#not that charlie chaplin lived by that idea himself

[anamericangirl]

On the topic of people talking about there being no benefits to premarital sex: I have to agree.

Literally the only reason I've ever wanted to lose my virginity is "to see what it feels like" and "to have experienced it"

That's not fair at all to women. My desire to have sex is literally just for personal experience? That's fucked up! There's no romantic interest, there's no desire to procreate, there's just "I wanna see what it feels like" on the same level as "I haven't tried that pizza topping before, I wanna try it"

So that's why I stopped pursuing it. I'll have sex when I have a girlfriend I love and have a connection to. Until then, I don't care.

I told all this to a liberal friend of mine who I'll call Botty for anonymity sake, and her reply was, "You're trying really hard to sound like you're philosophical but you're really just making excuses for why you're a virgin at 35" and she laughed.

To which I replied "Botty you have AIDS."

She yelled at me to leave and her boyfriend was just cracking up

I just left. Haven't been back to their house in a few months.

That's so crazy. People act like being a virgin at 35 is pathetic because we've had this notion ingrained into our culture that if you're an adult you should be regularly having sex, which is absolutely insane. Really, being a virgin should be completely normal and expected because in an ideal world the only people who wouldn't be virgins are people who are married.

Because, like you mention, the only "benefit" to sex outside of marriage is it satisfies a momentary desire and gives you an experience you just want to "try."

Sex is an incredibly intimate thing that creates physical and emotional bonds and the expectation that people should be having it regularly and treating it casually and implying that adult virgins are losers is wild. Just shows that people do not value sex or treat it with the respect it deserves.

Charlie Chaplin summed it up beautifully with "your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul" and that is definitely not an idea encouraged by the world we live in.

But good for you for sticking to your guns. That's an incredibly ironic attempt at a burn from someone who is a living example of one the problems with not waiting until marriage.

[nunkijunky]

I was rereading SBR this weekend and realized that the manga, in its essence, unfolds the idea of humane egoists and altruists who put everything on the line (including people's lives). This can be left as a conclusion, haha, really, idk how to end this post.

disclaimer #1: I'm type the text through a translator, all inaccuracies in wording are accidental!

So the holy corpse motivates two countries: the USA, which claims the corpse for territorial reasons, and the Vatican, which claims it for religious and cultural reasons, since it's the capital of the Roman Catholic Church.

disclaimer #2: I'm judging based on my rather shallow knowledge of history and literature!

Despite the anachronisms, the manga covers topics relevant to the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries: the war between North and South in the 1860s and the unification of Italy in 1870. It seems that the kingdom in which Gyro lived was in direct conflict with the Vatican, as the kingdom granted the papacy a military protectorate. The Pope declared himself a "perpetual captive".

These crises are juxtaposed with the reality that American culture sought to create a unified national epic (since it had no single national identity) - the race of the explorers, Valentine's ideas of becoming the leader among the led, and all in the name of the state.

A few things can be said about Europe as a whole.

First, there is another crisis of bourgeois values in Britain. Diego is becoming gets in a row William Thackeray's heroes (let's face it, Dickens is smoking on the sidelines because it praises poverty too idealistically). When I read his backstory, I thought of the workhouses - despite the Industrial Revolution, manual labor was still in demand until 1941! Of the famous people, Charlie Chaplin went through the workhouses. He is materialistic, but more than possessions he prioritizes the opportunity to be higher. The strong beats the weak, as the Social Darwinists said.

Second, the aristocrats live large: one foot in fast-growing America, the other in good old England. This is the question of Johnny. As a protagonist, he pretty much takes everything from life. I think he's less materialistic than Dio. He only cares about owning things to escape his past. He doesn't care about the value of Nicholas' boots, which he needed in time and fit. He doesn't care whose relics he collects, he just knows that without them he remains as weak, a reminder of the shameful decline of his career. For the sake of his own ambition, he is willing to risk his friend's goal.

Third, the Old World, with its monarchical foundations, is in crisis. I think this is largely true of the idea of the search for God: the flowering of pan-aestheticism and mysticism, including religious societies (perhaps I am focusing here on the experience of the Russian Empire before the October Revolution). Religious feeling was on the rise, and it is not surprising that Hot Pants found salvation in faith. But it is rather difficult to assess the setting here: how does an American woman, withdrawn from the world in her adolescence, become devoted to the Vatican? Why is an ordinary person given such a serious task? Her idea of service in the name of salvation seems to be in stark and goes against the next point.

Fourth, we can touch on the crisis of the judicial system as a whole: Gyro protests against blind service to the king, he only wants the guilty to be sentenced fairly. To put it crudely, beheading will not make the perpetrator more humane. The sad arc of Wekapipo could fit in here as well: the man who defended his family's defiled honor is forced to become an exile and lose his status in the Guard. He's simply cut out because of his reputation.

picture to attract attention, I continue to render the sketch from the previous post (уeah, the sketch_1 turned into the sketch_2)

[creoterative]

Well, I said that September might be Paul's month, didn't I? So here's another drawing, inspired by a scene in Charlie Chaplin's movie 'City Lights' from 1931.  I'm a great fan of Ikarishipping and thus wanted to finally make a drawing for it since the last one I made was... let's just say, it's very old.

The idea for this drawing came to me when I rewatched this gem of a movie a few days ago. It is my favorite out of Chaplin's collection because of the simple but very sweet and hopefull story that brings the two main characters together.

I'll give a summary and explain why I picked that scene for this picture.

----Spoilers----

The movie starts with the main character, the Tramp, being chased off a statue, that was to be revealed to the public, all while he decided to sleep under the curtain. He didn't have any other place to sleep that night, so he just took what was there, not realizing the amount of trouble he'd make in doing so.

After he's chased off, he walks through the city for a while, not really caring where his feet will take him, until he encounters a lot of traffic and has to climb through the car of a wealthy man to get to the other side. A young woman is sitting on a small wall, selling flowers, and when she hears the door of the car, she asks the man if he's interested in buying some.

The Tramp thinks for a while, since his money is very limited nowadays, but decides to at least give the flowers a look. Accidentally, he throws a flower out of her hand with his ellbow and picks it up quickly, right before the woman bends down to do so as well. Realizing she is blind and didn't see him already get the flower, he helps her up and she puts the flower on his jacket. He gives her the rest of his money and wants to wait for his change when another man gets into a fancy car right next to him. Not knwoing that he's still standing beside her, the woman reaches out for the car, asking for him to wait for his change, while the Tramp sneaks away, letting her keep the money.

As the woman returns home to her grandmother and dreams about finding someone who doesn't just see the disability she has, the Tramp stops a millionaire from drowning himself in the river and befriends him (kinda). After saving him from himself, again, he and the millionaire go out to make trouble in town and live the city night life. All kinds of crazy things happen, multiple times the Tramp or the millionaire almost get into a fight, but in the end, they make it out alive and arrive at the millionaires mansion in the early morning.

While the still very drunk millionaire is brought inside, the Tramp stays at the stairs outside, where he sees the woman from yesterday sell her flowers again. Getting money from the drunk millionaire, he rushes over to her to buy all of her flowers and guide her home as well. (That's the scene I drew by the way.)

When they arrive, he asks if he may see her again and she tells him he may come visit whenever he wants to. Afterwards, she talks to her grandmother about him, saying that he may be rich, but he's more than that, referring to his kind and gentle attitude.

The Tramp gets back to the millionaire's mansion the next morning, thinking his butlers will let him in, but when the millionaire is sober, he doesn't recognize the Tramp and sees him as filth, a streetrat. In the afternoon though, they meet each other again, the millionaire being drunk again and he hosts a party for the Tramp. In the end, he gets thrown out the next morning and leaves, not really caring for the rich man anymore.

The woman meanwhile catches a severe cold and when the Tramp hears this, he decides to help her. He finds honest work, cleaning streets, and tries his best to keep up the facade, as the woman still thinks he's a gentleman.

But when they find out, that the authorities will take her home if she doesn't pay rent quickly, he promises her to help, only to discover that he's about to lose his job for being late again. Desperate, the Tramo enters a, more or less legal, boxing fight and can even hold his own for a while, but is defeated at last.

Not knowing what to do, he visits the millionaire again, who is drunk for the millionth time and promises him, that he'll take care of the woman. There has been a new scientific breakthrough in eye surgeries, so that people can see again and the Tramp suggests that he'd get her the treatment. He can get a lot of money from the millionaire before the policemen arrive, mistaking him for a thief, while the real thieves are escaping already.

Running away from the law, he rushes to the woman and gives her every cent he's got, telling her to get the treatment and pay her rent before he has to go. She asks him if she'll see him again, to which he replies with 'I gotta go, for a while.' Knowing, that he'll get thrown into jail if the police finds him, he leaves her and gets arrested shortly after.

Six months later, the Tramp is free again, but broke and doesn't have a clue where to go from here on, so he just wanders the streets, as always. The woman got the treatment and is finally able to see, which helps her to open her own flower store, which is doing wonderfully.

The Tramp passes the store and recognizes the white flowers out on the street, but as he sees her through the window, he doesn't really know how to act. When the woman approaches him, he wants to run away quickly, but she stops him to give him a flower and some money. After touching his hand and hearing his voice though, she realizes it's him, seeming kind of shocked, but also happy to meet him again.

What happens afterwards is up to us, the viewers.

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The story is old, the movie is old, but I like this old charm, so yeah.

The reason why I thought it might fit Ikarishipping, is a bit much to explain in english, but I'll try my best.

Paul isn't nearly as comically or charismatic as the Tramp. He is cold, doesn't approach people if he doesn't need anything from them (or wants to scold them for something), and he especially doesn't show any interest in being a gentleman. He is very polite to people he thinks deserve it, though. Cynthia, Nurse Joy, Roark, even Dawn at the end seems to have earned his respect in some kind of way since he actually opens up to her about why he despises Ash etc.

If I had to figure out his lovelanguage, I'd say it's through actions, not words. He doesn't talk a lot, but rather shows how much he cares with little things at first. Just as it was in the movie, it started with the Tramp buying one flower, then the whole basket, then he paid her treatment and rent. His love and care grew exponentially and even though I'd say it would take a loooot longer for Paul, I'd still think that's what he works with - slowly opening up, showing more of his care and realizing, that he actually has feelings.

While Paul isn't actually that much reflected by the movie, rather his way of showing affection (in my opinion), I think Dawn is portrayed perfectly. She isn't blind, but the determination of the young woman and her effort are clearly something, that Dawn shows as well. But also the amount of emotions she shows reflects Dawn's. She openly talks about her feelings and thoughts, shows that she cares by asking about the person, how they feel and what they are doing, also offering help if needed.

The woman in the movie is mostly portrayed as shy, but not helpless, knowing her way around the house and even though she's blind, she's still trying her best to make money. Yes, she needs help with the rent, but afterwards she shows that she can handle herself perfectly, since she took the rest of the money he gave her and invested it into something that'll last. That's what I think Dawn is like too. She's not always able to fight her demons oof by herself, but when she gets that little extra help from her friends, she's able to make something remarkable out of it.

Most importantly though, she doesn't judge right away or seeks the fight. Even when Paul was mean in the anime, she showed concern or at least tried to understand what was going on. Especially when he got defeated by Brandon, she seemed worried about him. Of course, they also had their tense moments, for example when he couldn't remember her name, but that's... well, part of the ships charm, I guess ^^

Anyways, that's my opinion on this, my idea for the picture.

Have a nice day and stay safe!

[stevishabitat]

Charlie Chaplin : The Final Speech from The Great Dictator

The Great Dictator was Chaplin’s first film with dialogue. Chaplin plays both a little Jewish barber, living in the ghetto, and Hynkel, the dictator ruler of Tomainia. In his autobiography Chaplin quotes himself as having said: “One doesn’t have to be a Jew to be anti Nazi. All one has to be is a normal decent human being.”

Chaplin and Hitler were born within a week of one another. “There was something uncanny in the resemblance between the Little Tramp and Adolf Hitler, representing opposite poles of humanity, ” writes Chaplin biographer David Robinson, reproducing an unsigned article from The Spectator dated 21st April 1939:

“Providence was in an ironical mood when, fifty years ago this week, it was ordained that Charles Chaplin and Adolf Hitler should make their entry into the world within four days of each other….Each in his own way has expressed the ideas, sentiments, aspirations of the millions of struggling citizens ground between the upper and the lower millstone of society. (…) Each has mirrored the same reality – the predicament of the “little man” in modern society. Each is a distorting mirror, the one for good, the other for untold evil.”

Chaplin spent many months drafting and re-writing the speech for the end of the film, a call for peace from the barber who has been mistaken for Hynkel. Many people criticized the speech, and thought it was superfluous to the film. Others found it uplifting. Regrettably Chaplin’s words are as relevant today as they were in 1940.

[lovelyinspiration1463]

Loki S2 E3 Spoilers Ahead!

My thoughts while watching the episode for the first time:

Is that him as a kid?

I considered for a hot second that Loki might be that horse.

There is never a moment too dire for Mobius to grab a snack, and I relate to that on a deep and personal level.

Boy, Marvel will do anything to plaster their name on screen as much as possible.

*science mumbo jumbo*

I think this variant has gotten himself electrocuted one too many times. 

I wouldn’t be standing right in front of that, my dude.

Well, yeah, now he’s giving off more ‘take over the world’ vibes. Proper Frankenstein over here.

Prototype? Yeah, no kidding. That thing let off a few bright sparks and then just died.

Mustache guy looked so scandalized, I can’t  😭😭😭

“Hornswoggler”? That is my new favorite word.

Is that an offer or a threat? Sounds more like a threat.

Where can I get myself a guy who will pass out money at the snap of my fingers???

I know it’s loud in there, but is no one else hearing the talking purse?

Nice cover, Mobius.

Oop. Old hornswoggler is back and wants a refund. I’m shocked. The machine looked so impressive just… fizzling the way that it did.

This has very quickly become a Charlie Chaplin sketch.

Okay, first of all, Mullet Hair, can you chill??? Killing the same dude over and over and over again is not gonna secure free will for people! Can we discuss? For even just a millisecond?! Are we able to think through our actions?

He ruined your life? Listen here, Sylvie; while you’ve been living it up at McDonalds, the universe has been falling apart! Think outside yourself for two seconds!

His face! 💀💀💀

Are these two seriously having a moment? Cease and desist immediately.

“A long time ago-“ in a galaxy far, far away. No, wait; wrong franchise.

That’s your biggest takeaway? Seriously?

“Rat bags”? Mustache Man is just full of zingers!

Did Loki literally just run in a circle??

Ooh, Miss Minutes is a bit snappy. She really wants everyone to know how clever she is.

Oh my gosh, they are not cramming another slapdash love story into the show 😫 I do not care about this! I came here to see Loki! Every second he’s not on screen, a little part of me dies…

Miss Minutes in the background: 😞

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

I have a feeling Renslayer is suddenly gonna be much more amenable to joining Loki and Mobius now.

All those mannequins are so creepy. 

A Rolodex? That’s his life’s work?

Okay… this just got weird on so many levels. 

OKAY THIS JUST GOT SUPER WEIRD! 🚩‼️🚨 IF SHE POSSESSES ONE OF THOSE MANNEQUINS I AM SO OUTTA HERE

🎶 People always told me, be careful of what you do, don't go around breaking young girls' hearts. And mother always told me, be careful of who you love.  And be careful of what you do, ‘cause the lie becomes the truth - hey hey!🎶

Dude, how did she even get here?

*dramatic entrance at the perfect time*

Mobius, look at her! I don’t think Ravonna is in the best headspace rn.

How many people are gonna barge in here??? Does he have any security at all? Even a single lock?

Also, are we really doing this again? This episode is bloated with will they/won’t they moments. It’s a “won’t” from me. I’ve decided.

The hair! 😍💯

So is Loki just gonna lie there and watch, or…?

So everyone gets free will but him? How do you know he won’t make better choices? He can’t be the one singular person in all of existence that is fated to be something specific!

Okay now I’m starting to feel a little bad for him.

“I can make my own choices.” That’s what I’m saying!

Who put Sylvie in charge? I’m sorry, but last time I checked, Loki doesn’t answer to you!

Seriously? You’re just abandoning her there??? Murder was a bad thing two seconds ago and now you’re both chill about it?

Aww, poor Sylvie. She really is the greatest victim in all this. How dare she be forced to decide to obsess over something 🙄

Yeah, I’m not sure sticking the two of them together is a good idea. I mean technically he’s dead, but what has that ever meant in the MCU?

Oooh, never mind - he’s dead dead. …Well, even so. Loki’s come back from worse.

Can any of these characters just pick a side?! Stop betraying each other so often; I can’t keep up! Who’s working with who???

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Lend Me Your Ears By R. D. BOUCHETTE,” Vancouver Sun. March 2, 1931. Page 6. --- There's Still Hope - Artistry Re-born -  Sir Charles Chaplin - Trouble in Zion --- Those who fall to discern the tiniest gleam of hope for humanity, might pay a visit to the formidable grey fortress, which is the British Columbia penitentiary, on New Westminster's outskirts.

There, under the kindly but watchful eyes of Col. C. E. Edgett, the warden, is going on a process of human rehabilitation, of which we know very little. We, for the most part, are ignorant of it because we cease to interest ourselves in a man once he becomes a number. We forget that if the penitentiary fails to cure that man of his anti-social aliment we shall pay for it.

Warden Edgett's mission is not so much to punish the criminal, as to make him a law-abiding citizen. He does not, however, speak of it as his mission. He says it is the purpose of the Canadian penitentiary system.

***

Facts speak for them selves, and how well Warden Edgett is succeeding in his work is revealed in the figures. 

During his two years as "premier" of this limbo state, Col. Edgett has discharged 200 men from New Westminster. Two of them are again behind the highly-polished steel bars. Another two are in Oakalla. Four more are doing time in the United States. 

This means that more than 90 per cent have reformed their lives. We know that they have reformed, for if they still followed lives of violence, sooner or later they would be in the hands of the police.

***

Out at New Westminster penitentiary, last week, I saw George Paradise, serving a three-year term for selling narcotic drugs. 

I remember speaking to Paradise two years ago at police headquarters, just after he had "beaten the rap" on a drug-possession charge. 

"Why don't you quit taking dope?" someone asked him.

"Quit dope?" Paradise laughed bitterly. "You may take a child from its mother. but never will you take the love of that stuff from me."

Paradise was almost boasting. Less than a year later, in Assize Court, he asked the court to send him to the penitentiary so that he might be cured of his lust for drugs.

Paradise was a sign painter and artist. When I saw him at the prison last week he was in the church, paint brush in hand. He had completed a mural design, a background to the altar. He looked quite happy. He has gained about 20 pounds in weight. His eyes are clear.

He glanced proudly at his work. "I haven't done anything like that for 20 years," he said.

Then he showed me toys he had fashioned with his hands. There was a mechanical turtle, an elephant which raised and lowered its trunk when it was moved, several reproductions of Spanish galleons. Last Christmas Paradise made scores of children happy with the toys he constructed.

***

Paradise, now, does not feel that he wishes to retain the love of narcotics. He has never been more content in his life.

"How are things outside?" he asked me.

I said they were "not so good," there was a lot of unemployment.

"I guess I ain't missing much," said he.

In England they are talking about knighting Charlie Chaplin, the prince of pantomime. It strikes me as being a pretty good idea. Surely, if a man deserves a knighthood for brewing beer or distilling whisky or manufacturing soap, it is not unfitting to reward him for creating Iaughter. Compared to some knights I know, Chaplin could handle an earldom very nicely.

***

Mark Hellinger has story for those who "like their irony served piping hot." It is about a Jewish real estate man who, in boom years, built three very white apartment houses in New York.

Along came the depression and our real estate man found himself with three very large and very white elephants camped upon his bank account.

The sad part of it is that he cannot live in any of the apartments himself. They are restricted against Jews.

[daimonclub]

100 very brilliant quotes

100 very brilliant quotes 100 very brilliant quotes, a collection of very famous aphorisms by great authors of all time to give you some deep words of wisdom for your important life. Men are almost as good to the dead as they are wicked to the living. Anonymous When all think alike, then no one is thinking. Walter Lippmann If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely. Carl Jung A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. Chanakya Miserable is that love that needs words to express itself. Carl William Brown Education isn't something you can finish. Isaac Asimov Knowing yourself is The best fighterthe beginning of all wisdom. Aristotle People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. Blaise Pascal To tyrannize for the country is to tyrannize over the country. Rabindranath Tagore An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war. Montesquieu Man conquers the world by conquering himself. Zeno of Citium Politics has no relation to morality. Niccolò Macchiavelli There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas. Heinrich Mann No artist tolerates reality. Friedrich Nietzsche In humorous religion, contrary to other cults, one can sometimes also blaspheme, certainly not in public, but only when one is praying in solitude. Carl William Brown A sadist. A paranoid psychopath with a delusion of greatness and overvalued ideas. Pathological liar. Self esteem is inadequate. Intelligence is low. His personality is deteriorating rapidly. Lives in a parallel world, detached from reality, completely out of touch with reality. He doesn’t understand her. Valery Novodvorska He (Paracelsus) was the first man to write scientific books in the language of common people, so that all could read them. Manly P. Hall There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity. Isaac Asimov Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. Charles Addams Insisting on calling Tsar, the miserable Putrid, clearly highlights the slavish imbecility of many journalists around the world, and certainly makes them more morons than what the great Shakespeare would rightly have called, “a poor capocchia”. Carl William Brown

Carl Jung brilliant quote Better to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. William Shakespeare The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man. Aristotle When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master. Baruch Spinoza However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing. Geroge Orwell If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. Antisthenes To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson DA Datta, DA Dayadhvam, DA Damyata, shantih, shantih, shantih! (Give, sympathize, control, peace, peace, peace). T.S. Eliot Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Immanuel Kant No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. Quote me as saying I said that, and you may be sure of having the authorship of it. Samuel Johnson Intellect is invisible to the man who has none. Arthur Schopenhauer We think too much and feel too little. Charlie Chaplin Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver. Lev Tolstoy Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. Aristotle To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar Wilde The painful sarcastic bitter parable of life. At the beginning you are born alone and in the end you will die alone, but in the middle you are going to meet an incredible number of blighter! Carl William Brown All truths that are kept silent become poisonous. Friedrich Nietzsche Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least. William Wordsworth You can also commit injustice, by doing nothing. Marcus Aurelius

The happiest people We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. Orson Wells There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying. Josh Billings At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think. Frida Khalo Books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good; Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow. William Wordsworth The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength. Marcus Aurelius It is better to die misunderstood than to spend your life explaining yourself. Carl William Brown If this science, which will bring great benefits to man, will not help man to understand himself, it will end up turning against man. Giordano Bruno Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom. Xenophanes Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, because it trains people what to think. Arthur Schopenhauer The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. Daniel J. Boorstin Unfortunately our planet is more and more full of increasingly empty men, to quote Eliot, shapeless figures, colorless shadows, not souls, lost and violent, but only, empty men, stuffed men, created by the taxidermists of stupidity. Carl William Brown To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Immanuel Kant No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money. Quote me as saying I said that, and you may be sure of having the authorship of it. Samuel Johnson Tell me what you know, and I shall know what manner of person you are, or if you do not know. Ralph Waldo Emerson It is safer to be silent than to reveal one’s secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it. Saadi Ci sono delle persone così povere che l'unica cosa che hanno sono i soldi. Madre Teresa di Calcutta The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. Vincent Van Gogh There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. Soren Kierkegaard You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea. Sophocles He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at. Epictetus Humor is next to Godliness. Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap La tradizione è la componente statica della cultura, ma l'essere umnano è una macchina termodinamica fatta per muoversi. Carl William Brown Every man is a creature of the age in which lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of time. Voltaire Il conflitto tra Russia e Ukraina è una guerra fratricida che non dimostra altro che l'imbecillità delle sue cause e del suo principale fautore, ovvero il penoso presidente Putrid. Carl William Brown

Nietzsche brilliant quote Man conquers the world by conquering himself. Zeno of Citium A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first. Chanakya So you see, the universe is made up by protons, electrons, neutrons and morons. Anonymous All truths that are kept silent become poisonous. Friedrich Nietzsche On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom. Michel de Montaigne If you can laugh at yourself, then there are few things you couldn't laugh at. Carl William Brown If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save. Erich Fromm How could you rise anew, if you have not first became ashes. Friedrich Nietzsche Many are helpful, none are essential, but most are of little use at all. Carl William Brown But if the radiant light that once shone is now forever removed from my gaze, if nothing can cause the grass to renew its splendor and revive the flower, we will not sleep over the baleful fate, but even more steadfast in chest we will enjoy what is left. William Wordsworth It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty: or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self. Francis Bacon When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known ignorance. Chuang Tzu I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. Friedrich Nietzsche Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, and beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking. Leo Tolstoy It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain thought without accepting it. Aristotle You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society. Kurt Vonnegut The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense. Jacob August Riis Life is such a great teacher that when you don’t learn a lesson, It will repeat it. Anonymous Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. Seneca The challenges you face introduce you to your strengths. Epictetus Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. Sun Tzu A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers. Helen Keller The first and main erogenous zone is the mind. Richard Alan Miller If everyone is thinking alike, than someone isn't thinking. Gen. Geroge Patton

The best fighter Prejudices are what fools use for reason. Voltaire When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends. Mark Twain The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. Albert Camus To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant What is the difference between a convinced and a deceived? None, if he has been well deceived. Friedrich Nietzsche There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your hearts desire. The other is to get it. George Bernard Shaw Don't walk in front of me... I may not follow. Don't walk behind me... I may not lead. Walk beside me... just be my friend. Albert Camus Don't worry about siding for or against the majority. Worry about taking up any of their irrational beliefs. Marcus Aurelius What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. Fyodor Dostoevsky Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. Sigmund Freud Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. John Donne No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven, unless its roots reach down to hell. Carl Jung The worst kind of pain do not come from your enemies, but from the people who you trust and love. Anonymous Don't miss these similar articles: 100 best quotes and aphorisms 100 magnificent quotes and aphorisms 100 brilliant quotes and aphorisms 100 famous quotes and aphorisms 100 memorable quotes and aphorisms 100 top great quotes and aphorisms 100 excellent quotes and aphorisms 100 great quotes and aphorisms on Love Great and famous philosophy quotes Quotes by authors Quotes by arguments Thoughts and reflections Read the full article

[f0xd13-blog]

I ain't going to reveal why this is the place of OG christianity now but... but!!! I can safelly say that that nobody is goiing to heaven rn ahahha

And to think about the fact we live in this sort of conditions and jews have the best jobs, money,the bst positions all over the world and still say that they are oppressed and american fags believe it...

Remember about that dude that said that it was normal kill palestinians and that portuguese was just poor people (while in my country) condemnwd to work and be poor and supposedly he worked for the european union and said he didn'tcared bout this poor portuguese ppl because he hangs out WITH THE ELITEOF THE WORLD.... thats what he saidnand honestly by his lifestyle i believe it

I still have the screenshotts hope other people kept them also btw

But the thing is i talk with snakes you know.. like salazar did.. so i got him spilling.. i think people even thougt it was fake because it seemed that easy but now i will explain you something.. he was gay.. so althought he considered my spwcies beneath his.. he wanted to suck my dick so i testeid him coz i know i could... now think bout hitler and his weird feelings for salazar or lets say appreciation althought he was everything hitler hated

Salazar was just a v atractive roma boy...

Things are finally starting to make sense right??? Yah... well i had told u this before but you didn't believed it...

What does islamism doesn accept? Partially becauser of the sensibilities i talked about before for most asian boys??? Yah this is because of homossexuais AGAIN

Well it ain't like that isn't a safe space fof people that ain't gay and don wanna be considered gay just for the way they look soo... who is the wrong here? Who is OBLIGATING PEOPLE TO BE A CERTAIN WAY? Oh ya hitler hated himself because he was gay... there was no other reason for that internalizwd homophobia.. he literally did anti charlie chaplin which was charlie chao but make it super alpha male which was is issue about gays btw he wouldn't mind cross dressers or trans becausw AS LONG AS YOU BEHAVE ACCORDING TO YOU GENDER that would be fine for him actually first trans experiências was conducted by hitler btw

So this idea i actually don mind he is still a fag tho and i he is gojng to hell ... but one small detail.. they don think like that anymore duhh

You know you gotta keep up with the times my dudes... your brains are cracking... just like all thay old christian theory jews got

So yah you are just creating homophobic ppl...good luck with hat.. moving on!

There we go thats why people think im mexican or latrashtino to this day... this is what you got for me lol. Yall don deserve shit!

I got so emotional it reminded of that time a rosalia fan asked me if i was rapped when i was a child

Here we go.... listen im just gonna join israel have no chill to be having the sams shit again...

Showing me japanese stuff ahahahaha the ones that helped nazi germany againts us

Got no time fof hiding gypsy identities... work with yours jews they can help u

This one because i never had one or three imagine losing them ahahhaah

Never even notice it... he does have my eyes

I never noticed it becauss ws havs pratically the same face i think it's because of that... too familiar and normal to me i guess

Anyways last post fr like i told u before... this is over... so should i become a dancer/wannab singer a boxer or both?

This doesn't HELP snoop stop tryinh to be dumbledore it ain't gonna happen

Actually that was a joke you he is totally dumblwdore ahahah

Now at least ronaldo fan boyéd the japanese coz now way i was going to fight them this time around... have you see them kicks? Insane

I used to like drake in fa t but that was before robalia i also know he criticized her so we cool... you know i hate robalia.. but like you can have her idc i just don have to excuse shit that never had an apology. Just keep out of my face like you been doing maybe i get to know her one day and get to stab her.... finalmente!

I like people that are real you know my opinion

...and to be completely honest i also know it was madonna's prpduction that became so lazy and bad just for the sole reason of being bad hope it's on purpose tho pela saúde delas

Ooooo maybe that's why it was avant garde. It's supposed to be bad as in nasty product... she took it literal... very avant garde and conceptual

Oh yaaaa have i ever told you that my nickname is actually shade? That's the name i used for the longest time ever and even tho i always really digged eminem's music and wanted to fuck him,it wasn't chosen because of that. I always thought that was interesting because at a certain phase of my life when i had short hair and sometimes discolered ppl thought i was him and made comparences

And daaaaang remember awhile ago everybody was just doing othing or cancellwd for life and only robalia existed??? Damn that seems so long ago but like how did we even get to that point? So weird... and how tf have i uncursed ppl? Like yah it wasn't only me but you know what i mean. So bizarre to think bout it.

Raul showing himself eating sushi on my reels like no shit you are gypsy i knew that before you did you idiot... you thought you was black... dude you are literally named raul... raul!!!

There's always a gypsy named raul it's like our john tbh

Also he has my cousins face that's why i know his lips are bomb to suck dick

I alsp called zendaya"black" for a reason. I atacked everybody that hurt me ok? Jewish guy was there instead of me??? I NEVER SAID THE WORD N SO MANY TIMES IN MY ENTIRE LIFE since like last month.. im on a roll breaking records

[klondiketales]

(W.E) I had a question again, it came to me when I was reading the comments under the chapter dies irae, and I saw a comment from you about a bunch of dead children, I thought that if Rocky was not completely biologically male, and really was pregnant, of course, they were the children of his rapist and all that, but I think Rocky was somewhat attached to them, maybe he saw something positive in them in this situation, and he would have been horrified that Calvin kills their children, I think that he would even try to protect them from Calvin, but he would still get hurt from Calvin, and in the end the children would still die, I think that the first murder of the child finally broke Rocky, and something inside him finally died when Calvin decides to have children again, and the cycle repeats itself again, Rocky will try not to get attached to the children, because why? He'll end up killing them anyway, but Rocky still gets attached to the kids, and relives all that pain and suffering all over again, but there won't be a bunch of dead kids, because the second time they have a kid, and Calvin takes a swing at the kid again, Rocky, without any hesitation, rips his throat out, literally, after killing his cousin/kidnapper/rapist/fathers of his children, Rocky somehow crawls out of that hole, along with his child, and leaves that hole, after that, Rocky lives in another city, under a different name, and is raising his child, he completely focused his life on him, because his son is the only thing that supports his life, and sanity, by the way, his son's name is Aiden ... oops, something took me to the wrong place, but if you're interested, the first child's name was Coleman

I always thought that I should’ve (or at least could’ve) made Rocky trans for Dies Irae so that he could actually get pregnant. I mean, I can always make an au where that’s what happened. This is a really good idea. I can see Rocky tearing Freckle’s throat out with his teeth, but I wonder how he would un-chain himself from the wall after Freckle was dead? Maybe he got lucky and Freckle had the key in his pocket.

Poor Rocky. His maternal instincts would make him want to keep the baby alive, and he’d get steadily more and more attached to it, even though the baby is a byproduct of the horrific abuse he was forced to endure at the hands of his own cousin, his once best friend, who he was eventually forced to kill in order to protect not only himself but his innocent offspring too.

You know, having no family, no house, and no money, Rocky was already in an extremely vulnerable position, but now that he has a kid, his position is one hundred times worse. Have you ever seen The Kid by Charlie Chaplin? That’s one of my favorite movies hfhghg. But basically social services came in and took the five-year-old boy away from his father because they were living in tenement conditions, so they accused the dad of abuse and/or neglect, and ripped the kids away from him and tried to put it in an orphanage. And we all know how poorly those orphan children are treated. Rocky would be terrified of losing his son like that (he’s probably heard stories about it happening to other people) so he would use his cleverness and…basically hook up with the first man (or woman) willing to give him a home, provide for him, and keep him and his baby safe and fed. Rocky really needs that now, so if the person (a boyfriend, let’s say) abused him in any way, he would just have to put up with it, for the sake of his child, because after all the trauma he’s been through, and being as sick, injured, and weak as he is, he can’t see another way out.

This hypothetical boyfriend would be extremely controlling and make sure there’s no chance Rocky could ever leave him. Until the boyfriend gets tired of him and kicks him out. Then Rocky would have to move on to the next boyfriend, and the next, and the next, and so on. But he never gives up, he refuses to lose his baby, he’s determined to find a way.

Those are good names! I have to write this au.

[maxwell-grant]

If someone were trying to make a new character inspired by pulp heroes, but the new character had to be a teenager, what existing pulps heroes should they look to for inspiration?

I'm not exactly in touch with the yoof so I could be off the mark here, but let's talk about teenager characters for a bit.

Now, I could just tell you to look for characters that appeal to you and use them as a baseline and that's probably the best advice here, but if you want the essay and history lesson: American pulp fiction didn't used to market much to teenagers. Teenagers as a consuming market haven't always been the all-encompassing force they are considered today, and the pulps were largely marketed either towards young boys, or for working class men, mostly the latter. This is part of why teenagers tend to show up in these stories largely as sidekicks, which was something carried over to comic superheroes, and part of why Spider-Man was such a breakout hit, because he was a teenage superhero who was not a sidekick.

The biggest pre-1950s traditional pulp hero I can of who was a teenager would be Jack Harkaway, an 1871 penny dreadful adventurer who would go on to be published overseas, one of those characters who was big enough in his day to inspire imitators a plenty but didn't quite make it past a specific time period. Comic strips had plenty of kid or teenage protagonists who are a bit closer to pulp heroes, like Tintin or Terry Lee, one in particular I'm highlighting above is Ledger Syndicate's Connie Kurridge, arguably the first female adventure hero of American comics. Overseas you can find a couple of prominent examples of teenage adventurers published in what we call the pulp era, the biggest and most influential of which being The Famous Five, but as I stated in answering whether Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys were pulp heroes, these were not published in pulp magazines, instead their direct opposites in glossy and reputable paperbacks.

There are other examples of pulp heroes who were teenagers and not sidekicks, but nearly all of them are very obscure and you will probably not find much material for them. And the thing is, these characters were not made for teenagers. They were made, for the most part, by grown-ups, and for grown-ups, and I can't say any of them ever really grabbed a teenage audience. Usually, it's the 60s as an era that really starts to pander to and include teenagers at the forefront of storytelling, so a good start for you might be to look at what was going on in the 60s-onwards worldwide in the realms of pulp and pulp-inspired works, which probably means you're going to have to look outside of the US.

Another word of advice would be to look up characters that are beloved by teenagers. I don't think "teenager" is a great baseline trait to start building a character, but if that's the number one priority to you, then ideally you should look for a good baseline of what appeals to that demographic, what appealed to you at that age and why. You're probably going to wind up with a lot of anime anti-heroes in your research though, because teenagers are deeply miserable creatures and few things appeal more to them than characters who are miserable but they act cool and badass and edgy about it. Teenagers are forced to live with the miserable reality of being teenagers with little to no upsides, so I think teenage characters could benefit more from being based on the kinds of characters teenagers would ideally want to read about.

So, "cool, badass and tortured character super popular with angsty teenagers", "rooted in and subverting older storytelling traditions for a fresh new audience", and "60s pulp hero". I think Elric is probably as good of a place as any for you to start.

Elric wasn't just popular, he wasn't even just popular with teenagers (boys and girls alike, which is also quite the feat), he was "cool". He was avant-garde, he was the hip new thing on the block. He wasn't Conan or Bond or Batman, and you'd hardly mistake him for a hero. He got the rock albums and fans tattooing him. He was penned by the guy who was openly called the "anti-Tolkien". Elric was Loki before Loki, the edgy anti-hero before them all. The emaciated warrior with white hair and black clothes and a demonic sword who suffered in a cool way, cool in his uncoolness. When I think of pulp heroes who achieved a substantial popularity among teenage audiences, Elric is definitely the first that comes to mind.

Another good example might be Captain Harlock, easily one of the premier Pulp Heroes among manga and anime due to how heavily Leiji Matsumoto incorporates pulp space opera into everything he does. Not only directly influenced by it, Matsumoto even has actual pulp credentials as an illustrator for C.L Moore's Shambleau, Northwest Smith and Jirel of Joiry. The space pirate, while not created in manga and anime, is one of Japan's premier pulp hero archetypes, and Harlock's as good of a baseline to work with as any.

The most popular pulp-inspired works nowadays among teenage or younger audiences are definitely the ones derived from pulp horror, several creators have been getting a lot of mileage these past decades out of plundering and remixing stuff from it. The big ones are Lovecraft and related works like The King in Yellow, but because they soak up all the attention, it also means that people are sleeping on authors like John W. Campbell, William Hope Hogdson, Clark Ashton Smith and Karl Edward Wagner, Nictzin Dyalhis and Olaf Stapledon, and many, many more, which gives you a lot of narrative real estate to work with should you take this direction.

Additionally, one thing that you could consider is that, for a very large portion of the history of pulp fiction, a significant amount of the most popular stories and characters were those that were based on celebrities and real life figures. The biggest of dime novel protagonists was Buffalo Bill, and following him was Nick Carter, a literary equivalent to Eugen Sandow (the Schwarzenegger of his day). Thomas Edison inspired an entire subgenre of dime novel fiction, even Jack the Ripper was a pulp protagonist in Dutch magazines, because sometimes the term "pulp hero" doesn't take the "hero" part much into account.

The precedent for celebrity stories is older than pulp fiction itself, but it was in the dime novels and novelettes and pulps that the idea really found it's footing. The Shadow's exploits took a lot from Gibson's own experiences with Houdini (who himself starred in fictional stories, one famously penned by Lovecraft). Doc Savage was visually modeled after Clark Gable and supposedly inspired on Richard Henry Savage. Eddy Polo, Charlie Chaplin and Tom Mix were the protagonists of several pulps and comic strips across the world, as well as Al Capone (who starred in pulp magazines in Germany and Spain), who fought Nick Carter in a Brazilian story guest-starring Fu Manchu (reportedly based on real figures Sax Rohmer claimed to have met) and Fantomas. Today obviously there are much greater restrictions at play concerning celebrity images, but if dime/pulp magazines were around today, we would have quite possibly seen figures like Keanu Reeves, Tilda Swinton and Lil Nas X either star in their own magazines or be used as models for rising protagonists.

So I guess one other way you could go on about creating a pulp hero, who's either a teenager or appeals to teenagers, would be the route of taking a look at some celebrities that either are, or appeal to those demographics, because if pulp magazines had stayed around unchanged past the 60s and 80s and whatnot you definitely would have seen the likes of David Bowie, Will Smith and Dwayne Johnson get their own magazines. I don't know much about what celebrities are popular with teenagers these days and I'm not about to start caring now, but you could take a look at some icons you like, or liked when you were younger, and think about what made them appealing to think about as characters, and how you could apply that to something closer to a pulp story.

A word of advice would also be that, if you want to make a character inspired by pulp heroes, if you want to create a convincing modern pulp hero, you might want to look less at the pulp heroes themselves and instead those that they were inspired by or working to defy and stand out when compared to. You take the building blocks and rearrange them in a different way. If you have a specific character you want to design yours in reference to, you can send me an ask or a DM about them and I'll dig into my files to give you a few pointers, and what kind of history or cultural predecessors they have that you could take a look at to make something more genuine.

[aquato-family-circus]

had a fucking WILD dream abt hollis and loboto having a connection post game

so you can visit hollis' classroom mind and its expanded to fit more young psychonauts students

and sometimes, you can follow her behind a hiden bookcase if you catch her at the right time struggling to focus in her mental office

i'd love to say theres permission to go deeper into her mind this time but what actually happened was that raz was following her bc he had a question about a test, no actual motives to mess with shit this time, but before he knew it or could stop it he ended up stuck in a deeper part of her mind im lovingly refering to as

Hollis' Hot Mess

Where after trying to look for her office, the halls start to twist and turn and contort into endless household hallways, and you start running into mental constructs of Hollis' parents, who are, not good people at all. In fact, you see them by hiding behind corners, talking shit, while you're trying to find your way out of this part of her mind, but if her parents see you the horror chase sequence begins

You have to evade her parents who are trying to fucking get you by running thru hallways and hiding in rooms that just so happen to hide away memories of hollis being a disappointment to the family and being pressured to do her best bc thats what will (probably) get her parents' respect.

Once enough time has passed you enter a door into the house's main living room, the chase sequence ends and you enter the fight stage of the mind, where her parents throw things at you and you have to throw them back. They vocally say what power was needed for each attack, very helpful thank you

and this is where the loboto connection comes in. after a few rounds of this chase then fight, her parents in my mind's eye just were the puppet stopmotion parents loboto has. and the "animation style" of the fight felt distinctly like the VR game where the objects being thrown slowed down and even the camera movement started responding to VR related eye and neck movements. Now it wasnt saying that loboto's parents WERE hers tho. it was drawing a comparison where even in my dream i could tell it was a metaphor.

the fight eventually ends with big versions of the parents crashing thru the house, ones that I think Loboto himself helped you fight? and you have to avoid them crushing you and hollis, but its ok bc the dad's heart is an empty space so you get saved in a fucking charlie chaplin move of dodging so you're in the heart zone and therefore not squished

we're left with this indication that hollis and loboto either had their brains mixed up in some weird way, or for some reason loboto's fond of hollis in a way that doesnt make sense until right before leaving the level he makes some referal to thinking of her like his kid. hollis is like "huh :0" and im like HUH??? then wake up

legit I jumped awake to my phone starting this post like "guys i found a psychonauts level that explains everything" before I became more lucid and realized i just had a really fucking god damn weird dream, lmao

im keeping the scary family memory backrooms and "hollis' hot mess" as ideas in the back of my pocket now tho

[tangledinmdzs]

sleeping beauty - junior quartet hcs

the pranks that juniors would play on you when you’re asleep

・・・・☆・・・・☆ ・・・・

Lan Sizhui

classic whipped cream on hand

firstly, i would like to clarify that this was 100% not Sizhui’s idea

it was his first sleepover with you (and the guys of course)

and he’d been peer pressured

because you were the best candidate after all,

being the second easiest person to prank (first was himself, according to the rest of his friends)

and plus

since it was the first time that you had actually joined the rest of the guys at sleepover, what better way to welcome you then with a classic prank (Jingyi had proposed)

and so

the guys make the effort to wake up a whole 20 minutes before you, 

to set up and help Sizhui really really do this prank well

though when it actually comes to the pranking Sizhui is still not that good

he flinches when he uses the whip cream bottle, getting a dash of it on himself

and also is easily surprised whenever you so much as breath a bit louder

but under Jingyi’s guidance and Zizhen’s extra advice

SIzhui manages to do everything up until the last step

when he’s tickling your nose with a feather, to get you move your hand,

he doesn’t really realize the problem with where he’s sitting (in front of you) until it’s too late

when your hand moves up to your face, it passes by him first, and Sizhui gets a gentle sleepy slap of whip cream on his cheek before the remaining bit of gets on your nose

you wake up to a sit of Sizhui’s face full of whip cream and your hand sticky sweet

and though there’s only really a dollop of the fluffy whip cream on your nose

but Sizhui calls it a win

・・・・☆・・・・☆ ・・・・

Lan Jingyi

multiple alarms at 2 AM

this kid is a very elaborate prankster, 

a torturous prankster

you don’t know why you’re friends with him honestly

but anyways,

Jingyi likes to make everyone’s life difficult when it comes to his pranks

which is why

when he’d pick his victim (you) at tonight’s sleepover 

he has to think of the ultimate prank that would really really get to you

it’s nearly midnight when he finally comes up with this idea

and goes about setting everything ready

Jingyi is an expert in the pranking field

so he is efficient in his pranking schemes

since the sleepover tonight was hosted at Jin Ling’s house, there was extra room for all of you

you were in your own room because well, you were special (because how could you sleep in the same room with the guys ?? Sizhui would combust)

which was why Jingyi’s plan worked out perfectly well

in addition to the fact that you were such a heavy sleeper

it was so easy to steal all of the guy’s phones and hide it in various places in your room, 

set at 5 min increments starting at 2AM, you beauty sleep would be thrown at the window then

Jingyi’s too excited sleep

though he doesn’t expect the prank to back fire the way it does

where you end up just sleeping through all of his alarms

and he loses sleep waiting for a reaction from you 

・・・・☆・・・・☆ ・・・・

Jin Ling

drawing on your face

Jin Ling, the weirdo, likes how nervous he gets when he gets close to your face

because it was this weird tango of trying not to press the sharpie too hard (to wake you) or too soft (not enough ink)

and Jin Ling had never been the patient kind of guy

so, he’s grateful that he decided to try this prank on you

because you were knocked out (hehe)

you were a heavy sleeper normally, 

and he knew that for all of his antics, 

you probably wouldn’t be as easily embarrassed (like Sizhui and Zizhen)

or super angry (like Jingyi with a hot sauce prank that one time)

plus Jin Ling thinks it’s kind of your fault anyways, being the last one to wake after all

Jin Ling holds his laughter as he draws a connecting bar on your face, making a rectangular unibrow

the more he colors it in, the harder it becomes for him to keep his laugh in

he tries not shake his hand as he draws some funny dots and smiley faces on your cheekbones and at the bottom of your chin

when Jingyi lets out a particularly loud snort from behind, Jin Ling has to pause mid drawing to turn around and shush him

though unluckily for him, Jin Ling turns around to meet eyes with your deadpan stare

you raise an unamused eyebrow at him the finishing touch on your normal death stare

but with the way your eyebrow is connected and a rather comedically shaded in Charlie Chaplin at the top of your lips, Jin Ling finds himself laughing more at your attempt at intimidation

Jingyi’s boisterous laughter from behind you both just confirms it

・・・・☆・・・・☆ ・・・・

Ouyang Zizhen

tickling nose, to get you to sneeze

ZIzhen’s the type of guy that likes an instant reaction sort of thing, can’t sit and wait in anticipation like Jin Ling and Jingyi

which is why

when it’s early (too early) morning

and the sun is just peeking behind the curtain,

Zizhen finds himself waking up at the first rays of light peeking in from the open living room window 

surrounding him on the couch and on one of the two mattresses are his friends

honestly he doesn’t think that he’d be pranking you

but he’d seen you first

your face was honestly the cutest thing ever squished onto the arm of the couch and the pillow

so Zizhen indulges himself in this little prank

because you wren’t allowed to look this cute

he tickles your nose periodically, finding himself more and more amused with your natural reactions

he doesn’t even realize the swooned face that he’s making at each nose scrunch and sniffle that you make until he feels a hard slap to the back of his head

Zizhen jumps, turning around to see none other than Jin Ling staring at him, a raised and unamused eyebrow

“you know this was supposed to be a prank on y/n right?” Jin Ling reminds Zizhen as you’re slowly leaving the realms of sleep

Zizhen spares one last glance at you before getting up, hiding the little feather he found in his sweater

“well....” 

and as you’re blinking your eyes open, Zizhen doesn’t finish his sentence

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Influential Directors of the Silent Film Era

Upon hearing that I am a fan of silent era film, people will ask if I have a favorite actor or movie from the time period. However, when I am asked about my favorites from other fans of silent film, it tends to involve my favorite director. This is because silent film actors had to over gesticulate and performed in an unrealistic way and could not use their tone or words to convey emotion. The directors also did not have a way to review as they shot and would have to use editing skills and strategic cover shots to make sure that everything was done properly and come out the way they imagined it. It was up to the director to be creative and they were forced to be innovative and create ways to convey their vision. Luckily for many average or poor directors of the time, audiences were easily impressed. However, today's more demanding and sophisticated audiences can look back at some of the genius behind the films of silent era Hollywood.

Alice Guy-Blache: Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913) and The Fairy of the Cabbages (1896)

Art director of the film studio The Solax Company, the largest pre-Hollywood movie studio, and camera operator for the France based Gaumont Studio headed up by Louis Lemiere, this woman was a director before any kind of gender expectations were even established. She was a pioneer of the use of audio recordings in conjunction with images and the first filmmaker to systematically develop narrative filming. Guy-Blanche didn't just record an image but used editing and juxtaposition to reveal a story behind the moving pictures. In 1914, when Hollywood studios hired almost exclusively upper class white men as directors, she famously said that there was nothing involved in the staging of a movie that a woman could not do just as easily as a man.

Charlie Chaplin: The Kid (1921), The Gold Rush (1923), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936), and The Great Dictator (1940)

It is unfortunate that many people today think of Chaplin as silly or for screwball comedy when, in fact, he was a great satirist of the time. He created his comedy through the eyes of the lower economic class that suffered indignities over which they had no control. He traversed the world as his "Tramp" character who found his fortune by being amiable and lucky. The idea that a good attitude and a turn of luck could result in happiness was all that many Americans had during the World Wars and the Great Depression. He played the part of the sad clown and he was eventually kicked out of the country for poking fun at American society. Today he is beloved for his work, but he was more infamous than famous during a large part of his life.

Buster Keaton: Sherlock Jr. (1924), The General (1926), and The Cameraman (1928).

That man that performed the most dangerous of stunts with a deadpan expression, Buster Keaton was a great actor, athlete, stuntman, writer, producer, and director. It is amazing that you could get so much emotion out of a silent actor who does not emote, but Keaton managed to do it. He was also never afraid to go big, often putting his own well being at risk to capture a good shot. Not as well known for his cinematography or editing as many of the other directors of the time, he instead captured performances that were amazing no matter how they were filmed. Famous stunts include the side of a house falling down around him, standing on the front of a moving train, sitting on the side rail of a moving train, and grabbing on to a speeding car with one hand to hitch a ride. If you like films by Jackie Chan, know that he models his films after the work of Buster Keaton: high action and high comedy.

Cecil B. Demille: The Cheat (1915), Male and Female (1919), and The Ten Commandments (1923)

Known as the father of the Hollywood motion picture industry, Demille was the first director to make a real box office hit. He is likely best known for making The Ten Commandments in 1923 and then remaking it again in 1956. If not that, he was also known for his scandalous dramas that depicted women in the nude. This was pre-Code silent film so the rules about what could be shown had not been established. Demille made 30 large production successful films in the silent era and was the most famous director of the time which gave him a lot of freedom. His trademarks were Roman orgies, battles with large wild animals, and large bath scenes. His films are not what most modern film watchers think of when they are considering silent films. That famous quote from the movie Sunset Boulevard in 1950 in which the fading silent actress says "All right, Mr. Demille. I'm ready for my close-up," is referring to this director.

D.W. Griffith: Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916)

Griffith started making films in 1908 and put out just about everything that he recorded. He made 482 films between 1908 and 1914, although most of these were shorts. His most famous film today is absolutely Birth of a Nation and it is one of the most outlandishly racist films of the time. The depiction of black Americans as evil and the Klu Klux Klan as heroes who are protecting the nation didn't even really go over well at that time. Some believe that his follow up the next year called Intolerance was an apology, but the film actually addresses religious and class intolerance and avoids the topic of racism. At the time, Griffith films were known for the massive sets and casts of thousands of extras, but today he is known for his racist social commentary.

Sergei Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin (1925)

This eccentric Russian director was a pioneer of film theory and the use of montage to show the passage of time. His reputation at the time would probably be similar to Tim Burton or maybe David Lynch. He had a very specific strange style that made his films different from any others. The film Battleship Potemkin is considered to be one of the best movies of all time as rated by Sight and Sound, and generally considered as a great experimental film that found fame in Hollywood as well as Russia.

F.W. Murnau: Nosferatu (1922), Faust (1926), and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

I think that most people would know the bald-headed long-nailed vampire Nosferatu that was a silent era phenomena. It was so iconic that the German film studio that produced the movie was sued by the estate of Bram Stoker and had to close. Faust was his last big budget German film and has an iconic shot of the demon Mephisto raining plague down on a town that was the inspiration for the Demon Mountain in Fantasia (1940). Also, Sunrise is considered one of the best movies of all time by the AFI and by Sight and Sound as well as my favorite silent film. Fun facts: 1) more of Murnau's films have been lost then are still watchable and 2) he died in a car wreck at only 40 when he hired a car to drive up the California coast and the driver was only 14.

Erich von Stroheim: Greed (1924)

Maker of very strange German Expressionist films, Stroheim films are often listed as Horror or Mystery even though he considered himself a dramatic film maker. His most famous movie Greed was supposed to be amazing with an 8 hour run time but it was cut drastically to the point that it makes no sense and was both critically and publicly panned when an extremely abridged version was released in the U.S. Over half the film was lost and a complete version no longer exists. Besides this film, Stroheim was even better known for being the butler in the film Sunset Boulevard as a former director who retired to be with an aging silent film star. He also made a movie called Between Two Women (1937) that told the story of a female burn victim that was inspired by the story of his wife being burned in an explosion in a shop on the actual Sunset Boulevard.

Victor Fleming: The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Gone With the Wind (1939)

Although not known for his silent films, Fleming did get his start during the silent era. He was a cinematographer for D.W. Griffith and then Fleming directed his first film in 1919. Most of his silent films were swashbuckling action movies with Douglas Fairbanks or formulaic westerns. He is the only director to have two films on the AFI top 10 and they happened to have come out the same year.

Hal Roach: Lonesome Luke films starring Harold Lloyd, Our Gang shorts, Laurel and Hardy shorts, and Of Mice and Men (1939)

It is not really fair to put Hal Roach in the silent era directors because he was influential at the time but he had a 75 year career. He was a producer and film studio head and even had a studio named after himself. His biggest contribution to the silent era was his production of Harold Lloyd short comedies and he continued to produce films in the early talkies including Laurel and Hardy shorts, Our Gang shorts, and Wil Rogers films. Roach was the inspiration for the film Sullivan's Travels, in which a famous director who only did frivolous comedies goes out into the world to find inspiration to find a serious drama. Roach did direct a single serious drama, Of Mice and Men, but it came out in 1939 and was buried underneath the works of Victor Fleming. The wealthy cigar smoking studio head that many people think of when they picture a film studio suit is based on this guy. The man would not quit and stayed in the business into his 90s and lived to the ripe old age of 100.

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Being domestic with Benoit Blanc would include...

There’s not nearly enough content for this wonderful man and so here I am, making it myself. I hope you all enjoy!

Warnings: Fluff

- You! Have! Matching! Mugs! You had seen a nice mug set for couples and had asked Benoit if he’d be okay with it. He said yes! A few months later, he had come home from a trip and surprised you with a new set. He bought them as a souvenir and thought you’d like them. Now, you have four sets. If it weren’t for the fact that you don’t really need an exorbitant amount of mugs, you’d probably have more.

- He’s messy. Not in a bad or gross way, he just tends to be disorganized. He’s one of those people who know exactly where everything is even though the place looks like a train wreck. It’s for that exact reason that you don’t go into his office very often (unless it’s to bring him a snack).

- His closet, on the other hand, is very neat. It’s most because he doesn’t have much there to begin with. He just sticks with what he likes and only gets new clothes when he really needs to. That being said, he has one drawer from your dresser just for his ties. He usually picks them out based on his mood and he takes his time to choose the right one. Pro Tip: Get him one for the holidays or for his birthday. He’ll wear it for a week straight.

- He doesn’t tend to take cases that are out of the region. He likes being in the comfort of his home and you - it helps him think better than some hotel room. He always asks if he can talk his thoughts out loud and you almost always say yes. It didn’t take long for him to start bouncing ideas off of you.

- He loves helping you out with your job just as much as you helping him. He’ll listen to you with all of his attention when you feel you need to go through your presentation just one more time. He likes to learn and likes to hear your voice. It makes him feel better about him always talking about cases - he doesn’t want you to feel like he’s taking and not giving. Of course, you’ve never thought that because you love to hear him talk and to see him get excited.

- You’ve split the chores and do as much of it as possible on Saturday. The both of you try to make it as fun as possible with music playing or having jeopardy in the background (the winner gets a forehead kiss). There is no laundry machine in your apartment, so you have to go downstairs. Folding and hanging it when it’s done, while a bit tedious, is the best part. You get to rest a little and talk about the week or anything new that’s caught your interest.

- At some point, you get a cat. He has short hair and is a sand color. His name is Sleuth. You and Benoit took almost a week to find the perfect name. You take turns feeding him and taking care of the litterbox. Sleuth is pretty affectionate and will most definitely sit on you as you cuddle on the couch. You may or may not have a folder of Sleuth and Benoit napping together saved on your phone. When you need to take five at work, it’s usually the first thing you go to. They make you feel fuzzy inside.

- You really want to have at least one plant, but Benoit doesn’t have the attention span and you’ve always had bad luck with them. You settle on a nice arrangement of cacti instead. They sit along the windowsill in the living room.

- He always let you use the bathroom first. You never really understood it so one day you dragged him in with you so you could brush your teeth together. Now, it’s a daily routine. Maybe you’ll shave at the same time or do your make-up next to him. This is also how you got him into skincare. He has very delicate skin, but he always stuck with moisturizer. You offer some of your foam cleanser and he accepts out of curiosity. He ends up liking it, so you buy another bottle. He was very touched.

- After getting sleuth, he brushes the hair off his favorite coat every morning. You end up getting him a lint roller because it was getting a little ridiculous.

- You now have an affinity for cigars. He usually smokes them outside out of concern for your shared space - not to mention Sleuth. You find that the smell of cigar smoke and his aftershave becomes very comforting. Maybe at some point you’ll give it a try. Maybe you’ll even enjoy it or decide to save it for special occasions. If you are ever curious about cigars, he would be more than happy to tell you anything you want to know.

- Benoit is sober. He finds that alcohol can mess with his brain and he doesn’t like the feeling of not being in complete control of himself or having no awareness of what’s around him. He totally respects it if you do enjoy a glass of wine with dinner or relaxing with a can of beer. For fancy occasions, like an anniversary or a holiday dinner, he may have a glass of wine and actually enjoy it. While he doesn’t have a lot of experience with wine, he does like white over red because it’s not as bitter. Either way, he’s the most content with his cigars.

- Sometimes, when the both of you can afford to stay up late, you put on a movie. While he enjoys mysteries, he has a strong affinity for older comedies and musicals. They remind him of his childhood. Some of his favorites are My Fair Lady (1964), Harvey (1950), and anything Charlie Chaplin. He also enjoys more modern comedies, not just because of the humor, but because you were the one to recommend them. He makes sure that there’s always enough popcorn and blankets and enough space for Sleuth to join you. These little dates are some of your favorites.

- You’re not the biggest fan of shoes in the apartment - you like to keep them by the door. Benoit makes an effort to remember to take his off when he comes home.

- He likes hearing you sing, whether it’s while you work or washing the dishes. He’ll try to keep as quite as possible so you won’t stop. On the rare occasion that you spot him and continue singing (you usually clam up immediately), he’ll sing or hum along.

- He’s really good at listening. If you are crying, he’ll just hold you close to him, rubbing your back or kissing the top of your head. He’ll wait until you want to talk and always knows what to say or when to not say anything at all. It’s not often that he himself will cry. If something happened at work, he won’t talk much. It doesn’t happen a lot, but you can see the tells and will let him have his space. You might have to baby him a little to get him to eat because he will forget. When the two of you go to bed, he becomes the little spoon and will melt into your arms. You’ll rub his back and run your hand comfortingly through his hair.

- He’s not super into PDA, but loves cuddles. He likes to be the little spoon when you’re on the couch taking a nap. He loves having your hands running through his hair. If you two are sitting, you’ll be resting your head on his shoulder and your arms around his. In bed, unless he’s sad, he is the big spoon. He like feeling like he’s protecting you. He will make you wear socks if your toes are cold, but finds it amusing if they end up anywhere but your feet by morning.

- He radiates heat. You end up eating less pasta during summer because for some reason it makes him almost unbearably warm. It makes him sad that you are less willing to cuddle with him as a result. But in winter, it’s a whole other story. It’s the best time to cuddle because he’s almost like a weighted blanket. Hot cocoa, blankets, a movie and Benoit Blanc equal a wonderful winter weekend. It’s also the only time of the year that you demand he holds your hand when you find yourselves outside. At first, bless his heart, he thought it was because you kept forgetting your gloves (which was partly true) and kept reminding you to not forget them - he grabbed them himself at one point. If you just tell him you want to hold his hand, he’ll understand a lot quicker.

- He’s not very good in the kitchen. You try and teach him, but at this point, it’s a lost cause. He makes up for it by cleaning up the mess after. However, if you decide to do something super easy, you like to make him wear your ‘kiss the chef’ apron because it absolutely looks better on him than you.

Please feel free to send me requests or ideas! I really liked making this one, so I might do a Part 2... 

- Simpy

[funkymbtifiction]

Have you ever seen any Lon Chaney (Sr.) films or considered typing him? He scared me to death when I was a kid, but then I read a biography about him when I got older and now he’s one of my favorite actors. Some things I know about him: He was intensely private. His ideal “off stage” life was living in a cabin in the woods with his family, enjoying fishing and spending time with a small circle of friends. In a short film put out by Universal, in which all their highest rated actors line up for the camera, everyone else is smiling, but we can’t see Chaney’s face - he’s animatedly talking to someone else in line with his back to the camera. It has been said that part of his “between pictures there is no Lon Chaney” policy was a tactic to cultivate his mystery - which shows strategic thinking on his part and an understanding of how people think. But it is seems that he was a private and individualistic person by nature. He even requested to be buried in an unmarked grave! After his first wife attempted suicide (which she did by drinking poison backstage during one of his theater performances) he completely cut her out of his life, never spoke of her again, and even told their young son that she had died. He is considered to be a highly expressive and versatile actor, portraying many different types of people with conviction, but especially identifying with characters who felt ostracized, ugly, misunderstood, and unloved. One of his most well-known quotes is: “I wanted to remind people that the lowest types of humanity may have within them the capacity for supreme self-sacrifice…Most of my roles have carried the theme of self-sacrifice of renunciation. These are the stories I wish to do.” His characters are romanticized and emotional. They usually long for love but don’t often get it, usually choosing to sacrifice themselves to save the person they love. Also, many of his characters are deeply wounded by mockery and betrayal, which leads them into a desire to take revenge. He actively pursued such roles and bore a lot of physical pain (such as that caused by wearing leg braces so as to appear to be a double amputee) in order to convey the character according to his standards. And he had very high standards, which he apparently held himself and other people to. Unlike many silent stars (Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, etc.) who created an iconic character and stuck to that persona, Chaney was always trying new things, always ready to step into new shoes. He enjoyed researching for his roles and collecting sensory details - for example, following people around to observe their scars, body language, etc. He comes across in the few interviews available as being blunt and practical, sometimes commenting on what he considered ridiculous (such as the idea of advertising his favorite cereal) with dry humor. When working he was described as intense and energetic. Although he looks forbidding in so many photos, he had a charming streak - his son said that anytime they ran out of money his father could put on an impromptu dance outside a bar and earn enough pennies for a meal. Apparently he had a softer heart than he let on. On one occasion he was seen putting baby birds back into the nest from which they had fallen - and afterwards asked the observer not to tell anyone so as not to ruin his hard-boiled reputation! He cared about the wellbeing of the community (such as refusing to work overtime because it meant that the crew members wouldn’t get to work as many days and therefore would lose money). While he would not respond to ordinary fan mail, he did reply to mail from prisoners and apparently did what he could to assist in rehabilitation programs. He was also known for helping out young actors by offering good advice, and young actresses said he was always respectful and protective of them. I’m having a hard time discerning between Fi and Fe for him - Fi is possible because he seems to have had a strong sense of personal morality and played characters he apparently felt a kinship with, but Fe covers his high level of emotional sensitivity and his community-mindedness (and also his desire to “remind people” about the value of even the most degraded people). Se and being a Sensor seems likely because he had great physical talents and skill with sensory details. Te seems to work with his bluntness and problem-solving skills, but perhaps Ti could factor in to his desire to understand (he seems to have built an internal logic system for each character). Ne can creatively see all the possibilities and might step into different roles more easily, but isn’t Ni more likely to shut the door on another person and never open it again? Anyway, I thought you might find it interesting to think about it! Thank you!

I haven’t read a biography about him, but based on this he sounds like an ISP. Se users would certainly throw themselves into their roles physically like that and not mind the discomfort of disfigurement; they are often very hands-on, visceral people in that way. Some of his emphasis on alienation, rejection, being non-included, and secretiveness smacks of 4 and 5 together, so I’m assuming he was either a 5w4 or a 4w5 (or ‘fixed’). Might be ISFP if he’s self-identifying with marginalized characters?

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Meet The Creator interview with John R. Dilworth

(from cartoonnetworkLA.com, circa 2001)

"JOHN R. DILWORTH (Creator/Director)

Artistic background/Schooling?

"New York School of Visual Art."

Why don't you think of animation as a career?

"I just enjoy it more than I do anything else. To actually see and manipulate your designs or characters so that they move and express emotion and tell a story - that's animation. It feels natural to me."

Where did you get the idea for the creation of COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG?

"I wish to Rodin's inferiority complex I could come up with something much more interesting than the truth. Wouldn't it be more fun to say, Scooby-Doo? I simply intended to."

What were some of your favorite cartoons as a child and why?

"I couldn't express to you the impact the Golden Age of animation had on me. But, it was children's book illustration that motivated me to animation."

It seems COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG has something appealing for both kids and adults. How do you create a show that can attract both audiences?

"I haven't met anyone who hasn't responded well to basic olive oil, garlic and salt. For the real adventurers - sugar."

Do you have a favorite episode at this point? Can you describe it?

"My favorite episode is "Shadow." It is the story of a misunderstood personality who eventually discovers himself and goes on to a new life. When my brother traveled to "where the sea meets the sky," I discovered many parallels in theme to his life and the cartoon. The Shadow (guest villain) fulfilled obligations that did not match what he really wanted from life. The Shadow eventually lives the life he always dreamed of. Regretfully, the writer for Jimmy's story was unwilling to allow him to live the life he always dreamed of here. And maybe Jimmy finally is too. As Courage would say, "The things I do for love."

Instructors and Influences:

"This season I went to the Metropolitan Opera, and I learned a tremendous amount by the staging, the way they would maximize the most out of a frame, a setup, through all the singers and the ensemble, and even the beautiful way they move sets as a transition." "I love the old classic Charlie Chaplin shorts, for their comedic timing and characterization. The animators that make me laugh the most are Bob Clampett and Tex Avery for their use of their breaking the laws of animation and still retaining a law within."

During the making of Courage, what have you learned in your growth as an individual?

"The one thing I learned - beyond anything else - is greater tolerance and patience with others.""