[creature-wizard]

The reason conservatives object to people being desensitized by disgusting and violent content in media is because they rely on shock and disgust to manipulate people. They can't easily control a population that relies on critical thinking skills to make moral judgments.

[thesilliestpotato]

Marvel actors who go on insane diets and workout plans to get a thrist shot topless for mass viewers are NOTHING TO ME

Richard Gadd who gained about 100 lbs of muscle and fat to shoot a topless scene where he sexually harasses his step-brother.... my man

[f-slur]

taking issue with people sexualizing half man even though eroticism is literally a core tool the show uses to put us into the headspace of a protagonist who feels simultaneously terrified of and attracted to his abuser, who has been both aroused by and irreparably damaged by the things that have been done to him... if the use of eroticism in stories about abuse makes you uncomfortable i get it, its for sure not a tool to be wielded lightly, but sometimes it does serve a purpose and especially in the case of half man i think that to feel all the same feelings niall is feeling (arousal included) is to experience the show exactly as it was intended, like i really dont think richard gadd did All That just to have us sit quietly in our pews and not feel the terrifying heat behind ruben and nialls every interaction, in fact i think that to feel it is at the very heart of the human experience gadd is trying to convey with this story

[drjthepitt]

i find it really interesting that santos thinks no one knows where langdon got the drugs from. if i worked in a job where i had relatively easy access to drugs and my coworker was sent to rehab i’d probably be able to make an educated guess about where he got the drugs.

[betchiwilleatyou]

(shaky voice) let women on tv have wrinkles (heavy breathing) let women on tv have unkempt hair (cartoonish gulp) let women on tv have loud genuine laughs (eye twitch) let women on tv have lines and shadows around their eyes (my temporal artery bursts and i drop dead)

[weird-goodbyes]

please lord, take all of Perlah’s pain and discomfort and give it to Ogilvie. please lord, take all of Princess’s pain and discomfort and give it to Ogilvie. please lord, take all of Dana’s pain and discomfort and give it to Ogilvie. please lord, take all of Donnie’s pain and discomfort and give it to Ogilvie. please lord, take all of Emma’s pain and discomfort and give it to Ogilvie.

[nat-20s]

Doctor Who season 4 is so delightful because you can tell that The Doctor, on occasion, straight up forgets that he's sad and burned because he's busy being in a sci-fi buddy comedy. And then something will remind him and he'll be like oh! I'm sad and burdened! And Donnas almost always there to be like 'hi sad and burdened. I'm Donna' and he has a completely proportional reaction like 'i would die a thousand deaths for you'.

[solfeliz984]

So boots was great but turns out trying to watch a show where 99% of the characters are bald men of the same age isn't that easy when you have face blindness.

[trykynyx]

raise your hand if you felt personally victimized by the number of times Wayward made you straight up yell at the screen "WHERE IS TOAST?" and other variants ("SHOW ME TOAST, YOU [redacted], OR I SWEAR TO GOD -," "DON'T YOU DARE," etc.)

[bluebyrd-bookreviews]

The juxtaposition of Evelyn going through ego death while overdosing on psychedelics and Laura giving birth to the first baby that town has seen in decade is so fucking powerful and creates just another link in the chain instead of actually breaking the cycle like Laura claims that she is doing

[bluebyrd-screaming]

There is something so vitally important about all of Evelyns favorites being white girls with blonde hair and blue eyes and her promise to give them power in life and to take away their pains with he One Easy Trick that I cannot quite articulate eloquently

They never say it out loud in the show, but there is something inherently white supremacist going on here

[lilis-palace]

i always gift my favourite sims the blessing of a big beautiful roman nose.

[peri-helia]

More than any other adaptation BBC Musketeers captured the pain in the love attached to betrayal with Milathos. Here is the person who sees you and loves you at your best, who made you want the best for them and for you and everything for just a while, was golden.

Here is the person who can twist the knife best and already did and the poetry and the pain tied up in forget-me-nots and ‘I’m glad you came back’ and grey, but morally grey and sometimes they’re still the person you loved best but then they move and they’re someone else entirely it seems and the whole thing could have just been a trick of the (golden) light

[green-warden]

loving that so far there's a 1:1 straight to gay couple ratio

[catboy-beckett]

Kim Kitsuragi is a fascinating character because there's not that much fun or interesting or compelling about him. And yet somehow over the course of playing Disco Elysium the game rewires your fucking brain around him. He's the middest man you've ever seen in both appearance and personality but at some point he says something kind to you or something critical of you and you feel like you just got hit by a truck and you need his approval like you need oxygen and like how tf did this happen. what are you

[ph-cutie]

disco elysium was ahead of the curve they managed to make a man so magnetic he seduced three quarters of the player base despite the fact he's canonically a dude highly prideful of having a big obnoxiously loud car

[tolerateit]