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every year or so tik tok starts debating who the “real mean girl” was in mean girls and i’m just so baffled by the lack of media comprehension. the point is that they are ALL MEAN GIRLS. Yes! Janis was a mean girl. But so was Regina. All of the girls were mean girls!!! That’s what the gym scene is about, every girl gong up on stage and admitting something horrible they’ve done to another person.

It’s why Cady’s character had to be home schooled and not just transferring from a different school. It had to show you that everyone is capable of being a “mean girl” because high school is kill or be killed. It’s so easy to hurt others in the name of protecting yourself. Even girls who were kind and wanted to be kind succumbed to being a “mean girl” in order to make it through the day.

Mean Girls isn’t about right vs wrong. It’s about hierarchies in high school, it’s about the performance of femininity, it’s about toxic femininity, it’s about expectations and the desire to be accepted.

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i gotta remember this

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Pride and Prejudice (1995) + Text Posts (6/?)

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Actually no one should be having sex. All of us are aged-up minors and the passage of time is inherently problematic

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Colin: Your polls are slipping, boyo. Better get with it.

Isaac: Bruv, being captain isn't an elected position. I don't have to respond to polls.

Dani: Not elected? You mean you can govern with dictatorial impunity?

Isaac: Exactly.

Moe: In short, open revolt and exile is the only hope for change.

Isaac: I don't like the direction this conversation is going.

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TED LASSO 3.06 | Sunflowers

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Theories for Jaime not being happy about Zava:

He's worried he'll be kicked off the team like in season 1 after Dani arrived (because we don't know if he knows that Ted didn't want to kick him off) (courtesy of @achillesangst)

He's worried that Zava coming will mean he'll relapse into the asshole he used to be

He's afraid of facing Zava and being reminded of how much of an asshole he used to be and worried he still is that asshole deep down inside

He's worried what Zava coming will do to the team, knowing firsthand what a dick Jamie used to be to his team

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It's fun reading writers who clearly grew up in suburban/urban environments as someone who grew up on a farm because they're always like "oh it was so creepy, woods at night, eerily breathtaking, something was living in there..." and it's like yeah that'll be the deer.

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Me: “The food webs we try to teach children and the public are too simple to get the point across. Why do they never bother to show the more intricate relationships between specific species? It can’t be that hard to represent with basic teaching tools... I’ll make the thing!”

The thing:

Me: “....I get it now.”

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Vel & Kleya through the years - ANDOR

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Actually people should say “rubbish” more. And also “nonsense”, “gibberish”, and “balderdash” too.

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knight who is constantly searching for a good and noble king to serve but cannot fucking find one for the life of him so he has to become the good and noble king himself.

and now all these other knights are coming around like "please let me serve you" and like obviously hes going to let them serve him thats the point of being a good and noble king but its also. very annoying. one of you become the good and noble king for once lets trade

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One thing about Van Gogh that people don't talk about is how brilliantly he uses texture in his artwork. The way he uses oil paint is so three dimensional, and he's so aware of it and uses it to his full advantage to add depth and texture. It's not as obvious in photographs or digital versions of his paintings, which is a damn shame because once you see them in person you realize how much it adds to them. There's one in the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam called The Sower with a tree cutting through the foreground, and the majority of the trunk is one flat stroke of paint, ending with a knot in the trunk made bulbous by the end of a brush stroke that was never smoothed out. One of his paintings in the Met, Wheat Field With Cypresses, has the brush strokes very choppy on the top of the wheat, but smooth and almost textureless on the stalks. It's one of the things that I think really separates him from the other artists of the period.

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My specialty is just strategic analysis.

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY

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Grave offerings and burying the dead with tools and goods is actually such a deeply human thing to do. It's not really even necessarily about how much you believe in a literal afterlife or them taking the tools with them. It's also just going Wait, I'm Not Done Taking Care Of You, let me make you one more pair of socks so your feet won't be cold when you go wherever it is where I can't follow.