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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Jules of Nature
styofa doing anything
noise dept.
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we're not kids anymore.
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@nohasslecastle
Lilith: Hey, Silva, youāre like the sun
Ava: Huh?
Lilith, taking out a knife: Iād like to see you go down
(Later that day)
Ava: Hey, Bea, youāre like the sun
Beatrice: ??
Ava, undoing her belt: Iād like to seeā
Lilith: HOW DARE YOU USE MY VILLAINOUS LINE TO FLIRT WITH YOUR GIRLFRIEND?!
"El placer del vicio estĆ” en su implĆcita inhibiciĆ³n del tiempo. Porque la satisfacciĆ³n saca a relucir todas las pasiones internas, las muestra sin miedo y hace perder cualquier vergĆ¼enza"
La ventaja de los vicios, Claudia Parody-Mallory
#thatās bisexual activity
Lilith āBite Me!ā Villaumbrosia š¦
Barbie (2023) dir. Greta Gerwig
but i guess i was never much of a writerĀ ( j.p. )
if youāre american and coming to australia, Iām gonna go ahead and say that you should be 100 percent way more worried about being king hit by a dude namedĀ ādaneā in a bintang singlet than any fucking spiders that exist here
what does this say in english
āGood sir, if you are a resident of the United States of America and coming to visit the sunny land of Australia, allow me to inform you that you should be rather more concerned about being sucker punched by a gentleman namedĀ āDaneā who is likely to be seen wearing a wifebeater with a beer company logo on it than by any of the dangerous spiders that exist on this lovely continentā.
ok so what does it say in american
āYouāre more likely to get sucker punched/cold-cocked by an asshole than you are to be bitten by a spiderā.
thank you
Well rattle my spoons, that donāt make a lick of sense. Wot in tarnation does this hootenanny say?
āIf ya mosey on by Australia, you best be fixinā to get to some fisticuffs more'n checkin fer spiders.ā
This is a Rosetta Stone for a single language
Warrior Nun truly is the most fucked up fucking show in the whole fucking world isn't it
Thecla (Ancient Greek: ĪĪĪŗĪ»Ī±, ThĆ©kla; Greek: ĪĪĪŗĪ»Ī±; Turkish: Tekla) was a saint of the early Christian Church, and a reported follower of Paul the Apostle. The earliest record of her life comes from the ancient apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla.
In one scene, female beasts, particularly lionesses, protected her against her male aggressors.
It is also said that Thecla spent the rest of her life in Maaloula, a village in Syria. There, she became a healer and performed many miracles...
...but remained constantly persecuted.
In one instance, as her persecutors were about to get to her, she called out to God, a new passage was opened in the cave she was in, and the stones closed behind her.
Around AD 280, Thecla features as one of the characters in Methodius of Olympus' Symposium, in which she displays considerable knowledge of profane philosophy, various branches of literature, and eloquent yet modest discourse. Methodius states that she received her instruction in divine and evangelical knowledge from Paul, and was eminent for her skill in sacred science ("Logos 8").
According to some scholars, Thecla's story inspired many later stories of women saints who dressed as men
All of these women were empowered by Thecla, a woman who did things that not many women would ever dare to do
In Spanish-speaking countries, she is also facetiously counted as the patron saint of computers and Internet, from the homophony with the Spanish and Catalan word tecla ("key").[citation needed]
(text on Thecla of Iconium taken from Wikipedia)
It occurs to me that there are people who werenāt on this website in 2012 and therefore never saw the magical gif that you can actually hear:
Itās been over five years and that still impresses the hell out of me.
*fills my own schedule with events and tasks that are fun or good for me*
Well what the fuck. Whereās my seven daily hours of dicking around time.
Beatrice: notices some Random guy is looking at the wrong direction at the bus station and immediately realizes they are being followed.
But when Ava is practically undressing her with her eyes at the bar giving full on eye sex and Beatrice is like: I cant see I am blind bliiiind bliiind bliiiind .
Like yes go ahead follow miguel I'll meet you at home where I'll sulk because you are into him and not me.
AFTER THIS LOOK !?
Another important thing I noticed in the scene where Beatrice goes to check on Ava is that sheās surprisingly open right off the bat. Honest.Ā
She tells Ava about her parents to try and bond with her ā that theyāre Conservative English diplomats who sent her away to Catholic boarding school.Ā She even admits to starting theĀ āCruella de Jesusā nickname for Mother Superion, hinting at her more playful and mischievous side (the side we rarely get to see).
But when Ava (rightfully) guesses that thereās more to the story, Beatrice moves up onto the step behind her, out of the light. Though she admits that Avaās right, it does come across as a bit of a retreat.
Itās like she thinks that if she hides, Ava wonāt be able to gauge her secret. Wonāt be able to read it in her expression. Itās a very subtle way of showing that thatās still a touchy subject and sheās not ready to talk about it yet.
But at the same time, thereās a tenderness in that moment as Beatrice is also moving closer to her, leaning against the wall just by Avaās head. It makes it so that Ava has to look up at her, and Beatrice smiles.
Just goes to show that Beatrice was the first real friend she made at the convent.
I feel like when I say ārelatableā what I really mean is āresonant.ā I donāt want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.
I think this is important because a lot of us forget the power of stories to make us feel things about characters who are not like us, who have experienced things that we never will. The purpose of listening to someone else's story should not necessarily be identification, but understanding.
The curse of modern fandom is that it has allowed fans to get even closer to artists, but they won't view the artists as people.
Human limits, human mistakes, human feelings, human needs, are never ascribed to artists, and when other fans rightfully point out, "hey, humans are making this, maybe don't harass them or demand they cater to your personal tastes," it gets shut down under, "uh, people who make popular mainstream things are automatically Public Figures who are also probably rich, so eat the rich and destroy artists over every perceived minor fault. <3"
Even though there's, y'know, a really big strike currently going on because those artists are very much not rich or influential or in control of the bullshit.
The more friends I make in the various facets of the entertainment industry, and the more widely my own art gets shared, the more I realize that a lot of y'all genuinely don't see artists as human beings if they meet some arbitrary standard of Being Known Online.
There is no amount of online fame that makes someone subhuman and a valid target for blatant disrespect and harassment.
Contrary to popular belief, you do not actually own and control a piece of art just because you like it a lot. The artists are not subject to your personal whims and tastes. They owe you nothing.
we are in a media literacy crisis
friendly reminder that characters don't need to be saints to be entertaining. and telling a story does not mean endorsement. art does not need to be all about morally good people.
IDK if this was meant as hyperbole but it's literally true:
Adult literacy is low.
Child literacy is low.
Information literacy has shifted dramatically in the last decade, but reputable information sources like research journals and factual news reporting have been unable to keep pace.
We are genuinely in a crisis of media literacy, with ever fewer genuinely factual resources available in the style and language used by contemporary audiences.
It may sound condescending, but we genuinely need to remind people, or worse, explain to them for the first time that art is not evidence of real world behaviour.
So, thank you, for this reminder. Genuinely.
You're correct:
Art does not need to feature exclusively morally pure characters. Art is not proof of the creator's secret, violent desires.
Beatrice at the cinema: 1 ticket to Oppenheimer.
Ava at the same time: 2 tickets to Barbie!
Beatrice: š®āšØ *sighs* 2 tickets to...Barbie
talking to preschoolers is awesome bc they have not fully differentiated stories into 'true stories' and 'imaginary stories' yet so you will tell them about something that happened you once (coyote came out of a bush right in front of you and got startled) and they will tell you about how one time their house was full of coyotes in every room 'including five in the garage' and they're not even like, aware i think of the idea that they are technically 'lying'. they are simply telling stories about coyotes bc its time to tell stories about coyotes.
