#that person has clearly been radicalized in the worst way

[jewishbarbies]

I'm sorry if this is kinda traumadumping, but I'm so increasingly terrified of the shooter fans. in a discord server I'm in, he came up as a subject, and I had a pretty civil and I think all in all healthy debate that mostly came to the same general conclusion with one of the other people on the server. (that I don't think he should be fandomized or have every bit of his life picked apart, and also the whole thing just makes me nervous because, well, "we must kill The Elites" often ends up more being Jews than actual "elites", but at the same time all murderers will end up with fanbases and people fascinated with their life details. it was all agreed yes, there are dangers, fandomizations happens, and no he shouldnt be dehumanized or deified, in fact i think those things go hand in hand in a sense)

then a third person jumped in and said we absolutely need to deify him, this could "change the world", and basically we should consider this a holy act and take the initiative to "finally get off our asses [and start killing The Bad People]", that he'll be the figure of a religion started by this revolution. fully serious. we've gone from full "glorious revolution [read: christian Judgement Day]" to "glorious revolution with our uniting hero [read: the second coming, which leads to the judgement day]"

I was so terrified I started shaking and almost cried. what the fuck is happening with people? she used to be an absolute sweetheart that always was the comforting "mom friend", I don't know what happened to her...

sorry, I just desperately needed to tell this to someone who agrees the sentiment of "going out and murdering, even most of the 'rich elite', is bad" and you're one of the only people I've seen that really fully agrees with that and is comfortable talking about it

this is exactly the kind of mentality I’ve been worried about. because “let’s kill The Elite” DOES end up at “let’s kill the jews”. it’s also just ridiculous to give yourself permission to kill anyone of any group you like for any reason, but here we are.

it hasn’t even been proven at all that Luigi is the shooter, and imo he’s not. but he would also be considered ‘an elite’, due to his family’s money and connection to the health care industry, so where does that leave us? a lesser elite killed an even more elite? elite on elite crime? if an actual poor person did this, they would not be seeing him as a hero. but because he’s an upper middle class, conventionally attractive white man with a convenient enough sob story, they eat that shit up and believe he’s some god.

the rhetoric is getting incredibly disturbing from all sides and idk what to do. other than commit ourselves to being labeled class traitors by stating the obvious, that this is reckless and incredibly dangerous ideology, idk. we just have to keep pushing back. people don’t have to weep for the ceo, but they need to understand where this insane rhetoric is going to lead us. if we have to be the canary in the mine again, so be it, but if we stop now who knows what will happen.

[lightningant]

Severus Snape thoughts

I've prodded him with my thoughts before but now I need to post through it. Because he's my princess.

I think a lot of what makes Snape so complex (and so compelling) is that he is neither a good person nor a just person. He really is beefing with that 11-year-old. He really did scoff at Albus saying that he would protect Harry because he cares about him. (LMAO, btw). He really is just a horrible guy, which honestly makes his efforts that much more brave and noble!

When we see the Prince's Tale, Severus Snape personally curates his timeline to showcase his bigotry to Harry. He specifically isolates moments where his antipathy for muggles is contrasted with his love for Lily. He does not show Harry his home life, or how much Lily liked him, he is on topic: I hated muggles, but I loved her. And then he isolates a moment where Lily finally explains how troubled she is by his friends, and he cuts off whatever teen drama motivated her to say it. He shows his worst memory again, something he was shaking with rage and fear at Harry discovering. He shows the aftermath of him grovelling.

And after that is the timeskip. His feelings are not relevant. In fact, all of his memories may as well be from Lily's perspective. It is significant that all his memories are essentially from Lily's perspective.

What Snape was showcasing to Harry is that he knows that he was not listening to her. He knows he was being patronizing, that he prioritized his exclusive access to her over feelings, that he treated her beliefs as if they were irrelevant or biased.

Snape took on a patron-like relationship with Lily, teaching her wizarding culture and presumably acting as the source of her incredible potions ability (despite her expertise clearly being charms). He most definitely assumed that in the Dark Lord's new order, people like Lily would be coveted for their magical skill alone, and he would not really care if the Death Eaters executed Lily's parents and sister because they're just muggles.

And then she is murdered for protecting Harry Potter too well. She is disposable. He had to have heard it. She's just a mudblood.

Snape gives himself no excuses in the Prince's Tale. He did not include what he did for her in his memories, because he prided himself in uplifting her star and probably still does, and the memories in that bottle exhibited his shame. He provides no context which might paint himself in a better light. He is giving Harry his remorse, with raw, open honesty. 'Here is where I went wrong.'

Snape's character is that of someone who is bearing the excruciating burden of not only being responsible for the death of a loved one, but silently de-radicalizing himself, all alone, while still on the inside. He lives in his muggle house. He intentionally repaired the link between his current self and his shameful muggle origins in order to acknowledge the way he treated muggles was wrong and the way he treated Lily was unforgivable. He won't even let paintings use slurs.

There is a temptation to polish his image, to say he was justified or uniquely victimized, without acknowledging Snape is messy and cruel has always been fundamentally incapable of empathy, yet he has passionate feelings on doing the right thing. He spent 10 years making an active choice to be a good person, a thing that does not come naturally to him. The point of the Prince's Tale is that it does not come naturally to him!!!!! And he does it anyway!!!!!!

He doesn't want Harry to die because he's the last thing he has left of Lily (🙄), but because the right thing to do, the Lily thing to do, is to not raise a boy for slaughter, let alone her boy.

[mandatory-blog-stop-asking]

your boy is drunk on regional liquorssss you know what that meeeeeans X-Men timeeeee

God I fucking LOVE Kitty Pryde

Imagine you're introduced to this world of heroes and villains when you're so young you're still describing your age in terms of years and months, just because you personally think this will make adults take you seriously. It doesn't but you can't exactly stop committing to it.

Imagine you grow near these legendary characters in politics from both sides of the spectrum and it radicalizes you in a way that neither is quite comfortable with, but you are, because you know you're coming from a place that understands how flawed all their stances are and how even if you can't be the person who fixes everything, someone has to be the person who tells them they're making everything worse.

Imagine that by age 13 you've been locked in battle with both the White Queen of the Hellfire Club and the Master of Magnetism, and you've changed them both for the better because they can't believe their designs have led them into a situation where they have to oppose you, a child with a chip on her shoulder and an almost entirely passive power set, and they change into the most important people for mutantdom in the history of the movement.

Imagine you grow separate from everyone. You find out all the ways you're different. You find out how strong you really are. You find out the Earth can't contain you and you branch out to the universe. And then you find out yes, you could be the Lord of the Stars, you could make it all your own, you could be as bright as the sun, but god damn it, you love politics, you love being an example, you love Earth, you love being you, with all your perfections and imperfections, and no matter what kooky wild situation you get yourself into hundreds of light-years away from where you were born, you keep going back to New York and getting involved. Even when you're depressed, you get involved. Even when you tell yourself you'll stop caring, you get involved.

Imagine you evolve yourself in such a way that both the best and the worst people you've ever met come to you for advice, and you realize they're all the same, and it doesn't matter what you do, you'll always be the compass that guides people.

You go to bed one day and you dream green dream of infinite Earths. In one, you make President, and have a daughter with the demon girl you're so clearly in love with. In another, you're leader of the mutant resistance, and you send Rachel back to the past so they can save a different world, never your own. You're a leader, an example, a messiah, someone fucking reasonable. You wake up with a startle and you realize you're unhappy, or preoccupied, or busy, or just not where you'd rather be, but god damn it all those dreams feel like they're telling you what to do.

Imagine the blonde bitch that tortured you as a child is now asking you to be her right hand woman. Imagine she puts you in charge, and eventually in government, and eventually in a pirate outfit. Imagine she actually had a point. Imagine your entire life, you assumed it's you against her, but that when you grow older you realize it's you and her against the world.

Imagine you're Kitty Pryde. How the fuck can you live up to all of that? How can you keep all that rage inside? How can you keep going? Only a lunatic would keep going. Only a crazy person would keep getting involved, getting into a silly costume, getting called a dumb callsign and going to make speeches and taking it all in stride and working for a better tomorrow.

God we could all be Kitty Pryde. What a fucking character. How is she so perfect.

"what about the slurs" listen she has the pass

[thumperdaetime]

A Gentle Reminder:

if you feel like you're spinning your wheels, and stuck doom scrolling this week -due to the current political landscape. I highly recommend logging off for a bit and seeing if you have the stomach to call a loved one who has political veiws that clash with your own.

social media and news coverage is fantastic for getting info out to people who want to listen, but it is an ineffective tool for actually communicating with people you disagree with.

I'm not a people-scientist but every time i see "yelling at each other online doesn't actually help" and have the energy to look into What does actually help, experts always say that it's empathetic, long term relationships between people that disagree.

so if you have a bunch of nervous political energy and no clearly helpful place to put it right now:

go call your grandmother. talk about the weather, and the way you miss her cooking. give her a real living person to picture The next time a newscaster talks about the radical-left-mob. if you talk to her regularly consider asking what she thinks about the recent political thing. you're not there to debate or prove her wrong or even change her mind. just listen to someone you love confess their fears, and then share your own fears. you are probably actually on the same side when you get down to it. you both want a safe place to live and the people you love to be happy, (most people do) its just you dont agree about how to go about that.

text your little cousin a random meme, when they send back a thing about how voting is a scam, let it go. share a vine to find out if they know the deep lore. make plans to meet up and play whatever video game they're obsessed with right now. and if the vibe is right and its not going to become an argument, try talking a bit about why the whole not voting movement scares you. don't talk down to them, talk like your two friends who respect each other's opinion (Thats The whole goal actually) ask them why they think its a good strategy, collaborate on other activist things you can do together. included them in your politics instead of dismissing their points.

and its not easy, as wild as it is to think about having a deep but pleasant conversation with your worst Uncle. the fact remains that Your Problematic & Uncle is much more likely to speak up for gay rights. if you can get to a place where you enjoy each others company, and you feel safe talking to him about your struggles as a queer person. and to be fair, you are more likely to take into account the effects of a gun ban on the local wildlife balance, if you sit through your Problematic Uncle complaining about how local restrictions made deer season hard to do last year, and now the tic population is up and the food banks are empty.

divide and conquer is a long standing tactical strategy. and we have seen that fascist in particular like to divide people into a hierarchy of ""real people""" and an ""inhuman enemy"" . when we let their rhetoric turn our peers and neighbors into an inhuman enemy, we can loose sight of what we should actually be fighting for and against.

and if you spend all your time yelling at Doug Nobody who was taking an angry shit when you were typing out that essay, you take energy away from the real fight (the systems and actual active oppressors). the best way to stop that tactic is by standing together with people outside of the box you've been assigned (as much as ethically possible). and refusing to let the system make you perpetuate usless infighting.

When we let the political fandom (yes i mean the media made around politics and not actual political action) act as a wedge between us and people who could have been in our lives, we end up with weaker support groups and less per review for political ideas. it is easy to believe Q-anon if the only people you talk to believe in Q-anon. the same way it is easy to believe that Taylor Swift is a lesbian if everyone you talk to believes Taylor Swift is a lesbian. sometimes we need a person to stop and say "wait, can you run that idea by me again? it doesn't fit my perception of reality"

and Yes. it is probably unlikely at this point to convince someone who has voted one way their whole life to change their political views before November. but that doesn't mean we dont reach-out ever. there will still be politics in September and October, you will still need a diverse support group, and people you trust to bounce political ideas off of. and if you are as worried as i am about this upcoming election, it is very possible that having a community of people who are okay with working together despite political differences will be very helpful in the coming years. (and holding a meaningful, satisfying conversation with someone you disagree with on a fundamental issue is a huge skill to have if you want to take part in alot of activism, community building, or family gatherings)

a quick list of things Op is NOT Saying in this post:

it is your duty and responsibility to do this thing and you're a bad person for not doing it.

this is really easy and everyone should be able (and willing) to take on the emotional energy needed to do this for everyone they know who doesn't agree with them.

watching news or being on social media doesn't help anything.

this is the best way to help and there are no other things you should be doing with your time/energy.

the conversations will be pleasant and/or will always have a positive outcome.

any beliefs i listed together are some how morally equivalent.

you should compromise your beliefs for the sake of getting along with others.

the best answer is most likely centrist because both sides are extremists.

voting this one time will fix all of the things and you're evil if you are conflicted about it.

voting is the best way for a single individual to enact change in their country.

i love the president, and the candidates, and the voting system, and the two parties, and the electoral college, and the bombs, and the genocide and all the death and corruption and violence its all holding up and being held up by.

we should listen to "both sides" to get a fair and balanced picture of the issue

we should let nazis, and bigots, and fascist talk openly about their ideas openly as if its not hate speech calling for violence against marginalized people.

you Have to go reconnect with your abusers and toxic relationships from your past in the hopes you can convince them to vote correctly.

the current political thing that made me make this post is The Most Important Thing!!! that has ever happened in the whole world over all of written history, and we should all be talking about it for forever, otherwise you're helping the inhuman enemy!!!

things are already fucked so theirs no point in trying to get enough votes.

things will be fine and ok if nothing changes and we just keep on this projected path forward.

i know so much and am so smart and I've solved political discourse and if only everyone listened to me we would have world peace already.

Taylor Swift is a wlw

things I am saying. now. here. at the end of the post:

be kind. go look at the sky. i love you <3

[reggiespoon]

Been pondering recently how to square the supposed personality of Robespierre with the fact of his personal influence. I'm aware Thermidorians have muddied the water here but consider:

Appearance: ordinary. He was physically unimpressive. Leaving aside the vexed issue of pieds-du-roi, he was either of average height or a bit (but not significantly) smaller than average. He was slim, pale, and fair, with light brown hair and green eyes. He wouldn't stand out in any crowd of northern Europeans, then or now.

Oratorical skills: lacking. He wasn't a great speaker, like Danton or Mirabeau. He had a quiet voice which he struggled to project in large spaces, and it was allegedly strongly accented in some way that marked him out as Not Parisian. I wrote a whole other post about Robespierre's accent and I stand by my personal headcanon of Scousepierre because it's hilarious, but regardless, this wasn't a beautiful or powerful or otherwise compelling voice.

Writing: mediocre. This seems unfair, but whilst he has very eloquent passages in his speeches, even McPhee allows that Robespierre often committed the twin autisms of rambling and repeating himself (same, bb ❤️). He wasn't generally witty, pithy, or to-the-point.

Political stance: consistent but not extreme. Clearly something that exasperated his allies and delighted his enemies, for whilst he was a tireless advocate for The People, he refused to cater to either conservative or radical arguments about what The People wanted/deserved. He wasn't a hawk or a demagogue. Thus Thermidorians arguing that he was Too Far Left and Too Far Right simultaneously as justification for murdering him. We don't know which direction he's taking this country, but it's definitely the direction you (dear People) don't like, trust us.

So how did this ordinary-looking, unimpressive-sounding, rather boring man inspire such radical devotion across the entire nation, in large cities and tiny villages, north to south and east to west, when he himself never travelled outside the well-worn route between Paris and Arras, never married, didn't really socialise, and should by all rights have been an anonymous cog in the Revolutionary wheel, unknown in life and forgotten in death?

It can't be simply his honesty and integrity, because frankly if honesty and integrity inspired radical devotion in politics, we'd live in a very different world.

How did someone so fundamentally unassuming come to embody the Revolution for so many? And why did they feel so passionately about someone whom even sympathetic(ish) historians describe as having basically zero charisma?

I think the zero charisma thing is - must be - a legacy of Thermidor.

Nobody loved Robespierre anyway because he was a monster, but even before his monstrosity, he was dull. A boring monster! The worst kind! We have saved you from his tyranny.

I think he actually must have been one of those rare people who have real charisma - in the sense of something divinely-conferred; a quality mysterious and indefinable, divorced from mere personal charm. Nothing we know about the man suggests someone who could attract a large following, and yet his personal influence was disproportionately powerful. Robespierre should, according to all descriptions, have been a non-entity, a footnote in the biographies of others. Instead, he's one of the giants of history.

[mightyflamethrower]

By Lloyd Billingsley, Power Line

On August 2, 2023, Tablet editor David Samuels interviewed David Garrow, author of Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a massive attack on Israel and committed the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. In light of those events, and the recent attack on Israel directly from Iran, consider some of Samuels’ own statements during “The Obama Factor” interview:

The sheer amount of political capital and focus Obama put into achieving the JCPOA during his second term, to the near-exclusion of other goals, suggests that the deal was central to his politics. It also carries more than a whiff of the kind of politics in which the American Empire is seen not just as unexceptional, but also, in some ways, as actively evil. It was a politics born out of the confluence of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement, which saw a racist war abroad being used to protect a racist power structure at home. That old alliance of civil rights, anti-imperialism, and identity politics made the Democratic Party that Obama positioned himself to lead—college-educated, corporate-controlled—seem cool, allowing it to use post-1960s radical ideology as a language to sell stuff.

In the absence of what was once American journalism, it is hard to know which portrait of Obama’s post-presidency is truer to life: Obama as a celebrity-obsessed would-be billionaire, or as a would-be American Castro, reshaping American society from his basement, in his sweats.

"Touchdown!" 

The election of Joe Biden in 2020 gave the Obamas even more reasons to stay in town. The whispers about Biden’s cognitive decline, which began during his bizarre COVID-sheltered basement campaign, were mostly dismissed as partisan attacks on a politician who had always been gaffe-ridden. Yet as President Biden continued to fall off bicycles, misremember basic names and facts, and mix long and increasingly weird passages of Dada-edque nonsense with autobiographical whoppers during his public appearances, it became hard not to wonder how poor the president’s capacities really were and who was actually making decisions in a White House staffed top to bottom with core Obama loyalists. When Obama turned up at the White House, staffers and the press crowded around him, leaving President Biden talking to the drapes—which is not a metaphor but a real thing that happened. (Samuels’ link)

I have heard from more than one source that there are regular meetings at Obama’s house in Kalorama involving top figures in the current White House, with Secret Service and cars outside. I don’t write about it because it’s not my lane. There are over a thousand reporters in Washington, and yet there are zero stakeouts of Obama’s mansion, if only to tell us who is coming and going. But he clearly has his oar in.  The easy explanation, of course, is that Joe Biden is not running that part of his administration. Obama is. He doesn’t even have to pick up the phone because all of his people are already inside the White House. They hold the Iran file. Tony Blinken doesn’t.

Rob Malley is just one person. Brett McGurk. Dan Shapiro in Israel. Lisa Monaco in Justice. Susan Rice running domestic policy. It’s turtles all the way down. There are obviously large parts of White House policymaking that belong to Barack Obama because they’re staffed by his people, who worked for him and no doubt report back to him. Personnel is policy, as they say in Washington.

Which to me is a very odd and kind of spooky arrangement. Spooky, because it is happening outside the constitutional framework of the U.S. government, and yet somehow it’s been placed off the list of permitted subjects to report on. Which is a pretty good indicator of the extent to which the information we get, and public reactions to that information, is being successfully controlled. How and by whom remain open questions, the quick answer to which is that the American press has become a subset of partisan comms.  What scared me back then was coming to understand that a new milieu had been created consisting of party operatives, the people in the FBI and the CIA who are carrying out White House policy, and the press. It is all one world now. And that’s something people still seem loathe to admit, even to themselves, in part because it puts them in a state of dissonance with this new kind of controlled consensus that the press maintains, which is obviously garbage. But if you question it, you’re some kind of nut.

But historically speaking, Jews are not, or were not, a particularly American obsession, except among some morons and leather fetishists on the right. But they are a major obsession on the periphery of the American empire, where envy and fear of the mythic role that Jews supposedly play in Washington, because of Israel, are defining emotions, regardless of the facts. So how do you talk all this foundation-land, community-organizer shit and then preside over the transformation of the country into a Gilded Age oligarchy? Maybe I just answered my own question: Obama is the Magic Negro of the billionaire industrial complex. And targeting Jews as outsiders and pushing them outside the circle was the way that the Gilded Age oligarchy consolidated itself in America, back then and also now.

[atelierlili]

People trying to white wash G!le questionable morals by saying he's an oppressed and a liberating rebel boy uwu are missing the sauce idgaf.

Mockingjay clearly shows that by the end of the book, it doesn't matter who fighting on the right side, if both are willing to to do the absolute worst and use human lives as tools to win the war, people will die, innocents will die and they will not die easy or clean deaths.

Like shouldn't it click that his mindset is wrong when he suggests the cave in the Nut and the most of the adults in the room are very uncomfortable with that and try to reason with him?

The implication of what Gale is suggesting settle quietly around the room. You can see the reaction playing out on people's faces. The expression range from pleasure to distress, from sorry to satisfaction. - Mockingjay Chapter 15 -

Like what he's suggesting has even Beetee, his future bomb collaborator, trying to humanize the miners of District 2 to him. Katniss even tries to reason that a cave in would be no different to how their own fathers died. And you want to know what he says about that?

"But not so quick as the one that killed our fathers," he retorts. "Is that everyone's problem? That our enemies might have a few hours to reflect on the fact that they're dying, instead of just being blown to bits?" - Mockingjay Chapter 15 -

He's been radicalize. He lacks empathy completely here. His fighting for a good cause, correct, but the way he goes about taking lives, seeing them as a just cause, is dangerous and disgusting, and is deserved of all the criticism he gets. It's what leads him to develop the bomb that is aimed to kill first responders. It was aimed to kill people like Prim. He may not have set those bombs off personally, but he designed that death trap and it did exactly what he wanted it to do. He is as culpable for it as Beetee and Coin are.

Another large theme of the book is staying true to oneself and ones' moral even in the face of immorality. And that's also calling out the worngdoings of your allies to the best of your abilities. To give mercy to those who are in unwinnable situation and direct your attention to the real perpetrators/offender and seek true justice.

G!ale can be a sympathetic character, because he is, but that doesn't absolve him from his actions in the books. Don't let his sympathetic backstory blind you to the fact that he's been wanting to commit atrocities in the books.

[wonderfulworldofmichaelford]

Is It Really That Bad?

The 90s were alternately an amazing time for comedies and an absolute wasteland of garbage best forgotten. Jim Carrey and Adam Sandler both rose to prominence during this era, and both thrived in their niches, delivering some of the most well-liked movies of their careers. But it was still the 90s, and the ugly side of comedy of the time was always ready to rear its ugly head. For instance, in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, we have the infamously transphobic finale, the joke the entire film has been building up to and is so shockingly bigoted you’d think it was written by J.K. Rowling. But bad comedies were just like that back then, and even good comedies could fall victim to it.

We’re not talking about a good comedy gone bad, though. We’re here to talk about a film with a solid  1 on Metacritic and that obliterated the careers of its two leads: Bio-Dome.

At one point, it was supposed to be a much more serious film about slackers being trapped and forced to survive in the titular structure, but you know how studio executives can be, and so the film was transformed into a totally radical 90s slacker grossout comedy filled with sex jokes, farts, and other tasteless humor. There are also rumors going around that this was originally supposed to be the third Bill and Ted adventure, but those are just rumors, albeit ones that you can see how one would believe considering how this film rips off that dynamic duo while cranking their idiocy and homoeroticism up to 11.

Whatever the case, what we got was absolutely torn apart by critics, and ensured Pauly Shore would never rise above doing anything more than direct-to-video garbage for the rest of his career, and turned Stephen Baldwin into the black sheep of the nepo baby dynasty that is the Baldwins, ruining his career which then led to him becoming a born again evangelical Christian whose daughter married Justin Bieber (which is still a massive W compared to inspiring GamerGate or actually murdering someone). It’s also the film that Weird Al decided to use to describe the miserable plane trip in his song “Albuquerque,” and the way he refers to it makes it clear the film is worse than the plane exploding in the second worse aviation accident to happen over New Mexico in fiction.

(This one being the worst, obviously).

But hey, maybe the critics were just being too harsh to this dumb comedy that was clearly meant to be enjoyed by stoners. With my tray table up and my seat back in the full upright position, I strapped on in and took a look at Bio-Dome to see if this comedy has a few laughs in it, or if it really is that bad after all.

THE GOOD

Well… The soundtrack is pretty good. They’ve got a lot of solid tracks on it, and Tenacious D actually briefly shows up for a cameo. It lasts maybe three seconds, but it might be the best three seconds in the movie.

There’s also a montage set to “The Safety Dance” near the end of the movie, and it might be the single genuinely funny sequence the film has to offer. I thought a few of the gags in it were pretty good, and it’s the only time the protagonist's goofy idiocy felt charming instead of revolting. And then it leads into the climax of the films, which is actually decent because there are actual stakes instead of random vignettes of these idiots dicking around. Sure, it’s decent by the standards of the rest of the movie, but credit where credit is due.

Finally, William “Walter Peck” Atherton plays a character named Dr. Faulkner, a guy who absolutely fucking hates Bud and Doyle, and thus he becomes the most sympathetic character in the entire film. You will be begging him to kill these two morons by the end. It helps that Atherton is the only person in the entire movie who is actually trying to act.

Yeah, that’s it. Time to shift into Hater Mode.

THE BAD

The fact the entire movie hinges on these two idiots is a joke, and not a particularly funny one a that.

The 90s was littered with all manner of idiot duos, most famously with Dumb & Dumber, but Bud and Doyle are easily the nadir of such characters. The big issue is they are not merely lethally stupid to the point they fuck up a massive science experiment—no, they are horribly unpleasant people. They bumble their way through the titular bio-dome, ruining the work of the scientists at every turn, but that’s not even the real problem. No, the problem is that despite having two girlfriends they supposedly adore, they not only constantly flirt with the women scientists in the dome, and even worse they crawl into their beds while they’re sleeping and start feeling them up. Ah, the 90s, where you could have your protagonists sexually assault a woman and still expect people to sympathize them while playing the violation off for laughs! Ah, but it’s okay, because they feel really bad about it, guys.

Aside from that vileness, the jokes are just as juvenile and pathetic as you can imagine they’d be. You have fart jokes, pee jokes, sex jokes, Baldwin eating Shore’s toenails… Stuff like this has its place and can be funny, but this is really the only humor the movie has. There isn’t more clever than some lame fart a stoner can laugh at while high off their ass.

And maybe this could be forgivable if anyone was actually fucking trying. There are two types of bad acting in this movie: hammy, camera-mugging idiocy (our two leads) and bland, wooden delivery (the female scientists). No one in this film seems like they cared at all, and honestly, it’s not hard to see why. What is there to even give a shit about? Out of the two leads I do think Shore is probably the “better” of the two, but this is better in the sense that being kicked in the balls is better than being shot in the back of the head execution style

IS IT REALLY THAT BAD?

Look, I went into this with an open mind. You all know I’m not above enjoying some nasty, trashy comedies; two of my all-time favorite films are Freddy Got Fingered and Little Nicky, the former film especially being one I hold in high regard. But… No, this one legitimately is as bad as it’s made out to be. Weird Al must be thanking his lucky stars that plane exploded over Albuquerque so he didn’t have to sit through the rest of the movie.

Like, in the movies I mentioned, there’s at least something to latch onto. Freddy Got Fingered is essentially the greatest troll in history, with Tom Green blowing a studio’s money to make the most bogus gross-out comedy ever, and in some bizarre ways it has some artistic merit. And with Little Nicky, there’s some entertaining villains, decent jokes here and there, and just a slew of memetic lines. Bio-Dome has absolutely nothing like that; it’s just two obnoxious, unpleasant characters being played by actors who definitely can’t salvage the material delivering the stupidest gags and jokes imaginable for an hour and a half. This really is the most bottom of the barrel lowest common denominator garbage you could scrape up.

Even still, I can’t particularly say it’s the absolute worst comedy I’ve ever seen, mainly because there wasn’t much expectations it would be good. It stars Pauly fucking Shore, the only guy from Encino Man who will probably never win an Oscar as long as he lives, it being dogshit was expected compared to something like The Love Guru or even The Master of Disguise. Those films starred genuinely talented comedians, while this movie just didn’t. Don’t get me wrong, this is still one of the worst comedies ever made, but it really was something I expected would suck even if I really hoped it wouldn’t.

I honestly don’t know how this managed a 4.4 on IMDB; I get there are some lunatics who actually love this movie, but there can’t be enough to pull this out of the bottom 100 gutter, can there be? It shouldn’t have higher than a 2.5, and that’s just being generous because there is nothing about this film that is so good enough that it deserves higher. 

But that’s also the thing: As bad as it is, it is utterly unremarkable. It’s just the epitome of bad 90s comedy, and while it is the worst among that crowd, it doesn’t really stand out in any notable way other than sucking really hard. This is a film bad in the most generic ways possible, and I think that’s part of why it has fallen to the wayside in terms of “worst movies of all time” lists these days. Like does it deserve to be there? Sure, but there’s just a lot more vile and offensive comedies than this to pick from. This is just a generic bad comedy at the end of the day.

If you want to see the concept done right, and shorter to boot, just watch the episode of Johnny Bravo entitled “Biosphere Johnny,” which is a parody of this film and does every single thing this movie tried to do and better, proving once and for all Johnny is a true Chad.

[perfectlyvalid49]

I just want to say that your words about feeling like you yourself are becoming radicalized resonated with me. I was already growing fed up with the current state of leftism and this just seems the last straw. The black and white thinking, the purity culture, the blood thirst – I’m just done.

I’m not even Jewish in any meaningful way (my mom hid/disavowed that part of her ancestry growing up in the soviets). I’m just a very mixed queer person whose ethnicity is best described as ‘uhhh.’ But my social circle has always been largely Jewish, and recently many of said social circle have had to up and leave their home country. In many cases, Israel was their only option. So seeing thousands of people who are supposedly on my side thoughtlessly chant ‘from the river to the sea’ just broke me. Seeing people try to prove that it’s not antisemitic has been mind-boggling. “It doesn’t explicitly call for violence against Jewish people.” Well, nor does ‘Jews will not replace us,’ and yet…

I deleted my social media at a really low point, and now that I’m back I find myself mostly following Jewish blogs. And I feel my worldview shifting because where before I had hopes that things that frustrate me on the left could maybe be fixed, now I no longer think it’s fixable.

Sorry for rambling from this Schrödinger’s gentile

Hi Anon,

I’m glad I could write something that spoke to you.

Before this blog became so focused on the conflict in Israel, I talked a lot about US politics, a topic I’ve been interested in since I was in middle school (I’m weird and nerdy – get over it). And to be clear, I’m “old” for the internet, so middle school means the 1996 presidential election, which I remember discussing with my friends at lunch (they were also weird and nerdy, there’s a reason we were friends).

So when I say that I’ve been watching other people get radicalized for a long time, I mean it. I’ve watched friends fall into information silos and have felt helpless to stop it. I mean, the best man at my (very Jewish!) wedding is now a trad-Cath who thinks I’m going to hell because I refuse to accept Jesus into my life.

There has always been an antisemitism problem on the left. You can scroll through just about any blog on jumblr and look at posts prior to October and you can see that we were all bitching about it before the 7th. I’m not sure if it has actually gotten worse or if it’s just more obvious now, but we can say they seem radicalized now. Honestly, there’s nothing I can do about it, because they certainly aren’t going to listen to me – I’m a filthy (((Zionist))) after all.

But there’s at least a handful of Jewish people who are listening to me. I’ve picked up a score of followers in the last few months, so clearly you all think what I have to say is worth reading, so read this: I worry that at least parts of the Jewish community are headed down a bad path and I don’t know what to do about it. I know why we are blocking and unfollowing so many – the things they say are hurtful at best and terrifying at worst. But it leaves us in a situation where it’s the same few voices being repeated over and over. It doesn’t mean that we are radicalized, but I worry that we’re headed toward an echo chamber at least, and that’s not good. I’ve left a lot of leftist spaces behind. I���d prefer to not have to do that with Jewish ones as well.

I don’t have a solution other than that we need to be really careful and think about how we’re thinking about things if that makes any sense. The example I gave last time was moving from “you can be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic” to “anti-Zionism is antisemitism.” How did we make that move? Was it motivated by logic or emotion? It’s ok to change your stance, but with the way things are I think we really need to think about why we’re doing that, or it could lead to a bad place.

Back to the anon who is losing hope – that’s tough, and I can see why you feel that way. There are two thoughts that I repeat to myself to keep me hopeful. The first is that on a long enough timescale, things tend to improve. There’s lots of small steps forward and stumbling backwards, but overall we tend to move in the right direction. The other is that trying and failing and not trying at all have the same result. Maybe we won’t have a big effect. But if I can tell 30 people and even three of them can tell 30 people and so on, then maybe my words can reach at least one person and help them pull their heads out of their ass. And that’s better than nothing.

[benis-monkey]

SERIOUS POST

Hey so uh- funny story.

I used to be transphobic.

In fact, I used to be very bigoted against many groups.

Note the word USED to be.

Every transphobic thought has been cleanly plucked from my mind about 5 or so years ago.

Thankfully, I never had any confrontations or interactions with trans people while I held these hateful beliefs, so rest assured I have never harmed any trans people.

So I thought I would give some context as to why some hate trans people so much (at least from my memory)

Keep in mind, this was before the whole “groomer” narrative was a thing.

In my experience, two major factors were key in the fostering of transphobia in my mind: isolation and algorithms.

At the time, I didn’t know any trans people. The only look I ever had at trans folks was through a transphobic, hateful lens (e.g “AtTaCk HeLiCoPtEr” memes). So because I never had any interaction with trans people, that opened my interpretation of them to be molded and shaped by whatever entity came first to do so.

Now, algorithms. As I just mentioned, I only ever saw or heard about trans folk through a lens of hate and bigotry. So I only saw the “worst” of the trans community. The notorious “it’s MA’AM” video, which I now realize is a depiction of a trans woman stalwartly asserting her identity, was shared around these hateful spaces online, and was used as a way to say “look at how ridiculous this person is! They’re clearly a man!” …just typing that makes me feel yucky now.

Reactionary content on YouTube was also a major influence. I remember the YouTuber Hunter Avalone being one of the channels I watched the most. And since I kept clicking on transphobic content, YouTube kept recommending it. This led me down the infamous alt-right pipeline. Soon, I was also espousing beliefs that were racist, sexist, islamophobic, and classist. Hell, I even believed that billionaires were good people! But homophobia never made it with me.

I myself am bi/pan, and lean heavily towards men/male-presenting/masculine people, and towards androgynous people.

So seeing the firehose of hateful bigotry being pointed at myself finally snapped me to me senses. Because I knew other non-straight people. I knew they weren’t what the alt-right wanted me to think they were.

Seeing a community that I’m a part of being put under this lens of hate made me realize that it’s the same lens that every other marginalized community is put under. A lens of “different bad. Progress bad.”

I clawed my way out of this hateful pipeline. I expanded my horizons and connected with people in these marginalized groups.

So what I’m saying is, if you know anyone who is falling down this pipeline, arguing with them won’t do anything. The best way to rid them of their hateful bigotry is to show them the true nature of the LGBT community, the POC community, and other marginalized communities. Show them that they’re all just people wanting to live their lives.

The alt-right pipeline is no joke. It’s a dangerous downward spiral that can radicalize someone overnight. If you know someone falling down this pipeline, reach out to them. Invite them to a discord server with people from marginalized groups. Introduce them to your LGBT, POC, and non-Christian friends. Open their world, and their mind will open with it.

The best way to fight fascism and bigotry to teach the fascists and bigots empathy. That the people they hate are just that. People.

If I missed any TWs, please let me know and I’ll add them.

And just know that I no longer hold these hateful beliefs. I acknowledge that the person i was 5 years ago was a hateful, evil person, and I am thankful that my mind was opened.

[mithliya]

I'm not suggesting there's a winner or an outcome. I'm simply outlining that it's normal for a community to keep discussing things that we disagree on. You might not see the reason why a topic gets brought up because you personally don't care, but others do and have good reason to. Maybe Be the Change and encourage new topics to talk about. But if we agree on whatever you bring up don't expect it to take up as much time as the more controversial topics. It's the same in politics. Politicians debate hot topics, and it's repetitive and annoying. Families go through particular issues and will ruminate on them because it's on people's minds, it's a source of conflict. Motherhood, het relationships and separatism will always be a source of controversy under radical feminism and the topics will never go away. New women come to the movement every day and want to discuss it after seeing an old post. They all revolve around the same issue: Is expecting radical feminists to be radical IRL, when they can be, a problem? How far can the movement go when we enable helplessness and doomer thinking? How seriously can radical feminism be taken when we have women walking around claiming to be one while doing absolutely everything patriarchy expects? In the second wave, women divorced their husbands and kicked habits/routines conditioned by patriarchy. Coincidentally, that's also when radical feminism made a change in the world. We can't even say it's feminist to centre women in your life and avoid relationships with men on radblr or else it's "misogynistic." Come on. Questioning or critiquing gender conformity isn't allowed because it's "misogynistic." It's laughable to not expect "radical" women to do radical things. The movement is being weighed down by inaction encouraged by those refusing to change a thing in their lives.

okay perhaps i wasnt clear so allow me to emphasise. i agree that people can & should talk thru disagreements and differing ideas. but i think the way radblr goes about it makes “overkill” an understatement. at a certain point we just have to accept that everyone has their mind made up and simply move on instead of pushing a debate in which every possible thing to say has already been said. the horse is not only dead, it’s beyond decomposed. like i do agree with u, many ppl do not live by their morals on here and many claim to be radfems but clearly simply by virtue of their lifestyle, they are not. instead of us just stating that n leaving it at that tho, people go through these meaningless tiresome back & forths where they keep talking at each other. at a certain point, all that can be said & needs to be said has been said and we need to simply move on. otherwise we are literally wasting everyone’s time & efforts going in circles when we literally have so many things to discuss! on one hand i get the frustration that a woman who does absolutely nothing radical is calling herself a radfem, on the other i also get feeling disillusioned by that being treated like the world’s worst crime that warrants comments like “lol don’t run to us if he ends up beating u!!” (which unfortunately i’ve seen several ppl make here). it doesn’t encourage women to take radical action and simply ends up making the women Not doing so feel attacked and hate the movement, so like. again who is it even helping?? the approach is simply wrong & at a certain point ppl need to just. agree to disagree. like, if someone makes the 900th “lmao a radfem wouldn’t fuck men so take that word out of ur mouth” it won’t suddenly change anything, if a woman whines about how separatism is heterophobic it won’t change anything either. all it does is cause infighting and people to be defensive and i wish people would simply move on & be normal about it. and perhaps have a new discussion that we don’t have 8 times per year

[hapigairu]

It's astounding to me how cherry-blossom-inferno runs around trying to bash Dimitri to blatant Dimitri fans while warping literally all scenes involving him. There was one where they said he was JEALOUS of Edelgard's reforms, which was a negative twisting of his words that bathes their beloved Edelgard in a positive beaming light... when all he said was he can admire the changes the Empire was going through because of how rapidly they could accept the change (in comparison to Faerghus that struggles more to adapt very quickly, but stability BaD so we need chaotic war, rapid and forced change only, GooD). He never said he was jealous and no other character did, but they intentionally put an Edelgard-positive spin on it by using a more negative word than the ACTUAL word Dimitri used.

Now the narrative "kinda humiliates" him? Actually no, the game has to find a way to follow its own mechanics depending on whether or not you used a certain battle strategy. Every single time they randomly attack a Dimitri fan (for absolutely no reason, mind you, seeing as they clearly do not like him. But then, I guess that IS the reason. They just want to hunt down every Dimitri fan they can find and Teach Them A Lesson In Edelgard Bias), they twist everything possible to paint Dimitri in a bad light. I guess they just really feel better puffing their chest by saying "Dimitri BaD and I can't prove that unless I twist words in the actual games to make him actually SOUND BaD!".

This person literally just exists for the sole purpose of harassing Dimitri fans and without the ability to do so would just dry up and die.

I mean, I totally get your frustration towards this kind of behaviour. As far as I understand, Edelstans have been twisting Dimitri's (and anyone who isn't head over heels over their waifu) words to put him in the worst of light for years now… In a way, I'm glad I haven't been active in the fandom until recently, because at least I was able to play the games without anyone souring my opinion on them with their wild takes and toxic behaviour.

And the idea that Dimitri is BaD because he doesn't want to implement rapid reforms will never fail to annoy me.

I'll go off on a tangent here (ish), but bear with me: Around 10,000 BCE, humans started to experiment with farming and agriculture in certain parts of the world first. Which ones? Well, where food was aplenty, meaning that if this farming/agriculture experiment were to fail, they could still hunt or gather food around. Of course, it didn't occur in the span of a few years, but it was still a radical change. And it wouldn't have been possible in places where food was more scarce. And Faerghus faces a somewhat similar problem in that they can't afford to take too many risks like the Empire can. The country is constantly at risk of famine, civil war, the works. If Dimitri makes a mistake, it's over for him (as shown with what happened to his father) and for too many of his subjects.

So of course he has to take a slow but safe approach. Do the Edelstans want him to throw caution to the wind and implement reforms that are not the priority for the people of Faerghus? (Well… if the Kingdom ends up in disarray, it'll be easy picking for the Empire who would then civilise these barbarians /s)

And it's not like we haven't a myriad of real-life examples of how hasty "revolutions" and annexations of countries were utter failures (mind you, I count impoverished and still not independent territories as failures as well, like Puerto Rico or French Guiana).

As for the narrative humiliating him… lol. Wow, Faerghus (a country with meagre resources to begin with) is struggling against the Alliance on the Eastern front after being spread thin due to being invaded from the West by the Empire and the North by Sreng, who would've thunk? And what does it say about Edelgard's army who got yeeted off Leicester in the span of a few battles in Part I and who can't seize Arianrhod because a Crestless general is too competent for her many canon fodders? Not to mention the Alliance was about to win the Gronder field battle until Almyra forced them to retreat. And Dimitri (Sylvain too ofc) caught Claude off guard several times, compelling him to find a way out through brute force. But Dimwitri dumb, Clod clever. Sure.

But that's kind of a problem with these games; there are too few setbacks so it always feels like your army is able to coast through battles with remarkable ease regardless of the route you've chosen.

Now, I've barely (if at all, really) interacted with cherry-blossom-inferno, so I don't know how often they waste their time reading posts about characters they clearly dislike.

But to play the devil's advocate a bit (because, as much as I find their reasoning bonkers, it'd be unfair of me to diss them after reading like… a handful of posts/comments from them without giving them the benefit of the doubt. Hey, look at me pulling a Dimitri "Enlightened Centrist" Alexandre Blaiddyd); maybe they're trying to have a discussion/ (not unhealthy) debate, but they have trouble conveying it? Like, I find it hard to express myself and can come across as blunt or rude sometimes, which is unfortunate for all parties involved. And at least (I know the bar is reaaaaaally low), they don't harass people off social media like a certain toxic pistachio as far as I'm aware? Please do correct me if I'm wrong though! Even as a complete outsider, I'm still angry for the people who got harassed, insulted, etc. by this guy who should know better.

Still, it's fair to be annoyed at cherry-blossom-inferno for butting in discussion just to pull some kind of Akshually.

Ultimately, it's sad that these people can't find better things to do than… this. If I spent half as much time "debating" like they do, I wouldn't have started to learn the flute or read this many books. The world sucks enough as it is, so why waste your time trying to make people feel bad about themselves for having certain tastes instead of doing literally anything else? Write, read, draw, run, make people laugh, play music, sing, help a charity, watch movies, play games, learn a new language… anything!

I really hope one day they'll realise how awful they can be and that they'll try to do better. Starting with apologising to all the people they hurt.

[nikofortuna]

Poem: The End

The disaster inspiring this poem is a plague. It’s much less descriptive of the actual event than it is of the feelings of the author, which as I mentioned before is my character. Additionally at this point everybody engaged in the roleplay event has been planning to start a rebellion against the person who has been causing all of the disasters.

The End

Time and time it happens again,

Disaster strikes and locks us in,

Snow and Flame make heads spin,

Tides and Strain seek to win,

As if living was the greatest sin.

At leisure it takes away our kin,

While supplies too are running thin,

We are left to bury the fallen men.

Is it our fate to perish in this plague?

Or is there a cure so that we may endure?

It spread from high up reaching the sky,

But only grasps at the ones that bow far down below.

Stoking fires-

Burning incense-

Stoking fires to purify the bodies,

Burning incense to cleanse the souls.

So it goes ashes to ashes

And dust to dust.

With death we had many clashes,

Now we have to do what we must,

If only to survive at last.

Starting the analysis with the title this time!

So the title alone already reflects how thoroughly done my character is with the current happenings and it has been gradually radicalizing him with this disaster being the last straw in that regard.

Right at the beginning there is a bit of a recounting of the four previous disasters, how often they are occurring and how many lives are cut short every time. The first and last verse lock in every other verse in this stanza between each other through their rhyme scheme, which illustrates the lockdown the people have been experiencing in some way every disaster. Those are also the most important verses as every other verse except those two could be cut and the core meaning of the stanza would still be preserved.

The whole stanza feels a bit less flowery at least to me, which is supposed to showcase how upset my character as the author is that he speaks so directly and clearly.

The next stanza is a lot more flowery in contrast, in part because it has to be in a sense. Verses three and four clearly allude to the illness originating from the palace but only taking the lives of the citizens. It is just vague enough that my character could plausibly deny that the emperor is meant here and just say he means the Heavens instead.

The rhyme scheme in this stanza is a bit different from what I’ve done so far as the rhyming bits are within the same verse each. There are also two parallels to be found here with the subjects standing directly in opposition to each other in both cases. The first two verses set things up with the cure standing against the plague, which then makes it quite clear that the emperor is standing against the people. This verse set up also uplifts the people since structurally they stand in the same position as the cure.

As always we’ve got my favourite poem structure with another double parallel! Two things of fire with one big and the other small and two aspects of a person that are being made clean with those fires being set alight respectively.

In the last stanza the first half is obvious given that those verses are well known and refer to the death that has occurred again. Meanwhile the second half alludes to the citizens of the Crimson Empire rising up against the emperor, who at best is letting them die without interfering and at worst is the direct cause for all of this death. And with it being the only stanza with an uneven number of verses it signals a clear end.

[geulimja]

it’s my understanding that they didn’t make limbus a gacha because of debt but because they wanted to collect funding for future games (they listed an action rpg as an example) without resorting to crowdfunding. i don’t think they can constantly pull the “awww we’re just a little company scraping by” excuse to justify the way they put unreasonable demands on the leviathan artist, had one english translator at the time canto iv was about to come out (and canto iv had an insane word count for just one person), and all of the bugs they constantly put out from lack of QA before releasing updates. they're making unpredecented amounts of profit but are clearly understaffed and likely overworked.

anyways a huge part of my issue with how they handled the situation is that they didn’t condemn, much less MENTION, the fact that people came to their office to “raise concerns”. they’ve been much stricter in the past when people heckled hampang staff and made it clear if people followed them home or kept verbally abusing them they’d take action. neglecting to mention this incident practically screams “you can bully us into doing anything, we’ll take possible threats on our lives as a valid form of criticism to the point where we’ll fire someone”.

on top of all that, people heavily associate any vaguely feminist sentiment with a now-defunct radical feminist site called megalia. megalia was extremely toxic with how some of their views went as far as homophobia/bioessentialism/transphobia but it did kickstart a lot of awareness for feminism and became the main scapegoat for any misogynist’s displeasure for women demanding basic respect. anyone who expressed feminist views after megalia rose to infamy was called a “megal” no matter what their full beliefs were, so many feminists took it in stride and said “if wanting basic human rights makes me an extremist, i’ll accept the label” which of course looped back into vindicating misogynists and now they boldly claim all feminists are secret nazis who want to abort male fetuses etc etc.

with that context, the tweet i see referred to the most from the CG illustrator was her simply expressing disgust with illegal filming (which was a MASSIVE widespread issue in korea recently; look up molka). the fact that a belief like that is considered controversial enough for project moon to consider it a breach in contract is absolutely insane. the fact that a teenager’s (her age back then) deleted tweets people had to DIG internet archives for before she was even hired is enough to damn her is insane.

at the end of the day they tossed a 22 y/o illustrator under the bus, possibly ruined all her future career prospects by implicitly agreeing that she has controversial feminist views (a death sentence for someone in a male-dominated industry largely catering to chauvinists), and never addressed how their own employees’ safety was threatened. they posted the notice at midnight and only in korean (when international fans AT LEAST deserve to know there’ll be changes in future CG art) which also gives the impression they wanted this to be swept under the rug. this and the mismanagement/overwork put me off defending them. i’m not going to deny they were stuck between a rock and a hard place but they went the absolute worst way about this.

women are expected to put up with all sorts of degradation with a smile while men can't even handle ONE instance of a male character getting a more fanservicey design over a female character. it was mostly female fans defending them from review-bombing and harassment and these actions make it clear they must take that for granted and would rather placate gacha and porn addicted incels pouring in from dcinside than show solidarity with fans who've been supporting them the whole time. i absolutely don't blame the droves of korean artists dropping the game and deleting their twitter accounts/fanart.

Literally rn IDC if you like limbus company or not but genuinely if you make this situation into "stop playing gatcha game now!!!!!!!" Instead of thinking Abt the genuine facts of

- project moon has had their office broken into and is being harassed by men because they hate feminism so much that if a character isn't put in a fucking bikini it's evil to them apparently

- project moon is in a scary as fuck situation

- project moon is a team comprised of 30 people.

- this is 30 people in danger because men suspect a feminist being on the team. That is the only reason they're doing this.

- they're review bombing the game to get it off the market just because they couldn't handle the idea of a woman not in a bikini. And it's to the point it really might happen, even though project moon games are a giant passion project, and if this happens there's no telling what will happen to 30 people's careers and lives

- and if project moon does give in. Do not blame them. They're literally in actual physical danger right now.

And if you really do need it to feel any sympathy at all:

- project moon only made it into a gatcha game bc of debt and a need of money as their projects grow

Please do what you can to help Project Moon during this time. Whether you like the game or not, this is absolutely unacceptable.

Edit: read the rb please.

[forever-a-misfit]

7.15.2023

wow, shit is crazy. 

this is the first time in YEARS that I hop on my laptop & immediately decide to check my tumblr. dont get me wrong, i still have the app on my phone & check it every now & then; but i feel like its not the same experience as it once was when i was younger.

i went through my blog, pictures & hashtags. wow, how i’ve changed. clearly ive grown a lot & continued with my progressive & radical ways hahaha. i was such a baby back then talking about “wild” ideas while everyone continued to soak in their ignorance. basically no one has a chance anymore. you either grow or leave me alone.

anyways.

i’m not here to rant, this post is more for my personal time capsule than it is anything else. i doubt anyone will read this anyways, i just be talking to myself. unfortunately girl, A LOT has changed. just last week one of the worst moments of my life happened. i really lost 1/2 of me.

there are seriously no words for that kinda loss. the funeral’s not till August & i’m terrified of what ill become after that day. the mourning period seems to have passed but i really think im going to break down all over again when that day comes.

idk what else to really say here, but i needed to write something & get it outside of my head for a while. it feels nice to hear those “clickity clacks” from the keyboard hahahaha. i do wish i had the strength to journal it all out but sadly my wrist still be buggin. at least i still have tumblr. man tumblr was really THAT GORL back in the days, i miss her :( i used to come on here to post whatever bullshit i liked, had online mutuals for YEARS & was so young & carefree. now this fucking bag of bricks ripped open over my head, it made me feel the pain that my teenage brain thought it had already experienced.

there’s always the good & the bad to growing up. i’ve finally reached the level of being a woman that i’ve always wanted to. happily single for idk how many years now hahaha. been at my job for 4 going on 5 years (even though that might change soon) but sadly i haven’t gone back to finish school. man i miss college. i also really miss the great friends i met there. i hope theyre doing well. the downside to all of this is: life really smacked the shit outta me recently that nothing i’ve learned & gone through can help me out in this moment. yeah yeah yeah i know i’m strong or whatever, but like????????? 

okay now it’s starting to sound like a rant HAHAHAHAHAHA i be lyyyying

okay okay foreal now. if you managed to read all this thanks. i dont know if anything made sense but as i mentioned before, it’s for me & my digital time capsule. 

also, don’t come at me for not capitalizing certain words/letters, i’m not here for a fucking grade hahahaha if you’ve seen my previous text posts, most aren’t properly typed out anyways. idc

well Phia i hope shit gets better. <3

[ 7.6.19** - 7.5.2023 ] te voy a extranar 

[bookshelfdreams]

starting to think about what I might like to write for the ofmd&fandom essay collection: something about the body diversity in this show feels so fresh and revolutionary and it seems to be something that resonates with a lot of people, and I think that might be because it's so rare to see someone on screen who just looks like yourself or someone you know, yk? Often actors represent beauty ideals that are unattainable for most people and if they don't they're a gimmick...

5 minutes later, still thinking about it: while a great many people are clearly as elated about this diversity as I am, there's still a tendency to overlook or "fix" this in fanwork, in certain circles people seem to be very uncomfortable with this messaging of the show on a deep, subconscious level. ofmd may be radical in it's acceptance but fandom often is not; fanart makes people lighter, skinnier, erases their unique physical features, and there's certainly not any malice behind it, it's just "what looks better". imo it's not very useful to just call these depictions racist (though they often are) let's instead examine the underlying assumptions in our collective cultural consciousness...

going to work, brain refuses to disengage: .....like all the worst ideas, eugenics as a movement really took off in the 19th century, and has been a plague on society ever since. a healthy body isn't just a blessing, it's become a moral obligation, and "healthy" means "aesthetically pleasing"; sickness is ugly and ugliness is sick. the unhealthy body is at best a problem to be solved, but mostly a shameful secret to be hidden and superfluously "fixed"....

laying in bed at 2am: the national socialist idea of the Volkskörper is the natural culmination, where the "diseased" mind or body morphes from a problem to a threat, and "diseased" means in any way deviant at all; dissidents, queer people, racial/religious minorities, disabled people, etc are all equally "diseased" (= a threat to the ambiguous Volk, which is defined mainly by exclusion; you will know when you are no longer part of it) and thus, robbed of their right to life. An often overlooked factor, however, is how under those viewpoints, everyone is dehumanized; no one is seen as an individual person with inherent rights. As long as you obey, as you conform, you are accepted; the moment you dare step out of line, voluntary or not, it's over

sitting down at the laptop, empty document open: BLACK PETE IS MY FAVE HERE'S WHY: 1) matthew maher is cute as heck. thank you, essay over