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One of the best things about Derry Girls is it's focus on friends and family rather than romance and sex. A bunch of teenagers who are aged 14-18, figuring out their lives, rely on their friends and parents rather than their lover and this is actually close to reality. Coming of age is not entirely about a nerdy girl banging a hot and popular guy or sexy and arrogant guy falling for a kind and sunshine girl. It's apologising to your friend when you hurt them keeping your ego aside, it's embracing the loss of someone together, it's realizing that you won't make big difference but your bit is necessary, accepting that things will not always work out but you've got the support of your family, blood and found.
Surely these teenagers are dumb and get infatuated with every single person who seems cool to them but at the end of the day, they choose friendship. This decision is not because they're mature and are aware of the pressure of choosing a right partner, it's simply because they choose to do what their heart says. They choose people they're used to and comfortable with, who have been their people for a long time, people who they cannot help but love.
A teenager's life is not as sexual as they portray in the media. It's silly. Very silly. Stupid dance competitions, shitty poetries, failed attempt at sports, just passing the class, breaking rules, attending concerts, begging for having a blasting birthday party is what teenage is about. This is accurate representation of teenagers. Romance, please take a backseat for now because we're having the time of our life with our silly friends!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for your gracious presence in this half-witTED TALK..........
Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1
The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.
So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.
So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.
Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.
And the probe is working again.
From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.
god. it’s just. it’s dreams by the cranberries. it’s the montage of them all voting yes. it’s orla’s little smiley face in the box. it’s the live footage of the troubles. it’s erin’s speech. it’s the way that the last shot is of grandpa joe and anna jumping together out of the voting hall. it’s the sheer symbolism of youth and age being joyful and hopeful together. god.
“If Gilbert had been asked to describe his ideal woman the description would have answered point for point to Anne, even to those seven tiny freckles whose obnoxious presence still continued to vex her soul. Gilbert was as yet little more than a boy; but a boy has his dreams as have others, and in Gilbert's future there was always a girl with big, limpid grey eyes, and a face as fine and delicate as a flower. He had made up his mind, also, that his future must be worthy of its goddess.”
benedick literally chooses beatrice over everything else in his life & then gets all flustered proposing to her in front of friends & family. he is so embarrassing
One thing I loved about Lockwood and Co. is just. The girls are pro brute force and the guys are all about proper technique. (Not all girls and not all guys but like, yeah).
Like it's Lockwood and Kipps that are finicky about proper stances and rapier technique (and iirc they both fenced (and Flo kicked their butts cause she's a legend)) and then there's Lucy and Kat who are just like "Look at that conveniently placed heavy object. Imma hit someone with that."
And it's great to me because I feel like in most works of fiction girls have to have exceptional technique and training to be on par with guys in fights, and then Stroud just flips the script. It's great. As a girl I appreciate other brute force girls.