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you may notice i use the phrase "my beloved" frequently. this is because i am in love with the world and everything in it. hope this clears things up <3

girl help the pessimists found me

"girl help i am staunchly refusing to realise my own naivete in a world almost completely made up of things that couldnt care less about me or are actively exploiting me"

i love in awe how jack gets so mad at will for attempting to steal the pearl like

They HAD to write Din, Boba, and Fennec to be the kind of characters who really just try their best to mind their own business or else there would be no sequel trilogy.

Can you even imagine if Din ACTUALLY had the motivation and strive to be a protagonist character?? Din would hold his Darksaber in one hand, spear in the other (baby on his shoulder), and his posse of murder friends + every Mandalorian warrior under his rule would just kick down the front doors of the First Order and burn the whole thing to the ground before the Resistance could even BLINK.

You think kyle ron would stand a chance against GROGU??? DIN, ABSOLUTELY PISSED?? BOBA?? FENNEC? MANDO ARMY??? NO WAY!!

The First Order is dismantled overnight and when they barge into Resistance headquarters Boba gets to rub it in Han, Luke and Leia’s faces for the rest of their lives

Why do so many people in the POTC fandom like Will Turner OR James Norrington but never both, as though it’s some sort of rule? Regardless of whom you ship Elizabeth with, why do you seemingly have to hate one if you like the other?

Y’all, they’re both perfect. Both are kind, noble, and selfless gentlemen who prioritize the happiness of the woman they love over their own. Ship whoever you want, but honestly, this isn’t a competition, and playing favorites is frankly just disrespectful to two of the best characters in the franchise.

Not to be a Jimothy stan but if Elizabeth had just said her last name was Norrington we wouldn’t be in this mess

people will see gross ships where the woman fixes the bad abusive boy or w/e and say “oh just like Beauty and the Beast” but y’all fail to realize Belle didn’t fix Beast. She’s not sitting there screaming about how “I know there’s good in you!!!!!!!” after he does something horrible. She’s not making it her goal to change him. Beast changes because he actively wants to become a better man. Belle is just existing around him and he’s like “hmm I wanna do something nice for her. I wanna learn how to read, and relearn how to eat properly so I don’t gross her out, and wear clothes properly instead of just ripped capes,” like he’s actually trying to be better, which is why the story works. Kyle Ron is not that. Edwin Cullen is not that. They’ll never have what The Prince has babes I’m sorry.

asoiaf would absolutely improve if rhaenys lived and dany died. there’s no denying this. less racism is always better than more racism. the absence of a white saviour narrative makes any work more interesting and tolerable. you can’t argue with this.

emperor kuzco was clearly gay

hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit

Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids' movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn't get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.

He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.

Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.

In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.

So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.

✨actually norrington is not the antagonist, he is the tragic hero✨

I love it when Aang does this wrist move. The drama, the attitude, the silhouette...

Bonus Katara:

I’ll never get over the fact that people think that the reason Game of Thrones failed was that the character who’s entire story was about wanting to go to Westeros to start a war, conquer the nation, and sit themselves on a throne ended up going to Westeros, starting a war, and conquering the nation for a couple of hours. Instead of thinking it failed because it needed, like, three more seasons to properly tell that inevitable story.

(And also to put literally any focus on Bran.)

me, your friendly neighborhood villain apologist: zuko was never evil he was just 16

like yeah i know he gets a bonkers good redemption arc but like. he didn’t actually need one because if you give a teenage boy a ship and tell the people on it to listen to him the least you can expect is some attempted murder. that’s not on him at that point

the type of people who think azula actually loves ty lee are the people who think the joker loves harley

OP you’re my personal fucking hero

Like i KNOW pride and prejudice is the fan favorite, and everyone loves certified awkward dumbass mr.darcy but you have to give some credit to captain frederick wentworth who literally just, ignores the lady hes madly in love with while simultaneously writing her a letter telling her how much he loves her while theyre both in the same god damn room, and THEN he leaves but comes back like haha oopsie forgot my gloves :) shoves the letter in her hands and runs out the door, what a guy

People who are dismissing James Norrington as nothing more than a bootlicker willfully misunderstand that he broke the law when he recognized that those laws were wrong. He even died shortly after aiding and abetting in the escape of several prisoners, pretty much giving the old "fuck you" to Beckett. In this essay I will...

I’m going to need the rest of this essay op.