#(Arrested Development: Good for her)

[autisticexpression2]

Back in my day, if you typed "good for her" into the tumblr gif search, it immediately brought up multiple versions of the Lucille Bluth gif. We used to be a country.

[anak1n]

benefits to living at home with your parents as an adult:

Saves money

There's always food available

Ppl around you know you can rely on

donwsides to living at home with your parents as an adult:

Well.

[john-laurens]

Casually looking for a John Laurens quotation, stumbling across someone's thesis on the relationship between Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens, and realizing that my blog was cited in said thesis

Wild

[partynthem]

boring lesbians..

[edwardshundredyearoldspunk]

I'm at a point in a series where I finished the third book and only have the fourth book left, but in my reading of the first three books I've realized I really dislike the writing style and kind of don't want to continue. I tolerated the writing because the plot of the first two books was legitimately quite gripping, but the third book was honestly kind of awful and the payoff for a lot of things set up in the previous two books was so underwhelming that I don't know if it's worth it to read the last book. but I actually bought the book with my own money (I rarely buy books I haven't already read but since I did like the first two books I felt secure that I would like it) and have already read 3/4 of the way through. having a real sunk cost fallacy moment. should I just go ahead and read it? but then when I think about reading it, it kind of feels like when you have to do a task you really don't like!

[cowes]

just finished under the bridge (2024) and wow... what a terrible way to handle such a sensitive topic. rebecca talking about her book is her/the writers talking about the series and i just don't think their vision came across as intended.

e.g. rebecca says it's about young girls of victoria - about violence and isolation. and one of the final ~poignant lines is "it's mercy and mercy alone that transforms the human heart". i see what they were trying to go for, a look into the psychology of what could make someone do that terrible thing and then the psychology of what could make you come to terms with that and forgive.

BUT it ended up being a lot of focus on how sad it made rebecca and warren feel. and that focus just got more and more intense the further into the story - like, as more about the murder was revealed, it became more about rebecca, rather than the killers and, crucially, reena. just bizarre.

in an episode (can't remember which), rebecca says that she doesn't want to write only about reena because that would make it just a sad story. and.

well.

it IS a sad story.

[reanimatedgh0ul]

i love how the track dead girl walking from the heathers musical soundtrack is literally just veronica being this @ jd

[skydaemon]

olivia rodrigo came on shuffle about three hours ago and i blacked out and woke up with a maeby funke fanvid

[discountreactionimagewarehouse]

Good for her. This one's a still image that's easier to edit in case you need to say good for him or them or any other pronoun.

[gregmarriage]

are you ever just hit with the fact that while you may be physically and legally an adult, for all intents and purposes, you are still a child

[yiddishfisting]

oh yeah maria's everything is totally a bit

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

It’s so much worse than i could have guessed

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT 3.01 – "The Cabin Show"

[ladyantiheroine]

I’m thinking about Wicked tonight, specifically why Elphaba ends up with Fiyero instead of Glinda in the musical despite Elphaba and Glinda having the more well-rounded relationship.

You could chalk it up to the writers wanting a heteronormative ending (and I’m certain that’s part of it) or the fact that Elphaba and Fiyero had a love affair in the book. But I think there’s a bit more nuance to it.

The whole point of Glinda’s character is that she upholds the status quo of Oz. No matter how much she loves Elphaba or sympathizes with the plight of the Animals, she will always align herself with the current system and those in power. And as long as that remains the case, a relationship between her and Elphaba is futile because Elphaba will not give up her cause.

Elphaba and Glinda represent to different ends of a spectrum. Elphaba resists the oppressive forces in Oz, while Glinda upholds them. But Fiyero is somewhere in the middle. He starts out privileged and carefree like Glinda, but quickly turns to Elphaba’s side. He does become Captain of the Guard, but only to find Elphaba and help her evade arrest.

And therein lies the difference between Glinda and Fiyero as love interests to Elphaba. Glinda would never sacrifice her title as “the Good Witch” and all her power granted from the Wizard, even if it meant helping Elphaba. Fiyero, on the other hand, does give up his privilege, his title, and even his human form for Elphaba. Glinda clings to what the status quo gives her, while Fiyero ultimately rejects it.

Yes, the writing around Elphaba and Fiyero’s romance is a bit rushed and doesn’t have the same gradual development that Elphaba and Glinda have. And yes, I have no doubt heteronormativity played a role in giving Elphaba a male love interest in the end. But I see a lot of people write off Fiyero and his relationship with Elphaba and I just don’t agree.

Why does Elphaba end up with Fiyero instead of Glinda? Because Fiyero makes the sacrifices that Glinda wasn’t willing to.

[offbeat-manga-ships]

KIMI WA SHOUJO (君は少女)

You are my girl / Nanatsu Fuji

Complete, with 6 chapters / 1 volume

F/F; Yuri, Adult, Drama, Romance + lgbt, queer & ambqueer, queer character, ag, ag: yf x of, younger f, older f, dom f

SUMMARY: After her parents divorce, Maki moved from Tokyo to the countryside with her mother and met a mysterious woman.

MAL score: 6.07 AL mean score: 57% MU average: 6.09

PERSONAL SCORE: 4 out of 10

[amtrak12]

Just watched the S23 finale of SVU and I AM CHEWING GLASS OVER OLIVIA/BARBA HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!

[afeelgoodblog]

The Best News of Last Year - 2023 Edition

Welcome to our special edition newsletter recapping the best news from the past year. I've picked one highlight from each month to give you a snapshot of 2023. No frills, just straightforward news that mattered. Let's relive the good stuff that made our year shine.

January - London: Girl with incurable cancer recovers after pioneering treatment

A girl’s incurable cancer has been cleared from her body after what scientists have described as the most sophisticated cell engineering to date.

2. February - Utah legislature unanimously passes ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy

The Utah State Legislature has unanimously approved a bill that enshrines into law a ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy.

3. March - First vaccine for honeybees could save billions

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved the world’s first-ever vaccine intended to address the global decline of honeybees. It will help protect honeybees from American foulbrood, a contagious bacterial disease which can destroy entire colonies.

4. April - Fungi discovered that can eat plastic in just 140 days

Australian scientists have successfully used backyard mould to break down one of the world's most stubborn plastics — a discovery they hope could ease the burden of the global recycling crisis within years. 

5. May - Ocean Cleanup removes 200,000th kilogram of plastic from the Pacific Ocean

The Dutch offshore restoration project, Ocean Cleanup, says it has reached a milestone. The organization's plastic catching efforts have now fished more than 200,000 kilograms of plastic out of the Pacific Ocean, Ocean Cleanup said on Twitter.

6. June - U.S. judge blocks Florida ban on care for trans minors in narrow ruling, says ‘gender identity is real’

A federal judge temporarily blocked portions of a new Florida law that bans transgender minors from receiving puberty blockers, ruling Tuesday that the state has no rational basis for denying patients treatment.

7. July - World’s largest Phosphate deposit discovered in Norway

A massive underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock in Norway, pitched as the world’s largest, is big enough to satisfy world demand for fertilisers, solar panels and electric car batteries over the next 50 years, according to the company exploiting the resource.

8. August - Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

If the claim by Sukbae Lee and Ji-Hoon Kim of South Korea’s Quantum Energy Research Centre holds up, the material could usher in all sorts of technological marvels, such as levitating vehicles and perfectly efficient electrical grids.

9. September - World’s 1st drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials

The ability to regrow your own teeth could be just around the corner. A team of scientists, led by a Japanese pharmaceutical startup, are getting set to start human trials on a new drug that has successfully grown new teeth in animal test subjects.

10. October - Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines. Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman will share the prize.

11. November - No cases of cancer caused by HPV in Norwegian 25-year olds, the first cohort to be mass vaccinated for HPV.

Last year there were zero cases of cervical cancer in the group that was vaccinated in 2009 against the HPV virus, which can cause the cancer in women.

12. December - President Biden announces he’s pardoning all convictions of federal marijuana possession

President Joe Biden announced Friday he's issuing a federal pardon to every American who has used marijuana in the past, including those who were never arrested or prosecuted.

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And there you have it – a year's worth of uplifting news! I hope these positive stories brought a bit of joy to your inbox. As I wrap up this special edition, I want to thank all my supporters!

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!