Each day is a gift and not a given right

CateBirth

[my-dailydreams]

[catchymemes]

[my-dailydreams]

[spider-mann]

Andrew Garfield talks to Elmo about grief and the passing of his mother

[elitefourkylewantstobattle]

Sucking two dicks at the same time like that pig in chicken little

[elitefourkylewantstobattle]

[not-very-kawaii-of-you]

[catchymemes]

[send-noodles-not-nudes]

I love the dad but his response made me immediately think of this:

[catchymemes]

[my-dailydreams]

[kuzkuza]

[moniquill]

No guys, I need to stop and talk about something in this movie and how fucking revolutionary it was; something that I haven’t seen in a movie before or since.

This is a movie about a kid who leaves her birth family.

Not a kid who find that they have a secret lineage or something that allows them to find their ‘true family’ - this is a movie about a kid whose true birth family is made up of bad people. So she gets out. And that is played as the right thing to do. She isn’t punished for it or made to feel bad about ‘abandoning her family’. There isn’t an underlying ‘but they’re your family and you have to love them’ or ‘they’re your family and they love you even if they don’t show it well or do hurtful things’ message of the kind that I see OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER in media. Matilda gets out and lives happily ever after because of it.

We need a million more movies like this to counter the metric shit ton of movies that directly counter this message.

[glamaphonic]

 #sometimes the family you start with isn’t a good one #but you can find your own #family is not absolute #blood is not absolute

[marzipanandminutiae]

not to mention, Miss Honey is an abuse survivor herself (and in the book, she’s only 23 years old)

they both got out. they both became each other’s happy ending.

[catchymemes]

[spiritualknowledgesstuff]

[lightbow87]

When our old father died, he said he wanted to see these eyes again I'll dig out your eyes and put them in front of his memorial tablet

@whumpgifathon | Day 28 : A Whumper’s Delight -> Manhandled/Grabbed Till the end of the moon (2023) | Ep 8 | Luo Yunxi as Tantai Jin

[bold-baddie]

[only-cat-memes]

[dailycatsblog]

[shineemoon]

Minho in New York

[rubyleaf]

Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.