#rupert's life

[budgie2budgie]

geena's life - rupert's life - earlier - next

[heaven to me - theo lawrence]

[mynameismad]

A selection of funnie panels from pages 604-609 of SAKANA, my long-running webcomic about guys who work in a fish market who are EXTREMELY bad at romance.

Jiro wants the deets on Yuudai's "definitely not a date" dinner, but Yuudai is unfriendly. It's his charm point.

You can read the whole thing for free here!

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[sakana-comic]

🐟✨SAKANA UPDATE✨🐟

Back to regular updates after this behemoth of a page! You wanted MORE backgrounds, huh? No? Nobody's forcing me to make pages like this?? Hold on. Wait. Hold o

Read SAKANA pages 647-648 here!

[nuveau-deco]

Ring Featuring an Octopus and Nude Woman Holding a Pearl. Designed by François-Rupert Carabin (born in Saverne, Bas-Rhin, France, 1862 – died in Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France, 1932). Materials are molten silver and a chrome pearl. Musée d’Orsay inventory number: RF MO OAO 2017 12 9

(Source: musee-orsay.fr)

[mycatismyfriend]

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 4x22 "Restless"

[suddenly-stickmin]

Charles voice: 3 sleepy boys coming right up

[islndgurl777]

I said in the middle of the episode, when Rebecca was staring at Rupert during the match, “I really want Rebecca to get to the point where she doesn’t think of Rupert at all. Where he’s not even a consideration to her or her happiness.” Because even though they’re divorced and she got his team in the split, she’s still looking at him. She’s still thinking about beating him, all the ways she can humiliate him and lord it over him.

He destroyed her (controlled her for years, prevented her from fulfilling her dream of becoming a mother, humiliated her in the press when they got divorced, etc.) and every moment she spends continuing to let him influence her like this just hurts her more. I love her and want better for her.

And I think when she saw Rupert messing around with his assistant, she had a bit of that realization. He’s still messing around. He’s still a piece of shit. And now he’s doing to Bex what he did to her, what he did to his wife before her.

“Your daughter deserves better and so does Bex. Stop fucking around.” It didn’t feel like a threat to me. It didn’t feel like she wants to use it to hold over him. It didn’t feel angry, it felt like...pity. For Bex and the baby for sure, maybe even for Rupert for being such a broken record, but also maybe a little bit for herself for wasting all that energy on hating him.

At least, I hope that’s what that was, because like I said before, I want better for Rebecca, and I think learning to let go of Rupert will go a long way to getting her where she wants and needs to be in her life.

[jasmancer]

AU where Three Of Them

[yarboyandy]

Chosen Ones

[watchmorecinema]

Yukio Mishima has been trending this week for uh, reasons. He was a world renowned Japanese author and all of his work is overshadowed by his actions on November 25, 1970. You might not want to read more about this guy because he is horrible and disgusting, but he's utterly fascinating and the movie about him is brilliant.

He's a really interesting character, to the point that he sounds fictional. He's gay, obsessed with ritualistic death, a right wing lunatic, led a private militia that was halfway to a cult, and also was a legitimately great author. His life is covered in the film Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and it's easily the most beautiful film I've seen in my life. Look at the stills I posted above; every frame of this movie looks like that. It's all just a series of beautiful paintings with people living in them.

The way the film is structured is that it tells the story of his life in three ways. His past is told in black and white flashbacks with static cameras. This is closer to how a movie from the 50's would look like (specifically ones directed by Yasujirō Ozu). The events of three of his books are told with this beautifully stylized look, with sets that look like stage plays. The events of November 25, 1970 is told in an almost normal fashion, with regular colors and competent camerawork. The past is nostalgic, the present is mundane and only in fantasy can you truly come alive.

Through this movie we see the ideology of Mishima coming through. His nationalism, his sexual feelings and his thoughts on beauty and death all come together. Death isn't just a violent and tragic end, it is in itself a beautiful act. Beauty is the only true goal of life and creating beauty brings honor. Growing old and ugly is an act of hate; to die at your peak is to give love back to the world. It is therefore treasonous to live long enough to die peacefully. He pities what heaven must look like now; when men died young and beautiful it was paradise, but now it is filled with old men.

This is an objectively insane way to view the world but it is also fascinating. How much of this was what he believed, and how much of it was just begging for attention? In one instance when asked why he moved to the right politically he said "because the left was full". It was a joke answer, but he clearly wanted to be in the spotlight. His shield society was a paramilitary group dedicated to living a virtuous life of beauty, honor and old ideals. It was also a group of good looking, athletic young men led by a (barely) closeted, conservative gay man. So much of his life could have gone differently but also he was pretty much in control the whole time; he was independently wealthy and revered on the world stage. He could do whatever he wanted, and apparently the way his life went *is* what he wanted.

What's special about Mishima, both in the film and in real life, is that he's a smart and eloquent guy. In films the guy with a crazy worldview is someone like Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver or D-Fens from Falling Down. Travis couldn't understand the alienation and loneliness he felt and he couldn't find any healthy solutions. D-Fens was smart enough but not emotionally strong enough to confront his problems or deal with them maturely. These are people that could benefit greatly from therapy (other examples include Joker from Joker, Rupert Pupkin from the King of Comedy, Frank Murdoch from God Bless America, Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, Tyler Durden from Fight Club and so, so many more).

These are either 20 something year olds that are lost in the world, alienated and lonely, or 40 something year olds with a mid life crisis when they realize that everything has fallen apart. People who don't know where to go, or realize it's too late to change things. Travis Bickle had basically no friends, no family, no charisma with women and a lot of rage and anger. D-Fens lost his job, his self respect and was estranged from his ex-wife and daughter. These are people who's lives are shit at best (Patrick Bateman is a bit of a subversion. He is rich and successful, but his life is completely hollow, his relationships are shallow and he personally is very, very pathetic. I need to write about American Psycho later that film is great too.).

Mishima is different. He's smart enough to understand his issues and how to find help. He's got the money and means to do so. He's famous and rich enough that he could basically get away with anything weird or eccentric so long as it was harmless. On the world stage he was a popular author, and at home he led a life of political activism. If he was unhappy he could easily find healthy ways to fix it. His self destruction was the most avoidable of any of them, yet he's the only one that existed in real life. You expect these people to have serious personality flaws and unfixable (or seemingly unfixable) problems, not to be poetic writers that adhere to healthy living and regularly journal about their emotions, while enjoying respect from their peers and fulfillment in their work.

It's a hell of a film. Paul Schrader has not written or directed anything better (he actually wrote Taxi Driver too, so he had some experience with this type of character before) and it stands out as an incredible experience to watch. Like, Mishima's life is public knowledge and you can probably guess how it went, but I've purposefully not said what happened on November 25, 1970 because I don't want to spoil it. It's an event that actually happened but it's better for you to find out via the film than some wikipedia page.

[serendipity-in-love]

My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)

[budgie2budgie]

…𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚋𝚊𝚌𝚔 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚘𝚜𝚊

geena's life - rupert's life - earlier - next

[velvet - royel otis]

[trentcrimminallybeautiful]

it would be really funny if ted's internal monologue actually has a lot of swearing he just almost never says any of it out loud bc like, he's a polite midwestern dad

[hacash]

I wish everyone who gloated about how Nate’s future at West Ham was due to fail - how he was bound embarrass himself at West Ham, the players would never respect him,he’d never be a real coach and the only way he could ever redeem himself would be to be utterly humiliated and brought ‘down a peg’ first - a very *~*smug grin*~*, because he’s known as the hottest coach in the league! Pundits are still praising how good his tactics are! His team beat Zava! Context* tells us Nate is killing it at West Ham! In his personal life he’s taking steps towards combining humility and confidence; he’s got better self-help routines and is forging a genuine connection with someone he really likes!

And it turns out that Nate didn’t need to be humiliated or ‘fixed’ by someone else in order to be a better person; he just needed to step away from a situation that at that time wasn’t good for him! And recognise on his own what he did wrong with Ted, and make steps to look after himself! Who’d have thunk!

[nuveau-deco]

Siren and Octopus Inkwell by François-Rupert Carabin. Made in France around 1900; materials are bronze and wood; dimensions: W. 15 x H. 25 x D. 23.50 cm. From the Ferdinand Wolfgang Neess collection at Museum Wiesbaden in Germany, inventory number: MUWI-KS-AK-0146. Photo by Markus Bollen.

"François-Rupert Carabin is one of the most extravagant representatives of French Art Nouveau. Typical of the Alsatian-born artist is the strong eroticization of the female nude, which also characterizes this small bronze. It was first exhibited at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1903. An almost identical, undated plaster model of the same size without a signature exists for the object. The octopus takes the place of the female sexual organ. Like a phallus, the pen holder must be dipped into the ink in order to absorb it. The creative act of writing is reflected in the symbolic pro-creative sexual act with the object. Analogous to the immaterial creation of the text in the writer's head, the sexual act between the writing instrument and the siren/octopus creates the material text." (Author: Thomas Moser)

(Source: museum-wiesbaden.de)

[krislgfox]

@north-heats-stronghold

Heya! It's me again. Cool work on you au, nice to see it progressing well. If your alright with taking another art request from me, how about my experiment Rupert in your Nice Monsters: New Life au?

I tried :_]