After all that angst we needed some sunshine.
Or you know, some happy angst.
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After all that angst we needed some sunshine.
Or you know, some happy angst.
im singehandedly repairing jewish-goyische relations through my outreach with my facebook friends
I briefly forgot there were normal humans named Elijah and wondered why this person thought they were getting messages from Actual Prophet and Messiah-Herald Elijah the Tishbite.
….yeah me too.
Me three.
Imagine getting visions of someone else’s holy prophet and having to text your friends like “….what am I supposed to do with that?”
“hey he’s back did you study this”
Getting a message from a prophet telling you to do things and instead texting your friends “wtf is this?” is very, very Jewish.
in love with this tweet
i believe the biggest mistake ever made in cinematic universe was not letting eddie munson grab steve harrington by his jacket and make out with him right then and there
When you both survive to 1987, and your boyfriend takes you to see the hottest new rock act in town. Then feels jealous because his other half is crushing on the guitarist HARD.
‘That better be a packet of lifesavers in your pocket, Munson.’
‘I admit nothing.’
What I love most about ofmd is that it doesn't make sense. Distance? Irrelevant. Timeline? Doesn't matter. Accents? They exist. Historical accuracy? Hardly know her. We're here to watch gay pirates stare longingly into each other's eyes and kiss a little bit. Nothing else matters. It's beautiful.
Stede Bonnet wrote Pinocchio and says things like "autumn vibes" and is apparently 29. Oluwande wears crocs. Blackbeard wears a biker jacket from the 70s. Calico Jack and Jim are cowboys. Frenchie invented the pyramid scheme and fanfiction. 1717 was a leap year.
One of my favorite parts of Lord of the Rings is how the history of the environments always echoes what’s happening in the story.
Most sequences in Lotr are like: “the heroes enter a location that is ruined/fading/dead. Then the heroes do something that makes the location’s lost history come to life again, if only for a moment.”
Like the most obvious example of this is Moria. The heroes walk into Balin’s tomb and read the story of what happened there– the dwarves hearing drums in the deep, barricading the door, and being attacked by goblins.
Then immediately after the heroes hear drums in the deep, barricade the door, and have to survive an onslaught of goblins, just as the dwarves did.
The other really obvious example is Mount Doom: Sam tries to get Frodo to let go of the Ring, and Frodo refuses– echoing how Elrond tried to get Isildur to let go of the Ring, and Isildur refused.
But there are more subtle versions of this too-- like I’ve already talked a lot about how much I love this part of Weathertop. Weathertop was once a magnificent old watch-tower that was used by ancient kings, and long ago the ancient kings even used to battle over who owned it. Then the Northern Kingdom fell, and the watchtower fell into ruins and was forgotten.
But then Aragorn (a king in exile) and the Nazgul (who were “great kings of men”) return to Weathertop– and it’s like an echo of the battles that used to happen there. This watchtower fell into ruin and lost its royal identity, the Nazgul fell into ruin and lost their identities, and Aragorn turned from kingship and chose a life of anonymity– so it’s like!!!!!!!! The kings are as faded as weathertop itself!! It drives me wild
(also: unrelated but I love this shot where Aragorn is a dark silhouette and the Ringwraiths are bright white silhouettes, it’s just nice)
Another example is Amon Hen and the Argonath. This land used to belong to Gondor,– but it’s broken, overgrown, in ruins, and gradually fading away.
And this is the place where Boromir dies– the place that symbolizes his country’s death.
But it’s also the place where film!Aragorn finally decides to accept his responsibliity to Gondor–when he realizes that Gondor/mankind has worth, even if it’s faded and in ruins and ultimately doomed.
Or there’s Helm’s Deep in the Two Towers, where the history of Helm’s Deep as a fortress that can’t be taken is repeatedly tied to the hero’s efforts to save it. The heroes find courage by reminding themselves of the fortress’s history. (“The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep– one last time!”)
Or the way Frodo making the choice to take the Ring to Mordor, leaving his home behind, ties into the history of Rivendell– to the way elves are preparing to leave their home behind. Or the way the elves’ grief at how Lothlorien is doomed to fade away ties to the heroes’ grief at the death of Gandalf.
Idk! It’s like every scene! And sometimes the characters themselves are aware they might relive the past– and it it fills them with hope (Helm’s Deep) or dread (Moria, Mount Doom.) But sometimes it’s subtle, to the point where the characters themselves might not realize it’s happening. And i just think that’s neat
anyone who complains about the power of love in media is a little bitch. the power of love fuckign rules. you dont understand anything about life.
I desperately need transphobes and all other pearl-clutching reactionaries to please learn the difference between a middle school GSA meeting and Pride.
And also, maybe recognize that minors will not explode or go blind or die and be immediately traumatized if they see a tiddy. If they see bear in a leather harness singing YMCA with a drag queen waving a butt plug in the air on top of a pride parade, children would literally be fine. Even if they know what a butt plug is, seeing one isn't actually harmful. Assless chaps can't hurt you.
Even if youre so selfish that you have the "fuck those kids" mentality then you're STILL violating so many people's consent because youre obsessed with sex and kink in public. Fuck your voyeurism. Pride should be inclusive and no one should have to see people's sexual shit out in the open. It's literally so selfish.
Yall have got to learn the difference between sexually suggestive content and sexually explicit content.
Seeing a sex toy is not pornography. Seeing a person in leather is not a sex act.
This pearl clutching sex negative purity culture shit *isnt healthy* and it isn't progressive.
i love the “each group is in its own genre” approach to stranger things and i especially love that in the first season, until the literal second he saw the demogorgon face to face, steve was in a nicholas sparks movie
i took a philosophy class my first year at community college, and it was the funnest shit ever - prof gave us a powerpoint and told us to fight with him when we disagreed so we could have discussions, then gave us his steam username so we could play racing games together. one time, he told us this story about a prof he had in grad school - guy was tenured, and apparently a great teacher. but he had this time built into his schedule where other profs would be in labs, experimenting, doing research, where he stood in his empty classroom with a warm cup of tea and stared out the window. for these 1.5 hour schedule blocks. and the administration would come to him and be like “dude, we’re not paying you to stare out the window, why aren’t you working?” and he’d say, “i am working. i’m a philosopher, it’s my job to contemplate the world and life and that’s what I’m doing,” and they couldn’t do shit cause he was tenured. and then every handful of years he’d pop out a book that blew everybody’s tits off and they’d get a surge of new philosophy grads come to study with him and make the school a lot of money.
So yeah, i think that’s still what being a philosopher is like
booty shorts that say this on the ass
people need to stop leaving intersex people out of conversations about reproductive justice.
intersex people are routinely sterilized at birth, and the choice of whether or not we want to have children is taken from us before we even can reach an age where we would be ready to make that choice.
intersex people and their families are lied to about surgeries that have no medical benefit, because doctors are so worried about making sure that they uphold the binary system and create people who look “normal” instead of preserving our right to consent to what happens to our bodies.
intersex people are often denied access to fertility treatment, or have many barriers to accessing infertility treatment because it is believed that we will not want to have children, or that we should not want to have children.
yet, intersex issues are rarely, if ever, brought up in the context of reproductive rights, despite the fact that bodily autonomy and reproductive justice is a huge issue for the intersex community.
if you’re fighting for reproductive justice, please consider fighting for our rights to choose as well.
adding on to this to say: intersex people of all genders need access to abortion on demand, for any reason. abortion rights are intersex rights as well.
Uncritical support for this kid who hospitalized Elon Musk
Imagine being the parent to a kid who gets hospitalized from being pushed down stairs, but he said some shit so terrible to the pusher that your reaction upon finding out what he did is like “Well. he kind of had it coming” and don’t do anything about it. Like, this story is insane on multiple levels since this clearly wasn’t a wakeup call either clearly Musk’s dad didn’t do any critical examination on why he was like that or attempt to nurture some humanity in Elon he just had the immediate human reaction of “Well you kind of deserved it I can’t say shit” with no closer examination of his son’s behavior or how he was being raised