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I don't want to watch new shows or seasons while doing something else. My background shows are comforting and familiar so I don't need to give them my full attention; I would much rather give new content my full focus to wholly appreciate it. I think this push to assuming that viewers are "multitasking" is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you are writing such descriptive dialogue, obscuring the scenes in darkness, oversimplifying the plot to the point that I simply cannot suspend disbelief, then yeah, I don't want to give that my full focus. There are other things I would sooner be doing , so I guess I will treat this as background noise to at least get some resolution that I wanted. But it's damn disappointing. This post brought to you by S6 of The Handmaid's Tale.

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WUNMI MOSAKU as ANNIE SINNERS (2025) dir. Ryan Coogler

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Served in the French resistance AND invented mifepristone

May his memory be a blessing

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Carl Kahler aka Karl Kahler (Austrian, 1856-1906, b. Linz, Austria, d. 1906, San Francisco, CA, USA Earthquake) - Three Black Cats, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

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January, Biren De, 1992

Oil on canvas 44 x 38 in. (111.8 x 96.5 cm)

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Skaistė Verdingytė — Summer Memories (oil on canvas, 2022)

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i love words like “acquire” and “acquit” etc… it’s such a treat to see c and q together like that. they’re such an odd couple. it’s like if you were in high school¹ and one day you saw the blonde overachiever valedictorian² hanging out with the weird friendless goth girl with the siouxsie sioux³ hair and you realized they’d been childhood friends all along

¹ stage of education in the united states, commonly portrayed in a romanticized manner in films and tv shows. ² untranslatable; a type of warrior-priest. ³ english singer who was an important figure in the emergence of the gothic rock genre in the late 1970s.

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Steal his Look!

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SINNERS 2025, dir. Ryan Coogler

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Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones - The Mask of Zorro (1998)

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Very rare green and black painted wooden double-sided numerical snake motif gameboard. New England, Mid-19th Century. 12.5 x 12.5 in.

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Up a tree, William Schaeuble

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having audio processing issues is so humiliating like yeah i heard you and yeah i was actively listening but the problem is i dont know what the fuck you sayed

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The multiverse, Shane Drinkwater

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Sir Ian McKellen to open historic all-trans and non-binary production of Shakespeare classic

Sir Ian McKellen (Getty)

Sir Ian McKellen will open a brand new production of the Shakespeare classic Twelfth Night featuring all trans and non-binary performers.

The Lord of the Rings star, 86, will join in on the one-night only rehearsed reading by the theatre group Trans What You Will in July.

Staged at London’s The Space Theatre, the reading will be broadcast globally via a livestream. All profits are going to the UK-based trans charity, Not A Phase.

The performance will take one of Shakespeare’s most well known and gender-fluid works and reimagine it through a trans lens.

“With mistaken identities, cross-dressing, and declarations of love across shifting gender roles, Twelfth Night has long explored the complexity of identity,” a press release reads.

“This production makes that queerness explicit, reclaiming the story through the lived experiences of trans and nonbinary artists.”

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Phoebe Kemp, who is directing, has said: “Twelfth Night already toys with gender and performance, it feels like Shakespeare wrote it for us. This reading is about joy, solidarity and showing what’s possible when trans and nonbinary artists are at the centre of the story.”

The performance, which will take place ahead of London Trans+ Pride, has also been billed as “a joyful act of protest and pleasure activism, celebrating gender diversity at a time when trans representation remains under threat.:

Twelfth Night – A Rehearsed Reading by Trans What You Will is set to take place on 25 July 2025 at The Space Theatre. Tickets to attend in person are available here. Tickets for the livestream are available here. Pay-what-you-can tickets are available.

-- Pay-what-you-can livestream?! I love you, Sir Ian!