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Honestly, if CG artists unionising kills the use of CG in films, I don't see a downside.
This post has riled a lot of people. For what it's worth, my point wasn't that technology is bad and Edison was a witch, my point was that any industry that can be killed by unionizing should be.
Any industry that can't survive unionization relies on exploiting its workers' labor and should be killed immediately anyway
This guy alone just filled my "live your life with passion" quota for the year.
Funniest thing is the quick "settle down mate" and the dip into the Australian accent as he gushes over how pretty it is.
Knowing herpetologists: literally every one of them under 40 was influenced by Steve Irwin. The Austrailian accent and repetition of Irwinesque phrases (what a beauty, look at the size of this fella) is involuntary but an important part of the snake catching ritual.
just regular human ninja teens
Can we talk about how a seriously concerning number of people are drawn to social justice not out of the goodness of their hearts but because there are prevalent circles within the social justice community that actively reward and encourage behavior that is nearly indiscernible from bullying and harassment with reassurance that it's the 'right and just' kind?
these tags r too accurate to not include
Hope you don't mind that I included your tags, I've seen this exact thing. I've even been on the receiving end of this stuff just for refusing to go along with callout post culture.
I'm an adult
You're a dumbass who the fuck says something like that
a few months ago my friend called me and told me she was moving back up near me from 7 hours south in the middle of nowhere and asked if i would help her because she couldn’t move the furniture by herself and the town was so small there was no moving company (there were actually only 5 or six businesses in the whole town including both restaurants) and she had no one else down there to ask.
And even though money is pretty tight for her, she told me I could name my price if I would help her, because it was so far away.
I told her she was a dummy for thinking i would take her money but that i would accept the traditional helping-a-friend-move price: a meal (i know she would feel wrong about herself if she didn’t do something for me in return, that’s just how she is) Tradition suggests pizza and beer, we opted for enchiladas and a margarita.
we crashed on the floor of the empty place and left back north in the morning - when we got back to the city three more friends met us at her storage place (the place she was moving into wouldn’t be vacant for a couple months) and we started to move all her stuff up to a storage room on the THIRD FLOOR (because large city storage places be like that)
we had just taken the first box out of the truck when the (only) lady working there walked by and told us they closed in an hour and twenty minutes, and she couldn’t stay even a little late because she had to get to her other job.
One hour twenty minutes. To completely un-jenga a large uhaul and re-tetris it back into a similar sized room on the third floor.
We all just, shared a look, took off hoodies, and got the fuck down to business.
It was actually.. I still cherish look we passed around. The tiny eyebrow quirks and chin nods. The eye glints. The bigger breath we each took as we prepared to kick it up several gears. That moment of wordless connection, when we all just silently agreed that we were damn well going to do the impossible and didn’t even waste the time it would take to say anything, just got to it.
And we did it too. Finished with exactly two full minutes to spare. And then we all went for dinner and drinks to celebrate. And my friend’s friends that came to help? Two of them were acquaintances/friends of mine already. Like I lived with one for a year a decade ago sort of thing. But this experience? Brought us all closer. Made myself a new friend too.
And the friend i helped move? She and I are closer than ever because of it.
When i left our storage success diner to go home, she asked me again if I was sure i wouldn’t take any money.
I said “I ever tell you when I was 22 I went down to Hollywood to try that scene out? Anyway ten months later, when I just couldn’t do it anymore, and needed to come back, I called one of my best friends and said i can’t do this anymore i need to come back. You know what he said? He said: I’ll be there tomorrow. Not how much will you pay me, not what do i get out of it, not will you be able to cover my gas, just: I’ll be there tomorrow. Okay? You’re my friend. If you need help, I’m going to be there”
If helping someone move ruins your friendship, you’re doing at least one of those two things very wrong.
Two of my friends drove a rental from Texas to New York to pick me up and move me back home when I left New York. My husband drove across five states to help drive a U-Haul to their new home for two of our friends.
Even me, who physically can’t really do much in helping anyone move anymore, still spent several days helping them load up and directing packing, getting food, etc.
Friends help you move. It’s in the fucking code.
emperor kuzco was clearly gay
hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit
Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids' movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn't get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.
He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.
Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.
In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.
So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.
In response to the question “How did a movie like this get made at all much less by fucking Disney?” there was a recent Vulture article that outlines the whole shit show of a history behind this film according to everyone (writers, directors, VAs, Stings) involved. The gist of the story is that they fucked up making a whole, true-to-form Disney musical that never came to see the light of day SO BADLY that Disney switched directors, locked the writer’s room, and didn’t review a single script until weeks after the film was in theaters.
Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:
holy shit read the article. it’s worth it and completely batshit
This is fucking insane
I've never adequately appreciated the batshit brilliance of this joke, I've taken it for granted
This thread is a few years old but it bears repeating. I’m tired of being treated as if I am invisible. Listen to Jewish voices when we talk about fascism. I am begging you.
The widely accepted nonviolent approach to nazis has, in fact, lead to a dramatic increase in the number of nazis in recent years.
if you allow them to speak, to give them a platform as though their oppinions are valid or equal, they have already partially won, and they have already made very clear what their goals are if they win
Fucking punch nazis. Their ideals are destroy others who are not nazis. Don’t defend them with niceties. They are disgusting. Punch them.
Punch a Nazi. If you’re lucky enough to not have a personal connection to the horrors of the Holocaust, then do it for Ruth.
As a Romani I can wholeheartedly say: punch every Nazi. Punch them every fucking time
The paranoia and obsession underlying this ideology is really something
I think this illustrates really well how trans exclusionary radical feminism actually reinforces gendered expectations of what a man/woman should look like, sound like, act like, etc. and leads to stringent policing of gender along hegemonic, patriarchal norms rather than anything liberating or radical.
Hegemonic and racist norms because whites supremacist ideology is at the heart of terfism
A huge part of attempting to be normal in the internet age is learning how to not Make Up Guys To Be Mad At
"Hey, this is just one guy who I'm mad at. Am I expanding this one guy into a Made Up Population of Guys?"
"Hey, this dude stands to benefit socially and politically from making up Guys to be Mad at, that may not reflect reality. Am I allowing him to Make Up Guys for me?"
"Hey, I hold a set of personal ideals and convictions I believe to be valuable. That implies a guy, an anti-guy, if you will, and boy would I be mad if he was real."
My writing process.
Being a DM
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I think for a lot of white people, when you call them out on their casual racism (microagressions and non-overt things), they see it as a case of hurt feelings from your point of view as opposed to a discussion of harmful practices that aid the vehicle of racism. So in response, they take it as a personal attack, rather than a learning experience, and go on the defensive by bringing up a time that you made them upset as leverage. Or they defend their actions by doubling down on the behavior at hand and dismissing your criticism as over sensitivity and emphasizing their “harmless” intent. And I think that is one of the reasons why it’s so hard to address casual and interpersonal racism with the general white population (and also other poc tbh).
I think white people NEED to read this and let it sink way deep down inside them.
“This is a structural problem” vs “This is a personal issue”
you’re right, as a terf i’ve killed many males 😔 but not as much as trans ppl and men do. so dont worry, look the other way as you do with trans rapists 💜
it is interesting that you probably think of yourself as a very progressive person while very blatantly using the same conservative tactics every group of bigots across human history has used while trying to demonize various civil rights movements. anti-black lives matter individuals will point to various horrific crimes committed by random black people as a way of attempting to dismiss BLM (often with incredibly misleading statistics), as though in order to recognize that a group of people is oppressed and support their civil liberation you must believe that no individual throughout the entire group has ever done anything immoral ever. homophobes will scour the news for any instance they can find of a gay person preying on children to frame gay rights organizations of being pro-pedophile. why do you think conservatives have brought back 'groomer' as a pejorative specifically against gay men? the nazi website stormfront will regularly post news items of people of colour committing violent crimes as 'proof' that white people are inherently superior.
of course, every time, this turns out to be incoherent nonsense; no pro-BLM activist or gay organization has ever claimed there exists no marginalized person who has ever committed a horrible crime. what all of these activists are instead trying to do is 1) identify that oppressed groups are unjustly oppressed, and 2) identify solutions to achieve an equitable outcome for those groups. 'uh huh, i found a news story where a gay man groomed someone, so gay men are predators and deserve to be oppressed' is not only blatantly bigoted; it's also just not a real argument. it's cherrypicking that ignores the fact that you can do this for any group of people; including white people, straight people, and cis people (yes, even cis women). and your ask is following in this exact same tradition. trans people are no more likely than the general population to behave violently. pointing to random examples of trans predators is 1) the exact same thing white supremacists and homophobic christians do, and 2) irrelevant.
i'll also mention the fact that your analysis isn't systemic at all. you're being sarcastic by implying you are out there personally killing trans people; i understand that. i'd be curious to know if you think systemic violence is violence. if you think working with conservative organizations that seek to systematically strip trans people of their right to transition, something that has been shown to reduce their risk of suicidal ideation, is violence. if you think trying to legally force trans women into male spaces like men's bathrooms, where they are more likely to experience physical and sexual assault, is violence. (there is no evidence that trans women being in women's bathrooms or changing rooms poses any risk to cis women, by the way). if you think the type of culture you contribute to, the type of people you work with, and the types of laws you support meaningfully increasing trans people's risk of assault is violence.
i'm assuming you only think of violence in terms of individual people physically harming other individual people. even by those metrics, trans people (both trans men and trans women) are over four times more likely than cis people to be the victim of violent crimes. the trans women you are accusing of being violent rapists are far more likely to ever experience sexual violence than you or i.
i'm sure you think of yourself as a progressive feminist. i'm sure the fact that your tactics in this case are entirely indistinguishable from those of stormfront doesn't faze you at all. people whose politics are primarily motivated by disgust don't tend to be internally consistent. i sincerely hope you can find a better use of the precious, limited time we all get on this earth than yelling at trans people online and sinking deeper into this hole. please go outside and build a life that is not based around whatever this is.
It’s called “environmental amnesia” and it’s an actual issue environmentalists discuss how to combat. The climate crisis makes it more widespread but it’s been something that’s happening for generations. The story of The Lorax describes it beautifully. The idea that what you remember is what you consider normal, but if the changes happen slowly over generations, you don’t see how large they are because you don’t personally remember them being very different, even if you were told stories about it.
this post reminded me of this ~scenario~ that happens to me and other fat folks quite often! thin folks that are our friends, support fat folks, but haven’t quite had the time or chance or willingness to unlearn fatphobic ideas in relation to themselves. we know you still think of fatness as inherently unhealthy and unattractive, work on it ♥
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Ways to reframe this so that you can try and let go of your internalized fatphobia (if you’re thinking is “I just dont like it one me!!” Babe, that’s because you’ve internalized society’s lesson that fat=bad)
“I’ve gained weight and thats ok, but I’m uncomfortable because I cant move in the same ways that I used to”
“I’ve gained weight and that’s ok, but now I’m worried about how strangers will perceive me because they have also internalized society’s harmful lessons”
“I’ve gained weight and that’s ok, but now my clothes dont fit as well as they used to”
“I’ve gained weight and that’s ok, but now I’m worried I might have to argue with medical staff about conditions that have nothing to do with my weight”
“I’ve gained weight, and that’s ok because it happens, but in the meantime I’m warm all the time and I don’t get to wear my cute sweaters”
Baby steps. Eventually you’ll internalize that first most important part, the “I’ve gained weight, and that’s ok” part. And then maybe you’ll realize that the other parts of those statements are true at any size (except maybe the medical one, the medical bias against fat people can suck my ass) and that being fat is just another way of being.
Don’t ever come at me saying “both parties are the same”
No, no they’re not. the REPUBLICANS are doing this.
Fuck them straight to hell.
Even worse:
The bill would ban public funding for any COLLEGE that teaches or discusses it.
In other words, they are laying out their Long Game to make it impossible to obtain Gender-affirming Care. Making it so that Medical Schools cannot teach it, which would eventually lead to…..well….no doctors that can provide care to Transgender people.
(It goes without saying that such a plan would also, of course, absolutely devastate the care for cis patients that require the EXACT SAME CARE.)
One more part of the bill:
It would ban insurance coverage for trans healthcare for EVERYONE. I’m completely exhausted y’all
