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alex • 28 • liverpool(ish) • once referred to, with stunning accuracy, as a "sobbing manchild"
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girl-simulator
“An American worker who once upon a time made $8/hour, loses their job when the company relocates to Thailand where workers are paid only $2/day. Unemployed, and alienated from a society indifferent to their needs, they become involved in the drug economy or some other outlawed means of survival. They are arrested, put in prison, and put to work. Their new salary: .22 cents/hour. From worker, to unemployed, to criminal, to convict labor, the cycle has come full circle. And the only victor is big business.”

— The Prison-Industrial Complex & the Global Economy, Eve Goldberg and Linda Evans

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oddesttree
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bogleech

My Mediocre Pop Culture Predictions for the coming years:

  • McDonald’s will experiment with selling “all ages toys” like exclusive Funko pops directly off their menu, at least one of which will be Rick Sanchez.
  • A politician will actually gain more traction in their career by repeatedly making references to Harry Potter or some other large fandom.
  • Video game companies will realize how many people watch a longplay instead of actually playing a game and begin making their own licensed, monetized versions you can watch on netflix.
  • An anime or manga about a coronavirus gijinka will go controversially mainstream.
  • Marvel or DC will push a new superhero whose powers come from video games and whose secret identity is a youtube star.
  • A twitter devoted to a niche fetish will be connected to someone so high profile that mainstream news will have to explain vore or inflation to the entire world.
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zooophagous

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls

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slothgoth
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cozyafternoon

The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (2017)

this is my favorite movie you all Must Watch it don’t just reblog this please seek it out it’s so magic

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flickerman

henry cavill is the most cartoonishly conventionally attractive person ive ever seen. like its just funny

he looks like a chad edit of himself

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slippinkimmy
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sevenmoths

full offense but the increase in cop shows in recent years being concurrent with the more widespread condemnation of the police is not a fucking coincidence

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vague-humanoid

Remember when I said this and people where mad because I would kiss the ground B99 walked on?

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genquerdeer
  • Original detective stories of Sherlock Holmes: depict police as stiff and lacking imagination
  • Later developments from early 20th century (Agatha Christie and such): similarly, police is stupid and easily tricked by criminals, and smart amateurs have to save the day
  • around 1930s ‘hardboiled’ and noir fiction: police are every bit and corrupt and detestable as criminals, and sometimes ARE the gangsters. These are almost entirely realistic, as they’re often written from actual experiences of real private detectives
  • 1940s, vigilante detective fiction like Batman and the Shadow: where as always, police is portrayed as at worst corrupt and at best useless, and it’s up to brilliant people in masks to solve crimes
  • 1950s: SUDDENLY with Dragnet, police are all brilliant crimefighter heroes who solve all the crimes, and are Always Lawful Good, and criminals are Always Chaotic Evil
  • onwards: 80-90% of detective fiction is about cops, and usually follows the Dragnet formula (e.g. stuff like CSI)

Thesis: police procedural is a predatory creation that has co-opted the notoriously anti-cop genre of detective fiction, whose primary starting idea was that cops were little more than thugish brutes, unsuited to subtle scientific art of solving crimes, and turned it into shallow propaganda.

Thesis point 2: Scooby Doo are the only unproblematic modern detective stories.

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hey hi, just need to get some uni related moaning off my chest

someone in the second year of my course at uni has covid so all our tutors have to isolate meaning all our lessons have to go online for the next two weeks and... i’m okay with that to an extent because i can just sit around in joggers all day, not having to get dressed or go into town and spend money... but also fuck spending £9k a year for zoom calls! i can’t stand zoom calls or teams meetings because the connection is always terrible, everyone always speaks over each other or gets chopped u and delayed, and the whole thing is so fragmented, it puts my teeth on edge

also, in further uni whinging, i’m really feeling the negatives of still living at home and not going in halls. granted, if i was in halls rn, i’d be in a veritable petri dish and somehow end up catching COVID 9000, but at the same time, it’s a kick in the nuts to see my coursemates a) roll out of bed and into class, when i need to get up two hours before it starts to make it (this is just me being bitter) and b) being able to hang out with each other with ease. i already feel like the outsider being The Mature Student™, but idk, i just feel like i’m missing out on the whole socialisation side of uni. it’s a minor thing, but it was one of the things that swayed me to actually go back for a third time.

also, there’s this course called where we have to interact and work on a project with people on other courses and it’s just the fucking worst. trying to get a bunch of 18/19 year olds up at 9am on a wednesday morning is hard enough, but forcing them to do bullshit team-building exercises is impossible. doesn’t help that i’m stuck in a really laddish group. and the idea is we’ve got to meet up and form bonds during the week between sessions and like... how the fuck are we doing that when the city’s on semi-lockdown??? also, it doesn’t even count towards my course credits, and i don’t think my course has to do it after this year, so it feels incredibly stupid! let me have my wednesday lie-in!