D'Arcy is 5'10". Just a bit of sexy trivia to hold on to.
This probably made him so happy. Cats like “parallel play” and to just be included, for you to come join him is great
DOCTOR WHO • S05E10 ❝Vincent and the Doctor❞
it’s settled
can’t say i’m not enjoying the leo slander on my tl rn
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From JK Rowling's new book: Her Villian's tumblr header
A girl living with disabilities who criticizes Rowling's self insert character of abelism is the bad guy
It’s not that the ableism is a SURPRISE, but it’s a little surprising to see it quite that explicitly spelled-out.
Also, considering her mom died of MS, her contempt for disabled people uh . . . really is something.
when wiggly takes over your heart 💚
just in time for the release of #ChibiWiggly, here's a self-portrait of my sniggle-self with our favourite cuddly tentacle-mouthed all-powerful fwendy-wend!
special thanks to my monthly ko-fi supporters, the minamahal: ate emily, ate rachel, ate jemai, ka jay, kuya karlo, and jo! 💕☕️ i posted an early version of this on ko-fi first!
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We’re goners. Those of you who can swim would be wise to do it now.
Happy September 2nd 1st
i love ponyo. it’s just like “yeah here’s this bizarro wizard who used to be human but is now amphibious and trying to bring about the apocalypse via elixirs and such who’s married to a gigantic powerful sea goddess who seems charmed by humanity but also doesnt care enough about them to stop her husband from trying to annihilate them. anyway, ignore all that: one of their goldfish children has a crush on a human boy!” and they were right
I absolutely love the scene where Nathan tells the kid that “Jesus is the king” while “all the things Jews believe in, that’s all fake” and “you are going to heaven, not like me, a Jew, who is going to hell, right?” because he looks so earnest and sounds so sweet
Like, if you had never seen Nathan Fielder before then you’d think “huh, how weird he‘s being so sweet”, but if you have followed him you look at that and go “Oh my god, he’s showing emotions. He’s furious”
Gonna write briefly about “The Rehearsal” on my succ blog bc why not. But I think it truly is brilliant, in hindsight of the finale, that the show turned out to actually be an effective criticism of itself, of reality tv as a genre (even and maybe especially the shows that are framed as being helpful for their participants), the use of child actors, and even, to a certain extent, Nathan Fielder’s own brand of comedy. All of that is 100% intentional - they could’ve shown anything they wanted and deliberately showed things that would make us deeply uncomfortable for ethical reasons, and deliberately highlighted the ways in which participants may have felt pressured into participating and how the presence of cameras impacts behaviour.
I’ve already seen the claim that the finale’s big twist is that it’s a “scripted narrative” and I don’t think that’s true at all. It’s pretty clear that Nathan and the team had an idea of where they wanted the show to go, but all the people they featured were real people. They didn’t script so much as… well, manipulate what happened by introducing certain elements, as all reality shows do. While they might have had a general sense of where they wanted the show’s “arc” to go, they were reliant on the participants behaving in certain ways or raising certain issues to dictate just how they went about achieving that arc. The brilliance here is making it fairly obvious to the audience what they’re doing, whereas most reality shows will try to hide it.
(And this premise is built into the pitch! We all expected to get a show about Nathan running these little rehearsals, and that idea is built on the premise that human behaviour is predictable and manipulable, if you control enough variables. And then we watched this exact premise play out entirely differently - and in a way that was much darker - from how we expected.)
There are so many more things to unpack about the show, obviously, but personally I just keep coming back to the fact that they made a reality tv show to say “hey, maybe even ‘helpful’ reality tv is somewhat unethical because these people are being helped for our own voyeuristic benefit, and those motivations will determine how producers approach the participants and the arcs they deliberately try to set up, even if we don’t see that on our screens.” It’s a bold move but I think they pulled it off well
the new counterculture needs to be anything that involves zero makeup and curation. the revolution will not be ‘content creator’-able.
im 100% serious. aliexpress fishnets and tiktok tutorial eyeliner is not punk. wearing a tshirt from 5 years ago with a simple, functional hairstyle is punk. in the age of aestheticisation rebellion cannot have an appearance because every ‘look’ is infected by capitalism. wear what you have. women, ask yourselves ‘would a man do this to their appearance in the same circumstances’ and if not, don’t do it. concealer exists to cause you mental anguish. ‘-core’ exists to cause your wallets to empty. refuse culture of perfection and accept the messiness and asymmetry of a human body. if your first thought is “but i will look ugly” ask yourself why you think an unmodified human body is ugly. secondly ask yourself why you are so afraid of that. reject the veneer, reject the facade. become un-commodifiable. the revolution will not be marketed
only somewhat related but anyone who thinks that "both parties in the US are the same" has a very excessively favorable view of republicans
"Both parties make concessions to the fossil fuel industry and big business instead of taking immediate radical action on climate change!"
okay yes but it feels relevant that one party also is dominated by fundie extremists who think that the apocalypse is a good thing that we should want to happen
