This was my actual favorite part of working in a theater. People would come in and use a string of words no human had ever uttered and I’d have to be like “ohhhhkay let’s parse this out.”
When we had Moonlight: Moonshine, Moonrise, Midnight, Nightlight, Nighttime, Twilight
My favorite in recent memory, though: “The Big Sick” = “The Fat Bad”
Don’t… Don’t movie theaters have…the names of the movies… Right… There?
Ah, see, the problem here is that you’re making the common mistake of assuming people bother to read anything. At all. At any given point. When in the presence of customer service worker.
was talking to my gf about my fear of dying young for being trans and my mom putting my deadname on my gravestone, and she said “i hope that never happens, but if it does, i will carve your name into your grave myself if i have to.” and i think theres something extremely raw about that sentiment and trans community in general. you can kill only our bodies, but you cant kill transsexuality
sorry to keep harping but the thing is. like. people pretty much universally have profoundly complex and richly textured lives outside of the internet. like everyone you’ll ever meet will have their share of complicated relationships, personal struggles, identity issues, et cetera. and these people will likely have deep inner lives and senses of self that an outsider is not easily privy to yk. but then you get all these Posters with a superiority complex who log into the fandom blogging website, see a fandom blogger blogging about fandom, and for some reason forget that other human beings have a rich inner world and assume that this little niche interest site somehow represents the totality of the fandom blogger’s life and that they can deduce some sort of damning portrait of a Life Consumed by Media from the fact that they sometimes blog about fandom on the fandom blogging website. and then they make stupid ass posts like the aforementioned. it’s so pretentious and self important and mean spirited with zero substance. Banished to the salt mines for 10000 years
*stands in a bowling alley angrily tapping my foot as I notice everyone around me doing nothing but bowling* it’s so fucked up how obsessed with bowling everyone is. nobody has an identity outside bowling. these people must have no sense of self when they aren’t bowling. unlike me… if only I could write some sort of post to enlighten these poor fools…
I am once again at a loss for words. From @/ democracynow [@/ JoshuaPHill on X. 12/22/23.]
[Image description: “Satellite imagery shows Israel’s razing of Gaza agricultural land.” A ‘before’ picture shows an aerial picture of lush green fields and areas of healthy crops, as well as the location of a greenhouse. An 'after,’ photo shows an aerial view of a completely desolate land -there are no crops, no greenhouse, and no greenery.]
you can portray transmasculinity as something other than “parody of femininity, blue edition” or “ungrateful girl’s journey into becoming a violent misogynist man”. i promise you can do it
(Psychic’s player missed the last session due to a cold, and is still raspy. Psychic is also playing a shapeshifter who was off doing something else during the previous session, when the party come to pick him up)
Psychic (OOC): So I figured out why [Psychic] sounds like this for this session.
Party: Why/What was he doing?
Psychic(OOC): [Psychic]’s girlfriend found out he has a VERY long tongue.
Sad to be the one to tell y'all, but aborted children and children died before christening don’t get into heaven. They go to the Limbus, the outermost circle of hell, where the souls go who are exempt from paradise without it being their fault
You need to update your sources
Since 2007 unbaptized children go to heaven and limbo doesn’t exists anymore
mf aint even read the patch notes
Glad God threw in a quick hot fix, I wonder if it’s retroactive or if the babies before 2007 are grandfathered in?
I’ve decided if people are going to call male characters babygirl then I can do it the other way around for female characters. She’s my man now. That woman is my boyfriend. My boytoy even.
Okay but the “zionist is now a dogwhistle for saying jews without being called anti semitic” is incredibly annoying bc it purposefully disempowers palestinians bc that’s how we name our oppressors and their ideology and have done so for decades with the purpose of distinguishing it from Judaism because of the faith-washing of our struggle. We’re not going to stop using it bc it’s apparently being “coopted by antisemites” when the definition of antisemitism has been coopted by zionists and drastically redefined in the public discourse to protect zionism from being identified as a fascist and colonialist ideology
Wow, this “gender free” fashion brand sure doesn’t have any AMAB models.
Gonna die fucking mad about this. If you can’t put someone with a beard in one of your skirts, is your clothing gender neutral? If your brand is full of plus-sized black femmes and white, androgynous bean poles, do you really have a handle on diversity?
You passed peer review. Highlighted for emphasis but again:
Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being kidnapped totally against their will was a way for them to engage with a romantic or sexual fantasy without feeling morally in the wrong for doing so? Added bonus that the fantasy involved being whisked away from repressive environments like home or school, right?
Finding out that Bram Stoker was in a sexless marriage and that scholars believe that he very likely was closeted gay puts the entire book into perspective as to WHY it reads EXACTLY like a self insert wattpad Dracula kidnap fic:
“I TOTALLY love my wife and would never do anything that an upstanding Good Straight Working Man wouldn’t do but oh nooo, big strong man with broad back and strong enough arms to carry me back to bed like a princess trapped me and claimed me as his, completely against my will 👉👈 But he protects me against the bad evil sexual women (who I assure you, I am TOTALLY sexually attracted to, as any straight man with a choice would be) but trust me, I do NOT want ANY of this. What’s that? The Count is not capable of feeling love? Would be a shame if I had the special ability to change tha-”
This is also the fantasy behind all those old bodice-ripper romances that people today like to mock or call problematic, by the way.
“Oh, my next forty years are going to consist of nothing but washing dishes and keeping house and bearing children for the disdainful man I married right out of high school because my parents said college was for men and I had no other obvious life path open to me? What if a pirate captain thought I was worth stealing away from it all? [what if I ran away but no-one could blame me for leaving]?”
the fact that we as a society have the muppets and they are not everywhere in our cultural consciousness is appalling. why aren’t the muppets hosting the oscars. why aren’t the muppets commentating the olympics. why aren’t the muppets coming to a theatre near me every year with a new adaptation of a classic novel. genuinely what are we doing.
I’ve slowly been chipping away at drawing scenes from that imaginary Muppet retelling of the Princess Bride, figured it was about time to share what I’ve drawn on Tumblr!
If you have no idea what Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses is I really truly implore you to just. Do a cursory google search or watch a video about it because absolutely nothing I could say about it could appropriately sum up exactly what is Is
ok but the ost slaps
this is my favorite screenshot from any video game and i use it to torment my friends constantly
If Taylor Swift used her power for good she would be such a great stochastic terrorist. She would post on Instagram “Hey guys, Tay here. Just wanted to say that whoever delivers me the head of Ron DeSantis on a platter will get free Eras Tour tickets. #ShadeNeverMadeAnybodyLessGay.” It would be at her doorstep in two hours.
JUST yesterday I gave the library director my elevator rant about why webtoon is evil lmao webcomic library is your friend
I agree but I’d still like to listen to your rant
I have not personally tried to host my comic on webtoon so this is all coming from friends in the trenches, but basically it’s very geared towards marketable homogeneity and anything that doesn’t have a professional level of polish gets swept under the rug. It treats webcomics like an IP farm for potential lucrative netflix deals instead of, say… an art form with its own merits. And for my Old Man Moment: it’s become such a juggernaut that people are starting to ignore anything that isn’t hosted there, and using “webtoon” generically for “webcomic.”
Webcomics started as punk outsider art and seeing them molded into consumer products makes me seethe
gonna ramble out my ass because i don’t feel like pulling sources, i was originally adding this to someone else’s reblog but then it got too long and i went on too many tangents so that didn’t make sense anymore but ANYWAY
“webtoon” is a specific sub-type of webcomic that originated in south korea specifically, and it adopted the scrolling format because the format was more readable on phones (compare this to the recently-killed-by-amazon comixology, which had a proprietary ‘smart’ viewer for traditional page layouts that let you swipe from panel to panel). in korea the big ones are kakao webtoon (recently swallowed tapas) and naver webtoon (webtoon.com, recently swallowed wattpad, owners of line corp if you’re familiar)
naver is very comparable to google, it even started as a web portal and search engine iirc. they run webtoon as an exploitative entertainment company similar to television. a number of panels that if laid out in pages would be enough to make a chapter are posted all at once as an 'episode’, and creators are expected to be able to post a new episode once a week that naver can charge for with microtransactions and also stick ads on. even with a buffer, that’s a ridiculous amount of output. the most popular comics tend to have whole teams, and imports have whole production companies paying to adapt popular webnovels into webtoons and then license the translations.
i’m trying to think of a good metaphor but to be honest this is very similar to the ways indie comics have always gotten fucked. every comic shop always leaned hard on DC and Marvel and big glossy mags full of ads and meanwhile weirdos who got lucky could make comic strips to run in local alt weeklies. Dykes To Watch Out For wasn’t selling in mylar bags. maybe the metaphor here is that people are asking for indie comics and when you try to point them toward DTWOF they’re confused that it isn’t Sandman.
because webcomic used to mean, specifically, self-published. it used to mean one person, maybe two. it used to get sneered at, because self-publishing meant you weren’t good enough to get published. and webcomics got fucking weird and mostly terrible, the way any art that gets democratized gets weird and mostly terrible, and all the ways that it’s terrible are also the ways that it’s great. but now it’s all one word meant to encapsulate achewood and homestuck and solo leveling as if that’s a single genre or even format.
(the illustrator of solo leveling, jang-sung rak, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in july of 2022. starting in 2018 he published on a grueling schedule with only short hiatuses to deal with a chronic illness. i cannot say for sure it was related to overwork, but i do not know how you can have that level of output and be well.)
there are genuine interesting innovations to the scrolling format, like the use of blank space for dramatic pauses between panels, or reveals that only work when you can’t see the bottom of a panel when you see the top. as a Certified Garbage Enjoyer, i love seeing the innovations that are born out of profit-fueled limitations. like sunday comics. i almost went on a two paragraph tangent about sunday newspaper comics and i didn’t, you’re welcome.
but it’s also true that webtoons look like absolute dogshit on a computer or tablet. they are for phones, and they are disposable, to click and scroll and read once and never look at again. almost none of them make it to print. and it sucks that it’s becoming treated as the default format for comics. and it extremely sucks that, if you want to read korean comics in particular, webtoons are pretty much your only option.
there is no thesis to this! i do not have solutions to offer, aside from supporting creators directly whenever you can. if an artist crossposts to a corporate webtoon platform, consider following them Anywhere Else If Possible. get an rss reader instead of using a webcomic platform’s app. if you like a creator, find ways to follow them so that if they strike out on their own you can be there to support them. i won’t pretend this is a webtoon specific issue because publishers have always treated comic creators like shit. but there was a period where being a webcomic meant it was the rare kind of comic where the creator wasn’t getting fucked, and that time is gone now.
ALT
I’m still technically taking a break from this but it’s very important to me that anyone following this blog understands there are Reasons I do not fuck with webtoons myself lmao
I am so sorry to bother you with this stupid question, but Bisan has asked for a complete stop in economic activity. Can I still donate to help Palestinians or is it better to avoid any transactions for the week ? Thank you so much for what you're doing
hello anon. don’t apologise, you’re a breath of fresh air after the recent visitors in my inbox. I think a slightly more accurate description of Bisan’s ask is to stop or minimise all economic activity not in direct support of Palestine. Now more than ever, I would encourage people to donate to escape funds for Palestinians, to direct aid organisations like CareforGaza and the PCRF, and to buy e-sims as they’re running low.
Below I’ve compiled a list of resources below but this is definitely just a small sample size of what you can do to help during this strike. This post here is an extremely comprehensive resource that I’d recommend you have a look at.
credible organisations that are doing work on the ground in Palestine:
Care for Gaza:non-profit charity that distributes money, food and other resources directly to families in Gaza.They maintain a regular presence on Twitter and Instagram. You can donate to them via Paypal here.
Liminal Horror story where a store equivalent of amazon exists. Infinitely stretching aisles where all you can see of a product is a few poorly taken photos and this person nearby seems to have liked it but they sound the exact same as the last guy you saw. Products with endlessly long names that dissolve in your grasp the second you touch them and- is that the same bag as the one I just passed? People trying to sell their own things at The Store but end up buried under copies of thei own work. You look deeper snd realize how much exploitation and abuse happens just underneath the surface of the store but it’s the only place here anymore, everywhere else is out of business, so I guess you just have to deal with it! Oh, and look! Next door there’s a grocery, and a library, and a video rental store, and even a venue to watch people perform live! I wonder who owns those…
[video description: a big orange cat sits inside a large metal pot on a kitchen counter looking around slightly confused and bewildered as two people off screen repeatedly point at him and say ‘little baby man’ over and over again overlapping with one another as they repeat the phrase /end description]
Not to sound like I was raised by protestants, but I think those kids who argue that it’s animal abuse to put working dog breeds to work doing the tasks they were bred and born for have simply genuinely never encountered the concept that they, too, could be genuinely happier if they could do work they found wortwhile and enjoyable. Like engaging in useful and constructive activities might genuinely make life better than a life of doing absolutely nothing because nobody’s making you do anything.
Blue Heelers are herding dogs. When I had one, he decided his job was to herd our flock of cockatiels. I didn’t ask him to, and in fact tried to dissuade him at first, but it worked out pretty well and kept him from getting bored. Not sure how well things would have worked out if we hadn’t had something for him to herd and protect.
If you don’t give your working dog a job, they will assign themselves one. Unfortunately, that job may sometimes be eating the couch.
The difference between a well-trained herding dog and an untrained herding dog is that a well-trained one won’t start herding before you tell them to, and stops herding when told to do so. Herders will herd because herders must herd. I was there the first time my sister’s dog (a shepherd breed) saw sheep for the first time. I swear I saw him blink like he suddenly remembered something, and instantly knew what to do. Genetic memory just clicking into place.
Everyone deserves to experience that at some point in their life. Blinking like a sheep dog seeing sheep for the first time. “Oh, right, so this was what I was supposed to be doing.”
i do genuinely need to go on some sort of quest this year or i’m going to become evil for real
I’m going on a 2000-mile roadtrip in April (1000 out, 1000 back) to view the total solar eclipse. I’ve been planning this since 2017, but I have exactly $0 saved up because life has been throwing me nothing but expensive curveballs since I moved in September, but come hell or high water I WILL VIEW THE GODDAMN ECLIPSE!!! That is my quest. I have 2 months and some change to figure it out.
There’s a lot going on in that little critter’s head right now.
1. Power move.
2. Why do people whisked away to magical worlds just automatically believe the first creature that tells them what side the person needs to help? Where’s my isekai where the MC slowly finds out they got in with like the deranged zealots and are part of the evil faction, and not the plucky rebels?
I think about this comic once per week. It’s funnier then anything I can conceive of. Mastery.
“IT SHOULD ALSO SERVE AS A REMINDER THAT IN THE "CIVILISED WORLD” THOSE OPPOSING WAR CRIMES ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE SCRUTINIZED AND PERSECUTED THAN WAR CRIMES THEMSELVES.“
It’s kinda funny when you get a bunch of likes but no reblogs like I enjoyed your post but I’d prefer if no one else saw it
-on my blog"
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That is the quiet part we all know is true but prefer not to say. It might be puritanism or “it doesn’t fit my blog’s theme” but it all boils down to this.
