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gengarro.bsky.social@gengarro.bsky.social |
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Recovering doomscroller
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The two kinds of sword nerd: "my sword was forged and crafted using the exact same processes and materials as they did several centuries ago" vs. "my sword is a modern scientific marvel that would cut clean through a historical blade without taking so much as a scratch"
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Suggestion for folks asking for mutual aid support (based on years of experience): There's no need to say you're embarrassed or ashamed or hate to have to ask. That's exactly how capitalism wants you to feel. And it wants you to reinforce the idea that asking for help is shameful.
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It's the catch-cry of centrist parties around the world: "If you vote for us, we owe you nothing, but if you don't, you owe us an apology"
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You can tell because when it comes to brown and black immigrants, the conversation immediately pivots to having not enough space/food/jobs
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Not just the art itself (as others have pointed out), but the creators of said art - enjoying ROSEMARY'S BABY doesn't mean you share a moral wavelength with Roman Polanski, nor do you have to burn your Michael Jackson records your parents bought you in the 90s
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Great points there, and I think there's also something to be said about treating people's consumption of art (not merchandise) as a statement of their own morality.
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For real - as cringe/twee as the names are, what's bad isn't that they're on-the-nose and punny, but that her choice of names for some characters imply that she sees them solely in terms of "the Asian girl (Cho)", "the Black kid (Kingsley)" etc.
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"Reality has a left-wing bias" indeed - you don't need to bother with propaganda and messaging, just hire and promote people who actually do journalism and protect them from click-focused conglomerates and egocentric billionaires
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Jack Shepard Bauer
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That one transition lives rent free in my head to this day. You know the one.
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"It's afraid... it's afraid!" *raucous cheering*
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"If you don't vote for the same, progressively more feckless, party every election, it will be the end of democracy" only works for so many elections before voters decide that democracy isn't worth much anyway
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Holding out hope for one of these shows to acknowledge that yeah, delivering canned wisdom and motivational koans instead of actually engaging with people's problems is a big part of why the Jedi ended up how they did
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Let's be real, this is JK doing what JK does best - writing poorly researched fiction
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Dare we imagine a world where Andor is looked back upon as twee and conservative as we now do for HP? "Oh, wow, stand together against cops and dismantle prison labor, did 21st century people really find that revolutionary?"
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Or migrants, or feminists, or the homeless, or... it's a shame blaming everything on a convenient minority instead of addressing actual problems is such a powerful political tactic, maybe the most powerful there is.
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Makes sense, people the right age to be LJ Posters have a bunch of experience with jumping ship from one socmed platform to another, and Bluesky was explicitly designed as a lifeboat for Twitter refugees
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I totally agree with this article about LOVE LIES BLEEDING, the world needs more scrawny butches and gigantic muscular femmes onscre- wait, that's not what it's about? Oh. Oh no...
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The jeers and debris of liberals are a more solid commendation than any praise a leftist could give (but I hope you get their money nonetheless, CUCKOO is just that good)
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Weren't they voted in too?
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It's also truly weird how everyone - the media, the legal system, the voters and even the Democrats - just accept that the GOP winning and dismantling democracy is the default and it's on the voters to put in the hard work to avoid that outcome every single election
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What if we had it all wrong, and the appeal of GoT isn't the drama or the sex or the politicking, but knowing any shamefully inept ruler on-screen is going to be murdered sooner or later and you'll get to watch
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Entirely possible that they did and he just... forgot
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"If you win, it's worth it" vs. "if you're worth it, you'll win"
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Blame the people who didn't vote hard enough!
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Definitely some undercurrents of "fantasy was better when it wasn't flooded by girls lusting after fae/werewolves/vampires" in the discussion.
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At least the G.I. Joe Happy Meal toy might have entertained some kids for a while. This seems more likely to kill them than amuse them
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They do, they just don't believe children or teens are people who have a right to make their own mistakes. They're property of their parents, and doing things with their bodies that their parents disapprove of is the same as trashing a rental car.
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To be fair, "the Jedi are complete dorks and the Sith are more interesting" was kind of the premise of the entire prequel trilogy. None of the SW media since then has really attempted to interrogate it in a meaningful way other than TLJ (and we know how that ended)
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Don't you know? Those primitives outside Europe all lived in little tribes roaming the wilderness until the rapacious West introduced the concept of empire to them. Colonialism is a uniquely white vice!
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And anecdotally, I find confronting horror (and media in general) therapeutic - it lets me learn to sit with my discomfort at my own pace, with no immediate dangers other than what I bring to the table already, sort of like immunotherapy for the soul
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If horror doesn't split open old wounds in your psyche you didn't even know were there, then it's not horror - it's a theme park ride
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I mean, if you really think about it, was that intricately choreographed martial arts scene *essential*? The protagonist just knocking the sword out of his nemesis' hand and running him through has the exact same outcome!
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Not often you see an author say "the ending they came up with was better than mine", but he was right and they did
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There's so much of Rome's DNA in HBO's Game of Thrones
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When you attempt to do worldbuilding in the real world
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"if you do this you'll be as bad as them!" Yes, that's how proportional response works. If they know that whatever consequence they suffer won't be as bad as the damage they inflict, they'll keep doing it
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Seconded, as someone who's like the Platonic ideal target audience I was shocked that I found out about this through social media people lamenting that hardly anyone knows about it.
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Following in the grand worldbuilding tradition of that other George (whoever named their child "Savage Oppress" doomed them to the Dark Side from birth, I fear)
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To be fair, in our reality more than half the robed wizards were on his side from the start
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This made me realize what it is about most "cozy/feelgood" stuff that turns me off - it's usually all surface level aesthetic, treating the actual subject matter as mere flavor rather than the core to be interrogated.
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I've seen more than one person describe it as being from a reality where Raimi, Nolan and Feige never made any superhero movies and so the genre basically crystallized at the late 90s. It really does feel like it doesn't quite belong here!
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It's the natural endpoint of the idea that there exists only one objective way to be a proper person - and that any effort in life not put towards attaining that ideal is squandering time, energy and human potential
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Also, the lack of #notallbears has been quite disappointing, really. Bears are not a monolith!
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Comes as no surprise that the origin story of organized crime families around the world is usually "doing the kind of stuff that law enforcement was meant to do, but more competently"
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Woman in the Wilderness Dating Support group: "I know this is an unpopular opinion, but like... is it just me, or are bears more dangerous to date than human men?"
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I'm sure the soaring rate of true-crime-brain-itis has no relation to how everyone keeps thinking the crime rate is spiking despite clear evidence to the contrary
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Honestly, some of them seem to believe they already live in that world, where simply having a penis and testes gives one an intrinsic, inexorable drive to prey upon those that do not.
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Come to think of it, that's... actually how the superhero industry works - keep killing off and bringing back characters over and over and over again
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I'll be honest, I would watch the hell out of those. Just an endless montage of Duncan being killed in different and inventive ways by the various superheroes. Marvel presents DUNCAN MUST DIE
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