#the owner of a random bar wont let him order

[femprincesstoyourbutchknight]

The kids will be the type to over exaggerate his age comically when introducing him

"This is Florence, he's so sad. He's also 19."

"Flerida, please we're talking to a rebel leader-"

"No no no didn't Florence have his 13th birthday last month? Fuck, I remember when he took his first steps"

"Don't swear Campbell this is serious"

"Yeah Campbell don't swear in front of the 7-year-old"

"Butch, you're no longer allowed to play with the gun"

"iM NOT PLAYING THIS IS IMPORTANT TRAINING WHICH IS WHY I NEED TO DISABLE THE CHILD LOCK—"

sick of this anti-aging obsession. let's go in the opposite direction. i want more characters who are hardened & grizzled & have a face lined with the harrowing tribulations of time--and then halfway through the narrative u find out they're 27

[taki118]

Was No One Gonna Tell Me that ‘How to be Single’ is Actually Really GOOD?!?!

So I just caught this Rom-com 2016 on tv recently and like its kinda my favorite now. Like the trailers were super deceiving I thought it was your standard Girl breaks up with guy has random fun as a ‘single’ meets emotionally unavailable guy says they wont be together but are at the end making the title a moot point. 

But like it’s not. It’s actually a really good showing of the ups and downs of relationships and learning to love being on your own. 

So the movie follows like four stories that interconnect

Alice: Main character, who’s been in a long term relationship forever and has difficulty being independent.  Meg: Alice’s older sister who has control issues  Tom: a perpetually single bar owner, who befriends Alice Lucy: a girl desperate to find the one, who Tom is interested in David: a recent widow who Alice dates in the movie

Explaining this story i’m gonna go out of order a bit and character importance. So I’ll start with our most basic story Lucy and Tom.

So Lucy is a hopeless romantic who wants to find “The One” so goes to Tom’s bar frequently on bad internet dates. She’s often consoled by Tom there afterwards. But she is aware how against relationships he is and ends up thinking she finally fond the one on the app. Only to have him tell her he thought they were just casually hooking up causing Lucy to have a public breakdown where she meets George. The two click and soon get engaged.

On the flip side Tom is bar owner who is very much against being a relationship wanting to stay free. To like an insane degree he makes his home just like so uninviting it seems difficult to live there. He befriends Alice at the beginning after a hook up between the pair. Cue surprising thing one of this movie despite the pair hooking up twice their relationship is utterly platonic. Tom slowly warms up to the idea of a relationship as he connects with Lucy and through his talks with Alice. Towards the end of the movie he decides to confess his feelings to Lucy giving the standard rom-com “Choose me not them, I’ve always been here.” And second surprising thing Lucy the romantic turns this down telling Tom that he doesnt really love her just the idea of her. 

The movie ends with Tom fixing his apartment to be like habitable and opening himself up to the idea of being in a relationship while Lucy and her finance marry happily. 

Next Meg’s story

Meg is an older (by that i mean like maybe 40) woman who works in OBGYN and very against getting involved in a relationship as she has control and trust issues. Despite being against being a mom Meg decides she wants to have a child and gets a sperm donor soon after she meets Ken a younger coworker of her sister Alice, and the pair hook up aka surprising thing number 3 older woman x younger guy relationship. Meg wants to break things off seeing it inevitable with their age gap but Ken still pursues her. Meg agrees to see him thinking he’ll get sick of her soon enough and doesnt tell him about the pregnancy. 

Eventually he finds out and vows to stay with her and help raise the child, eager to be the baby’s father even though its not technically his (actually excited at the idea of being a stay at home dad). Meg tells him he doesnt know what he’s talking about and that it’s not just about her and cant trust that he’ll always feel that way ending the relationship. But after she gives birth he comes back telling her he wants to be there for and her and the baby and the reconcile. 

Now David

He and Alice hit it off at a party and they quickly start a relationship. His wife had died a few years ago and has a young daughter. While Alice and the daughter connect and all seems good things take a turn when the girl requests Alice to sing “Eyes of you” she complies and it upsets David telling her she’s not the girls mother. Alice realizes that he hasnt fully dealt with his wife’s death nor ha he truly explained it to Alice and tells him to do so. The pair breaking up. He apologizes later to her telling her she was right and he did over react. His story ends with him talking to his daughter showing her pictures and videos of her mother singing “Eyes of you” the movie ending with him starting the healing process of grief. 

Finally Alice. 

Alice breaks up with her longtime boyfriend Josh to experience being single and life in New York for a while. She befriends coworker Robin who shows her how to have fun. After a while she tries to get with Josh again, who tells her he started dating someone else and this causes her to spiral a little as she thought being single was just a temporary thing and she’d be with Josh again. 

After this she meets and dates David and all that entails. While with him she confesses how she always wanted to hike the grand canyon on new years but always had a reason not to, while David says hiking isnt his thing. While single she meets up with Josh by accident and her old feelings resurface and begins texting him semi regularly. 

At Alice’s birthday party Robin invites all her ex’s including Josh. This upsets Alice and she fights with Robin who confesses that she feels Alice just uses her when she feels down after break ups and that she doesn’t have any sense of self just falling into guys and being what they want. Soon after this she starts to reconcile with Josh only for him to say he’s still with the other woman and Alice realizes Robin was right. 

After this Alice spends time on her own and training regularly. Soon she reconciles with Robin saying she’s her best friend and she loves her and she was right, and Robin accepts saying she loves her and missed hanging out with her. The film and Alices story ends with her hiking the the grand canyon as she’d always wanted to and surprising thing number 4 our main character ends this romcom single and happy about being single.    

like look only two of our 5 story leads end up in relationships and they happen when neither is really looking. Lucy meets her future husband by accident after her ex makes her breakdown in public. She thought she was done looking and there he was. Meg was all for raising a child alone she never thought she’d meet someone as reliable as she does and was prepared for that relationship to just be a fun story later on. 

The movie has this message of know and love yourself first before you try to love someone else. Lucy and Meg had a good sense of self prior to their relationships but the rest didnt. Tom thought he was someone who didnt need anyone but he wasnt he wants that support. David thought he was over his grief and ready to let go but he wasnt. Alice thought she knew herself but she didn’t. 

I just honestly lost my mind when the movie ends with Alice still single giving a monologue about how being single is a good thing to be cherished as she does this hike she’d always wanted to do on her own fulfilling herself and smiling to the camera. Like fuck it was good.