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if i look back, i am lost
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dont store a knife with the point facing down, it damages the blade. no, dont do that either. when you store it with the point facing up you might accidentally hurt yourself when you try to grab it. dont store a knife at all actually. your blade must never leave your hand, always ready, ruthless and waiting. you know deep down that ever since you learned the stench of blood you will never be able to cast it aside. or just get a sheath for it i guess.
Selena Gomez said she’s actually an awkward dork in real life lol I knew we were the same I bet she also collects bags of hair
My gender is Homosexula
And they’re all Vlad
ending a social interaction with a friend and thinking "I think we grew a little bit closer today." in my head as if I'm a dating game protagonist
Living in a conservative part of a blue state and watching tv during an election year is really trippy because nationally people are like oh you’re all liberals over there you don’t know what it’s like living in a conservative area but then the local attack ads are like my opponent wants to be NICE to ILLEGALS and the RADICAL TRANS AGENDA and BURN DOWN POLICE STATIONS. You should vote for ME. I will SHOOT immigrants PERSONALLY in THE STREET. I am a former NAVY SEAL. BARK BARK.
Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).
I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.
out of the tags with you
oh the gorgeosity you are supremely divine
its not even funny how much id like to have been birthed by her originally instad of how i am now
she looks like a teacher i used to have a crush on in middle school lol thats really a coincidence
do you think it feels nice to roll a quarter down her... breasts
the male penguins are so lucky just to stand near her
god's wife of amun
rare type of woman... butler, fetch the viagra
can she feel all the emotions i feel maybe more
i can respect how some of the writing decisions in wicked the musical were subversive for the time, but i do think a lot of them don't necessarily read that way to a modern audience due to shifts in the media landscape. for instance, the musical having the wicked witch of the west, a woman painted as unequivocally evil in lfb books and 1939 movie, be the protagonist and painting her in a sympathetic and empowering light was genuinely groundbreaking and was the first of the whole villain retellings trend. but nowadays "x story from the villain's pov" has become kind of oversaturated. imo wicked does the villain retelling better than most other stories, but atp "what if x character wasn't actually evil and just maligned by the narrative?" has kind of become a trope in its own right.
same with elphaba. for the most part she stands the test of time pretty well, especially act i elphaba. she resonates with people for a reason. but at the same time "socially isolated female protagonist who's actually super powerful fighting the corrupt government" is basically every YA and romantasy novel nowadays. i do think cynthia's specific portrayal of elphaba adds a lot to her, and elphaba being a black woman adds even more and is genuinely important and groundbreaking in the present moment. but as the musical stands elphaba can read a little bit like just another cookie cutter "i'm not like other girls and i have weird powers" protagonist because that's just a more common trope nowadays. and i won't say the genre is oversaturated because there can never be too many women but the archetype is more the norm for middle grade and YA properties especially
i've also seen some people argue fiyero is super subversive because he's a man who's basically only there to be a love interest for the female protagonist. but the sidekick bf doesn't read as subversive to me because kickass powerful woman with bf who's secondary to her and would do anything for her is a sarah j maas novel. a woman ending up with a man is every story ever; the "badass female protagonist retires cause/gives up powers for man" is a trope to dissect in its own right. as a subversion of "the gf trope" i don't even think fiyero's particularly good because much of his role--especially in act ii--is him swooping in to save elphaba, which is stereotypically masculine behavior and ends up placing elphaba in the passive role. and this is especially true since he's used to do the whole two women fight over a man thing, which is like the most stereotypical trope ever
additionally, a lot of the writing decisions in the musical do read as kind of conservative to a younger audience because of the adaptational changes made from the book. i think if they were making wicked the musical today they wouldn't be able to whitewash fiyero and take the explicitly sapphic parts of glinda and elphaba's relationship out--at least not without getting significantly more pushback. the 2010s saw a bigger focus on representation and diversity in media, so erasing canonically indigenous and gay characters to appeal to a wider audience (especially in a property about accepting your differences) just comes off as real fucking rich. obviously in the early 2000s being gay was less accepted and people were less concerned about representation, so it makes sense why the final product is what it is. and i think we have to recognize the time period informs a lot of these writing choices while also recognizing that critiquing stuff and demanding better is good
wait here while my manservant fetches the anti-elf rifle
I open tumblr, I press my stupid little reblog button 20x, I disappear.
The cruelty of racist white men.
Does anyone else remember when Elon was like "if anyone knows how to end world hunger for 6 billion USD, I'll fund it" and UNICEF was like "we're going to spend a month to make a plan to end world hunger for 6 billion USD and Elon is going to fund it" and Elon was like "actually, nah" and then bought Twitter instead?
I think that was one of the worst things I'll ever see in my life.
I still think that should be the thing for which he's the most famous. It should be brought up every time he's mentioned. In any news article, any interview, any history book. "Elon Musk, who was offered a chance to end world hunger and turned it down." Put it on his fucking gravestone.
Elaborate thirty-second-long magical girl transformation sequence, and at the end of it the only difference is that I'm now holding a knife.
> turns on my computer
> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default
> opens my email
> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default
> launches a software
> disables a new AI fea
Congratulations on the cat
they killed him for this
*takes a bite of my cigarette*...... heh. the character...... *walks into a small puddle but it swallows me up like the ocean* *i am found dead years later in maine*
