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GUYS!! JAN 2024!!!

#emily wilde's encyclopedia of faeries #emily wilde #heather fawcett #emily wilde’s map of the otherlands #TODAY #so hard to work when I want to read!

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Emily having no idea Bambleby is into her, to the point where she thinks he's making fun of her even when he's on one knee in front of her is honestly so relatable to all of us who have no idea when we're being flirted with

#honestly this is why I loved her #because yes #started the sequel today #and same Emily #same Wendell #same smile on my face

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I was skimming through an old Lucas interview about TPM, when I stumbled upon this little nugget of gold:

“At one point, when Obi-Wan kills Darth Maul, he just fell in the pit. I looked at it and thought this isn’t going to work because, if people like him enough, they’re going to want him to come back and they’re going to assume somehow he gets out of it. So I had to cut him in half to say that this guy’s gone, he’s history, he ain’t coming back” - George Lucas

At least you tried your best, George. At least you tried your best 😂 😂 😂

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#new bestie just dropped

TED LASSO 1.04 | "For the Children" SHRINKING 1.04 | "Potatoes"

#so yeah the writers do have their tropes #but I dig it

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Shrinking (2023-present) Fifteen Minutes (S01E03)

#shrinking #undoubtedly the best laugh I’ve had in ages #every time I see this scene #a+ timing

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In the early 70s Sesame Street was created with an eye towards educating poor, inner-city children for free, and became a massive hit with all children. In 2016, faced with going off the air forever after facing conservative efforts to destroy public broadcasting since basically its beginning, new episodes became a timed exclusive for premium cable network HBO. In 2022 HBO Max, newly merged with and taken over by reality TV channel Discovery, removed Sesame Street episodes and spin-offs from streaming as a tax write-off and scheme to avoid paying residuals.

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#I have never felt more represented

#all of you who have followed me #know this scene did me tf in #i’ve seen the movie twice now and I have died repeatedly #resurrected obviously #but still #so specific and so fucking funny #I just kept thinking #is Greta a fucking #fan of Austenland too? #because it would track #Pride and Prejudice #barbie movie #Austenland

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People seem to have forgotten that "proship" was the Fandom norm for the longest time.

Only, it wasn't called proship. It was called ship and let ship. Or minding your own buisness.

If someone had a ship you didn't like or thought was gross, you would avoid them. If they drew art or wrote stories you didn't agree with or like, you would ignore them.

There were tags like smut, whump, and angst to tell people about things they might not want to read. And then dead dove: do not eat for taboo subjects and especially gritty fic.

Then people started to ignore that. Younger fans started to bully people because they disagreed with shipping certain characters. Whether it be because it "wasn't canon", they thought it was gross, or they just didn't like it.

These people began calling themselves "anti-ship"

Pro-ship became a label to show that someone was against anti-ship.

Eventually, the anti-ship movement began to die down. So do you know what they did? They started accusing people. Of being pedophiles, groomers, rape supporters, and more. All because they wrote or drew things that these people didn't like.

They began claiming that THEY were the Fandom norm, and that these "proshippers" were the bad people. They started claiming that proship stood for "problematic shipping"

Due to this, the term "pro-ship" is often misconstrued as to what it means. Many people don't even KNOW what it means.

It means "anti-censorship".

It means that we support someone's right to produce art, no matter how gross, no matter how taboo, no matter how "problematic"

Because it's not hurting anyone.

If it's something you don't want to see? Block the person. Block the tag. Say in your bio that you don't like it. That's what they're FOR!

This was discussed in earlier days of fandom.

"I wonder why people would read a story in a genre they don't care for, then take the time to let the writer know that sure enough, they didn't care for it. That would be like me going to a restaurant, ordering a slice of cherry pie, then asking that the chef be brought out so I can say "I don't like cherry pie, and I didn't like yours either." To continue this analogy into its usual fannish outcome, the chef would say "Well gee, lady, why did you order it?" And I'd say, "Are you questioning my right to order cherry pie?"

-Unknown 2002

Except now, it would be like the person who didn't like the cherry pie and ordered it anyways then demanded that no restaurant serve cherry pie because it was poison. Not only is it a ridiculous request, it's blatantly untrue.

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barbie movie felt a little familiar to me

#ngl #but this sort of story is sort of my sweet spot

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“It’s literally impossible to be a woman.

You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow, we're always doing it wrong?

You have to be thin, but not too thin, and you can never say you wanna be thin. You have to say you wanna be healthy, but also, you have to BE THIN.

You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass.

You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean.

You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas.

You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time.

You have to be a career woman, but also, always be looking out for other people.

You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is INSANE, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining!

You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood, but ALWAYS STAND OUT and ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL. But never forget that the system is rigged, so find a way to acknowledge that but ALSO, always be grateful!

You have to never get old. Never be rude. Never show off. Never be selfish. Never fall down. Never fail. Never show fear. Never get OUT OF LINE. It's too hard! It's too contradictory, and nobody gives you a medal or says 'thank you!' And it turns out, in fact, that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also, everything is your fault.

I'm just so tired of watching myself, and every single other woman tie herself into knots, so that people will like us.

And if all of that, is also true for a doll just representing a woman, then I don't even know." -Gloria the barbie movie

this is it. this is exactly it oh my god.

#barbie #barbie movie #thank you #for the transcription #wow

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#twitter #barbie #ken #mattel #barbie movie #feminism #i’m so glad this conversation is being had even if i wont go on that garbage site

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#barbie #barbie movie #no but #his confession #made me cackle

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“Real magic can never be made by offering up someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back. The true witches know that.”

Peter S. Beagle - “The Last Unicorn”

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Today in adventures of a random brain - caught this image of a vintage brooch in the feed of a shopping app and legit thought I caught a glimpse of a Mockingjay pin labeled as vintage and started chuckling….until I looked closer and realized I maybe need either my EYES OR MY HEAD CHECKED.

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#hunger games #not what I thought it was #my brain #is apparently on drugs #mockingjay #except it isn’t #roadrunner #vintage jewelry #life with adhd #life as a fangirl #yeah I should be embarrassed #but I’m just sort of bemused

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every time i see discourse about pedohysteria amidst a trans genocide i think about that news article from 2016 about the mexican immigrant who voted for trump because trump said he’d get rid of all the “bad hombres” from mexico, only to be deported himself because it turns out what trump was really saying was that he wanted to deport all mexicans, not just “the bad ones”

not just him, but there were many other examples too, like white conservatives who have mexican immigrant friends and family or people in the community important to them who were mexican immigrants, and they voted for trump because they thought trump was just getting rid of “criminals”, and then they regret it when their families and communities get torn apart by deportations of their spouses, their friends, their favourite restaurant owners, etc.

anyways, i hope young queers, trans people esp, understand that when conservatives talk about “pedophiles” and “groomers”, they’re not talking about actual child abusers, they’re talking about all queer people. they’re talking about all trans people. it’s why in florida, they’re categorizing “drag” as a child sex crime, and making sex crimes against children punishable by death. they’re trying to execute every single trans person, and that’s just the rhetoric they’re using

so stop buying into the pedohysteria. it’s easy to think “well, i’m not a pedophile, so i’ll be safe” when you don’t realize that in the eyes of conservatives, every single queer person is a pedophile and deserves death, and contributing to their rhetoric by trying to figure out which trans woman is a pedophile is just accelerating your own march to the gallows

#reblog #politics #this is precisely what I was attempting to explain to someone last week but in much more coherent speech

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Best fandom history commentary ever, courtesy of @tardistara

#fandom history #x files #i’m over here like #new partner? #hell thats krychek #which to be fair #i also say every time I see that actor in anything #40 is GENEROUS #but I’ll take it #also this whole damn thing #makes me sing Bloodhound Gang #And #the song by #bree sharp #so #david duchovny