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I used to translate MM romances for a living and one of my most hated tropes was the "sex eyes" thing... you know, "his gaze turned dark and wet, the pupils black and dilated with lust" etc.

I used to think those sex eyes only existed in the sexual fantasies of mostly female writers, until about six months ago when Hudson Williams was magically summoned by the sheer combined willpower of a thousand romance authors to star as Shane Hollander with the wettest, darkest, most lust-filled eyes that have ever graced a screen.

Also, the "crooked smile" trope? What a joke, right? Well it WAS a joke until that same coven of romance authors built Connor Storrie with parts from every single MM fantasy hunk like a freaking yaoi Frankenstein's creature.

People call them lab-grown Hollanov. Fuck science, there is some homo dark magic going on here.

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birdplushie

"it's not that deep" START DIGGING!!

magn-animously

DIG

14-opossums-in-a-trenchcoat

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buriedunderyourmum

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hannisconfused

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kitsunesakii

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yourlocalfandomfriendo

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thatghostthateatspeople

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OOPS TOO DEEP

CLIMB

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I will never shy away from the word goon. goon is the only way to describe a particular type of henchman, lackey, or thug. look at these guys. they're goons.

disney-universes

From Vulture’s Oral History of Lilo and Stitch, here’s stories of what Michael Eisner was like in sweatbox screenings of 90s DIsney classics.

Completely fucking clueless. The incarnation of Defunctland’s jokes about him. Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois just hid Lilo and Stitch from him until it was done, absolute legends.

johannestevans

Children near a magical wood catching bugs and their family are like. Please do not catch pixies and small fae and bring them into our home. They are sentient and they are intelligent

And the kids are like "but they get into our bug traps" and "we didn't catch him he followed us home"

And their parents are like. Please i do not believe that 6 fucking pixies smuggled themselves into our garage on the underside of your bicycle saddle and then set up shop in the old dolls house. These are living beings they're not toys it's not kind to treat them like this

And the kids are like we are NOT treating them like anything you said we're not allowed to trap them and they always get into our traps so we always run away when they see us and then they follow us and get inside our backpacks and stuff

And the parents are like

Stop lying!!!

And then they set up wildlife cams and not only can pixies apparently do all of that and are very desperate to hang out with these human kids (who have fun life-sized toys and are covered in wonderful things like glitter and are a free source of fresh bugs and pop tart crumbs)

But they can also like. Fully just pick locks and shit.

Setting up little cameras and having to come to terms with the fact that not only are these small fae initiating every interaction with the kids but have also taken their cat's side in the war against pigeons and keep riding it into battle

doccyuk

The fae quickly realise the camera is a camera, and just as quickly invent silent movies

Each intertitle card has been crafted from words cut out of other writing, so a piece of paper looking like a ransom demand states "BuT Hoo wil SAVE the Dams3l?" is pulled away to reveal a doll tied to train tracks

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tariqah

Ma-ia hi

Ma-ia ho

Ma-ia ha

Ma-ia ha ha

tariqah

alo

Salut

yuuri-akatsuki

sunt eu

un… haiduc???

wolfsteax

dont you sick fucks make me relive this

zanimez

SI TE ROG…. IUBIREA MEA PRIMESTE FERICIEEEEEAAAA

saipng

ALO?

Alo?

sunt eu

PICASSO

acidwaste

ti-am dat beep

si sunt voinic

iuuubire-deactivated20210607

Dar sa stii nu-ti cer nimic😂😂😂

VREI SA PLECI DAR

velvetrotangel

Nu mă, nu mă ieei

rrosetum

NU MĂ, NU MĂ IEI

contrainous

nu mă, nu mă, nu mă iei

acid-wash-and-lemonade

I have no idea what happened here

dangerbooze

Lucky bastard. It’s stuck in my head now

spelviin

CHIPUL TAU SI DRAGOSTEA DIN TEI

fifty-shades-of-umbridge

Mya mintesc day oki tay-yay

apartment-witch

am i having a stroke

walks-the-ages

What is this? What is this from? Why do thousands of people know what this is. Apparently it’s Romanian. What is it??

accessibleposts

They’re the lyrics to the song Dragostea Din Tei by Moldovan pop group O-zone. It was a very popular song in the early 2000s

cannabisexual

We’ve finally reached the point where the old memes are too old for today’s generation… Fs in the chat.

rescue-ram

For any wretched zoomers…one of the original viral videos aka the finest of vintage memes

tygermama

We must not despair as long as we are here, we can teach the children about the ancient texts

leebrontide

Time warp for my fellow elder millennials

owl-librarian

#tumblr life

liebelesbe

june is over... goodbye pride month, hello disability pride month!!

liebelesbe

let's all be disabled this month... together 🤝

liebelesbe

if you're not disabled yet: no need to worry! i can help. come closer.

kushblazer666

kayliflower

with the resurgence in popularity of calvin & hobbes, I’m so surprised no one has included this

sinni-ok-sessi

I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things

my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say

cat-skull

imo the term "walkable" in "walkable cities" should be understood to mean "wheelchair accessible" as well, not just literally "possible to walk in". the act of walking in a city doesn't automatically make it walkable

ruffboi-mags

also "walkable to people who can't walk far all at once" by having things like shaded benches, water fountains, public restrooms, etc readily available.

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grenadineghost

you want to be mommy’s adjective noun, don’t you, pet name? you want to verb and verb for mommy like a good gender

alhyastarain

you want to be mommy's weird potato, don't you, Brian? you want to skip and somersault like a good jester

spitzonthefritz

this is going around twitter rn but im also super curious: please tell me your top four comfort movies that you’re always down to watch bc my friend thinks mine are ridiculous and now we’ve realised everyone’s version of “comfort” is hilariously different

#Clue #Noises Off #my neighbour totoro (only the original dub tho)#the fifth element #I feel like I'm forgetting one... but those for sure

mangled-by-disuse

in happier pride news i actually found this deeply heartwarming

that's solidarity baybeeee

lgbtlaughs

Further context: Durham city council (Reform UK) cut funding and support for Pride. The Durham Miner's Association and other trade unions raised enough money for Durham Pride 2026 to go ahead - a direct call back to when Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) raised money for mining communities when Margaret Thatcher seized union funding during the miner strikes of 1984-85.

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Stephen Guy, the chair of the Durham Miners’ Association, said that when it became apparent Durham Pride was under threat, he took it upon himself to “encourage the trade union movement to step up and do the right thing, and stand shoulder to shoulder with the LGBT+ community […] They not only raised funds for us, but came to our communities, uplifted our spirits when they were down, and showed their solidarity.”

#I'M NOT CRYING YOU ARE CRYING NOOOO

spaceshipsandpurpledrank

yuhi-san

Thats the context for this meme???

titenoute

I feel like I've been robbed the whole time. This is magical.

kstarlitchaotics

I'm dying

antimonarchy

*has a thought and has to scroll back to where I was on the tumblr dashboard to remember it*

#oh so real #tumblr life

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idlesuperstar

- Very good.

txf-tarras

This is the type of film that the phrase “glorious technicolor” was invented for - look at the richness of the colours!

petermorwood

To say nothing of a phrase that gets used in this house a bit too often…

quousque

ok so this is The Court Jester with Danny Kaye and it is the best fucking movie i swear. It’s a comedy musical robin hood parody thing about an incompetent moron and his extremely competent ass-kicking girlfriend taking down a tyrannical king and restoring the throne to the rightful heir

-the rightful heir is a baby and they can tell it’s the right baby because of a giant birthmark on his asscheek

-the main character’s only talent is singing and the rest of the pseudo robin-hood group just kinda tolerate him because he repeatedly fucks up

-he gets hypnotized into believing he is this amazing swashbuckling sword fighting hero along the lines of Wesley from the Princess Bride and ends up fighting the villain while snapping in and out of hypnosis

-the vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison, the chalice with the palace has the brew that is true “what”

-he stumbles his way through the entire plot and never knows what the hell is going on

-Danny Kaye is the funniest motherfucker you’ve never heard of

-seriously go watch it you wan’t regret it

oldshrewsburyian

#yea verily yea ( @lessthansix)

whatevercomestomymind

And a fun tidbit from the filming was that Danny Kaye had never fenced before this film, so he was trained by Basil Rathbone’s stunt double who was also the fight coordinator. Kaye got so proficient so quickly, that Rathbone himself had to do most of the duel scenes between them as the fight coordinator eventually couldnt keep up with him on the more technical parts of the fight. If you watch closely, you can see that Rathbone stays on camera doing the fencing for a much larger percentage of time than he normally did by that point in his career, and Kaye does all but a couple of shots of his own fencing, because HIS double couldnt keep up and make it believable.

copperbadge

I need everyone in this thread to know that it is my belief that the post escaped containment in a drastic way because my Texan stepfather, a lovely man who is the least On Tumblr of anyone any of us has ever met, put this movie on for us to watch yesterday because “The Internet says it’s great and underrated, and apparently there’s a fight scene we need to watch.”

He chortled his way through it and pronounced you all correct and then lost his shit when I showed him my favorite backstage photograph:

#the court jester

mcbitchtits

this is fucking incredible

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

mcbitchtits

i hope the original author sees this thread go by (or y'all are leaving comments on ao3), there is a A LOT of love in the tags and they absolutely deserve it

thomasmomwell

hey, I'm isaac chotiner I wrote this! I thought a small handful of people might enjoy it and instead it is by some margin the most popular thing I've ever posted on ao3. two key takeaways: 1) the people crave affectionate fidelity to the new yorker style guide, and 2) yuletide rules

thomasmomwell

Matt Levine linked to my fic in Money Stuff and described it as "Isaac Chotiner/Shirley Jackson fan fiction," I feel like I'm on drugs and/or hallucinating

#to read

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