Amanda the Great

I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.

i imagine it would be like that gif of the woman stumbling horrified through the city and keeps seeing things that remind her of gay people but with trans folks

Idk I’m just curious. Please reblog if you want

I am very disappointed in the people praising the censoring / editing of Roald Dahl’s books.   Let me tell you a little story.   About five years ago I decided to re-visit Treasure Island.  I found an unabridged version.   I was surprised to discover that Long John Silver had a black lover.   Because the book used the term “n–ress” the mention of her was removed from many American editions of the book when I grew up.

Note: I am not saying they removed the N word.  I am saying they removed her *all together.* I didn’t know Long John Silver had a love interest until I was in my thirties and read an unabridged version of the novel. It revealed so much about the story that I hadn’t noticed before. 1.  That Long John Silver believed in love despite what was considered a cultural norm of the time.  He didn’t care about what others considered proper and he was in love. 2.   It shows that even Robert Louis Stevenson acknowledged the existence of interracial couples and yet no movie version I can think of addressed this until the TV series Black Sails. 3. It helped remind me of the culture of the era in which Treasure Island takes place and when it was written, the stigma against interracial relationships that existed in America right into the twentieth century and in some places is still a thing. Sometimes books tell us more than just a story.   They show us how a world was once viewed.   I felt like this was an important discovery, that Long John Silver had a black lover (or wife).   And I was even a little angry that I had been robbed of this in previous readings of the book.   I think the removal of words like “Fat” and “ugly” from Roald Dahl’s books does us a disservice.   It “cleans up” the past and denies a chance for us to learn some of the less pleasant aspects of the past and how and why language has changed since then.    What should be a teaching point and experience is lost in the name of sensitivity.   I felt cheated and it even felt a little racist that Long John Silver’s love interest isn’t mentioned in many editions of Treasure Island.  And I feel that one day there may be similar feelings if people discover they aren’t reading the original versions of Dahl’s books. Try to remember the original reason Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit  451.  It wasn’t about an evil government taking away people’s blooks. It was about this group and that group getting offended at various titles until they just banned everything to try to make everyone happy.    

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Reminder that BetterHelp doesn't give a fuck about their patients and is actually a fucking terrible way to get therapy.

Please find other alternatives for BH because they're ATROCIOUS.

The old horror movies also had deep symbolism you were just to young to know it!

Alien? Full of metaphors about sexuality and rape

Nightmare on Elm street? Metaphors about generational trauma and violence

Halloween? The inevitability of death

Friday the 13th? Fear of sexuality

I COULD GO ON!

HORROR HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT EXPLORING THE DARK UNCONSCIOUSNESS OF HUMANITY AND PIGEON HOLING IT AS LESSER ART IS A MISTAKE

Horror also reflects the anxieties of its time! The nuclear era of the 1950s showed us lots of mutants, monsters, and science gone bad. The ‘80s saw the golden age of serial killers (carried over from the ‘70s), suburban excess, reactionary conservatism, and Satanic Panic; thus we get slashers carving up wild-partying teens, plus creepy neighbors and home invasions. Current horror often deals with themes of alienation, gentrification, apocalypse/societal collapse, and pressure to perform an Instagram-perfect social veneer—you know, #JustLateCapitalismThings.

And yes, horror is in fact the Most important genre, culturally, politically, artistically, and philosophically.

Horror as a genre is always and has always been deeply political, casting light on social issues and anxieties, even in cases where the director wasn’t necessarily doing it on purpose. It’s a goldmine of media analysis and cultural study.

Lost DS9 season 8 episode plot : Quark becomes a rainbow capitalist

And we wouldn’t wan’t to disrespect tradition, would we ?

The Answer is 42. And Yes, There Are Patterns! 👉 https://buff.ly/3gNDPda

Spiders in S2 only in the Opening Title

Actually, there's a brief spider animation in Episode 4, now I think of it. Close your eyes when Furfur uses the clicker.

Neil Gaiman when people try to prod him for spoilers: "wait and see"

Neil Gaiman when people ask for content warnings: *casually reveals the most information we've gotten yet about a specific moment in season 2*

(endearing)

So, a while back, with the help of you all, I started a few stories where a character went all over the country, visiting volunteers and going on adventures. Then covid happened. Then I became busier with life and working on con visits, but I have been thinking about how much fun I had with these projects.

I'd like to do a new one, but on a smaller scale. Postage costs have gone up, and inflation is not helping anything. I think I could make a nano figure to send around. They are small and light. You can squish them into a bubble envelope. And the figure need not accumulate any items like we did last time! Just pose him with things you are making or cool places you go and send him along to the next person after a couple of weeks.

What do you think? And who should I make? (It doesn't have to be a Marvel character, but it can be.) Reblog this and give me ideas. Eventually, I will choose some ideas I like and have a poll.

happy pride month to country mama lynn and country mama lynn only

Someone give this woman a damn crown and medal

Happy pride month to country mama lynn and ger gay son only

I saw the tweet and felt the sudden urge to do something with it for the first day of Pride. Inspiration comes from weird places, I guess.

Pay heed to Klaudia Amenábar's words! Don't let the executives weaponize fandoms. WGA Strong.

My guys it is starting to work, I've seen some people I know complaining about the writer's strike and turning against them because their favorite shows and/or movie got put on hold. Please do not be fooled like this, this is exactly what the corporations want. It can wait, I promise you will find other things to focus, but writers need this.

Reword every headline they put out. “Due to not wanting to give writers money, Marvel has shut down pre-production on…” You can end this strike any time you want to, pal.

"Marvel too cheap to pay writers, production shuts down"

"Disney too greedy to pay residuals, deletes shows/movies"

"Studios cut corners on safety, production values, writing, acting, etc. in order to make more money; won't share with anyone below CEO level"

This.

100% this.

If someone were to throw a slice of cheese at a Green Lantern, what would it do since their weakness is yellow?

I mean canonically Kyle never had to deal with the yellow weakness, and presumably every Lantern after him won't have major issues.

John wouldn't have much issue with being hit by cheese. Neither would Guy, he'd just be pissed that someone threw cheese at him and probably challenge them to a lifelong blood feud.

Hal ends up unconscious, I don't know how but that's what happens.

So I've been making some Clone helmets

Just assuming old people will be a small percentage. I will redo if I am wrong.

this has probably happened in the marvel canon hasn't it.

no one's first mugshot