#really good read

[your-neighbor-bear]

Incredible article by @/eliacugini.bsky.social

Problem Child | Eli Cugini

Pixar isn’t just dithering about diversity—it has become visibly scared of children themselves.

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Very excited for this to be out in the world: I wrote about repressed queerness in Elio, child surveillance in Inside Out 2, the post-Lasseter crisis, and the figure of the child in Pixar for The Baffler

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https://web.archive.org/web/20260228002535/https://www.thetimes.com/culture/music/article/arenas-and-the-avant-garde-harry-styles-is-changing-the-rules-of-pop-p6tmzxfg2

Good article for the most part. Harry is just so amazingly successful and well thought of. I also love how it’s just stated as fact twice that he and Zoe are dating. Also typical for larries that Gina posted most of the article but left out those paragraphs.

Anyway, it’s definitely a Harry summer and I am here for it!

When his record run at Madison Square Garden was announced, 11.5 million people applied for tickets. The former boy band member is now the w

[the-truth-within-the-lie]

How to Stop An ‘Abortion Trafficking’ Ordinance

Texas activists speak out

One of the hardest challenges we’ve faced is countering misinformation. Proponents of the ordinance, like the Project Destiny Amarillo PAC, have framed our city as a hub for “abortion trafficking”—a baseless claim meant to scare the public. They even argue that the "unborn child" is being trafficked, ignoring the pregnant person’s sovereignty in their decision making. 

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christmas was real nice this year lmao

[alexbkrieger13]

https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/fotboll/a/5Bd4Wb/ryden-magdalena-eriksson-ar-tillbaka-pa-allvar-igen

Good read

ANNA RYDÉN: Det lyser om Magdalena Eriksson igen

Hon kanske inte ser sig själv som en stjärna men i OS-kvalet har hon intagit en huvudroll.  Efter två tuffa säsonger är Magdalena Eriksson t

Rydén: Back seriously – it needs Blågult

She may not see herself as a star, but in the Olympic qualifiers she has taken a leading role. 

After two tough seasons, Magdalena Eriksson is back in earnest and Blågult needs it. 

A single careless mistake and the Olympic dream goes down the drain

The national team has bused down to Malmö for the fourth match in the Nations League, also the Olympic qualifier. The fourth match with the knife to the throat.

There is no room for carelessness or mistakes, then the Olympics are far away.

That's why it's nice to see a smiling Magdalena Eriksson , with lowered shoulders, entering the field in the bright sun. The 30-year-old has had two tough seasons behind him. The injury against Wolfsburg in the Champions League in December 2021 was the start of something that Magdalena Eriksson was probably not prepared for. The ankle injury kept her off the field and even though it was only for three months, it took longer before she was really back as we are used to seeing her..

A thinking player

In EC 2022, the centre-back had problems getting up to level and finding the flow. It can perhaps be partly explained by how it was rotated between a three-back and four-back line and partly by the fact that Eriksson played both left and centre-back. It was clear that something was not right and it was quite telling to see how the day after the Switzerland match she walked around Camden Park alone with her eyes downcast and headphones in her ears.

Magdalena Eriksson is a thinking player and she is probably her own harshest critic.

Left in tears

Then came an injury to Millie Bright and Eriksson not only got playing time, she also had to score. In the big meeting with Arsenal, she scored her first goal in the league since November 2021 and tearfully left London as champion.

In the World Cup, she was included in the Swedish starting eleven and after a little recovery, it seems to be the case in Bayern Munich as well. And if there is something the Swedish national team needs right now, it is a defense general with self-confidence.

Because now Magdalena Eriksson shines again.

Close to squealing

In the World Cup, it was Amanda Ilestedt who took that role and more or less brought Italy down on her own, with her own head. Now she has, once again, left the collection and it is up to Eriksson and the gang to deliver.

Although Blågult overcame Italy 5–0 in the WC, the result did not reflect the match picture. On a deserted mountaintop in Italy, in an arena without a match clock and a grass field that left something to be desired, Sweden won 1–0.

Italy, who have changed their national team captain after the World Cup, have played in the Nations League. They were close to beating Spain and will land in Malmö with good confidence.

It will be a physical match, a jerky match. It applies to Sweden to fast on fast.

And why not let Magdalena Eriksson get in another perfectly timed run and score on Swedish soil for the third game in a row?

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Did I make OCs again after reading a new book?

Yes. Yes I did.

Meet Selene

And Soleil Dexter

Selene, a very sweet, genuine girl. She values honesty, mostly because she can barely be honest with anyone. So when she can actually really trust someone, she will never lie about anything.

Also a very good actress though. When she lies, acts and makes her way through Kelestri, everyone believes her no matter what she says. Just has an air that she could never do any wrong.

Soleil though... A cynical and very blunt fella, honest to a fault. He might not look intimidating, but every threat coming from him will still be taken serious as he is a lot stronger than he seems. And everyone knows, he's a terrible liar, best he can do is lie by omission. However, he will do his best to behave around his sister, who he is VERY protective of. Despite her being the older twin.

When he warms up to someone (mostly due to not wanting to make Selene mad) he can be more friendly though, and again, very protective. It's just very rare that he happens to like someone.

His mother always tended to pay more attention to him, for better and for worse. Mostly worse.

[the-blind-geisha]

24) have you ever become an expert on something you previously knew nothing about, in order to better a scene or a story?

Weirdly enough, a lot of stuff regarding Victorian London when I wrote to AC: S back in the day.

Studied a lot about the brothels (after you were over 25, you were kicked out on the streets because you were too old to be working there).

Learned tuberculosis was called consumption disease at the time. It was even considered very beautiful to the people in that period because it made you super pale and thin. (New meaning to the term of dying to be beautiful I guess..) I also even looked up an old hospital chart for patients, saying what they could eat to 'recover' from it, and all the time stamps of what patients could and couldn't do around the clock.

After a lot of digging, found out more about the sexual aspect of that era too since that stuff was a bit prudish to be forward about.

Nobody used condoms often...for a reason, we'll say. lol

The smog in that time was so dreadful, young boys had to pull horse drawn carriages through it just to find their way through the roads.

If you were age 5 or so, you could work. Children were cheap labor and always needed in factories because they could climb into the machine itself to fix problems... but it could also cause mangling.

Women who worked in cotton mills could get wet debris of cotton lodged in their throats, causing breathing issues. (I might be misremembering that as it's been a hot second but still--something to that effect).

The list goes on. xD But yeah. Wouldn't say I'm an expert--just know a lot about it now. ♥

A lot of the consumption disease part was for an old story I tore down called The Dove Effect where the MC was dying from consumption disease and Jacob was not willing to accept it, going through the stages of grief. I also have a twisted interest in tuberculosis having had a lot of throat/breathing problems in my life. lol

[communistkirby]

Gender Critical Feminism Is A Failed Ideology – Rachel Anne Williams – Medium

Gender critical feminism — a fringe feminist movement — has failed

this is a really good article that puts the trans-exclusionary feminist movement in perspective, considering their overblown presence on this site

actually quite comforting to know that they're pretty much isolated to the places mentioned in this article