#ugh i hate typing that

[emlovesatla]

Current mood 🤜

[pirateprincessjess]

I feel the need to periodically remind people that Idiocracy is a eugenics movie.

One of the things that eugenicists believe is that it is bad for society when the “wrong people” breed.

The entire premise of the movie is that “stupid people” kept having kids while “smart people” didn’t have kids, and it ruined society because stupid genes propagated while smart genes died out. This is eugenics propaganda.

I know people will read this and their response will be “actually it’s satire” but the movie isn’t satirizing eugenics. It’s satirizing anti-intellectualism, and consumerism, and it proposes eugenics as a solution.

When eugenics was first conceived, it was used as a way to justify inequality. The idea was that people who held privilege were able to do so because they were smarter and genetically superior to lazy and stupid people who don’t have privilege. Obviously this is bad and wrong, but it is also the core lesson of Idiocracy.

The movie literally ends with the main character becoming president and having “the smartest children in the world.” Because he and his wife have smarter genes than everyone else. The proposed solution for the things that Idiocracy is satirizing is for the smart people to have children that can be in charge of the world.

I know it’s fun to use this movie to dunk on anti-intellectualism and the MAGA movement, but we need to stop. When you quote and reference this movie you are spreading eugenics propaganda.

[tashdemetriou]

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS | 6x10

[medicalunprofessional]

neighborhood watch

[forzalvr]

i love how everyone plays along w the 'yuki is short af' joke 😭😭 [not mine!!]

[piromina]

huge props to marinette for spinning up that lie so fast and on the spot, too. I thought I was good but damn. of course she must have had a general idea of what she was going to say to adrien beforehand going off of gabriel's "make me look good" and her own love telling her that the truth would hurt adrien even more, but that's just a very vague idea. she could not have possibly spun up that entire story of a lie in her head beforehand with all that was going on - dealing with all the truths coming in one after the other, the crying, the emotional trauma, getting the kwamis back -

and of course, there's adrien. he is one of the highest things on her list of priorities, his safety being the first thing she needs to take care of. the problem is, she doesn't know how. the only thing she can do in that situation is lie. a small lie. just one to make it better for now and then she can make it a long-term lie later. make sure no one else finds out.

and once she started telling the lie, once the first words were out of the mouth, it was all improvisation. her next words showed up in her head as she was going, spinning up a believable story, just good enough to be taken as the truth. she rambled - a rookie mistake for liars - but you couldn't blame her. she's a professional liar, almost, with her superhero identity, but this one is different. just one hour after learning the truth she had to cover up all this with no warning beforehand.

she couldn't tell adrien the truth. but she couldn't do much to comfort him either. ladybug couldn't tell him something only marinette knows.

she had to lie. she had to come up with something on the spot. those words would haunt her for the rest of her life - that lie was all she could think about for the next couple of months because she had to make it work. she had to keep the truth and make everything work out. it wasn't a big deal. she just had to tell adrien something, anything that would comfort him! what would comfort him about his father? what would convince him that he was a good guy this whole time? that he was a, a, a hero! yes, she would tell him that. it was a white lie! she wasn't a bad person! she just had to tell adrien that his father was a hero so that he would never have to know the truth and suffer like she did. he was a hero.

was.

once that word came out of her mouth, there was no going back.

[octaviaabadassblakee]

I knew I should've stayed on 911blr and not ventured to 911 Twitter. Someone is actually mad that Buck is bi and played by Oliver and not a gay/bi guy. Actually arguing about it. Telling me I don't understand what closeted means when I said we shouldn't force closeted actors to come out to get roles. Please be serious

[kindaasrikal]

Love deeply platonic relationships where two individuals are practically platonic soulmates who care for each other deeply and have changed each other’s life significantly.

Hate it when the fandom sees is as romantic tho.

[sleepytownez]

The fact that comments with death threats on ao3 to authors who write dark content seem to be getting more common is really disheartening.

I never used to just read a fic and find a kys comment in the comment section. I know it’s always existed but it seems worse now and it’s, scary. Like ao3 is meant for this stuff.

[girlivealwaysbean]

mann im going to get my blood reports tomorrow and im lwk scared

[sleeping-at-sea]

maybe it's projection from past relationships but like,,,

sighs thanatos pisses me off

like do NOT get me wrong i LOVE him. he's SO fine and is such a interesting character all around and I love when he shows up. But he's just NEVER there like UGHHHH I'm two hearts away from being full hearts with him so like i assume that's when zag and thans relationship will be official??

Still tho Than is barely there and like he doesn't communicate his feelings well and shit and doesn't know how to talk about it and it just makes me so upset. IDK WHY

like i said it's like probably just projection (which is also why I don't like crush from cherry crush) which makes me feel the way I do

[scholar-of-yemdresh]

As this year comes to a close here's hoping for more (I.e. any) Morally grey aroace protagonists in (adult) fiction. Because as much I love Ymir by Rich Larson, I can't just keep reading one book over and over again. I'm starving for Dirtbag Aces in media.

[unnerving-presence]

no matter how much i slander any wesker i will still love all of them no matter what :]

[mvalentine]

was serving slutty steve jobs for my presentation on apple today <3

oh my fuckin god she fuckin ded 💤

[astraeajackson]

nobody cares but every single only child i know personally is either pretty shy and hesitant to take compliments (EVEN THOUGH THEY TOTALLY DESERVE THEM)

or complete egotistical maniacs who will not effing shut up, think their opinion is the law, insult people without thinking twice, and generally yes just need to be fucking HUMBLED FOR ONCE IN THEIR GODDAMN LIFE

and somehow people still fuss over them like the stupid suckups they are

SORRY IF THIS OFFENDS ONLY CHILDREN THIS IS JUST MY HONEST OPINION OF THE ONES AT MY SCHOOL BECAUSE SOME OF THEM ARE REALLY PISSING ME OFF RIGHT NOW

[mimikyvvnz]

my dad can actually go fucking kill himself idc