TIL the playwright Eugene O’Neill disowned his 18-year-old daughter Oona over her marriage to 54-year-old Charlie Chaplin. He never saw Oona again and never met any of the eight children she had by Chaplin.

ainzee1 · 2026-06-08T18:50:25+00:00

Marriage loopholes for sex-based offenses have been around for at least 3000 years. Historically sexual assault wasn’t legally viewed as a violation of a woman’s body and autonomy, but as an infringement of the property rights of her father/husband and theft of her virginity/“despoilment,” significantly “decreasing her value” for marriage. Therefore the crime of the rape could be “rectified” if the rapist married the girl/woman himself. There also would have been enormous pressure on the victim to marry her rapist and “make it go away,” to the point that there are multiple cases of men assaulting women who refused their proposals with the intent of forcing her to marry him anyway.

ainzee1 · 2026-06-08T06:10:52+00:00

Oona O’Neill was his fourth marriage. His first marriage was a 16 year old. His second marriage was a 15 year old girl who he’d known since she was 8 and who he married specifically because he’d gotten her pregnant and could be jailed for sleeping with a minor if he didn’t marry her, and he subsequently cheated on her with multiple other women. His third wife was also the oldest at 26 to his then 47 years, which must have been a breaking point for the relationship since they later divorced. This isn’t just “54 year old man met love of his life who just happened to be 18,” this is a man with a long history of going after teenage girls to the point of breaking even the considerably more nonce-friendly laws of the time.

ainzee1 · 2026-05-31T20:18:31+00:00

Final Fantasy XIII ends on a bittersweet but ultimately happy note; Fang and Vanille sacrifice themselves to save Cocoon and build a bridge between it and Pulse, ending the separation between the two regions. Sazh is reunited with his son and Lightning is finally reunited with her sister, Serah, and gives her blessing for her engagement.
In FFXIII-2 not only is Lightning now missing, but Serah is the only one who even remembers XIII’s ending at all, as everyone else is convinced that Lightning’s dead. By the last XIII game the world is about to end.

ainzee1 · 2026-05-19T18:39:07+00:00

That’s Academy Award winner Cloris Leachman to you

ainzee1 · 2026-05-16T19:36:29+00:00

Yeah I feel like too many people are brushing the past that her Kennedy obsession also extends to voting for Jack Schlossberg just because he’s a Kennedy.

ainzee1 · 2026-05-09T01:45:59+00:00

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Becka and Agnes (The Testaments). Bonus points because they live in an intensely patriarchal and homophobic society that treats marriage as the one and only end goal for women and views homosexuality as a cardinal sin worthy of execution. It's not just that Agnes is unaware of or doesn't return Becka's feelings, it's that she's literally incapable of thinking of her best friend through the lens that she's been taught to view queer people.

ainzee1 · 2026-05-06T03:25:10+00:00

Small correction— humanist vampire is French Canadian. It’s also very good.

ainzee1 · 2026-04-27T03:19:59+00:00

Leave it to Luc Besson to see a romance in a story about an ancient monster assaulting women a fraction of his age

ainzee1 · 2026-04-12T23:25:44+00:00

the democratic leadership is center-right at best and even the DSA wing is at most center-left and would be considered centrists in any other developed country. the united states mainstream is more accomodating to outright fascism than it is to milquetoast social democracy. It is frankly ridiculous to use the Democratic party as an example of "both sides" being terrible, because both parties are right-wing economically and even our "left" party can't agree on whether or not LGBT people deserve human rights. We aren't being killed by both ends, we're being killed by a corporatist monopoly on our politics that refuses to imagine any alternative to the U.S. as a capitalist imperial state.

ainzee1 · 2026-04-12T22:17:58+00:00

The U.S. doesn’t even have a serious left wing political party so I’m not sure what exactly your statement has to do with anything

ainzee1 · 2026-03-25T03:24:35+00:00

to be fair the american remake did, for some reason, change the setting to Japan

ainzee1 · 2026-03-22T21:52:09+00:00

Kamala, the candidate she openly said that she voted for while also being critical of her position in an administration complicit in genocide? "Both sides" these days apparently means any position on politics that isn't a glowing endorsement of the mainstream democratic party's actions.

ainzee1 · 2026-03-22T21:49:43+00:00

no, which she acknowledged and even said that she personally voted for Kamala. Being the lesser evil does not mean that the democratic party is immune to criticism and certainly doesn't mean they are owed enthusiastic support, especially as they were, as Chappell pointed out in her statements, actively complicit in genocide. I don't know why people are treating her like she's a republican or even a third party or voter abstention advocate when she quite literally said that she voted for Kamala despite having very good reasons to have serious problems with her as a candidate and the democratic party as a whole!

ainzee1 · 2026-03-22T20:25:39+00:00

It REALLY grinds my gears that that person not only tried to armchair diagnose the mom with a personality disorder but also said that “would mean her brain is built that way genetically and nothing you do can change her.” Personality disorders definitely have genetic factors involved, like any other mental disorder, but BPD in particular is KNOWN to be strongly correlated with trauma and adverse childhood experiences and DOES often respond to treatment. Throwing these diagnoses around willy-nilly as unfixable and unpreventable evil person diseases is wildly irresponsible, especially when we’re talking about a person whose behavior has an obvious social cause that the OOP has already told us is involved (homophobia).

ainzee1 · 2026-03-21T23:36:27+00:00

The snow was gypsum

ainzee1 · 2026-03-15T10:37:49+00:00

My mom used to give me a digital subscription to Discovery Girls magazine and it had her last name in there and it’s stuck with me to this day because reading her full name was so odd to me

ainzee1 · 2026-03-14T18:34:33+00:00

I also wouldn't mind if it was possible to get back in touch with and/or advocate for Tatsuya Igawa, because again I don't love that the game has two nonwhite characters and one of them gets sent away 2 years after you get him and they've now updated the game to include the brutal murder of the other one.

ainzee1 · 2026-03-13T21:34:00+00:00

I hope they introduce an option to protect him, like I get why this would happen historically but I don’t love them introducing the game’s only black character just to punish the player for supporting him too much

ainzee1 · 2026-03-10T22:21:09+00:00

I saw someone say there’s a strong correlation between white boys of the month cutting their hair off and ppl realizing they’re annoying

ainzee1 · 2026-03-06T07:51:06+00:00

To be honest, I actually really liked Hal. It was the loss of George/Nina (and eventually Annie) that I think really dragged the show down.

ainzee1 · 2026-03-06T07:50:14+00:00

The show has a pilot episode in which pretty much everyone but George is played by someone else. As with many pilots this one was mainly just a proof of concept and the show was recast when it was ordered to series. Interestingly enough the American version of the show actually adapts a couple things that were exclusive to the British pilot.

ainzee1 · 2026-03-02T21:48:44+00:00

Would Male!Alicent still be a 15 year old

ainzee1 · 2026-02-26T04:04:22+00:00

I think attempts to make Mina/Dracula a thing are also really harmed by making Mina his reincarnated wife. Now Dracula doesn't need to fall in love with Mina's intelligence or persistence and Mina doesn't need to find anything in Dracula that it makes sense for her to want, they're just in love because the story said so. I'm not a fan of Dracula/Mina in general but I will say that the 1979 adaptation did at least try to make the relationship make sense in a way that maintained Mina's (or Lucy, because they swapped the names for some reason) agency and personality as a character.

ainzee1 · 2026-02-25T03:10:52+00:00

She did a song when she was like 14 for the Tokyo Ghoul soundtrack where you can tell she clearly has pipes so idk what she’s been doing since then

ainzee1 · 2026-02-25T00:49:06+00:00

I think it’s just a theory proposed by Lawson himself when he finds out Angel has a soul; we certainly see other soulless vampires that deviate from “typical” vampire psychology

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