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[lyzardy]

i made some fma+history of japan edits

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[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

i’m glad there’s so much disney hate on my dash I hate monopolies and copyright

[bad-4chan-literature]

[byecolonizer]

But that IS how life works in a lot of countries…

[ourwarofwords]

It’s evil to give people an education, time with their children, and healthcare? 🤔🤔🤔

[tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva]

Extremely fucked up big gobernment forces me not to die

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

Rick Riordan finally snapped and released emails he sent to The Lightning Thief movie makers….

I can’t stop laughing

[abigailannsblog-deactivated2021]

And he was right we HATED IT 

[sandersstudies]

My little sister just wrapped on her first “mainstage” theater show (that is, a show with primarily adults and few or no children, as opposed to a youth production). She was telling me all about how being the youngest in the cast (she’s 12) was hard, but she liked the environment more.

“When we get too loud in the greenroom during a [mainstage] show, somebody just says ‘hey guys remember to keep it down.’ During a kids’ show sometimes we are only allowed to color and not talk or even whisper, and the parents who help backstage will yell at us if we talk. Also here [at a mainstage show] if I forget my prop or costume or something I can just turn around and go back and nobody says anything. Same for going to the bathroom. In a kids’ show we aren’t allowed to be out of our spots at all, or somebody has to escort us. They [the “helping” parents] don’t like to escort us, so we sometimes get yelled at for that too.” She shared several anecdotes of specific times these things had happened.

I hate the massive amount of control exerted over children and young adults, and the assumption that children are constantly deviant or “up to something.” Sure, four and five year olds need a lot of watching, but this girl is twelve and telling me she feels better and happier in this space designed for adults than she does in a space designed for her and her peers.

 Children’s activities should be designed for the enjoyment of kids AND start teaching them about the responsibilities they’ll receive and standards they’ll be held to as they get older. Instead, most of these activities are for the convenience of the parents who pay for them, and are totally geared at keeping kids “under control” when they are not under the immediate supervision of parents/teachers. It’s evidence that kids are assigned very little “personhood,” and I really hate it.

[sandersstudies]

Literally, if you wouldn’t yell at an adult about something, don’t yell at a child about it. If you wouldn’t say something to a peer, don’t say it to a kid.

Kids (who are old enough to comprehend and follow directions) usually only need to hear "don’t forget to pick up that trash, dude,” or “hey, this made a bit of a mess. Could you try and keep it tidy next time?” or “woah, remember that we’re supposed to be keeping it quiet,” and that’s it. No yelling, no lectures. If one kid is routinely having issues with the same thing over and over again, or a child is doing something genuinely dangerous (hint: an adult not liking it does not mean it’s dangerous) then that child should be spoken to privately and calmly to resolve the issue. People really love to lose all self-control around kids and I hate it so much.

In case it wasn’t clear, children (who are by nature a little more impulsive and less self-aware than adults) are often being held to HIGHER standards of behavior than adults, and receiving GREATER punishments for small infractions than adults. That’s wrong. 

[trademarkednothing]

Examples of Stockholm Syndrome in Disney

 Frollo and Quasimodo

Mother Gothel and Rapunzel

Frollo and Mother Gothel convince Quasimodo and Rapunzel that their lives are dependent on them. The two villains claim the outside world is a terrible place even though they know this is not true. They also constantly emotionally abuse their victims by implying their worthlessness and destroying their self-esteems. Quasimodo and Rapunzel sympathize with their captors and even believe their captors are protecting them and treating them with kindness. However, both captors are merely using and manipulating their victims for their own selfish purposes.

NOT:

The Beast and Belle

 Belle does not sympathize with the Beast when she is treated poorly. She becomes angry and leaves the castle, only returning by her own wish so that the Beast (who saves her) does not freeze to death. She does not respond nicely towards the Beast until he treats her with respect. In this situation, Belle has control and is not manipulated into feeling for the Beast, nor does the Beast treat her disrespectfully after the first night. While the Beast does have an underlying motive as to keeping Belle in his castle, he abandons this idea and sets her free to make her happy. If anything, this story is a case of Lima Syndrome where the captor starts to sympathize with the victim.

Check out this post which refocuses the purpose of Beauty and the Beast from merely (and wrongly) being about Stockholm Syndrome to it’s original purpose.

[onlyleigh]

FUCKING FINALLY

[spiritsonic]

I don’t usually reblog stuff like this, but Beauty and the Beast is my favorite movie and I’d like to have this on my page!

[toasterlyreasons]

this is actually a very good analysis. I take back all the times I’ve called Beauty and the Beast a ‘stockholm syndrome’ romance. 

[hashtagloveloses]

the renaissance faire is just comic con but outside and with jousting on horses instead of deadpool with a katana vs a brony with a lightsaber

[theeverydaypagan]

@elphabaforpresidentofgallifrey I have seen a Brony and Deadpool fighting at a ren faire. It was historically accurate and Deadpool handed that guys ass to him.

[hashtagloveloses]

i cannot believe this

[machine-dove]

Renaissance faires are comic-cons with a storyline and more beer.

[ariaste]

renfaires are a source of deep chaos energy

[ignescent]

one of my favorite times at a ren faire was when there was a troupe of full costume klingon warriors that stayed in character about how their time travel must have been misconfigured, as they were aiming for the late 20th century, rather than the renaissance. 

[moggiepillar]

i can no longer take any description of a male protagonist seriously if the writer describes him as ‘brooding’

because i used to think ‘oh, that’s sexy and mysterious, etc’

and now i think of this

once you’ve been loudly cussed out by 2.5 lbs of feathers, that word only ever means one thing

[shrikestrike]

This is the kinda brooding i WANNA see

[consolecadet]

#so this behavior basically translates to nonstop cuddling of offspring and vocal aggression towards anything that tries to prevent that #tbh i would be delighted to see male protagonists do just this sort of thing (via starfoozle)

[perspicaciousembroiderist]

I just had to explain what I was cackling at to my roommate. It automatically passes the Laugh Rule.

[roachpatrol]

She found her reluctant fiance, Erstad, brooding out on the rainy moors. 

“Is that a baby rabbit?” she asked, observing his huddled form. 

“IT’S SIX BABY RABBITS AND YOU CAN’T TOUCH THEM,” replied Ernstad, contriving to look twice his usual size and at least three times his usual fierceness. 

“Whoah okay damn,” she said, and backed away. 

[jasmiinitee-deactivated20210610]

i’d read the gothic romance novel of ernstad and his baby rabbits like right now

[jackironsides]

This means that Batman, obsessive hoarder of orphans, is the only dark mysterious character that can be accurately described as “brooding”.

[aisipex]

HE GETS IT DONE AGAIN

Bonus:

[marvel-is-ruining-my-life]

[marvel-is-ruining-my-life]

Ryan Reynolds is officially my favorite person

[gahdamnpunk]

Men really think that women’s liberation is about whether or not we let them view our bodies lmao

[thewordhord]

[the-bibrarian]

[alloverthegaf]

crime show: well we don’t know what time she was taken but as you can see in this convenience store security footage she’s mouthing something and our lip reading technology tells us she’s saying ‘those three wise men they’ve got a semi by the sea’ which are lyrics to James Blunt’s song ‘Wisemen’ which was playing on that store’s favoured radio station at approximately 3:18PM and she disappears from view exactly five minutes later so therefore

[alloverthegaf]

crime show: now see usually we’d manage to get a timestamp from the security footage but unfortunately in this case the cameras only record a live feed and while you would think this means we shouldn’t be able to see the footage at all, luckily a famous Twutch streamer happened to be using it as their background footage while recording yesterday so

[jenroses]

yes, but can you blow it up and enhance it?

[alloverthegaf]

unfortunately this particular footage is extremely low quality and very grainy but as I zoom in on this super blurry pixelated image you can see the details become much clearer and easier to identify

[paintmeahero]

But what about the extremely specific pollen found on the camera lens?

[alloverthegaf]

good eye! originally I didn’t even notice it was there but while combing through the footage I noticed three different people sneezed while in view of the camera. I did some research and found that the particles represent the pollen of this obscure plant life that is native to this particular state, which really doesn’t help us, except that it only ever blooms in the opposite season! So I did some digging and found four nurseries within a 50 mile radius, only one of which sell that plant all year round, which of course means

[mongolman101]

Hold on just one moment! If the twitch streamer was using the cameras live feed as background, then we should know the time of the crime! The twitch archive should mark how long the streamer had been on by the time of the perpetrators presence onscreen, and if we know when they went live, we will know the time the perpetrator was in the building!

[alloverthegaf]

DAMNIT JONES THIS ISN’T YOUR CASE

[mongolman101]

WELL IT’S MY CASE NOW! The Captain thinks your kidnapping is related to my investigation into that cult up state. So, apparently, we’re supposed to work together. I’m not any happier than you are.

[alloverthegaf]

but I hate sharing!

[mongolman101]

TOUGH SHIT MCNAMARA! Your kidnapping case is somehow connected with that cult that’s been sacrificing its members to in the belief that it will appease the elder god Cthulhu. Now, I don’t like it any more than you do, and I’m worse at sharing than a toddler with a new favorite toy, but lives may well be on the line here! Are you willing to put aside our differences, and do what needs to be done?!

[alloverthegaf]

Alright, but when we catch the perp he’s mine. I don’t care if he’s sacrificed a hundred victims to goddamn Mickey Mouse! That man may know who killed my father, and I won’t let anyone get in my way - not even someone with your develish smile.

[mongolman101]

Do you think you’re the only one who wants to find Eric’s murderer?! He was my partner! He was my friend! I know we haven’t worked together before, but this case will have us working together for a while, until we eventually find your fathers killer. And I can see this case taking us a long time, and defining both of our lives for the foreseeable future. But don’t worry McNamara, my years of experience on the force, put together with your grit, tenacity, and loose understanding of the rules will make for a great partnership, with plenty of laughs and sexual tension to go around. Until some being from on high decides the precinct isn’t ready for a same sex couple, and I rekindle my relationship with my previously unmentioned ex-wife. But we, and some unknown watchers of our adventures, will always know we were meant to be together, weirdly large age gap be damned!

[alloverthegaf]

Yeah, and while Eric was off playing cops and robbers with you, I grew up without a dad! Do you know how many times I stared at my baseball glove, wishing he was there to throw it to me? You may have lost Eric, but I never even got to have him!

But you’re right. This case will definitely take at least a full year, especially with the fact that we will be constantly interrupted with other, smaller cases, one of which will be halloween themed. We’re working together for the forseeable future, and my playful countenance and morbid wit will very quickly mesh with your hardened attitude and tendency to keep secrets.

And while you go back to your unhappy, stiff relationship with your ex wife, I will be shown having constant meaningless sex with a multitude of beautiful women so that the writers can really get across how Not Gay I am.

It’s gonna be a wild ride, Jones. And there had better be stakeouts.

[brain3at3r]

executive producer dick wolf

[exigencelost]

This is the best demonstration of the principle of “yes, and” that I have ever seen. They should put this in textbooks.

[la-laborista-republiko]

[flavoracle]

I’m not a brave man. I’m not a violent man. But I am a man who knows my strengths, and I’m prepared to use them.

So if I encounter any ICE agents in my neighborhood, I will smile and waive and as soon as they make eye contact I will engage in the most aggressively friendly chitchat ever witnessed on my block.

I will ramble on and on about whatever pops into my head. I will ask them about their day, their hobbies, their home life, and their personal backstory until I find a common area of interest, and then I will crank my smalltalk game UP TO ELEVEN.

I will force them to look awkwardly at their wristwatch DOZENS of times without taking the hint. I will ask seemingly simple questions that do not have ANY simple answers. I will pretend to wrap up the conversation with, “Anyway…” and then segue DIRECTLY into another topic.

Because every minute an ICE agent wastes chatting with me is a minute that they’re not targeting my neighbors and disrupting their lives.

I’m no superhero, but I do have a super power, and I’ll use it to fight oppression in any way I can.

[outerspace-froggy-deactivated20]

Love you, Dave

[chaoticbisexualalien-deactivate]

the magic in bbc merlin was so extremely gay-coded and I don’t even think it was on purpose??? like when morgana said “I don’t want to be brave, I just want to be myself” is there a gay on this planet who can’t relate to being forced into an activist role in every conversation

[whythinktoomuch]

right tho??

imagine writing this scene & wondering why the gays related so hard???? 

[4gifs]

[maruxee]

I’M DEAD

[prokopetz]

Fun fact: if you know your feline body language, you’ll notice that the lynx is deferring to the housecat. As far as these two are concerned, the housecat is the higher-ranking cat.

[thecarvingwitch]

OH MY GOSH

[icarus-in-fl1ght-deactivated202]

It’s because the cat is that lynx’s mom

[softfairies]

[frish-prence]

BIG STRONG DAUGHTER