THE BIRDCAGE (1996) dir. Mike Nichols

im full of an untamable rage that constantly seethes beneath my skin but im a real laid back dude dont worry about that

Tumblr Code.

that way we know we’re from tumblr without revealing anything

I’m just going to say this to strangers until i find a tumblr person

must keep reblogering!! Im going to be so suspicious if any one tells me this now!

Remember the answer is: I stole them from the president.

always reblog tumblr identification

good god this just crossed my dash in the year of our lord 2023

I LIKE YOUR SHOELACES??? IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2024??

Let’s take it to 4 million, folks!

almost there!

TO 4 MILLION!!!!!!!!!

THE ORIGINAL SHOELACES POST?? ON MY DASH IN 2024??

It’s back!

Holy shit!! It’s back!!!

I must not explain the joke. Explaining the joke is the joke-killer. I will face my followers who did not get the joke. I will permit them to pass over me and through me

you are making this so difficult

I believe the joke already fell flat if the audience didn't "get it," even if they don't ask for clarification.

The act of asking isn't what killed the joke.

I've genuinely laughed AFTER getting clarification for a joke for which I technically knew the background information.

As the receiver of the delivery of the joke, my brain was occupied by something else since I'm a working adult (and a human being) so why would my brain immediately sync with a varyingly vague reference to a subject I wasn't actively thinking about?

Most adults hopefully understand that requesting clarification is normal & is a huge part of communication.

Knowing one's audience or "reading the room" is a skill issue as well :D

François Martin-Kavel & pink fabrics

French, 1861-1931

I’m really tired of only seeing posts for trauma survivors who have managed to stay kind. not all of us can. not all of us can do that and still cope.

shoutout to my fellow trauma survivors who expect the worst, who are unfriendly, who have learned not to be vulnerable because people have used vulnerability to hurt you, who are quick to bare teeth, who are jaded and exhausted, who learned to compartmentalize and shut to things away and not feel, who are called bitter and disappoint people who expect us to be model survivors.

we are no less valuable or human than anyone else.

POSSESSION (1981) dir. Andrzej Żuławski

Jurassic Park (1993)

Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Dorothy Brett (May 1922)

Neil!!!

Found a photo of the lesbian bus!