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[lionfloss]

by Ekaterina Bogdanova

[idreamofdraco]

Y’all, I just got an email alert about a new chapter on a story I follow. Here’s the author’s note for that chapter. 😂

[gelana78]

This is the most validating post.

[nitramaraho]

@unpretty when you finally give me the part 2 of the changeling flight attendant story…

[virgomoon-deactivated20240514]

video essays i love and think about a lot (mainly in relation to pop culture):

aaliyah, britney & the apathy of lifetime “biopics”

baby phat enterprise:  how kimora lee simmons pioneered 2000’s fashion

whiplash vs. black swan — the anatomy of the obsessed artist

born sexy yesterday

parasite — the power of symbols

hilary duff, lizzie mcguire, and the teen idol pigonhole

why this font is everywhere

it’s time to talk about the r@cism in dan schneider’s shows

a legally blonde fashion analysis

ghost singing: jennifer lopez’s stolen vocals and songs

the late capitalism of kpop

jennifer’s body and the horror of bad marketing

let’s get sad: a last of us video essay

video vixens got paid like rappers

how midsommar brainwashes you

beyonce’s voice is changing (part one, part two, part three)

explained: smoking and the voice

here’s what we missed on glee

how one netflix movie broke the entire internet

naughty dog’s game design is outdated

jeffree star faked everything about… well, everything

how we failed megan fox

mariah carey’s voice

token black girl: how tyra banks vs. naomi campbell was orchestrated by the industry

colorism in your favorite black sitcoms

that 80s show and the limits of nostalgia

‘us’ and the american dream: what it means

unraveling the madness of kanye west

life is strange: the worst best friend

[maryolive]

may i add:

what people get wrong about climate change

the very creepy issue surrounding millie bobby brown

the social network - ten years later

the adorkable misogyny of the big bang theory

the epidemic of passable movies

ellen’s fall from grace

stalking for love

abduction as romance

the problem with disney’s movies in one word

pewdiepie and the rebranding of white nationalism

vaping: a lesson in irony

stranger things, belligerent romance, and the danger of nostalgia

the us medical system is still haunted by slavery

[specialpotforinstantnoodles]

may i also add a few:

Sherlock Is Garbage, And Here’s Why

In Search Of A Flat Earth 

Parasite’s Perfect Montage   

How Aladdin Changed Animation (by Screwing Over Robin Williams)

The Engoodening of No Man’s Sky

The Trouble with the Video Game Industry

Judaism and Whiteness in Wolfenstein

“Bad Graphics”

Cringe

The Speed (and Stillness) of Being Online

Superposition: The Genre of Life is Strange

CTRL+ALT+DEL

Weighing the Value of Director’s Cuts

YouTube: Manufacturing Authenticity (For Fun and Profit!)

The Art of Storytelling and The Book of Henry

How To Steal Like Wes Anderson

Edgar Wright - How to Do Visual Comedy

Wall-E as Sociological Storytelling

[rosedaughter-deactivated2023101]

let me add the most important one: bloodborne is genius and here’s why

[valtsv]

if you need me i’ll be in the forest, searching for portals to another dimension,

[2k31]

[adz]

one time this nondescript guy came into my dunkin donuts and ordered a small black coffee with blueberry flavor shot, and for some reason that peculiar order stuck with me so much that when, seven months later, i saw him in the parking lot walking towards the door, i quickly made a small black coffee with blueberry flavor shot. he ordered it and i was already holding it. 

i would describe his demeanor that second time as “incredulous”

[honeylemony]

What the fuck who drinks that

[adz]

it’s such a perfectly bonkers order because like, most unusual orders are maximalist and sugary but this one just combines the most basic drink with the most incongruous little add-on. it’s the order of a simple, regular man who has something wrong with him

[phage-necro]

this post always makes me laugh. this guy has the weirdest drink order and he probably never goes to this dunkin’ if it took seven months for the barista to see him again. so think about a coffee shop you go to so little you’re not even sure if you’ve gone there before and you walk in and the barista hands you the drink you were about to order before you even ordered it. he will remember that for the rest of his life

[adulthoodisokay]

“it’s the order of a simple, regular man who has something wrong with him” gets me every time.

[my-writemind]

“Sometimes I convince myself that soulmates and destiny do not exist. Sometimes, I hear your laugh, and am convinced that I’ve found both.”

— c.r.w.

[wychelm]

is this something

[nothingwithoutwords]

“i know exactly who i want to be. i’ve shaped this ideal person in my head, from the color she paints her nails in winter, to the silk pajamas she wears to bed. i think about her when i mess up, when things don’t go my way. how she would laugh away the stress and know exactly what to say. she is the version of me that i most want to be. so happy and kind and always carefree. i’ve tried so hard to be this perfect girl, that i’ve forgotten how to be me.”

— the perfect girl in my head

[slightlyoddbutcharming]

This is probably the best ukulele playing I’ve ever seen.

[vivalospunks-deactivated2015071]

Okay so this is a real effort into playing the ukulele and I’m so happy they take it as seriously as they do

[nerdfaceangst]

It’s always wild when people are amazed by proper Ukulele playing because what they consider “good” is whatever mainlanders are attempting to play while asserting some “quirky” vibe. Ukulele has become trendy on the mainland and people are amazed by what we consider BASIC skills and boring same chord repetition over and over. PLUS malihini don’t even pronounce the name right (what the fuck is a yuu-kuu-lay-lee hahaha).

Here in Hawaiʻi we are busting it out (like these killer wahines) every day in ways you can’t even imagine. Half my nā hoahānau play like this!

We stay laughing. These wahines choke deadly.

[camsclmas]

They’re Honoka & Azita, internationally ranked ukelele players with original music and albums out. Heres a link to their facebook

And heres this same song (bodysurfing), 5 years later:

[possums-against-cops]

i would like to.. become a bumble bee. sit on flowers. be yellow. not go to school. not understand capitalism.

[wnq-writers]

you see it wasnt about sex with her, it wasnt physical it was much deeper than that, more intimate, she satiated my soul

[wnq-writers]

Spring always comes after winter and all nights store dawn in its wake, for I'd have you after this is over and this loneliness shall come to an end, forever.

[wnq-writers]

I have had a life easily misunderstood from the outside, but inside I am like a honey comb, buzzing and sweet. I am like a tree with animals in the hollows. I am like a tree that touches no other roots. I am alone and I am safe, and I am wild enough.

B. E. Barnes

[books-n-quotes]

“But it’s morning. I have been given another day. Another day to hear and read and smell and walk and love and glory. I am alive for another day. I think of those who aren’t.” - Hugh Prather

[books-n-quotes]

“It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself. But first I had to discover that I am an invisible man!” - Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

so i didn’t realize kuzco is literally only 17 in the emperor’s new groove and the pacha-kuzco dynamic becomes like 8x funnier bc pacha has accidentally adopted a teenager

[sexycraisinthanos]

Kuzco: I want to tear down your home and build a swimming pool there. lol

Pacha: