medievalkatya:

Apartment hunting has shown me that so many kids my age and younger openly broadcast that they are running away from abusive homes and that they are LGBT. I sympathize completely, but you do not under any circumstances need to be on a roommate finder website telling strangers on the internet that you are part of a vulnerable minority with no one back home who cares what happens to you… just say you are moving out, end of. Once you get to trust someone you live with then you can share the backstory. Internet safety is something that still matters.

🎩 or 👑

PS: Your art is gorgeous! ❤️

I went with 👑 (draw a character as royalty) for this one because I absolutely adore One White Blank Page and Elaehna popped right into my head.  Her outfit was SO much fun to draw holy crap.

Thank you for the suggestion!! :D

porphyra :

kelbremdusk :

belles–rose :

Maddie Ziegler didn’t even want to take the title role in “Music” at first, and she cried and had emotional breakdowns repeatedly when filming because she was afraid that Autistic people would think she was making fun of them.  Sia. Basically pressured her into taking the part and going through with it. So on top of everything else, the main actress was manipulated and exploited as well (especially since Maddie was 15 I think when they filmed it). Just gross all around.

It’s true. Fuck Sia. Trash human.

maddie was 14 during filming [x] and sia started planning music around her when she was only 12 (contradicting the claim that she originally tried to hire a neurotypical actor to play the lead). [x] but we really need to talk more about the very intense and dependent relationship sia has with maddie, starting from when sia was 40 and maddie was 12:

• sia stated that she “can’t do a project without [maddie]” and “wouldn’t make art if it didn’t include her" [x]
• maddie has been said to have slept in sia’s bed on multiple occasions when she was 12 [x]
• maddie stated when she was 15 that she “lived with [sia] more than i have with my actual family" [x]
• sia has been referring to herself as maddie’s “sister” and “bonus mom” since maddie was 13, and has admitted to having control over maddie’s career, public image, and even her security team [x]

maddie is sia’s employee AND a child. this is not an even power dynamic.

rasoir-national:

anarcblr:

howboutthatbreadtho:

la-laborista-republiko:

I hate these fucking cannibals so fucking much

Love that AOC became Nancy-Pelosi-In-Waiting so goddamn fast

“[I]t would be absurd on our part to hold a grudge against the socialist leaders who, finding themselves caught up in the electoral machine, end up being gradually transformed into nothing more than bourgeois with liberal ideas. They have placed themselves in determinate conditions that in turn determine them. The consequences are inevitable.”

–Elsée Reclus, “Evolution, Revolution, and the Anarchist Ideal” (1898)

While I don’t disagree with the Elisée (forgot an i here bud) Reclus quote, it has no place in a post that peddles such blatant misinformation.

1) This tweet comes after a thread that starts like this :

2) Goes on to condemn the carceral framework of immigration policy as a whole :

3) And as for the tweet screencapped by op, it’s a response to this :

So here’s what AOC, quote-unquote “cannibal”, is actually saying in that tweet :

- no immigration facility should be carceral

- immigrant children who come in the country alone (which is a situation which has always existed and. will. always. exist.) and/or children who’ve been torn apart from their families should be taken care of in (separate) facilities which need to go through a tougher vetting process

- none of these facilities should be sub-contracted by the gvt

- and some facilities which have had problems in the past should maybe just be closed

- all of these solutions should be short term before a deeper reform can occur.

ALL. OF. THESE. ARE. VALID. AND. PERFECTLY. NORMAL. POINTS. TO. MAKE. NONE OF THEM ARE IN CONTRADICTION WITH AOC’S EARLIER TWEET.

Seriously some people have this idea that advocating for radical reform means you’re exempt from thinking about the meat-and-potatoes day-to-day inner workings of any policy. You’re all for immigration ? Great, me too. How do you plan to house migrants when they arrive ? What kind of facility would you need ? Who would run it ? How do you survey and vet the people running it ? What extra services do you need to provide for immigrant minors who come in unaccompanied and need to be protected in a country they don’t know ? And how do we deal with the damage already caused by the current system ?

AOC is absolutely not saying, as the framing suggests, that “concentration camps” would be fine with a few tweaks. She is saying that such a system is not okay and that deep change is needed, while providing concrete solutions to the most pressing issues with the current way the system works. These two statements are not incompatible.

I understand that we are basically all traumatized with the way we cannot trust any fucking politician, but behind every post calling out AOC as a “corrupted idol” I detect a real anxiety of being “ahead of the curve”, of denouncing progressives for “selling out” before they actually do, so we can’t be disappointed if and when these progressives water down their ideals. AOC is not perfect, nor should she be treated as such. But what’s happening in this post is disinformation, pure and simple. It’s twisting someone’s words for the pervert pleasure of making people feel disappointed and betrayed and dividing us. It pains me to see people fall for it when the tweets in actual context are only a click away. Be better. If we take this shit at face value and discard allies so readily, what chance do we have against people who actually want to cause us harm ?

bakwaaas:

strawberryswinger:

if being hard on yourself worked, it would have worked by now

dissoci-ated :

pascalcampion :

Wasting time.

Aka. I just wanted to draw kitty cat.

#pascalcampion

FOR ALL MY CHRONICALLY ILL PEEPS OUT THERE
Rest is good!!!

pennamesmith:

I heard today was “Crack (Friend)ships” for @spop-palentines so here is the first actual idea I had for a SPoP story:

Parallels

The smoke cleared. Hordak frowned.

“You are not my lab partner,” he intoned.

“Yeah, well, you’re not my vampire, so whatevs,” the other woman shrugged. She was wearing a white lab coat and a crown, and appeared to be made entirely of a pink gelatinous substance.

She looked around at Entrapta’s equipment. “I guess you were working on parallel-dimensional biz too, huh? I think we got our wires crossed. Lemme just fix this for you.”

Hordak took a step back and regarded the pink woman balefully, but did not interrupt. A tiny part of him wished this was the strangest thing that had ever happened to him in a lab.

“Boom-diggety!” the woman cried, mashing some wires together. “I’m outtie five-thou!”

Hordak blinked. There was another burst of energy and a plume of electrical smoke, but when it dissipated Entrapta had still not returned. Instead yet another woman, pale and lost in a mess of black hair, floated several feet off the ground in front of him.

She looked up. “Oh hey. Are you Hordak?”

Hordak hissed. “How do you know my name?”

“Your lady-friend was talkin’ about you. Then she messed with Peebs’ science crud and now I’m here! But it’s chill. If those two are together they’ll probs have this fixed in a hot second. I’m Marceline, by the way.”

She produced a small guitar and began to strum it while hovering.

Hordak sighed.

Marceline glanced at him. “Y’know, I like your spooky vibe. You should all come hang sometime. I’ve got friends who’d like you.”

Before Hordak could answer, there was another flash of light and a whirl of smoke. This time, his familiar purple princess was standing just where she had been a few short minutes ago.

Entrapta grinned, bright-eyed. “Hordak!” she cried, when she saw him. “You’ll never believe the new friends I just made!”

inbarfink :

You were right, Roxanne. I never should have left. 

When Metro Man calls Roxanne just ‘Roxanne’, it’s usually when referring to her in the third person

When he’s talking to her directly, he usually calls her ‘Roxie’

Megamind is the one just calls her ‘Roxanne’ and nothing else. He also turns his face to her, so this is the point where she could notice his eyes are green.

For me, that means this line is more than just Megamind ‘playing’ Metro Man’s character and saying the sort of things he would say, and to make it a believable Hero’s Return in the Nick of Time. This is Megamind speaking as Megamind to Roxanne, and apologizing for leaving her and the efforts to stop Titan earlier.

azzandra :

villainous-queer :

do-what-i-yoinky :

darkmagiciangirl :

i saw some comments on tiktok where people were talking bout how they found tumblr too hard to use and part of it being that there was no lack of dates so “what if you reblog or like something from five years ago?!” 

buddy… we have posts circulating still from 2011, its literally just how it is

Being on tumblr for years like:

is anyone else intensely disturbed by this new norm that we can’t pay attention to anything older than a week?

Yeah, seems kinda messed up, doesn’t it.

ittybittytatertot :

ittybittytatertot :

Tags on tumblr posts were one thing, but fucking huge content warnings for the word queer (in a completely non-slur context, with no other content warnings given for anything else) in front of tiktoks and youtube videos by popular creators is not it.

Don’t bother reblogging this if you’re going to tag it q-slur.

I need people who don’t ID as queer to imagine clicking on a tiktok compilation only for the first words to be “Trigger Warning: the word Lesbian” or “Gay” or “Transgender” and then the video goes on to just be…funny videos.

And then the actual use of words lesbian or gay or transgender are all positive meanwhile there are depictions/descriptions of alcohol, bullying, car crashes, or worse, none of which were content warned for.

Like…do you understand how it feels to be treated as so illicit and other and uncomfortable that people need to be warned of your label being mentioned. Of people like you who ID with that label using it in a positive manner. Please just let queer people exist.

sunshineandhope :

korrasera :

reclaimeddyke :

alphagodith :

highlight quotes;

“… she returned to eating meat after learning that the soybean and corn monocultures that accounted for much of her vegan diet were wreaking havoc on the environment.“

“When we first opened, people were surprised at the prices,” he said. “But our costs are much higher than what a giant company pays. We are paying to have control over the quality of our animals, what they are being fed, how they are being treated, transported, slaughtered and cut up. Once people understood that, the business took off.”

“As soon as I started eating meat, my health improved,” she said. “My mental acuity stepped up, I lost weight, my acne cleared up, my hair got better. I felt like a fog lifted.”

“You can’t be healthy unless the animals you eat are healthy,”

“Rather than being passive and just not supporting an industry I don’t like, I’m taking an active approach by taking thousands of dollars out of it, “ he said. “When people come to me, they aren’t going to Costco for meat.”

“Referring to themselves as ethical butchers, they have opened shops that offer meat from animals bred on grassland and pasture, with animal well-being, environmental conservation and less wasteful whole-animal butchery as their primary goals.”

Instead of trying to poise this as “haha vegans look even y’all can’t do it” express it for what it truly is.

“It’s a sharp contrast to the industrial-scale factory farming that produces most of the nation’s meat, and that has come under investigation and criticism for its waste, overuse of antibiotics, and inhumane, hazardous conditions for the animals. The outcry has been so strong that some meat producers say they are changing their practices. But these newer butchers contend that the industry is proceeding too slowly, with a lack of transparency that doesn’t inspire trust.”

I think it’s also worth noting that this highlights the way that it’s not meat-eaters or vegans that are a problem. It’s the way that our food supply has been shaped by the forces of business.

Fixing it means not fighting about who’s identity is better, but fighting against the business practices that allow companies to torture animals and produce unethically grown and unsustainably harvested foods.

And as a reminder of the past, the US meat packing industry and food production industry have often tried to cut corners and serve filth in order to make a profit. That changed after the release of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle, which portrayed the conditions in the Chicago meat packing industry in such stark relief that it lead directly to the creation of the FDA and the wide scale adoption of food safety regulations.

He told the US that we might be getting the occasional human finger in our ground beef and it worked. We listened and forced the system to change. I think it’s time for another dose of that same medicine.

it’s not meat-eaters or vegans that are a problem. It’s the way that our food supply has been shaped by the forces of business.

So much this. This is why I post so much about food. We’re so dependent on a massively destructive and wasteful food production system, no matter our dietary choices or needs. Our very lives are tangled up with food miles, monoculture, deforestation, food waste, pesticides, exploitation, slavery, and the reality is not everyone has a choice of what to eat or where to shop, and frankly most people don’t have the option not to participate. Any amount of food that you can produce for yourself is a piece of your own liberation.

Any amount.

Even if all you can do is grow a chayote or sweet potato vine in your kitchen for greens, or a few windowsill herbs, or a box of mushrooms under the sink, or a tank of algae, do it. Just because you can’t grow ALL your own food doesn’t mean you shouldn’t bother at all. You will save money, you will reduce your carbon footprint, you will be that much more independent.

crypticcrab:

any adhd kids out there that loved long (3+ hour) car rides because it gave you an acceptable excuse to stare blankly out at an ever-changing background and listen to music on loop / daydream extensively please raise your hands. i wanna check something

padeko :

wolverrina :

capncrystal :

makaeru :

whitmerule :

derinthescarletpescatarian :

earhartsease :

derinthescarletpescatarian :

onionhighonionandrenown :

materassassino :

drferox :

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys :

derinthescarletpescatarian :

deathsmallcaps :

derinthescarletpescatarian :

Foreigners tend to assume that the big cultural confusions between Australians and most other countries are gonna be based on our food, or social services, or weather, or weird animals. But it’s never that. In my experience, the real cultural confusions re: Australians are about The Respect Thing almost one hundred per cent of the time.

? I realize im proving your point but what

The broader Australian culture doesn’t, as a whole, have status-based respect. Some individual groups might, because they’ve brought it from other cultures they’re involved in, but the general culture doesn’t. There’s no sense that your boss or scout leader or the guy in charge of your country deserves more respect than you, or that you should behave differently to them than you would to any random person you know similarly well. (The very rare exceptions include ritualised settings, such as courtrooms, and for some reason the fact that children use “Miss/Ms/Mr” honourifics for teachers at school.) 

I don’t mean Australians are a “stick it to the man, fight back against those in power” kind of people – we’re generally not. And I don’t mean we have a “we’re going to do the status thing but pretend we don’t and pretend to all be equal in mixed company” thing that middle-class Americans do. I mean the status-respect system does not exist, and if you try to use it, it weirds people the fuck out at best, and insults them at worst. Treating someone most countries would say is ‘above’ you differently in Australia is basically telling that person that you hate them; it’s saying “I’m forced to interact with you due to our current circumstances but I don’t see you as a person and won’t grant you the basic respect of treating you like an equal”. (When I was in America, I was constantly suppressing the instinct that random service people were sassing me because they overuse honourifics and were so keen to help me.)

This makes interacting with foreigners really baffling in a lot of circumstances. In university, my international friends would often describe Australians as “friendly, but very rude”. They thought we were all arseholes because of the way we spoke to our PhD supervisors and soforth, and wouldn’t believe us when we explained that our behaviour was respectful and that being deferential would be weird and awkward and insulting to them. Learning Japanese had a similar problem; everyone in the class could get the concept of different levels of formality and deference in language, ans was happy to memorise the usage of various words for Japanese people, but using them on each other was super weird, and we’d only ever use the most casual form of anything unless specifically instructed otherwise by the teacher.

The reason I’ve been thinking of this lately is because I’ve recently become aware that a lot of countries have like… a special respect for their country’s leaders? I don’t just mean “yeah, that guy makes the rules”, but that having that office makes them better than everyone else, somehow. Which I expect from countries with royal families, because Tradition, but I’ve recently found that Americans feel this way about their President, too. (Except the current one, who seems to be enough of a dick to break the system.) Like, if six Americans were in an aeroplane that was going down and there was only one parachute and one of the Americans was A Generic Non-Trump President, it’s just assumed that that guy gets the parachute? Like he’s automatically the life worth saving over the others, and they’d just give up their chance in favour of him? And that’s so weird to me. An Australian prime minister would have a 1 in 6 chance at the parachute; however the people decided, “this guy happens to be the leader of the country” wouldn’t be a factor. 

When Americans don’t like a President, they usually feel the need to work in how he’s “not my president”, either through sheer denial, or by finding some way he’s theoretically illegitimate (different ways votes are counted, wild conspiracy theories about birth country, etc.), and while making sure those rules are obeyed IS extremely important, I’ve recently noticed that part of the motivation seems to be that they’re invested in whether he’s Really The President because being the President somehow makes someone Special rather than just a normal dick who’s been put in charge of the group project. (You see the same thing in “THIS IS TRUMP’S AMERICA!”, like him becoming President gives him superpowers or something).

This is getting off-topic. Point is, in Australia you can run into the Prime Minister and ask him to help you fix your phone and if he’s not busy but refused to help you out he’d be kind of a dick; of course he should help you out. And if I walk into your restaurant and you act like I’m a movie star and you’re going to be super attentive to my every need because I’m The Customer, I’m gonna get creeped out. We’re suspicious and insulted by what most people in the world consider to be basic manners, and vice versa. And it makes interacting with foreigners super weird because I always feel like they’ve got some invisible heirarchical flowchart in the back of their minds that I don’t.

I have long noticed that Americans have absolutely the same cultural attitude to the President as they would to a serving monarchy. They just think they don’t on a technicality.

Can confirm that if I call someone ‘Sir/Madam’ I generally mean ‘asshole’ (unless talking to an animal or tiny child) and that if I get called Ma’am I feel like I’m being called the asshole, which made time in Atlanta, Georgia suoer weird.

Australians have a very good attitude to respect

…so this explains why I have spent the last fourteen years low-grade pissed off at nearly every Australian I meet, because every time I try to be American Polite at them it pisses them off. And, for that matter, why my second boss here, the one I was so careful to be Formally Respectful of and always called “sir,” took such an intense dislike to me.

Yeah, even if that boss understood that you were American and what that meant, their instincts would’ve been screaming at them the whole time that you were being a dick. It’s a difficult thing for us to get used to even when we know the culture is different’.

As a Brit visiting Australia, the most vivid experience I had of this is: in the UK it’s really uncool to get into the passenger seat of a cab - you’re expected to get in the back. In Australia the reverse was apparently true.

… I am only just now realising that inAmerican and British movies and stuff, people don’t get in the passenger seat of a taxi.

covid update: you’re now meant to get in the back seat for social distancing and IT FEELS SO RUDE. sorry taxi person I AM NOT TRYING TO SHUN YOu just I know there are rules and we’re protecting each other. let’s be intensely awkward for a while.

Reblogging this because I just remembered the time Molly Meldrum absolutely horrified Prince Charles by describing meeting the Queen as “I saw your mum last week”.

One of my favorite travel books described humanity as, broadly speaking, having two types of culture: one where formal is respectful and informal is rude, and vice versa. Australian culture sees formality as hostile or unfriendly and familiarity as warmth. It’s decidedly not the case in USA as a whole, though as with any broad category the dichotomy changes as the group gets smaller.

YOU PUT THE THING INTO WORDS!

Different cultures are fascinating.

the birds soulmate au is COMPLETE :D

this installment, anyway ;P

silmaspens:

Diverse Tolkien Week day five:

Anti-Racism

lynati:

transenbyhollis:

leatherleaves:

doubleca5t:

Omg I’ve never loved something more. When the chorus hit the serotonin was FLOWIN

i have never felt greater trepidation than in playing this audio file

*dances*

adhdtogether:

sandersstudies:

keepcalmandcarriefischer:

sandersstudies:

sandersstudies:

sandersstudies:

Having ADHD is like just now I went to look up salmon recipes but suddenly I’m building a shelf

The transition also came from a purely logical train of thought but that doesn’t mean it was correct

I actually walked away from washing dishes because my train of thought went “I’m tired of cleaning dishes and I have to go to work soon and then I will have to come home and make dinner and I will be MORE tired” and then I thought “wait I can save myself being tired making dinner LATER if I simply put dinner in the slow cooker to cook NOW” and we have leftover salmon that will go bad if I don’t use it soon so I started googling salmon slow cooker recipes but halfway through I thought about how getting the slow cooker out is a hassle because there is never enough counter space and then I REMEMBERED I bought a shelf to put counter things to have more counter space but I’d left the box in the car so I went out and got the box and completely assembled a shelf but I still haven’t started dinner OR finished the dishes.

Hey OP, you are late for work now

FUCK

This is it.

This is exactly what an ADHD train of thought can look like. And I’d bet money that this happened in the span of about 10 seconds.

chapter 10 of the birds soulmate au is posted!!!

patricide1917 :

peelingmandarins :

“After thirty years of intensive research, we can now answer many of the questions posed earlier. The recycle rate of a human being is around sixteen hours. After sixteen hours of being awake, the brain begins to fail. Humans need more than seven hours of sleep each night to maintain cognitive performance. After ten days of just seven hours of sleep, the brain is as dysfunctional as it would be after going without sleep for twenty-four hours. Three full nights of recovery sleep (i.e., more nights than a weekend) are insufficient to restore performance back to normal levels after a week of short sleeping. Finally, the human mind cannot accurately sense how sleep-deprived it is when sleep-deprived.”

— Matthew Walker PhD, Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
(via themedicalstate )

Jesus christ

welp

France approves return of African treasures looted during colonial period

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Colonizers Stole Africa’s Art; This Man Is Taking It Back">‘We want our riches back’ – the African activist taking treasures from Europe’s museums

2- One of my current top posts around the subject

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France approves return of African treasures looted during colonial period

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Colonizers Stole Africa’s Art; This Man Is Taking It Back

Good for him!

the number one indicator that you should see a therapist is thinking “hmm, should I see a therapist?”

thelatestkate :

I’ve found that when I’m going through difficult times my brain doesn’t do “happy.” A lack of positive emotions for several days on end often leads to feeling hopeless and helpless, which I usually take as truth rather than symptoms of depression. The only relief I’ve managed to find is through drinking (which may explain why so many of my ancestors were alcoholics).

I just wanted to talk about this because it’s a common trap I fall into around stressful events (tax season, anniversaries of deaths, significant loss of income etc.), and I’m just NOW realizing how it repetitively plays out after struggling with this issue for decades.

I want to make a renewed effort to see my anxiety disorder for what it is; a mental illness that magnifies already difficult, stressful times. And when my illness lies and tells me that life is impossible, that I am too weak to handle it, or that I will never feel okay again, I will make an effort to look back at this time and remember that while I can’t help that I live with mental illnesses, I CAN be more vigilant about recognizing the symptoms and do my best to ride it out.

Life proves over and over; there WILL be good times again. There will. And the guarantee of that is worth crawling through your hell for, I promise.

disdainful :

disdainful :

There is a post deep down on my blog somewhere that is just a full grown tiger in a giant cardboard box with FREE KITTEN written on the front of it that is my favourite post on this entire website I think about that baby and I cry a little

ouuuuhahsjldfkht34wtiegyduhgrhwtih baby sweet little baby itty bitty tiny sweet cat im gonna start SOBBING are you SEEING THIS

ceiwiart:

ceiwiart:

This is how it happened, right?

Based on this

orangegaytorade:

Ok ok one more Megamind post for today.

So at the end of it, Roxanne puts Metro Man’s cape on him and says “you look good in whit”

And we know they get together

What if at their wedding it’s all traditional and all, but instead of girl in white dress and boy in black suit, it’s boy in white suit and girl in a black dress.

Like they’re still the same style but like switched colors. Like Safiya Nygard did at her wedding. And Roxanne’s dress has blue lightning bolt motifs in small places.

This would be so cool and I wish I had better drawing skills to do this (I can draw but my body proportions are lacking a bit)

If someone sees this and has the skills could they draw it? Pls and thanks

i need you to look up the candy cane snail

oh i love this snail

scrabbleknight :

badsciencejokes :

What's the difference between a dog and a marine biologist?

One wags a tail and the other tags a whale.

@marinebiologyshitposts

omghotmemes :

Anyone?

nientedal:

you know what, i’m gonna take a bath RIGHT NOW just to spite that fancy house with the weirdly deep, short bathtub

GUESS WHERE I AM

marauders4evr :

Disney just released a trailer for a Cruella de Vil movie and…

I cannot overemphasize how there’s a difference between making a book/movie to make people sympathize with the fairytale-esque villain who reacted to a personal slight in a fantastical way and making a film/movie to make people sympathize with the villain who is supposed to be an obvious metaphor for oppression and/or cruelty! (Note: You can make a fun movie about a villain, i/e: ‘Watch them burn down the world!’ but Disney always seems to go for the more sympathetic route, and if the amount of shots of crying-Cruella are any indication, that’s what they’re going for, here.)

Wicked? (I know it’s not Disney but everyone wants to be Wicked, so I can’t not include it.) Works. The original Witch was a minor antagonist with no real motives or real-world connections (odds are we’re never going to be chased through the lands by a woman wanting our shoes) and the Wizard was always canonically a lying showman, so having a book/musical where his lies paint her as the villain, and him as the hero, works.

Maleficent? On thin ice but still works. She was slighted by the society in the original movie, so as much of a Wicked ripoff as it is, it’s still a very creative analysis on the other ways she could have been slighted, plus they make her the real hero in the end, and, again, there’s a disconnect because odds are none of us are going to be cursed by the fae (though let me tell you, living in the UK, I’m closer than I’ve ever been).

I read this Lion King book series as a kid, and one of the volumes was about how Scar was really born with the name ‘Taka’ (translation: garbage) and how he was treated like shite by his parents, who loved Mufasa. That worked. It never excused his past, but it showed a sympathetic side that made you realize things aren’t always black and white. (This series isn’t canonical, by the way, though Kopa absolutely should be.) And, I cannot overstate this, there was a disconnect because no reader will be thrown over a cliff by a lion!

Even Twisted works as a clever indie pastiche!

But if you’re going for sympathy, you can’t use villains that represent real-life evil and oppression!

I saw a book, several years ago, that was like, “Do you want to know all about Mother Gothel’s story?” No tf I don’t! No matter how well-written it is. Rapunzel’s dynamic with Gothel hits so close to him that the palm is on the bricks! I don’t ever, at any given point in my life, want to hear that fictional abusive parent’s voice, because that’s absolutely not the voice that should be heard. (It’s the same reason I detest any theories about Frollo. “Do you want to know why this religious man abused this disabled child?” I’m good.)

They announced, last year, that they were making a spinoff about Gaston. Because if there’s anything people want to see, it’s the movie about the gaslighting, stalking, bundle of toxic masculinity. /s

Now, Disney’s like, “Do you want to know more about the rich CEO who wants to murder puppies? Do you want to sympathize with the puppy murderer? All she wants to do is murder puppies :(.”

I just…you’re not going to be Birds of Prey. You’re not going to be Wicked. This isn’t how you create sympathetic villains! SHE HAS THE WORDS ‘CRUEL’ AND ‘DEVIL’ IN HER NAME!