well, here we are

#genuinely: this is what further research into the famous 'marshmallow test' showed#it wasn't that kids who were able to delay gratification were more likely to be successful later on#due to intrinsic qualities#it was that kids who had a stable upbringing were more likely to be successful#and ALSO: those kids had trust that their caregivers would keep promises#which is WHY they were willing to give up one marshmallow now for the promise of two marshmallows later#kids who did NOT have trustworthy caregivers#or who were in a fundamentally unstable situation#DID NOT have that trust so they wanted their one marshmallow NOW#same deal here i think#it's not that Gen Z is bratty#it's that they have no trust in the system and no faith that promises will be fulfilled#and frankly i do not blame them -@cicerfics

recently i watched a documentary about horror & they interviewed r l stine & he referred to himself as a “stephen king training bra” and i can’t stop thinking about that

FINALLY watched “a knight’s tale.” pretty fun but literally what the hell was jocelyn wearing for the entirety of the movie

Knight's Tale didn't try to match the aesthetic, it tried to match the VIBES, and it hit in so many ways.

I really appreciated that it started with the crowd singing We Will Rock You because that's an incredible way to set audience expectations.

A Knight's Tale belongs to what my wife and I call the Ren Faire Genre - not historically accurate, but historically VIBING with some strangely historically accurate notes thrown in (Chaucer!?).

A Knight's tale is culturally translated so that the audience gets what's going on better. the tournaments are a major sporting event, the knights are admired like rock stars, the ladies are beautiful and fashionable. if you actually dressed a lady in a way that was beautiful and fashionable in the past a modern viewer would be like "what the fuck is with her". most historical-setting movies pretend that they are not culturally translating, even though all of them are all the time inherently because they're being made by a person of our current culture...

My favorite thing about "A Knight's Tale" is that the director's explanation for why it's all Like That was basically "no matter what century you're in, the '70s are always the '70s" lol

my dad got a clear phonecase for himself so I let him have one of my pokemon cards to put inside it, and after making me explain what each pokemon did and was he picked a basic lightning energy card

It'll keep the phone charged longer, dumbass.

Me when I'm exposed to any external stimuli if I'm being honest

RIP Lydia Bennet you would’ve loved watching tik toks at full volume in public

kind of hate my stupid caustic pussy for dissolving my underwear over time but it's kind of cool, like, scientifically

Please audio on at the end it's so unexpected.

what if you were an idealistic and progressive politician who was a passionate believer in justice and equality and creating a better world for all but then you fell in love with someone who was all brute force and impulse and lust for power and was representative of the very forces you were trying to abolish but their unbridled emotion made you feel more alive than you ever had and their ruthlessness meant that they could love all of you even the parts you wanted to pretend weren't there and you knew you couldn't have your ideals and them but you are finally known in a way you never have been by someone who sees you as human and not as a symbol and you will lie to yourself over and over that you CAN have both until unavoidable tragedy proves otherwise. this is all real btw it happened to my good friends catherine the great and padme amidala.

Under no circumstances should a US American be elected pope, but it is very funny to imagine. American Pope should become shorthand in fiction for "this is not our timeline" the way that Female President is.

"the new pope is problematic" well folks it's the catholic fucking church so im not really sure where your hopes were at

once again a promising erotic story ruins the sexiness by concentrating on sex, the least sexy part of sex.