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playing fuck marry kill with my fellow monks and we’re just taking turns going “well. i wouldn’t do any of that.”

I’m watching Splash (1984) which is a romcom about a guy who falls in love with a mermaid, and when she chooses a human name she chooses Madison and guy says “that’s not a real name, but alright” which seems to imply that Madison was not a name until at least the 80’s and all girls named Madison are actually named after the mermaid. thought you should know

I think we as a society tend to forget that the movie "Freaky Friday" starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Mark Harmon hinges entirely on the narrative's assertion that Chinese people have magic powers

The 2003 movie. The movie that came out like 20 years ago. There is no plot without the movie asking the audience to believe, without explanation, that a random middle aged Chinese woman has the ability to very easily place mystical curses on people

The funniest part of it is the running joke that this Chinese lady/Restaurant owner/Wizard has a daughter who implies she does this shit all the time, to customers, and is FED UP with her mother's mystical nonsense. Like obviously it's a blatantly racist plot element, the writers would certainly never would've had the plot kicked off by a curse cast by Mama Ravioli at the Spaghetti Warehouse, and it was specifically the Orientalism of it all that led them to write "and their bodies switched because they had a fight in a Chinese restaurant in front of the owner, and of course Chinese people have Powers" but also like. The dynamic with the restaurant owner and her daughter, who desperately wants her to stop supernaturally meddling in the lives of strangers, is so much more interesting than what's going on with Jamie Lee Curtis and whoever played the daughter in that movie. They could make a banger Disney+ show out of "The Chinese Restaurant That Curses You To Resolve Your Issues If You Have A Fight There" except that it would absolutely remind people that Disney, in Avril Lavigne's America, released a movie that depended entirely on the audience's willingness to believe Chinese people are secretly wizards

I have NEVER seen this film, so I kind of have to ask here: is there any textual evidence that this is an all chinese people thing? and not just a thing with her?

All the Chinese characters presented by the narrative conform to a long-standing racial stereotype. No characters adhere to that stereotype EXCEPT the Chinese ones. This is not an "American Dragon Jake Long" situation where we're shown that most Chinese families are regular folk and just the Longs have dragon powers. It's also not a "Breaking Bad" situation where there are Latinos who adhere to Cartel Criminal stereotypes, but there's also plenty of white characters who fit those same stereotypes and many Latino characters who don't.

i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there's a slug on their plant and so you're like "Oh haha you've got a friend there let me get that for you" and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is "would you like this free slug with your purchase"

It's free slug

happy 9 years to the Down With Cis bus!

happy ten years to the Down With Cis bus!

Some of you guys have never burned a CD and it shows

Some of you guys don't even realise I don't mean setting a CD on fire

how the absolute FUCK am i supposed to live long and prosper in these conditions

SOOOOO funny when you’re having a strong emotion and your logical brain KNOWS you’re overreacting but you literally can’t do anything about it.

rich people have a natural predator and its their friend's cousin's privately chartered cessna