porcelain, ivory, steel

just in case you need to hear it today, you don’t need ozempic <3

trying to concentrate on renewing my certificates for work e-learning modules but adm and tsitsipas actually playing ASS and I'm struggling to look away from it

categorically not reading the mad king spoilers bc I am GOINGGGG AT THE END OF AUGUST!!!!

“it’s not accurate to the source material” is the laziest critique ever btw. it’s an adaptation, it adapts. would it be BETTER if it adhered to the source material? if so, why? is the original plot in the source material objectively better story telling? or have you just formed an emotional attachment to whatever version you encountered first? are you taking into consideration how the advantages and limitations of the different mediums will necessarily affect the story that CAN or SHOULD be told? how about the creative vision and agency of the person making the adaptation - is that totally inconsequential? if adaptation is only meant to be replication, then wouldn’t the best adaptation be the one where you feed the original text into an AI model and it spits out a word-for-word rendition where all the characters are played by anthropomorphic sexualised fruit? answer me. now. I am pointing THIS GUN at you that I just pulled out of my a-

sorry I know getting annoyed at the class politics of bridgerton is on level with being disgusted at the capitalist greed of disneyland but I think I’m just getting annoyed because you can tell they THINK they did something?

s4 of bridgerton is cute and all but I do wish they’d just had the balls to make sophie a complete nobody 😭 like a total commoner with a regional accent, not a bastard with a working mum (altho I’m only halfway through and all signs are pointing towards mummy wasn’t working class at all). like classism remains such an issue in the UK to this day, only 7% of this country is privately educated and that 7% accounts for more than half of the government, the judicial system, the medical establishment, I could go on and on, shutting out working class people from the keys of power and preventing any real social mobility or chance for betterment. bridgerton can racebend and genderbend to their hearts content (which is all a massive improvement on the frankly Mormon source material, don’t get me wrong) but can’t write a story about an aristocratic second son (not even an HEIR to anything) falling for a true, out-and-out nobody? a bit lazy, no? a bit cliche? there always has to be secret blue blood, right?