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AO3 being down… it’s like oh am I supposed to go to bed ON TIME?!? Ridiculous.
Okay, in light of the bullshit going on with J.K. Rowling and her weirdly blasting Emma Watson has to be dissected.
Unfortunately, I have to agree with J.K. only on one issue: Emma, as much as I think she tries to be a genuinely nice person, is ridiculously "naive," but not for the reasons J.K. accuses her of bitterly being. HOWEVER:
Emma Watson was a literal child when her face literally became intellectual property representing your intellectual property brand, J.K. Whether you like it or not, and I'm assuming not, because you are spending an inordinate amount of time recasting an entire show to white-wash people who disagree with you, and to use the profits for anti-trans promotion of legal grievance cases, she is part of the brand history.
It shows just what bad faith this woman is operating from. I'm assuming the reason Emma Watson gave her a handwritten note through a friend is because in polite society, handwritten notes are traditionally seen as more personal than a text or a phone call. This is where I think she was naive, because unfortunately I think Emma Watson may operate under the assumption that by "reaching across the aisle" in attempting to "understand people's basic humanity," they can come to some civilized meeting of minds. I, personally, operate under the assumption that as soon as someone negates an entire group's humanity outright, that is not a policy position, that is a human rights issue, but I digress. Emma tried to be the bigger person in an atmosphere of hate, and got smacked down by a woman who has known her since she was probably ten years old.
It shows that even in terms of another privileged, white cisgendered woman, how bitter and angry J.K. Rowling is. Like, half of that is discounting the fact that Emma Watson has any place to speak from because she was and remains extraordinarily privileged. But because J.K. Rowling experienced some level of poverty in a first world country, her position is: ANY OTHER WOMAN'S PERSPECTIVE IS NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK ON REAL WORLD ISSUES BECAUSE I'VE HAD IT HARDER.
Okay, I didn't realize it was the suffering games, but okay, Joanne.
Her self-hating being directed on other women of all stripes is truly wild.
This also negates the fact that Emma Watson, no matter what your position on her arguably neutral to the point of limp-wristed "white lady feminism" she takes, has not experienced some of the creepiest shit the world has to offer, in situations like weird "countdown clocks" to when she turned eighteen from men, or people trying to take photographs up her skirt on her eighteenth birthday. Say what you want, but that has to create some sort of psychosis as well, and the fact that Joanne can only recognize her own "suffering" and not that of others, speaks volumes about her as a person.
The fact that she talked about having to tighten her own personal security detail while saying Emma has never been to a high street changing room since she was fourteen is wild.
Then this is the kicker: "Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them. However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created."
BABE THEIR FACES ARE LITERALLY ON THE ACTION FIGURES THEY'RE LITERALLY JUST STANDING UP FOR HUMAN RIGHTS UNFORTUNATELY THEY ARE THE "DE FACTO SPOKESPEOPLE" BECAUSE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LICENSE FOR THEIR FACES AT 10-14 EXISTS JESUS FUCKING CHRIST
Which I restate, is 100000 percent another reason why she's doing this stupid fucking remake; so she literally does not have to have their faces or the faces of anyone associated with her on the front of a fucking product she owns that she was previously against consumerist products for in the 90s, and is 10000 percent just using this to fund her stupid anti-trans agenda.
Lastly, I'd also like to highlight the fact that she clearly comes straight after Emma because she clearly has an issue with any sort of women who don't directly correlate to her own life experiences, but note how she also calls out Daniel Radcliffe, but with hardly any of the vitriol she keeps for Emma. This is a woman who I swear hates other women, trans or not, under the guise of "protecting women's rights," which is ironically what she was basically accusing Emma of doing in her "naive" behaviour.
In short, I don't know what the fuck happened to this woman to make herself the world's biggest self-made victim, but for someone condemning a then fourteen year old for being a millionaire, spoken from a BILLIONAIRE that could all do us a favour and just go and live in a fucking castle in England somewhere and leave us all in peace, rather than actively using HER intellectual property to harm other people SHE disagrees with, including someone she has literally known since they were in PRIMARY SCHOOL, is FUCKING WILD.
Thanks for this. More people need this level of critical thinking out there -- translated this to Chinese on RedNote (with the original article & username ofc) because people are blinded
The fact that I had to go through 10+ ai images of Emma Watson naked to actually see some thoughts on this is a messed up dimension to add to this.
If JK Rowling wanted to help and support women she would, but she doesn’t. She tears them down. If she wanted to protect women she wouldn’t be going after 1% of the population. Regardless of your stance of trans rights they aren’t causing the majority of crimes against women.
She could have rape tests be tested, improve schools sex ed to include consent, she could help pass laws to not include AI images of underage girls.
It’s really sad when your whole legacy could’ve been overcoming abuse and rising above fascism, and instead it’s reveling in your trauma and hurting the most vulnerable.
And people were defending him in my post and my inbox a few days ago 😶
Of course, something that doesn't affect him, as a cisgender white man, isn't going to matter to him.
Bro you’re taking method acting too far for your fascist role.
So apparently straight men are trying to cancel Pedro Pascal for "getting away with touching his female co-stars" when first of all, he touches his male co-stars too don't be reductive, and second of all that's what it looks like when women are comfortable around a man they hug him and kiss him and hold his hand and let him reciprocate so way to announce to the world that no woman has ever felt safe around you. But also also also where is that energy when we try to cancel actual rapists?????? Suddenly it's "oh don't ruin that poor man's career over some bitch's hearsay" but when it's a brown man who happens to be a trans ally, comfortable enough in his masculinity to let Oscar Isaac hold him, and safe enough that every single one of his female co-stars cannot get enough of him, suddenly they care about who's touching women. The next time one of them complains about the make loneliness epidemic, I want them to watch Pedro Pascal's press tours and remember that they're only lonely because they're creeps.
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Sorry, still not over Darcy critical-failing that proposal! Not that sorry, though. I have no idea why Pride and Prejudice hits so hard when most of Austen's other novels are like "They're fine! I like them! Anyway..." for me.
But, here's the thing. Darcy is being an asshole. Darcy isn't an asshole, generally, but he's really being one about his whole Regency Era situationship with Lizzie. Like, he rolls in on day one with this giant fucking chip on his shoulder, acts like he's too good for everyone, and why? Well, he's rich, and he's got lofty connections.
Except who's he rolling with right then? His spineless dustmop of a bestie and his bestie's godawful sisters. Bingley's the sort of guy who can be peer-pressured out of being in love!
Like, you know that thing where you have a friend, and they introduce you to another friend, and that friend is such a wet sock that you find yourself reevaluating your friend because they're hanging around with this guy? Like, okay, Darcy, do you have friends, or do you have toadies? Is this your bestie, or did you find a gentleman's companion that you didn't have to pay?
Later on we meet his aunt, who's the goddamned worst.
Like, we all hate Mr. Collins, right? This woman has Mr. Collins over twice a week for a quiet evening of performative dickriding. That's the kind of taste Darcy's family has. Voluntarily spending hours with Mr. Collins on a regular basis.
There's no talking about Mrs. Bennet's lack of decorum or matrimonial grasping or entitlement without talking about Lady Catherine flying in on her broom to scream at her nephew's fiancee, right? Especially considering that her basis for doing so is a cradle engagement that she seems to have never spoken to her nephew about as an adult and a fucking rumor that she assumes pertains to Lizzie.
She doesn't even talk to her fucking nephew before spending half a day in a carriage to make a blazing spectacle of herself in front of the entire Bennet household! He finds out she did that afterwards when she tries to make him break off the nonexistent engagement that she's announced to half the fucking kingdom by that point.
I mean, unexpected point to Mrs. B, who notably did not even walk down the road to Netherfield to act disappointed at anyone.
Also hard to get on too high a horse after Georgiana's near-elopement with the country's biggest asshole! Like, oh, the Bennet sisters are embarrassing? The Bennets lack propriety?
Buddy, you hired a sex trafficker to look after your sister and then your sister almost fucked the one-man-crime-wave son of your late property-manager. And you didn't even manage to hush it all up properly! Sure, he's keeping your sister's name out of his mouth, but he's running you down like a dog in every other respect to the whole county!
Like, "Oh, look at me, I'm Fitzwilliam Darcy! I'm not going to lower myself to correcting any of The Plebes who now think I deliberately misadministered a will to fuck over The Help out of cheapness and spite, especially when all it would take is one conversation with That Fucker's commanding officer, but god forbid I ever have to go out in public with a Bennet! I might die of shame and secondhand cringe!"
So he's got all of that going on, and then he busts in on Lizzie with a proposal that's got huge "I don't consent to being attracted to you" energy and runs her entire family into the ground. This is after Lizzie's spent approximately three centuries being negged by his mannerless nightmare of an aunt, so that's at least one extra level of "Really, bruh?" in there.
And then he fucking claps back at her rejection! Instead of going "Oh. Huh. Whoops. Guess I'll just have to go marry one of the other ten thousand women lined up waiting to marry me!" he's like "What the fuuuuck did I ever do to you, you fucking menace?". At which point she checks him so hard he spends the next three months bluescreening and looking up how to be polite to people you haven't already known for five years.
So like I said, he is being an asshole here. He knows how to act right, he just hasn't bothered to do so once since posting up in Netherfield because idk, he's on vacation or some shit.
Critically! However upsetting Lizzie finds The Proposal Incident (half-hour crying jag, spends the rest of the day hiding in her room), she is at no point worried about Darcy's subsequent behavior.
This is while she still thinks he genuinely did Wickham dirty and before she's had a chance to get character references from the 500 people working at Pemberley. This is the guy about whom her dad later says "Kidding-not kidding I can hardly say no to this rich fuck, can I?" when asked for his blessing. This is after Mr. Collins literally said "I've heard no means yes these days" to her fucking face and then her mother tried to make her marry him anyway.
She preached a full on sermon about the man's shortcomings to his face immediately after saying she wouldn't bounce on his dick if it was the last one on earth and after the adrenaline crash wasn't like, "Fuck. Fuck. Fuuuuuuuck my entire life, he's going to burn down the vicarage and frame my father for tax fraud."
Everything that she's seen with her own eyes about this snobby bastard tells her he's not going to go crying to his aunt and get her cousin's patronage revoked. He's not going to go out of his way to fuck her or her family over. He's pissed, and he was definitely playing the ass with that proposal, but he's not going to lash out over it.
So this is Lizzie seeing Darcy at Peak Asshole, with extra assholery that he didn't even do but he couldn't be bothered to tell anyone he didn't do, and Lizzie's still like "omg you're such a fucking prick, how do you even get out of bed in the morning" instead of "Well, RIP to my prospects, there's no way that man doesn't have the lot of us consigned to a convent by parliamentary decree now."
"I've done a lot of terrible things in my life, and one of those things was pretending I didn't care for you all these years."
What we’ve gotta understand is that “the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for adults” and “the modern Internet is abolishing space for children” are compatible phenomena. Neither group is being favoured: the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for adults (i.e., because grown-up topics aren’t advertiser friendly) and the modern Internet is abolishing spaces for children (i.e., because online communities which consist principally of people who have no money are hard to sell things to). The Internet that contemporary corporate interests are trying to build isn’t a space for anyone – it’s the digital equivalent of an Ikea showroom.
Like, when I say that the greater part of contemporary social media is fundamentally hostile to human life, I’m not indulging in hyperbole or constructing an ironic metaphor. I mean that 100% literally.
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Racist dream of holding others back, denying equality and surviving on spite.
They will sacrifice their social security and health care to avoid admitting they were played.
I just can't get over that after years of reddit speculation about how MDR's work must be 3-D printing brains into clones and putting souls in goats or whatever it turns out to just be...rich people trying to find a way out of the human experience. subjugating one or two or six people you will never meet to an existence of pure suffering so you don't have to be inconvenienced or feel a negative emotion ever. it could never have been anything else
Me: *Looks at Netflix*
Netflix: So we’re redoing Pride and Prejudice 🤝
Me: How DARE you try to upstage a f*cking classic! That hand gesture DEFINED romance for a whole generation! You money grabbing who-
Netflix: It will be on in 2026
Me: Yeah I’ll be there
The fact they are REDOING Harry Potter when they had the most noble and most dysfunctional house of Black RIGHT there!
Andromeda defying her family, Bellatrix becoming more and more unhinged, Narcissa and Lucius arranged marriage with slow burn? Or did he have to prove to her family he could be enough for her? Regulus and Sirius!
In the background: the first war, Tom Riddle attending classes, Snape!
So much potential!