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No harm to any religion. It’s just a lamp ads by an Australian company. However, it’s funny!

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Jack and Sally’s “love story” really isn’t that romantic.

To preface the following, let me just say that I love Nightmare Before Christmas. I love almost anything Tim Burton does really. This isn’t to say that it’s a bad movie at all.

So, I’ve seen a lot of NBC merchandise with Jack and Sally embracing on top of the pumpkin patch hill with the words “simply meant to be” on it. In fact, a lot of the NBC merchandise is based on them as a couple in general. But the truth is, the progression of their relationship in the movie didn’t make a lot of sense and wasn’t really romantic at all.

If my memory is accurate (and I’ve watched this movie many times so I think it is), Jack and Sally only interact like five times in the entire movie, two of those times very briefly. And I understand that this was never meant to be a romantic movie and that’s great. Not every movie has to have romance and romance never has to be the main plot of the movie. But then the way the movie ended doesn’t really make sense.

Yes, Sally is pining over Jack for the majority of her screen time. She’s also shown trying to gain her freedom from her creator, which is fantastic, but then she just goes straight to Jack. From the very beginning, we see her watching Jack with metaphorical heart eyes and sympathizing with his song but Jack doesn’t know she’s there. He’s so wrapped up in his own unhappiness, and later in his plans for Christmas, that he doesn’t even acknowledge her until she’s tapping at his window with a gift basket. He’d even been at her house before that, talking to the scientist, and he didn’t once ask “Hey, where’s Sally?” No, the gift basket scene is the first time he even looks at her in the movie. Sure, he seems happy to see her and gladly accepts the basket, but then they still don’t even say a word to each other because Sally runs off.

They don’t interact again until Jack is completely wrapped up in his plans and is assigning roles to everyone. When her turn comes, she tries to tell him that she had a premonition about his plans going wrong. And he completely brushes her off, doesn’t listen to a word she says, and pushes her to do what he wants even though she clearly doesn’t want to do it. Yes, he compliments her but, in the context, he almost comes across as just flattering her to get his way. The next (3rd) time they interact is when she’s fitting him for his Santa suit, and she tries again to tell him that what he’s doing isn’t a good idea. Once again, he completely ignores everything she’s saying; too wrapped up in himself.

He proceeds to go off and carry out his ill-advised plan, and she’s left to undo all his mistakes and fix everything. When her and Santa are in danger, Jack shows up to save them by defeating Oogie Boogie, but once he wins, he goes to talk to Santa first. He apologizes to Santa and Santa tells him that he should have listened to Sally from the beginning. Only once Santa is gone do they speak and it’s just for a moment, but it’s then that Jack audibly realizes how much Sally has done for him and that he likes her as more than a friend. Then they’re interrupted by the Mayor and go back to the main part of the city.

Jack gets caught up in everyone celebrating his return that he totally forgets about Sally until he sees the scientist with a new creation. Only then does he see that Sally is leaving and follows her. This leads to the big romantic ending where he sings “My dearest friend, if you don’t mind, I’d like to join you by your side. Where we can gaze upon the sky and sit together, now and forever. For it is plain as anyone can see, we’re simply meant to be.”

Like, what?! Jack just realized he liked her two minutes ago. Now suddenly they’re declaring that they will be together forever because they’re so obviously soulmates, destined to be together? Where did that come from?

It’s also worth noting that Jack never apologizes to Sally for all the shit he put her through. She almost died trying to fix the mistakes she warned him not to make in the first place. And he doesn’t apologize for ignoring her or anything.

Again, I know this was never meant to be a romance movie, but then why is the end of the movie some big romantic climax?

Their romance can be summarized as “girl does anything she can to get a boy’s attention and it works! All she had to do was risk her life for a guy who ignored her.”

And this is a bit of a tangent, but Jack absolutely would have made a great asexual/aromantic character! Right after the opening musical number, a bunch of women are flirting with him and he’s trying to be polite but he’s also backing away as much as he can and runs the second they’re not looking. He spends the majority of the movie focused on his goals and his responsibilities as pumpkin king. He shows no interest in anyone until that final scene on the hilltop. And that would have been okay!

The way they made it, the end romance seems sudden and kinda forced. It’s not a good relationship story at all.

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Why do I always forget everything I need to do for tomorrow until it’s like 8 PM?

#relatable #truth #adhd #mood #busy

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A Cynical Note on Positivity:

Whatever you’re going through, whatever’s happening in your life or in the world, you will get through it.

That’s not being positive; that’s being realistic. You will get through it. You may hate every second of it. You may spend every moment after cursing the day it began. But there is no possible way that you won’t get through it.

Because even the worst possible outcome of it, which is usually dying, is a way of getting through it too. And we all die eventually so whatever it is you’re going through will come to an end on that day if no other.

So yes, you will get through it somehow.

One way or another, it will pass eventually.

There’s literally no way to not get through it.

#truth #philosophy #positivity #cynicism #thoughts #late night thinking

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She just described Texas

#pride month #texas #Christians #Christians are literally the worst

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This person would not swim in a cenote with corpses in it even though their classmates would.

Humans differ in their corpse:water ratios.

#truth #funny #shower thoughts #cenote #ocean #swimming

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why am i nostalgic for my teenage years bitch i didnt even have fun !!!

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“…all uneasy because his bed kept getting made and meals kept getting served without ever seeing hide nor hair of another human being…”

What the hell was he complaining about? That sounds great!

“Dracula is doing all the domestic chores secretly…”

Bitch, MARRY HIM!!!

When Jonathan Harker was going around all uneasy because his bed kept getting made and meals kept getting served without ever seeing hide nor hair of another human being, I was like, okay, several spooky things that could be going on here. I read a lot of fairy tales so empty mansions and castles with mysteriously absent staff are old hat to me. I was ready to find out what creepy explanation there might be, if any. I had a few prepared.

Castle is HAUNTED haunted? Sure, we have a vampire, nothing stopping us from having a few ghosts. The long deceased staff of the castle forced to continue serving their master in death as they did in life, cool, excellent.

Demon familiars? All the sensibly freaked out Romanian peasants kept ominously muttering about the devil, that could be happening. Dracula could have bartered for free satanic housekeeping services along with his other Infernal Powers.

Straight up evil wizard magic? Could be a thing. What do I know about what Dracula can do? Maybe the whole castle is enchanted to run itself.

Servants are around, but something is Wrong With Them and they have been ordered to keep themselves hidden so that Jonathan won't see whatever is messed up about them and thus be suspicious? Possible but dubious, if only because Jonathan Harker very quickly proves to be as dense as a sack of bricks and probably wouldn't say anything even if every servant did have blank entirely white eyes and a mass of scar tissue on their necks. Still, it was an option.

But no. No it's. It's just Dracula. Dracula is doing all the domestic chores secretly whenever Jonathan isn't looking. Dracula is running around in the background like a chicken with its ass on fire, making beds and cooking food and cleaning up and pretending to be his own chauffeur. Jonathan is turning his head for a few minutes and Dracula is clearing away all his dirty dishes and sprinting to the scullery to wash up. Dracula is cooking breakfasts that can be served cold and leaving them out for Jonathan along with a pot of coffee to be kept warm on the stove before scurrying off to do laundry. It's just... it's all just Dracula.

Presumably when this book came out, the revelation that Dracula was doing all the domestic work for the castle was shocking and eerie, like, GASP, this castle that should be full of people is actually completely empty save for Jonathan's captor, and GASP, the supposed aristocrat is lowering himself to the work of servants which is proof that something is clearly amiss with him and he is no true gentleman! But I'm sitting here in 2022 in hysterics because it's all. It's JUST DRACULA.

#Dracula #count dracula #bram stocker's dracula #universal monsters #johnathan harker #husband goals

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So, there's apparently research coming out now about microplastics being found in people's bloodstreams and the possible negative effects of that and I feel the need to get out ahead of the wave of corporate sponsored "be sure to recycle your bottles!" or "ban glitter!" campaigns and remind everyone: It's fishing nets. It's fishing nets. It is overwhelming fishing nets It always has been fishing nets. Unless regulations are changed, it will continue to be fishing nets. The plastic in the ocean in largely discarded nets from industrial fishing. The microplastics are the result of these nets breaking down. The "trash islands" are also, you guessed it. Mostly fishing nets and other discarded fishing industry equipment. Do not allow them to continue to twist the story. Do not come after disabled people who require single use plastics. Do not come after people using glitter in art projects and makeup. These things make up a negligible amount of the issue compared to corporate waste, specifically in the fishing industry. Do not let them shift the blame to the individual so they can continue to destroy the planet and our bodies without regulation.

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This is monstrous. What she is proposing is a literal crime against humanity.

No exaggeration. No hyperbole. One of the justices of the Supreme Court is proposing that the country should violate human rights en masse.

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Neil Gaiman’s series about a very similar magic boy was much better anyway

Reminder that jkr basically funds a large portion of the terf movement in the UK and promoting harry potter and actively giving her money is helping fund that movement and is actively encouraging her and her followers because they see this as support

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Pretend to be busy.

Y’all… what do you guys do for a living… but describe it in the worst way possible.

#work #relatable

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I had a cashier ask me yesterday if I wanted to donate to Autism Speaks. That is the last organization I’d expect anyone to ask for so I legit paused for a moment to make sure that’s what she’d said before scoffing and saying “No.”

She looked really surprised by how vehemently I’d said it but kept ringing me up. I thought everyone knew how evil Autism Speaks is, so I was surprised she didn’t and it was awkward for a minute. It’s not like I could tell them not to take donations for someplace but I figured they should at least know, so I told her that it’s just a terrible organization and left.

So now I just wanna make sure people DO know.

Autism Speaks is the equivalent of those wealthy white ladies who go to Africa to take pictures with starving children (who don’t want their picture taken to begin with) while not doing a single thing to actually help them and eating five-course meals in their luxury hotels. Also, imagine if those women gave seminars to the parents of those kids to say “Are you tired of hearing your child complain about how hungry they are? Here’s how you can eat food without sharing any with them and still ignore that complaining.”

#autism #autism spectrum #autism speaks #disability #scam charity

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