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Hannah Montana is fucked up because its entire POINT as a show is that children should be protected from fame and exploitation, but it stars a REAL little girl that's being exploited. Nearly every episode carries the looming threat of Miley being outed as Hannah and losing her peaceful teenage life to the ravages of fame. Her father in the show (played by her own father in real life) wisely protected her from the trauma of fame by making her wear a disguise and live a rather quiet, interview-free life. Meanwhile the REAL Billy Ray Cyrus sold his daughter to Disney Channel when she was 11 and forced her to read dialogue about how terrible it would be to face the public eye. Like... Jesus, dude. The fictional Robby Ray is 10x the father, and it's not even close. (It's also IMMENSELY funny that her dad doesn't use his real name in the show, while she does. Almost like he wanted a bit of a disconnect between his identity and his character. Something Miley didn't get.)

#hmm yeah #child stars #miley cyrus #hannah montana #disney #analysis

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Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:

Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)

Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)

Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.

But in Japanese it scans as:

Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)

Psycho (short for psychic)

Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.

#language #mob psycho 100

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#video #ikea #parents #church #stories #skeletons

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taylor swift fans are so scary it's like i'm in the truman show. watching taylor swift fans talk about how she soo gets neurospicy mental illness grippy sock vacation is exactly how truman felt when his wife started advertising coffee or something to nobody in particular

#the truman show #taylor swift

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the thing about me is i get hannibal and hamilton confused

#musicals #sweeney todd #hamilton #hannibal

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You know what’s astonishing about Katara? She grew up in a world without bending.

It’s not surprising that Sokka calls her bending ‘magic water’ in the first episode. It might as well have been magic to them at that point; they had never seen it in practice until they meet Aang.

So not only did Katara not have any teachers, she didn’t have any kind of guidance, no visual aids, no idea of how bending is supposed to look or work. The first time she ever sees actual waterbending movements is when she steals the waterbending scroll from the pirates. The first time she meets another waterbender is when she reaches the North Pole, where within weeks she outmasters pretty much everyone and goes on to teach the Avatar.

Everything she does is so incredibly impressive, and yet I can’t help but feel the most proud of her when she catches a fish on that little boat.

#a lot to be said here about colonialism and destruction of culture thats crazy #analysis #katara #avatar the last airbender #racism #colonialism

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how?? just how?

#the inflation pinch points on this are so insanely good #the gloss as well #this is genuinely indistinguishable #chocolate #video #incredible art

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#adsfkjlj #gay stuff #grindr

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#food #fish #incredible art

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Israel has killed more children in Gaza since October than in four years of worldwide conflict

#israel #palestine #genocide

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#adslfkjlk #love languages #babies

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

#language #china #history #unions

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holy shit is this gorgeous.

#incredible art #china #chess #history #video

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i thought of this at 3am and its canon now

#spiders georg #comic #spiderverse #spiderman #marvel

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i was cuddling with my boyfriend last night when his shoulder started tensing up (like he was readjusting or gently pushing me off) and when i asked him if he was okay or needed me to move or something he went “no you’re fine, i was just imagining myself pulling a large rope. i didn’t even realize my shoulder was doing that lmao” then refused to elaborate and i have never been as attracted to him as i was in that moment.

#fascinating #relationships

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I don't know if it still happens because I haven't been on The Bird Site in a while but back when I WAS on it, right-wing politicians would occasionally use the ScumVillainsSelfSavingSystem tag when talking about people they disagreed with. They, of course, assumed that it was just a tag for "scum villains" they disliked, not knowing that it was actually a tag for a Chinese BL novel wherein a demon lord saves the world by getting it on (sexy style) with his high school language arts teacher.

And then, fans of said novel would reply to their posts like, "Hello :D It appears you've used the wrong tag :) but that's okay <3" and then proceed to offer resources for learning more about the novel, as well as where to access (at the time) fan translations and how to otherwise support the author. This post isn't going anywhere, I just think about this a lot and marvel at the beauty of human nature

#alksfjdlkjk #mxtx #svsss #twitter #politics

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♦️🌹magicam comments

#comic #riddle rosehearts #cater diamond #twisted wonderland