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May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨

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fellas what is it about thor that when I look at him I think “lesbian icon”

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tahani: literally just breathes, exists,

eleanor: 💖💞💕💞💖💓💝💟💕💖💘💞💖💖💞💕💞💖💓💝💟💕💖💘💞💖💖💞💕💞💖💓💝💖💞💕💞💖💓💝💟💕💖💘💞💖💟💕💖💘💞💖💖💞💕💞💖💓💝💟💕💖💘💞💖💖💞💕💞💖💓💝

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When you just wanted to make some new friends but instead you become involved in a government conspiracy

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brooklyn nine nine is legit the best sitcom i have ever seen and there are so many memes that are b99 jokes and they still only have about a million viewers a week i don’t get it

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“Salt and Pepper Diner is John Mulaney’s funniest bit” is Xanax/Prostate Exam erasure and I will not stand for it

#john mulaney

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where’s his emmy?

#give it to him already!!!!!! #b99

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#b99

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someone: who’s your fave b99 character? 

me: oh i could never pick a fave!!!! they’re all so good, it would be like picking a favorite child, i just cannot choose between them, 

me internally:

#ME #b99

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there are so many things I adore abt parks and rec but I have got to say, its uncanny ability to take a tried and true character trope, pull out the positive elements and subvert the negative stuff is,,, incredible???

like. lazy deadbeat boyfriend becomes amazing husband and father, still retains his childlike innocence and fun-loving attitude.

super type-a career driven woman is incredibly considerate and kind, learns to slow down and think of others’ ability to keep up and eventually gets married and has three kids, but never once at the cost of her ambitions.

typical angsty youth finds purpose and passion in people she cares about, doesn’t give up her dark sense of humour and is still allowed to dislike interacting with lots of people at once.

uptight male nerd has career goals, a well-rounded social life and is incredibly respectful and supportive of his wife because he is a responsible adult; still writes star trek fanfic in his free time.

capitalist libertarian who insists that everyone is responsible for their own success spends countless hours supporting and encouraging his friends’ dreams, even if they’re in government, without changing his apolitical stance.

and that’s not even the whole cast!!!

everyone remains who they are, maintains the positive elements of many of these old character tropes in a way that only amplifies the humor, but they discard all the bad bits, the negative bits, the toxic bits, instead having complex flaws and real human shortcomings while still all being fundamentally Good People

Like. What A Show.

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i want to talk about the characterizations of ben wyatt and jake peralta. arguably jim halpert could be included in this conversation, but i want to focus on ben and jake because they’re such clear subversions of well-known tropes

firstly, you have ben wyatt. the nerd. he’s established as a hard-ass and a geek early on, and it would have been so easy for the writers to fall into that trope of presenting him as below leslie, as her eventual agreement to date him has a victory for all male nerds, because he had successfully tricked a woman into being interested in him. 

instead, we get ben wyatt, a dork and a feminist. he’s nationally ranked in settlers of catan and he likes to sit around in a batman costume and he loves game of thrones. he also loves his girlfriend enough to lose his job for her, and it’s never even addressed whether he minds that leslie will probably end up with a higher status job than him - because why would he? he loves and supports her, and his nerdiness is presented not as a flaw, but as a complement to her single-minded determination - they’re both total nerds with an overlapping ven diagram of interests.

secondly, jake peralta. the character we’re introduced to in the first episode is cocky and a smartass, and while he’s loveable, we completely understand why he would drive amy up a wall. jake and amy are less alike than ben and leslie are; arguably they’re opposites. again, there’s a trope that the show could have fallen into: “endearing idiot eventually wears down woman who is too good for him, and she realizes she was too uptight all along”.

but again, we get something completely different. jake peralta, known for being Too Much, consistently respects amy’s boundaries and tries as hard as he can to be honest about his feelings, while understanding that amy is her own person. she buys orange soda for him and he gets a new mattress for her. there are so many examples of the respect in that relationship - they’re both so stubborn, but they love each other so much. he’s always known that she was going to be his boss. they’re different, but they love it about each other.

all i’m saying is, this purposeful subversion of gross male stereotypes is so important - and so much easier (and so much funnier!) than people think

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THEY DID NOT

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so this happened on gumball and i’m actually dying.

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Straight cis people will support lgbt+ people when it’s convenient to them (gay best friends, hot lesbian porn) but the second a straight guy meets a gay guy, he’s uncomfortable. Or when a straight girl meets a lesbian, she’s uncomfortable. Or when a trans person uses their correct bathroom, then they’re uncomfortable. Or when a non binary person asks them to use they/them pronouns, cis people make memes to invalidate them.

If you’re not going to support all of us at all times, then we really don’t need you.

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um heres your daily reminder that Normani Kordei is unbelievably beautiful, strong and beyond intelligent 

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whom else wants to be kissed by a cute girl on this gay thursday