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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open

Andulka

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Janaina Medeiros
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Mike Driver
i don't do bad sauce passes
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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im pretty sure the tomato sauce on pizza is the only thing stopping most white american adult single men from dying of scurvy
Let’s take it off then
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.
Unpopular opinion but horror movies shouldn’t be advertised on apps/websites like Spotify where it is impossible to click them away
It’s not only that children use these but also that it really sucks for many people who are naturally frightened easily, have mental health issues/are not neurotypical
I don’t want to have to suffer through 30 seconds of scary noises and screaming and shit like that to be allowed to listen to music
Some people don’t like to watch gory zombie horror footage and visceral sounds, be it for horror movies or games. Some things just shouldn’t be in unskippable ads, or in the 5 seconds before you can skip.
the internet should be funny animal pictures and thats it!
example
Crowley & Aziraphale, before the church rescue in 1941:
Parents: why you wanna move so bad
Me: independence
Me in head: gettin a lizard
Bla Bla Bla [x]
He wants to talk with the family so much
such a smooth velvety voice
he’s talking about his day
@waspranger
Who wants to join my gang we’re gonna go to theme parks and boardwalks but never before sundown.
Requirements:
Must be gay
Must have no sense of fashion
Must be alarmingly interested in vampires
finally something I’m qualified for
oh to be a little dog sprinting at top speeds around the house with reckless abandon to release all the stress pent up from your extremely harrowing bathtime
it’s so weird to me that shrek originally wasn’t meant to have a scottish accent can you imagine him with an american accent? it wouldn’t be the same the scottish accents adds some flavour some zest a certain je ne sais quoi
him shouting ‘DONKEY’ wouldn’t be as powerful
SDKSKDKAKDK
*goes to scottland* *squints suspiciously* why is everyone doing a Shrek accent
gordon ramsey: is the food good here?
underpaid server:
let them live, riker
stop interrupting their date, riker
fuck OFF, riker
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@scratchoffticket im sorry but this is the funniest fucking thing anyone has added to this post thank you addfahdufkgsag
When SpongeBob turns 20 he will turn into a real boy and you will all have to watch Human Bob and enjoy it. He turned 18 today, so you have 2 more years to sort out your feelings.
this guy works on spongebob