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mischief-and-misanthropy:
“I can personally attest to the benefits of green tea, as I am ageless and have never known a raccoon’s touch.
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I can personally attest to the benefits of green tea, as I am ageless and have never known a raccoon’s touch.

lizalot:
broke: The Great British Bake Off has no conflict
woke: while The Great British Bake Off is refreshingly devoid of the usual man vs. man conflict, it is filled with conflict of other varieties, notably man vs. self (the contestants vs. their knowledge of baking) and man vs. nature (the contestants vs. the time limit)
Man vs. the forces of evil (the contestants vs. Paul Hollywood)

Dec 16th at 2:00pm
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#lol

festivebucky:

also like I love how avengers infinity war was about having AS MANY CHARACTERS AS POSSIBLE and avengers: endgame is just like here’s eight white people

Dec 12th at 2:00pm
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#watched this on the plane #where is the lie tho

reading-while-running:

every-flavored-bean:
Ok but imagine every other Hogwarts student finding out each year why the Defense against the dark arts teacher has left.
“Harry Potter kiLLED HIM WITH HIS BARE HANDS?”
“Harry Potter erASED HIS ENTIRE MEMORY?”
“Harry Potter let hiM TURN INTO A WEREWOLF?”
“Harry Potter disCOVERED HIM IN CHEST??”
“Harry Potter let heR GET CAPTURED BY CENTAURS?
Forget the curse, Harry is the real problem here.

Dec 12th at 12:29pm
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#hp

not that i am there lots but if you are leaving tumblr u can find me at raa.dreamwidth.org!

Dec 3rd at 7:23pm
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for a while after seeing cra the movie i preferred it to the book and considered it an adaptation that improved on the book in many ways. but now that i’ve seen many opinions which matched my first impression, i’m not so sure.

cra the movie is an asian-american experience and the changes it makes to the plot near the end are in many ways about increasing the resonance and dignity of the characters. cra the book is not really concerned with the dignity of its crazy, rich, asian characters – it’s a skewering. one done with love .. but maybe not respect. in fact i think it’s very much an indictment of the entire milieu, nick and his mom included. there’s a lot of reasons why a straight adaptation of that aspect would be unwelcome on the full screen – playing to america it does feel like it’s too soon – but in the book it _was_ a strength imo. even if i think, partly in service to trying to increase the dignity of the characters overall, cra the movie made some welcome changes to the general treatment and understanding of its female characters.

Nov 14th at 8:25pm
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abigailnussbaum:
“scerek:
“ “This is the big reveal that’s mirrored in the game of mahjong. Rachel draws a tile in mahjong. It’s a set-building game; it’s very much like poker, so you can draw a card that gives you the win. So Rachel draws the win,...

abigailnussbaum:

scerek:
“This is the big reveal that’s mirrored in the game of mahjong. Rachel draws a tile in mahjong. It’s a set-building game; it’s very much like poker, so you can draw a card that gives you the win. So Rachel draws the win, but instead of winning, she lets Eleanor have [the winning tile], and so that mirrors the dialogue because what she tells Eleanor in that moment is, ‘Your son has proposed to me, but because I don’t want him to lose his relationship with his mother, I am going to say no and in the future, when he marries someone you think is appropriate, you’re going to remember that that’s because of me.” ~ Bourree Lam, journalist
Crazy Rich Asians (2018), dir. Jon M. Chu
There’s a lot of ways Crazy Rich Asians, the movie, improves on the book, and this scene, which drives home the fact that the central conflict in the film is between Rachel and Eleanor (as opposed to the book in which they weirdly have very little interaction) really drives home what’s at the root of a lot of those improvements. But what I love best about it is the way that Rachel, as well as making her point, also expresses loyalty towards her mother (who also appears at the end of the scene so Eleanor can see them leaving together).
Because in the book Rachel is simply terrible to her mother, completely buying into Eleanor’s slut-shaming worldview, and acting as if Kerry’s actions are something to be ashamed of even after she learns the whole truth about them. Whereas in the movie it’s made clear that Kerry - who fled an abusive marriage, took her daughter to a foreign country, and provided for her while also getting an education and building a career - is a freaking superhero, and that Rachel would be an awful daughter, and an awful person, if she turned her back on her hardworking, brave mother to gain approval with someone like Eleanor. So the fact that in this scene Rachel not only makes her own power clear, but expresses solidarity with her mother, was extremely important to me.

Nov 14th at 11:30am
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#crazy rich asians #everything about this scene though