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"Act like you like me!" Alex says cheerfully. Henry looks at him like he's trying to choose between a million choice words, before tipping his head to the side and offering up a well-rehearsed laugh, putting his arm around Alex too. "There we go."

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I'll be there when the world stops turning I'll be there when the storm is through In the end I wanna be standing At the beginning with you

REBELCAPTAIN week | Day 4: Quotation or Lyrics -> "At the Beginning" from Anastasia (1997) (in/sp/+)

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Derry Girls – 2.03: The Concert

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) + Joe Wright’s DVD Commentary

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#REGULAR WEEKEND

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You've been isekai'd into a fictional setting. Spin this wheel to find out which one.

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Buffy Summers + Swords

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12 days of leverage christmas — day 01 family

you know, i never had that cool a time on a job. it's a walk-away. and i got focus issues, brother, you kept me right on. i'm really good at one thing. parker. only one thing. but, you, you know other things, and i can't stop doing my one thing, can't retire, and-- wanna know what i think? not really. how long before you fall apart again? oh, i'm touched. yeah, well, a guy like you can't be out of the game, alright? that's why you're a wreck. you need the chase. yeah, i'll manage. [...] you pick the jobs. my job is helping people. i find bad guys. well, go find some bad guys. bad guys have money. black king. white knight.

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KATE & ANTHONY | Bridgerton S3

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@PSCENTRAL EVENT 27: SCENERY

A Filmic Tour of Hatfield House: the Marble Hall

The Favourite (2018) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

Shakespeare in Love (1998) dir. John Madden

Enola Holmes (2020) dir. Henry Bradbeer

Bridgerton (2020 - )

The Flash (2023) dir. Andy Muschietti

Get Him to the Greek (2010) dir. Nicholas Stoller

All The Money in the World (2017) dir. Ridley Scott

Batman (1989) dir. Tim Burton

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) dir. Jon Watts

Orlando (1992) dir. Sally Potter

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) dir. Shekhar Kapur

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) dir. Burr Steers

Rebecca (2020) dir. Ben Wheatley

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Music in Film: Twisters (2024) dir. Lee Isaac Chung

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BILL NIGHY as MR. WOODHOUSE EMMA. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde

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@pscentral event 24: team tools

⤷ Emma. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde as watercolor paintings

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You know what's so devastating to me about "God that I were a man"? It's the way that in this situation, Beatrice is not exceptional. In the first acts, she appears to be exempt from the gender roles that everyone around her complies with: she has avoided marriage so far, and she has license to playfully criticize and reject being "over-master'd with a piece of valiant dust" (2.2.55-56). She even suggests to Hero that she claim some agency over her engagement: "it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy, and say, 'father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say, 'father, as it please me'" (2.1.48-51). Beatrice has carved out an existence for herself that everyone else tolerates; her wit allows her to live outside of people's expectations of womanhood.

But Beatrice is not exempt from being a woman. When it actually matters, when Hero is disgraced by powerful men with no regard for her wellbeing or humanity, Beatrice can't do anything about it. And "God that I were a man" is so painful because it reminds us--and Benedick--that no matter how transcendent Beatrice appears to be, she is still constrained by her role in Messina's society. Back in act one and act two, the reason that she was allowed to poke fun at men wasn't that she couldn't be stopped; it was that it didn't matter. She has no actual power to change the order of things, and so her verbal sparring is not a threat.

(An aside: I think that Benedick is taken aback by "God that I were a man" because this has never really occurred to him. He sees Beatrice as his intellectual equal, and he has watched her carve out space for herself effectively (they know each other of old). In the 2011 production with David Tennant, the costuming and acting choices show how Benedick starts actively performing masculinity only when he accepts Beatrice's request to kill Claudio--when he has to "be a man for [Beatrice's] sake" (4.1.314). In the first acts, he wears tight clothes, a crop top, and a miniskirt. From the wedding on, he wears his military uniform and then a suit. His body language also changes; he abandons physical comedy, stands tall, and emotes less when he speaks to Claudio and Don Pedro. He wields his masculinity as a weapon because he now realizes it's a weapon that Beatrice cannot wield herself.)

The crashing realization of Beatrice's limits is so devastating to me because it's so familiar. I can only speak from experiences I've had, but as a queer woman I know that tolerance is different than empowerment. That having grown up evading dating and romance with made-up excuses to hide my queerness, having realized the extent of the misogyny in an organization I cared about and having grappled with how that misogyny prevented me from effecting change, being allowed to exist is not the same as being able to participate, to make things different. God, that I were a man. I would eat his heart in the marketplace.

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@pscentral event 30: friendship

Now the other players realize. These guys have a relationship. In fact, a criminal one.

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Huevember DAY 7 : BLACK WIDOW aka Natasha Romanoff

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April Ludgate is beautiful. Stop. You are talented. No. But most importantly, you're passionate about animals. That's true. It's because I'm half wolf.

Aubrey Plaza as April Ludgate in Parks and Recreation (2009-2015) created by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur