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THE WHITE PRINCESS (2017)

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Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.

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one piece saved my life man

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It's really fucked up when you treat characters like people and people like characters.

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Every time I see fantasy ideas where people ride deer or dogs or wolves or what-have-you 90% of my brain goes 'oh that's COOL', because it IS and I LOVE IT, but the other 10% that's annoying and a nerd is like. there is a reason we domesticated horses specifically for riding instead of any other animal!! If u look at the motion of the topline and legs, u may notice one of these is not like the others......

.......and also significantly less likely to launch you into space by changing the shape of its spine under your butt a billion times per minute

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‘Thoth and the Chief Magician’, 1925. Evelyn Pau

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gentle reminder to those with EDs, allergies, or literally any condition that interacts with food, who are also trying to boycott for Palestine:

if not getting a certain brand means you wouldn’t eat, get the brand. if not getting a certain food means you wouldn’t eat, get the food. yes, even if there’s a boycott. do not let people guilt you into self-endangerment. in order to work, activism must be sustainable and must involve radical self-care. of course do your best to find other brands, but if it comes down to it, do not starve in the name of activism.

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I love the guy who’s clearly a teacher who came over with the intent to tear two fucking idiot teenagers apart from each other only to find these fucking nerds it probably made his entire month

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@fairycosmos / Comic by @shhhitsfine / Comic by @incendavery

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”It’s been a bad day in a bad week.”

One of my favorite underrated scenes in season 2 is this one with Ward and his S2-era assistant, Katie.

She appears in only one scene and is briefly mentioned in another episode. And yet, I feel that for having such a tiny amount of screentime in the show, there’s a lot of presence packed into those few minutes of canon.

I feel like that scene with her and Ward is really significant for him (and both of them, really) because one of Ward’s big things this season is learning to be less self-absorbed, but for the most part this takes place through his relationships with various people who are important enough to him to make him break out of his patterns of (mis)behavior because he doesn’t want to lose them. But the thing about Katie is, she’s not that important in a close-personal-ties kind of way. She’s not his sibling or his lover or even a friend-of-family the way Misty is.

So that scene where he apologizes to her and walks back from his mistreatment of her is really meaningful in his character development. It’s the only time this season and maybe the only time ever that we see him going out of his way and making the conscious decision to intentionally not be a dick when he doesn’t have to. (I’m not saying he’s always a dick otherwise. Actually, season 1 Ward is usually fairly polite to people when he’s not otherwise angry/annoyed. I don’t think he goes out of his way to be a jerk to people – it’s just that he doesn’t care enough not to be, and in season 2, we don’t see much of his interaction with people outside his immediate circle of family and his NA group.)

But the thing about that scene with Katie is that he realizes what he’s doing – taking out his emotional upset/anger/pain with the Joy situation on her – and walks it back and apologizes, and then goes out of his way to let her know that he respects and values her opinion. And that’s important!

And the other thing I like about that scene is that she really seems to like him – which is especially significant later on, the other time in the season when she’s mentioned, in the episode where he gets drunk in the bar, because it’s Katie who figures out that something’s wrong and calls Bethany … which means Katie a) knows he’s a recovering addict, b) knows how to get in touch with his sponsor, and c) cares enough to do it even though he’s probably not going to like it and she could get in trouble for it.

Ward needs more people in his life that he’s friendly with on a casual basis. People who like him, and who he likes, without actually being extremely close or emotionally tangled up in the way he is with Joy or Danny or Bethany.

(… also, the fact that Ward’s assistant has a business degree and is clearly a full-fledged professional in her own right in season 2 makes me feel even worse for poor put-upon Megan in season 1, because presumably she was too, unless Rand was such a total clusterfuck at that point that their professional standards have come up by season 2. (Entirely possible.) Still, I hope Megan got a glowing recommendation and is currently having a very nice life somewhere that Ward is not.)

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Marvel’s Iron Fist (2017–) 1.05 Under Leaf Pluck Lotus

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Iron Fist Week - Day Three: Family

Slipping in with a late entry for day 3. I was thinking (as you do) about the contrast between Danny giving Ward moral support versus the rest of his family tearing him down. 

And specifically, Harold and Joy both tell him he’s a coward – it’s not just being critical in general, but a particular kind of tearing down: that he’s not good at things, that he’s scared, that he’s weak, that he’s a disappointment to the family. This one scene with Ward and Danny is, I think, the only time either season that someone tells him he’s being brave.

It’s especially meaningful because it’s a moral-courage kind of situation. The thing about Ward is that he doesn’t really have a problem with physical bravery. It’s moral and emotional courage that he struggles with, and Danny recognizes that, and praises him for it.