If I can be anything I choose to be sincere

i love botany, poetry, and video games! 22 | they/she

[firstfullmoon]

Robert Wood Lynn, “There is Only One Ocean”

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[karrakazz]

[wordcubed]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they're used to seeing together, and when that doesn't happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.

"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?

"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?

"This feels like it's missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where's the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?": When does he steal the fucking bread??

[thetetra]

I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#this is why so many of us urge people to get a wider diet of stories

[seatrench]

New Zealand Longfin Eel

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[hydemind]

I really felt this tag

[droptheguillotineplease]

@ra-assputin

[duskdragonxiii]

Why is pet play always dogs anyway

[duskdragonxiii]

Youre a dirty little goldfish arent you. daddys gonna clean your tank out so good so you have to wait in the sink until im done.

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[depsidase]

[contemptible-scoundrel]

Ccan i hit?

I would parry every blow?

[zinesbycee]

(nods sagely) (nods basily) (nods rosemarily) (nods saltly) (nods star anisely)

[minixor]

reading the original screenplay for obsession. i see why they cut this because it’s so in-your-face but godddd nikki (originally nicky) was basically telling bear what would be the moral of the movie and he just can’t absorb any of it

[sanguinesylph]

god I need this guy dead its not funny anymore

[blossom2blossom]

facts i think need to be kept in mind when looking at trinity's hatred for/fear of langdon:

she was sexually abused as a child by a male authority figure

her childhood best friend killed herself because of their rapist

langdon is a male authority figure who is commiting a crime

langdon is a father. he has access to children

trinity, on the same day, watched her department collectively decide not to report a man for raping his daughter

[w0nderland42]

i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

top economists are saying today that so long as the coyote doesn't look down he will never fall

[blossom2blossom]

heather "not everything is about you, robby" collins i miss you sm. heather "it is way too early in the morning for you to be an ass, langdon" collins i miss you sm. heather "just keeeeeep walking. mmhmm" collins please come home

[rainbowplussome]

probably my favorite thing about mohan’s character is that she is SO empathetic but she is still a deeply data driven person. so frequently the bleeding heart character is stereotyped as more intuitive-emotional than logical-analytical, and their worldview is therefore implied to be a consequence of naivety—or, failing that, wishful thinking. for a character to be so explicitly compassionate and also explicitly logical pushes that in the other direction and says yeah, empathy is actually a logical choice. compassion is not blind but backed by empirical data. “feelers” are not to “optimists” as “thinkers” are not to “cynics”.

samira mohan the character you are…

[814519]

starting the pride month with mcvadi