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burritodetodo · 5 years ago

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Burrito’s Guide To Survive Coronavirus Quarantine

We got to keep social distance (1 or 2 meters each other) or stay home during coronavirus outbreak so I thought I can share with y’all some things I’m gonna watch or do doing quarantine (this is a very long post, REBLOGS ARE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!).

BUT FIRST SOME RULES:

Wash your hands: do it for 20 seconds or a while, but ALWAYS do it. It prevents the virus from spreading. If you don’t have sanitizer, water and soap! The cheapest and best ally against the disease.

Buy everything you need: if you can, try to buy stuff so you can stay some days at home. If the place is crowded, go back home and come later when it’s more empty. Same as medicine.

You can go for a walk: stay at home all day can be overwhelming for your mental health, but unless the goverment puts a curfew or gets strict about it you can go walk outside for a while always respecting the 1 or 2 meters from other people and without making contact (chatting) with other people. This ain’t my rule, a CDC professional says. DON’T go visit your friends or to crowded places such as bars, restaurants, shoppings, etc. If you want to buy something, ask for delivery or take away.

If you have coronavirus sympthoms (high fever, diarrhea, cough, feeling tired, breath difficulties) DON’T GO TO THE HOSPITAL YET, CALL TO YOUR PUBLIC HEALTH ORGANISATION OR WHATEVER YOU GOT AND THEY’LL TREAT YOU.

(credits to whoever made this meme)

SO YOUR LIFE IS ON QUARANTINE

Let’s say your boss or your school told you can stay at home. Okay then, you gotta prepare for some days inside *Isolation by John Lennon plays in the distance*. The first thing you think is you have to prepare a batch of series and movies to watch in order to kill some time. I’m gonna recommend you some you can find on VOD or cable, if you don’t have it don’t worry because I got you covered!

Infinity Train: a yet two seasons saga about people who got to face their problems aboard an endless train. The protagonists are joined by creatures who have different nature and help them, or not, to acknowledge their issues and leave the train. It’s on CN, it will continue on HBO Max.

The Owl House: a teen girl who daydream a lot was going to be sent to a down-to-earth camp but then she crosses a portal to the Boiling Isles, a magical world where she is taken care by a powerful Owl witch/saleswoman and her adorable demon. Lots of fantasy, some action scenes and many many puns. It’s on Disney Channel, it’ll be on Disney+ in some weeks.

Primal: Genndy Tartakovsky delighted us with the alliance of a caveman and a dinosaur, two rivals in a wild world who ally after facing a devastating event. It IS brutal and beatiful, has no dialogue and keeps you watching closely. Five final episodes are set to premiere this year. It’s on Adult Swim, maybe on HBO Max.

Tuca and Bertie: for the critics, one of 2019 best shows. For Netflix, a show that had to be cut off because the studio unionized. Two friends in their late 20s face changes in their lives: from living with a boyfriend and plan a life to look a way to stay sober and get a job. Deals with trauma, ptsd, anxiety and more harsh moments very well. In fact, the creator is a vital part of Bojack Horseman! It’s on Netflix.

Aggretsuko: red pandas are cute eh? But what about a antopomorphic red panda who releases her anger and frustrations by singing at a karaoke? This awesome comedy by Sanrio & Netflix is one of anime’s big hits lately. Like T&B, has a good handle of adult problems but not going too deep just to not break the comedy. You can watch it on Netflix.

Regular Show: yeah-uuuuhhhh! Eight seasons, a movie, five Halloween specials and some others. The adventures of a racoon and a blue jay with their co-workers/friends that relies on psychadellia and 80s and 90s nostalgia. It begins good, gets better, then lowers the quality (they were producing the movie at the same time tho, give some credit) and with and after the movie ends awesome. It’s on CN web, dunno if on Hulu (US only) and proably on HBO Max.

Evangelion: it’s a classic at this point, but addictive to me because I end rewatching the series or the final movie many times. A post apocalyptic future where the world has to deal with strange creatures known as the Angels and a boy with lots of traumas has to get on a mecha to save the humankind. All the characters have traumas and issues, the interaction between them or the action makes it worth. The End of Evangelion is a movie that ends the unfinished series. Warning: at some point it becomes very twisted and there are scenes which are too much violent. Viewer disclosure etc. It’s on Netflix worldwide.

Steven Universe & SU Future: this is the tale of the gem boy who ends a galactical tyranny and brings democracy to the universe. A acclaimed show that broke through many topics like gender, identity, ptsd, relationships and many more. Besides it’s got the best scores of the Milky Way and beyond thanks to the talent of Rebecca Sugar, Aivi Tran and Surasshu. And the actors and acrtresses! I don’t forget the movie, a musical that is an introduction to the epilogue: Shippuden Future. The show is available on CN and will be on HBO Max. Worldwide? No news.

Adventure Time: something that began as an innocent boy and a magical dog having adventures in a post apocalyptic world turns into the journey of Finn Metens from childhood to almost adulthood. There is a lot of fantasy and comedy you enjoy, but there are dark moments and serious ones through S6 that find a balance with early seasons form S7 to the finale. It also has great music, memorable moments and colaborations. And guess what? There is going to be a special set to premiere on HBO Max in some weeks! You got plenty of time to catch up or rewatch before that on CN or only (!!) S5 on Netflix.

Final Space: a dude tries to save the universe with their friends, where we can find his love interest, a cat-man and his kitten son, a intersexual alien, an AI then robot that is the best of them, two particular siblings and an annoying bot that prevents insanity that makes you insane. Crazy adventures in space, lots of situations, sadness, an evil smol bean who is a space emperor, a dude who looks for revenge, space deities that can destroy the universe. Is this a lot or info? It is not, because there is more and you can watch it on TBS, Adult Swim and Netflix (the world except US).

Rick and Morty: the most powerful, smartest human in the universe has adventures with his grandson. It’s awesome, but has a very toxic fanbase. Anyway, you can enjoy it on Adult Swim or Netflix (which is up to date!) and the rest of S4 is set someday.

Bojack Horseman: a Hollywood satire about human relationships, fame, traumas with a pour of comedy. Alongside the previous series, the best adult animation of the decade. Sadly cut by Netflix because the studio unionized (see T&B), said by both the creator and Aaron Paul. You can watch the six amazing seasons on that platform.

I’m not an animated movies guy, but here are three I really like and you can watch:

Porco Rosso: a handsome Italian combat aviator turned magically to a pig has a face off with an American pilot hired by pirates to get rid of him before WWII in Fascist Italy. It’s entertaining and, like every Ghibli movie, nice to watch. It’s on Netflix and will be on HBO Max for US.

Lego Batman Movie: Batman is depressed and has to get over it. It’s wacky and has lots of comedy. Plus Will Arnett is top 3 Batman. On Netflix (Latinamerica).

Spiderverse: Oscar winner movie about your friendly neighbour Peter Parker Miles Morales. Miles sees Spiderman die and feels bad after being transfered to a private school. Then a radioactive spider from a Fisk compound bites Miles and he’s Spiderman... among other dimensions’ Spiderpeople: Gwen, Peni, Peter Parker, Noir and Peter Porker. It’s visually amazing. On US it’s on Netflix (I guess), on Latinamerica on HBO.

Some interesting live actions I watched lately

Atlanta: Donald Glover is Earn, a dude who struggles to find a job for her baby girld and sees an opportunity when his cousin, Paper Boi, has a hit and uses him to make his cos famous. Sometimes a comedy, sometimes a social satire with touches of drama. And all protagonists are now big shots, like Zazie Beetz, Brian Tyree Henry or Lakeith Stanfield. There are two seasons and two seasons set for 2021 (2022 possible beacuse of coronavirus). It’s on FX, Hulu (US) and Netflix (world)

Avenue 5: this is brand new. On 2060 space cruises are a thing, and one cruise (the Avenue 5) has an accident that leaves the crew and passangers stranded for years. The captain (Hugh Laurie) has to solve this shit with a bunch of incompetent crew, bosses like Judd (Josh Gad), except one female engeneer who is very smart. Lots of crazy things happen in this series from the creator behind Veep. It’s on HBO (it’s free in the US!).

Peaky Blinders: it has some years but damn it’s epic. A gang from Birmingham makes their way to the top during the late 1910s after the Great War and extends through the 1920s. S5 is right in the ascension of fascism in Britain. ALL THE CAST acts spectacular, names like Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy, Anna Taylor-Joy and a long etc. But my fave is Paul Anderson, that ultra violent junkie Arthur Shelby is splendid, then is Tommy and aunt Pol, the baddest badass woman in Britain. Blinders is going to have seven seasons, there are two left. You can watch it on BBC or Netflix.

Sex Education: speaking of Britain, excellent teen comedy. Horny, doubtful teenagers going through those hard years. Stories of sex (duh!), abuse situations, abortion, there are gay relationships either, Gillian Anderson! It’s on Netflix, go go go!

Watchmen: despite not having Alan Moore on board, Damien Lindeloff did a tremendous job with the comic. Way better and less misleading than Zack Snyder’s 2009 film, Watchmen is again at the gates of the world’s end (like today) and handles the problem of racism and white supremacy quite well. Just 9 episodes, but worth to watch. On HBO.

CAOS: Sabrina the Teenage Witch is over. Warner and Netflix made a revival of the Archie Comics character and brought her to XXI Century. But gorier, hornier, dark and magical than the nice 90s sitcom. Sabrina Spellman goes from a doubtful teen who has to decide if she has to be a witch or a powerless woman to rule Hell. How she does it? Find out on Netflix! Note: S1 and 2 take some episodes to start properly. Don’t get bored too easy.

There are A LOT MORE to recommend and I make a list: Harley Quinn (DC Universe), OK KO (Hulu -US only-), House MD, Young Justice (DC Universe/Netflix), Ken Burns’ documentaries (Netflix), Titans (DCU), Over The Garden Wall (CN), Seis Manos (Netflix), Thundercats Roar (CN), Easy (Netflix), GLOW (Netflix), Star Trek Discovery (CBS, Netflix) and Picard (CBS, Amazon Prime), etc.

- You named cool shows, but I’m not from the United States or I don’t have a subscription to (insert VOD here) because I can’t afford it

- Glad you asked, I have the answer here

Introducing Stremio. It’s an open source platform where you can watch shows, movies or even live TV on Windows, Linux, Apple or Android. You create an account, install some addons and start looking for what you want to watch.

Stremio is based on torrents, you should install addons from many known torrent sites. So maybe you find an old show, but there aren’t many seeds to watch. And it could be frustraiting, so make sure there are people sharing so you can watch it.

You can download Stremio here and check the FAQs which is very clear.

NOTE: Stremio is note quite “clean” way to watch, but if you do please support the shows you watch by posting, commenting about them, making memes, thanking the creators and crew for their work, buying merchandise if you can. They put a lot to make the shows we love, let’s give ‘em back that love and effort.

You’re tired of the same music, the same movies or need to leave something to make company? There is Vaughn Live, a streaming page where are lots of channels with movies and series on strem (not VOD). For example, there is a channel that streams Adventure Time, other Regular Show, other Sci-Fi shows, another with DBZ and so on. Take in count that if the channel has +70 viewers, the free access is cut and if you want to watch it you have to pay.

En Vaughn también hay canales en español, como Simpsonmanía, Dragon Ball, Futurama, dibujos viejos y muchísimo más. Anyway, go to https://vaughn.live/ and enjoy yourselves!

Y hablando de canales en español, pueden ir a SeriesLan donde está el mayor reservorio conocido de series animadas de entre 1960 a 2010 en español latino. Pueden encontrar tesoros desde Don Gato, los Halcones Galácticos o Street Sharks a Flapjack y Mechas XLR. Otra alternativa para que pasen el rato.

Some interesting facts:

Epic Games releases a free game per week in their store. This week will be two games. You can check in https://www.epicgames.com

Steam has good prices on games and some free ones. There even is the latest Football Manager for free until March 25th. Check on https://store.steampowered.com/

If you’re interested,

I got this playlist I made on Spotify

with songs I liked in more than one year. More than 1200 songs.

And that’s pretty much it! You got resources for a lot of days, 14 initially since that’s the quarantine time in my country. Remember: obey the indications of the Health authorities, this is no time to play the “fuck the goverment” game. We will overcome this pandemy together, helping and caring for each other. That’s why I did this guide, to keep your minds busy in these tough times! Wash your hands, keep social distance, stay at home, go outside if necessary and have some patience please. This has been a PSA.

Stay strong!

Burrito

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automatismoateo · 2 years ago

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Moral Orel & Religion in the POV of a 20F Asian American via /r/atheism

Moral Orel & Religion in the POV of a 20F Asian American

TLDR: I just watched Moral Orel recently and it fucked me up so I’m just informally venting/explaining/analyzing it and seeing how it tied to my own experiences.

I was curious about what everyone’s analyses, thoughts, interpretations and opinions on that show were if you’ve watched it, and if you haven’t, I highly recommend it.

I was also curious on whether anyone shared the same religious upbringing experience as me (if y’all are willing to read it, if not it’s okie, it’s a long story lol)

Okay ramble timeee~

TW: mentions of SA, child abuse, religious trauma(?)

Hi guys, I was raised with a Christian and Buddhist upbringing, but now my beliefs are science and vibes lol. I wanted to talk about the show, Morel Orel. I hadn’t watched this show until now due to suggestions from friends, because I think I was only 4 years old when that show first came out and I have also never heard of it before.

I know there were a few posts about Moral Orel on here in the past few weeks, but I wanted to touch in depth upon how hard-hitting and eye opening it was for me personally to watch this show.

I started it 3 days ago and I finished the entire 3 seasons last night, and this is a show that will personally stick with me for life due to how relatable, depressing, heart-breaking, yet elegantly put together it was. The show was never outright criticizing Christianity in any way, just offering a storyline of a small town that is completely Christianized and the deep, dark shit the characters were facing in their personal lives as well as displaying how Christian teachings could be misinterpreted by an unsuspecting and innocent person such as Orel (an innocent, curious, optimistic, want to always do good, 12 year old boy) I thought their ability to show the hypocrisies of Christianity without outright criticism is incredibly impressive.

As a little backstory, I am a 20 year old Asian American woman, whose upbringing until about age 16-17 was secretly juggling Christianity/Buddhism. I’ve always felt like I was on autopilot while both of these ideologies were being forced on me, I’ve never felt like I was able to completely pick up religion even though I’ve been subjected to do so. There were too many holes and hypocrisies in religion that even my younger self was questioning.

In the past, my dad was a true hardcore believer in Buddhism due to being raised that way. Nowadays, he seems to still carry some Buddhist beliefs, but he’s a lot more tame and chill about religion now and seems to just believe in some universe type stuff (I’m honestly not even sure what specific religion he believes in now). My great grandmother on my mom’s side was colonized by Christian missionaries during a war back in our home country, which led to a Christian upbringing with my maternal grandmother and great aunt. My grandmother couldn’t give a rat’s ass about religion but my great aunt was a devout believer in God and whatnot.

This lead to 2 of my aunts (grandmother’s kids) becoming devout Christians as well (because my great aunt looked after them while my grandma was working after immigrating to the US), and one of my aunts married a SUPER atheist white American man (who is now my uncle in law) and managed to convert him to Christianity.

Now that formerly atheist man is now a batshit crazy devout Christian. Like Huntington Beach CA ultra politically conservative right wing hardcore Christian man.

(Uncle in law tore up a book about atheism that his brother gave him and wrote a 12 page essay on why atheism is wrong while refusing to listen to his brother’s side, declared to everyone (including a 13 year old me) that not having God in his life is the reason he formerly had a pornography addiction and only viewed women as objects, that type of batshit crazy).

While I was growing up, my Buddhist dad used to get really mad at me if I brought up Christianity (that I inevitably learned from my great aunt/aunts) around him. He would hit me/yell at me/call Christianity stupid/etc. and tell me to never bring it up around him again. I was terrified so I figured I would have to hide anything Christian related I learned from him.

My aunts would encourage me to keep praying to God to save my dad and help him, meanwhile educating me about God, sneaking me out to church, buy me Christian things (crosses, Bibles, Jesus themed activity books, etc) which I would have to actively hide from my dad. I vividly remember hiding my Christian stuff under my bed and closets and fearing my dad would find it.

However, my logic being a young 6-8 year old girl was- “My dad hits me when I talk about things he doesn’t like and he’s a Buddhist, my aunts don’t hit me and taught me that worshiping other religious figures except for God is a sin, so Buddhism must be wrong and my aunts must be right, because my aunts don’t hit me therefore they are kinder and must be good and trustworthy, like the Bible and God must have taught them!”

Damn I was so wrong for that.

When I was about 15-16, I was groomed and sexually assaulted by a staff member at my high school 10 years older than me and my life changed from there. Police were involved, an investigation was launched, a restraining order was put in place, yadayadaya. (BTW I am so impressed with how Moral Orel presented themes of sexual assault in the series. More on that at the end).

My parents sent me to live with my hella Christian aunt and batshit crazy uncle for a year because they didn’t know how to respond to all of that- even my dad had nothing to say about that decision. My Christian family put a tracker device on my phone and even confiscated my phone and cut off the internet past 10 AT THE AGE OF 16 (lmao too bad I learned how to spoof my MAC addresses) So from age 16-18, I lived in a STRICT Christian household, and my perspective on Christianity changed completely, for good, after living there.

My uncle strangely resembled Clay from Moral Orel in a way and living there was an entire ploy and attempt at brainwashing me and full conversion to Christianity. I was forced to go to church every weekend, lead grace at the table every breakfast, lunch and dinner against my own will before I could eat, forced me to take notes and participate during at home weekly Bible Study sessions when their church friends came over (even other family members I’ve spoken to said that I should have just been allowed to stay in my room and not have to participate)… watch Christian documentaries over and over, and the final straw was when they sat me down as a family and forced me to watch several 2-hour long documentaries about a pastor leading several sermons on why Judaism, Buddhism, and Islam were wrong and inconsistent (ironic huh?) I was forced to take notes on every single sermon I was listening to, whether during church or just on Christian documentaries/sermons we were watching on TV at home.

I remember falling asleep in the living room while we were all watching those documentaries about some Christian preacher justifying Christianity as the ultimate religion by putting down other religions, and my uncle poked me awake and told me to “Wake up and keep taking notes.” It was literally an hour into that 2 hour long documentary and I just wanted to fkin sleep and be anywhere else but there.

There were many times where my uncle lashed out at me over small inconveniences in a very non-Christian way (One example: I put my laundry basket in the washing room before I was going to wash it once and he got pissed at me thinking I didn’t bother to take out my clothes from the washing room and dumped all my clothes on the floor of my room before ignoring me for an entire day, then lashed out at me about THAT) so my aunt intervened and he tried to apologize and somehow brought God and his forgiveness and Biblical words into it. Smh. Like bro it was a laundry basket it wasn’t that fucking deep.

They also tried to sign me up for church classes, I was like hell no, and they got upset at me and a year later I told my mother I was going back home. Lmao.

Nowadays, I don’t really have a religion that I follow, I generally just try to stay optimistic and I believe in science lol. I don’t really like to criticize religious people regardless of what I’ve been through (extremists are a different story) because I understand that religion is a coping mechanism for a harsh world, whether they were converted into it/simply born into a religion/colonized into it/it is apart of their culture. I also understand that religion is a touchy subject, which is why I felt the most comfortable discussing this in this subreddit.

Some people are simply just those who are looking for a justification for their existence/coping with hardships/etc. and if they decide that religion is right for them, then it’s not up to me to get all up in their face about it. Good for them if it makes them happy, I don’t care at all unless they’re trying to pull some conversion bs on me or criticize my own choices and decisions if it goes against their beliefs.

Some people are extremists or borderline extremists (my Christian family) and I usually just straight out ignore them because it’s not worth my time to try to point out the hypocrisies in their beliefs/explain why they should reconsider why they believe in x, y, z or the reason why their extremities might be a little out of pocket. I honestly don’t wanna bother getting into religious debates with people because I’ve had enough of that during my childhood, I don’t particularly enjoy confrontation, and I feel like I’ve successfully repressed all the religious trauma that I’ve been subjected to anyways lmao.

I often think about my dad and how he tried to shield me from Christianity and religion, despite him being a Buddhist himself, and despite being misguided on how to properly discipline me, communicate realistically and show love and affection (pretty common with immigrant dads tho). I’ve talked to him now as a grown adult and we’ve shared similar observations about religion and how royally fucked up it is, even though he still does hold some Buddhist beliefs in him still (he was born in Asia where Buddhism was just a way of life so I understand completely).

In the present day, my Christian family has gotten somehow worse than before. They’re a basic stereotype of right wing conservative Christians (vaccines causing autism, covid being fake, essential oils > medicine, pro life, Bible thumper, 5G towers, the New World Order, Bible T(r)humpers, everyone’s a sheep type beat, the works basically).

They’ve let religion take over their life to the point where they aren’t really even good people anymore, destroyed relationships with family and friends because of politics/religion, just another “sheep” (hehe ironic v2) of Christianity I guess. Any attempt to have civil discussion with them resorts to passive aggressiveness or just angry defensive techniques before pulling out research articles from Fox News and Jordan Peterson and self declared Christian professionals on YouTube. Idk, they’re a lost cause now. They don’t vaccinate their little children because it “causes autism” and “natural medicine is God’s medicine” and their kids get sick as hell every other week for no reason. No one in the family really enjoys being around them anymore, let alone their former friends.

But yeah. Roping it back to Morel Orel, it’s just such a complex yet eye opening show and it made me feel like I wasn’t alone anymore. Especially Season 3 Episode 4: Alone; where Nurse Bendy had an age regression coping mechanism and her response to her falling teddy bear hit too close to home, especially after the incident that made me have to move in with my Christian family. That episode tore me up. (Imagine going through that and then my entire Christian family suddenly believes I am a sinner and now I have to pray to God for forgiveness and redemption in order to heal. Lmao.)

Seeing the complexities of each individual character and the misguidance given to Orel, the character dynamics, an abusive dad, hypocrisies in the teaching, seeing how lost and wrong yet fiercely defensive of the Christian religion the small town people are, etc etc.. I just have no words to say. I’m currently still processing this show. This is probably my number one favorite show of all time.

If you’ve made it here, I’ll tie it back to the question I had asked in the beginning, what are everyone’s analyses, thoughts, interpretations and opinions on that show? Does anyone here have a similar religious upbringing that you wouldn’t mind sharing?

Thank you so much for reading this cluster fuck of a post, it is much appreciated ❤️ and apologies for how messy and rambly this post is hehe.

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