#I literally made so many new friends

[teenagesatellitess]

My photos from both days at wwwy… I didn’t get any good ones because I was too busy jamming the hell out but I got pink stage on day one and purple stage on day two. I’m still in shock. Like absolute shock. I feel like day one while I was at pink stage are the better photos even though it was a screen. Oh and there’s a snippet of Disenchanted!

[vacz]

In The Hunter Au, Wirt basically turned into The Beast's pet. But not like a dog or a cat, is more like having a ape as your pet...

Just saying.

[thebirdandhersong]

Lol

[skeletalheartattack]

hi I like gelato a lot

[zehl0w]

I'm having delusions of grandeur yall

[phillieladybird]

i am feeling so weird i mean nothing feels real

[kuiinncedes]

:c

[robertleckie]

2024 was one heck of a year, but hey, at least I started 2025 right by finally watching Masters of the Air! Literally can't believe it finally happened, I remember when it was just a whisper on the horizon. I watched Band of Brothers and The Pacific for the first time in like... 2013, and even at that point they were talking about it, but it just never happened.

[nexus-nebulae]

ppl always say that autistics don't get jokes but honestly when has a neurotypical person ever clocked the fact that I've told a clearly telegraphed joke like. I'm the one who takes everything too seriously?

[patrice-bergerons]

One of the many things Exeunt gets so damn right is its treatment of change that is foisted upon you against your will.

When you aren't particularly adaptable and happy in your little enclave, external forces uprooting your life can and does feel like the end of the world.

But Endeavour isn't the end of Morse’s story--sitting at that churchyard he may not know it yet but he will meet people who will come to mean so much to him; there will be so many more concerts and drinks with friends and convoluted puzzles to solve.

And still that doesn't (and won't) negate the grief of what he has lost, of the now past he can never return to again. It's such a hard balance to get right--to let us sit with that grief without sugarcoating it and yet with the knowledge that neither is it the end.

[adustoflove]

This will always be a better option than arguing with people and attempting to control them. It's not great, but at least I can control myself by just leaving

[girlivealwaysbean]

it would feel so nice to work towards a career that has meaningful impact and makes millions of people happy

[nebulouscoffee]

... well it's that time of the year already. If anyone's got a Star Trek ask I'd love a distraction <3

[feral-cockroach]

ok with the way jess is introduced she is this absolute badass of a woman (which remains true) who rides in on a motorcycle to help miguel, who is a Man(TM) who doesn't want to admit he needs help sometimes

which is the PERFECT setup for a motherly figure (dunno if u have seen birds of prey but the way that dinah is in the show towards cassandra) and it is revealed that she is pregnant (heavily) and so she IS a mother !!! so u are like "yes a found family movie with a mother figure (cos found families with parental figures usually have father figures - think aizawa from MHA, or all might to deku in MHA) and so youre excite bc its subverting expectations a bit by giving this group of misfits a mother figure, right??

and then she stands up for gwen - she advocates for gwen to miguel - "we can't just leave her here. she's doing this all on her own". she acknowledges that gwen is just a *child*. an older child, but a child nonetheless , and that no child should have to go through what gwen is going through, and that they are literally the people best equipped to help gwen navigate this world of being spiderman, and they can give her a community !

and so shes filling that mother figure role !! and you get even more into it becaue yes !! a mother figure !

but then the conflicts start to go down. gwen visits miles' universe partially to track spot and partially to visit miles. and jess calls her and is openly disappointed with her for visiting miles - despite miles being a little younger than gwen, despite miles being a *child* aswell, despite miles trying to navigate being spiderman and a high schooler and becoming his own person - what they all went through ! - despite miles going through what they all have, and what she said gwen should not have to face alone, she gets mad at gwen for visiting miles, for interacting with him and not focusing on the mission at hand

the mission to locate spot - an anomoly - and bring him in, and try to get rid of him/take care of him.

and so you're like "oh ok so shes a flawed mother figure ! but she iss till trying to help mentor gwen, and help gwen navigate this !"

but then when they go to clean up the mess in Pavitr's universe, shes even *more* rude to gwen. miles followed her ! how could gwen be so dumb ! and gwen "*let him*" disrupt the canon !!

she's blaming gwen for being a child now . for being a child who was/is lonely, adn who missed her firends, and who wanted to go visit her friends. except miles is the *only* one that she has a problem with gwen visiting - its mentioned several timest hat gwen goes to hobie's universe (so often that they know each other quite well ! and have , according to hobie, gone on "at least a couple dozen" missions together! ) and she has visited pavitr's universe enough that he recognises her, is happy to see her, and is comfortable enough with her to joke about miles being in love with her/her being in love with miles, which means that they are close enough that he knows how , at least on some level, how important miles is to gwen!

and then when gwen goes to stand up to miguel for miles, when gwen goes to bat for him, jess says "gwen, don't." its not a "hey this is a bad idea", its a "gwen. do not. do not stir the pot. let him have his way. do not try to fight this battle." its her declaring herself as on miguel's side, her telling gwen that miles *needs* to let his dad die, that this is not a battle gwen should be aligning herself with - that gwen is too young, too small, to be making the right decisions, and she needs to trust miguel.

it's jess declaring that she is no longer going to help/support gwen, should gwen stand up for miles against miguel.

and finally, when gwen makes one final last ditch effort to get anybody on her side, when she specifically asks *jess*, the presumed mother figure, the *literal mother*, to tell miguel he is wrong, to stand up to miguel - adult to adult, rather than child vs adult - jess tells gwen that miguel is right.

and this is all because she has allowed miles to be dehumanised to her. miles isn't a child to her - miles is an anomoly. miles shouldn't exist , and gwen should not be close to anomolies. miles *shouldn't be* spiderman. and gwen should, which means that gwen needs to get over her feelings towards miles. gwen needs to forget the guy that was there for her when she was at her lowest, loneliest point, if she want s to keep the community that was supposed to support her.

there is absolutely a metaphor there that i can't quite pick out yet, but i will, because i think about this so often.

and so you see jess initially as this found family mothering figure, and then you see her as a literal mother - and how could a literal mother not see the absolute tragedy befacing gwen and miles ! two best friends, who met at their lowest and helped each other through their darkest times, finally, *finally* able to reconnect. and now miles has found out that his dad is going to die and he is just *supposed to let that happen*? and miles doesnt want his dad to die ! but jess sees him as wrong for that.

and so jess goes from found family mother figure, to literal mother (and how could any mother not be sympathetic to the literal children before her, facing the impossible but wanting to do it together, as they already have and are bound to do again!), to a mother who is flawed, and may not always be on the right side of things but is trying her best, to "shes not a mother figure at all, not to gwen and miles. shes a mother, but she is not a Mom. not a Found Family Mom, maybe not a Mom at all (we haven't met her child yet, so we don't know). but she is not the ally we expected her to be. she cannot be trusted.

and it just COMPLETELY subverts your expectations of who she is/is going to be from the start of the movie to the end of it and i LOVE IT for that

[paperbag1999]

i’m someone who sees things in like constant shades of grey and i quite often try to see the light side of things and i think i’m constantly reminded of all the great stuff i have in my life. also i am full of gratitude all the time and also every time something bad happens to me i’m like yknow what this makes sense🫶 all these bad things suck but they lead to so many amazing things i’m hyper aware of the butterfly effect. so uhm i’m a pretty resilient person if i do say so myself. so today when i came to the realization of OH. i’m having a BAD YEAR!

[twistedappletree]

we could be really cute roller skating besties who jam to vaporwave and mallsoft in the city at sunset but nobody i know wants to leAVE THEIR FUCKING HOUSE & TRY NEW THINGS