#ppl piss me off when they talk about america specifically. and how bad it is

[kil9]

I wish when ppl talked about eating healthy they actually meant eating healthy, and not a roundabout way of saying "being skinny". what's considered "health food" is food that doesn't make you fat, no matter how harmful it actually is for human consumption. and what's considered "unhealthy" is what makes you fat, no matter how nourishing it is.

like. to eat healthy you have to eat.. enough. and this means also eating carbs and fats and sugars, sorry !!! this also means sometimes you will become fatter because this is what your body wants to do to store nutrients

like if a skinny person is eating handfuls of flax seeds (very toxic to humans and potentially lethal. ie not healthy) ppl will go yaay health food<3 skinny legend !!! but if I (fat) am eating a burger with cheese and tomato and lettuce and onion (has basically every food group inside, and protein, iron, calcium, vitamin c, etc. and will give me energy for a good portion of the day) ppl get disgusted because this is socially designated Fat Food :'(

like. get over it. in your perfect ideal future where everyone eats healthy, ppl will still be fat !!! get over it ! and people will also eat things that straight up ARE unhealthy because they want to ! and you still have to get over it :(

[milfygerard]

Other information: Remember how Scooter left the managing business to be CEO of HYBE America? Turns out HYBE acquired TAG PR (the agency I mentioned earlier where he's a majority stakeholder) and proceeded to get involved in chart and album manipulation for their artists as well as leaking emails and texts to attempt defamation for competitors (there are tweets with evidence but I'm too tired to link each one rn).

A year ago, I remember this one website got a leak of the agreements that Taylor and Scooter were supposed to sign at the start of their negotiations. Here's that article: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/taylor-swift-catalog-sale-following-the-money/

I now fully believe Scooter leaked all of these because this article says "According to MBW’s watertight sources – who were directly involved in negotiating the deal" and I suspected that when it came out because it had more details about his side compared to hers, but now I feel like this is his MO. And it may have been his attempt to gain more credibility for that Bad Blood documentary about him and Taylor.

I also think based on all this info that it's time to go is partly about Taylor's dad because he got $15 million out of the sale, a very specific number. I think he knew about the details of the sale (he and another guy voted no according to the leaks) and didn't tell her until afterward due to the legalities, which broke her heart further. He also allegedly had an affair with her previous publicist, hence the friends line, which reads to me like he tried to hide it from her. I feel like his emails might also fit into this whole thing but it's late and I'm too tired to read through them to check.

Anyway, the ending of the song echoes Daylight, which is about letting things go, this one is about leaving things behind, and both songs mention 20 years too. Maybe how long the marriage lasted between her parents? I dunno, I know the public info mentions separation in 2011, but given the content of that email it may have happened earlier imho.

okay movey over letterboxd review written i can Absorb this and respond

The scooter stuff i lightly knew about? I have a friend into kpop who talks me thru hybe entertainment and its evil workings whenever we're chatting kpop and I remember hearing that scooter braun was involved w them bc hes so totally always at the scene of the crime. Hes a famous asshole and i dont put any underhanded tactics past him, he really did just underestimate what taylor is willing to do when shes desperate and truly pissed off.

the dad stuff i really cant talk to much, it definitely seems like a really complicated situation. I mean andrea and scott being divorced but both being close to taylor and her career is a whole thing by itself in that they have to spend an insane amount of time together for a divorced couple. Scott has always had caring but republican dad energies, I believe that him and taylor are close and that they love each other, but I also believe it is endlessly complicated for endless reasons (hes almost definitely a misogynist and probably holds many conservative views, the divorce and the issues leading up to it definitely left a mark on taylor emotionally, he is literally a financial stakeholder in her career which is batshit insane to be honest). He's hard to really discuss because even if he isnt Andrea he's still deeply entrenched as a character in the Taylor Swift Universe who you are expected to hold the customary two dimensional view of that all taylor swift characters require. I do think that a subject that i've seen very few ppl mention is how even if not directly is how taylor included her family and their culpability in her Everything on TTPD. Make spectrum pulse (my best fake internet friend mark spectrum pulse) is one of the only ppl other than me and maybe a scant few anons that mentioned it and i think that TSU Character base is a big reason why. We arent talking vaguely about taylors experience with her parents we are talking about Andrea and Scott from Taylor Swift and so broaching the topic of parental culpability in childhood stardom, even the more responsible parents who don't rely on their kids financially and try to protect them where possible, is a conversation that can't really be comfortably had regardless of its place within the text, because it just isnt how the fandom is structured. Parents and specifically fathers are definitely a motif throughout taylors discography and its an interesting and complicated one.

Um conclusion, I wouldnt be shocked if taylor was intentionally referencing pained or negative emotions towards her father and family in general throughout her music just because of how she writes (tolerate it dad song ftw) but I'm also not surprised that she's still close to her parents even if there are rough hills and complications running through everything. She said it herself, she never really got to grow up and she still clearly heavily relies on them emotionally and keeps them in the loop business wise (not shade or an insult I also rely heavily on my parents, thats just something that will vary person to person). I also think her parents have chosen to be public figures who are visually connected to (and profit from) Taylor Swift the brand & art, and it should be okay to talk about them and their complicated place within taylors music.

[steve0discusses]

Yugioh S4 Ep16: Rex and Weevil Do Not Understand “Rock Bottom”

Hey guys.

Hey.

So... kind of crazy out there, right?

Well, you know what they say. When life gives you lemons, you watch Netflix.

Anyway, Yugioh is racing down this canyon that should be going up alongside the 101 and through the middle of many cities. Don’t worry about it.

And then I found out the name of a card I haven’t seen yet and wow it’s a name.

I’m really glad that Rex Raptor, dinosaur enthusiast, has just no idea how to name dinosaurs and does so like a 6 year old child. Hornsaurus.

(read more under the cut)

So this episode is mostly about Rex and Weevil’s tragic backstory, and thankfully, it’s really not that tragic. We’ve had SO MANY bizarre and weird backstories under our belt, that to have a completely normal one is just...wild to me. They’re so freakin normal.

And on the way, our train just...

OK Train...anyway, I’ll do my best to show which scenes are flash back and which are not, but like bear with me because it flashes back like every other scene it feels like.

So Rex waxes long about that very short time in which he and Weevil were the best ever duelists in Japan (other than Kaiba, I guess, who they failed to mention in this flashback.)

(I used to have a very soft performance fleece sweater the exact same shade as Weevil’s jacket there, popped collar and everything, with piping outline. Don’t judge me, it was the 00′s, I’m just shocked that Weevil also shopped at Old Navy.)

(However I have no idea what’s going on with Rex’s three layers of clashing outfit styles that he has going on. A turtleneck under a thick button up jacket under an open fringe jacket is so much of a 90′s vibe.)

Up until now, bro has been PRETTY SURE every episode that Rex and Weevil are originally from America. I don’t know how I feel about being so right on the money about this one when the episode outright said that they’re from Japan. I don’t really want to out-Yugioh my brother, because at some point, I��ll accidentally let slip that in writing this blog I have accidentally gained all Yugioh knowledge, just like Noah did that one time when he was stuffed into that brain orb.

Just please don’t don’t ask me how this game works, I still have absolutely no idea.

Weevil and Rex had adoring fans in two-shaded polos exactly just like the type I used to wear in high school. But, their fans all left them the moment Weevil lost one single game against Yugi Muto.

Harsh. But granted, I feel like the people of Domino have rabbit memories and if you aren’t actively in the news every day because your blimp got abducted by sea pirates, then who the hell is EVER going to know who you are?

But youknow, Rex and Weevil are pretty sure that dodging getting murdered by Pegasus was actually their last shot at fame. It’s over forever. They’re done. Done until they beat either Joey or Yugi which...very specific, but, it would make you somewhat famous if you did that by simultaneously destroying the Caltrain.

And Weevil is like gunning for the King of Games title but...apparently no one in this episode wanted to mention to Weevil that the “King of Games” moniker actually went to Raphael?

That he needs to beat Raphael...not Yugi Muto?

Nobody?

Nobody feels like mentioning that neither Yami nor Yugi could possibly still be King of Games and that Weevil has no really good reason to be here? I mean it would save Weevil a lot of time. It would also save me a lot of time. We could just walk off this train and go back to what we were all doing before this happened, but nah, lets keep the lie going, because apparently Yami can’t bear to tell the truth, just like his host.

Waiiiit, isn’t Rebecca the King of Games because she beat Yugi in S1?

It’s the freakin Malfroy/Elder wand, it’ll be important in Ch 40 I’m sure of it. I’m sure they’re not going to just...forget...all of the people that beat Yugi before.

Man. Maybe that’s why Yugi is so hell bent on keeping tabs on Rebecca? Just to youknow...make sure she doesn’t tell anyone that she hella beat him that one time because otherwise Kaiba would have lost his freakin mind (again) that Yugi lost that title basically the same afternoon he came back from Pegasus’ island.

Also Rex and Weevil once charged for headshots and this makes them vile, terrible people for some reason.

Apparently this is a bad practice? I mean if you’re famous enough please charge for head shots, you need to make money between playing cards. Take it from this jaded artist, always sell out so you can save money for when you will absolutely get carpal tunnel.

Whatever. Back to Rex who is certain that he is not famous anymore because he lost to Joey.

S4 and still everyone is certain that Joey is bad at cards. Joey will just never be free from this.

It was beautiful anime food for like ten seconds until he did this. How dare. Literally though, how did he do that? Was that burger made out of potato chips?

Can we talk about what a freakin crime it is I can’t watch my Nick at Night retro shows on Netflix or Hulu? Like hell I’m going to get a third streaming service so I can watch and admire how bad “I Love Lucy” aged. I want to see how incredibly off-putting Fonzie is as an adult. But nah. Not even allowed. You can only watch Cheers.

Cheers. What am I? 65? Cheers wasn’t on Nick at Night. My Mom watched Cheers. Gross.

This show trying to convince me so hard that Rex and Weevils lowest point wasn’t when they were 5 seconds away from being set on fire and having their soul removed by Maxamillion Pegasus.

Like for reals, the lowest point for ANYONE (except for the Ishtars) on this show was when they were trapped on that island, without any camping supplies, surrounded by human skulls, Bakura pre-exorcism, and so many other duelists who were probably going to eat them had the tournament gone 24 more hours than it had.

The island that also had a basement that was entirely full of cultists who absolutely murdered a guy right in front of us.

Like when they finally got out of the island’s huge ass forest, their dinner included a soup filled with Pegasus’ eyes.

I would have gotten pissed on by like 70 stray dogs to get off that island, y’all.

So one of the best things about this blog is I don’t have to worry about the restraint of a.) looking professional b.) the fear of sharing my actual real deal opinion. Everywhere else I post, I can’t share anything. I’ve come to terms with this, and so I hide my hot takes deep, deep within this Yugioh blog and the only people who suspect my art rage are like...y’all in the corner of Tumblr who do not care about what I’m talking about.

++++++++++++THIS IS MY HUGE RANT ABOUT ART POLITICS AND ART BITTERNESS FEEL FREE TO SKIP THIS. WE’RE QUARANTINING SO MUCH OVER HERE DUE TO THE VIRUS THAT I AM GOING A LITTLE BIT HOUSE CRAZY+++++++++++++++

But like MAN I need to mention something. Both Joey and Rex are completely off base. Both of them.

Like I’ll be real, because of the sudden extra time I have on my hands, I was originally ranting quite a bit about art culture and stuff and I will admit it was projecting somewhat onto a TV show that was written before the recession and the gig economy basically came and laid a huge dump across the creative industry.

However, I really, really, really don’t like it when people naively say “I’m successful because I did the research, I did the work, and then I got a following despite doing no marketing at all,” LIKE HELL YOU DID, DUDE. And there’s certain places I go where this is the mantra of a hell ton of ppl who don’t believe in luck, and I have to just suck it in because they succeeded at a young age. Because inversely, if anyone doesn’t succeed right away--clearly they don’t work hard enough, right?

I won’t dig into real world stuff because that’s...the real world and the real world is a bummer, but even in the universe of Yugioh there’s this crazy disparity in duelers that the people on the top refuse to acknowledge and the people on the bottom have absolutely no way to cope with so they become insanely bitter about it.

Mai has mentioned that despite all of her hard work and success--because she isn’t the top 4 duelists of Kaiba’s tourney--no one knows who she freakin is. The card industry is so toxic, that even KAIBA dropped out.

And even without Kaiba to compete against anymore, Mai still wasn’t able to get in there to fill that void. The void that also has Marik and Odion in it, despite the fact that I’m pretty sure Marik will never touch a card ever again and might be back to living underground or on a boat in the middle of no-where. And we don’t even need to mention Bakura, right? Bakura who should have also been here to fill the void of fame, but his face probably only comes out fuzzy on camera like people haunted by that girl from the Ring. So we’ll just ignore Bakura, that makes sense, I can accept that canon.

But really...it’s just Joey and Yugi at the top of the crop when there should have been room for at least 4.

So, it’s interesting that the Oricalchos in this situation is the “get me popular quick” drug that will somehow give Rex and Weevil what they need for automatic success because I see people desperately looking for this SO MUCH online. I have seen so many post “This is how I got 100000 followers in 100 days,” and it’s always the same story that isn’t so much about hard work, but more how to game a broken system until all other competitors are invisible. And then there’s the hidden factor about...luck...that really offends people although we all know that it exists.

But just remember I’m not allowed to have this opinion that luck...exists...So if anyone asks, I never said this.

And also...if Rex and Weevil had any support up until now from these kids who have been stuffing them in the trunk for over a dozen episodes, they wouldn’t have done any of this.

So talking as a jaded Millennial, I’m not gonna judge you if you take your Oricalchos, if you know what I mean. Everyone has their reasons, and no one’s too good not to ever do it, lets be real.

+++++++++++++++END OF THIS RANT, WOW, I WANT TO SAY THAT WHILE SLAPPING A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE IN A GENTLE MANNER+++++++++++++

So I realized something. This cliff face is sort of an iconic train, but it’s the wrong train.

This is the Amtrak in the middle of Nevada/Utah, pretty sure. I know that shade of orange. I’ve done the Nevada drive a lot.

And part of the reason I’m even sleuthing into this is because as an artist I like to see where art inspiration comes from. It doesn’t just come from a void--they clearly did research and I just want to find out...how it happened.

So anyway, like I said last time, the Amtrak is in charge of the Caltrain management, although the Caltrain is not part of Amtrak. And so you get similar paint jobs--it’s just that Amtrak has blue topped cars, and the Caltrain cars are typically red. Yugioh safely did red, white and blue, which both cars do, to an extent, being American trains.

It’s possible that they decided to look up scenic trains in California and were like “this one looks neat.” This one is also named the “California Zephyr” which makes it seem super Californian but in actuality it goes from Emeryville, California to Chicago. Only problem is that Emeryville is North of Oakland, and we’re supposed to be taking the train “to the airport” when the airports are in Oakland or San Mateo. This train doesn’t go to the airport. You just drove by the airport.

This train also doesn’t go to Florida. Chicago is North, way north. This train exists to be a slow, scenic train for old tourists who want to sleep in cramped spaces or jaded millennials writing their award winning novel. It has no other purpose.

So, it doesn’t at all match anything story wise...but it looks cool. They would never take this train if the world was going to end, and Rebecca wouldn’t know it exists, but, it looks cool.

But anyway, onward to the next episode. I’ll be kind of bunking in my home for a while since my entire area basically shut down, so maybe I’ll get the next updates done earlier than usual? Maybe even catch up on my backlog? hm. Possibilities.

And if you just got here, this is all the Yugioh recaps in chrono order.

[samtheflamingomain]

the miseducation of kate

As someone who's been shamed for ignorance before, I try really hard not to judge people who don't know certain things. Not everyone has the interest in knowing all the world capitals like me, so when someone guesses Toronto instead of Ottawa, I really don't care. Yeah, you're wrong, but if you don't live here it really doesn't matter. Hell, even if you live in Ottawa it doesn't matter.

If someone mispronounces an obscure word, that means they've only ever read it. That means they read it. As someone who was tricked by my parents into pronouncing "caveat" as cave-eat for a solid few years before hearing it aloud, and them finding it to be a hilarious joke years in the making, it actually quite pisses me off.

Anyway. The subject of today's post is my new roommate, Kate. She's very sweet, bubbly and nice. She's also very... ignorant. Not in a demeaning way. She simply hasn't been exposed to a lot of the education that I received growing up because she has a learning disability that placed her into the "living skills" class in high school.

In Ontario, when you get to high school, you pick* a stream: college or university. You can switch between them every year - say you thought you wanted to go to university but then decided on college, you could "drop down". "Going up" was harder, but one of my best friends did it and is now a marine biologist. It wasn't classist or looked-down upon.

*However, there was another "stream" called "life skills" which you could not pick, but be banished to. It's a program that basically just babysits you until you're 18 because the school doesn't know how to help you. It's a bad name, because they don't teach you how to budget, cook, clean or really any "life skills". It teaches you very basic concepts that the students basically can't live without. I'm talking basic math, identifying what's a verb and a noun, and a French class exemption. A lot of people that I know in the LS stream hated it and felt very babied, but had no way out. They simply couldn't do a college-level class. Not allowed.

So Kate, who is 21, just finished high school (no shame, not her fault) and she knows she's not smart enough for college (no shame, not her fault, actually very good for her to know that) and has accepted this. She works retail but she enjoys it.

And honestly, this is more an attack on the Ontario school system than a critique about Kate herself. I feel like, as a society, we greatly failed her.

So here we go. Today we played Cards Against Humanity, which we had to teach her. A few rounds go by. Then it's her turn as the black carder. She got "When I become Prime Minister (Canadian version) I will create the Federal Department of ____". I had a lot of great cards, but I knew she wouldn't know who Sean Penn was. So I went in kinda weak with "The Holocaust".

She started with 2 other cards, then got to "Stalin". Which she pronounced "Stalling?" And after a few seconds we realized she simply had no knowledge of him at all. Fair enough, she's still young, didn't do much history. Then.... "The Hollercost?"

I fucking blanked. I'm almost never literally speechless. Everyone else scrambled, but instantly I knew. She had no fucking idea what the Holocaust is.

She didn't recognize the word "Nazi". Not even "Grammar-Nazi".

She didn't know Hitler by name or by photo.

She didn't know Elvis by name or by photo.

But then I broke. I said feebly, "Who was president before Obama?"

And she winced and said, "I have no idea". Probably saving my life, she DID recognize Bush by name.

Then someone said, "He was president on 9/11"

And she said, and I cannot fucking make this up: "9/11? Like, 9-1-1?"

I honestly have no memory of what anybody else said during this conversation because I just... literally, in my brain, I could not comprehend a reality where a 21 year old has never encountered any of these things in her entire life.

I don't place any blame on her. She isn't booksmart and got a shit education. But she talks about her parents being pretty decent people. You'd think at ONE POINT in 21 years they'd casually mention 9/11 or the Holocaust, y'know??

I'm still in a state of shock. I've never felt so psychically damaged from a single conversation before.

I recall a specific XKCD comic. It something like this: "99.9% of people know about mentos and coke, right? Well that leaves 0.1% that don't. In America, that's about 30k ppl. Statistically, you're bound to encounter one of these people one day and blow their minds." And when I saw the comic I said "yeah makes sense" but I never expected it to be like 20 things at once that she's in the 0.1% of.

Anyway, fuck you Ontario school system.

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