Everybody Chill It's Totes God's Will

Nearly over ASOIAF. It's going to be so liberating when I'm finally free.

[trix-or-treatz]

Miss Piggy's response to misogyny and fatphobia is physical violence and I think we should all take something from that

[ilynpilled]

i like when fiction treats love as a more complicated force and not something that is inherently pure or redemptive. portray it as flawed and complex as any other human impulse. give me love as prejudice, love as possessive stasis, love as addiction, love as blindness, etc.

[ilynpilled]

at that, i find it disingenuous to frame it as “if the person hurt you they could not have loved you. that is not love.” just not a productive definition of the word to me

[ilynpilled]

the love was there and it fucked us 🙏

[fagcrisis]

ok so im genuinely curious

do you legit find ryan gosling sexy like as in you personally not that you think hes conventionally attractive

yes

no

Voting ended onMay 22

no nuance u gotta pick. i know this is the autism website but i think i made the question as clear as i could

[userbailu]

PENTIMENT (2022) — developed by obsidian entertainment

[wordswithkittywitch]

In Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio called Tybalt "Prince of Cats" because there was a book, popular at the time, with a cat prince named Tybalt in it. He was making a pop culture reference. Therefore, I move, that in a modern Romeo and Juliet retelling, Tybalt should be named Garfield.

[ahumanbeena]

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

[shwetanarayan-deactivated202504]

so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor,  and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.

[isaacsapphire]

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.

[small-witch-big-hat]

You can be sexist without knowing it. You can be racist without knowing it. This is not a moral failing; it is a moral imperative to remember that you are fallible, and take steps to limit the damage your squishy ape brain’s foibles can cause.

[mindfulwrath]

The final chapter in Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink (2005) describes this in detail.

What you don’t usually hear about when discussing this blind audition process is that after the blind auditions were implemented, when women had gotten many positions in the orchestra, men no longer saw being a member as prestigious and the salaries for the entire orchestra dropped.

[seethemflying]

Oh, Jaime you shitty Lancelot. Your Galahad Galladon is on her way to redeem your reputation.

[ripley-stark]

ever since streaming inflated the tv market in the late 2000s and into the 2010s, we have culturally switched from valuing quality to quantity in our shows and a monocultural virality model where every single show must immediately do mega numbers or get mega cancelled. since then, the public has lost the art of differentiating between a well-written show with a bad budget (such as the x files or star trek) and a poorly written show with a good budget (stranger things, house of the dragon, yellowjackets, etc). but the writing in a relatively cheap show will always stand the test of time whereas high production value for a badly written show will only fool the public for a couple seasons before it eventually fails to suffice for a bland nonsensical story that is miserable to watch

[souryam]

love is a dream you enter

[finnwaller]

Mary: At Pemberley I went riding with...Mr Ryder Tom: Cool. Cool cool cool.

(Gif set as requested in my inbox)

[opera-shitpost]

Haven't posted here in a while, but just had to jump on the bandwagon while the tea is still hot.

[diaryofandnwoman]

[motorway-south]

brienne's truly pathetic crush leads her down the funniest thought spirals... "jaime did this incredibly kind and sincere thing out of the kindness of his heart" okay. true. "it was probably a mean joke..... except that he would never do that" girl he would

[glamfellens]

this was my heated rivalry

[seethemflying]

I realised I was free when that article George did talking about Winds came out, and pretty much my only reaction was

[seethemflying]

There is nothing going right in my life, but at least I will always have Tiffany Pollard thinking David Gest had died in the Big Brother house.

[jaynmalackson]

happy 10th anniversary

[ryebreadgf]

yayyyy

[jomiddlemarch]