This Young Lady [is mad about something]

Yelling about pop culture from the cheap seats

[drag-queen-jesus]

i'm just gonna say...

there’s a right way to do unexpected villans

and a wrong way

the difference being subtle hints 

[bubblesi-blog]

Turbo from Ralph is good and unexpected villian too and with good subtle hints as well.

[zone34timeout]

Thisthisthisthisthis

You can’t just make a character start being evil with no explanation or foreshadowing or any character hints whatsoever. It makes the viewer feel cheated.

[lennythereviewer]

King Candy was already a good villain to begin with, coming off more as a well-intentioned extremist. He gave Ralph what he wanted up front with no strings attached, and then convinced him that doing something bad was indeed for the greater good, then came the twist that he was lying the whole time.

Revealing the fact that he has a secret identity was the icing on the cake.

[honted]

society needs shame. if you dont embarrass weird greasy kids in high school they turn into adults who walk their girlfriends around on dog leashes in the mall

[talkupditings]

Nothing wrong with that as long as there’s Mutual consent

[rubyfruitnb]

did you know that bystanders literally do not consent to being a part of public sexual displays

[keyblack-hl]

being shamed fucking sucks, but it’s necessary for folks to know there’s a line that shouldn’t be crossed

I’m saying this as somebody who nearly went off the deep end with my embarrassing weaboo-ness in middle school. I thank God every day that I was given a rude awakening that literally nobody could relate to me because of my wilful hyperfixation and lack of attempts to expand my horizons

[ectoimp]

…not having friends cause you were the weird weaboo kid is not the same as OP saying that bullying is good.  ‘greasy kids’ could literally be poor kids whose familys cant afford soap. Or just teens thats hormones make them greasy. Like normal.

And the weird hyper fixation phase is a normal part of growing up. Heres how it goes: Middleschool thru Highschool: The hyperfixation phase (this phase is lengthened slightly into college if they havent joined the work force.) This is an important phase where children start to try and build an identity for themselves. Early to mid 20s: The backlash phase. Angry at whatever the hyperfixation was and people that are still in that phase due to personal shame of ‘having been that’. Intense need to prove that they are better then that and a ‘real adult’ Late 20s early 30s: Moved past the anger and realize its just kids being kids and its best to leave them alone to grow up. May have nostalgia for the hyperfixation phase

Notice that most of tumblr tends to fall in between phase one and two, hence the intense arguments on this site. Fighting with the hyperfixation phase people doesnt fix it, them getting out in the real world with jobs will correct the issue on its own.

And as far as actual gross people with no boundaries. Those people wont change no matter how much you try and ‘shame’ them. Chances are your reaction just turns them on more. They know damn well where the boundaries are, they are just terrible and dont care.

[keyblack-hl]

I see what you’re getting at here, but… the point isn’t that bullying is good. bullying is really fucking bad and can leave some serious trauma. (hello, I’ve had some experience with that and boy can I talk about it, but we’re not here for that)

the point is that people who blatantly ignore societal standards and are sheltered enough from them to avoid them entirely need to be put into situations where those standards are staring them in the face.  they need to be confronted with “hey, picking my nose and eating it isn’t normal.”  or “hey, talking incessantly about my anime waifu and running around with cat ears on isn’t gonna score me any social points.”  or “hmm, I’m noticing that choosing not to shower – not because of any financial situation but because of personal choice – is making people avoid me.”

people need shame.  they need to be embarrassed from time to time.  literally EVERYBODY needs to be taken down a notch now and then.

yeah, there are absolutely phases that people will naturally grow out of… but it’s not as though their age suddenly flips a switch.  As people get older, they have more experiences, and it’s these experiences that cause them to grow… and it’s in these experiences that they will come face to face with necessary shame.

nobody’s saying people need to be tarred, feathered, and run out of town in front of a laughing crowd.  what we’re saying is that people need to be faced with the reality that what’s in their brains isn’t always gonna agree with what’s in the real world, and if they want to be accepted by the real world, something’s gotta give.

[stevethompson-art]

Princess mega post! I absolutely had a blast creating this artwork for the Disney Designer Collection - Premiere Series. Now that the madness has passed, who was your favorite?

[mysharona1987]

[highlandvalley]

A museum in Japan spends most of its day refusing entry to 2 cats trying to get in @bijutsu1 https://twitter.com/jiffington/status/1062471505496469504/video/1

[theecherrywinehouse]

Let them see the art damnit

[northstarfan]

I <3 how both cats are making “Hi, friend!” gestures at the guard. And the guard is all “No, no! You can’t come in!” even as he’s patting one on the head. XD

[ellohcee]

LET THEM IN.

[noirandchocolate]

“Why does the third of the three brothers, who shares his food with the old woman in the wood, go on to become king of the country? Why does James Bond manage to disarm the nuclear bomb a few seconds before it goes off rather than, as it were, a few seconds afterwards? Because a universe where that did not happen would be a dark and hostile place. Let there be goblin hordes, let there be terrible environmental threats, let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope. It may be a grim, thin hope, an Arthurian sword at sunset, but let us know that we do not live in vain.”

— Terry Pratchett, “Let There Be Dragons” (A Slip of the Keyboard)

[smokeypsd-games]

The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy

BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content.

[demon-princess-serina-verified]

You know, it’s almost like that was the fucking problem in the first place you stupid bastards

[racistspiderman]

the absolute need for every online video platform to become just like cable tv despite the fact their success comes from not being like cable tv is just overwhelming 

[therealfeedback-deactivated2018]

Netflix: Alright guys, we have a fantastic model going! Piracy is down, subscriptions are up, everyone’s making money with these contracts for your show’s streaming rights, and viewers are getting a ton of great content they enjoy. Everybody wins!

Morons: But what if we had our own streaming service just for our content?

Netflix: …I mean in-theory that would work at first, but if everyone’s content was suddenly 100% exclusive and you have to get a dozen subscriptions to a dozen proprietary streaming services just to watch three shows, that defeats a lot of the val–

Morons: And we could charge more than Netflix and Hulu too! We could make even more money!

Netflix: Well at a certain point you’re going to start charging more than people are willing to pay and you’ll start losing more money than you’ll gain. We’ve been doing this since 1997 so we have a pretty good idea of–

Morons: *create streaming sites for every single fucking studio that all charge more money than their content is worth, saturating the market with too many options, almost all of which have too little content to justify their price*

Consumers: Yeah fuck this

Morons: I knew streaming was a dead-end. It never could’ve worked

Netflix: But we were making money! It was working before you fuckers killed the goose laying golden eggs!

Morons: Yeah, but when we wanted more money, it stopped working, and we’re too good at business to make bad decisions, so clearly it was streaming itself that wasn’t working. It’s not our fault the goose couldn’t keep laying eggs after we ate it!

Netflix: What the fuck is wrong with you people

[love-the-weirdo-in-the-closet]

Everything is wrong with people

[themadcapmathematician]

The free market?? Sabotaging itself??? More likely than you’d think

[theawesomeadventurer]

[skeletap]

This is at my college and it got taken down and closed off hours after this tweet was originally posted thanks everyone

[skeletap]

SUNY Purchase is the college this was put up at. Currently our campus does not care about any issues unless it gets media attention. 

The ADA is currently suing our campus because of multiple ADA violations and incompetence towards disabled students, mentally/physically or mentally ill.

One of our apartments was supposed to be a temporary building, but is still being used to house students despite one of the ceilings caving in in one of the apartments and displacing its occupants.

We have a major mold and lead problem that is still going unfixed.

We have a University Police force that has been ruled to be incompetent in protecting the student body.

Work orders on campus are ultimately useless and nothing on campus ever gets fixed unless it gets media attention (our ADA violation and the shrine).

We have so many many many more issues that goes unsolved because our college refuses to fix any of them unless they get media attention. As much as the now defunct shrine is funny, the fact the student body is neglected so badly by the college shouldn’t go ignored.

[heavyweightheart]

macademia. they study nuts

[zombee]

[hobbit-hole]

if i had to get in a fistfight with any member of the fellowship it would be Frodo because i would easily win

[hobbit-hole]

all i am saying is that he would ostensibly be the easiest one to take on in a fight given that he’s like three feet tall and has led a life of (physical) leisure compared to all of the others due to his standing as a gentlehobbit

legolas, aragorn, and gimli are all used to combat, sam works as a gardener, merry and pippin often gallivant off and get into mischief so they have the advantage of experience in whatever it is they’ve gotten up to/would possibly fight dirty, gandalf is gandalf so while weapons are out of the question i suppose that depends on if magic is involved. i don’t think i could take him without magic even if he IS old because he’s a very large guy, but maybe

it would be my knuckles against Frodo’s baby soft poet hands, plus i’ve got the additional height and fighting experience. i just think that he would be the easiest to win against in hand-to-hand combat out of the rest of them. also he isn’t real so he can’t offer a rebuttal to my claim

[penny-anna]

you’re absolutely correct BUT wanting to fight Frodo makes you a monster D:

[hobbit-hole]

this has nothing to do with WANTING to fight Frodo, i just think he would be easiest for me to beat in a fight with no weapons. unless he utilized his very large feet, but i think he’s too polite to do that because it’s a fist fight and that would be considered playing dirty

[penny-anna]

for someone who doesn’t want to fight Frodo you sure have put a lot of thought into fighting Frodo……….

[animate-mush]

OP is wrong though: you fight Pippin.

First off, Pippin has it coming, so you won’t be fighting your conscience at the same time.

Secondly, Pippin is a spoiled rich kid. He’s no less gentry than Frodo is, but Frodo works out and is shown to have better stamina, at least at the outset. Pippin is also both the stupidest and the slowest of the hobbits. They both nearly beat one (1) troll, so that’s comparable, but Pippin appears not to have got a single hit in against the orcs that captured them while Merry was cutting off hands like a boss. Pippin also straight-up tell Bergil that he’s not a fighter.

Also there’s a nonzero chance that Frodo will just straight up curse you (if the guilt of fighting Frodo isn’t enough if a curse by itself).

And, of course, if you try to fight Frodo, you will 100% end up fighting Sam, and he will wreck you (and you’ll deserve it, you monster)

[penny-anna]

Also: if you fight Frodo you’ll have a very angry Sam & possibly also the entire Fellowship to deal with BUT if you fight Pippin they will probably cheer you on.

[westrons-deactivated20200930]

Bold of you to assume one could attempt to fight Pippin and NOT instantly be killed by Boromir.

[penny-anna]

you’re absolutely correct (as are the other 2 people who brought up Boromir). Boromir slipped my mind (bcos he’s dead). You’d absolutely have to get through him to fight Pippin. I retract my statement.

[politehaunting]

Wasn’t Pippin’s immediately family farmers before the entirety of the Old Took family line noped right out of Thainhood or child-rearing, leaving Paladin to sit on that particular thorn? Further, Pippin was born in 1390 (Shire-reckoning, mind you) and Ferumbras didn’t pass away until 1415. Pippin was born and raised a farmer, albeit one with gentlehobbit connections, for 25 years and only became the heir to Tookland three years before the journey in the Fellowship began.

By which I mean, Do Not Fight Pippin because Pippin is farm-bred and I’m sorry, no one wants to fight someone raised on a farm. Farm kids are scrappers, not fighters, and more likely to fight dirty and fast and roll you into dung and off a cliff before saying mournfully that it’s such a shame, oh well, lets go have a slice of loaf.

Plus, lets be honest, Pippin is literally the stupid baby of the family and Merry and Frodo might let you muck him about to teach him some manners but the instant Pippin gets into any real trouble, both of them will jump in. And with Frodo comes Sam. 

And Sam ain’t take no bullshit from anyone.

[swanjolras-blog-archive-deactiv]

okay, most of what i do re: harry potter is criticism, and hp is flawed in such a number of ways, but sometimes i just sit here and

i mean, you all have a comprehension of just how drastically harry potter changed literature, yeah? like. it revitalized it. it blew the literary scene apart. the new york times had to create a separate bestseller’s list for children’s lit just because harry potter existed. harry potter changed reading.

so many people on tumblr were born in the ‘90s. when the first book came out, most of us couldn’t read. but we grew up in a world where everyone, everyone, everyone was reading harry potter, no matter how old they were; we grew up in a world where the most popular story in the entire world was a fantasy children’s book.

it’s sort of difficult to grasp, sometimes, the extent to which harry potter is not just a book. the extent to which what is basically a series of fun, interesting, and fairly good novels is such an enormous, enormous part of our lives, a cultural touchstone, a truly universal reference point, something so many people have shaped their lives around, a foundation for all of the stories we would read and watch for the rest of our lives– for so many of us, the first books we ever loved

the extent to which so many of us can’t call ourselves “fans” of harry potter, because it would like being a “fan” of, like, having lungs.

it’s not even about liking it or disliking it. it’s just a part of us.

[hasufin]

This reminds me an awful lot about Starbucks.

No, seriously. Before Starbucks, America was a coffee wasteland. Coffee was a thing you got at diners and drivethroughs. It was a cheap hot thing you put made palatable with tons of cream and sugar, and most people (but waning!) had a coffee machine at home.

Starbucks told us that we could like coffee. That coffee could be an enjoyable thing, that it could be a status symbol and a ritual. That there could be a place where you go for coffee, and you enjoy it.

As a coffee snob, I think Starbucks’ coffee is awful. But Starbucks is why we have better coffee. Starbucks created the market space for third wave coffee shops and artisanal roasters. They reintroduced “espresso”, “latte” and “cappuccino” to the American lexicon.

We need stuff that’s heinously popular. That’s how culture works.

[naamahdarling]

The cultural impact of the original 3 Star Wars movies was something literally phenomenal, something absolutely ubiquitous that changed the landscape of entertainment so fundamentally that things haven’t been the same since.

It was very much like Harry Potter. I know JK is le problematique but the books were fun, creative, and exciting, got a LOT of kids into reading in general and fantasy specifically, and gave us all some mew common cultural touchstones.

I feel very fortunate to have lived through both, and I wonder what will be next.

[0l0x]

2018 Grinch has no edge. He’s got no bite. He’s not even that much of an asshole. He’s just a sassy gay furry with unusually nice teeth despite his famous theme song declaring otherwise.

1966 Grinch? Now that was a mean, scary bastard. He was a crusty old fuck who hated society so much that he only came off his shitty frozen mountain to commit crimes and terrorism out of spite.

Bennyhoo Cumberland Grinch comes down from his mountain to buy groceries.

You can round the edges off a character to make them more “relatable” or whatever, but you also run the risk of losing what defined them in the first place. The end result is bland and generic.

2018 Grinch is a reflection of modern society’s rejection of real character flaws in the interest of being “unproblematic” and in this essay i will

[smuganimebitch]

new challenge for youtubers. make more two hour videos about stuff you really like instead of stuff you hate

[smuganimebitch]

i think you’ll find that digging deep to find out why a piece of art is effective and resonated with you and learning how to put that into enough words to fit a long form video essay will be more interesting and more insightful than a meandering ramble about something you think is a pile of shit anyway

[overelegantstranger]

i am eternally aggreived on behalf of people who were clearly never taught what literary analysis can be. people who were never shown the incredible satisfaction when you see something in a piece of literature and you can /prove/ it’s there, the slow and careful tugging at an image, at chasing implication and meaning, at pushing and pushing until it all falls into place.

sometimes that looks like catching a “throwaway” line in a novel (“[the drawings] remembered Beardsley”) and chasing that single image until you have five thousand words about attempted freedom, conformity, and inescapability.

sometimes that looks like noticing a motif of reused roman ruins and going through and through until you can argue about colonising gaze and welsh devolution.

sometimes that means reading a novel where every chapter tells a story of someone telling a story and proving that that is an attempt at catharsis that fails.

it’s not all “the curtains are blue therefore the character is sad”

and besides, that’s actually “this character seems sad but the author never says so > how does the author create that? > oh hey there sure are a lot of washed out or cool colours in this scene > wait hold on the furnishings are almost obsessively described > does that say something about material culture? can i parallel that against appearances vs reality? > “in this essay i will argue that this short story interrogates arts and crafts aesthetic ideals by portraying an obsession with furnishings that ultimately leads the main character into despair. In order to do so let me first demonstate the connection between the furnishings and the emotional state of the main character”

[academicssay]

Addressing gender imbalance in academic work

[demonicvulcan]

a shocking concept: if a movie doesn’t have the time (or ability) to develop a romantic relationship to a believable level …then maybe they shouldn’t include it

[fictionalaros]

Yes

[grey-wardens-archive-deactivate]

“Every character has a specific color — it’s a nice way of giving people their own identity. We use color like comic books do, with each character staying in their lane as far their palette goes: T’Challa is purple, Okoye is red, and Nakia is green.

[Nakia] is the No. 1 warrior in the River tribe and her look was inspired by the Suri tribe in Africa,” says Carter. “Green signifies water, a coastal community, leaves and plants — they live in a lush area, as opposed to the perception that Africa is arid and dry.” - Black Panther costume designer Ruth Carter