Alex Mouse from Fantasyland

Brazilian Rede Globo television program Fantástico invented the story and concept driven Music Video a whole decade before MTV.

reporting a trans woman for "NSFW" (completely normal selfie in a tshirt) - 1 button press

In May I saw Hamilton the Musical live in London with my family and this guy was playing Thomas Jefferson:

Oz Paese incantato

I think I would cry of happiness if my work was ever described like that. 🥹

Gives me huge soft steampunk vibes.

Something I hate is when people act like a story being a metaphor for something else means it's not actually what it's about on the surface anymore. Like, you know both can be true, right? It can be a fantasy horror with a real monster and that's the material reality for the characters in-world AND it can be a metaphoric commentary on XYZ themes for the audience too.

This reminds me of when Frozen was first released. Some people decided that Elsa's ice powers were a metaphor for mental illness. In particular, some people noted a remark from Jennifer Lee about Elsa's body language, which she said was "to convey anxiety and depression" (presumably meaning Elsa's anxiety and depression caused by her fear of her powers and resulting isolation) and they decided that it meant that Elsa's whole struggle with her powers is a metaphor for clinical anxiety and depression, even though Lee never said that. And then they were offended on two levels. First of all, since the plot's main source of conflict is the fact that Elsa's powers are dangerous, they felt as if the message was "Mentally ill people are dangerous." And since she realizes in the end that love is the key to controlling her powers, many people complained that the apparent message was "Love is an insta-cure for anxiety and depression."

The fact that it features the Walrus and the Carpenter as a rubber hose cartoon segment just goes to prove your point even further @princesssarisa

@rayatii

so I'm reading the wizard of oz book and I'm not sure if l. frank baum intended this exchange to be as funny as I'm finding it

the whole point of girls doing the not like other girls thing is basically them believing that the girls around them lack an interior life. they were raised on depictions of women as shallow caricatures and they recognize themselves to be actual people with thoughts and feelings, but instead of drawing the conclusion that these depictions of women are incorrect, they draw the conclusion that those depictions of women are correct and that must mean they're smarter and have more substance than the "average" woman. to exit the not like other girls phase means recognizing that all real life women have the same level of interiority as you do, and that depictions of women in the media as consistently empty headed and frivolous are misogynistic stereotypes not grounded in reality.

@themousefromfantasyland @therapeuticfairy @gravedangerahead