Bittersweet

Looking at eternity in the eyes is the first step to inmortality

[feminescu]

i am not my mother and i am not my father but a third worse thing

[floridakilo]

their daughter

[girlstressed]

can’t stop smiling in inappropriate situations

[girlstressed]

forgive me father for i have grinned

[dailyloki]

WHAT IF? / SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8

[daisy-mooon]

Tony Stark: I have to babysit Peter Parker. He's a bit annoying. I guess he's alright.

Carol Danvers: Everyone clap for Kamala Khan right now or I'm blowing this fucking building up with you all inside of it.

[zinjanthropusboisei]

The Black Cat episode annoyed me to no end but this was so funny

[rylandsgrace]

Tony Stark dies today (17/10/23), according to the MCU timeline.

[rylandsgrace]

Ferrera said it felt like she filmed 500 takes of the speech over the two days of filming, adding, “It was probably 30 to 50 full runs of it, top to bottom. By the end, [co-star Ariana Greenblatt] recited the monologue to me because she had memorized it because that’s how many times I had said it.”

Barbie (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

[probablyavpd]

Not many people talk about how deep emotional neglect hurts you.

I’m afraid to want things. I’m afraid to ask for help. I’m afraid to tell someone something if they seem in a bad mood. I can’t process when someone is nice to me. I can’t handle rejection, but my brain literally short circuits if someone gives me a compliment to the point where sometimes the rejection is better.

There are lots of overlap with emotional abuse, but emotional neglect hurts just as much. And it’s even worse that it usually goes undetected, so a lot of people can’t tell they’re being neglected until it’s too late.

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Lilo & Stitch is a great example of a story that has no villains. It has antagonists, sure, but most of them are well-meaning. The worst person in the film is that little shit Myrtle, but she’s not in the film that much anyway.

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Since this post is getting traction I want to clarify how not-villainous the antagonists are:

The Grand Councilwoman is literally just responding to what she sees as a threat to the galaxy and is extremely reasonable.

Gantu is much the same. He’s a bit overzealous, yes, but he thinks he’s saving the galaxy from stitch.

Cobra Bubbles is literally just doing his job, he’s obviously not happy about it but he is doing what he feels is best for Lilo. And much like the Councilwoman, he is extremely reasonable.

Myrtle is, again, just a little shit. She’s a schoolyard bully and is truly small potatoes.

Jumba calls himself an “evil scientist,” but literally nothing supports that. His only onscreen crime is creating a bunch of Pokémon that have powers that will mildly inconvenience people and can be persuaded to be nice over the course of 22 - 90 minutes, to say nothing of himself seeing as he decides to change his ways at the softest bit of persuasion.

Pleakley is literally just gay.

[a-method-in-it]

The "villain" of Lilo and Stitch is, rather directly, societies and social systems that write people off and do not provide support and care.

It is obvious to the audience -- and deliberately presented this way by the film -- that it is better for Lilo to stay with her sister, even if her sister is a bit of a mess and not financially stable. Mr. Bubbles is not evil. He is there because he wants what's best for Lilo, and he is not unreasonable to think that the sister without a job who leaves the stove on and whose house nearly burned down two days later is not it. The solution is not to "defeat" Mr. Bubbles; the solution would be for society to help Nani succeed, rather than watch as she fails.

Similarly, no one provided any help to Stitch when he was created and discovered. They wrote him off as an abomination, something too dangerous to be destroyed. They weren't evil, and it wasn't unreasonable to think that the experiment created to be an agent of destruction would be better off scrapped. But what would have happened if they had at least tried?

Lilo and Stitch are two characters who were caught in systems that were cold, uncaring, and unsupportive, even if the people in them were not evil and were, in fact, just doing their best.

It's a movie about people who have been written off finding one another and building a found family where they can get and give the support and care they didn't get from the people with authority and I love it so much.

[championsofmyheart]

[billy-crudup]

THE BOYS 2.08 | 3.08

[shooting-stars-andsatellites]

Adult realization: you will make mistakes, you will act irrationally. You will commit some wrongs that cannot be fully righted. People will dislike you and misunderstand you for all sorts of reasons. None of these make you a bad person. All you can do is try your best to be kind and just to people, grow and learn.

[yourtinseltinkerbell]

[havingrevelations-deactivated20]

mental illness made me so desperate for joy that i forgot it was this simple… feeling the ocean against your skin… a really good guitar riff… sun on your back… holding the door for a stranger… a cold shower on a hot day…….. the world is like a cradle and i am just a little baby. eyes wide open there is so much to see

[gayedmundo]

the magicians straight up showing that despite the fact that quentin loved both alice and eliot and both relationships mattered, to alice, quentin was her on and off boyfriend that she loved despite how complicated it was. but to eliot… quentin was the love of his life.

[yourtinseltinkerbell]

#this is why i cannot abide any legitimising of that scene/that aspect of s5#much as olivia and hale do do their best in that scene - hale in particular - to sell it#there’s no saving it! it sucks from its very premise!#and i give the show no credit for it!!! lmfao they didn’t do ANYTHING to move#whatever#the ~movement~ forward (x)

[vivienvalentino]

CHARLIE’S ANGELS — 2000, dir. McG

[relhentless]