#December 29

[chalamet-chalamet]

Timothée Chalamet discussing how he prepped for ‘A Complete Unknown’ on The Graham Norton Show.

Twitter credit to mediatimupdates

[happybirthday-unusannus]

Happy 4th Birthday to

“Duct Tape Crucifixion (Amy, Please Don't Watch This Video)”

[todaysdocument]

Rising Earth Greets Apollo VIII Astronauts

Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information AgencySeries: Master File Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Personalities, World Events, and American Economic, Social, and Cultural Life

This image is a color photograph of earth from lunar orbit.  The surface of the moon appears on the right edge of the image.  To the left, the earth appears to be floating in the blackness of space.  Just over half of the earth is visible, the rest is in shadow.

[dailykafka]

— December 29, 1911 / Franz Kafka diaries

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Brant (Branta bernicla)

(Photo by Beko Binder)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- Canada; Alaska; Eastern Siberia

Size (Weight/Length)- 2 kg; 65 cm; 120 cm wingspan

Diet- Eel-grass; Seaweed; Sea lettuce

Cool Facts- While lesser known than the Canada goose, the brant deserves just as much love. These geese never leave their coastal home, sticking to the saltwater. Brant feast on aquatic plants, using salt glands in their nares to excrete excess salt through their boogers. Brant used to exclusively feast on eel-grass, until 1931 when eel-grass almost went extinct due to a slime mold infesting the waters. The brant population dropped massively, at least until they learned that sea lettuce and seaweed made a great diet substitute. Today, they number half a million individuals.

Rating- 13/10 (Was once classified as a fish rather than a bird, I’m not joking.)

[lulublack90]

Prompt - Ticket

@jegulus-microfic December 29 Word count 671

“Where’s my ticket?” James grumbled as he scrolled through hundreds of emails, trying to find it. He kept every single email he ever got. It drove Remus mad. “I swear it was so much easier when they sent you an actual real-life ticket.” He was still grumbling at his phone.

“It was only easier for you, James because they got sent to me, so you never had to worry where you put it. Honestly, if you’d had them we’d never have gone to any concerts.” Remus huffed. 

James was still scrolling, only half listening to Remus. Remus had had enough. He plucked James’s phone out of his hand and used the search option in the email app. “There you go, and I’ve sent it over to my account as well and taken a screenshot of it. You have zero way of losing it now.” Remus looked up, “Though knowing you, you’ll still manage.” James chuckled fondly.

“Yeah, yeah. You love me, I know. Right, are we ready then?”

Remus grabbed James’s keys and wallet and locked up the flat before they set off for the bus stop. 

It didn’t take them long to get to the venue. They were seeing a relatively new band, Fighting the Stars.

They somehow managed to get stood at the front of the crowd, almost touching the stage. 

The band emerged from the sides, and the plinks and bangs of instrument checks started. Then, a long-haired, skinny man walked to the microphone. Remus let out a small gasp. 

“Hello,” He said, his voice silky and smooth. “I’m Sirius, and this,” He gestured to the man with the guitar standing in shadow. “Is my brother Regulus, and we,” He swung his arms to show the rest of the band. “Are Fighting the Stars!”

They started playing. They were good, really good. James was bobbing along and enjoying the dramatic movements of Sirius as he belted out the lyrics. He turned to Remus to see what he thought. But he was stood still, his eyes locked on Sirius, enchanted.

James rolled his eyes and went back to watching the stage. Sirius had pulled the mic out of the stand and was trying to drag his brother forward. There was a slight scuffle between them. Neither missed a word or a chord, but in the end, Sirius won. Regulus wandered into the light. James felt his jaw drop. He didn’t think it was a real thing, just something films did to the main characters. But it happened. 

Regulus caught him staring. He raised his eyebrows and gave him a little knowing smirk before winking at him. 

James and Remus spent the rest of the set spellbound, unable to move. 

Sirius called goodnight to the crowd as the band walked off stage. James and Remus’s heads followed the brothers until they were out of sight. They both let out a huff of air like they’d forgotten to breathe. 

“Well, that was something,” James murmured. Remus couldn’t talk at all and just nodded. 

Before they could say anything else, Sirius’s head popped back around the curtain. He looked right at Remus, waved and beckoned him over. Remus turned to James and shrugged his shoulders before scrambling up onto the stage and disappearing with Sirius. 

James looked at the shadowy exit Remus left through, hoping, then sighed and pulled out his phone to text Remus that he was going home. When he looked back up, Regulus was watching him, barely visible. He didn’t come out past the curtain as Sirius had. James felt his heart skip a beat. Yet another film moment he hadn’t realised was real. 

Regulus crooked one finger at him. As though an invisible line was attached to his navel tugging him forward and towards the waiting Regulus, he started walking. 

Oh well, he thought, I couldn’t have gone home anyway. Remus has my keys.

He followed Regulus into the back. He didn’t know if it was a good or a bad idea, but he was doing it anyway.  

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode nationale, no. 52, 29 décembre 1906, Paris. Toilette de soirée. Bibliothèque nationale de France

Robe de bal ou de soirée pour jeune femme. — Cette toilette est exécutée en éolienne ou crêpe de Chine orange clair. Jupe montée au ras de la taille devant, mais remontant au milieu du dos afin de donner un peu le mouvement Directoire. Au bas de la jupe, large entre-deux brodé surmonté d'une petite couronne de velours très souple. Le bas de la jupe est entièrement en velours d'un ton plus soutenu que celui du tissu de la robe. Le corsage brodé à même le tissu devant seulement blouse dans une haute ceinture drapée. Le décolleté est contourné d'une draperie formant fichu. Manche drapée ornée d'un entre-deux brodé. Sur l'épaule, couronne de velours semblable à celle de la jupe.

Ball gown or evening dress for young women. — This toilet is made of light orange windscreen or crepe de chine. Skirt fitted flush with the waist at the front, but rising to the middle of the back to give a bit of the Directoire movement. At the bottom of the skirt, large embroidered insert topped with a small crown of very soft velvet. The bottom of the skirt is entirely in velvet in a more intense tone than that of the dress fabric. The bodice embroidered on the fabric in front only blouse in a high draped belt. The neckline is surrounded by a drapery forming a fichu. Draped sleeve decorated with an embroidered insert. On the shoulder, velvet crown similar to that of the skirt.

[musickickztoo]

Vivienne Westwood 

April 8, 1941 – December 29, 2022

Pamela Rooke (Jordan)

June 23, 1955 – April 3, 2022

[typelikeagirl]

[papering-the-wall]

Happy 29th of DEPPcember!

(Johnny Depp) (29/31)

(What's Eating Gilbert Grape) [1993]

[tv-moments]

For All Mankind

Season 4, “Legacy”

Director: Maja Vrvilo

DoP: Ross Berryman

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The city hired unemployed workers to shovel the streets after a heavy snowfall, December 29, 1930.

Photo: Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

[happybirthday-unusannus]

Happy 3rd Birthday to

“Duct Tape Crucifixation (Amy, Please Don't Watch This Video)”

[dayinanimanga]

Today in Manga History

December 29th, 1997

Kamikaze Kaito Jeanne begins serialization in Ribon Magazine

Written and illustrated by Arina Tanemura

[dailykafka]

— December 29, 1910 / Franz Kafka diaries

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Cane Toad (Rhinella marina)

(Photo by Ian Waldie)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- South America

Size (Weight/Length)- 23 kg

Diet- Insects; Birds; Frogs; Small mammals; Reptiles

Cool Facts- Part of the big 6 invasive species list, I have a bone to pick with the cane toad. While an important part of insect control in its native homeland, their presence in Australia has destroyed the native amphibian population. Originally introduced to eat gray-backed cane beetles, the cane toad has since exploded in population. Destroying snake, crocodile, and amphibian species alike, their effect on biodiversity is devastating. Later introduced to the United States, the Philippines, Fiji, and the Caribbean, cane toads are put on the most wanted list for conservationists.

Rating- 9/10 (Oh yeah, and they carry chytrid fungus too.)