This man murdered his pregnant wife then strangled both his daughters and threw them in a water tank. This is the picture they use when they speak about him. Privilege is really wild to me.
Medusa was a priestess of Athena. Then a god violated her in her own temple. Athena's
response was not to punish him. She punished Medusa. Turned her into something that could not be looked at directly. The story is 2,700 years old. The pattern is not.
I see a lot of y'all trashing this but just know that a family created this for their daughter and it gained a following and it's being picked up by Disney so let's just appreciate that.
Caroline Forbes being the only character in ‘The Vampire Diaries’ who became a better character after becoming a vampire.
She started the show as this shallow teen, the typical ‘popular girl’ who seemed like a horrible friend, but once she turned into a vampire her character development was great.
The most consistent character in the show!
The Hunger Games began with a woman, a TV remote, and one restless night flipping channels. She landed on a reality show, then live footage of the Iraq war, and the two blurred into one thing in her head. Every name in it was picked on purpose.
The country itself is called Panem. That comes from an old Latin phrase, "panem et circenses," meaning "bread and circuses." A Roman writer used it to describe a simple way to control people: keep them fed, keep them entertained, and they stop asking for real power. That idea is the whole way the Capitol stays in charge, sitting right there in the name.
The villains are Roman too. The president's first name is Coriolanus, taken from a Roman general known for looking down on ordinary people. The man who runs the Games is named Seneca, after a real advisor to the emperor Nero. The real Seneca was forced by his ruler to take his own life. In the film, the character Seneca is locked in a room with one bowl of poison berries and nothing else. The author hid a 2,000-year-old death inside a character's name.
The arrow is the moment everything turns on. At the end, the hated old president, Snow, is tied to a post and waiting to die, and Katniss is handed the bow to finish him. By the time she lifts it, the rebel leader about to take power, a woman named Coin, has just pushed to hold a brand new Hunger Games using Capitol children. And Katniss is sure that Coin ordered the attack that killed her little sister. So she turns and puts the arrow through Coin instead, killing the next tyrant before the crowd kills the old one.
That one move is the whole point of the story. Take down the king, and the throne is still sitting there, waiting for the next person ruthless enough to climb into it.
All of it grew from one writer, Suzanne Collins, and a TV remote. The books have sold more than 100 million copies in 53 languages. The five films made around 3.35 billion dollars, which puts them among the 20 biggest movie series ever made. A sixth, Sunrise on the Reaping, lands in theaters on November 20, 2026.
The crowd that turns on Snow is the same crowd the Capitol kept fed and entertained for decades. That is the older, sharper meaning hiding under the obvious one. Bread and circuses works right up until the day the people decide they are done being fed.
After giving birth, a woman's internal wounds take six months to heal, 12 months for physical recovery, two years for hormonal balance, and up to five years to rediscover her identity. Relationships frequently fail during this time due to a lack of understanding. Be kind and patient with new mothers; they are facing more challenges than it appears.
I think about this lady’s best friend all the time. She was NOT playing about her friend. Knew her schedule, the meds she takes and at what time, and that shit was off IMMEDIATELY! May we all have a friend like her a be a friend like her
Actually this is also why we're stuck in remake/reboot hell, young people with new ideas aren't allowed into the industry anymore.
Japan constantly scouts new talent while in the US it's just nepotism now.
Last year I went to the Kardashian’s OB-GYN, she told me sex and periods weren’t supposed to be painful.
I thought she was crazy because every other doctor had told me I was dramatic and everyone experiences that.
I had exploratory surgery 3 months later, she found stage 4 endometriosis infiltrating every organ in my abdomen - each piece had to be cut out and removed. The recovery took months.
Every MRI, ultrasound, and CT scan I’d had leading up to the surgery was completely normal yet I had severe unexplained abdominal pain constantly and extreme fatigue.
I was literally bed bound multiple days a week, it hurt to walk or breathe yet I was dismissed.
Endometriosis lacks research and awareness, and care is inaccessible for most women. Godspeed to anyone willing to give it a platform