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why’s everyone having sex now don’t we have steven universe to debate
we probably won’t get this because romance series, but I would really love to see Violet getting back in touch with herself and who she is outside of being a wife and mother and finally being able to see and accept that Eloise can be happy on her own, as her own person, even if that would make her a spinster. I’ve liked seeing Eloise realize that marriage and societal expectations can make the people in her life happy, but I would also would love to see her maintain that those things aren’t for her.
US involvement in regime change in Latin America
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I know the new "Wuthering Heights" is gonna be garbage because they are Ignoring Kate Bush entirely in their marketing.
Personally I think it would’ve been cool if the movie titled Wuthering Heights was about the book Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847). or at least related to it in some way . but that’s just me
Look. I am a smart person who studied English Literature in university. There are indeed cases in old literature where people who are white are likened to “gypsies” for some weird metaphor (Maggie Tulliver from The Mill on the Floss) or where a previously-assumed-as-not-white character turns out to be White All Along (Esmeralda, The Sheik).
Heathcliff is the one (1) major case where this is not the case. He is constantly called a “gypsy” by a wide array of characters in a wide array of situations, he is also called Lascar and Indian, he speaks a foreign language upon entering the household, and he is never revealed to be White and Wealthy All Along - to the point that he is considered a bit of a subversion of that trope. (Even Charlotte Bronte defined Heathcliff as “a black gipsy cub” in a letter she wrote to her publisher while Emily Bronte was still alive). And since Heathcliff is not a real person but only exists in the text of Wuthering Heights, the text of Wuthering Heights constantly calling him “gypsy” and other ethnic or racist epithets without any evidence to the contrary makes Heathcliff not-white.
This adaptation already passed the point of mere “whitewashing”, Fennell casting a brown Edgar Linton opposed to a white Heathcliff makes this adaptation’s racism aggressive instead of just ignorant. But even outside of this adaptation, why would you want to make maybe the only famous main character of color in pre-20th century Western literary canon (other than Othello) into a white guy? Why would you want to subvert a subversion?
Whitewashing heathcliff in the big 2025??
*spoilers for One Day*
For people saying ‘it’s tragic, Dex and Em only got 3 years together’ no. They got 15 years together.
Glossing over the span of their life together to sum it up as ‘only 3 years together’ misses all the love and time they had together that wasn’t solely romantic.
Why is their relationship only ‘important’ or ‘counts’ when it’s a romantic one? Maybe there was always romantic love buried in there or growing steadily but there was a whole lot of platonic love there too.
For 15 years they were the most important person in the world to one another, they described each other as their ‘best friend’ and the person they reached out to at every high and low moment. And for the last 3 of those years they were also a couple.
There are loads of examples of Dex reaching out to Em when he’s at his lowest: the last birthday with his mum, then he’s reeling from his divorce, when he’s scared people will hate him on TV. And you *could* read that as pathetic and Em being his emotional crutch, with Dex latching into her. But you could *also* see that as when you’re struggling and low, you just want your best friend. Because they *get* you. And part of being a best friend is being there in those low moments.
And Em has done the same with Dex, just in different ways. That first year out of uni Em had no idea what she was doing; in a job she couldn’t wait to leave, a relationship that didn’t make her happy, not sure where she was going in life or what she was doing. Em writes to Dex often, and doesn’t need him to reply to her, just to read her letters and be *her* emotional crutch and person to vent to.
Even at that breakup-dinner, Em has things she ‘needs to talk about’ and she’s reached out to Dex to do it. We don’t see her discussing it with Tilly, we see her trying to talk about it with Dex. She’s at arguably her lowest moment (hates her job, hates her partner, hates her home) and she wants her best friend to listen to her. Just like he did when she was 24 and thinking about giving up and leaving London, and Dex convinced her to stay and keep going.
So they are emotional crutches *to one another*. That’s also part of being someone’s best friend.
And for all the low moments Dex also wanted to share his best moments with her too: when he’s excited about the TV pilot he calls Em to say ‘the only person I want to share this with is you’, and begs Em to find a way to be there. Yes this is also him dismissing and ignoring her achievements, yes this is self absorbed and rude and at the height of his egomania, but in that moment of triumph he only wants his best friend there with him.
When they see one another again at Tilly’s wedding Em is brave and self assured when she reveals she’s ‘thought of you every day, missed you every day’, and that even though they are friends again now the fact that Dex will have a wife and child ‘feels a bit like loosing you all over again. Because people with families have different priorities…’ That’s how close they were before.
The sentiment that ‘we grew up together’ is really true, for the both of them. They were very different people throughout their lives, and if they had tried to be a romantic couple earlier there is no guarantee that version of them would have lasted the course.
Would Emma have stayed with a peak-of-his-tv-fame Dex, partying and living life ‘to the full’? Or would they have explosively ended and decided they were too different for one another for it to ever work?
Would Dex have even tried for a career in TV or a full year of travelling if he’d become a couple with Emma after Uni? Or would he have done something else but grown resentful of what-could-have-been?
If they had sorted out their issues and apologised after their fight and Em had left Ian, would Em have found the strength to turn rock bottom into a spring board and finally write her book? Would she have even hit that bottom at all? Or would the hook have remained a pipe dream while she continued as a teacher, happy with Dex but professionally unfulfilled?
We will never know what could have been, and that doesn’t necessarily make those alternatives the ‘better’ option that they ‘missed out on’.
Maybe they would only ever have had 3 years together as a couple and getting it in their mid 30’s the way they did was their most mature and peaceful version.
So yes at times their relationship feels like it’s moving toward the inevitable conclusion of a romantic partnership. But the time before they get there wasn’t wasted or unimportant or unnecessary. And they were always together.
No, no, and NO.
AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.
AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”
Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.
Warming up a new database server….
When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.
AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.
While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.
Have you ever heard of the Sampoong Department Store Collapse?
No??
Yes...
I watched a documentary on it last night, and the visuals from it- of survivors trapped under the rubble for up to two weeks, of victims crushed by the weight, of the community weeping for their loved ones, of the community coming together to dig their people out of the wreckage, of yearning for at least a piece to take home and bury... It broke my heart, really. And that was just one day; imagine being the people of Gaza, having to undergo this kind of stress every day for the past almost two years, now, from a targeted genocide!
But there's something you can do about Gaza right now, though. @aburakhiaibrahim has been fundraising to care for himself and his family for a while, now. Even a small donation is better than zero. Donate if you can, share if you will not 🙏🏾
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One, two, three and four days I have not received a donation, and I am in dire need of it. I do not know why, but I know that kind hearts continue to give.🫂
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We're probably spiraling towards an actual Butlerian Jihad but I was not expecting Clankers to establish itself as actual nomenclature for it.
Eh i'm not really into it. It feels forced. "Clankers" in Star Wars feels whimsical and the droids actually *do* clank. Treating LLM's and chatbots like actual robots and not gimmicks with limited application that techbros have poured too much money and resources into feels like at least partially falling for the AI hype. They aren't even AI, it's just black boxes with automated sycophants inside.
This isn't the Butlerian Jihad because we aren't fighting machines. We're fighting the capitalists who will drain every last drop of water from this planet and microwave us all for their sunk cost fallacy.
Make sure you say "I wonder what they're doing right now..." about your comic relief friends every now and then so the episode can cut to their B plot
I need to see this movie…
Its like this but Godzilla actually does show up
The lion does not concern itself with the bank account balance when a little treat is calling
The lion will never financially recover from this