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Sh*t's goin' down in Boston, and the Devil deals the cards.

In the pocket of Big Dame.

Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende auch.
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My favorite "men reading" bit:
Screenshot of a bit from "Of Human Bondage" where little Philip first starts reading for fun: One day a good fortune befell him, for he hit upon Lane’s translation of The Thousand Nights and a Night. He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic, and then the others; and those he liked he read again and again. He could think of nothing else. He forgot the life about him. He had to be called two or three times before he would come to his dinner. Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment. Presently he began to read other things. His brain was precocious. His uncle and aunt, seeing that he occupied himself and neither worried nor made a noise, ceased to trouble themselves about him. Mr. Carey had so many books that he did not know them, and as he read little he forgot the odd lots he had bought at one time and another because they were cheap. Haphazard among the sermons and homilies, the travels, the lives of the Saints, the Fathers, the histories of the church, were old-fashioned novels; and these Philip at last discovered. He chose them by their titles, and the first he read was The Lancashire Witches, and then he read The Admirable Crichton, and then many more. Whenever he started a book with two solitary travellers riding along the brink of a desperate ravine he knew he was safe.
November 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Anyway, a lot of people have to drive or go back to work or are on medication & selling beer by the half pint would enable them to participate in the happy buzz (as bootleg Poe Dameron would say) without making them get sick or break the law or put anyone in danger.
Screenshot from the mistranslated version of "The Last Jedi" where Poe Dameron, an attractive hotheaded man in his flying suit in his cockpit, is saying "Please participate in the happy buzz" to BB-8 instead of "Happy beeps, c'mon buddy, happy beeps"
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Anyway, James Mason himself was a devoted Dad & if you have any good stories about your Dad's James Mason impressions please share them!
James Mason running and looking back at his little daughter Portland in her overalls running after him
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Well, guilty, I suppose.

(Ich bin keine echte österreichische Gräfin.)
Screenshot from the Bluesky settings giving you the option to turn off, warn, or hide an Inauthentic Account (a bot or a person pretending to be someone else)
November 6, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Now I will see Lego Riker typing all of these.
Lego Commander Riker with his trombone and his devil-may-care smirk
November 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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I read the article & it *is* meant to be tea!

Probably I just have wine on the brain.
Picard drinking tea from his fussy little glass teacup
November 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Young Jeremy Brett in the Edward Gorey set for "Dracula" (where books are drawn on the wall) swirling his cape dramatically around Very young Jeremy Brett wearing a bathrobe with his hair messed up, leaning over the back of his chair in his dressing room with his plants A very young Christopher Lee in a suit with a pocket square and long dark eyelashes A young Christopher Lee in profile with a light shining down on him as he lights a cigarette
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Mr Handsomeface is a fellow Scorpio! I will take whatever validation I can get this morning!
A very young and almost androgynously handsome Jeremy Brett playing Hamlet and holding a skull
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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It's just watching "The Mummy" (1999) over & over again.
Pop-up ad for an "Am I Gay Test" with a cutesy illustration of two young men looking at each other and the text "Take this gay test to determine if you are gay, straight, or bisexual"
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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The Council on Aging fitness class options sound awesome; my Mom & I suspect many other seniors think "I'm too cool for this; this is for old people" but I would love $5 Gentle Back Exercises without having to sign my life away to join a gym!
Calendar of exercises offered by the Council on Aging in my town, offering Walking Club, Cardio Dance, T'ai Chi, Fit for the Future, Theratube (resistance band exercises) Mobility, Balance, & Strength, two kinds of yoga, Healthy Back, & Stay Active and Independent for Life
November 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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It was starting to get dark at 4:30 so I cracked open an emotional support Cab Sauv.

Unhealthy coping mechanisms are still coping mechanisms & are better than not coping at all.
Headline from The Independent saying "Europeans 'evolved' to drink more"
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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I am looking forward to when it goes white & I look HAGGY. Or at least like a tubby version of the Sorceress from "He-Man". (Villains, heroes, young or old, all the women in those cartoons were STACKED.)
The Sorceress from the 80's cartoon "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe", a white-haired woman with an eagle headdress and a voluptuous figure, contentedly working at her desk in her study with her crystal ball & maps & old parchments & teapot
November 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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OBI-WAN (has the bad luck to be standing next to Dooku's bust): I was wondering about-
JOCASTA: THIS IS A MAN WHO THINKS WITH HIS HEART
HIS HEART IS NOT ALWAYS WISE
OBI-WAN: Interesting! But Kamin-
JOCASTA: THIS IS A MAN WHO STUMBLES & FALLS
BUT THIS IS A MAN WHO TRIES
(Your master was the same btw)
Deleted scene from "Attack of the Clones" with Jocasta Nu the Jedi Archivist stroking the bust of Count Dooku while filling in Obi-Wan Kenobi about his backstory
November 1, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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If Claudette Colbert had done a movie about funny witches in pointy hats, or Veronica Lake had done a movie about Puritans, you would have the makings of a great "Me on October 31/Me on November 1" post.
Veronica Lake wearing a pointy witch hat and smirking a bit.
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I feel very puritanical & wish that silly woman married to the rotter who hits their children had not attempted to ruin prim little bonnets.
Claudette Colbert in her Puritan costume for "Maid of Salem", with full glam makeup and finger waves in her hair, holding a quill pen with a film light behind her.
November 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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A moderately friendly local witch
A green-lit photo of a middle-aged woman with glasses
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Trying to honor my Celtic forebears.
A feeble Jack-o-Lantern
October 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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So technically I'm tall?

(I am a little shorter for the UK than I am for here but I'll take it.) www.gigacalculator.com/calculators/...
Height calculator telling me I am in the 15th percentile of adult women from the United States.
October 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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I've said this before, but the picture on the right is more recent than the picture on the left (the picture on the left was taken during WWII.)

We don't need the Sephora sale. The blood of Nazis is the best skincare treatment there is.
Christopher Lee during WWII, smiling but looking careworn and haggard despite being in his early twenties. Christopher Lee after World War II when he was trying to get his film career going, looking very callow and dapper and as if he'd never heard of a wrinkle or worry line.
October 31, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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If even the VIB Rouge crowd is going "you can't make yourself happy by buying frivolous stuff, your face is good enough the way it is, give the money to suffering hungry people instead" that's a big change from "I deserve a little treat".

Also, as I seem to be on a Victorian cartoon kick today:
A Victorian lady in a fancy dress shop with the saleswoman standing behind her looks in a mirror and sees not herself but the starving, dying seamstress who sewed the gown
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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This could be us, but fie, sir! You trifle!
A skeleton in a tailcoat is bowing to another, seated skeleton in a crinoline ballgown, asking her to dance. The caption is "The Arsenic Waltz: the new Dance of Death (dedicated to the Green Wreath and Dress-Mongers")
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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How did the painting on this album cover (Meissonier, "A l'Ombres des Bosquets Chante un Jeune Poète") not make it into any Toast pieces on Men Playing Music At You (also: Men Playing Music At You, come back! All is forgiven! Your little brother Men Planning How To Kill You is far worse!)
A painting of a young man in Renaissance garb playing the lute in a sunny clearing in the woods. A crowd of other young people in Renaissance garb and two dogs are listening to him; one young man is trying to flirt with a young woman who is ignoring him and focusing on the music, one woman is looking at the painter with her hands on her hips and a "kill me now" face; one of the dogs also has a "kill me now" face, most of the other listeners look resigned rather than happy.
October 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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I hope that in my lifetime this cartoon will become irrelevant!
"Looking Backward. They Would Close to the New-Comer the Bridge That Carried Them and Their Fathers Over" (1893) by Joseph Ferdinand Keppler (1838–1894). Five rich, prosperous Gilded Age American men try to stop a poor immigrant from crossing a plank bridge into America and behind them you see the shadows of their younger selves, who were just as poor and desperate and willing to work as this immigrant.
October 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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This thing where people look to bearded guys with blue-collar jobs as their saviours can't possibly be down to, well...er...I mean, *can* it?
Holman Hunt's "The Light of the World" showing Jesus with a lantern in his hand standing in a neglected dooryard at night knocking on a door
October 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Not generally a graffiti fan but I like this plant.

If it's some kind of secret code tag telling people to have hope, all the better.
A picture of a plant with branches and leaves scratched into a plastic train window
October 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM