![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Feb. 3rd, 2017
via http://ift.tt/2l38t4o:
ohflint:
When you were sinking to the bottom of the sea, who do you imagine it was that dragged you onto that beach?
ohflint:
When you were sinking to the bottom of the sea, who do you imagine it was that dragged you onto that beach?
via http://ift.tt/2kyOduo:
I could be sold on it! Depends on the woman.
One of the aspects of Wednesday’s character – I think of all the Addams Family but her in particular because she’s a young girl – is that she’s not just the outsider, she’s also the voice of outsiders, she’s the speaker for the weird. She’s defiant but with a purpose: she defends the right to be different if different is who you are, when she is literally the person in the family who is most likely to be abused by the outside world for it.
Morticia and Gomez and Pugsley just ARE weird, in a sort of confident but unconscious way, and Fester struggles with being weird but not always knowing if he wants to be weird, but Wednesday is targeted for being weird and is well aware of it and fights back consciously. Which is why she would never grow up to be, say, a Stepford Wife type of creepy – she’s the antithesis of that conform-or-die mentality, even though the Stepford Wives are 100% a form of horror.
So I think she would be fine to marry a woman who didn’t apparently fit in at first, because “not fitting in” is who she is and it’s also what she does, aggressively. It’s why she’s instantly so likable, because she wins every fight she gets into about being a weirdo and a lot of us have repeatedly lost that fight. But I also think any woman Wednesday could love would still have to share the Addams family ideals of accepting the Other and unconditional love for family. She’s not going to marry the Queen Bee, she’s not going to marry someone cruel or normalizing, which is the immediate idea of “not like the Addamses”.
But I can see her marrying a woman who’s super awkward or not slim and slinky the way Morticia is and it’s sort of implied Wednesday will be, or even just someone who doesn’t quite get the point of The Aesthetic™ but okay hon, we’ll do the Dark Swing Dance, it’s not like I don’t LIKE the Dark Swing Dance. Or someone who’s really upbeat and cheerful and likes pictures of kittens and fuzzy blankets and wearing bright colors and the entire family is like “What…do you two even talk about” and Wednesday turns to her dad super deadpan and says, “Skeletons” and in the background her fiance-soon-to-be-now-that-she’s-met-the-parents, who also happens to be a forensic anthropologist, just nods super enthusiastically. (True fact, the most cheerful, upbeat person I know used to dig up bodies for a living.)
And Morticia considers this very carefully and then announces, “It’s time she met Grand Nana Sylph” and they get the shovels and head out to the graveyard. Grand Nana Sylph had the best bone structure of the whole family, and after Wednesday’s Young Woman articulates her, everyone can admire it in the comfort of the parlor!
And then she wears like, a BRIGHT RED DRESS to the Addams Family Reunion and everyone looks at everyone else in black Victoriana and then back to this ONE PERSON in bright red and thinks to themselves, “It fits. The Aesthetic™ is still served. Wednesday found her a keeper.”
You guys I have a LOT MORE THOUGHTS about the Addams Family than I expected, wow.
I could be sold on it! Depends on the woman.
One of the aspects of Wednesday’s character – I think of all the Addams Family but her in particular because she’s a young girl – is that she’s not just the outsider, she’s also the voice of outsiders, she’s the speaker for the weird. She’s defiant but with a purpose: she defends the right to be different if different is who you are, when she is literally the person in the family who is most likely to be abused by the outside world for it.
Morticia and Gomez and Pugsley just ARE weird, in a sort of confident but unconscious way, and Fester struggles with being weird but not always knowing if he wants to be weird, but Wednesday is targeted for being weird and is well aware of it and fights back consciously. Which is why she would never grow up to be, say, a Stepford Wife type of creepy – she’s the antithesis of that conform-or-die mentality, even though the Stepford Wives are 100% a form of horror.
So I think she would be fine to marry a woman who didn’t apparently fit in at first, because “not fitting in” is who she is and it’s also what she does, aggressively. It’s why she’s instantly so likable, because she wins every fight she gets into about being a weirdo and a lot of us have repeatedly lost that fight. But I also think any woman Wednesday could love would still have to share the Addams family ideals of accepting the Other and unconditional love for family. She’s not going to marry the Queen Bee, she’s not going to marry someone cruel or normalizing, which is the immediate idea of “not like the Addamses”.
But I can see her marrying a woman who’s super awkward or not slim and slinky the way Morticia is and it’s sort of implied Wednesday will be, or even just someone who doesn’t quite get the point of The Aesthetic™ but okay hon, we’ll do the Dark Swing Dance, it’s not like I don’t LIKE the Dark Swing Dance. Or someone who’s really upbeat and cheerful and likes pictures of kittens and fuzzy blankets and wearing bright colors and the entire family is like “What…do you two even talk about” and Wednesday turns to her dad super deadpan and says, “Skeletons” and in the background her fiance-soon-to-be-now-that-she’s-met-the-parents, who also happens to be a forensic anthropologist, just nods super enthusiastically. (True fact, the most cheerful, upbeat person I know used to dig up bodies for a living.)
And Morticia considers this very carefully and then announces, “It’s time she met Grand Nana Sylph” and they get the shovels and head out to the graveyard. Grand Nana Sylph had the best bone structure of the whole family, and after Wednesday’s Young Woman articulates her, everyone can admire it in the comfort of the parlor!
And then she wears like, a BRIGHT RED DRESS to the Addams Family Reunion and everyone looks at everyone else in black Victoriana and then back to this ONE PERSON in bright red and thinks to themselves, “It fits. The Aesthetic™ is still served. Wednesday found her a keeper.”
You guys I have a LOT MORE THOUGHTS about the Addams Family than I expected, wow.
via http://ift.tt/2k7tLQS:
haleyjscott:
“ I have known what you truly are since the day we met. Long may you reign. “
haleyjscott:
“ I have known what you truly are since the day we met. Long may you reign. “
anothertroy replied to your photoset:
Feb. 3rd, 2017 11:56 amvia http://ift.tt/2jFfsnQ:
anothertroy replied to your photoset: bobbiesdraper-its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia
I’m in hell
hasn’t he gone away yet??
anothertroy replied to your photoset: bobbiesdraper-its-always-sunny-in-philadelphia
I’m in hell
hasn’t he gone away yet??
via http://ift.tt/2jFIhRj:
gael-garcia:
- If you were a white male, would you wish to be an engineer?
- I wouldn’t have to. I’d already be one.
Official Trailer for HIDDEN FIGURES (in U.S. theaters January 13, 2017)
gael-garcia:
- If you were a white male, would you wish to be an engineer?
- I wouldn’t have to. I’d already be one.
Official Trailer for HIDDEN FIGURES (in U.S. theaters January 13, 2017)
via http://ift.tt/2jGlIfl:
lightning-and-a-lightning-bug:
vinegarvic:
before you hit the gay club vs after you hit the gay club
It’s funny cause it’s not even two pictures taken out of context for a joke it’s liTERALLY WHAT HAPPENED IN THE SHOW
lightning-and-a-lightning-bug:
vinegarvic:
before you hit the gay club vs after you hit the gay club
It’s funny cause it’s not even two pictures taken out of context for a joke it’s liTERALLY WHAT HAPPENED IN THE SHOW
via http://ift.tt/2jGkrF0:
avengerofyourheart:
beefysebastian:
Look what seb just liked im
😂😂😂😂 I can’t.
avengerofyourheart:
beefysebastian:
Look what seb just liked im
😂😂😂😂 I can’t.
via http://ift.tt/2kpVn2a:
dailydarrennews:
darrencriss The last time I worked with this dude, HE was the bad guy singing at ME. Oh how the tables have turned , @grantgust . Talk about a #tbt @cwtheflash
dailydarrennews:
darrencriss The last time I worked with this dude, HE was the bad guy singing at ME. Oh how the tables have turned , @grantgust . Talk about a #tbt @cwtheflash
via http://ift.tt/2jGD3ot:
“Hard work causes stress, poor health and early death – above all, it has never solved poverty. We work longer hours now than we’ve done for fifty years, yet the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. Working hard cannot solve an economic crisis. The fact we are all expected to work so hard is in fact a result of economic crisis: a crisis that did not appear in 2008, but has been with us far longer. This is the crisis at the heart of capitalism: a tension between the 1 percent who control the economy, and want to continually increase their wealth, and the rest of us, who are expected to work ever harder, in order to generate profit and to keep us from occupying our time in meaningful ways like questioning or challenging the status quo.”
- Selina Todd, Strike! Magazine: Fuck Your Hard Work (via relivingthe80s)
“Hard work causes stress, poor health and early death – above all, it has never solved poverty. We work longer hours now than we’ve done for fifty years, yet the gap between the rich and poor has never been wider. Working hard cannot solve an economic crisis. The fact we are all expected to work so hard is in fact a result of economic crisis: a crisis that did not appear in 2008, but has been with us far longer. This is the crisis at the heart of capitalism: a tension between the 1 percent who control the economy, and want to continually increase their wealth, and the rest of us, who are expected to work ever harder, in order to generate profit and to keep us from occupying our time in meaningful ways like questioning or challenging the status quo.”
- Selina Todd, Strike! Magazine: Fuck Your Hard Work (via relivingthe80s)
via http://ift.tt/2k4DRQ7:
waltzingwithfire:
“you are the colour of my ink. everything i write is stained with you” - pavana (maza dohta)
waltzingwithfire:
“you are the colour of my ink. everything i write is stained with you” - pavana (maza dohta)
