#jesus christ!!

[sea-changed]

In retrospect I cannot believe I wrote this entire post without having seen these article scans wherein Tom Hanks so perfectly explicates my whole point that it's a little breathtaking. That he so specifically frames his experience of filming Saving Private Ryan and creating Band of Brothers as a process of historical revisionism and reaction against his father's firsthand account of the war as he experienced it really brings home I think the extent to which Band of Brothers is both intensely narrativized (in opposition to lived experience) and yet equally as intensely wants to be true. Hanks is framing both Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers here as representations of a sort of surrogate truth, which is better (and perhaps somehow truer--see the PhD comment) than his father's memories, which he finds lacking.

Like--we know all this already! We watched the series! But to have the impetus behind it so directly and forthrightly laid out like that is sort of incredible. Like, oh, Mr. Hanks, is a story true? Is a story untrue? As time extends does it matter less and less? Are the stories we want to believe the ones that survive? Jesus christ.

[weedzkiller]

why am i getting more followers when i have “not currently looking for new writing partners” in my god damn pinned post than i ever did when i actually wanted to find new people to write with 😃

[stone-stars]

things that made me say "fuck you for real, murph": unknown tome plays when bev sr. arrives with the death knights, and mee-maw's burden plays when he tells them that that he's given his soul up.

[henswilsons]

omg denny’s actor emmy when??

[centralpark1981]

empty by kevin abstract just came on shuffle and i was violently transported to summer 2021 when all i listened to was that song + nikes and was in the throes of the wort ed i've ever had in my life & wanted to kms over a m*n

[ftmbruce]

this show would be nothing without bella ramsey and im so serious right now.

[bunnyburrowsys]

@whatcoloristhatcat

A lot of orange 🍊 meows .. sound on 🔊

[teaboot]

Okay so I'm a security guard, right

And part of why I like my job is cause I'm pretty good at deescalating conflicts without violence or police involvement

And that *might* be because my primary coping mechanism for stress is humor, and if the guy in the uniform isn't stressed out, usually nobody else is either

But anyhow today I witnessed a crime, which 911 had already been called for

And I'm telling the guy, you know, as he's running away, that nobody's gonna touch him, we don't do that here, I don't have any weapons and he can totally walk on out if he wants to

And he gives me this 'go-fuck-yourself" type answer, right? As you do

And I fucking

I fucking. Start danCING

I DONT KNOW WHY

I WAS JUST LIKE "aight guess I'll go fuck myself then, cheerio" AND START FUCKING DANCING

LIKE MY BRAIN WAS LIKE "Cool not being attacked, gotta keep the witnessed calm, gotta stay chill and breezy" AND THE PHYSICAL RESPONSE FOR THAT WAS TO SYART DOING THIS SASSY FUCKING JIG

I DIDNT EVEN REALIZR I WAS FDOUNG IT UNTIL SOMEONE POIU TED IT OUT AFTER

and it all ended fine and the dude is in custody and I get a call from my boss like "Yeah we're gonna need to send footage to police"

AND

FUCKING

THIS IS GOING TO BE SHOWN IN COURT SOMEWHERE

IM DOUNG A SRUPID LITTLE DANCE ON CAMERA AS THIS GUY LOSES HIS MIND AND ITS GONNA BE ON COURT SOMEWHERW

THIS IS THE STUPIDEST FUCKING THING IVE WVER DONE

I HATE MYSELFD

[wolfythewitch]

jesus in the hades art style

[justatallstick]

i’m literally going to end it all

[hansoeii]

only you.

[bluesky-out-of-context]

[thought-begone]

I guess the real glorious evolution was the homoerotic yearning we made along the way

[romanceyourdemons]

i love characters who are always like fear not, i shall take care of this problem for you….. by sacrificing myself!! and everyone else is like i swear to god if you pull this shit again i’ll kill you

[whydidisavethistomyphone]