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[usatrendy]

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[pucksandpower]

According to multiple motorsport news outlets, Williams will announce that they are signing Carlos Sainz for the 2025 season in Barcelona.

But I want to talk about Logan Sargeant.

I started cheering for him as a sort of joke — I am a lifelong Ferrari fan but felt it was my patriotic duty to support him as a fellow American.

However, it became evident over the past few seasons that my fandom is now very much real.

He is humble and hardworking and never complained about the cards handed to him (no matter how much Williams set him up for failure by not giving him upgrades even when his teammate would get them and taking away his car for a weekend when his teammate crashed and then making him drive with that repaired chassis and running out of recent parts which forced him to drive with a rear wing from 2023).

I know Formula 1 is a business. I know Formula 1 is a competition. I know Logan Sargeant is not exactly one of the best drivers on the grid. But … I also know that he deserved a chance to show what he could do on equal ground, especially when he has been doing the best he could this season with a less than ideal situation.

I guess what I want to say is that whatever happens from here on out, Logan Sargeant has made a lifelong fan in me.

I hope to see him back on the track somewhere very soon after this year ❤️

[miwhotep]

It's always a lonely feeling when you end up liking that character everyone hates with passion - and you even understand the reason for that passion. I am a Moriarty the Patriot fan for more than 3 years, but I never interacted with the fandom due to having Milverton as a favourite - well, my obsession with him actually started as a child, reading Sherlock Holmes stories and he was my favourite villain. So I was happy when I first encountered him in the YuuMori manga... and I was sad to see his character going waste because the author didn't take time to properly write him. But I started wandering on the what-ifs anyway.

His character kept intriguing me, because we basically know nothing about him. I decided to enrich his character myself - at least, with headcanons. Why was his hair fully white when he was too young for that? Going through a great trauma can turn a person's hair white - maybe he wasn't always the true evil he claimed to be, he just turned into one due to the things happening to him. Remember, despite being in a powerful position, he was no noble. Maybe he was once someone, too, who got broke by the class system and turned to evil thanks to that.

I have a headcanon for his origin story (and a fanfic I never posted).

He wasn't always had that fancy name, he just took that on later. He came from a lower-class family, growing up with a mother who got bedridden due to how the noble who employed her treated her. He somehow learned reading as a child and thanks to this and his wit, he was able to get a better job as a journalist at a newspaper. He was a really idealistic, young journalist who hated the class system and the way the newspapers lied to the commoners to serve the nobles. He became a journalist to give justice to commoners. He came across a murder where a commoner was unfairly accused of the crime - while actually a noble commited it. He promised the commoner to help him clear his name, but neither the police or the newspaper he worked for wanted to reveal the truth, because they were afraid of the noble. In the end, the noble hired an assassin to kill young Charles' mother (and fiance) for trying to get in his way. When his family got murdered in the flat where they lived, noone in the house helped them, despite hearing their screams, because they were afraid. Charles felt that everyone betrayed him at that moment - even the commoners he was fighting for.

After this, Charles met the child Liam who tried to comfort him and told him that he can't fight the nobels through idealism. He suggested him to blackmail nobles so they will do what he tells them and through this, he can get into a powerful situation and make a newspaper what's on the commoners' side and write about their stories. Charles took the advice - but his heart was already full of pain, hatred and the feeling of betrayal for both nobles and commoners. His dark feelings, the necessary evil method he tried to set things right with and slowly coming to a powerful situation fully corrupted him - and in the end, what remained from him is a ruthless creature who takes pleasure in ruining everyone's lives, the way his life was once ruined, too. He likes turning heroes into villains to show that everyone can become a monster like him - who was also a hero once.

He is actually a dark version of William - a once necessary evil who was unable to keep his heart uncorrupted due to the actions he tried to change the world with, and became true evil.

Well, that's the first part of the big Milverton lore existing in my head. I decided to maybe try to interact with the fandom after all, due to that one person who after all those lonely years, actually interested in my thoughts.

[gainaxvel3o]

I don't think fans understand the "Batman beats up poor people' and "Batman could improve the infrastructure of Gotham through money than fighting crime" criticisms. Hell, I don't think people who spout those arguments understand the criticisms themselves.

See, fans take that criticism literally. They'll cite a hundred stories where Bruce Wayne gives money to charities and public funding, or how Batman tries to sympathize with the villains, and how that criticism disregards the actual stories written. Which is true, if taken completely at face value.

However, I feel the criticism is aimed more at a meta-narrative level. Why is the most popular superhero in the world right now- marketed toward children and treated insultingly well by DC and Warner Bros- a rich billionaire who's stories are tailored made toward him beating on people of lower incomes or suffering from exaggerated depictions of mental health problems? With the help of the police? Batman's story is constructed around such ideas, and aspects of his world like Jim Gordon are too fundamental to the character's history to be removed cleanly. It's not something any one Batman writer can solve, and let's be honest, most people would and have rightfully rolled their eyes at the idea of fundamentally altering the character in such a drastic way since he's their escapist entertainment. But- assuming someone actually wants to engage with the idea- it is a topic worth discussing.

To be fair here, I should talk about a more extreme case regarding one of my personal favorite characters. There's been a recent discourse on Twitter regarding to the Captain America. Or rather, the Chainsaw Man artist's rendition of Captain America, a grotesque demon that one user interpreted as a condemnation of America itself. Fans of Cap got defensive, pointing out the Steve Rogers character isn't really like that. Which is true, but misses the point entirely in regards to OP's observation and what a lot of people are saying. The character of Captain America might challenge for progressive values in his actual stories, and he was admittedly created by jewish men who fought Nazis. That's all cool, but consider: why is one of Marvel's flagship characters- one defined by pretty much by his mortal virtue in fact- draped in America's flag? We rightfully condemned when Israel tried to make its own patriotic superhero, but we sort of give Cap a pass no? For a lot of people, America has done a shit ton of harm and view the flag as part of a cynical, corrupt empire that enables their suffering. That's what the OP noticed in the Chainsaw Man mangaka's depiction of Captain America, and one can understand how someone- namely a non-american- wouldn't exactly be swayed by the "he has the IDEALS, doesn't serve the country man" argument.

These criticisms are not at all about the characters, not really. They're more of a broader, societal critique of what those characters represent. It requires a level of nuance and complexity that goes beyond the literal level, disregarding the page to focus on ideas, something that most casual people aren't going to be into. It's tedious as all hell honestly if you're not in the mood! I think the more fans and people understand this, the more we can have a greater understanding and get productive discussion.

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Psycho Analysis: Winds of Destruction

(WARNING! This analysis contains SPOILERS!)

Here I am, dirty and faceless Waiting to heed your instruction On my own, invisible warrior I am a Wind of Destruction!

As many of you might now, I’m a huge fan of the Metal Gear series. What you probably don’t know is  that, despite the series having a penchant for squads of quirky bosses, I’m not really a huge fan of many of them. FOXHOUND? I mean I like Mantis and Ocelot. The Sons of Liberty? I guess Vamp is alright. B&B Corps? I barely remember any of them. I love the Cobra Unit, but that’s because all of them are batshit insane and weird. I’m not saying they’re bad boss fights or anything—far from it, they all offer fantastic boss fights—but as characters I’m not really big on many of these villains.

The Winds of Destruction, on the other hand? I fucking love these guys (and girl).

Metal Gear Rising is what happens when you turn the insane anime action of the main series up to 11, and so it should be no shock the squad of bosses is cranked up as well. Each and every one of these guys is nuttier than the last, and the whole lot of them are some of the most memorable and memetic characters in the franchise. Also Khamsin exists.

Motivation/Goals: So besides the obvious way they tie into the plot because they’re working for Armstrong, each of these villains has a theme song which pretty much details what makes them tick, what they’re about, and expands upon them once you get their health low enough during their boss battles.

Mistral’s theme, “A Stranger I Remain,” details how she has come to this land to sate her bloodlust, and how she truly feels most at home on the battlefield; Monsoon’s theme, “Stains of Time,” acts as a reinforcement of his nihilistic outlook; Sundowner’s theme, “Red Sun,” expounds on his nature as a card-carrying villain and how he revels in the violence and bloodshed he causes; Sam’s theme, “The Only Thing I Know for Real,” lays out his desire for a one-on-one duel with Raiden, his foil, to see who is truly worthy to stand up and continue fighting for their ideals; and Khamsin’s song, “The Hot Wind Blowing,” showcases his patriotic nature as well as just generally acting as a badass boast. Most of these songs  act more as thematic seasoning for the characters, adding on to what is already established in their cutscenes, but for some like Khamsin and to a lesser extent Mistral, it’s pretty much the extent of their development.

Performance: Every single one of these actors really brings their all to make these characters memorable.

Sundowner is the ham and cheese of the group, working alongside Armstrong to ensure that all the scenerey is well and truly chewed. And who better to bring on the ham than Crispin Freeman? Salli Saffioti is Mistral, and is it any shock she’s also played Black Widow before? And also Hilda from Fire Emblem, I guess? Then we have Monsoon, played by John “The Crypt Keeper” Kassir, who delivers everything with gusto as always. Phillip-Anthony Rodriguez makes Sam just as smarmy and charming as a rival should be, and Benito Martinez puts in his all to his brief role of Khamsin. Not a weak vocal performance here, I’d say.

Final Fate: Seeing as they are video game bosses, it should come as no surprise to anyone that Raiden slices each and every one of them into confetti. Special mention to the absolutely brutal death of Mistral, where she gets frozen in liquid nitrogen before you get to shatter her.

Best Scene: For most of them, they only get the one scene followed by their boss battle, with the exception of Sundowner and Sam. Mistral and Khamsin’s boss battles are obviously their finest hours, though Mistral’s takes the cake between the two seeing how explosive and exciting it is, living up to the promise of that first battle with Metal Gear RAY, while Khamsin’s is the finale of a DLC featuring the game’s ultimate jobber, Blade Wolf.

Monsoon has a lot more going for him, because before his boss fight he gives off one of the most amazing monologues ever put into a Metal Gear game, as he lectures Raiden on memes (“The DNA of the soul!”) and his nihilistic philosophy. Then you get to have a kickass boss fight where, if you do well enough, you will make this nihilistic bastard beg for his life as you hack him to pieces.

Best Quote: Monsoon has the honor of dropping the most iconic bit of dialogue in the entire game (outside of everything out of Armstrong’s mouth, of course):

"Free will is a myth. Religion is a joke. We are all pawns, controlled by something far greater: Memes. The DNA of the soul. They shape our will. They are the culture — they are everything — we pass on."

Sundowner, being the massive slab of ham that he is, is no slouch in the memetic lines himself. Two stand out, and that’s his battle cry of “I’M FUCKIN’ INVINCIBLE!” and his proclamation that he wants things to go back to the old ways of war, specifically “IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS AFTER 9/11!” This is hilarious because even with confirming that 9/11 happened in the Metal Gear universe, it still is probably only the second worst thing to happen to New York.

Sam doesn’t really have any great quotes that stand out, but this man is a master of reactions, from his shit-eating grin to his rousing applause. I figured I’d highlight that here.

Final Thoughts & Score: Let’s look at them from best to least best; I don’t think any of them are awful, though some are better than others obviously.

Monsoon

Outside of Armstrong and Sundowner, Monsoon is absolutely the best character in the game. I think part of it is because he so thoroughly represents everything the Metal Gear series is summed up in one character; he’s incredibly philosophical and legitimately fascinating while also being hilariously over-the-top and spouting off some of the most ridiculous and cheesy lines you will ever hear, all while being a bright red-and-black cyborg voiced by a guy famous for acting as the emcee of a horror show. Literally everything about him is the pure essence of the franchise, so even without Kojima’s direct involvement we still got a beautiful 10.5/10 character.

Sundowner

As far as the Winds of Destruction go, Sundowner is second only to Monsoon. He’s just over-the-top in ways I never could have even imagined for this series, and the only thing holding him back is he is almost immediately outdone by Armstrong two levels after you kill him. Still, this bloodthirsty butcher just revels so much in being a huge asshole and delivers all his lines with the Southern-fried charm that only an actor like Crispin Freeman could deliver, and you have a character I wish was around in the good old days after 9/11. He’s an easy 10/10.

Also he is literally just this image as a character, and that’s amazing:

Jetstream Sam

Sam is a really great character in the Cyborg Ninja tradition, easily following in the footsteps of characters like Gray Fox and Raiden himself. The sheer badassery of this man, a normal human whose only cyborg trait is a single arm and yet who is still capable of taking down a RAY by himself, cannot be overstated, and I think he gets a big boost from being playable. There’s an underlying tragedy to the character too, with how he’s something of a fallen hero whose sword was once a tool of justice but who became disillusioned due to his inability to make the world a better place all on his own  and losing to Armstrong in a fight. He’s easily the most complex character besides Armstrong, and his boss battle and theme song are both top notch. I really can’t justify anything less than a 10/10.

Mistral

As much as I love Mistral, it’s hard to deny she is really the epitome of a one-scene wonder. She does not get nearly as much characterization as her compatriots and is very vague and ambiguous even after the DLC… but that might be the point. Her image song is “A Stranger I Remain,” and though we know of her bloodthirsty nature from that song, Mistral still remains a mystery to us to the bitter end. But hey, it’s hard to deny that what we do see of her is pretty impressive (and I’m not just talking about her boobs, I promise). She’s not quite as good as her fellow Winds I’d say, but considering she’s a 9.5/10 that’s not really a knock against her.

Khamsin

Despite having one of the best songs in the game to his name, as well as an intriguing personality and motivations, Khamsin really is incredibly forgettable, to the point his comrades  don’t even bother to mention him in the main campaign. This is not something you should ever be saying about a dude who looks like Quaritch in his mech suit at the end of Avatar on steroids, and yet here we are. Of course, he’s certainly not awful by any means and he makes for a great boss fight, but he falls severely short of the main game’s enemies. Mistral managed to score as high as she did with only having one level to her, but Khamsin only manages a 5.5/10 with the same. Maybe it’s because he just feels so inconsequential… Eh, at least he looks cool.

[kogji]

Polite Patriots

I've already said that I am a fan of nothing. Mostly because I don't have the time or energy to immerse myself deeply in something. But I think I look for my own expectations in the characters and the story, and when they are not met, I would lose interest.

The same thing happened to the Moriarty the Patriot. I was very excited when I read the plot and I loved the beginning of the story. But the reason that made me interested was seeing the interaction between the brothers and the complex, conflicting and contradictory feelings they had while loving each other. But there was nothing.

There were very few brotherly scenes and I didn't even see Louis and Albert together, the two people I was most curious about their dynamic.

From the moment sweet little Louis burned his face, I said to myself, hear, I found my favorite character. The dedication and courage he had at that young age showed how far he was willing to go for his brothers. I thought he is an unpredictable person who does crazy things without asking permission or approval.

I wanted to see his independence, individuality, willfulness and unique approach. But he was just ... obedient. He gave himself fully to the ideals and plans of his brothers. For him, everything revolved around William and the only thing he did against his will was to ask Sherlock to save his brother.

And Albert… was it really that easy for him to kill his family and servants? The smell of their burnt flesh didn't hunt him at least for a few days? Never looked back and felt no regrets? If he was crushed under the feeling of regret but still believed in his path, it would be more concrete for me. It would have been more interesting if Albert had feelings for the real William and had to kill him for the greater good or whatever.

But the art style was amazing, the plot solid, so I have nothing to complain about.

[sarkos]

This new decree blows the lid off the establishment's agenda, letting freedom-loving folks bypass the usual bureaucratic nonsense like language tests or history exams," Jones posted on X. "If you're ready to reject the insane policies of your home countries that push these destructive, anti-human, neoliberal agendas, Russia is rolling out the red carpet! The Russian government is about to compile a list of countries poisoning minds with these twisted ideals, and the Foreign Ministry is gearing up to issue visas to true patriots as soon as September! It's time to stand up for spiritual and moral values!" Applicants will be assessed on their rejection of their home country's policies "aimed at imposing destructive neoliberal ideals on people," and other social media users suggested Jones might flee the country to avoid paying $1.5 billion for his false claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre that killed 20 first-graders and six educators in Connecticut. "I bet a lot of people are going to take him up on it," said X user FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! "The world has gone crazy and now Russia seems like the place to go."

Alex Jones and his fans are intrigued by Putin offer of sanctuary to conservatives - Raw Story

If the “America, Love it or leave it“ crowd leaves, in the words of an old racist joke, “I’ll just have a Diet Coke”.

[justinsentertainmentcorner]

Miles Klee at Rolling Stone:

YOU CAN’T PLEASE all the people all of the time — even if you’re as popular as Taylor Swift. Having attained a somehow higher level of mega-celebrity with her record-breaking Eras Tour and a closely followed romance with Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs (who are headed back to the Super Bowl as the defending NFL champs), the singer now faces the perplexing wrath of MAGA conspiracy theorists who have decided the league and the relationship are rigged to help Joe Biden’s chances in the 2024 presidential election. The premise is as disconnected from reality as it sounds, but it’s all the stranger given that this courtship between a pop icon and football star — both white, Christian, good-looking, wholesome public figures — should fit the all-American conservative ideal. And Swift herself long retained her mass appeal with a mostly apolitical presence on the world stage, only voicing liberal positions and endorsing a select few Democrats from 2018 onward. But it was, in part, this late entry into civic discourse that allowed right-wingers to sell themselves a narrative of Swift as a propaganda puppet, after years in which some ardently worshiped her as a blonde, blue-eyed avatar for white supremacy. Here’s the complete timeline of how the far right fell in, and out of, love with Taylor Swift.    

Pre-2016: Country Roots

Swift came up in the Nashville scene, from the age of 14, as a country singer-songwriter inspired by the likes of Dolly Parton and Shania Twain. Her debut single, “Tim McGraw,” alluded to her love of another country legend — and her early hits climbed the genre’s charts along with heartland tunes full of cowboy twang and pickup trucks. Whatever the identities of individual performers, this music has always been conservative-coded, and its biggest names have rarely shied away from an aggressive style of red-meat patriotism. Swift, of course, was a teenager singing about innocent young love: She only happened to suit the fantasy of a small-town girl next door that informs so much Americana. (And she certainly didn’t have Parental Advisory stickers on her CDs.) It was when she started to drift from these roots on Red (2012), and fully embraced electronic pop with 1989 (2014), that fans could begin to think of her as totally distinct from the traditionalist milieu of her early career. The latter’s “Welcome to New York” signaled a new, cosmopolitan life far from the backroads of country radio. In fact, a civilian Donald Trump was blasting the album’s second single, “Blank Space,” while driving around with wife Melania and son Barron, as seen in a 2014 video Melania shared on her Facebook page [...]

The ascendant alt-right, shitposters by nature, saw a chance to disingenuously claim Swift for their own, as both a secret Trump supporter and neo-Nazi. (It didn’t seem to matter that she had previously expressed her happiness at Barack Obama taking the White House in 2008, her first election.) The attempt to rebrand her had older, murky origins, including 4chan in-jokes and a Pinterest user who in 2013 went viral for images falsely attributing Hitler quotes to Swift, but picked up steam as Trump did. Andrew Anglin, founder of the white supremacist website the Daily Stormer, declared her an “aryan goddess,” while Milo Yiannopoulos, in a column for Breitbart, explained why she was an “alt-right pop icon,” noting her whiteness, blondeness, unrevealing clothes, lack of piercings, and occasional mini-scandals over music videos accused of racist undertones. It probably didn’t help that Swift endorsed neither Hillary Clinton nor Trump, leaving room for misinformation about how she secretly voted for the GOP candidate. Following Trump’s victory, some Democrats vented their frustration at Swift’s silence during the campaign, believing she could have moved the needle for Clinton. [...]

In the following months, the #MeToo movement shed light on how often sexual misconduct is dismissed or covered up to the perpetrator’s benefit, and Swift became one of the founding signatories of Time’s Up, an advocacy group for survivors, and donated to its legal defense fund.  None of this was likely to endear Swift to conservatives who had already begun to argue that #MeToo had “gone too far,” yet she continued to press the issue, gracing the cover of Time’s Person of the Year issue along with fellow “silence breakers.” And the next year, she finally waded into electoral politics, sharing on Instagram that she would be backing Democratic congressional candidates in Tennessee for the 2018 midterms. [...]

2019-2020: The Activist

By 2019, Swift’s politics were no mystery. She was openly in favor of gun-control reform, took a pro-choice stance against government attempts to crack down on abortion, gave a surprise performance at New York’s Stonewall Inn for that year’s Pride celebration, and urged the senate to pass anti-discrimination laws. Any far-right fan clinging to the notion that she harbored extremist views would’ve been in clinical denial. For the most part, conservative commentators got in the habit of attacking her as they would any other liberal entertainer with a massive platform. Ben Shapiro, for one, complained of her “abrupt and obviously pandering shift into a political wokescold.”    At last, Swift also formally denounced any admiration from the racist far right in a cover story interview with Rolling Stone. “There’s literally nothing worse than white supremacy,” she said. “It’s repulsive. There should be no place for it.” She explained that she feared a 2016 endorsement of Hillary Clinton could have backfired, since Clinton’s celebrity support was “used against her in a lot of ways.” As for conservatives who had once assumed she was on their side, she quipped, “I don’t think they do anymore.” [...]

2021-2024: Taylor Derangement Syndrome

The “aryan goddess” interpretation of Swift had been more or less put to bed by the time Biden assumed office. But the reorganizing MAGA right had little reason to single her out among the legions of professional entertainers who express their distaste for Trump here and there. She didn’t endorse candidates in the 2022 midterms, either, though she did communicate her dismay at the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Conservatives who bothered to take a swipe at her tended toward lazy outrage bait: calling her boring, overrated, or a lonely cat lady (mind you, she was in a long-term relationship with actor Joe Alwyn that was heavily covered by the tabloids). In 2021, Swift embarked on the formidable project of rerecording her first six studio albums after the rights to that catalog were sold to a company run by controversial music mogul Scooter Braun, and released the hit record Midnights in 2022.

It was in 2023 that American conservatism launched into an enduring freakout about Swift, her cultural dominance, and her potential influence on voters. Anyone dimly aware of the Eras Tour — an unprecedented run of sold-out stadium shows — could see she had reached another pinnacle of success, and amassed a near-cultish audience of millions who hung on her every utterance. We got plenty of think pieces on whether this was a good or bad phenomenon, with varied musings on how Swift had created her own monoculture. The sheer saturation of Taylor content was enough to irk those less disposed to her vibe — and there were gripes about that, too.

[...] The release of The Tortured Poets Departmentlast Friday, April 19, inevitably (and unfortunately) brought a new round of grousing. Sean Feucht,  the far-right “MAGA Pastor,” raised the alarm on social media, saying “half the songs” on the album “contain explicit lyrics (E), make fun of Christians, and straight up blaspheme God.” And lest you think he’s “just being religious & overreacting,” Feucht shared several apparently offending lyrics that certainly dabble in classic religious imagery, but in the most basic, writerly way imaginable. Among the most harrowing lines, to Feucht: “I would’ve died for your sins, instead I just died inside” (from “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”); “What If I roll the stone away / They’re gonna crucify me anyway” (“Guilty as Sin”); and “God save the most judgmental creeps / Who say they want what’s best for me / Sanctimoniously performing soliloquies I’ll never see,” from “But Daddy I Love Him,” which definitely seems more critical of Swift’s own fans than an entire religion.  And, of course, Shapiro got back in on the action as well with a YouTube video dubbed, “Taylor Swift’s New Album Is GARBAGE” and nuanced opinions like, “Can we stop pretending she’s high art?” and, “She’s so tortured that she’s worth billions of dollars for singing songs that are most appropriately sung by 16 and 17 year old girls.” 

Rolling Stone has an in-depth report on the timeline of Taylor Swift's career that led to the eventual right-wing sour grapes-fueled culture war against her, especially in the last few years or so.

[river-ocean]

☕️ + country music 🤠

AKIRA MY LOVE. i adore country music. i finally got to visit the country music hall of fame earlier this year and it was a life changing experience, really felt like i connected with my appalachian roots yanno?? i’m gonna get into the real nitty gritty on this one.

so no question, some of the best country music was made in the 90s and it’s definitely not just because i’m biased because it’s what i grew up with.

alan jackson, shania twain, jo dee messina, i could keep going forever just listing the great artists from that era of country music. but there is a REASON that cole swindell made a song about finding a girl who is a 90s country fan like he is. the songs are bangers.

now, there was definitely a shift in the vibe of a lot of country music post september 11, 2001, and that shift wasn’t necessarily for the best. things got deeply nationalistic and patriotic and there are absolutely some questionable themes in some country songs that came in the aftermath of 9/11. and country music was co-opted by some deeply right wing people and honestly, i fell out of love with country music for a while because it became associated with ideals that are absolutely not compatible with my existence.

HOWEVER. there has been a resurgence of country music centered around themes of not fitting the mold, not being the type of person that society deems acceptable, etc. and that’s what country music is all about! we’re seeing a lot of queer artists and more artists who don’t fall into the straight white box that was so predominant in the genre for a long time. i love that! country music started as music for people on the fringes of society, and i love to see that coming back.

and even “sellout” current pop country is still one of my guilty pleasures. it’s the type of music i can turn on and bop to, and i love that i can sing along with a lot of songs the first time i hear them.

i have so many fond memories of driving around with my friends in high school blasting country music. or going to spend the weekend in a friend’s hunting cabin and sitting around a fire listening to it. going to country concerts with the people i grew up with, singing at the top of our lungs in the lawn section and laughing because we could relate to the songs about swimming in creeks and having nothing better to do on a weekend than go to a field and have a party with your friends.

so i love country music. and people that say they won’t listen to country music don’t know what they’re missing out on.

❤️❤️❤️❤️

[separatist-apologist]

Lol you did tell people not to argue so I had that coming. Also want to preface this by saying I’m not trying to fight at all, I just think it’s fun to talk about the books with other people who have strong opinions! So if it feels like a fight and not a fun discussion feel free to ignore!!

Honestly I agree with everything you said, you make some great points! And overall, I do like Chaol as a character. But my feelings for him change a lot depending on the book, so like in QoS, I’m not his biggest fan. My biggest problem is that he seems to hold it against Celaena that she left them, but like he’s the one who sent her away!

They’re definitely all flawed characters but I think it’s easier for people to dislike the patriotic boy because I think the things people don’t like about him relate more to real people we know. Like he doesn’t feel as much like a fantasy guy who’s actions we can excuse as he does just some guy from the gym, you know? But he does have one of the best character arcs and I really like the journey he goes on. Honestly one of my favorite things about sjm is her focus on mental health and really fleshing that out.

Also I second the other anon, I think you are going to LOVE his love interest. I think she has a lot of similiar traits to Elain and she is very funny.

Sorry this is so long! And I hope you don’t feel attacked or anything, I just like discussing! I am very much enjoying hearing all your thoughts as you go through the series! 💕

I think Dorian says it best when he tells Chaol that he can't pick and choose the parts of her he loves, which Chaol is definitely guilty of doing. He wants her to be someone more compatible. In CoM he has this moment that made me roll my eyes were he's imagining her as his wife and the children they'd have and I was like...CELEANA?

Chaol and Celeana deeply misunderstand the other AND idealize their good traits to a near obsessive degree. Chaol is honorable and good and Celeana is drive and compassionate and the two of them are drawn to the other for those reasons, while ignoring, in my opinion, all the many, MANY things that make them a bad match. I think I can forgive them because they're young and they're grappling still with the hurt of their first love. If they'd ever been honest with themselves, they would have known that.

I also think Chaol resents that she never told him the truth about who she was (even though I think her reasons for not telling him were valid). Once he realizes who and what she is, he knows it NEVER would have worked and sometimes when I read his thoughts I empathize with his bitterness. She kept a lot of secrets from him, and while her reasons are valid, I think his anger toward her is, too. He also fell in love with her and I think Chaol is so pragmatic that had he known who she was, he never would have let himself get that far. I do think he feels betrayed and I think his betrayal is justified. Chaol wanted to live his life in the palace, serving Dorian, and being in Rifthold and once she tells him the truth, all the hope he's clung to is finally destroyed. Like up until that moment, even knowing she was fae, I think he was holding on to the hope they'd figure it out and come back to each other.

I also understand what you mean about him being like, a regular dude- but the world is made up of regular dudes. The amount of Celeana's are few and far between- most of us are Chaol's. Ordinary people who value peace and security and want to believe the world is good and just. And I think what I like about Chaol is being able to see someone with little power rise above his helplessness and still do the right thing even when it's hard.

[thetalentedmrkashyap]

B-2 : Why Indians Need to Watch Frank Capra’s Movies?

If you're a fan of Old Hollywood, you can realize the significance of Frank Capra (1897-1991) in the American Film Industry. An Italian by origin, he spent 89 years in the United States. His life story was that of a "rags to riches" one - an ideal example of achieving the American Dream. He also served in the United States Army during the Second World War - and made several war documentaries. One can learn about it in the Netflix series Five Came Back - with Guillermo del Toro narrating his story. Capra has influenced many directors of the post-World War II era (from Indian directors like Satyajit Ray & Raj Kapoor to foreign directors like Akira Kurosawa, Steven Spielberg, & Francois Truffaut). But what is it that makes Capra's work evergreen?

Before I start, I wish to talk about my rendezvous with Capra. I first heard about him when he attended the 1972 Oscars to co-present the Best Director Award with Natalie Wood (to William Friedkin for The French Connection). I watched six of Capra's movies between December 2021 and July 2022. They are:

It Happened One Night (1934)

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

You Can't Take It with You (1938)

Mr. Smith s Goes to Washington (1939)

Meet John Doe (1941)

It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night (1934)

Raj Kapoor and Nargis in Chori Chori (1956)

I loved every single picture. While watching It Happened One Night, I found it similar to the 1956 Raj Kapoor-Nargis starrer Chori Chori (not to mention their final collaboration). The screwball comedy got remade in several Indian languages - even the 1991 movie Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin (with Aamir Khan and Pooja Bhatt). The key themes the movie exhibits are the class and socio-economic differences between the two lead characters - along with love, freedom, poverty, unemployment, etcetera.

It would also be interesting to know that It Happened One Night was the first of the three movies to win the "Big Five" awards at the Oscars: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay. The other two movies are One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Silence of The Lambs (1991).

Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Claude Rains and James Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Mr. Deeds and Mr. Smith grabbed my attention because of the themes discussed in the two (like corruption, misuse of power, beliefs in democracy, patriotism, etcetera). The most significant element is the depiction of the ideal 'American Hero' - which one can see in Gary Cooper and James Stewart, respectively. However, the hero is something that every nation wishes to have - including ours. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town got remade in Bengali (Raja-Saja of 1960 with Uttam Kumar) and Tamil (Nallathambi of 1949 with S. Krishnan). Whereas Mr. Smith Goes to Washington did not have an Indian adaptation.

However, Mr. Smith reminded me of how the English tried to suppress such movements during the freedom struggle. Scenes like 'young boys printing newspapers and citizens launching movements to prove a man's innocence & bureaucrats and politicians trying to stop it' remind us of such events. One must remember that it got released less than three years before Gandhiji launched the Quit India movement of 1942. Even after independence, now and then, we come across news headlines featuring similar happenings.

Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in Meet John Doe (1941)

Amitabh Bachchan and Shabana Azmi in Main Azaad Hoon (1989)

Meet John Doe is about a "grassroots" political campaign created unwittingly by a newspaper columnist with the involvement of a hired homeless man and pursued by the paper's wealthy owner. The renowned Indian adaptation of the film is the Amitabh Bachchan-Shabana Azmi starrer Main Azaad Hoon (1989). It's one of the rarest movies where Bachchan has not fought the corrupt violently.

Although John Doe survives in the end, Azaad kills himself to stay true to the words of the reporter's fictional character. Azaad could have avoided it - but he did not do it so that the people's anger and urge to fight the corrupt system never cool down. Azaad also leaves a message for his supporters and appeals that Azaad should evolve in them. Capra claimed that he never found a satisfying ending for Meet John Doe. However, Main Azaad Hoon provides a finale that suits the main character's commonality and mythic stature.

(5) Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, and Edward Arnold in You Can’t Take It with You    

And finally, You Can't Take It with You (for which he won his third Directing and second Best Picture Oscar) has a similar theme to It Happened One Night. It's a love story of a successful banker's son and his stenographer. In several Bollywood movies, we see romances between a rich boy and a poor girl (and vice versa) - but they are not like the romances between Capra's characters.  

(6) Donna Reed, Stewart, and Karolyn Grimes in It’s A Wonderful Life

This article would be incomplete without talking about It's a Wonderful Life (his first movie after leaving the Army) - which gives an important lesson about the significance and beauty of human life. It teaches us that our work can impact the people we come across - and those with friends are never lonely.

But that's not all!

We live in his world. It is the "Capra Universe" - where demons of society have surrounded us - and all we need is a "hero" to fight against them. Indeed, there are various Indian movies with similar themes (and distinct from Capra's plots). However, one can the difference only after watching them. Capra has taught us that you can be a rebel or an "angry young man" - without having a gun or a weapon to fight the system and beating up the bad guys. All you must do is to believe in yourself and the moral principles of society. He gave complex social and economic problems a human face - showing unemployment and vast concentrations of economic power.

Elaborating on the themes expressed in Capra's most famous works, two of the most reoccurring subjects are selflessness and a familial sense of community. That's why there is always strong support for the lead characters.

The only difference between Capra's movies and the Indian versions is the inclusion of songs - a standard Indian Cinema formula.

With themes depicted in them and the problems we see around us, Indians must watch some of Capra's movies. There have been directors who have remade them in the Indian context (and there will be in the future, no doubt). However, they won't have the exact authenticity as those of Capra's movies.

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Josh Allen Dates in His League

It’s not a competition.  But I win the title of biggest Hailee Steinfeld fan. I even vaguely know why she's famous.  The voice of Gwen Stacy is now Buffalo’s First Lady as if nerds weren’t already envious of our de facto executive.  Like Jerry Seinfeld when Elaine’s dating Keith Hernandez, I’m jealous of everybody. 

I made sure to spell her name correctly to flaunt my dedication.  Copying and pasting was a worthwhile investment this past weekend that taught me through repetition.  As an expert on her career, I’ve known how to type her name correctly without checking for a few days now.  If I got it wrong, I would have to pretend it was a joke about ignorance of her oeuvre.  Simultaneously, I now don’t care for our quarterback’s ex whatshername, a free agent who can date a Patriot.

Hailee is an actress and singer, according to information I totally didn’t just glean from her Wikipedia. My expertise on all things Buffalo Bills extends to learning why she’s famous.  An actress and pop star dates a fellow double threat.

A transaction can alter perception.  Buffalonians suddenly prefer the True Grit remake to the original, which is a matter of taste and not that the city’s most beloved dreamboat is courting one of its stars. I also now have an opinion about the Pitch Perfect movie series, which may seem weird but is not much different than thinking Dalton Kincaid is just the sort of player I want to cheer for right as he’s drafted.

Life can change in a moment.  Take how her ubiquitously incessant hit Starving used to infiltrate my brain and play on a loop as a cruel joke from an uncaring universe that didn’t care how my thoughts weren’t something I wanted to think.  But I now welcome encountering her emblematically classic tune that puts anything Verdi wrote to shame.  What was earlier in the month an incessant torment that offered a preview of eternal damnation has become a chance to experience transcendent musical genius repeatedly.

In particular, the once-curious line expressing fondness by informing the singer's partner that she “Don’t need no butterflies when you give me the whole damn zoo” is now worthy of Westerberg.  Like trying to look past Terrell Owens’s myriad transgressions, we seek the upside of new allies.

Learning about who Josh Allen dates is my new offseason hobby.  Taking a very not creepy interest in his time away from work is just another way of showing appreciation.  We swear it’s dedicated and not deranged.

Caring about the doings of admired athletes shows thoroughness.  That's why I found myself interested in what bank Stefon Diggs thought was best for me.  Caring about a certain update just because a particular person is involved applies to celebrity endorsements of corporations or relationships.

Steinfeld could become even more beloved in her adopted homeland if she affects play in one direction.  A glamorous pairing is ideally part of a fully happy life.  Allen doesn’t seem like the type who finds focus in anguish like a miserable single writer who uses personal desolation to mine material and a grudge.  Fellow AFC East quarterback Aaron Rodgers has gone through a handful of romantic affiliations involving ladies with popular Instagram accounts, which could be a trend worth following.

Star power should only be the main attraction when it’s on the field.  But it's nice to recognize fellow backers from somewhere other than Wegmans. Monitoring which humans we know are sitting in suites is the result, not the goal.  The urge to align with success applies to allurement just like it does athletics.  It’s a good problem to determine who’s hopped on the bandwagon.

Following sports is already bizarre.  Zealots care more than anything about who moves a ball forward better.  Worrying intently about ligaments of people we may never meet has come to feel normal.  Wondering about partners is the next natural step in its way.

I blame the calendar for my Tiger Beat tendencies.  Charting wooing is a byproduct of just how much time fans must fill between play.  But even a 40-game NFL season would still feature some days between them.  Thinking about where players are taking flames to dinner creates a break from thinking about the next touchdown’s form.

Post this on Page Six.  Allen is turning football columns into gossip forums.  Someone with multiple talents is dating Steinfeld.  It’s a sign of just how much attention he draws that Hailee groupies who might not be able to explain a zone blitz know she’s going out with some football guy.  

Questions about the upcoming season revolve around play-calling direction.  I wonder when will we found out Hailee’s favorite pizza parlor.  The answer could endear her even further to Erie County’s residents and enthusiasts.  A quarterback succeeding in multiple ways enjoys time with a new beau in between playing cornerback at OTAs.  Welcoming her as family is how we can make her feel at home.  Does she like football?

[feral-radfem]

The het erotica anon here. Yeah thanks for your response. Now it makes sense the way you explain it. I find it refreshing to find similar minded women too. I had limited access to the internet due to my location and Tumblr used to be one of the many websites I didn't have access to until recently. I already have female friends who have stopped reading erotica like me for similar reasons, but because I couldn't connect to other OSA women around the globe, I thought maybe there is something wrong with mine and my friend's heterosexuality that made us not feel much towards works that we were supposed to like. I didn't feel the "submissive" tendencies towards men that these female characters have, and I always thought maybe there's something missing with me, or maybe I'll feel this way too when I grow up. ""Biology"". Whatever. Then it turns out I'm bi.

I agree with you that it's relieving to have access to like-minded women and learn that hey, no need to feel like there's something wrong with you. There are many women out there like you. etc etc. I'll show this response to my partner too, since she had the same thoughts as me.

No you're right. I worded it a bit weird but I don't think romance in general is bad, however the romance books written here are just conservative shitshows with abuse, rape, and murder handled terribly in them.

My mother likes the romance genre but she never buys local books because of how repulsive they are. That's why I spoke so aggressively of romance books, otherwise I haven't read non-native romance books to compare them with ours. And again, these are hetero romance books. I have not found any local romance books related to lesbian or gay love because that's illegal technically.

You're welcome. :)

There is nothing wrong with you or your friend for not feeling a desire to be submissive to men, that is not a desire naturally ingrained in women. Heterosexual, bisexual, or lesbian. We were not born to be below men, though there are plenty bio-essentialists who believe we were, there's no instinctual calling to serve men. I'm sorry either of you were made to feel that way. That is not right.

Oh no. I wasn't disagreeing with you just adding my own caveats. Anyone who read my response would understand that I wasn't equating the two. You know, Romance stories and erotica. I'm a little paranoid about being misunderstood on tumblr, since it happens so often lol. One I'm just not a particular fan of the other I think should be heavily regulated if not banned completely as obscenity and just wanted to make the distinction clear.

Romance books typically mirror the patriarchal ideal of romance for whatever culture they're being published in. Though due to the fact that we all live in patriotic societies I'm sure some of your leading books look very similar to some of ours. So this can definitely come in varying degrees depending on how normalized severe massaging is in any given culture. Male perversion doesn't vary that much in theme though, generally. If I'm being completely honest, most books, both of the romantic and erotic variety, that are homosexual oriented reflect the same patriarchal ideals as the heterosexual books. It's where we would have applied idea of heteronormative before the internet corrupted it and destroyed it like all other political jargon of the modern century.

However, my heart goes out to you for not being able to access any media legally that represents your lived experiences. It's ridiculously early where I am right now, but I hope the coming Day finds you well.

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