y'er swimmin with the sharks now, lad

32 -- The world's most handsome Marxist-Leninist -- He/They -- Peacefully Trying to Save Democracy -- Hard-Zero Atheist -- Trans Rights -- Nuclear Power is Good, Actually

[orthoscheme]

You're *starts activating my brick shield* You're not gonna like my answer I dont think

[sailatina3]

[adastrabbit]

fucking the everything bagel for everything

[eategg24]

everything? including war?

[adastrabbit]

fucking the war bagel for war

[meshugenist]

the funny thing is that from an political and artistic point of view the james cameron avatar franchise is actually significantly better than the nickelodeon avatar franchise

from a political perspective, both feature unresearched orientalist facsimile mashups of existing nonwhite cultures, but only the blue people movies take the explicit stance that engaging in anticolonial warfare and ecoterrorism against an invading settler colonial force and its imperialist extractivism is epic and righteous and justified, whereas the cartoon spends most of the first show being wishy washy and clutching pearls about revolutionary violence and then spends most of the next show caricaturing various left-wing ideologies and continuing to wag the finger at revolutionary violence

from an artistic perspective, the production of the blue people movies pioneered and developed genuinely revolutionary cgi/vfx techniques and underwater film techniques, the former in particular influencing the filmmaking industry to a massive degree, whereas the cartoons, uh, idk, showed western millennials that magic kung fu is cool? i genuinely can't think of anything legitimately artistically impressive abt the cartoon, the fight choreography isn't even very good compared to many examples of the wuxia and battle anime it's so heavily inspired by

lastly, from a reception perspective, while both media are very popular, it's rather difficult to find [ostensibly or actually] left-wing fans who are uncritical of the avatar movies. the dominant opinion seems to be that the films are a racist trainwreck in terms of their portrayals of native ppl, which is a much better basis for actually talking abt the content than the cartoon's inescapable reputation as some kind of diverse masterpiece. from this perspective, the ubiquitous crowing about how atla's impact and cultural presence (maybe for you!) eclipse's avatar's becomes hilariously ironic. i regret to inform you that your thing also sucks balls

this post is dedicated to the brave tulkun fighters of the eastern sea

[covid-safer-hotties]

How Mask Banning Harms High Risk Populations – Women's eNews

Now that COVID-19 protections have been removed, social barriers for disabled and high-risk people have grown.

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[organical-mechanical]

if you're a pixel artist and never tried working with a reasonably accurate CRT filter I HIGHLY recommend it

[organical-mechanical]

i'm definitely reaching for colors and techniques that i otherwise wouldn't use

it feels a lot more sculptural

[organical-mechanical]

oh, and you can pull bullshit like this:

[fieriframes]

[Well, you could read about it, a friend could tell you about it, you could watch some crazy show about a dude]

[apjvff]

If you don’t let go of your prejudices and past grudges, your heart won’t blossom. 2013 is coming, let’s make a change. We only have one planet so let’s show each other some kindness.

[crowboy-bebop]

2013 is coming… let’s show each other some kindness…

[angelwithabrowser]

Palm Springs, 2009

[kushblazer666]

[zapatism]

lol ur watching the world cup finals sorry im too busy HAVING SEX

(texting my dick guy) we gotta have sex rn i just blogged

(dick guy) im watching the world cup

[cyberpunkpavlichenko]

America’s global military (not so much nowadays lol), political, economic, cultural dominance means our worst ideas get transferred to other nations. Like what the fuck do you mean French fascists are complaining about “le wokisme”? Le wokisme??! You people have yearly riots against Jews and Muslims shut the fuck up

[sunderwight]

The problem with studying the deep ocean is that humans need light to look at things, the depths of the ocean are extremely dark, and what lives there is accustomed to spending most of its time in that darkness. So when we go down there with submersibles and turn on Big Lights to see, we invariably and dramatically alter what's going on, in the same way that it's generally difficult to observe the natural behaviors of terrestrial animals if you whip out a megaphone and shout HEY GUYS WHAT ARE YOU DOING at them first.

[adizzyninja]

A humble snubnose eelpout on its way to the whale fall buffet when some nearby humans give it a quick, unintrusive study:

[julianova44]

I put this in the comments but feel it needs a reblog- Check out some of Dr Edith Widder’s work on light in the deep sea! Among other things, she used the bioluminescence of stoplight fish to deduce wavelengths which most deep sea animals can’t perceive and used that to create light filters to be able to film with minimal disturbance! And that’s how we got 25 minutes of giant squid footage!!!!

[thesensitivepervert]

I just purchssed the rights to the deltarune musical for 850,000$

[antlord325]

Thank you sensitive pervert. This will save Tenna’s odds of winning the sexyman poll

[thesensitivepervert]

Dont know who/what that is, this was purely a business decision to extract money from children

[hungwy]

He was tortured and beaten by the ogre

[hungwy]

He was beaten and punished by the ogre

[hungwy]

He was punished and pummelled by the ogre

[hungwy]

He was pummelled and tormented by the ogre

[hungwy]

He was tormented and injured by the ogre

[hungwy]

He was injured and hurt by the ogre

[hungwy]

He was hurt and broken by the ogre

[hungwy]

He was broken and damaged by the ogre

[hungwy]

He was damaged and harmed by the ogre

[fox-sama97]

He was loved and cuddled by the ogre as part of their BDSM aftercare

[hungwy]

Didn't happen. He was harmed and attacked by the ogre

[ishimarukiyotaka]

hot take comments like "I hope I get cyclosporiasis I want to lose 10 lbs" are not only obvious fatphobia but also part of mass illness normalization that has been an ongoing effort since 2020 to minimize the dangers of disease and infections

They want to act like high levels of sickness whether it be airborne or foodborne are normal and not the responsibility of agencies like public health or food safety regulation so they can get away with dismantling them.

[dogpuppy]