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“Of all the actors and actresses I’ve ever worked with, the hardest worker is Fred Astaire. He behaved like he was a young man whose whole destiny depended on being successful in his first film.”

— Rouben Mamoulian, who directed Fred Astaire in Silk Stockings, 1957

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2021 Resolutions

1. Quit half-assing shit. Your work ethic needs improvement. You do the bare minimum to get by; you only do well if someone’s watching. Don’t be lazy like that. You have to care about doing a good job, don’t just go for the appearance of being put-together. If you don’t really care about what you’re doing, figure out why. Follow what you do care about doing, and actually do it well. Get your shit together. For real.

2. Watch more movies, less TV shows. It’s okay to be a fan of TV shows, but you tend to binge-watch them as a coping mechanism. Instead, how about watching those movies you’ve left on your list forever? If you can commit to a nine-season-rewatch of another sitcom, you can commit two to three hours to a movie. If you still want to follow a TV show, try something new, something well-rated, something different. Get quality content back into your life.

3. Enjoy the pain of working out. Learn to enjoy the process, not just the results. It gets less painful the more consistent you are. You don’t need to chase the benefits of working out, of feeling good and looking good - that’s obvious. You need to be willing to sustain the pain of working out, the commitment to waking up a little earlier, to pushing yourself a little harder, to getting sweaty and tired and gross. Chase the pain, learn to love it, and the rewards will come easy.

4. Keep stepping out of your comfort zone. If the past year has taught you anything, it’s that some of the things you were previously afraid of aren’t that scary when taken into perspective. Go to that concert. Go on that hike. Go on that day trip. Say yes to that invitation. Make that invitation. You’re allowed to have new experiences and live your life. When you take that leap of faith, most of the time, you don’t regret it - and even if you do, it’s okay. You’ll survive. You make more memories outside of your comfort zone.

5. Take care of your body. Your teeth need to be cleaned. Your skin needs to be exfoliated. Your eyes need to be rested. Your lips need to be moisturized. Your nails need to be trimmed. Your stomach needs to be fed. Your muscles need to be stretched. You are your own baby, no one’s gonna take care of you for you. Self-care is adulting, and adulting is self-care.

6. Buy shit that you need. You need a new bed frame. You need some apartment decor. You need new clothes, new makeup, a new wallet, new jewelry, a real adult-woman purse. “Managing your money” doesn’t just mean holding onto it forever and not buying yourself anything. You don’t have to wait for Christmas or your birthday. You don’t have to “earn” things. You deserve nice things, and you can’t just let yourself “make do” with what you have if you have the means to make it a little better. You are your own baby, no one’s gonna take care of you for you.

7. Maintain your relationships. You’re a big girl, now. You don’t need permission to spend time with your friends anymore. Growing up, you need to actively keep the people you want in your life or they’ll naturally drift away. Check in on them every once in a while. Keep up with their lives. Say yes to their invitations, make concrete invitations yourself. You’ve learned the ropes of making friends outside of school obligations. There are no excuses left - be a good friend.

8. Be intentional with your technology. Let’s pretend like the past year wasn’t just a crazy episode of Black Mirror. Let’s pretend like your screen-time wasn’t 6+ hours a day on your phone (let alone your iPad or laptop). You know the drill - don’t fixate on your life on the screen. Don’t fixate on the number of screen-time hours, either, because you can’t help it if life demands more and more technology. Just make sure that technology does something for you, that it’s not just another escape from reality. It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.

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As if this man is 52! Probably looks so young cause he doesn’t have a care in the world.

P.s. If RDJ didn’t land the Iron Man role, Sam would have been a great Tony Stark 😍

I grew up around theater and showbiz people, and when you’re brought up in a circus life, it makes you a little off-center.

HAPPY 52nd BIRTHDAY SAM ROCKWELL (November 5, 1968)

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one time this nondescript guy came into my dunkin donuts and ordered a small black coffee with blueberry flavor shot, and for some reason that peculiar order stuck with me so much that when, seven months later, i saw him in the parking lot walking towards the door, i quickly made a small black coffee with blueberry flavor shot. he ordered it and i was already holding it. 

i would describe his demeanor that second time as “incredulous”

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GILMORE GIRLS  Luke and Jess: Through the Years

↳ “You’re hoping for reciprocation? You got it. I’m here, Jess. I’m always here.”

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In case you needed it, here is Sebastian Stan validating writing fanfiction.

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total makeover in less than 5 minutes

bonus 🤣

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Gilmore Girls 20th Anniversary Week ∟Day 6: Favorite relationship - Lorelai Gilmore and Luke Danes 

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❤ Boys from The Bay ❤

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Ways to un-stick a stuck story

Do an outline, whatever way works best. Get yourself out of the word soup and know where the story is headed.

Conflicts and obstacles. Hurt the protagonist, put things in their way, this keeps the story interesting. An easy journey makes the story boring and boring is hard to write.

Change the POV. Sometimes all it takes to untangle a knotted story is to look at it through different eyes, be it through the sidekick, the antagonist, a minor character, whatever.

Know the characters. You can’t write a story if the characters are strangers to you. Know their likes, dislikes, fears, and most importantly, their motivation. This makes the path clearer.

Fill in holes. Writing doesn’t have to be linear; you can always go back and fill in plotholes, and add content and context.

Have flashbacks, hallucinations, dream sequences or foreshadowing events. These stir the story up, deviations from the expected course add a feeling of urgency and uncertainty to the narrative.

Introduce a new mystery. If there’s something that just doesn’t add up, a big question mark, the story becomes more compelling. Beware: this can also cause you to sink further into the mire.

Take something from your protagonist. A weapon, asset, ally or loved one. Force him to operate without it, it can reinvigorate a stale story.

Twists and betrayal. Maybe someone isn’t who they say they are or the protagonist is betrayed by someone he thought he could trust. This can shake the story up and get it rolling again.

Secrets. If someone has a deep, dark secret that they’re forced to lie about, it’s a good way to stir up some fresh conflict. New lies to cover up the old ones, the secret being revealed, and all the resulting chaos.

Kill someone. Make a character death that is productive to the plot, but not “just because”. If done well, it affects all the characters, stirs up the story and gets it moving.

Ill-advised character actions. Tension is created when a character we love does something we hate. Identify the thing the readers don’t want to happen, then engineer it so it happens worse than they imagined.

Create cliff-hangers. Keep the readers’ attention by putting the characters into new problems and make them wait for you to write your way out of it. This challenge can really bring out your creativity.

Raise the stakes. Make the consequences of failure worse, make the journey harder. Suddenly the protagonist’s goal is more than he expected, or he has to make an important choice.

Make the hero active. You can’t always wait for external influences on the characters, sometimes you have to make the hero take actions himself. Not necessarily to be successful, but active and complicit in the narrative.

Different threat levels. Make the conflicts on a physical level (“I’m about to be killed by a demon”), an emotional level (“But that demon was my true love”) and a philosophical level (“If I’m forced to kill my true love before they kill me, how can love ever succeed in the face of evil?”).

Figure out an ending. If you know where the story is going to end, it helps get the ball rolling towards that end, even if it’s not the same ending that you actually end up writing.

What if? What if the hero kills the antagonist now, gets captured, or goes insane? When your write down different questions like these, the answer to how to continue the story will present itself.

Start fresh or skip ahead. Delete the last five thousand words and try again. It’s terrifying at first, but frees you up for a fresh start to find a proper path. Or you can skip the part that’s putting you on edge – forget about that fidgety crap, you can do it later – and write the next scene. Whatever was in-between will come with time.

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If yall haven’t seen Snowpiercer, watch it. Not just for Chris Evans.

Chris Evans | Behind the scenes of Snowpiercer

“His action, his physical stuff is just amazing. He’s like an action machine. The stunt coordinator was shocked because his timing and precision was just unbeatable.“   - Dir. Bong Joon-Ho on Chis Evans in Snowpiercer -

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where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop

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Black Panther (2018) dir. Ryan Coogler