#simply amazing

[lucy-moderatz]

[sexyvixen7]

(Source: HollyDPhotos on Twitter)

He's stunning 😍

[illegiblehandwriting1]

Don, Kathy, and Cosmo are my ot3 now

look at them, they're in love

and frankly it's inside the realm of possibility to pretend that there's offscreen stuff for them too. Kathy's saying goodbye to Don and gives him a kiss? That's cuz Don already said bye to Cosmo inside. He'll still be there when Kathy goes back in. there's no love triangle, no underlying plot reasons why they shouldn't be together. they're just three little lovebirds and frankly i think that's amazing

[my-archived-blog]

please, I can't be the only one who thinks this scene is insane!!

Poirot says "I think it is time for a little banana cream"

he very deliberately glances sideways at Hastings

Hastings smirks through suggestive eyebrow movements

in the background, romantic music swells

[finitevoid]

Earlier today the manager who wanted a storied explanation about how I “got myself into that situation” re: getting raped as a teenager asked me why I’m so jumpy. Buddy. You wanna take a guess ?

[crowttore]

You will not believe what post I already have liked. Though the dolphin pussy jelly makes me think of something else that I don’t have the time to go to the confessional for, I absolutely 1000% agree with you that DOES need to happen with the pollen idea. Which I certainly don’t think about at least once a week. - Singed

I also certainly don't think about it at least once per week (I do). I've washed off the confessional for you, my liege.

[cloneloverrrrr]

I’ve been super rubbish on this platform recently, but I’m getting back on it now!

Just wanted to wish you all a happy Sunday & tell you all how I much I appreciate each & every single one of you🫶🏻

Your fics, your art, your comments, likes, reblogs

Like how I have met such amazing people online! 🩷🩷

Please don’t be offended if I haven’t tagged you it doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate you🙌🏻

@lune-de-miel-au-paradis @idontgetanysleep @hellhound5925 @maybethatfanfictionwriter @matookahitaki @rain-on-kamino @clonemedickix @ilovestarwarsmen725 @blueink-bluesoul @freesia-writes @firstofficerwiggles @knightprincess @king-chaos-world @clone-anon-after-dark @hello-there-cyarika @tcwmatchmakingau @the-bad-batch-baroness @wolffegirlsunite @secretthegriffin @gun-roswell @hardcasescyarika @dukeoftheblackstar @justanothersadperson93 @ghostperson69 @purgetrooper77 @wings-and-beskar @starrrgazingbunny @starrylothcat

[iwanthermidnightz]

As Taylor Swift rolled into Los Angeles this week, the frenzy surrounding her record-breaking Eras Tour was already in high gear.

Headlines gushed that she had given $100,000 bonuses to her crew. Politicians asked her to postpone her concerts in solidarity with striking hotel workers. Scalped tickets were going for $3,000 and up. And there were way, way too many friendship bracelets to count.

These days, the center of an otherwise splintered music world can only be Taylor Swift.

The pop superstar’s tour, which is now finishing its initial North American leg with six nights at SoFi Stadium outside Los Angeles, has been a both a business and a cultural juggernaut. Swift’s catalog of generation-defining hits and canny marketing sense have helped her achieve a level of white-hot demand and media saturation not seen since the 1980s heyday of Michael Jackson and Madonna — a dominance that the entertainment business had largely accepted as impossible to replicate in the fragmented 21st century.

“The only thing I can compare it to is the phenomenon of Beatlemania,” said Billy Joel, who attended Swift’s show in Tampa, Fla., with his wife and young daughters.

In a summer of tours by stars like Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Morgan Wallen and Drake, Swift’s stands apart, in numbers and in media noise. Although Swift, 33, and her promoters do not publicly report box-office figures, the trade publication Pollstar estimated that she has been selling about $14 million in tickets each night. By the end of the full world tour, which is booked with 146 stadium dates well into 2024, Swift’s sales could reach $1.4 billion or more — exceeding Elton John’s $939 million for his multiyear farewell tour, the current record-holder.

Swift has now had more No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 over the course of her career than any other woman, surpassing Barbra Streisand. With the tour lifting Swift’s entire body of work, she has placed 10 albums on that chart this year and is the first living artist since the trumpeter and bandleader Herb Alpert in 1966 to have four titles in the Top 10 at the same time.

“It’s a pretty amazing feat,” Alpert, 88, said in a phone interview. “With the way radio is these days, and the way music is distributed, with streaming, I didn’t think anyone in this era could do it.”

But how did a concert tour become so much more: fodder for gossip columns, the subject of weather reports, a boon for friendship-bracelet beads — the unofficial currency of Swiftie fandom — and the reason nobody could get a hotel room in Cincinnati at the end of June?

“She is the best C.E.O., and best chief marketing officer, in the history of music,” said Nathan Hubbard, a longtime music and ticketing executive who co-hosts a Swift podcast. “She is following people like Bono, Jay-Z and Madonna, who were acutely aware of their brands. But of all of them, Taylor is the first one to be natively online.”

Before Eras, Swift hadn’t been on tour since 2018. And her catalog has grown by seven No. 1 albums since then, fueled in part by three rerecorded “Taylor’s Versions” of her first LPs — a project hailed by Swift’s fans as a crusade to regain control of her music, though it is also an act of revenge after the sale of Swift’s former record label, a move that, she said, “stripped me of my life’s work.”

“Folklore” and “Evermore” expanded her palate into fantastical indie-folk and brought new collaborators into the fold: Aaron Dessner from the band the National and Justin Vernon, a.k.a. Bon Iver, rock-world figures who helped attract new listeners.

The other major tour this year that is enticing fans to book transcontinental flights, and to show up costumed and in rapture, is also by a woman: Beyoncé, 41, whose Renaissance tour is a fantasia of disco and retrofuturism. Like Swift, she is also a trailblazing artist-entrepreneur, maintaining tight control over her career and fostering a rich connection with fans online. Together with Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” a critique of the patriarchy told in hot pink, they are signs of powerful women ruling the discourse of pop culture.

But in music, at least, the scale and success of Swift’s tour is without equal. Later this month, after completing 53 shows in the United States, she will kick off an international itinerary of at least 78 more before returning to North America next fall. Beyoncé’s full tour has 56 dates; Springsteen’s, 90. (Recently, Harry Styles wrapped a 173-date tour in arenas and stadiums, grossing about $590 million.)

Outside Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, fans posed for selfies and shared their ticketing ordeals. Esmeralda Tinoco and Sami Cytron, 24-year-old former sorority sisters, said they had paid $645 for two seats. A stone’s throw away, Karlee Patrick and Emily DeGruson, both 18 and dressed as a pair in angel/devil costumes after a line in Swift’s “Cruel Summer,” sat “Taylorgating” at the edge of the parking lot; they said they had paid $100 for parking but couldn’t afford tickets.

As Swift’s opening acts finished, the crowd rushed in. Glaser, the comedian, later said that of the eight shows she had been to, her favorites were the ones where she had brought her mother — and converted her to Swiftie fandom.

“Everyone is in love with her,” Glaser said her mom told her after one show in Texas. “Now I get it.”

[army-in-the-stars]

[darchildre]

A brass unicorn has been catapulted across a London street and impaled an eminent surgeon!

WORDS FAIL ME, GENTLEMEN

[angel-925]

[shiominato]

incredible

[buildmybaby]

[caesurah-tblr]

Finishing Re:Mind for the first time and is it a ride!!! I loved finally getting to play as Kairi and kick some ass!!! The battle moments were by far the best (I especially love the callbacks to KH2 with the reaction commands). Very nice DLC to go with a very nice KH game!

[ca1ibration]

The Deepest Dance

[prairieghostshymnal]

Oh my god, these are all so beautiful, but that third pic is just phenomenal! Chiaroscuro you will always be famous

by daniel_casson