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Wasn’t Scarlett O’Hara the one who came up with making dresses out of the drapes?

Saiid Kobeisy Spring/Summer 2017

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I don’t know why everyone is making such a big deal out of that peach scene. It’s not like it spawned a huge trend in guys masturbating with peaches.

The masturbation scene in Lady Bird is much more iconic, if you ask me. She became the first of many, many young women to masturbate to pictures of Timothee Chalamet. If Tumblr is anything to go buy.

Timothée Chalamet on Oscar Nomination & Meeting Celebrities.

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There’s only one action you can take:

Move to Europe.

Occasionally I see someone on the news who has won the lottery, and they’re asked how they’ll spend the money. Nowadays, my first thought is, “I’d get the hell out of this godforsaken country.”

Anyone know how hard it is to learn Norwegian?

Absolutely horrifying. I can’t imagine the trauma these young people are still experiencing. How can we take action to prevent this from continuing to be the new normal?

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so the only two white actors in black panther are martin freeman, who played bilbo baggins, and andy serkis, who played gollum.

so I guess that means…they’re the Tolkien white guys.

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peter parker in the 2002 movie is fuckin…. incredible. he gets bitten by a fuckin jacked red blue spider and he doesnt say “hey someone should take me to the hospital mayhaps?” he just goes home. then the bite swells to the size of a fuckin jawbreaker but he’s like “nah i just need a nap.” then he wakes up the next day and discovers that he DOESN’T NEED HIS GLASSES ANYMORE and he has a fuckin six pack. does he flip his entire Fuck? no. he says, “cool.” iconic.

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The Hunger Games inspired me to name my vagina The Arena.

It just occurred to me that if I ever “discover” something and have a chance to name it: planet, star, plant, animal, etc. I am DEFINITELY naming it after characters in The Hunger Games

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Now that is just cruel. Macarons are my favorite thing in the world.

I turned 28 and my party theme was naturally “Call Me By Your Name.” Later!

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Wow, I feel old. I know you're probably too young to remember the ‘90s, but I remember a high school party at my English teacher's house where we all got together to watch the Kenneth Branagh version of Henry V. That movie was huge. It put Branagh on the map in a big way. No one had heard of him -- he was some random theater actor with some British TV credits (and this was back when no one but my grandmother watched British television).

He not only starred in Henry V, he also directed it. And he was nominated for both Best Actor and Best Director Oscars. So it was a BFD. The movie was, and still is, the Gold Standard for films of H5. So I’m a little sad that you went from “OMG Laurence Olivier” straight to “OMG Hiddleston” and skipped the actual meat in that sandwich. Branagh needs his props!!!!

Also, for the one small female part in the movie, he cast his real-life wife, Emma Thompson -- another future Oscar winner whom Americans had never seen before. So you could credit him with putting her on the map, too. He gave her a bigger part in his next movie, his first “Hollywood” movie (also featured Robin Williams and Anthony Garcia), called Dead Again, in which she played his love interest. Dead Again was so good that when I started college, literally the first week of my freshman year, it was the first movie I made my roommates watch. We spent the next four years quoting it. Whenever somebody needed a pair of scissors, you’d hand them the scissors and shout in a German accent, “Theesss are for you!” 

So please watch Dead Again. This is my PSA.

But back to the current topic, thank you for reminding me that Timmy’s middle name is Hal. I remember reading that once and thinking, “Either his parents are big Kubrick/2001 fans or big Henry IV fans.”

I love Henry IV. It’s amazing. I can’t get very excited about Henry v, though. It’s not as compelling a story. It’s been a long time, but from what I recall it’s about England invading France for some arcane reason, and after a while the English soldiers are like, “WTF are we doing here?” and it’s like their Vietnam. And Timmy seems way too young and sweet to be leading an invading army. The English soldiers be like, “Why TF is this scrawny Jewish kid from Manhattan leading our army? Go back to your Woody Allen movie!”

Also, RPatz cannot be Timmy’s BFF. Armie will get totes jealous. Timmy only gets one 31-year-old crazy drunk! Now, if they did H4 and RPatz played Falstaff, that would be awesome.

Timmy the King

I was just reading up of Henry V because well, not gonna lie - 2019 is a long way away and while we wait we might as well brush up on our History, or Shakespeare or y’know, get edumacated. Thanks, Wiki

Lo and behold, doesn’t this sound familiar? Timothée Hal Chalamet? As in Prince Hal Chalamet? It just doesn’t get any better than this.

Wayward youth? Well, yes of course! Rebellious Timmy is the kind of flashbacks I’d look forward to. Remember the troubled teen son of the veep from Homeland? 

Look at the accolades. Laurence freaking Olivier - I mean I’m no theatre nerd or acting student but I do know there are awards named after him. Who’s gonna bet Timmy be mentioning this name in his winning speeches

Before I get carried away I’ll just put this in there: fellow British Heartthrob Mr Hiddleston has played the role before.

p.s. also wiki mentions Henry V to have a best friend called Richard Courtenay whom he’d requested to be buried next to after his death instead of his wife. I mean, best friends with Robert Pattinson, anyone?

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Yeah, I disappeared for 6 months. I still love you all.

tumblr friendships are hard to maintain like im sorry i know i havent talked to you in 5 months but you’re still super rad and i still consider us friends im just dumb

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Wow. I know there are women who love handbags, but I never expected to see someone masturbating with one.

Rome

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Isn’t this exactly what Gale said (re: Madge/merchants) at the beginning of The Hunger Games? 

So Gale is a Marxist!

I think then that Peeta represents altruism and Katniss represents utilitarianism. 

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I haven’t commented about this season much, but I have to say I agree with this. Why introduce the idea that Even was so devastated by what went down with Mikael/balloon squad that he would try to KILL HIMSELF, and then just have all that resolved off-screen, and now they’re all buddy-buddy again? You can’t just write that off with, “Well, this is Sana’s season.” Julie chose to take the Even storyline to a darker place. Gay teens killing themselves is a real problem, and should not be brought up just to be disregarded. 

did they seriously introduce even’s tragic past and used it as a plot device to genera drama and tension…….only to resolve everything off-screen. without hearing his version of events once. did that seriously happen.

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BBC 100 books tag

To answer @papofglencoe​‘s question about the weird nature of this list (particularly the redundancy of authors as well as Shakespeare/Hamlet and Narnia/TLTWATW), this list was voted by the public, per the BBC’s site:

In April 2003 the BBC's Big Read began the search for the nation's best-loved novel, and we asked you to nominate your favourite books.

Below and on the next page are all the results from number 1 to 100 in numerical order!

BBC estimates that most people will only read 6 books out of the 100 listed below. Bold the ones you’ve read (and italicize the ones on your reading list).

I’m changing the rules because the social scientist in me wants more input, and because there were 11 books on this list I’ve never even heard of.

* = haven’t read the book but saw the movie ? = never heard of this book b + i = read part but never finished

And if I can rec one book on this list, it’s The Secret History.

Thanks @thegirlfromoverthepond and @papofglencoe​ for the tag.

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Bible (people have bolded this but I bet you haven’t read all of it) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

Complete Works of Shakespeare (ditto what I said re: Bible) Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier *The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk  ? Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Middlemarch - George Eliot Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald Bleak House - Charles Dickens War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy  The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck *Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame *Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy David Copperfield - Charles Dickens Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis  *Emma - Jane Austen Persuasion - Jane Austen The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne Animal Farm - George Orwell The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ? Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood  Lord of the Flies - William Golding Atonement - Ian McEwan Life of Pi - Yann Martel  Dune - Frank Herbert *Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ? The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ? A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Brave New World - Aldous Huxley The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez *Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov  The Secret History - Donna Tartt The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas On The Road - Jack Kerouac Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie Moby Dick - Herman Melville *Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens *Dracula - Bram Stoker The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ? Ulysses - James Joyce (my college bf wrote his thesis on this, which I had to read twice, so I’m counting it) The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ? Germinal - Emile Zola ? *Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray Possession - AS Byatt ? A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell *The Color Purple - Alice Walker *The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ? Charlotte’s Web - EB White The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom *Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ? Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ? Watership Down - Richard Adams A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ? *The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas Hamlet - William Shakespeare *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I’m going to tag @sunsetsrmydreams​ and any of my followers who have actually read this whole post.

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Poor Buttercup. Like he needed another reason to hate Katniss.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATNISS!!

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My mom told me about this after my parents went to Pompeii. And all I could think was that the phallus is the most ironic good luck symbol, because Pompeii ended the same way an erection ends.

fun fact about dicks in pompeii

so everyone knows that there are lots of dicks in pompeii. dicks on the floors. dicks over the doors. pompeii’s just full of dicks. this is because the phallus, to the ancient romans, was a sign of prosperity and good luck- it symbolized fertility, scared away robbers, and other such delights. and pompeii in particular was just full of good luck dicks.

but my absolute favorite kind of pompeian prosperity dick is one that i learned about on my tour of italy: oven dicks. see, we’ve found slots above oven doors where erect phalloi would project out of the wall. just hangin out there, above the bread. for good luck, see. and my tour leaders told me a very fun fact about these particular phalloi. it’s very likely that these phalloi had a special purpose, being associated with bread. chances are, bakers would rub the phallus as they were baking to help ensure a certain property and dicks and bread share.

so, y’know. to make the bread rise.

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Oh, man, I really want this Barbie-scale miniature bakery for my Peeta and Katniss Barbie dolls. I mean, this is incredible, all this hand-made, hand-painted miniature bread:

Isn’t it just begging to have one of these signs hanging over the door?

@keerakeera you are extremely talented! Muy bueno! I’m going to save up for one of these!

NATURAL WOOD BAKERY on #Ebay 1/6 scale #miniature #diorama #dollhouse #bakery #barbie #blythe #pullip (en Bilbao, Spain)