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bignaz8:

Sir Christopher Lee met Rasputin’s assassins, saw the last guillotine execution, hunted Nazis, recorded a heavy metal album, spoke 9 languages, was Ian Fleming’s cousin (James Bond) & was the only actor in “The Lord of the Rings” to have met J.R.R. Tolkien

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Are we sure he did die? Maybe the Grim Reaper was retiring and asked Sir Christopher to be his replacement.

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apesoformythoughts:

Here ends my previous existence. Take it: it led me to you.

— G.K. Chesterton, writing to his fiancée Frances

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Amazon 5-Star Theater w/ Adam Driver | Curling Iron

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princesssarisa:

Disney’s unconventional “Cinderella” (1950) (long)

Having watched most of the many adaptations of Cinderella, I’ve come to realize what a unique adaptation Disney’s 1950 animated classic really is. Unlike Snow White, which only had a few stage and screen adaptations before Disney produced its groundbreaking film, Cinderella had already been adapted many times before Disney’s turn came, and Disney’s version makes a surprising number of departures from the standard Cinderella “formula.” It was definitely a fresh, creative Cinderella when it made its debut, and it arguably still is. Yet because it’s become so familiar in pop culture, and today so often serves as our childhood introduction to the tale, it’s easy to overlook its inventive storytelling choices. The 2015 live action remake uses several classic Cinderella adaptation tropes that the original 1950 film actually subverts!

Here’s a list of the often-overlooked ways in which Disney’s Cinderella stands out from earlier adaptations, and from many later ones too.

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Anonymous asked:

Do you have a favorite saint? :)

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west-end-lady:

irishironclad:

Hard to choose one. I like Saint Brendan the Navigator. He gave communion to a mermaid.

He did what

He gave communion to a mermaid.

This is canon.

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englishable:

Title: Stars and Little Flowers
Notes: I decided to do the silly Obamitsu University AU thing; wish me luck, I guess
Summary:

Obanai Iguro knows himself reasonably well: his abilities, his shortcomings, his likes and dislikes.

He is adept as a professor of biology, for instance, and has produced an acceptable body of herpetological research during his as-yet untenured time at Mount Yoko University. He is also an impatient, harsh-tongued, cold-hearted, ugly-souled and generally ugly man, which is simply the truth, and why he has no right to act on what he feels for his coworker and friend Mitsuri Kanroji, even if those feelings have progressed far beyond “liking” by now.

(His sentiments towards the biology department’s new chairperson, on the other hand, have progressed beyond dislike into the realm of almost monomaniacal hatred. Maybe this will be the term when he finally poisons the Demon King’s tea.)

And Obanai may not have much in common with Kyojuro Rengoku, the recreation therapist and all-around great guy temporarily sharing his office, but when anonymous love letters start arriving for Rengoku through the campus mail — “anonymous,” rather; only one person embellishes her hiragana with cat drawings — Obanai knows what he needs to do.

Mitsuri’s happiness is what matters, after all.

…

“I for your joy would gladly lay mine down
E’en though you were to never know it — never —
If but perchance at times I might yet hear, far-off and lonely,
Some echoed music of the joy that I had bought you.”

- Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

…

The note has been composed on bright red origami paper, folded into the shape of a heart that must be pulled open straight down its center in order to read what has been written inside; the writing itself appears to be pink glitter gel pen and when Obanai lifts it in both cupped palms to bend a bit lower over it — after inching down his black surgical mask in a way that uncovers his nose — he detects a whiff of what may be cherry-vanilla perfume. The note’s message, meanwhile, reads as follows:

Dear Special Somebody (Again)!

You make my heart and stuff go all WAAAH! BA-DUMP! BA-DUMP! And then my ears go PING! CRICK CRACK POP!

Thank you so so so much for being yourself! I hope you find lots of new things worth smiling about today!

From, 

Your Secret Admirer!

Obanai sets the note down on the table and pretends to be struck abruptly by a migraine so that he might more discreetly put his face into his hands. 

Uzui reaches for the note next, holding it up against the slanted autumn sunshine from the window as if expecting to discover a secondary message in invisible ink. Crepe-paper garlands colored purple, black, and white are still strung along the dining hall’s walls, welcoming everyone back for their fall term following the month-long summer recess. Pamphlets printed in these same three colors have been placed under each table’s napkin dispenser to advertise workshops offered by the Student Counseling and Mental Health Services Office — please scan the code below to learn more, or to make a donation that supports our programs — and several urgently-worded flyers are thumbtacked to a bulletin board near the hall’s front door; last week the university’s mascot costume went missing, and while the polyester body of Kamaboko the Mount Yoko Wild Boar has been ransomed back in exchange for some enoki mushroom tempura the head has yet to be recovered. 

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