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I love the phrase "they get along like a house on fire". It's perfect. You and me have perfect chemistry and it's setting off the carbon monoxide detectors. People are calling emergency services to get us to stop being so chummy. Someone died
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gentle reminder that it’s okay if you’re still healing from things from a long time ago. it’s okay to take your time. Healing is hard and I’m proud of you.
Lilo & Stitch is a great example of a story that has no villains. It has antagonists, sure, but most of them are well-meaning. The worst person in the film is that little shit Myrtle, but she’s not in the film that much anyway.
Since this post is getting traction I want to clarify how not-villainous the antagonists are:
- The Grand Councilwoman is literally just responding to what she sees as a threat to the galaxy and is extremely reasonable.
- Gantu is much the same. He’s a bit overzealous, yes, but he thinks he’s saving the galaxy from stitch.
- Cobra Bubbles is literally just doing his job, he’s obviously not happy about it but he is doing what he feels is best for Lilo. And much like the Councilwoman, he is extremely reasonable.
- Myrtle is, again, just a little shit. She’s a schoolyard bully and is truly small potatoes.
- Jumba calls himself an “evil scientist,” but literally nothing supports that. His only onscreen crime is creating a bunch of Pokémon that have powers that will mildly inconvenience people and can be persuaded to be nice over the course of 22 - 90 minutes, to say nothing of himself seeing as he decides to change his ways at the softest bit of persuasion.
- Pleakley is literally just gay.
The "villain" of Lilo and Stitch is, rather directly, societies and social systems that write people off and do not provide support and care.
It is obvious to the audience -- and deliberately presented this way by the film -- that it is better for Lilo to stay with her sister, even if her sister is a bit of a mess and not financially stable. Mr. Bubbles is not evil. He is there because he wants what's best for Lilo, and he is not unreasonable to think that the sister without a job who leaves the stove on and whose house nearly burned down two days later is not it. The solution is not to "defeat" Mr. Bubbles; the solution would be for society to help Nani succeed, rather than watch as she fails.
Similarly, no one provided any help to Stitch when he was created and discovered. They wrote him off as an abomination, something too dangerous to be destroyed. They weren't evil, and it wasn't unreasonable to think that the experiment created to be an agent of destruction would be better off scrapped. But what would have happened if they had at least tried?
Lilo and Stitch are two characters who were caught in systems that were cold, uncaring, and unsupportive, even if the people in them were not evil and were, in fact, just doing their best.
It's a movie about people who have been written off finding one another and building a found family where they can get and give the support and care they didn't get from the people with authority and I love it so much.
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Happy Mother’s Day. 💝
sound off everyone what’s the worst texture. just in anything. for me it’s ground beef not even a question
saying “be safe” like a spell that’ll protect them
love everyone in the tags saying “it is” you’re right
Iceland is installing electrical columns in the form of walking iron giants.
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#just fell to my knees in a walmart...#ngl i've thought this a few times through the years and while its one of the worst feelings it has always led to self-reflection and growth#game changer for me was recognizing that emotional processing is your ground zero for reconciling your perspectives with your experiences#so it'll feel war-torn and messy at times when you are the type to always want to dig deep into the reasons behind everything (yay)#and then feel tiring when you overanalyze and think there is something fundamentally broken with you or more that you could have done.#stay more present!#i can think of mindfulness like reacting to a hummingbird visiting my garden of self; signalling the arrival of spring#usually we're just interested in the directionality of change so we can let the bird (emotion) pass through as a gentle reminder#to say (hey it's spring time!). we probably don't need to pay too much attention to the colour of its feathers or any extra details.#mostly the observation that it's a bird visiting and its intent to gather nectar/pollinate as a signal for what kind of change is to come#of course we still need to truly experience the scene ourselves (actually feeling) instead of just ignoring it (repressing)#so that we can cultivate agency in how we respond and accept that nature is still working as it has been every year#like how can i trust myself to not under/over-react to the bird the first time i experience it? (emotional regulation gets easier)#but!! without dwelling too much or wondering where the bird is going / why the bird keeps showing up / do i even deserve to be graced by it#(irrelevant/over-intellectualizing). instead focusing on authentic matters such as what does spring's arrival mean for me and my life?#thoughts#u#sorry for the monster tags lately if you're recently following you're probably like wtf lol#i need to format this into actual text box territory and was not expecting the thoughts to keep flowing oops
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Disco Kitty! This chic apartment cat found a fabulous new toy~ prints in my shop