Bits and Bobs

She/her, probably ace rather than straight, too old for this shit, welcome to the world of anxiety and ADHD

[missweber]

It's Only a Change of Time (159527 words) by Sophia_Prester Chapters: 29/29 Fandom: Check Please! (Webcomic) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Summary: Every hockey player knows the Stanley Cup is supposed to be magic. Most of them know the stories about wishes and curses and visions of things that never happened. A few players know for themselves what the Cup's magic can do. What no one knows is what the Cup's magic is. What it is, is old. Powerful. Dangerous. And it has been waiting for someone like Jack Zimmermann for a very long time. Too bad Jack can't remember why. Or what he's supposed to do about it.

NOW COMPLETE!!! FINALLY!!!

(keels over)

[elftwink]

want to be clear that if i ever talk about a headcanon and then later discuss a headcanon that is directly contradictory to the first one, that’s because headcanons exist in a quantum state where they are all simultaneously true and not true up until the point where i discuss it in detail, in which case that is the one that is true in that instance. schroedinger’s headcanons

[nonasuch]

[kyraneko]

that’s what characters ARE. not people, but potential. many things, as needed, no matter how mutually exclusive.

[kvothes]

okay. i have seen barbie and oppenheimer. if you’re gonna jump on the barieheimer meme train i do fully and completely believe that they should be watched as a trio with asteroid city, which also just came out—it bridges the other two in some really unexpected lovely ways (and! it’s wes anderson!)

someone asked me which one i Liked the most and i can’t answer that. barbie was the most straightforward fun to watch but hasn’t stuck with me; oppenheimer was compelling as all hell and has given me a lot to research/think on; asteroid city hit the strongest personal note and is the only one i would jump to watch again.

[thesecondplague613-deactivated2]

"average us president is indicted on 1.54 felony counts" factoid actualy just statistical error. average president is indicted on 0 felony counts. Spiders Don, who lives in cave in florida & is indicted on 71 felony counts, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[darklynoon-deactivated20170407]

Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

[dduane]

…Older. :)

[lauraannegilman]

TV Executives: “if the strike goes on, you won’t get new episodes of your favorite shows! You won’t get new movies you were looking forward to! Isn’t that terrible, what the writers are doing to you?”

Me: Bitch, that might have been an effective threat in 2007, but we have since survived a Covid shutdown and discovered ways to amuse ourselves while we waited, we can outwait this shit, too. I got a pile of shows saved I haven’t even watched yet, and a Mt. TBR waiting for me.

Compensate (and respect) your writers for their work, assholes.

[lauraannegilman]

And the thot plickens….

[bemusedlybespectacled]

HOLY FUCK

[amuseoffyre]

SAG-AFTRA = Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists

[madenthusiasms]

More info:

- The actors walk off at the end of June if the studios don’t sit down with the writers

- Rumor is directors will follow. This will grind everything to a halt.

- Nobody is asking for a boycott. Neil Gaiman has pointed out that making Good Omens S2 a huge hit actually puts more pressure on Amazon to negotiate with the writers

- This implies it’s okay to catch up on old streaming content without breaking the line too

- This is a screenwriter strike; books will keep coming out.

- Movies already made will keep coming out for months. Again, actors have not called for a boycott; you aren’t breaking the line if you go see a movie.

- I don’t know where this puts podcasts but none of them have studio funding or platforms so they’ll probably keep going.

- Substack/Tumblr book club are all public domain works and will keep going. In addition to Dracula Daily there’s Whale Weekly, Dickens Daily, My Dear Wormwood (The Screwtape Letters), Letters from Watson (Sherlock Holmes) and more.

- Your local library always needs love. With the Libby app you don’t even need to physically go there.

[unmakingandincorporeality]

I wanna emphasize "nobody is asking for a boycott." A thing that's happened a lot in the last decade or so is that workers will pursue a particular action, and as it starts to go around online, the internet game of telephone expands and expands the actions called for and who's expected to take part in those actions.

The problem with this is that what makes organized action effective is that it's decisive, specific, and clearly bounded. That's because it has to be extremely legible to the targeted institutions that the losses taking place directly correspond to the demands of the workers. When workers are striking, and some people are boycotting, and starting and stopping on different days, that's not expanding the impact of the strike. It's making the contours of the effects of the strike blurry, and therefore debatable. At the negotiating table, the bosses will interpret that blurriness as favorably for themselves as possible. This functionally diminishes the power of the strike.

The "organized" part of organized action is essential. 21st century corporations are designed to absorb the impacts of disorganized action against them. This is why "voting with your dollar" doesn't work: the market is not a democracy. In order for conscious consumer behavior to matter, it has to be sudden and dramatic.

When you hear about strikes, check whether they're calling for a boycott. If they are not, don't boycott, and don't tell people to boycott. It's actively harmful to muddle the messaging like that.

[elfwreck]

The reason to not boycott: Because the media companies might claim "oh, there's less demand than we thought for these things, so of course we can't agree to pay you more."

Keep going to movies. Keep watching shows. Keep your streaming subscription. Keep proving that you want the content that they're refusing to pay for.

It's possible that, at some point, the writers or actors will ask for a boycott. But mostly: this is a game of endurance, backed by numbers. Trust the unions to know which numbers will best help their cause, and follow their lead.

[hangryhomo]

me, watching the GOP fail to elect a Speaker for the 11th time in 3 days:

[rcmclachlan]

Turns out, 2000 was 20 years ago. Which is odd, since 1980 was also.

[rhube]

The thing Gen-Z really needs to understand is that no one older than them is ever going to be able to estimate time correctly because the Millennium.

The Millennium will always be Not That Long Ago. Everything since the Millennium will always be, in some sense, ‘new’.

It just broke us, OK? It was too big and we’ll never quite be able to deal.

[lrgcarter]

Was the real millennium bug inside us all along?

[jenroses]

yep.

[porcupine-girl]

I think at least part of this is that pop culture has gotten such a longer shelf life over the past 20 years.

You can listen to a Top 40 station now and hear a song from 10 years ago easily, even songs from the 80s or 90s on special occasions (which might just be the Nineties at Noon or whatever every single day).

A Top 40 station in the 80s? Played the current fucking Top 40 and that was it. You were lucky if you heard a song that was one year old, definitely never ten. I was born in 1979 and heard almost no music from before I was born until high school or college. If you wanted to hear anything older than a year, you had to listen to a classic rock (late 60s to 70s) or oldies (50s to early 60s) station. There was nothing earlier than that on the radio.

A restaurant was playing What a Feeling, from 1983. 28 years before my son was born. That’s the equivalent of hearing a song from 1951 in the late 80s, which just did not happen. Even for an oldies station, it was hard to find anything that old.

VCRs were just getting big in the mid-80s, but there was a limited selection of videos you could buy (or even rent) for them. Most video rental stores didn’t bother to stock TV shows, it just wasn’t worth it. (Few shows were even released on VHS.)

So you could generally watch recent movies and “classics” but if you were looking for some random movie from the mid-70s - that’s only ten years previous - you were mostly out of luck. Imagine looking for a movie from 2006 right now, and you can find maybe the top-grossing ones and a few that won Oscars, but Night at the Museum? The Devil Wears Prada? You’re shit outta luck. That’s what it would have been like looking for movies from 1976 in 1989.

So for those of us who grew up in the 80s and early 90s, pop culture had a hard limit of about a decade, if that. By the late 90s, the internet was good enough that music was starting to stretch that, but you still couldn’t really get video through the internet and DVDs were still catching up in terms of what was available. You didn’t really get entire seasons of TV on DVD until the early 00s - the first season of The Simpsons, which aired in 1989, wasn’t released on DVD until 2001.

Anyhow, I think that’s why a lot of older millennials and Gen Xers are having trouble wrapping our heads around the idea that the year 2000 was almost 20 years ago. Because we grew up in a world where if you heard a song regularly, or watched a movie or a TV show that wasn’t late-night reruns, it had probably been released within the past 5 years, and almost definitely within the past 20. Our brains haven’t quite gotten used to hearing a new song followed by a 30-year-old song on the radio and not just being able to find any decade-old movie at will but seeing gifs of decade-old movies almost daily. Our brains think that means those things must still be new.

[lostmind3]

I have never heard anyone explain it so clearly before. And I LIVED it.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Bat door knocker.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/market/gold_door_knocker

[swankifyed]

So Andrew Tate just got arrested after starting (and losing) twitter-beef with climate activist Greta Thunberg???

The beginning:

Greta’s reply (that at the moment of my post has 2.9million likes, making it the 22nd most liked tweet ever):

A few hours after this, Tate replies with a cringe video where you can see pizza boxes. These pizza boxes are from a Romanian pizza chain, which was used by the Romanian anti-organized crime agency DIICOT to confirm that he and his brother was in the country so they could raid his house and arrest them on charges of human trafficking.

In short: he picked a twitter-fight with a 19yo, got ratioed into oblivion, posted cringe, doxxed himself and got arrested. Amazing stuff.

[missweber]

I loved all of the celebrity cameos and name-dropping in Glass Onion, but the more I think about it, the more I realize how it plays into the characterization of Miles and Blanc.

Miles keeps mentioning how he has hired people like Gillian Flynn, Philip Glass, Banksy, etc. to create things for him. And we get to see how Serena Williams is on-call as a personal trainer for his guests. But...

When Blanc quickly solved the mystery game Miles had set up, my first thought was that it was really contrived and not well-crafted. The Hourly Dong was minimalistic, yes, but not Glass-like. As for the Piece-of-Shit dock, it didn’t seem very Bansky-ish (at least to me). It looked more like a generic ice sculpture than anything - interesting at first glance, but not really much beyond that.

Then, we have Serena Williams literally phoning it in as a personal trainer. She’s content to sit there and read, as she’s getting paid whether or not she actually does any training.

Miles is quick to drop these names as if all of these talented people are part of his entourage, but the quality of their work-for-hire demonstrates that they don’t give a shit about him and/or actively dislike him.

In sharp contrast, we have Blanc, who is actually close friends with people like Angela Lansbury, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, etc. These people are close enough to him to play online games with him and worry about his well-being. In fact, they’re good enough friends that Blanc’s partner can complain to them about how Blanc hasn’t left the bath for a week.

All in all, it’s a little thing in the grand scheme of the movie, but it does show just how much thought has gone into the characterization of the two male leads.

[vonschweetz]

Angela Lansbury AND Steven Sondheim’s last ever appearance in a movie is literally them playing Among Us and that’s ICONIC!

[electricnerd]

Everybody's out here talking about how Rian Johnson made Glass Onion so that he could dunk on Elon Musk (and he did, and it's beautiful), but can we also acknowledge that he went straight for Joe Rogan's throat too?

[holly-mckenzie]

You’re not asking the right questions. You have to wake up. Wake up. I know what I’ve seen. I’m not crazy! Wake up.

1899 (2022  ―    ) created by Jante Friese and Baron Bo Odar

[areax]

Aneurin Barnard as Daniel Solace in 1899 (2022-)

[mutliwankenobi]

Reasons everyone should watch 1899:

a good old fashioned brain fuck brought to you by the creators of Dark

Daniel Solace

a bunch of people who all speak different languages run around for 8 hours unable to communicate and yelling at each other that they can’t understand what other people are saying

messy-haired Aneurin Barnard running around looking tortured and being pretty

beautiful cinematography

Andreas (DILF) Pietschmann

honestly just an amazing cast all around

Olek just being the most sweet, helpful, lovely person ever

also a good deal of badassery

pretty people being sad and confused

loml Daniel Solance, please he just needs a hug and a kiss

Olek and Ling Yi

just lots of brain fuckery and confusion and pining tbh

I’m still confused and there’s so many ways to interpret everything and I need more

just trust me on this one, please watch it

[thecindercrow]

Andreas Pietschmann as Captain Eyk Larsen 1899 | 1.01 The Ship