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[lawluenvy]

why did everyone go from loving lin manuel miranda to hating him again???? like??? that was so weird. what happened?

i have 0 memory of him having done anything significant - the Only thing i think i remember hearing once was the classic leftist fallacy of "oh so he composed a musical about the revolution but made everyone black and suddenly it's all okay like he didn't still tout on about american patriotism?"

i only really remember in second half of first year uni everyone being fucking Obssesed with hamilton to the point that i made myself listen to it because while no else has ever done this or will Ever do this for me - when my friends really like something i will essentially force myself to like it too so im not left out (if i had a dollar for everytime i've done this through out my life i would not have student debt) and then what was it?? like a year or two later all of sudden everyone was saying he's super cringe??? like what did he do??? write the songs for moana??? are men not allowed to write musicals??? why is that cringe?

anyways i genuinely do not have any recollection of him being accused of anything serious - maybe i just missed it? - or maybe it really wasn't a big deal at all and people just Love hating on people Just Because! hipsters all of a sudden like "he's mainstream now so i no longer respect him as an artist at all"

like i doubt he's a perfect guy but is he chris brown??? did he beat up rihanna and try to pretend he didn't???? is he johnny depp???? did he drag his marriage into a publicized shit show playing victim and relying on his massive fanbase to hide that he was also abusive and alcoholic and beat a camera guy once??? also no????

i think i'm just so exhausted by all this shit. y'all loved this guy so fucking much that i made myself give a shit about broadway musicals for the first time in my life and now that i finally agree that he's a great lyricist y'all are constantly clowning on him???

it's genuinely pathetic behaviour. embarassing.

i've looked it up and still can't find anything outside of "oh since he's all big and successful now he's just a capitalist!"

leftists - y'all need to chill the fuck out. you're fighting the wrong fight. do more for palestine, do more to destroy the fascist regime of colonial states - and stop wasting your time on average celebrities.

embarassing.

[my-little-c0rner-of-the-universe]

August

In five years I see myself saying “come meet me behind the mall”

Because baby I see a future,

Just not one near,

Cus Baby I can paint a picture,

Just not now right here

(Will I be selfish to ask you to wait

But baby i fear it might just be bait

Do I dare to ask

Cus baby i can’t let this pass

Right here right now isn’t a possibility

Oh baby am I losing the probability

That is you and me

Slotted together; family)

[bedabug]

truly the most american thing is Big Drink. more than late stage capitalism, more than an unparalleled cultural focus on individualism, more than 9/11 jokes

what binds all americans together culturally is Big Drink

and you might be saying "is this fat shaming" or "but mayor bloomberg outlawed Big Drink in nyc" or "gays are so annoying about their iced coffee" or some other dumb comment but no open your minds, Big Drink isn't just sugary or caffeinated beverages

every day i see one of you hydration bitches (affectionate) on the train with a water bottle so big a toddler could drown in it. that too is Big Drink. we literally invented a bigger beer can (tall boy) in wisconsin in the 60s in the service of Big Drink

anyway i never feel more american then when i have Big Drink in my hands

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[daemonhxckergrrl]

still mad about smart TVs. that shit should be in a separate box like you can literally buy one of them androidtv boxes for £30. it doesn't need its own ip address it doesn't need its own app store it doesn't need to replicate the functionality every device plugged into it already has

[qiinamii]

one braincell transfer (divided by four)

[clairenatural]

there's a cherry blossom tree in DC that keeps blooming every year even though it shouldn't and the park service keeps thinking it's dead and then it keeps blooming! well they're removing a lot of trees to rehabilitate the area and they've said it's finally time for stumpy to go and they're going to mulch it and use the mulch to enrich all the other trees so it can help everything else keep going. and they're also going to plant spliced little pieces of it all over so that stumpy can live forever and this is genuinely sending me into a spiral

[twinliches]

while i was trying to wade through the large amounts of people trying to leave the central subway station, everyone abruptly came to a halt in front of the subway turnstiles. two french girls had misunderstood the tap-out process, and one of them was now stuck behind the gate. as i was wracking my brain on how to explain the tap-in tap-out process of the milan metro to both of them with my rudimentary french while they both got increasingly upset at the closed gate between them, a young teenager suddenly pushed me to the side.

i was just about to give him my most scathing disgruntled glare when he took out his ticket and, after realizing they had no common language, started gesticulating wildly in front of the french girl left behind. he pointed at the ticket, then at her, and very seriously said: “on three, we go.” she nodded, and after he counted to three, holding up his fingers so there could be no confusion, they sprinted through the gate together, giggling profusely afterwards as if they had just pulled off the heist of the century,

it was just a small moment during the morning commute. but i realized then and there that the time i had spent trying to intellectualize the problem and wondering if my lack of language skills would be awkward the situation could have already been resolved. and that while i had been mad about being pushed aside, the teenager got it exactly right: no questions, no fear or shyness, just direct action to help where you can and rushing there to do so. i think about him every time now when i run to lift someone’s pram or ask a lost looking person if they need my help despite the fear of being rude. on three, we go.

[trashy-greyjoy]

really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.

[ghostatservice]

Guys this especimen is so real fr Look at this unblessed trainreck of a teen with religious trauma and repressed self 🙏

[bearloonz]

I think we as a society should bring back brotps. I think we should be weirder about characters being friends the same way people are weird about ships. Make those two characters who interacted once or twice besties. Make it difficult for them to get rid of each other even if they want to. Go nuts

[crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington]

for my first ever friends

[velinxi]

Lord of the Rings fanart! I watched for the first time recently and loved it

[EDIT: Thanks for the love on this! Prints of this are also available on my shop for those interested!]

[heedra]

when my local friendgroup hit our late 20's/early 30's we all metamorphosed into ancient romans and/or redwall characters bc now whenever we have 'get togethers' ppl are always bringing over cheeses and crusty breads and cured meats and olives and grapes and ales etc

[queam]

How (SOME) people in the mouthwashing fandom sound