toulosersblog

[toulosersblog]

i don’t think there’s anything funnier than saying “god forbid women do anything” in response to women doing the most objectively horrifying actions possible.

[toulosersblog]

[toulosersblog]

joel noticing that ellie's been acting quiet and trying to make it up to her with chef boyardee and boggle and letting her read her "shitty puns" just to make her smile is easily the most dad thing he's ever done

[toulosersblog]

Love love LOVE the focus on Joel’s boots during his rampage in the hospital. Because it’s not in a fit of rage, or desperation. Joel’s face is blank. He’s not thinking about consequences of his actions. He’s thinking “you took away my daughter and now I’m getting her back.” It’s a skill he picked up from Tess. He knows what’s coming. There’s no need to get emotional about it. It’s the simplest thing in the world to him: “You don’t get to take her away from me. Not again.” Hell, he doesn’t even look at the doctor when he shoots him! He’s looking right at Ellie, his entire focus and purpose laying in front of him! Mans is straight up on autopilot!

Joel is a unstoppable force in his grief. And Ellie is the immovable object that keeps him from walking straight over the ledge.

[toulosersblog]

"Tell them Ellie is the little girl... that BROKE YOUR FUCKING FINGER"

"WHAT TOWNNNN"

I just know that those two lines felt so good to deliver. I just know that Bella and Pedro got those yells from deep in their chests.

[toulosersblog]

I love characters who act selfishly to protect the people they love. Absolutely will 1000% hit that trope like a line of coke. I have no moral qualms about this.

[toulosersblog]

ignoring how emotionally devastating the episode was I love how once joel accepted he was a Dad again he went from reluctant father figure to full blown dad mode. did not hold back. found ellie’s favorite food and a board game for them to play. took her to the zoo (the giraffe feeding scene). asked her if she was ok in the most gentle way possible. told her stories about sarah. compared her to sarah bc they’re both his daughters. told ellie how proud he was of her / how much he cared for her. opened up. said “we’re going home”. murdered dozens of people for her. brought her on a hike. you know. normal dad stuff 

[toulosersblog]

Wilbur: Do you see yourself as a glass half-full or glass half-empty kind of person?

Technoblade: Half-full, definitely.

Technoblade: Half-full and constantly rising.

Technoblade: Soon the water will escape its container and consume us all.

[toulosersblog]

When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.

Stevie Nicks

I kept thinking of this quote last night when I was watching the Golden Globes. I really thought that there was a horribly icky tone toward women and their accomplishments. It started with that horribly sexist and totally unfunny opening monologue, and then kept chugging along with casual misogyny. Despite all the really strong female performances and intriguing stories about women’s lives, wants, and desires, it felt like a really big men’s club meeting to me last night.

I felt it the most in regards to “Barbie.”  Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig shepherded that movie to be the most successful movie of 2023, yet all people could comment on were boobs. It was gross.

I hate this narrative, because the exact same thing happened with Lady Bird and Little Women. The movies are properly recognized, and given a lot of praise for their insights into the lives of women. Then award season that goes around, and suddenly they are belittled for being too “superficial” or “slight.”  Men’s coming-of-age stories are treated as sacrosanct and universal while women’s are treated as frivolous and “niche.” Seems like the only time a woman’s story is given value if the woman truly suffers in the story – illness or death has to be involved, or else it’s as if the story doesn’t have merit.

Women’s stories have just as much value as men’s stories – I don’t care if they are a comedy or a drama or what. A female character doesn’t need to shed tears or shed blood in order to be valuable. I feel like Poor Things suffers a bit of the same issue – it’s boiled down to being simply “horny” and hence Bella’s voyage to discovery of what she really wants, and embracing life, is ignored. Oppenheimer is allowed to have a sex drive, because it makes him complex and edgy . But Bella Baxter has a sex drive, and suddenly it makes her silly and “a caricature.”

I just hate the fact that Barbie is being dismissed because it uses a light touch for the serious subject of exploring girlhood to womanhood- what is gained and what is lost. Just because it’s funny doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a legitimate message to share.

I have so many thoughts of this, but I’ll go back to Stevie’s quote. Ultimately, women are punished for what they are initially praised for.

[toulosersblog]

some of the other books I've bound so far

[toulosersblog]

I'm so fucking productive. I got so much shit done today.

ⓘ Fact check: This user did the bare minimum for the first time in 3 months.

[toulosersblog]

omg wait it's winter time??? And I have no friends??? This is so Richard Papen almost freezing to death in a warehouse coded

[toulosersblog]

in my richard papen era (student freezing in apartment without heating)

[toulosersblog]

friendships end. relationships end. black turtleneck is forever

[toulosersblog]

damn ok lake superior

[toulosersblog]

Bunny: *in commons having a grilled cheese sandwich and a milkshake*

Henry:

[toulosersblog]

I think about The Secret History by Donna Tartt a considerable amount this time of the year. Maybe it is the snow that lays and the paralyzingly freezing weather that Richard endured.

The most prominent reason though is one all consuming thought. A bunny, like an actual rabbit bunny, has been living in my neighborhood without a home. In summer it was a cute sight seeing it nibble on grass and flowers. Now in winter I am scared. Im scared because the snow on the mountains was melting and bunny has been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.

When I walk around the beautiful snow footprints trailing after me. Is there a bunny lying dead under my path?