#and our politicians are a joke like wtf

[daenerystargaryensgirlfriend]

The thing that I hate the most when talking about politics is that some people will see you condemning fascism and Benito Mussolini and they'll immediately call you a communist.

And by communist they don't mean Marx's idea which has as ultimate goal the socialization of the means of production achieavable, in his obinion, by a fight between the capitalists and the proletariat (that is the social class whose only wealth is their labor power).

Instead they mean Stalin's government in Russia that treated its opposers with force, through massacres and deportations to labor camps and that led to the death of millions of people.

In the political arena, Stalin established a dictatorship based on his party being the sole holder of power.

Any disagreement was repressed, leading to the 'Great Purges,' during which many citizens, from the highest to the lowest classes, were killed, tortured or deported. Additionally, a great deal of ideological propaganda was disseminated to criminalize any dissent.

Doesn't that sound familiar? let's see:

Repressing opposers with force? checked

see alt for more info (there are many others of course but these three people are the ones that i remember the most)

Deporting people? checked

sorry the links are in italian

The Italian political deportees, taken from Italy to the concentration camps of the Third Reich for their opposition to the Nazi-Fascist regime between September 8, 1943, and April 25, 1945, totaled at least 23,826 people (22,204 men and 1,514 women). 10,129 of them died, amounting to 45%. source

A few of them are:

Renzo Ildebrando Bocchi (died at 31)

Franco Cetrelli (died at 14)

Cecilia Deganutti (died at 31)

Giovanni Palatucci (died at 36)

One party led by a dictator that is the sole holder of power? checked

Fascism definition:

An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.The term Fascism was first used of the totalitarian right-wing nationalist regime of Mussolini in Italy (1922–43), and the regimes of the Nazis in Germany and Franco in Spain were also Fascist. Fascism tends to include a belief in the supremacy of one national or ethnic group, a contempt for democracy, an insistence on obedience to a powerful leader, and a strong demagogic approach.

Massacres? checked

These are the ones that made more victims and in total in these three places 1939 people lost their lives.

Marzabotto massacre,

Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre

Ardeatine massacre

Lippa di Elsame massacre

...

In the end,

when those people condemn communism, they actually condemn yet another dictatorship government that hid itself behind the communist movement, by using force to make people agree with its ideology and live by its ideas. The only difference is that Mussolini created and led the fascist manifesto and it followed its values, while Stalin and the other "communist" dictators just used that ideology to rule with terror.

The fascist ideology is fascism, but the communist ideology is NOT stalinism.

You can like or not like the communist ideology, but to compare fascism with communism means that either you have no idea what communism stands for or you're a hidden fascist that still thinks that Mussolini did anything good in its life.

The italian (I speak for my country because i know about my costitution) clearly bans and forbid fascism and any dictatorships in our constitution and it doesn't mention communism because it. is. not. a. dictatorship.

We italians had a lot of good politicians that were from the Italian Communist Party, but that was when politics where actually done by capable people, before Berlusconi (aka the man accused of: bribery, corruption of police officers, judges and politicians, defamation, embezzlement, extortion, false accounting, mafia, money laundering, perjury, tax fraud and underage prostitution... among the others) went to the government and before we sent people like Salvini (aka the man who was accused of kidnapping migrants by not making them docking to the Sicily port when they were authorized by the state, a racist, homophobic and transphobic man) or Vannacci (aka this... thing below)

or Meloni (who's not trying to let pro-lifers in abortion clinics, who said in an interview that Mussolini was not that bad, who's against gay marriage ect) or La Russa (who has a fucking little statue of Mussolini in his goddamn living room and whose son is a raper but he continues to defend him) to represent us.

I do agree, Mussolini did something good in its life: dying🤗

E a tutti i fascisti su Twitter o Tiktok o... ovunque che difendono Mussolini auguro una serata dimmerda.

[sehtoast]

That episode was insane. I’m getting tired of Firecracker’s ass she needs to get on somewhere. The racism the human centipede references the SA jokes like wtf..? I think that was one of the worst ones in the show.

Yeah, i’m… not entirely sure what the point of that episode even was beyond trying to expand their shock factor?  Hands down my least favorite episode to date, and i didn’t think i’d ever have an episode that stood out like that bc i’m honestly a pretty easy-to-please viewer. Hell, till now i’ve felt like s4 has been pretty strong with just a little bit of wavering in ep 5, but this was just… straight up bad. Sure, it feels like a season of pure filler, but the filler was at least strong– especially episode 4 since it gave us such incredible background on homelander.  Anyway, spoilers for s4e6, talks of SA, etc. following under the cut:

I haven’t been a fan of firecracker’s since she walked on screen, and i don’t think that’s going to change. Her character is incitement for the sake of it, which, given the state of the US irl, isn’t unwelcome commentary.  There was a flicker of hope when she did her little “i say this stuff because this is what the people who have nothing else in life need to unite.” For a fraction of an episode, she was interesting!  She was a strong show of how political grifters prey upon ignorance with outrage to turn otherwise normal, lonely people who are desperately seeking unity into the just… trainwrecks they’ve become today.  And then they dropped it. It’s like she lost the awareness of it just as much as the writers did.  She could’ve been really neat, but she’s nothing more than your average outrage manufacturing machine.  I mean… “jewish space lasers?” C’mon man.  Combine it all with the anti-trans rhetoric and it just is… overall sour (i have many thoughts on the anti-trans and other shit they’ve had homelander say insofar as how little he even believes in the shit he parrots [and i do mean parrots, because he has no idea what to do or say when it doesn't work, which we saw again very clearly in today's episode] for the sake of preserving his demos and appealing to politicians, but that’s for another time– maybe?)

As far as the racism and anti-trans stuff (hell, even the word for word parody of that politician who said “legitimate r*pes can’t become pregnancies because the body has ways of shutting it down,” or whatever it was verbatim)-- i think we’re to the point where the writers and kripke have begun to forget that these are things done and said to real people in real time. I understand the point is to show the audience how foul these things are, but there comes a point where it crosses a line and ricochets back to hurting the audience.  For myself, i’m trans. Every other episode containing a line that directly correlates to the real world dehumanization of us for political points is a stomach dropping moment because we’re being actively reminded that our rights are under constant attack. All three times have had like… non existent context relation to anything going on in the show and just feels… baffling? And then it feels bad.  And then it hurts.  The show has done this a couple times where they try to make commentary on the oppressive and cruel shit said about marginalized people (race, gender, etc) and it falls flat and just becomes a slap in the face to the viewer who it was perhaps trying to represent.

The human centipede deal with splinter, i could cope with. I actually laughed, because i can see people with cloning powers doing wild shit like that.  It didn’t seem far off from the context of the show that superhumans with superpowers will do wacky shit with said superpowers.  What we got in today’s episode was… not that. And it wasn’t good.  What we got today was an episode riddled with sexual abuse via CNC that was played as a joke the whole way through.  No, tek and ashley did not know that hughie was in that suit. However, hughie started yelling random words at one point. I’m not versed in kink culture particularly well, but i would think anyone partaking in that sort of act would recognize that as perhaps the sub has forgotten their safe word and they would call it off. That they’re yelling out random, out of context words would be a major, major red flag to cease. But they didn’t. So what we got was extremely unsettling, especially as it settled in more, and it gets played as a joke until hughie cracks at the very end.  Maybe the goal is to make people understand the gravity of sexual abuse toward men since society does tend to treat it as a joke. Maybe, and that’s strong if so! But i’m finding it difficult to understand how a show that put school sh**ting warnings in Gen V, warned of b*astiality during the Deep’s shit, and even just, y’know, hinted at what herogasm would be, could somehow not manage to warn that viewers were about to see someone sexually abused to such an extent.  I have an extremely strong stomach for media. I’ve seen a lot of fucked up shit online that i wish i could unsee, but it’s never made my gut churn like it did after this episode.

I have… a lot of feelings about this episode. I could even probably go into detail on why i think the whole breast milk thing at the end was less than stellar as well (which i'm almost positive i'm standing alone on), but i don’t want to stray too far off the ask content.  I’m just… yeah. This was hands down the worst episode i think the show has, with like two exceptions for a-train's scene with the kid and how hard i laughed at the webweaver shit (but the thing is, WW WANTED help boofing that stuff!!!! difference!!!). Based off critic reviews, i think the next two will be floating around the same degree of bad as well.  Given the last few episodes set the aftertaste of everything, i think the reviews being so negative are probably based upon eps 6-8 being awful.

As usual, we’ll fix it in fanon.

edit: i also need to know what the fixation is this season in making important things happen off screen. starlight gets pregnant off screen, has an abortion. it is central to the plot of starlight v. firecracker, but we're not shown a lick of that exposition. homelander and sage are plotting internment camps??? but we're TOLD, not shown-- which is the ultimate sin in storytelling. like... what is this season actually trying to do beyond just compound shock value?

[pashterlengkap]

Gays are better dads, the Pope’s lunch with trans women, & a fishing trip to remember

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade went on as scheduled this year when the department store refused to cave to the religious fringe. TikTok and Instagram influencers made social media thankful while Twitter did nothing but make “gay cousin” jokes for the holiday. Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Trixie Mattel (@trixiemattel) Get the Daily Brief The news you care about, reported on by the people who care about you: Subscribe to our Newsletter The Pope invited a group of trans women over for pasta and meatballs Pope Francis has been quite clear lately. He made several announcements giving trans people support inside the Church, and he’s been giving some financial and medical aid too. Then, in a rare show of power, he personally fired one of the most anti-LGBTQ+ bishops. Mom puts school board on notice If anything happens to her son, she’s coming for them. It’s legal to be gay in public now A town in Tennessee tried to pass a law that had the judge ruling “WTF.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Cara Connors (@caraconnscomedy) Science shows gays are better dads Children of gay dads are happier & healthier than the children of heterosexual parents. This amazing teen activist won’t stop fighting She just keeps showing up at school board meetings — even when she’s not welcome. Late-night hosts roasted George Santos I’m not sure if this really counts as “good news,” but it’ll make you laugh. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alethea Crimmins (@ms_hdic) 5 dads with trans kids took a fishing trip It changed their lives. This tiny market in East Texas is made for LGBTQ+ people It’s in one of the most conservative parts of the country, and it just keeps growing. Americans don’t trust politicians on trans issues Doctors? Yes. Parents? Even more. Republicans? Big bag of nope. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Isaac Bradshaw (@isaacbradshaw45) Not Done Yet * INTO: This iconic movie features the best gay character in Hollywood history * QUEERTY: That time Mussolini ordered a bunch of gay guys be exiled to an island & they turned it into a M4M utopia * GAYCITIES: This gay filmmaker’s private yacht on the Mediterranean is up for grabs * SOCIAL: Pacemaker * MEMORIAL: Rosalynn Carter’s legacy includes support for the LGBTQ+ community Have a good weekend. Need a few fashion tips for the upcoming holiday parties? Here’s how to dress gay. http://dlvr.it/SzL2SF

[falconcoast]

repeating wedding vows + genshin characters

masterlist

a/n: why do i always cry at wedding vows like it isn’t even my wedding WTF !!!

warnings: a little dash of angst, plenty of comfort.

ayato ;

“ayato, dear,” you said, leaning at the doorway of his office. “it’s nearly one in the morning. it’s time for rest.”

he huffs out a discontented note, moving his pen quickly. the lone lamp illuminating the room casts a ghastly shadow on his face, highlighting the bags under his eyes. a cold cup of coffee sits at his side. “just let me finish one more document and then i shall come with you,” he replies curtly, making you crossing your arms.

striding over, your position yourself by his chair. a hand comes to his cheek, making him stop writing. you brush his cheek lovingly, kissing his forehead. “i love you and your diligence, but i can’t help but be worried for you,” you breathe out, leaning down to meet his forehead with your own. “it’s been days since you properly got rest. come back to bed, love.”

sighing, his bottom lip puffs put. “but i just—”

“ah-ah,” you interject, poking his cheek. “you do remember what i said during our wedding vows, right? i told you, ‘i promise to comfort and take care of you, always.’ i haven’t broken it, and i don’t plan on starting anytime soon. now, off to bed we go.”

he rises, standing and kissing you on the cheek. “what would i do without you?”

thoma ;

sitting by thoma’s bedside, you press a fist to you cheek. he looks downright miserable, cheeks flushed with a fever. he threw another arm over eyes, letting out a deep sigh.

“you shouldn’t see me like this,” he wheezed. “I can take care of myself while i’m sick. i don’t want you getting sick either.”

you immediately got up from your chair, clambering in bed beside him. you slot yourself behind him, placing his head in your lap. “w-what are you doing?” he croaks out.

“i’m taking care of you,” you reply, smiling down at him. you thread your fingers through his hair, wiping away the sweat on his brow. “i love you. i’m not leaving your side anytime soon.”

“y-you’re going to get sick too,” he huffed, tears creasing his eyes. “please don’t—“

you gently wiped away his tears before kissing his forehead. “on our wedding day, i told you that i would love you in sickness and in health. i also said that i would never leave your side, especially when you need me most.”

“you’re too much,” he whispers before closing his eyes. you only smile in response, kissing him on the forehead again.

ningguang ;

“why did you marry me?” you ask suddenly. the jade chamber is silent as you stare across the edge. seated on the bench, you cross your legs. “ningguang, i’m a commoner. you’re the biggest figure in liyue’s politics and business. i-i-i mean, wouldn’t be smarter to marry a noble? or a politician? or anyone--”

“say, are you doubting me, dear?” she asks slyly, twisting around her pipe. 

“n-no, i’m not joking--i just can’t believe that you married me!” you exclaimed, standing up. “look at me. don’t you think i’m ruining your life by being with you? am i not holding you back? i’m--”

tugging you hand, your wife calmly tugs on your hand, sitting you back down. “y/n, sometimes i don’t know what’s going on in that head of yours.”

you turn your head, crossing your arms firmly. “what are you getting at?”

“you remember how we met, right?” she asks, crossing her legs. “when we were young, you gave me a flower for my hair. a glaze lily, if i recall correctly. and you told me, despite my shaken and dirty appearance, you told me i was the most beautiful thing you had ever seen.” 

“it’s true--hey, you’re changing the topic!” you replied. 

“my point is,” ningguang stated, putting a comforting hand over your own. “you and i have been together. i told you that i would be with you with for richer or for poorer. i love you, y/n. my status will never change that.” 

leaning onto her shoulder,’ you smiled slightly. “i love you too. just needed a little reassurance.” 

[feysandfeels]

ACOTAR 5 or 6?? (I don’t know which book is next)

Did someone ask for this? No, not really. Am I still going to theorize how the next book is going to go in length? Yes, yes I will. Also I’m doing a facemask that needs 20min to set in so like, I have time to kill. 

I have seen many saying that Azriel’s book is next because through him we will get Illyria, which still needs to be dealt with. Also through him we get Gwynriel and that. Even though I can definitely see the logic behind that, I thought I might throw in another option just for shits and giggles. 

This is more like a fever dream than anything. Don’t hold me to it, because I haven’t read these books with the academic rigorosity to come up with counter arguments as to why it’s Az’s and not Elain’s book that will come next. But, that being said, if I’m right I will say I told you so (lol). 

Also this will further my Elucien agenda so like... yeah you’ve been warned.

Why Elain?

Because I think it makes more sense to go have a book deal with one villain working up to Koshei, than to have Beron+Koshei as the big baddies in one final book. So like ACOSF was the human queen, ACOTAR 5 is Beron and then ACOTAR 6 ultimate baddie Koshei. And who is character that has ties to Beron? Lucien and who would Lucien’s book be with? exactly, Azriel. no I’m kidding, of course Elain. 

I also think Elain was a character that had a huge presence in this ACOSF despite having like three sentences. You could see her impact in the book and to me that was quite telling. 

ACOTAR 5: 

Right so we all can agree on a few things after being in this fandom for a couple of years or at least since the end of ACOSF: first, Elain and Lucien will deliver a Jane Austen type romance; second, it will entail a lot of court politics; and third, Elain is up to something and no one knows what it is. Yes? 

First Act:

Elain doing her suspicious stuff and we as the reader find out what it is and can already see the negative implications

Lucien still taking the brunt of the work in the SC, which is still utter chaos.

BoE content: Vassa is agitated because her curse is nowhere near close to being broken and time is running out. 

The IC finds out what Elain is been up to. I do think it has something to do with her wanting to go back to her human self. Cue the confrontation.

Meanwhile with Lucien: Vassa might attempt something it triggers a magical response from Koshei, an attack or something. Maybe Beron decides to make a move to the SC given that Tamlin is absent as a ruler. I don’t know, the point is we get a confrontation scene that sees Tamlin die to protect Lucien. Everyone is in shock because the HL of Spring just died, without heirs and close relatives. Where did the power go?

Lucien starts to feel it, but then he realizes that it’s not because it is happening to him.

Cue to Elain having her “i want to be human again I don’t care the cost” rant at the IC. Amren will call her a stupid girl, because that’s what she does. Then the power flows to her and she’s going to be hella confused, everyone in the IC is stunned and when Elain asks wtf just happened, Feyre will say: Tamlin died (because she can feel the shift of power of spring due to the kernel of power of spring that she has), so that means and Rhysand finishes the thought by saying that Elain is the new High Lady of the Spring Court (and the first cauldron-chosen high lady)

This means that now she has more ties to this fae world and can’t simply abandon them.

We will have some discussion about what to do next and Elain is all like “I don’t want to be High Lady I didn’t even want to be fae”. Trust someone in the IC, maybe Amren (since she has no problem with saying what everyone else is thinking in the bluntest-maybe even rudest way), to say that having Elain be HL of Spring would make everyone’s life easier given the unified Prythian front they must once again have because of the Koshei threat. Maybe it will even be Azriel and they will have the E/lriel fallout...

Lucien arrives at the NC to talk to Elain or well something. 

News spread about what happened and they know that Elain’s claim (if she chooses to make it) to the SC is a tad shaky and not everyone will accept it. Beron is like the fuck if you think I will accept this human-turned fae claim. The SC is an strategic location and I will take it for myself because it will be useful fo my Koshei-agenda.

Eris arrives like hello my dad is about to move his army to the SC so now is the time to kill him

And Elain is still like “i don’t want it”. Think Jon Snow in GoT.

Cue an Archeron confrontation of “you can’t run away from your responsabilities// life is not neat and sometimes it will throw at you things you thought you wouldn’t have thought you’d needed to take on// take a stance for once and think beyond your own plants”.

Details are blurry but she is like I need to leave here (the NC) because no one has my best interest at heart they are just doing what it’s politically best. But who might have my best interest at heart? That’s right, Lucien. She asks him for help or to leave or whatever.

Lucien is a politician and a courtier but for once, for fucking once he will do something that’s not for political gain (for the court he represents). He will help her because he wants to see her at peace. They go to the human lands with BoE.

The first act ends with one dead Tamlin, one unsure Elain, one willing to help regardless of the decision Lucien, and one war focused Beron. 

Second act:

The BoE content we have all been waiting for 

Vassa might be weak from whatever happened and Jurian is all worried. 

They see Elucien arrive and are like 👀👀👀👀. Lucien glares at them in a “say anything and i will in fact kill you” way. 

Elain starts to open up and mentions that if anything it should be Lucien who’s the HL and not her because he knows the territory and it suits his skillset. All she wanted to do was have a quiet life and see the world. 

Lucien says that if he were to make a claim he would need even more support from other courts, because if Elain’s claim is shaky at best, then his is like ... not great.

They agree that Lucien should travel to other courts to gather support because regardless whether it’s Elain or Lucien who will ascend to the Spring throne, they will need it. Elain asks if she can go with him because, as she said, she wanted to see more of the world. 

We also get an Eris Vanserra visit - or several - and Lucien starts to realize that Eris knows waaaaaaaaaaaay more than he has lead on. And that they need to work together because again, regardless of who takes the throne, Beron will fight it, but if Eris is on the Autumn throne he would offer support to either. 

Cue the Lads tour of Prythian ft. Politics-courtier plotline and the “how the fuck are we going to help Vassa” side quest.

Elain starts to learn more about what it takes to be a High Lady and about the territory of Spring and its people.

During visits to other courts one or two members of the IC will pop in and out.

Elucien slow burn + court romance begins (We have nice balls with tension because that’s how Jane Austen would have wanted it and this is nothing if not an austenian romance).

Elan will learn about Jessminda (that’s her name right?)

Lucien and Elain have a heart to heart one day and Lucien is like “I’ve never had a home that is mine, i’ve always owed it to someone else or it comes because they see me as a political pawn”.

Eventually another heart to heart about the complex grief (if you will) that Lucien must be feeling for Tamlin. 

When we get to the Day Court, we get the baby news. Not only are they trying to gather Helion’s support but also to figure out a spell to save Vassa. Doing something with a spell Lucien and Helion find out. I imagine that Feysand is in the DC because they are trying to keep tabs on how Elain is feeling regarding her High Lady position and they wanted to meet somewhere neutral; and so is Eris, because things are getting out of hand at the AC so they are trying to see what they should do. Also Feysand are nosy bitches so of course they would be there.

After the reveal, Lucien is shooketh and leaves, Elain leaves after him. It is raining. They get wet and he stops when he arrives at a temple (we love a good P&P reference) Lucien starts the monologue of what does this mean, who am i, I’ve always been alone and Elain cuts in and says that maybe in the past he’s been alone but that he will never be again; Lucien turns to face her and she walks up to him and kisses him like the Cauldron intended when it made them mates. 

We Eluciens are starting getting our well deserved smutt dishes. 

Third act:

Elain is still  a tad unsure about being a High Lady, because all she ever heard was that she was good at being pretty and an ornament, that she was meant to be the supporting role. Lucien is like “babes fuck what your mom said but no matter what you choose, I will choose you”. 

Finally shit hits the fan at the AC so that’s where Elucien go and Helion.. because LoA is there and he says fuck it imma go help her Beron can go fuck himself.

However they do not arrive at the palace or something like that but to another location where we can finally have visual proof of what Eris has been up to. LoA appears. Her and Helion have a nice tête-a-tête. 

Vassa and Jurian are there too beause #WereGoingToNeedAllTheHelpWeCanGet

Elucien formally arrive to Beron’s court, as is the plan. 

The tension is absurd, the coup is about to happen, something goes wrong, they need to think of their feet, somebody gets hurt.. you know the usual stuff. 

They use the spell to free Vassa and in such release of power Beron is confused and weakened

Lady of Autumn delivers the killing blow. Beron dies, power goes to Eris and everyone is like did we win??

Eris makes the joke that whichever half of Elucien will make the claim to the SC he will support it. By this moment is clear that Elain will take up the role so we all have a good laugh.

Archeron sister reunion, congratulations all around. Maybe a celebration in the SC??? or maybe that’s too tacky given that the whole court is still a mess,

Happy ending?? oh wait there’s something more uh-oh, when freeing Vassa you also freed Koshei. Oh you thought you had weakened Koshei by killing is Prythian ally? think again. Koshei is a god of death that now has full access to his powers. 

The end. 

[aloneandforsakenbyfateandbyman]

A country that stays locked down most of the year is basically a dead/suicidal country. If you live in a country like that I would seriously advise you to leave. That’s a country that doesn’t give a shit about its own people and is a globalist shill who treats human beings like moveable pawns on a chessboard.

This is the whole west nowadays and there’ll eventually be some kind of economic crash bc rn the financial damage of this past 1.5 yrs is being swept under a rug. Actions = consequences and we shouldn’t have to pay the price for politicians’ games while they still get six figure salaries and celebrities still run around and travel and party. Why are they still filming Netflix movies during a pandemic?? Like lol wtf.

I’m working on leaving Canada but I’m trying to get financially stable before I can gtfo. This is just too cucked we can’t even drive around our own provinces to visit giant empty parks. But celebrities are still coming here to film Riverdale or whatever trash normies watch nowadays it’s such a joke.

Australia is the only other country on the cuck level of Canada, but at least they opened internally and people can move around within the country. Canada has basically just given a giant neverending “fuck you” to every citizen while Americans are literally partying rn. I’m gonna $$ up and fuck off but every country that’s pretending to open this summer will just go back into lockdown around September again lmfao at the joke world we live in. I feel like there’s no escape in the long run but still life is too short to be a caged rat forever.

[microwave-thoughts]

This is a country reveal lol because I'm mad today. So yeah I'm from Poland.

As a Slavic person I just kinda fucking need to rant because ughhh

The way American media shows Slavic people is so fucked up and its disgusting. If things like that happened to let's say Asian characters people would be fucking outraged but here no one gives a shit (I know there is a ton of problems when it comes to Asian characters I'm just saying that these problems at least get some attention from other groups of people)

They stereotype us so fucking much. Oh they are mean, drink a lot and are poor? What else are they scary and speak English with a very strong accent? They all fucking sound like me when I'm joking around and read English words in a Polish accent. That's not how English speaking Slavic people talk. I know because that's how you can describe all the people I know. You know why? We learn at least 3 languages (I'm really bad at languages so I know only 2 but learned French and German for a few years too) and end high school being able to communicate at least in our first language (obviously) and a second one (like 90% of the time it's English)

I will focus on Russians because they barely ever show other Slavic people (unless it's about ww2 then they will also include Jewish people that are Slavic/live in Slavic countries)

There are like 3 Russian characters. All of them are basically the same there's a sexualized woman, a scary woman and a scary man.

All American movies are anti Russian propaganda holy shit

Do I like Russian politicians and what is happening there? Fuck no. But making every villain Russian is so fucked up.

I was watching orange is the new black (didn't love it but idk it was fun) and they introduced Red and I thought that's a weirdly heavy accent for someone who's lived in USA most of her life. So I thought maybe the actress is Russian that would be cool I mean it's not like they hired an actress that isn't Russian (as always) and she did the strongest fucking accent even though it doesn't make sense for the story. Well guess what. Also her nickname was Red wtf. She was a tough scary older Russian woman wow where have I seen that before

And then I watched queen's gambit. Fun show, but something bothered me about the Russian character's accent. I knew he was a famous actor I recognized his face immediately but it didn't sound like an American actor trying to do a Russian accent. That's because it wasn't a Russian accent and it wasn't an American actor. I recognized him because he is Polish. They hired a Polish actor for no fucking reason to play a Russian man. And no one gives a shit. Again I feel kinda bad about comparing it because both are important problems but like when a let's say Japanese actor plays a Chinese character I keep seeing people getting so mad at it. And yet this happens all the time and no one gives a shit.

If you are a huge company making a huge movie/TV show then hire some actors that are actually the nationality your characters are. I'm so fucking sick of this shit. USA makes so many expensive movies and shit when in our countries there aren't many good movies for aspiring actors. Also there is a ton of immigrants in USA (including for example polish people) so like hire one of them it's not that fucking hard you will save money because they won't have to learn a new fucking language and accent.

Also about learning the language. They do not learn it. They always do awfully. I remember watching one of the x-men movies and Magneto was living in Poland or maybe he is polish? Idk. I mean he's Jewish so that's possible lol. Anyway I was watching the movie in English and when he started speaking Polish I had to turn subtitles on because I couldn't understand what the fuck he was saying. It wasn't polish that I'm sure. Like honestly it was so bad. I saw a compilation of American actors speaking polish once and I couldn't understand shit.

I have so much more to say about this so like

Don't stereotype Slavic people as drunk assholes that are evil 90% of the time and hire actors that are also Slavic (and not just any kind of Slavic holy shit I can't belive I have to specify that) and no I don't mean Americans whose grandma once fucked a Russian dude so they are "25% Russian" now. No one else in the world tells people where they are from this way so please fucking stop you are embarrassing yourself you couldn't find Russia on a map. Find actors that speak the language and understand the culture it's not that fucking hard and please ffs make the Slavic character an actual person not a bunch of stereotypes.

[storiesofsvu]

OC/SVU season premier thoughts:

They really missed the ball on not using Rita as Wheatley’s attorney….

The fucking theme song SLAPS

THIS mother fucker (sg brewster) has guest starred on SVU like three times already…

Sg Bell is SO HOT WOW.

Can we talk about how they just jumped two months, shoved Elliot undercover, ignoring the fact that he NEEDS THERAPY, and like.. where’s Eli?

Wait… what happened to Angela?? Why is she all crippled?? I’m so confused.

🙄🙄🙄🙄 “ohhhh its 2021, we cant have police brutality anymore, lets put Elliot undercover so he can beat the shit out of people” ffs…

Ooohhkay! Here’s Eli! Honestly, its a fucking dick move for Elliot to up and leave, going undercover and leaving Eli basically alone(? Hopefully with maureen/kathleen) right After he lost his Mom & uprooted his life back to NYC from ITALY!! Jesus

LESBIANS

MORE LESBIANS!!! AND A BEBE!!! AHHH. Thank fuck nothing has happened to her wife (yet…😒)

OKAY ONTO SVU!!

We SERIOUSLY open up with a MAKEOUT SESH?!! Jesus. “Is this even real?” 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 STOP.

“Sorry i’m late” YAY BRO CAUSE YOU WERE MAKING OUT WITH AMANDA.

Why are they doing this entire flipping/deal making so LATE??!

He BARELY tapped her car how did it fly off like that??

“Nothing sadder than white people celebrating themselves.” 😂😂💀💀 fin… you’re killin me

I dont trust this chief…. He’s giving me Hank Abram vibes… he’s all “we’re concerned about garland’s prev relationship..” DUDE, SVU took down Garland’s bestie PASTOR, and he had NO problem, he kept his head down & did his job🙄

These fade to blacks are strange & weird…

WHAT IS WITH SVU AND OVERSIZED BLAZERS??!! Kat is tiny!! This blazer LOOKS LIKE IT BELONGS TO BUCHANAN.

Love Fin, gotta always watch out for his bestie.

“A waste of a good hotel room”

SONNY CARISI!! KEEP YOUR THIRSTING THOUGHTS WHILE YOURE NOT TRYING TO BUST A SEX RING 💀💀💀💀

I’m 90% sure that extra is someone i follow on tik tok?? (She’s an actor, she was in Moulin Rouge on broadway)

KELLI GIDDISH IS SO FUCKING PRETTY 🥵

WHY IS RITA NOT HERE??? Like… who TF are these defence attorney’s?? Where is Rita?? Where is Buchanan?? Where is Langan??? (Spoiler alert… they were supposed to all be on for the defense & it got axed…)

GOD poor Garland!!! Im so mad about this bs…

This is LAZY FUCKING WRITING. This is the gallagher case all over again. Im not even fucking kidding! The convo at the da’s office was the EXACT same. The politician who’s cleaning house, who’s all “scoff… im a politician… you cant do this” like… reread your old scripts before writing new ones. We couldve had three hours of Rita…

Amanda: can you… take a break? Sonny, PLEASE, she’s so fucking cute how can you say no??!!

This detective is gonna replace Kat, isnt he? Okay…. Maybe not… do we trust him?

This bastard just *snapped* at them & i lost ALL respect I had left for him.

NO!! NO!! I FUCKING KNEW SOMETHING WAS GOING TO HAPPEN TO OUR BABY. FUCK. PLS LET HER LIVE.

OMG FIN THAT JOKE 😂😂💀💀

I UNDERSTAND there’s a lot of other shit going on, but EVERYONE was at the hospital for Mike, and NO ONE is there for Kat??!! Fucking bullshit…

CELINE AND KAT STILL DIDNT GET A LIP KISS??? WTF???

Who is the bitch with sonny? The new bureau cheif? *bring back casey*

Omg ROLLISI IS SO FUCKING CUTE OMG

FUCK KAT LEAVING. Like, yes, I get it canon wise & her being all ✌🏻but LORD.

Omg… rollisi is going to murder me…THEYRE SO CUTE OMG

“Real rapes”

EXCUSE ME??!! I KNEW I HATED

THIS ASSHAT

[wild-at-mind]

It’s funny because I would actually describe my political views as pretty radical. However I don’t talk about it much online because the way it seems to be normal to talk about these things online is just utterly noxious to me. Sorry to use an old fashioned word but it fits the best. Like, physically repellant. The first thing is the very black and white thinking, it triggers a part of my brain (that maybe is the OCD or maybe the Evangelical church or a toxic combination of both) that causes me to emotionally seize up almost immediately.

Then there is the endless belittling of anyone who slightly disagrees or you just don’t like. It’s all funny online shit and memes I guess but to me it’s so toxic. It says to me ‘if you become friendly with us, this will be you if you even slightly step out of line’. Or if it’s not belittling, it’s the refusal to interpret anything other than in the absolute extreme it can possibly be, like a few weeks ago when someone told me anonymously that I must be a nationalist defender because I said it’s not nationalism for Biden to address the American people and express hope for a better US after the Capitol Hill riots. I’m not even American but I don’t feel I was wrong to say that, like, I’m so glad some people can survive on a diet of endless unadulterated misery and pessimism but as I may have expressed before, that would kill me! (Or even if the sentiment doesn’t work for you personally 1. he was addressing  an entire, gigantic country, and 2. you are still jumping to the worst possible and most extreme conclusion about what he is saying. What is the benefit here?) Meanwhile, all the funny online shit and guilletine memes goes on and on. We all tweet rat emojis at the gay politician, it’s so funny and no one has a problem with it (because we will nudge them out of our cliche if they do), and the actual specifics of what we want and what we are trying to do, to be, as leftists, are never fucking talked about! I’m going to assume in good faith that some of the people talk about it with their irl organising groups but many people are not in a place they can meet with fellow leftists on their doorstep (i.e. me) and they came online to try and learn more that way, and this is what they got. What I think I find most difficult is how easily misinformation spreads through a kind of exaggeration, that cannot be corrected because if you do you look like you are defending the action being talked about. It always goes like: ‘X politician did this really bad, awful thing!’ ‘Actually, this is misinformation. What he did was this slightly less bad thing.’ ‘Oh, I suppose you think slightly less bad thing is ok then??!!’ Like, there’s not much argument with that, is there? The 2nd person really does look like they are defending the slightly less bad thing, even if their intention was just to correct misinformation, because of a quirk of how arguments work. What I rarely see talked about is why on earth is the 1st person putting out exaggerations like this, which you often see happening over and over again in political online spaces, and should they be held accountable for that? If slightly less bad thing is very bad, surely it will stand on its own if described accurately and not exaggerated? The worst part I think is how at some point online leftists seem to have decided all discussion of racism is meaningless idpol?! Like, I fully support the movement to root out TERFish ideology in lefty online spaces, but for gods sake why is there not a similar one to boot out this kind of quasi-racists in leftism? I think it’s because it spoils the fun if someone actually says ‘that joke about a person of colour who is in power doesn’t hit the same as it does about a white person, in fact it is offensive, even if that person of colour is in a position of power. If you are white maybe avoid that kind of joke towards ANY person of colour’. I have no idea how this shift happened, I understand a lot of anti-racism blogs on here went inactive when a lot of blogs did during the drop-off in users, but that was more of a reaction to the changing userbase than the cause of it. I’ve been here a long time and it has changed so much, the way people talk about racism, it’s like people think it barely matters in their leftist ideology now. Wtf?? For the above reasons I really feel that tumblr is no longer a good place for political stuff (and twitter definitely isn’t x10000000), leftist meme culture in general is very frustrating for me on any platform (e.g. my facebook feed during the last general election) and I think the best idea for me to learn and grow at this point is to get back to the primary texts these people are doing a very bastardised version of and work from there. It’s hard because part of me kind of believes that the only reason I think this is because the truth is I really am the very essence of the liberal they all hate. But that isn’t reflected in my politics at all! So what does it even mean?

[marvelsswansong]

The comments you got on your Seb post are a joke 🙄 why is it so hard to hold their favs accountable when they do something stupid? Sebastian was being hypocritical. No need for “oh but Spain is open” or “none of your business” if the majority of the world is in crisis from careless actions then guess what, it is our business.

Please don't read the comments or angry rants on the post, it's just draining and unproductive. They're more concerned with calling me and anyone who agrees with me ignorant, jealous, unable to mind our own business, childish than actually considering that we're holding a man accountable for his hypocrisy, privilege and moral wrongdoings.

That said a few of them were more so concerned with the idea of us being mad at him traveling (ie balance of tourism and letting the economy grow during a time of a pandemic) but I think their anger is misplaced. They should take that shit up with healthcare professionals and politicians, after all that's a macro issue and we're mad at the micro issue of Seb being a hypocrite and endangering people and abusing his privilege.

That said now it's coming out Chris H, Chris E, Anthony.... a lot of the Marvel actors were seen breaking basic Corona guidelines so like wtf are we even supposed to do. This definitely makes me like them less but I personally still stan them all.

[epitethot]

Let's make a comprehensive list of Italian characteristics (yeah I'm talking about stereotypes, but not just that):

- pasta, pizza & anything food related, which will cause literal wars between family members (be it the name of some Carnival related foods or the choice between two of the most known Christmas foods in Italy - obviously this is just an example, you may find arancin@ too)

- collective hyperfixation with soccer, but only the male version of this sport, because "girls can't play soccer"

- sexism and objectification everywhere (this obviously majorly affects women, but men aren't exempt)

- misogyny. You can find it in politics, religion, laws... Just lots of misogyny.

- people voting the worst idiot of year instead of actual representatives

- know-it-alls who haven't got any degrees (tuttologi)

- gay, but make it homophobic

- still unsure about what a transgender person is, but transphobic anyway

- lots of blasphemy, even from "religious" people (misogynistic homophobic racist bigots)

- blasphemy as a culturally relevant tradition (Tuscany & Veneto only)

- politicians meme harder than gen z's

- we have a funeral services firm whose SMM makes even funnier memes and could rule Italy way better than the people we elected

- we don't actually vote, we put photos of our representatives on the game of darts and start playing

- lots of people studying Economics/Law but nobody paying attention to them, because they know better (tuttologi part 2)

- we are racists, islamophobes, antisemites and xenophobes already, but since this doesn't seem enough, we hate Italians too

- pretty much no Catholic person goes to church

- Cathobigots will say that the Pope is wrong

- we are still weebs & really can't get over Mazinga Z and other old mecha anime

- nor can we forget about Cat's Eyes (this anime was important for many Italians' sexuality actually)

- *insert here other vintage anime's Italian intros*

- we joke about anything because our lives are jokes too (politically incorrect ones, if I may add)

- we feel emotions too deeply or maybe it's just that the rest of the world is made of ugly shits, because we are in fact perfect

- we are beautiful/handsome, people from other countries are not.

- fatphobic & proud

- we have fashion & art & the highest number of UNESCO sites, hence we must be the best

- ok, nope, we aren't, but it's because I hate my neighbor

- and I hate every other Italian

- no, literally, I'm not joking, people here are still fighting for things that happened during the Middle Ages

- wtf is Italy, we don't even recognize our regions.

- bipolar, bisexual, bdsm... We like words that start with the letter b

- we may be bad, but at least we clean our asses. (I'M A BIDET STAN)

- no place is like home, so now we'll start complaining.

[migictertle]

On Another Humans Are Weird Tangent...

Yo, imagine how Aliens would react to our generations humor in general. Like, I could see how they maybe get along with people pre-1990-ish, like their humor is kinda normal. But just pointing at a garbage can and saying “me” or our constant jokes about wanting to die. Our super vague humor things that make no sense to older people but perfect sense to us. Like, they would first get in contact with older people (politicians, political leaders, business people) but then imagine they meet us afterwards, after using the previous generations as study mechanisms for learning about humans.

They think they know what to expect, and then millennials and Gen Z just hit them like a truck, they don’t know what to do. Like, humans are already weird, but my god are WE WEIRD-WEIRD!!!!

Alien to his crew: “Remember, humans are weird, but they can joke around. Just act normal and I’m sure we’ll do fine.”

Person pre-1990ish: “and that’s why the chicken crossed the road. Hahaha.”

Aliens having similar ‘normal jokes’ in their society: “Hahahaha.”

Millennials/Gen Z: “I hate you, you hate me, lets get together and kill Barney...”

Millennials/Gen Z pointing at the smoking corpse of some alien enemy: “Mood.”

Millennials/Gen Z showing the aliens one of those really obscure means: “This is me on a spiritual level.”

Millennials/Gen Z after slightly failing at something insignificant: “I hate myself. I don’t deserve to live. I am a waste of space and my existence is a curse to this universe.”

Millennials/Gen Z two secs later after managing to throw a grape in the air and catch it in their mouth: “I am god and all shall bow down before me. I am amazing, the supreme, the perfect being.”

Aliens: “...........................wtf??????????”

[blazehedgehog]

Ghostbusters 3?

I was thinking about the new Ghostbusters movie today, and how they’re constantly pitching it as “righting the wrongs” of the Paul Feig movie. This started out as me wanting to post a couple of generic plot predictions but ended up being a cliffnotes version of a full movie.

I spent long enough writing this weird thing that I figure I should dump it somewhere, so enjoy this extremely truntcated fanfiction for what I’d do for a modern day Ghostbusters 3 set in 2019.

Things to note: I have not yet seen the 2016 Paul Feig movie, so if i I end up retreading some ground with this, it was purely by accident (I don’t know, honestly).

Also, this might not seem terribly funny, but it’s a summary. Jokes come from the details.

Anyway, here we go:

An early 20 something encounters a big, mean, extra-scary ghost out in the boonies after a power outage.

Somebody recommends the Ghostbusters

“Who?”

Can't find any record of them.

Finds an old, busted, poorly designed website from the 90s with broken images.

Lists a phone number, but its disconnected.

Lists a FAX number, so the kid tries it, and somebody picks up. We don’t hear who it is.

They arrange a meeting.

It's an aged Ray Stanz, who identifies himself as the last Ghostbuster

Lives alone in a tiny cluttered apartment in the bad part of town.

He’s a little jaded.

“Some of us aren't even alive anymore, and they didn't turn in to ghosts...”

He doesn't believe the kid about his encounter, the ghosts they busted of old were a psychokinetic reaction to excess paranormal energy radiating from big bads.

They busted Gozer and Viggo, so that means no more ghosts, no more work, and no more money.

He afforded his apartment by selling the firehouse.

Kid gets upset, throws the “we're ready to believe you” line in Ray's face

Ray begrudgingly agrees to check it out.

They drive Ecto-1 over, it barely runs.

Kid discovers all four proton packs still loaded in the back, Ray explains what they are on the trip there. Explains they are very dangerous, but won’t say why.

Ray's assumptions are right, and he sees nothing at the kid's place.

Suddenly the PK-E meter spikes in a weird way.

Ray brushes it off as the old tech malfunctioning.

He even gives it to the kid as a souvenir.

He thanks the kid in a bittersweet way, as if he hoped there were ghosts, and leaves.

It's revealed the kid stole a proton pack.

The big mean ghost returns.

Kid tries to bust it himself with the stolen pack, starts a fire.

Ray comes back for the proton pack, sees the ghost, helps the kid trap it

Meanwhile the house burns down.

Ray: “Sorry about that. You handle the pack well though!”

Kid stays with Ray until he can get back on his feet.

Kid sees all of Ray's GB stuff around the apartment. Tobin's Spirit Guide, etc.

Ray gets cagey when kid finds open book on a spirit world.

Ray believes the ghost they encountered was a one off event.

Until the phone rings. (It’s an old land line telephone, maybe even rotary)

More ghosts are showing up.

Ray has to teach the kid how to bust ghosts

Suddenly they're swamped with calls

Training Montage

Have to hire a secretary, get a bigger space, hire more GBs (chubby guy, super nerd obsessed with the GBs, and a girl. Expect a low hanging fruit joke about the girl.)

The GBs have to modernize: they get a new website, mobile app

Get the containment unit out of storage

Ray gives them proton pack lessons, tells them to NEVER cross the streams, because it creates a dangerous feedback loop.

Ray: “It would make Hiroshima look like a wet fart.”

The GBs are back in business

But where are the ghosts coming from?

Kid remembers what Ray told him about Gozer and Viggo fueling the increase in activity.

Ray is happy to see Ghostbusters thriving again, tells the kid to worry about the big bad later.

New Recruit GBs are exhausted and ghosts are getting more aggressive

Kid tells the other new recruits to take the night off, even GBs have to take self-care days

Kid finds Ray in the basement of the new GBHQ trying to summon ghosts using some kind of a ghost beacon device

Kid asks WTF

Ray explains he was always wondering what happens to us when we become ghosts

He always figured that if any of the GBs died, their ghosts would contact him from the other side, but that never happened.

He figures maybe they got lost, somehow, but he doesn’t really know.

His research says that when people become ghosts, they change somehow. Some ghosts become pure representations of emotions, or they repeat events from before their death, or any number of things.

So he was hoping to use the ghost beacon as a way to guide his fallen GB friends to him.

He built the device by reading up on occult books and Spengler’s notes.

He turned it on for the first time on the same night the Kid encountered his ghost.

Unfortunately, it’s been bringing the wrong ghosts in from the spirit world in.

Kid explains THIS is where all the ghosts are coming from

Ray knows, but they were making so much money that stopping it or shutting down the device was a secondary priority.

The beacon doesn’t look very safe. It’s clearly getting out of control, as bigger and meaner ghosts are coming through.

Ray says everything is fine, he knows what he's doing, as long as the new recruits keep catching the escaped ghosts, nothing will go wrong.

This entire time, Ray hasn’t been paying attention to a build up of energy generated by the beacon.

It short circuits, blowing a hole open between our world and the spirit world.

Ghosts begin pouring out of the portal as it widens, and widens, and widens.

It swallows the entire building

Kid just barely gets out, but Ray is lost to the vortex.

Kid has to get the new recruits together and venture in to the spirit world to get Ray back and close the vortex

The spirit world is a lot like our world, mirrored, but skewed somewhat and with spooky lighting.

In the spirit world they encounter all kinds of weird ghosts

Some look like see through people, others are more animated and esoteric creatures

A few ghosts recognize the GBs as human and beg them for their bodies

The GBs have to escape

Run in to Slimer in an alley, who gives one a big sloppy hug before realizing they're just kids in the jumpsuits

Slimer directs them to Ray

Ray is now a slimer-esque ghost

“That's Ray?” The ghost gets super excited seeing the proton packs. “Yeah, it's him.”

How can they close the portal now? Ray's dead and his ghost is of no help

They find the beacon, and the book Ray used to build it

Nerdy recruit understands how to reverse the process

He begins tinkering with the device, but Ghost Ray sees this and steals it, flying off

Ghosts are representation of our pure I'd, Ray doesn't know what he's doing, just that the beacon is his

They corner Ray's ghost, to which his response is to switch the beacon on

The modifications aren't done, so it goes haywire

Ray absorbs hundreds of ghosts and turns into a giant monster ghost

“That's not Ray anymore.”

New GBs have to retrieve the device before the monster absorbs so many ghosts it reaches critical mass and explodes, destroying both dimensions

They retrieve the beacon, but it doesn't have enough power to reverse the process, and the monster is getting so big it's pulling ghosts in on its own

They have to cross the streams.

They set up the beacon under the portal, aim all the proton packs at it, and cross two streams

Waves of beacon energy ripple through the spirit world

The ghost monster feels it and turns around, reaching a hand out to stop it

The hand melts in to raw ectoplasm (slime)

It splashes at the Ghostbusters feet, but they keep crossing more streams. The beacon grows brighter, the waves more intense

Slime splashes into the portal, and the PK energy causes it to fluctuate and grow

Soon the whole ghost world begins to melt in to slime from the beacon’s waves.

The proton packs start to run out of juice

The portal is huge now, it's sucking in the remnants of the monster

Suddenly the portal is big enough that it picks up the beacon, which circles it like it's caught in a swirling drain

The portal, beacon and crossed streams combine in to a massive explosion of light and slime

The GBs are suddenly standing in the human world again, everything across the block is covered in ectoplasm.

Where their building was is just a smoking crater.

The police come and arrest the GBs, confiscate all their gear, they spend the night in jail

What happened to the spirit world? What happened to all the ghosts? What happened to Ray?

Bailiff comes in, somebody posted bail, they're free to go.

It's Venkman. After it was clear the GBs weren't coming back, he became a politician.

He's a very successful senator now.

He knows all of this wasn’t really their fault. He’d been keeping tabs on Ray for years, knew something like this was inevitable.

He offers the new GBs a job cleaning up all the ghosts that spilled out of the portal before it collapsed.

Government work. Steady pay. A dedicated tech budget. All property damage debts paid in full.

They agree.

Post credits: The new recruits are setting up their new office. The kid brings in and sets down Ray’s old rotary phone, which the other recruits give him funny looks for. He says it’s not hooked up or anything, it’s just a memento.

They all admire the new GB offices, having proven themselves as the next generation.

They turn the lights out, and head home for the first night as the new Ghostbusters.

Pull in close on the Ray’s old rotary phone…

...as it rings.

[amwritingmeta]

15 Questions 15 Mutuals

I was tagged by @fuckedupasusual @assbuttboyfriends @misskittyspuffy @nerdylittleshit @casismybestfriend - you guys are the bee’s knees. *heart eyes and thank you!*

Are you named after anyone?

I was named for the second star on the right. (okay no I’m not starting on a lie) (but I fervently wish I had been named after that star) (I also fervently wish the second star on the right actually was known as Annelie) (like how cool would that be?) (fuck I think my Peter Pan complex is showing)

When was the last time you cried?

Last night I had a dream that I was out at night walking around aimlessly in a strange city - I think I was lost, trying to find my way back to my hotel - and I was in this really rough neighbourhood and it was like the animals who have no homes had all come out after dark and they were malnourished and lonely and these two cats were huddling together and a really skinny dog was scavenging for food in a bag of trash and suddenly I was the only passenger on a bus that was driving really fast towards those two cats huddling in the middle of the road and the bus drove right over them even though I screamed for the driver to watch out - but they were okay - I just felt this overwhelming sorrow and I was crying then. Does that count? It’s technically the last time I cried.

Do you have kids?

I have eleven children. Oh, I’m not joking, but I’m making the statement wildly out of context. How what why you say? I’ve been a nanny, on and off, since I was 18 and I’ve taken care of 11 kids over the years, if you can believe that. (the Captain Hook complex comes with the gig)

Do you use sarcasm a lot?

I’m sorry what?

What’s the first thing you notice about people?

Well, before I can notice anything about them I gotta make sure they actually are people, right? I’m all with the holy-water-hand-washing and silver coins on the floor and coughing things that would antagonise them if they should prove not to be people, yeah? Can’t just look at someone and think, oh, a person, how nice. Jesus. Have you learned nothing? (fuck my trust issues are showing)

What’s your eye color?

Blue.

Scary movie or happy ending?

This question implies they are mutually exclusive and I take issue. ;)

Any special talents?

I’m exceptionally good at making pancakes. (I can mix the batter by heart and I inherited my grandma’s frying skills so) (nuff said is all I’m saying)

Where were you born?

In a hospital. I wish I could say something original like on a slope while my mum was out for her winter morning hike (my mum would not have been) or on the roof of our house because mum was so busy cloud-reading that she didn’t even register labour (my mum totally registered she was having baby pains like ow) (also wtf is cloud-reading?). Anyway. Truth it is, hospital it was.

What are your hobbies?

Hobbies are meant to be active, right? 

Have any pets?

I did. Thanks for reminding me I don’t anymore. Okay, sorry, I joke, kinda. I do still miss our cats like mad and it always feels a little empty going back home to visit my parents without our cuddly kitties there to lie on my face when sleeping or come tap me on the shoulder while sat at the computer. The little darlings.

What sports have you or do you play?

I don’t understand the question. This question should be what sports have you or do you like to watch, btw. Just throwing that in there. (hockey all the way)

How tall are you?

Tall. Majorly tall. Like so tall that I just put my hand up and reach ceilings everywhere all the time. I’m imposing. I’m telling you. I’m the friend you want to have next to you in a dark alley at night. Also, that’s because I know about how to look at people and not just think oh, a person, how nice. STREET SMARTS via SPN.

Favorite school subject?

Anything practical tbh. Like, seriously, on the real tip, I loved woodwork and sewing (we did have actual sewing class up until we were 16) and art. I don’t know, I guess the only class I ever really wanted to get the fuck out of was maths, and it wasn’t that I hated maths, we just had the most boring teacher everrrrrrr so I traded the points I would have made for my grade taking maths for the extra points I made joining the school choir. Yup. (stay in school kids) (or don’t) (or do and join the student body and work towards promoting change in the educational system because the politicians clearly don’t know wtf they’re doing no matter where in the world you’re attending school) (fuck yeah my sociopolitical eye rolling is showing like wtf is wrong with our leaders rn??) (we gotta step up and teach the clueless ones who drag down the clued in ones how the fuck to to their) (sorry)

Dream job?

I’m lucky enough that I’m doing one of my dream jobs atm, which is working as a reader (while keeping an eye on a couple of kiddies to actually make rent) but I’m also working my ass off calmly and collectedly towards being able to write full time. I have high flying and idealistic ideas of how stories can change us and how, if they can change us, then they can help change the world, too. We live our lives through narrative connection, trying to make sense of things, it’s how our brains are wired, so I can’t imagine not utilising narrative for purposes that go far beyond telling a straightforward story. This is, sincerely, the main reason for why I’m right here, right now, hooked on what SPN is doing. Did this question morph into my dream job being related to SPN? Hmh. 

I know some of you peeps probably don’t want to do this so feel free, of course, to ignore, but I’m tagging you: @elizabethrobertajones @studio82a @thevioletcaptain @blueskysammy @deletingpoint @daughter-of-the-rain-and-snow @when-in-doubt-sing @godshipsit @helianthus21 @purgatory-jar @myed89 @winchester-reload @elicedraws @wigglebox @mittensmorgul @kayanem @rosewhipped22 @paperwhitenarcissus and anyone who wants to join in, I would tag all of you, you know I would, and I’m sure I’m going to post this and then go oh I wanted to tag THEM too, so to everyone not on here - you should be. :)  <3

[kateanddevinreview]

London Has Fallen

In which Kate and Devin write a porno

Devin: Okay, so this movie is just Gerard Butler being a badass right? Is this the one with Denzel Washington? Or are neither of those things right.

Kate: It’s something like that.

Devin: Well, Butler showed up in the credits, but so did morgan freeman?

Kate: It’s a trifecta!!

Devin: Or maybe I'm just racist and mixed them up.

Kate: Or maybe it’s the two of them being badass together.

Devin: I made some comment the other day about minorities being underrepresented at the oscars or something and they asked what actors I think should win instead and I blanked on literally every minority actor I knew.

Kate: Hahahah. It’s still true though. And to be fair, could you name any white actors?

Devin: My brain got stuck on Tom Hardy and forgot literally every other actor on earth

Kate:I think he’s on tv now anyway. So far this movie is starting a bit slow. Do you think someone is going to be shot soon?

Devin: I find it weird that we are in....India?

Kate:  I think we’re at an Indian wedding. Terrorist’s daughter is getting married

Devin: This is set up for motive?

Kate: Probs

Devin: The Phantom of the Opera and Harvey Dent go for a jog

Kate: Why are politicians always running? I don’t think they do that much

Devin: I think cause DC? it's an easy excuse to pan around the lawn

Kate: Ok well fine, coming at me with movie reasons. Wait, is this a sequel?

Devin: Is it? Was the last one just called "London"?

Kate: I was thinking Gerald saved a president in the last one?

Devin: She has crazy eyes

Kate: She does but she’s pregnant

Devin:  I'll forgive it if we get through this movie without her vomiting.

Kate:  She’s in like her third tri already so she really shouldn’t

Devin:  Google says this is a sequel, to Olympus Has Fallen. Lots of stuff falling apparently

Kate: Knew it!!! I’ve seen that one too

Devin: Really? I'm guessing last time he saved President Harvey Dent from terrorists, wooed or impregnated his wife, and got hired for secret service or unfired from secret service

Kate: Unfired, if it’s what I’m thinking of

Devin: This time he'll save the Prime Minister from terrorists, see his kid born, and...uh. Be knighted? That's my guess

Kate: Seems like a totally logical guess to me. I’m betting he discovers the Prime Minister was murdered. I don’t think people are expected to attend state funerals?

Devin: I think it's cause his vice isn't available? I think normally this is the kind of thing they send him for. But I am basing that on episodes of Madam Secretary so who knows

Kate: New guess!! President is killed and Butler has to protect Freeman

Devin: Hmmm. Maybe. Is Freeman the Vice?

Kate: Yes. He said “Hello, Mr VP”

Devin: I'm missing like half of this dialogue, idk how

Kate: Cause it’s boring

Devin: I want splosions!

Kate: This baby melodrama music is not my favorite. Once again I feel like writing is letting us down?

Devin: Yeah. Be better hollywood!

Kate: Also important people shouldn’t just sign shit without looking at it

Devin: is this the fringe guy? No. Who is he? He's someone

Kate: I think? No?

Devin: Fringe guy is similar but different. Oh! The Magicians? Magicians teacher guy?

Kate: No, definitely not him

Devin: IMDBing....

Kate: “Most protected event on earth”= everyone will die

Devin: Yup. This cast listing order is stupid. Do we know British Gerard Butler's name?

Kate: You mean the head of the British security? Also no. Also I think they’re going to use kids?

Devin: Yes, British guy. Mr. Sands! From Limitless. Thanks wikipedia, for your superior cast list

Kate: Limitless. That’s right, I never watched much of that

Devin: I really liked the main guy and all the arts and crafts in that show. I'm sad it was cancelled. Also we should add the movie to our review list

Kate: Yes!

Devin: Splosion! I didn't think those guards were supposed to have real guns? Then again EMTs should definitely not have rocket launchers

Kate: Hahaha, yeah, those cops are definitely plants. It’s clearly a very well orchestrated attack

Devin: Pretty sure only america gives their cops guns. Also, rocket launcher

Kate: Wow I don’t care how this movie ends the world would not recover from this

Devin: Yeah Kate, it's fallen. Show. Us. The. Egg. It's not London unless I see the big glass egg and the ferris wheel

Kate: How did they know that one president wouldn’t leave on time?

Devin: Trackers? Or they caused the traffic?

Kate: No, he decided?

Devin: Motorcycles, a car's only weakness

Kate: Nice driving!

Devin: Don't injure civilians!

Kate: Ummmm, Devin. I think that ship has sailed.

Devin: He rammed the bad guy into a non bad guy car!

Kate: Oh fuck. Ok so who is the black lady? Is she the First Lady?

Devin: Voight buddy, you could have moved. He's the driver, she's the head of secret service

Kate: He was driving! It was a bullet! Give him some credit. Is she?

Devin: Yes. According to wikipedia

Kate: She’s not doing much. And she hunkered with the president?

Devin: Right? Stop flailing. Where is your gun, woman?

Kate: Oh god. That was brutal

Devin: That was very brutal

Kate: Why didn’t they park closer to the chopper?

Devin: Crashing in 3...2...oh ok nvm

Kate: Hahaha

Devin: He's got a cane so you know he's evil

Kate: So true

Devin: Moral of this movie: don't trust the handicapped

Kate: And yet, they didn’t detect a plan of this magnitude

Devin: Uh, did those people just have labels?

Kate: Yes. NSA and something else

Devin:  Like, movie? Movie. We do not care

Kate: I’m assuming it will be important later?

Devin: Why is the lady not doing anything?

Kate: Nice, flares! I like flares. Why are they flying so low anyway?

Devin: I got distracted googling the secret service

Kate: Anything pertinent to share?

Devin: Apparently the director just does the boring shit, so idk why she's even here

Kate: Ummmm, I think the movie should end here?

Devin: Yes they all died. The End

Kate: No way anyone survived that. I call bullshit

Devin: Also, I assumed presidents would have like one guy their whole time in office? But apparently they hire someone new a lot. Oh she dead.

Kate: For the secret service?

Devin: As director. Like Obama had 2

Kate: I mean, that’s four years for each

Devin: Trump has already had 2. The first guy for like 2 months? 1 month?

Kate: Well, Trump does that a lot. He’s had like 8 communication directors

Devin: I just wonder if they choose to leave or if the president purposefully swaps them out

Kate: Also working for the president is really intense, so maybe you just burn out and have to leave

Devin: Makes sense. The local biker gang is here

Kate: I don’t think bikes make that noise. That is dumb

Devin: Yes. Also no one checked the wreck

Kate: At least we know from earlier scenes they are fast runners!

Devin: This looks like he put his manifesto on youtube

Kate: What point is there in entertaining this phone call? Also why does he care about one president?

Devin: Imagine if he called before they watched the video! Like 5 minutes earlier

Kate: Right? He should take the uniform too

Devin: 

"Who is this?"

"It's...seriously? You didn't see my video?"

"h/o googling it"

"It's on youtube"

"yeah one sec, gotta sit through this 50 shade of grey trailer"

Kate: Ahhhhhhh Being hunted by motorbikes!! Oh no

Devin: Sure, that's subtle. Also this is a regular subway

Kate: I like that he was able to loot the body for weapons. Very practical

Devin: Jesus Gerard Butler. WTF? You went from zero to torture in no time

Kate: I know, little intense. Definitely running on adrenaline

Devin: This is the most 'murrican fucking movie. You cannot convince me that huge squads of racists didn't come out of this movie going "rah rah ‘murrica"

Kate: Oh god. Unfortunately yes

Devin: Although these talky bits suck. I'd rather have more fighting. Oh, thanks label, I really cared what time it was

Kate: Everyone is dead, that’s what this discussion is. I mean surrender and then ambush. How many people do they think there are? You’re not going to be professional right now? Weird

Devin: Blah blah blah. Bitch it was a wedding. Of course his family was there

Kate: How did you not know his family was there? It was a wedding. So dumb

Devin: What even is the point of that dialogue? There better be drugs in his water or something

Kate: What kind of shoddy intel are you all operating on? This is dumb. Do criticize if necessary. You have to teach them. Also off color jokes?

Devin: "You know what's most important Mike? Children. That's why we are never going to spend time with ours in any subsequent movie."

Kate: Of course it’s not your delta team.

Devin: Yeah why was that message not in code?

Kate: Zoom in!

Devin: Enhance! Your safe house has a fucking skylight!?

Kate: Seems like a pretty lame safe house. Oh this is gross

Devin: This movie is very gratuitous with its gore

Kate: It really is. And president you should not have done that. You are not almost out of this by any long shot

Devin:  There must be a porno of this where they fuck right then

Kate:  Did all of MI6 just die?

Devin: I'm not going to lie, that weird pirate porno you made us watch that one time is better than this movie

Kate: Haha! Oh pirates. Also my taste is terrible because I still enjoy this

Devin: I don't believe the hackers would make this basic of a mistake

Kate: No, me neither

Devin: Also driving seems like the quickest way to be spotted?

Kate: They kept everything under the radar but you didn’t notice this earlier?

Devin: Ok I guess at least the car is bulletproofed

Kate: How many of these terrorists are there supposed to be?

Devin: It's just the same 4 guys, they're really fast. They keep healing when they're off screen

Kate: Seems like an infinite supply. Mutants!! Also Mike is still somehow always faster

Devin: Now I want an action movie where 3/4 of the way through you realize he's been re-killing the same 5 guys over and over and surprise! it's really a fantasy/horror movie!

Kate: That would be so good. Change the whole game. I do oddly think this would make a good porno with very very little change

Devin: It's cause there's so much standing really close while breathing heavily and the plot is basically just as thin

Kate: Yeah pretty much. It’s a male romance novel

Devin: Also there have been.....5 women? in this entire movie. 6, I guess. Wife, mother, secret service director, beehive, assistant cop, MI6

Kate: Assistant cop?

Devin: Black lady?

Kate: I don’t remember her

Devin: She was in the bullpen with not!Fringe guy

Kate: Ok sure

Devin: Oh, ok, and random lady who had a text label I didn't read

Kate: There was the turning 30 woman and one lady head of state.

Devin: Still, none of these people shooting right now? There's like 20 guys in this scene!

Kate: Nope. Can’t have women in harm’s way unless they don’t have a choice. Also no lady terrorists

Devin: Only lady terrorists allowed are dead motivation ones

Kate: Also I’m subbing lady because it’s faster to type than woman

Devin: Agreed

Kate: Omg. Whispered “Mike.” Straight out of a romance novel

Devin: What? Are you ahead of me or did I miss it?

Kate: Maybe? The president whispered it

Devin: No! I must have missed the Mike whisper

Kate: He should be really tired by now. He didn’t have dinner!

Devin: "Hear that? My boyfriend is coming"

Kate: He really should just kill the president. It doesn’t make sense not to

Devin: There is so much manly eye contact and face holding

Kate: So much

Devin: Like I'm pretty sure almost this exact sequence happened in Outlander

Kate: In the porn there would be a scene where the president seduced him, Mike walked in on it, and then they have a threesome

Devin: With the bad guy?

Kate: Yup

Devin: That seems like it would be out of place plot wise. Would the bad guy turn himself in or something?

Kate: No. Just random sex that doesn’t make sense

Devin: Weird. The sex should make sense!

Kate: It’s for real a thing that happens in porn, you get whiplash. Oh god. This is lame. Really?

Devin: One punch where he runs all the way across the screen. So stupid

Kate: Did we learn who the brit mole was?

Devin: Nope. They hacked the police station I think? Damn! Wheelchair guy didn't even get to make a speech about how bad America is. This movie is not even pretending to care about America's mistakes

Kate: Why didn’t he just shoot everyone?

Devin: Out of bullets?

Kate: He hasn’t run out of guns until now

Devin: What even is this dialogue right now?

Kate: Really dumb

Devin: "You fuck with America? OH HELL NO. WE BAT SHIT. WE WILL FUCKING MURDER ALL Y'ALL."

Kate: America’s not even 500. Witty banter!

Devin: "EVEN OUR PRESIDENT WILL PICK UP A GUN FOR MURDER TIME"

Kate: Also he’s not dead because you haven’t killed him?

Devin: Yeah you just punched him a bit and talked nonsense

Kate: Once again, another thing they wouldn’t have survived.

Devin: I feel like the porno version of this has them go back to their wives at the end with lots of meaningful looks and sly smiles between the two main dudes. Like "yeah, we'll do this again next mission"

Kate:  Oh no! But yes probably. Why was there a lock in an elevator?

Devin: Is the president the only one alive from this whole thing? They would definitely make out in this elevator

Kate: I think one other world leader survived? There was a missing link to the terrorist?

Devin: I guess?

Kate: Who sent a fucking video?

Devin: Honestly this plot is stupid Yeah he's def the mole. Also he's running away? Like he obviously did it

Kate: Are we supposed to care about him or her? Because I do not

Devin: They would have had sex earlier in the porno

Kate: Yeah. It would have made more sense. Just kill him already

Devin: Also she would have just arrested him. I feel like the porno would have less murder

Kate: It’s weird that normally I complain about too much sex? But this would just be better as a porn

Devin: Yeah our review is basically "this would have made a better porno"

Kate: How would you have found him?

Devin: Who hears "look out your window" and looks up at the ceiling? Oh maybe that's what the missing link was?

Kate: Also the VP does not have the authority to call that type of strike

Devin: What is this 10 angled shot explosion? Ok, we've got a baby

Kate: So it’s been at least a few weeks

Devin: No prime minister but I didn't realize it was his funeral so I feel like the president is close enough. Now knighthood

Kate: Sure. They don’t know how emails work? Re: is for replies

Devin: "Many people would say this is our fault, but we're america so fuck those people. we'll kill those people."

Kate: “Commence spending no time with my kid”

Devin: In the porno version we end instead with a mirror of the earlier DC lawn scene, with them sitting on a bench watching their wives/kids, and the pres saying something like "still want to quit?" and Butler saying "and leave you, sir? Never." And then meaningful eye contact. Roll credits.

Kate: Hahahah

Devin: Okay, so scores

Kate: Yes. Scores.

Devin: 3/10 for the movie, 6/10 for the porno

Kate: I go a little higher movie? Like 4.5 for the movie.  6 for porno though. I think we can agree that no porn should ever rank higher than 7

Devin: Yeah. Like, even amazing porn is still porn

Kate: Ummmm tropes? So many, “family as our motivation”

Devin: “America is terrible and we never learn anything”?

Kate: Which is so hypocritical

Devin: “One man assumes command of literally every other character without argument”

Kate: Hahahaha. So like 7 on the tropes? They all fit the plot really well

Devin: Yeah, I mean it had a very particular niche and it played to it

Kate: Exactly

Devin: I'm going to give the title an 8/10. Catchy and accurate

Kate: I can agree. Thematic

Devin: London did pretty much fall. Like an old lady in a Life Alert commercial

Kate: Better than Olympus has fallen

Devin: Yeah, plus how fucking pretentious is it to call the white house "olympus"?

Kate: Exactly

Devin: What would the porn title be? I feel like they're usually puns?

Kate: Pun for sure. London may fall but our guys stay up

Devin: kind of long

Kate: It could be the tagline?

Devin: Oh yeah, good tagline. My brain gave me "Banging Private Ryan" which does not fit but is almost certainly a movie that exists

Kate: Hahahahaha. Banging president something? Whatever his name was

Devin: No idea, I called him Harvey Dent the whole movie. London Goes Down?

Kate: London laid down? Cause laid. Get it?

Devin: H/o I have to see if there is a real porn title for this. NSA people monitoring my internet searches, I'm really sorry

Kate: Gives them some spice! A story to take home

Devin: Top result for "London Has Fallen Porn Title" is:

"London Has Fallen movie condemned as racist 'terrorsploitation' "

"London Has Fallen is gun-barrel porn"

Kate: Whelp. Yep. I feel bad for enjoying it?

Devin: "London Has Fallen Is The Worst Film About Our City Ever"

Kate: Oh no it was a piece of shit for sure. Super fucking racist

Devin: “Blowing London.” That's my official submission

Kate: Nice! “Blowing London” is great. I thought you’d actually found it.

Devin: Ok, any parting words?

Kate:  It was a dumb racist movie that I feel guilty for enjoying anyway? Which means we should have more action movies made with better plots and motivation. And female representation!

Devin:  Or more action movies that are just porn

Kate:  Or that. What about you? Parting words?

Devin: If you want to see a movie where Gerard Butler brutally murders everyone, this is it. Or, you know, go watch 300, it is less awful.

Kate: So true.

[paolox3b]

@cartmangetsananalprobe recently posted: “South Park fandom: you’re good, but I swear on God every last one of you who worships Creek and acknowledges little to nothing else about the show are taking years off of my life.”

It got me to thinking that maybe we should ALL make lists about all the good stuff throughout the last 20 years of South Park. 1. The uproar over the show! Keep in mind, I'm old. My stepson was 10 when South Park came screaming into the living room by an upstart cable channel, Comedy Central. We were there from second number one! We were there for Christmas when J. declared that Mr Hankey was in the toilet, and his grandma shot coffee out her nose and nearly had to be resuscitated! Oh dear – the show was going to destroy civilization as we knew it. It would corrupt our children. It was perverse, immature, obscene, politically incorrect...and it only got better! And boys said the F-word! Rejoice! 2. A seemingly major character died. Oh my God, they killed Kenny! You bastards! And Kenny came back?! WTF? Every week, especially the first Christmas episode, would Kenny die again? When? How? 3. The animation. This was not glorious anime or 3D CGI. That was in its infancy back then. This was art paper cutouts bobbling along. 4. The show made fun of itself, especially with the movie. “It's just all fart jokes and crappy animation.” And then they made a fart joke and highlighted crappy animation. 5. Speaking of, all the boys look the same without hats and specific outfits. And they proved this, when the boys all joined the David Blaine cult. Who's who? Cartman: Guess who I am? 6. Speaking of Cartman, well, he was annoying. He was racist. He was hateful. And we loved it. And the show got away with it. Then he fed the Tennormans to their son. And his dad was Jack Tennorman, making Eric half ginger. Ooooof! 7. Chef. God we loved Chef. My kid played that Chef Aid CD until I was ready to strangle him. 8. And more Chef. He was the go-to guy for the boys, and he called them little crackers, too. And he'd sing. He's sing about laying down by the fire and making sweet love. 9. The inept school staff. In raising 6 boys over the years, I can tell you, I've met them all. Yes, there are Mr Mackey types out there, mmmK? 10. Hot potato issues: NAMBLA, seriously? Crap, I had to explain 'boylovers' and 'pedos' to my kid. Celebrities and politicians beware! But no issue was too small or too big for South Park to tackle. 11. Speaking of #10? There was even an episode where the celebrities came after South Park for revenge at being lampooned. Poor Tom Cruise. 12. Religion. No sacred cows here. Just cows. Kyle's a Jew! The Catholic priests are molesting boys! Even Mohammad showed up, then got censored. Poor guy. And let's not forget Jewpacabra. 13. The Super Best friends, speaking of. 14. Jesus and his talk show on cable TV. 15. Jimbo and Ned. “Wait, I can say 'fag' without getting bleeped?” 16. Speaking of gay stuff, other than Creek, that is. The show tackled it. Hard. No pun intended. 17. In particular, Mr Slave. Yikes! I mean, this guy could leap into the air like a gay ninja action hero and swallow up Paris Hilton. Let's move on... 18. The crazy adventures that our foul-mouthed little heroes went on almost every week. This was a staple of the show for so long. I miss it. 19. The holiday specials. I miss those, too. “I'm a lonely Jew...at Christmas.” Kyle in a straitjacket, locked in a rubber room singing his dreidel song. 20. The supporting characters. Santa, Mr Hankey, and all the other nuts in that town. 21. The town being wiped out repeatedly, and rebuilt. 22. Speaking of 21, Mecha-Streisand, anyone? Babs? Hello? Can I have an autograph? 23. The parents. Those crazy parents. Oh, help us! They even overpowered a network with diarrhea. 24. The complex friend dynamic. Fatass! JEW! Poor piece of crap. Nihilist asshole. Which, of course, led to J's gang doing the same thing. Poor “M” in the group got to be the Jew when the boys would start that routine. He had the green hat, as my stepson justified it. What was that about corrupting our children? 25. Expansion of vocabulary. My boy learned so much from this show. Including what a clitoris is. 26. The Star Trek references. Matt & Trey love Star Trek. Remember Red Shirt boy being eaten by the black scary monster? And the subtle stuff, like Craig saying, “If I had wheels, I'd be a wagon.” or “Dude, that was Wrath of Khan, not the Bible!” 27. Simpsons did it! All the other references to popular shows of the day. 28. TIMMY! And Jimmy, too. Cripple fight! 29. Did I mention the movie? They made a movie! 30. Blame Canada. It's always Canada. 31. Speaking of 19, the songs! The original songs. Robin Williams even sang “Blame Canada!” on the Academy Awards. 32. The way the show made us look at things differently. Who wasn't a bit afraid of ginger kids after seeing that episode? And the uproar the show created when it would do something like this. Remember the “Kick a Ginger” day thing? 33. Imperfect characters. No, these weren't your average cartoon characters. They had problems. They faced them. They went on. Cartman is fat. Stan has addictions and depression. Kenny is poor and dies all the time. Butters and Tweek are abused/neglected. Craig is a bully. Clyde cries. Hell, he inadvertently killed his mom. (Or did he plan it?) Jimmy and Timmy are disabled.  And Kyle? Well, he seems to be the whipping boy; when something bad happens, it's usually to Kyle. I think this is another Star Trek reference. In TOS, it was Chekov. In TNG, it was Geordi. In Voyager, it was Harry Kim. In DS9, it was O'Brien who always got the raw deal. 34. Imagination. It takes a lot to do a show like this. “Imagination Land,” for one. Superheroes. Fighters of Zaron on Black Friday. More Superheroes. The boys have been news reporters, cops, you name it.

Anyone else that can add to the list?