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no sentence fills me with utter loathing so much as "i asked chatgpt"
Reblogged eggcats
bernie STILL having cops throw pro-palestine protestors out of his massive rallies and saying "israel has a right to defend itself against terrorism" and absolutely not knowing how to respond to that NOT being the vibe of his audience……
at least good to see that the crowd is not with him on this. i was worried at first that they were booing the protestors at the beginning given what we saw at the dnc and every kamala rally all through her campaign but they very clearly only started booing loudly when the cops tore away the flag and started escorting the protestors out, and the entire crowd then chanting free palestine while bernie tries and fails to plow through his prepared statements "in america today— in america today—" before finally addressing it by calling it "a sensitive issue" ………… well. that's where we're at.
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The Price of Entertainment: An Episode-By-Episode Analysis of Alastor's Facade
I don’t think any character in Hazbin Hotel has been discussed as much as Alastor, and it’s a testament to how much the writers put in his character that the mystery of his intentions, past, and contract have been so debated on.
There are some takes I vehemently disagree with, but something a lot of people seem to have settled on is that Alastor is, behind his massive ego and cool-headed persona, insecure about his place in Hell after his long “sabbatical.” I want to do an episode-by-episode analysis of Alastor’s behavior and how Season 1 shifts our view of him from an unquestionably powerful Overlord to something with more depth, and while I won’t be speculating on who owns his soul and how he’ll break that contract in those post, I will take a guess at the future of his character in a narrative sense. I will also implicitly be addressing my issues with some of the conclusions others have made, or at least playing devil's advocate.
NOTE: I want to clarify that none of this is meant to depict Alastor as some poor woobie. He’s still awful. He’s in Hell for several reasons and being a serial killer is only one of them. Rather, I want to analyze what is shown to us about him, and how those story beats can be used to determine where he’ll end up by the finale of the series.
ALSO NOTE: I haven’t followed all of VivziePop’s comments outside of the show about the characters, and it’s possible that certain details have been changed between the release of the pilot and the show, so take any mentions of what hasn’t been explicitly depicted within the show with a grain of salt.
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Part 1: Recap Analysis
This section will consist of commentary regarding Alastor's appearance and behavior in the given episodes, with retrospection based on new information given in later episodes if needed.
“Overture”: Alastor is pretty one-to-one with his depiction in the pilot in the first episode. He’s snarky, open about his sadism, but helpful if begrudgingly so. Interestingly, he’s able to put together a well-edited, if tonally awful, commercial, and probably could have done better if he weren’t intentionally being an ass about it. From the finale we know that he and Vox likely used to have a more magnanimous relationship, and it’s likely that he picked up some tools of the digital trade in that time despite or before being turned off completely by it.
Reblogged opportvnist
okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the "personal life" part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you'll either find a major tragedy he didn't recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she's not there anymore.
I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he's done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.
so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn't work in history, or, women aren't auteurs, or, there just aren't as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.
Hell yeah
in recent years, it's come to my unfortunate attention that when white Americans see pictures or footage of Asian people under duress for any reason, they often don't see themselves in the faces. they don't think of their parents, or children, or siblings, or significant others. we literally look too different.
associates at dinner started chattinig about China's dark and brutal history. It started with memes like 'social credits', one-child policy, etc. but the group turned more serious and began kvetching about the Tiananmen Square massacre, misogyny and homophobia, the prosecution of the Uyghurs, and so on.
"so, what do you think about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? like, was it justified?" i asked, shaking quietly with anger.
i got a lot of blank stares, and silence for a solid 15 seconds.
"you've heard about Japan's invasion of Nanjing in WW2, right?"
one guy said, "yeah", and i continued.
"have any of you ever been to China? do you know any Chinese people? in what way does your criticisms of China have ever impacted your life or those you care about?"
reactions were pretty mixed. one guy actually gave me a very eloquent apology right off the bat, and impressively identified my feelings without further input from me - "i'm sorry for making you feel alienated as the only Asian person here".
but i also got some "where is this going?" "what stake do you have in this?" "i'm talking about China, you're the one making it about race".
i continued my point - as an Asian-American NOT Chinese nor Japanese, i believe that most Western criticisms of China and Japan are expressions of anti-Asian racism; the same people who don't give a fig about China would most certainly cite China's suffering during WW2 as why the atom bombs were 'justified'. as a matter of fact, im Taiwanese; we have very particular and strong feelings against China and Japan.
in recent years, it's come to my unfortunate attention that when white Americans see pictures or footage of Asian people under duress for any reason, they often don't see themselves in the faces. they don't think of their parents, or children, or siblings, or significant others. we literally look too different. it takes a picture of some Indonesian kid desperately drinking old water from a 90's Olive Garden kid's meal take-away cup when people go, "oh my god, i drank from those same cups growing up", or "holy shit, these Japanese-American internment prisoners are praying in a church just like we do" or something like that to knock some empathy into their heads.
i sincerely do not believe that those who - say, praise the atomic bombs - do so because of Japan's actions against my ancestors. i don't believe people who criticize China's past/present are thinking of me or my family. i don't think they have empathy for Asian people the way they do European victims of humanity's crimes.
this would be my one and only chance to voice this concern in person at a relevant time, but the group still remained divided. one dude even insisted that i was, in fact, Chinese. another revealed to the group some alarmingly conservative leanings that none of us were aware of.
after about an hour, the tentative conclusion reached by five or so guys was that i was being unfair to them by linking their political beliefs to race. they had every right to be informed and educated in the world, and my own projections should remain my own.
but three other members made an effort to verbally disagree with them and side with me, and a couple others would text me later to say that they were conflicted in the moment, but later believed that i was justified.
and i still believe i have every right to be pissed as all hell whenever i see some American redditor derail a photo of post-bomb Hiroshima with. "well, what about ___??"
'cause they don't do it at the defense of me, but for the alienation of me.
Reblogged hapalopus
Everyone look! A tiger trout is a rare cross between a brown and brook trout!
While very beautiful, they generally struggle to survive out there in the wild :(
Via Pinterest
A rare hybrid trout that cannot bear offspring of its own.
Rivers - 6am through 7pm - Spring/Fall
Reblogged a-polite-melody
my personal pick for most underrated animal is the european legless lizard, which i think is often taken to just look like a normal and rather plain snake, but if you're familiar with reptile anatomy at all it looks more like some sort of bizarre heraldic fantasy creature than basically anything else on earth
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Some closeups of the best graffiti I've ever seen
Reblogged harley-the-pancake
okay but jowling krowling coming after asexuals and the collective reaction from ace people just being "so this means y'all can stop pretending we're not part of the community now right?" is lowkey the funniest shit ever
double negative we made it a positive
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Falin
Reblogged hapalopus
““The mannerisms that help define gender - the way in which people walk,swing their hips, gesture with their hands, move their mouths and eyes when they talk, take up space - are all based upon how non disabled people move…The construct of gender depends not only upon the male body and female body, but also on the non disabled body.””
— Eli Clare, Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
“I no longer have a gender. Rather, I have a wheelchair.”
—Christina Crosby, A Body, Undone.
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Yeah Mr. Darcy’s proposal was a complete turd and a half but you gotta understand. You got your life together. A good career, stable income, retirement plan, all that shit together. And you meet this girl. And she’s everything. Clever, outspoken, funny, calls you on your bullshit. Grade A cutie, right? And she doesn’t go out of her way to spend time with you but she’s nice, and sometimes you catch her looking your way in a way that makes you think you might have a shot.
But her family. Holy shit.
First off, it’s p much ALL women, and mostly UNMARRIED women, which at this time means of something happens to her dad then you’re financially responsible for like. Four grown ass adults, potentially forever
Because mom in law is DEFINITELY gonna need someone to take care of her when dad in law kicks it, and they have like. NO money. So already you’re accepting that if all goes well, you’re gonna be one random old bag’s retirement home. That’s expensive and exhausting, yeah? Imagine asking someone on a first date knowing that if they say yes and things go good her high-strung chihuahua mother is gonna move in with you. IMAGINE.
And girly’s other sisters. Well, one is a sweetheart, yeah, and she’s getting engaged so she probably won’t be an issue, but that still leaves two more, and those ones are INSUFFERABLE. Never went to school, dumb as rocks, spend cash like it’s toilet paper
And while one of ‘em’s young still and might grow out of it the OTHER one is actively torpedo’ing her entire family’s reputation by wandering off with random dudes and chasing ass. She’s never gonna work, she can’t build connections, she’s a fucking sinkhole, and she’s being led on by the same goddamn con man ass leeching tit who’s been bleeding you dry while telling anyone who’ll listen that your family is full of ratty thieving bastards.
And if he dumps her after a week- WHICH YOU KNOW HIS BITCH ASS IS GONNA- you’ve got a SECOND UNMARRIABLE GROWN ASS ADULT TO PROVIDE FOR. And you KNOW she’s gonna be a tantrum-throwing little shit about it, and it’s not like you can lock her in the basement or something, you’re gonna have to bring her fucking. Everywhere. And give her an allowance and shit while she contributes zero, because again, she NEVER GOT EDUCATED AND HAS NO MARKETABLE SKILLS. She’s not even good to TALK to. FUCK
And you’re looking at this girl’s father like “please for the love of fuck get your spawn under control, marry them off, get them working on their résumé, learning to sew or be nursemaids or manage staff or SOMETHING, yall got no money and one foot in the grave” and that old man just laughs like “haha yeah, what can you do. lol”
So you’re looking to the mom and finally it’s making sense how she got that twitch in her eye and as MUCH as she is you’re starting to realize she’s the SMART one, desperately throwing her armloads of girls at random men like they’re a bunch of fucking lifeboats bobbing around a sinking ship, like yes Jesus Christ sweetly that life boat IS old and ugly and kind of boring but for FUCKS SAKE PICK ONE
And you look back at this girl who is ALSO REFUSING THE LIFE BOATS BY THE WAY and god damn it she’s still the most radiant thing you’ve ever seen so fine, fuck it, Christ alive, you’ll do it. You’ll shoot your shot. She’s everything you’ve ever wanted in anybody abut it’s not even just about that anymore, it’s about being her best fucking shot at a future, and even if she doesn’t like you all that much she’s still gonna say yes and that might break your heart a bit knowing it’s about the money but who knows, maybe it will at least be civil, or companionable, and even if she doesn’t LOVE you at least you’ll know she’s well and cared for
And so you’ll do it. You’ll take on the neurotic stress mess mother in law, the absent father, the broke ass wingnut no brain no money no future airhead sisters, the bad mannered relatives and the embarrassing behaviour and the impending future of sharing your entire shit with a clown parade of freeloaders, you’ll risk it all and accept the absolute certainty of financial ruin and emotional exhaustion for the rest of your whole ass life and you’ll make your own family deal with it too, you’ll do it, you’ll fucking DO IT, you stupid lovesick motherfucker
And so you go to this chick like “look. Your whole family’s a shitshow. You’ve got fucking nothing and you’re gonna die on the street. But for some reason- and I don’t get it either- I’ve fallen in love with you, and I wish I didn’t, but I did, so I’m telling you that whether you like me or not, I’ll give you everything. I’ll give you everything even if it’s the dumbest shit I ever done. Fuck my stupid Baka ass, I’ll marry you.”
And she looks at you- having heard or considered absolutely none of your months-long internal debate and monologue- and goes “The fuck did you just say about my family, you son of a bitch?”
And the shock of that is enough to jolt you back into a reality where you are able to actually hear and process what just came out of your damn mouth And yeah
Yeah, I think I kinda get it