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Lucifer (actor Augusto Milla) gobbles up Judas Iscariot in the 1911 Italian film L'INFERNO, released in the USA as DANTE'S INFERNO.

As incredible as it may seem, INFERNO was apparently the first feature-length movie shown in America viewed in a single sitting. IMDB sez: "This is the first feature film to be shown in its entirety, in one screening, in the USA. Prior to this it was thought audiences wouldn't be prepared to sit for over an hour to watch a feature - films such as Les Misérables (1909)and The Life of Moses (1909) were shown in episodic parts over the course of a month or two."

Also of note: L'INFERNO is considered to be the first Italian, and oldest surviving, feature-length film. (Silent and Pre-Code Horror)

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i’m watching an art theft documentary and they’re interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they weren’t the fbi, that they were some private buyer about to pay $3.5 million for it, and the fbi was like “this is a VERY delicate operation because you never know how they will react to what you have to say so let the agent do all of the talking, don’t say a word to anyone just nod if it’s the rubens, the last operation we did the guy in your position got shot because things went wrong in a second” and then it cuts to the professor’s interview and he says “i wasn’t going to fly down to miami to be a part of an undercover fbi sting operation to handle what could be rubens’s aurora and just NOT say anything. i was gonna have to ad lib a little” and then he tells the interviewer that when he & the fbi agent got to the hotel while he was examining the painting he started lecturing the other people, first on how badly they had wrapped it, and then about like how it had been painted, the history of it, what the subject was and what she was doing, etc etc, and he was like “i hadn’t taught a class on rubens in 15 years, so for me it was like being back in the classroom except my students couldn’t leave” 

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765874 Unification - Short Film from The Roddenberry Archive, OTOY, William Shatner and the Nimoy estate, in commemoration of 30th anniversary of Generation being released.

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True Stories (David Byrne, 1986)

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thinking about how suspiria (2018) is one of the very few horror movies with an all female cast, how it's genuinely one of the best films i have ever seen and how you can discover something new every time you watch it since it is so thematically rich, how the performances are all incredible, the score is fantastic, the cinematography completely enthralling, and how, despite all of these things being true, it still wasn't received very well initally because for some reason people have convinced themselves that remake = bad. how some people disliked it because they wanted more of the original, neon colors, dreamlike sequences, which the remake purposefully strays away from because it's meant to be a completely different take on the same story. and how people then jumped to the conclusion that this must be a bad thing and they didn't even give it a chance.

this was pretty much the most perfectly handled and crafted remake ever, and yet. it's like no matter how you approach it, people are so close minded, blinded by nostalgia and unwilling to view retellings as a respectable genre, no matter what you do, it will never be good enough for that certain crowd. i just don't understand how you can outright reject the concept of different artists viewing the same story through a different lens and sharing their own takes on it with the rest of us. like, why do you see this as bothersome instead of beautiful? much to think about...

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RIP David Lynch (1946-2025)

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david lynch telling people in 2017 that you should accept trans people or kill yourself. he was so real for this.

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well this has broken me

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“One day the sadness will end.

But I don’t think today’s the day.”

David Lynch

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RIP David Lynch 💔 there will never be another like you, and may you rest in coffee & cigarettes, great films & quinoa, two cookies & a coke, and everything else you loved best

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TW: rape, sexual assault, child abuse

Archived version here, in case you hit the pay wall:

https://archive.is/HJtxW

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fun fact (not fun at all fact actually) :

aromanticism and asexuality are still treated as issues to be fixed in most therapy settings, at least in the western psychiatric institution. i cannot fucking mention my aromanticism or asexuality to a therapist or it’ll immediately become their primary concern and goal to fix. whether or not i have a partner/am trying to have a partner is actively being used as an indicator of my wellness, regardless of if i WANT one. i cannot have access to needed mental health ressources because of fear of conversion therapy. aro and/or ace conversion therapy is the norm in most psychiatric institutions and we are getting told by the rest of the queer community that our oppression isnt real and that there is no link between our struggles and theirs.

more thoughts on the medicalization of asexuality and/or aromanticism

answers to common notes

aplatonic perspective

ressources

background information

tips to avoid aro and/or ace conversion therapy

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reblog if you are ASEXUAL, support ASEXUAL PEOPLE, or SECRETLY A DRAGON IN HUMAN FORM

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Exclusive Mailing List!

Hey everyone! This is TJ of Miss Teen America, and I'm creating an exclusive email list where I'll send out unreleased demos, early merch, and generally just more behind the scenes stuff about Miss Teen America. If you're interested in this, message me or comment your email. Hope to hear from you!

TJ

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Random Goth Song Recs

Shout at the Sky by Red Lorry Yellow Lorry

In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated by Dead Can Dance

Holes by Specimen

Holding On by This Cold Night

The Flatterer by Strange Boutique

Sex-Eye-Make-up by The Glove

Twilight by Corpus Delicti

Porcelain by The Agnes Circle

Hurt by Bleib Modern

A Perfect Body by All Your Sisters

The Suffering of Spiders by Traitrs

Demons by Altar de Fey

Dead Leaf Echo by Faith and the Muse

Amelia by BFG

The Hanged Man by Praise of Folly

The Condos by Iron Curtain

Fade by Sixth June

Cadavres Exquis by Little Nemo

Mr. Clarinet by The Birthday Party

Mercyground by Faith and the Muse