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ennaih · 5 months

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Not Every Film I Watch In 2024

9. Any Day Now (2012)

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luckyricochet · 1 month

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"Une silhouette d'homme, pas de mollusque."

THÉODORE PELLERIN as GILBERT DU MOTIER, THE MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

EVERY LAFAYETTE SCENE, 3/? ✧ 1x01, FRANKLIN (2024)

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zooophagous · 1 year

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"Copying a photo to near perfection in a painting is a valid and true display of skill and artistic merit"

And

"Not every photo you find online is yours to be used as a stock photo however you want"

Are two takes that can and do exist together lol.

#as far as a painting being too different from a photo for it to count as an illegitimate copy #there is legal precedent for sculptures based on photos and even tattoos based on cartoon characters #being successfully deemed plagiarism in court despite being totally different mediums #whether or not you agree with that decision is up to you #but the fact that one is a photo and one is a painting doesnt automatically absolve it of copyright issues under American law #i wouldnt recommend going through the expensive process of sueing someone off of a painting they did based on a pet photo from your blog #personally i wouldnt do it #but the fact is people have lost that bid in the past

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ghost-bxrd · 4 months

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Guys, I—- I—-

#I did a terrible TERRIBLE thing #but I’m not even sorry #American book stores are WILD #I can’t believe I found this thing #I CANT BELIEVE IT EXISTS #but also that’s right up my alley of chaos and hilarity to #I hate joker but also— PARENTING #I couldn’t resist #the walk of shame #I swear i didn’t imagine the cashier’s judgemental look #don’t worry buddy this was uncomfortable for us both #I also got the court of owls mask but I need to return it because it’s damaged 😭#ghost talks

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moongirlwidow · 5 months

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I now apparently have been voted by the police as "NYPD's Favorite Vigilante" and MJ is currently ranting about how ridiculous it is that it exists and has actual funding behind it.

#why does this even exist?#and why tf am I getting it?#apparently this is because I actually give statements to the police and will occasionally show up to court when asked #at least according two the email I got?#Steve and James are apparently making a cake despite their collective hatred for the American police system rivaling MJ's #let's ignore that I also regularly refuse to testify in certain situations but there aren't many #the winter widow #vera volkov #marvel rp #mcu #mcu rp #marvel #marvel ask blog #marvel mcu #marvel cinimatic universe

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jakowskis · 2 months

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Day 2 - Who’s your favorite Torchwood member? (And if it’s not one of them, who’s your favorite character?) Why are they your favorite? Do you have any secondary favorites (maybe a one-off or minor character that really stuck with you)?

owen, infinitely. i could write essays on why i love owen - hell, i have written essays. and at this point, you know when a character means so much to you there’s not even words for it anymore, they’re just kind of a fundamental part of you? Yeah. but nonetheless, i guess to majorly sum it up, he’s just one of the most utterly broken and fascinating characters i’ve ever had the pleasure of coming across. there's just a visceral sadness and anger to him that immediately reeled me in and i don’t think i’ll ever get over it, like he actually haunts me. and he made his way into my top 3 characters of all time in just a few months, which is pretty damn impressive. something just kinda clicked there. (and i highlight how fucked up he is, but then he's also complex enough that he's got a silly/dorky side too, which im super endeared by as well. i love his complexity. perf character for me, hes got like 30 things going on and im intrigued and compelled by all of them. i love him endlessly.)

also, okay, i’ve observed my favorite characters tend to unintentionally fit certain criteria, like when i look back at all my favs i can sort them into three categories. namely, it's 1) characters that make me lose my mind bc theyre so interesting (and/or endearing), 2) characters i relate to, and 3) characters i’d smash. fhdjkf. i tend to visualize it as a venn diagram, and most characters sit in one or two of the circles - owen is, i believe, the absolute only fav i’ve ever had who’s firmly in the middle. which probably has something to do with why he’s top 3. dhfdsjk

as for secondary favs… well, i absolutely adore the rest of the team, especially ianto and the girls (including suzie!!!!!!!! my girl suzie). i’m not sure why, gwen’s become a particular favorite. she gives me like cuteness aggression HFKSDF i wanna squish her (lovingly). she’s so fucked up n interesting, but also a lil gremlin to me. i love her playful side she’s such a love.

one-off characters… actually, quite a few have stood out to me and made an emotional impact. torchwood has had some wonderfully talented guest actors who really managed to get me attached to their characters, despite having so little screentime. carys, eugene, and beth all come to mind. i think about beth a lot. and maggie, ohhhh maggie. ill talk about aditd a bit tomorrow, ff.

also the episodes with mothers, oh g-d. eugene’s mom, and jonah’s, and jasmine’s. all really heart-wrenching, and damn good actresses. i always get emotional with plotlines about parents + their kids, fff. parental pain + fear just hits diff idk. i used to watch a ton of criminal minds and that was about the only place my empathy jumped out fhsdkfjd.

i also love the various romantic interests - john, diane, mary, lisa, mark (cough), katie, tommy. rhys!! i love you rhys. torchwood is such a character-focused fixation for me like g-d i just adore every character sm. so many good ones. AND HOW COULD I FORGET MY FAV GUY OF ALL - ANDY!!!!!!!! ily pc andy <3 <3 <3

#tdot #txt #im beyonceing so hard rn btw. 48 hour cowboy carter lockdown #but nothing can stop me from gushing about owen #this fixation's so bad dude. the world could be ending n i'd be like hm i wonder what owen's favorite type of cheese is FHKDSFJDHKJ #do u think he bites his string cheese or peels it. hm #newt n hermann r a peel vs bite couple. irreconcilable differences in court btw #owen.... i wanna say peel cuz he has adhd but my heart says bite bc he likes to make ppl mad FHDSKFJSDHFKDSJDFSK #do they even hav string cheese over there in the you kay or is that some american elementary school lunch shit #ok wikipedia says yes. ok he bites it then. final answer. shes a biter!

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glitradora · 1 year

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I literally just have one thing to say as an Egyptology student about the Jada Picket Smith Cleopatra “documentary”

This is a statue of a fully ethnically Egyptian priest, named Ka-aper, from around 2400BCE (aka over 2300 years before Cleopatra was even born)

When he was found the people in the town named him Sheik Balal. Because he looked so much like their local governor.

Modern Egyptians and Ancient Egyptians are the same people - you’re just Islamophobic.

Egyptian People are not “invaders” of their own country. Saying that Cleopatra was “before the arab invasion” is Islamophobic. Perpetuating the idea that modern Egyptians “took over” their own country and it’s history is ISLAMOPHOBIC

#also if you wanted to make a movie about a black ancient egyptian queen #THEY EXISTED!#but you didn't #you're just using Cleopatra for the aestetic #Cleo and her dynasty in general didn't even live as egyptians #they kept a greek court in a greek city #it would be very similar to wanted to tell native american history #and using chlesea clinton as your inspo #like yea... she sure was BORN IN AMERICA

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normalaboutorcas908 · 8 months

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In the us Saul would have no problem getting light to walk free but in Japan he would get ace attorney’d

yknow that's what my friend told me too, that's why I think Saul's biggest achievement would be to get the court case moved to America, and then prove that there's no way to prove Light DIDN'T killed American citizens. If he can't do that, then my friend said that he'd hire one of the guys from Ace Attorney because they're international lawyers and can work as extension. But I really don't know anything abt Ace Attorney aside from OBJECTION and miles edgeworth to really know how that would go. But in Japanese court I do think Light would go to jail.

#death note #bcs #ace attorney #japanese courts suck really bad so it depends on the amount of cartoon logic we're working off #even IF saul's like able to pull his usual level of chicanery and somehow manages to disprove the prosecution's evidence its still shaky #whereas in american courts he'd be able to rake the prosecution/L over the coals for illegally obtained evidence coerced confessions #circumstantial finds AT BEST illegal surveillance of a teenager the list goes on #meanwhile in japanese courts they take all that so i don't know if saul could win there #and like i said idk much abt ace attorney but either way in his home country i think light's def going in the slammer

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daeluin · 5 months

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i really don't wanna go all ☝🏾🤓 well acktually on tumblr of all places but i am begging you all... pick up a book. wikipedia is free. the ICC (the International Criminal Court) doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the UN. yes they're both in Hague. No, they're wildly different international organizations. You're thinking of the ICJ (the International Court of Justice), which is also in Hague. and no, the ICJ doesn't have jurisdiction to deal with these affairs

#like i get where the sentiment of asking the UN for accountability for Israel comes but a) that's not how the UN works #b) the issue should be with the Security Council and the US unilaterally vetoing any possible action #and c) THEY'RE NOT THE SAME. THE UN IS AN ORGANIZATION. THE ICC IS ANOTHER. THE ICJ IS A THIRD ONE. EACH HAS THEIR SPECIFIC ROLE!!!#like seriously it's not that hard to just google it #you're asking the US house of representatives why it wouldn't intervene on a criminal case in a federal court in Spain.......#and like ik ik i get petty bc this is my field of work but the insistent USamericans have in not learning how Int Law works drives up a wal #bc it just smells of american exceptionalism trying to believe themselves above the International community #like why would they care about it if it doesn't apply to them????#you guys would never understand how even with all it's shortcomings and defects how important the UN and the ICC are on their own #degrading and ignoring these kind of international organizations accomplish nothing but assure the hegemony and lack of accountability #of the global north (specially the US)

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alexcabotgf · 5 months

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#i'll never understand why americans bend over backwards to get out of jury duty #even if the case is whack it's still fun and you get time off of work like just get your ass to court it's not that deep #jury duty lb

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the-og-gay-cousin · 6 months

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Making the annual "Merry Christmas"/"happy holidays" posts this year is just wild for me. There is a fucked up war in Ukraine and an outright genocide in Palestine. America, a major world power, is falling apart at the seams and is attempting to silence and remove its own people, along with its own democracy. Neonazis were allowed to roam the streets. North Korea is testing more and more missiles. It feels like the beginnings of world war 3, and meanwhile, all of us are expected to go about our daily lives. A lot has happened in my personal life on top of that, including leaving my job when management went to actual shit, so one can imagine what it's like living as a young woman in 2023.

Christmas hasn't felt like Christmas in a while. As a kid, I woke up to abuse every Christmas morning, but it still felt more like Christmas than it does now. It hasn't felt like Christmas since before COVID, to be honest, but this year takes the cake for an unexciting Christmas morning. There's no anticipation, there is only me going through the motions as innocents are killed in Palestine en masse. There isn't any buzzing anticipation, there's just a sense of time flying by with a side of dread regarding what will happen because America's politicians won't get their heads out of their asses so that they can have the sense to stop supporting genocidal actions. To be frank, I feel like the only thing stopping American politicians from supporting Russia's actions is the heavy anti-communist agenda America has always had in the name of freedom and democracy for cishet neurotypical white men. If America had any political agendas in Russia, I'm fairly certain that America would be supporting its invasion of Ukraine too, along with the bullshit Israel is pulling.

Christmas doesn't feel like Christmas. It hasn't in a while, but I'm really getting that this year.

#free palestine #free gaza #slava ukraini #glory to ukraine #Sorry for the long rant #I'm just #I'm fucking pissed #we did not put down the original Nazi regime for this shit #we did not get force fed all that anti-fascist propaganda and all that pro-America propaganda in school for fuckin #America #of all places #to support a genocide in the middle east and expect us to be okay with it #America has always been a shit show but holy actual fuck #long post #not even gonna begin on what America is doing to its own citizens #misogyny in court rulings regarding abortion is CRAZY coming from this place #forget about treatment of lgbt folk #shit is insane #poc people are still having bullshit done to them #as per the American bullshit standard #healthcare is as out of reach as ever #the people have no say in their tax dollars #apparently #since it's all going to fund ethnic cleansing in the Middle East #Fuck this shit man #I fought to get out of abuse that none of the authorities would have addressed properly because it was primarily psychological #and now I guess I'm ready to fight as best as I can against global scale bullshit by attending protests when possible #and by keeping Palestine in the algorithms of myself and any of my followers

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anotherpapercut · 6 months

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something I will never ever forget as long as I live is seeing a post in 2020 that was like "I don't care how you feel about Biden, you HAVE to vote for him NO MATTER WHAT because Republicans don't care what their candidate does. they'll vote for a rapist just because it says Republican after his name!!" like within weeks of credible assault allegations against Biden surfacing lol. like can you guys at least TRY to pretend you're not advocating for the exact same thing you claim Republicans are doing

#yeah republicans will vote for a rapist but liberals cant even entertain the idea of MAYBE refusing to back a genocidal administration #for long enough to even come close to making any change #its extremely clear what you guys mean when you say yeah biden has his hands in multiple global genocides #and has done nothing but worsen the situation at the border by trying to make asylum seekers jump through even more hoops #but like hes not actively killing AMERICAN CITIZENS soooo #just say hes not killing white americans if thats what you mean lol. have things gotten better under this administration?#in any regard? at all? what have they done to protection abortion rights? lgbt rights? they wont even DISCUSS court reform #i seriously hope both of them die. in one large fiery crash. and neil gorsuch is also there

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anyataylorjoys · 6 months

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People continued to die and are still dying from Covid or long term Covid. Under Biden, they stopped counting the deaths. Do whatever you want, but do not try to shame people from not voting or for voting third party this time. There was so much that Biden could've done or could do now during his presidency to codify Roe v Wade or even stop the genocide of Palestinians. Under Biden, more money went towards the police, miltary, and Israel then when Trump was in office. There is no lesser evil, that is bs to keep liberals voting and getting nothing in return. Democrats holds your rights and your healthcare as hostage and then do absolutely nothing to protect said rights or healthcare while in office. Politicians HAS TO EARN your votes or they straight up don't deserve them. It's simple as that.

Are you saying you'd rather have a dictator as president cause that's all I'm hearing out of this monologue.

#answered #roe v wade was removed by the trump appointed supreme court judges don't even talk about roe and what biden couldve done #dont vote and we get a dictator as president yall will REALLY be crying & trump will be deporting american born hispanics 'back' to mexico #it's not about the lesser of two evils it's about who is more corrupt and it's still the GOP actually #I care about palestinians but I also care about the minorities in this country. nothing about voting in this political climate is simple

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burst-of-iridescent · 2 years

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holy fuck the Supreme Court actually overturned Roe vs Wade.

this shouldn’t be happening in the twenty first century. this shouldn’t even be a DEBATE. i can’t even express the depths of my horror and sorrow right now. fuck this ruling & fuck anyone who allowed it to happen and condones it in any way.

#Supreme Court #Roe vs Wade #this shouldn’t be happening #i just… i don’t even have words #my Americans mutuals & followers i am so sorry #pro choice

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britneyshakespeare · 2 years

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It seems hard to me when I look at her sometimes, and think how many without one tithe of her genius or greatness of spirit have granted them abundant health and opportunity to labour through the little they can do or will do, while perhaps her soul is never to bloom nor her bright hair to fade, but after hardly escaping from degradation and corruption, all she might have been must sink out again unprofitably in that dark house where she was born. How truly she may say, 'No man may care for my soul.' I do not mean to make myself an exception, for how long I have known her, and not thought of this till so late—perhaps too late. But it is no use writing more about this subject; and I fear, too, my writing at all about it must prevent your easily believing it to be, as it is, by far the nearest thing to my own heart.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti writing of Lizzie Siddal's health in a letter dated 23 July, 1854

#european date orientation even tho it feels unnatural to my american brain #quotes #pre raphaelite #dante gabriel rossetti #rossetti #lizzie siddal #elizabeth siddal #elizabeth eleanor siddall #he really did admire her. not just the vague and vain concept of 'love' but he truly respected and appreciated her.#as much as a young victorian man could anyway......#this book by jan marsh is so insightful. it's truly flipping a lot of my expectations and previous assumptions #i didn't realize how deeply he cared for her in all the years they were just courting. ppl made it sound like he encouraged her only a bit #in her artistic pursuits but he gave her all the credit and praise for everything.#lizzie could make one stroke on a canvas and he'd start crying #i think ppl confuse his later lurid affairs as a widower w him being a playboy in his 20s. which doesn't appear to be the case.#i remember reading somewhere years ago that there was no evidence he committed adultery in their (albeit short) marriage but ppl assume #based on what they know about him. but he and lizzie were still very young when she died and he was much more bright-eyed and bushytailed #it seems in her very early adulthood.#didn't yeats also lose his virginity when he was like 40??? and he of course got around w a lot of women once he did.#ppl always make assumptions of what historical figures must've been like based on their modern assumptions of how ppl behave #jan marsh is smashing my entire schema of dgr as a young man and im kinda here for it #the girlies are gagging for guggums

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siobhanromee · 1 year

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Had the most frustrating nightmare last night

#It was a mix of misinformed animal rights activist. A bunch of show choir kids #And the american legal system. And me:(#I was in a court case that was nebulously abt animal cruelty #And like the opponents were very well spoken #But I had a bunch of show choir kids on my side who would sing entirely unrelated pop songs with no relation to the court case #And like I had to do the whole defense myself #But I only have knowledge of structuring an arguement from ap lang and only have knowledge of the court system from watching attorney woo #Which isnt even the American system. That show is south Korean #Thankfully I woke up

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