Brad Dourif As Seymour Bourne | Rage Of Angels: The Story Continues (1986)

The spirit I aim to carry into the world (at least with frivolous art projects)

What got you into making vintage posts?

I was wishing there was a blog where I could look at hot people and press buttons, and then I realized I could make a blog full of hot people and buttons. The vintage thing was just because I’m already into old movies and think the people in them are hot!

really sucks that time doesn't stop while I wait to get into the right Headspace

I love these polls. But this feels like a weird and uncomfortable time to continue them. While we are in the process of deciding whether or not to give fascism unlimited power in the greatest military power currently on the planet, these posts feel uncomfortably out of touch with the existential threat facing all of humanity. I cannot enjoy voting in silly polls when I know that all of humankind faces the threat of extermination.

When we can return to a less horrifying reality, I would enjoy revisiting these polls. At the moment, to continue them feels like a cruel celebration of privilege from those who are insulated from the most extreme consequences of current proposed policies. It is hard to think of what level of inhumanity is necessary to continue laughing in the face of so much world-wide horror.

Of course you don't have to stay, and I won't begrudge you at all for going. But there's one point of yours here I feel is worth discussing, and it's your last one: laughing in the face of world-wide horror.

There is a difference between laughing at horrifying things and taking a break to laugh. In a world that is horrifying—and, to be honest, has been horrifying since this blog began, and long before then, and will be after it's done—you need to laugh to keep your endurance. I mean that every step of the way. You will not be able to keep fighting for the people who need your help, including yourself, if you don't give yourself a break and let yourself have joy and silliness in little dollops on the regular.

In my real life, when I'm not posting hot silly people on the hot silly people blog, I try to find ways to help change the world for the better. I've been trying for a while. And one of the key things I've learned in that while is that having a little fun and silliness does not dilute the work of making the world better—it gives you the fuel to keep doing it. Your human brain and body need a muchness. They need joy and sorrow and work and rest and laughter to keep going—and before you say, that's a privilege! yes, in today's broken world it often is. It should not be one. It is a right. You have the right to find spots of joy, silliness, time off from the world.

Stuff sucks right now, but taking ten minutes off to let yourself rest is not going to contribute to the end of the world. We need to rest and laugh if we want to keep going. I've always said this is a silly blog, and I maintain that yes! it is silly, it is pointless, this is nothing big at all. Nothing here has any consequence. And that can be a small good thing at the end of the day. It doesn't mean the big stuff doesn't matter if we have the small stuff too. We can have both. We need both.

I hope you find peace, wherever you are.

That little straw boater will be the death of me

- Pics grabbed from this amazing collection from @tallaxia 🫡

- no offense to the dvd rippers, I'm pretty sure they released this one in 480p...

WIP! I hope i'll finish it someday ;_; but i also like the way it judges me from the screen

more saavedro : )

drew this fem!crowley a while ago and forgot to post. im simpin' hard and irrevocably

OK, fellow Brad Dourif enjoyers, we need to find some good comparison photos to reblog this with, because look! I had to do a double-take at the resemblance.

This Progeny interview posted by @exdeputysonso seems to fit pretty well, but I'm sure there are better examples out there:

Conrad Veidt portrait

dear tumblr, please stop trying to figure out which broadly popular thing to saturate my dash with. i am on this account for one thing and one thing only: fiending over big tragic eyed boys

...ok and big tragic eyed girls. two things

Toshiro Mifune in "Drunken Angel" (1948)