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I love this man with my whole heart 🥺🖖🏼💙

Doing a little baron afanas performance i see? 😉

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Adam Brody and Mischa Barton promoting The O.C with the rest of the cast at a press conference in Hollywood, CA.

28th September, 2005.

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[1] 11th May 2013 Spanish Grand Prix Post-qualifying Top 3 Photo

[2] 2nd March 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix

[3] 21st May 2022 Spanish Grand Prix Pre-qualifying

[4] 7th April 2022 Austrian Grand Prix Saturday

[5] 23rd October 2010 Korean Grand Prix Post-qualifying Top 3 Photo

[6] 26th August 2021 Belgian Grand Prix Thursday Track Walk

[7] 7th November 1993 Australian Grand Prix Podium

[8] 21st December 2021 “The 2021 Drivers’ Studio Outtakes!” FORMULA 1 on Youtube

[9] 9th July 2022 Austrian Grand Prix Post-practice

[10] 21st February Preseason Testing Barcelona

[11] 2020/2021 Renault Contract Announcement*

*My best guess

f1 + txt posts = true 9.0

[carolinanadeau]

A small assortment of photos of Sally Ann Howes as Eliza Doolittle in Broadway's My Fair Lady (1958) that I'm extremely sad are watermarked

[shadow-coolness]

*What if*

Kemi: Hey hows it-

Damballa: *shadow creature noises*

Kemi: AHHHHHHH! Get your fricking Imago Zayn!!

Zayn: She dont bite.

Kemi trying to fend Damballa off: YES SHE DOES!!

[ablogtocheck]

These photos are adorable, I have to admit.

Sources: Getty and Imago

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Mason with Marc Guéhi

Source: imago posted by UpdatesMasonMount

[ao3-top-batfam-ships-bracket]

Anon wants sources? Here:

https://slate.com/culture/2016/04/the-history-of-the-gay-subtext-of-batman-and-robin.html

This is why many people have historically shipped them together. When you don’t have any representation at all in the media, when your existence is reviled and you can’t even legally live your life peacefully, you take what you can get.

I don’t think young people understand how gay life was back then. Adult adoptions between couples were not uncommon-and no, it wasn’t always a man preying on someone 20 years younger than him. Couples 3 years apart were adopting each other because that was the only way to let your partner inherit your estate, to visit you in the hospital, to legally be family. It wasn’t a kink, it was a safety net. Is it so hard to understand then, why people would look at Batman and Robin, and see parallels? Especially in a visual medium, where images can say or imply things that would not be written out in a book? Especially in comics, where everyone is so overly muscled that Robin often doesn’t look or act like a kid, or even a teenager?

It’s okay not to ship them. I don’t ship them. Shipping has ALWAYS been about grabbing crumbs of subtext and implied tension regardless of what the canon source says. Roddenberry didn’t intend for people to ship Kirk and Spock. Spirk fanworks were literally hidden under tables at conventions and people would sit under the tables to browse and exchange things. Nowadays it’s not illegal to produce gay media. But at the height of gay panic, when discrimination was not only tacitly legal, but done by the laws themselves, and the only gay people in media, though few, were either villains or played off as a joke, is it so hard to understand why people would look at some of those runs, and put two fictional people in a relationship?

(At the very least, just use the back button and the mute button and move on instead of playing purity police over something that’s not real. )

Thank you for your thoughts! We recommend checking out the linked article.

We've also found some more articles and book chapters on this subject that people might appreciate:

Chapter "Panic and Aftermath" from Glen Weldon's "The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture".

Chapter "1954: Censorship and Queer Readings" from Will Brooker's "Batman Unmasked: Analyzing a Cultural Icon".

Chapter "Batman, Deviance and Camp" by Andy Medhurts from the book "The Many Lives of the Batman. Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media".

Shyminsky, N. (2011). ‘‘Gay’’ Sidekicks: Queer Anxiety and the Narrative Straightening of the Superhero. Men and Masculinities, 14(3), 288-308.

Lang, R. (1990). Batman and Robin: A family romance. American imago, 47(3/4), 293-319.

York, C. (2000). All in the Family: Homophobia and Batman Comics in the 1950s. International Journal of Comic Art, 2(2), 100-110.

Best, M. (2005). Domesticity, homosociality, and male power in superhero comics of the 1950s. Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies, 6(1).

This article from 2005: "Gallery told to drop 'gay' Batman. DC Comics has ordered a New York gallery to remove pictures which show Batman and Robin kissing and embracing." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4167032.stm

This article from 2012: "Batman can't come out as gay – his character relies on him being in denial" by Will Brooker. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/may/28/batman-gay-character-relies-denial

And this sketch:

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German Sustainability Prize 2023 / For the 16th time, pioneers of sustainability will be honored together with the federal government and other partners at the Martim Hotel November 23, 2023 - Düsseldorf, Germany Source: Imago / Alamy Stock Photo

[pesky--dust]

Ever since I read an interview where Fuller was upset because a movie wasn’t faithful to the original source material I think no wonder he keeps trying to add in stuff from other Hannibal books and sprinkling Clarice everywhere. It’s disappointing because I think the show is at its best when it’s doing something different and letting its characters stand on their own. Some lines he kept in didn’t even make sense like the Red Dragon thinking Will wasn’t handsome because he’s not in the book but he most definitely is in the tv show.

To be honest, I don't feel "objective" enough on this topic, because my first contact with Lecter's universe was Silence of the Lambs when I was a teenager. Then, in the mood for some crime-psychological series, I decided to give NBC's Hannibal a try. I started reading the books at the very end, so I think that watching the movie and series before the source material changes my perception of it, which is quite common when it comes to adaptations.

When it comes to me though, until recently I believed that the best adaptations were films/series that were fully faithful to the source material. It's only recently that I've started to learn what adaptation actually means and that no, not always being fully faithful to the source material is good.

I understand that Clarice's absence may be disappointing, but in case of Hannibal, I usually try to separate the book and TV series canon. And if I'm honest, while reading the books, I enjoyed recognizing parts I already knew from the series and movies. It gave me a new context of all of that.

Learning that Will mixes with Clarice in the series happened quite quickly after I finished watching the series, so I took it as quite natural that the lines about Clarice in the book/films were used for Will and I think it's good, since he took the role of Hannibal "lover". Changing the context of the conversation about "imago"? This is a moment in Mizumono that still gets me every single time.

However, it makes me chuckle a little bit, when I see how often fans of the series think that the producers came with the most beautiful lines about love, when most of the iconic words from the series (like: "If I saw you everyday forever, I would remember this time", "feel stab of hunger and find nourishment at the very sight of...", etc.), actually come from the books.

I got kinda sad though, when I realised how many of Doctor Bloom's lines the show assigned to Hannibal to make him seem even more amazing and "superhuman", because I feel like it strippes Doctor Bloom of their (in books it's a male, in the series it's a woman, so their) inteligence, making Doctor Bloom mainly a love interest for two seasons.

I know the show's creators didn't get the rights to Clarice, but at the same time, they poured a lot of her into the character of Miriam Lass and sometimes you may wonder why they didn't replace Clarice entirely with her. Does this have to do something with rights as well?

The changes introduced by the series with the usage of the source material fascinate me and I guess that I like most of them.

I have to admit though that the third season really neglects Francis Dolarhyde and I only understood what was actually happening in season 3B after reading the book.

But I disagree that Francis' comment about Will's appearance doesn't fit here! It is known that both in the book and in the adaptations Francis has very low self-esteem. If I remember correctly, in the book he aims the knife at Will's eye but hits him in the face instead, the same in the series. He may comment that Will is ugly, but still, he aimed at his face, as if in jealousy that Will "sees" him but hasn't experienced what he has.

[ansonmountdaily]

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 London photo call

Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn attend the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 photo call at Sabine's Rooftop overlooking the iconic St. Paul's Cathedral, London, UK, June 21 2023.

Source: NickALive, Ian West / PA Images via Getty Images, Brett Cove, Alan West / Alamy, IMAGO / Future Image (Thank You! ♥)

[frenchcurious]

Willi Kauhsen (Martini Racing - Porsche 917 LH #043) 24 Heures du Mans 1970. © Imago / Thomas Zimmermann . - source Carros e Pilotos.

[donfermin]

August 24, 2024 ↳ FC BARCELONA vs ATHLETIC CLUB

Source: IMAGO / Sergio Ros

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Every Dredge Aberration (2024), Part 23

Deep Form ₊˚.༄

Encyclopedia t̴h̴e̴ ̵f̵i̸n̴a̷l̸ ̸s̵t̷e̵p̵

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Description:

In the sable depths, elder blood seeps through the void; each conquest of corruption weakening the veil.

From host to host, it withers and wanders, climbing towards the clouding Sky.

Such transient flesh has no hope of enduring the true Deep.

Comment: We did this, witless, predictable fools to our last. Stones and silt which sat undisturbed for millennia, we pierced knowingly. Stygian shores, we sailed on blasphemous winds. A nameless hunger beyond compare we elected to feed. A cycle otherworldly we pretended natural and beyond our touch, when damnable we alone turned its wheel once more.

Deliver the vessel

Fulfill the hunger

Feed the mouth

An answer…

The ice… takes form

How audacious are we to be surprised at the betokened outcome? From the first innocent horror we ever laid eyes on in the Marrows, this was exactly what these ancients warned- no, promised us from the start.

Bring down the sky

More still… hungry

Sustain the mind

Another, a sacrifice

The stars… leave the sky

Salvation, blessings, never were we offered, never were we deserved from our guests. For see, it was us, mere flotsam, who reached to touch what cared not beyond the flesh and what the flesh offered. We advertised ourselves when we called to The Deep in invitation, with every time we grabbed and pulled it up thrashing and gnashing at us, so we could bare it before the light.

Raise the deep

Almost. Fulfilled.

Consume the sky

Sense… an opening

Fall… to the deep

Our reward, the Deep’s will, the disciples’ prophetic ramblings were all obvious from the very beginning.

So fear not the response you so beckoned for. Behold it… aberrance, naked, and pelagic, born from that space where the firmament between a hell and the heavens is sundered through. Finally find what the dozens before us have given everything in blind searching for.

Become witness before our humanity’s imago, as it unmasks the paths before you to choose... Oblige the hunger, or starve it. Shield your eyes, or gaze long into that abyss. Hold your tongue, or beg for the answers- remain lost, or be found. Break the chain, or begin the cycle anew. Raise them up to stay,

or throw.

them.

back.

How to catch: Follow the spidering fault trails back to their regrettable source. He waits for you there. Truthfully, he may be anywhere in the open sea, but you are most likely to encounter him beneath that ruined platform where it all began. Grotesque appetites favor grotesque meals, and use of aberrated bait is not optional in pursuit of him. Make sure an oceanic line is equipped and only that rod. Be persistent, very, very, very persistent, and above all, lucky. (I cannot emphasize how wildly the roughly 5% catching chance will play into this. It took me dozens of tries before I completed this collection with him, so I will share what was most helpful to me- stock up on many aberrant baits, about 10 or so, and save once before burning through this inventory trying. Upon failure just reload the save and try again, rinsing and repeating until you have conquered him for your own.)

[brinkworth]

A Cabin in the Woods

"Black. You need to come with me. I need a curse breaker." “How did you end up with a curse breaking case?” Sirius discreetly scanned the room for Dorcas as he stood from the wall. “Not really your speciality, is it?” Next to him, Remus shifted, giving him a chastising look. Caradoc clasped his hands in front of him and continued, undeterred. “It’s my informant, my case.” “All right,” Sirius drawled. “What happened then?” “It’s at the home of Adrian Woodcroft. He’s been helping me source rare books for vampires we’re trying to recruit. Now someone has placed an Imago curse on a mirror in his home.” Sirius snorted derisively. "Half the order could break that curse. Take someone else." "Adrian has asked for you. His children are frightened and he wants the best." Sirius sighed and lolled his head to the side, looking at Remus. “Well, what do you say?” “I’ll buy you a beer after, and take you up on that offer on the jazz records,” he said, eyebrows slightly raised. Turning his attention back to Caradoc, Sirius replied with an icy smile. “Looks like we’re breaking a curse tonight.”

Start from the beginning, or

Pick up at Chapter 8 - A Cabin in the Woods

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Sand barrelbuds (Desertubrassica miniflora) are a strange, hardy cabbage descendant found across the drier regions of Gestaltia and Arcuterra, where they grow in savannahs, semi-deserts, arid scrubland and other dry regions with little rainfall where their water-retaining abilities allow them to flourish.

These resilient plants sport short, stocky stems and rings of thick waxy leaves: adaptations that allow it to reduce moisture loss and store as much water in its tissues, stockpiling its reserves during brief and infrequent rains. Its roots, twice as long as its three to four-foot trunk, burrow deep into the soil in search of groundwater seeped into the ground, and, like many desert plants, exploits the window of time when the rains come in order to bloom. Its flowers are clustered and cauliflower-like, producing thousands of seeds per blossoming--which, in the harsh and unpredictable natures of its home range, few of which will survive.

Barrelbuds, at times the only reliable source of nutrition in many of its native regions, are home to various insects that depend on it for food, moisture and shelter from predators and the hot suns, most notably the thorny desert looper (Dimetamorphipapillo heremus), a species of caterpede that, like most of its kin, are neotenic creatures that never pupate and turn into moths: instead maturing into a form that is merely a larger two-inch larva with functional gonads that can mate and lay eggs. Unlike its relatives, however, thorny desert loopers possess thick outer cuticles with defensive spiny hairs, in order to withstand the dessicating conditions of the arid tropical scrublands. They too have another distinction: they give birth to live young, producing batches of up to a dozen tiny first-instar larvae at a time that hatch from eggs inside their bodies, born already thick-skinned and able to resist dehydration upon being born and able to acquire and store moisture right away.

But perhaps the greatest deviation the thorny desert looper has from other caterpedes is that it retains an ability to metamorphose if need be: producing a stunted, short-lived adult moth disperser from latent genes that can activate in an emergency--yet having already lost the genetic mechanisms to produce a proper adult form. This vestigial remnant stage is a poor flyer, and lacks mouthparts that would allow it to feed: yet this is sufficient to fulfill its sole mission as a last-resort propagator. When colonies of thorny desert loopers become too large, the increase of pheromones produced by others signal the threat of overcrowding, and triggers a few larvae at the final pre-adult instar to pupate and emerge as winged dispersers. These merely flutter off to nearby plants, deposit their clutches of only a handful of eggs, and die immediately afterwards, having an imago lifespan of just a day or two: but enough time to seed new colonies onto new territories when their host plant begins to be overwhelmed.

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