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Gone With the Wind

When girls say “Listen, bitch” to another girl they’re likely friends, when they say “Listen, sweetie” they are definitely not friends.

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This is as pure as it gets. (via Filth800)

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan (via selflessbellamy)

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A handy little guide for you

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Goes to show who truly cares about diversity 🙂

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Everyone: maturing, becoming adults, functioning

Me:

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Hope you’re all having a great Labor Day weekend!

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Photos by Chasity Lollis (via TheRealDerv)

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I’ve only heard secondhand discourse about Yennefer, but the impression I’ve gotten is that a lot of her detractors don’t fully realize the magnitude of the decisions and sacrifices she makes in the name of finding Ciri. These include:

Serving Emhyr var Emreis, the Emperor of Nilfgaard, whose actions both directly and indirectly made her life a living hell for literal years. His army devastated the North, including her hometown, and she found herself in the middle of the struggle between him and Vilgefortz over who would ultimately lay claim to Ciri. When they finally met, his first instinct was to marry his daughter, never telling her they were related, and leave behind a dagger for Geralt and Yennefer to kill themselves with. He ended up rethinking that decision, but the fact that he even considered it is horrifying to say the least. That she would serve a man who has done the things he has speaks volumes about how desperate she is to find Ciri, no matter the cost.

Performing necromancy, an act which she compares to having a mouth full of wriggling cockroaches. There’s a double standard going on here wherein Geralt is seemingly justified in the path of destruction and dead bodies he leaves behind him while turning over every stone, but this somehow makes her the actual devil. She takes no pleasure in it, and she availed herself of all the other options a long time ago. It is the only way, and it reaffirms that she’s willing to do anything to find Ciri. Remember, in the world of The Witcher, people are never entirely good or entirely evil. Geralt has the option of doing things that are just as reprehensible or worse than this, depending on the player’s decisions.

Reuniting the members of the Lodge of Sorceresses, who have all betrayed her in some way in the past. For all the barbs she throws at Geralt about his past with Triss, she remains downright civil and even friendly with Triss herself. One of the women they rescue is Fringilla Vigo, who blinded her at Sodden Hill and slept with Geralt for months while Yennefer was held captive at Stygga Castle (though a letter in her study when you first meet her implies that they’re already on speaking terms). For someone who can be extremely vindictive and vengeful, she’s able to let bygones be bygones for the sake of saving the woman she thinks of as her daughter.

All of this paints a picture of someone who is dedicated and driven to extremes, who means well but doesn’t always consider what her actions will mean for those around her. That is a flaw that’s hard-wired into her character, and it makes her interesting. Moreover, it’s not the only side of her that we see. She goes through a full range of emotions in the game, and is written like an actual human being instead of whatever strawman caricature her critics like to reduce her to.

Yennefer is one of my favorite characters of all time, and stuff like this is a big reason why.

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So, let's talk about Taylor Swift. 🐍

With the release of the video for “Look What You Made Me Do”, people have been noticing some… Things. It all started with people hinting that the albums release date for November 10th was a subtle reference to the anniversary of the passing of Kanye West’s mother, Donda West. Although Taylor’s publicists insist it’s all a coincidence, some fans aren’t buying it. Later on at the VMA awards, Swift unveiled the video and publicly released it to YouTube, where more “coincidences” were quickly called out. The first being when Swift lies in a bathtub full of jewelry, admiring her ring while singing the line “I don’t like your perfect crime”, which many people thought was a nod towards Kim Kardashian’s 2016 robbery, where she was gagged, put in a bathtub, and held at gunpoint while her jewelry was stolen. Although it’s supposed to be a reference to a quote from Swift, talking about her character in her last album who “jet sets around the world collecting men”, gets left, and sits “crying in a bathtub full of pearls”, many people still think it has a double meaning. Soon after that scene, Taylor cuts in with a scene depicting a car crash, with the car door opening to reveal Swift lying back in her seat holding a Grammy award. This is almost unquestionably a reference to Kanye West’s violent 2002 car accident(the same year that he won a Grammy), where he nearly died, was put in the hospital with severe injuries, and had to have his jaw rewired. What’s more is that this scene is furthered by the fact that later in the video, the same car explodes as she walks away from it. I wonder if she’s telling Kanye to crash and burn? Finally, Swift is seen in the video holding a chainsaw on top of the wing of a jet airliner. She saws off the wing, and it falls to the ground, where later the same jet is seen in full view behind her and her alter-egos. In that shot, it appears that the jet in the video is also the same as Kanye West’s private jet, just painted gold. Once again, she’s subtly sending the message that she wants Kanye to crash and burn. Even though some people think he deserves the drag because of his video for “Famous”, in which he showed a nude figure of Taylor Swift in his bed, calling her “that bitch” and saying “I still might f*ck Taylor”, others think she’s gone a bit too far in response, especially because of the mention of the robbery and hinting towards the anniversary of the death of Donda West. All of that aside, it’s hard to find the humour in someone mocking someone else’s near-death experience, violent robbery, and possibly someone’s mother’s death, as well as numerous fans speculating that she’s copying Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” and “Formation” in several scenes. When you consider that her problem with the Kardashian/West family is over a speech interruption, video gone wrong(that she apparently knew about beforehand), and a lyrical disagreement, it becomes clear that she’s gone a bit too far in mocking their robbery, violent car accident that nearly resulted in death, and tragic death of Kanye’s mother post-surgery, all for a video. But hey, she broke the Vevo record.