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neutrallyobsessed · 2 years
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If you don't mind me E N T E R I N G your blog, basically i played through investigations and ace attorney 1 recently so i have been mostly just lurking the narumayo tag, instead of playing the damn games and might i ask, do you have any non ace attorney ships you're into?
Why please my dear friend~! Come in, come in! Between, between~!................
Non-ace attorney???? Ships????
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sjkjsksjkas ok but i got quite a few.... tis nothing all that interesting, all straight and mostly canon.... if a show is showing me [male character] and [female character] enjoying each other's presence with a lil bit of love-teasing then I'll probably ship it lel
so ahhh mucho texto alert xd:
Of course I'll start with the funny reference above, TUGS.....
There's Hercules x Lillie of course, but Sunshine x Sally... they got something going on~, like the fact that there's little screetime between them and what they have is all very 👀👀👀 makes my imagination soar through the air ngl jsjsjk ((id say something bout the lack of content but we're talking bout tugs, thats in general xd))
On a related note, yes I am looking for some good ships in Thomas but I can't seem to find any or like, ♂ and ♀ interacted and didn't hate each other so SHIP jskjsksjks then again, tis just an adjacent fandom I'm not paying close attention to it
And for the rest of the live-action, I don't watch live-action,,,, but what i have is: Patrick x Teresa and Rigsby x Van Pelt from The Mentalist, Jim x Pam in The Office (everything else idc or dont like it) and most importantly, Carly x Freddie in iCarly. I really drop the show when they made Sam x Freddie canon lmao enemies-to-lovers my belothed </3
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I looked through my cartoon list and it's pretty much married couples and all that is canon lol: i like Fry/Leela, Shrek/Fiona, Josh/Emily, Alejo/Valentina, Bugs/Lola, Daffy/Tina, if a western magical girls show gives each girl a boy to crush on/date then imma ship it, I'm just that simple lol
but ofc it gotta be reciprocated, if it's one-sided and the other party doesn't like it then I won't like it either :/.....
That being said, western cartoon romance sucks, they're all so bad unless they're already married ksjakjskajs the fall of western civilization what the helllll
I guess Lotor x Allura or Shiro x Pidge in Voltron:LD but damn, its voltron, everybody loses when it comes to shipping there e.e
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And now what's REAL good! ANIME!!!
Starting strong with the best, the god tier, the absolute 10/10 ship of all time...
Marin x Melan from Brigadoon. The ultimate ship. Best love story ever told. No one can deny it. I can't go into much detail because it's better to go full blind but this really is the OTP of OTPs, I'd do more content of them but Melan is sooooo difficult to draw 😭
Unironic and monogamic, Light x Misa from Death Note, I do believe he could fall for her and both really are a match made in hell~♡
Kamina x Yoko from Gurren Lagann was pretty good for what it lasted lel
Gaku x Tsumugi from IDOLiSH7, what a power (and based) move to remove the otome aspect in the I7 anime but have one of the guys be purely in love with the manager of the rival boy band... they're not even "rivals" exactly, they're just co-workers in a somewhat competitive field, is the enviroment that gives it a forbiden fruit/rivals-to-lovers taste but they're actually friends all around lmao
There are many lovely married couples in JoJo, but from the non-canon that I like?? Kakyoin x Holly. For real, it's so lovely, funny and bizarre (xd) not only they should get togheter but Josuke should have been their son. Think about it, he'd still be a Joestar through Holly, have a stand through Kakyoin and it wouldn't break Joseph's character!
Alto x Ranka from Macross Frontier, I don't know/care if there's a movie that says otherwise, these two end up togheter at the end fuck you fuck you ((also Hayato x Freyja in Delta and I still don't know bout SDF xd haven't watch the movie yet... and who cares about seven???))
Lunge and Eva from Monster should have totally team up togheter and maybe fall in love with each other in the process 👉👈
Naruto x Hinata my canon beloved ♥ but..... Neji x Hinata....! aaaaaaa the story is kinda funny actually. At the time I was considering shipping it, r/dankgentina was doing like, a fuck-ton of Santiago del Estero (being the Alabama of Argentina) memes and "La prima lejana" by Los Autenticos Decadentes kept being referenced, for obvious reasons: la prima lejana means the distant cousin♀ so I think you can guess what's the song is about... point being that I thought to myself "If I like the song, Imma ship them cousins". It's a song from my childhood. La prima lejana is a song that I loved in my childhood and now I know what is about and now I ship the cousins lmao.
KawoShin? AsuShin? Kaworu x Asuka! that's where the good Evangelion shits at!!
I kinda ship Utena and Touga, but that's just to trig the libs lmao
Pleaseeee tell me that Claudio and Nicoletta get togheter in Ristorante Paradiso cmonnnnn that was like the only thing i was invested in that god forsaken anime aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa why are joseis like this??? (ok i do know but still... also you gotta bring proof, this is an mainly ace attorney blog, we're evidence-based here 😤)
fuck you fuck you fuck you, Sakura and Yukito should have get togheter, the teacher and the """she's so mature for her age!""" student are actually canon in the manga so CLAMP literally has no problem with that so why not here???.... this are the remains of lil me liking Yukito and projecting through Sakurita but I still agree and now I have more reason to...!
Protagonist x Akashi from The Tatami Galaxy~ very basic, very nice~
Very mixed with the ships of Inazuma Eleven... like, Endou x Natsumi is canon in games and anime and is sorta fun? But Endou x Fuyuka is canon in the game Rangu is playing and it's really sweet and I love it?? But Rangu himself ships Endou x Touko and he's absolutely right??? idk but Kidou x Haruna does slap tho
(and i have no idea in GO, there are so many combos and I guess there was something bout Nosaka and Anna in Ares/Orion?)
I don't really ship much in Pokemon, maybe self-shipping with some of them guys... on the other hand, Lucy actually liked and accepted Brock's advances on her? and that's epic, i love it! And then... then there's Ikarishipping (Paul x Dawn). What a fucking great ship name that is, next to JustWright, it still has that enemies-to-lovers taste I don't like but it is kinda cute and it hold my attention for more than 10 seconds, so that's something- also more fandoms should do that ______shipping naming thing xd
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welp, that was a long thing to write lol, anyways thanks for reading, asking and for your patience haha^^
in any case, this makes me consider doing an entire month dedicated to my other aa ships and another month dedicated to all my non-aa ships xd it'll be great~
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notfromanotherworld · 3 years
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While “Padmaavat” became a liberal cause célèbre for free speech, it is a movie steeped in patriarchy, parochialism and prejudice. In particular, I watched the last 30 minutes of the movie in absolute horror. In the climax scene, the queen leads thousands of women into Jauhar, or suicide, as Rajput women set themselves on fire rather than subject themselves to rape and captivity by the lustful Muslim invaders. (Padmavati is revered even today in Rajasthan for spearheading the Jauhar.)
I have never seen a mass suicide look this pretty on screen. The movie’s director, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, known for his baroque cinematic extravaganzas, orchestrated a scene with the women — their pink dupattas fluttering in the desert air with operatic synchronicity — walking in elegant slow motion into the flames. Among them were a pregnant woman and a small girl. Yet the film was asking us to applaud this moment; I felt my disquiet morphing into disgust. This was misogyny dressed up in diamonds and drama.
The subliminal message — in a country where one woman is raped every 20 minutes — is that an “honorable” death is preferable to sexual violence, a message that only reaffirms the shameful stigma attached to victims and survivors of such crimes. It reminded me of a woman I met a few years ago. She was fighting to get justice for her daughter, a young woman who had been murdered by a man who had also tried to rape her. The mother believed that her daughter had been killed because she fought for her “honor.” I mean no judgment on the naturally distraught mother, but we just have to stop implying that rape equals dishonor.
Yes, the practice of Jauhar by Rajput women to protect their “honor” is a historical accuracy, as was the wider practice of Sati — the burning of widows. But are we to apply 13th-century notions of chastity and courage to the 21st century, especially in the absence of authentic accounts by the women themselves? If so, why does Indian law firmly outlaw these repugnant practices? And since “Padmaavat’s” climax is distinctly celebratory about women who choose death over rape or abuse, why did the filmmakers place an opening disclaimer that they did not support Sati or Jauhar in any way? A filmmaker has every right to chronicle the customs of a particular era, but how that ritual is presented is critical. Bhansali could have presented the fact of Jauhar without dressing it up in ribbons and bows...
Ironically, the actor who plays Padmavati, Deepika Padukone, says the film “celebrates women power.” Indeed, she has shown steely courage in how she handled the threats. In demanding to be paid more than her male counterparts in the film, she has also led a public battle to bridge the gender gap. But by claiming that the film celebrates female power, she is being disingenuous. In a film supposedly built around the queen’s valor, she hardly has any substantive lines or even much to do. The defining trait of her character is that of sacrifice, which recycles another lazy old trope: women as long-suffering, sacrificial beings, who suppress their individualism for the greater good. Why should we be lauding that trait in modern India?
- “‘Padmaavat’ is pure misogyny dressed up in diamonds and drama” by Barkha Dutt
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alphawave-writes · 4 years
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Prompt: Siebren is in Harolds neck of the woods for a conference and they go out for dinner that night. When on their way back to harolds, a couple of teens try to mug them.
Mugging is no fun, and that sounds like it sucks...which is why it’s PERFECT for those two to get mugged. 
SFW (unless you think mugging is NSFW)
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Siebren’s never been to the US, let alone to Harold’s old family home in the South, but that’s exactly where he ends up going. To say that he had any expectations on Harold’s life is only a partial truth, because they all got completely shattered once he stepped foot inside the residence and nearly got tackled to the ground by a flock of parrots.
Harold’s snickering from what he assumes is the kitchen, just out of view. “Say hello to the family.”
“Is your boyfriend here already?” A womanly voice with a heavy Chinese accent calls from upstairs.
“Wait, Harold has a boyfriend?” A deep male American voice asked from the living room.
“Yes, mama, he’s here,” Harold calls. “And yes, papa, I have a boyfriend.”
“About time,” both parents say in unison. 
Harold’s shaking his head lightly as he approaches Siebren, who somehow managed to make the parrots leave him alone. Despite the summer heat, Harold’s dressed in a long sleeved shirt and pants. Before Siebren can question it, two baby chimpanzees climb up his back and hang off his shoulders. He smiles when he sees Siebren, doing his best to approach and kiss him once on the cheek. “Glad you made it.”
“I was aware your family are qualified zoo keepers, but I didn’t realise they still care for animals.” 
“They don’t normally, but these little guys’ mom is in papa’s care. Poor thing got polio. Until she gets better, or until we can find another chimpanzee to be their mom, we’re going to look after them.”
Siebren stares at the two baby chimps, eyes wide and curious. A small laugh escapes his lips. “They look like Specimen 28.”
“Is that Dr. de Kuiper?” Harold’s father asks when he approaches the front door. He shakes hands with Siebren. “Conrad Winston,” and then with a smirk, “but you may call me dad.”
Siebren blushes, which only make father and son laugh. Physically, they couldn’t look more different, but their laughter is the same, Siebren notices, right down to the hasty wipe of their eyes. 
“Don’t tease the man,” Harold’s mother smiles as she descends the steps. Everything about her clothing is practical and no-nonsense, except for her lips, painted rouge. Her dark hair is cropped short.
Siebren thinks it’s only polite when she grabs her hand and kisses it, so he’s surprised by the flighty chortle that escapes her throat.
“My, so polite,” she turns to Harold and smiles. “I like him already. So much better than Sally.”
“If it helps, he’s also a professor like me. In fact, he’s also here for the conference. He’s got a fancy presentation about the gravitational fields of the moon and everything, right after mine.”
“A professor, you say? Are you sure? He looks like a bodybuilder to me.”
Conrad Winston wraps his arm around Harold’s mom’s waist. “This is your son we’re talking about here. He likes them big and tall.” With a mischievous smile, he adds, “You know what they say about a man who’s big and tall, hmm? What happens on the moon stays on the moon.”
Harold groans loudly. “Papa, don’t scare him off. ”
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From Harold’s home they drive a reasonable distance to the edge of the city where a Chinese restaurant sat. It isn’t the most authentic food in the world, but it tastes good, and reasonably priced according to Harold’s mom, who Siebren now knows as Leela. Over dinner he learns the story of how Harold’s parents met, their careers as zoologists and conservationists, and the childhood mischief of a young Harold and his older sister. Harold’s blushing in embarrassment, so in turn Siebren talks about the time he tried to egg a teacher’s apartment back in school, only to throw the egg too low into the open window of the neighbour’s instead. 
If Harold’s parents are scrutinising him, they don’t show it, laughing and chatting amicably like he’s already part of the family. It’s rare that Siebren feels so readily accepted. He’s always been known to be eccentric and overly passionate about his work, so to see an entire family so utterly in love with what they do and what they have, it’s a breath of fresh air. 
Evening has already settled by the time they leave the restaurant. Conrad suggests they go out for ice cream, and after a joking remark about his weight from Leela, they head on down the street. They pair off into their own conversations, him chatting eagerly to Harold about their presentations for the upcoming convention tomorrow morning.
He’s too engrossed to hear the pitter patter of footsteps racing behind him. All he sees is the flash of coats as a group of teenagers run and shove past them. A wave of “sorry” and “pardon me” and “excuse me” are shouted as they run off. Before Siebren can react, the last one bumps into him, hands him something small and ceramic, and then they’re gone, disappearing into the night.
Siebren quickly checks his person, sighing in relief when he feels that his phone and wallet are untouched. He looks up, only to see Harold and his family chuckling behind their fists. 
His brows furrow. “What?”
“Word spread quick, doesn’t it?” Harold remarks.
“He looks like a stranger,” Leela replies. “You can’t miss that body in a crowd.”
Conrad smiles as he explains, “Hazing ritual in these parts is to give a newcomer a cup without being seen. Don’t ask why, something to do about the founder of the town and hospitality or giving. Some bull like that.”
Siebren glances down at the ceramic cup in his hands. It’s definitely cheap, probably from the local supermarket, but it’s decently made. 
Harold’s snickering gets louder. The cogs in Siebren’s brain finally churn until it hits him, and his eyes widen. 
“Did...did I just get mugged?”
If Siebren had any doubts as to whether Conrad and Leela are Harold’s parents, the way they cackle in joy made it abundantly clear that they are related, and that they all share the same horrible, horrible sense of humour. 
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timeagainreviews · 5 years
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5 Moments when Doctor Who SUCKED
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Imagine, if you will for a moment, that you are a brand new Doctor Who fan. You don’t even know to call yourself a Whovian yet. You get on a few facebook groups, see a few YouTube videos and discover, much to your dismay, that Doctor Who is, in fact, ruined now. Woe is you who set path down a trail leading toward mediocrity, and eventually utter devastation. I ask you to picture yourself in this manner because I want you to realise that only a person new to Doctor Who would believe such drivel. Everyone else saying this seems to have rose tinted glasses. The rest of us all know that Doctor Who is a show that sometimes requires forgiveness.
Am I saying Doctor Who is a bad show? Not hardly. Much like pizza, Doctor Who is still pretty good, even when it sucks. I would venture to say that one of the things I love most about Doctor Who is how campy and silly it can be at times. Why is it then that so many people are turning their backs on a show that’s filled their lives with so much joy? I’m really trying to avoid the "because sexism," argument. But I can’t help but feel like if you were to switch the Doctor to a male, nobody would be calling the show "ruined." Furthermore, how do you even ruin something that has gone through so many changes throughout the years? Oh right, it’s the Doctor Who fandom. Where the only language allowed is hyperbolic.
Perhaps these fake geeks are mad because making the Doctor a woman takes away their ability to call her a Mary Sue. Especially when you consider the same character once burst out of a golden birdcage and floated to the ground in a wave of Jesus energy. That might mean they’d have to retroactively apply the title to every incarnation. Could the Doctor ever escape the distinction? Unnaturally talented, charismatic, good at everything he does, brilliantly smart. Or is it that these attributes only belong to men? We can believe Tom Baker’s Doctor is capable of walking into a burning furnace to save K9, but hell no, a woman can’t be the Doctor.
You have to face it, Doctor Who has had some terrible moments. Yet we continue to tune in because we forgive it. We forgive when Doctor Who is bad because of the moments when Doctor Who is wonderful. Which I know is how you would describe an abusive partner, but I’m gonna let it slide for a television series. Especially this series. Because unlike that dickhead who never texts you back, Doctor Who can change. If you don’t believe me, please peruse this list of five instances when Doctor Who was terrible.
1. The John Nathan-Turner era
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My God, how could I not start with this? While there is no denying there are some wonderful moments in JNT's Doctor Who, it's easily my least favourite era of Doctor Who. And as much as I personally love Colin Baker, his Doctor got the lion's share of poor scripts and erroneous costume choices. Never has a man more game for a role, been dealt such a bad hand.
Introducing a Doctor that was cowardly, and even violent toward his companion, was seen as a bridge too far. While I understand the desire to try something new with the character, this wasn't the way to go about it. While the show begins to pick up around the end of McCoy's tenure, it's evident that this is more the influence of studio notes and the hard work of script editor Andrew Cartmel. I can't think of anyone less suited for the job of showrunner.
It seems that for a good nine years, Doctor Who had a madman at the helm, and not in that cute Matt Smith way. Dressing in flamboyant Hawaiian shirts, Nathan-Turner brought that same brash sensibility to the program. From Six's garish costume, to question mark lapels, to Mel's entire timeline, it's a big fat mess with him sitting in the middle. Add to all of this, the allegations of him being a predatory creep toward young male fans, and it's a surprise the show ever survived. Oh wait, it didn't.
2. Racism
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Ok, maybe I should have started with this. While Doctor Who has taken efforts to address its racist past, it still happened. They drop a racist slur in "The Celestial Toymaker." Even the term "celestial," is used to mean "Chinese," in describing the titular character played by the very white Michael Gough, fully clad in Oriental silks. This tradition follows into "The Talons of Weng-Chiang," when Li H'sen Chang was played by John Bennett.
It's an uncomfortable miracle that they didn't allow Patrick Troughton to play the role of the Second Doctor in brownface. Not to say his era escaped the odd bit of racism. While Toberman in "Tomb of the Cybermen," gets a few heroic moments, he also gets none of the lines. Cast as mute manservant, we learn nothing about the inner workings of a black man who died so that white people may live.
Later, the show used characters like Ace to talk about racism. She shows disgust with a "No Coloureds," sign hanging in the boarding house she's staying in. When the evil Morgaine had her under mind control, it was calling her friend Ling Tai "yellow," and "slant-eyed," that she was able to snap out of it. Real Ace would never say such things. But even with that groundwork laid, the new series still struggles. From the Doctor being weirdly dismissive toward black people, to it taking nearly 50 years for the first black TV companion, Doctor Who is still grappling with its race issues. Yet you all kept watching.
3. Ace gets molested
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This one is a bit of a lesser known infraction as it takes place in the books after the show had already been cancelled. Kicking off the Virgin Media "New Adventures," is 1991's "Timewyrm: Genesys," by John Peel. In it, the Doctor and Ace travel to ancient Mesopotamia, where they meet King Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh wastes no time going full blown creep, groping Ace and pawing at her like he was Joe Biden.
The Doctor's reaction to this is to tell Ace to just go with it, and that it's part of the culture. While I agree that, yes, Gilgamesh may not be the sophisticated modern man that hugs a bro and supports equal pay, the Doctor's reaction is some straight up bullshit. If you're going to go there, maybe try saying something with it other than "Women are men's property." This could have been a great opportunity for the Doctor to puff up and use Gilgamesh's own primitive mindset against him. "How dare you touch my woman!" the very tiny Doctor could say to the very tall man. It would have been a funny visual, mixed with the Doctor utilising male privilege in a way that helps his companion.
This is really an objection I have against most of John Peel's work. He writes women in that "she boobed boobily," manner. Much to my dismay, Peel is one of the sole writers of the Dalek books, so any time you want to enjoy a tale involving our enemies from Skaro, you have to also partake in his brand of women. I'm talking women being described as buxom babes with shoulder length blonde hair, voices like baby goddesses, and legs up to their neck. While on the other hand, we get men described as having a hat and probably some other features. I may be embellishing, but seriously, John Peel, your women suck. Yet it still spawned a rather large book series.
4. Minuet in Hell
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Doctor Who has never been known to nail accents. Tegan is vaguely Australian. And Peri must have moved around a lot due to the fact that nothing about her American accent sounds like a regional dialect. That doesn't mean that Robert Jezek's Foghorn Leghorn meets the KFC Colonel performance as " Brigham Elisha Dashwood III," is any less painful. But bad accents aside, the biggest demon in this Big Finish audio is one of Doctor Who's oldest enemies- sexism!
While I understand that Charlotte Pollard may be a fan favourite among many Big Finish listeners, her character will forever be tainted for me, and it's all due to this story. In it, Charlotte, or Charley, gets literally human trafficked. They kidnap her, force her to wear lingerie in a very creepy and misguided attempt to add some sexiness to the story and force her to wait on rich businessmen at a casino.
Now, allow me to clarify, it's not the human trafficking that taints her in my eyes. People who get trafficked are victims, obviously. What bothers me is that neither Gary Russell or Alan W Lear thought to give her a single line of dialogue where she protests. She doesn't even complain a little. Sure, the Doctor often gains intel by getting captured, but this is ridiculous. Add this to the weird disjointed story, and "Minuet in Hell," easily serves as one of the lowest points in not just Big Finish history, but Doctor Who as a whole.
5. Sexism
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It makes the most sense that this is the last one on the list. Because let's be honest, it's a huge problem in the fandom. A lot of early Doctor Who audios and books smack of moments when it feels as though the writers never considered the existence of female fans. Women are often utilised as a means to make the Doctor look better, and for the baddies to look scarier. Mind you, it's not always been a pantheon of swooners and screamers. We got the occasional Sarah Jane, Leela, and Ace.
Even the strong women are long-suffering. Liz Shaw (and her real-life actress Caroline John) left the role of companion over sexism. Beginning her time on Doctor Who as UNIT's top scientific advisor, she was demoted to assistant, holding beakers for the male Doctor who stole her job. The Fourth Doctor acted similarly when telling Romana her qualifications had nothing on real life experience. The same excuse has been used for decades to keep educated women out of the workforce. "Come back when you've got some experience, sweetheart."
While Rose Tyler was a refreshingly real character with a family and life of her own, it doesn't mean that she wasn't horribly mismanaged. In "The Stolen Earth," we see a darker, more serious version of her character. The Rose we used to know is now fully devoted toward one mission and one mission only- getting her man back. It's as though her personality disappears and is fully dependent on having the Doctor in her life. She rises to greatness so that she might bask in his once more. Maybe it's romantic, but maybe it's bad writing.
If you were to ask me who my favourite Doctor Who writers are, I'd have to say Robert Holmes is up there, and he wrote "Talons of Weng-Chiang," a serial full of yellowface. I'd also say Russell T Davies, who wrote the aforementioned "Stolen Earth," and also saw it in his wisdom to turn Shirley Henderson's "Ursula," into a blowjob dispensing garden brick. Or even Steven Moffat who believes the Statue of Liberty could sneak around New York, undetected, and that nobody notices his predilection toward dominatrix women in stiletto heels.
In my review for "The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos," I quipped that Chris Chibnall had not yet written a truly great episode of Doctor Who. However, since "Resolution," I can no longer say such a thing. I may even go as far as to say it's one of the best Dalek episodes ever. It would seem then that, given enough time, he could become a great showrunner. And it seems that given enough time, any writer, yourself included, could one day write the latest "worst episode ever."
Every new era has had its stumbles. Not every Doctor gets it correct 100% of the time. Capaldi decided he was the kind of Doctor to exit through the window, a trait we never saw again. The Fifth Doctor decided to sleep his way through his first adventure. The Eighth Doctor was "human on his mother's side." And Ten took so long to regenerate that I'm beginning to think it was old age, and not radiation that did him in. If you can look at all of these stupid, stupid moments and still say you love Doctor Who, then maybe, just maybe, you can get over a bit of spotty writing, like you always have. Or is it still the female Doctor thing? Oh...
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Badhaai Ho is one of the most critically awarded films of last year and has even won multiple national awards. With an unconventional script, the film won the audience’s hearts in no time and starred Ayushmann Khurrana, Sanya Malhotra, Neena Gupta, Gajraj Rao, and Surekha Sikhri in lead roles. Now, the makers are all set to make the second installment of this classic film titled Badhaai Do. This installment will star Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar in lead roles, marking their first on-screen collaboration. Rajkummar Rao will be seen playing the role of a cop, who happens to be the only male cop in a mahila thana, while Bhumi Pednekar will play the role of a PT teacher.
Even though the characters and storyline is different, Badhaai Do will be a social comedy of the same milieu as Badhaai Ho. The project will be helmed by Hunterrr director, Harshavardhan Kulkarni and is written by Akshay Ghildial, who originally wrote Badhaai Ho. When asked about her role, Bhumi says that she did not hesitate to say a yes as soon as she heard the script and says that this is one of the best scripts she has ever heard. Her character is independent and a powerful one and will help her expand her horizons as an actor. Rajkummar Rao, too, was all praises for his role and says that his role is surrounded by strong women at home and work and even though he has played the role of a cop before, this is entirely different from his previous roles.
Badhaai Do will revolve around how Rajkummar and Bhumi’s lives intertwine in ways more than one. The film is slated to release early next year and will go on floors in June this year.
Also Read: SCOOP: Bhumi Pednekar’s next to be produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
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cheesebrain · 7 years
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Questions time 1: is there a boy/girl in your life? just my mum lol 2: think of the last person who hurt you; do you forgive them? yes, no point poisoning myself by holding a grudge 3: what do you think of when you hear the word “meow?” my cat, Leela! she has the LOUDEST meow! 4: what’s something you really want right now? happiness 5: are you afraid of falling in love? I guess so. I don't like to feel vulnerable 6: do you like the beach? LOVE it! it's my favourite place to me 7: have you ever slept on a couch with someone else? no 8: what’s the background on your cell? a picture of my little dog, Stella. She's so cute 9: name the last four beds you were sat on? ???????? 10: do you like your phone? it's an iPhone 6s so it's getting kind of slow now and I cracked the screen...but it does its job just fine 11: honestly, are things going the way you planned? i don't really know...sometimes it seems like they are, other times life feels out of control 12: who was the last person whose phone number you added to your contacts? oh jeez idk 13: would you rather have a poodle or a rottweiler? rottweiler tho any would be fine tbh 14: which hurts the most, physical or emotional pain? emotional 15: would you rather visit a zoo or an art museum? art museum, I don't like seeing animals all caged up in zoos 16: are you tired? permanently 17: how long have you known your 1st phone contact? 6 years...it's a girl I became friends with at the start of high school, now we are in 2nd year of Uni!!! 18: are they a relative? nope 19: would you ever consider getting back together with any of your exes? my boyfriend and I just broke up so its too early to tell... 20: when did you last talk to the last person you shared a kiss with? 1 day ago 21: if you knew you had the right person, would you marry them today? no 22: would you kiss the last person you kissed again? not at this time 23: how many bracelets do you have on your wrists right now? zero...it tarnished so I have to get it cleaned 24: is there a certain quote you live by? "wtf" 25: what’s on your mind? wtf am I doing with my life 26: do you have any tattoos? no 27: what is your favorite color? blue or yellow or green 28: next time you will kiss someone on the lips? idk 29: who are you texting? my best friend 30: think to the last person you kissed, have you ever kissed them on a couch? yes 31: have you ever had the feeling something bad was going to happen and you were right? always 32: do you have a friend of the opposite sex you can talk to? no, which is unfortunate 33: do you think anyone has feelings for you? probably my ex-boyfriend...our break up is still raw and he wanted to stay together 34: has anyone ever told you you have pretty eyes? yes 35: say the last person you kissed was kissing someone right in front of you? ANGER 36: were you single on valentines day? no 37: are you friends with the last person you kissed? I'm not not friends with them? 38: what do your friends call you? dani 39: has anyone upset you in the last week? myself lol 40: have you ever cried over a text? yes 41: where’s your last bruise located? my knee 42: what is it from? idk tbh! 43: last time you wanted to be away from somewhere really bad? every time I have to go into university 44: who was the last person you were on the phone with? my grandma 45: do you have a favourite pair of shoes? I have this pair of strappy, brown suede heels which I love but I only wear them when I go out...I basically live in my ugg boots, flip flops or runners 46: do you wear hats if your having a bad hair day? nah, just tie my hair in a bun 47: would you ever go bald if it was the style? that would be a bold statement 48: do you make supper for your family? occasionally 49: does your bedroom have a door? yes 50: top 3 web-pages? tumblr, Facebook, Instagram 51: do you know anyone who hates shopping? my dad 52: does anything on your body hurt? yeah I have an injured hip/lower back 53: are goodbyes hard for you? depends who I'm saying goodbye to 54: what was the last beverage you spilled on yourself? green tea...I sneezed when I was about to take a sip and it went all over me lol 55: how is your hair? blonde and in a bun at the moment 56: what do you usually do first in the morning? have breakfast & a cup of tea 57: do you think two people can last forever? if they're right for each other 58: think back to january 2007, were you single? yeah, I was like 9 years old lol 59: green or purple grapes? green seedless 60: when’s the next time you will give someone a big hug? tonight when I say goodnight to mumma 61: do you wish you were somewhere else right now? in italy 62: when will be the next time you text someone? whenever my friend replies to my text 63: where will you be 5 hours from now? in bed asleep (I hope) 64: what were you doing at 8 this morning. eating breakfast and getting ready to go to the gym 65: this time last year, can you remember who you liked? my ex 66: is there one person in your life that can always make you smile? my grandma 67: did you kiss or hug anyone today? gave my mumma a BIG hug 68: what was your last thought before you went to bed last night? I don't remember 69: have you ever tried your hardest and then gotten disappointed in the end? yes 70: how many windows are open on your computer? none...I'm not on my computer 71: how many fingers do you have? 10 72: what is your ringtone? generic iPhone ringtone 73: how old will you be in 5 months? 19 (still) 74: where is your mum right now? next to me on the couch...we are watching the movie 'Babel' 75: why aren’t you with the person you were first in love with or almost in love? because I fell out of love with them :( 76: have you held hands with somebody in the past three days? nope 77: are you friends with the people you were friends with two years ago? a couple of them 78: do you remember who you had a crush on in year 7? no one...everyone in my year were lame 79: is there anyone you know with the name mike? one person I went to school with, but he moved to America 80: have you ever fallen asleep in someones arms? nope 81: how many people have you liked in the past three months? one 82: has anyone seen you in your underwear in the last 3 days? no 83: will you talk to the person you like tonight? no 84: you’re drunk and yelling at hot guys/girls out of your car window, you’re with? I wouldn't do this in the first place LOL 85: if your bf/gf was into drugs would you care? my ex use to take party drugs and I didn't like it...I was ok with him smoking weed occasionally 86: what was the most eventful thing that happened last time you went to see a movie? I watched the movie and that was it 87: who was your last received call from? my mum probably 88: if someone gave you $1,000 to burn a butterfly over a candle, would you? I never want to hurt another living thing, but $1000 would come in handy :\ 89: what is something you wish you had more of? happiness & money 90: have you ever trusted someone too much? yes 91: do you sleep with your window open? only in summer 92: do you get along with girls? who I get along with isn't really gender specific, it just depends on their personality & attitude...I have female and male friends 93: are you keeping a secret from someone who needs to know the truth? no, I'm way too transparent :( I wanna be mysterious ya know 94: does sex mean love? I think it can be a way of showing love (depending on the relationship) but I don't think it equals love 95: you’re locked in a room with the last person you kissed, is that a problem? no 96: have you ever kissed anyone with a lip ring? no 97: did you sleep alone this week? yes 98: everybody has somebody that makes them happy, do you? yes...mum, dad & grandma 99: do you believe in love at first sight? I don't think you can fall in love with someone until you get to know them properly 100: who was the last person that you pinky promise? my ex
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Badhaai Ho is one of the most critically awarded films of last year and has even won multiple national awards. With an unconventional script, the film won the audience’s hearts in no time and starred Ayushmann Khurrana, Sanya Malhotra, Neena Gupta, Gajraj Rao, and Surekha Sikhri in lead roles. Now, the makers are all set to make the second installment of this classic film titled Badhaai Do. This installment will star Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar in lead roles, marking their first on-screen collaboration. Rajkummar Rao will be seen playing the role of a cop, who happens to be the only male cop in a mahila thana, while Bhumi Pednekar will play the role of a PT teacher.
Even though the characters and storyline is different, Badhaai Do will be a social comedy of the same milieu as Badhaai Ho. The project will be helmed by Hunterrr director, Harshavardhan Kulkarni and is written by Akshay Ghildial, who originally wrote Badhaai Ho. When asked about her role, Bhumi says that she did not hesitate to say a yes as soon as she heard the script and says that this is one of the best scripts she has ever heard. Her character is independent and a powerful one and will help her expand her horizons as an actor. Rajkummar Rao, too, was all praises for his role and says that his role is surrounded by strong women at home and work and even though he has played the role of a cop before, this is entirely different from his previous roles.
Badhaai Do will revolve around how Rajkummar and Bhumi’s lives intertwine in ways more than one. The film is slated to release early next year and will go on floors in June this year.
Also Read: SCOOP: Bhumi Pednekar’s next to be produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
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Badhaai Ho is one of the most critically awarded films of last year and has even won multiple national awards. With an unconventional script, the film won the audience’s hearts in no time and starred Ayushmann Khurrana, Sanya Malhotra, Neena Gupta, Gajraj Rao, and Surekha Sikhri in lead roles. Now, the makers are all set to make the second installment of this classic film titled Badhaai Do. This installment will star Rajkummar Rao and Bhumi Pednekar in lead roles, marking their first on-screen collaboration. Rajkummar Rao will be seen playing the role of a cop, who happens to be the only male cop in a mahila thana, while Bhumi Pednekar will play the role of a PT teacher.
Even though the characters and storyline is different, Badhaai Do will be a social comedy of the same milieu as Badhaai Ho. The project will be helmed by Hunterrr director, Harshavardhan Kulkarni and is written by Akshay Ghildial, who originally wrote Badhaai Ho. When asked about her role, Bhumi says that she did not hesitate to say a yes as soon as she heard the script and says that this is one of the best scripts she has ever heard. Her character is independent and a powerful one and will help her expand her horizons as an actor. Rajkummar Rao, too, was all praises for his role and says that his role is surrounded by strong women at home and work and even though he has played the role of a cop before, this is entirely different from his previous roles.
Badhaai Do will revolve around how Rajkummar and Bhumi’s lives intertwine in ways more than one. The film is slated to release early next year and will go on floors in June this year.
Also Read: SCOOP: Bhumi Pednekar’s next to be produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali
from Latest Bollywood News | Hindi Movie News | Hindi Cinema News | Indian Movies | Films - Bollywood Hungama https://ift.tt/2TSMcJy
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What Bernie Supporters Think of the Term ‘Bernie Bro’
Over the last few weeks, it's become clear that Bernie Sanders could actually become president. The Vermont senator is polling very close to Joe Biden in Iowa, has a large lead over everyone in the latest California poll, and seems likely to do very well in New Hampshire. The prospect of Sanders winning the nomination has the finance world freaking out—there are already reports of stocks falling as he climbs the polls—and has inspired a backlash from his many detractors. Centrist pundits have declared him to be unelectable, and his former competitor Hillary Clinton has denounced not just Sanders but the entire "culture around him," which she recently described to the Hollywood Reporter:
It's his leadership team. It's his prominent supporters. It's his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women. And I really hope people are paying attention to that because it should be worrisome that he has permitted this culture — not only permitted, [he] seems to really be very much supporting it.
The "Bernie Bro" stereotype isn't new, of course, but the notion that Sanders supporters are different from other Democratic voters, and even dangerous in some way, seems poised to dominate the never-ending debate over the 2020 primary. It scored a major piece of ink on Monday, when the New York Times ran a front-page story headlined, "Bernie Sanders and His Internet Army." It describes a passionate fan base who donates their money and time to their candidate, but also sometimes attacks opponents with insults and even threats.
"When Mr. Sanders’s supporters swarm someone online, they often find multiple access points to that person’s life, compiling what can amount to investigative dossiers," the Times wrote. "They will attack all public social media accounts, posting personal insults that might flow in by the hundreds."
If you’ve ever posted anything slightly critical of Sanders, this sort of dogpiling may sound familiar. (Full disclosure: I'm a Sanders supporter who yes, spends a fair amount of time online.) Interviews with dozens of Sanders backers find them admitting that the "internet army" can at times be vicious—a reality that many leftists themselves bemoan. But they also see the Bernie Bro narrative as an invention of the media and the Democratic establishment.
Standard-issue online sparring is often conflated with threats, and Sanders supporters feel frustrated they are so often associated with the worst behavior of their fellow travelers. "Most Bernie supporters online tend to be young, somewhat irony-poisoned, and angry. I'm including myself in this group," Joe Conley, a 33-year-old Sanders supporter, told me over email. He pointed out that there’s an "irony gap" between Bernie supporters and people on the receiving end of their ire. While tweeting a photograph of a pig with shit on its balls might be a standard-issue troll for a member of left Twitter, it’s perceived as online harassment from people who aren’t acquainted with this language of certain subcultures. At the end of the day, every political tribe has its toxic streak, so why do "Bernie Bros" get singled out?
Even as a self-identified Bernie Bro, I’ve gotten a fair amount of grief from leftist dudes on the internet. But I’ve received an equal heaping of hate from women who supported Clinton, anti-semitic Trump trolls, and beyond. Though fewer in number than Sanders supporters, Andrew Yang backers can be just as fiery online—notably, there are a significant number of irony-drenched #YangGang members from 4chan and other Trump-adjacent corners of the internet. Tulsi Gabbard, another Democrat with fringe appeal, has an intense fan base that contains members of the far right. In general, the culture around political celebrities has become more like regular celebrity stan culture, meaning fans feel intense emotions and share them online, and campaigns have little control over those feelings. (Sanders’s popularity is forever intertwined with his online army, but his campaign does not promote cyberbullying or misogyny—as the Times story noted, the Sanders campaign has publicly condemned bullying. That hasn't stopped it.)
One Bernie supporter sent me a dossier of all the abuse Bernie supporters receive from "loyalist Democrats" and "Donut Twitter." (Anti-Bernie liberals sometimes use a donut emoji in their Twitter names. It's a long story.) This collection of screenshots is really ugly, with people tweeting things like "I’m rooting for Bernie supporters' death," and "anyone that fucking supports Bernie Ratfucker Sanders is a piece of shit." There is also a glut of disgusting, unquotable, racist and misogynistic insults that have been hurled at Nina Turner, a Black woman who has worked with Sanders for years and co-chairs his 2020 campaign. (VICE was unable to confirm the authenticity of all of the screenshots and is not linking to the file, but did verify that many of the abusive tweets were real.) The fact is, the internet is a cruel place for everyone, regardless of who you’re voting for in 2020.
"I really think we are no more mean or aggressive than any other group of people," said Peter Graham, a 28-year-old who works for Disney and is voting for Bernie. "[It’s that] Bernie has younger supporters that are very online, [they] are probably better versed in sardonic Twitter dialogue, and there's more of them."
The stereotype of a nasty online leftist bro—unmistakably masculine, usually sneering—predates that election season. In 2008, the feminist writer Rebecca Traister (then a Clinton supporter) published an op-ed on Salon, bemoaning the rise of the "Obama boys." Young women who backed Clinton, she wrote, told her "about the sexism they felt coming from their brothers and husbands and friends and boyfriends [and] described the suspicion that their politically progressive partners were actually uncomfortable with powerful women."
Leftists have accused the mainstream media of using this stereotype as a club to beat Sanders with. "The ‘Bernie Bro' narrative by pro-Clinton journalists has been a potent political tactic," Glenn Greenwald wrote on The Intercept in 2016, calling it "a journalistic disgrace." And the idea that the democratic socialist's base is largely male is arguably just straight-up false: Polls have shown that Sanders supporters are diverse across racial and gender lines, with young women making up a larger proportion of his support than young men.
Yet the narrative has remained pervasive, likely because there are plenty of genuinely nasty Bernie supporters lurking online, and more recently, because Sanders has achieved frontrunner status. Since his rise in the polls, Bernie has received a deluge of negative press from mainstream publications. "This isn’t about Sanders supporters being uniquely toxic. It’s about Sanders leading in Iowa and New Hampshire and leading a genuinely diverse working class movement," one Bernie supporter tweeted in response to the New York Times article. "Elite liberals fear and despise the working class. That’s the reality."
"This is ruling class propaganda," another remarked. "And rather than keeping Bernie above the fray, the campaign's scolding of supporters was used to validate their false narrative of abusive Berners, as I feared it would be. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. So don't."
Peter Daou, a former Hillary aide turned Bernie diehard, expressed dismay about the Bernie Bro stereotype over the phone. He said that he and his wife, Leela, now "receive the same type of personal attacks" as he did in 2016, when he was loudly supporting Clinton online. "People are using the term ‘Bernie Bro’ in a targeted way,” he said. "It’s a toxic narrative, leftover from 2016. The idea of these raging white males online that all support Bernie is the establishment’s way of trying to torpedo Bernie’s campaign."
Jovan Prunty, a 31-year-old who works in construction, also takes offense at the Bernie Bro narrative. "As a Black man I think this term erases me and all his other women and POC supporters," he said.
Sanders supporters generally agree that there are toxic leftist men whose behavior is out of bounds. But they insist that those people are a minority. Jaya Sundaresh, a writer for the socialist publication Current Affairs, voiced that sentiment on her Twitter in a post that garnered 15,000 likes: "I'm just going to say it: the Bernie Bro stereotype might be bullshit, but there's a variety of irony-poisoned shithead leftist dudes who have caused nothing but pain for myself and my female comrades." Over the phone Sundaresh was careful to emphasize that even though shitty men do exist on the left, the phenomenon is not specific to one edge of the ideological spectrum. "I’ve been swarmed by Pete Buttigieg supporters," she said. "I’ve also had good conversations with them."
Small, persistent jabs from Bernie supporters are unsurprisingly hurtful to people who support other candidates. Zandy Hartig, a Los Angeles-based actress, who backs Elizabeth Warren, tweeted on Wednesday, "It sucks that I feel I can’t tweet about my favorite candidate. my friends are respectful when they argue with me, but random people will jump all over me. It’s not their candidate’s fault, but it scares me nonetheless. And maybe that’s the point." Unkindness ensued, with Bernie supporters informing her that Warren does, in fact, suck, and imploring her to "calm down."
"I don’t think it’s Bernie fault," Hartig emphasized to me over the phone. "But I don't want to comment [anything pro-Warren] because when I have, people come down really hard on me and I almost feel like going private." (Her Twitter is currently private).
"During the 2016 election, I really didn’t think there was such a thing as a 'Bernie Bro,'" Hartig continued. "But this time, we’ve got a woman running who is much more progressive [than Hillary]… I’m starting to think it has a lot to do with misogyny."
The nastiness of online political culture has resulted in a gap between those like Hartig, who feel attacked by swarms of online Bernie heads, and Sanders supporters who complain that they are being unfairly stereotyped. Misogyny exists in every corner of the internet, they say. So why are we mostly talking about Bernie Sanders? "You’re gonna tarnish an entire movement as 'bros'?" Daou said. "[It] erases all the women, the women of color. There’s an ageist, a sexist, and a racist component when you generalize a diverse movement under the term 'Bro.'"
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I was just thinking about this very issue today. Song of the South has always been controversial for Disney (which is why you can't find it anywhere), yet its trademark song "Zippity-doo-dah," which even WON AN OSCAR, can be heard just about anywhere. Not to mention that one of the prominent rides at Disneyland, Splash Mountain, as well as the land it resides in (Critter Country), seem to be based off said film, despite its controversial nature. I find it ironic that this is so; if it was really such a problem, they could've rebranded it to fit some other movie, yet they haven't.
I understand trying to be considerate and not expose children to inappropriate stuff, but as this article points out, why not use problematic films in educational ways? Use them as a way to promote discussion of tough issues. Especially racism, given that it's such a hot-button topic right now.
Racist imagery seems to be the primary issue here, and Song from the South is far from the only example (they're taking the "Siamese Cat Song" out of the new live-action Lady and the Tramp cause of its portrayal of Asian stereotypes, for example). But what about other objectionable stuff? Older content is likely to exhibit sexism as well, and in movies from the '50s and '60s in particular pretty much everyone smokes. Yet no one talks about that kind of stuff.
Anyway, I'm on the fence. On the one hand, there's being appropriate to consider, but on the other hand promoting discussion is good. I think these movies and shows are products of their times, and people should understand that.
Disney is hardly the only one guilty of such things. I've watched older episodes of Doctor Who, and sexism is rather rampant. Even strong female characters find themselves victims of the times (and the all-male writing staff, no doubt). Leela in particular gets it worst, because she's not a very "feminine" lady, and since she came from a group of future humans that regressed back to a tribal culture, The Doctor thinks of her as "primitive" and seeks to "educate" her (in an Eliza Doolittle sort of way) and also doesn't take her hunter instinct for danger seriously at times. Yes, even The Doctor, who we view these days as very accepting of everyone, has been guilty of perpetuating such cultural stereotypes (he's also portrayed as finding humans "primitive" compared to his own people, particularly early on, though that changes with time). This was made particularly obvious in Capaldi's last episode, where the First Doctor was actually portrayed as quite sexist compared to Twelve. Though to be fair, I haven't seen all of Classic Who yet...but it seems like once the show went into the '80s this stuff became less common. The female Companions of the '80s are smart and strong - Nyssa the scientist, Tegan "The Mouth On Legs," opinionated Peri, computer programmer Mel, and bomber jacket-wearing Ace, who creates her own explosives and beats up Daleks with baseball bats. So something changed, clearly.
I'll have to give this more thought.
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On this day, 26 years ago, Indian cinema got one its biggest superstars of all time. Yes, we are talking about the King of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan. Shah Rukh Khan had faced film cameras for the first time for Hema Malini’s directorial debut Dil Aashna Hai (1992). But it was Raj Kanwar’s Deewana (1992) that got released earlier and became his debut film.. Along with Shah Rukh Khan, the film also starred Rishi Kapoor and Divya Bharti. Shah Rukh Khan showed up in the film after the interval and yet he managed to make a strong impact and gave a glimpse of his incredible potential. It was also the first time he gave his signature pose of standing with his arms wide open, an act that was to become synonymous with his performances in later years. The first film can give jitters to any actor, especially when he is required to perform along with established actors. But, Shah Rukh Khan appeared comfortable on screen even when performing with stars like Rishi Kapoor and Amrish Puri. His performance in the film also earned him the Filmfare Best Debut Award (Male). In the same year, Shah Rukh Khan was seen in films like supernatural comedy Chamatkar, drama Dil Aashna Hai, and the social comedy Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman.
In 1993, Shah Rukh Khan challenged the boundaries of a hero in Bollywood and earned great appreciation for essaying two villainous roles in Darr and Baazigar. Darr also marked the first of many collaborations that Shah Rukh went on to have with Yash Chopra. In Darr, Shah Rukh played the role of an obsessive stalker who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted. Shah Rukh’s iconic dialogue from the film, “ I love you K-K-K-Kiran” is liked by fans even today . Shah Rukh Khan also earned a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role (Male). With Baazigar, Shah Rukh Khan turned traditional Bollywood convention on its head as he played the vengeful Ajay Malhotra in this Abbas-Mastan film. Baazigar also marked Shah Rukh Khan’s first on screen appearance with Kajol. His performance in the film earned him his first Filmfare Award for Best Actor.
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In 1994, Shah Rukh Khan played a love struck musician in Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa which was directed by Kundan Shah. With this film, Shah Rukh again veered away from the tried and tested path. He played a slacker named Sunil who was head over heels for a girl named Anna (Suchitra Krishnamurthy) who unfortunately was in love with Chris (Deepak Tijori). Traditionally, the underdog would ultimately get the girl as seen in most films. But, in Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa no such thing happens. In the end, it is Anna and Chris who live happily ever after because Sunil bows out gracefully. His performance, which was way different from what he did in Darr and Baazigar earned him a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Performance. But in the same year, he got back on the bad guy bandwagon with Anjaam. In fact, he was so good being bad that he won the Filmfare Best Villain Award for his performance in Anjaam.
1995 was probably the year that made Shah Rukh Khan the man he is today. It was the year in which Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ), a landmark film in the history of Bollywood, got released. It changed perception about him yet again and cemented his position as the numero uno lover boy of Bollywood. The edgy path-breaking disruptive outsider of the early ’90s had become the ultimate poster-boy of the Bollywood romance. Even though DDLJ played a big role in making the star he is today it is interesting that he wasn’t keen on doing the film at the time he was offered. He felt that the role was too typical and it took a lot of convincing from the director of the film, Aditya Chopra, for Shah Rukh Khan to come on board. It’s said that in Aditya Chopra’s office there is a poster of DDLJ which is signed by Shah Rukh Khan which reads, ‘Thank you for making me the star that I am today’. DDLJ went on to become the longest running film in Indian cinema after completing more than 1000 weeks at the Maratha Mandir theatre in Mumbai. The film won ten Filmfare Awards, including the second Best Actor trophy for Shah Rukh Khan. In the same year, Shah Rukh Khan was also seen in Rakesh Roshan’s reincarnation drama Karan Arjun which went on to be the second highest grosser that year.
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In 1996, Shah Rukh was seen in four films which failed to impress the critics as wells the audience. His next mega hit came towards the end of 1997 with Yash Chopra’s musical romance Dil Toh Pagal Hai. The love triangle received massive praise from the critics as well as the audience and earned him his third Best Actor Award at Filmfare.
In 1998, Shah Rukh Khan won critical praise for his performance as an All India Radio correspondent who develops an obsession for a mysterious woman, who turns out to be a terrorist (Manisha Koirala) in Dil Se… Karan Johar’s directorial debut, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Rani Mukerji, titled Kuch Kuch Hota Hai too came out in 1998. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is regarded as one of SRK”s best films to date. It presented him in a designer avatar in the first half and also had him playing a character closer to his real age in the second half. It earned him another Best Actor nod at Filmfare.
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Shah Rukh Khan turned to production for the first time 1999 with Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani. The satire, which talked about the current state of our country however failed to perform at the box office.
Shah Rukh Khan made his Tamil debut with Kamal Haasan’s Hey Ram (2000) in which he played the role of an archaeologist named Amjad Khan. It was a brief role but carried an impact. In the same year, Shah Rukh was seen in Aditya Chopra’s Mohabbatein as well. Although the film didn’t impress the audience much, Shah Rukh Khan’s performance received massive praise from all over and earned him his second Filmfare Critics’ Award for Best Actor.
In 2001, he was seen in Karan Johar’s Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, a movie that he cites as a turning point in his career. With a star cast comprising Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Kajol, Hrithik Roshan, Kajol and SRK, K3G, as the film was popularly called, was a casting coup of sorts. Mounted on a massive scale, it was Karan’s version of The Ramayana and the audience instantly fell in love with it. The film managed to break many records at the box office including the title of the top-grossing Indian production of all time in the overseas market for the next five years.
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In 2002, Shah Rukh Khan played the role of an alcoholic in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s period romance Devdas, based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s iconic novel of the same name. The film earned numerous accolades including 10 Filmfare Awards, with another Best Actor trophy falling in Shah Rukh Khan’s kitty.
The following year, Shah Rukh Khan starred in another Karan Johar production titled Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003). The film discussed the vagaries of life and death and Shah Rukh Khan’s moving performance in the film as Aman Mathur, an individual who knows he’s dying and yet has his sense of humour intact got highly appreciated.
In 2004, Shah Rukh Khan started Red Chillies Productions and got Gauri Khan onboard as the producer. In the company’s first production, he starred in Farah Khan’s directorial debut, Main Hoon Na. It was Farah Khan’s homage to Manmohan Desai and Prakash Mehra’s brand of cinema and was full of in-jokes about films and film folks. Her comedic interpretation of the cinema tropes of the ’70s met with a good response from the audience. In the same year, Shah Rukh Khan played an Indian Air Force Pilot who falls in love with a Pakistani girl named Zara (Preity Zinta) in Yash Chopra’s cross border love story Veer Zaara. Veer Zara and Main Hoon Na were some of India’s highest grossing films that year. In his last release of 2004, titled Swades, Shah Rukh Khan played a NASA scientist who returns to his motherland in order to make his own people gain from his knowledge. He was nominated for the Filmfare Best Actor Award for all three of his 2004 releases and eventually won the award for Ashutosh Gowariker’s Swades.
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In 2006, Shah Rukh Khan collaborated with Karan Johar again with Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. The film boldly depicted a story of two people who end up having an extra marital affair after being unhappy in their respective marriages. It was his most grey-shaded character in ages but he surpassed that with his next release Don, where the villain was actually the hero. The Farhan AKhtar venture was a remake of the 1978 iconic film starring Amitabh Bachchan.
In 2007, we saw Shah Rukh Khan portray the role of a hockey coach in Chak De India! which was directed by Shimit Amin. The film is said to be inspired by the life of Mir Ranjan Negi, India’s former hockey player who after facing a lot of criticism for his performance in a game against Pakistan came back out of nowhere and helped the Indian Women’s Hockey team to a Commonwealth Gold. In an interview with a leading daily, Shah Rukh Khan spoke about how the film took him down the memory lane. He said, “I feel hockey as a sport has been monstrously neglected in our country. I used to play the game during college. In fact, I was quite a good hockey player. So the role was a lot like going back to my past.” The film earned Shah Rukh Khan another Filmfare Award for Best Actor. In the same year, Shah Rukh Khan starred alongside Arjun Rampal, Deepika Padukone and Shreyas Talpade in Farah Khan’s reincarnation drama Om Shanti Om. Shah Rukh developed six packs for his role in the film. Although the film received mixed reviews from the critics it went on to have a phenomenal run at the box office.
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In 2008, Shah Rukh Khan starred in Aditya Chopra’s Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. The film marked the debut of Anushka Sharma. It was a dance musical and SRK was able to showcase his versatility even in this hitherto unexplored genre.
Khan began shooting My Name Is Khan (2010). Set in the backdrop of the September 11 attacks on American soil which saw the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, Shah Rukh plays a man suffering from Aspergers Syndrome who is determined to prove that even though his Name Is Khan, he is not a terrorist. To prepare for the role, he spent several months researching his role by reading books, watching videos and talking to people affected by the condition. My Name is Khan became one of the highest grossing Bollywood films of all time outside India and also earned Shah Rukh Khan another Filmfare Best Actor trophy.
In 2011, Shah Rukh Khan tried his hand at the superhero genre with his home production Ra.One. The film didn’t perform as well as expected though he was appreciated for his zeal of trying to push the envelope.
Shah Rukh’s only release in 2012 came with Yash Chopra’s swan song Jab Tak Hai Jaan. The film re-established the fact that nobody does romance better than Shah Rukh Khan.
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After Jab Tak Hai Jaan, Shah Rukh Khan was seen in a bunch of commercial masala flicks like Chennai Express (2013), Happy New Year (2014) and DIlwale (2015). Although these films received mixed reviews, they did go on to do bumper business at the box office.
He then played a double role in Maneesh Sharma’s thriller titled Fan (2016). He played himself and his biggest fan in this exciting thriller, which was way ahead of its time as far as it’s idea is concerned and didn’t appeal to the audience. Though he was again appreciated for doing something out of the box. In the same year, Shah Rukh Khan was seen in Gauri Shinde’s Love You Zindagi which also starred Alia Bhatt. The film revolved around a budding cinematographer Kaira (played by Alia) who meets Jehangir Khan or Jug (played by Shah Rukh). Jug is a psychiatrist and helps a heartbroken Kaira gain a new perspective on love and life.
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In 2017, Shah Rukh Khan went back to being the badass with Rahul Dholakia’s Raees, which showcased the rise of a gangster in the Prohibition hit Gujarat. The film was a hit at the box office and Shah Rukh Khan’s performance received praise from all over. Shah Rukh Khan had another attempt at the romantic genre with Imtiaz Ali’s Jab Harry Met Sejal which came out the same year. The rom com failed to entice the audience.
This year, we will see Shah Rukh Khan reunite once again with Anushka Sharma in Aanand L Rai’s Zero which also stars Katrina Kaif. Zero is without a doubt one of the most hyped films of the year as for the very first time we will see Shah Rukh Khan as a dwarf on the big screen. Shah Rukh will also be seen in the Rakesh Sharma biopic, tentatively titled Salute.
26 years down the line and he’s still pushing the boundaries. Here’s wishing for many more years of King Khan’s reign.
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Worked very hard to get the extra zeroes on my pay cheque: Priyanka Chopra
She is an inspiration to many, but she wears her many achievements lightly on her shoulders. On Tuesday, as Priyanka Chopra took center stage as a speaker at The Penguin Annual Lecture, crowds cheered, applauded and hung on to every word that she said. And she spoke about her career, her journey to the top, how she took risks to get Hollywood projects and why she chose not to make a public statement on Padmavati controversy in India. The lecture that Priyanka Chopra delivered was motivational as the actress gave pointers on how to become a better version of one's own self. The lecture was followed by a chat session where a senior journalist asked her point of view on raging issues of 2017. 
Here are the highlights of the evening: 
On racism Priyanka studied in America for a brief period and stated that she did face racism back in school. "Racism exists in a big way all over the world. Yes, I faced it in a big way when I was in high school. People used to me 'brownie'. They used to call me 'curry'. When I used to pass by they used to say 'can you smell the curry?'At that age you are vulnerable and you wonder what is wrong with me. 
Priyanka Chopra gave a motivational lecture on Tuesday in the capital. (Twitter)
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On more South-Asian representation in Hollywood
Priyanka believes that there should be more South-Asian representation in the International entertainment industry. "South-Asian actors in international entertainment are still a novelty. At the after party at Emmys this year Riz Ahmed, Aziz Ansari and I were standing in one corner and eating. There were around 400 people in the room and we just realized that there were only 4 of us, South-Asians there. Aziz pointed out that 8 years earlier there was just one." Priyanka said, "We are making steps., .whether it's me, Riz, Aziz, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan- all the people who have gone out there and been successful with their work internationally, I pray and hope that that work bursts open the door for more talents from South-Asia. Because we deserve it. We are 1/5 the of the world's population and we should have better representation."
On Harvey Weinstein's of Bollywood
Steering clear of taking names, Priyanka admitted that she had lost out on projects because she never succumbed to power. "Yes, I have been thrown out of films because someone else has been recommended. A girlfriend of the actor or the director was recommended instead- that’s an abuse of power. I couldn’t do anything about it because I did not have the power nor did I cater to the whims and fancies of certain powerful men, so I did lose out on projects."
On doing Hindi films again
"My last releases -Bajirao Mastani and Jai Gangajal- were two and a half years back. When did Hrithik's last film release? Why aren't the boys asked such question, why only actresses?" said Priyanka when she was asked why she is not featuring in Hindi films anymore. "I am still working. I need time to take up the right project- just like actors. Actors tend to take long breaks before signing new films, they aren't asked so much,"pointed out the actress. 
On being the only woman on Forbes Top 10 power list.
"I am very proud that I have reached a position where I can stand shoulder to shoulder with my male counterparts and feature in a Top 10 list in India but why aren’t there other women on that list?" asked the actress. "There are very few females, not just in India, but all over the world, who get to break that glass ceiling and get duly compensated for their work. Which comes as a certain entitlement for men," she added. 
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Actress Priyanka Chopra on Tuesday said she was proud to "stand shoulder to shoulder with her male counterparts" as the "Baywatch" star weighed in on the gender pay gap in Bollywood during an event in New Delhi. (Reuters,ANI)
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For not making any public statement on the raging Padmavati controversy
Priyanka said she had spoken to both Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Deepika Padukone when the controversy broke out but did not want to make a statement publicly about it because she felt her statements would be misconstrued. "I can have an opinion but I should not be pushed to a corner and made a scapegoat (for it)." The actress also pointed out that in America, actors like Meryl Streep could speak against the country's President because it was 'culturally different' from India. "We have certain boundaries here and we must respect that."
On marriage
'Mere layak ladka milna chahiye (I need to find a man who deserves me)" the actress quipped as she was asked about settling down. "My mother told me this long back that I should only be with a man who respects what all I have accomplished in my life.But I do want to get married and have cricket team of children."
Priyanka speaking at The Penguin Annual Lecture in New Delhi on Tuesday evening. (Twitter)
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On the importance of training our boys right
"We live in patriarchal societies all over the world. We as citizens need to change our mindsets and teach our sons that respecting a woman makes you a real man, not when you tease one. When our sons know that, is when the generational change will come. It won't happen overnight, though. There shouldn’t be a world where women survive, there should be a world where women thrive."
On being unapologetic about her pay scale
Priyanka said she was very proud of the extra zeroes on her pay cheque. "I have worked very hard to get the extra zeroes on my pay cheque," said the actress and demanded the women need to be given the right remuneration for the work they do. "The boys are never asked this question. Their zeroes are ridiculous. Have you ever seen the zeroes that they get on their cheques? We should be celebrating that at least there's one girl who has gone out there,"pointed out Priyanka. "It was funny because there are so many people who talk about the kind of numbers that I apparently get for certain minutes of my time," she said, taking a dig at reports that she charged Rs 5 crore for her five-minute performance at the Zee Cine Awards earlier this month in Mumbai.
Hollywood vs Bollywood
Priyanka pointed out that culturally the two industries are different but the passion is the same. "We have the same producers, ADs working on the set. But culturally they are very different. They are very punctual. Everyone comes to the set on time, which I have a problem with," the actress added. 
On being a 'desi girl' at heart
Priyanka pointed out that it is very important for every individual to know his roots. "Always remember where you came from. I am a proud Indian, an Army ki beti, daughter of two Doctors with middle-class upbringing and ginormous families. We've seen good and bad times and that is what made me who I am," said the desi girl. 
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What Matters Is What Happens Next, More Than 'What Happened' by Richard Eskow
Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.
Bill Clinton used this Fleetwood Mac nugget as a theme in his 1992 campaign for president. But today, as Hillary Clinton’s campaign memoir goes on sale, the Democratic Party Clinton and his fellow “centrists” remade in their image seems unable to stop thinking about yesterday.
Can the Democratic Party reject its past mistakes and truly look to the future?
Don’t Look Back
The past shouldn’t be off limits, of course. We’re supposed to learn from our mistakes. Nevertheless, Democratic Party operative Paul Begala tweeted, “New rule: Nobody is allowed to comment on Hillary’s book until… they have read the book.”
Why does it seem like Democratic insiders are always trying to police the discourse? Politics is public property. People can talk about whatever they want. Still, when it comes to political debate, it’s wise to actually follow Fleetwood Mac’s advice, and not just hum along: don’t stop thinking about you-know-what.
So, are the controversies Hillary Clinton’s campaign memoir stirs up useful, or a waste of time?
It cuts both ways. Clinton says she’s done running for political office. If that’s true, it’s unproductive to argue about her personal merits. But her contentious and inaccurate statements in published excerpts from the memoir seem designed to influence the future of the party.
If she seeks influence, these statements should be challenged, in a forward-looking way.
Settling Scores
Begala’s comment was a response to Twitter comments by MSNBC host Chris Hayes, who called the book “compelling and candid and written with a pretty remarkable intimacy” and said that “the ‘juicy’ newsy tidbits give the impression it’s some kind score-settling rant, which it is not.”
Let’s hope so. Still, calling the book “compelling,” “candid” and “intimate” is not the same as saying it is “reflective,” “courageous,” “brave,” or “insightful.”
The excerpts already released have given us some stark statements – for example, that Clinton’s disappointed her campaign didn’t channel the kind of energy and enthusiasm that the Women’s March engendered, and that she is blames both Bernie Sanders and his followers for contributing to her defeat.
These aren’t just personal beefs. They speak to the future of the progressive movement. That means they deserve a response.
The Blame Game
“I couldn’t help but ask,” Clinton reportedly writes of the Women’s March, “where those feelings of solidarity, outrage, and passion had been during the election.” That question should inspire some self-reflection on her part. The Democratic Party’s leaders need to ask itself how a spontaneously organized demonstration generated worldwide enthusiasm and support, even as their party continues to decline at all electoral levels.
Republican cheating has a lot to do with it. So does the corrupting effect of money in politics, which elevates Republicans while weakening Democrats – perhaps most of all when they are its recipients.
A Democratic Party that depends on big-donor money will always struggle to craft a coherent message. Clinton’s campaign was merely the latest and most vivid example of that.
The party faces a turning point. It can devote itself to economic populism and find new sources of both funding and energy, as the Sanders campaign did. Or, it can rededicate itself to the Wall Street centrism of its last three decades and continue to fail.
Bashing the Future
Hillary’s bashing of Bernie and his supporters in the book is both unwise and unfair. In a CBS News interview ahead of the book’s release, Clinton mischaracterized both Sanders’ campaign and his supporters’ behavior.
Clinton was more divisive toward Obama in 2008 than Sanders was toward her in 2016, and it showed in the results: Only 12 percent of Sanders supporters voted for Trump, while more than twice as many Clinton supporters voted for McCain.
This bashing is also politically suicidal for Clinton’s party. Bernie Sanders remains the most popular politician in the country. In fact, he’s the only politician most voters actually like. Meanwhile, Clinton’s popularity has fallen below even Trump’s. Demographically, Sanders enjoys his strongest support among African Americans and the younger voters who will shape this country’s political future. It’s madness to alienate them.
It’s even worse to stigmatize them. Clinton repeats the falsehood that Sanders supporters were overwhelmingly young males – millennial Bernie supporters were mostly female. She also repeats the unfounded slur that Bernie supporters were unusually vicious online. A 2016 survey showed that, compared to Sanders backers, nearly twice as many people considered Clinton supporters “aggressive and/or threatening” in social media interactions.
PACs and Propaganda
Clinton isn’t just settling scores. She’s trying to marginalize her opponents in order to weaken their influence. She doubled down on that effort last week by supporting one of her most hyperbolic online supporters, Peter Daou, in a clumsy and bellicose online propaganda venture called “Verrit” – a blog, essentially, he founded with his wife Leela.
More importantly, Clinton has formed a PAC to raise money for candidates she finds ideologically suitable. Clinton’s PAC is structured as a so-called “social welfare nonprofit.” These entities, as the New York Times notes, “are often cited for a rise in dark money in politics because of their ability to protect donor anonymity.”
She must not succeed. Clinton, together with her allies and supporters, represents both an outmoded ideology and a troubling set of values. That ideology, while progressive in some ways, clings to an outmoded faith in free markets and corporations while seeking to manipulate them for constructive purposes.
“I want to really marry the public and the private sector,” Clinton has said.
Whose Values?
Clinton’s values are best expressed in the book excerpt where she dismisses the Sanders agenda as a “pony” and “no-minute abs.” These awkward attempts at humor trivialize programs Bernie supports like Medicare For All, which could save an estimated 320,000 lives over ten years.
That Clinton dismisses  vital and potentially life-saving programs with contempt speaks volumes. So does her assertion that they are unattainable “ponies,” when they have been attained, and are pillars of society, in other developed democracies.
Clinton’s distorted values are shared by an entire cohort of Democratic politicians, consultants, and followers. This value system thinks it’s perfectly fine to form a dark-money PAC. It celebrates being part of the governing elite, so much so that the ostensibly progressive Clinton could proudly claim the execrable Henry Kissinger as a “friend.”
This value system says this country can’t do big things like Medicare anymore, and shouldn’t bother trying. It says you can take six-figure speaking fees from Goldman Sachs and still believe you have answers for the public’s “anger” toward Wall Street. Clinton opposed a 21st century Glass-Steagall Act, and tried to deflect the debate over big banks with a false “either/or” approach toward shadow banking, as if it were impossible to address both problems.
These aren’t my values. I doubt they’re yours.
Don’t Stop, It’ll Soon Be Here
Dems would be wise to pay attention to the next line of Fleetwood Mac’s song, too. The Democratic Party has been failing its constituents for years. If it doesn’t change, the party will fail again.
Economic inequality has skyrocketed under both Democratic and Republican governments, and voters know this. Runaway fossil-fuel consumption is ravaging the planet. Mass incarceration has become a social plague. Each of these problems is approaching an irreversible tipping point. To solve them, we’ll need braver and bolder solutions than their stagnant ideology permits.
Fighting about Hillary Clinton’s personality is a waste of time. But it’s important to debate values. It’s even more important to offer constructive alternatives.
Case in point: As these words are being written, Bernie Sanders is about to introduce a Medicare For All bill in the Senate, with the support of Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and other leading Democrats.
What Do We Stand For?
“People don’t really know what we stand for,” historian Michael Kazin said recently of his fellow Democrats. That’s clearly true. But the real problem is that Democrats don’t know what Democrats stand for. They need to choose, once and for all.
It’s no wonder some Democrats want to police the discourse. That’s part of a larger goal: policing the limits of the possible. But the old ideas of the politically possible aren’t just wrong. They’re disastrous. If we don’t do big things there’s a good chance we won’t make it as a civilization.
Yes I’ll read Clinton’s book, cover to cover. I’ll argue about it too, if that helps shape the future in some small way. Otherwise, I’ll let it pass. This is a time of emergency, with more urgent issues at hand. There’s no point fighting about the failures of the past, unless it clears the way for the successes of the future.
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