Somewhere in the Overlap

[fictionadventurer]

You've gotta give Doctor Who credit for having multiple episodes that understand that the point of Omelas isn't to stay in Omelas, or leave Omelas, but to save the child.

[sentrysvoid]

Frankenstein dir. Guillermo del Toro | 2025

[worstgirlintheworld]

rip to the realest ❤️

[feignedremote]

This one is even better imo

[the-home]

[angelofmeth-deactivated20240415]

I wish it were more acceptable for girls and women to just call feminine beauty rituals degrading.

[angelofmeth-deactivated20240415]

like i cant believe how much i used to jump around that word growing up. No, I'm not gonna wear a swimsuit that's designed to show my entire ass, only looks good when im completely bald down there or otherwise forces me to constantly monitor my behavior or my literal gentials will spill out of it because it's "just not my style". I find it literally degrading. I feel like an animal.

[goblinous]

This is so important! Women's clothes are so often wildly undignified, but if we complain or chose more practical options we're accused of being "prudish" or assumed to be "modest". As if the only reason we'd want clothes that actually function as clothing is because we're conservative and ashamed of our bodies.

Yet men don't get called "modest" for not showing their crotches and ass-cheeks at the beach or for wearing clothes that allow movement and aren't basically shrink-wrapped on. They don't get called "prudish" for attending formal events in suits that cover them from ankle to wrist to neck instead of in basically lingerie. Their clothes aren't referred to as "dad jeans" or "grandpa undies" for covering their butts and coming up to their waists.

People know a lot of women's clothes are degrading, they just don't want to admit out loud that degradation is the price women are expected to pay in order to exist in public.

[apenitentialprayer]

Do not say: "How is it that former times were better than these?" For it is not out of wisdom that you ask about this.

Ecclesiastes (7:10)

Is there any affliction now endured by mankind that was not endured by our fathers before us? What sufferings of ours even bear comparison with what we know of their sufferings? And yet you hear people complaining about this present day and age because things were so much better in former times. I wonder what would happen if they were taken back to the days of their ancestors — would we not still hear them complaining? You may think past ages were good, but it is only because you are not living in them.

Saint Augustine

[hybridmindthoughtsreloaded]

[the-fox-burrow]

[spinmeround]

Jia Li , Summer Light, 2015

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[labcorphehe-deactivated20260118]

long hair is fun and is worth the hassle

[ferrantte]

akindofhome 🪿

[michaelcorleones]

You can sew almost anything into the canvas of a coat. When I was a boy I started to hide things in the linings of the garments, things that only I knew were there, secrets. THE PHANTOM THREAD 2016, dir Paul Thomas Anderson

[saltshroud]

:-)

[noneofthesewillbringdisaster]

And I say this with genuine love for Pride and Prejudice but for me personally Darcy is honestly very low on the list of Austen men ranked by hotness

[noneofthesewillbringdisaster]

Knightley: a best friend and good man. Is willing to live with Emma's father so as not to separate them: thoughtful and compassionate. Dances with Harriet. Kind. Hot!

Tilney: a yapper. Hot! Likes reading and discussing novels. Hot. Openly expresses his interest in Catherine from day one. Very Hot.

Wentworth: Lifts that child off Anne without speaking. Extremely hot made me talk a walk around the room first time I read it. Notices her tiredness when no one else does. Writes letters. All very hot.

Brandon: Loyal and true - raises Eliza's daughter as a ward. Hot. Fought a duel??? Technically hot. However too broody for me. Only halfway hot.

Darcy: was rude and then stopped being rude honestly not hot to me personally but I respect those of you for whom it is hot. Cares for his sister: technically hot but loses points because I prefer the relation the Tilneys have as siblings go. Generally would piss me off I think. I know why 'treats his servants well and looks after his estate' is hot for the time period but I am not of the time period and honestly not hot to me.

Edward: Don't flirt with a woman if you're already engaged to another woman even if you don't love her anymore! Boooooooooo! Not Hot.

Edmund: look if he's what Fanny wants then she deserves what she wants I love her. However. Not Hot.

[jasmindas]

[yesterdaysprint]

The Waco Times-Herald, Texas, June 19, 1936