#hey rube

[hood-ex]

Still pissed that TT missed the perfect—and I do mean PERFECT—opportunity to use, "Hey, Rube!" in the flashback scene where John Grayson started fighting Tony Zucco. Look at these instances where Dick used or mentioned the term "rube." Raaah!! It would've been such an amazing callback!! Such a good way to draw a connection between Dick and John, and the circus culture they lived in!!

Instead we just got John and Mary trying to handle the situation themselves. But if they had just used, "Hey, Rube!" to call for backup, I would've been thrilled. I would've been like, wow, TT has actually done some intensive research into Dick's history—but nooo 😒. Instead, we just got this:

Nightwing (Vol. 4) #82

[nicklloydnow]

“The New Dumb

Something is happening here

But you don't know what it is

Do you, Mister Jones?

- Bob Dylan

No sir, not a chance. Mr. Jones does not even pretend to know what's happening in America Right now, and neither does anyone else.

We have seen weird Times in this country before, but the year 2000 is beginning to look super weird. This time there really is nobody flying the plane....We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.

The autumn months are never a calm time in America. Back to Work, Back to Football Practice, etc....Autumn is a very Traditional period, a time of strong Rituals and the celebrating of strange annual holidays like Halloween and Satanism and the fateful Harvest Moon, which can have ominous implications for some people.

Autumn is always a time of Fear and Greed and Hoarding for the winter coming on. Debt collectors are active on old people and fleece the weak and helpless. They want to lay in enough cash to weather the known horrors of January and February. There is always a rash of kidnapping and abductions of schoolchildren in the football months. Preteens of both sexes are traditionally seized and grabbed off the streets by gangs of organized perverts who traditionally give them as Christmas gifts to each other to be personal sex slaves and playthings.

Most of these things are obviously Wrong and Evil and Ugly - but at least they are Traditional. They will happen. Your driveway will ice over, your furnace will blow up, and you will be rammed in traffic by an uninsured driver in a stolen car.

But what the hell? That's why we have Insurance, eh? And the Inevitability of these nightmares is what makes them so reassuring. Life will go on, for good or ill. But some things are forever, right? The structure may be a little Crooked, but the foundations are still strong and unshakable.

Ho ho. Think again, buster. Look around you. There is an eerie sense of Panic in the air, a silent Fear and uncertainty that comes with once-reliable faiths and truths and solid Institutions that are no longer safe to believe in....There is a Presidential Election, right on schedule, but somehow there is no President. A new Congress is elected, like always, but somehow there is no real Congress at all - not as we knew it, anyway, and whatever passes for Congress will be as helpless and weak as whoever has to pass for the "New President."

In the world of sports, it is like playing a Super Bowl that goes into 19 scoreless Overtimes and never actually Ends...or four LA Lakers stars being murdered in different cities on the same day. Guaranteed Fear and Loathing. Abandon all hope. Prepare for the Weirdness. Get familiar with Cannibalism.

Good luck,

DOC

- November 20, 2000”

[popsixsquishcicerolipschitz]

HEY RUBE!

[oxideblack]

[taiga-fujimura-official]

look I understand AI art is a more nuanced topic than people give it credit for but like for real who the fuck is paying for other people to make it for them

[krourou2]

Y’know everyone’s always "Ace Attorney crossover!" and "Professor Layton crossover!" about Ghost Trick, but you know what I think would be extremely funny?

Detective Conan crossover.

A guy who doesn't believe in ghosts, a girl who's terrified of the supernatural, and a guy who IS a ghost.

[viric-dreams]

Tamara could have easily gone the way of the Bohemians, with her interest in painting and later photography (she's not particularly artistically talented, but learned to make sure to immortalise as much of Varchas in paint and canvas as she can before the memories become too blurred and distorted), but she'd accidentally found a new calling.

At present she's involved in a scheme with one Margaret Hawes, Society Lady, ensnaring rich society types in scandal. One well-timed photograph and a tip to the press, and the scandal is enough to get any respectable society type sent to the Tomb Colonies!

Said marks would often try to bribe their way out of these compromising photos reaching the newspapers, however whatever they can offer does not compare to the cut that she (and now Tamara) get from the Venderbight business owners, whose entire economy has been absolutely booming due to the influx of rich exiled Londoners.

[pleuvoire]

starting ultraman r/b my attention span is so shot today it’ll be a miracle if i make it through the first ep but omg this premise is so fun

[sanguinewolves]

absolutely hate when ppl say that dean winchester is just some guy bc it forces me to confront the fact that to a majority of ppl he does in fact look like Just Some Guy

[a-very-tired-jew]

Absolutely wild to see a Jewish blog on here that has historically called out antisemitic rhetoric in media, such as Disney and AoT, fully embrace that same rhetoric when it comes to Israel and Hamas.

But I also understand.

I won't call anyone out, but if you can spot the similarities in AoT to Nazi rhetoric about Jews, then you can sure as shit spot them in the rhetoric of Hamas and their allies. Willfully ignoring it because "Western Civ is Bad" is an indicator that you have been radicalized by that exact same rhetoric, except this time it's coming from people you like or share interests with.

My Left leaning shalomies, you have got to be careful. You may identify as a Democratic Socialist, a Socialist, or even some form of Communist, but that "West Civ is Bad" rhetoric and talking points you're repeating that you heard from your more radical Comrade comes coupled with thinly disguised antisemitism. They're using your dissatisfaction with the state of things here in the USA and other Western countries to spread Holocaust Inversion/Denial, spread blood libel, ZOG, and other such antisemitic conspiracies.

How do I know?

I'm in my late 30s. In my 20s I was an avowed anti-Zionist. But as time went on more and more of the rhetoric I was being told by other anti-Zionists didn't make sense. It was a lot of Bundist talking points about how the diaspora was always safer while also denying the well documented pogroms that had happened against us.

While also denying what happened to the Bundists in the USSR.

What happened to people like Benjamin Zuskin.

And so many others who argued that we were "safe".

It was the Holocaust Universalization mixed with Denial and Inversion. It was so many things that when you looked at them in a bigger picture they ended up contradicting themselves.

It was the denial that Nazis allied with various regimes in the MENA to blatantly kill Jews for simply existing.

It was the denial that antisemitism was actually not a big problem nor as pervasive as it actually is.

Simply put, after enough time, life experience, reading, and thinking it became very clear to me that I had been fed a line of bologna. They had played on my dissatisfaction with the USA and its past actions.

I legit had the line "Israel only exists as a modern day concentration camp to keep all the Jews in one place and then exterminate them later. Jews need to be dispersed around the world to keep them safe" as justification to be anti-Zionist thrown at me when I was younger.

And it made sense at the time. You're fed so much pro-USA material growing up that eventually you find out the narrative that the USA lies, that the UK lies, that the West lies all the time. So you look for alternatives, but you end up embracing propaganda from even worse sources that are downright authoritarian and trying to deny their own atrocities and bigotry by pointing at others. You honestly swing so far the other way on the pendulum that you embrace and repeat rhetoric without fully understanding the nuance and complexity of it all.

When I hit my 30s I realized I had been taken for a ride. A veritable rube if you will.

And I see this same pattern in a lot of younger anti-Zionist Jews in that same age bracket. It's the same dissatisfaction that is being manipulated into antisemitism under the guise of anti-Zionism. It's the denial that what they're saying is antisemitic because surely they, as Jews, know what that actually is, and even if it is, they can't be antisemitic because they're Jewish. Right? Right???

So I beseech you. When the rest of us are saying "hey, this is actually antisemitic" and you go "Um, actually... As a Jew..." please stop for a moment. Think why some of us would be pointing that out. It's not for Zionism sake or any other political ideology. It's because that hate fueled rhetoric hurts all of us and some of us have been in your exact same shoes.

So if you can see the antisemitism in something like AoT and Disney, then you can surely see it in these slogans, rhetoric, and actions of anti-Zionist activists. And if you don't...well hopefully this will make you stop and think.

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

Emerald And Jaune are making out on a couch, Emerald straddling Jaune

Jaune: *Pulls away, breathing heavily* Wow you're really Int-

Jaune: *Jumping up* AH! PENNY!

Penny: Salutations!

Emerald: *Picking herself off the floor* Ow- How long were you there for?!?

Penny: Two Minutes.

Jaune: Were- Were you just watching Us?

Penny: Yes!

Emerald: Why?!?!?

Penny: I am interested in learning more about physical intimacy, and figured that you would not mind my observation, given you are in an open, public area.

Jaune: That's ... Fair enough I suppose.

Emerald: In the future, Ask whoever you're watching. Or JUST Don't watch!

Penny: Understood! I apologize for overstepping the boundaries, and will not do so in the future!

Jaune: So ... Is there anything else you wanted?

Penny: Might I join you for a time?

Emerald: What? Like a Threesome?

Penny: If you mean the Three of us engaging in a romantic or sexual act of intimacy together, Yes!

Emerald: *Looks to Jaune*

Jaune: ... *Shrugs* I mean, I don't see why not if you don't.

Emerald: Then I guess you can Penny.

Penny: Sensational!

~Several Hours later~

Ruby: JAUNE! PENNY! EMERALD! WHERE ARE YOU GUYS!

Jaune: *Chugging a 5-Gal Jug of Powerade* Hey Rubes. Me and Emerald accidentally awakened Penny's libido.

Jaune: I suspect I have 6 to 12 seconds before she finds me again or Emerald tags out.

Thieve's Respite Wraps around Jaune's midsection

Jaune: I figured. I would suggest leaving the are for your own innocence. If you don't see me in Six Hours, have emergency fluids ready.

Jaune: *Getting yanked back* AAAH-

[businesstiramisu]

@eightyonekilograms were you the one looking for force-masc stories???

I'm like 90% sure this was a tumblr post... does anyone have the comic that's like, a convoluted forcemasc explanation of the circumstances leading to the "the son of man" painting? that's the guy with an apple for a face:

it was like... this woman was getting tricked into putting on a suit, a bowler hat, and then eventually having an apple on her face (I don't remember how that happened). it was great

[notmaplemable]

Ruby: *Sitting on her front porch by herself*

Yang: Hey Rubes, you're missing your own birthday party.

Ruby: ...

Yang: Everything okay?

Ruby: ...I just realized I'm older than mom was when she died.

Yang: ...

[wu-sisyphus-gang]

Jaune: Hey Rubes. Looking good cutie!

Jaune: *kisses her hard*

Ruby: *internally* So hot. Wow. Sex? Sex time?!

Ruby: What was that for?

Jaune: I felt like it.

Jaune: *walks away*

Ruby: Get back here! You made me horny!

Jaune: That’s not my problem.

Ruby: You can’t just walk away like that!

[drdemonprince]

hey hi I'm the homewrecking anon from a month ago. instead of the rube goldberguesque plan to elope with some loser's wife I wandered into a bdsm club and my hyposensitive autism made me a natural at getting the shit beaten out of me and loving it. fast forward I've fallen in with a polycule of clown acrobats who can't go one week without hosting an orgy. A few have read your books. Life's good.

thank fuckin god anon. Many here would do right to follow this now ascended soul's example.

[howlingday]

Weiss: And when do you plan to pay for that dress you ruined during our practice?

Jaune: When are YOU going to start paying for my medical bills after you treat me like a practice dummy!

Yang: (Scroll buzzes) Hey, Rubes! ...Nah, I'm not busy. Just watching a really good show.

Yang: ...Huh? Oh, yeah, sure! I'll see you there! (Hangs up) Hey, Weiss! Ruby needs my help with her scooter. Mind keeping an eye on things here?

Weiss: That's perfectly fine. I still have a few words for our tin-foil knight here.

Jaune: Why don't you throw yourself into the Emerald Forest, Ice Queen?

Yang: Yeah, yeah. (Walks out) Don't kill each other until I get back!

Yang: Crap! (Walks in) Weiss, did you see where I left my... keys...

Jaune: (Belt unbuckled, Hoodie off, Lipsticked all over)

Weiss: (Bra showing, Face flushed) Er... In the glass bowl.

Yang: (Wide grin) Y'know, it might take me a while to get back. Will that be a problem for you two?

Weiss: N-Not at all! Take your time!