There's no use giving up.

It won't hurt any less.

[sakuramelting]

It’s 2018

And Lemonade Mouth remains the best Disney Channel Original Movie to have ever been filmed.

[sakuramelting]

Its 2023

And Lemonade Mouth remains the best Disney Channel Original Movie to have ever been filmed.

[mirkwoodest]

Obsessed with the fact that this really happened😳

[wan-shailu]

When I was a student at Oxford, both C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien were lecturing there, Lewis magnificently and Tolkien badly and inaudibly, and the climate of opinion was such that people explained Lewis’s children’s books by saying ‘It’s his Christianity, you know,’ as if the books were the symptom of some disease, while of Tolkien they said he was wasting his time on hobbits when he should have been writing learned articles…

I imagine I caused Tolkien much grief by turning up to hear him lecture week after week, while he was trying to wrap his lectures up after a fortnight and get on with The Lord of the Rings (you could do that in those days, if you lacked an audience, and still get paid). I sat there obdurately despite all his mumbling and talking with his face pressed up to the blackboard, forcing him to go on expounding every week how you could start with a simple quest-narrative and, by gradually twitching elements as it went along, arrive at the complex and entirely different story of Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale – a story that still contains the excitement of the quest-narrative that seeded it. What little I heard of all this was wholly fascinating.

– Diana Wynne Jones

[creekfiend]

Ok so the thing about reading like books which are “predictable” is that I, a story enjoyer, go completely bonkers about it bc its like Enrichment in my Enclosure. A scene parallels another earlier scene between different characters thus serving to highlight the differences in their views and priorities???? A line makes me think “hmmm I bet that’s gonna be relevant later” ends up being relevant later????? I am a tiger chewing ice cubes out of a pumpkin. I’m so so happy. Please foreshadow more things. Throw the completely anticipateable plot beats at me like catnip mousies!!!!!

[creekfiend]

YEAH!!!!!!

[gayahithwen]

When I see a rifle on the wall, I want to see that rifle being fired! I’m literally on the sidelines shouting “Chekov! The gun! Get the gun, Chekov!”

[qqueenofhades]

Hi! I know Charles is terrible for a number of reasons, but if it’s not too much trouble can I get like, a top 10 list or something lol, that I may be able to pull out over the following months when people are like “well he’s not thaaaat bad.” I wouldn’t even know where to start looking, not to mention what might be buried or hard to find.

Oh boy, this is my time. (Well, again.)

Aside from how awfully Charles treated Diana while they were married, let's start with the massive ongoing cash-for-honors scandal and the investigation into his private charity for basically selling personal access to him (the future British monarch) in exchange for, sometimes, literal duffel bags of black cash. (Don't worry, they promised with all seriousness that next time, they would absolutely stop taking those!) This was also happening at the same time as the police probe into his younger brother Andrew for, y'know, being a statutory rapist and sex trafficker who hosted Kevin Spacey and Ghislaine Maxwell as his personal guests at Buckingham Palace. Yet again, the Palace bureaucracy tried to insist that Charles Didn't Know About This Personally!!!, because the "good prince" is exempt from the dealings of his treacherous and corrupt advisors. Mmmmhmmm.

In another case of being the most oblivious person ever, at best, Charles's charity also happily took a donation of one million pounds from the bin Laden family (yes, THAT bin Laden family). Of course when it came out, they insisted that it had been properly vetted and it was from the respectable Saudi business bin Laden! Not, y'know, the terrorist ones! I guess money from anywhere for any reason is just fine, at least until you get caught and have to do some fast talking. Possibly this is because Charles and Camilla's fancy-health-food Waitrose brand, "Duchy Originals," got busted for fraud and advocating dangerous and ineffective homeopathic remedies (which Charles has also used his public platform to advocate for, including his batshit belief that coffee enemas can cure cancer). He also likewise used his platform to interfere in civic and architectural plans that he didn't like, and is generally known for being much more outspoken and politically visible than his mother. I mean sure, his parents sucked and were physically and emotionally distant, so that can't really help growing up in such a fucked-up environment, but still.

In his (very limited) defense, I will say that he has, for quite a while, advocated for sustainability programs and action on climate change, but considering all the efforts that he himself would have to make to truly support those actions on more than just a vocal or interest-based level, that is not something that we can hang on him as a laurel. Besides, he's still the inheritor of the entire British monarchy and its whole fucked-up system, and unless he plans to change literally all of that, yeah.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

This actually needs spreading heavily. On Facebook to your royalist parents if possible. This is a "play our cards right to sink the monarchy" era, and the message "It's such a shame Elizabeth has gone because now we have to deal with Charles and he's so bad, isn't he? Unlike saintly Liz" will do more damage than anything else. People didn't want to hear criticisms of her. But they do listen to criticisms of Charles.

[isarthurpendragonbackyet]

is arthur pendragon back yet?

day 542,631: WILL KEEP YOU UPDATED BUT THE THRONE IS WIDE OPEN

[bogleech]

The other thread on this was started by chuds so I'm gonna reboot it myself: it's really sad that people don't understand the Midwest is where food gets grown and we're supposed to grow a lot more of it.

Suggesting people just move to the cities is astonishingly clueless and would only make the situation worse. Some Americans have truly no idea what it's like out there, tiny communities separated by hour long drives if you even have transport, millions of people really are just abandoned and left behind by what we consider progress and have no way out.

[bogleech]

@revretch​ already posted this in the old thread, but I think a lot of people who grew up on the coasts, and especially people posting from other countries, have genuinely no idea what the population distribution of America actually looks like.

The state of wyoming is 97,914 square miles. That is larger than the entire united kingdom, and it’s one of a couple dozen states making up our midwest. This is what the human population of those 97,914 square miles look like:

These are ISLANDS of human life separated by hundreds of miles of either cornfield or scrubland in every direction. I’ve been to and lived in little pockets of civilization like that; people are stuck with dilapidated old trucks they have to share, rotting farmhouses whole families still use, no hospital, sometimes no school, often no grocery store, high-price but still incredibly shitty phone and internet service and definitely no public transport services. Some people have little more than a few gas stations and a Mcdonald’s because they were lucky enough for their town to be on a major truck route. When I spent a couple years with Rev in one of Iowa’s little truck-stop towns our only food options were one monstrously overpriced supermarket, two fast food places, a bar and a convenience store. We’d have to spend the gas to drive a full hour until we hit a Wal-Mart and stock up on all the non-perishables we could, which we could because we were privileged to have our own car, unlike a lot of our most immediate neighbors - who were still far enough away even in that same town that we never actually saw each other. Acres and acres of farmland separated those homes. Any conversation around how to evolve our infrastructure and systems NEEDS to account for these areas and it needs to do so in a way that does not demand people abandon what little they do have; you can’t ask someone with almost nothing to gamble the rest of it on moving to a city that already has a homeless crisis and reacts to it with spikes on the sidewalk. But it’s like that for EVERYTHING. Every discussion of the environment, of public services, of getting people food or health care or education or sustainable energy seems completely dominated by people who have no idea how most of the country actually lives out there, and part of that is because of that aforementioned shitty internet service. The poverty shuts them out of the conversation about their own poverty. It’s a nightmare.

[catwingsthespatula]

My sister puts glasses away upside down.

Because our mother does,

Because her mother did,

Because her mother lived through the Dust Bowl.

One day my father sat me down and told me about epigenetics.

How the trauma he went through

As a child in an abusive home

Wrote itself into his DNA

And, in turn, into mine.

How he and his brothers,

In various ways,

Are all sick from it.

How I might be too, someday,

And I’m not sure I’m not.

I hear people say,

When will we get back to normal?

And I think of a woman born in the twenty-first century

Who puts her glasses away differently

Because of what her great-grandmother endured

Ninety years before.

[willel]

Jonathan holding his little brother 🥺

[vikingofficial-deactivated20241]

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[liquidstar]

in the evil world beanie babies would be called meanie babies

[liquidstar]

i love that i can just start off sentences with phrases like “in the evil world” and not elaborate at all, because people just get what i mean. like yeah yeah, the evil world, we all know it. the world thats just like ours but evil. we’re all familiar. 

[gemsandjunk]

[capricornpropaganda]

There's no reason for any character to be a cop like was Nancy Drew a cop? Naur she was just nosy as hell and I respect that

[capricornpropaganda]

Was Scooby and the gang ringing up the police?? No bc Fred and Shaggy were dodging the draft

[uncleromeo]

if you don't do anything else today,

Please have a moment of silence for the people who were killed instead of freed when news of emancipation finally reached the furthest corners of the american south.

have another moment for the ledgers, catalogs, and records that were burned and the homes that were destroyed to hide the presence of very much alive and still enslaved people on dozens of plantations and homesteads across the south for decades after emancipation.

and have a third moment for those who were hunted and killed while fleeing the south to find safety across the border, overseas, in the north and to the west.

black people. light a candle, write a note to those who have passed telling them what you have achieved in spite of the racist and intolerant conditions of this world, feel the warmth of the flame under your hand, say a prayer of rememberance if you are religious, place the note under the candle, and then blow it out.

if you have children, sit them down and tell them anything you know about the life of oldest black person you've ever met. it doesn't have to be your own family. tell them what you know about what life was like for us in the days, years, decades after emancipation. if you don't know much, look it up and learn about it together.

This is Juneteenth.

white people CAN interact with this post. share it, spread it.

[dingdongyouarewrong]

I literally don’t understand the problem with using trope names in marketing like it helps people find what they want to read

yeah like the actual problem isn't people describing existing books using the same words you'd use to describe fanfiction tropes. that literally doesn't matter IMO. you can describe fucking pride and prejudice as "enemies to lovers" if you want to; that doesn't change the contents of the story or make it somehow worse or more difficult to comprehend. the actual problem is books being written primarily as madlibs-style fill-in-the-blanks imitations of existing popular trends at the expense of quality; this has existed long before the increasing popularity of fanfiction and will continue to exist. this is bad, but it is not "fanfiction culture is killing literature"; it's just the continued expression of how art works under capitalism

[beardedmrbean]

[teamvoorhees2]

[1oldbear]

And if the senior predeceases the pet, it’s cared for.  Good on yer!

[lovepaul7186-deactivated2022092]

A win for the pet and seniors!

[ms-cellanies]

This is WONDERFUL & it would be fanstastic if rescue groups across the world would follow the lead of PAWS.  The group is located in the state of Washington:  https://www.paws.org/adopt/seniors-for-seniors/#hours.

[oudandleather]

i just want a boring love. a love that doesn’t need fights or arguments to keep the fire alive. a “let’s sit and read on opposite ends of the sofa” love. an “i thought of you when i was doing the dishes” love. an “i would rather be at home with the love of my life right now” love

[pigcatapult]

can confirm, this form of love is very shelf-stable; husband and I have been chilling amicably for over ten years

[ivorytowerblr]

Get yourself a partner who taps you repeatedly taps you with a dish and when you make a gentle inquiring noise as to what the fuck they’re doing they tell you that they’re sending you plate mail.

[factsinallcaps]

THE LIST OF THINGS NINTENDO PREDATES INCLUDES, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO:

THE SHERLOCK HOLMES FRANCHISE

UNITED STATES PRESIDENT DWIGHT D. EISHENHOWER’S BIRTH

THE NOVEL “DRACULA”

THE NOVELS “THE TIME MACHINE” AND “WAR OF THE WORLDS” BY H.G. WELLS

THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPIC GAMES

THE DISCOVERY OF HELIUM ON EARTH

[sightless-raiton]

… Okay. I believe you. But like… how?

[factsinallcaps]

NINTENDO WAS FOUNDED IN 1889 AS A CARD GAME MANUFACTURER AND ALL THOSE OTHER THINGS HAPPENED IN 1890 OR LATER

[captainlordauditor]

WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT DRACULA WAS EARLIER WHAT THE FUCK

[factsinallcaps]

YOU COULD WRITE A DRACULA FANFIC WHERE DRACULA TRAVELS TO JAPAN AND BUYS A PACK OF NINTENDO BRAND PLAYING CARDS AND IT WOULD BE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. SAME DEAL FOR SHERLOCK HOLMES.

[marauders4evr]

No no no no no!

Don’t write fanfic!

Those things are in the public domain!

You can legally write, publish, and sell a Dracula book where Dracula travels to Japan and buys a pack of Nintendo brand playing cards!

Same deal for Sherlock Holmes!

[pinejaysong]

what if you write a book where dracula and sherlock holmes travel to japan at the same time and reach for the last pack of nintendo brand playing cards that they both wanted

[dogglefoxkvk]

Here’s where the romance happens

[guerrillatech]

[pieceofmanju]

Gordon Tootoosis, Aboriginal Canadian actor, activist, and band chief of Cree and Iyarhe Nakoda descent, as Cecil Delaronde in Canadian TV series Blackstone.

[nerteragranadensis]

[image description: two stills of Gordon Tootoosis, captioned, “Leadership is about submission to duty, not elevation to power.” end description.]