GUN IT WHILE I’M HOLDING ON
Forever thinking about how tragic it is that they are making a live action httyd when we could have gotten prequels. Stoick and Valka falling in love. Valka learning how to survive after being taken by Cloudjumper. Little baby Hiccup being raised by Stoick and Gobber. A Spirit-esque Toothless movie about getting separated from the other Night Furies and ending up on Berk. The possibilities are literally endless and instead we are getting bad CGI.
Realizing this poster revealed the ending the entire time and none of us even noticed
Who is one of the most iconic antagonists in Journey to the West and is said to be Sun Wukong's "darker" self.
Who did Miles see at the end.
If they made a point to include some of the most iconic figures in tht story in this poster of course they wouldn't forget about MACAQUE IT JUST WENT WITHOUT SAYING
hate how all these apocalyptic films show society breaking down the hot minute the grid goes down, with all the survivors banding off into tiny violent gangs that prey on each other.
bitch you are a member of one of the most social species in existence! it is actually insane the extent to which humans have evolved to use cooperation as our main survival tool. humans have been building and then rebuilding societies for as long as disasters have been bringing them down. an apocalypse would be fucking awful, but the survivors would end up building communities and networks and pooling resources and knowledge, because that’s what humans do. that’s what they DO!!!
This reminds me of a really great video by Sarah Zedig where the second half is her going off on apocalyptic, grimdark shows such as The Walking Dead as a ‘libertarian power fantasy where their dogshit ideology is never wrong’ and I’ve never forgotten it.
At its core, the edgelord trope that society would “break down” into violence the instant the cops stop answering the phones is a myth built on cynical belief that humans are - at their core - violent, selfish, cruel animals that are only kept in line with the violent enforcement of “law and order.”
Hell, it’s a myth built atop another myth that the police - the legitimate purveyors of state violence - are even competent at all!
Considering their abysmal track record for actually solving crimes and observed reluctance to put themselves in harm’s way, there’s hardly a case to be made that they are actively keeping society from descending into chaos. And if you think that’s woke anti-police nonsense, bear in mind that once, when the cops in New York did a work “slowdown”, crime went down.
Because see, there’s a second half to the apocalyptic “breakdown of society” myth, the one that appeals to a certain group of people. It’s the part where, now that society has become the State of Nature, the truly strong, independent, well-armed men of action have carte blanche to “restore order” with brutal, justified violence.
Apocalyptic movies are a popular genre because it takes the standard Hollywood power fantasy and gives it an adrenaline shot of compatible politics: libertarian, every man for himself, Übermensch crap. As it depicts the end of the world, with all the pornographic spectacle of chaos and human cruelty, it tells its audience that you won’t succumb when the rest those dumb, weak masses perish. Whether it’s zombies, plague, climate disaster, or solar flares making our cellphones stop working, you specifically (yes you, Kyle!) will rise above it.
And when it does, the strong and rugged will survive and start over. Make things how they “used to be.” Presumably a nice, pure, uncomplicated world suspiciously absent of all those “weak” folks that had been muddying the waters and getting in the way, before. The ones that had prevented the naturally strong men from reaching their true potential in the Old World.
To the people that truly buy into this garbage power fantasy, the inevitable apocalyptic collapse isn’t something to be feared, but prepared for.
They’re looking forward to it.
…that last line struck a nerve like an icepick to the skull
it… doesn’t work like that. you can’t just make something no terf rhetoric by going “terfs suck and trans women are women” you can’t just say “i hate men they invade every single space men are inherently bad etc etc etc” and then go “but not trans women! they’re valid teehee” it’s still terf rhetoric. it feels like a lot of (younger especially) queer people do not understand the actual problem with trans exclusionary radical feminism outside of the fact that it excludes trans people.
i need people to understand that you can’t make terf rhetoric good by including trans women. it doesn’t work like that. radical feminism is anti intersectional, bioessentialist, and gender reductionist- often to the complete exclusion of other important factors like class and race- which is why a lot of radical feminists are white women. this whole “one gender is inherently oppressors and the other is the oppressed” does not become a good ideaology if you add the word “cis” to it- or pretend like trans men are in your oppressing class. you can’t modify that idea to be trans inclusionary. people have tried. it always circles back to hurting trans people. especially if you just parrot transphobic rhetoric word for word, like “men are invading lesbian spaces” and then add a little “but trans women are still women” disclaimer to the end of it.
I think everyone needs to start posting about how many people have been coming out in solidarity with trans people everywhere in the US especially in vulnerable states, because I’m really touched by what happened at the University of Iowa. These kids shut it down because it’s not just a youtube bigot on their campus it’s so much bigger than that! This is huge
People ARE coming out and packing courthouses and protesting on campuses and in the middle of your town and city in defense of trans people in great numbers. Very few people attended this loser’s speech and were publicly shamed for it. There are literally more of us than there are of them and I think we need to keep saying that
Platforming good things is crucial right now.
Bombarding people will every possible variation of horrible that's going on right now reaches a threshold where it's no longer useful and only fosters despair. It makes people think there's no point, no hope for anything.
But there is! The hateful minority IS that, hateful and a minority. And every time people come in and show support, it's important to put it out. It's important to let ourselves be validated. We're not alone, we're not ignored, we're not facing this fight isolated and without hope.
Be informed, absolutely, but make sure you're not poisoning yourself, letting those who hate you paint a world where you're alone and no one cares. Solidarity matters, and it's out there, if you look for it. Platform it.
Remember: they're lashing out because they are losing.
Public opinion is against them, which is why they're using gerrymandered legislatures and select courtrooms to establish the rules they want.
And they're doing a lot of harm, and they're going to do more.
But they are going to lose. Because that kind of hate can be established by dictators, but they can't maintain it. The protests and solidarity activism and trans-positive messaging matter to show the rest of the public - the ones who really don't care one way or the other - that they're not alone in thinking "oh, people should just be able to do whatever, as long as they're not hurting anyone."
Anonymous asked:
just so you know, you have some followers who enjoy/write fanfiction. not saying their urls rn bc i don’t wanna air out dirty laundry in public but if you want them so you can block and report, just say the word and i’ll dm you a list
BRO?
Reblog if you're self indulgent and perverted lmao
fellas is it perverted to think happy thoughts
“your rent should be a third of your income” well wouldn’t that be nice. wouldn’t it. lower the rent pussy
Casual observation from someone old enough to remember: in the year 2000 financial advice was that rent should be no more than 1/4 of your income.
Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.
After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.
The housing market is a fucking travesty.
Hmm what happened in the mid eighties....
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Psst. Don't tell the jolkein rolkein rolkein estate, but this is amazing. DO consider buying a print from the extraordinary artist responsible:
Original Twitter thread with the artist's thoughts and commentary:
posting this on twitter will get you put into witness protection
The magic of childhood is that you were constantly encountering new things. The best way to feel that way again is to fill your life with new experiences.
People with most mainstream tastes imaginable should not open their mouth on how anti piracy they are btw. Yea no shit you can depend on legal sources to watch Marvel and listen to tswift and Maroon 5. Thank you so much for signing the petition to close that platform that was the only one i could download this 2008 romanian dungeon synth ep from
Cheryl Dunye’s directorial debut, The Watermelon Woman, was out of print between 2000 and 2018. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was only available to watch on a pirate channel on YouTube until last year. There is still no way to watch the X-Files spinoff, The Lone Gunmen except to own a dvd box set that has been out of print since 2005. Or to pirate it. It’s on YouTube.
Piracy is incredibly important to keep media that’s weird, or out there or just embarrassing to someone in power, alive. We need piracy and we need to stop being snitches when someone pirates stuff.
Only time I've ever wanted an iPhone is wishing I could airdrop this to beemer drivers at stop signs
The big discourse on twitter right now is that writers going on strike or cancelling their own series are breaking an invisible “contract” they made with their fans and all creators owe their fans a satisfying conclusion to their stories. Actually all fans owe all creators for entertaining them and if a creator says “I don’t want to perform this labor anymore,” then regardless of the cliffhanger that leaves you with, your only response should be “take care! Thank you for all your hard work!!!” :)
Like it or not… this.
Already you will be covered in skin and sinews and you will live. Nothing is too late.
A personal piece in between commissions! If you'd like prints, here u go :)