#i am still fuming

[darlaxfurrr]

oh i am wishing so many bad things upon kai havertz right now

[imaginesforallkindoflove]

the history of women? like with eve and the rib? /j

I do not know my kind friend I am a woman I am a simple minded being only here to take care of the home and the kids /j

(I believe in English it is called gender studies! And women studies! In my language it is called differently)

[wutheringheightsfilm]

i seriously cannot emphasize enough how disgusting it is that in probably the most mainstream adaptation of wuthering heights since the first film in 1939, emerald fennel and her casting director(s) have decided to whitewash heathcliff. again. not only is casting jacob elordi a criminal offense because he arguably can't even act the part, but it's even worse because that role should have gone to an actor of color instead. heathcliff is explicitly written to be dark skinned, he is extremely heavily coded as black and romani, and so for emerald fennel to cast jacob elordi is an insult of the highest fucking order.

not only that, but the 2011 adaptation by andrea arnold was the first film to have heathcliff be played by black actors, so tell me why more than 10 years later we're back to casting white men?

i knew from the outset when they said "emerald fennel is directing wuthering heights" that it would be a joke but i didn't realize this was going to take the cake as the worst adaptation of wuthering heights in all of history

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

Watching the GOP trying to pivot and find targeting on Kamala that the Average Voter™ would agree with is hilarious. It's largely been clips of out of context moments where she laughs awkwardly about bad jokes she made. A few mentions that she never won a primary and are their best hits. They have nothing else outside of dog whistles, and those guys were always voting Trump. Like we hate her here for her being a cop, but the GOP can't fucking angle 'cops bad' to their base. As awful as 'tough on crime' rhetoric is, it's immensely popular with the exact kind of people who are swing voters. Even the attention from the attempted assassination was basically lost as all the focus shifted to Biden's decision. Theres suddenly a momentum around the DEM candidate we haven't seen since Obama. It feels like it went from an uphill fight to keep Trump out to a layup.

[antiquepearlss]

I’m too tired to post an essay but my girl was just a victim of bad writing and a lack of critical thinking from the audience okay I love her.

[littler3d]

Alicent Hightower 🤝 crusty cole

Asking rhaenyra to run away with them and being rejected because of her duty which is also the reason they met her and (will probably) begin to hate her because of it

[textfromthelookout]

Did you hear of the news?

I have. :(

Everyone else has their tributes so, here, a summary of my experience with Dragon Ball.

I was in fourth grade art class. A kid had the February 2005 issue of Shonen Jump, back when Shonen Jump was still physically printed here. I recognized Atem on the front cover because the Blockbuster around the corner from our house had DVDs (I think they were DVDs and not VHSs then since I distinctly remember it having a menu and special features) of some of the later episodes of Duelist Kingdom and my brother and I watched them on repeat. So I was like oh, hey, what's this? They make books of that stuff? I don't remember the conversation but the kid ended up giving me that issue, and I took it home with me.

There were a LOT of significant, groundwork things happening in that issue, now that I think about it. We were just beginning to see Sanji truly in action against Pearl. The Dark Tournament was in it's early stages still with Roto fucking around and finding out against Kurama. Sakura shears off her hair in a move that rearranged sexualities the world over. The reason Atem was on the cover was because Yu-Gi-Oh Millennium World was just debuting its first and second chapter. Bleach wasn't even serialized yet. And Dragon Ball, of course, was also there, about a hundred and fifty chapters ahead of everybody else.

Keep in mind that this was my first experience with manga, period. So my very first experience with Dragon Ball opened on this:

and ended on this:

Yeah. Truth be told, at the time Yu Yu Hakusho piqued my interest more than Dragon Ball (a guy fighting with plants? how creative!) but I never did forget these chapters. I thought the art style was so different from the others.

At some point after this, probably between several months and a year and a half, the TV happened to be on one evening when Toonami was airing Dragon Ball Z. Oh hey, I said, I recognize that art, I know those characters. So I hung around and watched some of episode 281. Two things about watching that episode stick with absolute crystal clarity in my mind to this day. Firstly: Buu choking Vegeta out with his arm freaked me the FUCK out as a child. I could not tell you why I had a fear reaction to it but hey, there you go. The second is this:

Specifically I remember 'You died once. If anything happens to you now, you won't exist anymore. There'll be nothing I can do to bring you back.' Not precisely word for word over the years, but Schemmel's tone of voice on this particular lineread. If I had to guess I'd say it was because at that point in my life, uh, death was kinda permanent? So wait, what do you mean died ONCE. Doesn't that apply to everyone?

This still wasn't enough to get me super invested in it though, it just didn't seem like something that would appeal to me that much. So a couple years go by, I don't think about it all that much, and then of course, TFS hits the scene and drops DBZ Abridged. So you know. As a shithead middle schooler with a shithead sense of humor I thought it was the best damn thing since sliced bread. (My biggest character flaw is that I still think a lot of Season 1 is genuinely funny)

And that was really the extent of my interaction with the franchise for the next several years. Say what you will about DBZA but they did manage to put it all together such that someone who had a nonexistent concept of what the original context was could grok it with not a lot of effort. Some time in high school, I think I was around 15, I decided to bite the bullet and read all the manga, as much to increase the funny factor of DBZA as sheerly for the sake of being able to say I had. Stick it to the other weebs, y'know. Now they can't say I didn't know anything about good anime. This was unfortunately at a time when all that was available online were dirty poor-quality scans and questionable translations, but read it I did. I went 'yep, that sure is about what I expected', and proceeded to get on with my life. GT came and went, I looked up and saw Battle of Gods coming out and went 'oh hey that's still a thing huh', kinda was peripherally aware of all the divisiveness of Super as it was happening, didn't really pay it much attention, just stuck to DBZA and quite a lot of wiki-ing.

And then, this time of year about three years ago now, in the middle of conversation with @prophecydungeon, Dragon Ball somehow came up. Something to do with 'Even though I'm not hugely into DBZ's story or whatever Toriyama does have some great character designs' (yes I was referring to Vegeta and Future Trunks at the time, no i will not stop being predictable, yes i am a parody of myself). They eventually brought up the DBS Broly movie and said, and i quote: 'that was a solid 1.5h of unbelievably fun and wacky animation'. Having seen the Gogeta vs Broly part of it on twitter and been like 'damn that animation's kinda off the hook actually, good for them good for them', my response was to be like. Oh word? I've got a spare hour and a half to kill, sure, fuck it, why not, time to watch DBS Broly.

I think that movie was precision crafted to hit me in the hyperfixation, if we're being honest. Opening on a solid 20 minutes of Lore and Worldbuilding and then having most of the rest of the runtime being mindless slobberknocker fun by way of some of the hardest animation flexes ever? I was done for.

In summation. I have been aware of Dragon Ball for a lot of my life, in that its presence was pervasive and enduring as I grew up. I may have been late to the game of actually wholeheartedly enjoying it, but enjoy it I do. Dragon Ball is the roots of a vast tree of anime, and in reading it I began to understand why that is. I respect it for that, and I love it for that. My current fixation may have shifted, but as far as time devoted to one individual thing goes... it took me a year and a half to watch my way through all of the anime and read all of the manga. ALL of it. So there's something good in there, I'd say.

[presdestigatto]

breaking my silence i fully believe charles is winning in vegas

[deus-ex-mona]

ngl i want lxl to double down on the whole “we’re lovers” thing that they have going on in meoto and continue acting as lovers in their future songs. they’ve given their fans enough love, now it’s time for them to love each other on main!!! and hey, maybe they’ll finally be canon—

[gayboss-too-close-to-the-sun]

I am going to murder Griffith I swear to god. Sure, the eclipse pissed me off, made me hate him, but somehow chapter 180 is worse. He protected Casca. He doesn’t have the fucking right. How dare he go near her, how dare he talk to Rickert like a friend, how dare he act like he has a right to protect Casca. He lost that privilege long ago.

[unionizedwizard]

literally the only thing that unites ALL french people, regardless of class, values, background, milieu, job, etc, is that they're physically unable to write a grammatically correct interrogative sentence. i am the lone delusional knight fighting windmills out there (l'inversion du sujet dont personne ne semble avoir entendu parler, apparemment)

[schalotte]

as i get older and potentially experience more health issues i dread to think of the shitass unprofessional doctors i'll have to deal with....

[zorosdimples]

today was rough since i never got the job call i was anxiously awaiting + bella decided to act out and tear up a door and part of the carpet.

[recitedemise]

I'm unloading a bit, but with how common comments denying Gale's abuse are, I couldn't help but wonder how much of the blatant rejection of Gale's experiences are due in part to his age.

He is an established adult. He's in his 30s and he isn't a child anymore. Despite Mystra being obviously older (as an entity as opposed to this specific 'reincarnation'), she presents herself as within Gale's age range and can easily be seen as a twinge younger. These two things could come together and present to you this image that Gale was the one who held the power in their dynamic.

But? It isn't even physically that much of an age gap if there's any worth mentioning at all. He may be a man, but then so what? Are men not capable of being abused? And is an established man at that not capable of being abused?

It's such an ugly unspoken bias people who make these comments are refusing to acknowledge. No one can rightfully fathom how a goddess can be powerless before a mere mortal, but thinking a grown man HAS to be the one in control beside his partner who is a woman, who may be younger? That's easier.

And truthfully, coming out of a deeply toxic and abusive relationship myself as the older partner (my then late 20s to their mid 20s where I was gaslit consistently, shamed constantly, relentlessly had my beliefs and intentions decided for me, had my discomfort/worries/disapproval/voice dismissed during sex just to name a SPARSE few), I can't help but to rile even harder seeing how a subset of the community treats Gale's story.

Abuse victims aren't a one size fits all. Gale doesn't have to fit anyone's mold.

[cloudydays69]

I'm trying really hard not to go ape shit about the recent splatfest results rn, but HOW THE FUCK??????

[sforzesco]

TAYO ANG EDSA

The EDSA Revolution, Feburary 22-Feburary 25, 1986

Photo Credit: Joey de Vera, Peter Reyes

Phil Star article headline / statement from Marcos (released through the Philippine News Agency) / We Can Do Hard Things Ep 164 / On Repentance and Repair, Danya Ruttenberg / Nick Joaquin