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Roman jewelry: a gold necklace (top) and gold bracelets, c. 1st - 4th century

obsessed with this

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The “How could you?!” in that little face is audible

Do we count this as a passive rickroll?

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A very important addition from Rian Johnson himself

while watching taskmaster I do sometimes marvel at greg davies' hosting skills. like in a way it's his job to be mean--you know, he's the Taskmaster, it's part of the persona, it's a big part of how he mines comedy out of the tasks. but I think the comedy would be far less effective if he didn't also have 1. the self-evident awareness that it IS all a bit and 2. the self-security to stay the course of said bit when needed.

like, there have been a few times over the course of the show when you can see one of the contestants (usually another man) get their hackles up over being mocked and fire back, and greg's response is always very centered. he doesn't snap but he doesn't back down either. he keeps it light and so the overall signal is like, hey, we are truly just playing here and I can take it as well as dish it out, alright?

you get the sense from this (as well as certain other moments, eg taking james acaster aside for a firm but compassionate one-on-one chat) that his experience as a teacher is really serving him in this role. he recognizes his responsibility as a host not to take things personally, especially since the host role he's playing is by its conceit somewhat antagonistic.

come to think of it, it's a good skill for TTRPG show GMs as well. like sometimes you'll try a new series and the GM will be largely quite good, but you'll see moments of insecurity where they feel a player is Challenging Them and feel the need to engage personally to assert dominance. which is an extremely understandable impulse, but when it comes down to it (regardless of whether there's an actual problem player) it makes for a less fun show and a less engaging story.

GMs do this

大変かわいい

1970s Velvet Underground & Nico handmade knit sweater.

(via Marc Campbell)

well how can i refuse if it came straight from an orc

Carly Simon writing You’re So Vain about such a specific man, yet including the line “you probably think this song is about you” so that if he took it personally he would prove her point? Unparalleled power move

I didn’t learn until about ten years ago that she wrote it about three different men. Even more of a power move. Because every single one of them would assume the song was about only him.

one of my favorite twitter accounts that is defunct now is it was this account called like Crazy Optical Illusions or something and they would just post popular optical illusions but edit them so they werent optical illusions anymore and they would just pretend and people would be very confused / angry in the comments

you and me baby we wear nothing but flannel

so let's do it like they do on the cw channel

Ana Mendieta (1948-1985)

Untitled (Glass on Body Imprints), Photographed in 1972 and printed in 1997

https://palianshow.wordpress.com/2023/11/18/anamendieta23/

was a Cuban-American performance artist, sculptor, painter and video artist.

Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street