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anatomy of a humiliation
I think Scooby Doo as a franchise has under explored the potential of the late 60s and early 70s as a setting
I'm sorry but my conceptualization of Fred is directly tied to his dodging of the draft, and his gay autistic swag
Fred just wants to solve mysteries and maybe hook up with Shaggy a few times, he is a nice boy, and that's important because if the show takes place in the year it was made then he was almost certainly dodging the draft, which adds a level of depth to him as we know he's nice and that niceness gives him a motivation beyond mystery, he doesn't want to go to Vietnam and kill but he can't say he's gay because Stonewall hasn't happened yet
He's scared, he makes mistakes, he had to leave his family, and feels lucky that his only friends agreed to join him in his van as he went to Canada, like Scooby Doo as a show really only works if you consider this, why are they always in a new place? Because they are on the run. I think a lot of Fred fans like him because he's a kind hearted silly guy, but once you realize the implications of the draft, he becomes a much more fascinating character, one we will never actually see explored because WB would never make scooby political sadly
To me, Fred is the most important character in Scooby Doo, not the dog or Shaggy, because while they instigate the plots of the episodes and see the ghosts and ghouls, Fred is the one who tries to catch and reveal the monsters, he has a strong moral compass, he knows what these people are doing is wrong and so he risks being found by the police to help the communities he goes through by catching these monsters
And I think that this detail is where a lot of people misstep with scooby doo adaptations, they try to make it modern and they try to make it straight, which doesn't work because of the death of the hippies and the counterculture makes the cross country travel feel weird, and you get really awkward relationships between the characters when you make it straight because Shaggy shouldn't be dating Dalpne, neither should Fred, those are 2 gay men, and Velma and Shaggy definitely shouldn't date, look at how fucking awful they were in Mystery Inc, I think one of the best things in recent scooby had been the move to make Velma more openly a lesbian since it gives her depth and doesn't take away from her character in the way that the heterosexuality does for literally every character.
Also, when making a scooby cast, don't be afraid to give them different races, I know people were angry with the Velma show but that's their problem, the race changes were not the issue with that show, it was the poor writing. One of my favorite Fred designs had him Korean, I love seeing a black Daphne, Velma is canonically Jewish in one show, you can do whatever you want with them, except make them straight
Also, I don't think Shaggy was drafted, I think he is just a #good friend who like Velma and Daphne didn't want Fred to be alone, now do I think those 3 were giving up the world to be with Fred, no, I think they each had their own reasons to leave, Daphne has always wanted to see the East Coast, Velma wants to learn about the political systems at play in New York, Shaggy bought a ticket to Woodstock, but the main reason is the fact they like so many in the 60s were bores and wanted to find a new way to live, alongside wanting to help their friend
Actually, yeah, I like that, Shaggy should be disabled.
Now for the big thing, where does Daphne fall? I think she has been overlooked and that is unfortunate but a simple issue with her characterization in the Mystery gang, Velma finds the clues, Shaggy and Scooby see the monster and Fred makes the trap, but what is Daphne's role, the typical suggestions are either the dare devil stunt woman who can do anything or the rich girl funding the whole thing, someone said her family even owns the mystery machine. I like the idea of Daphne bankrolling Mystery Inc but I think her most interesting characterization has been that of a journalist, someone trying to document the monsters, and I think that could fit quite well into this scenario, as she could be the one telling this story, a sort of Tim Wolfe documenting Ken Kesey and his merry band of pranksters cross country trip in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test but with monsters and Mysteries instead of the excess of the counter culture. She goes along on the trip and looks for clues and stuff but because she has the goal of documentation, she is often ending up on her own trying to find clues and taking too many risks, she would be the one who gets the gang into trouble, not as a damsel in distress but as someone who pushes the boundaries of what they should do. When they arrive in Canada, Daphne sends off her writings on the mysteries to a publisher she met in New York with all the names changed and that ends the show
Since we are here, I'm gonna put my head canons for all of the scooby gang in here too
It's been pointed out a few times that canonically Fred is 17 and therefore doesn't have to worry about the draft, but I think it is fine to age him and the gang up to 19 if only to make him eligible for the draft and explain why they aren't in school
Please reblog this version, it has a lot more of my thoughts on this compared to the version that has been getting shared
and with your help it can rack up 700k notes on tumblr in 2024
no tumblr this doesnt need tags im releasing it into the wild as god intended
every day should be like i wake up & my first thought is a beautiful idea of a fun & new activity & i spend my day accomplishing it
i do want to live like them like so bad
I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains
The Kids are indeed Alright.
We must teach them the Lore of things,
like piracy, and how to find stuff at the Library, and Unions, and what it's not legal for job applications to ask you.
when i hear complaints about the boomers, i say "was it not boomers getting shot by cops while protesting against the war in vietnam? Were not boomers the ones who insisted that banks would no longer require a cosign from a husband or father for a woman to open an account or have a credit card? Did they not literally take us to the moon?"
When i hear complaints about gen x i say " did not gen x bear the brunt of AIDS and the creation of the 'inner city'? wasn't it gen-x marching for queer rights and women's body autonomy and a change in corrupt banking policies in some of the largest protests in the country's history?"
when i hear complaints about millennials, i say "have not millennials fought against and lived through so many 'once in a generation' disasters they should by all rights have given up by now? Are not millennials those who rally against the status quo? the industry killers, the cop protesters, they who live through unending hardship as the economic noose tightens, leading the charge for sustainability and socio-economic reform?"
when i hear complaints about gen-z i say "hasn't gen-z gotten involved younger, and been involved stronger, in the continuance of these noble traditions? Are they not living without even the broken pieces of the promise given to the generations that came before? haven't they had their childhoods derailed by the imminence of consequences for actions they were never even present for?"
when i hear complaints about generation alpha i say "HOW DARE YOU. How dare you malign these souls who will have to fix so much that they did not have a hand in ruining... or else die of these mistakes made before they were born. How dare you do the work of our shared oppressors and alienate our fresh blood. You are not to mistreat and mock the youngest soldiers in this fight, no! you point out to them the best targets, you share your rations, you show them how to stay alive, because anyone in the trenches with us is our brethren, our sistren. Our safety and our strength."
don't let the worst kind of stand up comedian tell you other generations are terrible. Don't let the worst kind of headline convince you each generation is against the other. Don't let the worst kind of oppressive force keep us divided along lines that mean nothing real. Because that is how they win.
Some day I want to see a show that does the “no filler episodes” thing from the opposite direction. Just a whole season worth of low-stakes character pieces that seem to move the overall story absolutely nowhere, then episode 26 pulls all the triggers at once and this massive Rube Goldberg machine of a plot the show’s been quietly setting up in the background the whole time hits you like a truck.
Incredible one-liners as always
A brief moment of rationality from the bird place.
Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today
fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes
May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love
May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love
and i oop- 👀
i'm for sure not the first one to say this but the sheer amount of airtime and media coverage and sympathy and material resources for recovery extended to these five rich dipshits aboard the titanic submarine is SO bleak when like. 500 migrants literally died at sea just last week and literally thousands die every year but like. there's no intrigue there there's no drama there's no novelty of how scary the Deep Sea is there's no Big Fate-Driven Narrative that leads to minute-by-minute updates that have you at the edge of your seat clamoring for news. the migrants just died because that's just what happens. to thousands of them every year. like… they still haven't found that ship off the coast of greece and there were possibly hundreds of people locked in that hold who most certainly died horrible deaths and idk every time people talking about the oceangate sub are like "you couldn't pay me let alone have me pay to get in a vessel that was bolted shut from the outside that i have no way of escaping on my own" it just hits me that like. what the fuck are we doing here. why are we so plugged into this. yes it's the circus yes it's not Positive coverage and it's largely schadenfreude and i know i'm part of this too but still like. damn what if we just DIDN'T give the billionaire ~explorers~ the attention and notoriety they so clearly desperately crave and let them just fucking die in obscurity like they deserve
this is just like when the evergiven happened and everyone was like "finally a story that we can freely enjoy with no victims except rich capitalists! yesss hilarious!" when actually the larger story about maritime labor is uh. fucking bleak… they literally seized the ship over disputes regarding compensation (between the ships owners & the suez canal authority) which DETAINS THE CREW OF LABORERS ON BOARD. and that's not a rare occurrence and crews get detained sometimes for YEARS and literally CANNOT LEAVE THE SHIP if they want to get paid. like. search "seafarer abandonment" and actually read about the aftermath of the evergiven and then think about whether it was a pure fun victimless spectacle!! anyways lol i really wish we would think sometimes!
that post going around with 20k notes waxing poetic about how the oceangate sub is “very textually rich but a bad way to die as a human being” and “it feels like something a greek god would do to punish them” and “it has a certain swagful je ne sais quoi” …… like……………… do you ever think that perhaps all this shit and this dramatic performance by the audience online may just be a hint that you have in fact bought into the self-mythologization and egocentric aggrandizement that these billionaires have constructed around themselves that you so astutely point out is required for them to maintain their positions.
like. i don’t think people should be required or expected for people to blog about current events constantly or even at all honestly and it’s impossible to expect everyone to keep up with let alone post about every new international crisis here on tumblr dot com but the fucking irony of literally making a point to say “i dont think the ultra rich ever extend that mindset to others. climate refugees. and just everything.” and not once mention the ship of now potentially 700 dead actual climate refugees that is very much still an ongoing crisis currently occurring in direct parallel on the world stage to this fucking billionaire submarine incident. this specific omission in this specific moment in the context of that specific rhetoric just feels really flagrant is all. “great way to die as a narrative about human greed and folly i guess” okay yeah but to you it is still a narrative you care deeply about and are personally invested in. unlike narratives of the climate refugees, whom you brought up to dunk on billionaires because you care about them in the abstract as An Issue, An Idea, but not one that is, in specifics, worth discussing, ruminating on, writing lengthy verbose metaphors about. since i guess there is no textual richness, no grand fascinating and personally haunting narrative there. it’s just what happens. a tragedy, but not a mythological one.
anyways it's not like the mainstream media is ignoring the migrant vessel story, like both these stories were on the front page of the new york times today a few columns apart. but seeing the stark difference in the content of the stories is just:
Contradictions in the Coast Guard’s account cast new doubts over how the Greeks handled one of the worst maritime disasters in the country’s
The chief executive of the submersible’s operator was among the five people now identified as missing in a vast section of the North Atlanti
the greek coast guard insisting the ship refused help and had been attempting to reach italy all along while other accounts including those of survivors suggest the ship had been in distress for hours and the greek coast guard purposefully did not intervene in order to shift the responsibility onto italy (or even potentially accidentally caused the shipwreck??) but nobody can really be sure what happened out there, and sure the UN is calling for an investigation but like, there's no Big Haunting Mystery there. there's no imagining or waxing poetic about what if i were in their place (because of course why would i ever imagine that). it all boils down to: people in power thought their lives didn't matter and they suffered the consequences
vs coast guards from three different countries deploying three aircraft, sonar probes, multiple rescue ships, and exploration robots to search for the billionaire sub, and everyone is Obsessed with finding out every fucking detail of how and why exactly this happened and what is going on inside that sub at this exact moment and what is going on with those five people psychologically and emotionally. everyone is thinking aloud about what if i was in their place (or i would never be in their place because i'm not as dumb and ruled by hubris as a billionaire!)
idk but just the contrast in how we're talking about these two stories, if we're talking about the former at all… it's all just. bleak
oh finally an actual article. what have i been SAYING all fucking day
U.S. media has largely ignored a shipwreck with hundreds of migrant deaths but has focused intently on a missing submersible full of rich pe
That the deaths of hundreds of migrants hasn’t reached the level of a missing submersible packed with rich tourists showcases a number of American media deficiencies. The Titanic submersible is a “new” news event—it is, after all, not every day that a few fabulously wealthy people go missing at the bottom of the ocean in an underwater vehicle that looks like a septic tank. It is, as noted above, also an ongoing news event with a compelling mystery: As of this writing (Tuesday afternoon) its ending is still unknown. It has a bit of the feel of the MH-370 story from a few years ago—a tragedy and a mystery woven together—just with far fewer (and far richer) passengers.
And yet what does the story tell us about the way the world works? It says something that the submersible is unregulated and was not checked by any nautical safety agency; the fact that there are people who can drop this kind of money to travel to the bottom of the ocean for fun says something too, I suppose. It is a story that undeniably highlights something about our contemporary world, where some people are wealthy enough that they can lay out a quarter-of-a-million to visit the bottom of the ocean on a lark.
But these are and have been minor facets of the incident’s coverage, even if they undoubtedly are a part of what is driving the public’s fascination. Instead it’s been covered the way many breaking news stories are, with updates trickling in about the (possible) victims, items being written up with the bits of information that have come from press conferences, and a general sense that it is a story whose intrinsic importance commands the public’s unblinking attention.
The sinking of a boat carrying hundreds of migrants should be treated this way but it isn’t and hasn’t been. It is undoubtedly a new story and an unspeakably tragic one—it’s also, unlike the Titanic tourists story, one that says a great deal about the way the world works. And yet it’s treated as routine or even mundane—yet another faceless tragedy involving people that typically receive far less attention than those who are far better off than they are. There’s greater appetite for coverage of lifestyles of the rich and (now) famous than for the deaths of hundreds of anonymous migrants, or at least cable news assignment editors think so. The story is undoubtedly political as it involves immigration policy, various European governments, and the conditions that drive people to take extraordinary risks to go on risky journeys across the Mediterranean. And yet much of the coverage that does occur fails to address these complexities.
The deadliest migrant and refugee shipwreck occurred in April 2015, when a boat carrying as many as 1,100 people traveling from Libya to Italy capsized in the Mediterranean. Later that summer, a haunting image of young boy’s drowned body washed up on a Turkish beach went viral after the boat which had been carrying him and his family capsized. Migrants and refugees have continued to arrive in Europe since then; boats carrying them have tragically continued to sink. And yet news coverage in the U.S. has largely dried up. The American media has largely moved on, particularly after the rise of Donald Trump. Attention never returned to the levels it did that summer, even though migrants have continued to take extraordinary risks to go to Europe.
Some of this is just because the American press has always struggled to cover international stories without an obvious U.S. angle. Some of this is undoubtedly a reflection of the ratings-obsessed nature of cable news and the traffic-obsessed nature of online media, which both tend to gravitate toward viral stories like the Titanic submersible and away from complex international ones like what happened off of Greece last week. And this all highlights a larger aversion to cover difficult stories, particularly difficult international ones.
The missing submersible only underscores these deficiencies. With luck, its passengers will be found alive. But it also showcases a press that will rapidly turn its attention to some issues while leaving other glaring omissions in its coverage. News outlets have, over the last 36 hours, devoted extraordinary resources to covering five missing people trapped in a metal tube. They could have devoted similar resources to the ongoing fallout surrounding the deaths of hundreds of migrants—they simply haven’t.
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[for @unicyclehippo as part of our little series for ea other — outside switzerland era pov, or: the kind, amused things a very kind vintage shopkeeper & her wife in switzerland think of ava & beatrice. also on ao3.]
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one hot afternoon the door rings and a girl rushes through, a little bit of a hurricane, and another follows, calm in the eye of a storm she seems both exasperated by and fond of at once.
Every year a bobcat mama gives birth to a litter of kittens on my roof. I set up a camera this time around.
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Youth fascination with technology
these images of sandra oh in the 90's/early 00's live in my mind rent free
hey god it's me again
Portrait of an unidentified woman standing outdoors wearing a blouse with exaggerated sleeves, 1896
fuck with me
It's so important to remember that tumblr is bad. Has been bad. And will likely remain bad for the foreseeable future. And that is vital to our survival. If Tumblr was a good website that worked, it would get turned into a corporate hellscape like every other site. It's so important that Tumblr is broken and poorly run and impossible to effectively navigate. It's all that's keeping us safe.
tumblr management know we feel this way though. They’ve just added trackers to sharing urls/links. The first step to targeted advertising, yay!
don’t get complacent about the possibility of tumblr becoming a corporate hellscape
remember that ANY text in a link after a ? is only tracking information and can ALWAYS be safely removed
Quick summary of the (I think) easy way I've been getting around this now:
When you copy a link (form your dashboard, not from their page), it'll come in the format https://at.tumblr.com/[blog name]/[post number]/[tracking junk] (brackets are just for show, don't include those!)
Delete the tracking junk. That's anything after the post number.
Replace the "at" before tumblr.com with [blog name]. Replace where [blog name] used to be with "post" (no quotation marks).
Your final format should be https://[blog name].tumblr.com/post/[post number]
Share the link! It should go directly to the post and not route through any app store or tracking nonsense.
Hope this helps someone!