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#listen #we can fight all day over who's the BEST Jean #but Jean Valjean #son of Jean and Jeanne Valjean #brother of Jeanne nee Valjean #is surely the MOST Jean (tags via @pilferingapples)

have you done your daily click

#Jean Valjean #Les Mis #Les Miserables #Polls #Tumblr polls

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I would love to know about your version of encanto <3

so, the big picture plot i picked up on from what i saw of the trailers was intact. big magical family, mirabel the only one without powers, has to Quest to save everyone else’s magic. the biggest difference, in my vision, was that bruno was still part of the family, and still ostracized, but, yes, virginia, THERE IS A DISNEY VILLAIN.

(i cannot, cannot, cannot express with words the thrill that filled my heart when disney released the teaser image of his creepy door and BAITED ME with disney villainy. *and* john leguizamo, love of my life since the tybalt capulet days, playing him? COME ON.)

anyway. the plot i made up in my head was something along the lines of: the family’s powers mysteriously all start diminishing, and mirabel, as the only powerless one, starts getting blamed for it, in a very faery-tale-allegedly-useless-third-son kind of way.

there has always been village gossip about how bruno was the most powerful of the madrigals, Before...Until...et cetera, so mirabel decides that if anybody can help her restore the magic (and get some damn respect around here), it is Mysterious Uncle Bruno Who Fucked Off To The Deep Wilderness For Reasons Unknown Many Years Ago. mirabel therefore also gets to have a proper adventure, which is very important to me, because then she can show off that even if she is not magical, she is competent and intelligent in ways that her family has never had to be, because magic makes their lives so much easier.

now, a twist comes when mirabel finally meets bruno and learns that she is, in fact, *not* the only one of the madrigals without magic.

bruno is, too. or, well, was - but the difference is, all of his powers of divination and prophecy were *learned*, not merely *gifted*. and, needless to say, he has a bit of a chip on his shoulder about this. it is VERY COOL and kind of hot of him.

so. bruno takes mirabel under her wing and begins teaching her magic. his lessons are occasionally interrupted with diatribes against their family, which make mirabel kind of uncomfortable because, hey, family, but she guesses she gets it, bruno can be as mad at them as he wants if they treated him as poorly as they treated her.

(bruno’s conflict with the family turns out to be kind of a double-edged sword...they were wrong to look down on him for learning his magic instead of just being *gifted*, obviously. but it would be revealed later that he was also always kind of a huge asshole about it, acting like he was smarter than and therefore superior to the rest of them. there would also be something, i think, about the town being WAY more ambivalent about the madrigals than they are in the movie, and, obviously, bruno with his ego and his freaky prophecies and his lack of concern for anyone he hurt in the process of showing off DID NOT HELP.)

anyway, mirabel turns out to be really, really good at magical *theory*, even if she cannot do big, flashy stuff, and she eventually figures out that the reason her family is losing their magic is because they have gotten too complacent about it. she has her first real argument with bruno about this, because he thinks they *deserve* to lose it, and she thinks that is a little harsh.

i never thought out the denouement and ending too much, but the idea is that bruno wants to return with his sorcerer’s apprentice to take over the casita, because he feels they are more entitled to it, and to the respect/fear of the town, because he and mirabel *worked* for their magic. mirabel does not...wholly disagree, but she at least wants to bring this information to their relatives and give them a chance to fix things up. and bruno does not.

Conflict And Drama Occur, but the important thing is that in the end, mirabel democratizes magic in the town and becomes a magic teacher to *everyone*. her family has a newfound respect for and understanding of their own gifts, and, most importantly, a newfound respect for her.

so. moral of the story is that you cannot become too complacent with your natural talents, but you also should not be an asshole when you’re smarter than other people, and also gothic uncles are fun. the end.

#OH I *love* this. #So much more interesting than the actual movie--which I did like but this. THIS is so good. #Encanto

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nothing more embarassing than when you develop personal beef with a piece of media thats entirely petty. like sorry no i cant talk about that show it. bit me.

#Little Women 2019 Anne With An E and Pride and Prejudice 2005. #So basically the trifecta of classic novel adaptations that tumblr LOVES. #So almost every day I suffer because I see them. #I do have their tags blocked but that doesn't always work. #Alas. #I recognize that my dislike of them is petty but it is real. #Media #Tag meme

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If you ever feel like you’ve made bad decisions just remember that somewhere out there is a theatre director at an all-white high school about to choose the spring musical

#The immediate visceral response this provoked in me. #Oh lord. #Musical theater #Theater #Teachers #High school #Bad decisions

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My last post on this didn’t get a ton of traction so I’m trying again. The latest budget proposal for NYC includes a $58.3 million cut to public libraries.

Previous cuts forced NYC public libraries to close on Sundays, and this further round of cuts would likely force libraries to end weekend service entirely. Additionally, it would mean further cuts to programming and the indefinite delay of reopening libraries that have been closed for renovation, which would leave entire neighborhoods without a library.

There is a preliminary budget hearing on May 21, and until then libraries are asking people to sign a letter here to urge the mayor’s office and city council to reverse the cuts.

I know things are terrible in a lot of ways right now and people probably feel overwhelmed and burnt out, but signing this letter (or reblogging this post) is a small, quick, concrete way to make a difference.

#Boost #Libraries

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this fucking clip from horrible histories (2009) was so ahead of its time im literally crying

#Horrible Histories #Video #Alexander the Great

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a Jeeves and Wooster novel is a like a Rube Goldberg machine. and Bertie is the marble bouncing around and hitting all the obstacles

#P.G. Wodehouse #Wodehouse #Jeeves and Wooster #Bertie Wooster #Wooster

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darth maul and padme amidala: discarded pawns

iain mccraig on doing concept art for the phantom menace / wookieepedia / james dillon / star wars tales volume 6 / paul duncan

#OUGH #HELLO #HAVING THOUGHTS. #Padme Amidala #Star Wars #Darth Maul #Star Wars Prequels

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cant stop thinking about laios' relationship with canines and the way he is torn between the wolf who doesnt need people and preys upon them and their livestock but is free from ever worrying what they think and only cares for its own survival and the survival of its pack, and the dog who protects humans, loves humans, depends on them, and is loved and cherished in turn but will be punished if it falls to its nature to bite

#AUGHHHHH #THE DOG BOY OF ALL TIME #Laios Touden #Dungeon Meshi #Delicious in Dungeon

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This is round 5 of the polls. All other polls in this round can be found here.

#Vote for Luz for me please!!! #George Luz #rosie rosenthal #Band of Brothers #BoB #HBO War #Masters of the Air #Polls #Tumblr polls

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You guys are so focused on your Nine Shippable Twink amis that you’ve forgotten the REAL main characters of Les Mis are “the Infinite” and “Man.” Can’t believe there’s not a single ship in the Infinte/Man tag on ao3. Smh

#Les Mis #Les Miserables #The Infinite #Man #Truly it's a canon pairing and yet NO fanfic??? For shame.

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girl typing a very specific question into google search bar, scrunching her face as she takes time to make sure she hasn't made any spelling errors, hitting enter, shaking her head as google only presents her with unhelpful websites that don't answer her query at all, moving her cursor back to the search bar and clicking on it so she can carefully write 'reddit' at the end, hitting enter again, sighing with relief as she finds a link to a reddit post asking the exact question she needed answered posted in a subreddit for a very niche topic, finally moving her cursor to click on the link, wondering why she didn't go straight to the subreddit earlier, only to be met with a deleted comment with a reply from the OP stating 'that was very helpful, thanks', sighing with frustration as she moves her cursor back to the search bar so she can copy the link and paste it into the wayback machine,

#reference #reddit

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hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.

works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.

#reference #downloads

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Reminder to all my fellow Americans and my Canadian homies that the northern lights will be visible tonight across most of the continent. If you're in the green zone go outside tonight

#boost #current events #Northern Lights #Aurora Borealis #I went out and looked and it was only a faint red glimmer where I am but IT WAS STILL SO COOL. #Make sure to look at it through your phone camera as well because for some reason it picks them up better??

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Dungeon Meshi - Kuro & Mickbell extras

#I care them. #Dungeon Meshi #Delicious in Dungeon #Kuro Dungeon Meshi #Mickbell Tomas

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hot girl spring is out. mary lennox spring is in. get in loser we’re frolicking in the garden; we’re talking to birds; we’re getting lost in the heather; we’re wandering gothic manors in the dead of night and discovering secret cousins concealed in attic bedrooms, we’re jumping rope

#The Secret Garden

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Dungeon Meshi Magic System - Bits about Magic and Mana

#Dungeon Meshi #Delicious in Dungeon