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Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.
Still don't know what to do with the fact that Stan canonically didn't see point in his life beyond getting his brother home. Like oh boy filbrick when i catch you filbrick when i catch you-
Him not saying it makes sense, he wouldn't wanna worry the kids. i think it actually makes sense that it didn't make the final cut. But the fact that it was there so late in the game really implies that this was something they thought was accurate to his characterization. that Stan truly actually felt like his life had no meaning.
The writing was always on the wall. He told Ford that he thought their dad (a man decades dead by then) was right and that he was just a worthless screw up. He was willing to basically loose his entire sense of self for his family and what's that of not a symbolic suicide. but to see it in plain text that he only found meaning through the kids is really something else. Stan is a man so built on others perceptions and desires of him that i think he doesn't even know himself any more.
He didn't just loose himself to the memory gun. Or loose himself to his thirty year performance of Stanford. But he lost the kid that just wanted to explore the world with his brother. he lost some tender soft core to himself because filbrick made sure to take it and throw it out when he kicked out Stan.
Really I think that's when Stan lost himself, when he was forced into a quest to 'earn his worth'.
And like in a lot of ways him hosting the kids for the summer you see him soften. He's rediscovering that tender fragile sense of self he thinks doesn't exist. when he engages with them over the series i feel like the façade is slowly dropping.
He never stopped stealing scamming or being otherwise shady but there is a slow emotional vulnerability that he gives them over the course of the series. He was quicker to give it to Mabel, but over the many eps of Dipper's pinning you see him slowly reveal things about his past to him. Not Ford's past but Stanley's. He told Dipper about Carla. A woman he loved when he was last himself.
There's something about lost legends that I think about regularly. As a kid he wanted to create something. The Stan'o'war primarily but comics too. He had a love of story telling and art that got sneered and bullied out of him. He wasn't ever given chances so he abandoned comics early so he wouldn't have to face rejection again and again.
But then years later, decades passing to the point where he is now taking on his brother's identity we see him return to story telling again. He's conning them yes but he's finally playing onto his passions and talents for the first time since he was very young. He told jokes about previous tours that hadn't happened to keep interest. he was connecting with people through stories like he always wanted.
And i think most striking is that when he's in the comic Soos and him have a heart to heart about comics. He lets himself open back up to a hobby he'd left discarded for decades. He was scared but despite it all he still sold that comic. He made something he'd wanted to since he was ten and healed himself. He cried bc finally he found himself.
i think that's the part of him that everyone loves. that is the part of Stanley pines that people really care about.
Stanley Pines doesn't know it but his second funeral would be filled to the brim. his passing wouldn't just gut his family but the entire town.
i’m actually cooked my first thought of the day was hermione and helen angst
canon: they died
fanfic: fUCK YOU
if danger... why cute?
Golden Guard Hunter x Abomination Track Willow AU
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this remains one of my favourite jokes from the early owl house episodes
she was so small and soft :( 1 | 2
im so sorry for being so hard on you. you tried to be strong, and you were
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So on the 27th DeepSeek R1 dropped (a chinese version of ChatGPT that is open source, free and beats GPT's 200 dollar subscription, using less resources and less money) and the tech market just had a loss of $1,2 Trillion.
Source
Epic in a nutshell
I saw this image of Athena and Odysseus and it was too freaking funny🤣🤣
AU where future Hawkmoth actually is Adrien but not because he’s evil, he’s just figured out that if his wife doesn’t fight a supervillain twice a week she’ll start trying to solve all of Paris’ problems by herself and never go to sleep
Those who understand understand.
Odysseus: I'm a monster now Penelope I'm not the man you once knew
Penelope, can see through bullshit, of Sparta: Move the bed
Odysseus:
Circe: But everyone's true colours are revealed in acts of lust Odysseus who very proudly saved his virginity for Penelope: I'm not sure I follow
Antinous: Penelope is such a MILF
Odysseus: Agreed, she is Mywife I'd Like to Fuckingkillyoufor
I’m so unwell,, they could never make me hate you Stan
Okay this is kinda a stupid thought I had once I got over the craziness of Odysseus.
All the like middle aged men are dead cuz of the war except for the weak and cowardly
And now Odysseus has killed all the suitors which was basically all the younger men of Ithaca. Plus some faraway princes and such
So in doing that he basically made Telemachus the most eligible bachelor in all of Ithaca and the neighboring kingdom.
His first day as a dad and he’s already wingmaning his son
it was raining
me, begging, tears in my eyes: please. please just tell me what the book is about. the plot. please
a book annotation on the cover, unfazed: A Subversive Masterpiece. A Deep And Touching Story. The New York Times Bestseller. Go Fuck Yourself
would you still love me again?
Silly child
OG reference below
Beware it’s a nsfw account
🏆1998: Fernanda Montenegro becomes a Golden Globe Nominee (Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama) for the movie "Central Station", directed by Walter Salles. 🏆2024: Fernanda Torres becomes a Golden Globe Nominee (Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama) for the movie "I'm Still Here", directed by Walter Salles.
I’M STILL HERE (2024) dir. by Walter Salles
I'm so proud to be Brazilian and to be able to see Brazilian actors winning. This award is ours. Viva o Brasil, viva ao cinema brasileiro. Viva Fernanda Torres, viva! 🥳🇧🇷❤️
Fernanda Torres wins Golden Globe for best actress in a drama film, 2025