I witnessed the most amazing moment that makes me feel like maybe our society isn’t heading towards the toilet
I was at sephora, procrastinating because law school, and two boys we’re sitting at the makeup counter. Honestly, I can’t help that I started eavesdropping which I swatched the fenty foundation shades but I’m happy I did.
One boy started talking about how he had pimples and wanted to cover them up and the other started joking about how his skin was still nice.
They couldn’t have been more then 12, I swear
Well one of the makeup ladies wandered over to make sure they didn’t break anything and the boy asked what he could use to fix his pimples. Without missing a beat, the girl just was like “Foundation would do the trick! Would you like to try some?” And he nodded sorta surprised.
Two minutes later, she shows up with a CC cream and gave him a sample size amount and a sponge. She gave him a brief tutorial on how to use it and told him to come find her if he needed anything. Those two boys sat in the mirror and put on that makeup for the next 10 minutes. Not once did they harass each other for wanting to wear makeup, what so ever
Then three little girls came, who clearly were their friends and asked them what they were doing. Pretty confidently, the two boys started talking about how they were trying to hide this one kids acne. The girls immediately were like, “Here, let me show you how to blend the edges” and “my mom taught me how to put on powder the other day.” They goofed off with lip glosses and had the make up artists help them clean up afterwards.
whenever a young kid joins our staff at work im just like huh. guess im a father now.
these kids will be like “can you drive me home? i don’t have gas money but-” and im already pullin out my keys and am like. sweetheart, you are a child. i am not charging a child gas money.
i literally almost lunged across the counter to throw hands with some old hag who yelled at and insulted one of our 16 y/o girls but instead i threw her sandwich at her and told her to never fucking come back
old dudes will flirt with our young girls too and i’ll be like ay man this is a truck stop, normal customer service rules dont apply here. i can and will call the cops on you.
im the only manager that actively tells them to steal food because these are teenagers and they are HUNGRY
Cinderella “plot holes” I am tired of hearing about
“Why didn’t her step family recognize her?” Because royal balls were basically the candle lit equivalent of clubbing in terms of both lighting and sheer numbers. Even if they were right next to her, they probably wouldn’t get a good look, especially since it would have started after sundown. Also, she was the help; they probably hadn’t looked at her in years.
“Looking for someone based on their shoe size is stupid!” See above.
“Was he going to have every size seven in the kingdom try the slipper on?” Prior to industrialization most garments were made by hand to fit the buyer’s measurements, including shoes. It’s why poor people only had one pair. It’s a lot smarter when you consider that they would’ve fit her like a glove.
“You can’t run down stairs in heels!” I know this is a misconception resulting from historical revisionism and disneyfication, but high heels were not originally women’s shoes. They were worn by men. Women wore slippers, which were basically ballet flats. So it’s debatable.
“Glass shoes don’t make any sense!” Okay first of all, it’s called the suspension of disbelief, and secondly, they’re gold in every other version but Perrault decided to change them to something else expensive.
“She just went to the ball to find a man!” I know this isn’t a plot hole but listen. As the daughter of a widower Cinderella would’ve been running the household finances and acting as hostess if he hadn’t remarried. By demoting Cinderella to a servant, her step-mother essentially guaranteed that she would never escape the house, because the only way for her to escape and maintain her status was to marry well, and no one was going to marry a servant. It was essentially the historical equivalent of your mom stealing your college acceptance letters out of the mailbox.
this was not an analysis i was prepared for, i’ll tell you that
Technically the original version has them being fur slippers. Which was uh, intentionally suggestive, if you get me.
7. “If the shoes fit her so perfectly how come she lost one?” The short answer is ‘it got stuck’, the long answer is, there had actually been several balls that she went to and she kept fleeing before the end of each one and not giving the Prince her name and the Prince really wanted to know who this mystery lady that he was enamoured with (and who seemed to return the affections) was so he finally coated the steps with pine tar, which is sticky stuff, to try and delay her a moment so he could get her name. And one shoe got stuck.
8. “Why did everything else turn back but not the shoe.” Ok so we don’t actually have an answer to that one but, my own theory that the shoe was made of magic while everything else-the dress, the carriage, the horses, the footmen/coachmen, was transformed from something else. The spell ended and the transformed things reverted back, but the slippers, made of magic, remained.
Asgard, finally settling in Norway to repopulate: So, what are the Nordic lands famous for since we were last here? Swordsmanship? Hunting parties? Bloodbaths?!?!
Millenial sipping iced coffee: Abba
Asgard: ???
Asgard, twenty minutes later bopping to Dancing Queen:
