Imagine if we did the “public libraries are punk” thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said “Soup kitchens are grunge” or “Mixed Use Urbanism is Juggalo”.
me watching monsters inc as a kid: how did it take so long for anyone to figure out that human child laughter not only produced energy like screams, but was more effective, and that children aren’t actually dangerous at all?
me watching monsters inc now: monsters incorporated, a multi-billion dollar corporate giant, stood to make extra profits off a scream shortage because low supply with high demand makes it possible to charge a fortune for a necessary commodity and everyone has no choice but to pay the high prices because they can’t go without electricity. Therefore Monsters Inc, as well as any other major powers that may have existed at the start of the era of using scream energy, fabricated the idea that only screams could generate sustainable energy sources in order to create artificial scarcity, because laugh energy was far easier to obtain and far more efficient, and therefore stood to lower the value of energy due to surplus. They also fabricated the idea that human children were toxic, in order to a) make other monsters too afraid to go near them to do research and possibly discover the secret of laugh energy, and b) to make monsters so afraid of going near them that there is a shortage of scarers, making it harder for rival companies to rise up and create competition. Even in the monster world, capitalism is based on lies, greed and cruelty, and even monster companies have no qualms about using and abusing children to maximize profits.
I feel like this theory ignores the differences between Monsters, Inc and (real world) fossil fuel industry.
Switching from from Scream to Laughter is a lot easier than switching from being a coal or oil plant to, e.g. Solar. It’s the same technology (closet doors) and the same distribution and collection system. The only change is the front line workers, and given that laughter is so much more powerful, even a bad comedian could keep their job.
Waternoose isn’t running the De Beers company, happily creating/exploiting a fake shortage to get richer. The City is suffering from regular brownouts and he’s about to lose the Company, that’s why he needed to start kidnapping and soul-sucking random kids. If he knew about Laughter, he could’ve switched over for the cost of a few nights of comedy training for the scarers.
“Corrupt Executives will do horrible things to stay in business” is true; “Corrupt executives will ignore obvious, cheap, and legal solutions to problems even as they’re about to lose their riches” is not.
The funny thing is, the movie does have things to say about Capitalism and Business, it’s just not what OP insists it is.
Monsters, Incorporated, in the movie, is the lie of the Old Company, and Sully is the Company Man. If you show up, and do your work, the Company will take care of you and your community. Sully is proud to be a Scarer, not because it proves he’s cool or because he’s the best, but because hes proud to be part of this Great Work that supports the city. Monsters, Inc makes electricity and he gets to be part of that.
Mr Waternoose isn’t his Boss, some old coot in charge who doesn’t get the little guy: he’s a former scarer himself, a mentor to Sully. He might own and run the factory because it’s been in his family for generations, but he gets it! He presents himself as wanting good scarers not just because it makes him money but because the Company Needs It. He doesn’t want to lose the company not just because he wants to be rich but because he’s presenting himself as part of a system the city needs.
It’s a very out of the 50s idea, the company you work for your whole life and in exchange it takes care of you. It’s a very liberal sort of idea, honestly, this marriage of Labor and Capital.
And the film’s criticism is that The Company was a lie, it was not this happy family here to care for you, it was willing to do atrocities to keep from collapsing and it was willing to kill anyone—even the Golden Boy Sully—that might threaten that. You cannot, actually, trust Waternoose, however he presents himself—he is not your Dad, he is your Boss.
It’s a kids movie, of course, and not a strong polemic against the system—so it does end with the same system in place, Screams changed to Laughter and the Evil CEO replaced with a Good Boss.
i've been using computers since 2009 i know how computers work you people need to stop assuming people know nothing about computers. yes i know you can change icons. i just made this post because i wanted to make a silly post about my puter. so many of you people would be the least fun person at parties because of how you go "omgf youre so stupid wait until you learn about (thing)" like politely. shut the fuck up and start being nicer to strangers on the internet
have some fucking joy and whimsy and instead say "its so awesome people are learning about this"
i know most people have seen it but i cant emphasize how much this is literally my favorite breath of the wild clip of all time. also i can never fucking find this clip when i need it especially in high definition so here it is
The polycule kids aren't all going to be canon to my au [bc tbh I don't see the gang wanting 5 kids . Maybe one or two but 5 is a bit too much. Noelle might be rich but none of them got the time for that many damn kids][Also I don't think lightners and darkners can even have children. However these are fankids and I've never cared about logistics before] However I want to talk about them. Pretend each exists within a vacuum or some exist in the same au or any combination . A little about each of them under the cut
Lumi
Just narrowly avoided being named Risk [you know. R alsei-K ris]
Very bubbly and chatty and has an air of elegance about them
Loves causing lighthearted trouble
Top tier rage baiter
Heavily musically inclined, wants to learn how to play any instrument they can get their hands on
horns are even redder in the lightworld
despite their coloring their soul color is actually green. They are very kind
Twila
Loves to test her own limits magically
Often backfires. badly. No she will not stop
Generally very disorganized and messy but she likes to keep a nice appearance
Easily overwhelmed
Very blunt
Absolute sweetheart though, she's not like. Fully sure how to make friends. If she keeps acting weird in the right way it might attract someone type vibes
Cole
Name is like. Coal. You know what you get in your stocking when you're bad. Still christmas themed
'I want to be rebellious and get in trouble so bad but my moms are too supportive of me and my attempts at rebellion' as a character tbh
His attempts at being edgy at school don't work either because he also commits too hard to the christmas bit the holidays have going on. He's never gonna live up to Dess in being the edgy holiday
Speaking of he definitely looks up to her a lot
Oh yeah he's also a massive flirt and has a new partner every other week. Is he that attractive or is he just bad at keeping a relationship going. How the hell did his parents fall in love in highschool and stay that way years later. What is he missing
Star
I like the headcanon that Susie's half human so a full human + half human = basically just a human with sharper teeth and slit pupils .
Yes they are heavily disappointed by their lack of monster traits. Couldn't even get scales what's even the point
Gremlin through and through. Unapologetically weird. Loves to cause problems on purpose
Huge creative, particularly an artist. I imagine they do taxidermy art in particular. Pretty good at pointing too, just loves to get their hands dirty with a project
Soul is orange, they're fearless in a way that is kinda detrimental. Maybe they SHOULD fear some things actually.
Eve
Birth name was Kringle. Because Kris Kringle. Obviously she changed this as quickly as possible
Pretty stoic, doesn't really talk much either.
Wants to be a scientist, not quite sure what kind yet but they're very into learning about how things work. The world is very fascinating... She must know everything about it
Ngl she inherited like. Too many of her parents issues™ for them to be comfortable about it. It's a little unnerving
Loves animals, probably the only thing that can get her to warm up is by shoving a little creature in her face
"Mario Mario" is an anachronism. He and his brother were only ever referred to by mononyms in their lifetime, like most residents of the Mushroom Kingdom at the time - multi-part names were typically reserved for members of the Toadstool dynasty, and even these were more like titles or Roman cognomina than what we would call a surname today. His putative ennoblement as founder of the "House of Mario" came centuries later as the collapsing feudal order sought additional sources of legitimacy
#mushroom kingdom folklore says that he sleeps beneath a warp pipe to arise in the time of the kingdom's greatest need #he's definitely shown up a few times but it's hard to tell if he has risen from the dead or is just in the middle of some time travel shit #historians hate him.
people have lots of pet peeves with guys being/being called grunglers. i dont care abt any of that. my annoyance is that in the original tweet the guy himself was not the grungler, the messed up dark souls character he made while on call with strange transsexuals was the grungler. ur all misusing the term
Describes obvious transphobia and then says "this is exclusive only to transmascs!" About being misgendered. Transmisogyny is not just girl-transphobia. Y'all just showing your asses posting shit like this.
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