Kickin' in the Front Seat

Stream of Id Delivered by Ego

[skipinouterspace]

Need her to show up at my funeral as my widow who murdered me so bad

[espanolbot2]

The few statements from the studio, Mundfish, have not been great.

[skipinouterspace]

Deeply funny to read something worried about a game being Russian nationalist propaganda when Call of Duty is one of the biggest franchises in gaming.

[donnatroyprincessofthemyscira]

[iimr3]

*hitting you with a stick* no benoit blanc movies should not interact. they should not lead up to something. you need to detox from the marvel/sherlock bbc poisoning. they should be completely independent movies (maybe w some cameos/little references for fun) and go on for as long as there are stories rian johnson wants to tell in this universe. i do not want an overarching plot i do not want a team up i dont want a benoit-focused prequel i want some good old fashioned episodic murder mysteries that have nothing to do with each other!!!!!!!!!!! also rian johnson has literally said he's not gonna do a prequel and he wants the movies to all stand on their own

[skipinouterspace]

I agree with this but I do wanna know how he met his husband

[shesnake]

“no way lucy liu can be in her 50s” “Lucy liu didn’t age at all since the 90s” yes she has and she still looks good Why are you so obsessed with equating beauty to youth Why are yall so afraid to admit that you just find an older woman hot?? cowards

[albertserra]

Normalize milfsexuality

[shesnake]

normalise milf supremacy

[antidisneyinc]

it's actually insane that avatar is a franchise solely about the colonial genocide of a people and the takeaway, via everything james cameron & co. say in promo, is not supposed to be "genocide bad" or "colonialism bad" but simply "environmental harm bad." cannot think of a whiter pseudo activist message than telling a story to promote nature conservation wherein the destruction of the indigenous who call that environment home is completely secondary. not only was jimbo repulsed by the thought of centering real life indigenous people but he doesn't even consider his tribal cosplay oc's to be more than vehicles for celebrity activism

[antidisneyinc]

James Cameron's old comments prompt Native American boycott of new 'Avatar' sequel

A social media campaign led by Native Americans calls for a boycott of James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water" over its appropriation of

huh interesting that the people your movie is ostensibly about fucking hate you

[espanolbot2]

The layers of irony about this whole situation is staggering if you take in the meta of the Avatar park after at Disney into account as well. As the backstory of the park is that after the events of the first film, peace was established and part of Pandora was opened up to tourists, complete with lots of pictures of the locals looking all enthsiastic about the “resort“ being built where, where on the hour one of their religious rites can be seen performed for holiday goers...

...Y’know, like how the Disney resorts in Hawaii have come under understandable criticism for doing the same thing in regard to traditional Hawaiian/Polynesian culture.

So within Disney’s own meta as it’s portrayed as exploitative... and that’s a good/neutral thing? So weird.

[lesbians-love-samwilson]

Avatar way of the water pisses me off because it so clear white people don't know how to empathize with people of color oppression unless it's in an allegory about blue aliens or some magical creature played by a white person.

White people will watch avatar way of the water and be like the blue aliens where totally right to beat up the humans from taking their resources.

But then turn around and be like wakanda forever was to political and it's unfair that the Talokan people don't want to share their vibranium

[skcarwrites]

It’s always funny to me to see non-BIPOC happily consume films covering topics like colonisation, racism and oppression using losely related allegorical themes and blanketed within a pretty picture of a fictional/fantasy world with aliens/fictional beings and agree that the themes of said movies are ground-breaking and wholeheartedly agree that “something has to be done to evoke change!!!!!”

But yet, when it comes to media that involves these same themes, with real life circumstances and real folks from the actual marginalised groups in society, these same topics are deemed “too political” and “too radical” to consume, support and raise awareness about and the very real experiences of marginalised groups are silenced in the wake of the ever ridiculous “stop making everything about race” rants. For the BIPOC community, our entire existence is about race thanks to the status quo. I’m curious to know, who do they think made it that way? And do they recognise that as oppressed groups, we can’t just magically manifest a change in our circumstances just because we don’t like it/desire change. There’s no running from our everyday lives and experiences as BIPOC. Systemic oppression can’t be uprooted just by waking up and deciding “Oof I don’t like being oppressed let me end oppression today!!”

I just want some of them to recognise how ridiculous they sound when they proclaim empathy for oppressed groups because of movies like AWOTW but bash movies like BPWF for being “too political”🤷🏽‍♀️ but I digress.

[mrjinx87]

FUN FACT: I’m actually *further* to the left now than I was in my 20s!

[not-caused-by-those-who-love]

I saw someone write recently (paraphrased), “They said ‘you’ll get more conservative as you get older’ and what they didn’t realize they meant was ‘you’ll get greedier and more paranoid as you get richer’ [which is true, there are psych studies] and what they didn’t count on is that no one gets rich any more”

[healingmachinewithskeletoninside]

ooh, quoting that again for emphasis: “what they didn’t count on is that no one gets rich any more”

[skipinouterspace]

Also poor people die earlier

[racefortheironthrone]

So Beast is a jerk nowadays. Is this like a grrm/Osha thing where Kelsey Grammar played him in the movies and they tweaked the character to be more like the actor?

No. As Cerebrocast explores, it's more a result of roughly thirty years of decision-making in the comics where Beast starts doing things that are increasingly morally problematic in the name of the "greater good." A very gradual slippery slope.

[skipinouterspace]

I feel like I have to preface this by saying I do love fun time Avengers Beast but I do also love current Sin Eater, Henry Kissinger of Krakoa Beast

[citadelofmythoughts]

YOU know that drag performers aren’t usually trans people. *I* know that. Right-wingers don’t. The attacks on drag shows are anti-trans attacks.

[neopolitanfox]

Most right wing people do not make any notable distinction between trans people, drag performers, crossdressers, and gender non-conforming people, because to them we are all just people who are dressing up as/acting like the “wrong gender”

[skipinouterspace]

If you make a list of the best DC comics more than one will be by Frank Miller. I’m so mad online.

[skipinouterspace]

I’m seeing red

[valtsv]

im reading about cowboy phrases and sayings and like 95% of them are just solid life advice

[valtsv]

like idk how accurate these are but somehow they manage to be both peak shitposting humor and genuinely helpful suggestions

[valtsv]

fuck self-help books and therapy, all i need to make it in life is my trusty Cowboy Tips™

[bloodenjoyer]

Two guys who are gay and a matching set but they’re NOT dating just gay . and always hanging out around each other

[skipinouterspace]

[skipinouterspace]

Lydia Tár won her Oscar for Goncharov

[solitairians]

happy first Bella From Twilight Depression Month

[solitairians]

happy second Bella From Twilight Depression Month

[solitairians]

happy last Bella From Twilight Depression Month

[mossbawn]

also absolutely hate when people say "this is set a million years from now and there's still racism and homophobia? #problematic" and then you read it and it's a scathing and concise yet meticulous examination of our current views on race and gender and sexuality. you don't understand what the point of science fiction is. escapism is not the pinnacle of the written form that all genre fiction should aspire to. you're annoying me

[mossbawn]

the fantastical setting allows for the writer to make our current day issues larger than life and therefore more easily examined and deconstructed. in genre fiction fantasy is often used as a microscope and through it we can try to better understand what's gone so wrong with us in the modern day, we can try to point to the cancer in the cells. it's natural to want to escape sometimes (i love a good romcom for example) but you do need to confront a mirror every once in a while. the solution to your pain is not to bury your head in squeecore. sorry i said squeecore