вот я как раз вчера думала о том, что если я захочу бить ворона, откуда брать арт.

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@темы: изобразительное искусство, what were you inking?

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@темы: i'd just as soon kiss a wookiee

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Resistance, Caring, & “Mask”ulinity: The Feminist Message of the Dudes in The Force Awakens

Spoilers to follow for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
The female characters in Star Wars: The Force Awakens are many and fantastic. I cheered as each one appeared on screen: from the first badass on Jakku, aiming her gun at the First Order ships, to the shot of Rey and (General) Leia, new and old heroines, embracing. They are there. They are present. They are great. It felt so, so good and long overdue. When the lightsaber flew from the snow past Kylo Ren’s expectant, entitled face into Rey’s waiting hands I burst into tears… and applause.
But feminism is a two-way street, and what I also love about The Force Awakens is its male characters and how the “good guys” reflect progressive gender norms. Absent were the violent, aggressive, and controlling action heroes of days past and in their place capable, respectful, vulnerable dudes – feminist, even(!). What’s more, the patriarchy’s chief drone of the film remains on the dark side – Kylo Ren’s arc and his struggles to conform to the dark ways of the Force are a spot-on metaphor for the toll of toxic, performative masculinity.
Let’s break it down. Poe, for starters: Here’s our star Resistance pilot, bold, handsome (Oscar Isaac! I mean), and skilled. In another movie, his character could have embodied Top Gun masculinity: cocky, smarmy, hothead, womanizing, self-centered, and aggressive. Instead, Poe is none of the above. Within minutes of his introduction, we watch Poe get captured, beaten, tortured, and then rescued — throughout, he remains his capable, slightly cheeky self. Instead of being insecure or defensive after suffering these indignities, he meets Finn (his rescuer) with acceptance and respect. Where another character might have been suspicious or competitive, Poe is cooperative and kind.
Later, at Resistance HQ, Poe is incredibly open with his emotions—loyal and affectionate towards his droid BB-8, then embracing Finn with (literal) open arms and promptly gifting him his jacket. Poe shows unabashed delight at the survival of his friends, both old and new. He calls them both ”buddy” unironically. He gives Finn full credit for completing his mission and seems genuinely pleased at his success — where in another film, a male hero might have been threatened or jealous.
Poe is clearly an impressive pilot, but he doesn’t draw attention to himself unnecessarily. In the attack on the Starkiller Base, he doesn’t do anything stupid or show-offy or selfish, and instead remains a thoughtful, kind leader. There’s no posturing for power, no ego-stroking, nothing to prove. Poe Dameron is a far cry from the hotshot male heroes of days past (and unfortunately, present).
Meanwhile, there’s no boy’s club in the Millennium Falcon. Han straight-up offers Rey a job, proving you can be gruff without being sexist. He doesn’t domineer Leia or feign coolness when it comes to her or their son, thereby evading the all-too-common trope of an uncaring father. Instead, invested in parenthood, he meets his son and goes to his death with love, with kindness, and forgiveness. It’s not a fight, not a showdown. It’s not noon at the O.K. Corral. His last gesture is to touch his son’s face; even in the face of violence and betrayal, Han demonstrates genuine physical affection and vulnerability towards his son. In an honorable, admirable act, he makes himself vulnerable for the sake of Ben and Leia, for his family.
And then there’s Finn. The first time we see his face, he is sweating and shaking. Instead of swaggering through battle, delighting in violence, he is visibly moved by his compatriot’s death, by the violence and aggression happening around him, by the murder of civilians and innocents. We watch him choose to abstain from killing. This character is rattled and anxious and traumatized by his experience – NOT stoic and soldierly. He experiences what most would interpret as a panic attack in response to his first battle. Even as he breaks Poe out of lockup, Finn speaks aloud to himself in an attempt to stay calm — a humanizing and relatable moment of emotional honesty.
Finn Has Feelings, and visibly so. But instead of overcompensating for that supposed “weakness,” getting defensive, or shutting off from other people like a Broody Male Hero might, he quickly and easily bonds with Poe, and later with Rey. Recognizing Rey’s abilities and strengths, he accepts her completely as an equal and peer*, and instead of feeling threatened and attempting to control her or one-up himself against her, he genuinely compliments her skill. They gush at each other, actually–it’s suuuper cute and mutually affirming. [Editor’s Note: it’s important to note that the decision to have Star Wars‘ first Black hero be arguably less assured in some regards than the movie’s other protagonists is understandably controversial. The Toast and The Outhousers have both covered this excellently.]
Finn doesn’t balk at helping out, whether it’s passing tools to Rey in the Falcon or aiding Chewie with his injuries. Finn doesn’t talk over Rey or try to make choices for her. They may disagree and banter, but it’s not barbed, and it’s at an even keel. He looks out for himself, but not at the expense of others – when Finn decides to leave for the Outer Rim, he honestly tells Rey his story and how he feels about her, and asks her to come, and then accepts her refusal gracefully. He respects her decisions, her autonomy, and Rey as a person.

Obviously Finn digs this girl — who wouldn’t, she is undeniably The Coolest — and he does ask if she has a boyfriend early on, but after she says “None of your business,” he lets it go. When he could sulk or tease or be possessive or rude toward her, he doesn’t. He adores her, but is happy just to see Rey safe and well. He’s not preoccupied with romance or feeling “jilted,” where another character might resent her for it. When she hugs him on the Starkiller Base, he doesn’t turn lecherous or try to make a move. She owes him nothing, even when he risked his life to come to her aid, and he gets that! He’s not a White Knight, Friend-Zoned, or a Nice Guy. He never tries to “take” anything he wants when it comes to Rey. He doesn’t view her as a thing to take.
If Finn has a defining attribute, it’s caring about other people, as people. Kicking ass is not the priority. Winning is not the priority. His own ego and his own insecurities are not the priority. When Rey is thrown against the tree by Kylo Ren, Finn turns his BACK to the enemy, DROPS his weapon, and runs to her to make sure she is okay. It’s endearing; it’s wonderful. It’s human; and, in creating a hero that subverts society’s typical, aggressive expectations for masculinity, it’s feminist. And he does this, in spite of years of conditioning to kill — instead, he affirms that caring is what’s most important to him. In another movie, he would have fought Ren immediately without a second thought, springing into attack mode. But instead, Finn turns his back on movie tropes, on violence, on toxic, traditional masculinity… for caring. Does he eventually pick up the lightsaber and face the enemy with it? Yes. But Finn running to the aid of his friends and strangers is a recurring motif of The Force Awakens, and it’s what we should all want from our heroes. It’s what we should all want to be, period.

The parallels between Finn and Kylo Ren are the most direct (and stark) in terms of toxic masculinity. Finn seems to reject this toxicity, whereas Kylo Ren is constantly hung up on performing and proving himself strong enough. They are opposites: especially evidenced by the way they treat Rey – how they define themselves against the chief female presence of the movie.
Like Finn, Kylo Ren is also interested in and impressed by Rey. (And he also first meets her when she attacks him.) But instead of treating Rey like a person, Kylo acts out of aggression, objectification, and self-centeredness. He immediately immobilizes her, Force-faints her, and then carries her, bridal-style, to his ship: old-fashioned, exploitative, and gross. His language towards her is incredibly patronizing: “So this is the girl I’ve heard so much about…” He proceeds to insult her friends and threaten and torture her: violating her mind, using her as a tool but also relishing the show of his own power and the taking of something personal by force. “I can take what I want” is simultaneously a threat, a statement of power/entitlement, and a declaration of how Kylo fundamentally views Rey: an object, something controllable to serve his purposes. When the tables turn and Rey reads him, he is incredibly shaken by the subversion of his own authority and control, and when she escapes, he storms around looking for her in a blind rage, pursuing her with a weapon. Even as she’s beating him in the ensuing lightsaber battle, he has the gall to mansplain her own power to her: “YOU NEED A TEACHER!”
Unlike Kylo Ren, Finn uses Rey’s name throughout the movie. Kylo never calls her anything but “the girl” or “the scavenger,” even when addressing her. While Finn helps others without question, is vulnerable, and demonstrates affection, humor, feelings, and honesty, Kylo Ren is the opposite – all about projecting his own power and lashing out. He takes himself and his image incredibly seriously, valuing himself over others and their goals, treating underlings callously and with violence. Meanwhile, Finn accepts BB-8 as something deserving of his respect and speaks to the droid like a person.
While Finn easily cooperates with those around him, Kylo competes and chokes and throws tantrums, exchanging insults with Hux and belittling him at every opportunity, locked in a power struggle even with his allies. As Finn resists hurting the innocent and then straight-up defects over this, Kylo Ren is the one who orders their murders and then tortures his captives. Where Finn removes, and then ditches, his helmet at the first opportunity, Kylo Ren clings to his completely unnecessary, fabricated mask — a face that is not his own, versus Finn’s sincerity. It’s a powerful metaphor, putting on another face to become something else, to assume power. To disguise one’s true nature. The dark side, like gender, is performative — and the mask, in this case, is literal.
But where Darth Vader was authoritarian and fear-inspiring, Kylo is amateurish, angsty, and conflicted. The Force Awakens shows us the downsides of the Dark Side. Instead of embodying the patriarchy’s lie of what masculinity “should” be (aggressive, powerful, solitary), Kylo Ren demonstrates the reality (assholery). The dark side of the force is a spot-on metaphor for toxic masculinity. This is why the Emo Kylo Ren Twitter account (“ren’s rights activist,” sound familiar?) works so well – it parodies not only Kylo but draws parallels between his immature behavior and conventional ideals of masculinity.
And Kylo, fittingly, is miserable. Constantly comparing himself to an outdated, impossible standard of manliness, Kylo is a clear example of how the patriarchy’s emphasis on traditional gender norms hurts both men and women. Kylo hates himself for not being Dark and Man enough: for feeling love for his parents, for having feelings, for being human. His only satisfaction being in the power he can wield over others. According to dark side/toxic masculinity code, the only feeling it’s okay for him to have is anger — and his own proves to be petulant, destructive, and ultimately ineffective. He tears other people apart in order to preserve his sense of manhood – er, darkness.
Ultimately, the dark side, like toxic masculinity, well… to quote Admiral Ackbar, it’s a trap. It hurts people: yourself first and foremost. The authoritarian “First Order” then is aptly named – patriarchy may have come first, but it’s passé. How fitting is it that the Resistance’s General is none other than Huttslayer and feminist icon Leia Organa? And that Kylo Ren’s chief rival will be the franchise’s newest and brightest female protagonist, Rey, her power all light and feminism? I can’t wait for Rey, Finn,, & co. to overthrow the patriarchy dark side and bring balance to the Force. And I’m excited for this and coming generations to have Finn and Poe as examples of what heroes can be.
*Possible exception: the much-debated hand-holding. Is Finn being possessive? Patronizing? Overly forward? Doubtful. The way I see it, he just lost his (Stormtrooper) comrade and his new friend Poe in rapid succession, and he is determined not to lose anyone else—to the point of physically holding onto them.

Kate likes feminism and Star Wars, obviously. She also likes journalism and roller derby. Tweet her your Force Awakens theories at @katebennion.

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@темы: феминизм, i'd just as soon kiss a wookiee

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vrabia
you guys wanna hear a sad story called ‘finn rescuing poe was a much bigger deal to poe emotionally than the movie let on’?

listen. i know that poe being the resistance golden boy is a really popular headcanon, but in ‘before the awakening’ we learn two things about him:

he hasn’t been with the resistance that long before the events in tfa. his mission to jakku is only the second mission he flies for leia
poe is a spy. a good one. sure, he’s also an amazing fighter pilot, but 90% of what he does in the book consists of retrieving items/intel from the first order while mostly using his piloting skills to get away before being caught.
so here’s the thing now. the political landscape around the time poe joins the resistance looks like this: the republic and the first order are engaged in a ‘don’t bomb us and we won’t bomb you’ sort of deal, with a neutral zone between their respective territories. for some incomprehensible reason the republic doesn’t think the first order is a big deal. the resistance, which the republic sooort of supports on the down low, thinks the first order is an enormously big deal and wants to stop them. the problem? they can’t do it by engaging the first order directly because it would violate the agreement with the new republic and potentially start a war.

enter poe dameron, disillusioned republic officer, who wants to do something about this. so when leia recruits him for the rebellion he’s 100% on board. but before leia sends him on his first mission she tells poe, with exactly zero sugar coating, that he can back down, but if he accepts and later gets caught he’s on his own. the republic, and by extension the resistance, must deny all involvement in whatever he was doing or risk open war with the first order.

on jakku, like on his first mission for the resistance, poe goes undercover, out of uniform and with a stripped x-wing

and he gets caught and tortured and has his secrets, including his ties with the rebellion, found out

all his snarking and posturing happens to the background of poe being acutely aware that no one is coming for him

if hux decided to livestream his torture directly to leia, she’d have to stand there and say she has no idea who poe is

the resistance isn’t going to rescue him, ransom him, or admit to having any connections with him.

poe is probably very aware that he’s going to die soon, alone and without having done much for the cause he believes in.

and then finn comes and saves him, knight-in-shining-armor style

so yeah. think about that sometime.

thescarletqueen

#HONESTLY I WAS READING THAT BIT IN POE’S CHAPTER #AND IT PUTS HIS HOPEFUL LITTLE ‘ARE YOU WITH THE REBELLION?’ LINE IN TFA WHEN FINN SAYS HE’S THERE TO RESCUE HIM IN A WHOLE NEW PERSPECTIVE #A VERY SAD PERSPECTIVE #THE PERSPECTIVE OF POE HOPING AGAINST HOPE THAT THE RESISTANCE DID IN FACT COME FOR HIM #TO CLARIFY: POE UNDERSTANDS THE RISKS HE’S TAKING AND ACCEPTS THEM; LEIA DOESN’T FORCE HIM TO GO ON THESE MISSIONS #HE HAS A CHOICE NOT TO BUT DECIDES TO DO IT #I JUST FEEL A LOT ABOUT THIS #I FEEL A LOT ABOUT POE WANDERING THE JAKKU DESERT; ONCE AGAIN ALONE AND FEELING GUILTY AS FUCK #THAT HE ACCIDENTALLY KILLED THE ONE PERSON WHO HELPED HIM AND WHO ALSO TURNED OUT TO BE A WONDERFUL PERSON #I FEEL A LOT ABOUT POE TELLING LEIA WHAT FINN DID AND LEIA FEELING GUILTY ABOUT POE AND GRATEFUL TO THIS YOUNG MAN SHE HAS NEVER MET #I FEEL MOST OF ALL ABOUT THE LOOK ON POE’S FACE WHEN HE SEES FINN ALIVE AND WHOLE ON D'QAR #AND THEN RUNS ACROSS THE AIRFIELD INTO FINN’S ARMS & LOOKS AT FINN LIKE HE HANGS THE STARS EVERY NIGHT AND MAKES THE SUN RISE IN THE MORNING #STAR WARS (tags via: vrabia)

hedgiwithapen

I’m reading the novelization, and there’s a whole chunk about Poe reminding himself that no ‘ordinary person’ can resist Ren’s torture/ interrogation and he shouldn’t feel bad about failing, that he tried. And it goes on to talk about how he made himself expendable, “less than that.” and he knows that it’s the end, soon enough he’ll be dead and he thinks outright that he doesn’t care what happens to himself, and when Finn takes him away? he’s 100% sure it’s to his execution and he’s just. ok with that. it means everything will be over. By the time Finn explains he’s rescuing him, Poe has “ long since surrendered anything resembling hope.”

my heart.

@темы: 10 points to gryffindor, i'd just as soon kiss a wookiee, ебанутые на голову гриффиндорцы for the win

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сор из избы выносят, чтобы дома было чисто

@темы: социальное, шоб позырить, псих

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@темы: гиф, current celebrity crush, оскар вазик

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@темы: music, шоб позырить

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как можно было первый не угадать??????



Оскар, я не могу.
Как вопросы, так он тупит.
Как подкатить к журналистке, так у нее сразу Отличные Эвоки.

Харрисон Форд, тем временем, лучший человек на Земле.
Один из.

@темы: шоб позырить, i'd just as soon kiss a wookiee, оскар вазик

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ну что за

@темы: current celebrity crush, оскар вазик

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Fairy tale origins thousands of years old, researchers say

Fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast can be traced back thousands of years, according to researchers at universities in Durham and Lisbon.
Using techniques normally employed by biologists, academics studied links between stories from around the world and found some had prehistoric roots.
They found some tales were older than the earliest literary records, with one dating back to the Bronze Age.
The stories had been thought to date back to the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Durham University anthropologist Dr Jamie Tehrani, said Jack and the Beanstalk was rooted in a group of stories classified as The Boy Who Stole Ogre's Treasure, and could be traced back to when Eastern and Western Indo-European languages split more than 5,000 years ago.
Analysis showed Beauty And The Beast and Rumpelstiltskin to be about 4,000 years old.
And a folk tale called The Smith And The Devil, about a blacksmith selling his soul in a pact with the Devil in order to gain supernatural abilities, was estimated to go back 6,000 years to the Bronze Age.
Once upon a time...

Blacksmith

A blacksmith strikes a deal with a malevolent supernatural being, such as the Devil, Death or a genie.
The blacksmith exchanges his soul for the power to weld any materials together.
He then uses this power to stick the villain to an immovable object, such as a tree, to renege on his side of the bargain.
This basic plot is stable throughout the Indo-European speaking world, from India to Scandinavia, according to the research.
The study said this tale could be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European society when metallurgy likely existed and there was archaeological and genetic evidence of massive territorial expansions by nomadic tribes from the Pontic steppe (the northern shores of the Black Sea) between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago.
However, John Lindow, a folklorist at the University of California, Berkeley, casts doubt on the theory in Science News, saying the Proto-Indo-European vocabulary for working with metal was limited and the word "smith" might not have existed.
If true, that would mean the version of "The Smith and the Devil" used in the study may not be that old, he said.
'Pretty remarkable'
Dr Tehrani, who worked with folklorist Sara Graca Da Silva, from the New University of Lisbon, said: "We find it pretty remarkable these stories have survived without being written.
"They have been told since before even English, French and Italian existed. They were probably told in an extinct Indo-European language."
In the 19th Century, authors the Brothers Grimm believed many of the fairy tales they popularised, including Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel and Snow White, were rooted in a shared cultural history dating back to the birth of the Indo-European language family.
Later thinkers challenged that view, saying some stories were much younger and had been passed into oral tradition, having first been written down by writers from the 16th and 17th Centuries.
Dr Jamie Tehrani said: "We can come firmly down on the side of Wilhelm Grimm.
"Some of these stories go back much further than the earliest literary record and indeed further back than Classical mythology - some versions of these stories appear in Latin and Greek texts - but our findings suggest they are much older than that."
Portrait of the Brothers GrimmImage copyrightPA
Image caption
The Brothers Grimm correctly believed the stories they popularised went back further than earliest literary records, academics said
'Biology toolkit'
The study, which was published in the Royal Society Open Science journal, employed phylogenetic methods to investigate the relationships between population histories and cultural phenomena, such as languages, marriage practices, political institutions, material culture and music.
It also used a "tree" of Indo-European languages to trace the descent of shared tales to see how far they could be demonstrated to go back in time.
Dr Tehrani explained: "We used a toolkit that we borrowed from evolutionary biology called phylogenetic comparative methods. This enables you to reconstruct the past in the absence of physical evidence.
"We've excavated information about our story-telling history, using information that's been preserved through the mechanism of inheritance, so in that sense they embody their own history.
"By comparing the folk tales that we find in different cultures and knowing something about the historical relationships among those cultures, we can make inferences about the stories that would have been told by their common ancestors," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

www.bbc.com/news/uk-35358487?utm_source=social_...

@темы: искусствоведение, литература

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сходить в музей космонавтики \\ упороться

Да, это невероятно, но я никогда в нём не была.

А теперь он даже модный.

Только вот на удивление низкая цена билета компенсируется суммой, оставляемой в сувенирном магазине.

На самом деле, не музей, а крипипаста. Из-за обилия страшной научной фантастики всё, что связано со скафандрами, радостно ушло в область uncanny valley. Вот этот гражданин, изображавший, если я не ошибаюсь, последствия радиационного ожога, и сделанный из овса (теперь он будет в моих кошмарах именоваться как Oatmeal Man), напугал больше всего.

На втором месте идёт вот эта space erotica.

Один костюм вылезает из другого.

И внутренний - на самом деле Мистик почему-то.

...

cre-e-e-epe-e-e-e

Это напомнило мне, что я не смотрела The Envasion of Bodysnatchers...

Аппараты! Это ... Какая-то Луна-16.

Также там гигантские куски метеоритов, их можно трогать, и потом руки пахнут железом.

Надо понимать, что это было внутри умирающей звезды. Железо убивает звезды. Когда оно начинает там образовываться, у звезды происходит коллапс. Обычной звезды типа нашего Солнца. Люблю космос.

Космический корсет. Представьте себе По Дэмерона в этом.

Одиночество в модуле

Ну и сувениры.

Футболка

....Чтобы найти ЕЩЕ место, куда надо приткнуть ненужные кружки.

Фарфоровый)) Moon-walker

@темы: гиф, дорогой дневник, поехали!

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@темы: current celebrity crush, оскар вазик

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@темы: гиф, current celebrity crush, оскар вазик

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what else if family for

Вот буквально первое, что сказала мама, когда я встретила ее в аэропорту после 1,5-месячного отъезда: "Тск, этот цвет все-таки делает тебя очень бледной".
Эх...
Ну ладно, зато у меня теперь крутые шмотки с ЗВ, вы обзавидуетесь.

@темы: la vie en rose

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Steven Moffat is officially stepping down after Series 10 premieres in 2017, and will be replaced by Doctor Who writer and Broadchurch showrunner Chris Chibnall.

 

I have to admit, I’m more conflicted than I expected to be. I’ve definitely not been the biggest fan of Moffat’s tenure as Showrunner, and have taken issue with some of his comments along the way. But I had been pretty optimistic about where the show was headed after Series 8, and I absolutely loved Series 9.

Love him or hate him, you can’t help but admit it’s the end of an era.

So now we get Chris Chibnall. I’ve liked most of the work he’s done for Doctor Who, and I really loved Broadchurch, so I’m curious to see what he’s planning to do with the show!For now, we’ve got one long year without any new Doctor Who on TV, and one final series with Moffat at the helm. How do all feel about Moffat leaving, and are you excited to see Chibnall take over as showrunner?

@темы: гиф, timelords are from gallifrey daleks are from scaro

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Михаил Сорокин пишет: "Такой портрет Осипа Мандельштама вы видите в первый раз. Вчера вечером его по моей просьбе колоризовала замечательная Klimbim. Исходная ч-б фотография сделана в тюрьме ОГПУ в 1934 году.

Черты лица искажены

Какой-то старческой улыбкой:

Кто скажет, что гитане гибкой

Все муки ада суждены?

@темы: poetry, quotes, я другой такой страны не знаю

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@темы: шоб позырить, i'd just as soon kiss a wookiee, нет я правда плачу ..., трейлер Новой Надежды под современную музыку. это ты ревешь? или я реву?

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Психотерапевт: Как вы думаете, почему вы настолько упорно избегаете реальных отношений с реальными людьми?
Я: ...
Я:

@темы: current celebrity crush, оскар вазик, в тему к этому посту популярная механика выложила статью о том, что регулярный секс защищает от старческого маразма, что это всё значит? НАДО ДЕЛАТЬ БОЛЬШЕ ПЕРЕВОДОВ, Ника.

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Наш прекрасный молодой красавец. Тут тебе и мэд скиллз, и забивает, и передачи отдает удобные, и со штрафных забивает, а то после ухода Пирло тухло было в этом отношении (а это мои любимые голы, да).



Любить

@темы: шоб позырить, да, я футбольный фанат, если кто не знал, juventus

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меня всегда очень смущал этот жест

"идет коза рогатая" что за черт Оби-Ван?..

@темы: гиф, i'd just as soon kiss a wookiee