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Followup to my post about Agatha being a murderous Twilight Sparkle: one set of tags by @msharkness musing about what ponies the rest of the coven could be now has me thinking about it. I honestly hadn't put much thought into it aside from Jen being Rarity and Billy being Spike, but I'm less sure who everyone else would correspond to. Any suggestions?

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Oh, oh! Could Lilia be the teacher of the cutie mark Crusaders? I don’t remember the name of the pony off the top of my head…. But she did show up in a few episodes… always a little bit scatterbrained, but like also put together. Didn’t really take any shit, but did it in a nice way? It’s been a really long time since I’ve watched the mlp show so forgive me if I mischaracterize anybody.

Followup to my post about Agatha being a murderous Twilight Sparkle: one set of tags by @msharkness musing about what ponies the rest of the coven could be now has me thinking about it. I honestly hadn't put much thought into it aside from Jen being Rarity and Billy being Spike, but I'm less sure who everyone else would correspond to. Any suggestions?

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Wait, hang on if the hangup is that applejack isn’t weird enough to be Rio… then her pony might very well be pinky pie. I know she’s not like happy go lucky enough, but pinkie pie in the TV series regularly freaked people out with her tendency to do things that just did not make sense… like pulling balloons out of thin air, despite the fact that she’s an earth pony with no magic to speak off. She scares people with just how weird she is… so it’s not a perfect fit either but pinkie pie might be an option for Rio. Or I guess Rio might be Rainbow Dash and Alice might be applejack?

Followup to my post about Agatha being a murderous Twilight Sparkle: one set of tags by @msharkness musing about what ponies the rest of the coven could be now has me thinking about it. I honestly hadn't put much thought into it aside from Jen being Rarity and Billy being Spike, but I'm less sure who everyone else would correspond to. Any suggestions?

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Alice is probably Rainbow dash, Rio Applejack, Lilia… that one’s hard… she def not fluttershy. She’s too mouthy and we love her for it. She’s almost like Celestia pretending to be normal with time lapses… Sharon might be pinky pie.

Followup to my post about Agatha being a murderous Twilight Sparkle: one set of tags by @msharkness musing about what ponies the rest of the coven could be now has me thinking about it. I honestly hadn't put much thought into it aside from Jen being Rarity and Billy being Spike, but I'm less sure who everyone else would correspond to. Any suggestions?

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This is my cat Sailor. It may appear as though he is looking at the lights. He’s not. There was a bug.

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Rewatching Wandavision after watching Agatha All Along makes Agatha just.....hit different.

When you see her as a queer woman, her over the top comedic relationship to the heterosexual norms of the midcentury becomes more akin to watching a drag performance than the slightly self aware but still mildly cringe parody of midcentury sitcoms that it used to read as. When you realize she's a seventeen century American colonist who was surviving as a single mother in what looked like the 18th century who lived through the invention of women's rights, her inane little jokes about the trials of housewifery and the insane expectation on women to do it all while looking perfect just...feel a little more personal. It all feels like it was backed up by generations of queer anger and female anger and I just LOVE her all the more.

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I honestly don’t understand why there aren’t more people who, when given the platform to discuss minimum wage, don’t simply distill it to the simplest of facts:

A forty hour work week is considered full time.

It’s considered as such because it takes up the amount of time we as a society have agreed should be considered the maximum work schedule required of an employee. (this, of course, does not always bear out practically, but just follow me here)

A person working the maximum amount of time required should earn enough for that labor to be able to survive. Phrased this way, I doubt even most conservatives could effectively argue against it, and out of the mouth of someone verbally deft enough to dance around the pathos-based jabs conservative pundits like to use to avoid actually debating, it could actually get opps thinking.

Therefore, if an employee is being paid less than [number of dollars needed for the post-tax total to pay for the basic necessities in a given area divided by forty] per hour, they are being ripped off and essentially having their labor, productivity, and profit generation value stolen by their employer.

Wages are a business expense, and if a company cannot afford to pay for its labor, it is by definition a failing business. A company stealing labor to stay afloat (without even touching those that do so simply to increase profit margins and/or management/executive pay/bonuses) is no more ethical than a failing construction company breaking into a lumber yard and stealing wood.

Our goal as a society should be to protect each other, especially those that most need protection, not to subsidize failing businesses whose owners could quite well subsidize them on their own.

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I derive so much enjoyment from calling Agatha Harkness a "murderous Twilight Sparkle."

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"Kathryn is a master of using her eyes and mouth in a way I've never seen anyone else do it." — Joe Locke (Actors on Actors)

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Just started watching the movie ‘I Care a lot’ on Netflix… and I am getting major Emma Frost vibes from both the actress and just the character. She is playing Marla… this woman could totally be Emma Frost. Her looks her attitude, her confidence she is flawless.

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DC: Dark Legion ships Wonderbat btw

There is a long, ongoing plotline for this.

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"why do we even have that lever" is made funnier by the fact there are only 2 levers to begin with (disguised as a pair of tusks on a statue)

i find the implications hilarious:

kronk only had to remember the location of one lever, and couldn't even manage that

but on the other hand, it's easy to get two identical unlabelled levers confused, this one's on yzma tbh

yzma only needed to make one lever to begin with, but she actively chose to turn the second tusk into a functioning trapdoor. she could have just...just not connected the second tusk to anything. it didn't need to have a function

upon reflection, this also answers the question itself: "why do we even HAVE that lever?" it's because yzma herself specifically designed it as a booby trap. "why do we have that lever?" because yzma had it built to keep people out of her secret lair! yzma made the very purposeful choice to put that lever there! and then both she and her inept henchman immediately forgot about her own booby trap! yzma that is YOUR LEVER!!!!!

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reblog if you're gay, not gay, slightly gay, or if you just want to launch donald trump into a dying star

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Unfinished Business

Summary: Every time Death encounters Natasha Romanoff, she’s somehow reminded of Agatha. Unfortunately, she seems to cross paths with Natasha a lot. (Or: five times Rio almost meets Natasha, and one time she finally does.)

My contribution to Agatha All Along week is none other than some niche little ficlets about Rio encountering Natasha throughout the course of her life. (And then inevitably getting sad about Agatha and Nicky.) If there's one thing I'm gonna do, it's push the Black Widow agenda to my AAA readers and vice versa. 🫡

Chapter 1: "Jealousy" - Soviet Union, 1984

Chapter 2: "Fake Marriage" - Ohio, 1993

Chapter 3: "Teachers" - Belarus, 1997

Chapter 4: "Breeding" - Russia, 2000

Chapter 5: "Rio Gets Injured" - Somewhere Over Poland, 2016

Chapter 6: "I Feel Like I Can't Breathe" - Vormir, 2023

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