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Due to a few choice covers for the longest time I thought that Dracula was about Dracula sexily abducting a girl to his castle.

Yep, the Dracula covers really over-represent the amount of Dracula seductively snacking on a scantily-clad blonde lady in his castle. And really under-represent the amount of typing, trains, document review and recipe blogging.

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horror sub-genres: gothic

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"My mother raised me to understand that my gifts that God gave me were not about me. To use them to be effective in the world, to help somebody else's journey. So thank you for teaching me how to live, how to love, how to give. For every trans, nonbinary, gender-nonconforming human who ever was told you couldn't be, you couldn't be seen, this is for you."

Openly non-binary actor, J. Harrison Ghee during their acceptance speech for winning the Tony for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical for their role as Jerry/Daphne in the hit revival of "Some Like It Hot," a musical based on the 1959 film starring Marilyn Monroe.

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i keep wondering what billy wilder and jack lemmon would think about trans readings of some like it hot. every time i watch it and think about it, it just seems so clear to me that while it's absolutley a bit to joe/josephine, it isn't one to jerry/daphne. it is, ostensibly, about two guys who dress in drag and join a girls' band to escape the mob; but while joe is happy to ditch the josephine persona as soon as he can to pursue sugar, "jerry" falls much more easily into becoming daphne, into spending time with the girls, looking and sounding less nervous in a woman's swimsuit than they had been in a man's suit. "jerry" is the one to jump to suggest they join the girls' band in the first place. the nerves come back when they actually arrive at the station and see all the girls, and it's really easy to read this as fear of being "found out". i think it's really interesting that "jerry" comes up with the name daphne, given that it's not the name they suggest at the start of the movie - geraldine, a girl's version of their given name. like, they had time to come to the conclusion they wanted to be called daphne, and went with this instead.

certainly, "jerry" is interested in sugar at first, but that interest drops pretty quickly when "jerry" becomes daphne, becomes one of the girls, and her attempts to out joe seem to have little to do with competition for sugar's affections and more to do with irritation at joe's treatment of sugar & general behavior that we've seen through their friendship (tl;dr joe is not a good friend). even having dealt with the sexism that comes her way as daphne, there isn't really a point in time where daphne reverts back to "jerry" - until the end of the movie, the very end, the last thing "jerry" says. essentially coming out to osgood (her love interest) that she is "a man". and when osgood has no negative reaction to this, she's perpelxed. the film ends there, leaving it open to interpretation, but to me it is really clear that this is a movie as much about daphne discovering herself as a woman as it is about joe & sugar's romance and the main two's attempts to escape violence from the mob.

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Wait hang on what the fuck how did I not hear about this shit with Neil Gaimen until LITERALLY just now?!

Can respectable people not turn out to be pieces of shit at least once?

Fuck man.

Anyway, Believe victims always. Condolences to the women in these situations

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daphne is a girl's girl yk

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Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder

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Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder

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I may not know much, but I do know Cosmo Brown is gay

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Hello everyone

I’m Malk I’m 14 years old but I am feeling that am 70 years😔

My parents took great care of us, giving us everything they had, and my childhood was wonderful to some extent.

I lived through four wars, the latest being in 2021, during which we lost everything: our warm home and my mom's office where she worked in digital marketing.

My dad is one of the owners of the Jewel Tower, but my family decided to leave Gaza for Turkey in 2022 because the tower hadn't been built yet, and to provide a better life for us.

My dad couldn't leave Gaza, so he returned before the war because my grandfather is sick and needs care. I wish I were with my dad because I fear losing him.

The past few months have been the hardest for us and our family.

I hope you can help me by sharing the link and donating so I can get my family from Gaza🙏🏻🙏🏻

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my heart absolutely breaks for gaza. imagine screaming for help. for someone to save you and the world ignores you for the most part. shame on anyone and everyone who supports this. where is your empathy.

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Leslie Feinberg speech at the Al-Fatiha international retreat in Washington DC, 2002

read full speech transcript here

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GAZA NEEDS YOU. DON'T LOOK AWAY. YOU CAN SAVE LIVES. Below are some VETTED campaigns to support the people who have been experiencing an active genocide for almost a full year. DONATE DONATE DONATE. If you cannot, share widely.

(June 1)

Help Iyad and his family (@iyadsobhei) - Iyad is an elderly man who has been living in dire conditions with deteriorating health; he needs to evacuate with his wife and eight children. This fundraiser currently has NO FUNDS.

Help evacuate Hani's family (@skatehani) - A dear friend, and a Palestinian skater trying to evacuate 10 members of his family; he has lost his father to injustice. Less than halfway to his goal.

Help Husam and his family (@husamthaher) - Husam desperately needs to save himself, his wife, and 3 young children.

Ahmd needs urgent evacuation (@ahmd-iyd) - Ahmd has lost his livelihood to this genocide, and needs funds to help his family evacuate and rebuild their life.

Help Mahmoud Abu Hamam and his family (@ma7moudgaza) - A college student who desperately needs to evacuate to Egypt.

Help Iman’s family find safety (@imaneyad) - Iman has a family of 7 who need to find safety.

Help Mahmoud's family evacuate (@mahmoud0qassas) - Mahmoud and his family need to get to Egypt. His brother in law needs medical attention ASAP.

Support Ruba and Amal's family's urgent evacuation (@rubashaban @amalshabn) - Ruba and Amal's family are lacking the basic necessities of life; they have an elderly father who desperately needs to be evacuated for medical care.

Help Omar evacuate (@omarsobhi) - Omar is a 20 year old Palestinian student who wants to save himself and his family from this genocide.

Support Fahmi and his family (@fahmiakkila) - Fahmi's life has been turned completely upside down, and he now finds himself responsible to save his parents, sisters, & brothers - 7 members.

Save a displaced Gazan Family (@ranibra) - Rania is married with five children, her husband needs medical care. She is now responsible to save her children. Help them evacuate.

Save little Yusuf and his family (@ahmednabubake) - Yusuf is in an intensive care unit fighting for his life in Gaza; he needs urgent evacuation alongside his family.

Save a family trapped in Gaza (@mohamedalanqer) - Mohammed Alanqar and his family are living in fear, urgently needing financial assistance to escape to a safer environment.

Help Gazan children survive (@aymanayyad81) - Fadi Ayyad, an 18-year-old from Gaza seeks the funds to help his family survive these gruesome conditions.

Save Tawfik and his family (@tawfikwaleef) - Tawfik is an engineer from Gaza who urgently needs to escape Gaza with his family.

Help Tahseen and his family (@tahseenmush) - Tahseen and his family are from northern Gaza and need urgent help to survive this genocide.

Help Nader's family to evacuate from Gaza (@nadershoshaa) - Nader and his family, consisting of six members, are currently displaced in the south; help them evacuate and survive.

Don't ignore this list—your support is URGENTLY needed. Each fundraiser here is an opportunity to help, and it has been made easy for you to find these fundraisers. You can easily save lives. Pick at least one to support. Once again, your donation can save lives. If you can't donate, please share these campaigns.

FIND MORE CAMPAIGNS HERE

إذا انت من غزة و بدك إضافتك إلى القائمة التالية - اضغط هنا

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I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.