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Gute sheep/gutefår. Värmland, Sweden (May 7, 2016).

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X-Men 2000 / dir. Bryan Singer

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The Seventh Victim (Mark Robson, 1943) 

“The linkage of homosexuals and witchcraft within popular understanding has a long and tangled history. The analogy was certainly present at the dawn of the classical period of Hollywood horror films, as evidenced by a 1930 Scribners Magazine essay about homosexuality entitled “Demoniac Possession”.  Certainly many of the women (and men) put to death for witchcraft throughout the preceding centuries might have been considered homosexual by twentieth-century definitions. […] Somewhat similarly, The Seventh Victim invokes the analogy in ways more sympathetic to homosexuality. While it could have easily fallen into the trap of using gay and lesbian signifiers to characterize its villains (i.e. homosexual = Satanist, as did Universal’s The Black Cat in 1934), the film is much more complex than that. Contemporary reviews of the film didn’t comment upon the homosexual connotations, but were still a bit baffled by the subtleties of the film: “just what the sister was doing, of how that curious doctor figured in, or why that egg head poet was so prescient or who came out with what - well, don’t ask us.” In fact, it is part of the film’s project to depict complex erotic relationships that ultimately defy the traditional narrative demands of a happy heterosexual Hollywood ending. […] The climax of the film involves an extended cross-cut sequence between Dr Judd and Jason and a scene wherein the Palladists try to get Jacqueline to drink poison. Thematically, the two men lay their cards on the table while the Palladists try to keep their secret by forcing Jacqueline’s suicide. Ultimately, Jacqueline does hang herself, and the Palladists continue their shadowy existence. Remarkably for a Hollywood film of this era, they are not punished in any way” - Harry M. Benshoff, from “Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film”, 1997.

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@eggsforkillie is open for submissions!

Need some accountability for your creative work? Need a one-month check-in? Need to throw an egg at Killie with the sheer power of your mind?

Submit your intention to @eggsforkillie, programmed by the incredibly skilled @patheticprogrammingperson , to receive your one-month check-in. If you do it today, your check-in reblog will trigger on the fourth of June. You can reply with photos or description of your progress for everyone to admire.

Can you pull it off? Well I bloody well hope so, because I boldly submitted my intention to have 15k words of Throw Your Heart Over written by then, and I want you with me.

Riders mount up!

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You're about to close on your very own, suspiciously affordable and comfortable house. Just before you sign the contract, the realtor shows you the required legal disclosure: your new house is haunted by the type of presence you'll get from this spinner wheel.

Of course it is.

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i will clown on the squeaky leather of the hug scene from Gillian but truly it is a very tender scene that squeezes my heart whenever i see it. i think back as well to the end of The Fix when hutch falls into starsky for a hug once they've "got" the bad guys, how he craves all-encompassing comfort when he is sad or hurt, needing for a second to shut out the noise of the world and have someone literally and figuratively hold him up for a moment when the fight goes out. how he is more outwardly closed off than starsky (charming and friendly, sure, but more reserved, the straight man to starsky's childish clowning), but in these moments needing to be consumed by affection and tender care... by the only person who he would allow to care for him in this way.

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Leverage episode where they have to bypass security and burn the Gävlebocken

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Dog does not understand

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-The Far Side of the World

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I saw a lady today holding a kitten really high up so artistic rendition of it because it made my day. The lil guy was just okay with it

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A recent New Scientist cartoon 🍄 #fungi

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tiktoks with vine energy pt. 2

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