BrodoBaggins 🍉 ☭ @HimeTweets

Some sex scenes dont have to have sex in them.

In a recent interview, Anya Taylor-Joy said she's grateful James McAvoy took the role in 'Split'. [Joaquin Phoenix was originally cast and dropped out of the movie two weeks before filming.] "I was so grateful it was him, because originally it was supposed to be someone that's very known for being a method actor. And if I had been in Philadelphia with a method actor whose intention was to eat me, I think that would have been, um... That would have been a different experience. And I was very grateful to have James, who I think also understood that he had three young women with him. And so every time after a take, he would just make it a little bit lighter and was very supportive and just a general great guy."

Yeah, it tends to happen like that. You start pulling on one thread and then the whole thing unravels. Maybe you start with the Iraq war lies. Maybe 9/11. These days for a lot of folks it's Palestine. You keep pulling on that thread, uncovering more and more uncomfortable truths, until eventually you discover that pretty much everything you've been taught about your world was a lie. Every war. Everything about how your government really operates. Everything you've been told about nations and how they work. Everything about capitalism and communism and how your society is structured. It was all lies, fed to you by parents, teachers, preachers, pundits, politicians and news men from the moment you were old enough to process complex thought. It can feel scary. It can feel like the end of your world, because in a sense that's exactly what it is. Your sincere pursuit of the truth leads to the unraveling of everything you thought you knew, and you find yourself plunging into a great abyss of uncertainty about what's real. And a lot of people do get lost at this juncture. They plunge down too many rabbit holes with too much paranoia and not enough critical thinking, and they wind up replacing all their old indoctrinated belief system with new beliefs that are just as crazy and power-serving as the first ones. There's often a gap between letting go of your old worldview and assembling a new one where it's easy to get confused and misled. But if you remain sincere, careful, relentlessly self-honest and dedicated to the truth while ensuring your critical thinking faculties remain operating at full power, you eventually emerge from this chrysalis phase with the wings of a truth-based worldview. You can now not only see through the old lies, but can understand what's really going on in the world. And what's really going on in the world is a lot less pleasant than the fictions you were fed as a schoolchild. You can see that we are ruled by a transnational alliance of plutocrats and government agencies who manipulate world affairs to maximize their power and profits at the expense of ordinary working people around the globe, and you can see that those same powerful abusers are responsible for constructing the fictional power-serving worldview you just freed yourself from. And when you see how unpleasant the truth is and how hard you had to work to realize it, you understand why relatively few people have awakened to it. From the perspective of the ego, it's a whole lot of effort and discomfort without much in the way of payoff. Forming a truth-based worldview is something you do for its own sake, and if you're not the sort of person who views truth as its own reward, then you're not the sort of person who's likely to pursue it. But more and more people are choosing truth. More and more people are spotting a loose thread labeled "Gaza" or "Epstein" or what have you, and giving it a curious tug. Despite the discomfort, despite the required effort, and despite the great cost of having to sacrifice the world they thought they knew about the world, they're pulling that thread, and they keep on pulling. We're seeing it more and more every year. And that gives me hope. I don't know where this is headed or whether we win in the end, but I'm seeing enough movement in human consciousness at mass scale to continue holding out hope for a better world.

Ben Wehrman @benwehrman

2 months ago

Every awakening begins with a fracture in the lie.

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nobody else finds it weird that this tiny country has so much influence on what you’re allowed to see?

Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod

2 months ago

This image of a football match in Gaza was removed from a sports photography festival in France, following Israeli pressure.

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'9 to 5’ is one of the most Marxist films to hit Hollywood since the second Red Scare. In it, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda kidnap their boss and run the office without him for a month, during which time they institute free childcare, paid vacation, and flexible hours.

⋆˚₊ 𖤓 Klaus’ Widow 𖤓˚.⋆ @raikagejade

2 months ago

RIP DOLLY, THANK YOU FOR THIS COMMUNIST HIT

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You think Roddy the Ruin hacking down Ormund Hightower while laughing in the face of dragonfire was based? Wait until you hear how unfathomably goated he was in the books. In Fire & Blood, he existed for one simple purpose: showing Westeros the terrifying reality of Northern warfare. His legend builds on the brutal Northern tradition of "going hunting." When a harsh winter approaches, old men leave their homes so their families won't starve. Roddy weaponized this tradition into an offensive strike force, gathering two thousand grizzled veterans who made peace with death before leaving Barrowton. He carried the name Roddy the Ruin because every single engagement meant total, irreversible destruction for his enemies. His doctrine eliminated ransoms, hostages, and retreats entirely. When he arrived in the Riverlands, he immediately took control of the land war. He pushed the Riverlords into a fanatical, relentless offensive that completely stunned Rhaenyra’s Black council. At Tumbleton, facing thousands of Hightower soldiers and two active dragons, he skipped all defensive tactics. He led a full-frontal cavalry charge straight into the center of an army ten times his size, aiming purely to shatter their morale. Roddy the Ruin treated the entire Dance of the Dragons as a glorious exit strategy, dragging an entire enemy army to the grave with him.

also it’s fascinating how daemon seems to oscillate between the role of uncle and husband. very well done

sienna @nyraslore

2 months ago

emma and matt were a fucking generational casting choice

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Roderick Dustin leads that vanguard because Cregan Stark can't leave Winterfell unattended while he's busy gathering the entire Northern host. the Winter Wolves, that first wave of two thousand men, are all older, battle-hardened Northerners who march south early specifically so they're not eating into winter rations back home. that's not random, that's calculated sacrifice. as Lord of Barrowton and one of Cregan's most trusted vassals, Roddy the Ruin is the obvious choice to lead that suicidal strike force down the Kingsroad while Cregan handles the main army coming up behind him it was never about who's better between the two of them either, that's just how feudal command actually works. Stark stays behind managing the harvest and the full muster and hands his deadliest vanguard over to the one man he trusts enough to actually lead it into a fight most of them won't walk away from.

Daemon @emeyorX

2 months ago

Why exactly is Roderick Dustin of House Dustin leading the Stark men instead of a Stark lord or soldier?

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Still in a goth phase while 100 years old and dating a teenager welcome back Edward Cullen

rhaenyra defending democracy by enforcing the separation between church and state VOTE RHAENYRA 2028

bisexual jesus @lounyras

2 months ago

AND FUCK THE CATHOLIC CHURCH!

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I’m sorry but Aegon was the best character and best actor in Season 3. His descent from a reluctant, broken king into someone completely consumed by grief, rage and revenge has been the most interesting character arc this season. And the performance has been ridiculous. You may hate Aegon. You may hate what the show has done with him. But you cannot tell me he hasn’t been one of the most compelling characters to watch.

For me, this is easily the best scene of HOTD Season 3.

This cat is already more of an artist than anyone who uses generative AI btw

ElBuni @therealbuni

6 months ago

Un gato toco una ventana empañada y descubrió que podia dibujar

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🚨 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦: Ewan McGregor says he wants to spend the rest of his career telling “these stories” between the end of Obi-Wan Kenobi and A New Hope. “I’m ready whenever they are. I’ve got 10 years before I’m Alec Guinness’s age. So come on, Disney!”

I like that while we have a lot of disagreements about the show overall we’ve all just decided this line delivery is awesome.

Daemon tiene que subirse al caballo, subirse al dragon, pelear con espada, tirar fuego, hacer el plan tactico, dracarys, escuchar las boludeces del twink hightower, no matar nenes, farmear aura

When Caraxes dies I’m gonna kill everyone and then myself so prepare yourself

I will always defend GRRM because clearly his somewhat subtle discussion of Ned Starks honour being hypocritical went so far over the heads of fans that they literally need someone to smash an axe in the face of a child to get it.

meez. @abortedamyadams

2 months ago

actually we kinda needed this to disperse that bogus “all north men are honorable” bullshit

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