The Romance in the mundane...
To watch her closely while she's doing her chores, if you don't find delight in it, then your eyes have missed it all, they're better out of the sockets than inside it...
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Indeed hornet very inspirational
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Gionna Daddio (who became Liv Morgan) grew up in Elmwood Park, New Jersey with her father passing away of a heart attack just three months before she was born.
This led Liv's mom to raise Liv, her brothers and sisters completely by herself while working 60 hours a week to keep the family afloat. All seven of them.
Since her mom worked so often, Liv mainly just had to raise herself for many years while wrestling would be blasting in her room.
Requiring purpose, it was watching WWE that helped shape her life. In fact, she was so enthralled with wrestling that Liv and her brothers had a makeshift ring in their backyard complete with entrances constructed by her mom from cushions, poles from a pear tree and laundry lines.
Years later, Liv would drop out of high school and start working at Hooters to earn money, but it also provided her with responsibility for the first time in her life.
Liv soon got into the best shape of her life after training with Joe DeFranco, who has trained high-level athletes including Triple H.
By 2014, she tried out at the WWE Performance Center.
Over the July 4th weekend, she received the good news from Canyon Ceman (Senior Vice President of Talent Development) that she would be offered a contract at just 19 years old.
Fast forward 8 years later and Liv Morgan reigns as WWE SmackDown Women's Champion.
Dreams do come true.
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they survived because aphrodite could not let this be their last words to each other
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- I’m not the child you once knew.
- No. That child would see you and run.
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Y'know, there's this gripe I've had for years that really frustrates me, and it has to do with Love, Simon and people joking about it and calling it too-pg and designed-for-straight-people and all the like. (A similar thing has happened to Heartstopper, but that's another conversation.)
I saw Love, Simon in theaters when it came out my senior year in high school. I saw it three times, once with my friends/parents on opening night, once with my brother over spring break, and once with my grandparents.
On opening night, the air in the room was electric. It was palpable. Half the heads in there were dyed various colors. Queer kids were holding hands. We were all crying and laughing and cheering as a group. My friends grabbed my hands at the part where Simon was outed and didn't let go until his parents were saying that they accepted him. My friend came out to me as non-binary. Another person in our group admitted that she had feelings for girls. It was incredible. I left shaking. This was the first mainstream queer romance movie that had ever been produced by one of the main five studios, and I know that sounds like another "first queer character from Disney" bit but you have to understand that even in 2018 this was groundbreaking. Getting to have a sweet queer rom-com where the main character was told that he got "to breathe now" after coming out meant so much to me and my friends.
But also, from a designed-for-straight-people POV (which, to be frank, it was written by a bisexual author and directed by a gay man, this was not designed for straight audiences), why is it a bad thing that it appealed to the widest possible audience? That it could make my parents and grandparents see things in a new light? My stepdad wasn't at all interested in rom-coms but he saw it with me because it was something I cared about and he hugged me when we came out of the theater. My very Catholic grandparents watched it with me and though my grandpa said he still didn't quite understand the whole 'gay thing,' all he wanted was for me to be happy and to have a happy ending like Simon did. My Nana actually cried when Simon came out and squeeze my hand when his mother told him he could breathe.
And when Martin blackmailed Simon, my mom, badass ally that she is, literally hissed "Dropkick him. Dropkick him in the balls" leading to multiple queer kids in the audience to laugh or smile. Having my parents there- the only parents, by the way, out of my group of queer and questioning friends- made multiple people realize that supportive adults were out there. That parents like those in Love, Simon do exist in real life.
When people complain about Heartstopper not being realistic or Love, Simon being too cutesy, I remember seeing Love, Simon on opening night. I remember my friend coming out and my stepdad hugging me and my mom defending us through this character. I remember the cheers that went through the audience when Bram and Simon kissed and the chatter in the foyer after the movie was over and the way that this movie made me understand that happy endings do exist.
Queer kids need happy endings. Straight people need entry points to becoming allies. Both of these things can come together in beautiful ways. They can find out about more queer culture later, but for now, let them have this. Let them all have a glimpse at a better, happier world. Let them have queer joy.
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gotta say I am a huge sucker for how Adventure Time will sometimes just cut to Princess Bubblegum doing something extremely morally dubious like cutting off a tiny person’s limbs with scissors and then sticking those arms and legs onto another tiny person’s limb stumps but then she'll turn around and go like "Good morning, Finn! Are you ready for a sploinking day?" and whatever atrocities she had just been committing will Never be brought up again.
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heartstopper is so funny to me bc it’s like almost all young up-and-coming teen actors and then just. academy award winner olivia colman is there to have four lines a season
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