#love in the bin

[punks-never-die205]

I mentioned before that Krista is an art geek and I imagine her trying to explain the story of the Banksy piece “Love in the Bin” to the crew.

For anyone who doesn’t know, Banksy is an English street artist, political activist, and film director whose real name and identity remain a secret and well known for his satirical street art.

The painting, originally named “Girl with Balloon” was put up for auction and sold for £1,042,00. But what no one knew is that Banksy installed a shredder in the frame of the painting, and just as the gavel dropped Banksy, who people speculate was probably in the audience at the time, turned on the shredder and started shredding the painting. The workers at the auction managed to turn off the shredder halfway through and the person who bought the painting agreed to still pay for it and was renamed to “Love in the Bin”.

Sotheby's, the corporation that sold the painting, said the painting was "the first artwork in history to have been created live during an auction."; and lot of people agree that the self-destruction ended up increasing the painting’s price.

I just imagine Kris explaining all of this to the Kid Pirates, and everyone is just staring at her, until someone breaks the silence and says “Art people are weird as shit.”

That image is just funny to me 😆, also here is the before and after of the painting.

I feel like the big four would become huge fans of Banksy though.

xD Even if art people are weird as shit.

[briankang]

"I've never seen Changbin cry." "Right, I've never cried in front of you." "Why don't you cry?" "I don't cry much even in front of the members."

[teashh]

I am so glad the new kdramas are bringing back the specific brand of loser men. You know which brand I'm talking about. The Ahn "min min" Minhyuk brand of loser men and I'm loving it. The "I worship this goddess and I'm so in love with her and I can't believe I get to love her. Oh my gods I love her so much" brand of loser men. And we're being fed so well with lovely runner, love next door, no gain no love, my demon, Cinderella at 2am, Hierarchy, Midnight Romance in Hagwon, doctor slump, Queen of tears, welcome to samdal-ri and even good partner (yes it's one sided but the dedication and yuri's couple too).

We need more fictional loser men who worship women to satiate our eldest independent daughter desires.

[comfort-character-central]

A REMINDER THAT YOU DON'T NEED TO CHANGE ANYTHING TO BE ENOUGH FOR YOUR F/O! YOU ARE WORTH IT TO THEM AND BEING YOURSELF IS ALL THEY EVER WANT, BECAUSE THEY LOVE YOU! EVEN WITH FLAWS, INSECURITIES, AND IMPERFECTIONS, YOU ARE THE PERFECT FRIEND/PARTNER/FAMILY MEMBER/LOVER/BESTIE FOR THEM!!!!!!!

[zhongrin]

modern au crack-ish yandere idea. dragons being the king of all lizards, imagine zhongli being able to control all the 'lesser' lizards to some extent, maybe even share senses with them.

and what better way for him to watch you, his dearest darling, than connecting with the common house geckos that's roaming around your house?

they're harmless, agile, and inconspicuous enough to do some basic monitoring. don't pay attention to the strange amber-eyed tiny animal perched on your bedroom walls, dear. don't delude yourself into thinking that its eyes seemed to shine in the darkness of your room while you teeter between dream and reality deep into the night. don't worry about how it seemed to chirp angrily whenever your friends come over, as if it's warning them from entering its territory.

it's just a common house pet anyway. right?

if you're a superstitious person, that's even better. geckos are said to be a symbol of luck, protection of your home and its residents. and in this case, it's especially true for you.

worry not, for this 'lizard' will gladly rid all the 'insects' who dared to step into your abode.

a/n: lil background story time. i needed to change my bedsheets and got utterly spooked by a tiny lil house lizard flopping onto my arm when i was moving my plushies to my desk. zhongli... honey... lizards are cute, yes, but you're the only lizard i don't mind having in my bedー /smacked

[dramashii]

CRASH LANDING ON YOU (2019) in SWITZERLAND 🇨🇭

[tiddygame]

ghost’s civilian wardrobe is nothing but hawaiian shirts. soap is in utter disbelief the first time he sees it. ghost says they’re good bc:

it’s so fucking ugly, no one can stand to look at it for too long so he doesn’t draw attention

No one thinks the ghost would wear something so bright and stupid meaning he’s completely under cover every time he’s on leave

they’re cheap and an easy thrift

but he just really fucking likes how goddamn ugly they are

…

at least, that’s what he tells soap. and himself. in reality, they were always tommy’s thing. he always wore them to the point everyone knew that the safest gift to get him was the ugliest patterned shirts they could find. in every family photo, tommy was the easiest to spot with the brightest eye sore worn proudly with a smile.

after that cold night in december, all of their stuff was either donated or thrown away.

one day, ghost was thrift shopping (because even though now he had more money, habits from being raised in a poor home die hard) and saw one of them. he froze. at first, he thought it was just one that looked similar. but when he inspected it, it even had that old tear tommy had gotten simon to fix and sew up for him.

he grabbed it in a daze. he searched every rack in that store and found a few more hawaiian shirts. if they were tommy’s or not didn’t matter. he bought them. for days, he hunted through every thrift store in town buying every stupid patterned shirt he saw.

knowing that the few shirts he collected was the only thing he had left of his baby brother finally broke him. he probably looked insane, sitting in his old beat up pickup truck, surrounded by shopping bags from different stores, crying into a yellow and orange button up with flowers on it, and one sewn up tear on the sleeve. but it was tommy’s. and it was all he had.

at first, they were hidden away in a box. he lied to himself that it was because he wanted to keep them safe, but in reality, he couldn’t look at them without either wanting to cry or punch holes in the wall.

but, one christmas, he finally pulls his head out of his ass and grabs them. visits the cemetery in a stupid yellow and orange monstrosity of a shirt and complains that tommy couldn’t have had a better fashion sense.

he wears another when he has to go grocery shopping. and again when he runs errands. and again. and again. and again.

the first time one of them got something on it, he almost cried and pulled every trick his mother taught him about removing stains. the shadow of it persisted but the pattern covered most of it.

eventually, they became a staple of his wardrobe.

years later, soap watched ghosts careful routine he had for washing the shirts. they were always washed separately on delicate and air dried with routine inspections for any holes or tears. it would click later, when finding an old family photo, one with a young boy on simon’s shoulders and another man next to him in a familiar yellow and orange shirt, that perhaps simon hadn’t been entirely truthful when he said he just liked them.

simon was scared the first time soap did his laundry, but johnny always washed them with the same level of care, following the exact same routine. he still made fun of him (lovingly, of course), saying that crimes against fashion must run in the family.

…

and further down the line, years later, they will be old and graying with wrinkles, wearing matching hawaiian shirts. johnny will complain about how ugly they are yet will still wear it happily (and tune out simon reminding him that it was johnnys idea to start matching)

[inkz123]

Doodles u say? And you can NEVER have too much error

Giv em raccoon ears

Hes a tiny criminal

Gave him tail and coon grippies ehehe >:3

[deutsche-bahn]

Bin vor kurzem in eine Gartenparty voller WDR-Journalisten gestolpert. Ich stach mit Wacken-Tshirt und viel zu großer Haremhose irgendwie aus der Masse der Blusenträger heraus. Ich würd's noch nicht mal als underdressed bezeichnen, ich bewegte mich nur auf einem ganz anderen Spektrum der Alltagskleidung.

Ich bekam einen Aperol in die Hand gedrückt und wurde neben eine Redaktionsassistentin gesetzt, die allem Anschein nach versuchte ihren Mangel an Eiern mit dem größten, klobigsten Paar Perlenohrringe zu kompensieren das ich je gesehen habe. Ich habe Musketenkugeln mit weniger Durchmesser gesehen, ernsthaft.

Aus dem Gespräch zwischen ihr und ihren Kolleginnen wurde mir schnell klar dass es sich um die Sorte Publikum handelte die die Shopping-Szene aus Pretty Woman für die Höhe der Gesellschaftskritik hielten. Unverschämt, wie man in Boutiquen manchmal behandelt werde, wenn die Verkäufer einen in die falsche Gehaltsklasse einordnen! Und was ein schöner Triumph wenn sie merken, dass man ja doch Geld hat, trotz Oberteil von H&M! Ich nicke verständnisvoll. Passiert mir auch andauernd, ja.

Meiner Sitznachbarin wird es jetzt zum Glück auch zu gehobene-mittelschichtig. Sie lugt zwischen ihren Perlohrringen hindurch und merkt an, dass es ja auch nicht schlimm sei wenn man tatsächlich nicht so viel verdient. Ich möchte hier kurz betonen dass das ein echtes Gespräch war, was ich wirklich, wirklich so mitbekommen habe. Nein, sagt sie. Sie hätte ja auch Freunde, die nicht so viel Geld hätten. Aber das wäre ja auch nicht schlimm, da könnte sie sich genauso mit treffen! Und dann würden sie sogar Bier aus Flaschen trinken. Ich zerbeiße fast mein Glas vor gesprächlicher Überforderung. Wild, Bier aus Flaschen.

Würde man dieser Frau einen echten, leibhaftigen Bürgergeldempfänger vorsetzen würde sie wahrscheinlich anfangen, langsamer und deutlicher zu reden. Ich verschlucke einen der Eiswürfel in meinem Aperol und ersticke augenblicklich.

[kateknowsdramas]

I love you.

[lovegrowsart]

it's pretty wild to me that people don't see that aang running off to save katara in CoD is his luke in empire strikes back moment, where he runs headlong into his want and attachment and he's narratively punished for doing so and not learning his lesson - aang runs after katara despite guru pathik's warning, like luke runs after leia and han from yoda on dagobah despite yoda's warning; similarly, as a result, things go to hell in ba sing se like they do on bespin - aang enters the avatar state before he's ready and gets killed, and ba sing se falls to the fire nation, luke fights vader before he's ready, loses a hand, and symbolically commits suicide after vader tells him he's luke's father.

the difference between their character arcs is that george lucas and co. actually went thru with luke's hero's journey and understood the fundamental difference between attachment and love, whereas I don't think bryke understood this difference and then dropped this from aang's arc pretty much completely and replaced it with aang digging in his heels into his want and attachment and he gets rewarded with energy bending from a lion turtle, the avatar state from a random pointy rock, and his forever girl from the self-indulgent white men that couldn't bring themselves to give their hero a compelling character arc that meant he might not have gotten everything he wanted at the end.

[briankang]

CHANGBIN x W KOREA

[orangesyellow]

"Was this also a part of clearing things up?" Castaway Diva (2023) dir. by Oh Choong-hwan

[gentle-hero-blog]

Nothing but love for Samus’ chunky 80’s dork suit

[kimgoeun]

Tell Me That You Love Me (ep.2)

[outletcrash]

shakes her around like a beetle in a jar