Things I’d Like To Re-read

Here I post things that I find insightful, funny, or otherwise interesting. Stuff I’d like to return to and read again.

[godlessondheimite]

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

[nobodys-odyssey]

Taylor Swift does this

[godlessondheimite]

no she doesn’t

[nobodys-odyssey]

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

[dancinbutterfly]

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

[socialpants]

Marjane Satrapi Dies: Iranian French 'Persepolis' Director Was 56

Marjane Satrapi Dies: Iranian French 'Persepolis' & 'Radioactive' Director Was 56

This a tragedy

RIP Marjane Satrapi Gone WAY too soon.

[dumbpuppyfag]

listen up folks he may be a paleolithic racist who failed upwards until he was in a position to give tens of billions of dollars to enable a genocide but you're mean and that's worse. remember the human.

[dumbpuppyfag]

wait no not those ones

[dumbpuppyfag]

remember when he led opposition against active school desegregation? remember when he was best friends with the most notorious segregationist in washington? remember when he gave the eulogy at that guy's funeral? remember in 1991 when bush sr conditioned loans to israel on a halt to illegal west bank settlements and he co-sponsored an amendment to forcibly override it? remember when he drafted the 1994 crime bill that fueled the ongoing mass incarceration of primarily black men? remember when he bragged about it? remember when he led democrat support for the invasion of iraq? remember when he led an all-white congressional panel in dragging a black woman's name through the mud on live tv for the crime of being sexually harassed?

the nauseating reinvention of this lifelong monster as a civil rights hero is solely due to his proximity to the first black president, which he only had because they needed someone on the ticket to reassure racist liberals that the white house would stay white. he spent 50 years making the world a worse place. he bears personal responsibility for the imprisonment and death of millions of people in the us and in the global south. his presidency was delivered by a bourgeois class that was terrified of any challenge to neoliberal orthodoxy. his entirely self-interested decision to pursue re-election delivered the everyday horrors you're seeing now. this doesn't even touch on the genocide you've been watching play out for over a year. he is a vain, miserable, racist, warmongering, murderous sack of shit and you do not owe him any sympathy whatsoever. save it for his victims.

[simplyjustfucked]

[counterpick-me-irl]

SEIS fag sex? En esta economia?

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[mysharona1987]

[mysharona1987]

But Smotrich literally bragged *several times* about starving Palestinian children on tv.

"All they will get is a piece of bread of a day. Just enough to appease our allies."

This is on YouTube.

[mysharona1987]

Shockingly, Mamdani, doesn’t want to take a photograph with the “we must treat every sad and struggling refugee child like Oliver Twist” guy.

[dosomethingplease83]

CYCLE OF HATE

Pictured: a man riding an unremarkable bicycle. He turns to the camera and makes a friendly smile.

Damn, where’s that post telling you how to make the fiery text when you need it? Anyway, let’s try some more:

(Note: none of these are based on actual headlines or actual things Mamdani is doing/has done. I just think it’s funny how his opponents keep trying to smear him, but end up making arguments in his favor AND for some reason often choose very flattering photos of him.)

DOG DAYS ARE OVER

{article takes the fact that dogs aren’t allowed as indoor pets in some schools of Islam, and asserts that this means that pet dogs will become forbidden in NYC}

Pictured: a man is holding two kittens. He stands beside volunteers at an animal shelter, also holding kittens, offering reduced-price spay/neuters for feral or “community” cats and kittens with no actual owner.

NOT THE BRIGHTEST BULB

{article is about the evils of light pollution regulations}

Pictured: a husband and wife look up at the stars. They are holding hands. The man smiles and points upwards at some celestial body.

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

{article is about how pork is haram, so New Yorkers will soon be forbidden to eat pork}

Pictured: an attractive couple dines at a fancy restaurant. They are eating oysters. They smile lovingly at each other.

HEAD IN THE SAND

Pictured: a man enjoys his day at the beach.

[dosomethingplease83]

I just saw Is God Is, and I have to go to sleep now, but let me just say something to my fellow white people:

When I watched Sinners, I had difficulty understanding what people were saying. I understood the broad strokes of what was being said based on context, body language, and tone, but I was only catching about one out of every five words.

I did not have this problem at all with Is God Is.

So if you usually wait for works by Black directors with an all- or mostly-Black cast to come out on streaming services so you can watch them with subtitles, maybe take a chance on this one if it’s still in theaters near you. It’s really good, but it’s not doing so well in the box office.

[skenyatta]

I love how this movie depicted how protecting abusers ultimately harms men as well as women because The Monster mistreated all the black men and boys in his life. He abandoned one son and is emotionally neglecting his twin sons. He rewards his attorney’s hard work in getting him an acquittal by cutting out his tongue under the guise of keeping him silent, even though attorney-client privilege is a thing as is the concept of double jeopardy. This is a man whose presence negatively impacted the black people in his life and that needed to be killed.

[blackfilmmakers]

Gonna say something that might be controversial in regards to God herself

(Spoilers below the cut)

I hope she feels incredibly lonely in her dying moments 🤷🏾‍♀️

Yes that man just needed to die however way possible. But I'm not sending my babies out to murder someone as my dying wish after abandoning them all these years. I wish there was a diary of some sort she kept hidden, and the twins discover it, and make their own choice to go on this adventure. But nah, she had to emotionally manipulate them to become killers.

Now one of them was definitely all for it, but the other is clearly not up to it and feels she has a hard time standing up for herself, even with her twin

Clearly we can't beat her or kill her. She's already dying and living a miserable life. But I am not giving her the satisfaction of seeing her grandchild or visiting. Not when my other twin had to die

That's like one of my main issues I have with the movie. That chapter of their relationship with their mother felt unresolved. Which is odd considering they were doing so many parallels of how they treat her as this godly figure for bringing them into this world, vs the abusive father and how other characters treat him literally the same way. Especially that half-brother that, while they mocked is a cult follower, was spewing the same shit one of these girls be having. "You think you can kill my creator!" Like clearly there's a connection made here that I think ended up getting dropped a bit

Idk I might have to rewatch it again. Cuz I'm still confused whether she did pull them into the fire or not. I feel bad for her being a domestic abuse and burn survivor. I share her sentiment that that man needed to die a horrible death. Just, I didn't care for how she treated her traumatized babies and showed favoritism towards the one

I just need more established "No Contact" ending for parents that are awful like that, along with killing parents like the dad cuz he just need to die

[skeletonpoett]

Spoilers below

This is actually what I liked a lot about the movie- how it shows the ways victims hurt other victims.

I think narratively it's supposed to be true that she pulled them in to the fire with her. It's when you're in an awful situation and theres the one who's trying to protect you, trying her hardest to fight and keep you from getting harmed. But the way the abuse left her burning rubbed off on you. Maybe she could have helped it, or maybe she should have, but couldn't.

If only she wasn't burning to the point where she acted based off of pure instinct, and that instinct wasn't the kind that helped anyone. Instead of knowing to stay away it was desperate, reaching for the only people she had close to her, and they were the people who needed her to be strong for them. But what else could she do? She was on fire and no one else was there.

The father reveals this fact (at least I'm taking it as a fact) and tries to spin it as if there's a "whole new side to the story" as if he's at just as much fault as their mother. Obviously, this isn't true, and it's not a twist in the story showing us who the 'real' villian was the whole time. It's just confirming what Ania had been pointing out since the beginning.

Their mother isn't God. She's a woman who was burned and couldn't face her daughters until she was dying. She spelled her own child's name wrong and insults her indirectly through her own pain. And then she sends hoth of them on a mission of more fire, because she's still burning, of course she is, who wouldn't be? But in the end, she's just Ruby, and she's once again getting her daughter's burned.

Ania was always the one to start rubbing the ice over Racine's scars. She was the one who "always got so emotional" because she cried, but out of the three of them, she was acting the least out of emotion.

She was the one Ruby couldn't look at or remember properly because that was the daughter hurt the worst, the one that looked the most like the parts of Ruby that Ruby doesn't like. She sees the part of herself who reaches and hurts and she doesn't know how to heal it. So she stays far away and only looks at the part of herself that runs and fights, like she wishes she'd been able to do so long ago.

[pjeckleburg]

more spoilers below!

in the original stageplay version of is god is, it ends with a conversation between anaia and god where anaia brings back evidence of her and racine killing their father and the people around him. god says she didn't expect anaia to be the one to make it back, and anaia points out that she's acting like she doesn't care that racine died. and then anaia kills god. that was the version i saw a few years ago and it was striking to see anaia standing alone onstage now with every other character in the cast having been killed off.

then aleshea harris changed that ending to anaia considering killing god, but choosing to break the cycle of violence and walk away. i'm not sure why that wasn't included in the movie (i'm a little bummed it wasn't) but i did get the sense anaia chose not to go back to god and break the cycle by being a better mother to her own child (who she named enica in the play because it was almost racine backwards)

(sorry i have no idea how coherent this is, i just love the stageplay version of is god is and i love sharing it with people!)

[blackfilmmakers]

Spoilers

Ok so if that was the original ending I'm sorry but I'm gonna need a director's cut of the ending where she kills god 😆

"Ending the cycle of abuse" my ass

We're not here for "cant take revenge lest you be just as bad" plots in 2026

[pjeckleburg]

spoilers

dkjhfgfjhgjdsklk yeah it's the true ending to me <3 let! anaia! kill! god!

[racistspiderman]

More women

[sevey6]

Thank god they decided to make more

[somesaypoetry]

Wow

Dolly Parton has really been hard at work

[cumbacon]

But In doing so…she created her biggest enemy…Jolene

[ichikun]

[rowanisawriter]

write insane shit that’s way beyond your perceived ability and skill level even if you don’t finish it even if you think it sucks

[quasi-normalcy]

[northern-punk-lad]

Should we ban the unemployed from voting no

Should rich people that suggest stuff like this face firing squad absolutely

[anarchistmemedistro]

[creekfiend]

the thing is that I think lots of the time we talk about childhood trauma cycles wrong, because people will frame it as like, "this happened to this person, which is why they act like this" and really it's like, "all children learn social behavior via what is modeled for them by the adults around them and their peers; if what the adults in your life model for you repeatedly, over a long period of time, is that they get their needs met by dehumanizing others, then you will learn that the way needs get met is via dehumanization"

it isn't about how certain things being done to you somehow write Abuse Into Your Psyche, it's about learned behavior. it's about not being shown alternative models. (INTO MY LOUDSPEAKER) IT'S ALL ABOUT NOT BEING SHOWN ALTERNATIVE MODELS

[moniquill]

[constellation-prizes]

from HuffPost article The Sugarcoated Language Of White Fragility by Anna Kegler, directly translating Dr. Robin DiAngelo’s article White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism into a table format

[wutheringheightsfilm]

every day it just concerns me how little compassion people have. no compassion for those living in the global south. no compassion for immigrants. no compassion for disabled ppl. no compassion for addicts. no compassion for prisoners. no compassion for children. like holy shit ...

[wutheringheightsfilm]

i made a separate post about this but actually there are plenty of people cough white people who care about animals more than they ever do human people . not what i'm talking about make your own post