#Tom Mills

[procurement-insights]

Is It Time For Procurement To Speak The Unspeakable?

Why should procurement be afraid to speak the unspeakable?

EDITOR’S NOTE: This morning, I read a post by Tom Mills that stopped me in my tracks. I am not sure he will share his post on LinkedIn, although he should. However, I could not help but wonder why someone—Tom, in this case—should apologize for speaking his mind and sharing his true thoughts regarding procurement. I am not saying I agree with everything he has said, but the whole idea of honest…

[beautifulsweetschaos]

They got him 😔 they got Pookie 😫 I’m gonna kms

[timetravellingshinigami]

Why do people hate female characters so much? Incels hate female characters. The yaoi shippers hate female characters, the writers of a show or movie literally either don't know how to write a female character or ruin her story and push her aside. Like what's up with that??

Also, what's up with fandom? Y'all see a man whose gone through trauma and has issues trusting and is just an over all grumpy fellow and you want to hug him.

While a female character goes through the same thing and she's ruining the vibe for y'all??

[kathrahender]

Some people always get angry when a villain is redeemed. They say things like "Stop redeeming the villain" "Villain redemption is such a terrible trope" "Not all villains deserve redemption" "Villains redemption are ruining media" "You are afraid of villanous characters because you can't bear people making mistakes" "Villain redemption is toxic/unhealthy" "You shouldn't try to fix someone!" and- Well- I have to talk about this because I seriously don't understand why people don't want to accept villains redemption.

"Villain redemption is such a terrible trope" "Villains redemption are ruining media". No, it's not a bad trope. Is not ruining media. It's an awesome trope, a wholesome trope, and I'm gonna say why. A villain redemption means nothing more than a person realizing they did bad things. It means a villain becoming a better person, a villain leaving the Dark Side because humanity and honor were more important than evilness and cruelty for them. And that's a beautiful concept. A villain becoming good? A villain who stops being bad because after all, they have a good side, because they are human? Where's the bad thing there? Where's the bad thing in realizing how much pain you've caused, and changing your morals for good? Seriously, people who hate villains redemption, where's the problem in this trope?

"Not all villains deserve redemption". Again with this tiring argument. When will you understand it? A villain redemption is not based on if they deserve it or not. It's based on the villain himself. It's based on their thoughts, on their morals. It's based on them changing from "I want to hurt/kill everyone who is against me" to "Oh God I'm a monster, what have I done?". Villains don't "deserve" redemption. They just redeem, or they don't, and it has nothing to do with "deserving" it. Some of you could think "Not all villains should be redeemed then!". I will talk about that argument in the last paragraph.

"You are afraid of villanous characters because you can't bear people making mistakes". That's definitely not true. That's bullshit. We're not afraid of people making mistakes. If that was true, we would be afraid of a hero making mistakes. And we aren't afraid of heroes who make mistakes. Because making mistakes makes you human. But- realizing you made a mistake also makes you human. That's what we like about this trope. A bad person, a villain or an anti-villain being actually human deep down.

"Villain redemption is toxic/unhealthy!" Actually- you know what's actually toxic? Hate. Hate is actually toxic. Hating someone is unhealthy. Of all the things you can do in your life, hating someone is the worst thing you can do. Why losing time hating when you can do better things for your heart and for your soul? Because the only thing you will get with hate is your heart/soul corrupted. A villain redeemed is not toxic nor unhealthy. Why a person changing for the better would be toxic or unhealthy?

"You shouldn't try to fix someone". Why? Why shouldn't I try to fix someone? Why shouldn't I want a bad person to turn good? Why shouldn't I want a villain becoming a hero? Why should I want the hate in this world to grow? Why should I want evilness to win? What you're saying doesn't make any sense. I want to fix villains because I believe in goodness! Because I want the good side to win! I want people having a happy ending, and the only way a villain can get a happy ending is being redeemed. And I want the villains to have a happy ending too because dying or getting tortured/being imprisioned after being suffering in your past is horrible. Yeah, I know villains hurt people, but some of them also were hurt, and although I don't justify them, I still want their pain to end and I want them to live, not just survive. I want them to change for the good, why is that so bad?

And even if they were "born evil" (what I doubt because for me villains are made not born) and "didn't suffered"- I want them to have a happy ending after redeeming because I want to believe in their goodness, in their humanity, and I don't want them to die because I think they also deserve a second chance in life and a chance to be happy (because if you can't be happy in this life, what's even the point?).

"But why would you want a villain having a happy ending after all they did????" Because I don't want them to suffer. "They made other people suffer, why would you want them to have a happy ending?" Because I believe no one deserves to have a bad ending in life. "So you defend the monsters in real life??? You support the real killers?? You are a murder apologist!!" Now hold on a fucking second. There's a fucking difference between liking a villain in fiction and want them to have a happy ending and want the real life villains to have a happy ending. Fiction is not fucking reality and you should know that. I want villains in fiction to redeem because I want to believe in their goodness, because I want to believe everyone is capable of being good, because I want to believe love and goodness can conquer all. Because I want to believe that no matter what, the good side will always win. Besides, most of the villains live in magic worlds, where sometimes death is not permanent, where you can see your loved ones even if it's not for a long time. And in fiction time-travel also exist. None of these things happen in reality. There's no magic, there's no time turner who can help you travel back in time to erase the villain's actions, there aren't Force Ghosts of your family or friends. Real life villains' actions are irrevocable and unforgivable. You can't bring back the dead because in this world once a person dies, that's the end of the line. But that doesn't happen in fiction. So stop comparing a real life villain actions with a fictional villain actions. They're not the same.

To end this post I want to say that the ones who like villains redemption (I'm a part of those people, of course) don't want all villains to be redeemed. There are villains we hate with all our heart, villains who are pure evil who doesn't deserve anything good. Villains like Gerard Argent, Dolores Umbridge, Sheev Palpatine, Captain Turner, Sebastian Shaw and Azulon. And more villains like those. So yeah, we do not want to see every villain redeemed.

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[deepestconnoisseurmoon]

Dunkirk (2017) Dir. Christopher Nolan

[acecroft]

SLEEPY HOLLOW 1.01

[letthewhumpbegin]

Dunkirk (2017)

[sincericida]

The Audible original audio drama, set to premiere April 4, stars Andrew Garfield (“Tick, Tick…Boom,” “The Amazing Spider-Man”) as Winston alongside Cynthia Erivo (“Wicked,” “Harriet”) as Julia. They are joined by Tom Hardy (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight Rises”) as the voice of Big Brother and Andrew Scott (“All of Us Strangers,” “Fleabag”), who plays the mysterious and dangerous O’Brien.

The cast also features Romesh Ranganathan as Parsons, Natasia Demetriou as Mrs. Parsons, Chukwudi Iwuji as Charrington, Francesca Mills as Syme, Katie Leung as Ling, and Alex Lawther as Ampleforth.

[bonobochick]

[beautifulsweetschaos]

Episode 3 was titled ‘The Burning Mill’, yet we never got any battle scenes and they erased Bloody Ben for this new character ‘Davos Blackwood’ 🤦🏻‍♀️ why make up a new character when there is already a perfect character written in the source material???? Smh 🤦🏻‍♀️😤

But asides from that, Rip Bracken Twink 😔

[cyanidecravings]

mill + 🐱

[timetravellingshinigami]

The fact that Sleepy Hollow 2013 is an extremely good show. It got all the perfect troupes, great characters and suspense and plot twist. Just all round fun. And the actors were perfect and the dialogues on point. But it's barely remembered. I never see any art of it, no edits nothing. My Instagram will be filled with edits and art from TV shows and movies from years ago but 2023 is the first time I've heard of Sleepy Hollow show that too not because I was recommended it but because I was looking for character inspiration for Twilight on Pinterest 😅😅😅

It's shocking how such a good show is not discovered by newer fans. Not recommended. Not talked about.

And now I know it's because it's own writers and producers ran it into the ground. What a shame. They had no vision. They could have had the best show in existence, But they destroyed it all with their unprofessionalism, racism and a whole lot of mess. And now they suffer the punishment of that.

This show deserves to be rediscovered by newer fans, but I don't know how that would be. There's a certain bitterness to it all.

[boardchairman-blog]

**Shots of the Episode**

House of the Dragon (2022)

Season 2, Episode 3: “The Burning Mill” (2024) Director: Geeta Vasant Patel Cinematographer: Catherine Goldschmidt

[movies-tv-more]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 2x03 "The Burning Mill" airs tonight at 9pm on HBO

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