I Spent So Long Scouring The Map Looking For This Dwarf... Turns Out They Got Crushed By The Trade Post

[On the first date]

Adrien: Do you like cats?

Marinette: I love them

Adrien, trying to impress her: [pushes her drink off the table]

I think I just spent like 2? Maybe more hours reading this. If you don't like essays or A series of unfortunate events, I would recommend not reading this. However if you do like both, and would like to read an essay about A Series of Unfortunate Events, then continue

What, Then, Does Beatrice Mean? Hermaphroditic Gender, Predatory Sexuality, and Promiscuous Allusion in Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket’s "A Series of Unfortunate Events"

by Tison Pugh

In many ways, Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket depicts a setting amenable to female agency and empowerment throughout his A Series of Unfortunate Events.1 The chief protagonist, Violet Baudelaire, moves freely in traditionally masculine fields, and other characters—both male and female—appear remarkably unhampered by stereotypical gender roles and expectations. Roberta Seelinger Trites defines a feminist children’s novel as one “in which the main character is empowered regardless of gender. A key concept here is ‘regardless’: in a feminist children’s novel, the child’s sex does not provide a permanent obstacle to her development” (4).2 From Trites’s perspective, Violet’s freedom from traditional gender roles enables the entire series to take on a feminist cast because such a paradigm of gendered equality is taken as the normative structure of the society depicted in the thirteen novels of the series.

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YOU JUST GOT HERE AND YOU'RE ALREADY HORNY ON MAIN?!

This hit way to close to home to me (I had a discussion with a friend of mine where I pointed out a small flaw in a headcannon with evidence from a single episode, but when called didn’t want to have to go searching and prove I was right like an asshole).

Being overly-familiar with a series is such a weird burden sometimes because like

you’ll see some theory being passed around that you instantly know is wrong. Like it’s surprising to see people supporting it because the flaws in its logic are so glaringly obvious. Until it hits you that, yeah it’s wrong, but only because you were able to immediately remember the 5 second conversation between two background characters 17 minutes through s2e13 that definitively disproves it. And no casual fan would have any reason to remember that off the top of their head and it’s you who’s the weird human encyclopedia with a shot-for-shot memory the entire damn series.

Like at that point you don’t even know anymore whether to argue your point or just…maybe go outside for a little bit.

Honestly this works for every ship that isn’t Allurance

VLD season 8 in a nutshell, everyone

FUCKING BOOD

Self care is never again rewatching S8 to avoid putting yourself through the torture that is Allurance

Comparing a Pair of Disney Nerds

So I was watching an episode of Star vs the Forces of Evil with my little sister and brother, specifically the episode “Freeze Day” when I saw this:

I personally started laughing at how he’s got this complex plan set up on how to ask Jackie out, and of course this reminded me of another great Disney nerd:

Of course this realization is more than just two nerds with overly complex plans. I noticed a couple of other similarities between Dipper and Marco. Both of them also get in their own way when it comes to dating (Dipper however is the only one who literally gets in his own way though). They have a close friend/sister who tells them to “Just go and talk to her like a normal person” to which they both respond with a STEP NUMBER. Both of them are given the perfect chance to proceed to the next step, and yet pass it up due to being nervous (it’s not the perfect time).

But here’s the part I find most important about this comparison, for both Dipper and Marco it’s an internal realization that causes them to change. For Marco his realization most likely occurs when he’s watching his own past seeing all the days that he was nodding (such as above). At this point, I believe he concludes, as he later puts it himself, “If you have the time, why waste it?” Dipper realizes while talking with Wendy in the hall, that his plan isn’t getting him anywhere, or as Tyrone put it “The only good conversation you had with her was when you didn’t do any of that list stuff.”

The thing I find most important about this change in the two of them, is that it is an internal change. Star didn’t really help Marco come to his conclusion and Mabel didn’t help Dipper realize that his plan wasn’t getting anywhere. Tyrone didn’t even help Dipper with this since Tyrone lead the mutiny against Dipper earlier, BECAUSE of Dipper’s realization. (Though realistically, Dipper turned against them because he abandoned the plan)

Regardless I think the important fact is that at the end of the day, Dipper tears up his list, showing that he’s grown from this experience, and is ready to move on. (I might do more character analysis on Dipper’s romantic pursuits later showing his growth from Double Dipper to Roadside Attraction.) Marco meanwhile finally stands up and says “Hey” to Jackie, which is actually quite the step forward. This is for Marco, the moment when Dipper “Talks to [Wendy] like a normal person”. While it never states that Marco has abandoned his plan, it’s the first step towards it, and hopefully he’ll realize soon that his plan is only getting in his way. So I guess we should raise a glass to these two nerds, who’ve both realized their own mistakes in dating here.

Also thanks to everyone I borrowed Gifs from, and the picture at the top is from http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Freeze_Day/Gallery

I caught that “Soup Store” reference. I’m reblogging solely because of it

You kind of have to wonder, if 2B had been drawn out over a full season, just how long they could have sustained these two not speaking to each other

Paladins-on their way to earth

Hunk: You are my fire

The one desire

Believe when I say

I want it that way

Lance:Tell me why

Both: Ain’t nothin’ but a heartache

Shiro: Tell me why

All three: Ain’t nothin’ but a mistake

Keith: now number five

Pidge: I never want to hear you say

All: I want it that way

*Bonus*

Allura and Coran: (unaffected)

romelle: is this normal human bonding?

Coran: it’s better to not question it