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Hello all i got annoyed with only using a side blog and planned to delete my main and transfer everything to this one but low and behold you cannot do that, so instead I’m just going to reblog some of my favorite posts to my my main blog for easy access for me and make it a clone of this one. Probably doing things the hard way but whatever. So this blog is effectively defunct!! Will do some other housekeeping so not deactivating yet but yeah.
The new blog is @angryteapott
The reason Goncharov (1973) is such a hit is because it allows Tumblr to unironically participate in its national sport:
Lying
“the trouble is, you think you have time.”
I want to treat you well and make you happy. You’re alone in Xinchuan. You don’t even have anyone to protect you. Of course, I know. I know you are strong. But I thought I can protect you from time to time and make you happy once in a while.
NEW LIFE BEGINS (2022)
- Both the aunt and niece are lesbians? - Right? It’s so interesting. - Yeah, it’s like a web-drama!
SHE MAKES MY HEART FLUTTER (2022) Dir. Soo Not Sue
Li Xun & Zhu Yun + hugs
Lighter & Princess (2022), dir. Liu Jun Jie
Why is Goncharov 1973 funny:
I saw something like the goncharov joke stands in direct contrast to the “sometimes the curtains are just blue” post which made me go hm…. Also saw people confused by the joke so now I thought too much and made a three parter on my take
Part 1: shoe movie funny
The original joke is that a pair of shoes invented an obviously fake movie, which is funny because why would a pair a shoes do that. The derivative joke is a person going “wow loser you haven’t seen this fake movie?” Which is a joke stressing how ridiculous it is by pretending it’s normal for shoes to advertise a niche obviously fake scorsese film, who isn’t known for gimmicky advertising, BUT ALSO a joke on how bullies could use fear of missing out to make people just pretend to have seen something that doesn’t exist rather than reveal ignorance (like the classic made up band name jokes).
The next step of the Goncharov joke, and from what i can tell launched it all, is a person making up a poster about the movie and going oh yes this very real movie. It has jokes about the mafia genre tropes (“ice pick joe”, a hot lady side character, mostly male cast, scorsese actors) as well as being funny because it commits highlights the same two juxtapositions as the previous jokes, FOMO and shoe movie funny, while adding the inherent funniness of someone putting in way too much work for a bit. Things like the soundtracks follow on this (they’re mostly funny because they take the shoe movie too seriously) and thus should be categorized as part of the third wave.
Part 2: sometimes the curtains are just blue
The fourth wave of goncharovism, which is the bulk of the posts and the subject of most discussion, is media criticism, content, and derivative works about Goncharov, a movie that doesn’t exist. There’s posts that read like actual film critics, lines that seem like surprisingly good dialogue, themes about time because Film Shows Clocks Means Deep, bad overwrought dialogue, and most critically, the typical tumblr engagement with a piece of media including meta, gifsets, fanworks and snide comments about how other people are misinterpreting the movie. A movie that isn’t real. It’s fake.
The joke here is obviously a love letter to and scathing critique of criticism- the fact that analysis of something that doesn’t exist reads like actual analysis that people unironically post mocks that a lot of analysis doesn’t engage with text but overlays existing biases over it regardless of content, and also that a lot of movies are the same movie tbh. Katya is being held to unrealistic standards makes fun of shallow stock feminism, “homoeroticism” points to tumblrs obsession with gay stuff that isn’t actually that gay, and all the fake and often bad quotes show how we love to feel deeply about stuff we don’t really engage with. It’s also pointing to how silly it is to put in this much “anger” and effort in and how enjoyable it is to do this, regardless of whether it makes sense. Sometimes curtains are just curtains, and sometimes a clock doesn’t fucking exist, but it sure is fun to say what the curtain really means is that humanity is inherently sinful and that the clock means that Goncharov and Andrey, two characters that don’t have personalities because the movie they’re from doesn’t exist, wanna fuck.
The joke is that it’s fake deep, but it’s fun to do anyways. The joke is that people are getting mad about “people” who don’t exist being sexist etc because they’re making fun of tumblrinas who don’t look at nuance and assume a very specific form of oppression without evidence AND that people would say that shit because scorsese bros ARE sexist. The joke is that we know it’s fake but people find themselves taking it seriously anyways because it’s fun to make up a movie together and fun to make fun of ourselves. I love it!! It’s great!!! But it’s not a declaration against that the curtains are just blue, it’s a satire making the same point much more joyfully.
Part 3: the reality of goncharov
The fake goncharov movie has trended a fairly specific ways: it has defined characters and relationships, a fairly limited cast in terms of people who matter, homoeroticism, hot girl with a gun, and a lot of foreshadowing. It’s very invested in Katya and Goncharov’s personal narratives despite the wide array of people on the poster. Other than that very funny post about a (fake) shoot out showing the destructiveness and hollowness of nationalism, it’s not all that engaged in systems or the mafia specifically.
And sure, our Goncharov is so narrow partially due to its fake genre- mafia movies are tropey and hero obsessed. It’s fake. We’re making fun of the “best movie” by making a fake tropey movie!! But half the joke is being earnest, and our fake movie is chock full of the tumblr beloved tropes of obsession with romantic relationships, with “themes” that emphasize tragic endings for mutual obsessions, of an absolute lack of engagement with systems while insisting we are engaging , and of a focus on two or three characters instead of an ensemble cast- a million people are writing a movie and yet it has no breadth.
And GET THIS- Goncharov is a real movie. No, I mean it. Goncharov is probably a Google-translate-error-caused misprint of the movie Gomorrah, “presented” by Scorsese while not being directed by him at all. Egbert’s review, so mercilessly parodied in Gonch-posting (or goncharosting, as I like to say), calls it “a curative for the romanticism of The Godfather and Scarface”. Rather than deifying a specific man, it is a series of vignettes about horrible violence that seems unavoidable for its rotating characters. It’s based on real killings, and many of its actors were actually arrested for mafia activities. Forget hollow themes- it’s a movie that’s harrowing due to its reality.
Which is very very funny. Like i genuinely can’t believe we made a fake mafia movie that’s accidentally about a realest mafia movie ever made that proves how much we don’t mentally engage with the important oppressions and systems in our world while insisting that we’re self aware the irony the thematic parallel the sheer “oh fuck for real”ness of it all i was going to try to say something deep but like can you believe it??? God playing is playing 4-d funny chess with every last one of us. Long live goncharov
点燃我, 温暖你 | Lighter & Princess E21 ° Princess, do you have a dream?
lighter and princess synopsis: campus first love with a computer programmer~*~!
first minute of show: “hell is for betrayers”
me:
If you like fluffy cdramas please watch new life begins!!!
I gotta admit the chemistry for the main couple is kinda eh for me but even if you’re not feeling them please please please give it at least till episode 7 because the chemistry between every female character is off the charts,,, this show isn’t even just about feminism it’s about women loving and healing and changing things in community, with some men coming around to boot. Li Wei literally is 🥺ing her way through busting the patriarchy and beguiling every beautiful woman in her vicinity and it’s so cute and healing. I can’t even name another show worldwide that’s giving this energy
From Netflix's JWHJ 0715
Do you also get attached to underused and mistreated female characters in mafia movies or are you normal. Katya goncharov my beloved
I need you guys to listen so bad, but I’m at least glad people on Twitter are starting to talk about this. The government of Canada is expanding Medically Assisted Death to cull the poor and disabled, and now suicidal and mentally ill (these are usually interchangeable of course here). It is EUGENICS and every single disabled rights organization is against it.
Disability payments are $1,200 a month. The average one bedroom apartment rent in the Greater Toronto Area (greatest pop. area by far here) is $2,000 a month. People with mental illnesses are on months long waitlists to get even a single publicly funded session. Weeks to get privately funded care which costs at least $200 a session. There is no housing here for disabled people. We are in one of the worst housing crises in the world right now.
Doctors are now offering MAiD unprompted to young suicidal people. This woman is 21, a health practitioner literally suggested she kill herself.
This is one of the worst Disability Rights Violations we’ve ever seen in Canada. The government is killing us because it is cheaper than funding healthcare, cheaper than giving people housing and food and basic human rights.
Would it kill you people to source anything? Or do you prefer making sweeping, inflammatory statements with no basis in fact? Criticize it all you like, because there are criticisms, but do it with some fucking information under your belt.
I mean, I know many people personally who have had MAiD pushed on them, and more than one personally who has taken MAiD as the route out of crushing fucking poverty and medical neglect. This isn't a fucking secret within the disability community.
But please tell me how this isn't happening when people I know are dead now, may their memory be for a blessing.
The exact reason why disability advocates have been sounding the alarm on MAiD since before it passed is happening now.
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CityNews spoke with a 54-year-old St. Catharines man, Amir Farsoud, who has applied for MAID as an alternative if he should become homeless.
Farsoud is currently on Ontario Disability Support Payments and can’t afford to pay anymore in rent. The rooming house he lives in is for sale, instead of becoming homeless, he wants to have the option of MAiD.
Because he suffers from debilitating back pain, Farsoud meets the eligibility criteria for MAiD.
“I don’t want to die but I don’t want to be homeless more than I don’t want to die,” shared Farsoud.
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Despite Canada’s reputation for universal health care, many of its citizens with manageable health conditions have turned to crowdfunding campaigns to afford treatment, medical support, and the cost of living. When that fails, they turn to MAiD. “These are people who do want to live but they can no longer go on,” Naheed Dosani, palliative care physician and lead for health equity at Kensington Health, told The Daily Beast. “Because structurally, the society they live in will not support them with the bare minimum resources that they need.”
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But Denise said she and supporters have called 10 different agencies in Toronto over the past six months to locate housing with reduced chemical and smoke exposure that she can afford on ODSP.
"None of them were able to do anything meaningful in terms of getting me relocated, getting the discretionary emergency, or temporary housing and emergency funds," said Denise.
Applying for medically assisted death has been surprisingly easier. Denise said she began working on applications for MAiD in the summer of 2021.
Maybe it's just because my editor and one of my best friends on this fucking hellsite, @thebibliosphere, has MCAS that I think that the fact that I can find two different people who are either seeking or have gone through with MAiD due not being able to find housing suitable for someone when MCAS is pretty fucking disturbing.
But maybe many many sources where disabled people are telling you about their experiences like the screenshots above, or news stories about people who are accessing or have accessed MAiD just aren't as compelling as two generic pages about it from its proponents.
I wonder why that could be. I wonder why disabled people telling you what they experience is something you feel like you need to respond to with the proof version of unseasoned oatmeal. Why is it, do you fucking think, that you respond to disabled people talking about their experiences that way?
Oh, sorry, I got sidetracked from adding in more sources by that paragraph heavily implying that you're deeply fucking ableist. Anyway, here's part of what the UN had to say about MAiD:
“There is a grave concern that, if assisted dying is made available to all persons with a health condition or impairment, regardless of whether they are close to death, a social assumption might follow (or be subtly reinforced) that it is better to be dead than live with a disability.”
Hunh. Maybe that's not enough sources for you that this is really fucked up. (They're still talking about making this available to minors as of 10/22/22, btw.) That's okay. I have a few more.
But maybe you want sources which directly address the inclusion of mental health as of 2023? Okay!
The inclusion of mental illness was in fact studied in detail by the federally mandated independent expert review by the Council of Canadian Academies which could not reach a definitive conclusion on whether this could be done safely. It should also be noted that the original MAiD bill required a review of this and the issues of inclusion of mature minors and advance directives within five years—it has been well past five years and no review has happened. So we now have one of the most liberal MAiD regimes in the world with only Belgium and the Netherlands coming close. People with mental illness who declare their suffering unbearable will now be eligible for euthanasia in two years with only a 90-day reflection period. Canada appears to have found its solution to the crisis in access to mental health supports.
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Pared down to its simplest expression, lowering the threshold for MAiD for persons who have disabilities or disabling illnesses is discriminatory because it creates a special class of persons whose suffering can be ended by death. People with disabilities are the only group excluded from a fundamental safeguard provided to every other Canadian by the Criminal Code. This safeguard provides that a life can be legally ended by a physician only where death is reasonably foreseeable.
Here's a link to the article for that video above, btw. Here's a link to the Tiktok screenshotted above. Here's another mentally-ill person talking about MAiD. Here's some of the committee hearings. Here's an opinion article with a fuckton of links which calls MAID'S expansion "a war on the mentally ill."
Fucking shocker, disabled people have been talking about this for a long time, and the recent expansion of MAiD and the way that it is absolutely serving the purpose of a eugenics program not very much different from Aktion T4 are very real and very very fucked up.
Doctors absolutely pressure disabled people to take actions against our best interests. People who could live full lives with social supports are absolutely using MAiD to escape crushing poverty, and disabled people said this would happen.
The problem with this post isn't a lack of sources, because those definitely fucking exist if you aren't an incurious ableist ingrown ass hair of a human being. The problem is that temporarily-abled people just don't like listening to us cripples.
Oh, and if this wasn't clear enough already:
Fuck you.
I’ve been saying this for nearly 20 years.
Sometimes it’s eugenics.
Sometimes it’s casual ableism and ageism.
Sometimes it’s just capitalism, particularly in the USA--it’s not that they want all disabled people to die, just the ones they can’t make any profit from in a healthcare system that is controlled by profit-driven insurers rather than medical providers.
Until we have decent, guaranteed social support for elderly and disabled people--whether or not they are cheerful and humble and polite--and whether or not they have beliefs or bodies compatible with any “faith-based” sources of assistance--we cannot have medically-assisted suicide.
Because people who really want to kill themselves can, in most cases, make that happen. A lot of people make these arrangements when they are terminally ill with degenerative conditions that are eventually going to kill them.
What programs like this do is allow other people to decide when someone is going to die--by withdrawing more expensive supports and care, and offering suicide because it’s fucking cheap, and allowing insurers, family members, and young, able-bodied doctors to make these decisions on the behalf of people who can live well and happily as long as they have support.
Interestingly, “pro-life” individuals are frequently a lot less fussed about assisted suicide than they are about abortion. Oh, they say they’re against it and they try to talk people out of it, but...they don’t devote nearly the amount of money, time and energy to fighting laws and programs like this that they devote to making sure people with uteri can’t have sex without fear if they don’t want to have babies.
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Utsukushii Kare Ep. 4
#burn
Sorry I'm just. Reeling. 14 THOUSAND????
Pardon me for having an emotional reaction but while we were distracted by the US Midterms, the Iranian government voted to execute over fourteen thousand protesters who are in custody.
Lord Jesus Christ have mercy.
Nearly 15,000 Iranians have been arrested in connection with the protests, which were spurred by the death of Mahsa Amini in September.
Jiang Cheng & Wei Wuxian | Episode 30
