wordsmith30

Writer, dreamer, editor, bookworm, multi-fandom shipper, Marvel fan, lisztomaniac, INFJ/ISFJ, gamer, soccer player, dancer wannabe, cat.

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DON'T FORGET YOUR DAILY CLICKS FOR PALESTINE

IT TAKES LESS THAN A MINUTE. THERE IS NO EXCUSE. DO IT.

likes don't mean anything for this. reblog to remind your followers.

[atreeinafrog]

Happy Pride 🫡 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️!

[annebronte-deactivated20210628]

reblog if you wear glasses. too many mutuals don't know they have glasses wearers in their midsts

[heyhoneyfox]

Imagine if Heroes of Olympus gets a live adaptation and when Hazel is yelling at Jason for wanting to leave Nico behind, Percy starts slow clapping, and at first everyone's like "wtf" then he and Annabeth start singing "oh golly, the road is gettin bumpy. Cause I got me some friends that just can't get along"

Everyone else staring at them in complete confusion

Annabeth and Percy just chilling and singing the song

Tell me that wouldn't be hysterical

[thethiefandtheairbender]

god the half of it (2020) is so good. the emphasis on finding meaning and emotion both in art and philosophy, but also the quiet and miraculous mundanity of food and connection. this being contrasted routinely by loneliness ("gravity is matter's response to loneliness" / "must be nice [not to believe in god]" "no, it's not. it's... lonely") because of queerness, race, and interests, juxtaposed again by those who can assimilate more successfully but at what cost vs those who cannot but also feel more subsequently limited. the respect and reverence it affords solitude and creativity while also celebrating different kinds of love: not only queerness, but queerness as a sociopolitical identity on disavowing amatanormativity and valuing friendship above all else. love being the effort you put into your relationships, the way it's never too late to find your people in unexpected places, the centring of understanding and being fully truly seen. the journey towards self actualization and beginnings because fear and hope are two halves of the same whole. the importance of finding your boldest stroke and following through. to be a boy running after a girl on a train not because he's in love with her, but because he Loves Her. "this is not a Love Story," but it is a story overflowing with love.

[addictivecontradiction]

The half of it, 2020

[sorrytoallwholikeme-blog]

Paul: “love is about trying”

Ellie: *stays in the truck to listen to him, tries his sausage tacos when his family didn’t, writes to food critics he’s been wanting to reach, verbally affirms to him that love is about trying, shows up to his game*

[tvandfilm]

The Half of It (2020) dir. Alice Wu

[oddygaul]

The Half of It

I was expecting this to be a safe, inoffensive romcom after watching the underwhelming trailer, so color me surprised at how genuine this movie was.

So often, the ‘small towns’ you see in a romcom are these idyllic, cosmopolitan utopias, as if you just took a street corner from a large city and transplanted it into the sticks. It was refreshing to see a protagonist’s small town actually feel like one, i.e. dull, insular, and close-minded, with peers bullying Ellie for being Asian and the entire town packing into one church every week.

This sense of place makes the characters feel particularly bespoke, with their personalities clearly a developed response to their circumstances. Ellie’s ostracism from the monoculture has led to her being solitary and introspective; Aster, as the pastor’s daughter and girlfriend of the town’s golden boy, gives off wildly intense medieval-princess-who’s-been-betrothed-against-her-will-for-the-prosperity-of-her-dynasty vibes. 

And the boys, well… holy shit, Trig and Paul are two of the biggest himbos this side of the 2000s. Trig is fully a cartoon character; he’s basically a slightly toned-down version of the infantile quarterback in Bottoms. Paul, on the other hand, is a complex himbo. He often goes full puppydog – this mf has one of the most head-empty smiles I’ve ever seen, and half of the movie is him running full tilt after cars, bikes, and trains – but there’s a quiet loyalty to him, and despite his professed clumsiness with words, he ends up being the one to deliver the movie’s most thought-provoking message.

Paul’s idea that “love is the effort you put in” comes amidst his and Ellie’s discussion about the merits of pursuing someone so unlike yourself that you have to study up in order to talk to them, but it carries a lot of weight, and got me thinking about what in his upbringing must have led him to believe this. I guess it’s not a revolutionary take; it’s similar enough to the oft-reprised ‘marriage is hard work’, when you get down to it. But I liked seeing that idea applied to the initial stages of love, too.

The story of Ellie's dad and how he got trapped in Squahamish also broke my heart

I had some gripes as the movie went on; the talent show scene was truly deplorable, and the cast (especially the extras) are some of the most egregious Thirty Year Olds Pretending to be High Schoolers I’ve seen in a minute. But The Half of It pushes past all that to feel authentic, and really sticks the landing. Likely this is just because my high school romantic experience was composed primarily of missed opportunities, awkward missteps, and naive pining, but it always feels more believable to me when a romcom with characters this young ends this way. Just because a romance doesn’t end in a years-long partnership doesn’t mean it can’t leave a lasting impression, y’know?

[addictivecontradiction]

The half of it, 2020

[panneshirley]

every movie I watched in 2024:

The Half of It dir. Alice Wu, 2020

[delambelles]

THE HALF OF IT (2020) dir. Alice Wu 🍍🦉🐛 @lgbtqcreators creators bingo: movie poster (x/x/x)

[sorrytoallwholikeme-blog]

The half of it (2020) is about people who are so full of love and how that love is expressed in purely non-romantic ways.

[cinemapix]

THE HALF OF IT (2020) dir. Alice Wu

[specialagentartemis]

Thinking about it, and I’d like to forward the idea that prejudice against single people (aromantics, asexuals, and also just… anyone who does not have a romantic partner) follows dynamics less like anti-queer bigotry and more akin to anti-fat bigotry.

Fatness, like singlehood, is seen at large as a state of failure. Everybody is supposed to want to be [thin / partnered], and if you are not, that is a personal failure on your part, and you are pathetic and mock-worthy. The popular idea is that of course everybody wants to be [thin / partnered], and everybody is striving towards the goal, and anybody who is not [thin / partnered] is either temporarily inconvenienced on their way to correctness, or has something fundamentally wrong with them. And because [fatness / singlehood] is something that is treated as fixable, if you have not fixed it, then there is something wrong with you—and thus discriminating against you is acceptable, because your [fatness / singlehood] is based on your own bad choices.

The world is, in some cases quite literally, not built for fat or single people. If you are fat or single, the world is much more difficult or expensive to live in, because it is structurally designed for the assumption that you are thin or that you have a partner. The normative Person, after all, is thin and romantically partnered. If you are not thin or not romantically partnered, there is something fundamentally less human about you.

[Fatness / singlehood] is something embarrassing, something worth mocking others over, something that reflects your fundamental unworthiness. Every fictional hero is thin, every fictional happy ending ends with romance. Everyone in your life is either quietly or not-so-quietly worried about you.

And all this is fine and acceptable. Because in the general perception, [fatness / singlehood] is not a real axis of bigotry. It’s a choice! You could just become a different person and stop being [fat / single]! You deserve the mockery, the derision, the attempts to fix you, the world not accommodating you, because you could just become a better person and stop being [fat / single] at any point. So it’s your own fault people treat you badly, really.

[setulose]

One of life's great ironies is that almost everyone who makes the active decision to not have kids would probably be way better at raising a child than all the people who just kind of have children because it's what they think everyone is supposed to do

[setulose]

Like genuinely if you're like "I don't want kids because of the financial strain/the commitment/the irritation I would feel/the possibility of traumatizing them/whatever reason" you instantly demonstrate to me that you 1) understand the realities of parenthood and 2) believe that children should be treated with at least a base level of respect and compassion. Meanwhile everyone who's like "I want kids because I don't want to be alone" "I can't wait to dress up my babies" "I won't raise my children to be soft" may as well be talking about Neopets for all the fucks they seem to give about kids

[cofirot-deactivated20230307]

reblog to give somebody a fucking hug because we are all struggling to get through it. solidarity in this tough ass world.