all goofing aside I genuinely don't understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene(TM) is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you're willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I'm not even saying you can't enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.

Really fucking sad. No words.

Something about them mirroring each other has me in a hysterical mood, you know. Absolute feral.

Me with Tom Cruise

"unalive" should just mean the opposite of undead. if undead means a dead thing thats alive, unalive shuld mean an alive things thats dead. no i dont have any examples. ☝️yet

when doctors ask if i have any history of cancer in my family and i have to say that yes my grandmother had 2 types of gastrointestinal cancer and they're like oh wow okay so we'll keep an eye out for that but i'm like no it was probably just all the nuclear radiation and they're like ok hm ok what the fuck do you mean and it's very weird seeing the look on american doctors' faces when you have to explain to them that believe it or not atomic bombs were dropped on this earth 2 generations ago and it did have consequences

Went to watch Monkey Man again with my brother. Noticed another thing.

Spoilers.

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I want to pat Dev Patel in the back because. Wow.

The Kid's love for his mother made him burnt his future away (the root lines inside his palms), but also his mother saved him by attracting all of the attentions to her.

Later on he was saved by the hijra, he slept under Ardhanarishvara's feet, found a guru in Alpha to reconnect to himself and refind his purpose.

He returned the favour by returning to the ring, fought then won so that he could give the hijra money to fend for themselves and remind Alpha that they were too warriors.

Which lead to them entering the battle to fight alongside with him.

He was kind + has respect towards Sita and she felt a sense of kin / fascination + empathy to him. Sita later saved him from Queenie.

His entire life circled around women and their kindness, feminism and motherly love.

[SOURCE]

Maternity kits, medical threads and scissors, water testing kits, anesthetics, mobile desalination units, etc do you see the pattern? Israel is not only starving the people of Gaza but it also wants to ensure the spread of disease through contaminated water and surgical tools, as well as ensuring injured Palestinians suffer through horrendous pain.

It's beyond sickening.

How are the Israelis not just staging a coup at this point

“Monkey Man” was shot and completed in 2021, and Netflix soon after acquired the rights for around $30 million, but it’s been on the shelf for three years and they‘ve all of a sudden decided to get rid of it? What gives? It turns out, according to an in-the-know source, that it was the portrayal of a fictional right-wing Hindu Nationalist character in the film that worried Netflix about their future dealings in India. And even though they had paid more than twice the production cost, they decided to give the film back to the producers, which is what caused the long delay. Universal and Peele eventually took a particular liking to the film, so much so that they suggested possible editing changes and delayed the release until what they thought would be the right date. It’s as simple as that. In the end, it was all about politics and optics for the streaming giant, especially since India has become the current top growth market for Netflix. Co-Founder Reed Hastings has mentioned that a majority of the service's next 100 million subscribers would most likely come from India.

Universal/Jordan Peele's "suggested possible editing changes" in question:

Monkey Man spoilers.

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There're two details I noticed while watching the movie that are just way too cool to not talk about, aiding the narration of The Kid and the ending.

1, in one of the flashback scenes, his mother held his hands and gently map out the root lines inside his palms and told him that these lines tell a human's future. We learned that Monkey Man's hands are burnt trying to save his mom, he no longer has visible root lines. His future died alongside his mother.

2, aiding to the bit above, another flashback screen has his mother asked him what would he like to be when he grow up. We saw him answering, but we never heard or made it out what he wanted himself to be when he's grown.

Just. Beautiful and heartbreaking scenes + symbolism.

Close your eyes. And you will find yourself. When I was a boy, my mother used to tell me a story of a demon king and his army. They brought fire and terror to the land. Until they faced the protector of the people. The White Monkey. There you are. You are a beast.

MONKEY MAN (2024) dir. Dev Patel

i've had spotify autoplaying that artist you recommended all evening and while the songs are all truly impeccable bangers it just gave me "the first disciple" and i. need to lay down. oh my god.

thanks for the irreparable psychic damage 👍

Jkgjfjkf haha another one!

I've recently started listening to him really, and I found some of his songs (the first discipline, a drop of blood and habibi) are just so Zoro, and Zolu, by extension; but I truly started to intensify the connection after that reading of "step 2" while listening to the song like I told you!

Glad you enjoy the music too 😊😊😊

step 2: survive anyway

Even though he knows he’s a hypocrite for it, Zoro is so fucking tired of learning everything from everyone but Luffy.

pairing: monkey d. luffy/roronoa zoro

word count: 19,023 [final: 30,367]

ao3 tags: incorrect descriptions of poisoning and other medical inaccuracies; spoilers through wano act I; roronoa “self-sacrifice” zoro; law's weird jar of blood; no one being normal about luffy; angst and hurt/comfort

They're besties. To me.

it's kind of crazy climate change has occurred at such a remarkable pace that I and everyone else around my age can remember a completely different climate in our childhoods. I truly watched winter gradually disappear in my life.