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This is not a spoilerfree blog. They/Them. Non-Binary. Queer. Autistic. Catparent. D&D. Nerdfighter. Too many fandoms
You know what, fuck you. *Romanticizes the monstrous in a way that is deeply compelling to people who feel they’ve been ostracized from mainstream society in one way or another, and also at least a little bit horny*
Strike is on. Actors will be joining the writers on the picket lines. This is the first strike in 60 years for SAG, and essentially shuts down the entire US film and television industry.
Just to be clear. The message here is not, “All men are scum.” It’s not even, “Most men are scum.” This is not what it’s about, and fuck every TERFy shitwaffle who tries to co-opt this. We don’t need that kind of rhetoric spreading the belief that “men are naturally evil” and that “men can’t help being that way.” That’s just complete bullshit.
The message is, “A few men are murdering, raping bastards, but they are very good at pretending to be perfectly good, normal men, and we have no way of telling who they are so we have to be super cautious because society and law-enforcement can’t be counted on to have our backs.”
and this is why so many women (and other marginalized groups) have to be paranoid af. Because the people who are really nasty are usually very good at hiding it.
david tennant showing up to the good omens 2 press day with his little non-binary rainbow pin and a t shirt that says ‘leave trans kids alone you absolute freaks’ on it
no one, and i mean absolutely no one, is doing it like him im afraid
If Miss Fisher’s was told from Jack’s perspective instead of Phryne’s, she would be the most hilarious deus ex machina creature in existence.
Need a piece of evidence? Phryne has it in her pocket!
Need to know about a suspect’s finances? Phryne pops by the station with the information!
Need to arrest a guy and don’t know where he is? Dot called, and Phryne has disarmed him, is sitting on his head, and waiting for the police to come get him.
As the audience, we see how Phryne gets these things done, but Jack can basically just sit at his desk with the file open and wait for Phryne to randomly hand him all the relevant evidence/information in a convenient narrative order.
This is so true. Point of order though, the evidence would be in her bra.
Roomba kept crying because she couldn’t find her spring toy and uh. Well, she had a good reason for it.
spring
She’s blind, she makes a lot of different sounds, and her poor social skills mean she tries to groom any other cat she bumps into. She doesn’t bump into furniture or walls anymore but she used to. Whenever she bumped into something, she’d just turn around and keep going.
I am not the kind of person who wants to squeeze the world in my fist just to make a few dollars drip out.
But let’s say I was.
I would not make a social media site so calculated towards my own financial interests that it was unusable to the people I wanted to lure into using it. You can’t even just look at the people you follow on Threads. It doesn’t let you see posts chronologically. It’s a ton of shit you don’t want to see, in the order you don’t want to see it. It’s everything I currently hate about Twitter after it devolved from what it used to be.
If I hate using it, if I just go delete your privacy violation nightmare now, how does that make anyone a profit? Would you not rather make even a somewhat appealing service to keep people using it? Or, from another angle, would you not dial down the privacy nightmare enough for it to be legal in the EU, a rather significantuser base?
If you can’t do something because it’s the right thing to do, can you at least see how it might be the savvier thing to do?
And if you realize you made a mistake and try to delete the app, you’ll take out your Instagram account with it. Hostage situation!
While I agree on it being a terrible model from a generic user perspective, I can understand the twisted logic behind it. Zucky doesn’t care about those of us with enough self-preservation to back away, he only cares about the ones who don’t care; the more apathetic they are, the better. He’s built his empire on data harvesting and privacy violations so he knows that even if he misses out on some markets, the ones he does net will still make him bombad profit. Americans in particular have, I think, reached a point where they just expect these kind of violations, so it doesn’t faze them.
There are also a growing number of people in the younger generations who rely on the algorithm to sort things for them. For them, having an algorithmically-generated “just for you” feed is exactly what they want. It makes my skin crawl, but I’ve seen enough examples in the wild to know that at least some people out there prefer the Algorithm so they don’t have to do any of the work themselves.
Add to that Facebook/Meta’s long history of hosting (and ignoring) malicious content and I can see Threads becoming very popular with hate groups and other domestic terrorist-type orgs. There’s profit to be found in those markets as long as you don’t mind a complete absence of moral integrity. Zuck only cares about money, not people, so he’ll be perfectly happy.
I want to make sure I’m understanding you here. You’re not saying, if I delete my Threads account, I delete my Instagram account. You’re saying, if I simply remove the Threads app from my phone, I delete my Instagram account? Because if that is the case, I think we need to highlight this for people.
You can’t delete your Threads account without deleting your Instagram account.
You can remove the Threads app from your phone without affecting your Instagram account. But removing the app from your phone won’t delete your Threads account, of course.
Well thank the gods of your choice because oh boy do I not enjoy this thing.
So my girlfriend’s girlfriend, (an Australian) and I (Murican) were talking about showers, and a bit of culture shock ensued, so now I’m making this poll. If you vote, please reblog with your answer and where you’re from in the tags, I’m really curious if this is a culture thing, or if there’s something else going on.
“There are old poops who will say that you do not become a grown-up until you have somehow survived, as they have, some famous calamity – the Great Depression, the Second World War, Vietnam, whatever. Storytellers are responsible for this destructive, not to say suicidal, myth. Again and again in stories, after some terrible mess, the character is able to say at last, ‘Today I am a woman. Today I am a man. The end.’
When I got home from the Second World War, my Uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he said, 'You’re a man now.’ So I killed him. Not really, but I certainly felt like doing it.
Dan, that was my bad uncle, who said a male can’t be a man unless he’d gone to war.
But I had a good uncle, my late Uncle Alex. He was my father’s kid brother, a childless graduate of Harvard who was an honest life-insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was well-read and wise. And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, almost buzzing like honeybees, Uncle Alex would suddenly interrupt the agreeable blather to exclaim, 'If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’
So I do the same now, and so do my kids and grandkids. And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’”
Hi, OP, great blog and I mean this sincerely. Now. Genuinely. What the fuck oh my god you can’t just do this to people without warning oh my god i am literally sobbing this is round one? round one you bracketed these two absolute gut punches against each other and put them there for everyone and the devil to see? Round ONE?
Gaston really is the most terrifying Disney villain because he could be anyone in the world.
Later he convinces the whole town to set up his wedding with the knowledge that the would-be bride would be thrown into it. Everyone finds his creepy-ass tactics as cute and “boys will be boys” esque. So yeah, he is terrifying.
Yeah, the truly scary thing about Beauty and the Beast isn’t that Gaston exists, but that society fucking loves him. People who deride the movie by saying it’s about Stockholm Syndrome are ignoring that it’s actually about the various ways that truly decent people get othered by society. People don’t trust the Beast because of the way he looks, which only feeds his anger issues and pushes him further away. Gaston isn’t the only one who criticizes Belle for being bookish, either; the whole town says there must be something wrong with her. And her father gets carted off to a mental asylum for being just a little eccentric.
Howard Ashman, who collaborated on the film’s score and had a huge influence on the movie’s story and themes, was a gay man who died of AIDS shortly after work on the film was completed. If you watch the film with that in mind, the message of it becomes clear. Gaston demonstrates that bullies are rewarded and beloved by society as long as they possess a certain set of characteristics, while nice people who don’t are ostracized. The love story between Belle and the Beast is about them finding solace in each other after society rejects them both.
Notice how the Beast reacts when the whole town comes for him. He’s not angry, he’s sad. He’s tired. And he almost gives up because he has nothing to live for. But then he sees that Belle has come back for him, and suddenly he does. In the original fairy tale, the Beast asks Belle to marry him every night, and the spell is broken when she accepts. In the Disney movie, he waits for her to love him, because he cannot love himself. That’s how badly being ostracized from society and told that you’re a monster all your life can fuck with your head and make you stop seeing yourself as human.
Society rewards the bullies because we’ve been brought up to believe that their victims don’t belong. That if someone doesn’t fit in, then they have to be put in their place, or destroyed. And this movie demonstrates that this line of thinking is wrong. It’s so much deeper than a standard “be yourself” message, and that’s why it’s one of my favorite Disney movies.
Reblogging for commentary.
Most of us will not experience a Cinderella style abusive upbringing. We will not be a pawn for a scheming villain like Jafar, Ursula or Scar. But we will all meet a Gaston. Every one of us will, at some point, meet a person whose nasty, bullying behaviour is excused by the people around them, because they’re rich, or handsome, or good at sports, or their parents are important. And that is why Gaston is a terrifying Disney villain. Because there’s at least one version of him in everyone’s life.
Even scarier is the fact that any of us can become Gaston under the right circumstances. Dont assume you are beyond this or you’ll fall right into it.
Gaston is a good antagonist in the same way that Umbridge from HP is a good antagonist. Everyone meets people like them.
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