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how the destiel meme comes across every time i see it

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uhmm you know ur maid would eat you with zero hesitation if you died. right

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well, well. you thought it would be fun having an icecreamgirl gf. you thought it would be cool that she's plural and has three flavors. now she's trying to conquer europe, and you come crying to me

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the resume autofill feature for job applications is. So Useful.

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Ampharos (2025) - Wisdom of Sea and Sky: Lugia Illustrator: Whisker

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⚡Unite Vent⚡

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The Killing Frost by Max Catto - Now On Internet Archive!

The movie Trapeze (1956), featuring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis as co-stars, was a big hit when it came out, and it has caused some amount of interest in its source material, a 1950 novel called The Killing Frost by British author Max Catto. (Let's just say the movie was a... very loose adaptation.) However, though the book is available to purchase online in Spanish translation, it's been nearly impossible to find anywhere to view or buy it online in English...

...until now!

Through the joint effort of myself and my good friend @sleuth1972, we have put The Killing Frost right here on Internet Archive so everyone can check it out - whether they be Trapeze fans, rare book enthusiasts, or people who want to know the story behind these really homoerotic excerpts. Enjoy!

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When unwanted and shaken to death on purpose, all human ties are cut off like a severed rope.

THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA 楢山節考 (1958, Kinoshita Keisuke)

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"you are annoying about x & y" okay. this is the being annoying website.

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Solidarity is real, no matter what Zionists tell you.

I am a gay Jew living in the USA and I do not for one second think that I suffer worse oppression than Palestinians in Gaza, 48, or the USA. I don't say that for "scoring points" I say it because it's true and obvious to anyone who thinks about it for 10 seconds.

Posts like this insult your intelligence. They are written like they are stating the obvious while peddling obvious lies. Most people are capable of caring for others; it is unnatural not to. It is the self-centeredness of only caring about yourself and those that an empire has told are "just like you" that is unnatural.

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Dashiell Hammett, who basically invented the noir genre (think: The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man) hung out enough in the queer scene in San Francisco in the 20s-30s that he picked up some contemporary queer lingo that he folded into his stories. In The Maltese Falcon, there’s a scene where the wildly gay-coded villain shows up at a meeting with a skinny little blonde with a bad attitude and a gun in tow, and detective Sam Spade tells him to “leave the gunsel outside” — gunsel being contemporary gay slang for a young, effeminate man who probably bottoms (from the Yiddish gansl, meaning gosling). Basically, he’s saying “I’m here to talk to you, not your twink.”

However, a lot of writers mimicking Hammett did not know gay lingo or Yiddish, saw the word “gun,” and assumed “gunsel” meant “scary bodyguard with a gun.” They took off with a word they didn’t understand and spread it so fast that it’s now basically impossible to read a noir story written between 1930-1960 without someone accidentally being called a twink at least once. Look out for it next time you’re reading Raymond Chandler or his ilk, I guarantee you’ll find it.

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some assorted interesting excerpts from the first half of the killing frost (trapeze 1956 source novel)