[cigrrtes]

all interactions between simone and rebeca became a thousand times funnier after rebeca revealed that she doesn't know how to speak english and understands very little of the language 😭😭😭 girlie always laughs and agrees but she doesn't understand anything

[tutyayilmazz]

2024 OLYMPIC FLOOR CHAMPION REBECA ANDRADE 🥇💚💛💙

[cromerholt]

[prokopetz]

If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!

[prokopetz]

Reading as a kid: "I can tell that this is supposed to be an emotionally moving ending, but I genuinely cannot remember who two-thirds of these characters are."

Reading as an adult: *reads a paragraph* *pauses* *reads the same paragraph again* *flips back and re-reads the preceding page to make sure you didn't misunderstand something* *stares into space for ten minutes as the Implications sink in*

[catchymemes]

[dio-without-an-s]

"We removed a major character growth moment"

Mindless attempts at pandering like this drive crazy

[dio-without-an-s]

To me this too, is enshittification

[beemovieerotica]

no war in Ba Sing Se...

[netherator]

"it's gaslighty"

THAT'S THE FUCKING POINT YOU SHITTASS

[homoquartz]

this post is not gonna be well put together but i am having feelings

mean girls is trending right now because the musical movie just came out and i feel insane. idk why i do, it was stupid of me to think that most people Got It, no one ever gets it, it was always about the memes and the aesthetic.

the first mean girls movie was based on a nonfiction book called queen bees and wannabes. it interviewed and discussed the social caste system in teen girl friendships. how they hold each other to these insane standards of heternormative femininity out of sheer terror that they won't meet those standards themselves. the way they leverage their relationships for some small degree of power in a world designed to strip them of it, even if it drags other girls down.

the "you can only wear your hair in a ponytail once a week and on wednesdays we wear pink" speech was not an original creation for the script. it's a QUOTE from a real teenage girl. those were REAL RULES.

then the musical came, and it was one step removed from the intended messaging of the film. OG mean girls was not perfect (and was extremely racist), but it said what needed said. the musical leaned on the comedy more, but still left a heartfelt undertone, and still critiqued the systems in place. of course no piece of media is going to be perfect, but it was about the conversation.

then this new movie comes out and it is washed over in the veneer of white hollywood feminism so thick you can't see anymore. the problematic aspects of the original movie are taken out to avoid "offending" when the offense was the point. it becomes toothless, it becomes some other thing entirely. they changed karen's line "i expect to run the world in shoes i cannot walk in" to "watch me as i run the world in shoes i cannot walk in." because choice feminism is in vogue, suddenly this character whose entire point is that she doesn't think deeply about WHY she does anything is suddenly hip to the fact that the world is against her.

i think of sokka losing his misogyny arc in the new atla. i think of the Heathers remake casting the bitchy, identical heathers as queer and hollywood-fat outcasts. as if the story, the meaning, the allegory is hidden in the sets and the jokes and the music. it's a whole new thing now, and it's a thing that means nothing in particular.

the plastics should not wear jeans. they should not have curves. their queerness should be suppressed, painful. their sexuality is not a slay, it's the only thing they think they have of value. the santa dance isn't sexy, it's shocking, it's mortifying - they are children.

they're not mean because "we are all mean." they are mean because they are girls in a world that brutalizes them and crushes them into a standardized shape. they are mean because the world is mean to them. they are mean because it gives them some power back. they are mean because it's the only weapon they have.

the landscape of femininity today has shifted to camera-ready makeup at the age of 10, stringent performative hygiene standards, and avoiding being caught on film while having a genuine emotion. the consumerism, the fatphobia, the racism, the classism, the homophobia remain. We could have had a conversation about that.

[powerburial]

[red-twist]

[garbage-empress]

optimistic that the $16 burger would include fries

[quasi-normalcy]

I really cannot emphasize enough the mental health benefits of abandoning the idea that you're special.

[quasi-normalcy]

This goes both ways, both "You don't have to do everything singlehanded" and "You're not uniquely awful."

[elbiotipo]

IQ people really believe that countries of millions of people are mentally impaired as a whole and they still think it's any meaningful way to measure inteligence. IQ is perhaps one of the worst concepts ever concieved, there is no redeemable scientific or social value to it, it should have been left in the trashcan of pseudoscience with phrenology and homeopathy

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

Since it's January, reminder that Shen Yun is a front for an insanely racist, homophobic, right-wing cult called Falun Gong that teaches among other things that homosexuality and race-mixing are evil and heaven is segregated by race. If you see their brochures at stores/coffee shops/libraries/whatever while you're out 99 times out of 100 it's because people don't know who they are and assume Shen Yun is a harmless dance troupe, and if you tell management/owners/etc. about their politics they'll get rid of their advertising. Do the right thing lol.

[trentreznorspussy]

[brunetteaura]

@stuckinapril

[cryptotheism]

Hey Latin Americans do y'all know about French tacos?

[cryptotheism]

They're basically a burrito that's been pressed down and cooked in a panini press. They usually have French fries and goat cheese in them.

Apparently they have their genesis with north-african immigrant populations, who have similar dishes with other sorts of flatbread.

They're not bad, but they're certainly not tacos lol.

[cryptotheism]

To the credit of the French people, damn near every latino I've shown these things to has responded along the lines of "That's not a taco...but it's not a bad idea..."

[bedlamsbard]

I personally think it would be extremely funny if The Hunger Games and Mad Max took place in the same universe and America and Australia just dealt with this apocalypse very differently.

[saintmaryoliver]

"suffering doesn't make people good, it just makes them suffer"

[huffylemon]

[elbiotipo]

OK but for real real? I was raised by a evangelical mother and a catholic father and I can 100% tell you that compared to evangelicals catholics enjoy life more.

[elbiotipo]

Mom: I only listen to evangelical songs all famous musicians make deals with the Devil like Freddie Mercury who was also gay and that's Wrong

Dad: *drinks wine while listening to I Want To Break Free* wine was Jesus' favorite drink it's good to drink it

[elbiotipo]

“Catholics all live in guilt and austerity and never have fun. No I have never been in a Latin American country why do you ask”