things that would never happen but would be extremely funny if they did: #1
What radicalized you? For me it was probably A) watching millions die for the economy in 2020 and B) calculating what percentage of my labor value I was being paid by the hellish dementia ward I worked at (it was less than 2%).
To explain a little- it was downright horrifying to graduate college in 2020 and watch the entire world collapse with ridiculous half-measures that managed to sustain covid while causing massive underemployment. The fact that the majority response eventually became “oh well people will simply die to keep commerce flowing” was chilling and I can only imagine how we’ll handle worse climate catastrophes.
And secondly, I worked for a dementia care ward with deeply psychotically detached residents. Management regularly mistreated them, ignored their (and their families’) wishes, and berated both the residents and the staff over the slightest infraction. The nonwhite staff there did most of the grunt work, were all CNAs, and regularly had feces thrown at them, yet they got paid the least out of all of us- bare minimum wage. This place grossed ~$900,000 per MONTH with only ~15 staff, yet none of us got paid enough to survive. Almost everyone there had two jobs.
For a (sadly ex) friend of mine, they were radicalized by working at an addiction recovery centre which got constant targeted ads on both its wifi and streaming services pushing both hard liquor and painkillers. Pure. Evil.
So what radicalized you yall? Feel free to share if you want
it’s so bizarre when animated American films are set in a certain location and then only certain characters have the accents of that place. It makes no damn sense!! like
WHY IS SHE MORE FRENCH THAN THE REST OF THEM???
WHY ARE THESE GUYS MORE SCOTTISH THAN THE KIDS??
(also, aren’t they Vikings or something?)
To be fair, almost everyone in Ratatouille does have a French accent. The real question is why Linguini and also all the rats sound intensely American
If it was just the rats I’d say it’s because the movie can be interpreted to mean that the rats understand but don’t necessarily speak human languages so the rat dialog isn’t literally taking place the way we see it but that doesn’t explain why Linguini has a rat accent
dogboy-gappy
LINGUINI HAS A RAT ACCENT
jakemothpigeonchaos
Do we ever hear like
For sure that Linguini grew up in France tho?
It could be possible he’s just an American immigrant
that-dumb-space-kid
I mean his name is Alfredo Linguini so I always assumed he was Italian
jakemothpigeonchaos
I’m sorry his first name is Alfredo?
jakemothpigeonchaos
What
ALFREDO???
he’s American you guys his mother was American it was mentioned in the beginning
I’m sorry, I’ve moved on to the fact his mother was going through her cupboard for baby names
Alfredo was a name before it was a sauce let’s go over the movie from the top again
This is Alfredo di Lelio (right) the inventor of fettuccine Alfredo, he’d come out to the table and make it in front of you by hand
The chap on the left is an airport
I just realised I got my left and right mixed up, that’s happening more and more recently?
The chap on the right looks like John F Kennedy?
hexthelex
This post is a ripe mess and Gordon Ramsay is due to inspect in ten minutes…
it’s so bizarre when animated American films are set in a certain location and then only certain characters have the accents of that place. It makes no damn sense!! like
WHY IS SHE MORE FRENCH THAN THE REST OF THEM???
WHY ARE THESE GUYS MORE SCOTTISH THAN THE KIDS??
(also, aren’t they Vikings or something?)
To be fair, almost everyone in Ratatouille does have a French accent. The real question is why Linguini and also all the rats sound intensely American
If it was just the rats I’d say it’s because the movie can be interpreted to mean that the rats understand but don’t necessarily speak human languages so the rat dialog isn’t literally taking place the way we see it but that doesn’t explain why Linguini has a rat accent
dogboy-gappy
LINGUINI HAS A RAT ACCENT
jakemothpigeonchaos
Do we ever hear like
For sure that Linguini grew up in France tho?
It could be possible he’s just an American immigrant
that-dumb-space-kid
I mean his name is Alfredo Linguini so I always assumed he was Italian
jakemothpigeonchaos
I’m sorry his first name is Alfredo?
jakemothpigeonchaos
What
ALFREDO???
he’s American you guys his mother was American it was mentioned in the beginning
I’m sorry, I’ve moved on to the fact his mother was going through her cupboard for baby names
Alfredo was a name before it was a sauce let’s go over the movie from the top again
This is Alfredo di Lelio (right) the inventor of fettuccine Alfredo, he’d come out to the table and make it in front of you by hand
The chap on the left is an airport
I just realised I got my left and right mixed up, that’s happening more and more recently?
The chap on the right looks like John F Kennedy?
hexthelex
This post is a ripe mess and Gordon Ramsay is due to inspect in ten minutes…
Mermaid! AU: Mermaid hunter Trevor Belmont has succesfully stranded the sought after merman >:)
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hi yes i'm still in denial of yuki's death this is BULLSHIT GEGE WHAT THE FUCK MAN.
Thinking a lot about how "true manhood" is used as a carrot under patriarchy - where socially ascribed masculinity is given by and large to those who enforce patriarchy - overwhelmingly privileged men.
Thinking a lot about how the threat of taking away socially ascribed masculinity - in short, the threat of someone being perceived as less masculine - is used to keep men in line under patriarchy.
Anyway marginalized men who know and insist they are men regardless of the threat of socially ascribed manhood being reduced or taken away entirely are incredibly powerful.
Refusing to believe that manhood is socially ascribed based on commitment to patriarchy and instead believing manhood stems from one's own identity is a radical belief that threatens patriarchy because it effectively nullifies one of the main enforcement tactics of patriarchy.
Trans men existing are a threat to patriarchy simply by knowing we are men in a world that insists our masculinity is only to be given as a reward for enacting patriarchy.
I know it's a long-shot but I think there should be one final book series for Percy Jackson after Nico and Will. A trilogy.
From the beginning, after every Riordan series, the tone gradually shifts to something more mature. Or at the very least, slightly angrier and cynical. As Percy grows up, the world around him just grows more oppressive. The mistakes of the gods, piling up and chipping away at Percy's already broken mental fortitude—I genuinely believe that if Rick Riordan decided to push Percy just that bit further, we could get a fitting end not just for the Riordan series as a whole, but a proper end for Greco-Roman Mythology itself within the plot.
It's become obvious that Percy has grown to be just like Luke Castellan, with the only difference being Percy's support group in Annabeth, Sally, Estelle, Grover, Rachel and the remaining Seven. But Percy is every bit as angry and skeptical of the Olympians as Luke was at that age, but now that rage resides in a young man who's made several Olympians, both major and minor, shit themselves. And I'm not trying to make an edgy Percy.
But a progression that just seems natural. We see a boy, barely a teenager, who already possesses an anger that is hard to process. A boy ready to kill his abusive step-father for his mom. A boy, who at the age of twelve, struck fear in the War God himself. And those anger issues have not gotten better—Percy's just become more and more tired. It's no secret that Percy Jackson, while not outright looking for it, would not mind dying one bit. He's lost so many people. Believes he's failed many more.
We can pinpoint the exact source of Percy's problems, and the problems of the rest of the Demigods, both Greek and Roman.
I want the end of this series as a proper Break the Cycle story. Where Percy and the others just snap—dead demigods, dead families, scorched homes. Enough is enough. That maybe Luke was right—the problem was that he was throwing one authority away to put in place a worse alternative of authority.
This theme also fits in our current decade. Gen Z's have grown up with more distrust in authority than most before them. Where the institutions 'created to protect' them has failed in every conceivable manner. And this isn't just an American Gen Z thing.
All around the world, thanks in-part to social media, more teenagers and young adults have grown furious and exhausted of the economy and governance. Refusing to work. Leaving behind tradition. Abandoning their so called duties to their countries. More children comfortable opening up about their sexuality and orientation, and their friends and families (the lucky ones at least) willing to commit violence to protect their identities.
Percy could do what that coward Rowling could never do with Harry. Like Katniss, who actually fights for a change in the status quo.
With the trend of a lot of games and media nowadays, it'd make perfect sense.
Percy Jackson should kill the Olympian Gods. But without taking their place—let their thrones decay and their power diminish. For every friend Percy's ever lost.
Jason. Zoe. Bianca. Charles. Silena. Bob.
He has it in him. The cruelty he buries deep inside was exposed in Tartarus and in a final series, it could come to a head. He's manipulative. Vengeful. Monstrous. Willing to burn the world for his friends and family.
Why does that have to be the mortal world? Why not let Olympus burn in the name of those Percy loves?
like 80% of evangelicalism is banking hard on the idea that there is spiritually some completely unambiguous and distinct difference between men and women, that this somehow reflects the nature of God, and that men and women adhering to Proper Gender Roles preserves some crucial reflection of divinity
no one has been able to break down what this difference is or why gender existing somehow reflects God (the christian God, who famously is two things that do not overlap, instead of the single deity of a monotheistic religion). Otherwise intelligent and thoughtful theologians will black out and say shit like "you know how boys naturally like trucks and girls naturally like dolls? yeah. that means uhh. God"
and if you're like "well I'm a girl and I never really liked dolls but my brother did" no one can read suddenly
Strangely I bet if you were like "ohhhh so the Trinity is a little bit like gender, where there is one single nature like the whole human species, but there are multiple distinct natures within it, but each of those individual natures fully contains the one original, and they can also be both at once, neither at once, or an intermediate, just like you can be a guy who's a girl who is some kind of man in a feminine way." people would get mad.
One day I received a comment from a person who said they thought Choso and Yuki from my fanarts were Iruka and Tsunade from Naruto, and since then I’ve wanted to draw this crossover. Actually this is crazy how similar they look!
March 25, 2023 - TERF piece of shit Posie Parker had to cut her transphobic event in Auckland, New Zealand, short after a huge crowd of locals decided to run her fascist ass out of town, and she was covered in tomato sauce.
Here's the thing:
Cis people really do feel like the gender they were assigned at birth.
Cis women really do feel like women, and cis men really do feel like men. They experience what we would call gender euphoria related to dressing and expressing themselves as their gender, whether that's in a femme way or a butch way or any other way. They feel joy and connection with their gender, with their sexuality and how it relates to their gender. They wear clothes, participate in activities, and express themselves in ways that affirm their gender identity.
Gender critical radfems and terfs will try to convince you that "no woman feels like a woman". They do this for several reasons. Firstly, it's to try to convince trans men they aren't trans, they're just women with no connection to womanhood because "no woman feels a connection to womanhood". They also do it to try to discredit trans women, by saying "If you feel like a woman, then you're clearly not a woman, because "woman" isn't a feeling, it's biology".
A lot of gender critical terfs and radfems claim they are "dysphoric women", and will try to convince you this is a normal state of womanhood. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say no, that doesn't sound normal at all, actually. Most women do not secretly wish they could be men, or more androgynous, or have a penis. Most women don't define their lives through suffering - they love being women.
If womanhood - or manhood - is making you miserable... you might be trans, or you might be gender nonconforming. See if dressing a different way makes you feel a spark of joy and happiness - seek euphoria!
Gender should be joyous, not drudgery.