Love Too Queue Up Some New Derangement At 2am And Then Guess Whether I'll Get Any Sleep Before It Goes

Linoleum cut print of Starbug!

I’ve been absolutely obsessed with this show recently and decided to try something new and make a linoleum cut of the bug!

new! brad dourif AO3 collection

We now have this: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Brad_Dourif

Anyone can add their fics across different BD characters and franchises, so you can take care of all your thirstin' in one place (once it gets going).

Like it says on the tin: heed the warnings and have fun 💞

I love these polls. But this feels like a weird and uncomfortable time to continue them. While we are in the process of deciding whether or not to give fascism unlimited power in the greatest military power currently on the planet, these posts feel uncomfortably out of touch with the existential threat facing all of humanity. I cannot enjoy voting in silly polls when I know that all of humankind faces the threat of extermination.

When we can return to a less horrifying reality, I would enjoy revisiting these polls. At the moment, to continue them feels like a cruel celebration of privilege from those who are insulated from the most extreme consequences of current proposed policies. It is hard to think of what level of inhumanity is necessary to continue laughing in the face of so much world-wide horror.

Of course you don't have to stay, and I won't begrudge you at all for going. But there's one point of yours here I feel is worth discussing, and it's your last one: laughing in the face of world-wide horror.

There is a difference between laughing at horrifying things and taking a break to laugh. In a world that is horrifying—and, to be honest, has been horrifying since this blog began, and long before then, and will be after it's done—you need to laugh to keep your endurance. I mean that every step of the way. You will not be able to keep fighting for the people who need your help, including yourself, if you don't give yourself a break and let yourself have joy and silliness in little dollops on the regular.

In my real life, when I'm not posting hot silly people on the hot silly people blog, I try to find ways to help change the world for the better. I've been trying for a while. And one of the key things I've learned in that while is that having a little fun and silliness does not dilute the work of making the world better—it gives you the fuel to keep doing it. Your human brain and body need a muchness. They need joy and sorrow and work and rest and laughter to keep going—and before you say, that's a privilege! yes, in today's broken world it often is. It should not be one. It is a right. You have the right to find spots of joy, silliness, time off from the world.

Stuff sucks right now, but taking ten minutes off to let yourself rest is not going to contribute to the end of the world. We need to rest and laugh if we want to keep going. I've always said this is a silly blog, and I maintain that yes! it is silly, it is pointless, this is nothing big at all. Nothing here has any consequence. And that can be a small good thing at the end of the day. It doesn't mean the big stuff doesn't matter if we have the small stuff too. We can have both. We need both.

I hope you find peace, wherever you are.

Yes the OP had a pithy message but I've got a one-track mind rn:

I know there are people who don't think Brad Dourif is hot, but I've only talked to one and their resolve crumbled in the face of the Istanbul (1985) car scene

There are lots more Pretty Moments in there, but Istanbul (1985) car scene is burned into my brain matter like the indelible brand of Cain

no one is immune.

(btw this movie is very upsetting please watch at your own risk)

There was this guy in the 1800s - I can't remember his name, but his name is recorded somewhere - who honestly argued that if given the choice between a beautiful woman and a heron, deep down in their most earnest true heart, every man would rather fuck the heron. And he got mad when people denied this, continuing to deny this what he had decided must be an universal truth, instead of praising him for being the only one who was brave enough to finally say it out loud. Like he really thought that every single person telling him "Jesse what the hell are you talking about" was not only denying him, but denying themselves their true desires and perpetuating the apparently massive cultural lie that herons aren't fuckable.

Anyway what I'm saying here is that every once in a while whenever you find yourself in a situation where nobody else is willing to agree with something that you consider the most obvious truth, take a moment to meditate on the possibility that perhaps they do mean what they say, and perhaps they are right. Maybe nobody else but you wants to fuck the heron.

BDE

that's what it stands for. i dont make the rules

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...oh god i have so many more of these. pt 2 later maybe

Thinkin about Pretty Boys with Huge Eyes and Chaos Energy 😱

Alexander Siddig, Hugh Laurie, Arsenio Hall: the holy trinity of mischievous side-eye

brad dourif + text posts

It's funny because if you've seen the Duck Soup mirror scenes, without their individual makeup they look very similar! Chaotic Harpo is my favorite (he has a sort of angelic innocence that surfaces sometimes, especially when he plays the harp)... but I'd have to say Chico's the hottest, with that signature rakish charm.

Chico piano propaganda:

Bonus Chico & Harpo pianigans:

I'm sure Zeppo was funny too, but next to the others, his generic male romantic lead, straight man persona never grabbed me.

In honor of Harpo have you ever done a hottest Marx brothers poll?

hm. no.

for those unfamiliar with the marx brothers, harpo plays bass, groucho does rhythm guitar and piano, chico plays lead, and zeppo plays the drums

relationship goals

Cypress Edge is a bad movie and you should watch it. They tie him up too 😉

he's very anime boy