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Hell yeah I have a weird thing for Prince, Dudley Moore and Martin Short so this speaks to me on a spiritual level.

genuinely so tired of the male love interest in every m/f romance being the most hugelarge tallman to ever growth spurt. I need to see some women swooning over little five foot five rat dudes who need to be tucked in their gf's pocket lest they blow away like a napkin in the wind.

#bring back the short boys #truth #arthur 1980 #dudley moore #martin short #prince #although when i actually dated a shorter guy he was weirdly insecure about it which is a shame

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I see a lot of people talking about Oliver and his Broadway shows but no one talks about the real-life boy himself in his Tony-award winning performance. So here it is, enjoy!

(Skip to 4:14 for Le Grand BoOm-BooM)

#martin short #little me #broadway #musical theatre #omitb #only murders in the building #oliver #oliver putnam #He plays 8 roles in this #very impressive boi #and what a lovely singing voice #preminger #faith prince #i really didnt expect to be this obsessed with marty #but here we are #Youtube #little me 1998 #1999

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He'd better get an Emmy for Only Murders. I already feel like he's so underrated as a comedic actor but OMITB shows so much range, drama, comedy, music...

Martin Short deserves all the awards!

#Martin Short #Only Murders in the building #give martin short an emmy #and tbh he is so so good #like 3 amigos #innerspace #even clifford (1994) its like my guilty pleasure he just sells it #he seems like a pretty nice guy i must say #he deserves all the good things #he has a tony but give him an emmy and everyone will forget the santa clause 3 #OH YEAH ALSO #preminger #remember preminger? this boi elevates the material #and jiminy glick #he's like an unproblematic jerry lewis

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Your late 20s are not old and there is still lots of time left at 26 or 27 or 30. You haven't wasted your potential. Not me tho im running out of time by the day

#ack kill me

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“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn’t even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn’t talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.”

Yiwei Chai, The Jacaranda Years

#it me

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recommending a movie to someone like oh my god they're gonna hate it and i will be brought to the town square and stoned

#for years i refused to let my mother watch movies with me because i was so afraid of judgement #like i would just pause it and freeze and hope she'd leave #this is like at age eight #i chose to go to see phantom of the opera with a friend in london #and i liked it but i got the feeling she didnt #and i keep on thinking about it ten months later #so next time i saw her (we live far away from eachother) i was so indecisive that i could tell she was frustrated #but i cant win because im so in my head all the time #so afraid #like a decision or earnest enjoyment of something will destroy me if others dont value it too #i played one song from be more chill and she was stony faced and i just #i couldnt pick any more songs #ahhhhhhhhhhgggh #there’s something vulnerable about sharing your fav songs/artists with someone #and i am not ready to be that vulnerable

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can u explain why AI art is bad without fearmongering, moralizing or bootlicking lol

I'm going to answer in good faith, even though the tone you're using sounds like you're harboring anything but. The issue with AI art isn't specifically inherent to the tools used to produce it, because, ultimately, a tool is merely that: something devoid of will which, in the hands of a human, can produce a specific outcome. It's the human element that taints what we could otherwise enjoy for the unquestioningly fascinating topic that is AI art and, by extension, AI software as a whole.

Now, the problem isn't people, period, but the kind of people that are responsible for giving AI the bad rep it's been getting, along with the intent that goes into both the development of AI tools and the things produced by dint of said tools. I'm talking about the tech bros happily rubbing their hands, waiting to provide business moguls with a brand new means to commodify and mass-produce what artists stake their entire livelihoods upon, because when you have enough zeroes lined up in your bank account, your eyes are utterly blinded to the soul and personality that human beings put into their handiwork, and which a machine won't ever be able to reproduce no matter how much stolen art you feed it. Oh yeah, by the way, that's how AI art tools have been making the rounds: by chewing on thousands upon thousands of stolen pictures made by actual people so that they may learn how to ape someone's style and spit out absolutely soulless derivatives, while the original authors don't see a lick of recognition or monetary retribution for any of it. Do I need to tell you why stealing and parading someone else's art as your own is a terrible, vile thing to do?

But sure, you did ask me to refrain from "fearmongering, moralizing or bootlicking", which I guess I've already done. So since you'd rather I skipped straight to the point in a concise manner, lemme offer some quick examples of why the culture surrounding AI art has already developed into one of the most abysmally disappointing displays of how greed and an utter lack of human decency can ruin something objectively brimming with possibilities:

Less than a week after the sudden death of Korean artist Kim Jung-gi, someone trained an AI model to mimic his artstyle, having the audacity of asking for credits if anyone wished to use it. I sincerely hope I don't have to explain to you why this is a ghoulish example of the kind of tone-deafness sported by tech bros who buy wholesale into the AI art craze.

A piece of AI art was submitted to an art contest and won. The "artist"'s work amounted to little more than picking a series of prompts and letting the machine do the work. It's as much art as googling a smattering of terms and making a collage of pictures taken from Pinterest (and even then, you would have put more work into it than this person did). That they won at all says a whole damn lot about how abysmal the respect given to artists - real artists - nowadays is.

There are a multitude of people out there already selling prints of AI-generated art. I could link some of them here, but honestly, type "ai art prints" on a search engine and you'll get inundated by them. I've seen and personally know artists who have had to undersell their works because commissions were the only thin, frayed string they could hang on in hopes of making it through the week without fucking starving themselves, but here we are: any random asshole can now yell "MASSIVE BREASTS, THIN WAIST, COCKTAIL DRESS, HUGE BADONGAS" at a computer, let it mash together a trillion of other people's hard work, and print it for easy bucks that the actual authors of the basic ingredients of their insipid soup will never, ever see a dime of.

It really bothers me that you mentioned "no bootlicking". Whose fucking boots is this side of the debate supposedly tasting? That of the artists who post every day about how angry, sad and terrified they are by the prospects of what the development of AI art will entail for their livelihood and passion? What kind of gall did your mother birth you with that you have the spiteful spunk to type that word, when you've got shit like an artist who had their sketch stolen while they were drawing it on stream, then fed to an AI and posted by someone passing it off as their own art? How does that not ignite your indignation? "Bootlicking". Like anyone's tongues have been tasting leather but those of the same tech bro chodes who kept trying oh so hard to convince us NFTs were the future while ruining the environment to make the absolute stupidest point ever made in the history of humanity.

#It’s hard enough being an artist without all this. #i regret studying illustration most days #but this terrifies me

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I Hate How She Talks About Snow White

"People are making these jokes about ours being the PC Snow White, where it's like, yeah, it is − because it needed that. It's an 85-year-old cartoon, and our version is a refreshing story about a young woman who has a function beyond 'Someday My Prince Will Come. "

Let me tell you a little something's about that "85-year-old cartoon," miss Zegler.

It was the first-ever cel-animated feature-length full-color film. Ever. Ever. EVER. I'm worried that you're not hearing me. This movie was Disney inventing the modern animated film. Spirited Away, Into the Spider-Verse, Tangled, you don't get to have any of these without Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937.)

Speaking of what you wouldn't get without this movie, it includes anime as a genre. Not just in technique (because again, nobody animated more than shorts before this movie) but in style and story. Anime, as it is now, wouldn't exist without Osamu Tezuka, "The God of Manga," who wouldn't have pioneered anime storytelling in the 1940s without having watched and learned from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in the 1930s. No "weeb" culture, no Princess Mononoke, no DragonBall Z, no My Hero Academia, no Demonslayer, and no Naruto without this "85-year-old cartoon."

It was praised, not just for its technical marvels, not just for its synchronized craft of sound and action, but primarily and enduringly because people felt like the characters were real. They felt more like they were watching something true to life than they did watching silent, live-action films with real actors and actresses. They couldn't believe that an animated character could make kids wet their pants as she flees, frightened, through the forest, or grown adults cry with grieving Dwarves. Consistently.

Walt Disney Studios was built on this movie. No no; you're not understanding me. Literally, the studio in Burbank, out of which has come legends of this craft of animated filmmaking, was literally built on the incredible, odds-defying, record-breaking profits of just Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, specifically.

Speaking of record-breaking profits, this movie is the highest-grossing animated film in history. Still. TO THIS DAY. And it was made during the Great Depression.

In fact, it made four times as much money than any other film, in any other genre, released during that time period. It was actually THE highest-grossing film of all time, in any genre, until nothing less than Gone With the Wind, herself, came along to take the throne.

It was the first-ever animated movie to be selected for the National Film Registry. Actually, it was one of the first movies, period, to ever go into the registry at all. You know what else is in the NFR? The original West Side Story, the remake of which is responsible for Rachel Ziegler's widespread fame.

Walt Disney sacrificed for this movie to be invented. Literally, he took out a mortgage on his house and screened the movie to banks for loans to finish paying for it, because everyone from the media to his own wife and brother told him he was crazy to make this movie. And you want to tell me it's just an 85-year-old cartoon that needs the most meaningless of updates, with your tender 8 years in the business?

Speaking of sacrifice, this movie employed over 750 people, and they worked immeasurable hours of overtime, and invented--literally invented--so many new techniques that are still used in filmmaking today, that Walt Disney, in a move that NO OTHER STUDIO IN HOLLYWOOD was doing in the 30's, put this in the opening credits: "My sincere appreciation to the members of my staff whose loyalty and creative endeavor made possible this production." Not the end credits, like movies love to do today as a virtue-signal. The opening credits.

It's legacy endures. Your little "85-year-old cartoon" sold more than 1 million DVD copies upon re-release. Just on its first day. The Beatles quoted Snow White in one of their songs. Legacy directors call it "the greatest film ever made." Everything from Rolling Stones to the American Film Institute call this move one of the most influential masterpieces of our culture. This movie doesn't need anything from anybody. This movie is a cultural juggernaut for America. It's a staple in the art of filmmaking--and art, in general. It is the foundation of the Walt Disney Company, of modern children's media in the West, and of modern adaptations of classical fairy tales in the West. When you think only in the base, low, mean terms of "race" and "progressivism" you start taking things that are actually worlds-away from being in your league to judge, and you relegate them to silly ignorant phrases like "85-year-old cartoon" to explain why what you're doing is somehow better.

Sit down and be humble. Who the heck are you?

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I still remember the day I first watched Star Trek and I thought, "Wow, Kirk and Spock would make a really good couple, I wonder if there's anyone who ships them," and then I looked up 'Kirk and Spock' on the Internet and the first thing that came up was the fucking Wikipedia article about the history of slash fiction and that it was Kirk and Spock who invented modern fandom.

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These are BEAUTIFUL

He looks so nervous in the second one aww

One of my most favoritest meditative activities: gifing Jer

Here's today's results

#The bottom left one is literally me whenever i go out #Jerry Lewis #vintage #vintage hollywood #hes so beautiful #big fan of the hat gif

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I love this. That drawing looks really neat too. 

@make-a-little-mischief Here's the picture :-)

#this outfit was a look tho #Vintage Space #behind the scenes #costume design #edith head #Jerry Lewis #visit to a small planet

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Oh my god.

@make-a-little-mischief Jerry with glasses 😀

#his face #Jerry Lewis #with glasses #jerry with glasses #such a pretty boy

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He looks so cute in the last two pictures. 

#ya like jazz #Jerry Lewis #vintage #vintage hollywood

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Bubbies @ The Copa 1949

Part 2

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byotiful boys

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis entertaining the US troops, circa 1953.

#dean martin and jerry lewis #martin and lewis #clutching his bubbe #Jerry Lewis #Dean Martin #husbands

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I heard an interview today...a coupled duo sharing a mic the “old fashioned way”, talking about the intimacy, looking at each other and not outward....breathing in each other’s breaths, reading each other’s thoughts and moods.

and i thought of Jer saying Dean knew his breath, knew what he was going to do before he knew himself. it kinda made me wanna cry.