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"MSG tricks your brain into thinking food tastes better."

Yes, Brian, that is the essential function of spices and flavorings.

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Okay, it makes perfect sense that Disney thought Cruella could be an character to give a sympathetic backstory. Cruella's original story is very much one of capitalism-personal desire out weighing the lives of people deemed insignificant. She doesn't see the puppies as living things but a product. So, yes, I get why Disney execs related to her

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Reddits so terrible, they hated the venom movie and called it shlocky nonsense just cuz they base their entire opinion on movies based on how high the rotten tomatoes score is.

I won't accuse Tumblr of having a brain but at least everyone here can agree that venom didn't deserve the heat it got, and also, was fucking great.

like sometimes I dislike Tumblr's takes on certain movies, but at least you monster fuckers jumped on symbrock like it was an alligator and you're a gator boy.

I not only respect that, but emphatically and aggressively agree.

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just saw bindi irwin got engaged and apparently her fiance is american. she’s 21 and they’ve been dating for 6 years. I wonder if his family lives in aus/works in conservation because imagine just being a random 15-year-old tourist at the zoo and having a meet cute with steve irwin’s daughter lol 

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Just having a normal one. Stuck in traffic with a pigeon in my car.

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Portals to Hell by hrmphfft

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miss piggy puts up with so much as a woman in show business and her response to misogyny is never to turn the other cheek or take the high road. it's to physically attack people. and she's right.

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One of those fandom things that I love is when there’s new characters around and, with the unwavering confidence of an old farmer appraising cattle, fanfic authors take one good look at them, tilt their imaginary hat, and go “Aye. Praise kink, that one. Mighty case of praise kink if I ever saw one.” And everyone else just “aye.”

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It’s so sad to see how many people  are scared in fandom spaces. Scared to be open about what they like. I have spoken to so many people that enjoy darker topics and themes in art and fanfiction but they could never support/produce anything like that publicly because they are scared of the fandom’s reaction. And I also think that there are people out there that think that they are wrong for liking darker content. Please just know that we’re here. There’s actually a lot of people enjoying darker content that is deemed as problematique.  You are not alone, you’re not wrong for liking what you like, and I’ll keep saying this over and over again until people don’t have to feel afraid anymore. 

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growing up as a cis girl the patriarchy told me “you’re a girl because of the way you were born, there is nothing you can do about this, you have no say in your gender” and i hated being a girl because it wasn’t my choice it was a prison and the trans community told me “you’re a girl because you say so, your view of yourself is the most important thing, if you change your mind that would be ok” and it made me proud to be a girl and feel empowered in my gender and i wasn’t trapped anymore and then terfs come along and tell me “you’re a girl because of the way you were born, there is nothing you can do about this, you have no say in your gender (but like in a woke way)” and they somehow expect me to be on their side?

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So you have a crush on this guy named Johnny. Good news! He’s a musician and you know the perfect gift for him. Bad news: you’re the Devil and he probably won’t trust you gifting it to him, so you have to get clever about how to get him to accept it.

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Even if it’s just a number, I’m still proud of us for getting to 2021

Onwards ho! Happy new year!

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Santa is on strike due to global warming.  All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger.  Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.

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Death of the author: Treating the author’s stated interpretation of their own work as merely one opinion among many, rather than the authoritative Word of God.

Disappearance of the author: Treating the context and circumstances of the work’s authorship as entirely irrelevant with respect to its interpretation, as though the work had popped into existence fully formed just moments ago.

Taxidermy of the author: Working backwards from a particular interpretation of the work to draw conclusions about what the context and circumstances of its authorship must have been.

Undeath of the author: Holding the author personally responsible for every possible reading of their work, even ones they could not reasonably have anticipated at the time of its authorship.

Frankenstein’s Monster of the author: Drawing conclusions about authorial intent based on elements that are present only in subsequent adaptations by other authors.

Weekend at Bernie’s of the author: Insisting that the author would personally endorse your interpretation of the work if they happened to be present.

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this cloak has such emperor hux energy

just him striding out onto a victorious battlefield with the cape’s silky inside shimmering like the blood of his fallen enemies

kylo, who won the battle for his lover & emperor, lowers hux’s hood like a bridal veil to kiss him

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one of the ways i know this culture has a massive issue with consent

is the sheer amount of people I’ve known that just lie & tell people they’re deathly allergic to foods they dislike

because otherwise people will hound them, mock them, coax them, harass them, try to force them to eat it, or even trick them into eating it, and they will never hear the end of it

your coworkers will bake it into a fucking pie, call it something else, and wait til your birthday, gather everyone and their first cousins to sit around in a circle waiting for you to put a forkful into your mouth and then point rhythmically at you in a chanting, glaring, sweating, unholy circle like SWISS CHARD SWISS CHARD YOU JUST ATE SWISS CHARD HA HA HA SWISS CHARD NOW YOU LIKE SWISS CHARD

Because forcing someone into a situation where they don’t feel safe declining putting something into their body they’d rather not be there is totes 100% wholesome American fun

And this is something so known that it’s infinitely easier to just lie and tell people that you’ll die if you eat that food…which actually doesn’t always stop it from happening