The Weeds Amidst The Rubble

Remi | queer | any pronouns | the Netherlands | themes: Gay, Activism, Capitalism Sucks Man I'm Straight Up Not Having A Good Time, also memes | This blog is bi/pan/trans/ace inclusive. Username is a joke.

[weaver-z]

This satire article resonated with me so much

[gudetama-tamad]

[so-much-for-subtlety]

[innerchildabortionclinic]

interesting kink assortment on the dash

[depsidase]

[amrv-5]

Does anyone know what to do about the temperature and also the prices

[heyfruitcake]

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

L'Odissea di Nolan tra "scheletri spazzatura" e relitti: Arpa al lavoro in Sicilia, che succede

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

[ignitelimelight]

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

[fuckyeahdavidandyonatan]

They also filmed in illegally occupied territories in western sahara

'Cultural parasites': Calls for boycott of The Odyssey over filming in occupied Western Sahara

Sahrawi filmmakers criticise Christopher Nolan for complicity in Moroccan exploitation of Sahrawi land

[depsidase]

[pancakeke]

the scariest thing in the world is probably whatever's going on in the tiny gap between my kitchen counters and the oven

[witchsteria]

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flanagan isn’t the first but the deep urge to softening margaret and vindicate her is both misogyny and abuse apologia; people can not only not fathom the abusive mother as real, pretending margaret is an extreme caricature and saying she had a point in beating her child, saying her period was a divine punishment and locking her in a closet for hours until she pissed herself. theres a benevolent misogyny is assuming women are naturally maternal, thats they are wired that way especially in relation to their girl children. margaret doesn’t want to ‘protect’ carrie, not genuinely, its control and she treats jesus as a weapon against carrie. the more we keep trying to pinpoint margaret’s religious mania to actual reason, the more we expose how little we care about abused children.

what causes carrie to snap is the idea of her having to go back to her mother, to have to stay in that house for another second but she still wants her mother to love her because that’s what children want, to be loved. that doesn’t mean margaret genuinely cared for her, she loved carrie as an object to abuse not as child to love. denying your child knowledge of their body is abuse, calling your child a whore is abuse, isolating them from people is abuse, self harming in front of your child to control her is abuse. margaret deliberately keep her daughter naive so she could only rely on her. king writes an abused child’s relationship with their abusive parent with such sympathy for the child, it’s weird seeing adaptations fall into ‘the abusive parent had a point.’

[witchsteria]

to add, i find it frustrating how carrie isn’t allowed to be truly off putting like she was telling her classmates they were going to hell. margaret set her up to be ostracised, there’s an entire paragraph going into every incident that carrie was subjected to by her peers. she doesn’t have an innate trust in people or goodness, it’s why she freaks when tommy asks her to prom.

this is basic character shit. the inability for carrie to be allowed to exist beyond the book as an abuse victim with flaws, a child who is responding uncomfortably to her environment makes her a weaker character but also gets into how much we want girls to be perfect victim martyrs, carrie inherently challenges that. you’re kinda made to reckon with how much you’d probably be on chris’ side. she’s not an ideal victim, that’s a myth.

the production stills alone completely miss the importance of carrie’s clothes being frumpy and ragged like her having stockings that are about to run or her blouses being stained or her clothes literally falling apart. it’s so important in visually communicating carrie’s poverty and this? this doesn’t say shit. it says nothing. i loved the costume design for the long walk because those clothes felt lived in; garraty’s shirt has dye stains, you can see how run down the boys’ shoes are even before they start. it helps convey that these are boys stuck in poverty. these aren’t lived in clothes. i’ll have more concrete thoughts when i actually sit with this adaptation but it’s incredible how much flanagan is missing the mark here. this isn’t carietta n. white, man, it’s just not

[kosmogrl]

what’s not meant for me kills me a thousand times every day

[herpsandbirds]

GET ABSOLUTELY SHRIMPED!!!

[mossy-cobble]

crazy how i find myself thinking i've got a handle on it all finally and then i see the ways that other people tangle their lives together so easily and live so easily together with their friends and i feel like that girl at the top of the stairs painting by norman rockwell

[mossy-cobble]

i'll always be here

[loveridden1999]

which among the remaining teams are you rooting for

france

spain

england

argentina

let's all kill ourselves

Remaining time: 2 days 13 hours

[queenaegon]

i understand all that shit about honor and knighthood and solemn vows but “kingslayer” is simply a bad insult. it sounds cool as fuck. might as well call him the landlord annihilator or the billionaire’s bane.

[prairiedeath]

[auckie]

[communist-hatsunemiku]

[virtualgirladvance]

You are a bug in bug hell but your spider torturer so fucking bad at their job that the devil himself has to grab you with his gay pitchfork and help them

[terkaterr]

ah doing ma thing just like god int- (remembers im atheist) just like the universe intend- (remembers i don't believe in determinism) just like noone and nothing intended ever. doin ma thang fucking unpredictable style