maddie!

[hayaosmiyazaki]

“Ten years in, The Social Network has held up infinitely better than the internet idealism running through so much of the criticism that was aimed at the film at the time… The film didn’t predict the role Facebook would play as a vector for misinformation and political manipulation and an incubator of conspiracy theories and extremist groups. It couldn’t foresee the degree to which the company would shape modern global life while attempting to avoid having to take any ownership over the unwanted consequences. What it did understand is that the desire to disrupt the establishment isn’t the same thing as the drive to build something better in its place.”

THE SOCIAL NETWORK dir. David Fincher Ten year anniversary — Oct. 1, 2010

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

will someone please tell hozier that when wasps pollinate figs they die inside the fig and the fig slowly grows with the wasp inside it? and also that every kind of fig tree has a specific kind of wasp meant to pollinate and die inside it? feel like he could make that pop

[professorsparklepants]

I've made this post like six times but it still fucks me up the China's mountains just look like that. Like I spent decades thinking it was stylistic but no, they just have different mountains over there.

[professorsparklepants]

For reference, here's what my local mountains look like:

Here's the general art style Chinese mountains are drawn in:

And here's how some of them actually look:

[dreamsequencer]

What the FUCK

[adelicateculturecell]

I’m specifically reblogging this here because I know there is a geological reason for this and I know at least one of you has to know it.

[lgbt-tiktoks]

Caption:

[Person 1: WALL-E and EVE are both nonbinary.

Person 2: What are you talking about? Keep your... Liberal politics out of my kid’s movie. WALL-E’s a boy and EVE is a girl.

Person 1: But they’re... they’re robots. They don’t have genitals.

Person 2: Yeah but like WALL-E is square and does construction and EVE is like feminine and sexy looking.

Person 1: So, gender is a matter of presentation and expression, not a matter of biology.

Person 2: No! Gender’s just about your genitals.

Person 1: Then, WALL-E’s nonbinary. He doesn’t have genitals.

Person 2: No, WALL-E’s a boy.

Person 1: Then gender is a matter of expression an-

Person 2: No! Gender is just biological!

Person 1: Then WALL-E doesn’t have a gender

Person 2: No! He’s a boy robot!

Person 1: Look I don’t have anything going on. I can do this all day.]

[kkachi95]

Some people: technology advanced too fast between ATLA and LOK

Real life:

(This is a comparison of military technology fielded by the avatar universe and our world in a similar timeframe)

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shawty and y/n the baddest bitches on earth these two run it all

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shawty got the apple bottle jeans melody in my head got the fatty and y/n got the messy bun & gray sweats & the most piercing blue orbs in the game No one can step up to them

[firbolging]

the pride and prejudice musical we deserve:

darcy doesn’t sing a single note even during conversations where everyone else is singing at him that is until the argument following his first attempt at proposing to lizzy where you can see his restraint fall away

his first big solo is the letter he writes her

gelsey bell is mary and the unofficial narrator and she sits down at her piano to describe whats going on but before she can ever reveal her feelings on the matter, starting with that gelsey bell scream, mr bennet comes over and does the whole ‘that’s nice dear but give someone else a turn’

mr wickham has this huge ballad about how darcy ruined his life and its super melodramatic and touching

mr collins proposal to lizzy is an absolute bop that he gets so into he forgets for a moment what he’s doing he’s just owning the stage

wickham has a song where he’s trying to seduce lydia but she’s not even listening she’s just monologuing about how excited she is to get laid

during darcy’s second proposal he keeps hesitating waiting for lizzy to interrupt him like she has done every time before but she doesn’t say anything until he’s finished

at the end mary sits down at the piano and right where she’d usually be interrupted, kitty joins her and harmonises

 jane and bingley have the adorable upbeat romantic duet which is just them being super polite like ‘oh so nice to have you here’ ‘so nice to be here’ interspersed with their inner monologue which is just them being like fucking jesus I’m so in love

the bingley sisters probably have a really cool mean solo

lady catherine has this terrifying disney villain song in the garden

there’s for sure a song about ribbon shopping

[hapalopus]

Pros of having ADHD:

Can track prey for hours without losing focus

Special interest: basket weaving

Always fidgeting - banging rocks together and discovers flint-knabbing

Distracted by berries

Stimming by making noises, discovers the sksksk that lures out squirrels

Can't sleep at night, great at guarding the cave while family sleeps

Sensitive senses means discovering and refusing to eat rotten/poisonous food

Sees bird eat nut - impulsively tries it too and discovers that nuts taste good

Cons of having ADHD:

Can't do homework

Impulse buys

Can't use a calendar

Can't sit still in classroom

[wanderloost]

United States: freedom is all about choice! that's why we offer 23 different brands of toothpaste and the option between two main political parties!

United States: (the 23 brands of toothpaste are all owned by the same few corporations though)

United States: (so are the political parties)

[snoopysfriendwoodstock]

being straight and liking taylor swift is very embarrassing and you shouldn’t tell people that. being gay and liking taylor swift is counterculture and means you have awesome close reading and critical thinking skills

[softavasilva]

Emma Mackey as Jacqueline de Bellefort Death on the Nile (2020) dir. Kenneth Branagh 

[marauders4evr]

Do people who mock Katara realize that she, at the age of eight, literally saw her mother’s dead body???

(That’s Katara on the left and Hakoda on the right)

When twelve-year-old Aang sees the skeleton of Gyatso, he reacts (appropriately) by going into the Avatar State, but you’re going to mock Katara for being traumatized after seeing her mother’s dead body, when she was eight, after just talking to her?

Not to mention the fact that Kya was wearing the necklace:

Which means, you know, an eight-year-old most likely took the jewelry off of her mother’s corpse and put it on, in a combination of shock and grief, but sure, let’s make jokes about how she’s overreacting when she emotionally clutches that same necklace from time to time. How did you think she got it?

Did I mention she was eight? Because she was eight.

I was just going to end the post here but one last point: she was eight and she was a civilian. You know how This Is War has the lyric “The soldier | The civilian”. That’s Sokka and Katara. Even at the age of 9/10, Sokka was clearly in Soldier Mode. He didn’t hesitate in joining the other soldiers in fight. Meanwhile, Katara didn’t hesitate in making sure that the other civilians were safe. While Sokka obviously loved Kya, of course he loved her, he was probably already a little disconnected by the reality that most soldiers have to face: that people die in wars. Then there’s the fact that he wasn’t the one who had to run to get Hakoda (”I ran as fast as I could,” Katara says, as she wished she had been faster), the fact that he was on the other side of the village, the fact that he had celebrated a victory with the other soldiers at having turned the Southern Raiders back, and the fact that he didn’t rush into the tent to immediately be confronted with her dead body…Katara’s line, “You didn’t love her like I did” is obviously incorrect, but I think it’s safe to say that he didn’t experience the trauma of losing her like Katara did, due to a variety of different factors including all of the above and the sheer fact that tragedies affect people differently, regardless of the actual variables. 

I think that’s kinda the point of Avatar, isn’t it? To show that people from the same family, in the same battle, in the same war, can come out with drastically different experiences. 

[tungledotfuck]

Reblogging because the volume in this bus is astronomical

[gayemo]

me at ten: the home depot lights section is a significant place for me emotionally

[archive1092841814]

do you think mark zuckerberg knows that people in 2020 still write fanfic based on the movie based on his life about him and his ex-best friend/enemy. and if so does it annoy him.

[lettersiarrange]

My Facebook meme groups DELIVERED

[pink-louboutins]

instead of dark mode, there should be a pink mode option

[sunpdf]

mary oliver, the kitten // laura gilpin, two headed calf // tweet by vincent d’onofrio