see I WOULDhave thought that the Cruella movie spoilers I’ve seen here were for sure fake, but I’ve learned my lesson from “Mr. Mime is doused in gasoline and burned alive” and “Palpatine fucks”
studios making “gritty” modern reboots of children’s cartoons:
It is important to me that you know that those are the actual words from the scene above.
see I WOULDhave thought that the Cruella movie spoilers I’ve seen here were for sure fake, but I’ve learned my lesson from “Mr. Mime is doused in gasoline and burned alive” and “Palpatine fucks”
Are they getting worse at writing stories or was it always like this and we just didn’t notice
Oh, the stories are definitely getting worse. And the writers are more blatant about playing for sympathy points, too. By now I expect Disney prequels explaining the following:
Lady Tremaine was the sweetest, kindest, and gentlest of women until she was threatened with financial ruin by her first husband, who wanted to divorce her for a hot blonde. Unwilling to deal with imminent and long-lasting poverty, the social ruin divorce caused in her era, or the destruction of her daughters’ future, she murdered him.
Jafar was actually a surviving royal from a kingdom that the Sultan’s grandfather had absorbed into Agrabah, but no one told him this until he was an adult and thoroughly ensconced as the Grand Vizier. Outraged at his loss of family, status, wealth and power, he decided that since he couldn’t have his own country and people back, he’d claim Agrabah as his own. Turnabout’s fair play, right?
Scar and Mufasa used to be the closest of brothers…until Scar came out and older brother Mufasa revealed that he was massively homophobic.
Frollo was raised in an ultra-religious, sex-repulsed, anti-Rroma household and he never had any friends, so it never occurred to him that there was any other way to be.
Ursula was terribly mistreated by her younger brother Triton, who spread dreadful stories about her and her magic and who eventually stole her throne.
Honestly, it’s not hard. You just have to imagine that the chief villain is a villain not because of their own choices, but because of someone else’s actions–preferably, someone previously thought to be good (like Mufasa), innocuous (like Triton, who opposes Ariel but isn’t evil), or previously nonexistent (Lady Tremaine’s previous husband, the Sultan’s conquering grandfather, and Frollo’s repressive family). This presents villainy reactive rather than active, as an understandable response that anyone would have rather than a deliberate and conscious choice to do, and to continue doing, things known to harm to others.
Hey @staff: is there something I can do to get the leering dude with the sniper rifle off my dash? I kid you not; I am NEVER going to click on that ad, no matter how many times you interrupt my feed with it.
I’m really glad we don’t have the horror movie gifs anymore. Please take the humanity you demonstrated in that case and apply it here.
Literally everyone I know in person who I have asked about it is vaccinated for COVID now. I see all these reports on the news though that the U.S. has only had a little over 50% of people get one vaccine dose and just a little over 40% with two doses.
Who isn’t getting vaccinated?
It’s pretty easy to get vaccinated now, walk-ins are available.
If anyone hasn’t gotten a COVID vaccine yet and has any questions I would be glad to talk about my experience. I had COVID, the illness, over a year ago in March 2020 and I got vaccinated in April 2021. People like me apparently are at a higher risk of a stronger reaction to the vaccine, and I did have a somewhat unpleasant reaction to both vaccines. I also had Moderna, which is the “heaviest” of the vaccines in terms of side-effects.
But it still wasn’t too bad and I would do it again.
The discomfort I experienced from the vaccine side-effects was nothing compared to the living hell I went through when I got COVID. COVID was far worse than having a flu, and the worst of the vaccine reaction was one day of mild flu-like symptoms but not even as bad as a full-on flu. I lost one night of quality sleep both times and felt kinda cruddy for a few days.
Yeah, the pandemic is winding down, but people are still dying…on average 500 people a day in the U.S.
I’ve heard people raise concerns about vaccine safety saying, well what if there are long-term effects that aren’t known? And I’m like, okay that makes some sense but you have to compare it to long-term effects from having COVID. I had COVID and it took me months to recover to where I was consistently able to exercise at a normal level, and I had a “mild to moderate” case, was never hospitalized.
Take your pick…chance of that happening, or chance of you spreading it to someone who has that happen or worse…or maybe a 10-15% chance of feeling really cruddy for a few days like I did? Millions of people have been vaccinated and there is now growing and overwhelming evidence that the vaccine is not only safe compared to nothing, but it’s much, much safer than getting this illness.
The OP of a post about hognose snakes doing the flippy flip was a TERF, have a flippy flip with no TERF
Okay, not to derail the post too much but all the hognose snake discussion lately reminded me of a children’s novel (elementary/middle grade) about a boy who has a pet hognose snake. That’s literally all I remember. Does anyone else remember this?
That totally sounds familiar to me. Pretty sure I read the same book.
