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Being completely isolated sucks, but I k have to remind myself that I can’t try to control things that are out of my control. What happens, happens and it’s just the way things go I suppose

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Almost every day this dog upstairs barks on and off from 6 am to 10

Like Jesus fuck I just want to fucking sleep and wake up without a migraine but I can’t because this dogs barks are literally penetrating my brain into my thoughts.

I really can’t stand other people

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I swear imma start bringing a book to work for night shifts, like im literally watching Netflix, there’s no one in here

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Apparently I’m an emotional support barista 😭😂

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I’m absolutely going to lose my fucking shit today

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Im going to kid work is so busy

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God I’m so useless

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And all I really want is just a little respect.

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So, I’m planning to go see Disney’s new movie Wish when it comes out, and as perhaps is unsurprising, I’m most excited about the film’s villain. King Magnifico looks like he’s gonna be a fun, likable (in the sense you love to hate them) villain while also perhaps being a little more complicated. Some things I’m loving so far from the trailer clips and soundtrack:

We get a classic Disney villain again! Finally! There’s nothing wrong with the “surprise” villains or the idea of family trauma as being the real source of evil but I have desperately missed the old villains who embraced and reveled in their role. We’ve been severely lacking in those over-the-top villains with their catchy songs and big personalities for a long time now, and it’s good to see it again.

“This is the Thanks I Get,” while a lot more upbeat and lighthearted compared to many classic villain songs, is definitely a song that gets stuck in your head. Gives me Gaston vibes, for sure.

Classic evil villain lime green returns!

I really have missed how the old hand drawn characters used to be so strongly based on the voice actors performing the role. You could see the live action reference model’s facial expressions, etc., in the character if you looked closely. It made them feel more…real? Human? Wish, though not traditionally animated, seems to be returning to that to some extent. King Magnifico looks exactly like an animated Chris Pine should.

I don’t think we’ve ever had much in the way of evil kings. (Unless you count Scar, maybe, but I’m mostly talking about human characters here.) We’ve had plenty of evil queen tropes and we do have Hans, who is a prince, but this just feels different somehow. I think part of it is the fact that the king is married. Most all the classic villains are single. Magnifico has a wife who genuinely seems to love him and is concerned when he lets the power go to his head.

“At All Costs” - This song is the least advertised and yet probably the best on the soundtrack in my opinion. It’s a gorgeous villain/hero duet that sounds like (entirely out of context) it could be a love song or a father/daughter duet. Now, I’m totally aware that that is very likely NOT what is actually going on in the song, BUT it doesn’t take away from the fact that we rarely, if ever, get to hear a villain be a part of such a sweet, gentle song. It’s different and I like the “softness” of it. Chris Pine has a great voice and while “This is the Thanks I Get” is fun, “At All Costs” is the song that really showcases his talent.

I’m not expecting King Magnifico to have a change of heart in the end, but I do like how Disney has seemingly gotten just the right mix of a classic villain and a complicated character in Magnifico. I hope he lives up to the hype!

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Just thought about it, but Magnifico might be one of the most fucked up Disney Villains we haven't seen in a while. Obviously don't think the movie will go into the dark implications, but Magnifico choosing which wishes to grant while erasing people's memories and returning their unanswered wishes made me think...

Well, what if someone had a terminally ill loved one, and they go to Magnifico to ask for their wish to be granted ? He declines it because it wouldn't benefit him, though he could also do so to glaze up his ego further.

Magnifico must have a f-cking huge body count.

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King Magnifico is a prime example how a true villain is born from the intentions behind their actions.

Like sure, you can make all the "not all wishes should be granted because some are dangerous" arguments all you want, but that doesn't change the fact that's not Magnifico's reasoning for not granting most of these wishes.

His real reasoning is because he loves the attention he gets from it and knows how dependend on him his subjects are because of it. He wants to be in control and have all the power (I remember one ad even said any magic that's not Magnifico's is forbidden in Rosas). It's as simple as that.

Not to mention giving your wish to him involves him LITERALLY taking it out of you, to the point you don't even have the memory of the wish anymore, and him "keeping the wishes safe" is just him hoarding them in a room. And acting like people "give them willingly" is literally part of his manipulation of having an entire kingdom be blindly dependend on him.

It's one thing if people question his villain status based on like the first trailer, but there have been plently of clips and ads released by now that show his true intentions, so the people still questioning it at that point worry me...

Also, I love King Magnifico from what we've seen so far BECAUSE he's a villain. I missed Disney's straight up villains so much. In recent years people have become too obsessed with the morality of fictional characters, completely forgetting that some fictional characters literally exist to be morally corrupt and it being the reason why they're enjoyable in the first place.

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It was so beautiful

Anyone shitting on Wish needs to shhhhhh this movie is phenomenal and I’m in love with the songs

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I don’t mind kids at the movies. I DO however mind people talking on their PHONES in the movies

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i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

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*experiences symptoms when no one is around to see me* I have got to stop faking for attention

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the thing that bothers me about dragon riders is that the dragon absolutely does not have to let you climb on its back. your ability to 'ride' the dragon is entirely dependent on the dragon allowing you to do that. it could fly just fine without you sitting there. which means you are not a dragon rider, not really. that beast is not your pet. you're the dragon's pet. you're its trophy wife.

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I just slammed my fingers in a swinging door.

A SWINGING DOOR

I hate my life, my fingers hurt