#we're on tv

[hauntedorpheum]

[neonrebels]

what i love about both I Saw the TV Glow and We're All Going to the World's Fair is that both movies really understand the tv/computer screen as a space of negotiation between one's sense of identity and the world. it's not so much that tv shows and the internet are used as escapism but that the screen itself functions as a sort of portal or mirror that creates this place of identification, but also of annihilation, where people can construct new images of themselves, reimagining themselves as something more real.

[mintystea]

hey yeah sorry i cant go out tonight im rewatching leverage (2008-12) and leverage: redemption (2021-). yeah its time for me to indulge in the fantasy of karmic justice through heists and found family, unveiling greed and corruption of large corporations, and death to capitalism again. sorry about that.

[allysdelta]

CrossOmens Part 1: A Long Time to Hope

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(source)

Genuine friendship progressing naturally to an idiot4idiot crush Percabeth nation we stay winning

[fuddlyduddly]

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[mythtakens]

"As long as we are both here on this earth, as long as we have tomorrow, it's not too late."

[sexy-sapphic-sorcerer]

i feel like these things are connected

[spellofwinter]

SAURON + How do I even begin to explain Regina George?

[moonlightperseus]

12 year old percy literally telling echnida to pack it up because theyve killed a few monsters already is so fucking funny

[belluzinhaa]

it's a Jane Schoenbrun thing

[whatelsecanwedonow]

THE AMERICANS S01E01 | Pilot

[shesnake]

Louis as this daily herald journalist points out the inaccuracies in his story: i hope this doesn't awaken anything in me

[closetsof-backlogged-dreams]

ok wait pause so in these last three months of 2023 we're getting/have gotten:

bbc merlin twitter post bombshell

dan and phil games return announcement

another hunger games movie

percy jackson tv series

1989 taylor's version

like???? we are reverting back to the mid-2010s and honestly i think thats the best thing thats ever happened ever

[phoenixyfriend]

Political ads: My opponent has jacked up taxes every year since he was elected!

Me: Which taxes? Income? Sales? Property? Business?

Political ads: I promise to hold the line on taxes!

Me: Which taxes? What government programs do those taxes contribute to? What gets cut if the lack of taxation causes a deficit?

Political ads: Think about the taxes!

Me: WHICH TAXES. WHICH TAXES ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. TELL ME WHO'S ACTUALLY GETTING AFFECTED BY THESE TAXES YOU'RE SO CONCERNED WITH.

Reminder to always ask what it is that people aren't saying in these ads.

A lot of them want you to think that it is your personal taxes as a working-class person that they're talking about. But if it's taxes on the rich that they're "holding the line on," then they're using your desire to survive with a greater portion of your own income as fuel to keep the upper classes from paying their fair share.

I keep getting the same three or four political ads (half aren't even for the district I live in) and I'm frustrated that they use these transparent tactics and that there are probably people that don't have the time or background to take that moment to go 'what are they hoping I hear in this? What are they actually going to do?'

[mythtakens]

9-1-1 Vol. 7 Issue #4: Buck, Bothered and Bewildered