Spoiled

Sydnee. 21. This is mostly a blog full of dumb shit for my partner and I. The other half of my heart stays in London 🖤🖤 Dont fuckin call me baby

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can’t argue with that

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[lisaminnci]

STUDIO GHIBLI + FOOD

Spirited Away (2001) When Marnie Was There (2014) Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) Ponyo (2008) Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

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Over the Garden Wall (2014)

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THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (2000) dir. Mark Dindal

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[h-isforhome-deactivated20261708]

he’s gay

[elektragirlfriend]

and he’s still at it

[deadmallgoth]

I’m sure someone else added this somewhere but

[surprisebitch]

king

[enoughtohold]

do you ever just suddenly feel the weight of more years of exhaustion than you’ve been alive

[historicaltimes]

Cleaning women washing a crucifix, 1938

via reddit

[thewolfbroughtindoors]

Me, thinking they’re hosing an emaciated child down the stairs: oh jesus…

Me, realizing it is in fact our lord and savior on the cross: oh, Jesus…

[jocollins]

i should not be laughing about that note

[lesbianrey]

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[lawbreaker13]

As a graphic design please let me tell you that I aspire to think of something 1/1000th as clever and execute it even remotely as well as this logo right here

[mapsontheweb]

Most upvoted choices for “People getting off planes in Hawaii immediately get a lei, If this same tradition applied to the rest of the U.S., what would each state immediately give to visitors?”

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[geniebeanieboy]

Alaska: FROSTBITE

[warped-05-deactivated20210622]

as a west virginian can i just say that like…pepperoni rolls can be purchased at literally any gas station for like 2 bucks tops so like…if any1 wants to start a business of handing them out at yeager airport, i’m totally in…

[drmariusvonraum]

I’M SORRY WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THAT STATE AND GARFIELD MERCH?

[queen-rot]

do they just… throw it at you?

[alithographica]

AZ native here: No it’s because as soon as you leave the plane, the heat feels like someone just turned on a hairdryer in your face.

“It’s a dry heat!” So’s an oven.

We do not give you the hairdryer, because giving out free things is communism and an affront to God and Jesus.

[ariassong]

Flies to Maryland to get a can of old bay, immediately flies to Maine for a lobster: Dinner time

[geekwiththeglasses]

😧 Old bay belongs on crabs (which tbh if you fly into BWI, we’d just hand you live crabs and ask you to admire the giant crab sculpture), just steam the lobster and go to Idaho for the potatoes and put it on them

Side note: admire the giant crab sculpture

[gehayi]

Tax bill for Connecticut? Really? Why not Mystic Pizza?

[thetenderpassion]

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[fuckheads-revenge]

As an update, they’ve moved into a house together and are still super cute

[officialwayneenterprises123-dea]

Gundam Guy is truly a man of patience and diligence. From his attention to detail building his models to the loving attention and detail for his wife.

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[jenatwork]

Someone pointed out that the font on the government's letter about the quarantine looked familiar, and now I can't stop thinking about it.

[heartbeatsandpeonies]

If I may add, from a viral Facebook post:

[the-thorster]

God I for sure hope that the next CAH deck they're coming out with will include this black card

[morequeerbytheyear]

THIS IS BLOODY BRILLIANT

[fictionadventurer]

I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

[lizziedoesvetpath]

Wow I want to re-read The Hunger Games right now…

[bakwaaas]

Woman picking lotus flowers, Thailand, by Sarawut Intarob

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[littleblondesoprano]

They’re this meme

[goawfma]

never gets old