Winter and Beyond

Used to be just a Frozen blog. Now it's Frozen, Good Omens, Disney, Star Wars, and random things that catch my fancy.

[agpsoundsystem]

[brain-dump-of-lucy]

This is some Susan Pevensie ass shit.

[storm-of-feathers]

this is what every mental health conversation on this god forsaken website sounds like to me.

[teathattast]

[spiribia]

Dandelions have a symbiotic relationship with little kids who make wishes

[weaselle]

this is... not entirely false, actually 

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[dogpuppy]

[statisticalcats2]

There are gonna be people who won't like hearing this but if you want to live in a world where mixed marriages, families, and adoptions (particularly POC adopting outside their "race") aren't maligned and discriminated against, then you have got to get more chill about seeing someone partaking in something cultural that you don't think fits the "race" you perceive them as.

[statisticalcats2]

It's a vague memory now, it was a vague memory even at the time I made this post, but I think what sparked this was remembering stupid comments I saw about a Chinese-American cookbook that were complaining about it being written by a white woman and then I looked the white woman up and the briefest research showed she was adopted as a child into a Chinese-American family and just....

*pinches nose*

Fellas, is it cultural appropriation to inherit your family's culture but you don't pass the blood quantum test?

All of you are literally just racist. You've come full-circle. You're working under the belief that people are supposed to "keep to their own kind" and that means the socially invented concept of "race", and "race mixing" of any sort is unnatural.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

What discussing Cultural Appropriation was supposed to be about: why does Cheryl get to wear Dreads to work but Tyrone doesn’t?

What it became: Segregation 2 electric boogaloo

[were--ralph]

I know im stealing this from coney but this is so funny they lowkey killed it at the end

[were--ralph]

i am literally obsessed with this video please unmute

[shadowpuppetteer]

So we've all heard of the "I Want Song" genre in musicals.

But what about the "Let's talk about the bitch behind their back like they're not in the room" song, or "singing s*** behing a bitche's back". There's a surprising amount of them.

"Belle" from Beauty and the Beast

"Scrooge" from Muppet Christmas Carol

"Maria" from The Sound of Music

"Look at Me I'm Sandra Dee" from Grease

"You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" from How The Grinch Stole Christmas

"Jackass In a Can" from Galavant

"Phony King of England" from Robin Hood

"Stepsister's Lament" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella

"Non-Stop" from Hamilton

And, of course, the man, the myth, the legend...

"We Don't Talk About Bruno" from Encanto

You can learn a lot about a character and story from what they sing versus what other people sing about them.

[academicblorbo]

Let's not forget

"Jack's Obsession" from The Nightmare Before Christmas

Basically it's Hollywood's rendition of the Chorus in Ancient Greek plays: a bunch of *relevant* people (like townspeople or elders or even the Gods) all sing about the plot or the main character together. Neat

[depsidase]

[findingmywayinlife-deactivated2]

Tel Aviv getting ready for pride, Israel

[thesituation]

“your rent should be a third of your income” well wouldn’t that be nice. wouldn’t it. lower the rent pussy

[moniquill]

Casual observation from someone old enough to remember: in the year 2000 financial advice was that rent should be no more than 1/4 of your income.

[vergess]

Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.

After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.

The housing market is a fucking travesty.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Hmm what happened in the mid eighties....

[commodorecliche]

[jordanbolton]

To The Person Who Was Sitting Near Me On The Train - Jordan Bolton

My first book ‘Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car’ is out Nov 7th and is available to pre-order here - https://smarturl.it/BlueSky

[delphinidin4]

[theprofessional-amateur]

[kragehund-est]

it actually is insane to me that it's a cultural norm for men to suck ass at getting their wives/gfs gifts. especially when they whine about how they have no idea what women like.

man, you're not getting a gift for Female Domestic Partner. you're getting a gift for Natalie, a person whom you have been married to for 7 years, whom has lived in the same home with you for a decade, whom speaks to you every day about her thoughts and interests, whom you presumably love, and whom you can directly or indirectly ask what she wants. it's not that you don't know what half the human population wants, that's irrelevant. you don't know what Natalie wants and that is inexcusable.

[dragon-jadefire]

This.

And not only that but fathers not knowing what to get their daughters!!!

I parade around in NERD GEAR. I have a Star Wars tote and a Star Wars purse, a Star Wars bracelet and necklace and earrings. Yet my dad still doesn't know what I want for Christmas or birthday. He never bothers to ask me: what Star Wars stuff do you not have or want?

But no. I'm a complete mystery.

[the-haiku-bot]

And not only that

but fathers not knowing what

to get their daughters!!!

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[aphrodite-gock]

just overheard somwone say "hey dude i dont see the future I've got two balls and neither is made of crystal" and im absolutely losing it

[humansofnewyork]

“You’re a slut and a whore for the algorithm. I couldn’t do it anymore. You can never feed it enough. You start out making art, and hoping that the door will open. You’re looking for that viral moment so it opens up the door and you can do the thing full time. But you start to compromise just to get the door to open: guessing what it wants, debasing yourself, alienating yourself. Until you’re not even in service to your art anymore. You’re in service to the algorithm. Deep down every artist just wants to be seen. Everyone does. And that’s how it controls you. The algorithm makes you behave in a certain way, create in a certain way, in exchange for being seen. And if something can change what you do, it can change who you are. And I didn’t sign up for that. I didn’t sign up to become a content creator. Art was supposed to be a way for me to be in search of, in service to, in community with. It was my ministry. Art was supposed to be my ministry.”