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A lot of people are (rightfully) upset right now about the portrayal of lesbians and bi women in movies, especially in movies directed by people who aren’t lesbians or bi women, so below the cut are some movies about lesbians/bi women directed by lesbians/bi women. Feel free to add on!
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The people in Avatar the Last Airbender were modeled after wonderful, beautiful cultures.
The Fire Nation, modeled after Japan.
The Earth Kingdom, modeled after China
The Air Nomads, modeled after Tibetian monks.
The Water Tribe, modeled after North American Natives.
And the Foggy Swamp Tribe, modeled after Floridians
[sees post that makes zero sense]
“wtf the fuck…?”
[sees another post that makes zero sense for the same reasons]
“oh, it’s a new meme.”
TELL ME.
TELL ME WHO SAID ZUKO WAS ALLOWED TO BE SO PERFECT. I MEAN… JUST LOOK AT HIM. LOOK. AT. HIM.
LOOK AT HOW PURE THAT SMILE IS???
loOK AT THAT FACE OF A BOY WHO JUST SAVED THE WORLD
LIKE HE’S FUCKING BREATHTAKING???
HE’S ADORABLE THIS IS NOT OKAY THIS IS LINES AND COLORS WHAT THE FUCK.
IM SO MAD THIS IS A DRAWING LIKE WHAT THE FUCK
WHY AM I IN LOVE WITH HIM SO BAD HE’S A CARTOON
IT HAS BEEN LIKE SEVEN FUCKING YEARS.
HE’S SEVENTEEN THIS NOW MAKES ME CREEPY
WHEN I BEGAN THIS MESS IM IN HE WAS WAY TOO OLD FOR ME
YOU KNOW ASIDE FROM THE FACT HE’S A FUCKING CARTOON CHARACTER
but
fucKING
KILL
ME
SOMEONE
HELP
I STILL
LOVE ZUKO SO MUCH JNGKJFNGJKDFNGKDFKGNJS
If you could press a button that would give you a great deal of money, but it would cause someone you don’t know in a distant part of the world to die, then you would have a good model for how our current economy works.
Welcome to Night Vale, episode 105: What Happened in the Smithwick House (via blackboard-monitor)
baudelaire headcanons
does anyone else have a million headcanons for the baudelaires a few years after the end?
violet
violet is twenty one, guarded, difficult, and fiercely protective to the point of almost destroying the lives of her siblings.
she adores bea, almost to the point of stunting the child. it takes a long time for bea to learn to do anything herself because violet almost won’t allow it. when she’s a baby, she never puts her down long enough to walk.
she doesn’t invent anymore. she says she thinks she’s forgotten how.
she never went back to school, even while insisting that her siblings did. the baudelaire fortune was ironically stolen anyway, and now she struggles to make enough money to support them all without graduating.
sometimes when she gets home from work, late at night, she lights matches and lets them burn right down to her fingertips.
she’s never had a romantic relationship, and thinks she probably never will.
klaus
klaus is nineteen, aggressive, and paranoid.
he can’t keep a job because he doesn’t respond well to authority - all of his know-it-all tendencies have multiplied over the years and every shadow of a wrong decision or misunderstanding sends him into a rage.
he obsesses heavily over people’s motivations, and the most minor things can make him ridiculously suspicious.
he still likes to read, but now he wonders why he ever thought that would be enough to help him - his vocabulary hasn’t been much use in the real world.
he can’t keep a romantic interest or true friend, cuts them all loose almost straight away, because they don’t understand.
he has become more and more obsessed over bea’s parentage, a cause of endless fights between him and violet.
sunny
sunny is eight, and a quiet, sullen child.
she doesn’t remember everything, but she remembers some. she feels different from klaus and violet, as if they have a special understanding that she will never share, and strongly suspects that they resent her because she doesn’t remember everything they went through.
she grew into her teeth, and no longer feels special. she still likes to cook, but doesn’t believe she has enough talent to become a successful chef. she doesn’t believe in herself at all.
she rarely speaks, and hasn’t made many school friends. she feels continually isolated and different, but doesn’t know how to articulate it.
beatrice
they all call her bea. they wanted to name her after their mother, but they also want some distance between her and the tragedy that befell them.
when bea is five, she’s never known any different. she’s bright, adores animals, and has an almost photographic memory combined with a real eye for detail.
she treats violet as a mother, and violet babies her, keeps her as close as she can. klaus loves her, of course he does, but he doesn’t know how to show it anymore. he always turns her away.
she asks about her parents, and they won’t tell her much. unable to see the irony, they want to keep bea away from the horrors of the world as long as they can - forgetting all the while that’s what their parents did to them.
The greatest ending in film history
Mark Hamill is the sweetest fucking human in the world. 💜💙❤💚💛
I love that he’s throwing shade at John, too.
Dad Skywalker feeling neglected.
the misogyny speech
my favourite thing ever in the history of this universe is the misogyny speech. i love it. i love it so much.
for those who don’t know what the misogyny speech is: australia’s PM julia gillard was our first female prime minister and was bullied relentlessly throughout her career by sexist politicians saying that as a woman she was unfit to lead. and then. then. one day, julia gillard snapped.
the resulting three-minute speech, known simply as the ‘misogyny speech’ in australia, was possibly the most epic smackdown seen in australian political history, surpassed only by “i wanna do you slowly”. it was incredible. students memorised it and marched through the streets yelling it. a national australian choir arranged it as a five-harmony piece. even hillary clinton went out of her way to meet julia gillard and tell her how fucking awesome the misogyny speech was.
i, personally, have the misogyny speech memorised. because i live in tony abbott’s electorate, and my dream of dreams is to see him at the shops one day and follow him while yelling it.
the misogyny speech: as australian as vegemite.
may the op one day fulfil their dream of dreams
it’s long but honestly every second is worth it the whole speech is incredibly inspirational
“that’s a direct quote by the leader of the opposition so I suggest those groaning take it up with him” Julia Gillard was taking no more shit what an inspiration
I really think hospitals and doctors that work with pregnancy and pediatricians need to make more literature available for how to, ya know, work with kids? Because the more conversations we have about spanking (and how it’s ineffective and harmful and does more bad than good), the more I realize that a lot of people don’t know the alternatives. Or like, anything about child development or where misbehavior stems from.
So, as someone who went through childhood development classes in college, works with kids for a living, and knows multiple people who specialized in childhood education, here are some pointers when you are working with kids:
1. Model emotional response for kids. Children are learning how to recognize and respond to their own emotions. All the way up through high school, children’s brains are still developing, and the emotions they are learning to process become more complex. So with really young kids, the easiest way to help them with this is to model emotional self awareness and self care.
“Oh wow, mommy is feeling angry because the cat made a mess. I’m going to clean this mess and then go sit in my room in the quiet for a short break so I feel better.”
“You know, I am feeling very sad about not going to the park because it is raining. I bet some hot chocolate and a book would make me feel better.”
”Huh, I’m feeling kind of cranky and hungry, but daddy won’t be home for dinner for another hour. I bet I’ll feel better if I eat a little piece apple while we wait.”
2. Understand what causes child frustration and work to preempt it.
-Transitions (from one activity to another, getting in the car, etc) can be stressful, especially if the activity or location they are leaving is fun. Give kids a warning when this is going to happen. With young kids, give them about 5-15 minutes of warning (”10 minutes until we are going to leave the park and go home. Do your last thing.”), with older kids, just give them a time frame. (We are can play at McDonalds for 30 minutes, but then we have to go grocery shopping, ok?)
Not being able to communicate what they want to is frustrating. Babies can learn simplified baby sign language months before they are verbal. Kids may not know the words for what they are trying to say. Be patient and help them find the right words. On a similar note, don’t ignore kids. If you really can’t respond to their question right away because of something else, at least tell the “Yes, I heard your question. I’ll answer you as soon as I’m done talking on the phone.”
Not being able to make choices or having too much choice can be overwhelming. Give kids a limited, reasonable selection of choices. “Do you want apple slices or juicy pears on the side for lunch?” is much better than “What do you want with your sandwich?” or just giving them apple slices. “Do you want to give grandpa a hug or a high five?” is better than demanding they hug grandpa right away.
3. Understand that kids are people to. They will get hungry, tired, an annoyed just like adults do. Sometimes you have to be flexible and give them time to self care. Talk to them, explain things to them, let them be people and not just dolls. “Because I said so” is really unhelpful for a growing kid. “We can’t buy Fruit Loops today because we are already getting Frosted Flakes. We only need one cereal at a time.” is going to do you a lot more favors. “Don’t pick up the glass snow globe. It belongs to grandma and can break easy. She would be sad if we broke it on accident.” is better than “don’t touch that.”
And look, no parent is perfect. No baby sitter, no teacher, no care taker is going to be awesome all the time. And no kid is going to be perfect. They will cry and have tantrums, and not be able to tell you what they need, and be stubborn sometimes. Sometimes they need space, or quiet time. Sometimes they need attention and validation.
But kids learn from every interaction they have, so adults need to make the effort to show all the love, and patience, and empathy, and thoughtfulness we want them to learn.
Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away ten vintage paperback classics by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Harper Lee, Walt Whitman, George Orwell, and others. Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will randomly choose a winner on April 22, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!
We’re giving these lovelies away in a week, so reblog now!
Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away ten vintage paperback classics by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Harper Lee, Walt Whitman, George Orwell, and others. Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will randomly choose a winner on April 22, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!
We’re giving these lovelies away in a week, so reblog now!
I love Welcome to Night Vale fan art so much. But has anyone noticed that we have been drawing the way Cecil dresses all wrong? I mean come on, this dude wore leather pants, a Hawaiian shirt and a base ball hat made from honey combs because it was comfy and was what he slept in the night before and he also wore sponge clogs to the opera because they matched his tights perfectly. I need more fan art of that stuff.
this is the best day of my life
9 Reasons Why the New “Beauty and the Beast” is Better Than the 1991 Original
I know, such a crazy notion, but as a die-hard fan of the original 1991 animated classic, as a young woman who adored Belle and looked up to her as a young girl, and as someone who loves Disney, I truly believe that while the cartoon classic is phenomenal, the new live-action reimagining is astoundingly better. Here are my reasons why:
1. Back-story
In the original I always had SO MANY QUESTIONS. Mainly–how in the hell did a village less than a few miles away not know that a giant castle that once was home to a wealthy and powerful Prince was RIGHT THERE? Who was the Prince ruling over if the villagers had no clue this place and this beast existed? Why were the servants cursed if they weren’t the ones who turned the old woman away? Why was the Prince so cold-hearted, arrogant, and shallow? The prologue amongst other scenes in the 2017 film address all these questions.
We learn that the enchantress placed a spell on the villagers to make them forget about the Prince and everyone in the castle. This explains how no one knew it was there, and also the sense of lawlessness in the village, because if their ruler–the Prince–vanished, and no one remembered him then whose in charge? Gaston? No wonder it’s a mess there.
We also learn why Beast is so cold-hearted, we learn his mother died when he was young and his father was emotionally abusive, and raised him to be a spoiled, arrogant, shallow shell of a man. We also learn that the servants witnessed the emotional abuse of this child and did nothing to stop it–deeming them worthy of punishment for being so cowardly and selfish as to not help the Prince when he was young.
Now someone asked me why the hell Chip and the dog were cursed too, they didn’t do anything. My theory is the curse was really only taking effect inside the ballroom, all the servants were in there for the ball, and in the opening sequence we see Chip running in to see what’s the matter and Mrs. Potts running after him–terrified. I believe she sensed the danger in the ballroom, and was trying to save Chip from meeting the same fate as the rest of them, and ultimately–she failed. The Maestro and Madame de Garderobe’s dog was in the ballroom as well, so I guess he was just unlucky also.
We also learn that Cogsworth and Mrs. Potts had spouses who must’ve been away from the castle when the spell was cast, causing them tragically (at least in Mrs. Potts case) to be forgotten by their loves.
2. Belle the Feminist Activist
It was never made clear in the cartoon film that it wasn’t just ‘odd’ that Belle liked reading it was ‘odd’ that a low-born woman in 18th century France even COULD read. It wouldn’t occur to children (it certainly didn’t to me) that her reading in public is practically illegal and worthy of public shame. In the cartoon it was just all ‘lol books are lame,’ In the live action not only does Belle not have a town bookshop to go to (because seriously, why would a town of mostly illiterate people who hate reading have a bookshop) she is merely friends with the Priest who owns less than a dozen books. THAT IS ALL SHE HAS. And then she teaches another young girl how to read and is publicly shamed for it, and still doesn’t back down, because she believes that women deserve the same rights as men.
In the beginning sequence of the town, we literally see boys marching into school while the girls are stuck doing the wash. Belle also refuses to waste valuable reading time on the laundry–so girl INVENTS A WASHING MACHINE!
When Belle gets to the castle, she tricks the Beast into taking her instead. She tries savvy ways to escape. She never flings herself onto the bed and cries like in the cartoon. She fights every damn second.
In the end she doesn’t even change out of her ballgown to go save her father, she just hops on her horse and goes.
Belle was ALWAYS strong, but this 2017 Belle is formidable and a force to be reckoned with.
3. Tragic love
In the 1991 film, the wardrobe was a goofy character there for laughs, as was Plumette. Also, Lumiere and Plumette’s relationship in the cartoon was creepy and borderline sexual harassment. It was pure lust. In this version, they are madly in love and Lumiere clearly cares about her so much.
We also see Madama de Garderobe and Maestro Cadenza (a brilliant new character) who are also madly in love, but unlike Lumiere and Plumette can’t even be with one another during the curse due to the stationary limitations as the objects they’ve been cursed to be. By the time Madame finally makes her way downstairs to be with Maestro it is too late, the curse is taking away their life. The moment when Lumiere realizes he has lost Plumette, and where Maestro realizes he has lost Madame, add a heart-breaking very raw and real layer to the story. It’s not just about Belle and Beast, these servants aren’t just funny objects that talk, they were people too. They had a life and loves and that was stolen from them just as it was the Beast.
4. Papa and Belle’s Motherless Backstory
In the cartoon, Belle’s father is simply a goofy character. He’s a blithering idiot who makes pointless inventions. In this version, he is an artist who had to leave his plagued wife behind in Paris in order to save their only daughter. We see him live with the pain of this everyday. We see him and Belle have a beautiful, genuine relationship. We see him fight whole-heartedly for Belle. We see him give her courage and strength to never back down from who she is.
And we learn something that the cartoon NEVER gave us–we learn of Belle’s mother. Lost to the plague when Belle was a babe, with nothing but a rose-shaped rattle to remember her by, that her Father captured in a painting. Explaining why Belle always asks for one. We learn that Belle–like her father and mother–is willing to sacrifice everything for the ones that she loves.
5. Classic Fairytale Homage
While the cartoon held almost no remnants of the original fairytale written over 500 years ago, or the original French film made in the 40s, the 2017 version pays homage to both.
Belle asking for simply a rose from her father’s travels, as well as Beast and his servants preparing Maurice a fire and dinner when he arrives at the castle, but Beast only growing angry when Maurice steals the rose–is taken directly from the pages of the fairytale.
We also see another fun easter egg reference to the french film: when Maurice walks up to the door–he sees the front lantern is being held by what looks like a human arm made of stone, which in the French film, was an incredibly iconic scene when Belle walks through the dungeon to find her father.
6. A Real Antagonist
Cartoon Gaston is again, a 2D character there to provide some conflict at the end. The 2017 version shows him as the epitome of prejudice, hatred and sexism. He expresses many times throughout the film the the sees Belle as prey for him to hunt. He leaves Maurice for dead in the wood. The lyrics of the mob song were even changed to include his verse “but I know they all will follow, for in times like this they do just as I say.” Gaston is the scariest Disney villain because people like him exist in real-life. Gaston and his angry mob of blind-followers provide a tangible conflict outside of the curse that the cartoon simply did not provide.
7. A Shared Love of Reading
It never made a damn bit of sense in the 1991 cartoon and the Broadway musical adaptation–that Beast was illiterate. If ANYONE during the time could read it sure as hell would’ve been the wealthy Prince. All aristocracy could read and most men knew how to read a little. So yeah, a Prince could read.
So the fact that he and Belle share a love of reading adds and element to their friendship bred romance that didn’t exist prior to this reimagining.
8. New Music
What would Beauty and the Beast be without those iconic numbers like: ‘Belle,’ ‘Gaston,’ ‘Be Our Guest,’ and of course, the title song–made famous by Angela Lansbury– ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ When Broadway adapted the cartoon film years ago, they added some songs of their own, such as the Broadway-Buff-Beloved number– ‘Home.’ So naturally it would’ve been easy for the writers and directors of this film to just buy the rights to those songs and call it a day. Instead we got 5 gorgeous new numbers, and 1 new reprise. We got the opening ‘Aria,’ sung at the Prince’s beginning ball by Madame de Garderobe, we get ‘How Does a Moment Last Forever,’ sung by Maurice, singing about remembering his late wife. Then we later get the Montmartre of this song sung by Belle as she recalls the lost ‘Paris of her childhood,’ in an all new scene where her and Beast use a magic book to travel to the attic where she lost her mother. We get ‘Days in the Sun,’ where we hear from the servants and the pain they feel as well living under the curse. We get, ‘Evermore,’ the torrid, angst-filled lamenting ballad Beast sings when he let’s Belle go. And lastly, we get a never before heard reprise of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ sung by Mrs. Potts ( Emma Thompson) at Belle and Beast’s wedding. These news songs add more passion to the film. (Evermore is my personal favorite)
9. Gay Lefou
It’s about damn time. Cartoon Lefou is definitely alluded to being in-love with Gaston, but Josh Gads blatantly homosexual portrayal was brilliant, and as a member of the queer community–made me so happy.
Yes, in ‘Frozen’ we got the one throw-away joke about Oaken being gay, but it was 0.5 seconds long and barely delved into. In this 2017 film, Lefou makes many sexual innuendos towards Gaston, publicly cuddles Gaston, and in the end dances happily with another queer fellow at Belle and Beast’s wedding, and this is an amazing step forward for the Disney franchise to start having openly queer characters in their films.
SO THERE YOU HAVE IT! My 9 reasons why the 2017 Beauty and the Beast is better than the 1991 original. I still love the original and it will always have a fond place in my heart–but when movie nights of the future come round, I will opt to put on the 2017 version instead, and experience a Tale as Old as Time, retold for a new generation.
One of the best out takes from any television show, ever.
HE FUCKING STRAIGHT-FACED THAT
This man is a guardian of the galaxy
you can just see the split second where everyone is processing what he said
