#Swimming With Sharks

[world-of-celebs]

Kiernan Shipka attends the "Swimming with Sharks" Premiere during the 2022 SXSW Conference and Festivals at Stateside Theater on March 14, 2022 in Austin, Texas.

[divintiy]

[demifiendrsa]

Canadian actor Donald Sutherland has passed away at age 88 after a long illness.

Sutherland rose to fame after starring in films including The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H, Kelly's Heroes, Klute, Don't Look Now, Fellini's Casanova, 1900, The Eagle Has Landed, National Lampoon's Animal House, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The First Great Train Robbery, Ordinary People, and Eye of the Needle. He later went on to star in many other films where he appeared either in leading or supporting roles such as A Dry White Season, JFK (1991), Outbreak, A Time to Kill, Without Limits, Space Cowboys, Big Shot's Funeral, The Italian Job, Cold Mountain, Pride & Prejudice (2005), Aurora Borealis, The Hunger Games franchise, and Ad Astra. His most recent TV roles include Swimming With Sharks and Lawmen: Bass Reeves.

[littlepawz]

Amazing photos by Jim Abernethy who vows to “Photograph Great White Sharks In (Hopefully) A Non-Scary Way”. 

I don’t know about you, but that first photo would scare the crap out of me

[vintage-tigre]

[occupationdinosaur]

🡒 🎥  SWIMMING WITH SHARKS  • Opening Credits, 2022.

«We do what we have to do in order to get what we want.»

[fancyschmancyopinions]

KIERNAN SHIPKA at the premiere of “White House Plumbers” on April 18th 2023 in New York City wearing OSCAR DE LA RENTA

I’m always a fan of Kiernan Shipka , and this look was no different. I thought it was a perfect choice for a more casual premiere.

I really loved the ombré effect of the dress, especially since the colors were orange and green. They’re two colors that I wouldn’t be expected to be paired together. Sequins also make everything better. It was a really nice look.

[lavenderinoz]

Matt Smith and Christian Slater in the theatre production of Swimming with Sharks, 2007

[issacharmastersdp18]

Donald Sutherland’s book was set to be released today, but was quietly rescheduled to be released February 3rd, 2026.

Why?

Well, the article I just read suggests it’s because he got “too candid” about his sexual relationships.

I read an article from earlier this year that Kiefer and the family had not yet read the book because Donald was still editing it three days before his passing.

I’ve seen nothing thus far of the family commenting on this news.

Frankly, it should come as no surprise that he would be so open on the page.

He was a reasonably private man, but not terribly shy about his past. He also notoriously spoke “in paragraphs,” which was amplified in his letter writing.

If anything, this feels like an attempt to stifle some of his last words.

Something which I feel is INCREDIBLY DISRESPECTFUL to his memory.

Donald was larger than life and you can’t just water down his life because it MIGHT not be appropriate for all audiences.

Donald was someone who kept little to himself if he got comfortable around you. There’s a rather nice interview from Playboy that illustrates this perfectly. (It includes mentions of the first time he masturbated, the first time he kissed a girl, and the thing he regretted most about his life up until that point was that he hadn’t had more sex, just to give you a clue)

The man was open to notes, but I can guarantee they’ll be pulling far more information from it than he would approve.

And the article had the AUDACITY to suggest his openness in the book was due to his being ill (in whatever way he was ill).

There’s article upon article with snippets of stories about his sex life, and that’s just the ones approved for the general public who would be reading those magazines.

The man’s life, even when not behind closed doors, was hardly PG.

An interaction with one of the stars of “Die! Die! My Darling!” (Not while working on that particular project, if I recall correctly), working with Federico Fellini, a rather uncomfortably intimate, heavily choreographed “sex” scene expertly edited by Nic Roeg to trick the brain into seeing what isn’t actually there, Donald’s bare ass being shown as a joke for the rushes that ultimately made it to theatrical release of Animal House.

His wife is French Canadian. When they met, he didn’t speak French and she didn’t speak English. Naturally, their early on communication methods were largely physical.

(And based of what was allowed to print in magazines over the years, I can imagine just how much more “candid” this candidness may have gotten, so I am not saying any of this lightly or solely out of anger. I do have a working understanding of the kind of things they are alluding to him having written)

Listen…

I am ace spec.

I am not the most comfortable hearing or reading about other people (real or fictional) and the ways in which they choose to be intimate with each other.

So believe me when I say: I DO NOT CARE HOW “CANDID” HE GOT. LET US READ THE DAMN THING.

If censorship insists on continuing, those of us who preordered the book should at least be given the option of receiving the book with or without the censorship.

We should not all be required to wait another 15 months just because some editor got all hot and bothered with their panties in a twist.

These people do not know with whom they are fucking.

Donald Sutherland’s vengeful ghost is not something anyone would willingly sign up to deal with.

I guaran-fucking-tee the man has been hanging around this whole time.

Donald, by all accounts, was one of the sweetest people to ever live.

That said, an angry Donald Sutherland is one of the scariest things you will ever see.

[alpharaposa]

For Mermay, a fic about shapeshifting sahuagin people and Rufus suffering.

Rufus always expected he and Avalanche would betray each other. He never expected it to be so soon.

[felrend]

On guard…

[divintiy]

[sohannabarberaesque]

Poetry Corner

Polynesia Uncharted, where it might seem odd to picture Peter Potamus (with the odd kith and kin on occasion) swim with sharks on a par with dolphins every now and then.

Still, who recalls that bizarre test to show Peter Potamus may have been some native hippo god reincarnate involving his being trussed up and thrown off a cliff into shark-infested waters, and then swim alongside said shark?

But still, the sheer fascination and awe of actually swimming alongside sharks, revered by such close-to-nature natives as spirit figures of a kind, reincarnate of past ancestors--and naked, at that-- isn't something to make one leery as to the Potential Consequences.

As if swimming with dolphins wasn't "cool" enough ...

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[sakublogs]

Hi there! Just letting you know I wrote another ShinRan fic. 'Swimming with Sharks'. I just put it on my blog. Enjoy! Let me know what you think!

which is here:

This was such a lovely morning surprise, the story line is catchy and I love your writing style. I am so honoured that you sent this to me. I will also add to the part 2 of my tumblr posts, thats how amazing I believe this is, and believe me when I say I am hard critic. Love the slight OCCness with shinichi, which isn't necessarily OCC, lowkey hyping me up to post-BO shinichi. Give it a read everyone and keep sending me more, I love reading all your works and give it all the support you got!!! Queen sonoko should get hired by TMZ

[gotankgo]

Get Smart! “See Who's Laughing”

• Swimming with Sharks (1986)