Weird is the New Awesome

Credit goes to the people who actually made these posts, I sometimes forget/ lose track of who they are.

[cillianmurphy]

BRIDGERTON (2020-)  E8 - AFTER THE RAIN

[your-tires-are-too-cold]

este: *isnt at olive garden*

taylor, shoving breadsticks in her purse: im sorry, i have to go, i have to commit a murder

[annelisters]

2020 AND LGBT MEDIA

[pajamaslam-deactivated20190101]

the switch from ‘a girl worth fighting for’ to coming upon the decimated village in mulan is THE MOST kick-in-the-teeth mood change IN ALL OF CINEMA

[furikomaru-deactivated20190920]

That scene shift did more for our generation’s understanding of the horror of war in ten seconds than Game of Thrones did in eight seasons, and it did it without showing us a single dead body. 

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Remember when they subtly but clearly told us a little girl had been murdered?

[norseminuteman]

It’s almost like you actually don’t need to depict graphic murder, rape, and torture to elicit a serious and emotional response from your audience. 

[silver-tongues-blog]

The girl worth fighting for was the child who lost her life in the ransacking of the village. She and every other innocent who was murdered. and all the innocents who would be murdered if the soldiers didnt fight.

[barbie2023]

little women (dir. greta gerwig) + evermore

[nessa007]

TAYLOR SWIFT Apple Music Interview with Zane Lowe

[pinof]

the suite life finale

[briefnightmarefire]

[gahdamnpunk]

So many people wouldn’t have asthma in the first place if it wasn’t for these corporations…Shifting blame from actual culprits to people with asthma (and people who can’t help but use plastic straws at that) is peak capitalism.

[bogleech]

What IS even the point of stories like these? Are we supposed to be like “oh no….now we can’t do anything about the environment. They got us.” We can keep the asthma inhalers if we just regulate industry as much as it ought to be regulated.

[vtmb2spoilers-deactivated202112]

It’s eugenicist propaganda. “The disableds are killing the planet, better let them die for the Good Of Humanity.”

[autistichalfblood]

Even though they’re gone from the world, they’re never gone from me.

[lumadreamland]

[autistichalfblood]

for @blankspace17​ who kindly let me use her text post on my gifset. Thank you, lovely. <3 

↳  Version with only the Harry Potter gifs  + the trans gifs / Version with only the trans gifs

 ↳ “The ultimate joke is on J.K. Rowilng because while she might be a TERF and deny the very existence of trans people, the very characters she wrote wouldn’t agree with her. You cannot tell me that Harry, a boy abused for most of his childhood and then constantly ostracized for being different, or Luna, someone who found the quiet strength in being herself despite everyone telling her she shouldn’t be, would not be 100% accepting and loving of trans people. there absolutely are trans students at Hogwarts, students who are loved and appreciated and allowed to be themselves. the Sorting Hat believed the most important indication of where you should be sorted is where you WANT to be sorted. gender is your personal expression and identity of it, regardless of what society told you when you were born. to all my trans and nonbinary friends out there, it isn’t up to a sorting hat to pick your house or for J.K. Rowling to determine your gender; it is up to YOU. help will always be given to those who ask for it at Hogwarts.”

[pepegle]

[studentlifeproblems]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Remember when Jeff Bezos, who is worth 181 billion USD donated 690k to stopping Australian fires? Yeah, me too.

[autistichalfblood]

Ada Lovelace to the save!

[closet-keys]

why none of them got into The Good Place

[exigencelost]

What I love about this is its acknowledgment that Jason had no intentions at all

[egyptiann-deactivated20260812]

this is all 100% true but it always made me really mad that Chidi’s “crime” was having a severe anxiety disorder like he needed understanding and therapy, sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up

[thedreadvampy]

I feel like a less-surface theme of the show is that they’re all in a situation where they have been forced into bad patterns by forces outside their control - Chidi has SEVERE anxiety; Eleanor was forced by abuse and neglect to adopt a self-centered attitude from early childhood and, like many people with traumatic pasts, responds by not dealing with difficult emotions; Jason was very overtly raised in an environment where he got no education and all his models for behaviour were criminal and/or self-destructive; and Tahani has been raised in an environment where everything is performative and she is shot down for any genuine expression of unhappiness or non-material want. Just as Michael and Janet are made one way but changed by their experiences, the moral of the story is that things outside your control shape you but you can move away from them. That could easily be really insulting, in a sort of ‘just get over it’ way, but the idea isn’t that they change solely because they decide to be better - all six of them change because their circumstances change and give them the OPPORTUNITY to be better, because they’re finally given the support system they lack.

I like The Good Place because the whole show has since day 1 been predicated on the idea that black and white moral judgements made in a vacuum are bullshit, and that moral choices are informed by things outside our control, whether that be education, behaviour modelling, unfair treatment or mental health issues. That doesn’t mean we aren’t responsible for our actions but it DOES mean we have to understand morality in the context of people’s varied experiences AND asks for the possibility that if their environment is improved, their ability to function as moral agents also improves.

[nebula-maker]

[autistichalfblood]

I’m the Doctor.