one thing that's been talked about here and by creators and is obvious but still important to articulate (to me) is that oliver is not envious of the cattons because they are wealthier than him, necessarily. it's not about the money. or it is, but in a way that everything in life is about money: no matter how much you have, you kind of always want more, because want is a very strong driver. he's not coming from a place of poverty or any financial need at all, and he is not genuinely burning with the anger at the rich as a working-class guy constantly overpowered by them. there is no righteousness of the oppressed in his motives; sure, he "knows how to work", but to me—and this is, again, personal interpretation—the more important part is that the cattons "made it so easy" for him to take everything from them. it doesn't matter where oliver is coming from, ultimately (which is why he is so pointedly an upper middle class kid, quite comfortable, not a struggling genius he paints himself to be). for oliver, and for his audience, what matters is what he wants, not why he wants it; how badly he wants, how deep inside his own desire he is.
in short, it's not that the cattons had something he didn't have. it's just that they had something he wanted.
Never not infuriated thinking about just how similar Crozier and Little actually are in a lot of ways.
Little has very little artifice to him as we've just been discussing, no airs and graces, and neither does Crozier!
He has no ear for politics! The Church of England gives him hives!
I don't know what the bigger tragedy is - that they're both so incapable of being anything other than what they are, or that what each man is at his core is so fundamentally, insurmountably incompatible with what the other man is at his.
ok so first off WE GOT INTO THE FINALIST ROUND FOR AWE'S FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
we're in the running to win $100,000 to help us make digital objects into a realty for everyone. this is a huge deal. I am in a daze writing this and literally cannot articulate how major this is
we need people to watch our announcement video on Twitter multiple times to help more people see it! the twitter algorithm boosts things based on watch time, so just opening the link and letting the video run a couple times will be a HUGE help 🙏
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Figmin XR will never have a subscription based cost model, and ALL of the things shown above are FREE to download within the app right now.
when this technology becomes as ubiquitous as smartphones (and it WILL, possibly even sooner than we think), this is the future we want people to be able to look forward to... and the first step of getting to that future is proving that it's one people actually want.
"It's hard to imagine yourself as younger, more hopeful, and maybe even idealistic. It's hard - but sometimes when you look in the mirror, there is still that moment of vertigo that makes you wonder what you are doing, and whether going through with your plan really is the wisest choice. Not that you need to wonder...
This is a quick one, but it's something I thought was really fun about Dagur in "The Night and the Fury." When he was retelling the story about what happened on Berk during the treaty, he was VERY honest. He didn't try to retell it like the dragons showed up, he fought them, saved some people, and then left. Heck, the way he described it actually made him look worse than what happened😂. He made it sound like Hiccup told him to evacuate and he just immediately ran, but he did delay a bit as he thought over what he wanted to do and he definitely was trying to fight before then. It's just funny to me because I think of Snotlout and he 100% would have described everything like he'd been the hero the whole time. Meanwhile, Dagur's all, "You said run, so I did😶. It was super cool when you fought the Night Fury though 🤩🤩!"