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Bought this ages ago, finally managed to frame it. It's from a 1957 edition of The Motion Picture Herald. They just don't make movie ads like they used to 🥺
Old-timey newspaper ad, black and white with red, for a movie called "The Incredible Shrinking Man". Most of the ad is taken up by negative space. Across the bottom, there's a burning match, its red flame (topped with a dangerous cloud of black smoke) filling the right half and reaching to the top. The movie title and credits are shown underneath. Where your fingers would be if you were holding the match, there he is: the incredible shrinking man, the matchstick the size of a log to him, running towards the reader with a startled expression. He's wearing a sleeveless shirt and no shoes, for some reason. Across the top of the ad, there's diagonal script breaking up the red match flame declaring that "Every hour he gets smaller... smaller... smaller! Every moment the suspense mounts!" And finally, in the top left of the ad, there's a label informing the reader that this is "one of a series of ads for an unusual and very different motion picture". On the off-chance anyone sees this who has any of the other ads from this series, maybe in a stack of ancient magazines in a dusty attic, DM me. Please really do. There are few things that please me more than weird-ass old timey movie ads.
November 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Every year, we try to make it to the open air old-timey mountain village museum that puts on a Christmas Market on first advent. So that's what we did today! It was very picturesque, with just enough snow on the ground to cover the grass, and local artists selling their stuff. Also alphorns!
Nightly outdoors scene. Three alphorn players are playing their instruments in front of what seems to be a historical farmhouse: a white wall with three lit windows, a low roof skirted with dark wooden panels, which are decorated with a Christmas lights garland. There's a wooden door standing open, allowing light to shine out to illuminate the muddy, gravelly ground. Left and right to the players people are sitting on a low stack of firewood piled up against the house. To the right of the picture, the shoulder of someone watching the players from the same angle as the camera is visible. The mouths of the three alphorns are lined up neatly, the underside of the bend sitting on the ground, and the horns leading up in a straight incline to the players' mouths. The players are holding their instruments at the very top. The leftmost player has sheet music clipped to the top of his horn, which is obscuring his face.
November 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Aww what a good kitty! There should be a website where you can list hotels and restaurants with cats.

We were at a family event on Sunday and this girl spent the entire afternoon snoozing on the bench in the corner; it was delightful 🥺
Black and white cat curled up in a neat circle, her nose tucked under her tail. She's lying on upholstery that's patterned in traditional middle-European country stripes and leaves, with a partial wooden backrest visible that looks like pine wood. She's clearly a very good girl.
November 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Every night I have to leave my clothes lying on the bathroom floor bc he may be geriatric but he's still faster than me when it comes to making a nest in my pants
Rassilon the 20 year old geriatric pants thief curled up in a pair of heavy-cotton cargo pants lying crumpled on a tiled bathroom floor. He's a floofy orange cat and in this pic looks a bit tense despite his curled-up sleeping position, most likely because I was snapping pictures and he suspected I might take his pants-nest away. Avid followers may remember that the bathroom floor is heated, so he'll relax before long.
November 15, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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This fall has been a picture-book fall over here: great fall colors, crisp, sunny fall days, and lately there's been lots of creepy fog. Tried to capture some as I was taking the bin out and accidentally snapped a picture of what appears to be a ghostly tree horror stalking me from the bushes 😨
Very dark picture, pitch-black on bottom left and right, getting minutely lighter towards the top middle, where there's a dark midnight blue sky. Black shapes towards the right suggest trees overhanging a dark path that runs down the middle towards the only bright spot in the picture, probably a street light casting a sharp yellow triangle of light downwards, reflecting light illuminating the houses that run down the left of the path. The light is blurred, suggesting light fog. In the black mass that is the trees on the right, two beady bright spots shine through the branches: eyes (or what looks like eyes) staring down the path at the person taking the picture.
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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Bathroom floor heating season is upon us
Three cats snoozing on a tiled bathroom floor.
October 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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I wanted to share my cat so here's my cat. He's a good boy.
Floofy orange cat with long whiskers snoozing in my lap
October 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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He's ready for his breakfast 😺
Brown tabby cat (Louis) sitting on a black dining chair at a black dining table in front of a white wall. His ears and whiskers express friendliness; his eyes have that expectant cat expression they employ to look at people who are a steadily reliable food source.
October 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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The tree outside my window is doing an absolutely fantastic job with its fall colors.
View of a residential street in Europe from a second (American third) floor window. The tree in question is in the center of the shot. Its leaves form a neat, symmetrical, oblong shape, narrow at top and bottom and wider in the middle. The tree colors run from a dark, rich summer green at the bottom to a bright golden yellow at the top in a neat ombre. The tree is getting help with its color spectacle by the house behind it, which provides a pale blue, mostly uniform background on the left side.
October 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Drop a mobster
Picture of Zhu Yilong as Wu Xie. He's smirking.
September 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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We made it! I've already seen a cat and our hotel for the first night has a little balcony that faces the Atlantic, so this is already a pretty good vacation 🌴
Nightly view of lights along the seaside, with a low brick wall in the foreground, a big round tree that's illuminated from below, some tropical/palm tree-looking bushes next to it, and a bright moon shining out from behind a bunch of clouds to illuminate a stretch of ocean.
September 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Every time we play this game I look at my profile and realise I have to update something. This time it's that I'm still pointing ppl to my website (which has been retired) and Twitter (which, well 😬) Anyway I was there Gandalf, though not quite as early as thefourthvine
AO3 user profile. Pseuds: teyla; joined on: 2009-11-13; User ID: 488
September 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Brown tabby cat (Louis) lying on its side on a white sheet, all four feet towards the camera. Louis has got his eyes open and is giving the camera a friendly look. Brown-white cat with dark brown siamese coloring on face and tail (Rumble) and floofy creamy orange cat (Rassilon) curled up together on a lavender and white duvet cover. Rumble has his face buried in Rassilon's tail.
August 23, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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My cat is the best cat (everybody's cat is the best cat)
Light orange long-haired cat (not a tabby, more Maine Coon looking but smaller than you'd expect from a Maine Coon) with a white bib, white paws, and green eyes sitting on its butt and looking into the camera. It's Rassilon! His whiskers are pointed forward and he's wearing an expression communicating habitual fondness of the person taking the picture. This photo is unarguable evidence of Rassilon being the best cat.
August 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Took a couple close-up pictures of the stands at the local fair; this phone may never be clean again 😩
Painting of a sexy witch in a very highly slit, purple dress. Her entire left leg and some of her right is showing between the fluttering skirt. She's got a tiny waist, accentuated with a red belt, is wearing a red ribbon-like collar, and has very round, large breasts. She's smirking mischievously from under a pink witch's hat, and is jutting out her hip. Her left hand (clad in elbow-high gloves) is holding a broom. In her right, she's holding what is probably meant to be a glazed fruit stick. It's pink with swirls, improbably huge, and looks very much like an enormous dildo, not in the least because she's holding it with the lower end essentially jutting out from her crotch. Close-up of a painting above the horizontal sign across the top of a stand. The sign says "Gerda's Imbiss Gerda". The painting depicts an anthropomorphic hot dog. It's got a long nose, a manic grin, huge eyes, and something on its head that is probably meant to be a chef's hat. It's lying down, its head propped up on its proportionally very thin and tiny, yet incredibly swole arm. It's lying on the lower part of a hot dog bun, the top flung over its lower half like a carefully arranged modesty sheet in a 60s playboy photo. A very thin, tiny, muscular leg is sticking out from under it, bent at the knee with the foot nestled in a slipper. The hot dog has bright white teeth and is lasciviously biting a toothpick that it's holding with the tips of his index finger and thumb, pinky sticking out. The painting looks like what would happen if a hot dog asked to be drawn like one of their French girls of a very drunk painter with little talent and balls bluer than Doctor Manhattan's.
August 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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With working out, I rarely get past the good intentions stage, but I'm not convinced it's *entirely* my fault.
Work-out mat laid out on the floor. It's covered in cats who clearly think that mats are for lounging and working out is for fools.
June 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Unrepentant wannabe repeat offender
Rumble sitting by the terrace door and staring wistfully into the dark night
June 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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He'd circled around and left us breaking repeatedly into a fenced-off yard that he'd only crossed through to get back to our garden. Rass was also home safe; the doors were shut after all.

The criminal polished off his dinner and is now snoozing. I have to be up in 5 hours. Cats are great! 😅 (4/4)
Grey and white cat with siamese ombre coloring and a round face curled up on a red sofa. He looks a little stressed but mostly fine, with his front paws tucked under his chest.
June 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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I didn't want to know that!
Tumblr notification telling me that my tumblr blog turned 14 on May 19, 2025
May 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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I'm dying, this is the funniest fucking result 🤣🤣🤣

Take the fictional characters quiz and post the first four you know.

openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...
Dr House from House MD Sherlock Holmes from Elementary Sherlock Holmes from Sherlock Alexander Hamilton from the musical Hamilton
May 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Explained what I do to my new team today (data modeling for web content). Afterwards, one of them said that all she could think about was the Swiss artist-comedian Ursus Wehrli, who made a name for himself with his "Tidying Up Art" books (www.kunstaufraeumen.ch/de/)

Like, she's not *wrong* 😂😂😂
Two pieces of art next to each other: left is a painting by Keith Haring, a chaotic arrangement of brightly colored, abstract shapes suggesting a creature's face. Right is the same shapes on a white background, neatly stacked and sorted by color. The art pieces are labelled with the artist's name respectively: Keith Haring on the left, Ursus Wehrli on the right.
April 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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The cats have been enjoying the sunny spring weather ☀️

Not pictured: Louis, who also likes the sunny weather but doesn't like the paparazzi so doesn't tend to pose as cutely
Floofy orange cat in a patch of green grass. He's on his side and using one paw to clean his ear. He looks pleasantly relaxed. Same orange cat in the same location. He's stretching and has his mouth open in a big yawn. Same orange cat, same patch of grass. He's now curled half onto his back to show his chest, with his paws pulled up in front of it the way cats do when they're very comfortable and pleased to see you. Different cat! This one is short-haired, with a round face and a brown-and-white pattern that looks like a barn cat had kittens with a siamese. He's curled up in a flower bed overgrown with thin, glass-like leaves. He's flattened them to make a nest and is nestled against the foot of a still leaf-less vine tree that's crawling up the wooden fence behind them. He looks very comfortable where he is.
April 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Spring!!!
Picture of a flower bed that the base of a vine is growing out of, up a wooden panel. Around the vine lie scattered a mess of twigs and dried leaves. In between, green blades of grass or narrow leaves are poking out. Looking closely, you can spot a few dark purple and pink-white flower buds that are still mostly closed.
February 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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He's a fucking cartoon character, look at him
Large orange cat with long, unkempt hair sleeping on a tiled bathroom floor. The side of his face is smooshed against the tiles in a cartoonish way. He seems to be trying to turn into a feline puddle of goo.
February 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Happy first morning of the new year! Had a fantastic time with fandom friends staying over and hanging out in a low-key, cozy NYE party. There was a vidshow and everything! Friends are still here and I am making an enormous pot of chai for everyone, good times ☕
Very large pot, ca 30 cm in diameter, sitting on an electric stove. It's not quite half-filled with light brown chai with black tea leaves floating on top.
January 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM