#i have ever seen in the industry.

[drbtinglecannon]

No other fake marriage has ever done it like Loid and Yor have

[iamonlyhereforthefreefood]

People act like they're going to be the next CEO shooter when they can't even stop doing hauls from Shien. Like some people want a revolution but can't even do small stuff like practicing boycotts.

[pynkhues]

the desire to assign them both traditional gender roles by fandom feels very gender essentialist to me and veers into TERF talking points

I’m glad you pointed out the whiff of terfiness, because from what I could gather the main argument for the Louis=wife theory is his victimhood and frankly that IS terfy, like he can’t be a victim unless he’s ‘woman coded’ (not to mention the incredibly gender essentials points used to reinforce this idea, like his interest in art and literature or in having a family). I find it…galling that’s it’s framed as denying a black man softness and sensitivity when to me it has always felt like tying acknowledging his less stereotypically masculine traits with pushing him into a wife role is just reinforcing the same stereotypes that fuel the culture of toxic masculinity he has to contend with and he himself points out onscreen.

(x)

I completely agree with you, anon.

I also think people fail to consider the eras that any of these characters are from across the board, and particularly where the appreciation of things like literature and art were not only considered masculine traits, not feminine, but indications of class and privilege (and honestly, I don't know how ready this fandom is for the ugly, messy privilege conversation around Louis as a character who is highly literate and educated, and Lestat having been illiterate until relatively recently - a fact that the show's already leant into with Louis weaponising it against Lestat in an argument in s1, and all the spelling mistakes in his letter in s2). There are a lot of shifting balances of power that don't even consider gender in this context, and include at least race, class and wealth (which Lestat has an endless supply of in the NOLA era while Louis still has familial dependents!) and I think to reduce them to a gender binary is just really limiting across the board.

[academicgangster]

Man, sometimes you're really like 'so this terrible baby's first villanelle got published in an actual poetry journal?' and you reach the poet's profile section and they have a fucking MFA.

[lazaruspiss]

so many people just hear "dick was a cop" and go "eww im gonna pretend i didnt see that" and like. if its just bc you cant handle the subject matter thats one thing, but often times its just. performative. especially because the actually storyline is so much about dick trying (and as far as ive gotten to reading so far, failing) to make a change in the system and be a "good cop". it's an extremely heavy but genuinely very interesting storyline. dick does find other "good cops", but they're very much the minority and usually keep their heads down, because cops are bastards and will ruin the lives of "fellow officers" who try and do things right. they try to frame dick for murder at one point and everything.

[djarinsyndulla]

Certain losers are really still lying with their whole chest and trying to convince others The Acolyte looks “cheap and dull” lmfao. Like even in these lq screenshots from the trailer, this show is already the most visually stunning series I’ve seen from SW since The Mandalorian s1

[vampmilf]

hold on im still too mad at this one fucking guest to take a nap i need to be a hater for a minute

[itspileofgoodthings]

tags continued from prev post.

[bluemoonrabbit]

Man, I just watched a bunch of retrospectives on the Titan submersible and OceanGate, and now all I wish is that the CEO had not been on the sub that day. That man would have had one hell of a criminal negligence suit to deal with if he hadn't gotten turned into a paste.

It's so much worse than that he was just overconfident and miscalculated. The man decided he had to be an innovator, and he was fixated on the idea of using carbon fiber for his hull. No one else was using it! He'd be hailed as a maverick and a genius for bringing this material to the forefront of submersible technology! Never mind that carbon fiber had been very definitively shown to degrade after repeated exposure to high pressure. He had decided that it was his ticket to history and he wouldn't hear otherwise.

The entire industry told him that a carbon fiber hull wasn't safe. He himself knew it wasn't, because he'd had to replace the hull on his original prototype when it started breaking down, like everyone told him it would. Individuals and regulatory bodies reached out again and again laying out the danger and begging him not to do what he was doing, and he dismissed them all as old-fashioned and insular, trying to keep the submersible industry exclusive.

He didn't even do the industry-standard upkeep required for the materials he insisted on using, materials that, once again, had been definitively shown to degrade in deep environments. It is standard, when using carbon fiber in long-term applications, to autoclave it after a few uses to reseal some of the degradation. This fucker, born into wealth and charging $250K per passenger, couldn't stand to spend $20K to autoclave his carbon fiber death trap.

Beyond that, his marketing materials were deliberately misleading: he repeatedly pointed out that the submersible industry has an incredible safety record, pretty much zero deaths in the last 50 years. However, he was knowingly skipping all of the safety tests and best practices that had contributed to that record, meaning he benefited from that reputation without putting in any of the work required to uphold it.

Yeah, I really wish we could have seen him try to argue in court that he wasn't culpable.

[age-of-moonknight]

“For Now,” Phases of the Moon Knight (Vol. 1/2024), #4.

Writer: Fabian Nicieza; Penciler and Inker: Moisés Hidalgo; Colorist: Fer Sifuentes-Sujo; Letterer: Cory Petit

[aeolianblues]

Dealing with bands’ publicists is so funny. They’ll send one of their corporate-y messages. I’ll bristle and respond with a polite version of ‘I don’t work for you, bitch’ (we’re volunteers) and then the next message will immediately be an effusively friendly and apologetic email from the artist themselves. I am always amazed me what different planets artists and agents live on lmao

[butchlifeguard]

i would love to do a really long essay about food conspiracies and fatphobia

[cyb3r-mutt]

I miss not being a supervisor at work cuz like now I have to do so much other shit (often not even part of my job stuff too but whatever I care too much) and I don’t get time to just like tidy the store anymore :( and it always looks bad now cuz my manager only cares about credit card signups so our other staff don’t care about cleaning either

I used to spend full shifts just re folding jeans and genuinely enjoyed it more than anything I am so good at folding jeans they are pristine whenever I do I love love love folding jeans like people usually look at me weird when I say that when I’m training them on folding and it probably is the autism but please it’s a repetitive task with a visually satisfying result are you kidding me sign me up

[welcometogrouchland]

*twirling my hair* do you like cassandra cain? if not, do u have a moment to hear about our lord and saviour cassandra cain?

CASSANDRA CAIN MY LOVE!!! She's definitely the batgirl I've read the most in terms of full issues, the first 30-ish issues of her solo by Kelly Puckett Scott Peterson and Damion Scott had me hooked and I binged them but fell off after Horrocks came on (nothing against him, he was just given an editorial mandate to make the book more romance focused and it turned me off because it felt so ooc for Cass to me lol. I do own some of the issues he wrote tho! I like the ones with art by Rick Leonardi). I'm not really caught up with modern comics (ish??) And I'm not reading anything dedicatedly but I hear she's in a new original book teaming up with a magic user? Neat! Good for her. I love her in the shadow of the batgirl graphic novel (IT'S SO GOOD)

[homophyte]

can i be so honest. every critique ive read of nope so far has been very lacking

[vcrnons]

thoughts on TWS, the new pledis boy group that's debuting in january?

i mean. the only thing i know about them is their name, so i was probably the worst person to ask this to im sorry 😭