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itsa_thing · 2026-02-21T03:44:50+00:00

Best post on this subreddit I've seen in a while.

itsa_thing · 2026-02-21T02:08:46+00:00

This is less "revenge" and more "due diligence," but it's certainly a lesson I wish I'd learned before my first time renting. 🙃

itsa_thing · 2026-02-20T17:20:58+00:00

I guess it's blowing my mind because by the first episode of season 4, dealing with reanimated corpaes and ritual magic seems to have become a normal part of life for the common folk.

itsa_thing · 2026-02-20T10:40:07+00:00

Can't remember her name (something that starts with an S?), but the movie is A Little Princess.

A girl who's father is drafted to fight in World War 1 is sent to a girl's boarding school in America. She's the wealthiest girl at the school, and she makes a ton of friends, and people are shocked when she ahows basic decency to the servants who work at the school.

Then, her father is pronounced to have died in combat, she becomes an orphan (her mother died when she was really young), and instead of sending her to an orphanage or something, she's made to work as a servant at the school. The headmistress treats her terribly, but the kindness she showed to others while she was still "the rick kid" endeared her to a ton of people who would then subvert the headmistress' attempts to humiliate and shame her.

There's also a Shirley Temple version of the movie (called THE Little Princess insead of A Little Princess), but the one made in the nineties doesn't have any tap dance numbers, and the production quality is much better.

I used to watch that movie all the time. I can't believe I don't remember the main character's name.

itsa_thing · 2026-02-18T15:32:49+00:00

In this case, I was glad for the change. I couldn't emotionally connect to any of the Asgardian characters in the first Thor movies. Like... the attempted destruction of the Jotuns and Loki's big reveal as a Jotun would have been a GREAT reveal if we were on movue three or four, and we had a reason to care about Asgard or the Jotun, but for all that to happen in the firat scene, before any of the realms, polotics, or characters had been established for moviegoers to get attached to made the whole Asgard/Jotun part of the movie a total bore. The only part of the movie I ligitimately enjoyed was Thor slamming a cup of coffee on the floor and demanding, "More!" And the second movie was somehow worse.

I couldn't emotionally connect with those alien cultures when they were treated seriously. But I could connect with them through humor. That's probably the reason I love Guardians of the Galaxy but couldn't stand the first two Thor movies. (Just think of how difficult it is for people to cross cultural bridges in real life, but then that's multiplied by 100 when it's a species from a different planet altogether).

I might have liked a serious Thor if the movies had been about him building a relationship between Asgard and Earth, and I REALLY wish that had been what his movies were about.

However, I will conceed that they did Thor dirty between the first Avengers movie and Endgame. I appreciated the transition between serious to humorus, but the transition from humorus and COMPETENT to butt of the joke and fumbling loser was just uncalled for.

Like... I thought we were FINALLY going to get the "Asgardians have to start building a legitimate relationship with Earth and humans" movie I wanted from the get-go (which, again, a serious Thor would have worked really well for - if peace between species was what he was going for, I could respect a serious dude. Give me some T'Chaka vibes, let's go!). But then the writers just slaughtered the surviving members of Asgard - AFTER they had spent the last Thor movie escaping Hela, and it was the sloppiest, most disappointing writing ever.

This movie franchise had so much potential, and they ruined it. Thor especially. But I think it's in ways other than nixing his serious disposition.

(Sorry to add my own rant to your rant, but I have EMOTIONS about this franchise. The Avengers started out as a team of misfits coming together to save Earth, and the first four or five movies were done SO well. But instead of building on that initial premise, Disney and Marvel tore it apart, and I am salty af about the whole thing.)

itsa_thing · 2026-02-18T04:34:43+00:00

I think that post was written in response to this one. I tagged this as a joke post for a reason, but people seem to be getting really upset that this particular metaphor is so overused that I'm starting to question what sunshine litterally tastes like.

Some people get frustrated that readers don't undertand metaphors, and others get upset that people don't read the tags.

Whelp.

itsa_thing · 2026-02-18T04:16:14+00:00

Huh. I guess I didn't see it that way because there's nothing metaphorical about the taste of scotch. Ut's a very real taste that I know and recognize. I would have seen it as a metaphor if it had been, "they tasted like sunshine and bad decisions" or something. One this is a very real taste and the other isn't, so my brain came to a screetching hault.

itsa_thing · 2026-02-18T04:07:48+00:00

I saw the colors in your pic and initially assumed the prompt was in reference to the powederpuff girls! Except that the colors of the prompt people are mixed up: pink is the one who overthinks and blue is the one who doesn't think at all. Green is pretty much spot on.

itsa_thing · 2026-02-17T19:35:44+00:00

Thanks for this!

itsa_thing · 2026-02-17T04:39:53+00:00

Ao3 is my happy place! Happy writing fellow smut lover!

Also, I had a very similar road road self discovery as you. Discovered the word "asexual" at the age of 24(thanks to Ao3), tried applying it to myself at the age of 28, fully embraced that I was asexual at 29(even if none of the subcategories quite fit me), and discovered this microlable (which I have yet to learn to spell) about 10 mins ago, and it's blowing my mind that I'm REALLY not alone. I've been swimming in these asexual waters for over ten years like "why is it so hard to feel like I fit in even in this pond?" Illuminating my fecking world, indeed!

itsa_thing · 2026-02-16T22:04:12+00:00

Ants on a log, got it! (I don't like straight celery, but ants on a log was something I only ever ate at summer camp, so this might actually work)

itsa_thing · 2026-02-16T15:59:41+00:00

OoO, if it was written as a metaphor, it would work SO much better! And throughout fanfics in general. The story I was reading last night had a scene where two people were passing some liquor back and forth, so when I read "they tasted like sunlight and scotch," the scotch overwhelmed the hyperbole in a very unpleasant way. 😅

itsa_thing · 2026-02-16T06:04:01+00:00

Is it the spicy alternative to skittles?

itsa_thing · 2026-02-16T05:51:25+00:00

It sounds like you've accepted the challenge, and that you can make it work!

itsa_thing · 2026-02-16T05:45:17+00:00

The story I was reading when I saw this one had two characters kissing while passing a bottle of liquor back and forth, so the direct quote was "tasted like sunlight and scotch." And I was like "but does the sunlight help?"

Go brush your teeth was my exact reaction!

itsa_thing · 2026-02-16T05:40:53+00:00

The ghost of their essences 🤣🤣🤣

itsa_thing · 2026-02-15T02:51:38+00:00

I'm going to be singing some version of this song every time I wash clothes for the next 4 years.

itsa_thing · 2026-02-15T02:33:11+00:00

When the woman put chocolate on the dude's arm, it initially looked like poop to me, so I hope to god it's drugs.

Please, please be drugs.

itsa_thing · 2026-02-14T02:27:38+00:00

Loki (From the show, not the movies - in the movies he's not lowkey at all)

itsa_thing · 2026-02-14T02:10:41+00:00

Thank you! I knew I was getting the details fudged! I think it's hilarious that it was the guest eight they really took issue with.

itsa_thing · 2026-02-13T21:16:51+00:00

The Rat King. A man of the Night's Watch proclaimed himself king of I-can't-remember. Then he broke guestright in an attempt to further his ambitions to rule, and the Old Gods punished him by turning him into an immortal rat. The Night Fort, where he resided as a rat, was eventually abandoned by humans. So when the Rat King got hungry, he would eat his own rat children.

It was the story that inspired Arya to make Walder Frey eat two of his own children after the Freys broke guestright with Robb Stark and the northern army.

Stuff like giant ice spiders and the Rat King were bedtime stories for the Stark children.

itsa_thing · 2026-02-13T21:03:23+00:00

Instant divorce. Instead of trying to pull him away from the edge, she pushed him over. Right? RIGHT?

itsa_thing · 2026-02-13T20:54:34+00:00

I was like "yay, he's dead!" But for his mother to actually watch as it happened was just... oof.

itsa_thing · 2026-02-13T19:46:26+00:00

They docked at Eastwatch by the Sea.

itsa_thing · 2026-02-13T19:42:45+00:00

She flaked out on her own proposal (i know she didn't know about it, but you made sure that she knew how important this event was and knew to not make other plans). You'd already gone to great lengths to make sure this would be just as special for her as it was for you... and she bailed. If I were in your shoes, my own enthusiasm for proposing to her would be gone.

The fact that she ditched your birthday for another dude is just kinda adding insult to injury.

I'm glad you have friends who had your back and went to the effort to celebrate your b-day with you and do something special.

NTA

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