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egophiliac · 2 months

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IT WAS ERIC AFTER ALL!!!! I'm so glad we got to meet him (before Vil snaps him away with those Infinity Gauntlets) (can't wait to see what happens when we get the matching Infinity Tiara to go with them, there will be no survivors)

(sorry to be so slow/rough lately, just got a lot of stuff on the ol' brain at the moment! alas, if only I could spend all my time drawing incredibly stupid characters I mean I do but)

#art #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #tapis rouge #i know these are not my best but by god i needed to draw ~daddo venue~#he is a treat! can't wait for him to yell at us for screwing up a shoot or whatever the last-minute disaster will be #i am SO HAPPY it turned out to be about movies after all! ...i mean sort of anyway #i'll take what i can get (and i do enjoy twst trying to be all cute about snow whAHEM i mean beautiful queen) (i see you there twst)#(also to be fair it actually wasn't poisoned in historial-revisionism-twstland so i think we can trust this apple. a+ acting eric)#anyway we are still. very solidly in the 'stand around and talk about the wallpaper for three hours' part of the event.#but HEY we got to meet eric! i was not really expecting it to be him so i am VERY pleased #also god help me i did think the shopping montage as portrayed by a rhythmic where they literally SKIP down the street was hilarious #there's a lot of Choices that were made in this event and that was a good one

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bookloversofbath · 1 year

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The Elements of Rifle Shooting :: Lieut. -Colonel J. A. (Jocelyn Arthur) Barlow

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blumineck · 1 year

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Faster than me, that's for sure!

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#archery #speed shooting #archer #fantasy #history #nerd

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serinesu · 16 days

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caribbean dreams

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dronescapesvideos · 6 months

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‘Hell, this is like an old-fashioned turkey shoot.’ On board the aircraft carrier Lexington, Lt. j.g. Alexander Vraciu holds up six fingers to signify his "kills" during the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" on 19 June 1944.

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uncleclaudius · 8 months

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Very handsome intaglio of Lucius Verus, co-emperor of Marcus Aurelius. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, Russia.

#ancient rome #lucius verus #cameo #roman empire #ancient history #roman history #in modern times lucius verus could probably shoot commericals for hair products

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roversrovers · 1 year

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#science #space #comet #comets #comet c/2022 e3 ztf #c/2022 e3 (ztf)#c / 2022 e3 (ztf)#nasa #astronomy #astrophysics #stars #history #neanderthal #neanderthals #homo sapiens #shooting star #space meme #meme #my post

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twof · 2 months

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Berlin, 2024

Photo: Roland Helbig

#berlin #history #black and white photography #film photography #analogue photography #35mm film #i still shoot film #photographers on tumblr #original photographers #ilford hp5@1600asa #nikon f3 #voigtlander 40mm/ 2.0 ultron

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allhailthe70shousewife · 11 months

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“James Chapman, a Republican from Wayne County, told the paper he traveled to the city of Clare to join the party meeting at the Doherty Hotel. But the meeting was reserved for members of the state committee. So Chapman said that he and others gathered outside the meeting location and recited the Pledge of Allegiance. He also said that he attempted to open a door to the meeting room by jiggling the doorknob.

Mark DeYoung, who chairs the Clare County Republican Party, said he heard Chapman’s attempt to enter the room and opened the door after seeing someone flip him the bird through a window. “He kicked me in my balls as soon as I opened the door,” DeYoung said of Chapman, speaking to The Detroit News by phone from the emergency room.

DeYoung added that Chapman charged him, slamming his body into a chair, and said he now has a broken rib. He intends to press charges.”

“The state of the Michigan GOP is so chaotic, this isn’t even the first physical altercation at a state party meeting this year. In April, police were called when two Republicans got into a fight. On video captured of the incident, Kalamazoo Republican Party Chair Kelly Sackett appeared to knock a cigarette and phone out of Macomb County GOP Secretary Melissa Pehlis’ hand. Pehlis then pushed her open hand toward Sackett’s head. “

#us history #republicans #gop #gqp #southern strategy #nixon #roger stone #reagan #trump #shoot fights that only look like wrestling #trash #nominated for Headline of the Year 2023🏆

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sky-daddy-hates-me · 26 days

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Why the actual fuck are y'all so obsessed with comparing reality to the hunger games?

Why are you all acting like rich people and celebrities carrying on with their life while brutal massacres are ongoing is a new fucking concept?

Do you honestly think that every Oscars, every sports tournament, every met gala, every fucking pr celebration before October 2023 happened during 'World peace'?

Do you think there weren't people in the 90s or 80s or 70s or 60s or 40s that were unable to afford food or water or heating ?

Do you think there weren't genocidal acts and atrocities happening globally before 2023?

Do you think rich people in the 1910s were all doing everything in their power to stop the global conflicts and disgusting crimes?

Do you honestly think there weren't people in the 1800s who would go around flaunting their wealth while the lower classes died and starved?

Did you forget that the French revolution took place in the late 1700s? That while the peasants were starving to death the french elite were bathing in crushed strawberries and washed with perfumed milk?

Did you forget that during the 1600s King charles the 2nd revived the act of public dining? Allowing the lower classes to watch from behind a railing as he was served 26 dishes, with each one being presented to him by a different servant before being tasted by them and placed on his plate?

Did you forget that in the 1500s in England any poor person found capable of doing a day's work but refusing to do so could be sentenced to death?

Did you forget that in the 1400-1500s, while the richest of European society went on with their lavish lifestyles, there were multiple genocides as European countries colonised the American continents and expanded into the East?

WE ARE NOT EXPERIENCING ANYTHING NEW OR DYSTOPIAN

WE ARE JUST RELIVING THE PAST WITH MODERN ADVANCEMENTS, WE ARE JUST MORE AWARE OF THE INJUSTICES THE WESTERN SOCIETY IS BUILT ON

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righteousinadversity · 2 years

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Wei Wuxian really got an arrow shot in between two of his lungs ribs, pulled it out, and then tossed it back and fucking killed the guy who shot him - If that's not fucking terrifying (and more than a little awe-inspiring) I don't know what is.

#wei wuxian #mdzs #back on my wei wuxian simping hours again #which is all hours #though it is honestly intriguing how the guy who shot him is portrayed as young and unskilled and essentially naive-#likely with not the slightest clue as to the real situations surrounding wwx #and didn't see beyond the ruthless picture the jins painted of wwx #probably just wants to be hero or smth like that #listen kids #this is why you don't go to war without enough information #especially not against a man who has a very bloody history considering sunshot campaign #smh #you try to shoot a guy in the heart during a brewing conflict and you expect everything to go well?

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cleolinda · 11 months

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When I was a child in the '80s, I absorbed some kind of cultural truism that disco was ridiculous, embarrassing, cheesy, a cultural relic to be mocked at every turn. Remember, I'm under ten years old at this time, and I still manage to get this impression. There was another, milder sea change when grunge overtook the hair metal of the late '80s, so I never questioned the idea that disco should be dead and buried. We like silly things, I thought in my 13-year-old wisdom, and then we get over it.

Then I saw The Last Days of Disco (1998) while I was in college, and suddenly I realized that disco was fun, and it was like—it was in the roots of—music I already loved. And the end of that movie also—hints? tells you? I can't remember how explicitly—that disco didn't just fade like most trends; it was killed off.

I watched a lot of VH1 in those days, the late '90s, with a little TV sitting on my tall university-issue dresser, its corner overlooking my computer desk while I struggled with piles of assignments. This was the heyday of Behind the Music, so it was great background TV. And then one day (1999) they ran a Donna Summer—the "Queen of Disco"—concert special. The video up there is the song that immediately became my favorite of hers. It’s just instant serotonin to me, any version of it. I bought the whole VH1 album on CD, and "This Time I Know It's For Real" may genuinely be one of my all-time favorite songs, now, still, more than 20 years later. You can hear the original version (1989) here (the backing instrumental that I just found today is lovely), but the live version ten years later, the video up there, has a really special comeback—joyous, gracious survival—energy to it.

Watching the whole concert, I got it. Why the fuck did I ever think disco wasn't amazing? It was always the kind of thing I loved; we had all just been pretending that it was embarrassing glitter trash.

And then I found out why we were pretending. From densely-footnoted Wikipedia:

Disco Demolition Night was a Major League Baseball (MLB) promotion on Thursday, July 12, 1979, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois, that ended in a riot. At the climax of the event, a crate filled with disco records was blown up on the field between games of the twi-night doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. Many had come to see the explosion rather than the games and rushed onto the field after the detonation. The playing field was so damaged by the explosion and by the rioters that the White Sox were required to forfeit the second game to the Tigers. [...] The popularity of disco declined significantly in late 1979 and 1980. Many disco artists carried on, but record companies began labeling their recordings as dance music. [...] Rolling Stone critic Dave Marsh described Disco Demolition Night as "your most paranoid fantasy about where the ethnic cleansing of the rock radio could ultimately lead". Marsh was one who, at the time, deemed the event an expression of bigotry, writing in a year-end 1979 feature that "white males, eighteen to thirty-four are the most likely to see disco as the product of homosexuals, blacks, and Latins, and therefore they're the most likely to respond to appeals to wipe out such threats to their security. It goes almost without saying that such appeals are racist and sexist, but broadcasting has never been an especially civil-libertarian medium." Nile Rodgers, producer and guitarist for the disco-era band Chic,

(who survived the disco era to make half the music I loved in the '80s)

likened the event to Nazi book burning. Gloria Gaynor, who had a huge disco hit with "I Will Survive," stated, "I've always believed it was an economic decision—an idea created by someone whose economic bottom line was being adversely affected by the popularity of disco music. So they got a mob mentality going."

The DJ who ran the whole thing, Steve Dahl, complains that it was VH1 itself—you know, those Behind the Music specials I was watching—circa 1996 that labeled the whole debacle as bigotry when it so totally was not, you guys, and he is so tired of defending himself. But I'm gonna tell you, Steve, I don't really care. Maybe Disco Demolition Night was your fault; maybe you were just a part of something so much bigger and uglier that you couldn't see the whole size of it. Can you draw a direct line from the weird bigoted vitriol directed at those dance records to Ronald Reagan, elected the very next year, not giving a single fuck about the AIDS crisis? You probably don't want to, but I will.

And I don't care because I can look around the U.S. right now and tell you, nearly 45 years later, people are trying to demolish a lot more than disco. The Club Q shooter was sentenced to life in prison just a few hours ago. It's Pride Month, and we're all sitting here holding our breaths. That's a terrible way to end a post about a beautiful happy song I love, I guess, unless you turn it around and say, that should have been the whole point of this post in the first place. Listen to this song and think, people wanted to destroy this music, this sound, this joy for some reason. They want to stop people from just living their lives, from dancing. And yet, disco is still here. It was there in 1979, and it was there when Donna Summer released this song in 1989, and it was there when she returned in 1999. The Queen of Disco passed away in 2012, and it's still here. I feel a lot of joy when I listen to this song, but I don't think I'd ever thought about it being the joy of grooving with something just because it’s beautiful, the joy of just being here, still.

#donna summer #music #video #disco demolition night #queer history #lgbtqia+#club q shooting #aids crisis #pride #pride for one thousand years #I feel really hesitant about the turn this post took but #if the dots are there you gotta connect them #long post #music discussion

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filmnoirsbian · 9 months

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Imagine being a rampant misogynist and then "gifting" your intellectual property to the public domain under the guise of "keeping it out of the hands of bad people" and then being surprised when people (esp women) assume the crime of those "bad people" was an intention to diversify the story 🤔🤨 I want to see the emails.

#this is abt fables btw.#like ok grown man who wrote one of the worst fridgings in dc history (which is really saying smth) and then said u wanted to shoot #all the women fans upset by it tell me more abt how dc wanted to give writing credit to “bad people.” I'm just curious.#tcp #oh the things we invent

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archiveofrasa · 2 months

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every day i become more convinced letty fetishised ramy bc tell me why i just found out that the royal pavilion is in brighton which is WHERE LETTY'S FROM

btw the royal pavilion looks like THIS

rf kuang really chose her details right bc letty could've been from anywhere in england but no she was like let me pick brighton where a prominent example of orientalism architecture was built

#im gonna shoot myself in the head /j #ramiz rafi mirza #letitia price #babel rf kuang #generally rf kuang amazes me with how much shit she packs into the little details #and you mean to tell me she isn't a good writer like the classics writers are. LMAO OKAY #also the interior of the royal pavilion are heavily inspired by chinese aesthetics. i could be making a metaphor out of this what am i doin #babel an arcane history #babel or the necessity of violence

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usaac-official · 22 hours

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A 35th Fighter Squadron F-80C in flight near Mt Fuji, Japan, 1950

#usaaf #usaf #F-80 #Shooting Star #warbird #aviation history #in color #8 FBG

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dronescapesvideos · 3 months

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SKUNK WORKS STORY: Aviation Revolutions, Kelly Johnson And Lockheed. The Complete Documentary https://youtu.be/fanz7WrrIgA?si=5GOtjNZLlb2j3Mew

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