#I’m a ruined woman

[kingkatsuki]

[everytaylorswiftsongisaboutcats]

[reputayswift]

Was looking at “how to get over your fear of driving” threads and someone said your fear IS valid and you should consider moving somewhere more walkable. okay ❤️ yay ❤️

[waspgrave]

I need to know Neve’s age. She’s giving me mid to late 30s which is interesting for me, as my Rook’s giving me early to mid 20s vibes

This vibe

[veeta-cuculidae]

its interesting to me how everyone’s wishes in persona 5 royal have to do with the catalyst for their rebellion. like ryuji getting to live in a world where kamoshida doesn’t break his leg and force him off the track team, or yusuke where his sensei doesn’t betray him, doesn’t plagiarize. they get to skip those moments that revealed how unfair the world is, that made them want to fight back.

so logically joker’s wish should involve his false conviction. it should involve that event which forced him to transfer schools, to live in a store attic, to be labeled by everyone he met as a delinquent, a criminal. but even in a perfect world, all of that remains unchanged. he accepts that that experience Made him Something, that it was for the better in that it let him be a phantom thief, got him to meet all his friends.

no, to joker, the real thing that betrayed the world’s unfairness was akechi dying. akechi’s circumstances, being used by shido for years and then being discarded the moment shido didn’t have use for him anymore, the fact that akechi not only didn’t get the revenge he committed himself to when he was just a kid but therefore also didn’t get the opportunity to move on from it, is the one thing joker couldn’t stand. and it’s not just that joker wanted akechi to go to jail in his stead, because notably, akechi isn’t actually in jail in the third semester.

really, joker just wanted to see akechi again. he wanted to see him again because he loved him.

[thepeoplesevilhag]

Apparently I don’t mask well at all and I’m just giving straight up autism and not manic pixie dream girl. Day ruined

[deeplyridiculouslyinlove]

Today in “a straight man wrote these books”: they all get naked for the Amyrlin ceremony?!

[ciderjacks]

The JD vs Amber Heard stuff was actually insane. I didn't keep up with it because I disagreed with the sheer principle of publicizing something like *that* but the misogyny was MASK OFF...

NO LIKE FRL IT WAS SO INSANE

[music-orthemisery]

not your original "twin speak" anon, but to add, i remember this one interview after as and pw just got married and it was mentioned that he was talking to the interviewer for a long time, and as was like, 8 hours?? i don't think i could talk to you for that long before she goes back to wherever. or that time he described his wedding and getting not-jitters but just being zoned out. this isn't a diss on as, and i dont think i make much sense but. i think pw mentions "twin speak" when he talked about her because that's what in his vocabulary and he wanted to romanticize her (and isn't that funny it's the same thing he says with...anyway), but that time of his life wasnt all that peachy. what's obvious is that he wanted to be in love so badly.

Oh, anon, you are opening a can of worms for me and I am HERE for it.

Because…yes. “He wanted to romanticize her,” and “he wanted to be in love so badly,” could be entire thesis statements.

I have a lot of thoughts on the Pete/Ashlee relationship, but it boils down to - anyone who was paying attention and/or actually looks at all the details of that time would see it’s very likely that this relationship at least STARTED as PR. All the signs and set up were there.

At the core of it, Ashlee was continuously striving to edge-up her image to set herself apart from Jessica. She was also still trying to come back from the SNL incident. The Simpson family was HUGE at the time and very few of those girls’ actions weren’t carefully calculated by their father, Joe. Like, both girls had reality shows and for what? This was like the equivalent of the Kardashians then, and Joe was Kris Jenner.

(Side note - this is why the idea that Pete “held Ashlee back” or negatively impacted her career is…odd. She already ruined her own career with the SNL thing in 2004. She was getting HUGE at that point, and it was genuinely a disaster. People would NOT let that go. Getting with Pete was a continued attempt to claw back from that and he genuinely had nothing to do with it.)

Simultaneously, Fall Out Boy was absolutely MASSIVE, and all eyes were on Pete. He was attractive, charismatic, and was the poster boy for what was “hot” at the time. Pete was also…not in his best mental state for most of it. His interview answers and journals point to someone who just wants to feel “normal” and like he’s doing things “right” for once.

It’s also heavily alluded that his label was pushing this as well. Hollywood and fame at the level they were at requires strategic calculation, and Pete’s adjacent obsession with “protecting” the band and being the perfect frontman likely made him agreeable to their suggestions. (“Put love on hold, young Hollywood is on the other line”)

The fact that there were suddenly several points where Pete says “Ashlee Simpson” as his celebrity crush or whatever in interviews and then they’re spotted together…? That shit isn’t real life. Especially not in the Simpson household. Especially not for Pete Wentz circa 2007.

Were they attracted to each other? Totally. Obviously. They have a child. But were they in LOVE LOVE and good for each other? Fuck no. Not at all. Their shotgun wedding due to Bronx was Pete doing the “right thing” and getting that “normal guy wife and kids” fantasy he’d been desperate for. I’m sure the Simpson family also had much influence, but by no means am I saying Pete didn’t go into that willingly. He made his mistakes, they were his to make. Ya know? Hehe

I’m also not saying anyone is a villain here. They were all pawns in a money game, and everyone is a loser when that’s the case. In retrospect, it was obviously good in ways that Bronx exists and helped Pete start to realize the mess his life had become. Both he and Ashlee moved on to different people who they seem much happier with and better suited for. Luckily everyone made it through to healthier places. That’s unfortunately not the case for many.

So there’s a novel just to agree with you, anon! It was such an odd and sad time for Pete, and I’m glad he was able to put the pieces together into something objectively more settled, healthy, and joyful.

(And, ok, just a few disclaimers: Before anyone is like “you’re just saying all this because you have truther mold” - genuinely, for me, you can take Patrick completely out of the equation and I would still think this. I thought this back when it was HAPPENING.

Also, you can totally believe their relationship was disingenuous and unhealthy and that doesn’t have to equate to hating Ashlee/women? Not sure where that idea came from…maybe there’s some other fandom trauma there or something…but that’s genuinely not the case for me at least. You can totally dislike something and not have some…morally questionable reason behind it. Nuance and context, babes. They’re beautiful things.)

[gigisriley]

don’t become friends with authors they’ll say shit like b “talking to you is like getting a backscatter of brilliant light from a mirror. because you GET IT and you MAKE IT BETTER” in a tumblr dm and absolutely ruin all future complements for you

[coachbeards]

remembering how keeley and roy initially connected at the gala with being accountable with one another, and how juno (and i think brett) too said this is probably the first time they had someone apologize to them like this, at least romantically. and how accountability is HUGE to keeley, as it leads to her breakup with Jamie and everything,,,,,,,,

and you’re telling me. she and Rebecca mended fences off screen????

[yeeclaw]

As much as I enjoyed seeing Laura in Deadpool & Wolverine, one thing has been bothering me since opening night, and I can’t shake it:

Why did Marvel design her a shirt that says “Savage”?

It’s a fictional band t-shirt. I spent hours reverse image searching and browsing album covers and tour posters of bands with related names, album titles, and song titles, and while it’s clearly inspired by real rock bands and tours, it was nevertheless made up. They actively chose to make up a shirt with a derogatory racial term for a group Laura and the actress who plays her is not a part of for her to wear. Someone was paid by Marvel to design it. Why?

Now companies are selling copies of the shirt, so more people will be out in the world wearing a shirt with a term that, whether you want to call it a slur or just a “derogatory racial term,” has a dark, violent history and makes many Native Americans uncomfortable. It is a word that was used to justify cultural genocide within my parent’s lifetime, that has been used as a justification for racist discrimination and hatred within our lifetimes, not just Logan’s lifetime.

Logan had band logos, too. They used Awaken the Dreamers by All Shall Perish. The title track is about fighting for human rights and ending oppression, the design features the Statue of Liberty holding a gun, not a torch, surrounded by the silhouettes of swarming military planes. Now in Deadpool & Wolverine, we’re casually using the word savage, sticking it on a “feral” character with a reputation for violence. It could be powerful if Laura were Native. She escaped from a government run institution systematically abusing and dehumanizing children based on their heritage. Logan cast primarily people of color to play the X23 children. Gabriela Lopez died at the Liberty Motel and Logan died at what was described at “the last stop on the mutant underground to Canada”. They utilized the mutant metaphor very deliberately, and I feel that Deadpool & Wolverine’s choice of costuming for Laura did that a disservice.

(Yes, I’m aware of Savage Wolverine. Its potential as an Easter egg for a racist comic book title doesn’t make it not racist)

[sggk]

Ur best friend borrowing ur phone at the noodle place you’re happily eating at to it turns out secretly create a Hinge account w/ ur face & name and begin swiping and flirting w women “on your behalf” while coincidentally and obviously spiralling about unconsciously realizing she’s bisexual and also avoiding her long term boyfriend and being like Isn’t it so crazy my evangelical family would disown me if i wasn’t with a man haha was a whiplash i wasn’t expecting in our casual dinner plans . Getting my phone back later w all these messages like Bitch you KNOW i’m anti manufactured interest and ur out here ruining my good name (and FACE!!) to further the cause of ur repressed lesbianism lanxkwndkasm

[seaweedstarshine]

To soothe the pain, love, while I don't believe the Doctor - that is 1-12, the others might - ever SAID 'I love you' to River, I am convinced they taught her Gallifreyan just so she'd understand they kept tracing 'I love you' onto the back of her hand at random moments

Awwh! :’) I love the idea of the Doctor randomly tracing Gallifreyan on her skin to express all the things that they can’t say! I’d sort of thought River knew Gallifreyan instinctually with it on the TARDIS screens, but with her connection to the TARDIS being so inherent, maybe there’s no need.

…but now I’m imagining River recognizing (with their lives out of order), that the shapes he’s tracing are Gallifreyan circles. And maybe she’d connect the dots and study Gallifreyan on her own. And then she would understand what he’s writing — and start to take it wrong that he’s writing it but doesn’t have the guts to actually tell her, and she would overthink forever but not actually ask him…

Until the Doctor notices asks why she’s being cold — and then she tells him — and he says he thought she already knew—

(Crying and hugging ensues.)

[littlespoonevan]

ngl I personally find it incredibly weird how many people on the internet are so staunchly against syd and carmy falling in love because ‘there aren’t enough male/female friendships on tv’ when there are characters with less chemistry and less potential than them that’ve been shoved together and shipped over and over for literal decades

[tsuchinokoroyale]

Him @ 3 AM: u up?

Me: … yeah what’s up?

Him: haha, what’s got you up so late? got too much stuff running through your mind?

Me: yeah, pretty much.

The video on my phone: