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small cultural & Colombia/Latin related details from Encanto 🇨🇴

the flowers on Isabela’s dress and in her hair - cattleya trianae orchids (may lilies), national flowers of Colombia

Camilo snapping his fingers when he is excited

Mirabel using her lips to point

flowered balconies (like in Cartagena)

ruanas (ponchos) that Bruno and Camilo wore

Dolores’ “squeaks”

inviting the whole town/neighbourhood to a party

sombrero vueltiao - traditional Colombian hat

Isabela being covered in the colors of Colombian flag (🇨🇴) during her song

and many many more!

(this is for all the people who still say Encanto is not about Colombians ; sorry about the quality of the gifs)

In Japan, radiation creates monsters (Godzilla) and in America radiation creates superheroes

I can't wait to read all the darklina fanfics once the Netflix show comes out

The wierdest thing in xo kitty was them being so genuinely upset about florian cheating on some tests?? 😭😭 like bruh it's really not that big of a deal😭😭

They made mal such a likeable character in the show and now there is a rise in malina shippers instead of darklina lmao😭😭😂😂

peraltiago episodes

List of Peraltiago eps for maximum feel-good:

Pilot (S1E1) - classic Peraltiago banter.

48 Hours (S1E7) - “Amy, look. There is a guy out there with incredibly low standards and a super weird soul patch, and he is waiting for you.”

The Bet (S1E13) - it’s The Bet. Go watch it.

Operation Broken Feather (S1E15) - “The truth is, our job isn’t always great. I mean, sometimes it sucks. But.. it sucks a little less when I get to do it with you.”

Tactical Village (S1E19) - do you like pining!Jake? If yes, watch. If no, still watch.

Unsolvable (S1E21) - 🗣pining!Jake, Amy follows a different plot though.

Charges and Specs (S1E22) - ROMANTIC STYLEZZZZ

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It's funny how people who haven't read the books are like kanej didn't kiss:// meanwhile people who have read the books are just like if they kiss before season 4 I will riot

Humans to 2020: Guess I am just a plaything to you.

I gotta say, the originals was so much better than the vampire diaries. Elena was annoying for 7 seasons, but every character on the originals had so much depth, was so much more lovable, and honestly the plot and character development was just better most of the time too. And I miss klaus every day

On Fandoms, Age, and Gender: The Politics of “ Putting Away Childish Things”

Weighing in on yet another round of “fan spaces are youth spaces” (aka “go home and knit, old lady” or “You’re old enough to be my/someone’s mom! gross!” )

Consider these thoughts:

There’s a whole set of interests and behaviors that you might become interested in as you grow from child to adolescent to young adult and take greater interest in the wider world.

You might like horses, or dolls.  Or building models.  You might play soccer, or follow baseball every summer and learn about  box scores.   You might follow the college football draft, or love a pop band.  You might deeply admire a rock band and learn to play the guitar.  You might love superheroes and see all their movies.  You might love space opera and collect paperback books.  Maybe you collect trading cards of your favorite team players – or movie moments.  You probably get t-shirts and posters of teams, or media outlets.  You might get deeply into a social or political cause.

Those are all expressions of interest in the world, all with associated social aspects, many with associated creative actions. 

And then you get older.  And here’s the thing about that list.  The things on that list that are “for boys?”   Are also “for men.”   But the things on that list that are “for girls” or “for nerds?” Are only “for children.”  

Adult men wear brightly colored team clothing and paint their faces without shame.   They join fantasy football leagues and hang out online.   They follow Phish (or continuously talk about how they did when that was a thing).  They spend vast sums on tickets to bowl games.   They get excited all over the internet about Geddy Lee’s greatest hits.  They spend long afternoons on the golf course, playing very bad golf.

No one tells them to grow up 

An adult woman who turns a childhood dollhouse into a beautiful scale model of a real Victorian home is “eccentric.”  An adult man who builds a vast HO train layout in his basement is a “train enthusiast.”   An adult woman who displays her favorite Bryer horses is “odd,” an adult man with a shelf of signed baseballs is “a collector” or even “an investor.” 

Adult women making fanart of attractive movie stars is “creepy,’ while adult men decorating their garages with calendar art of scantily-clad very-young women is “just what guys do.”

Interests and hobbies that were feminine and are taken up by men become acceptable.   When The Beatles were greeted with mobs of fainting teen girls, they were a “boy band.”  When young men discovered them, they became Serious Musicians.  

Over and over, across fields of interest, things that girls like are “toys and games and childish” and should be left behind by adults, while things that boys like are “hobbies and sports” that are lifetime pastimes.  And acceptable “hobbies” for adult women?   Most are things that could be coded as household chores, but generations of women have worked to turn into enjoyable pastimes:  knitting, sewing, quilting.  Home decor.  Baking.   Many adult women (myself included) enjoy doing those things in their free time and have elevated them to art forms.  But that doesn’t change the fact that they’re rooted in utility, while “men’s hobbies” are, by and large, rooted in leisure.

Look around you and follow the pattern.  And then, before you ask “Why are adult women in fan spaces,” maybe ask “why do I feel like adult women don’t get to have fun?”