elizabeth swan and will turner are actually SO romance in the first movie and not enough people acknowledged this because the early 2000s were the age of the edgelords who only valued jack sparrow’s moral ambiguity and that is the TRUTH
the part where she’s like “how many times do i have to tell you to call me elizabeth” and he shyly says “once more, miss swann” and once she walks away he gazes adoringly after her and whispers “elizabeth” to himself like he’s unworthy of it
then when he’s patching up the cut on her hand and she flinches and he says “i know, blacksmith’s hands… they’re rough” because he thinks that’s what’s bothering her HE KNOWS HE’S NOT WORTHY OF HER!!! THAT’S THE PINING I’M TALKING ABOUT BINCH!!! I DON’T ACCEPT LESS!!!!
he has like 10 chances to confess his love to her but waits until he’s dressed like this to do it:
my man knows 1) the importance of a good outfit when shooting your shot 2) how to ACCESSORIZE. take NOTES.
Ugh…. yeah….. this fucker was racist af and everything we were taught in elementary school about how much of a White Savior™ he is for “freeing the slaves” is all a damn lie. His statues can burn as well.
“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one’s neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
I’d like to take a moment, as we all are currently, to mourn the loss of astrophysicist Steven Hawking. He passed away in the morning of March 14th, 2018, at the age of 76.
When you live in a community as underrepresented as disabled people are, I suppose you could say the upside is that you don’t have to write many obituaries for public figures. However, the ones that you do have to write hit you kind of hard. For many people around the world, Hawking was not only the greatest scientific theorist since Einstein, but also the most widely recognizable wheelchair user in modern history. His lifelong issues with ALS were difficult and they were visible, which made the reality of his disability prominent in ways that challenged social norms. He could not be infantilized, because he was a grown man with children and a complex romantic history. He could not be spoken for because he maintained a voice of his own, and he couldn’t be ignored because to do so was to silence the thoughts of a scientific genius.
Steven Hawking was the greatest proof that a disabled person’s equipment was a part of them; after a complication damaged his vocal chords, he famously bought up the rights to a computer voice he often used in order to make it uniquely his. Steven used it in public appearances and in some cases, he even did his own voice acting with it, until the computerized voice was more publicly recognized than his previously strained voice.
He was, in many aspects, a disabled superstar, and reached larger realms of visibility than anyone previously thought possible. Very few people can be as intellectual as a groundbreaking physicist, but in many other ways all disabled people were just like him. Rest in Peace, Dr. Hawking.
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