#Lambasts

[primepaginequotidiani]

PRIMA PAGINA The Times di Oggi martedì, 04 marzo 2025

[casscainmainly]

DUKE THOMAS IS NOT AFRAID TO 'TALK BACK' TO BRUCE. DUKE THOMAS DOES NOT BITE HIS TONGUE. IF YOUR DUKE THOMAS IS TOO AFRAID TO TALK BACK TO ANYONE THAT IS NOT DUKE THOMAS.

[ellifromspace]

these are the murderbot artworks Tommy Arnold did for the Subterranean Press omnibus editions of the series, and a photo of Kevin R. Free, who narrates the murderbot audiobooks. when fans complain about the casting for the tv show, there is a very real basis for it in these past official/canonical aspects of the book series

[ckret2]

if ford were attracted to human women, ms. frizzle would be his ideal partner

however i don't think either one of them is straight enough to make that happen

[sevenspoonfulsofsugar]

FULL CIRCLE BABYYYYY

[deathbydibs]

No, but if you think about it, the Wayne boys are all somehow in the art industry.

We know Damian is a studio artist with his paintings and drawings, but we don't talk enough about how Tim is a photographer for the fun of it. Little perfectionist Timmy learning how to shoot well because if he's going to take stalker pictures, then they will be good stalker photos.

Dick is an expert aerial artist, because duh. And Jason 100% writes short stories and poems of all genres. He probably doesn't publish and if he does, it's under 1,000 different pen names, but he definitely has Agatha Christie, Little Women, LOTR, and Dracula-style stories hidden away.

[junglejim4322]

I was homeschooled so essentially everyone was autistic or learning disabled etc in some way especially the second place I lived because there weren’t many religious homeschoolers there so it really was basically everyone and I will tell you 100% there was a very distinct hierarchy with kids who could fit in better or act in more socially acceptable ways (most of whom could not fit into a non homeschool environment at all) would treat anyone with less hide-able symptoms like absolute shit completely based on the severity of it some of them were actual pariahs just by virtue of being clearly autistic. And you know what I see the exact same thing from “neurodivergent” communities and people seem completely unaware of it but the dominant voice is almost 100% people who mask well and fit into society basically fine besides being perceived as a little weird who will punish anyone the second they say or do something a little offputting or that they don’t like or that doesn’t conform to their idea of what you SHOULD be doing for or as an autistic person. One of my favorite things ever as on display here is the number of times I’ve been called ableist for writing in walls of text without paragraph breaks or lack of punctuation and tone even though it’s like a comically autistic trait and I’ve made it about as palatable as it’ll ever get. Sorry I didn’t add a tone indicator lemme do that real quick /HJ (handjob)

[kylejsugarman]

walt reacting with disgust when jesse suggests they hang out together outside of the lab via the go-karting invitation vs walt desperately offering ed a giant hunk of cash just to stay with him for an hour longer when the latter comes to deliver his chemo.......ohh. the turns. and the tables..

[slutforpringles]

via: Autosport | RB: Whole team at fault over failing to get Ricciardo to click

[ohnonotthehorrors]

“Billy Hargrove was ‘complex”

-being a racist asshole that abuses his little sister and Happens to have daddy issues does not make you complex it makes you a racist asshole.

You know what does make you complex? Having depth beyond ‘oooooh hot bad boy upset by father lashes out.’

You know who else got abused by their father? Jonathan Byers. WILL Byers. Max Fucking Hargrove.

You know what none of the characters did? Became a racist asshole.

I don’t care how dark your backstory is, if it’s not Interesting and worth my time it’s not complex.

[midgardianqueenreturns]

I’m neutral on the “Is Sanji going to get/should he get Conqueror’s Haki” debate because I don’t care for powerscaling, but I have to say there’s this one argument I keep coming across that gets on my nerves because it’s demonstrably proven false in canon but keeps getting repeated like Gospel.

What I’m talking about is, “Sanji just wants to cook and find the All Blue that’s not ambitious enough” DID WE FORGET WHITEBEARD? Whitebeard, the man whose biggest ambition was a family, something he got laughed at for, and yet STILL HAD SUPREME KING HAKI? In general, if you’re going to argue for or against any character getting it, “their goals aren’t ambitious/conquering enough” isn’t a good argument, because Whitebeard shuts that down.

[chimaeray]

Mouthwashing thoughts assembled from my Discord messages with a friend while we both go apeshit about it

Spoilers this is your only warning because I will be getting RIGHT into it. Things are not organized super well it's all braindump baby. CW for game topics including sexual assault, torture, and general misery.

Jimmy's so certain everyone is or should be like him that he can't imagine anyone actually caring about other people. From Anya asking for any help and care whatsoever being a nuisance to him, to Swansea keeping watch at the utility room just trying to keep Daisuke safe and put him in that cryopod once everyone else was too far gone. This is unfathomable to Jimmy, who's first instinct upon learning they were all getting terminated was to belittle and shame everyone as a way to guilt Curly further. Of course including Curly himself, who was struggling (kind of having a midlife crisis) and putting on airs to keep everyone else calm and okay for this one last job. Jimmy is so sure of himself being able to fix things like Curly does, and figuring out how they can "both be heroes in this," that he makes a dying man eat his own flesh and then freezes him under the idea that this is GOOD and RIGHT. He doesn't care about the misery and pain Curly is in at this point. At first he seemed happy Curly was helpless and incapable. He seems to take satisfaction in volunteering to force-feed those painkillers, after he ridicules Anya first. He's so sure Curly should be grateful and thank him for all of this. He can't take responsibility even when he kills himself, all he does is reassure himself he did the best he could at every moment and fixed it all in the end. Curly will be miserable for the rest of the life he may or may not have. Jimmy got his, alright. Curly was feeling unsatisfied with his life, so isn't this better now? Curly says he doesn't want his life to feel like something he has to escape, but now his own mutilated body is the prison. While he watches and hears everyone else die, and he can't even try to fix it anymore. He missed his chance to do anything about Jimmy before it was too late. And when Jimmy says he can still fix this, make sure they survive and will be okay, Curly wheezes and laughs at him.

My take on Curly is that he did his best by and large, but he valued his relationship with Jimmy and trying to salvage it more than he should have especially when Anya told him she was raped. He is still a man in a place of power that didn't want to rock the boat too much, and that ended up enabling someone that would rather implode the whole fucking thing. After everything Anya still chose to die with him. She loved him(in the very least platonic but I know romantic was teased), still felt safest with him, and wanted to keep them both safe from Jimmy. So she locked them into a room together to die, quietly, away from him. Even if that made Curly witness as she overdosed and died. She had the gun hidden away with them, out of Jimmy's reach. Until Jimmy manipulates Daisuke into crawling up that vent, sentencing a young and hopeful man to a miserably painful death. Jimmy doesn't even respect Anya's authority and capability as the nurse (at all) enough to have listened when she said the mouthwash would be too sugary to use as an antiseptic. He still pours it onto Daisuke's wounds, because his short-sighted selfishness used up the entirety of the last bottle of antiseptic they had to poison Swansea.

(Daisuke is literally in an osha training video that's like "If you know it's dangerous don't do it! Even if a supervisor says so!")

By the end Jimmy only feels guilty for some of it. He knows he sentenced them all to a miserable death but he only feels guilty for Daisuke, and then Curly to a point. He doesn't really regret Swansea that much, it seems mostly like he's bothered he got caught (Swansea even tries leveling with him, to some extent--somewhere between a confessional and a final reach to see if he can be reached at all). He only worries about what having to deal with a baby might mean for him, but he doesn't give a shit about Anya at all. She's a non-issue in his mind, just some pathetic and poor girl that couldn't even get through schooling. He's only worried about the fact that a baby means he'd have to be responsible for it, and whatever discipline may come from the last remains of the company for sexually assaulting the nurse. Her suffering matters so little to him, if at all even considering he smears her entirely out of his perception while looking for antiseptic.

He's such an unreliable asshole he can't even confront himself, he has to use Curly and Polle as his conscience in his hallucinations.

The party scene is so intense. What a way to illustrate how off the deep end he is and it feels deserved. It's not just used to show he's insane and trying to cope by pretending they're all alive. It's everything he wanted. Praise, adoration, respect. Part of what I think is very interesting is he refuses to admit they're fully gone, but he doesn't necessarily deny their appearances. He isn't fixing them to look normal in his hallucinations, it's still their dead bodies he's propped up in chairs around him. Like a really weird coping mechanism to assure himself that its fine, he did it, he did a good job. Now he just needs to eat and celebrate with everyone! They just need to eat a little bit of Curly, get through one more meal, it'll be okay!

[gatekeeper-of-witchcraft]

I know I’m preaching to the choir but tims get so mad when you call them male instead of men, despite the claim that “nobody’s denying biological sex!”* even if you capitulate to calling them women (as a gender), because it tells them you don’t really believe it. you don’t buy it.

they know the only reason you’re keeping quiet about the fact that they’re men is because they’ve created an environment hostile to the truth and you’re toeing the line under implicit threat, not because you actually believe their claims.

they cracked down on the definition of woman, so the only way to shut you up (absent your capitulation to threats) is to crack down further on the definition of female.

* side note: I’ve noticed that it’s mostly ppl on the outer edges of the community/discourse that still argue that “no one’s denying biological sex.” the people closer to the inside doubled down and are now arguing for sex as a construct/spectrum/changing sex.

[gotham-response]

[valyrfia]

omg fred really said that?

here’s the source! he wanted carlos gone from day ONE.

[communistkenobi]

I’m not well-read on the critiques of butler’s work so I don’t want this to come off as dismissive of those critiques, but I find myself in an eternally apologetic stance with butler because they have forever pissed off so many people with their theory of gender. like they open Bodies That Matter by saying “I” is a gendered pronoun & every cis feminist has been having a permanent public meltdown about it ever since