#it just seems so internety

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Vore is so corny like…. How is that even considered a kink its not like u can actually do it irl…

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So, I just finished watching all 9 episodes of Smiling Friends in one sitting.

I dunno why, but I just have a bit of a natural aversion to immediately diving into like Internety things that blow up really quickly. I still need to watch the pilot episode for The Amazing Digital Circus, I have no clue what the game Content Warning is about, I know I got into watching videos on Lethal Company late and such.

One of those things was Smiling Friends. I had seen it blowing up originally, and so naturally, I just drifted away from it. I had subsequently seen it in like some memes or stuff afterwards, but besides that, not much.

It doesn’t help I’ve not really gotten into Adult Swim cartoons at the moment. I love random, but Adult Swim cartoons can be really cynical in a way that makes me wary of them.

Then, I saw you post some art of it. Then some more. Wow, more! What about this show makes this person I consider a good Tumblr friend like it so much to dedicate so much time to doing at about it? Well, you said in an ask that it wasn’t as cynical as other Adult Swim cartoons, especially when it came to Pim and Charlie. Huh, okay, I think I’ll go watch it!

I procrastinated on it for a few days because I was busy. But, finally, I decided, “You know what, I’m just gonna watch it!” I watched the first episode. Honestly, it is my least favorite episode. (Weirdly, just like how the first episode of the Sam and Max TV show is my least favorite.) I didn’t like The Boss breastfeeding, I didn’t like how Desmond kept the gun pointed to his head, I didn’t like the spinning baby. That all felt too jarring for me.

Of course, maybe I wasn’t properly acclimated with the show yet. Besides, there was good with the bad. I thought Pim and Charlie’s dynamic seemed funny, the ending was great, and I liked Allan and Glep as the other two Smiling Friend workers. So, I pushed through.

I ended up really enjoying my time watching the show. There was a lot more I liked than I disliked. My main thing: You were right, it definitely wasn’t as cynical as I thought it would be. Sure, the world still is cynical and messed up at points, but I felt an authenticity to the reoccurring characters and how they dealt with the situations they ended up in. Plus, for every single episode, I didn’t see the ending coming AND felt super satisfied by the resolutions! My favorite episode is probably the Salty’s one.

So, I guess this is a really long way to tell you: Thanks for getting me into Smiling Friends!

ooouuu i’m glad you enjoyed it!! surprising i’ve gotten some people to start the show because of my fanart.. wuohhh

Completely understand the parts that felt jarring; i could only look past it or at times find the humor in it mostly because of how my friends and i perceived and translated it into our own funky little brains. And i don’t necessarily feel as if adult shows need to step away from that very random/jarring humor/gags but more of Figure Out How To Do It Right and that’s what I feel smiling friends does perfectly. But some people are gonna be left with a bad taste in their mouth anyways and that’s completely fine yk.

What I like is how they mix those very jarring elements in their show + the characters world and contrast it with simply how realistic the characters are. They typically converse as if most of this stuff is normal and it only adds more to the joke when they actually freak out. Like i’ve said before i adore the mixture of extremely realistic dialogue that sounds so similar to real life conversations we’ve very have had before with people in everyday life. (that’s why i especially love the trip to brazil episode)

And obviously the lack of cynicism. I’ve been avoiding most adult animated shows for YEARS because i genuinely just can’t stand the cynicism and it’s constantly negative fanbases it always brews. And i’m very heavy on looking to the fanbase to get an example of how good of a media may be or simply how much it may appeal to me. I remember telling a friend that the difference between the rick & morty fanbase to the smiling friends fanbase was just one fanbase is known for constantly having a negative outlook on life and saying shit like “you need to have a high IQ to understand this show” while the smiling friends fanbase just DESPERATELY wants to make out sloppy style with Charlie. There’s no tasteless misogynistic, queerphobic, or racist jokes. Hell they have two fat characters as the main characters and we have not heard a single fat joke. It’s a breath of fresh air and with its inclusion of having many youtube/twitter/online creators be part of the show (and RUNNING the show) i feel as if we’re hopefully stepping into a new age of adult animated media.

hopefully one with a more positive outlook on adulthood.

aaaa enough of my rambling you literally watched the show!! feels so odd i used to be influenced by fanart and now my fanart is influencing others. i will do everything to use this power for good 😭 just happy to see people start and enjoy things im really fond for.

hope u having a good morning/evening/night tumblr friend 🫶

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I've been struggling to articulate this feeling as well, though I'm not yet entirely sure that I concede the basic point. But taking it very cautiously as true for sake of argument:

One of the details here that I find illuminating is that while the vibes here feel vaguely correct, the idea of going back any substantial amount of time- even to 2010, let alone 1999- is still a hard 'no' for me. And not just because my relationship was illegal in 1999! Losing the... fabric?... of always-on internet life would feel incredibly isolating to me. Things like ready access to video and game streaming services, the ease of maintaining audio calls in Discord to enjoy friend groups all across the world, or just normalized online shopping. These things really add up to a kind of lifestyle I'd have real trouble stepping back from.

So when I think about this problem, I think my tentative feeling is really that we're kind of caught mid-stride between two attractors in culture-space. The impacts of universal internet adoption are just so huge that the cracks are showing all over. Legacy institutions seem to be failing left and right, in part because they were built on certain foundational assumptions about how society is ordered that just don't apply any more. But I struggle to articulate what those assumptions might be. Something about, maybe, the r-value of information traveling through communities? Or about what happens to personal identity when you have a radically more expansive social context for yourself?

I don't mean to write everything off as being caused by a more 'internety' world, mind. There's all kinds of other contributions to the present moment, everything from the Thatcher/Reagan economic experiments, to the War on Terror, to the rise of China. But I think the internet thing is why so many of our recent failures seem so dumb. We are collectively like an imported animal being released in to a new ecosystem, where all our lovely camouflage skin patterns don't match the foliage, where we keep trying to eat the wrong berries and getting spooked by birds that are perfectly safe. The natural selection will be brutal, but also rapid.

An underappreciated corollary of having really dumb institutions these days is that it's at least theoretically much easier to out-compete them with new forms. "Now is the time of monsters," and all that. The 00's may have been the peak of, like, Silicon Valley techno-optimism, but I think the 20's (and if not them, the 30's) seem more likely to be the time when revolution becomes a realist position, where we all end up leaping towards the future because the present is a melting iceberg. It's just a matter of figuring out which way to jump, as it were.

I've done a ton more pondering than is evident even on this blog, over the question of why everyone seems to be expressing unhappiness and unhealthiness to the increased extent that we appear to be in the last 10-15 years, when the world has objectively never been better. I've thought for years of expounding on this in lengthy effortposts. Frankly, a lot of my thesis was going to boil down to something along the lines of "we're all more spoiled and fragile than in decades past, and while developing higher standards is the very definition of progress and in itself a Good Thing, we, especially younger people, are allowing it to have the side effect that we tend to frame problems more negatively and are less fit to cope with them."

But over recent months, I've noticed myself shifting abruptly more in the direction of conceding what the rhetoric and ranting of others frequently seems to imply: that the world objectively has been better, that certain aspects of modern society truly are making life truly harder in substantial ways than in decades past, that we are not entirely fortunate to be growing up in the late 20th or early 21st century living in the 2020's. (And I mean, even discounting the effects of the pandemic.) I don't have the energy to justify this now, but it's contributing to a general feeling of frustration for myself as an individual as well as for humanity as a whole.

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as someone who went to college for digital media studies and sat through endless nonsense lectures about how Second Life was going to be the next internet, i gotta say, literally everything about "web3" and the blockchain reeks of the same misguided nonsense bullshit. we should not lean in to it. we should not accept it. we, as tech people, shouldn't literally buy into it.

Most importantly, it’s confusing as hell. Even sending a crypto coin from one wallet to another is extremely clunky and imagining my parents or even non-internety friends using a wallet like Metamask is laughable.

this goes back to steve job's argument that you can't lead with the technology... you have to make a great product. the blockchain and NFTs and whatnot are yet another example of maybe-decent technology, certainly interesting ideas, without any good product to make the full experience compelling. personally, i hope a good product never makes it compelling.

Because blockchain-based technology has financial value assigned to it, it basically creates an internet made of Pokémon cards. Every piece of the machine can be owned and traded and speculated on. It also means wealthier users have more mobility than poorer ones. (You could argue this is true for our current internet, as well, though, just in different ways.)

any next iteration of the internet worth our time has to be diametrically opposed to the idea that wealthier users inherently have more mobility; capitalism has this problem of course, but the internet doesn't need to have it, and doesn't have it by design. we are choosing to use the internet in this way, and we could choose not to through collective action.

the blockchain and everything inheriting from it (bitcoin, etherium, NFTs, etc) are inherently greater fool systems that are ticking time bomb bubbles. and we know this: we can do the math on it, we're nerds. we know there's a literal shelf life to these blockchain-based things we're propping up, which only reinforces the idea that they are actually means of exploitation. you think "the rich get richer, poor get poorer" on the internet today? that's not a foundational principle of the internet, but it is of proof-of-work based blockchains.

Blockchain-based moderation is so much worse than the already-terrible moderation happening on corporate-owned platforms. No one is in charge of a blockchain, which means, there is no central authority that could remove something from it without breaking it entirely. Which has horrible implications for privacy and data security.

yeah, people think the internet is hard to moderate today, and awful things happen on it; imagine if literally everyone had a local copy of those awful things and nobody can get rid of it ever. don't like nazis? well, if there's literally one piece of nazi shit put on the blockchain, then everyone owns it!, you own it!, and the whole blockchain can't get rid of it! without invalidating the entire chain! cool! why is this a good idea?

While there is still a debate about how exactly blockchain technology is accelerating climate change, it seems clear that it is. Blockchains require a lot of computing power, by design, and running the web on blockchain technology would effectively turn the internet into a massive furnace.

there isn't a debate -- this is literally the inevitable conclusion of all proof-of-work blockchains. they grow and grow and every time they grow their power needs grow. the computing power doesn't come out of thin air. we need to stop this now. one of the foundational principles of any "web3" needs to be that it's responsibly sustainable.

And, lastly, blockchain technology could remove a lot of the current middlemen that control both the internet and society, at large (see: OnlyFans vs. the banks), but it opens the door to pretty much an endless parade of new worse ones.

the blockchain has no solution for limitless fraud (why do you think every ransomware hack asks for bitcoin?). i'm all in favor of democratization and decentralization of these institutions, but i'd rather see it take the form of an archipelago model that solutions like mastodon are pushing for. this does not have to be as complex as a blockchain -- it really requires a good product experience and some solid principles behind it.

we already have open standards and great products built using those standards -- HTTP and DNS are the examples you're already literally using if you can read this. we just need to better leverage those standards in modern, secure ways (HTTP and DNS over SSL are two great examples) and make a really great experience using those standards (bring back RSS, anyone? PGP-sign all of your posts? with an actually good experience?).

Now, you might think this is all just technobabble nonsense or repulsive libertarian bull shit, but, unfortunately, that won’t make it go away. This stuff is real and having an impact on how the web is designed. In fact, I recently came across two interesting examples of how blockchain-based technology is blurring the lines between social network, video game, and online auction platform, which seems to be where a lot of the Web3 innovation is going right now.

👏 let's stop participating and let it die like all of the other terrible ideas 👏

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was at an event the other day where the facilitator asked the group “why do u care about activism and organizing so much” (as an icebreaker/intro question, the event was also about organizing)

and like ??? what do you mean? how could i not? what else is there to do but curl up into a ball and cry (admittedly, my other favoured activity)?

like this is absolutely not a diss but i am lucky enough to not need to devote every second of energy into survival, and i’m lucky to be educated on this stuff + have access to more education on it. and if you’re in the same position... what else is there to do but care? and then if you care, wh- how-

like?????? isn’t that just your obvious next step? am i missing something here?

and then i talked to my mom and she was like, ‘i have all those privileges and i don’t care like that, i just donate money’

and then i realized like,,, how much of myself, personally, i’ve immersed into social justice. not activism bc i’m yet to do anything of major effect or anything, but just  like. every social media of mine is at least 40% about this stuff. My education. The friends i’ve made. I could probs say 40% of any category in my life is connected to if not fully within the realm of social justice/activism/whatever

but also like i can’t undo it from my brain? i started caring and now i need to keep myself updated or i’ll feel bad. i’ve had my burnouts and all but

I DONT KNOW??? HOW IMPORTANT DO I WANT THIS TO BE? HOW IMPORTANT IS IT? WHAT DO I EVEN CALL IT? social justice seems too internety but at the same time... it was mainly internety until like six months ago? and also it’s not just social it’s systemic so???

connected is when i was talking to my moms friend who works w nonprofits to try to get a job and she was like ‘so what issue do you care about’ and I was like ‘oh definitely more civil rights than environmental’ and she was like ‘okay.... which one...’ and i just bluescreened. how was i supposed to separate race from gender from queer rights from labor from immigration from-

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Cade Cunningham can fix the Pistons, plus big-market MLB teams make big moves ahead of trade deadline

Getty Images Hello everyone, guess who? If you guessed it's Shanna McCarriston, congrats!There was no shortage of sports action yesterday. I mean, what a crazy Thursday it was. At night we had the NBA Draft, which took so many more hours to complete than it should have. But before that, a giant name in the sport, Russell Westbrook was traded. And that's not even beginning to scratch the surface of trades that happened in the sports world, as multiple MLB All-Stars were moved earlier on Thursday. Please check the opt-in box to acknowledge that you would like to subscribe. Thanks for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox. Sorry! There was an error processing your subscription. Oh, and *checks notes* we are in the midst of the Summer Olympics, in case you forgot.I won't leave you hanging, don't worry. Let's get started on catching up on everything.📰 What you need to know1. Recapping the NBA Draft: Cade Cunningham, as expected, goes to Detroit 🏀We have so much stuff to go over today, but let's start with the most recent happening: the NBA Draft took place last night. As expected (after weeks of smokescreens!), Cade Cunningham was selected by the Detroit Pistons with the No. 1 overall pick. According to our basketball experts, Cunningham was the best prospect in the draft and should've gone first no matter which team had the top pick. - CBS Sports' Gary Parrish: "If the Pistons spend the coming years building back to a place of relevance, this decision they made tonight will be the biggest reason why." - No. 1: Cunningham, Pistons, A+ - No. 2: Jalen Green, Rockets, A+ - No. 3: Evan Mobley, Cavaliers, A+ - No. 4: Scottie Barnes, Raptors, A- - No. 5: Jalen Suggs, Magic, A+ - No. 6: Josh Giddey, Thunder, B+ - No. 7: Jonathan Kuminga, Warriors, A+ - No. 8: Franz Wagner, Magic, B- - No. 9: Davion Mitchell, Kings, A+ - No. 10: Ziaire Williams, Pelicans, A-The first five picks were rather predictable, but it's the rest of the top 10 that becomes a bit more questionable. Parrish noted that the reason Giddey's pick got a lower score was because OKC should've picked Kuminga instead. When it comes to the other non-A grade, Wagner is young and has a lot of room to develop, but Parrish was surprised that he was top-10 pick material.2. Russell Westbrook gets sent to the Lakers 🏀Russell Westbrook is going back to Cali. The Wizards traded the UCLA product to the Lakers, along with second-round picks in 2024 and 2028, in return for Kyle Kuzma, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Montrezl Harrell and the No. 22 overall pick.Let's take a look at the breakdown of this trade:- Wizards trade Russell Westbrook to the Lakers, along with second-round picks in 2024 and 2028 - Westbrook set to make over $44 million next season - Wizards receive Kyle Kuzma, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Montrezl Harrell and the No. 22 overall pick - Harrell is opting into the final year of his contract at $9.7 million, which the Lakers needed for salary purposes - Kuzma, Caldwell-Pope and Harrell combine to make nearly $36 million  The Wizards plan to keep their other star, Bradley Beal, according to ESPN, even though he will be a free agent next offseason. While it may seem like Westbrook isn't the perfect fit for Lakers, who are ranked 24th in 3-point attempts and 21st in 3-point percentage last season and may not want someone who is known for struggling from three, he does fit as the secondary playmaker they've been looking for. This will take some pressure off LeBron James and help the Lakers, as he is a dynamic scorer.This is Westbrook's fourth team in four seasons. While Westbrook has an impressive resume, he does not have an NBA championship. This might be his best shot yet.3. Four All-Stars moved as wild MLB trade deadline approaches ⚾ Getty Images Remember when I said at the top that yesterday was a busy sports day? Well, MLB kind of led the way with the craziness. The Dodgers acted like the Dodgers and, after it was reported in the afternoon that the Padres were closing in on a deal to get Max Scherzer, Los Angeles turned around and acquired Scherzer AND shortstop Trea Turner from the Nats. The Padres were oh so close to a deal for Scherzer, but it never got done and the Dodgers swooped in and stole him. That's the wild wild NL West for you. Here's a look at the details of this trade:- Dodgers get ace Max Scherzer and All-Star Trea Turner - Nationals gets catcher Keibert Ruiz, pitcher Josiah Gray, outfielder Donovan Casey and pitcher Gerardo Carrillo - Scherzer is owed the balance of a $34.5 million salary for this season - Scherzer is eligible for free agency this winter - Turner will remain under team control through the 2022 seasonThis season, Scherzer has pitched to a 2.76 ERA with 147 strikeouts and 28 walks in 111 innings. Turner has hit .322/.369/.521 (146 OPS+) with 18 home runs and 21 steals (on 24 tries). Not a bad haul for the Dodgers, who are an impressive 62-42 but very well may not win their division because of how great the first-place Giants and third-place Padres are.While that was one of the biggest deadline blockbusters in years, it was not the only involving All-Stars that went down. Both Anthony Rizzo and Kyle Schwarber are now in the AL East and on different sides of the sport's more storied rivalry.The New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs agreed on a trade that put first baseman Rizzo in pinstripes, while the Red Sox took advantage of the Nationals selling off most of their roster and acquired Schwarber.Oh, and the trade deadline isn't even until 4 p.m. this afternoon, so get the popcorn, because more big trades are likely to happen. 4. Olympics schedule: What's happening on Friday🏅 Getty Images The Olympics are far from over and the events seem to keep getting more exciting as the days go along. We've seen Caeleb Dressel and Suni Lee take gold this week and we have lots of events to watch today as well.Here's a look at watch to watch on Friday, highlighted by the final chapter of Katie Ledecky vs. Australia's Ariarne Titmus in the women's 800m freestyle:- Women's soccer quarterfinals: USA vs. Netherlands | Live updates as the action is underway right now - Men's golf third round, 6:30 p.m. - Swimming finals, starting at 9:30 p.m.: Men's 100m butterfly, women's 200m backstroke, women's 800m freestyle, mixed 100m medley📝 Odds & Ends Getty Images 📺 What to watch tonight🏅 2020 Tokyo Olympics | TV: fuboTV, NBC⚾ Red Sox vs. Rays, 7:10 p.m. | TB -135 | TV: MLB.TV⚾ Yankees vs. Marlins, 7:10 p.m.  | MIA +135 | TV: MLB.TV🏅 Best thing I saw on the internetI love an adorable family moment and the Olympics are filled with lots of them. Just like with Caeleb Dressel's family, Suni Lee's family had an amazing reaction when she won gold in the individual all-around. I mean, who doesn't love an emotional, happy reaction from years of their family member's hard work accumulated to an Olympic medal?! Simone Biles, who has outwardly shown immense support for her teammates, also had a fantastic reaction to her friend taking gold. Read the full article

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Mavademics: Male Gaze through Visual Signifiers in Comic Art

Last week I saw an image for a cover to a Popeye comic. This version, drawn by Steve Mannion featured Popeye and Bluto with exaggerated vein popping musculatures and Olive Oyl reimagined as a sexy femme fatale in the style that, at least to me, is most close evocative of Salma Hayek‘s character from Deserpado. At the time I thought it was an upcoming series that reimagined Popeye in a modern context in the same way as recent series have done with Flintstones, Scooby Doo and Snagglepuss. I was intrigued and excited. I wanted to see what they were going to do with it. I’ve since come to learn that it was actually an older variant cover to Popeye Classics, IDW Comics‘ series of reprints fo classic Popeye adventures. I’m actually a little disappointed by this, because I was totally interested to see where it would go, but even without a new series to back it up, the image did make me think of some issues that I am working with in my dissertation that I figured it would be worth floating here in my blog to see what people’s thoughts were. In other words, it’s time for another fun round of everyone’s favorite game, “let’s comment on Mav’s dissertation research!”

Namely, I am interested in the fact that when I posted the image to Facebook, the main criticism that people jumped on immediately was the obvious sexualization of Olive Oyl. My friend Cenate pointed out that “A curvaceous Olive Oyl is just so strange. My brain can’t process it.” and a lot of this is because, as in the words of my friend Steve, “Admittedly I expect comic book bodies to be unrealistic, but man, my whole body is in pain just thinking about how deformed and twisted Olive’s skeleton must be. Either her left knee is twisted ninety degrees or she has a goat leg, likely both given the appearance of the silhouette of her right leg…” And while that’s true, my counter argument was that I find it interesting that this is what their attention is called to despite Olive Oyl never being particularly anatomically correct traditionally, and Popeye and Bluto also being extremely non-proportioned in they image. That is, I find it interesting but not surprising. In particular I see it as emblematic of the usage of male gaze in comic art. That is, here I am referring to “comic art” as an art style (or really set of styles collecting a series of like visual tropes) as opposed to the physical media (comic books), or the common genres most often associated with that media (superhero fantasy).

First, I think it’s worth defining the idea of “the male gaze.” I am not using it in the common internety way, of just saying “its bad to portray women as sex objects.” There’s an important conversation to be had there, but that’s not really where I am going with this. At least not directly. It’s an obvious connection that follows, however. When I am using the term I am doing so more in the vein that Laura Mulvey does in her original essay that introduced the term, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”. Specifically, at least here, I am concerned with the techniques by which the art style uses the media to portray female characters as sexual objects inviting a voyeuristic gaze, in contrast to make characters being depicted as subjects capable of active agency, rather than the ramifications of doing so. In her essay, Mulvey focuses on the specifics of how this is done in classic cinema pointing to the manner in which the woman, who’s primary purpose is to-be-looked-at, rather than progress the actual action of the plot, must necessarily freeze the otherwise progressing action of the film in order to invite the audience to partake in the voyeuristic pleasure of admiring her body. Since Mulvey is concerned primarily with classic cinema, she uses examples like Rear Window and Marnie. But I’m a comic book geek, so I’m going to offer Ming the Merciless’s hypnosis of Dale Arden in the cult classic Flash Gordon:

Note that when Ming takes control of Dale, everything else in the film stops so that people can just look at her. No one attempts to save her. The extra-diegetic lighting in the room inexplicably lowers so that the audience we can more easily ignore Flash Gordon and the others and focus on Dale as she runs her hands up and down her body and dances for Ming’s (and transitively our) amusement. She’s fully clothed, and in fact, is far more erotically dressed in nearly every scene that follows this in the film, and yet this scene is inherently sexual. Her movements and slow semi-orgamsic moans expressly tell the viewer that this is about sex, however her explicit lack of consent and even awareness of what’s going on key us to read that her personal sexual enjoyment, or lack thereof is entirely irrelevant. Even Flash, her love interest in the film, who is very much aware of the fact that his girlfriend is being psychically sexually violated against her will, can’t help but acknowledge that looking at her as an object (her explicit purpose in the scene) is “sensational.”

That is not to say that the sexuality on display cannot be germane to the plot, or that even doing so makes it a bad narrative. After all, in Rear Window, Mulvey’s key example, the voyeurism inherent in watching is central plot of the film. This can also be seen in the actual scene from Desperado that I compared Olive Oyl to in the first place:

Here, we’re actually given far less time to focus on Carolina(Hayek) as an erotic object. In my head, before I rewatched the scene, I remembered there being far more time to focus on her than actually occurs. She is introduced at a key moment in the action as the Mariachi (Antonio Banderas) is being pursued by his adversaries. She does not freeze the action, but instead is inserted into it because of her sexuality. She is explicitly scantily dressed to key the audience in to the fact that her sexuality is important. We don’t get much time to focus on her bare midriff, flowing windblown hair, or the fact that her tight shirt is tied to frame her boobs — approximately five seconds while other things are going on — but we are entirely aware of them. Moreover, the car crash that happens as she carelessly walks across the street keys us in to the fact that men are so distracted by her beauty that they can focus on nothing else, and her laugh at the event tells us that not only is she used to this sort of thing, but she enjoys it. Immediately after this, we have all action occurring in slow motion as the Mariachi is transfixed by looking at her, so much so that he (and we) almost ignore the the armed assailant whom we all know is coming to kill him. And yet, from this point onward, Carolina is one of the key characters of the film. But she is defined by her sexuality because the tropes of filmmaking tell us to define her that way.

So that takes us back to the Olive Oyl image. Obviously she is sexualized. But the question becomes why… and how does she command specific attention in the image beyond what the other figures do. After all, Steve commented that “my whole body is in pain just thinking about how deformed and twisted Olive’s skeleton must be. Either her left knee is twisted ninety degrees or she has a goat leg, likely both given the appearance of the silhouette of her right leg…” but Popeye’s suffers from much the same issue, his left leg is raised higher than should be possible with out a dislocated hip. His elbow has been relocated to the bottom of his oversized forearm, which should be breaking both his underdeveloped bicep and shoulder from the sheer weight of support. Given the the relative length of his right upper arm, we must assume that his left lower arm has been severed from the occlude left bicep. Similarly, Bluto, whose left arm is more massive than Olive’s entire frame, appears to be missing a right arm entirely, unless we as readers are to assume he has a congenital birth defect causing an underdeveloped arm, which would then call in to question why Popeye is attacking a disabled man. In a sense, Olive may actually be the most realistically proportioned figure in the entire image.

She is also more realistically rendered than her classic interpretation, a wiry, frail woman with joints that seem irrelevant to the points at which her body is capable of bending. While the new interpretation of Olive, with her ample bosom (again, like Hayek’s framed in a tight, low-cut, midriff exposing blouse), skirt clinging tighter to her legs to suggest her crotch, and leg pointed suggestively to expose her new 4-inch heel Fuck-Me Boots, the classic Olive isn’t actually that far behind. It’s true that Olive was never classically visually depicted as having a body that is conventionally sought after as attractive by women of the current era or her 1919 origin, she was always a sex object. She is designed to be a flapper (hence her hair and skirt), a stereotype that has as much sexual connotation at the time as it does now. It’s just that the specific style that E.C. Segar used when drawing her and the other Popeye/Thimble Theatre characters wasn’t designed to “realistic” so much as expressive. She frequently made it clear from her posture and actions that she was extremely horned up almost all of the time. In fact, a LOT of Popeye strips are pretty much about Olive basically wanting to fuck whoever pays the slightest flattery to her. It’s one of the reasons Bluto and Popeye hate each other. When she is not actively seeking amorous attention, she is the perpetual kidnapped damsel-in-distress from Bluto, who desires her sexually.

The sexual aspect of the Olive Oyl character was so prevalent in the 1930s and 40s that she became one of the most common characters featured in Tijuana Bibles (NSFW, seriously… DO NOT click to enlarge this image unless you really want to see a raunchy, rapey, bisexual, anal threesome between Olive, Popeye and Wimpy that your grandfather or great grandfather probably jacked off to at some point during the during the war… I mean, who are we kidding, we all know you’re going to click on it, but you’ve been warned). While the authors and artists of Tijuana Bibles are generally anonymous, it is widely believe that many of the underground artists creating the pieces were employed by day as the regular artists or assistant artists of these very same strips. So while they are certainly not officially sanctioned, they were very much understood as part of the comic culture of the time in the same way sexualize fan art that you might find on DeviantArt, or commission from an artist at a comicon is today. And Olive became a favorite of these because she was understood to be an innately sexual character.

So if we return to the Mannion cover we see some very specific elements at work that call attention to this sexualization despite Olive taking up comparatively little space in the composition. Obviously, the clothing choices are designed to present a sexualized image consistent with modern 21st century fashion choices. Her her hips, boobs, and legs are extended in such a way as to accentuate her femininity as much as possible. While the other characters are more dynamic, she is positioned in front of them, signaling her importance to the composition. Finally, she is the focal point of a golden spiral, the visual instantiation of the golden ratio, φ. In layman’s terms’s Popeye and Bluto are positioned relative to the rest of composition to form the beginnings of a spiral that causes the eyeline to drift towards a specific focal point, as you follow the action. In this case, specifically you are drawn closer and closer to her torso, which continues the spiral which is now framed by her boobs and crotch. Mathematically, you the image literally signifies to you “tits and pussy, right here kids.” Like Hayek in Desperado, she seems both completely aware and totally disaffected by the effect her sexuality has on Bluto and Popeye behind her. She knows they’re there, but this is regular occurrence for her (and it is) so she is happy to mind her business and rejoice in her function, to be looked at as an object to drive the action rather than a participant in and of herself.

Again, I’m not making a Frederic Wertham argument here. I’m not so much arguing that the objectification inherent in the image is “bad.” In fact, in this case, I think it’s used particularly well. But the argument is more in the fact that it is commonplace enough to have become a specific visual trope. I actually went to the comic book shop, Phantom of the Attic, yesterday to count how many female sexualized covers there were. From a pure blatant eroticization stanpoint, of the 216 covers that were on the shelf yesterday, only eight had covers that I think your common viewer people would claim were blatantly eroticized towards a male gaze, far fewer than I would have expected, honestly (and way less than would have been the case in the 1990s comic boom). However, 42 of them used golden spirals to draw the focus to an at least mildly sexualized female character or body part. While some of these make sense tonally or narratively, (as is the case with the Red Sonja/Tarzan cover pictured below), others (as in the Hit-Girl cover) seem almost incidental but for the fact that because the character is female, the focus on a sexual characteristic must be sexual.

In particular this becomes complicated by the manner in which we view an eroticized male vs an eroticized female, is is the case in two similar bondage covers that happened to be on the shelf, one for Spider-man and another for Breathless. The female cover takes on a much more erotic connotation despite being effectively identical to the male. This appears to be a function of the cultural view of feminine vs. masculine sexuality as portrayed in art. Clearly the sexual aspects of masculinity are as exaggerated, if not more so, in Popeye and Bluto than they are in Olive in the Mannion image, but it is Olive that appears to draw our attention, not only because of the focus of the spiral, but because we are more predisposed to notice the woman as sexual object than the male.

So anyway, that’s what I’m working with right now. I’m curious as to people’s base opinions and thoughts. This may possibly get worked into a future episode of the podcast… which reminds me… I want to end on a cheap plug. Check out my podcast, VoxPopcast which I do with Wayne Wise, Katya Gorecki and whoever else I happen to rope in that week. Subscribe on iTunes and Facebook and leave reviews and comment and all the things that will make me famous so I can just think about sex in funny books all the time. You know…  for you.

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Netflix and Freak Out: The Space Between Us

Guess what’s back! That’s right, it’s Netflix and Freak Out - lucky for you, because it’s been about two years and I’m sure you’ve been stumbling blindly through the streaming services, not knowing what to watch. Take heart, your fearless leader has returned!

Today, I bring you The Space Between Us. Unlike some of the other gems covered under NAFO, this one surprised me as I felt the need to cover it; it wasn’t completely ridiculous the entire time - there were moments of adorable poignancy and touchingness (a word? I’ll allow it) - but the parts that WERE ridiculous were juuuuuuust enough to qualify it. And the questions left at the end really sealed the deal.

Movie: here are the credits! Thanks for watching!

Me:

So to start, I knew what this movie was generally about when I popped it into the ol’ Bluray with my Korean foot peel masks on the feet and the jasmine tea fresh brewed for my official-preparing-for-lame-crazy-aunt-who-handmakes-all-her-gifts-at-Christmas GNI. It’s some pre-or-very-recently-post pubescent kid born on Mars in the near future comes to visit some chick he met on the internet who lives on Earth and then there’s scientific complications. I assumed that meant that we were being introduced to a utopian future where we had fully inhabited Mars and people just kinda shuttled back and forth. I was (pleasantly surprised to find, as it turns out) incorrect.

We open on Gary Oldman using his natural accent (yay!) as he addresses an audience at some scientific luncheon. He’s telling us all about how he decided when he was 12 that he wants to live on Mars, because we’ve depleted all of our resources here on Earth and going to Mars, though it seems impossible, would show an amazing amount of courage, which is a completely normal thing for a 12-year-old to reason. Well, surprise everyone, because Gary Oldman figured out a way to make that happen, and it turns out six astronauts are going to Mars tomorrow! to live there for good! Nice job, Gary Oldman! We get to meet the six astronauts - two women and four men, which just seems like an episode of The Bachelor waiting to happen, but we never really deal with that - and the head astronaut, a smokin’ hottie in her 20′s, tells everyone how excited she is to go to Mars. They get on the spaceship, rocket up to the little space station that’s gonna drag ‘em all over to Mars, and Hottie pukes! What’s the deal?! Oh, it’s cuz she’s preggers. Whoopsie. So now there’s all this turmoil, because Gary Oldman and his NASA team can’t figure out what to do. Do they bring the astronauts back and waste all this funding they’d gotten to make this trip and try to start over? Do they just wing it and see how the kid fares when he’s born on Mars? Gary Oldman points out that we don’t know what happens when a fetus develops in zero gravity, and the gravity on Mars is different than Earth, so then he’ll be all developmentally wonky if he grows up there, etc. It’s sounding like the astronauts are coming back, but instead Gary Oldman decides that they can’t risk the mission because one astronaut was “irresponsible” (direct quote, that’ll be important later) with her damn uterus, so let’s just hope the kid is born an alien and it all works out for the best.

Hottie has the kid, everything is hunky dory for literally 14 seconds and then she has this Exorcist-looking seizure and immediately dies, all while Gary Oldman is watching the birth from his car (wtf?). They decide the kid has to stay on Mars, because he’d never make the trip back to earth as an infant, and Gary Oldman volunteers to go to Mars to take care of him, but his NASA team points out he has a brain condition and can’t go. So best wishes to the alien kid, they decide to keep him a huge secret and just pretend he was never born for PR purposes, and that’s the end of that.

Cut to sixteen years later. Alien Baby is a precocious-but-socially-stunted teenager whose only friend is basically R2D2 with C3PO’s personality. Since he’s been raised by scientists, he knows how to mess with things and goes poking around in the system to find records of his mom, and finds a video some dude sent her saying he and some house in California will always be waiting for her. This is Alien Baby’s only clue as to who his dad is. Alien Baby is also FaceTiming with a foster kid from the wrong side of the tracks in Colorado (cuz that’s a thing people do) whose name is Tulsa, because beautiful abandoned teenagers are usually named after places or nouns. Tulsa is an outcast whose foster father is a well-meaning alcoholic who apparently dusts crops for a living (though it’s Tulsa’s responsibility to wake him up and remind him that), and whose reputation at school is that of a “slut”, which we learn when Tulsa is randomly playing a piano in her school’s band room when suddenly a bunch of idiot teenagers chase her off the premises yelling “slut” at her. We never learn why, as Tulsa does not seem to have any interaction with anyone other than Alien Baby, and is generally a fashionably-angsty teenager who can be approached by no one.

Alien Baby decides he’s going to try to get to Earth, and his sort of adopted astronaut mom makes a case to Gary Oldman. He eventually agrees, but Alien Baby has to have surgery to make his bones Earth-worthy, which basically just means injecting his bones with extra bone (...sure.). Once that’s done, he heads to Earth and the scientists all put him in quarantine to make sure he can handle Earth’s atmosphere. Alien Baby is genuinely enchanted with things like the ocean, rain, horses and wind, which, let’s face it, is kind of endearing (oh yeah, I guess they wouldn't have horses on Mars. Look, his little mind is blown!). Gary Oldman is pretty stoked to meet Alien Baby and wants to ask him all kinds of questions about Mars; Alien Baby is a weirdo and makes Gary Oldman uncomfortable and only wants to ask questions about Earth. Alien Baby has come to Earth for exactly two reasons: to meet Tulsa, and to find his dad. Gary Oldman isn’t into it, because what if you can’t breathe or something?! and won’t let him go, so Alien Baby - because he was raised by scientists - turns a bunch of valves on helium tanks sitting in his quarantine room and it repressurizes the whole facility so that the gravity is lighter, like it is on Mars, and then no one can catch him as he sneaks out (...sure.).

Alien Baby hightails it to Colorado and goes directly to Tulsa’s high school, walks up to her and says “oh hi it’s me, we’ve never met in person but have basically been virtually dryhumping for years over the internet, and I came all this way to meet you.” Tulsa promptly slaps him, whines he hasn’t talked to her in a while, and then says she has to go to science class, so he should wait for her. She tells him that he’s taller than she thought he’d be, and he says she’s meaner than he thought she’d be, and that’s the most intelligent observation Alien Baby makes about this dumb chick the entire movie.

After science class, Alien Baby tells Tulsa that she’s going to help him find his dad. They go to her house to get some stuff, but Gary Oldman and Adopted Mom Astronaut have been chasing him, and they try to get him to come with them. Don’t worry, though, Tulsa steals her foster dad’s ancient propeller plane and gets them outta there. She announces that she doesn’t know how to fly it, but ya know, does anyway. That only lasts for a few minutes, they make an awkward landing in which the plane coasts into an old wooden shed and (naturally) blows up in a huge mushroom cloud, which throws Gary Oldman and Mom off the trail for a minute while Tulsa and Ailen Baby take a bunch of crazy carjacking and hitchhiking adventures across the country. Alien Baby is honest with Tulsa to a fault about the fact that he’s from Mars, which Tulsa doesn’t believe, and to communicate that, she randomly stops cars and insists Alien Baby get out, then threatens to beat him up. He, in turn, calls her beautiful (...sure.). Tulsa knows all kinds of internety things and figures out that some Shaman in Arizona must have married Alien Baby’s mom and the dude in the picture, so maybe he can tell them who the dude is.

But first! Let’s stop and Costco and pick up some clothes and sleeping bags. This is a great way to get to know each other, and also, now we have sleeping bags! So the kids stop, build a fire, and have awkward I-don’t-know-how-to-kiss-cuz-I-was-born-on-Mars-but-I’ll-totally-have-no-trouble-finding-your-vagina sex, all while Alien Baby is whispering sweet nothings to Tulsa about how he’s found his penguin while Tulsa stares at him blankly, because she’s never said a genuine and/or nice thing in her life, so why start now.

Now that we’ve boned in our conjoined sleeping bags, we are in love and will act as such the entire rest of the trip. They find the shaman, who looks up the record of them getting married and has a copy of the check she used to pay for the marriage (obvs Hottie paid for it...dad’s even more of a deadbeat). The address on the check matches the Google Maps search of the house in Alien Baby’s photo, so the mystery is solved, let’s go! says Tulsa. Though the house is in California, there is apparently some reason they must stop in Vegas first, which literally blows Alien Baby’s mind, and at that very moment his skeleton remembers it doesn’t understand this environment, he gets a huge nosebleed and starts to die. Tulsa gets him to a hospital, where they’re like, “he’s got an enlarged heart,” so Tulsa cries and says she’ll go find dad and tell stories of this day. Alien Baby��s like, wtf, I’m gonna die anyway, take me with you! So she does, and he looks like an actual corpse for the whole trip, which makes a lot of sense, because 12 hours before he was skipping around and marveling at rain.

They get to dad’s house and find the dude in the picture - BUT GUESS WHAT. Dude is NOT happy to see Alien Baby. Why are you reminding me of Hottie?! he decries, and Tulsa runs up to him and calls him a dick. Just when you start to think this will go on forever, Dad announces that Hottie was his sister, not his wife. Tulsa turns around to relay this information, but Alien Baby has started walking into the ocean because he’s decided it’s time to die. “I didn’t get to choose where I was born,” he says, “but I can choose where I die,” which is a statement that resonates with all of us, as every human baby gets a choice as to where they’re born (...sure.). Just in time, while Tulsa is screaming at Alien Baby’s lifeless body floating in the Pacific, Gary Oldman shows up and drags Alien Baby out of the water. Coming back from the dead, Alien Baby looks up at Gary Oldman, somehow forgets that he’s been yelling at him for the past two hours of our lives to leave him alone, and basically says “oh look, you’re my dad.” Gary Oldman chuckles - it’s totes true, Hottie and I boned and here you are! - but then we all remember that Alien Baby is dying, so they have to get him out of the ocean. They get him into a fancy jet plane, where Gary Oldman and Adopted Astronaut Mom agree that the only way to get Alien Baby well is to get him to zero gravity, so pilot, can you kindly fly us to space? I cannot, says pilot, so Gary Oldman announces he’s gonna do it. Just remember, he says, I have a bran disorder so might die while I’m doing this, so if that happens, just take wheel. Sounds good! they all say, and they go up to space, which wakes up and immediately cures Alien Baby.

You have to go back! says Tulsa, and there are tears, and then for some reason they all go back to Earth (though the fighter jet they’re on is already halfway to Mars), Adopted Astronaut Mom cries because she’s going to miss Alien Baby (...oh, okay, I guess Adopted Astronaut Mom isn’t going back to Mars, where she was the last sixteen years? Sounds good), and Gary Oldman suits up to go (...oh, okay, I guess Gary Oldman flew a jet to space for fifteen minutes so now it’s okay to go to Mars with the brain thing? Sounds good). Alien Baby goes to get on the space shuttle, and Tulsa runs out onto the tarmac (of the SPACE SHUTTLE, which the astronauts are pretty much cool with her doing) and they yell inside jokes at each other right before he takes off. 

The final scenes are of Adopted Astronaut Mom going to visit Tulsa and asking her to come live on her newly-bought Colorado ranch with her, where she can train to be an astronaut, and Gary Oldman and Alien Baby laughing into the red dust of Mars as they enjoy their home together.

Mmmkay. I have a few issues - let’s get the obvious out of the way. Ima not even ask questions about the science. I looked up some reviews and there was a lot of scoffing at the holes in the gravity stuff, all the back and forth to Mars and Alien Baby’s medical shit. But I think it’s safe to say that we’re not watching this like a NatGeo documentary, yes? I think the social weirdnesses of this announce that the science is probably the last thing we were really researching here. So I leave that where it lies.

My first issue: Tulsa. W.T.F. with this whiny little bitch. As a particularly difficult both teen and adult, I can verify that this kind of stomping your feet and announcing your intended violence do and in fact should get you nothing but eyerolling from those around you. And it’s obnoxious under normal circumstances, but listen, Denver, Wichita, Salt Lake City, whatever your name is: when your catfish boyfriend shows up from “across the country” and all you can do is slap him and huff and puff about science class, then look generally exasperated at his clothes? You can suck it. The fact that this little waif spent the whole movie narrowing her eyebrows and “oh brother” sighing at every adorable heartfelt thing Alien Baby did, and his response to this was to announce his undying love for her just made me want to punch them both.

Let’s also have a quick word about Gary Oldman. W.T.F. with this pretentious lameass. When you think back on everything that happened with Hottie dying in space and this baby floating around in the abyss once you know that not only is he the kid’s dad, but he KNEW he was the kid’s dad, well...you’re just kind of a prick, man. Let’s cover it all up, let’s kinda weigh the scientific pluses and minuses of what happens when this kid is born in space - OH, and let’s call mom irresponsible! How dare that space-exploring uterus be so careless while I was impregnating her. Tsk tsk. Lucky for him, Alien Baby had an epiphany in the ocean and just woke up cool with the fact that you’re his dad, and had the power to stop all this pain he felt, but didn’t, so let’s go to Mars, Daddy!

Personalities aside, the plot made general sense...until the very end. They’re all floating around in the fighter jet in space, and I’m like, “oh, I get it...Tulsa is a foster kid who no one wants, right? So she can promptly go to Mars and be with Romeo!” But no. Tulsa stays on Earth, and no one seems to suggest that there might be an alternative. Similarly, Adopted Astronaut Mom is all kindsa teary at leaving her adopted Alien Baby...but um, why? She just spent the last two decades on Mars. Why would you even want to stay on Earth, where everyone is always whining about how heavy gravity is?!

And finally, while I said I wouldn’t pick at the science, there were a few things that puzzled me enough to distract me from the movie while I tried to reason them out. So we’re sending six astronauts of disproportionate gender distribution to live on Mars. Are we populating Mars? They say they’re going for four years...so then do they just come back and it was neat to have some people living on Mars for a little while? Or is this a long-term thing? Then once Hottie is preggers, all I could think was: they absolutely did NOT prepare medically for childbirth on this trip. Why are we even considering not turning this car around? Or even - and I hate to bring down the mood - why aren’t we talking about the big A? Why wouldn’t Hottie even consider that, if not for her own sake and the sake of Gary Oldman’s apparent precious budget, for the sake of the kid, who we’ve determined is probably gonna end of up crazy deformed? And then, when Hottie dies, everyone’s like “oh we’ll just raise him here on Mars.” With what?! Just trying to figure out how they were going to feed him, now that Hottie’s breastmilk isn’t around, let alone clothe him completely broke my brain. When I woke up, Alien Baby was Alien Teenager and was having quippy conversations with his robot BFF. 

Generally speaking, if you can have a good time watching Alien Baby discover what a dog is, you can have a good time with this movie. If you’re looking for a well-thought-out scifi flick or a romantic dramedy, you might want to go to a Star War. I give this one a 6/10, because I would genuinely like to pay the guy who took Brad Pitt out of every shot of Fight Club to do the same thing with Tulsa in this movie and see if it vastly improves it.

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