Imagine if Grace went full Elementary School Teacher and started to give out stickers to the pebbles. Rocky would have to help design them so the pebbles could see them but could you imagine the cacophony they'd make when they receive them?
I'm so sorry I just got back to your message because oh my god! you are brilliant!
they can't have regular stickers but the raised puffy ones would work and I just have an idea for continuation of that comic :3
such a wonderful dumb as fuck idea you just gave me >:3
thank you! and you are now cursed to feel responsible for the next comic ;} (whenever that will happen because I'm still melting and generally draw super slow😣)
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I know y'all did not read the books but Roald Dahl talks about this in the book. Charlie’s teacher points out the fact that unless you buy a shit ton of bars you’re probably not gonna win. Just like the lottery. Just like how all of the other winners of the tickets bought a shit ton of bars. Except Charlie, who just got lucky. And Charlie was originally black. Literally the whole point of the book was that wonka wanted to give the less fortunate a fair opportunity and it wasn’t fair because the system isn’t fair.
because you shouldn’t believe everything you read on a tumblr post at face value, here is a guardian article confirming that charlie was originally conceived as black but dahl made him white at the behest of his publisher
But yeah, coming back to the original point, the other kids, especially Augustus Gloop and Veruca Salt, cheated the system by claiming a ridiculous amount of chocolate bars. News reports mention people hoarding Wonka chocolate bars in hopes of finding the Golden Ticket. Mr Salt even admits that he refitted his staff at a nut-shelling factory for opening chocolate bars, without a doubt losing a huge amount of capital in lost profits and mass bulk-buying of chocolate, just to win. The working-class lady who actually found that ticket didn’t benefit from that luck or labour - she was immediately made to hand it over to her boss for his spoiled daughter, who holds it as ‘his’ victory and good luck.
Charlie didn’t even find the ticket in his first bar, or his second. His first bar, his birthday present, was a dud, and he even failed to enjoy it like normal because he dared to hope, just for a moment, that he might actually be lucky enough to get the one. Later, he is lucky enough to find a dropped 50p piece in the street, and goes to buy a chocolate bar for himself. Finally holding a treat that is all his, he wolfs the thing down, stopping only long enough to realises that he didn’t get lucky and win a Golden Ticket. It’s only on the third bar that he gets it, and, smelling blood in the water, the shopkeeper tells him to immediately go home and not tell a soul that he has it, knowing what people might do to this small starving boy if they find out what he has.
And Wonka knows! He knows he done goofed! He realises almost immediately that the people who have been attracted to his lottery, who have stacked the decks in their favour, are awful, cruel, entitled people! Augustus Gloop, the glutton, doesn’t care what placed in front of him so long as it’s food - and the first obstacle? A room where everything is a kind of sweet. Violet’s gum-chewing is excessive, but the modern film adapts this into a more realistic and sinister flaw - overcompetitiveness. It’s not just that she’s been chewing the same piece of gum for months, it’s that she’s been chewing the same piece of gum, weeks after its taste is gone, whether it is socially acceptable or not, just to break a record. So when Wonka promises a new treat, a personal favourite of one of the kids, but says it’s not ready yet and you can’t have it, of course Violet seizes it, because damn the consequences, she will be the first to try it. Veruca is shown a collection of unique animals, and immediately declares that she wants one, because she’s always had the bragging rights and luxury rare items. And when Mr Wonka refuses to sell? She steals it, because dang it, she will have that golden goose/trained squirrel! Mike Teevee, in his hubris, mutilates himself almost beyond recognition because he had to challenge Mr Wonka’s outlandish claim of transmitting physical objects via television. Charlie was the perfect heir, not because he was humble and poor, but because he had the wonder and appreciation for the treats Wonka made but also the sense and caution not to risk messing with the many dangerous things in an active factory. If the lottery was more fair, maybe Charlie would have had more stiff competition, but as it stands, Charlie is almost the poster boy of ‘won by doing nothing’.
Sorry, got sidetracked
TLDR: Apart from Charlie, most of the other kids were entitled rich (white) kids who gamed a system that should have been fair, and were punished for it by revealing to them their greed and hubris
people drag the lan sect for coporeal punishment but say nothing when yu-furen beats wwx in the extras for going out and having fun with the disciples🙄
It’s like... yes, the Lan sect may well have more codified rules where breaking them leads to corporal punishment, but we see that the Jiangs (potentially; remember, we don’t actually know anything about typical Jiang punishments beyond what YZY throws at WWX specifically) not technically having as many corporal-punishment-worthy rules does not protect WWX from receiving “corporal punishment” (in scare quotes because... yeah, it is pretty fucking obvious that YZY is just claiming she’s punishing him to justify whipping him for daring to be CSSR’s son and also Better Than JC, it is not subtle) on such a regular basis that his fellow disciples treat it like a joke. At least with the Lans you know what’s going to get you punished!
Here’s the difference between the Lans and the Jiangs: with the Lans, the rules are strict but so long as you know them and respect them you’ll be fine, and even if you break them generally all you’ll get is writing lines. Hell, WWX openly breaks the rules and gets off pretty much scot-free with only the loss of his alcohol as punishment because he said he didn’t know it was against the rules yet; WWX claims that he didn’t know you couldn’t sneak out after curfew to get drunk and he’s let off the hook! LWJ was genuinely angry with him and could easily have either argued that that was common sense or that ignorance was no excuse, and instead he let WWX off with a warning because WWX said he didn’t know the rules! “Ignorance is not an excuse” is a common thing with breaking rules in everything ranging from school rules to law, it’s genuinely assumed you’ll look into the rules when you start with a new situation, and yet WWX genuinely escapes punishment because he claimed he didn’t know the rules while openly acknowledging that he doesn’t give a shit about said rules! That says a lot about the Lans! Meanwhile with the Jiangs they may not have a lot of rules (again, we don’t actually know), but that doesn’t save people from punishment; it just means that people with power in the sect can say that they’re punishing someone for whatever “crime” they can come up with and no one will argue against it. I mean, WWX gets whipped for sunbathing with his fellow disciples! And still people claim that the Lans are worse! Essentially I think what it boils down to is the Lans have codified pretty much every possible punishable offence that they could think of; yes, they’re strict and some of their rules come across as petty at best (although if you think about it you can come up with a logical explanation for... pretty much all of them), but it means that if someone does something worthy of punishment the people in charge of that punishment know exactly what has been done and how severe it is and so how severe the punishment can be. It’s possible to abuse a system like that, but it’s considerably harder because everyone knows what is and is not acceptable for a given offence and also what is considered an offence. You can’t target a person by insisting they’ve broken a rule that doesn’t exist and whipping them for that “transgression” when everyone knows a) that’s not a rule and/or b) whipping is an insanely excessive punishment even if it is a rule, especially since the elders seem to have enough authority that unless the majority of them were on board with it you would be prevented from abusing the system like that. Not to say it could never be used against people, but it sure as hell wouldn’t be easy. Meanwhile the Jiangs are easygoing but their system is incredibly easy to abuse because the authority figures in the sect can punish “wrongdoing” however they like and whenever they like and there’s no one who can argue against it. WWX would never get whipped for taking a break with his fellow disciples on a hot day while they all got off scot-free in the Lan sect because a) as far as we know that’s not against the rules so long as they don’t have anything else to do so no one would be punished and b) if it was against the rules everyone would be punished equally, from the youngest shidi all the way up to JC. The Lans don’t have a system where one person can be singled out the way YZY does with WWX, because if everyone is doing something against the rules everyone will be punished (the instigator more heavily, perhaps, but the others wouldn’t get off without punishment) and if it’s not against the rules no one will be.
...This is a very long way of saying “Despite the fact that the Lans seem to have more transgressions worthy of corporal punishment it still seems like your odds of getting beaten are lower there than in the Jiang sect assuming you’re disliked by the leadership of both sects”, but here we are.
I think it’s a subversion. Like, “okay, yes, they look strict, but you gain freedom thru understanding and also security. Meanwhile, purple flower sect LOOKS like it has freedom, but the end result is fear, insecurity, and one or more persons being used as a scapegoat by an unjust authority figure”. So I think it’s kind of irony?
The Lans are very much a case of "we're going to have so many rules that bind everyone so that no one can abuse their authority because the rules are really fucking clear and there's no room for so much as a malicious misreading of them", while the Jiangs are like "Eh, do whatever, we won't stop you, and the 'you' in question includes authority figures using that authority to hurt children". The Lans are strict but fair, while the Jiangs take not being strict to such an extreme that the sect leader won't even stop his wife from whipping his ward for sunbathing.
At least with the Lans, you know what the rules are. The rules are on a wall on the goddamn mountain! It's not a question of "what does an authority figure feel like today" or "suck up to your bosses or else."
The rules protect the disciples and the lower-level people too.
Do you know how many dogs I’ve met that get scared or anxious around men because in their previous home men hit them? A lot, and they are very protective of the women who have adopted them now.
Men who are violent towards women are often violent towards animals as well. They think we’re all chattel. If a man wants you to choose between your dog or cat or him, dump the guy. Those animals will love you for the rest of your life, loyal and true.
The other day I saw a story where a woman was asking why her dogs had suddenly started growling at her boyfriend whenever he was in the same room as her son.
And my immediate thought was ‘that boyfriend has hurt the kid somehow.’
The first time my sister came to visit, via plane, after I got my dog, pupper growled at her and wouldn’t go near her for the first day. Next visit was by car (two day drive)and pupper LOVED my sister. They snuggled and played and none of us could figure out why the change. We thought maybe the scent of my sisters cat had lingered on her clothes, making that first visit a rough one. Whereas when she came by car, the scent had had time to wear off. Well that was partially true…
Fast forward about six months when I went north to visit my family. My sister walked into my parents’ house and pupper ran to greet my sister. Stopped dead in her tracks and started growling and barking. Hackles raised, full protection mode. My sisters husband had just walked in behind her.
My precious puppy wanted NOTHING to do with him. She barked, growled, ran away, and sat between him and my sister. Y'all my dog had spent maybe a weekend a half around my sister but protected her like this was her flesh and blood.
Eventually, my sister filed for divorce on grounds of “Extreme and repeated mental, emotional, and sexual abuse.” Divorce was final in less than a month because her claims were substantiated.
I’ve never owned dogs, but I used to work with horses (which are a lot like big dogs).
There was this one horse I worked with named Tonto. He was a doll. He followed me like a puppy, snuck treats out of my pocket, he was the sweetest thing. We were practically inseparable.
A guy I was considering dating came to visit me one day, and Tonto wanted NOTHING to do with him. Normally well behaved, he shoved himself between us and would NOT let this guy near me. He was stomping, acting really aggressive, and tried to bite the guy. This horse was practically dragging me back toward the barn. At that moment, despite being like, 17, I knew something was up, and ultimately things didn’t pan out for guy and me.
A year later I found out he had lied about his age (he said he was 18 but he was actually 27) he was arrested for sexually assaulting an 11 year old girl.
and like ... if someone has a problem with a pet, see why they have a problem.
Because there are reasons to have a problem with a pet. Sometimes it's not the animal's fault - if your s/o has a very serious pet-related allergy, for example, then that's an understandable concern. But if that's the case, they should be more "hey, let's make sure that Fluffy gets into a good home with people to take care of her" rather than "I want that cat GONE," you know? Or if an animal is honestly very badly behaved or has harmed someone.
But if the dude's just complaining about random shit .... then do a double-take. If you take in a pet, you're responsible for it for its lifetime, barring a serious issue. A dude that wants to get rid of a pet for small potatoes will have other issues as well.
how to compliment someone without seeming like a fucking creep. an easy how to guide:
a) compliment them on something that they can change. don’t say ‘nice tits janice’, say something like ‘your shoes are rad’ or ‘your hair looks great’.
b) don’t be a fucking creep. if it’d weird you out if it was said to you, then it’s likely too creepy to say to someone else.
EASY.
also this pic is super strawmanny and gross. it is not hard to not be a creep.
My most favorite compliment I’ve ever gotten I got from a man who was a complete stranger who drove up next to me while I was walking home at 9pm in the night:
I guess he saw me speed walk, overtake, then completely outpace some really tall business man in front of me (who had also increased his speed to overtake me back but failed).
Anyway this complete stranger doing the exact stereotype of what a man shouldn’t ever do drove up next to me, rolled down the window and said:
“That is the fastest damn walking I’ve ever seen. Ma’am, you…have the soul…of a bicycle.”
Then rolled up his window and drove away.
He didn’t creepily drive behind me, he drove regular speed and came to a rolling stop. He didn’t roll down his window all the way or stick his head out, he said his piece quickly and with a great amount of awe and respect, then he didn’t act like he needed a response from me or expect anything from the compliment. And then he left as quickly as he came. The compliment was so good and politely delivered that I’ve thought about it with amusement for over a year.
It is NOT HARD to not be threatening to women. Those who can’t manage it are sus as hell.
Yeah, it's not that hard to give someone a good complement.
Also, if you're a dude, think about how a complement would sound if it was directed at a woman vs a man. A straight dude wouldn't tell another dude "nice tits!" and call it a complement. But a dude could reasonably complement another guy's shirt, or their new haircut, or whatever.
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Men actually ADMITTING that they realize a lot of men are fully aware that they are generally unlikeable, have little substance and little to offer a woman in a relationship.
They're also admitting that said men are becoming butthurt about the fact that women now more than ever are making the conscious decision to no longer settle for them just so we won't have to deal with the "shame" of being single.
Insecure and self-entitled men are literally upset over the fact that women no longer need them the way we used to in the past. Their sense of self-worth is dependent on female validation and instead of stepping up their game, changing how they think, etc, they're starting to pout and throw tantrums over how useless they feel.
And a lot of women do want a male partner. It's not that they're unwilling to be in a relationship with a man. It's just that the options available are so shitty that they've done the math and it's better to be single than have a terrible man-baby for a partner.
Im going to hold your hand when I say this. It is not realistic to expect yourself or your family to be able to survive solely off of food you have foraged or grown in a garden. People with more knowledge and experience have tried and failed. What do you think happened to all of those communes in the 60s? Most of them failed. Famine and malnutrition have been constant companions to humanity until industrialized farming and food supply lines came along.
It feels like a uniquely American capitalist take to assume these traditions will make you completely self sufficient. You need a lot of people, a lot of time, a lot of knowledge across a lot of subjects, and a lot of luck to provide for everyone's nutritional needs.
So should you even bother trying to be more self sufficient with your food? I argue yes. Foraging and gardening are fun and will teach you so much about many things. They are deeply rewarding activities that can supplement your diet. There are herbs I haven't bought in years because I grow my own. There are dishes I can only make with foraged ingredients because I can't get them in stores.
You may not have the power to do everything, but that doesn't mean your efforts are wasted. Getting 5% of your nutritional needs from food you have grown or foraged, even for a season, is a massive accomplishment.
It takes approximately 2,000 calories a day to fuel the average human. A family of four needs roughly three million calories in a year. You're not going to get that from a backyard truck garden and a couple of chickens.
But you can get variety, flavor, and vitamins even if the bulk of your calories are coming from somewhere else. And if you grow more of something than you need, it gives you something to trade or gift to other people.
I have chickens, bees, fruit trees, and an absolutely massive garden... all in a major American city. My spouse also hunts and fishes regularly.
In a good year, these efforts account for maaaaaaybe 15% of our food intake.
We still rely on grocery stores for the majority of our calories and nutrition and that's ok. It doesn't mean the garden is a waste of time or that hunting is a waste of effort.
The first eggs all of my niblings ate as children were from MY chickens, that I lovingly raise in a healthy, humane environment. I start every morning with a mug of black tea sweetened with honey from the bees that industriously pollinate my garden. I can't remember the last time I bought salsa, marinara, or bone broth, but I had to build new shelves to store my abundance of canned food only last week!
Growing or foraging your own food is not a wasted effort even if it only replaces a tiny percentage of your grocery store haul. It's an enriching (and time consuming and difficult) hobby that's good for you and good for your community.
How is your takeaway from this "oh no! They are banning asexuality!" They are banning being LGBTQIA+. They are just using a modern woke version of the acronym to define who they persecute. De facto they will only go after asexual people that go to pride parades or start advocacy groups or something. They're not gonna arrest you for not filling your sex quota lol
I’m going to respond to this with the assumption this was NOT!! originally posted with bad intent, but we’ll see if I can keep up that line of thinking.
Firstly, the OP of the tweet just happened to cut off the name of the subreddit this was posted to. Turns out it was posted to r/Asexual. You know. The subreddit dedicated to talking about asexuality and related things. It makes sense that the original poster and a mod of that very subreddit would emphasize the inclusion of asexuality in Niger’s article 25.
Here’s a link to the actual Reddit post btw
Secondly, while all persecution of queer identities is evil and unjust, it is significant to point out asexuality being included. Most of the time laws don’t go into specifying more than gay or trans identities when it comes to trying to bar rights to individuals. This article has go so far to break down and specify the meaning of every single letter in LGBTQIA and call them all an “act against nature” to justify punishing anyone under the banner. It makes sense to, again, emphasize that asexuality was also included when this was posted in the r/Asexual subreddit.
And thirdly, and this is kinda the most important part imo, this means ANYONE CAN BE ACCUSED AND PERSECUTED UNDER THIS CHARTER. People in the subreddit and even the OP of the tweet are asking “how can you even prove that?” And that’s the thing. You can’t. So it makes it that much easier to just accuse someone of asexuality in order to force them into a heterosexual relationship or punish them.
Think about it. What’s stopping a bitter ex or an abusive spouse from accusing their partner of “denying sex due to their asexual tendencies” in order to punish them? Maybe someone is career driven or just not interested in a relationship at the time. What’s stopping a business rival, a jilted flirt, or an obsessed stalker from leaving an anonymous tip that the object of their ire is an asexual deviant? Absolutely nothing.
Taking this post and dismissing it as “no one cares you don’t want to fuck” is completely missing the point on why this is exceptionally dangerous. And acting like a mod of the r/Asexual subreddit is being silly for putting emphasis on the dangers to their community is rude at best.
The fact that everyone with a queer identity now can face prison time and ridiculous fines is terrifying and it breaks my heart to know more and more countries are baking these laws into their charters and constitutions. But we should be bringing these things into the light and condemning the people pushing for this kind of cruelty, not throwing stones at each other for pointing out a specific part of the article that affects us personally.
Uplift your fellow queers. Don’t do the CIA’s job for them and try to tear our community apart with useless infighting.
Yeah, making the definition of criminality more nebulous absolutely benefits the state. It means that they can make more stuff illegal, make more people afraid to stand out.
Like, best case scenario, more people stay in the closet. More people get into lavender relationships to hide. Worst case scenario, people are arrested or killed b/c they're queer.
He comes from a very poor family. His father was an alcoholic who beat him and his mother (he once poured hot tea over her and put her in hospital several times), his brother is a drug addict, he literally built an empire out of nothing.
He credits his mother as his biggest inspiration and often has her cooking in his shows.
When he left his first restaurant he pulled a successful Jerry Maguire - the entire kitchen staff went with him. That tells you what he’s like to work with.
He was one of the first to give a restaurant to a female chef.
He went to prison (Gordon Behind Bars) and taught inmates to bake and they opened a bakery (Bad Boys Bakery) that is still running. He hired one of them when he got out.
He did documentaries about the cruelty of shark hunting and cocaine. (when he discovered cocaine was used by his staff he didn’t fire anyone but made sure they are offered treatment)
His kids are a treasure.
He is always ALWAYS kind to servers.
When one of his partners (Marcus Wareing) wanted to leave they got into a fight and settled it in court, they no longer speak to each other but this is what Marcus said about him after the fight:
I feel bad that the first association to him for a lot of people is this shouty TV chef when he’s truly a wonderful person.
never forget that the reason he’s “shouty and angry” on his tv show is that he’s yelling at people who ignore the rules of courtesy and food safety and basically feed their customers poison, something which would enrage any good person
Yeah, in all the shows that I've seen Gordon Ramsay on TV, he's only been shouty at people who sincerely deserved it, usually people in authority who are misusing that authority. He's always good with kids, and treats lower-level staff well.
And the thing about teaching people in prison to cook/bake ... that's important. For a lot of people who've been in jail, it can be really hard to find work when they get out. Restaurants and food service establishments are one of the few places that will often hire people out of jail. Plus it's an easy way for someone to start their own business in food service.
Real talk tho Mob is gonna grow up and choose some constructive but random-ass occupation like healthcare clerk or something idk but word of mouth means that everyone is going to know him as “my friend has a friend who also does exorcisms”
like maybe spooky noises have started coming from that sketchy chest freezer you bought off Facebook so you tell your friend and they say “oh yeah my cousin knows this dude, he can take care of that for you, called him last year to deal with a cursed bong, he’s 100% legit"
later that evening this COMPLETELY JACKED guy shows up at your apartment and you’re like What are you gonna do, punch the ghost or something? But no he politely asks if he can come in, stands in front of the freezer for a minute without doing anything, then tells you that the evil spirit is gone now and you can store your cowshare portion in peace. Whole thing seems kinda suspect but musclebro didn’t charge you anything and anyway the spooky noises have stopped so no harm done, right?
And then maybe a few months later your coworker tells you that they swear they saw this creepy headless figure walking home last night so you’re like, Y'know I know this guy, 100% legit, I bet he could look into it for you…
Okay but. At some point Mob is going to run into a problem where there is no spirit to exorcise. So a friend of a friend recommended this jacked guy to fix your haunted freezer problem, but the guy just looks intently at your freezer for a minute. Then he turns to you and tells you that he doesn’t know how to fix your freezer, but he knows a guy who CAN help. At this point you’re kinda intrigued, but also sure, whatever, so the tall guy calls his friend and within the hour a greasy guy in a cheap suit shows up. He’s a lot more talkative than the first guy, and before you know it he’s started taking apart your freezer, and then the electric socket, chatting about spirits causing faulty wiring all the while. You’d meant to stop him, but the guy seems to know what he is doing, and before you know it he’s rewired the socket, replaced a faulty cable and rebuild the freezer. You might have complained but he charged you less than any electrician would request as the transportation fee alone, so you shut up, pay him, and the two guys leave together. The haunted noises have stopped. You look up the guy on the internet later but can’t find much except for the ugliest website you’ve ever seen and a ten year old twitter hate campaign you can’t discern the cause off. No matter, it makes an intriguing enough story for your coworkers later.
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i don't really want to weight in on the "using big words in your writing is ableist" discourse happening on tiktok because i'm like 90% certain it's an anti-intellectual psyop to stir up drama in online circles to promote the use of ai to summarize literally everything and thus feeding the LLMs and lowering the populace's mistrust of such tools but i also have to say: dictionaries and thesauruses are the most accessible they've ever been. if you use an e-reader of any kind you can look up a word without leaving the page. there's a plethora of online dictionaries and if you just type a word + "meaning" into google it'll usually give you a definition. we used to have pocket dictionaries we used when reading in class. i have two on my shelf right now that i used in high school. stop letting the fascists purposefully misuse anti-ableism rhetoric to trick you into never thinking again.
as an addendum .... there's a big difference between "hey it's a good idea to generally target your speech/writing towards your target demographic" and "don't use big words and complicated ideas ever."
The first one is being considerate, the second is stopping people from thinking.
There's a lot (a lot) I hate about franchises; I love the kinds of works that get franchises made out of them, but pretty much invariably despise the franchise itself. I've always tended to dislike fanon, and at least that's free-range organic social pressure to accept whatever headcanons it's coalesced around, most of the time. Some company's focus-tested proclamations of authority are 100x worse.
That said, the single most aggravating, contemptible way that a franchise can operate—and always seems to do, sooner or later—is to insist that the works that make it up can't actually stand on their own strengths. It might seem like this character or that had a whole arc that resolved by the end of the show or the film or whatever, giving every impression that the future's going to be brighter and the character's growth will allow them to finally move forwards as a person and in their life, soon.
But a franchise will almost always look at a satisfyingly resolved arc with hope for the future, and see it as a problem. The argument is almost always, "okay, it might have seemed like they had all that growth and are going to move forwards after the story, but they didn't really, and the story wasn't actually complete. You'll have to watch Trek Wars Before Time XVIII: 2 Warp 2 Hyper, Part III to get what you need to really understand what was going on in that first one thing you liked."
And the prequels/sequels/whatever that work for me, the ones I can really love, are the ones that don't modify resolved character arcs that way. Lord of the Rings immeasurably expands on The Hobbit without suggesting that Bilbo's growth didn't really happen or that he'd need to keep repeating it for some reason. He's a minor presence in LOTR but he's very much the Bilbo from the end of The Hobbit, not the beginning.
My big fear with Rogue One is that it would sand my OT blorbo Anakin Skywalker down into generic fanboy one-dimensional Vader or he'd be much more ROTS-adjacent than OT-adjacent, without the mix of horror, menace, pathos, and occasional (terrifying) cringe that I think defines the character of the OT. Keeping Anakin to a few appearances without pushing his growth backwards or forwards for where he should be at that point, and including the quirks of his OT characterization ("don't choke on your aspirations" as an echo of "apology accepted..." <3), made it possible for me to also love Rogue One for its own sake and characters— there was no insistence that the arcs and resolutions of a completely different work that has been over for ages only seemed satisfying as a big fake-out in order to prop it up. It props itself up!
In fact, Rogue One draws on the conclusive, hopeful cohesion of the OT to underscore its own themes and arcs. When the injured Cassian asks if anyone heard and Jyn assures him someone did, we not only know from other scenes in the film that the Rebellion has heard, we've got the OT in the back of our heads, and the unbending commitment of the OT Rebellion to fighting the Empire. Rogue One doesn't say "maybe they aren't really," it says "maybe this is how they got that way." The very completeness of the OT is treated as a strength, not a problem.
This isn't an argument that Lucasfilm is The Good Franchise that doesn't pull the "lalala what arc" nonsense; it does the obnoxious franchise shit all the time. Rogue One specifically, though, steps carefully to avoid framing anything in the OT (or the prequels, for that matter) as incomplete, as any kind of fake-out that somehow needed Rogue One decades later to truly succeed as a story. Even the explanation for the fault in the Death Star design doesn't carry the sense of "this missing detail needed to be fixed" so much as an opportunity for storytelling that wouldn't disrupt the OT.
But "it seems like they finally learned X but actually they didn't" or "it seems like their future is hopeful... but actually it's bleak and full of suffering so that we can keep looping through the same story beats," or even the same for "it may have seemed like a satisfactory long-finished tragedy but sike here's your blorbo back"? Hate it, hate it, hate it.
For me, a big difference between a good series/franchise and one that's bad or just ok is how they handle upcoming problems. There's a bunch of ways to do it well, and a bunch of ways to fuck it up.
Like, if you look at Call the Midwife, it's done really well as a tv show. 15 seasons, generally good reviews, etc. And it's managed this by pulling off a few different things. The fact that it's a group cast helps a lot - different characters cycle in and out, and they each have their own problems and issues. The fact that the show actually moves in time is also good, because characters can grow and change, and new problems come up as time passes.
A problem we see a lot is the "dragon ball z problem." aka constantly raising the stakes without any thought to making it interesting. See also Supernatural. There's not enough thought into making it fun or interesting or keeping the audience involved. Goku just keeps on finding more enemies to fight without any reason more than he just likes fighting strong opponents. The audience isn't invested.
No, that's historically inaccurate costuming. It is good costuming in that it is doing exactly what it is trying to achieve. It's just that what it's trying to achieve is BOOBS.
so dig this; in this movie (which is Clue, if you don't know) she's not actually a french maid, she's a call girl who is playing the role of a french maid, and in all likelihood provided her own uniform from either her "work" closet or that of the brothel where she was employed
If you think someone is queer, or anything else, just .... don't make assumptions. Because they can come back to bite you in the ass.
Like, this is the best case scenario right here. Manager's suspicions were right! Go Manager, for not making this a Thing.
But Manager is taking the reasonable view that they might be wrong. What if the person's still in the closet? What if they're not trans, and this is just how they actually look, or their preferred style choices? Not everyone looks like a "typical" cis person, after all. Messing this up is at best a dick move, and could mean a HR complaint. Or opening someone up to harassment or physical danger from being outed as queer. So Manager is just being responsible.
For adults, the appeal is Sir Patrick Stewart doing a kid’s educational bit in full Shakespearean dress and style; there’s a delightful cognitive dissonance between the very serious presentation and the very simple content.
For very small children, it’s educational: this is the letter “B”; here’s how it’s shaped; here’s some words you know that start with it. Oh, and here’s a word you may not be familiar with that starts with it, so you can recognize that it’s the sound that matters, and not whatever other connection you made between the other two words.
For older kids: you’ve probably heard that “to be or not to be?” speech, or at least part of it, so you can enjoy some of the parody the adults are watching. Also, here’s how to describe how a letter is made - how to teach young siblings who don’t read yet, how to explain both the shape and the sound.
For kids with dyslexia: here’s how you differentiate a “B” from a P or D or E. You may have to go slowly and look carefully at the exact shapes that make up the whole, but there are differences and you can learn to recognize them.
For teens or young college students: In addition to whichever parts of those are relevant to you, here’s what Shakespearean acting sounds like. Here’s how to enunciate clearly and slowly, so your audience can understand terms they may not recognize and still follow the gist of what you’re saying. If you’re reading Shakespeare in school, try sounding it out like this and see if that helps it make sense.
For new RenFaire workers: Here’s how to pronounce “zounds.”
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honestly, good for her. There's so many parents who go through their kids' stuff for no good reason, and it's terrible for the kids' mental health. These parents are proving to their kids that the people that they should be able to trust the most are inherently untrustworthy, and that fucks you up.
Unless you have real, demonstrable proof that you kid is doing something dangerous, seriously illegal, etc. - don't go through their stuff! Let them have their privacy!
alright whose idea was it that the blue lion was the “friendliest and most accepting” of the lions? if that a canon thing or a fanon thing? because when allura is getting ready to explain the qualities of the blue pilot lance interrupts her and we don’t get to hear it. so? where is it said that blue is accepting? what if she’s not? what if she is actually the choosiest of the lions? sure red didn’t take keith as her pilot till she deemed him worthy but are you really gonna tell me that the blue lion sat on earth for 10,000 years, while the galra swarmed the known universe, with millions upon billions of humans at her disposal to choose from and she SETTLED for lance??? no no no i don’t think so.
lance is having doubts about his place on the team. he got his lion first, but… does that really mean anything? everyone says she’s the most easy going lion. did she settle for him? could she have had someone else? does she want someone else? was she just trying to get off earth so she could have the universe to scour for a new pilot?
he goes to her with his fears, because even though he is insecure he has always been able to talk to blue without feeling judged.
her voice booms inside his head.
“You humans understand so little. I was on your planet for ten thousand years. I have seen civilisations created and crumbled, the rise and fall of empires, the beginning and end of wars. I have passed on Kings and Queens, monarchs and warriors alike. I could have had any human hero and there were many greats to choose from…. and yet I waited for you. Even as an infant I could feel your presence and I knew you were the one. In a few meager years, I would set in motion the events that lead you to me. You, out of all of your kind, out of every being in the universe, were the only one I found worthy in ten millennia.”
You can find it on their character profiles, along with all the Paladins and the villains as well.
You’re right that out of any of them present and who might have found her, she chose Lance, though! But there’s also an aspect of how the Lions kind of- they almost have a matching psych profile to the Paladin they’re bonded to. It’s heavily hinted that Black is also suffering from trauma, like Shiro is. Green is described as adventurous and upgraded, a match for Pidge’s own sense of adventure and love of science.
Out of none of them, though, is there anyone quite like Lance, who fits Blue’s psych profile as someone just as friendly and welcoming. If Blue was the choosiest and pickiest of the Lions (like Red), then there might be differences in how she and Lance think, which might make it harder for them to understand each other.
Think of it like this - you’re in the middle of a big area full of people, and you’re trying to be friendly, but you don’t really hit it off with the few people who come your way, and you’re not really all that good at moving around. And then - and then! There’s this person who comes to you and they’re friendly and they’re just like you, and now that you’ve met them, you hit it off so well you couldn’t imagine being such best friends with anyone else.
and like .... I know people who are very friendly. They'll work hard to make everyone in the room happy and comfortable (like Lance) but that doesn't mean that they like everyone in the room equally. Being very social doesn't mean that you don't have closer friends/relationships with specific people.
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