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someone: don’t u think it’s disturbing how in the past few years the level of femininity women are expected to perform and the industries they’re expected to contribute to in order to be taken seriously, especially on platforms like social media, has skyrocketed to the point that perfect makeup, contouring, acrylic nails, and eyelash extensions have become almost a social expectation and when women express no interest in adhering to those standards they’re met with vitriol and scorn straight woman who thinks Legally Blonde is the apex of feminist media: okay but it’s my choice? if i want to be feminine i should have the right to choose to do that because feminism is about choice

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wicked getting rave reviews, movie musicals we are so back!!

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The stewards of the old world are always keen to give you a glimpse of their might... According to legend, the ancients built specialized chambers to seal away false prophets.

The Arcane is waking up.

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im always for cutting out romantic storylines so this is just typical for me but axel and sam could be so good without the super intense pining like CMON samantha larusso went on a nice little night time beach walk and came back with a giant croatian terminator guard dog because she was nice to him. they got that horse girl movie dynamic where axel is the unfriendly horse and sam is the girl with boundless optimism and apples. they stop by barcelona's fast food restaurant of choice and she marches up to the counter like él dijo sin pepinillos and when you look up, staring stoically over her shoulder is a boy mountain. miguel and the rest of miyagi do are ike "uh whatcha got there?" and sam just goes "a smoothie! :D" and then there's axel kovačević behind her with the world's tiniest awkwardest smile.

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rewatched episode 1 of season 2 and theres this part where sam and robby both smile up at daniel in sync and it was so cute that it might just spawn a whole birds of a feather edit for them

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I need to understand why Miguel, A FUCKING TEENAGER, is standing in front of Daniel and Johnny, TWO FUCKING OLD MEN IF YOU CARE, in the middle of a beach as if he were an angry latin mother scolding her two children

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eli moskowitz - "am i making you feel sick?"

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Kind of crazy of cobra kai to take a break from the anti Asian racism to start throwing strays at the Irish

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they really put the indomitable human spirit into this cobra kai soundtrack huh. wow

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they really put the indomitable human spirit into this cobra kai soundtrack huh. wow

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they really put the indomitable human spirit into this cobra kai soundtrack huh. wow

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I need people to write fanfiction about Yoon and Tory's friendship

They gave us crumbs and I need more!!

Where's the fic where Yoon is showing her around his dojo? Where's the fic he brings her food when she misses dinner time?

I need someone who has Korean knowledge to write them teaching each other more about their culture.

I want Tory telling Yoon that kwon is a little bitch for stealing his captaincy and that he's just as good.

Give me a fic where kreese and Kim realize that Yoon and Tory work great together

Just give me their friendship please 🙏🥺

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said it on discord, but i'd love to say it here - i feel like, if they choose to show kwon's death as kreese and silver's turning points - both as the ones who began the cycle of violence that he eventually got himself killed in - the symbolism of someone literally killing themselves on a knife meant to symbolize winning the prize is NOT lost on me and i love that storytelling choice.

"winning the prize" has always held the same messaging of the american dream that kreese and silver were originally aspiring towards - you're going to hurt someone, you're going to kill yourself in the process, but you have to get there so bad and it ties so DAMN WELL with the messaging of generational influence and the cycles of violence. kreese is emblematic of the darker facets of this cultural ideal, highlighting themes of ambition, competition, and the relentless pursuit of success, often at the expense of morality and compassion.

it's kreese's silver knife - the dagger he's attached to his never ceasing grudges - and it ending up lodged in his champion's chest.

it's tory asking if it's worth it - to win, even if you're putting your friends down - and eventually, choosing her friends.

it's kreese implanting those thoughts in her head about individualism - projecting his own feelings about his life, about silver and betrayal and lost friendship to circumstance.

this story may struggle at times with where it's finding the ground of its messaging, but the themes of violence and competition being associated with that of cobra kai, and nonviolence and camaraderie with miyagi do, are not lost on me at all. and if they actually move forward with this theming (and honestly, make something better out of whatever the hell they're doing to miyagi), they can close this story out in a really nice way.

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"what the hell?" - sam and eli

(an edit for my favorite worsties, their season 3 hater arc was truly unparalleled)

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let me tell you driving from Ohio to Washington in a SmartCar with everything I owned was funny enough on its own but once I got west of the Rockies, every. single. time. I stopped ar a gas station, random dads would just spawn beside my car. like there was some sort of dad portal following me. and they’d see my ohio plates and go, “did you DRIVE through the mountains in that?” and every. single. time. I’d go, “well, they didn’t airlift me!”

it killed. it absolutely cleared ever time. never failed to make the dads laugh. they were obsessed. i said it the same every time. it was like I was in a groundhog day timeloop on interstate 70 westbound gas stations. and you know what? I was happy.

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I did not expect how many of Trump’s admin picks this time around would just be people that he likes seeing on TV