you really can’t unsee american military propaganda in movies like once you start thinking about it you are doomed to be the friend who’s too political when people put on an action movie for the rest of your life
its more than that as the link suggests: the pentagon basically gets to decide whether or not you get access to humvees and other military equipment for your movie and they ask for a pass over any script in exchange. most notoriously Marvel was blacklisted by them for a while allegedly because of the Avengers movie making the military ‘look bad’ in being unable to prevent destruction to new york city.
and you can really see this shift, the avengers era and before they had tons of access to military vehicles and the government and military featured quite prominently, and then with Winter Soldier that suddenly all got flushed away and we didnt return there for a while
more interestingly, you can see exactly when and how they got back in the good graces of the DOD: Captain Marvel and Black Panther. I believe Black Panther was given a pass over by the pentagon as the first step to getting back in the good books (note the CIA is the goodguys plotline. not shield - the CIA specifically, in a movie about black american politics. hm). Then captain marvel was made into a blatant airforce recruitment ad. Fun stuff!
this but i was under the impression at the time of the winter soldier that the director did not agree to the deal because it was kind of an anti-military picture and he did not want to do the thing where the army gets a veto.
legitimately my first feminist awakening as a ten year old child was realizing that girls were expected to respect “boy stuff” but boys were never expected to respect “girl stuff”
my science fair project in fifth grade was basically i had this printout of a bunch of toys that were stereotypically boy toys and girl toys, and i would have my classmates study the sheet for some short period of time, idr if it was like 30 seconds or a minute or whatever, then put it away and had them recall to me as many toys as they could remember. my hypothesis was officially that boys would remember more boy toys and girls would remember more girl toys, but secretly in my head i knew that girls would probably remember boy toys and girl toys relatively equally but boys would still remember mostly boy toys. and that ended up being the case. and i still remember this 20 years later because it hasn’t fucking stopped. and you know what they didn’t even like my project. participation ribbon. i was a fifth grade feminist theorist and no one cared
polyamory hate is so weird to me, because “having casual sex with multiple people at the same time” is considered like. a sign of being a cool person, until those people are like. fat or have blue hair and pronouns or whatever
seen so many posts that are like “I was so confused when I saw all this posting about some non-existent movie “Goncharov” like it was real” I wasn’t. this happens 5 times a week. my dash is routinely filled to the brim with passionate analysis of absurd-sounding movies and tv shows I have never heard of. I never for a second doubted the existence of a russian mafia movie set in italy with massive numbers of bizarrely named characters and no cohesive understanding of the movie’s themes or plot until I saw a post saying to tag it as unreality. this is tumblr. this happens daily. not one thought crossed my mind except “ha, looks like a few of my mutuals have a new hyperfixation.” this is what tumblr has done to me. you could tell me there’s a new tv show about dolphins with french accents living as royalty in victorian england while secretly starting a cult to renew the worship of the greek gods and the shipping discourse is intense and I would simply think “sounds legit” and keep scrolling
This idiot hasn’t seen The Dolphin Court
seen so many posts that are like “I was so confused when I saw all this posting about some non-existent movie “Goncharov” like it was real” I wasn’t. this happens 5 times a week. my dash is routinely filled to the brim with passionate analysis of absurd-sounding movies and tv shows I have never heard of.
what is your favorite type of cookie. not allowed to throw shade not allowed to be mean to each other just say what kinda cookie you like the most. this isn’t a competition just a conversation between friends there is no right answer
what is your favorite type of cookie. not allowed to throw shade not allowed to be mean to each other just say what kinda cookie you like the most. this isn’t a competition just a conversation between friends there is no right answer
* (Oh, my precious parentheses… (I don’t ever want to close them!
a lot of people in the notes are saying stuff like “this sounds like undertale dialogue” as if there aren’t asterisks before every line, my username isn’t abandoned-quiche, and my profile picture isn’t kris deltarune
1,762, you say? oh and two more. So that’s 1,764 then. Well don’t mind if I do.
when you go to bed significantly earlier than usual, a little menu should pop up asking if you want Wake Up Early or More Sleep. and then you should get what you requested. that’s my human body UI improvement for the day.
I feel like the thing thats really different about the polish trans experience is that because the language is heavily gendered and asking about a persons gender is very much not normalized, now that my body looks mostly androgynous people started referring to me with grammatical forms that have never been uttered by human tongue before. Last week a woman couldn’t decide what gender I was so after trying several she settled on speaking to me in plural and infinitive
listen I know this person was probably just capitalizing it like this for emphasis but I’m not going to rule out the possibility that this person wants God bouncing and moaning on it
this is the saddest fucking thing. wheres that post about when you cant even write a poem about it because its just there already
if you germinate cucumber seeds in the dark vs. in the light the ones grown in the light will look normal and the ones grown in the dark actually won’t be stunted in the way you might predict, these seedlings grow into pale yellow plants with smaller leaves because they expend every ounce of energy they have into growing as tall as they can possibly endure, in the dark they grow much faster and taller than they do in the light, because they don’t know they’re an experimental treatment kept in the dark, they think they’re buried alive in the soil or under some foliage and they’re growing upwards trying to break through into the light. its the most obvious thing in the world and also the most devastating
[The artist, putting a simple cake next to a much fancier one: “Aw man, that guy’s cake is way better than mine.” The Audience, gleefully holding up a knife and fork “HOLY SHIT! TWO CAKES!”]
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