Well, well! Look who's inside again

went out to look for a reason to hide again. Well, well, buddy you  found it! Now come out with your hands up we've got you surrounded.

[kaban-bang]

this is real now lmao

[abortionado]

They’re calling me every slur under the sun over on twitter for this post

[cilceon]

Would you sell liquor to this baby

Yes

No

I don’t think life begins at contraception but I’d still sell liquor to baby

Voting ended onAug 6, 2025

Wait hold on rb canceled that’s the wrong word wait no stop

[cryptotheism]

I just felt someone Z-target me

[search-queery]

[clearly circle-strafing you] don't be ridiculous

[demilypyro]

[demilypyro]

It's what he would've wanted

[lindleland]

[trainwrrck]

[pokemonheritageposts]

Pokemon Heritage Post

[lakemojave]

They. They forgor

[lakemojave]

[hotsoupeymiku]

[grimmtidings]

They were opened in AUGUST 2001. Oh my god. That's both hilarious and tragic.

[predstrogen]

this is a fucking futurama bit

[demilypyro]

It's really, really good, but I think for a lot of people it was so subtle they never realized it was happening. They got boiled like a frog. Episodes 1, 2 and 3 all have big action scenes and a central Adventure Plot to be resolved... still, every episode has a subplot where deeper emotional conflicts happen during the adventure.

However, this structure instantly falls apart by episode 4, when Caine takes a suggestion and has them work in a fast food place. That episode has no action scene, no "adventure plot" to solve, they just have to work a job for a whole day. The entire episode is just character drama. Then by episode 5 the structure is just gone. The lightning round format means none of the adventures even have time for a plot, it's just scenario, scenario, scenario, one after the other, and it becomes clear that the real point is the character drama, the history of these people, their traumas, the way they interact.

Episodes 6 and 7 (haha) are the last dying gasps of the adventure format. Episode 6 doesn't have an adventure plot beyond "shoot eachother" because Caine literally doesn't care anymore, and so the episode is really all about exploring the tenuous burgeoning friendship between Jax and Pomni, again focusing almost exclusively on character drama. And episode 7 is the calm before the storm, the characters trying one last time to get out of the circus, the show's last attempt to be formatted like a normal story that adheres to narrative convention, only for the complexity of Pomni and Jax's characters to deny Caine the narrative format he wanted.

The Last Act is not an action movie. I understand why they included episode 8 with it, because 8 and 9 form a pretty cohesive single two-part episode. And it is ALL character drama. The show was never about running away from monsters or going on adventures. It's about people, exploring their dysfunctions, the struggle of relating to eachother. That's all the movie is.

Don't be a boiled frog. Go in with the right expectations.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[shittymoviedetails]

The beach that makes you old

[konoko]

[mydogtige]

Headpats

[filmphotofranz]

[mikus-sleepiest]

[miniaturize]

the concept of a site that doesn't even allow porn requiring age verification for mature content. you gotta give us your legal id or else we'll hide random posts that were incorrectly flagged from you

[captain-price-returns]

[cyberfights]

this is an artistic rendition of my irrational fear of a head that attacks only under the cover of the very loud toilet flush in the scary top floor bathroom at the hospital and how i exited the bathroom when i decided to flush and run as opposed to my normal method of flushing and putting my back to a wall

[cyberfights]

took pics today at work to show common attack patterns and defense strategies that i employ

[beanytuesday]

The Comic Store (from 2019)

[sparrowsfallingfromthesky]

[mevil]

[nehirose]

i'm still losing my mind over this, that is EXACTLY what the weed store in Splatoon would sound like.

[asundergrowth]

[nyxiemeow]

[windoftime]