#appropriation of tragedies
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fromchaostocosmos Ā· 1 year ago
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Attention Creatives
You need to stop with the stories, plot lines, background info, and such in your works that are things like:
The Holocaust and the Atlantic Slave Trade were not really about that it was really a cover for vampires to have a way to access to mass feeding farms found in example like The Strain and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
The Spanish Inquisition was really about vampires trying to find witches that could control them story line thanks to True Blood.
World War 2 was because of Greeks gods fighting with each via Percy Jackson.
There are shit-ton more examples of this kind of thing and it is disgusting.
The Holocaust and the Atlantic Slave Trade specifically in regards to United States part of it all and the horrific treatment of enslaved African peoples tend the most commonly used ones, I have found.
That said it does not mean other ethnic cleansing and genocides are not used as well as other major events and tragedies for very specific marginalized and/or minority groups.
These types of stories devalue our on going pain and trauma as well as degrade the memories of both the living and the dead who suffered through those horrors and the many who did not live to see it end.
Our trauma is not a sandbox that you get to play, our history is not something you to play pretend with.
All of us from the various communities that survived these atrocities, these crimes against humanity, these terrors we all each and every one us carry still the scars. Not just scars, but also still healing wounds.
We carry in us the stories of our people, the joys and the sorrows, the hopes and the fears, and we carry the dead so that they may live on in some small way.
You have no right to that, you have no right to pain, to our joy, and most importantly you have no right to recast the reason for it all.
I am so sick of it and it needs to stop.
And this is not even delving into deeper how deeply gross so many of the implications of these storylines are if you think about for just a little bit and the nasty stereotypes they help to reinforce.
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a2zillustration Ā· 1 year ago
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macbethz Ā· 1 year ago
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if i were neil gaiman i would make the good omens guys die tragically in each others arms at the end and delete my tumblr
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canisalbus Ā· 2 years ago
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Hello I made you some more art!! IDK Why your little guys have just stuck in my brain as of late but yeah I'm just on a roll I guess!
This piece was inspired by wondering who was present around Machete's assassination, and how people around him would react to his downfall. So I had the idea for a portrait of a final lover's embrace, as Vasco holds his dying beloved in bloodsoaked arms.
I tried my best with the clothing -- especially the shoes -- and I think I did a pretty good job but BOY were they hard! XD Anyways, I hope you like this one, it was a blast to draw! I love machete sm istg <3
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#Machete#Vasco#own characters#coldandfoggy#gift art#hhhhadgasjgdshad???#THIS#ĀæĀæĀæĀæĀæ#congratulations you've managed to deliver some immense mental damage through the ethers#and I mean that as a compliment I live for the moments when art just really Hits You Where It Hurts#loving the way the scarlet red of Machete's cassock blends seamlessly with the pool of blood#Vasco's expression speaks volumes#he was always a very touchy feely person so thinking of their final embrace just puts a pit in your stomach#poses like this are tricky but Machete looks appropriately limp and lifeless and at peace in a way that's cruelly ironic#the halo is a nice touch it kind of evokes pietĆ  imagery#the clothing and the shoes look fine I wouldn't have guessed you had issues with them if you hadn't mentioned it#just a grand old liver punch this one#damn son#thank you for drawing the sad dog guys I'm very flattered they've made an impression! I know I'll be agonizing over this piece for a while#some potentially upsetting lore musings!! violence and tragedy and stuff:#I haven't cemented the chain of events yet but I believe he was ambushed by a single assailant when he was alone#either early in the morning or late evening#he didn't manage to put up much of a fight that time the first stab punctured a lung and the second nicked a carotid artery#I believe you lose consciousness in a minute or so and generally bleed out in less than three#Vasco wouldn't have been informed of the murder because why would he be and even if he somehow found out very quickly#the distance between Rome and Florence is roughly 250 km don't quote me on this but it looks like it'd take at least 4 days on horseback?#I think but I don't know how horses work to be honest#maybe they had some sneaky correspondence going on but if there was a pause in communications it wouldn't have been a cause for concern#so it's highly likely he'd only find out when he rolled in town for another business trip#and Machete had been buried weeks or months ago
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feelo-fick Ā· 3 months ago
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Headcanon: Chilchuck and his Bad Takes on Literature
i think chilchuck would be like my mom in the sense that he wouldnt like sad stories. dont get me wrong, cautionary tales? absolutely fine. they serve a purpose to him which is to tell people "dont be an idiot and do this or else something bad will happen"
generally sad or angsty stories though? no point to him, and in his perspective its really confusing how people just read things that make them sad. like whats the use of reading something if its just gonna make you sad. whats the lesson? its not even real so it doesnt help anyone.
whats the point in making yourself cry when you could just avoid that entirely by not reading it at all?
but the one of the biggest reasons why sad stories exist is to let you release all the built up grief in you. to send you something to let out all your emotions in a healthy way. catharsis. empathy.
even when i dont relate to the tragic experiences in some stories, several ones ive read have lead me to realize that im in a bad situation or that im following in the footsteps of the character suffering. its like a wake up call.
and making yourself cry isnt inherently a bad thing. if crying allows you to let go of building pressure and tension in you then thats good!
but chil wouldnt see that. of course he wouldnt, hes avoidant of most situations that would allow him to release emotion, and fearful of letting his mature (read: repressed) persona slip.
hes someone that runs away to quick comforts and distractions at the earliest sign of issue. hes already been in too many horrifying situations, dealing with another is a pain. and he knows denying everything and refusing to look at the situation doesnt help, but it definitely provides a quick and easy happiness in the comfort of ignorance.
because of this, reading something made to make one empathize with and confront these bad emotions is defeating the point of his cowering. if he faces his issues, even if only through the perspective of a story, he'd have to deal with acknowledging that things are bad and need fixing, and he'd feel terrible and guilty in the moment - which of course is the worst thing that could happen to a person (his thought, not mine).
which is why i find the concept of him being/becoming a tragedy himself at the same time as this headcanon soooo interesting. imagine the irony of him bashing on the protagonists of tragic stories for acting on emotion and impulse rather than logic, when he himself has fallen victim to irrational thinking while in grief.
cause... thats what people do when they grieve. they lash out, make bad decisions, ruin themselves, ruin others.
for a tragedy to be prevented, the protagonists would have to change fundamental parts of themselves, and act perfectly rational when under extreme stress. and chilchuck holds himself to these kinds of unrealistic standards because he unwittingly believes he can handle it all.
he cant, obviously. we see it for ourselves in his relationship with his wife. they were doomed from the beginning by chils already-established avoidance and lack of emotional vulnerabiltiy (and whatever else his wife had going on).
this is all just to say that if you told him about orpheus and eurydice, he'd probably be one of those idiots trying to point out the "plot hole" that he couldve "just not looked back" and "just trusted her"
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i dont understand. whats the point in reading tragedies? the protagonist is stupid, anyways. why would you take bitter medicine? why subject yourself to that?
i think its just a bad story.
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mulders-too-large-shirt Ā· 1 month ago
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s5 episode 7 thoughts
(voice cracking) hey guys. how are you doing? because iā€™m fine. actually super incredibly fine. have never been better, in fact. (heavy on the /s)
this episode feels so final, in a way. there is before this episode and after it, and there is no going back. and we have had plenty of those episodes that involve a shedding of innocence, but weā€™ll reach a point where you think, surely it cannot get worse than this. and youā€™ll never guess what happens next: somehow, it does.
sniffs. scully always chooses love, bro. and mulder chooses her and therefore chooses love. and they choose each other. and they deserve to be happy, to be a happy little family.
take me back to around 14 hours ago, when i pressed play on this episode immediately after watching the previous one, not even bothering to make this writeup until now, because i was too invested:
okay. so yes. i broke my rule and iā€™m watching this episode right away. and yes i feel sick.Ā  (authorā€™s note to past self: girl if you felt sick then imagine how you feel now LMAOOOO)
ā€œit begins where it endsā€¦. in nothingness. a nightmare born from deepest fears, coming to me unguardedā€ <- girl what are we opening with? she's in these black robes, striding across sand...
is she looking at death itself??? again?? how many times must this happen??? is SHE death itself???
she picks up her necklaceā€¦ and declares herself alone, as ever.Ā but you're not alone, scully!
bum bum bum bumā€¦ intro timeā€¦Ā 
mulder, please come and provide emotional support if nothing else. you are desperately needed
YES, HE IS HERE!!!!!! he is watching scully watch emily color.Ā 
OHHHH MY GOD. hold on. she introduces him to emily as her friend, and he immediately is making funny faces to get emily to laugh. stop. i need to be sedated.
he notices her cross necklace on emily.Ā and he doesn't say anything but he doesn't need to, because that says enough. the cross that hung from his neck when she was gone, returned to her as she returned to life, and now placed around the neck of this little girl.
he had frohike hack into the system to find her surrogate mother omgā€¦ frohike is an allyā€¦ her birth mother is named anna fugazziā€¦. fugazzi is a slang term for fake??? he thinks they made a whole fake profile to hide her origins??
oh my godā€¦.
mulder is telling her that being around emily is incredibly dangerous; whoever it was that killed her adoptive parents would clearly go after her next. ā€œi can protect her, tooā€ ā€œyeah, but whoā€™s gonna protect you?ā€ <- PLEASE KILL ME IT WOULD HURT LESS
ā€œiā€™ve considered that, but iā€˜ve also considered that thereā€™s only one right thing to doā€ <- ohhh, scully and her Need to do the Morally Correct Thingā€¦ā€¦ā€¦ itā€™ll haunt me forever. she's willing to drop everything she has in her life to give this child a better life. and she didn't even knew she existed until a few days ago.
man, i miss s1 sometimes. bitch take me backā€¦
HE CAME TO TESTIFY AT HER HEARING TO ADOPT HER??? and he says he shouldnā€™t have come because he doesnā€™t want to see her hurt like emily's adoptive parents were šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­ but he did. because he supports her through anything. and he knows that this poor little girl was never supposed to happen.
this man is nervously cracking sunflower seeds outside the hearing room. and bill is glaring at mulder like he didnā€™t just fly down here to save the day. fuck him for real.
oh, this judge guy is immediately tearing into his facts about the abduction. this never stops happening to mulder when he presents his theories. it must be getting old.
she was gone for four weeks when she was abducted. did we ever know the length of time?? huh. not sure if i picked up on that if we did.
he cannot explain to this guy why anyone would do this to scully and put the child up for adoption, but that is her child!!
ā€œnot in any legal definitionā€ ā€œwell, if you can show me a precedent for this case, iā€™d like to see itā€ <- ohhhh tell him!!!
ohhh my god... ā€œdana has known for quite some time that she canā€™t bear children. she hasnā€™t known why. now, however that happened, the fact that she can adopt this child- her own flesh and blood- is something i donā€™t feel i have the right to question, and i donā€™t believe anybody has the right to stand in the way ofā€ <- that is best friendship. they love each other so terribly.Ā terrible in the sense of a storm, or a natural disaster, in the sense of love being a force
oh my god man hold on. hold on. so had they talked about it before?? how she couldn't have kids?? and did he tell her why?? i don't think he did, because she is looking on at him with such horror as he shares these facts
there is such a terrible feeling of never being able to go back to before associated with all of thisā€¦
mulder is at billā€™s house now, fidgeting with their nativity, while scully descends from the stairs.Ā she was helping tara get into bed. oh my god. she loves her family so much.
OHHH the big reveal: ā€œwhy didnā€™t you tell me? mulder?ā€ ā€œi never expected this. i thought i was protecting youā€ <- so she never knew that he knewā€¦ which is why she looked so horrified when she heard him say that to the judgeā€¦
he thought he was keeping her safe??? because he must have known that these people were willing to kill to keep their experiments in order. it reminds me of when he was at the evil honey farm and the alien said the clone children don't need parents....... the utter lack of humanity...
he says he knew children were being created, but not for who or for what purpose. :(
she gets a call, seemingly with no one on the other end, and with one look he has his phone on him, calling to get it traced. their ability to communicate without language is fascinating. within seconds, he has the location
itā€™s the childrenā€™s center where emilyā€™s being held!!!
so is it still the ghost of melissa calling them somehow?? or is there an informer in there???
theyā€™re at the door of the children's center right away!!!! is someone going to hurt emily?????Ā they barge right in despite it being the middle of the night
emilyā€™s in bed, with a horrific fever. mulder picks her up (oh my god, this made me feel terriblly emotional things) and he notices there is something on her neck.
IT IS A TERRIBLE GREEN POISON LUMPY THING?????
the doctor says there is some kind of infection, and theyā€™re having the thing on her neck biopsied.
thereā€™s an awful pause as they're standing outside the hospital room, and he asks if they are the parentsā€¦. mulder steps to the side and lets her say that she is the mother, which is so insane to hear, while mulder watches, terribly worried.Ā 
he watches as theyā€™re about to cut the thing on her neckā€¦. but he realizes it is the green alien blood (which he can see, so NOT red/green colorblind) and starts banging on the door, telling the doctor to get away!!! but she doesnā€™t listen!!! the doctor collapses right then and there from the exposure to the alien blood gas, while they look on in horror.Ā 
so emily is one of the alien hybrid children... i had thought that those were all clones, but i guess there are some unique ones as well. or maybe the ones we have seen in the past all shape-shift to look the same? CSM, this is your fault. evil has a face and a name and he writes bad fiction.
emily is on a mild sedative, and the ER doctor somehow made it. scully asks mulder how he knew what was going on, and he says he had the doctor put in an ice bath like she did when he was exposed :( he remembered.... :(
the dr. calderon that emily was seeing before refuses to transfer her information over!!! and says that scully has no authority over this child!!!! he is straight up willing to let her die.
she refuses to leave her.Ā 
mulder is sent instead to interrogate him; he asks what he can say to convince dr. calderon to convince him to transfer the files over. but dr. calderon says itā€™s about business reasons. mulder asks how much money is worth letting this child die.
OHHHHHH HE IS THROWING HANDSā€¦..Ā 
holy fuck, i need a moment. he calls calderon and his team "medical rapists", a term i was previously unfamiliar with, and says now theyā€™re just going to let her DIE??? AND HE PULLS OUT A GUN???
ā€œwhy donā€™t you tell me whose life is worth saving, yours or hers!!ā€ <- DAMN!!!
mulder is willing to kill for scully and that baby she just learned existed... i need a moment
he only puts his gun away because the police are at the doorā€¦ but heā€™s gonna follow him.Ā 
meanwhile, emily is watching cartoons while scully is in scrubs. she wants to talk to emilyā€¦ sheā€™s explaining that she has to do some tests.Ā "mommy said no more tests" <- now what does that mean?
they insert the child into the machine. poor scully watches.
god, scully must feel so strange at the moment. and she gets flashbacks to her abduction from hearing the MRI machine beepingā€¦.
dr. calderon is running into a fancy gated home. and the other men who were watching scully before are here!!!!!Ā 
OH MY GOD???? THEY STABBED THE DOCTOR'S NECK WITH THE NEEDLE, AND THE GREEN GAS CAME OUT???
and the other one morphed into calderon??? SO THEYā€™RE THE ALIENS????
but mulder is hereā€¦ā€¦..
(iā€™m torn between genuine devastation and the sheer absurdity of this plot)
back at the hospital, we learn emily has some sort of infection into her brain that is expanding along her nervous system
and the guy who is pretending to be calderon is here!!!
scully and the real doctor are talking medicine, what can and cannot be done for her.
NO WHAT? THE ALIEN THAT TOOK CALDERON'S FACE IS HERE WITH THE NEEDLE GAS STUFF??? he just left emily's roomā€¦ā€¦
scully's going after this guy, but he switches faces the minute they catch him!!!!!
mulder is still tailing the people from the pharmaceutical company. he tells scully he doesnā€™t think they want emily dead either, but for different reasonsā€¦ they want their experiment to work, i assume is what he implies, but he hangs up then to go do some more tailing.
detective kresge is here!!!! scully tells him she thinks these men killed emily's adoptive parents because they stopped doing the tests!!! and that must be why that mysterious man came in to see her!!!!
iā€™m ready to see some heads roll over this whole matter.Ā 
mulder lets himself into the weird huge gated house he saw dr. calderon go into, which seems to be an nursing home, with a label on a shelf for a. fuggazi. sheā€™s a real person???? and sheā€™s 71 years old???
but now emily is getting worse, with the growth spreading; it is killing her. the doctor says they should be grateful she isnā€™t in pain.Ā 
chambliss shows up to tell scully that the court is freaked out that sheā€™s making choices for emily, but she points out that she is ā€œa medical doctor, and the decisions that i make are reasonable and rightā€ and we know this to be true!!!
OHHHH MY GOD chambliss says that she has no authority, and scully says that if they take her out of the hospital, she will have it known that all of them are responsible for emily's worsening healthā€¦ā€¦ holy fuck
ā€œwhat do you want me to tell them youā€™re doing for her?ā€ ā€œi donā€™t know yet. but i willā€ <- she thinks there has to be hopeā€¦. :(
frohike is on the phone!!!! mulder is reading the names of the women in the nursing home, while frohike looks them up. and somehow they all gave birth to children in the last few years??? despite being 70+ years old????
and frohike wants to know if they are attractive. mulder says he might have a shot with these ones LMAO <- rare moment of levity in what may be the darkest fucking episode of all time
these elderly women are being prescribed estrogen and progesterone, which are in abundance in pregnant womenā€¦ā€¦ā€¦.
anna comes to mulder and says she wants to start her beauty sleep??? and itā€™s taken years off of her appearance??? do the aliens turn them young somehow??? and then use them to have children???
holy fuck. horrific commentary on the intersections of reproductive rights and elder abuse....
emily is now being inserted into a new tube for testing, with scully saying she will be right there the whole time. the air in the tube hurts emily's ears??? and makes her veins pop out??????? she is yelling at the doctor to stop running the test, but i don't even really understand what is going on, beyond that emily cannot handle it
mulder is still at the nursing home, where he finds a bunch of the old women in bed, attached to IVs with the hormones he mentioned earlier!!! so they get the IVs in their sleep and then they... no, it's too disturbing to even say
so he looks in the fridge and inside he finds some papersā€¦. HUH???? it has scullyā€™s name on them???? and inside is ANOTHER BABY IN A TUBE????
what the fuck??? this is messed up!!!!
he also finds vials of the green stuff that you use to kill the aliens!!!! but now the shapeshifting alien guy from before is here!!!! so he's running out with the vials!!!Ā 
but detective kresge is here and stops mulder!!!!! IS THE DETECTIVE WORKING FOR THE ALIENS???
NO!! kresge is trying to keep him safe!!! the alien picks him up and tosses him like a rag doll!!!
but kresge gets up and shoots him despite mulderā€™s many warnings, so he hisses as his alien body releases that toxic green gas!! NO, KRESGE!! you were mean at first, but i grew to like you!!!
the alien takes kresgeā€™s face and dips while mulder is trying to get backup!!!!!!!!!!!!
poor scully is watching emily through the window; she has gone into a coma. mulder suddenly arrives. but before mulder can say anything, she claims sheā€™s okay.Ā 
ā€œbut if you could treat her?ā€ ā€œi wouldnā€™t. i wouldnā€™t do it to herā€ ā€œare you sure?ā€ <- oh my god? is she going to take her off of life support? does she think it is wrong to keep her alive with no quality of life? we know she believes that in her own will... is she realizing there is nothing she can do? and why does she always lead with "i'm okay" when she isn't?
ā€œmulder, whoever brought this child into this world didnā€™t intend to love herā€
ā€œi think she was born to serve an agendaā€ (a horrific thing for a human to be)
ā€œi have a chance to stop that. you were right. this child was not meant to beā€
but she is. she is here. and she doesn't have much longer.
he rubs her back and says heā€™ll stay with her. STOOOOOP
but she says sheā€™d like to be alone. so he quietly walks away.
oh my god. he was going to stay with her while she watched her baby die... but she said she wanted to do it alone.......Ā 
he still has that one vial of green stuff in his pocket, and pulls it out in the hallway. while sheā€™s going in to presumable say goodbye. she lays her head next to emily, crawling into her bed.Ā oh my god.
then we see a stained glass window of mary holding baby jesus while scully sits in a pew. maggie is here, asking if sheā€™s ready. she tells her sheā€™ll get a ride back with mulder. and she hugs her family, smiling at taraā€™s new baby, kissing him on the head.
there is a little casket, and scully stares at it as mulder comes in, laying flowers upon it.Ā 
ā€œwho are the men who would create a life whose only hope is to die?ā€ ā€œi donā€™t know. but that you found herā€¦ and you had a chance to love herā€¦ maybe she was meant for that, tooā€ <- oh my god??? oh my god.
ā€œshe found meā€ ā€œso you could save herā€ <- and she did save her... she saved her from an unhappy home and unethical experiments and loved her in the week that she knew her, and let her go peacefully instead of suffering....
then she asks about kresge, who somehow made it, but the nursing home has been cleaned out, and no one else knew of calderonā€™s work. but there is evidence of what they did, she says, staring at the casket.Ā 
she takes the flowers, lifts up the lid, and mulder turns around to give her space. but the casket is empty, except for the cross necklace. which she holds, closing her eyes. so they took her body, too???
the sandā€¦ the necklaceā€¦ the opening sceneā€¦ the parallelsā€¦ iā€™m, like, blubbering as i type this
what the fuck!! who came up with this?? it is so fucked up and horrific and why. why. why. why did they make her undergo that and where do we go from here? no seriously, how is she going to just. clock into work the next day. not knowing she had a daughter except for a single week they had together and then she watched her die.
i honestly think scully is a saint because. if someone told me my autonomy had been taken and they made a baby out of me without my consent, i think i would be horrified and want nothing to do with the poor child. i would think, i have no relation to that little person. it was done without my knowledge, and how can i claim any connection to something i never knew?
(i mean, that is all i can imagine i would do; i know nothing of what it feels like to want or have or learn you have a baby. so keep that fact in mind if i don't fully grasp the weight of everything here. but believe me, what i am grasping is weighty enough)
but she said, i have a baby and i need to love her, because the option to make my own decision was denied, but i need to do the right thing. she just barrels in and loves her. no hesitation. and then she watches her die.Ā 
and what the fuck?? from a writerā€™s perspective are they just trying to overtly comment on the lack of womenā€™s healthcare?? because this hits different in the current political climate in a way they couldnā€™t have seen at the time.Ā and i do feel somewhat inspired to write an essay on the subject. and using the elderly women as incubators... holy hell. it really speaks to the lack of agency women have over their own bodies and the terrifying nature of government intervention into women's healthcare...
mulder showing up right away to testify for herā€¦ scully being willing to throw her whole career away for a child she never knew she hadā€¦ i need a few days and maybe a drink.
where do they go from this? how do you move on from learning you have a child, choosing to love it for the week you knew her, and then watching her die? how do you just go hunt bigfoot after that?
i feel like this show throws too many emotional punches and doesn't give us time to let the aftershocks sink in and the grief be processed. i hope that this time we get that chance.
and oh, how tender both of them were with emily... i just know that if they have kids, that child is going to be so loved... i am gonna cry at the thought. because we have always been able to see that mulder wants a family so desperately, but with scully it was more simmering under the surface until it boiled over, and now she knows what that feeling is like, but it was taken away from her and it can never come back, but maybe someday she can find happiness, and they can find happiness together, and raise a little kid who they can hold and carry and read books to and fuck i'm emotional!!!
i'm thinking about how even way back in season 1 we see them dealing with kids and the foreshadowing to this, this glimpse of what could have been in another life, but what isn't in this timeline. and how he was there for her while she waded through entirely incomprehensible emotions. and again i come back to the fact she chose to love this little girl despite having no knowledge of her.
and how they choose to find meaning in that week they knew her, with mulder telling her that she saved emily, that she let her experience love and happiness. to try and find any purpose to their inexplicably cosmic suffering.
fuck!!!
as always, please tell me what you think!!! what was your reaction when you saw this for the first time?? what was the reaction of the wider public? did you also cry a million tears? did you also cry at the mental image of them having a little baby? has your perception of the episode changed over time? if you have kids now do you cry even more? will chris carter ever work on whatever it is he has going on with making women suffer? i need to know every last detail.
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ultfan Ā· 7 months ago
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more things that tick me off about dr3ā€¦ the flanderization of komaedaā€™s expressions. people forget how likeā€¦ genuinely expressive he is. yes he smiles a lot butā€¦ okayā€” lookā€”
dr3 basically limits him to :) or :o MOST of the time. even when facing junkoā€” and knowing sheā€™s an enemy:
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i couldā€™ve gotten more images but iā€™m too lazy to actually watch the anime in full again. but anywayā€¦ they made him that one stereotype where heā€™s calm and cheerful no matter what happens ā€” rarely having extreme reactions. he honestly acts more like my other boy itsuki in that sense. but likeā€¦ komaeda isnā€™t ever truly calm and collected. they baby boy-ified him. government assigned little guy.
and likeā€¦ you look at the game and itā€™s just
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he is SO expressive!!! yeah heā€™s very :) :D but thereā€™s so much you can get from his faces. and he can get genuinely angry/pissed/scared/anxious/condescending/etc. people gotta recognize this more i feel
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whogirl42 Ā· 10 months ago
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Me watching atla live action šŸ¤ me watching Percy Jackson show
THEY'RE CHILDRENšŸ˜­
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vague-magnus-archives Ā· 2 years ago
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merevide Ā· 1 year ago
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pls in my theatre class we have to compare a modern character in tv/film to a greek tragedy and then explain how they fit into the greek tragedy narrativeā€¦and ofc i thought of yellowjackets the problem is IDK WHICH CHARACTER TO PICK LMAO
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clonerightsagenda Ā· 2 years ago
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It seems like Within the Wires is going to be another Night Vale Presents production with a big Native American hole in its heart.
I've talked about this before, but a core motif in Alice isn't Dead is the emptiness at the heart of America, the big open spaces, the land with no people. America is a land of distance more than culture, etc. But except for an offhand mention in the third season and a more direct comment in the liveshow, the narrative doesn't engage with why that land is empty. If we're talking about the violence hidden within our miles, that first, defining act of violence seems critical. (Also, I know it's focused on highways, but if we want to discuss the violence and exploitation of our efforts to bridge those miles, the Chinese railway workers are right there... Also the displacement of poor and majority Black neighborhoods for the building of a lot of those highways.)
Meanwhile, WTNV establishes that Night Vale predates the arrival of European settlers. At the outset Night Vale is this zany town with spooky happenings where all conspiracy theories are true, but if its age means that its history and traditions are rooted in Indigenous beliefs, the surrealist comedy approach makes me a little uneasy.
Finally, I just finished Within the Wires season 3, where Michael talks about how the science and data support the efficacy of the year ten/family separation program. But... there is a major precedent in American history for removing children from their families and deliberately destroying their ties to their heritage, culture, and nation, and that's Native residential schools. Is that what they're talking about? Hell, the New Society seems to have come to power in the 50s and increased its draconian presence in the 60s - it's basically a Sixties Scoop but happening to everyone.
I enjoy Night Vale Present's work a lot, but it is bizarre to me that while all the productions go out of their way via character names to indicate a very diverse world, they consistently fail to engage with this part of American history even when it makes no sense not to.
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robby-bobby-tommy Ā· 1 year ago
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lamentable-comedy Ā· 27 days ago
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are you still into thrilling adventure hour?
hell yeah I am. in the late winter/early spring I listened to the entire show in order (I have the entire backlog saved in multiple places) and last night I inflicted a rendition of the sparks nevada theme on my book club
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the-monkey-ruler Ā· 7 months ago
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The Tragedy of the Old Monkey King (2019) Le voyage du prince
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Director: Jean-Francois Raggio Screenwriter: Jean-Francois Raggio / Anik Le Ray Starring : Enrico Di Giovanni / Thomas Sagos / Gabriel Le Doze / Marie-Madeleine Burguet / Celia Rosich / Catherine Lafond / Friedrich Kerdar / Patrick Bonnel Genre: Animation Country/Region of Production: France Language: French Date: 2019-08-11 (Annex Animation Film Festival) Duration: 77 minutes Also known as: The Prince's Voyage / 老ēŒ“ēŽ‹č½é›£čؘļ¼ˆęøÆļ¼‰ IMDb: tt9144838 Type: Appropriation
Summary:
The old monkey prince from an unknown era was washed ashore by a wave due to an accident. A monkey boy named Tom discovered him and took this man wearing tattered Chinese clothes with him, speaking a different language. Tom takes him to his parents, two dissident researchers who dared to believe the existence of other peoples. The professor and his wife were surprised to learn that the prince came from different time and space, and planned to use him as proof to overturn the stereotyped imagination of the world by those in power. The Prince, guided by his friend Tom, discovers with enthusiasm and fascination this frozen and sclerotic society. Meanwhile, the researcher couple dreamed of convincing the Academy of the veracity of their previously rejected thesis. The two directors who have produced "Lulumi on the CĆ“te d'Azur" and "Louise on the Shore" have teamed up to create a dreamland, a clever fable that witnesses the touching friendship between a prince and a boy.
Source: https://movie.douban.com/subject/27061544/
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC0VYRLZLd4
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edwardseymour Ā· 9 months ago
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ā€˜and sheā€™s remembered as the kind one.ā€™
damn. shame ab terrorised her stepdaughter and abandoned her sister-in-law and wished all spaniards were at the bottom of the sea and demanded coaā€™s daughterā€™s baptismal cloth and gloated let them grumble in her motto and decorated her personal possessions with falcons devouring pomegranates igā€”
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arollofmirrors Ā· 1 year ago
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Casual fans: I love how wholesome Weird Al is! Not just as a person, but also his work. The humour isn't dark or mean-spirited or vulgar; it's just lighthearted, goofy, family-friendly fun!
Weird Al:
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