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[dailyflicks]

PRACTICAL MAGIC (1998) Dir. Griffin Dunne

[nicoyarobin]

[ora-la-few]

"Mira, Mira, on my phone, whose the baddest? Us, hello?"

-Zoey, probably

[yg-arts]

[krossan]

[jesterlesbian]

JONATHAN BAILEY as Fiyero in Wicked: Part One (2024)

[justslightlyconfused]

I’m glad through Jonathan Bailey’s performance we are finally getting Fiyero as the bisexual disaster he truly is

[astrotheyge]

Fiyero hits on Galinda by saying “our first fight” -> Galinda says “let’s not quarrel” to Elphie after the Ozdust

Fiyero hits on Galinda by putting a flower in her hair -> Galinda puts the same flower in Elphie’s hair at the end of Popular

she’s using fiyero’s flirting playbook lol

[the-girl-from-another-time]

It’s crazy how it takes 20 years to make a Wicked movie and once they do, it comes out just after Trump’s reelection. The stripping of minority rights, rollback of progress, and intentional demonization of activists are such central themes in that story, and here we are, watching queer people/immigrants/women/people of color/etc being slowly stripped of their rights under conservative regimes. Personally, watching Dr. Dillamond’s firing seemed analogous to deportation of immigrants or firing/silencing of queer teachers. And then the fact that another core theme is the way the government constructs propaganda to make a mediocre con man look like a god!! And all this is shown to be horrifyingly and objectively wrong!! Absolutely insane timing.

[jamdoughnutmagician]

Thank you Jonathan Bailey for being the perfect Fiyero. The right blend of Romantic Disney Prince, and Slut.

[ormundshightower]

when you're trying to escape your crush but you forget that she's also your roommate

[naritakyouji]

this is how this scene went, right?

[deecotan]

I desperately need him to wear his iconic pink doskoi panda apron

[lorcan-yue]

I NEED NETFLIX TO STOP BEING A BITCH SO THAT I CAN SEE ACE AND ROBIN IN SEASON TWO!!!!

GIVE US WHAT WE WANT NETFLIX!!!!!

x

[misandriste]

MARGOT ROBBIE as BARBIE Barbie (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig

[teaboot]

On one hand I understand not teaching cursive in school anymore, because it actually is slower than regular handwriting and almost everything is typed on a keyboard now anyways.

On the other hand, so much of our (even recent!) history was written in cursive, and having a whole generation of kids who can't read letters written by their grandparents, momentos saved by their great-grandparents, or even photo albums from theur immediate family seems like a dangerously quick way to detach us from previous generations.

And on the third, related but slightly malformed hand, I feel bad that yet another form of small, everyday art that brings joy in the middle of mundane tasks, which celebrates personality and individual style and self-expression, is about to fade into obscurity because it wasn't efficient enough for today's world to put up with.

Like... if we continue to whittle away the small arts out of every day life, what's going to be left except stark, ruthless pragmatism?

Maybe writing a grocery list is less mundane when you get to feel elegant for a moment. Maybe you're a little more proud of what you write when you see it flow together like a painting

[northshorewave]

Sometimes I make posts that are like “Hey guys, maybe everything being optimized for efficiency and cheapness leaves some major defects in the average person’s ability to thrive psychologically” and some of you pop off like I’ve said I want to kill everyone who uses insulin with my bare hands, when mostly what I’m talking about is this sort of thing.

[i-wear-the-cheese]

Also cursive is a very useful tool for artists and designers. It should be taught, it should simply not be enforced with punishment. There’s a good middle ground that education systems seem to struggle to find.

[annacoleman]

STRANGER THINGS 4 Chapter Eight: Papa