#damned snobs

[pav-anne]

movie: high fidelity

year: 2000

dir: stephen frears

[bereft-of-frogs]

with Vernestra being in the new book and seeing some people comment on like 'waiting for the other shoe to drop with her arc' (sorry if you happen to be the person who wrote that on reddit and are reading this haha, I actually really agreed with your review, that line just popped out at me), and my own frustrations with wishing they'd just invented a new character to fill her role in The Acolyte, because speculation on how we make the (kinda big) leap from book characterization to show characterization is overshadowing her character in these last few books, I started wondering like why did they choose Vernestra to be the one book character to bring forward? They had to retcon the Mirialan lifespan for it, didn't they? I know they probably wanted at least one book character to get the book readers on board with the series, but there wasn't anything that jumped out at me to explain why that figure had to be Vernestra. Then I got it.

...I bet they just wanted to use the lightwhip.

I mean first of all it is a cool, unique weapon for the series, even though they only used it in that one shot, fair enough lol. But I bet they had the idea for that shot of Qimir's scar to connect to whatever turned him to the Sith and planned the arc from there, so they had the plot first (Qimir fights his former Jedi master, leaving him with the scar that can be strategically revealed when it is time for #traumatic backstory) and slotted Vernestra into it because the lightwhip makes for a unique enough scar pattern to serve as heavy foreshadowing when it's revealed in episode 6.

But damn, I wish they had just made it like Silandra's shield and had it passed down, I would have been chill with Vernestra being Qimir's master's master, that would have made sense to me. But that's definitely where the 'they needed a character from the books to get the book nerds to watch the show' lol and maybe they already have Burryaga's (the only other character I can think of with a sufficient lifespan) ending planned (#fear). But it still does kind of suck that the ending of the book series has to be viewed through this lens of 'ok well how does this explain what happened between book Vernestra and show Vernestra...'

[lindentea]

...yeah, that checks. 😂

[juanitasupreme]

Eddie Murphy the demon that you are

[mightnotfeelrealbutitsok]

hello everyone today i performed very mediocrely as always at two auditions so please pray for my acceptance into an orchestra nevertheless

[sigmastolen]

now that i'm ✨an online student✨ i've been feeling really ✨inadequate✨ about the course website for my reed class at alma mater bc the library school's materials are extremely shiny (as befitting a program that is fully remote for over half its students)... ✨until now✨

i finally found a course website ✨Worse Than Mine✨

[an-ivy-covered-summer]

every time i see a stupid joe alwyn stan calling travis kelce a brainless, freeloading, gold digger jock i feel ready to hit someone with a bat. like. you can’t be for real. you can’t be saying those things in all seriousness. do you know how much of an ignorant, prejudiced snob you are??? and to defend a man with a mediocre at best career acting???? just because you think being “classy” and “intellectual” or whatever the fuck you think that guy is makes him inherently superior to an athlete??? just because you’re prejudiced and ridiculous enough to think that athletes are inferior beings???? like, shut upppppppp. you’re just pretentious and idiotic and a bore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chussy]

considering becoming one of those espresso guys that has €30k worth of various espresso machine accessories so. i can make myself 10 shots of it every morning

[duriens]

wow I am. reading the masked empire (yeah I know I'm late to the party) and jesus I hate every single character except briala and felassan. every faction sucks except for the city elves (and the mages)

[thecreaturecalledriza]

If they do ever put Sam in ofmd, I really hope he gets a Devonshire accent, considering historically he would have grown up in a little village right next to the Dartmoor.

Also I think it would be very lovely to have Izzy listening fondly while Sam told stories about the Whistman Wood. Or just hearing him talk in general. Just two working class men from opposite sides of the same country (since Izzy’s accent has been described as northern). And they’re in love. Izzy would probably grumble about Sam loving to hear himself talk, but the complaints are empty, since Izzy is the one who loves to hear Sam talk.

Also just the little frustrations of differing dialects. Sam asking if Stede would put in a request to Roach for cutrounds (scones) and Stede having no goddamn clue what that means. Cue a very circular argument about what a cutround/scone is, followed by “oh, you mean a scone” “No, I mean a cutround” and other similar arguments around dialectical differences.

It’s like a verbal pingpong match. It’s the best entertainment Izzy and many of the crew have had since Stede set the party boat on fire.

[bitegore]

I got tea. This was a better choice but it still tastes really bad. I should only ever expect disappointment from campus cafes. My snobbish beverage drinker ass cannot abide this low and embarrassing level of quality

[dreamings-free]

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[doux-amer]

I watched The Menu and loved it because it featured every single thing I hate about the food world and the arts in general. It’s brilliant because it's multilayered and multi-pronged in its satire and reducing it to just ONE aspect of its criticism (“rich people suck”) is too simplistic; even if you took away their richness, each character from the customers to Slowik and Elsa on the opposite side stands for a certain type of person who interacts with food and I hate every single one of them. :))))))

Also, it's hilarious because 2022 had The Bear and The Menu and people who work in the food industry/service industry or are have some connection to it talked about how they got stressed out by one and felt catharsis through the other. Both of them let them feel seen, but one was feeling seen in a bad way and the other one was in a good way even if you liked both fkasjflksajf.

[attapullman]

Just saw myself in the mirror drinking my homemade Blue Bottle coffee and wearing my mini Uggs.

Clearly I am homesick 🤪

[mothsantics]

journal 10: 09/12/2023

listen to hollow eyes by camping in alaska

[sigmastolen]

skimming a paper to decide what subject headings to list it under for an assignment and i am dying bc it's about navigating web sites in 2001 and it's the most Web 1.0 thing i've seen since miller updated their site

nostalgic but also hilarious