villain origin stories are so fucking funny. like oh i accidentally got lizard genes in my me guess i should get a sick hoverboard and fly around throwing bombs at people and screeching. my name is green goblin now. it’s the next logical step
okay, most of what i do re: harry potter is criticism, and hp is flawed in such a number of ways, but sometimes i just sit here and
i mean, you all have a comprehension of just how drastically harry potter changed literature, yeah? like. it revitalized it. it blew the literary scene apart. the new york times had to create a separate bestseller’s list for children’s lit just because harry potter existed. harry potter changed reading.
so many people on tumblr were born in the ‘90s. when the first book came out, most of us couldn’t read. but we grew up in a world where everyone, everyone, everyone was reading harry potter, no matter how old they were; we grew up in a world where the most popular story in the entire world was a fantasy children’s book.
it’s sort of difficult to grasp, sometimes, the extent to which harry potter is not just a book. the extent to which what is basically a series of fun, interesting, and fairly good novels is such an enormous, enormous part of our lives, a cultural touchstone, a truly universal reference point, something so many people have shaped their lives around, a foundation for all of the stories we would read and watch for the rest of our lives– for so many of us, the first books we ever loved
the extent to which so many of us can’t call ourselves “fans” of harry potter, because it would like being a “fan” of, like, having lungs.
it’s not even about liking it or disliking it. it’s just a part of us.
This reminds me an awful lot about Starbucks.
No, seriously. Before Starbucks, America was a coffee wasteland. Coffee was a thing you got at diners and drivethroughs. It was a cheap hot thing you put made palatable with tons of cream and sugar, and most people (but waning!) had a coffee machine at home.
Starbucks told us that we could like coffee. That coffee could be an enjoyable thing, that it could be a status symbol and a ritual. That there could be a place where you go for coffee, and you enjoy it.
As a coffee snob, I think Starbucks’ coffee is awful. But Starbucks is why we have better coffee. Starbucks created the market space for third wave coffee shops and artisanal roasters. They reintroduced “espresso”, “latte” and “cappuccino” to the American lexicon.
We need stuff that’s heinously popular. That’s how culture works.
The cultural impact of the original 3 Star Wars movies was something literally phenomenal, something absolutely ubiquitous that changed the landscape of entertainment so fundamentally that things haven’t been the same since.
It was very much like Harry Potter. I know JK is le problematique but the books were fun, creative, and exciting, got a LOT of kids into reading in general and fantasy specifically, and gave us all some mew common cultural touchstones.
I feel very fortunate to have lived through both, and I wonder what will be next.
yesterday my grandma found a penny on the floor and said to my grandpa “there’s that penny again, pa!” and i absolutely lost my mind because i couldn’t shelve the thought of a single panel Far Side comic of two old people on the front porch in the middle of nowhere and a giant penny angrily and inexplicably rolling through the wastes
i don’t think people understand that people can ‘love’ you and not actually love you
like my grandmother ‘loved’ me, but she also was always trying to change me. she tried to take me away from my (catholic bisexual) mother. she made me wear dresses when i was there. she always tried to get me to go to church and was always asking me if i was dating a boy yet
i spent years feeling guilty that i wasn’t what she wanted me to be until my mom told me one day “she never bothered to know the real you”
and it’s true. any time i tried to show her something about myself, even cook for her, it would be dismissed, and a replacement would be offered. even northern food was somehow a sin.
she loved me what she thought i should be, she never loved me.
bc people who love you, they love you for all the stuff that makes you you. they never consider that it makes you inconvenient.
“It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold.“
Loving someone like a prized possession is a very different thing from loving someone like a person you care about.
So I looked up funny wedding photos and I was not disappointed.
Like
These are all so wholesome and make for great draw the otp/draw the squad things for when you want to draw characters getting married but also be total dorks.
Having seen it, I can now say that the people claiming this can shut right up. The movie does a perfectly fine job of showing ALL aspects of Mercury, including his bisexuality (he was in a sexual relationship with a woman for 6 years), and his AIDS. It even has him insisting that he doesn’t want to be some sort of AIDS poster boy and just wants to perform and give people the music they want. I know that anything short of him tongue kissing every guy he saw for 2 ½ hours wouldn’t be “representative” enough for you, but being LGBT isn’t a personality. They were giving an overview of the life of an individual human being with a lot beyond his sexuality that made him iconic.
I forgot…MEMBERS OF QUEEN AND THEIR PRODUCER SHAT ON THIS MOVIE 🤣
Are you drunk? Brian May literally said that Remi Malek deserves an Oscar for how he portrayed Freddie, he also complemented the accuracy of the actor that played him. And Freddie Mercury’s sister praised the movie too. The hell are you on?
Wow, I didn’t realise that expressing yourself made you a jerk.
the fact that a good chunk of tumblr is offended by someone expressing their own feelings about their own body is just so bizarre like
what the fuck
*looks at notes*
“She looked better before pullin the stuffing out smh”
“But she was so much sexier before.”
hoW ABOUT SHUT UP
body positivity about being curvier is great, but you know, if someone isn’t comfortable with their weight, you shouldn’t make them feel bad about that??? body positivity is a two way street??? people are allowed to be unhappy about their weight and want to change it no matter what their weight is???? like yes opinions are great and you have every right to express them but you know what’s not great??? shaming people for being unhappy about things
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