Vaudevillain Girls and Violin Strings

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[actualmermaid]

Do you read :D as an open-mouthed smile or a smile with teeth?

[thepioden]

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[rosalielesbianhale]

do you know how cool it would have been to keep the blue tint of the first twilight movie going right up until the moment bella opened her eyes as a newborn? do you know how impactful the red of her iris would have been if it was the first thing the viewer saw that wasn’t tinted blue? do you understand how it would have run parallel with how bella describes her human vision vs her vampire vision in the books? do you remember how she described all her human memories looking murky to her because her vision was lacking and the world looked completely new to her now? blue tint.

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What true love looks like.

[scarlettohairdye]

OKAY SO I had a coworker who was otherwise a standard clueless Straight White Guy, but this dude loved his wife and he knew her real good.
And his wife LOVES shitty grocery store icing.
So the first thing she’d always do with any cake is shove her fingers into the corner and scoop off whatever abomination of a flower was on there and eat it off her fingers.

SO THIS DUDE
GOES TO THE STORE
AND HAS THEM MAKE A WHOLE CAKE OUT OF FROSTING
Brings it home to his wife for her birthday
She shoves her fingers into it and then they just keep going
FROSTING ALL THE WAY DOWN
He said the look on her face was the best thing he’d ever seen in his life
It gives me hope that even a clueless Straight White Guy knew and loved his wife enough to give her the perfect birthday present cake frosting abomination

And I love to imagine the conversation he had to have with the grocery store bakery.

[neurodivergent-crow]

That’s disgusting, what a good husband

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[melancholymango]

I did the being edgy and self-deprecating thing, it gets old. I wanna be soft and lovely and easily impressed. I wanna appreciate all the little things that make me happy the same way I’ve dwelled on every single thing that upsets me.

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[thescriptorium]

ive been thinking and honest to god: i think i would actually join a girl gang if the offer came. like a legitimate, hierarchical, “let’s carry knives under our skirts and beat up men” gang. fuck college

[thescriptorium]

bringing back the sukeban girl gangs from the 70’s that wore long skirts against teen sexualization and fucked things up for the patriarchy

[thescriptorium]

and this was no “5 girls in a small town” who made the news—this was yakuza level shit. 20,000 girls getting into gang fights and shoplifting and getting pissed off that only men were allowed to be rough and violent and angry

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[meatthawsmoth]

She’s doing a great job

[internet-recluse]

I mean getting the government running is a priority RN. I’m sure Dems will get to it in time

[insurrectionarycompassion]

Like they got around to closing Gitmo right?

[thenonbinaryspacegem]

the bill wasnt to fund ICE by itself the bill was to FUND THE GOVERNMENT PERIOD. Like seriously voting no to stop funding the government specifically to stop ICE from being funded is 1. not actually going to deal with the problem of abolishing ICE and 2. Only will continue to harm those who are affected by the shutdown. Like those whos families need the welfare programs that the bill voted to fund??

 If we want to abolish ICE you dont do that by just saying ‘hi i vote to stop funding it’ once?? it takes LEGISLATION and WORK. Not just voting on one bill that isnt even focused on the issue at hand. 

this is such a bullshit outrage piece and yall keep falling for it. incredible. 

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[galacticgateau]

me yesterday, in passing conversation, while my laptop is in another state: “haha you know what’s cool? those ceramic cups that are shaped like crumpled solo cups”

MY FUCKENING LAPTOP TODAY: 

like!!!!!!!!!!!!  I love how advertisements aren’t even PRETENDING anymore that our phones aren’t explicitly listening to us at all times, oh my fucking god. I hate this

[remiivoxerplemii02]

This is so scary

[pileofknives]

This has only happened to me with things I’ve googled or searched for on Amazon TBH

[tchaikovskaya]

my friends mom is an obgyn and she said the word speculum (not something u hear every day and not something my friend searched for at any point in time) and shortly after that ads for gynecological medical tools started showing up on both her phone and her laptop

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dailydot.com

Why does the man behind 'Doctor Who' and 'Sherlock' still have a job?

[stopitsgingertime]

Steven Moffat’s dismissive attitude toward women somehow seems to help his career.

this article is so so important please read it

[viewovermerryton]

holy shit, though. wow.

[smaugy-poo]

OH.MY.GOD. it has EVERY QUOTE. WITH A LINK. this article must’ve been burning in this writer’s mind for ages…well done.

[bookshop]

True story: when I initially pitched this article, my editor thought I was joking and squelched it, and I went back and screamed at him a lot until he understood there is NOTHING FUNNY ABOUT THE RAGE-INDUCING EFFECTS OF STEVEN MOFFAT and let me write it, haha.

(Also, since a lot of people have been questioning the veracity of the quotes, I just want to say that everything in “” in the article is a word-for-word quote that comes from either a video/radio or print interview by Moffat, or a tweet from his now-deleted twitter, or a line one of his characters says. Every other link is tied to arguments about the narratives of his series, so yes, it’s all as verified as we could possibly make it.)

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[prokopetz]

Alternative to the tired old wizard-with-a-sugar-daddy interpretation of the patron/warlock relationship in Dungeons & Dragons:

• Clueless boss and long-suffering employee, whose powers are basically the magical equivalent of pilfering office supplies for personal use
  
  
• Scheming master and duplicitous apprentice who are totally open about their loathing for each other and are keen to see who betrays whom first
  
  
• Bureaucratic devil and soul-peddling diabolist with a contract a mile long, each honestly believing they’re getting the better of the other
  
  
• Glowering quartermaster and loose-cannon operative, whose record for getting results just barely justifies the expense of employing them
  
  
• Indifferent parent who pays their estranged offspring’s allowance like clockwork but otherwise prefers to deal with them as little as possible
  
  
• Vast, slumbering god-monster and amoral parabiologist who knows which spots to poke with a stick to provoke particular autonomic responses
  

[kelgrid]

You forgot the most important

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[fuckitandflee]

The real problem with books-turned-movies isn’t “omg they didn’t include every single word in the book” it’s “omg they completely overlooked the main theme, threw out any significant allegories, took away all the emotional pull, an turned it into a boring action movie with a love triangle in it”

[scarybioloyg]

[captainlordauditor]

the hunger games is a really good example bc on the base textual level of stuff like what happens and the order of events they got it mostly right but they also

1. whitewashed half or more of the cast
   
2. removed multiple canonical disabilities in main characters
3. marketed it as a love triangle
4. basically did literally everything the villains of the book did which made it super fucking obvious