Bear - Always Frowning Slightly

They/Them Jewish butch. I’m 28 now. Been here too long and I’m tired עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי Poetry blog at my-gender-is-mensch

[sesamestreep]

I like fully think picking an actor (or director, or writer, or any creative you want) and just watching their whole filmography is actually a great way to experience like a wider variety of media than you normally would by just picking stuff you personally find interesting, and so I’m here for it, despite the way it feels kind of adolescently obsessive and cringey when you’re actually the person doing it. The REAL problem comes when you watch some miniseries from over a decade ago that no one cares about because of it and then you have opinions that you can’t share anywhere because no one even watched this thing when it aired and now’s it’s been a decade. FOR A PURELY HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE, I mean.

[alwaysfrowningslightly]

I did this with Elliot page as a kid

[bucatinibucatini]

i love cis people cause when i say “when i used to be a girl…” they go “mhmm…. but also….. you’ve ALWAYS been a man” okay ur very sweet but actually i was a weird girl in middle school and you need to know that to understand my personality today

[tbuns]

The “weird little girl” part of my life makes me a better man idk what to tell y’all

[pansy2025]

goo goo dolls if they were in dune: and i don’t want the worm to see me

[mezzodical]

[jlhgiyftr75587ityjgfhdsetljdse]

I am an old person and tumblr is the porch

[lierdumoa]

Every time an author reassures readers that the smut is skippable I sigh a disappointed sigh. This is not a reassurance. Why would anybody who likes smut want to read smut that was only included as an afterthought and has no impact on the narrative? Insulting. Just don't write it at all if you're not going to make it matter.

[lierdumoa]

#on the one hand I understand that some people don’t want to read smut

Like 85% of tumblr users hate and loathe embarrassment based comedy with every fiber of their beings, but never in my life have I ever seen an author reassure their audience that the embarrassing scenes are skippable.

Lots of people dislike tragedy but never in my life have I ever seen an author reassure the audience that the death and grieving scenes are skippable.

Stop trying to pass off self-censorship as “accommodation.” Stop trying to pass off pandering as “inclusivity.”

Your audience can smell your fear, and it smells rancid.

[the-sacred-now]

I feel like a lot of people engaging in torture are not treating their victims as if they could have blood borne pathogens 🤔

[the-sacred-now]

Is what my wife said apropo of nothing as we were silently drifting off to sleep

[the-sacred-now]

Uh oh

Is what she said when I immediately reached for my phone and opened Tumblr instead of responding

[the-sacred-now]

@everything-you-feel-is-real I know by tumblr tradition that I'm to say "impossible, my posts never blow up like that," or "please don't do this to me."

But I feel in my bones that you are right. If this is to be my wife's moment of glory, I am willing to suffer notification overload, that the world may know she is funny. #MyFunnyWife

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[noctumsolis]

Maybe film would be better if everyone who wants to become a director were expected to first produce a silent film. Without intertitles. A film where the only tool they have is the moving picture.

Maybe then they'd learn to make films where WE CAN SEE.

[noctumsolis]

It's not that I don't appreciate a bit of chiaroscuro, but there has to be enough chiar to o the scur.

[appendingfic]

love watching pre, idk, 2000 movies where there is "night lighting" that tells you it is dark but the director has paid lighting engineers enough that you can also clearly see everything

[galaxyedging]

I can't believe we've lost Anthony Head. I grew up with Buffy, watching him as a complex father figure. I know I won't be alone in my grief of this wonderfully talented man.

Rest in peace.

[astriiformes]

I know the choice to change Stratt from Dutch to German in the film was largely a result of casting Sandra Hüller (who was perfect in the role, so like, I get it) but honestly the more I roll it around in my head the more the politics of it compel me.

Thinking about Stratt--who has such a unique blend of optimism and cynicism, willing to place Earth's hopes in an interstellar mission but approaching making it happen in such a ruthlessly pragmatic way--growing up as a kid in East Germany and living through die Wende and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc is just really politically fascinating. Partly because Stratt herself is so politically fascinating, but there's also something else there, something that speaks to growing up watching protests and upheaval on one side of the Iron Curtain, only to end up working for the extremely international European Space Agency as an adult (and then transition into leading the even more international Petrova Taskforce). In that context, movie!Stratt has seen both human conflict and human cooperation in spades, and I could see it hugely informing her perspective on the Hail Mary mission.

In any case. I'm still chewing on the implications of all this, but like I said, it does really compel me.

[astriiformes]

#still baffled by how such a politically interesting character was made by someone not interested in politics...

It's because Weir is interested in politics, he just doesn't realize it because his framework for what counts as "political" is really bad and narrow.

Weir's books (or at least The Martian and Project Hail Mary, I can't speak for Artemis which I haven't read) are incredibly interested in themes of international cooperation. Which is, of course, the definition of political. In The Martian, a number of countries' space agencies work together to help get Mark Watney home; in Project Hail Mary the eponymous project is the work of the entire international community and the mission is meant to be an multinational one, even if only Ryland Grace actually survives. That's incredibly political and not on accident. International cooperation -- which is one of the things that contributes to Stratt being such a fascinating character -- is clearly a theme Weir cares about and returns to frequently in his writing.

However, Andy Weir (being a cishet white American man) thinks politics are for other people. I can almost guarantee you that a large part of his personal definition of the political revolves around identity politics, which he thinks he's exempt from as a "normal" person who exists outside of those othering categories (heavy on the sarcasm, of course). Politics are things like racial equality and pronouns, something that, in his mind, exist independently from the scientific cooperation he's fascinated by and keeps returning to in his work. Which is deeply incorrect, but a view that a lot of people nonetheless hold.

I point all this out because it's a great example of when authors do manage to put interesting themes into their work that some people dismiss as an accident, but it's really a bit more complicated than that. It's not necessarily an accident that Weird finds international cooperation fascinating and even important. I think it's even pretty safe to say it's something that he put into his work on purpose. He just doesn't recognize it as political. Which is bizarre, and indicative of a very privileged worldview, but it doesn't necessarily make Eva Stratt a total fluke. It just means you gotta really Death of the Author this one in order to point out what she represents.

[humusboii2thereturnoftheking]

Boulder SJP really said "chickens coming home to roost" about a firebombing that murdered an 82-year-old woman.

These terrorist dick riders are out here deepthroating Molotovs. A guy burns Jews at a hostage rally, kills Karen Diamond, and they call it "the only sane response," demand his release, and don’t even mention the dead grandma. This is some batshit insane death cult simping.

And the cherry on top: Boulder city council member Taishya Adams refused to sign a condemnation of the attack because it called it “antisemitic” instead of “anti-Zionist”. She literally wouldn’t condemn the firebombing murder without shoehorning in her Jew-hate framing.

The whole operation is rotten. SJP and their political enablers aren’t pro-Palestine. They’re just proudly pro-killing Jews. Fucking disgusting.

[wildehacked]

things in fic I'm used to people kind of faking their way through writing about:

the city of los angeles

the city of new york

sex

how drinking alcohol works

how getting high works

how a child of any age speaks

how nuclear physics work

how [my job] works

how debilitating being shot in the shoulder is

how hypothermia works

things I have never before seen someone fake their way through writing about, until today:

what french toast is

[alwaysfrowningslightly]

I saw someone talk about how Manishevitz wine was dry and delicious and I laughedddddd

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

My Facebook Memories is reminding me of the time two years ago when the gentiles learned that we wrap our arm and head with leather every day as a part of a ritual to symbolize how much we love G-d as our Father/Master, and perhaps understandably had a hard time believing it wasn't a sex thing

[alwaysfrowningslightly]

Incredible. No notes.

[thestuffedalligator]

“When we were kids, the Phonics Wizard came to our town to show off how the letter E can change the sounds of vowels. He turned a can into a cane, a pin into a pine. This one kid had a cap and he changed it into a cape, that kind of thing.

“And we loved it, we were all having a great time, but then he saw my sister and I, and he just got this - this look in his eyes, and then-”

She hesitated, worrying the coarse material between her fingers. “Things got pretty bad after that,” she muttered. “I know it’s silly, but I try to keep - her - comfortable. We don’t know if she can still hear us, or see us, or if she’s even still in here, but I like to think she is. I talk to her when I can, I leave music on when I’m out of the house. I tried to convince my parents to bring her with us when we went to Disneyland, but they didn’t - didn’t really take that well.”

After a moment, she put the ball of twine back onto its pillow. “Anyways. They tried to arrest the Phonics Wizard, but he had a plan in case something went wrong and he turned it into a plane and flew away.”

[asamatterofcourse]

the urge to say "because im a jew and i said so" instead of explaining for the thirtieth time why something obviously antisemitic is antisemitic

[thebibliosphere]

I need to send a "per your last email" email because the person I'm dealing with gave me conflicting information and is now trying to make me the problem.

They even had the audacity to screenshot their own email, so I've screenshot their most recent email in the same email thread that counters that other email, and now I'm trying to find a professional way to say, "this you?"

Fun times.

[ms-demeanor]

"My apologies, I was under the impression that we were moving forward on the information here [include most recent screenshot] - is that incorrect? Please clarify which is most accurate."

[thebibliosphere]

God, thank you. I've been staring at an empty text box for 20 minutes. You're a gem.

[shalom-adamah-lekhem]