#this should be illegal tbh

[transformersbrainrot]

Oh my god im gonna be fucking sick

i hate themmm

[megah3rz]

somehow i manage to be surprised everytime i find out my favorite characters are taller than me like im not 162cm/5'3"ish ?

[izzyspussy]

the fact that they made it illegal to make ads louder than programs on tv in 2010 but haven't updated it to apply the same regulation to streaming. who do i have to call.

[gojosoups]

Time to lock in. See you all tmr 🗿

[newtonsheffield]

It’s nearly time for Aus GP presale and I’m nervous as hell.

I know I’m good at fighting the Ticketmaster war but I am tired of it.

[lobsterwizard]

My dashboard is all that cat au and i can't even draw cats

[glitchervius]

Hey kids wake up. Time for some delicious angst!

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[ayspec]

Aplatonic Day of Visibility is tomorrow!! i have a big exam tomorrow so i’ll be too busy to make posts celebrating it but i just wanted to say that all apls are valid!! aplatonicism is beautiful, and none of us need to “fix” ourselves. realizing that i’m apl has been liberating for me, and the apl community has taught me a lot about friendships and platonormativity

all of us are amazing, whether aplatonic, grayplatonic, demiplatonic, caedplatonic, aplflux, questioning, friendship-repulsed, friendship-favorable, etc. etc.!! we deserve respect and to be seen as valid identities in the queer community. i’m proud to be apl, and to all other apls out there, happy Aplatonic Day of Visibility!! 🍏💙💜

[kyouka-supremacy]

Enough old man yaoi. Where is my old woman yuri

[marciabrady]

Hi! I was surprised to see somewhere you mentioned you don't like Lily James's Cinderella. I'm not judging, just surprised bc she seems to be widely considered the best live action princess depiction. I do think her Ella is less spunky and interesting than OG Cinderella but what criticisms do you have? Do you think she's as bad as Rachel's Snow will probably be?

I don't think anyone will ever be as bad as Lily was in her film, not even Rachel. With Rachel, it's a difficult situation because people keep changing what she did depending on what the public reaction is to absolve her of any wrongdoing so the internet can baby her. If people are upset with her comments about disliking Snow White, everyone will rally to her defense and say, "But she DIDN'T say that- watch her interviews!" and if someone clips exactly what she said, the goalpost is changed to, "OK, but it's an 80 year old movie; she was right!" So there's no merit in any discussion regarding Rachel, though I do think it's an out and out shame to have one of the most influential films and characters of media history be seen through such a banal lens, with criticisms which don't even hold any weight and all likely originated by an apathetic dullard that had beef with their childhood and took it out on a Disney film, and those criticisms kept getting passed around decade by decade (like I don't think these people who parrot these things to attempt to be intellectually superior to whatever they perceive to be the dominant culture of the past realize that they're really just repeating misogynistic trite half the time; like at Lindsay Ellis' character arc on The Little Mermaid from the late 2000's to today). I don't think anyone who actually watches Snow White for themselves, Rachel included, would have the takes she touts to have if they had to use their own head to come up with those opinions. But that groupthink and monoculture is an entirely different story for another time (and we can see how it's evolved, from everyone agreeing with the things she said despite it not lining up to the movie, to then morphing to the point of actually trying to pretend that Rachel loves the character of Snow White; posting pictures of going to the parks near the character's merchandise after being cast as the character is something different entirely to showing an understanding and appreciation of it, both of which Rachel is completely lacking in. The only thing she admires about Snow White is her reflection in it, now that she's been cast).

With Lily specifically, I think it's much more heinous for so many reasons. Not to compare traumas, but Snow White goes through more than any other character- male or female- in the animated canon. So while she, too, suffers abuse in her lifetime, I think Cinderella's film is the one that's kinda become the posterchild for surviving abuse so I think Lily opening her uneducated mouth and cosigning on victim-blaming rhetoric was not only incredibly inane, detrimental, uncalled for, and harmful of her to do, but also just...incomprehensibly dense when she gave us someone that more closely aligned with the victim doormat she accused the original of being? To be pompous and as self aggrandizing as Lily is, going to movie premieres that are only possible because of the original production which was the labor of love for thousands of artists, and to put it all down and paint abuse victims in such a shallow, unintelligent light, lacking any perspective, and propping your version up as the "stronger," more "empowered" one, when she gave us one that was more centered around a man, objectively weaker in every possible way, less nuanced, and hyper-sexualized, pandering to the male gaze...to me, it's everything wrong with these Hollywood hypotheses today in a nutshell.

Ilene Woods' Cinderella is so multilayered and human. and with it being a realistic portrayal, it can be alienating- because it reflects life. Some people like you, some people don't. Ilene's Cinderella had limits and could be curt and struggled with her faith and resented her situation, but she also had a fighter's spirit and was resilient and had humor and courage. You got a sense that, this was someone who never had any resources of their own and became, to everyone else, what she never had for herself, which created a path toward her inevitable freedom and success. Lily's...smiled dully, communicated ineffectively, and was a mess from a characterization standpoint. All the ways they tried to make her "empowered" or "develop her" hurt the story. The film is called Cinderella- by trying to develop her relationship with the Prince by making them meet in the woods before the ball, they changed the motive for Cinderella going to the ball to meet the Prince again. That's a HUGE step back and more closely aligns with Lily's insane comments that the original "just waited for a Prince to save her." In the original, she didn't even think she'd ever see her dance partner again after she left the ball. Her fighting for her right to go to the ball was symbolic of her demanding to be seen as a person in the eyes of their society and refusing to be bypassed once more. She didn't come for a Prince- you can see that by the way she showed up to the ball by herself and journeys through the Castle, admiring the architecture, while everyone else- including Anastasia and Drizella- are lined up to meet the Prince. Never once does she mention a man or love in any way until after he approaches her at the ball. She even leaves the Prince at midnight and doesn't know until the next morning who he is or that he's looking for her. That's a long step away from Lily's portrayal, 65 years later.

They try to give Lily more "snappy" moments to prove that she can assert herself (which original Cinderella had no issue doing) but they do it in a way that's largely ineffective. She challenges the Prince, but that's the only person and the way she does it...oof. When he asks her about her family, she passively whispers, "they treat me as well as they are able." But she's comfortable yelling at a stranger with weapons about hunting??? How is this the same person???? When she speaks back in French to her family, but the audience doesn't know what she said and neither does her stepfamily- and after it, she just runs along and does their bidding anyway? There's so many more examples. And, of course, her spinning around in circles and singing out-loud in the attic is the most obviously heinous example of her characterization. I swear, it's crazy to me that these real people half a century after the animated films, that accuse the originals of having shallow and regressive characters, give us just that. It's also funny to me that Lily James went on a press tour bashing the original Cinderella and looking ignorant as it pertains to abuse and feminism, and then got offended when reporters asked if her waist was photoshopped and she had the gall to reference the fact that we should be in a time where women support women. Lily's production of Cinderella reinforces Eurocentric beauty standards more than the original- the stepsisters, Lady Tremaine, and the Fairy Godmother all fit a very similar type of conventional beauty- young, hyperfeminine, white with VERY similar features, and stylized. They're completely monolithic in terms of body type and appearance, and took away the diversity of age ranges, body types, and physical features in the original. Then for Lily to gape about people asking her about her diet, after she spent an hour bashing the original female character as being "passive." Lily even openly admitted to being laced within an inch of her life, naturally being thin with a small waist but having to go on a liquid diet because she couldn't fit into her clothing otherwise. She laughed about having to belch in the Prince's face over and over again because she was so tightly laced and her stomach hurt from only being able to drink liquids and not eat...idk she just lacks in any intelligence or charm to me. I think it's also harmful because it's become the favored version, with Disney writing it into the original's novelization in contemporary books, with people think Lily's character was what the original one was and forgetting their differences, ugh I could go on about this forever. Just know I think Lily's performance in this film is the worst in cinema history lol

[mookybear12404]

I am. unfortunately. sleeby

[unwillingtoreachout]

taking this song away from Aaron's clutch because, truly, I spend way more time in overtime than he does

[dark-elf-writes]

@fadinggalaxysalad moving this to its own post because reasons

BUT ALSO

I feel like both of them look out for each other in different ways.

Touya, who grew up with money, who had to sit through his dad’s lectures about money, who has spent days worth of time listening to Enji’s financial advisor drone on and on about the accounts (he’s the oldest after all, the one that would inherit it all or at least the one that would be expected to hold it in trust until Shouto is old enough) would hear Harry wonder why Hagrid had his bank key and immediately flip his shit. Just “Some bastard you just met has full access to your money? Absolutely not. Demand to speak to the person in charge of you account right the fuck now and make them tell you what fuck was stupid enough to let this happen.”

Harry on the other hand, who had to learn to treat injuries with the bare minimum and suddenly had a whole world of healthcare opened up to him that he can hardly imagine, spends hours at the apothecary going over each and every salve and potion until he knows what can be used on muggles and what can’t and even a list of closely related allergens that occur non magically so he can put together a kit for them with detailed instructions for any possible injury.

[dawnslight-aegis]

macrocosmos.

[ganja-hq]

Big massive thanks to my beautiful mutual @schadenfreude--rose, the cheese+milk rly made it just the right balance of spicy and creamy ilysm 🫶

[atlantis-just-drowned]

It have always been the men with the sluttiest waists I'm so sorry about it