we really in this bitch

rachel/chel | late 20s | libra sun, capricorn moon | she/her | bi af

[imsodishy]

One thing about the Hollander men; if you hit them with a social situation they don't know how to react to, they will straight up leave ✌️

call that the Hollander Goodbye

[penandinkprincess]

thoughts and prayers to ilya, who is marrying into a family of flight risks 🙏

[sweetshirebones]

Ilya, some indeterminate time in the future, chasing after their toddler whose instinct is to do a runner the moment everyone starts standing too long, thus perfecting the Hollander Goodbye early: wow…genetic

[penandinkprincess]

ilya who is consistently the first one to find their child after they make a run for it because he has had to develop the survival skill of "if i were a hollander, where would i elope to?" over the years in order to find where the FUCK his family is after they just vanished

[penandinkprincess]

skill transfer

[sinmonger]

Hollanov + tweets

[abby-howard]

I found the "one clove of garlic" the recipes speak of that's somehow sufficient for a whole dish

[edwin-paynes-bowtie]

I think my gripes with The Life of a Showgirl come down to a few overarching things that annoyed me throughout all the songs.

The primary issue with it is immaturity, I think. Taylor's giving that she wants to live out this high school fantasy so badly that she's aging herself down from a 36 year old woman to someone fresh into college, and it's a really bad look. I already thought this what with her general vibe recently, but the album has confirmed to me that this attitude will seep into all of her work henceforth. It feels like she got Youth-FOMO-TikTok-Brainrot and rolled with it.

Spinning off that, I specifically think she's trying and failing to be Sabrina. I love Sabrina, and I adore her music. I think she could have gotten away with a similar album to this one because a) she knows how to be cheeky, and b) her humor is extremely tongue-in-cheek and doesn't come across as flat and immature. I don't mind Taylor's raunchiness, but I also don't think it's coming across in the mature, sex-positive woman way that Sabrina's music does. It comes across as someone who doesn't do a great job with lyrical irony trying way, way, way too hard to emulate a much-younger artist so she can stay hip.

Speaking of Sabrina, as an aside, I loved her vocals in the title track. Didn't love the track itself, but damn she sounded good.

I've also never understood the "all Taylor's songs sound the same" criticism, and still think it's a load of bullshit when looking at any/all of her past music. But this entire album did, in fact, feel same-y. The only songs that felt unique or original in any way were Life of Ophelia, Eldest Daughter, and Ruin the Friendship. The others all felt like the same poppy, try-too-hard rhythm with different lyrics that honestly were nothing special. They were, in a word, 100% soulless.

I think the album also vibed super misogynistic, which was jarring coming from Miss Americana herself. Yes, misogyny isn't an isolated instance in the music industry, but based on her past willingness to stand up for other women I expected more of her. I guess I shouldn't have considering her recent "I wanna be a football tradwife Wi$h Li$t" behaviour, but I did. And the calling women bitches in every other track and constant glorification of men with the dick imagery (and literal ode to her fiance's penis) was so male-gazey that it was tone deaf as fuck.

There have in the past been albums that didn't immediately hit for me. Midnights comes to mind. But there was never a moment where I thought Midnights was absolute slop that should have stayed in the drafts. When TLOAS ended, my first thought was 'who the fuck wrote this,' and I stand by that. She got drunk or high or something, wrote an album, and somehow still thought it was good after sobering up.

[politijohn]

Source

[unpretty]

i trust one food blogger and it's claire lower (the woman at lifehacker who waffles everything)

[unpretty]

[unpretty]

furthermore:

[ghostsandyoumightdie]

"Suzanne Collins gave Coriolanus Snow a tragic backstory and made him sympathetic!" So close. Actually, she put the reader in the POV of an extremely privileged character whose thoughts and views and morals still ultimately aligned with fascism, who constantly fell back on those philosophies no matter how many brief moments of humanity he felt for the Districts. She wrote a realistic human being who aligned himself with the status quo and benefited from it. She demonstrated a character who did not become kinder or more empathetic through his suffering, but instead became angrier at the indignity of it, and punished the ones he saw as "deserving" it sevenfold. She showed you, the reader, that those in power know exactly how much the oppressed suffer, and do it anyway, even if they briefly suffer the same.

[alicielalone]

Exactly. The privileged know they’re not obligated to sympathize for the oppressed.

[aq2003]

every day british actors wake up and think to themselves fuckkkkk i HAVE to help the incredibly bigoted woman make more money so she can funnel it into killing trans people i have to do it bro if i don't do it i will die

[ebb-is-learning]

being anti ai is making me feel like in going insane. "you asked for thoughts about your characters backstory and i put it into chat gpt for ideas". studies have proven its making people dumber. "i asked ai to generate this meal plan". its causing water shortages where its data centers are built. "ill generate some pictures for the dnd campaign". its spreading misinformation. "meta, generate an image of this guy doing something stupid". its trained off stolen images, writing, video, audio. "i was talking with my snapchat ai-" theres no way to verify what its doing with the information it collects. "youtube is impletmenting ai based age verification". my work has an entire graphics media department and has still put ai generated motivational posters up everywhere. ai playlists. ai facial verification. google ai microsoft ai meta ai snapchat ai. everyone treats it as a novelty. every treats it as a mandatory part of life. am i the only one who sees it? am i paranoid? am i going insane? jesus fucking christ. if i have to hear one more "well at least-" "but it does-" "but you can-" im about to lose it. i shouldnt have to jump through hoops to avoid the evil machine. have you no principles? no goddamn spine? am i the weird one here?

[fluorescentbalaclava]

Long shots

[elexuscal]

"what did students do before chatgpt?" well one time i forgot i had a history essay due at my 10am class the morning of so over the course of my 30 minute bus ride to school i awkwardly used by backpack as a desk, sped wrote the essay, and got an A on it.

six months later i re-read the essay prior to the final exam, went 'ohhhh yeah i remember this', got a question on that topic, and aced it.

point being that actually doing the work is how you learn the material and internalize it. ChatGPT can give you a short cut but you won't build you the the muscles.

[failingcollege]

Also sometimes you just turned something in late or got a bad grade and that was also part of life and learning.

[deanlenzart]

do i smell like roses to you? id in alt.

[bonivers]

just remembered shows used to have 20-25 eps per season

[bonivers]

[raptorofwar]

[saintdollyparton]

Taylor Tomlinson is bi, her sisters are gay, and her brother is trans.

And you're telling me there can't be three queer Bridgerton siblings out of EIGHT in a fantasy Shondaland romance show? PUHLEEEASE!

[joanofexys]

Hey, hey, hey if you’re upset that Francesca Bridgerton is queer but you wouldn’t have been upset if it was Eloise I’m gonna need you to take a step back and think about how you view queer women (lesbians, bisexuals, etc). I’m gonna need you to think about why it’s okay if Eloise, the one who fits the stereotype of rejecting femininity and being loud about it, is queer. And why you don’t think it’s okay for the feminine and quiet woman to be queer. Do you view queer women as people or are they just stereotypes to you? Do you have a real reason why Francesca’s storyline can’t play out with a woman as her love interest or does she just become less relatable and less of a woman to you if she’s queer? It’s not wrong to want Eloise to be queer or to hc her as such. But if you’re going to turn around and say it doesn’t make sense for Francesca to be queer while being okay with Eloise and Benedict then I don’t think it’s actually queer rep or “book accuracy” that you want. You want stereotypes and someone to fetishize.

[alexalblondo]

Bridgerton season 3 as memes from my phone - part 2 (part 1)

[newtonbridgerton]

"they got rid of the best male character in the series"

ok?? die mad about it. they just invented the cuntiest woman in the series. move on