#THAT'S the fucking point

[meyerlansky]

"shiv freed her brother before she freed her child" "she can still do some good from the inside as the CEO's wife"

bull fucking shit

she didn't want to see kendall win more than her. she didn't want to hand it to him when she thinks she'd do better. she didn't FREE kendall from anything, she clung to the one option that would sink her less than it sunk kendall and roman, and in doing so chose to continue the cycle of parental neglect they were all subject to, just like ken's done with his kids

and that's what makes her a fucking roy. that's what makes her logan, just as much as her brothers.

the day people just LET a female character be as shitty and selfish and angry and vile as male characters is the day pigs fucking fly, and it makes me SO angry

[hereslookingatyousquid]

More than 50 men are on trial for rape in France RIGHT NOW because a man drugged his wife and offered her up to them for YEARS so miss me with this bullshit "western women don't suffer under patriarchy"!

[lavenderpanic]

"wah wah this retelling/new translation changed the meaning of the myth" yup babygirl you just discovered the point of mythology and oral tradition congratulations

[audioandart]

I'm sorry but no, he didn't. It's a misconception that he completely made shit up as he went along. It's also a misconception that he planned everything. The truth is, he, like many authors, made a good chunk of it and then let the last bits flow. Also a friendly reminder that he is not the sole creator of kingdom hearts. Second friendly reminder that if you play in English, you are subject to mistranslations, which depending on the game can vary from pretty much none to quite a few. Kh3 is fucking NOTORIOUS for the mistranslations for those who know they're there. Stop acting like kh is this incredibly confusing thing, it's a square enix game. It's full of info that is presented oddly because that's how they do it. If you don't like it then don't partake in it but stop acting like it's lesser. It's not. It's different. It's not perfect but it's far better than ppl give it credit for

fans when a story has some sense of inexplicable mystery or intrigue beyond the scope of its borders: oh fuck we need to explain all the mystery and intrigue immediately it was so rude of the author to leave the story open like that

[sadclowncentral]

nearly had a medical emergency today because - and i cannot stress enough how little i am making this up - a helicopter landed in front of an open grain silo while i was getting off my ship and i am deathly allergic to the wheat that said helicopters rotor blades proceeded to blast in my face at full force. the cosmic forces are plotting against me ass situation to be in

[creed-of-cats]

"If voting changed anything they wouldn't let people do it-" grabs your face THEY DIDN'T JUST "LET" PEOPLE DO IT, MOST PEOPLE COULDN'T VOTE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. PEOPLE OF COLOR ONLY GOT THE FULL RIGHT TO VOTE 50 YEARS AGO IN THE US, THATS BARELY A GENERATION.

IF IT DIDNT MATTER AT ALL WHY WOULD THEY SPEND SO MUCH TIME GERRYMANDERING THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYWHERE?? WHY CAN'T FELONS VOTE?? WHY CANT PUERTO RICO VOTE? WHY DO THEY KEEP SWITCHING DATES AND LAWS AND TIMES AND WHATEVER THEY POSSIBLY CAN TO STOP PEOPLE FROM VOTING?? WHY DO THEY MAKE EFFORT AT ALL??

BEING DISILLUSIONED IS A REASONABLE RESPONSE. BUT PEOPLE FOUGHT AND DIED AND ARE STILL FUCKING DYING FOR THAT RIGHT, DONT SPIT IN THEIR FACE.

[finnieforkys]

I hate that ryukishi07's lesser known works pretty much never get any discussion except the dumbassery of the comment section on the manga site

[donninja05]

Imagine if art never tried to make people uncomfortable, every piece of art only strengthens the beliefs of the viewer. The human race stagnates, no new thoughts get mainstream appeal, instead only popping up in small communities. What a horrifying world that would be.

Tag yourself as this list of “bad art” features, according to a twitter fascist

[alanaisalive]

Now that Eurovision is over, I want you all, especially the Americans, to take a good hard look at how the voting results turned out when people boycotted the event.

In the UK, the viewing figures were down about 2 million people compared to last year. Up to 2 million people made the conscious decision to not watch and not vote because of Israel's inclusion.

The final results of the public vote, Israel came in first place in the UK and got 12 points. Because the only people watching and voting were people who backed Israel or at least didn’t care one way or another.

This doesn't matter. It's a music contest. The boycott was still the right thing to do because it is just a show at the end of the day, and the viewing figures have more impact than the results.

But it is also a good object lesson to show you what happens if you boycott a vote over something that does matter. Choosing not to vote in, let's say, a presidential election will have similar results.

[iant0jones]

"I feel very proud to be a black Creole vampire, in the show. I mean, I hope that all it does is opens the gates for more. Let's tell more stories. Let's be monsters! And enjoy it! Yeah, let's be problematic. Give us the space to be a problem." - Jacob Anderson

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[cognitiveinequality]

So... a bunch of NFT grifters threw a party in Hong Kong this weekend and reportedly a bunch of attendees are now at risk of permanent eyesight damage because the promoters used unsafe lighting, and people are going to the ER...

[claudiadpdl]

whoever made the decision to cast jacob anderson as louis dpdl struck fucking gold and i mean that. not only is he a phenomenal actor but every time i look at his beautiful face i too realize that i would do utterly deranged, fucking unhinged shit to keep him in my life forever. at the end of the day lestat and armand and everyone else need not explain a damn thing.

[wolfythewitch]

not entirely happy with it haha, didn't have enough time to polish the concept but wahoo jarchivist moment

[teethburied]

lestat + piano

[incohorace]

(consumed with lust voice) omg what a fucking weirdo