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Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut (2009)

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There’s a hidden level of brilliance in this moment:

Chef Boyardee is known today for his cheap out-of-the-can pasta, but in his native Italy he was a renowned expert chef. He was reduced to the face of microwaveable eateries after his death.

Sound like anyone else from this movie?

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Chef Ettore Boiardi, known today as Chef Hector Boyardee, was a key player in keeping poverty struck families fed for a low price, before he ever came out with the canned pasta line. He would jar his sauce in milk bottles and provide bags of dry noodles for families in Cleveland, Ohio’s Little Italy sector. It was during the Depression, and pasta could be made in large portions at a low cost. This was the start of his venture.

After years of success, he eventually opened his canning facility, opened his restaurant “Il Giardino d’Italia” in New York, and helped feed the Allies during the war. Everyone always glazes over this part of his life, especially the Cleveland part. He lived here. He DIED here. He’s BURIED HERE. My mother took care of him at the nursing home she worked for in her early 20′s when he was ailing and spoke of nothing but the kindness he and his family radiated when they were there. Chef Boiardi was an immigrant with a dream and was always there to help those in need, because he knew what it was like to be in that position. Never let that go.

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I had thought he was a fictionalized mascot, like Aunt Jemima or Betty Crocker, but this is really interesting.

“Proud of his Italian heritage, Boiardi sold his products under the brand name Chef Boy-Ar-Dee so that his American customers could pronounce his name properly.“

And if you have a name that isn’t “standard” in America, that is a Mood.

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ZENDAYA 71st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, CA | September 22, 2019

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kangaroo: (sees creature descend from the sky with a single giant multicoloured wing)

kangaroo: oh i am going to absolutely kick the shit out of that.

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[tros speculation 👀]

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Keira Knightley photographed by Paul Maffi for Madame Figaro’s July 2016 issue (new outtakes)

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This is honestly the only way I can accurately describe watching this movie as an adult pokemon fan.

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This is it.

This is the whole thing right here.

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oh! re: the little mermaid! fun fact about that! she gets warned by the sea witch and still takes the risk and the prince treats her HORRIBLY, like a fucking lapdog and she ends up kind of. accepting her fate and willingly walking into it bc she has a way out that would get her home - her sisters sell their hair for a dagger from the witch, if she kills the prince and his bride (bc he marries another girl who he thinks rescued him), she gets to go back to her sisters and her father and her grandmother, but she refuses to, because she was just as unhappy and miserable back home and she jumps into the water, and willingly turns to sea foam bc that’s what she signed up for, willingly and she was informed about it and it gives her a kind of agency i appreciate a lot

andersen wrote the little mermaid when he was super depressed and pining after a male friend who couldn’t love him bc he was straight so he wrote the little mermaid to cope

there’s a different ending too, one his publishers made him write where the little mermaid, after she turns to sea foam, turns into a ‘child of the air’ where she can earn her soul by doing good deeds

he hated it though so i’m disregarding it

anyway i really like the little mermaid bc like. she was never happy, and going back home OR marrying douchebag prince would’ve killed her, so she made the only decision that made sense for her

and the witch is a neutral character in the original too, like she specifically makes sure that the little mermaid knows what’s coming, makes sure she’s giving informed consent and only takes her voice as payment bc it’s the only thing the little mermaid can offer her

idk i just like it

and i hate what disney has done to it bc like. it was an expression of queer helplessness and suffering and andersen’s depression and the little mermaid getting narratively rewarded for twisting and maiming herself is kind of. iffy to me.especially considering how the prince treats her

and they removed the princess which i’m mad about bc she didn’t marry the prince with malicious intent AT ALL she just. married a dude she had a crush on who was eligible

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actually, to add onto this:

people who don’t know the original and hear about its ending tend to assume that the witch ‘won’, that it’s dark and twisted and horrible and that’s missing the point by at least fifty miles

like. the witch isn’t the villain. she’s actually the only one emphasising with the little mermaid, giving her a choice and informing her about the consequences of making that choice, she doesn’t have a motivation beyond ‘pay me’ and maybe ‘this will be fun to watch’

there is no tangible villain, the villain in this story is the confinement the little mermaid feels - back at home, smothered by the sea and her father and his refusal to answer her questions and sate her curiousity - with the prince, who confines her to be a pet and a companion to be amused by, nothing more - on land where she is confined because she is not made for it and it hurts her to even touch it and the knowledge that if the prince doesn’t marry her, she will go back into the water forever

it’s this sense of dread and her inability to escape it, it’s the way how, no matter how hard she tries, no matter what she does, she is doomed by what she is and who she was born to be, by the way her world and her society refuses to let her be herself and let her express herself

that’s the villain, not some witch who wants world domination and takes advantage of some spoilt 16 year old

and in the end, the little mermaid walks into her end willingly because she chooses it and she has made her peace with it, and by erasing her end and giving her the prince and the soul and the marriage you completely negate everything the original story is

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Different universes

rootbeergoddess

Yes!!!!

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Their expressions don’t change, but you can FEEL the reaction from Peter B and Miles

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Wouldn’t that be, “Leia, I am your mother?”

berlynn-wohl

Every listicle about which Star Wars characters go in which Hogwarts houses is bullshit. They always make Leia a Ravenclaw or a Gryffindor. Leia is a Slytherin. She was raised a princess but even that wasn’t enough for her, she was like “I’m gonna overthrow the government, bitches.”

And Han Solo is not a bad-ass Slytherin, he is a Hufflepuff, because every five minutes he is dropping his own agenda to help his friends not die doing whatever crazy shit they’re about to do.

The biggest Gryffindor in the whole trilogy is R2D2, because every beep of his can basically be translated as “Hold my beer and watch this,” usually followed by him getting zapped by something and falling over.

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reign costumes character: mary stuart season: two episode: the plague

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How many times do I have to tell you, love?

—Killian Jones, Once Upon a Time, “Operation Mongoose”

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You can finally rest now.

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“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.” -Happy September 1st.

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Here’s a hot take: villains should be relatable.

Not every villain, not every time, and certainly not to everyone at once, but there should be moments. We should, occasionally, be able to see ourselves in the bad guys, be able to understand how they got there.

Because it reminds us not to fucking go there.

Antis who get upset about villains having relatable qualities (often couched as being “romanticized” or “woobified”) are people who cannot bear to ever think of themselves as having the capability of being wrong.

Every human alive is capable of being a horrible person. Relatable villains remind us to keep an eye on that shit.

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THIS THIS THIS

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“Yet some would say, why women’s history at all? Surely men and women have always shared a world, and suffered together all its rights and wrongs? It is a common belief that whatever the situation, both sexes faced it alike. But the male peasant, however cruelly oppressed, always had the right to beat his wife.”

― Rosalind Miles, Who Cooked the Last Supper?: The Women’s History of the World

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) dir. Peter Jackson

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