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people will really come into kink spaces and say you can't forcefem women like there wasn't a feature length movie about an elderly gay man forcefemming a woman as part of scheme to thwart an elaborate assassination attempt before the killer even determined their target
What... What movie is this.
ain't no way in hell this post even breaks 500
i was trying so hard to remember the nonexistent assassination subplot in My Fair Lady
"[Y]our Harry Potter games are Cybertrucks" is such a good way to put it.
In Defence of Buttercup
Buttercupâs supposed passiveness is the crux of most critiques of The Princess Bride. But Iâd argue that Buttercup acts in her own interests throughout the movie, making moves to secure her own future from her position of powerlessness. For the entirety of the movie barring the first and last scenes, Buttercup is a captive. She has to marry Humperdink in accordance with the law- she has no choice. In this moment we see her at her most passive. Sheâs accepted that he will marry her regardless of her feelings and she seeks her happiness in other places. Then she gets kidnapped. From that moment to the end of the movie Buttercup gets passed back and forth as the trophy everyone fights over. However, she doesnât sit idly by. She attempts to escape Vizzini by jumping overboard into eel infested waters. Thatâs a brave move. She doesnât know who is on the other ship she swims towards. She only hopes they wonât kill her like Vizzini plans to. Her failure doesnât negate the bravery of her actions. Then she defies Wesley before she knows his identity. She tries to kill him by pushing him down the hill. He turns his back for one second and she makes a move against a man who she thinks will likely kill her. She saves Wesley when they exit the forest. Yes, it backfires, but she doesnât know that. From that point on, Buttercup makes deals and argues with Humperdink in an attempt to get out of her betrothal. She uses any argument in her arsenal. It doesnât work because she doesnât know what he has planned for her.
Do you notice a theme? Because as I wrote this I noticed that Buttercup makes moves without context, which is why her escapes never work. She is a character acting without the information to succeed. Thatâs not her fault. Thatâs not passivity. Thatâs plot. The plot actively works against Buttercup freeing herself. So maybe we cut her some slack.
âThe world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.â
- The Curse of Chalion
Reblog to come play this stupid homemade board game we're all making.
every other week, my mom would make a giant pot of vegetable soup. she'd pack half of it in a tupperware and take it to her best friend's house. they both had three kids whose ages aligned. they'd lock us out of the house and go through each room, finding every piece of dirty laundry and then spend the afternoon keeping the washer and dryer running, folding and putting away each load while gossiping.
every alternate week, her best friend would come to our house with a tupperware full of chicken spaghetti. they'd stick us in front of a tv with a stack of disney vhs tapes and go through each room, finding every dirty dish, and then spend the afternoon at the kitchen sink, washing each dish by hand while gossiping.
it wasn't always soup and spaghetti and laundry and dishes. but it was almost always a meal and a chore. here is a night you don't have to cook dinner. here is a chore you can cross off your list. and here is a day you don't have to spend alone. because really food and friendship and a feeling of accomplishment are what we all need most.
I just finished reading The Warriorâs Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold yesterday and I can honestly say Iâve never read a book that felt like that.
Itâs like a combination of the morbid fascination of watching a car crash in slow motion layered with the upbeat thrill of a heist movie plus politics intrigue and spy-movie style paranoia, all in a gigantic blizzard swirling around this one little guy. I didnât know how I would be able to become attached to a character in this series after reading Shards of Honor and Barrayar, because I loved Cordelia so much as a protagonist, but Miles Vorkosigan did the job. Truly the character of all time.
Heâs a strategic genius. He can figure out a solution to almost any problem. Heâs in love with his childhood best friend and gets shut down repeatedly. He serves as the officiant at her impromptu wedding to a guy he saved through another random act of kindness, and plays out the roles of three different people in it like some kind of vaudeville comedy act. He makes people laugh. He inspires everyone around him to genuine loyalty and trust. He was playmates with the current emperor of his home planet when they were kids and is the heir of an aristocratic family. He refuses to get anything by nepotism and uses his motherâs maiden name when he meets people so they wonât know who he is. On a whim, he decides to help a random stranger and has to lie to do it. He commits to the bit so hard that he ends up faking his way into running a mercenary fleet whose existence was initially a complete lie and stopping a war he had nothing to do with. He has stomach ulcers from how stressed out he is. He refuses to break a promise, even when doing so would allow him to escape the web of lies heâs woven. His house of cards is always one gust of wind from toppling and heâs somehow able to keep it standing by sheer force of character. He will not stop because if he does heâll have a nervous breakdown.
Genuinely the most fascinating and lovable combination of wet rat energy, goodest boy ever, and rogue with a heart of gold. No one is doing it like him. Iâm going to read all seventeen books in this series or however many there are, and then everything else Lois McMaster Bujold has written.
I had a dream Bel was holding a baby
okay
Bel Thorne bursts into Milesâs house, carefully holding a small bundle in its arms, âhello Iâm back! and I brought a guest! say hello to Miles, say hello to Barrayar, baby!â
baby: *waves arm*
i have to revise this dream
baby: *waves four arms*
maybe it would not actully be so good to bring the quaddie baby to Barrayar
Bel: *spitefully keeps handing baby to various Vor while talking up war stories*
Vor: *canât actually shriek or make displeased faces because Diplomacy and also Baby*
Miles: *with too much wicked glee* âCanât argue that theyâre healthy! Ten fingers, ten more fingersâŠâ
Bel: âTheyâll be a right terror once theyâre old enough for weaponsâafter all, theyâll be heavily armed.â
Vor: *tries very hard not to scream*
no Vor, no Barrayaran, would dare do anything to the baby of Lord Auditor Vorkosiganâs dear friend, except maybe look uncomfortable.
also the fact that Bel falls squarely into the group of people whom Miles proudly shows around the planet and every party he can, and any time someone asks how they met, Miles says blandly, âCourier duty.â
âWe just want the baby to have an idea what to expect on Barrayar! Â After all, they do say forewarned is ââ
âGET OUTâ
Everyone is nostalgic and no one is sincere. Do you get the idea
Reboots made by people that donât respect what theyâre rebooting. Punching down before buzz feed listicles punch first. Isnât it weird that the princess married the prince after just meeting him? Isnât it cringe that magic exists? Irony poisoning of childhood classics. Well that just happened humour. Say something true and beautiful or I will start throwing rocks
HEY.
HEY YALL.
USAMERICAN DEMOCRATS SUCCESSFULLY REMOVED EVERY ANTITRANS RIDER FROM EVERY FUNDING BILL
Spread the fucking word because LORD knows democrats fucking suck at spreading it themselves and will fail once again to inform their base
But just in case youâre sitting there going âthe Dems arenât doing anything,â THEY ARE
IT IS JUST SLOW
AND MOSTLY INVISIBLE
BUT THEY ARE
The bills are still subject to a final vote, but trans Americans can be relieved for now.
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"My mother always says, behavior that is rewarded is repeated. And the reverse."
â Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold
walkable cities also means sittable cities send tweet
some people are responding to this like its a joke and im going to assume u are the type of people to say "its only a 3 minute walk" when i tell them the nearest bench is too far away
also anyone who thinks "3 minutes isnt THAT bad" you will be old one day. and you will wish the bench was closer
walkable cities also means cities with free accessible public bathrooms whilst we're at it
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âWe didnât have all this autism when I was a kidâ
Yea, you had changelings and demonic possession and âbratsâ and âback talkâ, and kids that were ânot all thereâ, your aunt whoâs âcrazyâ, and your second cousin no one ever talks about cuz heâs âspecialâ, and if youâre fucking lucky, your elder uncle who lives a nice quiet life with his 70 lego sets and writes grocery stores about changing the light bulbs cuz theyâre too harsh.
not to put this user on blast, but ohmygod this may be the funniest thing iâve ever seen đđ
(getting a taste of my own medicine) actually this is okay. Is this what you guys have bene whining about? Jesus christ
Nobody ever talks about the fact that heavy metal basically only exists because of a disability
For context: the reason metal sounds the way it does is because Tony Iommi, guitarist of Black Sabbath, lost his fingertips in a factory accident. Doctors told him he would never be able to play again, so he spent months burning down plastic and covering it with leather to essentially create new fingertips. Of course, he still couldn't play in the same way, so he downtuned his guitars and found new ways to play parts that made them sound even bigger and heavier than before, and that's how the sound of heavy metal was created!
Not to use him as inspiration porn but it really is incredible that an entire huge genre exists not in spite of but specifically BECAUSE of a disability
Also worth mentioning he was inspired by Django Reinhardt!
"My friend said, "Listen to this guy play", and I went, "No way! Listening to someone play the guitar is the very last thing I want to do right now!" But he kept insisting and he ended up playing the record for me. I told him I thought it was really good and then he said, "You know, the guy's only playing with two fingers on his fretboard hand because of an injury he sustained in a terrible fire." I was totally knocked back by this revelation and was so impressed by what I had just heard that I suddenly became inspired to start trying to play again."
shadows of doubt, the detective sim, just added a mode where a snail spawns in the city and chases you down and if it touches you, you die. look at the fucking art for this
Folks around here took to calling the skyscrapers of the finance district the headstones, because if you find yourself at the bottom you're as good as dead. I leered up at them and they did nothing back. I knew three things about her. She was a brunette, she was dead, and I was the only person in the world that had to care. It had the window dressing of a crime of passion, but was too blunt and loveless in its execthe snail. Shit. The snail is here. Fuck. Where are my car keys. The snail. The snail. Shit. The snail.
This was the best scene in the whole series
Scenes like this are great, because they go into religious horror without making the entire faith evil. Having a demon plainly state that the bishop is an arsehole and deserves hell is always a good plot, especially when the demon IS correct.
a demon telling you god is not real or god doesent care about humanity is easy to shrug off as demons lieing
but a demon telling you god is real, god is good and god hates your guts quite literally puts the fear of god in you, especially when your about to find out if hes right in about 20 seconds
(From Netflixâs Castlevania, which is excellent.)
I love this show and this scene but also it just makes me think of this
