#are statements that can co-exist

[werewolf-cuddles]

okay first you bend over the woke mob and say bridget is a transwoman and now you're saying gwen is trans? come on man what happened to you? you're slowly becoming an sjw

Acknowledging that trans people exist is "becoming an SJW"?

lmao, sure buddy

[kinghotboy]

that ALL being said. there is still apart of me that's like 🥹 they're back together 🥹

[nbmahoushoujo]

i know one cure for this sadness

[sugarr-moon]

“none of artis actions are justified and everything was her fault shes a shitty parent who got her kids killed and a genocidal maniac”

“arti was completely justified and all of the scavengers deserved to die for killing two innocent babies”

nuanced character enjoyers:

[youngyoo-apologist]

OG Choi Han they could never make me hate you cause if some random rich boy was yelling at me and telling me my family deserved to die like a day after it happened and all I wanted was to know how I could get help I’d beat him up too

This plus the added fact that the Harris Village people were the first people to take Choi Han in and take care of him after years and years in the dark forest. Like he’s obviously not going to be mentally stable after all that, and he was so young when everything happened to him like I cannot blame him at all. I don’t think I can ever hate OG Choi Han like ever, he’s flawed, he has problems, but I love him dearly. He deserves the world. This kid who had to fight for his life, was taken away from his family, and in the process had to give up parts of his own humanity to survive, and like went to war two years later, they could never make me hate u OG Choi Han…

Like yeah violence is bad I guess but OG Cale had it coming(saying this as an OG Cale fan, I love him, but he was mean as hell when he was younger!)

If I’m honest, I think they were both in the wrong to an extent. Like OG Cale shouldn’t have said all that no matter the circumstances, and OG Choi Han shouldn’t have beaten him up so much. But u say mean shit and you get hit, that is how it will work when you’re talking to the guy who just saw his entire village get murdered like idkkkk man

I understand where OG Cale was coming from, but he had many issues and while he wasn’t an awful person, he was capable of doing bad things because of his own internalized pain and emotions that he never got to properly process because of his emotionally distant childhood and relationship with his father who should have been there for him more when he was younger.

Okay speaking of his childhood, Deruth isn’t the WORST father in the world but there are a lot of things he could have done better. I think a lot of Deruth’s flaws come from his fear of failure and messing up. He’s scared of doing the wrong thing, and so he sticks to doing what he knows and using what he knows best. That’s why he uses his money, that’s why gift giving is his way of showing affection, he knows that it is one thing he cannot mess up.

The problem is that money and gifts is NOT what OG Cale needed. I think what that guy needed the most was a parent who wasn’t afraid to talk to him, to ask him questions. Not to say that Deruth gave up on OG Cale, but I think in a way he gave up on OG Cale by giving up on himself. Deruth didn’t trust himself to have the capabilities to talk to OG Cale, which is why he never did. It’s because that Deruth was scared, and didn’t trust himself, that he could never face OG Cale

If Deruth was able to trust himself a little more, and pull himself together, I don’t think OG Cale would have turned out the way he did. As a kid, he probably thought the only way he could help his family without relying on anyone(no doubt this whole ‘I have to do it myself’ thing came from the fact that he couldn’t rely on his father when his mom died, and instead was acting as a pillar of support for his father when it should have been the other way around) was to sabotage himself, the only heir. If he was shown to be unfit to be heir, then everyone else would have no choice but to direct their hatred towards him instead of his family.

If Deruth had talked to his son at least ONCE when he was a kid, asking him why he was upset or why he did the things he did, I think OG Cale would have told him. Why? Because he’s a kid!! A kid will obviously want to rely on his father, if he just had one sign telling him that he didn’t have to do it alone I’m 90% sure OG Cale would have said something.

Basically, while Deruth isn’t the worst father, he’s not really a great father either. I think he does do his best, but he has issues with communication lol

OG Cale and OG Choi Han are both complex characters and had their own reasons to behave the way they did. The thing is with people is that they’re complicated and have layers, so the situation with them would have layers behind it as well with multiple co-existing truths and stuff

[immabitqueer]

Some of y'all like to act like lmm is not an experienced stage and film actor

[eclipsecrowned]

i have such. controversial tyri0n opinions i want to discuss. so badly.

[another-chaotic-bisexual-vampire]

Dracula described as having a hooked nose in today's article is yet another reminder of this book's antisemitic, xenophobic, and colonialist themes

[partypanic]

Daily reminder you can have did, and not be fucking miserable about your system, you can be fucking happy and have did

[hyp3rfixation-h3ll]

ulf the orange is a good character and actually very complex when you don't have a bitch in ya ear tellin you she's an evil manipulative hoebag

[orangerosebush]

"Beyond the Pleasure Principle" by Sigmund Freud, 2nd. ed., trans. C.J.M. Hubback

[pansyfemme]

genuinly i support anyones ideas of what a femme/fem is bc it means different things to everyone but. the only tiktoker who insisted that femme as an identity only exists as a counterpoint to a butch in a relationship because they go by 'historical definintions' and then in the same breath said that bi women cant identify as butch/femme because the communities are so different. pick one history to follow please

[fnaffersblog]

Still a little sad about the Earth episodes removal.

I understand the reason! It’s inarguable that the creator of the model and character should have their wishes respected and I’m incredibly happy they did remove the episode when the creator asked them too! Not a lot of content creators these days seem like they would do that anymore (people double down a lot it feels), so it makes me happy they did that without even so much as a hint of annoyance or anything.

Alongside that, though, the Earth episode was probably one of my favorites on the channel so far. The comedic timing, the banter between Monty and Moon, Earth herself being so sweet and genuinely curious, it was very good. I am sad it’s gone. 

[senseiwu]

sometimes i worry i make lar a little too childish, but. he IS like only ~13 as of hands of time. and doesnt have much experience interacting with people (or the world) aside from two of his three parents, krux, and the vermilion warriors. 

[sheepydraws]

You cannot convince me that a 34-year-old billionaire with a massive fanbase that turns out for her in every way possible is simply incapable of being openly queer, especially at a time when other successful musicians are openly queer.

Even if you convinced me that there was such a reason, you could not convince me that said billionaire simultaneously can't come out AND is constantly putting subliminal messages in her music and public appearances.

Even if you could find a plausible reason that said billionaire can't come out, but can put subliminal messages in their art it would still be fucked up to publicly speculate about someone's sexuality and insist that they have to come out when that person has spent over a decade begging people to stop constantly focusing on her love life and pressuring her to make every aspect of it public

[peridot-tears]

Truths that Co-Exist

Barbie (2023) is a giant product placement that profits off nostalgia.

The writing is profound and life-changing and understands why we seek nostalgia in a way most nostalgia-driven entertainment doesn’t.

The film is self-aware about how even now, Barbie dolls set incredibly unrealistic beauty standards. Their “body diversity” does not even scratch the surface of what that phrase really means. I don’t expect this to change.

The film still made a beautiful statement with the scene on the bench about how societal beauty standards are narrow and restrictive! And that beauty comes from experiencing life and the marks it leaves on you!

Its feminist statements are validating. Many of us see our reality onscreen, and the great thing is that it includes how cishet men fall down a pipeline of toxic hypermasculinity. It also shows the solution, and allows men to express themselves despite what society expects them to be.

The film is a capitalist venture.

The cast (aside from the leads) and crew were probably overworked and severely underpaid during filmmaking.

We can still appreciate that something fun was made, and we all made another wonderful memory where we and our loved ones went to the movies color-matching in pink.

We should not feel guilty about seeing ourselves in this film.

Meanwhile, support the WGA and SAG-Aftra strike.