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i have a bone to pick with people who genuinely hate children. sure, you can absolutely decide that you don’t wanna have children on your own, that’s me too. i don’t want children. but getting angry when there’s children around you in public spaces is a bit iffy. i saw a tiktok of someone saying they laugh when they see children fall (??) and it really rubbed me the wrong way
Idk man, there's something about "bad" singing that's so beautiful to me? Like when someone goes just the tiniest bit flat on certain pitches because they're so into the music that they use a little more weight than normal in their voice. Or when a person's accent/cadence colors the lyrics in a unique way that's completely different from the original? Like, that's YOUR voice!!! It came from you and you're the only person it could ever come from!!!! That's what being human is about!
I'm a professional singer myself and whatever, I can absolutely recognize and appreciate when a person has amazing talent and mastery of technique. But people who haven't developed singing technique are so hesitant these days to even sing along to their favorite song on the radio anymore and idk, that's just fucking tragic to me.
Your singing voice, whatever it sounds like, is a part of you, meant to be shared. And it has value, not because of how "pretty" or "polished" it is, but because it's you
i watched set it up, that new rom com, on netflix last night and it was ?? so ?? good ?? like a real good rom com but take out the gross tropes that have been in them for years
Wants: Enough money to move away from here, getting to be with my love, an actual start to my transition, getting to be around friends and maybe actually want to go out, eventually getting a motorcycle license and motorcycle, a stable job where I could adopt a cat and/or dog.
What I have: An excessive amount of rage over how being black and trans is such a bitch at times, anxiety and depression, a want to survive (even though it gets hard some days).
People will really call any bad thing a male character happens to do on screen "toxic masculinity."
I'm talking about the Joker specifically here. Now, I could go on for hours about Arthur Fleck, and how all throughout the movie, he's seen doing traditionally feminine things and it plays zero part in why he finally snaps. But in particular, Heath Ledger's Joker gets the rep. Like...yeah, sure, this really looks like someone who's scared of espousing any facet of femininity:
I'm completely baffled, like wtf. His character has everything to do with people's need to be seen as moral and upstanding, and fuck all to do with traditional gender stereotypes and being seen as "macho". You can't just take any male character who happens to commit atrocious acts and cry "toxic masculinity" because all that does is let writers who are ACTUALLY writing toxically masculine characters off the hook and muddies the definition of the term.
Moral of the story is, there are so many examples of toxic masculinity in our media, and it's good that we're now able to criticize that media and still enjoy it (at least some of us, not many of whom use this hellsite). Just make sure you're at least pointing your fingers in the right fucking direction when you do it holy shit.
Sorry to rant first thing in the morning, I just saw a comment on a video (I should have learned by now to never read comment sections ugh) that made my eyes roll into the back of my skull
Drove through my town to check out my apartment and my family's homes. My apartment, thankfully, is completely untouched. The rest of my family did suffer damage, but it is reparable.
So many people were not as lucky.
Please, PLEASE keep Louisiana in your hearts at this time. This is the worst hurricane the state has faced in over 150 years. Driving through my hometown is literally like Jumanji, the destruction is unbelievable.
Started playing Bloodborne today (late to the party, I'm aware) and all I know is that I Love Gilbert
Arthur's Morality, A Rant
So, @ajokeformur-ray mentioned me in an ask she got regarding our opinion on Arthur's morality. I just wanna expand on mine a little, since I haven't yelled about Sad Clown Man in a while.
I believe that the final scene of the movie in Arkham is the only time we see Arthur how he truly is. Cold, calculating, manipulative, condescending... But fuck that guy. I don't like him, so I'm not gonna talk about him.
Now, the persona that Arthur is telling this therapist about, the one we spend two hours following and getting to know, I do like that guy. That's why I choose to write about him, and that's who I'm going to be referring to when I make the points I'm about to make.
Do I believe Arthur Fleck is a good person? Hell no, and if I knew him in real life, I would run for the hills. Do I believe that, as he is presented for most of the movie, he is a cold-blooded, psychopathic killer? No, and let me explain.
Arthur has either eight or nine onscreen victims, depending on how you look at it: the three men on the subway, Penny, Randall, Murray Franklin, and the therapist (if you believe he killed her, I can't decide if I think the blood on his feet in the final sequence is merely symbolic or not) are all directly murdered by him. Which leaves two more victims unaccounted for - Thomas and Martha Wayne, killed indirectly. Arthur didn't personally pull the trigger on them, no, but they were killed by one of his admirers, no doubt because Arthur had just finished trashing Thomas' name on live TV.
What do all of these people (aside from the therapist) have in common? They are all people who have personally wronged Arthur in some way. Now, this is nothing groundbreaking, Chuckletown has already figured this much out. I merely want to use this info as backing for my own opinions.
Arthur says himself, "I don't believe in anything." That automatically rules out any motives similar to HL's Joker, who is driven by his own nihilistic worldview. He also says "You think men like Thomas Wayne ever think what it's like...to be anybody but themselves? They don't. They think we'll just sit there and take it like good little boys, that we won't werewolf and go wild!" I think these are the two most telling lines.
Arthur doesn't care about spreading chaos. He doesn't care about breaking societal structures. He doesn't care about anything, not on a grand scale at least. All he cares about is people who are "awful" getting their comeuppance.
It's been a while since my conversation with Erika about it, and my opinion has evolved since then. I don't know that I'd use the word "vigilante" anymore, as that implies a sense of moral responsibility. But I still wouldn't necessarily use the word "villain" either. It all boils down to Arthur's personal ideology, why he is doing what he's doing. And he's doing it because he wants people to stop treating him like shit.
Tl;dr Arthur is ridiculously hard to pin down because he'll say shit like "I don't believe in anything" and then immediately launch into a heated rant about people he thinks are bad
