(grabs You By The Shoulders) You Have To Make Room For New Experiences In Your Life. You Have To Go Through

girls really are expected to concentrate and work on a laptop when it is connected to the internet and all the shiny little images and videos that are always luring them in are right there....

ya know what's a great trope?

This stern, serious character, sometimes in a small way an antagonist but not The antagonist, is always seen serious and all, always about enforcing law or something.

Then the hero is interrogated by the villain or by a secondary villain and starts making stuff up such as ''oh yeah no that day I couldn't have set fire to your evil lair because I was at my cousin's birthday party'' and the stern character just plays along like ''yup, name's Roman, the cake was strawberry flavored'' when no one asked him anything.

Or when the hero is making stuff up like ''noooo... that is not Professor Ramirez from litterature department, that's... that's... I mean, of course it's not that because obviously I'm not majoring in litterature... er..." and the stern character just extands his arm for a handshake and lies with a straight face ''yeah nice to meet you, I'm professor Davids from the engineering department, your child is a delight to have in class'' and like the stern character is always making MC's life a hell or something because of their own standards/egoism, but if they have the possibility to just... play along with no idea what the consequences will be but they somehow do it anyway.

face

Change a single letter and change the word game

I want to play a game with you all.

You have to make a new word by changing only one letter of the last word.

Dirt

A show or movie doesn't need to have a unique story. It only needs to be good at telling it's story.

I want to be politically informed and educated but I also wanna have a good day and be in a good mood. Do you see my problem?

So, I watched Bridgerton S3 and I have to say although not bad by itself, compared to the previous seasons it's a downgrade.

Some of the biggest writing inconsistencies I noticed for Pen are:

Firstly, in S1, her actions towards Marina (as wrong as they were) could still be understood as her looking out for her friend by not letting him get into a marriage without all the facts. But in this season, she does the exact same thing Marina does, get into an engagement with Colin without revealing her LW identity. This just made her look like a hypocrite.

Secondly, if I remember correctly, in S2 her reasoning for outing Eloise is that the Queen would never believe Pen if she confessed. But in S3 she does exactly that and the Queen not only believes her but also absolves her of all consequences. So, what even was the point of outing Eloise?

Thirdly, Pen's claim that LW tells the truth made me laugh. I don't know why they made her say that. It gave me the ick. She publishes gossip, not truth. It's dangerous to equate the two.

I love Pen as a character. She is flawed, makes mistakes and that makes her interesting. The girlbossification arc with her giving that speech at her sister's ball just did not land for me. Pen struggled with feeling loved and desired, so imo they should have focused on that, instead LW takes the lead and Polin takes a backseat.

The whole Cressida shit show. How am I supposed to not root for her after knowing how she was raised and what circumstances she was facing?

Eloise turning away from her when Cressida needed her the most. That's character assassination of Eloise. It could have been a moment of growth for her. But bad writing strikes again.

Violet and Edmund's first meet parallel with Francesca and Michaela would have been very cute if Michaela had the tongue-tied reaction instead of Fran.

The atrocious costuming! Not asking for accuracy, just maintain the aesthetic established in previous seasons. There's only so far you can stray before it breaks immersion.

It just felt like the show had shifted genres. Previous seasons were romance with a pinch of drama. This season felt like drama with a pinch of romance. I don't know if that makes sense.

I hope Ben's season turns out better.

katniss’s dad single-handedly securing the bag for his future daughter and the entire future free world of panem

to all the people going "taylor swift is just a singer, how is she supposed to end the genocide in palestine?" you're right, she cannot. but, she can influence the right people to do something. she posts one link telling people to register to vote and over 35,000 people registered. ticketmaster fucks over her fans during presale for her tour and it ends up being a subject of discussion in the us house senate. when people created ai fakes of her, the white house tweeted about it. last night, in about 10 minutes over 400,000 people liked her tweet announcing her new album. think about how many people she could reach if she tweeted about a ceasefire, specifically the "right" people ie the people with power. think about how much money she could raise if she posted a donation link on IG. she's already a republican talking point, she could leverage the fact that politicians constantly have her name in their mouth and call for a ceasefire. she has reach, she has a voice, she has influence, she has an audience, and she is not using it.

whenever i see someone say shit like "seggs" or "🌽" or whatever outside of tiktok i open up my death note and try to guess their name