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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Show & Tell
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I'm so excited for widows bay s2 bc I am deeply compelled by Shirley Jackson's lottery becoming a thing with municipal paperwork and a budget
We can't fix the pavilion in the park bc we have to update our human sacrifice practices for the 21st century and that costs money baby
A little detail I loved in "Beach Reads": When Patricia first finds the Your Turn book, a fly circles it — the way flies circle something rotten or smelly. Odd, because the book looks brand new, pristine, untouched. Then the twist hits. It is rotten. What Patricia saw as a clean, modern copy is actually an ancient spell book in disguise— and it's been that way from the start. The dark magic was already working on her before she even knew what she was holding.
“One of the writers had this idea of a self-help book that goes wrong, and it started a conversation about, ‘What are Patricia’s fears?' One thing I always think about with Patricia is the thing that is scarier to her than the idea of dying is the idea of dying and no one caring about it. That brought in the one thing we always try to do when we’re using these horror tropes, which is tell a story about a character who is feeling very real, human emotions.” — creator Katie Dippold for The Wrap.
WIDOW’S BAY S01E10 - We Hope You Enjoyed Your Time!
"Emergency Shelter" | Widow's Bay 1x09
[image description: Widow's Bay gifset showing Rosemary crossing out names on a family tree, saying, "Dead baby. Dead baby. Lesbian (stylized LeZz-Bi-An)." She does this a second time before Patricia says, "Can you please stop saying lesbian?" Rosemary glances over her shoulder at the overhead projector and says, "I can't say that now?" Patricia replies, "It's the way you're saying it." Tom and Wyck look back at Patricia. End ID]
TWENTY FOUR POINTS FOR 24 IN HER RETURN
I never saw this til today. Omg.
"you shouldn't be happy when a politician dies"
yeah sure I'd rather be happy that this politician has been voted out or retired but they have made it so that neither of these ever happen anymore so we have to settle for the only way to get rid of these bitches
Stay tuned for my new hit song "Making Tiktoks Is Not Praxis"
From The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions, Larry Mitchell, 1977. Artwork by Ned Asta.
Today is the last day of the 8 month project of switching of medications! Thank the lorrrd
because of this tag somebody left on my post:
So I saw some people remarking that they didn't understand why "liberals" are focusing on the disaster of the Reflecting Pool paint job, and ok so when you see stuff like that, I need you to remember we are dealing with a wannabe strongman. Anything that makes him look ineffectual, wasteful, and incredibly stupid-- you get that between your teeth and you don't let go. Especially *especially* when it involves laughing at him.
Also... it is funny. Except for the poor ducks, it's funny. Man lost a war to algae. His "American Flag Blue" is green and slimy and the paint is peeling off, and all before his big 4th of July show that no musicians want to play. It's funny. Point and laugh. That is fighting fascism, actually.
Like, this is the same guy who is trying to hide that a judge made him take his name off the Kennedy Centre by hiding the building with a great big tarp to obscure where his name used to be.
Any public slight, no matter now petty, no matter now little it matters to everyone else, gets under his skin like those screwworms he accidentally let Musk reintroduce to Texas (causing the government to call a state of emergency as it's trashing their beef industry).
Mocking the Reflecting Pool is Springtime for Hitler.
Many neonazis and their ilk are okay with their icons being portrayed negatively as long as that negativity takes the form of a powerful and threatening figure. They like identifying themselves with Big Scary Destroyer. It's a power fantasy for them.
That's why, for instance, Trump's incoherence when speaking doesn't bother them. His incoherence is taken, by and large, very seriously. The man opens his mouth and drops a bunch of verbal turds - and the world panics, or at the least gets very, very nervous. Not unjustifiedly, it's true, but the power fantasy of being able to say whatever they want and get taken seriously is still vicariously fulfilled.
But the Reflecting Pool? The Reflecting Pool wasn't supposed to be broken. It's not something Trump destroyed for the sheer pleasure of destruction, which is how Trump's base experienced his gutting of the government via Musk. The Reflecting Pool is something that was supposed to be improved, which he boasted about improving, and instead it's clearly turned to muck. There's no power fantasy there. There's nothing to gloat over; it's just a damp gross failure. It isn't even a catastrophic failure! Tearing down the East Wing of the White House was dramatic, and had the value of making a big, indelible change to a national icon. No matter what happens, the East Wing as we knew it is gone. Power fantasy. By contrast, the Reflecting Pool? It's just fuckin dirty. It's gross. It's your neighbor's neglected cheap pool that's full of dead leaves and slime. An entirely pedestrian, grody, pathetic failure. It would literally be more salvageable as a PR thing for Trump if it got hit by a meteor and turned into a smoking crater.
And that's why we're riding that fucker so hard. This is what's under the power fantasy. Deep down, he's just pathetic. And that's what Mel Brooks understood with Springtime for Hitler. You don't fight the Nazis by making them big bad scary evil guys. You fight the Nazis (when actual weapons aren't a present option) by making them a laughingstock. There is no way to derive a power fantasy from being the object of derision.
I just learned, after rewatching spotlight for the millionth time, that Ben Bradlee jr who was deputy managing editor of the Boston globe when the Catholic abuse scandal broke is the son of the guy who was managing editor of the Washington Post when Watergate broke
Truly the restraint they had in not making half this movie about that
Ayo Edebiri at Venice Film Festival 2025
I'm enjoying pulley's the kingdoms but I can't help but feel like I would really like it two drafts later
Bro absolutely COOKED with this.
If you ever hear the phrase "fascism is aesthetics as politics," that's what this post is talking about.
It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.
It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.
This is why a lot of conservatives and other right wingers can get straight up angry when you suggest things like reform or social measures to reduce crime. They don't want crime to be reduced, they want an eternal war against "crime" because it provides an arena for the righteous to demonstrate virtue by brutalizing their enemies.
