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Small fandoms are very fun. I am currently in a very small one.
It's just me. I'm the whole fandom. No one else.
But it's great. Hardly any discourse.
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"grace. grace! grace give attention. rocky perform human ritual of escape closet now. statement."
"come again?"
"i learn more from thinking machine. human gender preference. attraction to same gender, means word 'gay.' all eridian same gender." rocky stands straight up. "rocky come out to grace now. all rocky plural gay, statement."
"...wow, that's... rock, i'm not sure it makes much sense to apply human ideas of sexual orientation to a monogendered species."
a long and judgmental pause. then:
"grace HOMOPHOBIC, question????"
Me and my friends were talking about how Zuko and Mai are just the worst canon relationship in AtLA, and decided that Zuko would find his true passion with Sokka.
I haven't seen the movie, so this happens at some unspecified time at an unspecified place.
Cultural divides in television are very interesting. Because if I'm watching an American show, and I'm on a Christmas special/episode, generally I expect everything to end happily and be covered with a generous helping of cheese. And yes, maybe the journey to get there is stressful, but I can always expect the group to come back together in the end, for there to be very few real consequences, if any, and a cheesy message about the spirit of Christmas. And if it doesn't go that way, I feel a little betrayed in the end. But when the right balance of cheese is hit, it will be an episode I come back to repeatedly (Librarians, Warehouse 13, Psych, and Leverage have some good ones).
However, if I'm watching a British show (looking at you, Downton Abbey, Doctor Who, and especially Call The Midwife), I'm a little on edge the moment the words 'Christmas Special' are uttered. There is a very high chance I'm now in for the most stressful/traumatizing hour to hour and a half of television of my life, a deeply emotional one, and possibly a major character death. If it ends up going the cheesy, safe route, I can relax a tiny bit...except when that means the next Christmas special is much, much worse. And yes, it will also sometimes end up providing some brilliantly written television, and the cast will be acting like their lives depend on it, and I probably will often bring up the episodes to other people. But I may not rewatch them very often.
And we can't forget the worst British TV Christmas crime...the series finale of Merlin.
It's so weird watching shows in another language, then a character starts randomly speaking English, because the captions go away, and it's like my brain forgets what English is? All of a sudden, my brain is all 'I can't understand what they're saying, the captions are gone, and now I'm so lost' and it always takes a second to realize that I do, in fact, natively speak English, and I do know what they're saying.
What does it make you want to do to her? Beat the ever-loving shit out of her the way they did to Demodus. Fair play, bitch. Let me know if you need any help.
CRITICAL ROLE 4.22 The Point of No Return
AI has got me watching those stupid vertical dramas. And I don't mean the AI generated ones.
The more the AI generated ones show up on my feed, the more I try to search out the ones with people. Now, there's probably a decent chance some of the ones with real people have AI generated scripts. And the acting sucks.
But at least it still involves real people instead of cutting them out entirely. And if the scripts aren't AI generated, human creativity is still human creativity and better than AI, even if the majority of it sucks ass.
In a world where AI is pushed so heavily on us, all expressions of creativity matter, even the ones I personally think are dumb and repetitive. I always saw those vertical dramas as soulless, but once the AI ones popped up, even those real people ones have more soul compared to the all AI ones.
I don't know if I have an overarching point here. Just...support all forms of creativity, even if they're not personally your cup of tea. That doesn't mean you have to watch them, but look, if you're going to watch a soulless repetitive series of videos anyway, at least watch the one with real actors.
Dear writers of European nobility,
Popular culture has merged the maid with the lady in waiting. You asked your lady in waiting for advice on suitors and politics, not your maid. Maids were commoners. You could ask/bribe them to give you some information- like who was sneaking around with who or if someone had a drinking problem- but you didn’t trust them to give you political advice. Ladies in waiting were nobility themselves, and had the qualifications to give such advice. Many members of the nobility were expected to have the upper nobles and how they connected to each other memorized!
Someone as low as a Baron’s daughter wouldn’t have a lady in waiting necessarily, but she would probably aspire to be one for a higher noble. She might ask her maid for advice and be closer with her maid. Barons were practically commoners themselves, in most cases. But a duke’s daughter wouldn’t. Also, a duke’s daughter would have multiple ladies in waiting. A princess or queen would have a whole fleet of them!
Finally, your maid might not have been with you since you were young. It was a job, and people came and went just like any other. The fact that maids were typically not allowed to marry meant that many eventually left your service to start their own family. Not to mention, you didn’t necessarily bring your maid with you when you moved to the capital. You used the maids in the capital. (Some people just stayed in the royal palace, while others had two sets of servants- one for each residence.)
Contrast that with a fellow noble you’ve known most of your life, whose house is probably sworn to yours. She might be a younger sister or a cousin. You can understand why a person would trust their lady in waiting more.
Beautiful One Piece fan art by @futanekoya on Instagram 🏴☠️🧡
Yesssss finally we can appreciate their differences, hey are their own characters now HEHEHE
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I love these freaks.
when they say hockey is a violent sport...
literally all I could think about while shane and yuna were having their Moment
he was bracing himself for bad news
With three movies to compare between, I really appreciate how each Knives Out movie explores justice from a different thematic angle, not based on the murder that was committed but based on the cruelty that led to that murder.
In Knives Out, a compassionate, ethical young woman treats everyone around her with generosity, and the people around her repeatedly try to take advantage of her kindness to force her into losing the fortune that was gifted to her by a dear friend. There, justice means that she keeps the fortune and decides that actually, she doesn't have to be kind and giving to people who've proven themselves assholes.
In Glass Onion, a woman loses her sister to a gang of wealthy, successful people who've sacrificed their principles for the sake of ambition and ego. There, justice means that everyone involved will be made notorious: whatever their other accomplishments, they will forever be known for being complicit in the burning of the most famous painting in history.
In Wake Up Dead Man, the church takes advantage of a young girl's loyalty and faith to place her under a lifelong burden and fill her with guilt, shame, and hatred. Justice means helping her understand what was done to her and the women around her, and giving her compassion so she can find peace.
This is cool because it means the movies contradict each other! The compassionate justice of Wake Up Dead Man would be totally misplaced in Knives Out, and so would the toppling-monuments justice of Glass Onion. And because each movie has something different to say, they all stand on their own and feel fresh.
This is also why Benoit Blanc is the uniting figure but never the protagonist of these movies. He's an agent of legal justice in that he's the detective and it's his job to figure out whodunnit, but the protagonist -- Marta, Helen, and now Jud -- is always the character who delivers thematic justice.
I know I know... I can't stop posting about this.
if i had a catholic homie i'd be doing this all the time
The duality of reviews on wake up dead man
