Hic Sedet Iulia. Iulia Amica Mea Est.

“Newt pulls the picture of her from his breast pocket and unfolds it. She is inordinately touched. He looks from the picture to Tina.”

Could you smite me? I'm just too stupid do accomplish anything and I'm going to flunk out of college so there really isn't much point of anything and you'd really be saving a lot of people a lot of trouble and money.

Hi my friend! Listen, I will never do that. Not to you, not to anyone. You do matter, people do care about you and no one, no one, not even you, are a waste of space. You have nothing to lose by continuing with uni, so please don’t so that. You can do this my friend, and you have people online and in real life that care for and can help you. Keep holding on my friend :)

Jake: Pardon my French, but you’re being a douchebaguette.

Anathema: Is Crowley big spoon or small spoon?

Crowley: I’m a knife.

Aziraphale: *sighs* Small spoon

Fanfiction is like

Michael Sheen being a literal angel

Venom (2018) is a Romcom, and here’s why

(or ”in this essay I will” joke gone very very wrong)

So, as most of us already noticed, Venom (2018) sure feels like a romantic comedy disguised as a superhero (well, antihero technically) movie. But is it truly? The short answer is yes, but I didn’t just spend my afternoon hunting proof to leave you with a short answer.

Now, I must note that Venom is really not the first superhero movie to mix another genre in. Off the top of my head, and perhaps most obvious, Ant-Man is mixing superheroics with a heist movie. Black Panther has the political thriller going. Thor: Ragnarok is a full blown cocktail, adding at least three more genres to the original one. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that someone thought to mix in romcoms, and I for one am grateful that our first example of it has alien slime falling in love with a guy.

Because that’s what happened, despite certain people bending over backwards just to not acknowledge it. But I promised you proof, so let’s get to it.

How do you determine if something is a romantic comedy or not? “That’s just the vibe I got” is really not going to cut it in a debate. But what is a vibe if not our subconsciousness recognizing a certain pattern? In this case, the pattern was the plot structure. Not being a huge fan of romcoms in general, though, I wasn’t sure how to put it into words. Thankfully, I didn’t need to: with a bit of googling, I found out that most articles have referred to the same source when it came to the romcom plot structure: a book “Writing the Romantic Comedy” by Billy Mernit. According to him, all romantic comedies can be broken down into seven story beats. How many of those would you guess does Venom follow? Hint: it’s all of them.

The rest under cut. Careful, spoilers start here!

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me: *happens to stand between multiple light sources and casts two shadows because that’s how shadows work*

my brain, still to this day, every single time:

#hadtorepost #somuchsense

International Women’s Day 2018

My annual edit. My everyday hope — that gender equality won’t be just a “women’s cause” but an acknowledged, embraced, practiced human right. #timesup #timeisnow #IWD2018