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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
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cherry valley forever
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Out of all the flaws kotlc has that I wish could be different I honestly wouldn’t change a damn thing except for one very important, serious and dire aspect. Either sophie or keefe cannot be blonde, pick one idgaf just please end the sibling allegations, asking for the godamn bare minimum over here
not many people know this but when talking about your multiple pronoun-using friend you build up a combo meter for every subsequent unique pronoun you use
I mean, in some very interesting Technically Correct ways, they didn't actually die? Now, they're very much no longer alive. But the forces involved are such that they didn't get any of the usual cellular processes of death, they simply went from biology to physics in less time than it takes a signal to travel down your optic nerve.
if you go from biology to physics without dying first you don’t go to heaven the uber driver went over this
I’m such a hardcore gay mike truther that I feel real pain whenever someone ships him with a girl
i hope u guys know that a big part of will byers' personality is his nose scrunch
Byler but make it Brand New Day <3 This movie broke my heart sm Spidey Will is might fave au even though I don't draw a lot of it, I'm trying to make it up for you hhaha
Wdym you hate Stratt? Without her you don’t get a story
i like when a piece of media says that an all-powerful character "sees humans as insects" because that really could mean a lot of things. maybe they view us as insignifigant and will squish us under their boot. maybe theyre actually studying and cataloguing us for their thesis paper. maybe theyre campaigning for human protection because we're an important part of their ecosystem. maybe they see a human and go "ew ew ewwwwww someone get the cup and get that FREAK out of my house." .
Did the councilors have nothing better to do with their time than to go to Sophie’s home every time she did as little as sneeze the wrong way?
And it wasn’t one or two of them, it was ALL OF THEM
If I was Sophie, I would be sick
all 12 of them collectively tagteamed emotionally manipulating 13-year-old dex but calling him “great” and promising he’d “change the world for the better.”
i think they may just be evil and hate kids.
personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud
Two of my niblings (10 and 7) self-censor like this in real life during actual conversations. I tried briefly to explain to the 10-year-old that they didn't have to do that in real life after they said "unalive" out loud in casual conversation, and they just said they preferred to. On the one hand, I'm sad to see them unconsciously and fully without awareness succumbing to the panopticon. On the other... this post.
it's not unprecedented in the evolution of languages to see euphemisms adopted as synonyms or even supplanting earlier terms. lots of people say "passed away" even in situations where there would be no particular social cost to saying "died".
for a particularly strong version of this kind of replacement: the word "bear" comes from a proto-Germanic word meaning "brown one" because there was a taboo against saying the animal's actual name. the taboo is gone but it was so strong in the past that we have no record of what the proto-Germanic word for "bear" even was.
maybe in 300 years the word "die" will be archaic and kids will dig it out of an etymology textbook and start using it because "unalive" is getting censored.
die has actually already undergone this process. die originally meant "flow" (i guess it's like you're flowing out of life or something? or maybe your life is flowing out of you idk). it was (probably) loaned from old norse to displace the now obsolete "swelt". and yes, that is the root word of "sweltering"
That's the most hopeful spin on euphemisms like 'unalive' that I've ever read, makes them so much less annoying.
i really thought the point of "being lgbt+ doesn't absolve you of racism as a white person" was that white people arent absolved of racism by being marginalized but it really seems like people think other marginalizations make it okay. no being disabled doesn't do it. no being poor doesnt do it. we need to fight against racism actively no matter what.
unfortunate truth of reality is that oftentimes 15 year olds will say/do/believe some stupid bullshit because they are 15 but telling them that they believe that because they are 15 is probably the most counterproductive thing in the entire universe
forget age gaps or differences in rank or whatever the most potently dangerous power dynamic in any relationship is "people like you more than me"
genuinely nothing is more corrosive to love, respect, or trust than the insecurity of forever being second and last in line. of always being the plus one but never invited; always tolerated on their behalf but never wanted on your own. of knowing that nobody's jealousy or admiration is about you at all, only your place at their side. you tell them that you feel like you only exist when you're with them, and they laugh, charmed, but it isn't a figure of speech. it's not enough that they love you best if everyone else loves them better.
I will never forget the amount of HOPE I had when this scene first came...
Then I was shot 47 times..
the way he looks like he’s trying not to smile but he literally can’t contain it..
*gently takes your face in my hands* hey. remember that fandom is for fun. if you're not having fun it is ok to step back. if you're intentionally making it unfun for others it is ok to step back. none of this is real. go sit in the sun and smell a flower. i love you.
