#no more and no less

[ernmark]

I think it's miserably hilarious that one of the most fundamental, explicit points of the Barbie movie was that you can't fix the world with a product or even an idea. That these things are too simple for the complex, messy world that we live in, but some products can be nice to have and some ideas can be valuable as little tiny stepping stones as you make your way through the world.

And so many of the criticisms of the movie that I'm seeing can be summed up as "how dare they make a product that didn't fix the world? How dare this movie not tell all these other stories (which are told much better in other movies made by people who actually have the lived experience to tell them) instead of the one it set out to tell?"

[fideidefenswhore]

I just finished reading The Mirror and the Light, and wanted to know your opinion on the dynamic portrayed between Cromwell and Wyatt. Why do you think it was written in the way it was? It seemed like he didn't blame him at all for Anne's death.

Mm, I mean...cynically, that was a cynical approach (the only person the text even suggests, that seems to believe Anne's death wasn't deserved, was Cranmer). I don't think it's made explicit, really.

Beyond the evidence of their professional relationship, it's likely that the Spanish Chronicle was the inspiration (selective...inspiration...since the report from the same source that Cromwell tortured Smeaton is rather derisively dismissed):

Amongst all these gentlemen he noticed Master Wyatt, the gentleman who had been imprisoned for the affair of Queen Anne ; and he called him, and said, "Oh, gentle Wyatt, good-bye, and pray to God for me." There was always great friendship between these two, and Wyatt could not answer him for tears.

[paaopalpoerepr33]

Honestly so proud of my little home rn it has been such a hard year where I watched my previous homes deteriorate all around me but it was all to build this new one :’) I’m overjoyed to have something that’s mine and not falling apart and I don’t live in a garage anymore either! I bought almost everything all over. I clean my little home very very well every weekend and read and work at my little desk or tucked up in my little bed. On weekdays I wake up early to feed my little tabby as the sun is rising and I come home when it’s dark and I sleep restfully every single night and every day I am so happy to live in it. I love my little home, I built it for myself and my little happy round orange cat.

[zytes]

this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

[wizard-laundry]

QUICK REMINDER

In the US: threatening government officials is a felony under federal law (the president in particular is protected under 18 U.S.C. § 871). Even memes.

be careful with your jokes if they spill over to active officials.

[caffeinatedopossum]

Me when I remember something I said ages ago that was wrong or my values no longer align with

[wanologic]

sorry danny, sam will never think you’re cool

[luminixx]

“Your mom” gone wrong. Not the right person.

this is lowkey so unserious don't kill me. it's a reference to all that stuff about his mother that I am seeing.

[bisclavaret]

a day late to my 6 years on t anniversary ✨🏳️‍⚧️ a short comic about looking back

[valtsv]

are we still doing this because i have a late submission

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Dunno how to put it properly into words but lately I find myself thinking more about that particular innocence of fairy tales, for lack of better word. Where a traveller in the middle of a field comes across an old woman with a scythe who is very clearly Death, but he treats her as any other auntie from the village. Or meeting a strange green-skinned man by the lake and sharing your loaf of bread with him when he asks because even though he's clearly not human, your mother's last words before you left home were to be kind to everyone. Where the old man in the forest rewards you for your help with nothing but a dove feather, and when you accept even such a seemingly useless reward with gratitude, on your way home you learn that it's turned to solid gold. Where supernatural beings never harm a person directly and every action against humans is a test of character, and every supernatural punishment is the result of a person bringing on their own demise through their own actions they could have avoided had they changed their ways. Where the hero wins for no other reason than that they were a good person. I don't have the braincells to describe this better right now but I wish modern fairy tales did this more instead of trying to be fantasy action movies.

[payasita]

being a manager sucks balls half the time but the cashier kids im in charge of trust me enough to dick around in front of me so ive been keeping a running list of the shit they say that makes me laugh randomly: -"guys, is it cheating if you play fortnite with your ex" [4 seperate others, immediately]: "YES" -"there must be like… infinite sentences" -"bro what bro what the fuck bro what's that mean bro why'd you say that bro what" <distraught response to a girl randomly greeting him with 'hey there big boy' in an old timey transatlantic news reporter accent

[mariacfrantz]

If a fella makes a nebula right in front of you, how are you not gonna pine after him for 6000 years?

[orphetoon]

(sketch) blood in the water

[egophiliac]

it's never the last time.

I was trying to justify to myself having Leona know how to use a waffle maker, and. well. sometimes you just gotta go where the flow takes you.