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i walk a fine line between “i’m asexual and i hate how much the world revolves around sex” and “sex is way too stigmatized and people should be able to be more open about it if they want to”

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Perry: -looks into the camera like he’s on The Office-

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help him :(

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huuuuge fan of little phrases you can add to the end of your sentences just for fun. "if you even care" and "btw" and "I fear" have done sooo much for my vocabulary. if you even care

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they should invent an apartment that has huge windows but is never too hot and is near everything i like and all my friends but is also quiet when i want it to be and costs zero dollars or perhaps they pay me to live in. and they save it just for me so i dont have to look for it :)

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jokes to make after failure that aren’t self-deprecating:

I’m the best to ever do it

Nobody saw that (best if said loudly)

No one’s ever done it like me

I could be President/they should make me President

Behold, a mere fraction of my power!

The public wants to be me soooooo bad

I’m an expert in (thing you just failed at)

How could this have happened to god’s favorite princess?

Nothing ibuprofen and a glass of water cant fix

I’m being sabotaged

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i love them

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"Now, where's my haircut?!"

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I liked this movie

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The really important difference between musicals and non-musical movies is that when you finish an incredible movie you're like DAMN that was good. I can't wait to watch it again in a few months teehee. But when you finish an incredible musical you're like DAMN that was good. I cant wait to watch it again rrrrrrrrright now please god. And tomorrow also. And again the next day and forever.

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I’m 98% sure that the reason the hat is so small is because Jinu made it when the tiger was still a kitten

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Marks

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she's so pretty

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How Kpop Demon Hunter's revitalized three overused heroine archetypes

If there are three heroine types that are overused in media, that would be outcast learns to embrace her differences, I say what I want because I just don't care, and cute, quirky, and adorkable

Despite each Huntr/x member being one of these archetypes, the movie handles all of them much better than other recent examples

Rumi felts like an outcast because she's inherently different from the other girls, but what makes her situation more interesting is that she isn't obviously different. She passes for normal. She appears to fit in.

Her struggle isn't just wanting to be accepted, but also knowing that she's only accepted based on the "perfect Rumi" she presents and isn't sure if she'd keep that acceptance if people see what makes her different. There's a lot of nuances about how Rumi can't fully connect with people because she feels like she can't be honest with them and how isolated she feels even though she's surrounded by people

I usually have a few problems with characters who just say whatever they want, because most of the time, the narrative plays this as "Look how cool this character is. They say what's on their mind because they're so unbothered." And usually that just makes the character look like a bitch because they don't care how their words affect others

For Mira, this personality trait is played completely differently. Mira isn't blunt because she doesn't care. Mira's very direct, because she cares so much. The second she feels like something's bothering Rumi, she immediately approaches her to ask what's wrong. She wants to confront problems as openly as possible because that's how much she cares about her friends

Most of us have probably heard complaints about the quirky heroine who's always nice and positive and how oversaturated that character type is. And yet, Zoey's genuinely endearing. Despite fitting that trope perfectly, her personality feels more genuine about it

Her more quirky moments were reserved for lightheaded scenes and even during more serious scenes, Zoey's positivity is meant to show how she's the heart of the group. She tries to be the one to keeps the group from giving up despite their issues. It also helps that she has a clear serious side. When the other girls were arguing on the train, Zoey was quick to remind them to focus on the battle

A Zoey quote that stuck with me is "[Takedown] won't unite our fans if it can't even unite us." Wow, Zoey, that was actually kinda deep and very true

While each girl's base concept are tropes we've seen before and very often, it really feels like Kpop Demon Hunters put a lot of thought into deciding how to play off of these character traits so it feels new and refreshing

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Okay, but I actually adore the romantic arc in KPop Demon Hunters. There's so little time to tell this story and to focus on all its nuances, but the way the movie gets us there is absolutely amazing and doesn't feel cheap at all. And I think part of the reason why is the fact that Rumi and Jinu never really develop past what technically counts as just a crush.

It doesn't try to convince us that what they shared was something unbeliavably deep or like some kind of soulmate bond. It doesn't act like they were perfect for each other and how their love could make it through everything. It works precisely because it shows the tragedy of how little time they had together and how they never got to explore that on their own terms.

And we can all relate to that feeling of loss of something that could have been more. All of the elements of a great romance are technically there but all these other outside elements are working against them and all we get to see at the end of the day is the unexplored potential.

Rumi and Jinu connected on a very human level, that's true, but the tragedy of their relationship is that it couldn't really become more and what we end up mourning is the potential they had, the fact that they could have been so much more if given a chance.

So often stories try to convince us of these stronger-than-anything romantic arcs, but since a lot of the time romance is the B-plot at best and there's no time to develop it properly, we end up with the characters basically skipping all the stages from attraction and straight to pure and unadulterated love.

KPop Demon Hunters doesn't do that.

Instead, it focuses on the connection that was broken too fast and that's precisely why it resonates with us. It doesn't try to pretend that their romance is something that it isn't and that fact, more than anything else, makes it feel authentic.

I feel like a different ending would have cheapened the story somehow. We got a happy ending, yes, but it doesn't make it all good. It doesn't erase all the pain that we had to go through to get there.

And at the end of the day, it's not some grand love story.

No.

Instead, it's two broken people who connect, who feel attraction and who never get to explore what it means. The romance itself isn't some kind of be-all and end-all kind of thing.

It still matters, though.

Why? Well... because they still got to meet each other. They still got to heal, in their own ways. And that matters, too. Even if it wasn't meant to be the way we wish it was. Sometimes, that's just how it is.

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flirting