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"Lana as Sheila Regan was slated for death in the movie as the desserts of a sinful life. She has one last staircase descent before her ultimate collapse. In it, she recalls the grace and poise of the Ziegfeld Girl she once was. Test audiences resisted her fate, and her life was spared, or at least given an ambiguous end. I believe it was this last descent that saved her life. Anyone who could master a move like that was not a wholly lost soul and worthy of salvation. So here we have an instance of a fictional character controlling real life." -slaypaul

ZIEGFELD GIRL 1941, dir. Robert Z. Leonard

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Hedy Lamarr in a publicity portrait for the MGM/Robert Z. Leonard musical drama Ziegfeld Girl, 1941.

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Yes to all of this! Blocking might take them off from our timelines, but this should also be reported. I don't have any confidence in Hybe actually doing something against it, but it's better than doing nothing at all.

Other shippers, like the cult, are getting hit tweets with deep fakes using AI. I want to believe jikookers are a bit above that and do not allow anyone to invade these spaces with such things.

Deepfake report

I do not do this often, you might have blocked them like I did, but if you could also report the account currently spamming the Jikook tag with deepfakes, I would appreciate it 💜.

To me, deepfakes are the highest possible disrespect you can have for a human being, so I refuse to believe this is made with anything else than a fetishist and highly disturbed mind, lacking the most essential respect for a fellow human being.

Thank you 🙏

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Hasn't this whole shipping thing gotten too boring, same drama and talks and fights everyday? And doesn't look like it'll get any better and you know why.

I no longer have any strong emotional reaction to any of the shipping drama that takes place everyday. Let alone what photos are being uploaded on IG by various individuals. I really can't be bothered. I don't engage in that discourse anymore because it creates an environment of constant anger which only escalates the more is being fed.

I found that distancing from it is the only solution and it really doesn't even take that long to simply not care. And it's also extremely boring talking about the same thing almost everyday, especially when it acts as rage bait.

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Reading Challenge - Week 3

August 11th - August 17th 2025

The Last Night of Childhood has been this week's revelation. A Romanian film made in the second half of the 1960s and which bears all the marks of a specific moment in time in which themes of youth, new generation, film experimentation and a bit of freedom of expression (which in a few years would be diminished significantly) came together in this film. More modern for its time than any of the similar pictures made back then. I would have had plenty to write about it a decade ago, but it was nowhere to be found and now has been recently restored.

Nothing made me more excited for my daily reading sessions than Madam 90210. Much more than any academic papers I had on my list. And that is simply because Hollywood gossip is a lot more juicy than any other information I could get. Madam Alex was a real character, a business woman who in her more than 20 years long career, has learned exactly how to navigate the world of the rich, she became a "mother figure" to the girls, which also meant some girls ended up hating the mother. Transatlantic trips for 20k a weekend in the 1980s for a couple of minutes of what was barely sex was among those easy parts of the job and only for some lucky girls. And apart from being completely immersed into that world the minute I would go back to where I left reading, it was also a fun and frustrating game in trying to figure out which Hollywood star always paid for sex, who hated paying for it, who couldn't make the call girl come and who was one of Madam Alex's regular clients.

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https://x.com/bts_bighit/status/1956702483297767866?t=UXPBJ4JOFH1--GECaYFXWA&s=19

Looked at quotes and comments, and then watched the clip. Okay so Jimin was not included. Everything that company does is weird. Anyway. Greedy ass company releasing old content to theaters. Fans should ignore it and not give them more money.

And now more people talk about what is obviously a cash grab than they would have if this hadn't happened. Shocking.

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THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME (2025) dir. Wes Anderson

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The Phoenician Scheme (2025) by Wes Anderson

Book title: Depictions of Blasphemy in Gouache

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the phoenician scheme (2025)

liesls bejeweled ‘corn cob’ pipe

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One week and an accumulation of nerves and some frustration later, I have finished it.

I was surprised that the tiny bits didn't cause me more stress. Actually, I was looking forward to my 2 hours of painting everyday, which always ended with my back and my hand hurting, but it was fine. I only almost cracked today because I had to finish it no matter what and I sort of lost any patience I would have because I was just ready to be done with it. Next time, I'll go back to easier patterns.

I bought this, hoping for relaxing times in the afternoon and less time spent online.

I'm afraid it will be the tipping point of my breakdown.

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I'm so afraid that as time goes by, more and more people with brains on sleep mode will represent the majority on the internet and here as well. I can't be answering asks from those who let chat gpt control them and who most likely will end up talking to their friends and coworkers about their usb boyfriends and their relationship issues whenever the program gets a reboot. I'm not doing that. I will not stoop that low to offer those people space to "talk".

This is not even about having intelectual conversations, far from it. But so many of them sound absolutely insane. Low level of intelect, zero emotional intelligence, no social skills. All this is so evident in the way they write and how their mind works while trying to piece stuff together.

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An x-files reference on a jikook blog?? Oh we love to see it

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There's a rumour about Jimin and Jungkook flying to NYC from the "take it with a grain of salt" group. Did you hear anything too?

Just the same as you, I don't know anything else. That this rumor is some exclusive information revealed only to jokers probably in their sleep, is but details.

Did someone see them at the airport in LA or NY? Did anyone leak some gc schedule, but only took a screenshot of jikook's business to feed the shippers?

It is said they went to film a music video. Closed set? In New York? Is it 500 Days of Summer musical style number but everyone keeps quiet? Or is it just inside shots and no outsider has been able to take a peak? Why not film in LA? It is RIGHT THERE!

As Mulder usually says, I want to believe, but without any other details that would make this rumor more believable, I will throw caution to the wind and lick an entire block of salt for now.

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Anon, I've been trying to figure out what the hell that acronym is for a few days now. I'm so stupid. I kept going back to your message while trying to see if there's anything worth responding to in my inbox (not really) and not knowing what it meant really bothered me. Until it hit me tonight. I completely forgot.

ACTCGF = A Cunt That Can Get Fucked

And I wrote it too!!!!

Sorry for cropping your full ask, I don't want to open that topic again because then a bunch of other asks on the same subject will be sent again and I can't be bothered.

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Sidney Poitier, 1960

photo Roy DeCarava

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the healing powers of a solo cinema trip

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unfortunately i could never be nonchalant because i am not well in the head and also my soul is on fire