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Kajillionaire (2020) dir. Miranda July

Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.

un-monstre

I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.

jimmythejiver

Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won't let you copy and paste:

#words #history #labor

intertexts

rigging & power lines r like siblings i think.

intertexts

these r like brothers to me.

#photography

foxbirdy

every winter solstice I am consumed with thoughts of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost...

foxbirdy

#words #writing #poetry #poem

whentheynameyoujoy

Tamsyn Muir truly is something else for creating a world of widespread poverty, instability, and hunger where different cells of a galactic terrorist organization fight each other for power in a setting reminescent of a failed state as a bloody civil looms and a Melancholia-like supernatural entity hangs in the sky and enemy demi-gods threaten to invade and persecute the population AGAIN, and then telling the story through the eyes of a character who perceives barely any of this, cares about none of it, and whose only ambition in life is cuddling with her parental figures, avoiding breakfast, and keeping her place in a gang of schoolkids who fell straight out of a Stephen King novel.

#words #books #tlt

legally-allowed-to-slime

i was gonna say “wow, they’re really pushing the came back wrong trope because buffy keeps repeating the exact phrase” until i googled and realise the phrase “came back wrong” literally originates from buffy. this show is like the modern shakespeare

aphony-cree

in 2004 a thread started on buffistas.org to discuss tropes used in Buffy and other Whedonverse shows. At the time there were no formal names for most tropes so users assigned them names based on the scenes they were discussing. This thread inspired one of the site members to start the website TVTropes.org

Most of the listings on TVtropes were named after scenes and quotes from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

heybluechild

what learning fandom history is like

(and if it's not btvs, as people in the tags have noted, it's star trek or the x-files)

#words #tv shows #btvs #tropes

iydallus

Just saw a reblog on a post start with "sorry y'all, but I'm about to use my degree" and then immediately state a factually untrue statement. I love this website.

#words #ha

galaxywarp

whatever man fuck you *slides my opacity setting down to 0*

#words #ha

luckysevenart

that's part 2! here's the link to the smut pdf and if you can't afford, no worries! here's the rest of the story after the smut in part 3! part 1

#art #fanart #comic #arcane #caitvi #luckysevenart

cardo-de-comer

#art #3d art #yourenotsupposedtobehere

homunculus-argument

Another fantasy trope story:

A story where a prominent prophesy very clearly states that this specific important thing Must Be Done by the firstborn of one specific guy. So three young heroes head out to fix this: This Guy's official firstborn heir, his bastard he didn't even know about before getting married, and his unofficially adopted orphan kid who just started living with him at some point, who is the oldest of the three so technically speaking is still the one who was born first. And all three must go because while the meaning of the prophesy itself is very clear, it's an utter mystery to everyone which one of them counts as their father's firstborn.

#words #writing #storytime #nice