I have a headcanon that “To be free” becomes a meme among Les Amis, similar to the Obama “then perish” meme. It can end any and every argument and can be used in any and every circumstance.
“I was thinking of getting pizza tonight for the meeting. Unless anyone has a better idea.”
I just want you guys to know that the woman of the confused lady meme is a Brazilian actress
it’s a scene from a soap opera. her character was called Nazaré Tedesco. This was one of the most iconic roles in all of Brazilian soap operas. So here goes another iconic scene (it’s Nazaré kidnapping a baby) that you guys can use to make memes:
I’m so glad this post is still going around
wtf this entire time i thought she was the tall lady from american horror story
there is no middle ground that i can see. if just believing people about their own sexualities and identities is problematic to you, then you are supporting medical gatekeeping, you are agreeing with the straight and cis people who deny each of our identities regularly. if you don’t support medical gatekeeping, then believing people’s self-reported identities is your only option.
you can not pick which identities are real and which should be subject to medical scrutiny and examination. you do not have that right. you either believe us or abuse us.
im tired of The Straights™ yelling about how “friendship is more important” and people need to “let [characters] be friends” only when the couple in question is the same sex/gender
the only buildup you need for a cishet couple on tv is for them to look at each other but when two guys or girls are checking every damn romantic trope box, they’re still just friends and you’re delusional
and then these same people try to act like you’re somehow hurting the portrayal of good and healthy friendships in media by shipping said characters. “let guy friends be close!” they yell, as if we don’t have 288293 buddy cop movies and series alone featuring two close straight males
we are alive on a planet that has water and love and crunchy peanut butter and poetry and flowers and books and kissing. I will not fret about the not so good stuff anymore.
The chemical name for vitamin C is “ascorbic acid”. I always used to wonder about this one. Is being ascorbic like being acerbic? Is it like being ascetic? Absorbent? Some combination of all of them?
Today I learned that scorbi is just a Latinish way of writing scurvy. So a-scorbi-c acid is “no-scurvy acid”.
Controversial opinion: the worldbuilding is by far the best part of Frank Herbert’s Dune. The story itself is kind of bland; but you want to tell me about how all of these nobles trace their lineage back to a hilariously misremembered version Alexander the Great, I’m all for that.
“oh yeah, we got so tired of computers we fought a war over it and decided to get rid of them all, if we need to calculate something we’ve got this dude who we trained from birth to think really hard.”
the way the Butlerian Jihad gets developed in the sequels is dumb, but the original idea of a religious objection to humanlike AI is actually fairly interesting. It’s civilization having a panic attack about what it means to be human, which is – the main theme of the series, really. The worldbuilding is also my favorite thing about Dune, and admittedly I’m a sucker for Space Holy Roman Empire, but a lot of what makes it new and fun and weird is the sincere effort to depict human cognition pushed to increasingly bizarre and specialized extremes as a necessary feature of the setting.
@relfanalae this isn’t a meme but now I feel compelled to alert you whenever I post or reblog something Dune-related
we all know Valjean is super big on education, right? I mean, he only talks about it a BILLION TIMES in Shoujo Cosette like dang man we GET IT
but just imagine for me
Valjean appreciates education not just in reading, writing, math, history, whatever
he’s big on self defense also, especially when it comes to Cosette, because heck she will know how to defend herself in every way
imagine him teaching Cosette all he can, and then sending her to these self defense and martial arts classes, and soon she knows mostly everything that anyone can teach her, and her punches and kicks are like lightning and she’s totally ripped underneath all that pink adorableness like imagine being a bully or an evil dude and suddenly this pink whirlwind comes flying at you and suddenly you’re on the ground and you look up and this rosy cheeked blonde girl is standing over you with her fists clenched and she starts reprimanding you like how legit is THAT
so yes, Valjean is a big advocate of education, because no one can take your knowledge away, but that knowledge extends to self defense and you bet Cosette knows every move in the books
The ending of book 2 is basically ‘And so Valjean was content and the kindest he’s ever been and Cosette is growing up laughing with her convent friends’ and then BOOM Book III Marius and because I know what’s to come it feels so fucking ominous I got a single stomach butterfly of anxiety.
If I stop reading right now Les Miserables ends super happy maybe I should just… Not? Anymore? Just stop here yes? Go read a book about orphans at a carnival (that isn’t even asoue, orphans in carnivals and circuses are surprisingly prevalent) and let Valjean and Cosette be happy there forever together?
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