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serial unaliver takes me out every fucking time

my therapist: so how are you doing today?

me:

Is your therapist washing you?

used her hand sanitizer

Middle-aged magical girl.

She's been defending the Earth since the early 90s and she's very tired.

My name is Tominaga Haruka. I was chosen by a magical talking animal, and for the last 29 years I've been Earth's one and only... Wonder-Sparkle Princess.

she's been fighting the same villains for three decades and they are also tired of it. Most of them aren't giving it their all. Half of them are in a groupchat they've added her to where they schedule their evil plans to make sure they don't interfere with each other, or more importantly, with *her* Xalkrax the space demon from outer space decided to attack the city when she was taking her vacation time once, and now he's dead, because even the power of friendship and redemption can't save you if you interrupt her rare vacations

Demon Queen Eluria: Gonna fill the city people's hearts with hatred on thursday to cause mayhem and discord.

Wonder-Sparkle Princess: Can't, got a PTA meeting.

Demon Queen Eluria: Friday?

Wonder-Sparkle Princess: A birthday party.

Demon Queen Eluria: Damn. How about I fill just the mayor's heart with hatred then?

Wonder-Sparkle Princess: That'd be redundant, lol. Maybe fill his heart with a desire to fix the fucking potholes?!

Demon Queen Eluria: LMFAO love you, bitch. Stay strong.

Wonder-Sparkle Princess: You too, gurl. How's the husband? Still dead?

Demon Queen Eluria: Yep. Thanks for that, btw.

Wonder-Sparkle Princess: Don't mess with my time off :p

Why are people tagging this '#wonder sparkle princess' like that's a thing and not a name I made up exclusively for this post?

Congratulations on inventing a new tumblr deity!!

She isn't 29 years old. She's been a magical girl for 29 years. If she started at 14 (typical magical girl protagonist age) then she'd be 43.

Assigned magic girl at birth

middle class america is forever in fear of the seal team 6 of rapist drug dealers murderers breaking into their house to get them specifically. what makes you so special?

addiction to true crime podcasts

Obsessed with them showing all of their security measures that could never be used against them ever at all

I hope someone who sees this video gets through every single one of her security measures to do nothing but put an elf on the shelf somewhere and then never return

I have so many questions.

In all seriousness this is a symptom of one of the most toxic elements of American culture, which is the belief that isolation is more likely to protect you from the danger of other people, than other people are to protect you from the danger of isolation.

Realistically, a medical emergency or house fire is far more likely to occur than being randomly murdered in your own house by a stranger, but this woman "protects" herself from the safety of living in community, thereby exposing herself to the danger of living in isolation.

I'm like, morbidly fascinated to observe how normal American women think it is to fear the entire world. I am American but it's still weird to me how every other woman has a deeply ingrained fear of going for a walk alone and expects me to as well.

I'm also really caught off guard when people say things like "Oh, there might be someone on drugs" about a poor or dilapidated area, as a reason it's dangerous. In my experience, the average American seems to have no idea what "drugs" are or do, only a vague impression that they are somewhat like rabies and cause people to become indiscriminately violent and dangerous towards everyone around them.

At my first college there was a restaurant downtown that everyone said was "a front for human trafficking." Even professors would say this. Despite the widespread nature of this rumor, it never seemed to occur to anyone that this information could be actionable or that any authority could be informed about the presence of a human trafficking ring. It was just a fact; human trafficking networks were an assumed part of the everyday world, something that had to be avoided like potholes in the road.

I think about these things a lot.

It is extremely beneficial for a number of industries, as well as certain politicians, for white people — and this is specific to white people — to believe that they are in life threatening danger at any given minute and it matters. It is critical to understand that this issue is extraordinarily racialized, and that the industries and politicians benefiting from making white people afraid are relying upon existing and worsening racial stratification in the US to fill their coffers, or provide them with power or both, and enjoying the knock on harms this does to the BIPOC, immigrant, unhoused and SUD communities adjacent to these needlessly terrified white folks.

77% of Americans believe that crime is increasing. While we don’t have a race breakdown of the numbers, we do have a political breakdown of the numbers, which is just as good, honestly. 92% of Republicans believe that crime is going up but only 58% of Democrats do.

In reality, every kind of crime has been decreasing for the last several years except auto theft. The murder rate fell between 2022 and 2023 at the steepest rate ever in history, and property crime is at its lowest rate since 1961. 

The most dangerous thing in the world to that woman in the video is the husband she locks herself in with every night.



Closing all your blinds and turning your lights off 24/7 like this is going to increase your chance of break-ins because there are a thousand times more people out there who want to break into your empty house and steal your TV, than people who want to assault a random stranger in their house

But to be fair those same people would probably be deterred by the door locks so it all evens out to a very expensive nothing I guess

Rilla of Ingleside created a new timeline...

Anne's House of Dreams mentioned a historical event - a federal election: “Mistress Blythe, the Liberals are in with a sweeping majority. After eighteen years of Tory mismanagement this down-trodden country is going to have a chance at last.” (AHoD).

From Wikipedia: "The 1896 Canadian federal election was held on June 23, 1896, to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 8th Parliament of Canada. Though the Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Charles Tupper, won a plurality of the popular vote, the Liberal Party, led by Wilfrid Laurier, won the majority of seats to form the next government. The election ended 18 years of Conservative rule."

It wouldn't be surprsing, but... it was also the year in which Jem Blythe was born! The election took place few weeks after his birth: "When Anne came downstairs again, the Island, as well as all Canada, was in the throes of a campaign preceding a general election." (AHoD).

So... according to this timeline, Walter was born a year later (1897), then the twins (1899), Shirley (1901) and Rilla (1903).

The point is... at the outbreak of the war, Walter would have been only 17 years old, the twins 15, Shirley 13, Rilla 11...

Shirley would have been too young to participate in the war and Walter would have barely turned nineteen at the time of the Battle of Flers-Courcelette in September of 1916...

Someone in one of my older posts noticed that puff sleeves fashion suggested that Anne of Green Gables took place in 1880s rather than 1870s... so it would make sense!

I wonder why Montgomery chose Rilla as her teenage heroine (according to the original chronology, Rilla should have been only 11 years old), while there were 15-year-old twins...

Can you imagine Nan and Di as the main characters of the war book? Two young girls at Queen's, trying to come to terms with rapidly changing world? Rilla and Shirley at Ingleside, growing closer in such trying times? Teenage boys - Jem and Walter - who had to choose if they wanted to sacrifice their life at even younger age - at eighteen? Walter, never reaching the age of twenty (or maybe - dare I hope - coming back home safely)? Anne and Gilbert in their 40s, trying to collect all the broken pieces that was once their family?

It would have been equally good, in my opinion. I wonder... why Montgomery felt she had to suddenly change a whole chronology?

Side note: of course, I love Rilla of Ingleside. But I am just curious... (Nan and Di of Ingleside would be a good book, too!).

@diario-de-gilbert-blythe @gogandmagog @pinkenamelheart @valancystirling48

That's a very nice observation. Of all the little miscalculations LMM made with dates that may be the one with most weight. If we follow the original timeline (Rilla turning 15 in 1914 as stated in RoI, making her year of birth 1899, the same year AoI starts, making Anne and Gilbert's wedding take place in 1890... making Anne's own year of birth be 1865), 1896 is a year the books don't cover, right between AHoD and AoI. It seems to me that Maud really wanted to include the plot regarding the election and Marshall Elliott's beard (can't blame her, it's a pretty nice plot), so maybe that played a part. And a book with the twins as protagonists would be just awesome. I'd really like to read that. The Queen's part of AoGG is so sped up, we barely get much of how the academy works and I for one am a sucker for these things.

I am glad that you found it interesting! Exactly, we have two different timelines - and the events described in Rilla of Ingleside are simply too important to ignore, so of course I agree that the second timeline is the major one. I believe that Montgomery altered it on purpose, to create a story about one girl, instead of two. Besides, she needed a girl who represented women on a "homefront" - who stayed home, instead of going away to study. And... she was just too tired with Anne at this point to choose her as a main character.

I think it would be very interesting to read about twins, too, but the book would have been totally different. I think Rilla symbolizes an "average" girl - the teenager who is smart, but not ambitious or academically gifted; who is pretty but a little insecure about some aspects of her appearance (in Rilla's case, her thinness), who is rather carefree and vain and imperfect.

Montgomery created Anne (and maybe Nan and Di in RV and RoI, too) so that the reader (mostly young girls) could aspire to be this way; ambitious, intelligent, clever, with high standards, deep and pure thoughts. Anne was like this from the very beginning, although it was, at first, "covered" by the layers of talking and temperamental spirit.

But Rilla (who indeed undergoes a huge personality change) never becomes another Anne. She represents what most women of the time were - loving, kind, brave, broken by war but somehow, also made stronger by it.

Rilla was supposed to be a symbol of girl who "kept faith". I believe that's why Montgomery chose the youngest and most spoilt of Anne's children (although of course, Rilla wasn't really spoilt) to make her relatable to most girls. Rilla is never going to get an education - she never aspires to become a great teacher or a writer - she isn't really ambitious. Maybe there is a message: you don't need BA to be brave or strong or kind. You don't need anything. All of us are like Rilla and all of us can become Rilla.

I do believe that a book set in the "first" timeline would be very interesting too and it could cover more than one pov: of Anne and Gilbert (parents afraid of the life of their sons), Nan and Di (teenage girls trying to keep normal, trying to keep learning while navigating the biggest change of their lives), Rilla and Shirley (growing up in the times of the war). Perhaps Montgomery even considered writing it this way - but decided against it? Tangled Web had been told from many povs, and each story is shortened and a little... weaker heard, in a way? Which is totally fine, because the best aspects of Tangled Web are comedy and a study of personalities, and both are delivered just fine. But maybe Montgomery felt that a war book would be stronger if it was focused on a single heroine?

Montgomery is known for playing with a timeline a little. For example, she set a timeline in Emily Climbs - a timeline that suggests war ought to happen in the years of Emily's Quest - but it somehow... isn't mentioned. Or even, doesn't seem to affect the lives of characters. The end of the series is just... timeless (as is a whole novel - The Blue Castle).

Last but not least - yes, Marshall Elliot shaving off his beard and cutting his hair after eighteen years is an epic scene!

Spot on. I think Rilla was a new for LMM, something of a challenge. We know a lot of the heroines she wrote were intelligent, imaginative and/or inclined to literature. So with Rilla she could do different character development in the very strenuous context of War. In the future she would do something similar with Pat of Silver Bush. So yeah, maybe Montgomery saw that with Nan and Di she would be doing more of the same stuff and wanted to make something different, which I think was a genius choice - althought I really like the twins and would love to read more of their life.

Exactly! You are so right about Pat - she never wanted a career and was perfectly happy to attend to her home and family. She went to Queen's only because it would give her a chance to help her family financially and allow her not to get married for few more years, as well as to be close to home. Jane Stuart is a curious heroine too - she loves to "keep house" and while she's very smart and likes school, she finds such a joy in doing household chores (why, she dreams about cleaning the moon...) as in nothing else. Valancy Stirling wasn't allowed to study more, sadly, because I think she might have been very ambitious had she got a chance - but she took a great joy in making Barney's house a home. Gay Penhallow from The Tangled Web doesn't seem too ambitious, too and her dreams resolve around getting married. To be honest... none of Tangled Web heroines struck me as ambitious - their storyline circles around romance.

Montgomery seemed to promote girls having career or education in her earlier books, mostly in Anne and Emily series... that seemed to have faded over time. On the other hand, we never saw some of the characters grow up (for example, Jane Stuart or Marigold Lesley), so who knows, maybe they were "destined" by Montgomery to have a career. Headcanon: Marigold becoming a female doctor, as her aunt and namesake!

I suppose Montgomery's change of heart might have been an answer to the changing world and societal pressure for the girls to have a career and let go of any boundaries. I think that Montgomery was disapproving of some of "modern girls" behaviour (wearing make-up and smoking was moked in Tangled Web, for example), but there was more than that. Her books were criticised in post-war times as too sacharine and labelled as "kids fiction"... maybe she wanted to promote country-style, simple life as an opposite to the city hustle and bustle and "sweet, good girls" as opposed to "modern" ones?

Maybe she tried to say: "you are just as smart and deserving of an education as any boy" when the girls were believed to be better seen, not heard and "you are a woman, act like a lady" when she saw what she viewed as crude and unladylike in 20s (chasing boys, smoking, drinking etc.).

That being said, I do agree that it was a good choice to have Rilla be the main character... the book is stronger this way, because it focuses on Rilla's inner feelings about war that don't get side-tracked (for example: "war... yes, yes, but EXAMS"). Rilla was able to form Junior Red Cross and take in a war baby - twins wouldn't be able to do so.

But I also love twins (Nan is my favourite child of Anne), and I would love to get to know their adult selves better. Such a pity they weren't there much... (funnily enough, I read RoI right after AHoD, and then Anne of Ingleside and Rainbow Valley) and I was stunned there were so many children :) I was about 10 or something and I truly expected Rilla to be born after Jem and far younger (and no war) - about the same age Anne was at the beginning... yeah, you may imagine how surprised I was.

im sobbing

I’ve seen this on my dash at least ten times now and somehow every single time I am once again unprepared for how the cat looks.

Ah yes the Dik Dik adorable

So I’ve been teaching 6th grade since January, and one thing about my female students which made me upset to realize is how many of them are obsessed with skincare. I've heard the girls in my class discussing the EYE CREAM they use. Like tf you mean eye cream? You're ELEVEN!!! I'm a decade older than you and have never even touched eye cream!! The most skincare a middle schooler needs is cleanser and moisturizer, maybe some acne cream. Who tf is selling you all this other stuff? Who tf told you you needed all this?

It hurts me to see. Their brains are too young for these types of insecurities 😭 no 11 year old girl should be obsessed with wrinkles, I wanna beat tf out of whatever tiktoker made them believe they needed skin that perfect

Do you know how fucking miserable it is to watch a group of 11 year old girls obsessively check their skin on pocket mirrors? And hear them talk about how they need new products to fix “imperfections” created by tiktok?? I just taught them last week what the OCEAN TIDES are. I helped one of them spell the word “conduction” yesterday. They just learned what the atmosphere is. Who the fuck is telling these literal children that they need eye cream??!! When I catch you!!!

staying with my father and my teenage brother occasionally has been very enlightening actually i need to think about it positively

hmmm ok. fascinating. okay. amazing. and i have to live like this? okay

TAYLOR SWIFT Fortnight Music Video Teaser (2024)

“I’m having his baby…. no I’m not but you should see your faces” TAYLOR STOP IT I almost had a heart failure

HI WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE A BABY GOOSE

SCRATCH THAT IT WAS A PINECONE

APOLOGIES FOR THE FALSE ADVERTISING

NO ONE IS MORE DISAPPOINTED THAN ME

NO

The masses have spoken and we desire to behold the pinecone

honestly my takeaway so far is that i want her to just fully go back to country. and she clearly wants to too. like these lines like texas highway/the daddy i love him melody/sad piano ballads reminiscent of the fearless vault… like just do it taylor just go back to nashville and release the grown up country album we all want