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Buttercup and Inigo are wine besties but do not sleep together, and would laugh uproariously at the mere implication. Fezzik has his hands full enough with one tempestuous swordsman, and Westley is still a little intimidated (and occasionally bewildered) by him anyway. So it all works out.

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Buttercup and Westley, and Inigo and Fezzik: obvious. Westley and Inigo have months of charged swordplay before. Well. Buttercup and Fezzik like curling up in bed together whispering secrets and being soft while trusting that the other two will guard them.

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Even better: "Princess Bride sedoretu."

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Why has "Princess Bride ot4" not occurred to me until today.

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It's very clear that companies are generating racist and sexist controversy as a brand strategy, e.g., Sydney Sweeney, Converse.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

there's really no facts-and-logicking people into loving the oppressed.

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And honestly, I appreciate competent writing the more *I* write and watch more shows and etc, especially if the writing doesn't follow the same template from episode to episode (like most procedurals). "Consistent competence" is surprisingly difficult!

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(Leverage is one of those shows, too. It just flaunts its humor/quirks up front, and lives in a different genre space.)

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It sounds like I'm damning the show with faint praise, but not every show needs to be wildly experimental or groundbreaking! Sometimes you want a show that knows exactly what it is and owns that space consistently.

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Every time I rewatch the netflix Lost in Space series, I'm reminded how extremely competent the writing is. It's not groundbreaking, but it's entertaining, the characters are consistent while showing steady growth, & the narrative weaves multiple chains of cause and effect together very believably!

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This is the thing about publishing. If they want you to be a success they will make sure you’re a success regardless of your talent or decency.

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Saathi @saathi1013.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

(and that has primed too many of us - myself included! - to do shit like pathologizing normal human variation/foibles, desperately seeking not just consensus but absolute approval of and encouragement for all our choices, and rejecting what earlier generations called "having basic social graces.")

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Saathi @saathi1013.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There is a VAST GULF between "living in an ideological bubble" and "never experiencing interpersonal friction" that is absolutely erased by the way the Internet is built now, and I hate it.

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Saathi @saathi1013.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We cannot truly build coalitions nor communities, nor learn and grow as individuals, within digital architectures where the only friction we experience is by being exposed to other people who piss us off all the time for engagement metrics.

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Neither form of capital has any correlation to actual morality/ethics, natch. They're both based on perception. But I think the two get conflated in discussions and I think a finer distinction might be helpful when discussing celebrity.

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(yes Leto and Depp are also unprofessional abusive taintwaffles to their coworkers on set, but they do seem to have enough social connections where it counts to keep getting gigs, ugh)

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Then there are the reverse - stars that constantly sell tickets/etc (cultural capital) who are apparently miserable shits to work with (too many to list, frankly).

I feel like there are celebrities that seem to inexplicably retain some kind of social capital in the Deciding Class while they have zero cultural capital. Jared Leto, Johnny Depp, etc have name recognition but when has their name on a brand last successfully vaulted that brand to huge profits?

Saathi @saathi1013.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thinking about celebrity and the difference between social capital and cultural capital. "Social capital" is when the networks of people around you like you and want to be around/work with you. "Cultural capital" is when you have weight/fame in The Public Eye.

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My wife is watching the latter for the first time and is DELIGHTED thus far. I haven't seen it in ages so most of it is new to me again and it's still great!

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Saathi @saathi1013.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

All the regressive "comedy" taintwaffles saying how we could never make Blazing Saddles nowadays, and none of them talking about how we could never make 9 to 5 now.... 🤔

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Saathi @saathi1013.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm thrilled Seehorn won for Pluribus!! And now... the long wait for season 2...

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Saathi @saathi1013.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

She was really willing to coast on The Aesthetique™ until we got to the "farm" scenes, at which point she said "fucking FOR REAL?" and I told her, "yes, that was a real thing," and she started going on a tear about tradwife influencers and raw milk, lol. (I love my wife.)

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Saathi @saathi1013.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Wife just watched Antoinette for the first time, and said, within ten minutes of each other: "I'm not going to bed yet, there's only ten minutes left and I have to see how it ends!" </s> and: "Well, that certainly was A Movie!"