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dansoncapaldi-deactivated201910

THERE’S MORE OMFG THANK YOU JAMEELA

THIS IS THE CONTENT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

freshest-tittymilk

I’ve watched this like 10 times bc it’s more about me learning the dance than him

warriorchicken-deactivated20150

Last summer, we went to London for a vacation and I bought a queen Elizabeth mask. We then went to number 10 downing st and I demanded they let me in.

Oddly enough, he didn’t buy it.

I even tried to bribe him with a knighthood and one of my many castles.

warriorchicken-deactivated20150

Forgot my bloody key, and Phillip won’t open the door.

Lazy git.

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Maori women, New Zealand, c. 1900.

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why none of them got into The Good Place

exigencelost

What I love about this is its acknowledgment that Jason had no intentions at all

egyptiann-deactivated20260812

this is all 100% true but it always made me really mad that Chidi’s “crime” was having a severe anxiety disorder like he needed understanding and therapy, sending him to the Bad Place for something he had literally no control over was incredibly fucked up

thedreadvampy

I feel like a less-surface theme of the show is that they’re all in a situation where they have been forced into bad patterns by forces outside their control - Chidi has SEVERE anxiety; Eleanor was forced by abuse and neglect to adopt a self-centered attitude from early childhood and, like many people with traumatic pasts, responds by not dealing with difficult emotions; Jason was very overtly raised in an environment where he got no education and all his models for behaviour were criminal and/or self-destructive; and Tahani has been raised in an environment where everything is performative and she is shot down for any genuine expression of unhappiness or non-material want. Just as Michael and Janet are made one way but changed by their experiences, the moral of the story is that things outside your control shape you but you can move away from them. That could easily be really insulting, in a sort of ‘just get over it’ way, but the idea isn’t that they change solely because they decide to be better - all six of them change because their circumstances change and give them the OPPORTUNITY to be better, because they’re finally given the support system they lack.

I like The Good Place because the whole show has since day 1 been predicated on the idea that black and white moral judgements made in a vacuum are bullshit, and that moral choices are informed by things outside our control, whether that be education, behaviour modelling, unfair treatment or mental health issues. That doesn’t mean we aren’t responsible for our actions but it DOES mean we have to understand morality in the context of people’s varied experiences AND asks for the possibility that if their environment is improved, their ability to function as moral agents also improves.

thisallegra

The whole premise of their redemption of Michael and his actions in late season 2/3 is that the system is wrong - not only does the group not deserve to be in the bad place as individuals - but that the system itself is wrong. If these are all people who could be ‘good’ - then judging them based on a life cut short before they could learn to do better given their awful starter issues (anxiety, emotional neglect, physical and emotional neglect, and stupidity (sorry, I love Jason but he’s spectacularly dumb)) means that the system itself is wrong - which is Michael’s argument to the judge and why we have season 3.

But hey at least the system got Columbus right!