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Saw this tweet foever ago n now i keep thinkin bout how making any character ever Canadian is funny as fuck. Theyre all canadian now
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TWO WEEKS TIL DRACULA DAILY
I trust the people on this
TWO WEEKS TIL DRACULA DAILY
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Worship *white power.
Trump's infidelity, rape, and sexual abuse are a non-issue for conservative Christians.
As long as Trump advances white power, misogyny, and racism, he can do no wrong.
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I think we all as a society are tired of therapy language being used out of its primary context and used for normal conversation because it makes everything literally insufferable and sterile and emotionally stifled in the most insincere way possible
Like it's making everything worse fr we were never meant to ask our friends if they have space to talk about our weekend plans wtf it's like approaching everyone in your life like a traumatized horse that's about to buck you off and it's so creepy and weeeeeird
Good intentioned - no doubt - but totally not working and we all need to admit that shit
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is it too late to make you tell me everything about 27 dresses re: your dissertation post you know that i am obsessed with the movie
27 Dresses uses a number of screwball comedy conventions and it’s absolutely to the film’s benefit - however, I feel it could have benefited from following one convention even more closely.
Screwball comedy introduced two key ideas that forever changed the romantic comedy (they actually introduced a bajillion, but for the sake of 27 Dresses I’ll highlight two): 1) the idea of the companionate marriage, and 2) the idea of the “green world.”
You know that whole idea of “you should marry your best-friend?” Yeah, that’s straight out of the screwball comedy playbook. As divorce became more prevalent in the 1930s, and marriage becomes reimagined as something people do out of fondness rather than economic obligation, this paradigm is included in the screwball comedy. Some critics say that despite the strong heroine these films are ultra-conservative b/c they reinforce marriage, but this ignores that the 1934 production code actually forbid films from disparaging the institution of marriage, so what could they do? -- they could denigrate a type of coupling while holding up a more idea alternative. There’s of course more to how this developed, but that’s the bare bones. So, says the screwball, in a time you can choose to marry anyone, why not get married to the person who brings fun, companionship, and a sense of play into your life? Because the person you can do that with is most likely the person who understands your emotional needs and will support those as well.
The screwball also made use of the idea of the “green world.” This is something that comes out of Shakespearean comedy, actually, but the screwball puts it to use in film. The green world is a space separate from the normal order and structures of society. In Shakespeare, this place is usually the forest (so many people escaping to the forest!). Screwball comedy establishes a green world which “derives its ‘magic’ from its relationship to childhood. The normal world’s tyranny stems from its rigidity, which has resulted in social (and economic) stagnation; this is counteracted by a resurgence of playful irrationality, often empowered by the move into the green world. The contrast between artifice and nature remains, therefore, but is recast as a contrast between dehumanising, urban existence and liberating, pastoral play” (Glitre 2006).
What does this all have to do with 27 Dresses? For this movie, the conflict centres around Jane’s commitment to the rigidity of the marriage industrial complex and the expectations the “natural” world has for her as a caretaker. How do we break her free from this? We get her away from the ability to plan a wedding. We run her car off the road, strip away her cell-phone signal, put her in a rural bar. And once they’re in that bar, the movie’s green world, everything becomes about the sense of play between Jane and Kevin. They drink, they challenge each other, and they dance on a bar.
Now, this is where 27 Dresses strays from the screwball - if they were to strictly follow screwball conventions, Jane and Kevin should not have kissed and they definitely should not have had sex.
The green world in screwball is about establishing the bonds of friendship. It’s about play. It’s about establishing the rules of the world that the couple wants to live by. For example, Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn have the playroom in Holiday. When he moves to maybe kiss her while in that space, she rejects him, because that’s not what the space was for.
What’s the consequence of 27 Dresses making the green world a place where sex happens? Well, it now includes complicated issues of agency (as Jane is unaware of Kevin’s true identity) and it complicates what she is actually upset about. Is she upset that he slept with her? Is she upset about the newspaper article? Is she upset about the violation of their bond? If the film had eliminated the sex in the car scene, I think you would have felt the betrayal even more, because what was being betrayed was her sense of being seen by Kevin, no physical or sexual strings attached. They shared a moment where the reframed what they wanted from society, what they wanted from a friend, and they united in their sense of play. Including sex in the scene, I think, makes us forget that Kevin jeopardizes all of that and Jane threatens to lose all of that via his deception.
In other words, without It Happened One Night, I don’t think 27 Dresses exists.
It should also be noted that sex wasn’t shown on screen in the 1930s/40s because it also was a violation of the production code. Maybe they didn’t show sex because that wasn’t what the green world was for, but maybe they didn’t show sex because they couldn’t.
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One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:
- It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
- Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.
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vampirism poses the question "what if there was a fundamental, horrible, unending well of want in your soul that, if truly satisfied, would lead to great pain for all those you hold closest and, in turn, their absolute and total revilement of you?" and naturally as a person with no problems I don't relate to this in any way at all.
vampirism also poses the question "what if someone you loved, through no fault of their own, needed something from you, and giving it to them and seeing them happy provided you the greatest joy, and you were the only one who could do it, but at the same time it was slowly draining all your life out of you?" which is also a completely unrelatable idea to me because I'm a normal person with no issues.
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Not to be a hopeless romantic, but was anyone going to tell us that 2023 was the year scientists were able to visualize quantum-entangled particles for the first time and they literally look like yin and yang??
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When a meme is representing the "bad/wrong" opinion with an image of a drooling person with a dented head, especially contrasted to white people with blonde hair and blue eyes, maybe it's time to reconsider posting or reblogging it. Just a thought.
a proposal;
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orowyrm encounter
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This is a sign of a good hotel. Housekeepers are paid enough to care about small details and have enough time per room to goof around a little. If you have your stuffed animal tucked into bed you know there was enough time to pay attention to all the details of the room and that the rooms are cleaned well.
Housekeepers having both the time and physical & emotional energy to be a little silly with your room is a good sign
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oh this is a life saver
So these are both “Aw Fuck I’m outta real food” meals BUT ALSO: if you’re learning how to cook, these are great “baby steps” meals to learn how to cook basics into something enjoyable without “wasting” anything expensive. Though I maintain that even cooking screw-ups are valuable in terms of lessons learned.
Also they’re great for when you get absorbed in something and you realize your blood sugar is dropping and you need to make something Quick.
Source: cosmopolitan.com
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we’ve literally just looped back around to 90’s psa interstitials
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Transcript:
Brad: Hi, I’m brad!
Chad: And I’m Chad!
Thad: And I’m Thad.
Brad: And welcome to—
All three: Lessons with KOK!
Brad: Today, on lessons with KOK, we’re gonna learn about—
All three: Consent.
Thad: Hey Chad!
Chad: Hey Thad!
Thad: Can I slap your ass?
Chad: Absolutely!
Thad: *slaps Chad’s ass*
Thad and Chad: *high five* Nice!
Chad: Hey Thad!
Thad: Hey Chad!
Chad: Can I slap your ass?
Thad: Absolutely Not!
Chad: I respect your decision!
Thad and Chad: *high five* Nice!
Brad: Always remember: F.R.I.E.S.
Thad: Consent is: freely given,
Chad: Reversible,
Brad: Informed,
Thad: Enthusiastic,
Chad: And specific!
Brad: Thanks for tuning into—
All three: Lessons with KOK!
Chad: Nice cock!
Brad: Nice cock!
Thad: Nice cock!
All three: Nice cock!
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i need people do do me a favor and be absolutely normal about it
i have a completely normal coworker who does music and stuff and its good music and i want to send my army of followers to his video on yt and just +like it or something. something to boost him in the algorithm
the issue is no one can let him know this second life i live on the internet because if he finds out i have 25k followers on tumblr or 10k on twitter etc then the questions will flow and i will not be prepared for the conversation about werewolves that follows
Ok heres the video, just +like it and if you want to comment just say you're from reddit or facebook or somewhere
If someone DOES want to share it to reddit that'd be awesome and I'd love you but I dont have an active account there
Just enjoy the music yall. Its honestly really good if you like some classic sounding R&B. The man's voice reminds me of usher to some extent with a little more gravel. Its honestly just sex. Its really really good and he only have 114 subs and the video only has like 90ish likes or something. Honestly its sad. He sounds amazing.
Yes!! Hes REALLY good and his music is giving 90's RnB. It's fantastic and his voice is great and I really want him to blow up
Also here's his Spotify for those of you wanting to add it to your likes and your playlists
Me: aww man this is so sweet
Two comments down:
Fucking howled with laughter.
Like a w
A we
Like a werew