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He needs his straining order so he can maintain the proper amount of cahoots to get back on his bullshit, all right?

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Heeeelp, my brother got attacked by a bat and is refusing to go to the hospital, rabies is one of my biggest phobias, I'm going to puke

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Since I love Ghosties stories, I did some digging in Fairfax County public records and the truth of bunny man unraveled pretty quickly. First of- yes Grifon was a real man and yes he was an escaped PRISON inmate known for skinning rabbits and eating them. Yes he killed fellow inmate Markus Wallster after the escape. And yes! He was killed after being struck at an overpass during a standoff with police. However he is NOT bunny man.

Bunny man wasn't seen for the first time until 1968, and NOT at the overpass where Grifon was killed. he was blamed for an unexplained series of murders in previous years including the unsolved murders of Frances and June Holober (1949), the attack of Minnie, Loretta, and Catherine Ridgeway (1927) which was later to be proven to be the work of neighbor Louis Borseig, and the murder of Eva Roy (1927) thoughts its believed her murderer may be Lu Hall, though he was tried and retired and found not guilty.

The actual myth of rabbit man started in 1970, when police reports of a man dressed in a rabbit suit who "liked throwing hatches through car windows" after a man did this to Robert Bennet and his fiance. Neither were injured. Two weeks later a man wearing the suit was caught cutting down the supports for the roof of a new house. Another week later, a man wearing a gray bunny suit was found by a policeman on the porch of a new but unoccupied house, shopping down the supports. When asked what he was doing the rabbit replied "you people are all trespassing here and if you don't leave I'm gonna bust you on the head." The officer walked to his car to retrieve his handcuffs, only to turn to find the rabbit, approx. 5'8 and 160lbs, had run off. A man was later recorded going to the project managers office and telling him that he was "trespassing and messing his property" by leaving limbs and stumps everywhere, as well and construction supplies.

Tah-dah! The rabbit man, while real, was not a single man, rather multiple men spanning over 70 years. The last 'real' sighting of the rabbit man was in 1978 and the bridge he's claimed to be seen at is just a bridge.

Its never been proven that the rabit man, aside from grifon himself, ever physically harmed anyone as the hatched thrown at Bennet was later proven to be wood. The murders of francis and june holober are the only ones still unsolved and, based on evidence, were likely a crime of opportunity against Francis. Francis had been assaulted and shot once in the head, meaning a sudden crime of a sexual motivation had likely befallen her. Eight month old june, though she was murdered, was left physically untouched, instead dying of asphyxia when buried alive beside her mother. So there you go! The full story there!

I’m not sure it’s real but it’s creepy.

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Why are dipper pines and Steve harrington the same character?

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I was reading LOTR to my niece and nephew and, into the ears of a 3 and 2 year old, accidentally and very confidently called bilbo... dildo baggins.

The 2 year old is unphased but the three year old is now asking his parents for "the dildo book" and I need to go throw myself off of an overpass.

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My sister just said that even if Chappell Roan were to still actively seek out and sleep with men (yes cis men before you make a point about complex ideologies) that doesn't mean she's not a lesbian.

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Why yall gotta say Inzoi will be the sim killer. You can have BOTH. You're allowed to like BOTH. why are games meant to be relaxing and fun so high stakes for yall? Same for things like MTAS, like??? Chill out?? It is a GAME. For fun. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING in your life is riding on this and if it is then you've got much bigger things to worry about. Relax. Breath. There is a reason it is called PLAYING video games. Because they're a form of play. So play the way we all did as kids: play to have fun and stop making discourse where there does not need to he any.

Be respectful of the game devs culture. It is a Korean game. There will be things that we see as acceptable in our culture that they won't. I'm sorry there's no same sex marriage, but it's a KOREAN game. It is illegal there, regardless of if you think it should be or not. I wish it was in the game too, but don't rage at the devs for not putting something that could get them in trouble.

And I feel the need to remind you, as some of these posts are coming off so incredibly and ridiculously entitled: THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO MAKE THE GAME AT ALL. it's early access, of course it's not finished yet. You didn't have to buy it, you could have waited. They could have just heard all your whining and decided to scrap the project. But they made it and, from what I've seen, are very passionate about it.

The developers are people. They will not get everything exactly how you want it. Shut. Up.

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Tonight Tonight Tonight

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Me: *writes several LGBT characters in my scripts as well as a diverse representation as much as I can, including disabled characters both physically and mentally*

My readers: "we like these! Can't wait to see more!"

Me: *writes ONE strong, humorous female character who's the main lifeline of her group and rolls with the punches, determined toward her goals for herself and loved ones... but she's straight and falls in love with a man.*

My readers: "Why man? >:( why girl need man?"

Me: "she doesn't necessarily NEED him, but the world ended, and he's her only human connection at the time, so she's a bit smitten."

My readers: "WHY? MAN? >:(".

Yall realize diverse means including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different sexes, sexual orientation, etc.

Eventually, there's going to be a straight couple in my writing. Spare me.

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Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

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My little brother is my best friend. He and I are TIGHT. I'm the only one he will cry in front of, came to me with bullying issues, asked for advice about girls when he was a teenager tight. He and I would NEVER just take each other's clothes.

He's 6'4, 210 lbs, I'm 5'6 145lbs. Needless to say I often covet his clothes because they're oversized and so, so soft. What girl doesn't love oversized sweats and tshirts to sleep in? Do I just go take them because I want them? NO! They're HIS clothes. If he outgrows (yes, he's still growing 😵‍💫) them of decides he maybe doesn't like a pair anymore he has a tendency to give them to me or if I ask he let's me borrow some.

See the key thing here: I ASK and he CONSENTS. I don't just take them and LEAVE FOR COLLEGE WITH THEM. Stealing your siblings things and then parading around in them while sending pictures like it's some kind of big "fuck you" is WEIRD and just plain disrespectful. So glad my dad and brother aren't like that.

My brother just sent my family chat a bunch of photos of him at a trans fundraiser in women’s clothing… my fucking clothing. He didn’t ask for permission before taking it with him to university. I feel sick.

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How do I block a tag? I keep seeing really gruesome medfet shit and I want it off my dash lol

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Dacre Montgomery is ready to work

There’s a famous audition tape of Dacre Montgomery’s online. Maybe you’ve seen it; some 18 million people have. And it’s captivating to watch, not just because of Montgomery’s intensity, but because of the clear control that he has at such a young age. That steady ferocity cuts right through the screen, even though he’s just ‘running lines’ against a plain blue backdrop. It also cut through the sea of other actors gunning for a role in Stranger Things and made him Billy Hargrove, the resident bad guy on the sci-fi drama that broke Netflix viewership records on its way to becoming one of the biggest shows in TV history.

It’s been almost six years since that audition made Montgomery a global star, but the man sitting in front of me has lost none of that vigour. Reclining in a side room at a studio in Sydney before the photoshoot accompanying this article, the now 28-year-old looks casual. He’s wearing a plain black T-shirt, white shorts and one of those non-descript navy caps movie stars wear when they want to be incognito. The outfit is a simple one, designed to avoid attention—a far cry from the red carpet fashion that Montgomery favours. But as he starts talking about the thing he loves most—movies and the process of making them—that same intensity takes over; a passion that has him on the edge of his seat.

“When I was in my early teens, all I did was stay in my room and watch movies. And I fell in love with everything,” he says. The reverence, the obsession, is what drives Montgomery, and not just when it comes to acting. On set for today’s shoot, Montgomery—who was recently named the face of Politix’s new autumn/winter “The Gentle Man” campaign—is completely locked in. Unlike some who see an ambassador role as an opportunity to make a quick buck, Montgomery has signed on because he’s excited about the brand’s refreshed look and new chapter. “I don't just rock up on time. I rock up 10 minutes early,” he told me, “I don't just give one idea, I give 10 ideas because I don't engage with anything unless I'm authentically interested in it.”

He’s not kidding. After each burst of shots, he pores over them like he’s the creative director, rather than the subject—not out of vanity, but to see if the images are challenging enough. At one point, he grabs a mirror from the corner of the room. “Let’s just try it”, he tells the crew, and proceeds to work it straight into the shoot.

This dedication to perfection hasn’t always been easy for him or the people around him. After Stranger Things, the search for the next perfect role was almost paralysing. “Before I felt like, ‘look, I'm not going to take anything unless I'm 150 per cent invested’,” he says, and eventually, that attitude led to Montgomery parting ways with his team—his management, agents, everyone.

During that period, which he describes as a creative hole, Montgomery tried anything and everything. He wrote poetry (which was released as a book by publisher Andrews McMeel under the title DKMH and turned into a spoken word podcast of the same name), made short films, and dedicated himself to learning the arts of cinematography and screenwriting—at some points, he was watching three films a day, “morning, noon, night”, just like he did as a teenager.

Part of the fear that drove him into that lull was the looming presence of being typecast. When there are roles being offered to you left, right and centre, which one is the ‘perfect’ next step to take? This year, he has started climbing out of that hole, engaging more filmmakers as well as taking on roles like the one with Politix. But, there is still a sense of wariness.

For example, as news broke that Hugh Jackman wouldn’t be returning as Wolverine—a decision that he has since reversed—rumours swirled that Montgomery might step into the role. But for him, it’s about the filmmakers rather than any big-name character. “It’s just finding filmmakers that I'm really interested in working with and going from there as opposed to it being like, ‘oh, I've always wantedto play Wolverine or Bane’,” he says, “but also, I’m feeling a little bit of Marvel fatigue. I’m not really interested in it in the same way that I was.”

Montgomery isn’t alone in his ‘Marvel fatigue’, plenty of moviegoers aren’t as interested as they once were—just look at the recent box office figures—but it’s another example of how he’s a film fan first, and an actor second. He can thank his parents for that.

“My dad started taking me to films that I shouldn't have been seeing when I was a kid,” Montgomery says, “but he worked in the film industry and he would explain to me the process of everything.” From the very beginning, he was exposed to not just the definitive films of the time, but also how they were made. His mother and father would take him to the sets they were working on and show him the ins and outs. “It was like, ‘here’s the unadulterated version of the world and the industry and here are all the ins and the outs of how movies are made.”

For some actors, fame, as much as the films that inspire them, is a driver. And it’s only if they reach a level of success that they really see how the sausage is made—which is not always pretty, especially if they aren’t backed by a huge studio. Thanks to his parents, Montgomery is a rare actor who has always known about the gritty reality of making low-budget films—the long days, the repetition, the egos—but that’s what he fell in love with. “I'm not here for money or notoriety or anything like that,” he says, “I really care about the work and that's what I'm there for.”

But it’s that moment when he actually steps in front of the camera and it’s time to perform that has always had Montgomery hooked. “When you’re on set, I don't try to take up too much space and I wait until it’s my time to go in front of the camera and do my little thing. But when I do that… It's ecstasy. There’s nothing but that moment, do you know what I mean?”

Though it’s been a few years since Montgomery has had those moments and shared them with the world—Elvis, in which he was a scene-stealer, was largely filmed in 2020—he’s getting back to work. “I am climbing out of that [hole] and what that looks like is me engaging with more filmmakers,” he says. Of the three filmmakers he has agreed to work with—at least publicly—one thing is clear: they aren’t interested in making simple, sugar-coated work.

The first film we are likely to see in Montgomery’s next chapter is Spider & Jesse, directed by Dan Kay, which dives into the far-reaching consequences of addiction. “It’s about two girls that find their mother dead in the first scene and they bury her in the backyard so they don't have to go into the foster care system,” Montgomery explains, “I play the mum’s ex-boyfriend that was dealing her the drugs.”

It’s an unglamorous role with limited screen time, but that didn’t bother Montgomery because it was clear the film, and the people behind it, had something vital to say. “I realised they were on a mission to give insight into the people that are affected by addiction—family, friends, and people they're associated with rather than shedding light on the addicts themselves.”

Filming on Spider & Jesse, which took place in Florida, has already wrapped, but Montgomery’s other two projects are yet to begin production. Both are ambitious, and both defy simple explanation. The first, titled Went Up That Hill, comes from Samuel Van Grinsven, a New Zealand-born, Sydney-based director who became a festival circuit favourite with his feature debut Sequin in a Blue Room.

In essence, Montgomery says the film is an assessment of abuse and how trauma lingers from our childhoods. Beyond the message of the film though, it’s the challenging acting work—he’s heading to Berlin to work with co-star Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread, Old), Van Grinsven and a movement coach to prepare for the complex role—that has attracted him.

The same goes for Faces of Death, the other project Montgomery has been linked to, which is a remake of a 1978 American mondo horror film notoriously banned for years in countries across the world, including Australia, due to its graphic depictions of death. “I have a really interesting co-star [Euphoria’s Barbie Ferreira] who I love, and the character is a serial killer, and for me, it was like, ‘what’s the thing that’s going to scare me so much about creating this character?’” he says of the film, “So I rang the director and I was like, ‘I want to go visit a serial killer in a state penitentiary in the state of California when I'm back because it scares the shit out of me’.”

After these films wrap up, Montgomery plans to start his journey into directing. “I want to direct my first movie and right now I'm in the process of working on the script with my writer and then I'm going to go on the process of trying to put the movie together,” he says, and he won’t give much more than that away, but if there’s anything we’d wager on, it’s that the movie will be challenging—both to make and in concept.

If these types of films don’t sound like they’ll be box office smashes or Oscar bait, Montgomery isn’t worried. “To me, the success of the movie is in the making of the movie,” he says. “And the outcome of the movie looks like a cathartic experience making [it], as opposed to some other thing like, ‘Oh, I want to get into this film festival and I want the film to have a 4.0 on Letterboxd.’ That's not what I'm doing it for.”

The same attitude goes for his partnership with Politix. Beyond filmmaking, Montgomery is passionate about the way that fashion allows him to control his direct experience. “I suffer from incredibly bad OCD,” he shares, “And I have always found comfort in controlling my surroundings, and that is fabric. My mood is very affected by what I have on my skin and what I have in my space and what I can smell and all that sort of stuff bleeds into my personal life aside from fashion.”

As with his project selection in cinema, the aesthetics are one thing, but for Montgomery to come on board he has to believe in the direction of the project.

“I'm interested in [Politix’s] reworking of the company and what they’re doing to reshape it for 2023 and onwards. But what I was genuinely interested in is that sensitivity of masculinity because that really is me. I am a very sensitive person. I'm very sensitive to my space and to interactions in my life. And I think this whole campaign is really about unpacking what is that.”

Once Montgomery signed on with Politix to become its new face, as with his films, he was all in. From the campaign direction to the execution of the advertising, Montgomery has been instrumental. He’s not just arriving, taking some photos and leaving—as with the photoshoot accompanying this shoot, he’s trying to make it the best he can.

“I want the product to be good, just as good as they want the product to be and not hopefully from a narcissistic point of view, from a point of view of I want it to be good,” he says, “That's more important to me than the paycheck or how many people see it or how successful the campaign is. That's the through line for me.”

It’s this sheer dedication to craft and passion for the work that has seen Montgomery through to where he is today. It’s what made that Stranger Things audition tape so arresting and, if he pulls off his big swings, may just make him one of the most memorable actors Australia has produced. Whether those ambitious punches land or not, there’s no doubt about one thing: Montgomery is ready to do the work.

PRODUCTION CREDITS:

Words by Charlie Calver

Photography by Jesse Lizotte

Styling by Miguel Urbina Tan

Fashion assisting by Isabella Mamas

Grooming by Joel Foreman

Production by Jade Carp

Dacre Montgomery wears Politix throughout; politix.com.au

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90s color pallet ass bird

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Poll for a title. They all fit the story fine, I just can't decide which rolls off the tongue easier.

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I don't know who needs to hear this but porn services human trafficking and some of yall are addicted to it anyway. That's all.

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Palia as Memes that I made in a manic state at 3 am

Please, I beg of you to enjoy my suffering. Palia memes came to be by them.

This is my way of promoting the game since they don't take donations or anything.