Ahana Sarkar

[OPENS FRIDGE, REMOVES TUPPERWARE CONTAINER LABELLED "Pomegranates from land of dead do not eat"]

[I REMOVE A SECOND CONTAINER LABELLED "Fairy apples do not eat (Autumn Court)]

[I APPROACH THE BLENDER]

my beloved mutual, were you aware that you’re the funniest person on the planet?

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Thank you to these beautiful women for breaking stereotypes, not allowing love to get in the way of their passion, and scaring the male lead <3

My life as a showrunner.

Weightlifting fairy + Why secretary Kim?

hey have i ever told y’all about my cursed apartment building

cursed how, you say???? well, here’s the thing: no-one can fuckin see it. let me explain further

The Princess Bride (1987)  dir Rob Reiner

+ IMDB Trivia 

I told you, didn’t I? That if you saved my life once again, I’d let you marry me. You saved me from chocking on candy and from the motorcycle accident. Do you know the last thing you did to save me. Our children. You weren’t by our side, but I was always with you. So make sure you come back. Come back and live with us for the rest of your life, okay? Thank you, Mi Joo. I’ll make sure I do that.

things to add to your journals

You think you're an introvert because you like being alone. but in reality you just love being at peace, and you're actually extroverted around people who bring you peace.

Watching the difference between the Twitter migration mentality vs. the Reddit migration mentality is fucking hilarious.

Like, when Twitter users started moving over here everyone was pulling out all the stops and bringing back old fandoms that they were into and basically firing rent lowering shots by being super cringey.

And then all of the sudden when the Reddit refugees start showing up we're like, "ah yes, pull up a log and gather around the dumpster fire. We'll teach you how to not get killed by people hunting down bots and carve out a little area for you guys to relax and get used to the site before we throw you into the deep end of this hellsite that we call home. Tomorrow is Let Papyrus say Fuck day so you can prepare for that if you want. You want some hot coco and a blanket?"

*climbs up on stupid little soapbox and screams* there is absolutely NOTHING “toxic” or “problematic” about inej telling kaz that he needs to remove his armor to be with her. he puts up so many walls and is so afraid of vulnerability that, if anything, what would really be toxic is her getting into a relationship with him and letting things continue that way. neither kaz NOR inej herself are ready to be together in an even remotely healthy way when that line is delivered in six of crows, and inej recognizes that. the idea that she should’ve just “accepted him as he was” absolutely fails to acknowledge how unhealthy relationships can get when the individuals in them aren’t emotionally in a good place for a relationship. the idea that she (or anyone) has to accept a partner who is in a toxic place as they are “if you really love them” and doesn’t have a right to draw a boundary is a deliberate misreading of that individual scene at best and an extremely damaging sentiment to transfer into an outlook on real life relationships at worst. thank you, goodnight. *climbs off stupid little soapbox*

people thinking that Kaz and Inej ever being together without healing the toxic parts of his behaviour and atleast, some parts of his high emotional boundaries, have completely missed the kanej parts of the books. U CANNOT DATE SOMEONE WHO STILL HAS GOT TO LET YOU IN!!! WHAT IS INEJ SUPPOSED TO DO?? CRY AND WAIT??? WHAT 3RD GRADE FANFIC DID U GUYS READ??

evil infodumping where you just tell lies

TikTok

5 Minute Crafts

hey hmc girlies (gender neutral) how do we feel about this

No hate to OP from ticktock. I just happen to see this rhetoric quite a bit. Im sure this was a haha funny, but I also get worried about people not wanting to read the book because of it.

My understanding of Howl in the book (and as I understand it the author Diana Wynne jone’s) is that un-flawed characters are boring. She hates the idea of an un-flawed character, so she wrote a deeply DEEPLY flawed character. (SPOILER) It is established that the reason he IS flawed is because he does not have a heart.

Hating book howl (after finishing) feels like a “I read this book but didn’t understand it” moment.

Also Sophie isn’t exactly without her “red flags.” She openly admits it as well.

this one is exactly what i was thinking. the vibe i got is it was a movie fan who was expecting howl from the movie and got something completely different but saw it as a problem BECAUSE THEY DIDNT REALIZE THE BOOK WAS THE ORIGINAL⁉️

i guess someone going from the movie--where howl is presented as a romantic ideal--could assume that book!howl was intended as the same. but he very clearly isn’t--not only is he shown to be obnoxious and bad at relationships, he and sophie (and his sister, and mrs pentstemmon, and the people of market chipping...) explicitly point out his flaws at various points, so for the reader to draw attention to the red flags feels like... yeah duh?

a central part of the final scene is sophie & howl choosing a happily-ever-after together that will be “hair raising” where she says he’ll exploit her and he says she’ll cut up his suits to teach him. if you read that and think “that sounds like a terrible relationship, i wouldn’t want to be part of it” that’s a valid reaction, but you will probably also be perplexed by the book’s broader appeal

when i first read hmc i was caught off guard by the sheer catharsis i felt when sophie and howl choose their weird, hair raising, maybe even unenviable relationship, because the message it conveyed to me wasn’t “this is what a relationship should look like” but “you can find someone who is delighted and endeared by the things everyone else told you were failings.” most of howl’s flaws are comically human: lazy, vain, spends too long in the bathroom, scared of getting his ass beat by an angry ex, magnified into a larger-than-life fairy tale character, and like @ifitisnotayesitisprobablyano​ said, sophie is an equally flawed character, in equally human ways

and the book is fundamentally about sophie growing into herself, in a way that involves becoming confident and unapologetic and unpalatable and happy, and so a romantic subplot that involves finding a normal, palatable, ideal partner--or worse, finding howl in all his imperfections and “fixing” him--would definitely change the themes communicated by the story

yeah you got it SPOT ON lula. i got the ick so bad just from the comments of the tiktok because SURE — i also marked all of howl’s red flags in my copy because it’s hilarious. but sophie doesn’t love him in spite of them; she loves all of him because he’s not a perfect person! and literally no one is !!! the comments were all like “oh can you make a list of what he did please ??” or like “thanks so much ! i won’t read it now !” or like “ok good thing i saw this tiktok bc i was about to buy the book” like ARE WE CANCELLING HOWL JENKINS IN 2023 COME ONNN

OH NOOO i was trying so hard to give that tiktok the benefit of the doubt but those comments are going to make me cry. they are really cancelling howl jenkins in 2023 for being the funniest character in kid’s literature “ok good thing i saw this tiktok bc i was about to buy the book” I MEAN IF YOU THINK LIKE THAT YOU PROBABLY WOULDN’T LIKE THE BOOK ANYWAY BUT HELLO??? do you think that reading the book will magically infect you with the toxic woman hating behavior of [checks notes] throwing a tantrum when your hair dye gets messed up??? do you think that if you buy the book the money will go to howl jenkins himself so he can keep calling sophie nosy instead of finding a real job???

Wow.... so you’re telling me you took an action that resulted in the death of one person...... to save the lives of many people.... who would have died if you did nothing??? that sounds so familiar

can we just talk about how kdramas are just people being good at their jobs and in love?

american tv could never

Starting off with these two makes it harder to find other kdramas. They set the bar high.

New gay man

Kaz introducing wylan to the crows

I would love some more public transit that’s functional and a smooth and easy (re: wet) ride thanks

spotify removing zaalima and qaafirana is my villain origin story🗿

Also apsara aali bhi

and the entire frickin kalank album !!!