#Balint

[atesan]

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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER 1x01 - A Midnight Dreary

[designerpussyfromgod]

Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

dir. Jim Jarmusch

[sonimage1965]

Jim Jarmusch

on the set of

Stranger Than Paradise (1984)

[grvstnaya-svka]

I fucking hated Fredrick Bitchass Usher with a passion that I was not expecting to … I mean just look at this stupid fucker with his dumbass bun /ponytail bullshit

Fredrick “frodrick” Usher is such a fuckin pussy wtf?! Bitch looks like he’d have a fuckin aneurism if he accidentally brushed up against a tiddy how the hell did this fool land a wife like that??

AND THEN HAVE THE GODDAMN GALL, THE AUDACITY TO ABUSE SUCH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN ????

Who, mind you, was already no doubt in excruciating fucking pain and absolutely paying the consequences as it was!

And for what? Cheating? I’d cheat on him too! In a heartbeat. Jesus Christ. I don’t know how much love was there before the “terrible accident” but babe you could do so much better than mf sweaty Freddy. Only two reasons to marry him had to be pity and, well, I’m sure the money fuckin helped as well.

Also you can’t convince me that this absolute beauty (inside and out), this fucking queen,

Ms. Lenore Usher,

… was the spawn of that dipshit. Like… the math don’t work. The math ain’t mathin for me. I’m sorry but no.

Which, made his death scene all the more sweet. And miss Verna was fuckin serving during that entire scene 😘🤌

Fuck.

🔪

Disclaimer: I’m not fuckin stupid. It’s a show. this fucker just got under my skin lol. Absolutely no disrespect to Henry Thomas tho. Just lose the fuckin ponytail please god

[goslings-girlx]

RYAN GOSLING MOVIE RADAR!

Hello, honey buns! I have searched high and far to bring you EVERY RYAN GOSLING MOVIE at the moment that is FREE TO STREAM!

YOUTUBE :

Song To Song (2017)

Half Nelson (2006)

Lars And The Real Girl (2007)

The Big Short (2015)

Stay (2005)

NETFLIX :

All Good Things (2010)

The Gray Man (2022)

La La Land (2016)

HOOPLA :

Fracture (2007)

The Slaughter Rule (2003)

ROKU :

The Believer (2002)

Only God Forgives (2013)

DISNEY+ :

Remember The Titans

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Now, streaming services often let go and add new movies to there platforms so this can be updated if you guys would like me to! (Btw Lalaland was just added to Netflix today + Blade Runner was just taken OFF of Disney+ a week ago T_T)

[guy60660]

Trunko Balint | Kaltblut

[ojo-rojo]

Balint Szako: from the "Blood Orange" series;

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Molly Sprayregen at LGBTQ Nation:

MSNBC host and former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki warned Democrats not to give in to the right-wing fearmongering over trans issues in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory. “It’s important not to yield to manufactured panic and to align with the actual facts before making sweeping claims,” she told viewers on an episode of Inside with Jen Psaki.

Democrats have been at each other’s throats over the role of trans issues in Trump’s victory. While exit polls have indicated that inflation and an unpopular incumbent president both doomed Kamala Harris’ 107-day run for president, some Democrats are blaming their party’s embrace of transgender people for Harris’ loss. Psaki said Republicans invested about $215 million into airing anti-trans TV ads that repeated claims about Democrats wanting “boys to play girls sports” and supporting taxpayer-funded gender-affirming surgeries for inmates. One ad — aired repeatedly during football games to reach male voters and suburban women — showed pictures of Harris next to a drag queen, a trans woman, and a nonbinary person; and ended with the tagline, “Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.” Psaki said Harris’s loss means the Democrats absolutely need to do some soul searching but cautioned the party not to reach “the wrong sweeping conclusions” when it comes to trans people.

“Echoing and adopting the panic from the other side is not leading,” she said. “It’s not meeting people where they are. It’s simply falling prey to right-wing propaganda without checking the facts first.” She explained the GOP’s fearmongering over Harris’s support for providing gender-affirming care to inmates is “a particularly obscure issue” that “applies to a tiny group of people” and was also a policy that existed during Trump’s first term as president. She also said the GOP has completely manufactured the idea that there is some sort of national crisis around trans youth and sports. The anti-trans ads “created this perception that the issues of trans kids playing sports was dominating schools across the country,” she said, “Which is completely false.” “When I say few examples, I mean that if you count the examples of transgender girls playing youth sports in any single state, the number often rounds to zero.”

Jen Psaki is right: Democrats should NOT follow the Seth Moulton playbook on caving to the anti-trans reactionaries and instead resolutely defend trans rights.

From the 11.17.2024 edition of MSNBC's Inside With Jen Psaki:

See Also:

HuffPost: Jen Psaki Warns Dems Not To Fall For This 'Manufactured Panic' By GOP

[cinematicjourney]

The Fall of the House of Usher: The Pit and the Pendulum (2023) | dir. Michael Fimognari

[dance-world]

Renato Illes - photo by Balint Hirling

[genevieveetguy]

American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy (Histoires d'Amérique: Food, Family and Philosophy), Chantal Akerman (1989)

[thekeypa]

“Continued Israeli bombing on Gaza is not only killing more innocent people but jeopardizes the success of diplomatic solutions that provide long term peace and security. We need to see a true negotiated bilateral ceasefire and immediate aid to Gaza.”

[planetflanagan]

Good morning. As we all look forward to Usher, can we please take a moment to appreciate a few spectacular 'glow-ups', Flanagan-style....

Crystal Balint

Matt Biedel

Igby Rigney

Kate Siegel

Henry Thomas

[grvstnaya-svka]

Juno and Morrie agree to meet for brunch once a year, every year. They each visit Dr Ruiz’s gravesite, as well as young Lenore’s to pay their respects. At some point they each plant a tree in her memory, and another for Lenore - rather than a bouquet. Bill and Jules sometimes join them.

Alessandra’s colleagues fight to complete her work on the heart mesh. On their own time. Takes many years before they can properly move to human trials, but they’re gonna do it right this time. No shortcuts, no illegal activity. Everything above board. They call it the Ruiz pump or something like that. Ali pump?

Morrilla reclaims her maiden name. The Lenore Foundation is keeping her plenty busy, but she wouldn’t have it any other way. She never remarries. In fact, she hardly has time or desire left for any kind of romantic relationship. Lenore was and is her everything. She’s helping so many people and thanks to all the surgeries, she’s looking fucking fabulous doing it.

Juno is recovering quite well. She’s helping so many people. Lord knows she has her rough days but dammit she pulled through. And she’s using all of fuckhead Roddie’s money to help others pull through as well. Thousands. And soon, millions. Even out the plane field. Making up for nearly all the lives lost or ruined by her ex husband’s damn poison tablets. His fucking impressive tally.

Bill begins running his own gym. He emphasizes to his clients to never over exert themselves. Taking care of their bodies is more than diet and exercise. It’s listening to your body and resting when you need to. His new business partner is kind & beautiful. They fall in love, and see and treat each other as equals. He’s no longer just an asset. And no more girls. He is so grateful for that.

Jules starts volunteering at an animal shelter and adopting the ones that are at risk of getting euthanized. Pretty soon the local shelter has to close down so he builds a new one. Makes it a cat cafe. They get more traffic. It’s therapeutic.

They all refer clients and people to each other. They each help make the world a better place.

[mimiminimal]

Endre Bálint (1914-1986) - Szentendre, Stable Doorway. Oil on board / 22.9 × 33.5 cm  

[fishyyyyy99]

I'm just going to come right out and say it. I found Verna annoying. IDK, I just didn't like the moralising and supposed compassion she had for the Usher children. It just didn't feel genuine. Or was the compassionate mask supposed to add to the torture like when she's advising Tamerlane to be calm or something while literally freaking her the fuck out? If so, it just felt unnecessarily cruel to me. And I felt bad for Leo too. I feel like the only death I was actually happy about was Froderick's, and Verna's full on anger was easier to stomach than the cruel compassion (I'm sorry, but that's just how it felt to me). Madeline's monologue before she collapsed was badass.

Also, I'm probably reading too much into it, but it felt strangely conservative. It felt like the show was saying look at all these rich, evil, kinky/non-traditional relationship-having Ushers (I guess Froderick is the exception - he seemed to have a fairly traditional relationship iirc, and he turned out to be an abuser). And the sweetest Ushers are the monogamous housewife, and the granddaughter whose sexual/romantic life we never see. Even Morella seems to get punished for going to the orgy. Also, why the fuck did everyone else at the orgy die???

EDIT: Victorine also has a monogamous relationship as @queer-verse pointed out. Also, I want to clarify that I don't think the show was literally punishing people for having non-traditional/non-monogamous relationships. It just felt icky that all of the good people whose relationships we were showed/told about, were more traditional when it came to relationships. It's like when the "modern woman" is usually the villain in Indian soaps. She's not portrayed as evil because she wears modern clothes, and yet somehow, it's always the evil one that is "modern", while the good one is more "traditional".