I loved Practical Magic as a kid...and I wish I was more interested in Practical Magic 2 but in all honesty, the fact that Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman have such tight faces in the trailer, despite being older than Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing were in the original, is just making me not want to watch it.
I am all for films being about older women who have sex lives and interiority and complex relationships with each other and shit but for that to really be empowering you gotta let them look old! Wiest and Channing had gray hair in the original! Which I guess was allowed because they were 'older aunt' characters. But heaven forbid Bullock and Kidman are allowed to have wrinkles or gray hair if they're going to stay the main characters.
Also, Maisie Williams and Joey King are actually too young to be playing Sally's daughters in the second movie. Evan Rachel Wood was Kylie (Sally's oldest daughter) in the original and she's 38 right now. King is portraying Kylie in Practical Magic 2 and she's 26! Where tf did that decade go?? Fuck knows we can't acknowledge that Sally's daughter would be pushing 40, actually.
And this shit is everywhere right now...and it has been for a long time, I know. But Practical Magic had such a great feeling of prioritizing relationships between women and bucking against patriarchy and shit that it is just so disappointing to see this ageist shit with the female characters the second time around.
Oh man, I'm afraid to give my opinion about Jesus in Sexyman...
Screw it, I'm going to say it anyway.
I saw that Jesus is somehow participating in the 2026 sex scene???
Why???
I don't want to be a killjoy, especially since I don't have a religion (I feel very pressured to follow a religion because Christians are so strict and stupid, I'm only talking about my parents; they have nice Christians) but Dude, I feel like this is very disrespectful. Jesus is the Messiah of religions—the Gospel, Christianity, and Catholicism—and not a character to compete against various other fictional characters, I know there are people who don't believe in Jesus, but at least have some respect, Especially because you find Jesus sexy??? Sexyman isn't exactly for those who are the sexiest characters, is it? We shouldn't find Jesus sexy, I might sound annoying but in MY OPINION That's very disrespectful
If you didn't like what you read, please just ignore me; I'm just venting my opinion.
TW RANT - I may come off as rude here so I'm sorry in advance but people being too mad at Sun for everything that happened to Nexus just start to annoy me a bit especially when they act as if Sun basically abused Nexus
Sun doesn't need any excuses for how things were with him and Nexus at the beginning cause for what reason?
Sun never compared Nexus to Moon..
Nexus felt this way but if he cared to listen to Sun he'd understand that he was mistaken..
Because all Sun tried to say is that he doesn't want Nexus to do everything by himself while he's sitting there doing nothing just like it was with Moon..
Because at the time when Sun decided to be conduit for star's power Nexus was already taking care of everything by himself while Sun was doing nothing..
Just like it was with Moon..
It wasn't okay for Sun to lie but it wasn't okay for Nexus to yell his head of at Sun and refuse to listen to him and refuse to understand why Sun did what he did..
I wish to say something about people who defend early Nexus but I'll refrain myself cause I don't want to start any drama..
"nothing can excuse Sun for mistreating Nexus" it's a hella weird hill to die on..
Because what mistreating? The one Nexus made up in his head? And he never even cared to communicate with Sun and by that I mean that he also let Sun speak up and only yell "Me, myself and I" because that's not how communication works..
And what excuse? What y'all on about?
Sun apologized every time for when Nexus expressed being hurt..
But Nexus didn't care..
Or oh wait no.. Nexus just is too much of a coward to admit that he was afraid that Sun will die..
Why he never try to talk with Sun about anything..
Because he was a coward..
And now he chose hate.. because hating is easier..
The only wrong thing that Sun did was that he lied to Nexus.. but ofc is so good to held one mistake over someone's head forever, right?
As if Nexus never did any mistakes..
And ofc Nexus was worried about Sun well-being but he also actively pushed him away and was neglectful towards him..
But no one cares how it made Sun feel because apparently only poor Nexus' feelings are the most important thing..
A lot of them!! Some would say: too many!!! Too much!! So much so that I was almost starting to turn this ask into a TotK early review, so I'll simplify my answer a little.
I have not finished the game yet, but I have seen the memories and a good chunk of it, but my opinion is therefore incomplete and subject to lapses in judgement/hasty positions. Also, my opinion on this is kind of a buzzkill and I already made people depressed and bummed out by explaining it, so I'm putting it under the cut to avoid hurting the good time of people who might not want to think about this/might disagree on this description alone (and I understand, since it's an opinion that also depresses me!!! I wanted to like everything!! I wanted to be blown away!!).
I think this Ganondorf is like OoT Ganondorf redux, but with even more problems than OoT Ganondorf, somehow??? which is honestly a flex at this point.
(I love OoT Ganondorf to be clear, but the flaws are pretty undeniable and you have to navigate through a lot of bullshit to get to the good parts)
Between the green skin that lacks any proper justification in the context of the game (I say this because I always hear "oooo but it's because he's a demon/undead" and uhhhh no, it's not because of that apparently), the fact that he's half naked but we're never ever meant to conceive him as a human person in any way but merely as a constant physical threat... Like I'm certain the famous Ganondorf Designer did their utmost to give him justice and there is an obvious attention to details in his design, and I'm not blaming them or anyone in particular for the Nintendo treatment --but it does add up to something quite uncomfortable in his characterization regardless. Even the fact that his face rigging is extremely flimsy and makes his emoting feels super strange bugs me (I heavily suspect it's because it's way less soft anime and structurally very different from any other face in the game, especially around the jaw, and so they had to do a custom rig and had to work around its limitations --it's all speculation, and I am always here for Unsettling Ganondorf Faces, but it kinda felt accidental and not intentional like in WW or TP). He's at once a lot and really not much. I find his characterization beyond barebones. Even Twilight Princess Ganondorf had more to him than this (like the man was fascinating in comparaison, show me a guy claiming to be chosen by the goddesses while sitting on a throne next to the decapitated statues of said goddesses any fucking day over what we got here)
I like the mechanical aspects he introduces; the gloom is cool, the hands that grab you are amazing, the bosses are such cool callbacks --and he's just causing messes and putting parasites in things!!! You go girl. I do love that he's having his little puppet Zelda run around causing hijinxes, that's very fun of him and my favorite part of his character in this game so far, tho I don't know if that even counts as him --and I'm not 100% sure what that even says about anyone?
But here's the thing: nobody (beyond * arguably * Rauru) seems to be allowed to have a character arc in this game, so it's hard to come up with anything to say since he's the sole cause of conflict while being almost completely motivation-less. I don't think anyone is written particularly competently honestly; it just shows more with him because a Ganondorf who's not well written reverts back to Ganondorf at his most generic expression of a baddie imaginable, with a side-serving of, quite frankly, really questionable orientalist themes that I see little excuse for being handled the way they were in the year of our lord 2023. Like I'm kinda shocked not to see more people calling the racism for what it is, because it's... pretty blatant. But that goes beyond Ganondorf and that's the whole game, and I said I would try to keep my scope limited, but!!! I will screech about imperialism eventually!!!
The other aspect of that discussion, which is inevitable, is how much does TotK erase everything that came before? I'm sure there are some amazing Zelda theorists out there who will find a way to reconcile all of this, but for now, I get the sense that Nintendo wanted to get away from their messy timelines (fair) and reinvoke some of the old songs for a new audience, and in doing so scrubbing the slate clean. My problem is not so much that they wanted to do this (even if I think BotW's solution was, strangely, much cleaner and more respectful of their own history), but what they introduced instead: and, in Ganondorf's case, he's kind of reduced to a parody of himself --one that is so unbelievably unsympathetic and impossible to relate to and also responsible of his own oppression and also not oppressed since he attacked first!! and also oppressive?? (I made A Sound when I heard the line about Rauru talking about "the last free gerudo village falling" bitch!! free according to whom??????)
Removing a lot of the Goddesses/Triforce thing (so far, maybe it will come up) also does this conflict zero favors in my opinion, as it makes everything and everyone's actions much less fated and an expression of self-determination/resilience over their predestination, and much more uhh political in a bad way, while still borrowing the aesthetics of divinity to justify its own mind-numbing moral simplicity.
I don't know. Maybe the third act reveal will really surprise me and make me reconsider my position, but it would take a lot to scrub off all the dedicated efforts made to flatten Ganondorf to his lowest possible denominator (him and his people honestly my follow-up to the gerudo post will probably be Oops! All Salt) for the sake of the most brazenly imperialistic and feudalist Hyrule to date and its really weird and uncomfortable reimagined origin story.
So uhhh, Thoughts Bad! I guess thoughts bad. :(
(Matt Mercer did a great job with what little he was given tho, and so did every voice actor)
Every now and then kpop fans (and non) bring back the mafia "meme" and every single time I see red. Today is the day again, so here I am.
There is something seriously wrong with people in this world, if you use Falcone and Borsellino in a fucking mockery of the mafia.
If italians are telling you to educate yourselves instead of romanticizing the mafia aesthetic, pick up a book and read, search up a film and watch (and no, not the fucking godfather).
If you think that is a funny meme or a nice aesthetic, let's learn what the Italian mafia actually looks like.
The bosses are not 20 something hunks, they are disgusting old men in their 60s. So no Avery, no one is going to be sweeping you off your feet. They could kidnap you and rape you, sure. They could dissolve you in acid, alive obviously; or just permanently disfigure your face to keep you in your place. They could blow up your car, house or whatever they need to get rid of you. Or put a bullet in your head if they must. They kill indiscriminately, children are not off the table.
They are a plague in this country because they do not parade around, they work in the dark, they hide, they infiltrate politics, they are involved in the exploitation of immigrants and lower class workers, they blackmail businesses to pay the pizzo, so they can have control of every little thing they can. Mafia is one of the most prominent causes of corruption here (especially in southern Italy, but don't be fooled, it's everywhere).
Do you understand how disrespectful it is to the people affected by it and to the families it destroyed and continues to destroy?
Now going back to Falcone and Borsellino, here is a little history lesson for the interested.
Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino were two judges and prosecuting magistrates who conducted the Maxiprocesso (Maxi Trial, linked), one If not the biggest trial against the Sicilian mafia.
Needless to say, they were targeted by the mafia. What happened to them?
Giovanni Falcone was killed on the highway on his way home from the airport. "Four hundred kilograms (881 lbs.) of explosives were placed in a culvert under the highway". Yes, they blew him up on the middle of a highway. He was killed in May 1992 alongside his wife and the officers tasked with his security.
Paolo Borsellino died at the hands of the mafia not long after, in July 1992. He was killed by a car bomb after exiting his mother house. With him died 5 security officers.
But ah ah ah "I cook da pizza" right? That meme should disappear and no, people aren't just being too sensitive about this.
On the aesthetic: I understand what dark romance is, and i'm one that is mostly for "read whatever you want". But I need you all to keep that in the fictional world and be aware of what it actually entails. When you bring that shit into reality, we have a fucking problem, you are not "preparing my bags, going to Italy hehe" when talking about mafia. You simply do not. Get your head out of your fucking ass and go back to school.
sorry this has nothing to do with the game it's just something I keep noticing and I keep saying but omg it keeps popping up
first of all thank you to everyone for their patience with the game asks lmao I wanted to finish them all today but that's not gonna happen. Luckily! there aren't many! so. I'll just do them with a sprinkle sprackle.
Anyway --
Tarot is not your end all be all. please seek out advice from people you love. trust yourselves more babes. I can't tell you how much I've been feeling like a spinning top lately and all I get is "well I am changing taryn!" and "i can only change so much taryn!" have you tried... idk... being kind to yourself and stepping away from the situation and enjoying what you actually have? instead of trying to change the situation, try seeing it in a different light first. you'll realize that 99 percent of the problem is literally, how you're seeing it.
2. YOU ARE NOT DESTINED FOR A BAD FUCKING LIFE IF YOU ARE UNAWARE OF YOUR FLAWS. I mean, karma might bite you in the ass a couple of times but like, do you live in reality? LOL. BAD PEOPLE GET GOOD SHIT ALL THE TIME. stop trying to scare folks into being "good" and "kind" . you live on a spectrum. be impulsive. get stubborn. FUCK. it's not going to hurt you if you actually show your anger.
3. pacs are fun but don't take them seriously.
4. I'm tired of people being like "uwu stop reading pacs because the energy of the tarot reading and you asking the same question over and over is interfering when you're going to meeting this person or get this thing etc etc" I know I've said this before. but I'm changing that stance because I find it to be a load of bull. read all the pacs you want. get excited for your future. gods just be happy and find enjoyment with something.
5. reblog and interact with your favorite blogs but please for the love of the gods stop gaslighting us. stop guilt tripping us. stop being weird and creepy and stop thinking that you're any of these things. read the rules, follow the games. look at the tags and the reblogs to keep up to date on things. 99 percent of you are not creepy, or strange or weird. you're not a bot you're a human. at most you can be is annoying. so just say hi to us and ask questions. we won't bite you.
... I don't know if that last one makes sense I'm just blabbing.
