[weltenwellen]

Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

[stars-bean]

Little Women (2019) dir. Greta Gerwig

[ava-deb]

RENEÉ RAPP as LEIGHTON MURRAY The Sex Lives of College Girls — Season One

[raspberry-panda]

[doublism]

being on tumblr at weird hours when just a couple of mutuals are online feels like going to get a glass of water late at night and finding one of your housemates still up like reading a book under a lamp in the living room

[musicals-and-more]

Rest In Peace to the genius of musical theatre

Thank you Mr. Sondheim for everything

[brawltogethernow]

It’s fine to want nothing to do with Harry Potter now that JKR is being regularly and publicly terrible (I’m listing that way myself even though I don’t want to because the association is just overpoweringly distasteful), but seeing the shift in how people discuss HP on this website to be like, “It seems obvious to me that this franchise was always poorly constructed, derivative drek littered with red flags anybody would notice with a cursory glance - there’s absolutely nothing genuinely appealing about it.” …That’s just very funny, sorry. Like yes that is unfortunately not how the relationship between a person’s moral character and their skills works, but mostly I was alive and had a developed consciousness between 2000 and 2008, so I cannot take this seriously. It wasn’t the biggest literature phenomenon of recent times because it had a uniquely strong marketing strategy, guys.

[harocat]

The books are well written with engaging characters, great worldbuilding, and a story that captured people like no other. There is literally no overestimating the phenom the books were. And no the movies did not make it. They were MASSIVE even before the films. Before the films even came out, the NYT made a separate children’s bestseller list because a ton of people complained that ‘kid’s books’ were taking up too many sports on the NYT bestsellers lists. It’s honestly ridiculous to argue that HP’s popularity was made by the movies. Come on.

And the thing about red flags, is that most things that are legitimately problematic in the books are fantasy staples. JKR didn’t invent the anti-semitic portrayal of goblins. It’s an old as hell trope that’s in countless fantasy stories. The house elves were based on Brownie folklore, even down to the tradition of their freedom coming from a piece of clothing being given to them. People were not talking a lot about the casual transphobia in doing things like describing Rita Skeeter’s hands as ‘mannish’ because casual transphobia was so ubiquitous that it was the norm, and that transphobia was often actively violent. I just don’t think it crossed many people’s minds that ‘wow JKR described Rita Skeeter’s hands as mannish once in the year 2000, so I think she’s probably a T*RF.’ And this doesn’t make it okay, and it doesn’t mean these aspects of the books aren’t problematic! But it does mean that like, no it wasn’t ‘so obvious’ even to MANY progressive minded people. And I also don’t think it makes her a terrible person. What makes her a terrible person is what she’s doing NOW.

The idea that they’ve ‘always been awful’ and we ‘should have known’ is really and actually just… kind of cowardly? Instead of acknowledging that unfortunately yes, bad people can make good things, people are taking the easy way out and going ‘well obviously a bad person makes bad art. it’s ALWAYS been bad, and my brain is so huge I know this’, because god forbid we have a more nuanced view and don’t see the world in the most simplistic terms possible. It sucks when bad people make good art, but you’re not special for not ever liking Harry Potter.

[largishcat]

also like…. as a trans person who adored harry potter—because god what little baby queer DOESN’T daydream about escaping their terrible mundane home life for a world where they can have friends and adventures—these takes are really frustrating. like why are you calling ME stupid because SHE betrayed a whole swathe of her fanbase. like you’re really using the heartbreak and hurt of thousands of trans hp fans as an opportunity for internet clout? you must really care about trans people

[odinsblog]

I am asking other men to please pay attention to this. Sexual predators and airplane creeps, a thread: https://twitter.com/joannachiu/status/1110079640998023168?s=21

[adi-fitri]

Here are the links from the above tweet, just in case: Bystander Tips (stopstreetharrassment.org): http://www.stopstreetharassment.org/resources/male-allies/bystander-tips/  What bystanders can do about harassment on public transportation by @EndingViolence @_AngelaMarieMac : https://www.bwss.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/BWSS-Transit-Tuesday-Brochure.pdf Sexual Harrassment Training Doesn’t Work. But Some Things Do. The Upshot, New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/upshot/sexual-harassment-workplace-prevention-effective.html

[godlessondheimite]

““Steve is our musical theater’s Shakespeare and our Chekhov and our new Gershwin. He’s been a great friend and the most important influence in my career. Performing ‘Being Alive’ is like standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon, channeling our humanity, glimpsing eternity, reflecting back to the audience everything they would most like to be. Yeah, all that stuff art’s supposed to do. That’s Steve’s gift.”

— Raul Esparza

[endiness]

[hargreevcs]

GET TO KNOW ME: 6/20 romances » JIM HALPERT & PAM BEESLY

“when you’re a kid, you assume your parents are soulmates. my kids are gonna be right about that.”

[ironmaidenhead]

The West Wing | “Stirred”

[styrke-deactivated20240722]

making mistakes doesn’t make you a bad person. it just makes you a person who made mistakes. contrary to popular belief mistakes are vital for personal growth and when you admit to them and hold yourself accountable you are helping yourself become a better person not just for yourself, but also for the people around you. don’t look at your mistakes like failures, look at them as lessons and recognise what you need to learn from them. care for your mistakes the same as you care for your success.

[allieinarden]

In Sherlock Irene Adler is just as obsessed with outwitting Holmes as he is with outwitting her, and I feel like that’s a fundamental misreading of the source material, because in Doyle’s version Holmes happens to get in Irene’s way, so she does the functional equivalent of trapping him under a cup, sliding a newspaper under him and dumping him out in the backyard.

[dduane]

…This. :)

[morningelvis]

these middle schoolers are touring campus and one of them walked by me and said “hey what’s college life like” and i told him “it sucks” and he said “well it can’t be any worse than middle school.” he’s right

[not-mary-sue]

Take these words through your darkest hour, for though we maybe tired and hungry, at least we’re not in fucking middle school

[jakeperalta]

I made you my temple, my mural, my sky Now I’m begging for footnotes in the story of your life Drawing hearts in the byline Always taking up too much space or time

[barillapasta]