Cherries and Chocolate

I'm Wendy. I gotta stop putting my age in bios and then ignoring it for years This is now a Hunger Games blog and I have no regrets

[jungwildeandfree]

and while we’re at it, fuck this idea that ONE ACCOUNT has to belong uniquely to ONE PERSON. This is the same thing these silicon valley fucks want; their vision of the future where everyone has a unique biometric ID code implanted in their body is the ultimate extension of Netflix’s “no password sharing” policy. You want to use your friend’s car? Sorry, you can’t, you need to be an authorized user. Your mother wants to let you look something up on her OED account? Too bad! That’s only for her! The concept of perfect market efficiency gives them greedy little money bag eyes.

If I pay money to have a newspaper sent to my house, they don’t charge me extra when I show it to my dad. This password sharing thing isn’t just a Netflix problem; don’t be surprised if it shows up elsewhere in other forms. Stamp this idea out now or we’ll be stuck with it.

[jungwildeandfree]

This is by far the most popular post I have and I have to say: good, I’m right. Password sharing and ID verification are going to kill the internet. not oooh in 50 years. in like 5 more.

[crazyexdirkfriend]

I get real "I'm at soup" vibes from some media crit

[crazyexdirkfriend]

"All YA books are about vampires" you are looking at the supernatural romance shelf in a WHSmith. "All hip hop is misogynistic" have you considered listening to a female rapper. "All classic books are boring stories about straight white men" you are reading classic books by straight white men. "OFMD was the first time I saw a gay person on television" I don't even know how this happened but it's on you

[seven-winged-liar]

hearing a beloved friend say the words 'can i be mean for a sec' is like watching an angel descend from the heavens and kiss you on the forehead

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[captainlordauditor]

In all fairness to them, this is the woman who put her mother on blast to the entire internet for “el horse tornado”

[blackoutchocolate]

So yeah she comes by that naturally

[pigeon-butch]

your muscles being pleasantly sore after exercise is such a nice incentive I can see why they patched that in. the forced regular logins to avoid losing progress however are a predatory practice and deserve nothing but scorn.

[ladyshinga]

[fipindustries]

the problem is that a lot of people think that the evil of eugenics is "playing with forces of nature man was not meant to meddle with" and not the whole cohercion and killing and mutilation of people

[estrogirlie]

cis coworker: hey can i ask you something personal

[blackoutchocolate]

My sister has given me permission to respond to these questions with “I haven’t cared about my sister’s penis since her bris”

It’s weird as hell to ask a random person about their siblings’ genitals. I assume not as weird as asking a person about their own bits, but it’s a different kind of weird cause like. It’s my sister’s body? Why do I want to think about that?

[headspace-hotel]

thought about that quote "homosexuality exists in 1000+ species, homophobia only exists in one" but how awkward would it be if we discovered another species that was homophobic

"homosexuality exists in 1000+ species, homophobia only exists in two. what? oh, humans, and the yellow-patched cuboid pinecone wren that was recently discovered on an island off the coast of canada. they're fucking bigots"

[draconym]

do you think two pennies is still enough for the ferryman or has inflation driven up the fare

[draconym]

if he makes me use an app I am simply not crossing the river Styx.

[macklesufficient]

bad news everyone: i have a take

[macklesufficient]

the loneliness epidemic/gen z dead-eyed stare/poor socialization of younger generations and increasing rudeness of older ones is kinda an internet thing and kinda a pandemic thing but it is also the well-meaning chickens of the Stranger Danger movement coming home to roost

[macklesufficient]

something something everybody thinks violent crime is at a high when it’s at a 30 year low, something something training your children to see everyone outside of their family as a threat until you yourself believe it, something something. again this was well-intentioned, people want their kids to be safe, but when you’ve heard “dont talk to strangers” all your life it’s hard to kill that instinct as an adult

[macklesufficient]

but yeah if you’re an early 20-something person, it might be helpful to be directly told this: talk to strangers. that rule only applied when you were a child. you not only should but must talk to strangers

[batmanego]

im having feelings about the uffington white horse again

[batmanego]

so essentially there’s this cool horse drawn into the hills in england made out of chalk and it’s like 3,000 years old.

people carved trenches 3,000 years ago and filled them with chalk in the shape of a horse but what’s interesting is that if you fail to maintain the horse by adding new chalk regularly, it will disappear. for 3,000 years, we’ve been filling in chalk in this horse so it doesn’t disappear.

we’ll never know what the purpose of the horse was originally. we’ll never know if it had ritual or spiritual significance or if it was just art. but we do know that people maintained it then, and, even though the meaning of the horse has long been lost to time, we continue to maintain it now.

the people who made this horse are long dead, but they live through us still, don’t you think?

[batmanego]

couldn’t agree more we’re best friends now

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

Happiness Will Come To You.

[12goblins]

when tho

[fuckthisbloganditscurses]

When You Least Expect It. Probably Late March

[wizardshark]

reblog for happiness to come for you in late march!

[zigxortega]

[zac--efren]

I reblogged this last year and I hung out with blink-182 backstage on March 30. Reblogging again because it worked the first time.

[scientiablr]

honestly, last year one of the best days of my life happened in late March

[finnslay]

opening tumblr in march and it's just like "huh. knife weather we're having."

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

unexpectedly sexy part of the Sinners credits. we LOVE a thoroughly sourced film.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

looked into the twins consultants and it turns out Coogler called up the most buckwild twins he knows, which really helps explain why Smoke and Stack are Like That

Michael B. Jordan Worked with Real-Life Twins to Create His Dual Performance in Sinners (Exclusive)

Michael B. Jordan has dual roles as twin brothers in the vampire thriller 'Sinners,' and director Ryan Coogler tells PEOPLE he hired twin co

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I do 100% believe the Smokestack twins would have done this if they made it to the cellphones era btw

[latriviata]

IDs under cut:

OP: screenshot from the ending credits from Sinners (2025) -

"Twins Consultants - Logan Miller + Noah Miller

Mississippi History & Economics Consultant - James C. Cobb

Mississippi Choctaw Cultural & Language Consultant - Jay Wesley

Hoodoo Consultant - Yvonne Patricia Chireau

Mississippi Delta Chinese Cultural Consultant - Dolly Li

Irish Cultural Consultant - Billy Mag Fhloinn

Railroad Consultant - Kelly Lynch

Historical Gambling Consultant - Leeroy Johnson

Follow up: screenshot from linked article - ‘Writer-director Coogler, 38, tells PEOPLE he hired his filmmaker friends Noah and Logan Miller as twin consultants to get insight on what makes that particular sibling bond unique. "They gave us a lot of perspective on what it's like to be an identical twin and that bond that they have," he says. "Since I've known these guys, they've shared one cell phone. So you'd call and you don't know which one was going to answer the phone but you knew the other one was always going to be right there."’

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[cumaeansibyl]

I love this because the odds of anyone picking up on historical errors are pretty damn low -- like for instance you'll have Chinese people seeing this movie, and if you fuck up anything really basic they'll notice that, but when you get as specific as 1930s Mississippi Delta Chinese culture? A lot fewer of them are going to be able to pick out errors there. And a lesser filmmaker would take advantage of that to skimp out on the research. But to Coogler I think the research was part of what drew him to this story -- the richness of the cultural interplay here requires and rewards careful research.

[rockshitty]

The amount of disbelief I’m willing to suspend is directly proportional to how entertaining the show is. If a show is barely able to hold my attention and has betrayed my trust before, fuck you, that’s not how cutting someone’s head off works.

If I’m glued to my seat every week and can’t stop watching, then yes, absolutely, the professional athlete in a blond wig is indistinguishable from the 17 year old lead actress.

[zebruh]

the post I stole this from got reblog turned off but I wanted to rb it so here