Yes, and …

My experience with therapy was that it helped me reconcile the fact that my father loved me but was also a very difficult person because of his own damage from his narcissistic and abusive father. My dad tried really hard to be a better parent than his own father. He did not always succeed, but he did genuinely love me. (He died in 2013.)

The movie Poor Things has a lot of other issues, particularly around race, but I really identified with the problematic father/daughter relationship between Godwin and Bella. And the father/daughter relationship in the musical version of Fun Home made me cry so hard, we were the last ones to leave the theater.

Adding to what I said here: x

I cannot say what kind of relationship those who read Lestat as never loving Claudia have with their own parents, but as someone who had quite a few angsty years of my own and a parent who was troubled (diagnosed with PTSD in the last years of her life), I feel like there's something about the dynamic between Claudia and Lestat that is going to mainly strike those of us with complicated relationships with their parents.

My mother and I had a very turbulent relationship and sometimes it's hard for me to talk about because part of me feels like I'm doing a disservice to her memory when I do. Why? Because I love my mother and I miss her. I am very grateful for the last years I had with her because, in those last years, I developed a better understanding of where she was coming from in a lot of her decisions raising me than I ever did before her cancer diagnosis. It's a challenge to work through your feelings about things that happened in the past, but at some point, I realized my hard feelings were not doing anything for me and it got to the point where I realized my feelings about those things are valid and choosing to let them go didn't make them any less valid.

But also? Through those turbulent years, there were always signs that my mother did love me despite some of the things she said and did that hurt me. When I found myself in trouble, she ALWAYS had my back. She supported me when I was in college. She bought me books in how to become a better writer because she knew I was passionate about that. I have memories when I was a kid of her and my dad taking me out of school for the day to go to the mall, buying me a Cinderella watch at the Disney store, and then treating me to Chinese food. There were certainly things my mother could have handled a little better and there were things she should not have said to me, but that doesn't mean she didn't love me.

This is not to say that forgiveness is the answer for everyone. Claudia certainly didn't forgive Lestat. However, as someone whose had the experiences I've had, I cannot sit here and make sense of any reading of Lestat that suggests he never loved her. Again, love is complex. Love can often be kind. Love can also be cruel. Can a person fake love? Absolutely! But is every person who is cruel to their spouse or child faking their love? Well, I cannot say my mother didn't really love me, and I cannot say Lestat never really loved Claudia.

*tapping the mic*

Ahem-

Ignorance does not excuse racism!

I remember how mad certain people were that she was there with her Loki-green purse. 🤭

The other reason I wonder if she was at the Variety award when he received it in Miami is that he did not thank her at the PCAs in 2021 when she was present, but he did thank her in 2022 when she wasn’t there. And then he didn’t thank her at the Variety award. And looked all glowy, to boot, as he is wont to do when she’s nearby. 🤔

(source: @zawedaily)

Ngl i prefer the 2016 version purple on the right.

I've publically gone on record telling folks not to work for ValNet (the company that owns ScreenRant, GameRant, TheGamer, and CBR, among many other terrible nerd/media "news" outlets). They mistreat their workers badly even by the standards of Internet Media Outlets.

Here's another reason not to work with them or engage with their content- they're silencing independent journalists with ridiculous, fictitious copyright claims.

I always assume the Greek chorus in this movie is not just a joke about Greek choruses, but also a tribute to Howard Ashman’s first hit musical, Little Shop of Horrors. Musker and Clements worked very closely with Ashman for both The Little Mermaid and Aladdin before his untimely death from AIDS.

HERCULES (1997) Dir. Ron Clements & John Musker

I love that he and Eugene Cordero got close enough that when Tom got his very own TV show, he made sure Eugene was part of it.

(IIRC, Casey was supposed to be a bigger part of season one, but when they had to retool because of COVID, they couldn’t get him back for more filming.)

Ba-dum-tssh

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Shrimply the Best socks PDF knitting pattern // StoneKnits

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thinking about the poll about canon vs non-canon ships that didn't define terms, and the current fandom focus on things "going canon," so i made up a scale.

this is NOT a question about whether canon matters to what you ship (or matters at all), just how to define the phrase "canon ship."

many ships start low on the scale and slow burn their way up, so vote for the point when you would have called them "canon." i agonized over the order (especially #4-6) for a day and a half, but i went with the order in which i think joe random with a nielsen ratings box and no tumblr account would notice/call something a romantic relationship.

i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to