welcoming seasonsÂ

blake kathryn
Cosmic Funnies
YOU ARE THE REASON
RMH
TVSTRANGERTHINGS

Andulka

Kiana Khansmith
Xuebing Du
No title available
Game of Thrones Daily
Keni

No title available
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me

#extradirty
I'd rather be in outer space đž

ç„æ„ / Permanent Vacation
NASA
Mike Driver

izzy's playlists!

seen from Malaysia
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia

seen from United States

seen from Iraq
seen from Belgium

seen from Indonesia
seen from Germany

seen from South Korea
seen from United States

seen from Australia

seen from Iraq
seen from TĂŒrkiye
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Malaysia
seen from Maldives
seen from Germany

seen from United Kingdom

seen from Netherlands

seen from United States
@daysthatblur
welcoming seasonsÂ
Thinking about cosy living rooms and long hours spent reading on the couch.Â
white candles, white snow, white skies
Ponyo | ćŽăźäžăźăăă§ (2008), dir. Hayao Miyazaki
By lapetitchef
This is reminder to check up on your own mental health.
Pharmaceutical Giant:Â âThis medicine costs $3 to make, but Iâm selling it to sick people for $300 because I know that they canât just refuse to buy it.â
Rich People:Â âThatâs a smart business strategy.â
Reddit User:Â âThese GameStop shares cost me $3 each, but Iâm selling them to short investors for $300 each because I know that they canât just refuse to buy it.â
Rich People:Â âTHE HORROR!!! GOVERNMENT, PUT A STOP TO THIS!!!â
My Cat, Keiko Hiratsuka Moore.
Itâs competition, but in a healthy way. If Sandraâs nominated [for an award] and I wasnât, I wouldnât feel put out by that; I would be so proud of her and support her 100%.
I know y'all did not read the books but Roald Dahl talks about this in the book. Charlieâs teacher points out the fact that unless you buy a shit ton of bars youâre probably not gonna win. Just like the lottery. Just like how all of the other winners of the tickets bought a shit ton of bars. Except Charlie, who just got lucky. And Charlie was originally black. Literally the whole point of the book was that wonka wanted to give the less fortunate a fair opportunity and it wasnât fair because the system isnât fair.
Stop the car.
Charlie was originally black?!?!
!?!!
He was and Mr. Dahl was forced to make him white. Also his widow has spoken and confirmed that as well.
because you shouldnât believe everything you read on a tumblr post at face value, here is a guardian article confirming that charlie was originally conceived as black but dahl made him white at the behest of his publisher
WHAT
But yeah, coming back to the original point, the other kids, especially Augustus Gloop and Veruca Salt, cheated the system by claiming a ridiculous amount of chocolate bars. News reports mention people hoarding Wonka chocolate bars in hopes of finding the Golden Ticket. Mr Salt even admits that he refitted his staff at a nut-shelling factory for opening chocolate bars, without a doubt losing a huge amount of capital in lost profits and mass bulk-buying of chocolate, just to win. The working-class lady who actually found that ticket didnât benefit from that luck or labour - she was immediately made to hand it over to her boss for his spoiled daughter, who holds it as âhisâ victory and good luck.
Charlie didnât even find the ticket in his first bar, or his second. His first bar, his birthday present, was a dud, and he even failed to enjoy it like normal because he dared to hope, just for a moment, that he might actually be lucky enough to get the one. Later, he is lucky enough to find a dropped 50p piece in the street, and goes to buy a chocolate bar for himself. Finally holding a treat that is all his, he wolfs the thing down, stopping only long enough to realises that he didnât get lucky and win a Golden Ticket. Itâs only on the third bar that he gets it, and, smelling blood in the water, the shopkeeper tells him to immediately go home and not tell a soul that he has it, knowing what people might do to this small starving boy if they find out what he has.
And Wonka knows! He knows he done goofed! He realises almost immediately that the people who have been attracted to his lottery, who have stacked the decks in their favour, are awful, cruel, entitled people! Augustus Gloop, the glutton, doesnât care what placed in front of him so long as itâs food - and the first obstacle? A room where everything is a kind of sweet. Violetâs gum-chewing is excessive, but the modern film adapts this into a more realistic and sinister flaw - overcompetitiveness. Itâs not just that sheâs been chewing the same piece of gum for months, itâs that sheâs been chewing the same piece of gum, weeks after its taste is gone, whether it is socially acceptable or not, just to break a record. So when Wonka promises a new treat, a personal favourite of one of the kids, but says itâs not ready yet and you canât have it, of course Violet seizes it, because damn the consequences, she will be the first to try it. Veruca is shown a collection of unique animals, and immediately declares that she wants one, because sheâs always had the bragging rights and luxury rare items. And when Mr Wonka refuses to sell? She steals it, because dang it, she will have that golden goose/trained squirrel! Mike Teevee, in his hubris, mutilates himself almost beyond recognition because he had to challenge Mr Wonkaâs outlandish claim of transmitting physical objects via television. Charlie was the perfect heir, not because he was humble and poor, but because he had the wonder and appreciation for the treats Wonka made but also the sense and caution not to risk messing with the many dangerous things in an active factory. If the lottery was more fair, maybe Charlie would have had more stiff competition, but as it stands, Charlie is almost the poster boy of âwon by doing nothingâ.
Sorry, got sidetracked
TLDR: Apart from Charlie, most of the other kids were entitled rich (white) kids who gamed a system that should have been fair, and were punished for it by revealing to them their greed and hubris
A long The Way, Daniel Gerhartz
Daniel Gerhartz