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Jules of Nature
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trying on a metaphor
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Stranger Things
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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everybody: aliens
nobody: corn is sentient
everybody: hugh, bring your big ass muscles over here and punch this guy on screen hugh jackman, quietly: i just want to sing
me, as a kid: i canât wait til iâm an adult so i can stay up late EVERY NIGHT
me, as an adult, crawling into bed at 6:30 pm: oh thank god
Winning the villain over to your side is a power fantasy.
Like, a really big one, too.
Social emphasis has it that men should value strength, aggression, and violence, and women should value kindness, empathy, and community. But really, anyone who has learned to prefer social success to might/aggression is going to favour a strategy where you can make your enemies into allies of some kind, over one where you just kill them. As a display of dominance, killing is overly simplistic. And itâs also hard to ignore the reality that luck usually has more to do with most fights than actual strength.
So, many people vastly prefer stories where the villains donât die, but instead, get won over by the hero. Itâs also a much more prevalent power fantasy among women than it is among men, because women are often taught that violence on our parts is inherently distasteful and ignoble. If you canât defeat your enemies by putting a bullet in their heads, then what could be more satisfying than convincing that enemy to come and fight other people on your behalf instead?
This is a major component to why villains end up as popular shipping material. I honestly donât think itâs the âbad boyâ impulse, or some branch of misogyny, or at least, not in a majority of cases. Itâs a total and sincere power fantasy. Someone going âall I care about is myself and all I want to do is DESTROY THE WORLD MWAHAHAHAâ meeting you and then being like âoh no wait I also want to please you and spend time with you and I want that so much that I will now give up those other thingsâ implies an intoxicating level of charisma.
Of course, like most power fantasies, it pays to tread carefully with it. Because real life rarely accommodates such things, and as with some muscle-bound hero easily lifting a house over his head, being able to take a wholly selfish being and convert them into a devoted companion is⊠unlikely to happen outside of fiction. For a lot of reasons.
However, I bring it up because I am C O N S T A N T L Y seeing the compulsion to ship characters with villains misattributed to A) agreeing with the villains, B) some form of self-hatred, C) a noble impulse towards compassion and understanding, or D) sheer stupidity, and really⊠itâs just another power fantasy. Wonder Woman punches a tank. Tony Stark buys an entire island. Storm calls down a lightning strike. Batman outwits all his clever foes. And some seemingly random, ordinary human woman convinces Lex Luthor to chill out and stop trying to kill Superman. Itâs all power, displayed in fantastical proportions.
(Which isnât to say that you have to like it or think that every such relationship is good and healthy, gods no, but once you realize that everyoneâs just pretending to be the Superman of relationships, itâs easier to just go âoh thatâs what youâre afterâ and⊠yâknow⊠fret less.)
me: finally realizes what that actor was also in
me: screams the role with no warning or explanation
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TOP 3 TRAITORS:
3. Brutus 2. Judas 1. Printers when you are in a hurry
Having sex with a robot is fucking metal.
Iâve finally managed to make a vine compilation short enough that Tumblr will let me post it!
I thought it wasnât possible to crack an egg in your palm like that how to fuck did he
This is a good one 12/10
this is legit my favorite vine compilation ever, iâm crying
@swanpotato LMAO
we need carbs and we need fats and we need proteins and honestly fuck diet culture for normalizing malnourishmentÂ
does anyone else require an advance notice of at least three (3) working days to physically and mentally prepare for any and all forms of social activity or is it just me
Thor Ragnarok (2017)
you know, the weird thing about the âi didnât care about feminism until i had a daughterâ crowd is that the vast majority of these men have wives.they formed close,intimate relationships with actual human woman over the course of several years and yet that wasnât enough to make them give half a shit about womenâs issues. but the very moment that wife, that living breathing human female with rights and needs that these men could have been caring about this whole time,pops out a baby that  they feel is their possession, then womenâs issues are important. very bizarre.Â
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[looks into the camera like heâs on the office]
actually the best part of the lotr cast commentary is getting to hear about sir ian mckellenâs gay agenda
i phrased this as a joke because it is pretty funny but its also worth reading what he said:
IAN: When I suggested to Sean that he took Elijahâs hand it was because I thought anyone who knew the book would care about the deep friendship, often of an innocently physical nature, and that mightâve been missed by two resolutely heterosexual actors who mightnât appreciate that gay people like myself saw in a touch something perhaps more meaningful than others might. So to persuade him to touch Elijah, Iâd say, âWell look, itâs in the book.â
[Sean & Elijah in a separate recording] SEAN: Ian brought the book to me right before we shot it and he said, âNow look here, it says that Sam runs over and grabs Frodoâs hand,â he said. âThe fans of the book are going to want to see that.â I sort ofâI believed it, and I got a fan letter the other day that a neighbor friend handed to me, and it said how much it meant to her that Sam holds Frodoâs hand at that moment because it was something that sheâit was one of the most important moments to her in the book. ELIJAH: Oh, thatâs fantastic. Itâs those subtle little nuances, man. SEAN: So thank you Ian. ELIJAH: Thatâs unbelievable.