Stuff. Things.

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[wesandresons]

RENT (2005) dir. Chris Columbus

[drawnsnake]

Those beasts called Depression and Epilepsy (for the time being)

[yousaveeveryonebutwhosavesyou]

Do people understand that when you say “I’m tired” it doesn’t mean “I didn’t get enough sleep last night” or “I need more physical energy”?

It means I am drained. I have been fighting through each day just to wake up and do it again. I am tired of existing in a world where everything feels like a struggle and nothing feels right. I am tired of fighting negative thoughts. I am tired of waking up.

[campmiasmas]

SINNERS 2025, dir. Ryan Coogler

[wolfertinger666]

I think poor people deserve to buy luxuries for themselves

[wolfertinger666]

poor people deserve to eat glorious yummy food and buy cool technology and games and do fun things

[wolfertinger666]

removing the option to buy snacks and sweets from people's food stamp budget money is inherently evil and devilish.

[scenephile]

Like you’re sinking.

[bunjywunjy]

are all animals dangerous?

every animal has the potential to be dangerous under certain circumstances. for instance, a dog could bite you, a moth could distract a UPS driver into plowing through your living room window, you could inhale and choke on an earthworm.

[snickeringsnicket]

did lemony snicket write this

[special-lucky-chosen-one]

people say that the Spaniel is a gentle breed of dog. and yet, when accelerated out of this railgun at 2,500 m/s directly towards this group of orphans,

[screen-studies]

Aftersun (2022) dir. Charlotte Wells

[voidpumpkin]

seeing analyses of nimona is fun because they have really good insights and are analysing every inch of this movie but in virtually all of them there is a gaping hole where the very obvious messages and metaphors in regards to race and racism in this film lay.

Like tell me, do you believe the story of a brown man, brought in by a black woman in an attempt to fix the systemic issues in a system where ancestry is valued over merit, is framed for the murder of said black woman by a white woman who is fueled by paranoia that a black woman’s efforts might upend the system, the supposed threat this brown man and of dangers that don’t exist and a desparation to fulfill the legacy of a white woman who is a literal metaphor for the way bigotry is taught (in particular homophobia/transphobia). And thus the brown man is villanised for something he didn’t do and is forced to find support and companionship in another victim of the system, with this story ending with the white woman willing to destroy everything than let the brown gay man and a trans girl change the system/her mind, has absolutely no racial implications or messages surrounding race.

[t00thpasteface]

at the risk of sounding like a raving lunatic, i think one of my favorite trekkie memes/posts is that one where someone comments on a screenshot of tos and asks if sulu is texting, because it PERFECTLY encapsulates star trek's strange little place at the intersection of pop culture and the tech world:

like listen... 55+ years ago a bunch of actors had to use a mix of existing habits and wild imagination to come up with what they felt would be believable movements and muscle-memory for someone using completely unbelievable tech a few hundred years in the future. like tv had less than ten channels and the screen was a foot across, and they had to go "ok how would someone who's used to a tiny wireless gadget with a screen hold it and use it? how would they talk to a computer? how would the computer sound when she talked back?"

and over half a century later our own tech has surpassed the clunky retrofuture gizmos in so many ways, no doubt inspired by it, that now someone two decades into the 21st century sees an actor in the 60s holding some tiny rectangular plastic prop in both hands and immediately recognizes it as "oh, sulu's texting!" now THAT is a called shot. hell, that's putting your money on a roulette wheel in a casino that hasn't been built yet. i LOVE it. it's so star trek. sulu is absolutely texting.

[vsemily]

[trekkele]

A list of theories as to why Martha Wayne’s Pearls scattered Like That, despite the fact that real pearls are knotted individually on the strand to prevent Precisely That Sort Of Thing from happening [incomplete]:

One: Martha chose not to wear her real pearls to the theatre that night, as it was a night where there was no one to impress. The string snapped because the pearls were not real, and Martha died for a $100 set you could pick up at Macy’s.

Two: The Pearls, upon understanding this was a symbolic moment in at least one Wayne’s future [and two Wayne’s end], chose to disregard their quality for the sake of a Dramatic Tableau.

Three: no more then three pearls ever snapped off the strand, but to a boy watching his mother choke on her own blood, gasping his name into the suddenly silent night, three pearls was enough.

Four: an opportunistic officer slipped the pearls off Marthas neck as she was loaded into the morgue van, figuring Bruce would not have the wherewithal to miss them. The pearls were subsequently reported as lost, having probably rolled down the drain in the following chaos. Only three were ever recovered, having become stuck in the puddle of blood that was under Martha Wayne’s head.

Five: the pearls, a set Thomas Wayne picked up as an engagement gift and a promise when Wayne industries was collapsing and his fortune nonexistent, were fake, and Martha adored them far more then any of the expensive jewels he was eventually able to afford. She made a habit of wearing them on family outings. Martha died for the sentimental value of a $100 set you could pick up at Macy’s.

Six: the pearls where not real. Martha was wearing diamonds that night. Bone, when exposed to moonlight and the horrified tears of an eight year old, shines like pearls. 

[a-really-big-cat]

OP how could you

[tenoko1]

Guys, stop being crap to creators. You aren’t hurting Amazon. You’re stealing from writers.

EDIT:

Okay, to all the people blaming Amazon and TikTok, you are wildly missing the point or misdirecting blame.

TikTok is an app. It is not sentient. It is not doing this.

Amazon is also an app, and it is WHERE this is happening.

The problem is the people who are choosing to do this.

In order to “save money”— please read that as “steal”— they are buying a book fully intending to read and then return it so they get something without truly paying for it.

Nevermind, libraries let you borrow books for free, including ebooks.

Nevermind that writers can’t keep food on the table or a roof over their heads (so they can also keep writing, btw) if they aren’t getting paid.

No, no, what matters is YOU. You wanted it, felt entitled to it, made excuses to yourself and others to justify it, and then helped yourself to someone’s hardwork without intending to pay for it. AKA “theft.”

This isn’t some vigilante, anti-corporations BS. You don’t hurt corporations by doing this. You hurt authors. You hurt the author your stealing from. You hurt every author who gives up getting published because of this behavior. You hurt other authors who sees this happening, knowing you don’t give a rat’s ass about them only want to selfishly benefit from their labor. (Slavery is coming to mind, is it doing that for anyone else? Make someone else do all the work while you reap the benefits and do absolutely nothing to earn it?).

You hurt people. You hurt the people you are stealing from. You are choosing to do that.

Stop blaming TikTok and Amazon. It’s PEOPLE who are choosing to do this to other people.

Meanwhile, you could have gone to the library or used their electronic resources. Y’all are some fucked up, selfish assholes. Treat others how you’d want to be treated. If a toddler can understand kindness and caring, so the fuck can you.

[boethiah]

no such thing as wasting your 20s your 20s are for recovering from whatever the fuck happened to you as a kid so that youre ready to get weird with it in your 30s

[artbyblastweave]

I’ve got a lot of thoughts and half-written posts about how Worm and The Boys treat the concept of gritty, corrupt institutionalized superheroes, but I think the easiest way to articulate the difference is this:

Worm argues that if you’ve reached a point where superheroes are genuinely societally necessary to keep things functional, your society is already utterly fucked; the corruption, violence, ulterior motives and neuroses of your superheroes are a downstream thing you have to uncomfortably work around and paper over because you really do need as many superheroes around as possible to deal with the Kaiju and the unstoppable serial killers and the nanotech gray goo swarms. But every injustice perpetuated in the name of keeping the superhero system functioning- the treatment of Taylor’s bullying, Assault’s placement with Battery, Canary and the Birdcage, the Cauldron Coverup, Kill Orders, Simurgh quarantines, the C53 experiments- they’re all portrayed as bad things done by people who thought the alternative was worse.

Worm says, needing superheroes would be terrible.

In The Boys, superheroes are fundamentally superfluous to society (as a dig at law enforcement, the MI complex and Celebrities.) Unlike the comic, the supes are pretty combat capable, but there’s no problem on earth you specifically need to get a superhero to deal with, there are a lot of problems made worse by involving a superhero, the only people getting anything out of the existence of superheroes are the heroes themselves and the merchandisers. It’s purely parasitic. And yet more superheroes keep being made, because people like the idea they’ve been sold about superheroes (which is highlighted in season 3 in the meeting about Blue Hawk, where Deep says they should be going for more superheroes and not tighter regulation of existing superheroes like A-Train wants.) 

The Boys says: Having or wanting superheroes would be terrible.

[mysharona1987]

[infectedwithnyanites]

Americans are kept deliberately in the dark about how uniquely terrible their private for-profit healthcare system is compared to international socialized alternatives if they were made more aware that things didn’t have to be like this that their sense of exceptionalism was misplaced and they were suffering for it there would be a lot less tolerance of the status quo.

[cryptid-sighting]

I hate the future man this shit sucks so much

[christianstepmoms]

they really are out here wasting gold, copper, pcb, and all sorts of tech resources just to overcomplicate and Reinvent the Window