posts/engsub-together-with-me-the-next-chapter-episode-listwatch-from-original-links-a/695345517499569/ 

HIStory 2: Boundary Crossing (2018)STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE22zxOA4Gb3hH1f7UKPgmEa_vygsWQxg

My Dream the series (2018) STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5GzaBcHttOIkPG7JaWZLBNtpBf7GlI6o 

Love by Chance (2018) STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3Ke6kHYDePPyJL87y-6JNTJRSS9H4LEK 

Kiss me again (2018) STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLr5NeVvp7KkrA-wUDeEvEqCm9MmZ4wzUG  

Friend Zone (2018) STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLszepnkojZI5tJnZ9A-0AFooQqV4hc6g0 

He’s Coming to me (2019) STREAM: GCINEE

Great Men Academy (2019)STREAM: https://kissasian.sh/Drama/Great-Men-Academy 

HIStory 3: Trapped (2019)STREAM: https://gcinee.com/history-03-trap/

Theory of Love (2019) (one of my all-time favorites)STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/user/GMMTVSPOTLIKE/search?query=theory+of+love 

2Moons2 (2019) -> season 2 confirmedSTREAM: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDIqVRSvaz9KfGjBbaO2LeaDN2EHS-PQ5 

HIStory 3: Make Our Days Count (2019)STREAM: https://gcinee.com/make-our-days-count/

TharnType (2019) -> season 2 confirmedSTREAM: https://mydramalist.com/discussions/tharntype-the-series/44409-official-tharntype-episode-links-please-watch-here-to-support-the-drama

Dark Blue Kiss (2019) STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/user/GMMTVSPOTLIKE/search?query=dark+blue+kiss

Until We Meet Again (2019) STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPXE51seODgcGxLQF_X5jzQ/search?query=until+we+meet+again 

Why R U? (2020) -STREAM: https://mydramalist.com/discussions/why-r-u-the-series/45915-official-why-r-u-the-series-episode-links

2Gether (2020)  STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/user/GMMTVSPOTLIKE/search?query=2gether 

My Engineer (2020)  STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ2sG1bXhFB8v2pmFtfZ7OA/videos

YYY (2020)STREAM: https://mydramalist.com/discussions/yyy/47811-official-yyy-episode-links-linetv

Tonhon Chonlatee (2020)STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/c/gmmtv/search?query=tonhon%20chonlatee 

I hope this helped you! 

regarding your question what I recommend as a starter - it depends on what kind of shows you like; If you like cute/fluffy stuff, then I recommend you start with a GMMTV drama since they’re mostly very cute and easy to watch. I personally started with SOTUS and History 2 Boundary Crossing; but you can really pick any show, they’re all great! 😉have fun watching! 😄

xx 

Lainey Molnar

Burn Notice. [S1.E1: Pilot.]