Behold; My Stuff

Australian, Enby, early 30s. Mostly The Locked Tomb, some Dungeon Meshi and Disco Elysium.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

terrifying to see colleges starting to figure out that you can market to gen z by non sequitur depressionposting on main

[starsandaces24]

the beauty of early 2000s shows is that they just... stuck to the bit. You watch this show to see a neurodiverent man solve crime with his best friend, you will get that for 8 seasons. We said this show would be about an ex-spy and his employer who built an AI and the people they save. They will do it even when they admit in the show it makes no sense because that's what you signed up for. Leverage commited so much that they got a modern version that still does the same thing instead of being 6 episode seasons about one big con.

I miss "filler" episodes, but they aren't filler because that's what you signed up for! that's why you watch the show! to see them do the thing you started watching the show for!

[firewalkwithmedvd]

Was trying to make a joke about TV writing to my friend the other day and had to pause and go "...does the phrase 'surf dracula' mean anything to you?"

[firewalkwithmedvd]

One of the most important critical texts of this century imo

[hypokeimena]

image description: tweet by @/topherflorence, reading: back in the day if u did a tv show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire 1st season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 min in the finale /end description

[bronzeplates]

big thanks for all the comic support, just wanted to clarify for anyone who wants to be notified for updates:

the comic tag ive been using is bm bp comic

yeah thats about it, see ya in a bit <3

[sexcromancy]

the thjng about the odyssey movie is hes doing his ruined world hypothesis and that rests so heavily on the repeated cultural value of hospitality. which i liked the repetition, good storytelling setup for when the turn happens, and imo it only felt clunky a couple of times. but if thats how he wants to define a ruined world: we turned our back on our core cultural values. then what is the real world commentary he is making? what does he view as our core values that we have forsaken? and there is a reading that hes doing a self defeating prophecy structure there: were these values ever really so great, if they are hypocritically aligned with xenophobia, warmongering, etc? but like... i dont really think i trust him to actually be doing that. just like in terms of sophistication and politics. but i dont think its a retvrn thing or a puritan thing. so i dont know what to make of it

[summersong2262]

I don't think the elements he's criticising as such are xenphobia, warmongering, etc. But the attitudes that the film seems to be portraying negatively are initially the desire for glory by way of bloodshed and war. The substitution of any risk or effort you might have needed to excerpt yourself in favour of others sacrificing for your benefit, as we saw with the lottery, and Agamemnon's false spine, and the pretext for the war with Troy.

Plus the predation of the strong on the weak. Or more exactly, the socially elevated over the socially disempowered (unmarried women, poor men, the working class, unwarlike individuals, holy people, etc).

I think there's also an ongoing criticism of the false narratives that are used to bowlderise and obscure the actual horrors taking place.

[joshlovesyou]

[salmonballer]

a masterlock? bro you are practically free-use

[bigboysdrinkmilk]

Why is there a diarrhea parasite outbreak in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to disease prevention and control.

Why is measles back in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including RFK Jr, cut vaccine and measles prevention funding and programs.

Why is the New World Screwworm infecting cattle in Texas, when it had previously been eliminated from the area?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Elon Musk, cut USAID funding, which in part worked to monitor and prevent screwworm outbreaks.

Why was there a flu outbreak in our armed forces?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Pete Hegseth, cut vaccination requirements for our armed forces, putting all of them at risk alongside our military readiness.

What contributed to the Covid outbreak?

Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to a pandemic prevention program in his first term because Barack Obama had created it.

“America first” sends its regards. Trump voters, please learn your lesson. And if you don’t, it’ll be taught to you again with yet another diarrhea outbreak.

[bigboysdrinkmilk]

[vaspider]

Please give credit to Matthew Cortland, the disabled lawyer and activist whose work is reflected in that last screenshot. They work hard on documenting what Trump and his cronies have been doing & they deserve credit.

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

hearing anything about the nolan odyssey is so funny. it's like "they cut the extremely important and infamous nobody scene" "the cyclops is a giant puppet that they put in an actual historical cave + gave circe animatronics for her pig transformation instead of cgi" "they dumped plastic skeletons in an environmentally protected location they were not supposed to be in" "they recreated ancient greek instruments in order to have an accurate score" "all of odysseus's agency is basically gone" "anne hathaway actually learned how to weave ancient looms" "the women in this movie are treated like shit" "they actually buried actors alive to get those underworld shots" "did you see what the fuck zendaya was fucking wearing holy shit you can't DO THAT, MA'AM" "what do you mean there was a legitimate epic the musical reference" "NOT A SINGLE FUCKING GREEK WAS CAST IN THIS MOVIE"

like did nolan have two guys standing at his side at all times whispering ideas in his ear and one told the truth and the other told lies and they didnt tell him which was which until they wrapped production cause

[deervsheadlights]

just a regular workplace relationship

[jeffwholivesathomunculus]

Every time I go to the bookstore and walk by the fantasy and romance genre shelves it's just row after row of books that are largely and very clearly just this

[mclennonyaoi]

working with kids and one of them says “you know you eat 8 spiders a night on average right?” and another goes “no no no those statistics are actually skewed by people who like eat spiders recreationally for fun and stuff” and my head snapped up like a fucking sleeper agent

[redstonedust]

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

[melanqueerly]

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

[phinarei]

Not being a dick, just a friendly clarification.

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.

Doing it on accident sucks, but it isn't a tactic of capitalism intentionally intended to suppress queer representation while making money from queer fans.

[joyandotherstories]

Reblogging to keep the accurate definition and examples of queerbaiting circulating in the world

[theconcealedweapon]

[decadentcadence]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN PHM SOUNDTRACK HEAVILY FEATURES DIES IRAE BUT IN MAJOR. THE DEATH MOTIVE BUT IN MAJOR. THERE IS HOPE. THEIR PLANETS ARE NOT GOING TO DIE. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO DIE HERE. AT THE MOMENT WHEN ROCKY AND GRACE FIRST ESTABLISH CONTACT. WHEN ROCKY TELLS GRACE HE'LL GIVE HIM THE FUEL TO GO HOME. I HAVEN'T LISTENED THROUGH THEM ALL BUT THERE'S SO MUCH OF THEM, THERE IS SO MUCH HOPE I CANNNNNTTTTTTTTTTTTT I PHYSICALLY CANNOT THINK ABOUT THIS MOVIE ANYMORE

[holy-punks]

[davidout-sortir]

This is so important.

[baatjr-deactivated20150830]

yes teenage girls can be dramatic and wild but honestly have u ever even seen what happens when u tell a grown man ‘no’

[only-tiktoks]

[devantnuit-ladeluge]

[cryoverkiltmilk]

The absolute contempt for these locks is palpable.