one time a casual hockey fan tried to convey this experience to me from the other side as: “it’s like… okay, imagine that you like donuts, and you meet a guy who also likes donuts, and you’re like, hey, cool, we both like donuts! but this guy… he built his house out of donuts”
so now when I trip into a new fandom I’m like “oh shit I’m building this house out of donuts”
This is cool except I did think he was daydreaming about rice all day and I thought “Oh, yeah, relatable”
I was thinking recently about how “alt” subcultures are so aestheticized now but they used to be much more about your societal views than the clothes you wore or even the bands you listened to, and my brain connected some dots. Idk if this is anything
Yes, this is it! This is exactly it!!
“THANK GOD I’M GAY,” Timothy Hough (foreground) and other activists, AIDS vigil, San Francisco, California, 1983. Photo by Crawford Barton.
How old is the oldest film you’ve watched AND enjoyed?
1990s or later
1980s
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1960s
1950s
1940s
1930s
1920s
1910s
1900s or earlier
Feel free to leave the film title and year in the tags! :)
This post has gotten a bit of traction, so if anyone’s interested I’ve been making a letterboxd list of movies from the tags!
never in all of my years would i have expected to characterize a company’s rebrand as “actively hostile” and “potentially endangering lives” yet here we are
for context, that X sign is dangerously bright, directly faces an entire apartment complex, and to top it all off it fucking strobes