mon blorbo est plus problématique que ton blorbo

Burned OUT. (she/they) I like the Trash Man because I relate to the Trash Man.  my AO3.

[narrie]

world cup will have u watch a 84mil vs 155k population country

[green446004]

alt colors below

[lizardsfromspace]

The thing about Cottagecore is that is a fetishized aesthetic of country life, divorced from labor and idealized by a primarily urban audience with a backward looking ethos of tradition. They are not prepared for the stresses of a rural life: farming; harvesting; tapping pumpkins to ensure none of them have been replaced with flesh; losing out on income by having to use one of your pigs in a blood sacrifice to paint protective sigils over your doors and windows; checking cracks and chimneys for the flesh-vines of the Pumpkin Lord; having to decide, before the Growth is complete, whether that's really your tradwife or an amassment of vines, leaves, and blood in the shape of your tradwife; ignoring their desperate pleas that "I'm me! No! No!" as you burn them alive, realizing too late you picked wrong; and the exploitative corporate nature of commercial farming in 2024. All seen through a deeply colonial lens, of course

[np-444]

I love the inclusivity of using gender neutral pronouns for the tradwife.

[lizardsfromspace]

[trojanteapot]

How do you deal with simon laurent hate how to let it not affect you.. its fine if u not answer have a great day

Well I don't know if there's an easy way to answer this, but truthfully the hate does affect me. I'm only human after all! But there are several ways to deal with it. I would also say that my advice can apply to other villains or unpopular characters in other fandoms too.

Recognize that fictional villains are fictional and so are their crimes. It's kind of weird to have to reiterate that liking a villain in media doesn't mean you endorse all of their completely fictional actions, but here we are.

It's just a matter of taste, or "that's just your opinion man!" Think of it this way, how "bad" a character is is like how "spicy" some foods are. There is a scale of spiciness and some people don't want any spice in their food at all, while others can pop ghost peppers or those little Thai chilis in their mouths no problem. Likewise, people who hate Simon just think his character is too "spicy" for them, but he's not too spicy for us. I have a friend who unapologetically likes Kilgrave from Jessica Jones and that's a character that is too spicy for me!

If you like or even relate to a villain it just means that you are a normal human being and your empathy was activated when you engaged with a story. This also means the writers did a good job writing the character, doubly so for a tragic villain like Simon.

Engage less with the online fandom, and more with your friends. Usually, discussing TV shows with your friends mean you get better and more nuanced opinions than with random strangers on the internet. Blocking somebody is also allowed and what the feature is for! Blocking certain tags on Tumblr can also help!

Engage with other media. This includes other TV shows, books, video games, etc. In fact, if you read more books or watch more "cinematic" movies, you'll see that a lot of them actually have morally ambiguous, offputting, or downright villainous main/supporting characters. Getting away from the mindset that you are "not allowed" to have strong empathetic feelings for "bad people" actually opens your mind to being able to enjoy more types of art and storytelling.

Anyway, there's really not a "one weird trick" to not letting character hate get to you. You just have to tell yourself that at the end of the day it's not real, and it's all for fun. Hope you have a nice day too!

[trojanteapot]

Man I love rewatching FMA in my 30s and realizing that Amestris is an Apartheid state and half the supporting cast are actual war criminals.

[chic-a-gigot]

La Mode illustrée, no. 23, 5 juin 1892, Paris. Robe en taffetas changeant. Robe-tailleur. Robe en toile. Robe en foulard. Ville de Paris / Bibliothèque Forney

[trojanteapot]

Finally unlocking more stuff from the Paradise Planning DLC and learning to properly decorate now. Hope Sherb likes his vacation home.

[indigosfindings]

how do you pronounce the honourific "Ms." in english

"miss"

"miz"

other

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

[mortalityplays]

really good "shocking number of people are confidently objectively demonstrably completely wrong" poll

[3liza]

i am losing my fucking mind

[avocado-moon]

#we dont use honorifics in my first language so whenever i have to select options (usually for flights) im always so confused#like what is actually the difference between miss and ms#i like miss bc it sounds more historical and im a historian so

"Miss" means an unmarried woman. "Mrs." means a married woman. (both of these have origins in the word "mistress" as in "mistress of the house".)

"Ms." - prounounced MIZ, btw - is a third option popularized by gloria steinem in the 70s - mainly through her feminist magazine Ms. - which is meant to be a neutral term, usable for any and all women regardless of marital status (hence the soul destroying irony of the tags above). it gained wider general acceptance when geraldine ferraro, the first woman to be nominated as VP on a national major party ticket, started using it widely to avoid confusion, since she was married but used her maiden name professionally. eventually over the years it came into common use though i do think the brits are a little more critical of it than americans (as far as i'm aware lol)

[avocado-moon]

"obscure facts only a tumblr user would know" and it's one of the most influential institutions of second wave american feminism. PLEASE open the schools

[onbearfeet]

Hi. I'm an unmarried woman in her forties. I use Ms. and pronounce it "miz", though I don't correct people who accidentally use a soft S. I use Ms. because it's no one's business but my own whether I'm married, to a man or anyone else, and that's what Ms. means. It means fuck off, my marital status is irrelevant, just as it is for every man who uses Mr.

I've had people (usually children) ask me at work if I'm a missus or a miss. I have replied that I am a miz, full stop. And when they pressed for which one I was REALLY, I have replied, "Why? Are you going to treat me differently depending on whether there's a ring somewhere?"

That's what Ms. is for. That is its linguistic function. It says, "This is an adult woman," and nothing else. Nothing else is necessary, and in my case, nothing else is desired.

I also use miz for other women unless and until they express a preference for something else because I don't magically know everyone else's marital status when I meet them. That's a courtesy—I'm declining to assume marital status and allowing them to decide whether they wish to declare it.

Also, I've taught English and worked as an editor for twenty years. I am quite literally the grammar police. This use of Ms. is a standard construction. If you didn't learn it in school, someone failed you.

[squeeful]

“Obscure facts” Boo boo I was taught it in elementary school. One with a state standardized curriculum.

Ms. is marriage-neutral and it’s pronounced Miz. It is deliberately different from Miss.

[summergoodwife]

On principle I do just assume people's schools sucked in this regard and didn't teach them it (even if it's "standard" that's not a guarantee) but that only goes to show how much we're missing when it comes to feminist education.

In the current global climate that's so defined by reactionary antifeminism, maybe it's time we start getting loud about Ms. again? So that everyone knows what it was made for, and nobody can ignore why.

[your-local-fools-treasury]

ah yes, cuz english is the only language on the entire planet and everyone knows everything about

who care how someone says Ms.

"oh but it's pronounced like miz"

shut the hell up, it doesn't mean crap

"oh but it's common knowledge that it was part of a feminist movement"

in USAmerica maybe, not in any other country in the world

English isn't the default language, heck, it's not even the first language of most people on the world!

it's the most spoken SECOND language, and trust me, they don't have time or care to teach the difference between Ms. and miss and Mrs.

because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter crap

what do matter is EVERY OTHER PART OF GRAMMAR

and if you dare to be like

"oh but how about history class"

I can assure you, there are more important things in history you need to learn about than one teeny tiny thing from the usa

[janmisali]

were you aware of Ms. ("Mizz") as a deliberate alternative honorific to both Miss and Mrs. that doesn't specify marital status? and are you a native English speaker?

yes I knew that, English is my first language

no I did not know, English is my first language

yes I knew that, English is not my first language

no I did not know, English is not my first language

[show results]

Voting ended onMay 28

^ poll to see if being aware of this is in any way correlated with being a native english speaker

[trojanteapot]

I think the "sense of wonder" in the film adaptation of Project: Hail Mary is why I slightly prefer it over the book. My favourite scene is when Grace is on a spacewalk preparing to collect samples from the planet Adrian's atmosphere but he just stops and "has a moment" basking in the awe and beauty of the planet below him. Then he switches on the Petrovascope and he (and us the audience) takes a moment to bask in wonder at astrophage. This is essentially "space bacteria" that's destroying Earth and Rocky's homeworld, but is an amazing organism that evolved to survive in space and feed on starlight! That moment was, in my opinion, the best argument for why we need a sense of wonder in scientific research, and in life in general.

Don't get me wrong, the book is a magnificent portrayal of scientific achievement and how scientists think and tackle problems (Book Ryland Grace has severe ADHD for example, like all scientists I know), but I actually think it was to the movie's benefit to downplay that and instead let us soak in the awe and wonder of it all. Space, life, the universe. Everything.

[trojanteapot]

I remember I struggled with Zucker's vacation home alot but I think I (sorta) nailed it in the end.

[rocketbirdie]

behold. my suite of hot dogs

[rocketbirdie]

my gallery continues to grow

[rocketbirdie]

i got you covered. from top to bottom, left to right:

hot dog (cube)

hot dog (censored)

hottest dog

hotter dog

lightbulb (watt dog)

hot doggest

hot dogger

9-volt battery (another type of watt dog)

MissingHo.t dog

hyper dog

hot dollg

hot dog dog

not dog

dildog

tomb dog

hot dorb

not pictured: hot fog (newest edition). other ideas for future installations include rot dog, hot blog, snot dog, s(hot)gun dog

[theabigailthorn]

I made a Mii of you hope that's alright

hell yeah

i do like mozzarella lemonade and honey!

[strange-aeons]

I'm very tired and briefly considered the possibility that British people enjoy a weird delicacy called "mozzarella lemonade"

[mangled-by-disuse]

get a load of this guy who's never had mozzarella lemonade

[strange-aeons]

[atuats-sidechick]

make mozzarella lemonade

mozzarella

lemon juice

lemon peel

water

sugar

honey

Voting ended onMay 18

[strange-aeons]

In my twisted mind mozzarella lemonade looks like boba tea but with mini mozzarella balls instead of tapioca pearls. Btw.

[rocketbirdie]

fine dining

[mumblesplash]

actually kinda fascinated by the attitude toward grace’s …participation in project hail mary that i’ve seen on here, more specifically how there seems to be a pretty solid consensus re: approximately how everyone feels about it. because my partner and i went into the movie totally blind, and prior to any outside influence my take was that i didn’t care about the betrayal element beyond ‘wow his initial unwillingness to die for earth makes his tenacity in these dire circumstances so much more interesting’ and matt’s take was ‘it’s unbelievable that it even occurred to him to say no. what does he think this is.’

[parawyrm]

Wait how is everyone else feeling about it? I’m not sure I’ve seen much on that specifically.

Also I’d love to hear more about your experience with that and how the memories returning affected your view on Grace as a character/the story at large

[mumblesplash]

haha well ok i can’t speak for Exactly how everyone else feels about it but the impression i get from scrolling top posts/dashboard osmosis is that 1) people primarily see it as something that was Done To Him and 2) the discussion is mostly about the extent to which stratt was justified. whereas on first watch my partner was actively and exclusively critical of *grace*, and while i fully sympathized with him it never even occurred to me to question stratt’s actions

as for the way it affected my view of grace, it honestly made me like him more. when i assumed he volunteered himself, he read more as someone who stepped up in impossible circumstances and then got (understandably) scared/maybe regretted it when faced with the reality. in retrospect, realizing he was *always* scared and was never actually prepared to die (“i didn’t mean any of that. it’s just something you say”) it makes every risk he took after meeting rocky feel so much more meaningful. especially the last one, when he turns around and actually chooses another life over his own with his eyes wide open.

someone in the replies mentioned that this was more obvious in the book, but even with less emphasis on it in the movie it didn’t escape me that when he turned around to save rocky he was doing so with no reason to believe he’d survive much longer after that. it brings his character arc full circle and disconnects his happiness from earth at the same time, which is a big part of why i walked out of the theater feeling like the ending was the absolute best case scenario. he can go back if he wants to, but he doesn’t. he wanted to stay on earth because he didn’t have anything worth dying for, he wants to stay on erid because he finally found something that was

[mumblesplash]

YESSS you get me. and here’s the thing right. if he had said yes, is that really a choice? is ‘get in this ship and die or the world ends’ actually that much *less* coercive than knocking him unconscious and putting him in there anyway?

he shouldn’t have had to die in space, but he did have to. that would have been the case no matter how he felt about it. but as an audience the fact that he went *un*willingly not only makes him more interesting but also makes every choice after that feel so much more important

[trojanteapot]

Ok I'm genuinely proud of these two.

[trojanteapot]

this may have been a bad idea.

[stantler]