Month: April 2016

libraryoftheancients:

squirrelstone:

gideonseymours:

miscommunication as a plot device makes me angry

if you just talked to each other but no

on the one hand i agree with this but on the other hand one of my coworkers rented an alpaca from a petting zoo and brought it to work because my boss said she wanted an alpaca sweater but the guy didn’t hear her say sweater and didn’t want to upset her by asking why the fuck she’d want an alpaca

I think that highlights a good genre difference: miscommunication in drama is frustrating, overused, and just kinda shit. Miscommunication in comedy is fucking hilarious.

wakaflackalypse:

classicalmonoblogue:

bogleech:

just-shower-thoughts:

Willy Wonka sent out his chocolate bars worldwide, and 5 white kids (4 with first-world problems) still won.

To be fair, his goal was apparently to send a stern warning about the evils of entitlement by murdering them in ironic ways.

Also, the rich, spoiled, first world white kids aren’t presented in the story as having gotten the tickets by chance, the story is very clear that they and their families used their privilege and power to game the system – taking what was initially presented as a random selection and cheating by leveraging their disproportionate resources – wasting mountains of chocolate in pursuit of gold…

Willy Wonka and the Discourse Factoty