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In other news, I am STILL salty about the new Lilo & Stitch movie.

"It's a kids' movie and you're an adult who needs to let that shit go" blah blah blah I might actually die mad about it. I will not cope and will continue to seethe.

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I have to convince myself that any adult who supports that ending is either someone who had to sacrifice to take care of younger siblings and is resentful for it, or someone who is entirely unaware of the historical context and just enjoyed seeing someone girlboss their way into a STEM degree.

Disney thought they could win feminism points by having a WOC go into a STEM field and not be "relegated to being a caretaker/mother figure". Instead, they just completely ignored culture and history and the WHOLE POINT OF THE OHANA LINE.

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I am spoiling the live action Lilo & Stitch. And I am doing it up front and plainly.

Do not fucking see this movie. Do not waste your money on this. Period.

They made Nani give Lilo up to the American government. They made Nani LEAVE Hawaii and pursue being a marine biologist. They made a native Hawaiian character give up her sibling to pursue a dream that she originally did not have. This is imperialist propaganda at its FINEST.

The original fucking movie is about family staying together. It's about indigenous people being able to stay with each other and stay in their home and be together! That's the whole fucking point! Nani is Lilo's last living relative on her homeland—it is jarring, it is disgusting and disturbing that Nani would not only leave her last blood relative alone, give her up to the very government that is harming native Hawaiians TODAY, but also travel to the "mainland" for her dream!

Not to mention, Nani's actress isn't fucking Hawaiian. She's much paler in photos and real life. They fucking darkened her for this movie.

Don't even get me started on the transgender subtext of Pleakley's "human" disguise from the original movie being completely erased in favor of him being played by a regular ass white man. Jumba doesn't have his accent, they made him more villainous, and his "human" disguise is a non-fat white man—which part of his original joke, I know, is that he was bigger and was more clumsy in the movie because of his size, but to have the main shape of his character completely removed is also fucking weird.

This live action movie is a desecration to the original. I encourage you to not see it, please. Don't give Disney any of your money on this one. Just watch the original. Please just watch the original.

The new message in the live action movie is disturbing and gross.

This is one of the most disrespectful live actions I've seen and heard of. I implore you to not watch it.

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a MOTHER?! 😭🫶

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Film bro video essayists will make hour-long videos about "the downfall of the mcu" and "superhero fatigue" everytime an mcu movie comes out that doesn't get good reviews. But you know damn well they've got their blinders on whenever a good or profitable mcu movie comes out.

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I understand why there are very few decent, smart people getting into politics in the Philippines. Because if I were a decent and smart person, I wouldn't want to deal with all this idiocy either - especially for a populace that will just end up hating me and championing corrupt celebrities who can't rub two braincells together. Look what happened/is happening to the few decent and smart leaders we have.

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A couple more.

People was waiting, too. 😄

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Ang init 😭 why are we next-door neighbors with the sun?

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reaching out to our fav pixel analyst bc I swear Anne is talking about Tom in this video 😭: https://x.com/pagesix/status/1912908396367376871?s=46

“He’s like a 55 year old — family man who’s also like 28, and his worth ethic…” maybe I’m hallucinating though LOLLLLL

You're not hallucinating because I'm 97% sure that's what she's saying and I KNEW his moms would be raving about him 🤧

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I love that no one can ever claim that this was not deliberate. She and everyone else involved knew that tat was on full display. Several shots were taken and surely that final shot was reviewed and approved by several people, Z included. And it was still published. Because she wanted it to be.

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The prettiest 50 foot woman

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Telemachus in Ithaca.

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Always on a bike

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Tom chilling in Favignana.

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The tz breakup era is funny to think about now that we're several years out. Like that was a canon event that brought out the worst in both of them and they found their way back to each other anyway.

Kudos to them both for figuring out their issues and having their big scary conversations and learning how to be together without being a secret.

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Tom set out to get a rock big enough to carry the weight of the colorful shared history that got them here.

Tom really said MINE so fucking loud with that rock