#the contract is signed

[24foxstories]

hey, don't cry. two museums in the Netherlands are returning a total of 119 items to Nigerian museums where they rightfully belong, okay?

[f0point5]

Max saw it was going to rain tomorrow and said oh I better pull up.

[technically-human]

It's already requited, they're just stupid

[talesfromthecrypts]

The Witch (2015) // Nosferatu (2024)

[anbaisai]

Couldn't unsee Aira's hair as literally pink Azul hair so I had to make this once episode 10 of Dandadan dropped

[valyrfia]

toto wolff coming out as a “leclerc is more of a track terrorist than verstappen” truther happy tuesday i guess

[kayvsworld]

marvel watching their new quantity-over-quality projects flop, realizing exactly how hard they fumbled the bag on setting up an ongoing Avengers Team Movie Series and frantically being like “ok ok maybe we uhhHHHHH try to get the OG avengers back. the circa 2012-2016 mcu zeitgeist avengers those ones were popular we can bring back the interest” is so sad.

like babe do u think u can simply turn back the hands of time. do u think u can simply bring back the characters u killed off for shock value and expect the same level of engagement. more importantly do u think you can simply afford a 2023 robert downey jr

accept ur failure with grace. steve is in the 40s now & tony you CHOSE To Do That,

[whysowise]

wwhatever. go my penceone yuri (closeups under cut)

[happypeachsludgeflower]

Why do I feel like if Yue Qingyuan were to die pre canon, Shen Jiu would have gone Luo Binghe level feral, kidnapped his corpse, and found some way to bring him back even if he came back wrong because ain’t no wait Shen Jiu’s letting that man escape him. They are codependent divorced toxic yaoi and there is no escaping. It was in the contract and if Yue Qi didn’t want to be defiled, he shouldn’t have signed it 😤

[petercushingscheekbones]

neil gaiman and RTD are absolute legends for being the showrunners of 2 mainstream shows funded by large production companies in the year 2023, and proceeding to make the most queer positive episodes ever seen by man

meanwhile david tennant is just vibrating with joy because he gets more opportunities to wear his one-thousand-and-twenty-four pride pins

[scuderiaspringsteen]

circular narratives, passing the gauntlet, and boy kings // inspired by @mnyd 's tags on @drivestraight 's post

[dykekarkat]

3 am and im thinking about jeandrew and their inability to protect neil josten. thinking about neil josten and his devotion in spite of that. jeandrew as these twisted mirrors who understand each other too well and can't stand to look at it bcus its a reminder of their own pain and failures. who have to exist together bcus they're both trapped in neil josten's blackhole orbit. Thinking.

[hoovesandfloorpaws]

"That said, both Styles and his therapist have questioned why he cares quite so much about being likeable. This is one of the things he thought about a lot in his big pandemic reflection. In part, it's a choice, he explained. He recalled moving to London after The X Factor and hearing tales of petulant celebrities screaming because someone got their coffee order wrong and deciding to never be that guy, to never give someone a petty reason to bad-mouth him. But more recently he's come to worry that the drive for approval came from a more complex place, a place of caution, fear, control." "Styles said he often spent interviews terrified about saying the wrong thing until he stopped to question what abhorrent belief or bizarre opinion he was scared he'd accidentally reveal and realized he couldn't think of anything."

"And he thought about the cleanliness clauses in the contracts he used to sign, which would dictate that they would be null and void if he did anything supposedly unsavoury, and about how terrified that used to make him. And about when he signed his solo contract and learned that the ability to make music would not be affected by personal transgressions, he burst into tears, a reaction he still seemed shocked by, retelling it to me now, years later. "I felt free," he explained."

"When Styles began therapy about five years ago [so in 2017], he was reluctant initially, feeling it was a music industry cliché. "I thought it meant that you were broken," he said. "I wanted to be the one who could say I didn't need it." He returned to the home theme that has underpinned our conversation, explaining that therapy has allowed him to "open up rooms in himself" that he didn't know existed, allowed him to feel things more honestly, where before he had tended to"emotionally coast.""

"Recently Styles began to work through issues related to intimacy, dating, love. "For a long time, it felt like the only thing that was mine was my sex life. I felt so ashamed about it, ashamed at the idea of people even knowing that I was having sex, let alone who with," he said."

"You look back, especially now there's all the documentaries, like the Britney documentary, and you watch how people were abused in that way, by that system, especially women. You recall articles from not even five years ago, and you're like, I can't even believe that was written."

He has been thinking a lot recently about autonomy, ownership, privacy. About what he should be able to keep to himself, what he should be able to simply communicate through his music without follow-up questions or prying. Around the time of Fine Line, he faced scrutiny around his sexuality. People became incredulous that he wore dresses, waved Pride flags, and yet hadn't clarified with precision, publicly to a journalist or on social media, the specifics of who he'd slept with, how he defined. This expectation is, to him, bizarre, "outdated." "I've been really open with it with my friends, but that's my personal experience; it's mine," he said.

Despite the acceptance that some things could, should, have been different, he still feels lucky every day, he said, lucky to make music, lucky to do what he loves.

"You can't win music. It's not like Formula One," he said. "I was like, in my lifetime, there will be 10 more people who burst onto the scene in that way, and I'm only going to get further away from being the young thing. So, get comfortable with finding something else that makes you happy. I just found that so liberating."

"I just want to make stuff that is right, that is fun, in terms of the process, that I can be proud of for a long time, that my friends can be proud of, that my family can be proud of, that my kids will be proud of one day," he said.

-- original interview link, Better Homes And Gardens Magazine 26 April 2022 (remake of this post)

[slfcare]

logging in to share some good news which is that I got offered a full-time job by my internship company 🥹🥹🥹 and I took it 🥹🥹🥹 (I'm still very much losing sleep over this website I'm building for my graduation, though - my deadline is in less than 2 weeks - I'll share it with all of you when it's done <3) I had to tell you because I also told you when I graduated high school, went to Indonesia for my first internship, chose tech as a very terrified girl in college, got my first job offer (a part-time summer job programming for a research institute) and when this very company hired me as an intern a year ago! At this point you can follow me growing up like a red thread on this blog. Anyways, it's midnight and I meant for this to be a short message, but it feels strangely symbolic and I feel overly emotional about this blog existing because of how sad I used to be, and it now being a happy place where I can share happy news like this. It'll get better for you, too.

[bisexualchaosdemon]

We all know that Jean signing a lease provided by the FBI is going to cause an issue, but what if it is the literal act of signing it that is the problem? We already know that the Ravens didn't sign their own wavers, so it's really not a stretch to imagine that Coach Moriyama forged Jean's signature on all of his paperwork. Browning watched Jean sign that lease with his own eyes, and the moment he realises there is no way that's the same signature as the one on his applications for a visa or dual-citizenship, shit is going to hit the fan