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infinitely looping gif of utena rolling around

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"Growing Around Grief"

Lois Tonkin, 1996

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guillermo del toro’s pinocchio is a beautiful film but my god no one has adapted that story like neverafter. you can never look at it the same way again after listening to lou wilson, a black man, explaining that he chose to play as pinocchio because it’s a story about a little boy who isn’t allowed to make mistakes. that in pinocchio's story, he is fundamentally barred from childhood at once upon a time. he must earn something that everyone else is granted from birth. the other boys get to tell lies and play and get into trouble, but when pinocchio does the same thing there are grave and violent consequences. his pinocchio is trying to understand why the world is so unfair, why the rules are so different for him, why everyone else gets to be a real boy.

and I think about it every day.

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snail gossiping

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one thing about me is that i am always on this fucking website

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please and thank u 

[buy a print]

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dragon age inquisition aka which two of you are coming along with me and cassandra

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train car was empty so i used my gameboy camera

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my father said to me once that one of the things he deeply regretted was not putting music on for his father while he was fading away. he told me that grandpa would just sit in his old armchair in the quiet, and not until after he’d passed did my dad think of how he could have played of his favorite classical music tapes for him so grandpa could listen to something while he still could. i was very young when this happened and not much older when my dad told me this, but it always stuck with me as something important.

my mother died at home in a hospice cot, slowly shutting down over the course of about a week. when she had stopped responding, i remembered what dad told me about wishing he’d played music for grandpa, and i put the radio on her favorite country music station and kept it on for her until she died.

daddy died in hospital. no cassette players, no decent radios. the day after he was brought in, i thought again of what he told me, and i bought a little portable bluetooth speaker. even though he never woke up, was never aware, i played music for him too.

there’s no real significance to sharing this, not really. my motivation is selfish, again: i just want to hope that someone might think of this when their loved one is stuck in silence somehow, and maybe they’ll play music for them, and they won’t have to regret not doing so. i want to hope it helps someone. and i want to hope that someone will remember my dad with me, even in just a “story i read on the internet” way.

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KATIEMCGRATH as LUCYWESTENRA ↳ Dracula 1x02 - A Whiff of Sulfur

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someday

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Very happy to say that the warden companion in Veilguard is a black dalish elf and very angry to say that if you guys treat Davrin the way you treat Wyll Ravengard I’ll kill you

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Miguel Hernández, from The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez "Elegy for Ramón Sijé,"

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if there was a letterboxd equivalent but for shows, reblog and put in the tags what you top 4 shows on your profile would be