Pop culture dilettante

Arrested Development was both my favourite show and my favourite state of being - didn't really work out either way

[dnald]

[dnald]

[stimmytyler-deactivated20200301]

sesame street gets exponentially funnier as you age. god i love it

[wilwheaton]

[cecaeliawitch]

I firmly believe that unless the couple has discussed and agreed to marriage ahead of time, nobody has any business making a surprise public proposal.

[cisnowflake]

Okay except some people want a surprise public proposal. 

[boreragnarok]

Girl my husband took me to Spain and gave me a kinder egg on the beach, the ring was inside the capsule (Lord knows how he did that) if any feminist tried to take that away from me I may cut a bitch. Best surprise of my life.

[cecaeliawitch]

I wish people were capable of analyzing larger social trends and figuring that a significant number of women end up getting pressured into engagements or marriages they don’t want bc the audience that comes along with a public proposal will think she’s a bitch if she says no - instead of thinking “i liked it when it happened to me, therefore it could never turn out badly for anyone, not ever!!!!”

[rifa]

I think what people are misunderstanding here is that agreeing to marriage ahead of time doesn’t need to be like, asking permission to propose? I surprised my now spouse with a proposal in Disneyland but before that we had several conversations about the future of our relationship, future plans for our retirements and how we’d have to get married eventually for immigration purposes. I didn’t go to her and say “so would you say yeah if I proposed?” or hash out deets ahead of time, but we had enough of a mutual understanding and communicated desire to get married that, although it was a surprise for when and how I proposed, it wasn’t out of left field at all.

This is exactly like conversations about consent, people get up in arms thinking that it means you have to have contracts and serious sit down conversations before doing anything when its REALLY EASY to simply COMMUNICATE with your partner so things like this are done properly, yeesh

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

A piece of advice from my mother: If you’re surprised they proposed, you’re not ready to get married.

My now-husband and I had been dating for nearly a year, we had talked about marriage, what sort of wedding we’d like, children vs no children, etc.  We went to a shopping center/mall during the holidays when massive sales are going on, and he had me look at the jewelry to see what sort of thing I like.  I asked to have my finger sized for a ring…just in case.  A few months later he proposed, and had the ring I showed most interest in.  I was sick as fuck, had been on bed-rest for two weeks due to how sick I was, and he had spent those two weeks helping me get to and from the bathroom.  I hadn’t showered for nearly four days when the fever finally broke and I was strong enough to get out of bed.  Managed to get up on my own and was on my way to the bathroom when he got down on one knee and proposed to me in the hallway. 

The WAY he proposed surprised me, not the proposal itself.

You should know a proposal is coming, be expecting it.  Oh, hell, talk about what sort of proposal you would loathe.  Now-husband and I had watched a guy propose to his girlfriend in the middle of a mall and the girl smacked her boyfriend.  He used a MICROPHONE so everyone could hear him.  She took the microphone, smacked him, and stated very clearly “this is the most humiliating thing you could have done to me” and walked away. 

Some people aren’t okay with a public proposal and others love it.  TALK TO EACH OTHER.  Folks proposing: if you’re wondering what your significant other would like and want to surprise them with HOW you do it, talk to their friends, family, and reflect on conversations you’ve had.  There’s a fair chance a public proposal will be a nightmare for them.

[freakxwannaxbe]

Honestly, in the end, a proposal should be just a formality for something that both people have already agreed upon.

It’s not that one can’t make it as extravagant as they want, but it should only come after both parties have already went through the details of what a married life entails and how compatible they’d be and that it’s something they both want.

A surprise proposal should always be a surprise because “Oh shit, I didn’t expect you to do this now”, and not “Oh shit, I didn’t expect you to do this at all.”

[violetemerald]

I think I’ve reblogged this before but I wanted to again.

[merlinisnotover]

A proposal should be a surprise, an engagement should not be

[yousaytheydontcare-blog]

[cunyfirst]

scandalous

[the-gingerdancer]

 i will reblog this as many times as it takes me to stop finding this funny

[1995--emo]

how to take compliments 101 by Lorna Morello  

[firesuns-archive]

me: amy dunne is a sympathetic character to most women not because she is a a good person, but because she shows us one of the most haunting characteristics of our society that we can all relate to, which is that having to grow up and exist as a woman in this world can be enough to turn anyone into a monster.  i would even go so far as to argue that the villain in the novel gone girl by gillian flynn is not amy dunne or even nick dunne, but that it is the societal pressures placed on women that so often drive them to insanity, which they are then blamed for as if they are at fault for the ruin placed upon them by others. so i guess that’s why it’s my favorite movie and why i believe the current movement in the genre of psychological thriller revolving around the trials and tribulations of womanhood is better than anything created by male authors who have attempted “social commentary” through novels in the past.

straight guy who im talking to: haha damn that’s crazy… so you a virgin?

[glitterghosts]

Natasha Lyonne as Nadia Vulvokov in Russian Doll (2019)

[brainstatic]

The prosecutor who subpoenaed and cross-examined Hitler in 1931 for a murder trial against four brownshirts was a Jewish lawyer named Hans Litten. The three-hour testimony left Hitler so unnerved and humiliated that he forbade anyone speak Litten’s name in his presence, and he was killed in a concentration camp. Today, the German bar association is called the Hans Litten Association, and every year they give out the Hans Litten Award for excellence in the legal profession. That’s how you commemorate history. 

[woppy42]

[quietstorm-thundathighs]

facts

[unaenanasinamor]

ahhh honey, people lie about being sick

[quietstorm-thundathighs]

Oh illiterate honey that isn’t the topic of discussion

[antique-scarecrow]

always be suspicious when someone tries to derail a conversation by talking about people taking ‘advantage’ of a social safety net. brings this to mind:

[wilwheaton]

[markv5]

Добытчик

[setheverman]

[cuteanimalsgifspics]

[cappadocius]

2019 Mood

[memeuplift]

[babababs]

remember in goblet of fire when minerva says ‘potter’s a boy, not a piece of meat!’

imagine harry telling her everything after the battle of hogwarts, telling her about how dumbledore raised him like a pig for slaughter, and how he had to die and mcgonagall gets so goddamned mad

she loses control for the first time that harry’s EVER seen and she’s actually yelling, she’s so pissed that harry was seventeen and he had to accept death and dumbledore KNEW he would have to die and NEVER TOLD HIM

and harry’s about to cry because yeah his friends would be devastated if he was gone but NO ONE got this damn pissed that dumbledore had raised him so that he could die at the right time and mcgonagall’s in the middle of a rant and he just shoots up and hugs her and she’s stunned into silence but after a moment she hugs back and it’s great

and then she goes up to her office and starts screaming at dumbledore’s portrait because ‘i don’t care if it had to happen, albus, he is a CHILD-’

[riverthunder]

This is the Minerva McGonagall content we deserve, and make no mistake, we were robbed

[wolfwars]

I still think it is telling that when we first meet Minerva, she:

Was waiting all day out in the cold for the mere chance of knowing Harry might be alive

Has been crying because James and Lily are dead and she loved her students, while the rest of the wizarding world is celebrating. 

Tells Dumbledore not to leave Harry with the Dursleys. in fact she’s even shocked he would suggest it.

So in just a few lines of dialogue we see Dumbledore is eating candy, asking McGonagall why she isn’t celebrating and saying Harry can’t be with another family because the ‘fame’ would get to his head?

while McGonagall is waiting as a cat against a cold wall all day, hoping to get some information that her dead student’s child is ok. she’s going through shock and grief. And Hagrid arrives, sobbing for Harry too. Minerva is actually very emotionally tied to Harry. Which is why she cries when he and Ron visit Hermione in the hospital. She loves her students.

[becausebirds]

[iwishitwas1983]

I’m crying.

[floacist]

LMAOOOOOOOOO the screaming in the beginning “mr. owl” “oh jesus christ” “please don’t give me that look” “please don’t fly” DYING omg

[alrightalrightalrightalyssa-dea]

That owl is 30000000% done

[sasstrid-and-dorkcup]

every time this video graces me with its presence i feel obliged to reblog it