Body parts are often metaphors. Guts are Courage. Spine is Courage. Balls are Courage. Toes are Little piggies :)

I bet in thirty years I'm going to be, like, a reactionary RETVRNnik chud for Teflon pans. For a brief shining era we had nonstick pans that actually worked... look at what the deep state took from us..... the ancestral state of the human ape is to have our brains full of PFAS micro particles......

reject modernity ("well-seasoned cast iron pan" reddit delusionals) embrace tradition (dupont chemical company fluropolymers in your bone marrow)

I feel like that was kind of the point - that by any sane reckoning, she should have gotten in. She was demonstrating hard work, intelligence, creativity, and any other possible skill you could want, but because she was a woman and not a “serious” woman who dressed conservatively, her appearance and her interests went against her unless she capitalized on them. The only way she could prevent her appearance and interests from harming her chances was to flaunt them.

Exactly the whole thesis of Legally Blonde is people not taking Elle seriously and her making them take her seriously without changing anything about herself.

Interestingly, Legally Blonde is one of the few films where the protagonist doesn’t have an arc, all the other characters do.

I’m still right about this.

jean valjean is so reish lakish coded

Oh, so when YOU grab a Danish for a quick snack, it's a guilt-free, tasty little treat. But when I, Grendel,

everyone knows that space is very very cold, and the sun is very very hot. so i assume there's a bit of space kind of near the sun which is just right. balmy space

Yes, that’s. That’s where we are.

haters do not want you to know this but if you pick up something heavy every day it will eventually stop being quite as heavy. this is because the heavy thing, having witnessed your dedication, begins to yield its essence to you. and you, in turn, begin to absorb that essence into your own being. this is what makes people strong. the more essence you absorb, the stronger you become, and the more respect you command from the world around you.

I cannot get over the fact that Xie Lian was like, “Yeah, I ascended and that was nice and all but you know what’s actually nice? Scrap collecting. Scrap collecting’s way cooler.”

Antiqueing has that power