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heartial
ne·fe·li·ba·ta
/nefilēbätä/
noun a cloud walker; an individual who lives in the “clouds” of her own imagination or dreams.
a word that describes me perfectly
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Friends, please listen. I didn't want to do this and we hoped we didn't have to but my home in Ukraine was bombed last month with my elderly uncle and aunt. We help them as much as we can but now we cannot keep it up anymore. They need money to move to another home. Please help anyway you can if not with money then simply a share to bring awareness.
I know now there are so many things happening in the world, from the genocide in Palestine to the incredible destruction in Ukraine. Not to mention personal issues everyone has. Please please please help spread the word.
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Trump is visiting a class in an elementary school where they are talking about words and meanings
The teacher asks Trump if he would like to lead the class in a discussion of the word “tragedy”.
So he asks the class for an example of a tragedy. One little boy stands up and offers, “if my best friend who lives on a farm is playing in a field and a runaway tractor comes along and knocks him dead, that’d be a tragedy.”
“Not quite”, says Mr. Trump, “that would be an accident.”
A little girl raises her hand: “if a school bus carrying 50 children drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy.”
“I’m afraid not,” explained the president. “That’s what we would call a great loss.”
The room goes silent. Trump searches the room. “Isn’t there someone here who can give me an example of a tragedy? “
Finally at the back of the room, little Johnny raises his hand. In a quiet voice he says, “If Air Force One, carrying you was struck by a missile and blown to smithereens; that would be a tragedy.”
“Fantastic!” exclaimed Mr. Trump. “That’s right. And can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?”
“Well’, said little Johnny, “because it sure as hell wouldn’t be a great loss and probably wouldn’t be an accident either.”
fuck him up jeff
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Bluestocking and the Brute
So there’s this story. It’s about a clever, spirited young woman who scoffs at the absurdities of people around her, has a very close relationship with her dad even though everyone thinks her family’s embarrassing, and turns down a “suitable” yet insufferable marriage option who wouldn’t take no for an answer. Some judge her for it, but in the end her choices are vindicated, allowing her to snag a handsome rich guy who made a horrible first impression but got better since. And her name is… Elizabelle.
No, wait, now that I think about it there are at least two stories exactly like this.
When I was rewatching Beauty and the Beast (1991) the other day, I actually got something of a Dracula vibe from the beginning — you know, that whole thing about being trapped by wolves in a monster’s castle — and while that train of thought doesn’t go very far, it did get me on the track of literary parallels, which is how I realized that Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991) is more of a Pride and Prejudice adaptation than it is a Beauty and the Beast (1740) adaptation. Seriously, you could list the things it has in common with the original on one hand.
Like most adaptations though, it’s missing something essential from the work it was inspired by. See, Jane Austen knew that some people think it’s a woman’s job to “fix” all sorts of misfortunately misguided men, so she wrote a story that was very pointedly Not That. She also wrote another story that deconstructs the whole idea — shoutout to Mansfield Park — but that’s for another day. In the story we’re talking about now, the broody bad boy is successfully turned into husband material. So how is it a subversion?
Well, the work having come out 212 years ago, there isn't much ground left for me to break. I'll just sum up the most important points that's already been unearthed, the first of which is that Darcy fixes himself. Elizabeth may hand him the wrench but all the hard work is on him and him alone. The second bit is that he does so without expectation of reward. Darcy has no hope of winning Lizzie's heart after the disasterous first proposal, yet he still goes out of his way to show her respect, which proves that he really reflected on his behavior instead of just following a script to get he wants like a certain Henry. And here's the real kicker: the only person Elizabeth does fix is herself. The whole plot hinges on her being so petty and biased— or one might even say prejudiced against Darcy that she, who prides herself on rationality, ends up overlooking a veritable parade of red flags because the guy was nice and told her what she wanted to hear. The text itself breaks down her hypocrisy and poor conduct, pointing it out to the reader and giving her room for introspection. This is crucial, since it reframes the entire premise from “good woman improves a bad man” to “two flawed people become better as a result of meeting each other”. It removes the gendered roles, making them equals.
This is what really sets Disney’s take apart from the timeless classic that is Bride and Brejudice. The central moral remains the same: “don’t judge a book by its cover”, but Belle, bookworm that she is, starts off already knowing that. It sure helps that her Wickham makes no attempt to hide his nature and the only women who like him are those silly blonde Bimbettes that apparently exist just to show how Belle is Not Like The Other Girls™… That’s a whole different beast, really. But speaking of beasts, his appearance never truly affects their relationship either, only his behavior. There's no misconception to be overcome — her books-over-looks attitude is consistent all the way through. Belle is the good woman to his bad man, not a flawed person to his flawed person.
Now if instead of Disney vs great literature you wanted to see a much fairer match of Disney vs Disney, then…
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Thought for sure Jinx was gonna kill Vi's new enforcer buddies. I thought it would have paralleled her killing Mylo and Claggor, only this time it would be on purpose rather than accidental. This time she'd be remorseless rather than guilt-ridden and apologetic. Imagine if the show had spent time fleshing out the bond between Vi and her new squad. Shown them spending time together and training together. Shown how well she works with Maddie, Steb, and Loris, the latter reminding her so much of Vander. Then they go hunt Jinx together. And Jinx kills them one by one. Mylo, Claggor, and Vander dead again at Vi's feet. Only now there's no Powder crying and saying it was an accident and begging Vi not to leave her. Now Vi calling her "Jinx" again wouldn't just be an outburst she wishes she could take back. She'd 100% mean it this time.
It would have made Vi's murderous rage towards her sister make way more sense. The show makes it seem like the killing of the Council is what made Vi turn from "Powder, it's okay, we'll be okay" to "Powder is gone, let's murder Jinx." And that's just not a believable enough reason for me. Jinx was given plenty of complex well-written reasons to hate Vi, but Vi wasn't really given many personal reasons to hate Jinx. If Jinx had killed those Vi had come to care for, I'd fully understand her turning on Jinx and wanting to beat her to death, just like Ekko. I just wish they put just as much effort into writing one half of the sister rivalry as the other, considering it was supposed to be the main plot of the show.
I don't reeeally agree with this for a few reasons.
I mean, you're right, the situation here does kinda resemble what happened with Mylo and Claggor. …which is precisely why Vi decides to nip it in the bud.
Vi: “I think we should cut the others loose. Listen, if that Heenot idiot is telling the truth, Jinx is gonna have surprises in store for us.” Caitlyn: “All the more reason to bring backup.” Vi: “She'll smell their nerves a mile away and find a way to use them against us. Tell me I'm wrong.” (Heavy is the Crown, 2:1)
People have been making predictions about Jinx axing the Enforcer guys ever since the sneak peek dropped, but I think this is one of those cases where subverting the obvious scenario is a better option than playing it straight. While I don't like what the writers did with these characters afterwards (or I guess what they didn't do with them), Vi being kind of genre-savvy due to her past experiences and not doing the thing everyone's probably been expecting — that is, bringing a bunch of Red Shirts to a dangerous confrontation — is far more interesting than just more of the same thing. Jinx kills people, Vi feels bad about it, so on so forth. Been there.
And then…
- Jinx was given plenty of complex well-written reasons to hate Vi, but Vi wasn't really given many personal reasons to hate Jinx
…wasn't she, really? In Season One, Jinx: kills Vi's whole family except herself, starts working for the guy who's the reason it happened, shoots at her, then shoots at her again, maybe kills Ekko?, kidnaps her (reliving prison trauma! yay), makes her believe she's about to see her girlfriend's decapitated head on a platter, and then asks her to shoot said girlfriend (whom she also kidnapped). Of course, Vi forgives all of that because she still loves her little sister and is willing to do almost anything for them to be family again. But then Jinx rejects her anyway. And also kills her girlfriend's mom. And also starts a war.
If you extend damn-near messianic levels of forgiveness towards someone only to get a slap in the face and more heartbreak as thanks, you might feel rather done with them as a result. Especially if you have almost no context for their actions. It can certainly be argued that her reasons weren't sufficiently explored (most so where Ekko is concerned) but that's not the same as arguing these reasons aren't enough and she needs new ones. There's also the question of whether Vi could have the time to believably bond with all three amigos (in spite of her less than warm feelings towards Enforcers whose names don't end in Aitlyn) before the big confrontation with Jinx. It would require sacrificing other scenes and potential relationships, and I'm just not sure whether the trade-off would be worth it.