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I love this image immensely because first and foremost I find it incredibly funny to apply in dire situations. But second and second-most because on occasion, in certain circumstances, it represents a truth and gospel unmatched by any other statement on the internet.
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idk what neurodivergent young adult needs to hear this but you are NOT supposed to give 100% at your job. I've gotten more promotions and raises since I started giving 40-60%, which my evil CEO uncle informed me is what bosses actually expect when they say 110%. My mental health has improved tremendously. I've spent 2 out of 5 workdays secretly writing my novel for the last 2 years and I've never been more respected and appreciated. Also--when you see glaring wasteful errors in the company's operating systems, say absolutely nothing! Embrace inefficiency. It is your friend in this capitalist hellscape.
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I would argue that the two most perfect critiques of Harry Potter come from a pair of 4chan posts, which take opposite approaches to their critique but reach equally damning conclusions
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people on this website be like âitâs actually schoolâs fault that i donât know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway hereâs a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?â
i KNOW most of yâall are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today
this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them
this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isnât â1984 is goodâ, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself. and like secondly in 1984 youâre supposed to think damn itâs fucked up that heâs thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of âa society like this will fuck you in the headâ? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist youâre supposed to agree with everything he does?
You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist.Â
When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasnât with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasnât about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective.Â
No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you donât read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someoneâs head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or read âThe Great Gatsbyâ not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream.Â
A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something like âI love the Great Gatsbyâ it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-itâs about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you donât just âadmireâ or find that character âcompellingâ it now translates to âyou LOVE that characterâ or you âDIRECTLY relate to that character.âÂ
You canât say âI love how Humbert is written, itâs so fascinating and darkâ, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them our âworshipâ as itâs become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions.Â
I think thatâs why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. Weâre treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We donât NEED to like the character. Or we donât HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how theyâre written or intrigued by their behavior.Â
I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations weâd be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are.Â
Welcome to the headquarters of the human resistance. Bugonia (2025) dir. Yorgos Lanthimos
I feel so dumb for just now connecting the theme of bees and colony collapse with the events of Bugonia.
Because the whole colony collapse disorder thing had me a little bit rolling my eyes. Not because I don't care about bees and their place in the environment, but because, like Michelle said, people want to have one enemy doing one evil thing, and the real problem is actually so many problems that we can't fight by banning a few chemicals and blaming a few CEOs. It's not a big conspiracy, it's how our societies are structured. So I wasn't thinking about why it was included in the movie because I don't like engaging with conspiracy theories designed to give comfort.
But really, humans are the bees. Michelle says she likes bees because they're industrious little workers, all doing their jobs without complaint* (I wish I remembered this part better, but that was the gist of it). And Teddy explains colony collapse disorder as the bees abandoning their queen and dying out because of it. Which fits so well with the Andromedans creating humans as servants and subjects, and then humans turning on them because they're not just mindless workers. And not just historically, Teddy kidnapping Michelle is another example of it. He is in so many ways her worker bee. Literally, he works for her, but also his mother was a test subject in a test that she couldn't have consented to, because to Michelle her consent doesn't matter. When he turns on her, it's like the bees turning on their queen.
But like how the conspiracy about colony collapse makes a complex situation simple for comfort, Michelle makes humanity and her kidnapping simple. Humans are flawed because they made themselves flawed, and they can't be fixed because they broke themselves too much, so they need to be eradicated. That's simple and comforting. But Michelle ignores that the Andromedans killed off the dinosaurs, created humanity, created the situation where humanity felt the need to make themselves stronger and more aggressive. She ignores that she personally created the situation where Teddy felt like he needed to kidnap and torture her to protect the people and the planet he cares about. He wouldn't have done it had she not turned his mother into a test subject, and likely wouldn't have done it had she treated him better after putting his mother in a coma. She and the Andromedans are no better than humans, she just gets to pretend that they are because she killed off everyone who would disagree.
What a fucking great movie.