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#i'm in such a bad way today
mytardisisparked · 1 year
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Look, all I’m saying is that they really just don’t make movies like National Treasure anymore. Like this movie is about two dudes in a van who beat a team of highly trained criminals to stealing a valuable document from a high-security museum, by sheer accident get an antiques expert to come along with them to keep the document safe, get involved in several major chase scenes, escape the FBI twice, find a massive treasure, get someone else arrested for their crimes, and then give the treasure back to museums before yeeting out to do it all over again in the sequel. No one was doing it like them. And the thing is, by all accounts, this plot is ridiculous and the dialogue is ridiculous but it works unbelievably well because the writers and actors committed to the bit. This movie is campy and absurd and it’s also one of the most fun and quotable movies of my early childhood because the creators embraced the camp and did it with such a sincerity that it’s a goshdarn delight to watch. Top all of that off with a soundtrack that went WAY harder than it really needed to, excellent atmosphere throughout the whole film, and visuals that were darn near perfect and National Treasure becomes a classic. I’ve been chasing the high I got the first time I watched it my whole life. What a movie.
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pencap · 5 months
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By Sylvie (j.p.)
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PSA for all drivers in the city of Chicago! There are red octagonal signs at a lot of intersections with the word STOP on them- when you see these signs, that means you should try and use this fun pedal next to the gas called the "brakes" and not attempt vehicular manslaughter with every pedestrian you see! There are also large lights at some intersection- when the top light, the red one, is lit, that means the same thing.
once we master this skill, we can talk about a cool trick for signaling to people (including pedestrians trying to cross the street) that you're going to turn. This tool might be a little tougher to find if you've got a BMW, Audi, or Lexus, but we can find a way to work one-on-one to make sure you can use it. However, it's also important that we learn how to not use it when we're not turning.
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lylahammar · 4 months
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desperately need more fat video essayists to cover topics about fatness, fatphobia, and diet culture. I'm watchin this skinny girl in this video essay replace the word "fat" with "F" in every quote she reads like it's a slur because she looked up what the least problematic term for fatness was and the article she found put "fat" at the same level as "obese"
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ghostdogg9000 · 6 months
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feeling unbearably so very Not Normal about sean today in light of rewatching the second episode because he was the youngest brother thank u brennan for confirming that awful piece of information and he also still somehow managed to try to act like the big brother, always trying to take care of everyone around him, and now with everyone gone he's literally stepped up into Guilty Big Brother shoes by both simultaneously trying to make sure everyone else is good and also (for a staggering variety of reasons) being so adamant that he doesn't need taking care of notably because he's so damn sure he's not worthy of the attention and care someone might choose to give him.
the thing about that is that it isn't his choice for others to care about him and he doesn't get to tell anyone they can't love him and, if sean survives this horrific encounter, i fully believe he's going to get yelled at and there will be crying and marion and nathaniel particularly are going to give him what for.
the most INTERESTING thing though about sean's dissociative subspace revelation is i wonder if/when the people around him noticed that. is that the reason that nathaniel keeps giving him such specific direct orders? does he know that sean will follow them, that he's grateful for them because now he doesn't have to be himself? doesn't have to think? doesn't have to feel guilty or anxious about his own decisions? that it allows him to stay alive and function but it may also be, on the other hand, preventing him from being able to really Come Home? i think maybe that's the thing he's struggling with the most:
with his mother in the hospital, his home gone, sleeping in what's basically a broom closet at his place of employment, sean hasn't come home. he's still transient. he's stuck in this in-between place where he doesn't get to settle or get comfortable or really even be alone enough to process what's happening (although we've seen that being completely alone would probably be disastrous as his sense of self preservation is gone and he's quite unstable).
the war isn't over for him in a very real sense. beyond the ptsd. beyond the flashbacks. beyond the guilt and terror and self-loathing. he's still at war because he never got to Come Home. he makes the wife and kids joke but i think there's a very real underlying sense of I Have No Family And Therefore I Have Nothing.
i actually disagree with auntie bee in that leaving candela would be good for sean. i think the circle is his new family, whether he's cognizant fully of that yet or not, and i think leaving them would leave him completely unmoored and i, personally, think it would kill him. i think auntie bee telling him to retire was probably taken as a rejection. a I'm Not Useful Because I'm Broken And I'm Not Safe To Be Around and also I'm A Danger To My Family And They Don't Want Me. i think sean just wants to feel needed and, a la maslow, needs to feel wanted.
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a-dragons-journal · 9 months
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Forgive me for showing my fangs a little here instead of being as delicate in phrasing as I usually am, but. Periodic reminder:
sweeping "humans suck, humans are evil, the world would be better off if humans disappeared/had never evolved" statements may be cathartic but they're thoroughly inaccurate (ie, the vast majority of uniquely bad effects of humans on the planet are a) extremely recent, like within the last couple centuries, b) the fault of an extremely small minority not the entire fucking species, and c) fixable)
hating being human isn't the same as hating humans. I get species dysphoria is a thing. I get that it's often hard to fit in as a nonhuman in human social groups and that can make it easy to slip into hating everyone around you. Please fight that instinct
villainizing people for traits they didn't choose, such as the species they were born into, is neither cute nor fair. No species is inherently good or bad
misanthropy is cathartic in short term vents or whatever but genuinely embracing it wholesale as a philosophy is liable to lead to you hating humans, human society, and being in a human body more and more over time and thus make your life worse by constantly reinforcing a thought pattern that makes you angry and upset
you are not immune to being part of human society (translation: just because you're nonhuman doesn't mean you're not included in statements about the effects of the human population on the world, ie "humans are killing the planet")
related, you are not better than humans for being nonhuman. looking at my fellow dragons in particular on this one. I get it, draconic pride is a thing, dragon brain probably says you're the supreme being and all else is beneath you especially anyone who annoys you. Mine does too. Please recognize that is an instinct you are supposed to FIGHT, not something that's TRUE AND THAT YOU SHOULD EMBRACE. Good fucking gods.
some nonhumans are also human (it's me, I'm some nonhumans) and you are making sweeping "humans suck, why would I ever want to be human, all humans do is kill the planet" statements in the presence of people included in those statements, which is insanely rude (and no, you don't get to "but you're different because you're nonhuman" me! you do not get to decide to ignore half of who I am because you don't like it, you do not get to decide I'm not "really" human, and also see the previous bullet point). this goes doubly if you're in a space like a DIscord server where people have expressly stated they're not comfortable being tacitly included in statements like that
saying "but I don't REALLY mean all humans, I just mean the specific ones at fault!" after the fact does not actually change anything if every other thing you say is constantly "humans humans humans" and not the group you're actually referring to, or at the very least doesn't change how it reads to everyone around you
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lunarharp · 4 months
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being attached to that moment qifrey held a baby one time and my ideas for the future :)
#witch hat tag#orufrey#brief small post before i return to Real and Emotional things again...but tbh...this makes me feel real emotions too#i think the manga will end up with a epilogue chapter showcasing little things in the girls' future and orufrey holding hands or kissing...#to like Indicate things. if it doesn't happen beforehand.#But. Who. Knows. also then i suddenly started thinking about them raising a baby for ages today because of how narratively poignant it'd be#for things to end that way after having raised almost-daughters all those years. and how healing it could be for qifrey and etc.#thing i said on twt: girls visit so often that the kid's first words are Professor Olly#“deja vu.. i'm not your professor kid - i'm your father!”#sorry but they are literally a gay couple where one truly is like The Mom and one truly is The Dad. to me#i think a housewifey homemaker type lifestyle would make qifrey happy. be harder now that he's disabled - well that's why he has his man.#i dont normally care about stuff like fankids or whatever..characters becoming parents for real..but like..Come on#This is the couple to think about this with.....they already ARE parents..i want them to be happy for eternity#once all the horrors are over we have to make it there.....children are so precious families are so precious....#i have bad relationship with parents personally and haven't interacted with children in years. And yet i still know that.#the fact that orufrey fight for children to be safe and educated and happy...qif wants to help coustas too..#aaaanyway today was a pretty weird and difficult day so i deserved to think about happy futures for a bit. i hear it's possible#btw i'm most sure about tetia becoming the princess of zozah. i think that will happen. and riche should have the ribbon tassel.
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kangals · 8 months
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since i forget it's not common knowledge for non-Dog™ people, brief overview of the collie thing and why i was losing my shit:
idk every country, but at least for the American Kennel Club (AKC) and Canadian Kennel Club (CKC), "Collie" refers to a specific breed of dog, most iconic as the breed of "Lassie":
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these three dogs are all collies. collies come in two varieties, "rough" (longhair, more common), and "smooth" (shorthair, less common). both rough and smooth collies are considered the same breed, judged to the same standards, and can be born in the same litter, similar to how a black lab and a yellow lab are both labradors. it is equally correct to refer to them as a "rough/smooth collie" or as simply a "collie," as that is their official breed name in the US/Canada. while they used to be extremely popular in the mid-20th century, collies sit at #39 on the AKC breed popularity lists nowadays, making them solidly "somewhat uncommon."
a border collie is a separate and distinct breed of dog. while they share a common ancestor with the collie and are also herding dogs, their appearance, temperament, and herding style are all distinctly different. they can come in many colors, but are most commonly black and white with medium-to-long hair:
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while a border collie is a type of collie-dog, in the US they are generally referred to as "borders" or "BCs" rather than just "collies," as "collie" is already the name of a different breed. BCs are more popular than collies nowadays, so most laypeople are more familiar with them than with rough or smooth collies. but given that "collie" already refers to a different breed, in the US/Canada it's not technically correct to also refer to a border collie as simply "collie" (or call them a collie, who cares, i'm not a fucking cop).
however, this gets further muddled depending on which country you're in - for example in the UK and many european countries, there is no breed that's simply called "collie" - Rough Collies and Smooth Collies are two separate breeds, in addition to Border Collies, which are significantly more popular. in the UK, "collie" isn't the name of any specific breed, but most people will use it as shorthand for their BCs. "collie" in the UK and "collie" in the US often mean two different dogs.
and then you also have the bearded collie, again a distinct breed, but much more difficult to mix up due to A) their rarity and B) the fact that they look like walking muppets:
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and honorable mention to the shetland sheepdog or "sheltie," which while related to the collie is, again, a separate breed, and most notably is significantly smaller than a collie. if you see a dog that looks like Lassie But Small, it's probably a sheltie.
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IN CONCLUSION:
several different recognized breeds of collie-type dogs
only one breed is officially named "Collie" and that's the rough/smooth varieties in the US and Canada (aka "Lassie dog")
ergo, there is only one breed of dog that "collie" actually refers to (in North America at least)
however due to the differences in names between countries and the overall higher popularity of border collies, they and other breeds are sometimes also referred to as "collies"
i own a rough collie and she is very pretty and therefore superior and if you call any other type of dog a collie except for the rough/smooth type you're Wrong.
thank u for coming to my TED talk.
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Sihtric when the fuck are they inventing sunglasses Kjartansson
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ginaporterr · 7 months
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lunar-years · 8 months
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To preface I would never pretend to be any sort of expert on child abuse and trauma nor on healing from that trauma etc. but I also think the "Jamie wasn't forgiving his father, he was releasing his father's control over his life" viewpoint, while not necessarily wrong, is also...too simplistic? First of all Ted DOES frame it as "forgiveness." The phrase he uses literally is "just forgive him." So that's the message the show is sending regardless of whether that's how we personally make sense of Jamie's actions or not. Secondly, you don't just flick a switch from being terrified of your father and dictated by that fear one day to being totally free of his grip on you AND in a healthy and mentally stable enough place to reach out to him the next (let alone in the span of like, two hours, in the middle of a football match and immediately afterwards. Right after starting to emerge from a depressive episode!!).
I can definitely understand why Jamie may have texted his father in that moment, given the enormously high stress + bad mental health combo he'd been living under for days (weeks?), on top of Ted's (imo ill-fated) advice. But I can't for the life of me make sense of that being a "healthy" choice for him (which I think is how the show would like us to view it). The text alone may have not been inviting his father back into his life, but we see him going to visit his dad in the very next episode. I mean??? we skipped about 1200 steps to get there in an actually healthy way, I think, and talking to an actual therapist about the matter is top of the list.
If Jamie is working to free himself from his father's hold on him, that's a complicated and slow process that I'm not convinced is going to be helped by getting more involved in his father's life and potentially, given the rehab situation, care. I mean we know Jamie's character and I don't think it's really his personality to visit once for peace of mind and then drop this. It's much more likely he extends time and help to his dad and ends up more invested, rather than "free." That could be something that ends well for everyone, if his dad really is putting in the work and is in fact deserving of a ~second chance~ (or third, or fourth...we literally don't even know if he's tried and failed to get sober and Be Better before, but it's very possible), but it is also something that could go very very poorly and result in new devastation and instability for Jamie all over again. At the time Ted was giving Jamie his little speech about it (which he based on an extremely different situation with his own mother in his own life, mind you), he was completely unaware James Sr was even in rehab, and it was actually dangerous (imo) to Jamie, mentally and physically, for him to have given the advice that he did.
Basically, I think Ted's words were well meaning but ultimately very misguided, the actions we see Jamie taking as a result do make sense for the character's state of mind but not necessarily for his well being, and if Jamie would like to give his father another chance it is fully his decision and right to do so. But the storyline wasn't given the time nor care nor complexity that sort of story absolutely requires in order to be done well. And the fact that Jamie leaps in full-force on it without onscreen evidence of him getting any input on the matter from anyone in his life apart from one (questionable) conversation with Ted does not exactly instill confidence in me that the situation ends happily tied up in the bow of father-son reconciliation the show surface-level portrays it to be.
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Unexpected thing I discovered today: the Bad Buddy fandom is a bit of an outlier with its penchant for PWP!
(Well, based on the few fandoms I could think of that I compared it to, anyway.)
What I did was basically compare the ratios of [number of fics with the PWP tag/total number of fics in the fandom] for a bunch of different fandoms on AO3, where I picked the fandoms based on what caught my fancy - so let's call it random sampling so it sounds better.
The highest was Hades (the video game) with about 6.5% of the fics being PWP (unsurprising, Hades remains the horniest fandom I've ever looked up, you go Hades fandom). Setting that aside, the average of the other fandoms was between 1.5% to 2%.
Except Bad Buddy, which had 4.6% fics tagged PWP.
So then I looked at averages. I looked up the most popular fandoms in the PWP tag (i.e., the fandoms which had the most PWP fics), and the top five were Harry Potter, BTS, BNHA/My Hero Academia, MCU, and Supernatural. All of them were at 2%ish, except BTS which had about 4%.
I also looked at the most popular fandoms in general, based on these stats by destinationtoast in 2022. The top 5 fandoms and the percentages of PWP fics were:
MCU - 2.4%
Harry Potter - 2.2%
Supernatural - 2.6%
BNHA/My Hero Academia - 2.7%
Video Blogging RPF - 1.6%
Again, Bad Buddy has 4.6% PWP fics - close to double of nearly all the top 5 fandoms.
Admittedly, these are all small percentages so idk how much significance that 2% difference really has. And the fandoms are wildly different in terms of number of fics and stuff. But it's still interesting to me.
I even compared it to KinnPorsche and Only Friends because they're better known for sexual themes and have overlapping audiences with Bad Buddy. KP clocks in at 3.6% PWP fics, making it lower than Bad Buddy (but it also has 11k total fics compared to Bad Buddy's 2k, fwiw).
Only Friends is actually on track to beat Bad Buddy - out of 803 total fics, 4.7% are PWP.
Still, I think Bad Buddy stands out because here, canon's themes aren't particularly explicit, but it still has more PWP than most fandoms I looked at. (I actually looked at nearly 20 fandoms before I got too sleepy to keep going, but I'm not listing them all out because some of them had fewer than 1000 fics so the sample space might be too small and stuff.)
So yeah, the Bad Buddy fandom is horny and I, for one, am very much here for it :]
(I also looked at the % of E-rated fics (not just PWP) and in that category, Bad Buddy didn't particularly stand out. Actually, there it was Only Friends that came the closest to giving Hades a run for its money in terms of which fandoms have the most explicit works.
Aside from that I also noted the % of PWP fics that are E-rated, but I am too sleepy to make sense of those numbers, and besides, every fandom has those numbers in the 80-100% range anyway.)
(Also why am I posting this on this blog? idk. I usually put all fandom stats-y posts on a different sideblog but mhmm I felt like switching it up today. If I ever expand on this post - big if, that - it'll go back to that other sideblog.
Though I probably won't come back to this because I have the attention span of a fruit fly, there is more stuff to explore! Like, from a very superficial look around, it looks like South East Asian shows' fandoms may have a higher-than-usual ratio of PWP fics? I'd like to look into that properly and see if that's an actual thing or just true for the few fandoms I looked at.)
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coquelicoq · 4 months
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god i had THE BEST TIME AT THE DENTIST TODAY and i feel completely unhinnnnngèd for saying that bc i never in a million years thought the dentist could be FUN but the hygienist was french and switched to french as soon as i mentioned that i had taken french and i understood almost everything he said to me and it felt so good!!! i never understand french!! things are paying off!!!! also i do super recommend this method of conversing in a language you are not super confident in, like it's not just a coincidence i had such a good time doing this at the dentist specifically, it was good precisely because there was very little pressure on me to talk and i could mostly just make yes/no/questioning noises and any time i wanted to say a sentence i could take my time with it because there were literally instruments in my mouth??? absolutely no pressure for me to say something just to say something it was heaven oh my god. i take back every joke i've ever made about dentist office conversational logistics. IDEAL MODE.
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nyhti · 8 months
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Obsessed with him.
Secret six (2006)
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starrysharks · 8 months
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i wonder if white people specifically white progressives realise that black people are only ever seen as their skin color first and foremost
#this goes for all poc but im talking about black people here#black people are constantly connected to their skin color and tone in good ways and in not good ways#people will always see you as your race first because white is considered the default#like if someone wanted to insult me the first thing they would go for is my race or gender presentation#whenever an actor is cast for a role people see the fact that they are black before anything else - talent. style. etc is ignored#black people are othered in society to put it bluntly . that is why white people get so upset when black people are cast as any role#or when they uuuuuh you know exist#and if the other becomes the majority - say a movie with mostly black people or a black-exclusive setting#then white people will get uncomfortable and complain#maybe the way i explained it is weird idk im not good at explaining#what im trying to say is that blackness is not something you can hide unless you are able to pass as white/are biracial etc.#and so the many stereotypes about black people are what people see first#what i'm trying to get at is that the way people percive black people completely changes our experiences esp if we're queer or women#a white and visibly queer person will have a different experience than a black and visibly queer person#and white progressives often forget that#sorry if this was explained weird im not a good explainer and also some bad shit happened today so my head is not really in the game#do people even say that god#whatever man
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wanderingcas · 20 days
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suddenly feeling so nostalgic for supernatural fandom pre-2016
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