Clone rights!

[skyberia]

pov your friend just got ritual sacrificed and you're trying to have a moment but your inner monologue gets interrutped by an unhinged twink trying to add grand theft auto to his list of crimes

[clonerightsagenda]

There's a post on KC reddit asking if anyone knows people who were at the Hyatt disaster and man are there some grisly stories in there.

[vryfmi]

post so bad tumblr offers 5 delete buttons and no post button

[id: screenshot of broken tumblr queue footer ui with one reorder button, 5 delete buttons, one edit, and one unreadable button where post button should be./end id]

[clonerightsagenda]

I thought your tag said "watching gru" and I thought "Damn, I NEED to see that new Minions movie"

Minions serve whoever the biggest villain is, right? While I imagine there are bigger problems in the real world than Akio, presumably within the self-contained world of Ohtori Academy they would flock to him. I'm not sure how he'd feel about them from an aesthetic perspective though

[clonerightsagenda]

Bizarre space fact: While the Gemini missions were named after the astrological sign (as indicated by their logo), staff and astronauts pronounced it Gemi-KNEE so much that NASA released a statement making that the official way to say the project's name.

[coraniaid]

In Season 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer the Big Bad is defeated because Xander insists on following Buffy when she goes to fight the Master. He is thus able to resuscitate her after she drowns, which Angel (representing Buffy’s emotional link to the supernatural world) explicitly could not have done.  This illustrates one of the big themes of this season: the idea that Buffy’s connections to the ordinary world and to the people in it who love her are not a weakness but in fact a source of great strength.  Contrary to her mentor’s insistence earlier in the season that she should focus on Slaying above any and all other interests, she is ultimately able to save the world precisely because she is still a part of it.

In Season 2 the Big Bad is defeated because, on the one hand, Spike does think his love for Drusilla is more important than the fate of the world (and so he is willing to betray her and work against her plans because of his own feelings of jealousy) and, on the other hand, Buffy does not think her love for Angel is more important than the fate of the world (and so she is able to send Angel to hell even after his soul is restored).  This illustrates one of the key themes of the second season: the idea that romantic love should not be something that you allow to control you, however tempting that might be and however much it might hurt not to.  While Angelus and the Judge both argue that ‘passion’ is what makes us who we are, the show itself suggests that to allow yourself to be ruled by passion is to become something not quite fully human.

In Season 3 the Big Bad is defeated because, a few episodes before the finale and against all reasonable odds,  the Mayor just so happens to contact an old  acquaintance of Giles when looking for help in getting Angel’s soul removed, and this acquaintance passes the information on to Giles.  This entirely unexpected coincidence, this stroke of astronomical bad luck for the Mayor, directly leads to both the failure of his current plan and to Faith unwittingly letting slip crucial details of the Ascension to Buffy ahead of Graduation Day, a mistake which ultimately allows Buffy and her friends to research, prepare for and prevent it.  And this in turn illustrates what I can only assume is intended to be the central theme of the third season: which is that proper vetting and background checks are of vital importance when recruiting private contractors to work for local government.

[clonerightsagenda]

The victims getting swords pulled out of their chest seem to be in pain (is it different for the Rose Bride? or has Anthy just gone through it so many times she doesn't scream anymore?) but Miki blushes when Nanami asks him how it felt. Is it too much of a reach to liken this to sexual assault and how sometimes people's bodies can still respond even if they're not consenting to or enjoying the experience?

Unrelated note: Utena must be getting killer leg muscles from all these stairs. No wonder she can do backflips

[clonerightsagenda]

Shiori having an absolutely unhinged reaction to finding out about Juri's crush

[clonerightsagenda]

Utena is going to Akio for therapy vent sessions???

[clonerightsagenda]

I would interpret the cowbell episode as a metaphor for everyone recognizing that Nanami's being abused but her refusing to accept it, except no one else seems to recognize she's being abused either.

[clonerightsagenda]

telling my parents' cat that she has shoujo legs

[clonerightsagenda]

The other one has disproportionately huge paws so Yaoi Hands and Shoujo Legs: the manga sisters

[clonerightsagenda]

It appears this Black Rose arc is about a power hungry group convincing a bunch of suckers that they should blame all their personal problems on the nearest brown woman. This is much like following US politics

[clonerightsagenda]

"You really care about her," Utena says to Akio after commenting "I guess you're a pretty good older brother" to Touga. My girl does not have creep radar

[clonerightsagenda]

why did Miki's piano teacher just grab his ass

[clonerightsagenda]

Miki wants to introduce Anthy to his ass grabbing piano teacher? does she not have enough problems

[clonerightsagenda]

why did Miki's piano teacher just grab his ass

[clonerightsagenda]

telling my parents' cat that she has shoujo legs

[lizardsfromspace]

Out of control Edwardian youths refuse to clap at production of Peter Pan, force distraught J.M Barrie to pull out rarely seen "Tinkerbell Fucking Dies" ending

[julianova44]

You probably know this but shitpost ruining fun fact for anybody who doesn’t:

When the play first was performed, JM Barrie et al were so concerned this might happen that they instructed the orchestra to drop their instruments and clap at this point, just in case

[lizardsfromspace]

I did not know this and I'm grateful for being informed

[sisaloofafump]

Peter Pan edited by Anne Hiebert Alton (2011)

(sorry to interrupt joke post but) this is true!

Children not clapping did happen too, (and some were even expected to have hissed, which was later written into the 1928 playscript and 1911 novel). But my all time favourite anecdote about it is from Pauline Chase (who played Peter)'s intro to Peter Pan's Post Bag 1909:

Children love to clap their hands at the play because then they feel that they are really part of it, and you can see them holding their hands poised ready to seize an opportunity. Their great chance is when I ask them to clap their hands if they believe in fairies, and so save Tink's life. But they are very wrathful if any one claps who has the reputation of being a cynic, and once there was quite an uproar in the front row of the dress circle because of a girl who clapped. Those about her pulled down her arms angrily. "How dare you clap," they cried, "when you know you don't believe in fairies!" There was one dreadfully hard-hearted little boy who came to the theatre not to clap. That was his object for coming, and he came round "behind" to tell me so in the middle of the play. His teeth were firm set. "I won't clap," he said doggedly; "I'm not going to clap." And when the time came he didn't clap; above the clapping of all the others I could hear him shouting from a box, "Peter, I'm not clapping."

(Tink was revived each time anyway)

[bethanydelleman]

I am a certified hater of audience participation but let me tell you, it is almost impossible not to clap during this scene. Even as a full grown adult.