Gargus go away.

This is now a personal blog. Don't expect much.

[sentient-noodle]

ofcourse isff is back on her "but think of the poor rapist" bullshit.

[longzone222]

Visit Original Link

[worldheritageposts-official]

World Heritage Post

[thetetra]

I managed to listen to exactly 3 seconds of this before I laughed so hard I couldn’t breathe.

[unregistered-hypercam2-deactiva]

the evolution here is also a solid contender for meme of the year 2019

[staticbluue]

“People should pass a test before being allowed to have kids.” “Isn’t it scary how white people have this inborn capacity for evil?” “I’ll never pass because males and females have different skull shapes.” “Autistic people have a stronger sense of justice than anyone else.” “I don’t want AMABs in my space because they’re dangerous.” “You shouldn’t have access to hormones if you dress like THAT.” “Anyone who does something that awful isn’t human.” “Some people really shouldn’t be allowed to vote.”

This is eugenics. This is phrenology. THIS IS NAZI SHIT, YOU ARE A LEFTIST BUYING INTO NAZI SHIT. YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO NAZI SHIT.

[derrickwildsun-deactivated20250]

That video of Alex Hirsch reading S&P notes for Gravity Falls conveys a few things to me:

1) the U.S. entertainment industry (especially animation) is run by older conservative types who make up offensive terms and get really mad about them.

2) the people who run Disney would be the first to fall in line with a fascist regime.

3) most of the media we consume is tailor-made and watered-down to appeal to the tastes of older, deeply religious conservative audiences.

4) conservatism, not the left, is and always has been the biggest voice of censorship in American culture.

[sci-fantasy]

J. Michael Straczynski, creator of Babylon 5, was before that a producer and writer for a number of cartoons in the late ‘80s/early ‘90s (The Real Ghostbusters and the original She-Ra, most notably). After a few years of dealing with the censors and their obsession with finding Satanism (or at least looking for Satanism to further political agendas) he wrote an article about the whole corrupt and bullshit system.

And published it in Penthouse, to force those same censors to buy a skin mag. The editor there asked, why Penthouse?

That one is from his autobiography, Becoming Superman. See also:

(As he goes on to say, he’s never worked in animation again–he’s effectively been blacklisted by the cartoon industry.)

[transhuman-priestess]

Every time something like this comes up, I remember two stories about making media. The first is about movies, and comes from Quentin “Feet Man” Tarantino.

When he was making Pulp Fiction, he was worried that the MPAA would object to the high level of violence in the film, so he shot a bunch of extra-gory stuff that he didn’t actually want in the film, and added it in before submitting it to the MPAA. Predictibly, they asked him to cut most of it (without even commenting on some of the things that had him worried, like the bits of Marvin’s skull that lodge in Samuel L. Jackson’s hairpiece). The resultant cuts were actually more permissive than he’d expected, so he cut a little more and submitted it, and it got passed with an R.

The second story is about that artist on Morrowind whose name escapes me (I’m not a big ES fan tbh) who figured out that if he made two creature designs, one weird and what he wanted, and one even weirder, he could get Todd Howard to agree to just about anything by showing him the whopper first, then going back and “working” for another few hours on a second, “toned-down” version, and it worked every time.

The reason I bring these up is that the thing that drives censors isn’t some extant physical rubrick of what is and isn’t acceptable, it’s the idea that they can have absolute power over someone else’s creative work. It’s about the social dominance of the interaction.

There is nothing so innocent, so clean, that a censor will not find some fault with it. Because they must find something wrong with it to justify their existence, and because it makes them feel powerful.

This is true of all censorship.

[beastwhimsy]

it's my dad's birthday tomorrow. he loves bikes. so I drew a bugcycle

[frailgun]

more women should have the body of a snake imo

[frailgun]

more women should have 4 arms

[pineyw00dsshesquatch]

Best I can do is 6 arms and centipede

[frailgun]

"best I can do is going above and beyond the call of duty"

[gloomytwinkles]

[thepoparena]

We dip back into the world of Hanna-Barbera and Yogi Bear, with Yogi's Birthday Party! How old is Yogi? Too young to be having a birthday party, that's for sure.

[distant-screaming]

there really is nothing better than getting asked an innocuous question and being like

[copperbadge]

I once inadvisably shared an interesting article about a romance novel lawsuit with a co-worker. About an hour later she appeared at my cubicle and said, "You can explain to me what they mean when they say 'omegaverse', right?" and I was forced to respond, "I can, but not during office hours, I'm not getting fired for being sexually inappropriate in the workplace."

I will say, when I started to explain it, her eyes got really wide and she said, "So that's at least six genders, right?" with the kind of mental acuity I'd never even thought to bring to bear on the subject.

[dogjpeg]

[cockslaved]

Stinky

[dogjpeg]

[tpwrtrmnky]

Analyzing the politics of a work that's meant to be apolitical is actually a really interesting exercise because it asks you to critically examine what the creator considers to be "political" in the first place. Which ideas are just How Things Are, and which ones are Political, and how is that influenced by the creator's beliefs?

[takashi0]

Usually this just ends up with you looking like a moron btw

[tpwrtrmnky]

Angrily lashing out at the suggestion that it's possible to do basic media analysis was foundational to the ragebait ecosystem of the 2010s, from which we got basically the entire culture of modern far right politics, btw.

[iteh3xael]

I genuinely believe myself and others are being so sincere and literal when we say TOUCH GRASS

[tpwrtrmnky]

I went outside and got an education, that's where I learned that you can obtain knowledge and insight through analytical methods, then noticed that some people who sit on the internet yelling at strangers get really mad about that constantly.

[pensivegladiola]

Don’t make me point to the Omar Sakar poem

[manuciruja]

[marsdemo]

[sailorbrazil]

Its disease friday

[novareviews]

So in my life, I wanted to listen to as much concept album/rock operas as I can and in the pursuit of that, I’ve compiled this list using TV tropes, Wikipedia, Album of the Year, and sometimes what I personally consider a concept album/rock opera, these will be reviewed at some point but for now here is that list

1966

5/16: The Beach Boys-Pet Sounds

1967

5/26: The Beatles- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

12/15: The Who-The Who Sell Out

1968

11/22: The Kinks-The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

12/20: The Pretty Things-S.F. Sorrow

1969

5/17: The Who-Tommy

9/26: The Beatles-Abbey Road

10/10: The Kinks-Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

1970

11/27: The Kinks-Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One

1972

6/16: David Bowie-The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

1973

3/1: Pink Floyd-The Dark Side of the Moon

10/19: The Who-Quadrophenia

11/16: The Kinks-Preservation Act 1

1974

3/8: Queen-Queen II

5/8: The Kinks-Preservation Act 2

5/24: David Bowie-Diamond Dogs

9/28: Electric Light Orchestra-Eldorado

11/18: Genesis-The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

1975

3/11: Alice Cooper-Welcome to My Nightmare

9/12: Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here

1976

4/23: Gentle Giant-Interview

6/25: Alice Cooper-Alice Cooper Goes to Hell

1977

1/21: Pink Floyd-Animals

7/7: Styx-The Grand Illusion

7/8: The Alan Parsons Project-I Robot

1979

11/30: Pink Floyd-The Wall

1981

1/16: Styx-Paradise Theatre

7/31: Electric Light Orchestra-Time

1983

2/22: Styx-Kilroy Was Here

3/21: Pink Floyd-The Final Cut

8/8: Billy Joel-An Innocent Man

1984

4/30: Roger Waters-The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking

1987

6/15: Roger Waters-Radio K.A.O.S.

1992

9/7: Roger Waters-Amused to Death

1994

3/8: Nine Inch Nails-The Downward Spiral

1995

7/10: Scatman John-Scatman’s World

9/25: David Bowie-Outside

10/27: Ayreon-The Final Experiment

1997

5/21: Radiohead-OK Computer

1998

2/10: Neutral Milk Hotel-In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

10/31: Ayreon-Into The Electric Castle

1999

9/28: Alan Parsons-The Time Machine

2000

6/20: Ayreon-Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer

6/20: Ayreon-Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator

10/2: Radiohead-Kid A

2002

7/16: The Flaming Lips-Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

2004

5/25: Ayreon-The Human Equation

6/8: My Chemical Romance-Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

9/21: Green Day-American Idiot

2005

5/11: Gorillaz-Demon Days

9/3: The Protomen-Act I: The Protomen

9/27: Ludo-Broken Bride

10/24: Tally Hall-Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum

2006

9/26: The Dear Hunter-Act I: The Lake South, The River North

9/27: The Killers-Sam’s Town

10/20: My Chemical Romance-The Black Parade

2007

1/14: Right Away, Great Captain-The Bitter End

5/21: Devin Townsend-Ziltoid the Omniscient

5/22: The Dear Hunter-Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading

8/24: Janelle Monáe-Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase)

10/10: Radiohead-In Rainbows

2008

6/12: Coldplay-Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends

11/11: Right Away, Great Captain-The Eventually Home

2009

3/3: The Antlers-Hospice

5/15: Green Day-21st Century Breakdown

6/23: The Dear Hunter-Act III: Life and Death

9/8: The Protomen-Act II: The Father of Death

9/15: Kid Cudi-Man on the Moon: The End of Day

2010

3/3: Gorillaz-Plastic Beach

3/9: Anaïs Mitchell-Hadestown

3/30: Evelyn Evelyn-Evelyn Evelyn

4/20: The Apples in Stereo-Travellers in Space and Time

5/18: Janelle Monáe-The ArchAndroid

11/9: Kid Cudi-Man On The Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager

11/22: My Chemical Romance-Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys

2011

4/12: Between the Buried and Me-The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues

6/7: Fucked Up-David Comes to Life

6/21: Tally Hall-Good & Evil

10/24: Coldplay-Mylo Xyloto

2012

4/29: Brendon Small-Galaktikon

6/12: Right Away, Great Captain-The Church of the Good Thief

8/4: The Mechanisms-Once Upon a Time (In Space)

9/12: TWRP-The Device

10/9: Between the Buried and Me-The Parallax II: Future Sequence

12/12:Miracle Musical-Hawaii: Part II

2013

6/16: The Mechanisms-Ulysses Dies at Dawn

9/10: Janelle Monáe-The Electric Lady

11/28: The Mechanisms-Tales to be Told

2014

1/21: Against Me!-Transgender Dysphoria Blues

7/25: The Mechanisms-High Noon over Camelot

8/12: Porter Robinson-Worlds

2015

2/23: Public Service Broadcasting-The Race for Space

7/10: Between the Buried and Me-Coma Ecliptic

9/4: The Dear Hunter-Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise

2016

1/15: Panic! At the Disco-Death of a Bachelor

9/9: The Dear Hunter-Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional

9/11: 猫 シ Corp.-News at 11

2017

1/29: The Mechanisms-The Bifrost Incident

4/28: Gorillaz-Humanz

4/28: Jonathan Coulton-Solid State

5/3: leon chang- bird world

6/16: Styx-The Mission

8/25: Brendon Small’s Galaktikon- II: Become the Storm

2018

1/28: The Mechanisms-Tales to be Told, Volume II

5/11: Arctic Monkeys-Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

10/5: Fucked Up-Dose Your Dreams

11/30: The 1975-A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships

2019

1/27: Vylet Pony-Homeward

4/26: AJR-Neotheater

2020

5/20: The Mechanisms-Death to the Mechanisms

12/5: leon chang-return to bird world

12/11: Kid Cudi-Man on the Moon III: The Chosen

2021

4/20: OR3O: Clover: Love, Hope, Faith & Luck

10/15: Coldplay-Music of the Spheres

11/12: Sewerslvt-we had good times together, don’t forget that

2022

2/22: Vylet Pony-can opener's notebook: fish whisperer

2023

2/3: Vylet Pony-Carousel (An Examination of the Shadow, 'Creekflow', and its Life as an Afterthought)

2/24: Gorillaz-Cracker Island

3/17: Naethon Apollo-Tales From Cazilor

8/18: Ricky Jamaraz-Worst Album Ever

11/10: AJR-The Maybe Man

12/25: Willy Rodriguez-wetdream

2024

3/8: samlrc-A Lonely Sinner

7/11: Vylet Pony-Girls who are Wizards

2025

1/15: Miami Nights 1984-Gunblaze Assault

5/2: Car Seat Headrest-The Scholars

7/11: Vylet Pony-Love & Ponystep

2026

1/9: The Protomen-Act III: This City Made Us

[cryptotheism]

Adam: Your older brother. Abel. He's dead.

Adams third child, Seth: What is that?

Adam: I don't know. This is new for me too.

[cryptotheism]

Eve: I think "dead" is what happens to dinnerbeasts.

Seth:

Eve: We might have to dinner him.

[wifehaver103947]

imagine cloth mother and wire mother in family court competing for custody of the baby monkey

[clothmotherofficial]

I Have Softness For You

[officialwiremother]

i have milk for you

[babymonkeyofficial]

Stop.

[kingsolomonofficial]

Cut the baby monkey in half