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i love saying “i’m being normal about it” bc i’m actually a filthy fucking liar and i’ve never been normal about anything a single day in my life

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my autopsy results came back negative There was nothing in there

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i deal so incredibly well with change!!! my natural reaction to it is just so positive!!!! i really take it in stride!!! i don't even give myself migraines and gastrointestinal issues and night terrors!!!!

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theres a shocking amount of years between 2019 and 2024

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please, untitled document was my father, call me untitled document (1)

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they could never make me a cilantro hater #lovewins

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hey, I was just at "things got better" island and everyone there is talking about how excited they are to meet you

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guys some of y’all are actually insane the cast are not your friends let’s be sooo fr they do not know you and you do not know them

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Something Something Darry beating the shit out of anyone who threatens his brothers. *Deep Sigh* I truly love that guy 🥰

oo, i have thoughts about this!

buckle up because i’m about to nerd out:

so, i just watched patrick swayze’s film road house for the first time last night. (absolute bonkers film, total cult classic, you just have to see it, okay?) so, swayze’s character, dalton, is a bouncer hired to clean up this bar called the double deuce. the first three-ish bar fights we see are choreographed around dalton’s stillness. it’s fucking beautiful. he doesn’t flinch. he hardly moves. he gets stabbed and the dude comes off far more unaffected than anyone else would be in that situation.

‘do you enjoy pain?’ kelly lynch’s character asks him later.

‘pain don’t hurt.’

anyways, he comes to clean up the double deuce, right? he lays down three rules:

‘one: never underestimate your opponent. expect the unexpected. two: take it outside. never start anything inside the bar unless it’s absolutely necessary. three: be nice. if somebody gets in your face and calls you a c*cksucker, be nice. ask him to walk, be nice. if he won’t walk, walk him. but be nice. if you can’t walk him, one of the others will help you. and you’ll both be nice. i want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice.’ ‘well, how’re we supposed to know when that is?’ someone asks. ‘you won’t. i’ll let you know,’ swayze says, ‘you are the bouncers, i am the cooler. all you have to do is watch my back and each others’. take out the trash.’

i found all of this super interesting because i’d just read brent’s interview with pop culturalist where he says:

‘darrel, in my opinion, is a very volatile character—he’s either incredibly still or explosively kinetic. the stillness is the potential energy that builds and then launches into the kinetic energy. without that stillness the movement means nothing.’

and the thing you need to know about road house is that it’s basically a karate western set in the 80s, okay?

brent says (of throwing in the towel):

‘you have to earn the stillness by fully committing to the energy in the scene before. it’s the same the other way around. for example, in ‘grease got a hold,’ darrel is very still and stoic. if you don’t commit to that stillness, then you don’t earn the energy that comes later. darrel is like a pendulum—he swings between stillness and action, and it’s the interplay of those extremes that define him.’

swayze’s dalton and brent’s darrel are two sides of the same coin.

in fact, the reason i’ve given you the lowdown on road house is because it helped me understand what brent was talking about.

so, do i think darrel beats the shit out of anyone who threatens his brothers?

well…

i think there’s a stillness there.

he doesn’t fight dally right away during their confrontation (he does shove dally first, but only after provoked, and only after breaking that stoicism), and he doesn’t throw the first punch at the rumble.

(granted, i know he’s caught off guard during the latter in both the musical and the book, but still.)

i think about darry and dog motifs almost daily.

‘his bark is worse than his bite,’ doesn’t apply to darry. he will bite, and you will know that he’s about to, because he will tell you.

not always verbally, though. you’ll see it in that stillness.

one thing about dog aggression is 9/10 times there will be signs before biting or attacking. a rigid posture, their ears’ll pin back, a slow wagging tail.

and sometimes, even then, darry’ll surprise himself with that kinetic energy brent described. sometimes dogs don’t tell you, sometimes even they don’t know.

i think about mitski’s lyrics, ‘i get mean when i’m nervous like a bad dog,’ ALL THE TIME.

david lynch published a comic strip titled the angriest dog in the world:

‘the dog who is so angry he cannot move. he cannot eat. he cannot sleep. he can just barely growl. …bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis.’

i don’t think darry’s a violent person, but we know he likes fights:

‘how come you like fights, darry?’ i asked, looking up at him as he stood behind me, leaning in the kitchen doorway. he gave me one of those looks that hide what he’s thinking, but soda piped up, ‘he likes to show off his muscles.’ […] ‘i digested what soda had said. it was the truth. darry liked anything that took strength, like weightlifting or playing football or roofing houses, even if he was proud of being smart too. darry never said anything about it, but i knew he liked fights.’

there’s that scene from isle of the dogs:

‘i’m not a violent dog. i don’t know why i bite.’

i saw it expounded upon once, in a poem:

‘i’m not a violent dog, but i know i can bite.’

i think that’s darry.

i think he’s the stillness that comes with dalton saying, ‘i want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice,’ and i think he’s the protective older brother that’s read between the lines of, ‘i know i can bite.’

‘more often than not, the dog that bites is the dog that thinks he has no other option; i feel as though my body language must constantly be screaming, ‘if you do not keep your fingers out of the bars you are going to get them tore off,’ with my ears back and my teeth bared and my pupils blown wide, chest always heaving, pulse jumping erratically. backed into the corner of my kennel by the world at large.’

if someone threatened soda or pony and darrel caught wind of it, i think they should be scared. and if they do it again, well, he’d told you there’s be consequences.

‘do you ever win a fight?’ kelly lynch’s character asks swayze’s.

‘no one ever wins a fight.’

‘it doesn’t do any good, the fighting and the killing.’ randy says before the rumble, ‘it doesn’t prove a thing.’

darry’s smart. i don’t think he uses that energy until he has to, and i callback to dalton when i say that:

‘well, how’re we supposed to know when that is?’

‘you won’t. i’ll let you know.’

i think his stillness is just as powerful.

he won’t start a fight, but he’ll finish one.

anyways, this has been dog motifs and yap, ig.

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they laid off the shrimp who fried rice. yeah. he’s out of wok now

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going back to op’s blog to see the directors commentary in the tags

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there’s people who stay and people who go, and then there’s darry curtis who never got a say in the matter

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wow. i can't believe I made it to the for you page. hello. I'm very sorry I did not expect this. I would like to thank my dad

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📸 COLE ZIESER JOINS THE CAST – via ig @ colezieser

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the foreshadowing in faft too like 😭 ‘a place with open spaces, the sounds of whip-poor-wills, we could watch the sunset over holden rolling hills,’ in some mythologies, to hear whip-poor-wills singing near a house is considered to be an omen of death, or at least bad luck. which, like, well…yeah. they still get those sunsets, but at what cost? …death’s at their door, because that’s the song of the whip-poor-will. it’s calling their names.

Are FAFT and DAMD completely connected in anyone else’s brain? Cause I look at them like a duo (?) idk if that makes sense but like, FAFT is the dream and DAMD is the reality. Because if FAFT they’re dreaming of getting out, they know how stuck they are in Tulsa and will do anything to have a nice, peaceful, domestic life far away from there. In DAMD, they made it out, but it’s not how they wanted it to be, they’re on the run forever, there’s not really any going back, but they still have each other, so maybe part of their dream is still alive.

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does anyone know who’s in the show today?

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i’ve died alone in my room 3000 times nothing you can say can hurt me.