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Im a lover girl behind my 1938293 walls i promise

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Time lapse of the Moon and Venus behind Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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I know people are adverse to good faith conversations on here but “Larry shouldn’t have lied” and “Marian didn’t have to rashly end the engagement via letter” can both co exist

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THE GILDED AGE 3.06 – If You Want to Cook an Omelette

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Marin Honda & Shoma Uno: Wild Side » 2025 Ice Brave

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They really ended the episode like that no one was allowed to smile fr that’s crazy

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THE SUMMER HIKARU DIED - 1.04 "Summer Festival"

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What I really like about The Ugly Stepsister is the way it manages to do a revisionist fairy tale from the villain's point of view without rewriting all the characters to be their opposites. Elvira gets meaner as the story goes on, at first casually and then maniacally, but I believed every step of that downward progression. Agnes/Cinderella isn't as sweet as her Disney counterpart, but she isn't unreasonable- she needs a rich husband to get her away from her stepfamily, and if she isn't all that sympathetic to her bully's unhappiness, would I have been?

There is a true fairy tale heroine, though: Alma, the other stepsister, who didn't go to the ball. She has all the fairytale protagonist characteristics- she's plucky, she has no time for her mother's mind games, she'll go to heroic lengths to save her family, and perhaps most important, she's the youngest of three sisters. And at the end, she rides off to seek her fortune, like a good fairy tale heroine- looking, in fact, a bit like the title character in the film Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella.

Is this fair? Of course not! Alma gets to be the fairytale heroine because she doesn't care about being one, and that's not fair at all. That's the bind women are put in, where you're supposed to succeed while not putting in any visible effort (that would be vanity, after all.) But neither fairytales nor horror movies are fair.

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The Ugly Stepsister (2025) — dir. Emilie Blichfeldt

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not to be dramatic but i need a nap, a hug, 20k in cash, and to disappear for 3 months

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This is so on brand

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We finally get some fresh music choices for once and here y’all go

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larry russell confirmed ally

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Eager and terrified for when the Rhythm Dance music choices start rolling in

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there's not a single nonchalant bone in my body. i care so much i could literally vomit

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Im probably never going to get to blow up a gas station before I die

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The toxic mother/daughter bonding that Bertha and Gladys are about to have in next week’s episode is going to be so real