Celina

25 y/o software developer who comes here occasionally to yell about stuff

[theconcealedweapon]

[lilyemrys]

“no i will not elaborate” is such a fun line, but unfortunately i have adhd and am incapable of shutting up. yes i will elaborate

[lectorel]

Yes, I will elaborate and that is a threat.

[dragongirlteeth]

"no I will not elaborate"

*elaborates anyways*

[lemondropleaf]

*elaborates in the wrong direction*

[mascaramills]

Wwk s2 finale spoilers and a pro-Rita rant ahead, because I have a lot of feelings. Don't read if you haven't watched and are avoiding spoilers... also probably don't read if run-on sentences annoy you.

For the sake of full disclosure, I'm a Lana fan, and no, that isn't the sole reason I liked or defended or became attached to Rita Castillo. The depth she brought to her portrayal of the character certainly helped, but I would argue that's fair game.

I can only speak for myself, but beyond her early entertainment value and wit, I appreciated Rita Castillo because she was a strong, complex woman who survived poverty and an abusive marriage, grew up witnessing firsthand how having money and beauty and power could change the way people treated one another, and when she found a way to gain those things through Carlo (which, side note, isn't an entirely fair comparison to her relationship with Scooter and his infidelity, because Carlo's offer to her was very much transactional from the start, whereas Rita had feelings for Scooter), it ultimately came from a place of wanting to be treated like a person and believing riches were the way out of the hell she'd been living in. In some ways, she wasn't exactly wrong about that, but being married to Carlo turned out to be a (not-so-)different kind of hell.

I'm of the opinion that, even at her worst, she was redeemable. She could be mean and spiteful, and she explosively misdirected her anger when she initially learned who Dee was to Alma, and there's no denying that.

On the other hand, she was also capable of the kind of selfless love (Isabel) she came to admire. She was capable of softening at the "other woman" in her relationship upon finding out she was pregnant, and then having what looked like a genuine desire to help her financially. We saw glimpses into what she truly wanted and knew mattered in life before any of her jail-time musings broke through her facade.

What stings about her death is that we had also seen her pay the cosmic debt for her actions tenfold already in episodes 7-9. I know she wasn't a saint, but... to recap, she was framed for murder, became penniless after holding up her end of a transactional marriage a decade longer than was promised (+ in spite of Carlo's canon verbal abuse and drinking), and lost the one person who truly loved and looked out for her. I'll never believe that was what she "deserved" when her crimes consisted of... making bitchy comments and humiliating people.

To rub salt in the wound - and this part is what makes me feel unsettled with this story in a way I can't adequately put into words - Harry, her abuser was one of the 3 men who apparently had enough sheer luck to survive a fucking gunshot in the 1940s, outliving her (granted, I think the matter of whether or not she's actually dead was left ambiguous, probably unintentionally, but that's a post for another time). So... yeah. I'm upset about the way her story ended and wish she had gotten a chance at happiness, and I absolutely will argue that there are valid reasons for Rita fans to feel this way.

[yourlocaladhder]

i had a spark of motivation to make another "adhd tips" post and then i tried to find my old ones to match the formatting and then i scrolled for too long and now i don't wanna make the post anymore.

[buffytardis]

WHAT?? WHY??? (I just watched 2x10 of “Why Women Kill” so spoilers ahead):

Why the heck did they have to kill Rita?? Bertram and Scooter survived being shot to the HEART, but Rita had to die from 1 stab wound in the belly and one in the back?? -_- It didn’t serve any purpose and her character did not deserve this! 😠 Losing her beloved cousin was enough punishment for being a “mean girl” at the beginning.

Also, what was the purpose of Rita having lunch with Grace if they didn’t come up with a plan or something? o_0 Grace had already planted suspicions in Rita’s mind re: her being framed, so it’s not like she learnt any new info at the lunch.

Ps. The episode’s title is “The Lady Confesses”. I’m sorry, but which lady confessed? Alma got caught, Dee didn’t say anything to the detective, so…? Ps.2: L.Parrilla was amazing in this season from start to finish. 👏 👏

[mascaramills]

Yup... Rita, who, out of all of them, suffered the most throughout her life and then faced disproportionately cruel karmic repercussions for her... meanness, basically... was the one that also had to die in the finale? When we could have seen her reconcile with Dee and Vern (I will forever maintain that this would have made such an interesting arc, even putting emotional satisfaction aside), or at least get the fresh start she's apparently been desperate for her whole life? And she was literally so close to being able to do either/both of those things?

FFS 😩

the only satisfying part of the whole thing was that it was Rita's blood that brought Alma down, but still...

[mascaramills]

Rita Castillo deserved better.

[swanqueensalad]

lana parrilla is the queen of roles that start out as the villain and end up as the protagonist and honestly thank god for that

[violet-bridgerton]

LANA PARRILLA  as Rita Castillo in Why Women Kill

[regalqueen]

[9tay8tay9]

“I want to say to all the young women out there: There are going to be people along the way who try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame. But if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday, when you get where you’re going, you will look around and you will know — it was you, and the people who love you, who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world."

[9tay8tay9]

GOOD IDEAS AND POWER MOVES

[9tay8tay9]

Taylor Swift is THE MAN

[whitepeopletwitter]

[bleauberry]

WAS ANYONE EVER GONNA TELL ME THAT WOMBATS WERE FUCKING HUGE?

[dwendog]

Wombats are absolutely massive (20 - 35 kg/44 - 77 lbs. My border collie lab cross weighs about 20 kg), can run very fast over short distances, and are built like bricks. People who live in wombat territory often have a wombat flap (like a doggy door) in their fence. If your fence happens to be on a route that a wombat is used to taking to get from A to B, it can and will knock the whole thing down to get there. A well placed flap saves you from rebuilding your fence every second day. Wombats will also barge through, scratch up, or chew through doors which they don’t agree with, and I believe they fix this problem with metal panels. And if you ever see a wombat barreling towards you, you jump out of the way, because there is no record of wombats showing remorse after they break both a human’s legs and/or knock them over and concuss them when said human was stupid enough to get in their way.

Wombats will also dig very large burrows that go the whole way under the foundations of your house, effectively causing a giant sink hole for part or all of your house to collapse into without warning.

In conclusion, wombats, much like every other animal in this country, can and will fuck you up. It’s just that they usually don’t mean to, unlike kangaroos and koalas, both of whom are straight up assholes.

[tough-girl9]

I recently saw a meme on Facebook that said something along the lines of “how to make a millennial panic: lock them in a room with only a phone book and a rotary phone and write the instructions in cursive!” It had this smug “aha, gotcha” vibe oozing out of it, and it…just sort of made me laugh. Like, really? Really? But it also made me think…

Beyond the fact that I know how to use both a phone book and a rotary phone and can read cursive (as long as it’s not too horrifically messy), I think it was the attitude of “Oh no, we’ve got you because you couldn’t possibly figure out how to use something that’s new to you” that really made me snort. But I think that’s the key to this and similar memes that I’ve seen.

They don’t think we could figure out how to use something new to us, because they can’t do it. 

Like, if you presented a millennial with a rotary phone or a phone book and they had never, ever used one or seen one used before, I can guarantee pretty much any millennial could figure out how to use it. Because that’s what we do: we adapt. We’ve been through so many variations of technology and seen so many new forms of technology emerge that we’ve had to learn to adapt swiftly and fluidly. It’s second nature to us.

Put a boomer in a room with a smartphone, laptop, and tablet however, and well…different story.

I’m not sure if they literally don’t understand that presenting a millennial with something they haven’t encountered before would not be an obstacle and certainly not a panic-inducing one, or if they just say things like that to make themselves feel better that they couldn’t do the equivalent, or if it’s a combination of the above.

[oopsabird]

I just realized that the original meme is also, quite accidentally, basically describing the principle behind….. escape rooms.

You know, the recent popular trend in participatory entertainment in which thousands of millennials literally go out and pay money to voluntarily be locked in a room where they have to solve puzzles under a time pressure, often using antiquated or analog technology, secret codes, and mechanisms they don’t yet understand, all without using their phones/the internet. For fun.

For many of us, that’s not panic-inducing, that’s just our idea of an enjoyable Saturday night out with some friends!

Now I’m just laughing even harder.

[overpricedvodka]

I was walking behind a woman for five minutes and she got catcalled three times.

I usually walk everywhere with my headphones on, but I had them in my bag and I was reading a book on my phone instead (I do that when the foot traffic is light).  A young Latina was coming down the street as I was coming up the avenue, and when she got to the corner a few paces ahead of me, she turned to walk in the direction I was going.  We were traveling at the same speed, but since she was like ten paces ahead and it’s bright outside in the middle of the day, I didn’t feel the need to fall back or slow down to give her more space. At night, I try not to walk too close behind women just so they don’t feel like I’m any sort of threat.

We got to a corner and this dude standing outside of the bodega was like, “Slow down mama where you goin? You don’t have to work today, you can stop and speak.”

She didn’t break her stride. “I’m going to the gym.”  The Walk sign was on, so I didn’t break mine either.  

A block later, a young guy was coming toward us on the sidewalk riding his bike.

“What’s good shorty?”

She didn’t respond.

“Well you was lookin, you can say something, stuck up bitch.”

We kept walking.

In the middle of the next block, an older man was walking toward us and he put on a friendly smile and said, “Smile young lady, it’s a beautiful day.”

I don’t know if she smiled, but we kept walking. She went into the gym and I kept on toward where I was going thinking about how that was just five minutes of her day.  How many other blocks of five minutes are just like that?  

Only one of them was truly aggressive. The other two guys seemed nice enough and it felt more like a pleasant compliment. It felt like the kind of thing a guy says who argues with women online about catcalling. “We’re not all bad guys. We can’t even compliment women? We can’t even say something nice?”

No.  You really can’t.  I was annoyed in that five minutes and I just happened to be walking behind her with no headphones on.  Can you imagine those five minutes over and over every day of your life?  Nobody wants to be spoken to by strangers day in and day out forever regardless of what they’re saying.  

So no.  You can’t say anything. The quality of your life has not decreased because you aren’t allowed to say nice things to strange women on the sidewalk, but your silence greatly increases the quality of hers.  So just be quiet, and let her go where she’s going.

[mybrainrots]

The quality of your life has not decreased because you aren’t allowed to say nice things to strange women on the sidewalk, but your silence greatly increases the quality of hers.  So just be quiet, and let her go where she’s going.

[should-be-sleeping]

The quality of your life has not decreased because you aren’t allowed to say nice things to strange women on the sidewalk, but your silence greatly increases the quality of hers.  So just be quiet, and let her go where she’s going.

[invalid0000]

It’s crazy that a dude has to say this for y’all to get it when we been telling our experiences this whole time 🤦🏻‍♀️

[thoodleoo]

i just want to speak every language ever, is that too much to ask

[langblrwhy]

i just want this without much effort, is that too much to ask

[theintrovertnation]