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Devon and Mark using "Scout's honor" as a little joke because "haha that's our last name" around Ricken who was a very serious Eagle Scout and always goes, "Guys, come on stop it. You guys, be serious, you weren't even scouts. You don't have clearance. Guys, that's sacred. Guys."
feminism lost in 2012 when certified woke dog, Molly Sullivan got replaced by Bark Lee for the silver screen
We're not violent we can't kill anything not even an apple however yes we did release all of the zoo animals from their carefully curated environments onto just kind of the random streets around the zoo where they will almost certainly die and no we aren't taking care of anyone's pets
the faculty (1998) | pluribus (2025 - )
i have many thoughts about pluribus so here come some more:
it struck me on the second watch that carol's fans are shown as being very similar, indistinguishable people who love her seemingly in the same way. they are very like the hive mind in how they interract with her and she is just as dismissive of both. helen questions her and pushes back at times, challenges her moods and what she says. she also tells creative truths like when pressed about how good she thinks bitter chrysalis is she says "people will love it" ...but i do think she is a significant element of not just saying whatever carol wants to hear...who is then taken from her by the hive mind who constantly just tells her what she wants to hear, or a version of the truth that isn't too upsetting at least
tbh i don't think carol actually is that selfish, or at least not uniquely selfish among the cast of pluribus. like it's an especially bizarre opinion when koumba exists. koumba is aware that the trajectory the planet is currently on means that all of the beautiful women he's fucking are going to starve to death, but he doesn't really give a shit bc changing things would mean he wouldn't get to fuck them anymore. if the hive dissolves, he'd have to go back to being an ordinary person instead of living like a king, and he doesn't want to do that. which is the same reason he won't join the hive. he likes being in charge and having his every desire catered to. I don't hate koumba - i think he's a very honest depiction of what a lot of ppl would be tempted to do in his place. but he is incredibly selfish
and laxmi is also kind of selfish, although for more sympathetic reasons. she doesn't want to admit that her kid is not her kid anymore. carol chose the most assholish way to point it out, but she's also not wrong. laxmi is burying her head in the sand to avoid a painful truth, to the detriment of the survival of the human race. isn't that also selfish?
the truth is that ppl are highly uncomfortable with disobedient women. it's selfish for women to have needs, desires, or opinions. they should live to serve others without any thought for themselves. they should never rock the boat and always do as they're told. therefore, it's selfish for carol to request the hive open a grocery store, but it's not selfish for koumba to command the hive to play out his james bond fantasies, because it's normal for a man to issue orders but selfish for a woman to do the same
the hive IMMEDIATELY like within the instant was sowing discord between carol & manousos. the implicative hemming and hawing over "is he dangerous" when he didn't even hurt the doctor he threatened, was just scared they'd stop him. failed to mention how he's left money for everything he took. didn't tell her a SINGLE thing about him trekking ON FOOT through THE DARIEN GAP to her. fucking!! "long story" they did all that on purpose
#I've been thinking about this and especially how it sheds light on the other humans remaining in the world.#I did think it was strange that other than their summit (called at carol's explicit request) none of them....stayed together?#I mean if I was functionally alone in the midst of alien life - especially alien life wearing the skin of people I loved -#I would relish the chance to be with someone who could understand even a fingernail of that experience.#carol would have to be SO much worse for me to abandon her; I'd probably just...pick a different arizona mini mansion#go for more walks to decompress. journal or something.#(..........do none of these people have families???#''I love you but you're annoying as shit but I will not abandon you but I need space'' is a desperately relatable emotion#and describes every familial christmas gathering I've ever endured.)#yet none of the survivors chose to stay together after the summit; they went their separate ways to their modular fantasies#and while I guess you could chalk it up to the story constraints or filming limitations#I wonder if you could make an argument that the alien hivemind....encouraged them to part ways after the summit.#they could talk via zoom! they could visit whenever they wanted just ask! you don't need to be in the same time zone or continent!#(pay no attention to the fact that we're keeping you separate. alone. utterly dependent on us. controlled.)#I mean...when carol goes to koumba and he talks to the hivemind over the phone it encourages him to let her go.#to keep her out of the other survivors' calls and discussions going forward even if he's softening towards her.#and part of the reason that carol's isolation was so damning (and effective) is because there truly was no one for her.#but that situation isn't spontaneous. that was deliberately created around her.#why not create the careful and controlled at-a-distance congeniality of the others too?#so of course they won't tell carol about manousos.#he won't be distracted by luxury hotels or twice-weekly zoom calls. he won't rely on the hivemind even when dying.#he is not controlled or controllable and so they cannot conscience him disrupting their careful games.#WHAT a great show. it's been such a long time since I enjoyed chewing on something this much. (via @notbecauseofvictories)
pluribus spoilers ahead cause i need to tell someone that when vince gilligan was altering his concept to be about women instead of men i really really think that shouldve included manousos... not to take away from the actual lesbianism that occurs on the show but manousos the machorra very much shouldve been on that yuribus... imagine carol sturka having to pull out the cover of her book a second time when yet another tall woman with dark features shows up at her door, and this time the woman literally has a sword a machete on her hip. proud stubborn manousos who just braved 9000 kilometers of untold dangers just to speak to her. sexy butch manousos who is more like a genuine real-life raban than any alien hivemind could ever be like do you fucking get me do you understand
manousos the bucha who ran that storage unit facility like it was the navy... imagine
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one of my favorite little pluribus details is that they make you listen to the voicemail in its entirety every single time. there's no skipping ahead, no oh you've heard this, no handwringing that the audience will get bored. we're in this with carol. we're gonna listen to the fucking voicemail again
i do think its telling in pluribus that right before she meets the other unaffected people the hive mind tells her they cant protect them from each other. one of many examples of them being manipulative tbh but a big sign to me that they are saying things to sow distrust among them
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me normally: i'm not personally a huge fan of modern art
me around right wingers: I love modern art sooooo much and I think there should be litter boxes in schools also
fucking obliterated lmao
omg normal people dni actual PERVERTS and DEPRAVED WEIRDOS with GROSS ABNORMAL EROTIC FIXATIONS only
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job interviewer: would you be willing to destroy and betray yourself for nothing?
job interviewer: (reading the room) would you be willing to destroy and betray yourself for a pizza party?
Everyone is so weird about people who cry easily. Fellas, is it evil and manipulative to *checks notes* have an involuntary stress response?
actually a coworker of mine said something interesting about this. I was saying that I truly can’t help how easily I cry, and I hate when people assume I do it on purpose.
and he paused for a second and then said, “when you’ve been taught from a young age that crying is weak and you should train yourself never to cry for any reason, you assume that everyone else has trained themselves too, so anyone who cries has to be doing it on purpose. it took me a long time to realize that wasn’t true.”
listen we’re never gonna run out of ways the patriarchy hurts all of us.
