Beat the Impossible

cant wait til im 30, on a balcony in a foreign country, drinking wine, wearing nothing but a silk robe, & have filled 18 notebooks

Willy Wonka sent out his chocolate bars worldwide, and 5 white kids (4 with first-world problems) still won.

To be fair, his goal was apparently to send a stern warning about the evils of entitlement by murdering them in ironic ways.

Also, the rich, spoiled, first world white kids aren’t presented in the story as having gotten the tickets by chance, the story is very clear that they and their families used their privilege and power to game the system - taking what was initially presented as a random selection and cheating by leveraging their disproportionate resources - wasting mountains of chocolate in pursuit of gold…

Willy Wonka and the Discourse Factoty

willy wonka and the proletarian revolution

Notably, Dahl was Welsh, who were treated MONSTEROUSLY by the English to the point where it is comparable to claim that they were treated much like POC within that dichotomy (including but not limited to language suppression, imperial occupation, economic destabilization and kidnapping). So the fact that he would write this, and intend it to be considered exactly as described above, is very likely.

cities at night are the most comforting thing i think ever to me

fun drinking game: take a shot of water every couple hours to make sure you’re healthy and hydrated

Gemini in cat-form