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donald trump will die on july 20th 2025 at 1pm pacific standard time

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On Weaponized Incompetence

From Reddit / Manchild by Sabrina Carpenter / labour by Paris Paloma / Olivia Rodrigo promotional image / Goodbye by Marina / I'm Not Your Mother, I'm Not Your Bitch by Courtney Barnett / Scene from Challengers / Ain't Your Mama by Jennifer Lopez / Arms by Blondshell / L8r Boi by Ashnikko / Scene from Gone Girl / No More Suckers by Marina / GIVEN ENOUGH by Nessa Barrett

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Erik please, you cry just as much.

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If you're in the US military or National Guard, and are given an illegal or unconstitutional order, the GI Rights hotline (1-877-447-4487) is there to help give you the support you need to do the right thing by refusing it. It would be good to think about this now before it becomes a live issue for you and it would be smart of you to memorize that number.

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can we like, have adaptations made by people who care about the thing they're adapting

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The Phantom of the Opera by Kate McMullan, Japanese edition

Here's a little treasure. This is a Japanese translation of Kate McMullen's English language children's adaptation of Phantom of the Opera, illustrated by Marie Kitayama.

The book told the events of the book from Erik's eyes, starting with his childhood. The original is in English and is really great for young readers, and I think adult fans will like it too.

I love the shoujo art style.

You can see more images at better quality at Opera Ghost's website.

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ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on

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I touched you for only a fortnight

I touched you

But I touched you

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So I watched a random documentary about cuckoo birds and randomly remember Susan Kay's Phantom so I get the book to remember exactly what she had said about it and oh my god....

Raoul considered Charles to be a cuckoo because Erik is heavily implicated to be the father and he is now left to raise it, full well knowing that it's not his kid just like a cuckoo would leave her eggs in a nest for another bird to raise and I realized...

Susan Kay basically called Raoul De Chagny a cuckold. It took me 7 years to catch this, but she basically does and I can't believe that it took me this long to realize it

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I couldn't decide which one is funnier, so I went with both.

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This came to me because I still can't believe that Kay really called Erik a cuckoo for impregnating Christine and making Raoul raise his kid just like a cuckoo does 😂

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Re reading the original hunger games is so funny bcus katniss can literally read haymitch's mind like what. I'm dying of thirst but haymitch hasn't sent me water, that must mean that there's some nearby!! And one kiss is one pot of broth!! Like she even acknowledges that it's strange when she's like oh to peeta this would just be a pot of broth. Haymitch will give her one look and katniss knows immediately what he means and she's right every time

Meanwhile peeta is like your dress really suits you and you look nice :) and katniss is like he's trying to kill me

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I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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THE MUPPETS (2015) Episode 2 - "Hostile Makeover"