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watched superman recently and this reel has been absolutely FRYING MEEEE

(📹 art.b0i on instagram)

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The guys practically live on a Clue board.

The suspects in Cluedo, but with the Glass Onion (Knives Out sequel) actors/characters.

Madelyn Cline/Whiskey as Miss Scarlett

Dave Bautista/Duke Cody as Colonel Mustard

Kathryn Hahn/Claire Debella as Mrs. White

Edward Norton/Miles Bron as Mr. Green

Kate Hudson/Birdie Jay as Mrs. Peacock

Leslie Odom Jr/Lionel Toussaint as Professor Plum

It's a terrible, terrible game.

CLUEDO card art by Lacey Van Nortwick

Blackram Hall: whodunit, murder mystery, hardboiled, pulp, crime, thriller, italian giallo, noir and neo-noir, detectives and serial killers, spy stories, vintage, manor houses, art, life and death.

Avatar pic by Mitchell Turek

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love as recognition

anna gavalda / friedrich nietzsche / clarice lispector / jandy nelson / rebecca perry / mhairi mcfarlane

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people who are just finding out about internet tracking and data mining in the year 2025 and that your special robot friend does not respect your privacy lol

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here's the thing.

a young woman suddenly saddled with raising her younger sibling who ultimately has to accept that she isn't up to the task and it'd be better for her sibling to live in a stable and loving home with a family friend, leading to a bittersweet ending where the siblings remain in contact and still love each other, but must accept living apart at least for the time being, could be an interesting and compelling character.

but that character isn't nani pelekai.

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Thinking about Lilo & Stitch makes me really appreciate certain things about the original + the series. Almost every single named [human] character in the movie isn’t white: the only exception being Mertle, y’know, the bratty little girl we’re not supposed to like.

Besides all of the racial representation, Lilo herself is very much a neurodivergent icon, and her portrayal as the protagonist is amazing considering how characters like her are typically either sidelined or depicted in ways to make them less sympathetic/human (modern media does at least a slightly better job at adressing that kind of thing tho).

So all of that is great, but to anyone that hasn’t seen Lilo & Stitch: The Series, it also does some extremely refreshing stuff.

Pleakley gets tons of validation to dress in drag, everyone always referring to Pleakley as “she” when dressed up as “aunt Pleakley.” There’s even an episode that tackles Pleakley dealing with the pressures of his family that wants him to marry a girl and settle down to have a “normal life.” After the episode's shenanigans, there's a realistic depiction of the misunderstanding of a heteronormative/traditional parent with their non-traditional child: Pleakley's mom says that she just wants her children to be happy, but when Pleakley says that he is happy, she thinks he's only trying to console her as she insists, "How can you be happy? You aren't even married." But Pleakley finally gets it through to his mom when he says, "I don't want to be married, mother! I'm happy just as I am."

After getting to meet all of Pleakley's ohana throughout the episode and hearing from Pleakley himself -after all of the previous misunderstandings- that he really, truly, is happy, she's finally starting to understand.

Even though his mom comments as they leave that she wants him to “try wearing men’s clothes more often,” she still does walk away accepting that she simply doesn’t understand her son's way of thinking. It’ll definitely be hard for her since she’s so much more “traditional,” but she’s finally coming to grips with the fact that her son is who he is, and likes being that way, so she’ll love him regardless. She's trying her best.

The portrayal of people with physical disabilities is also great. It’s not because there’s one recurring character with some condition, but almost because there are non-recurring characters. It isn’t in every episode, but here’s an example: they want to show someone at the park playing fetch with their dog for just one shot. They could very easily have it be any a random person, but they decided to make it a lady in a wheelchair. There's another episode where Nani's friends from highschool show up and one has forearm crutches, but not just because she had some recent accident. No one in the episode questions her condition or feels the need to point it out, the only comment on it being that the friend will use the crutches to lightly bonk the others' arms, and Nani jokes, "You are still deadly with that thing."

The fact that they include characters with disabilities when they "don't have to" makes it that much more normal. These people aren't some special case or the main highlight of the episode, they're just another person. They're normal.

There's so much that all of the original Lilo & Stitch media did right, but now the name will forever be tainted with the association of the remake, which I'm sure will have absolutely none of the tasteful writing and ideas of anything prior to it.

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I feel like the big push for AI is starting to flag. Even my relatively tech obsessed dad is kinda over it. What do you even use it for? Because you sure as hell dont want to use it for fact checking.

There's an advertisement featuring a woman surreptitiously asking her phone to provide her with discussion topics for her book club. And like... what. Is this the use case for commercial AI? This the best you could come up with? Lying to your friends about Moby Dick?

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what are ur true crime documentary recommendations?

OH I GOT SO MANY hang on let me go look through the streaming services i use to remember them.

needless to say trigger warning for all of these!! and yes i have watched all of these at least once!!

relentless

i'll be gone in the dark

the texas killing fields

night stalker: the hunt for a serial killer

sins of our mother

the devil next door

i am a killer

i am a stalker

the puppet master: the ultimate conman

the curious case of natalia grace

making a murderer

the keepers

the trial of gabriel fernandez

the anthrax attacks

murder mountain

the girl in the picture

murdaugh murders: a southern scandal

capturing the killer nurse

the tinder swindler

keep sweet pray and obey

the family

evil genius

the murder of gabby petito

down the hill: the delphi murders

lost women of highway 20

mommy dead and dearest

the cheshire murders

finding andrea

heaven's gate: the cult of cults

there's something wrong with aunt diane

beware the slenderman

who killed garret philips?

murder in boston: root, rampage, and reckoning

the murder of laci peterson

wild crime: murder in yosemite

wild crime: blood mountain

murder among the mormons

crime beat

dark desires

there is 100% ones i'm forgetting, but!! these are some of my favs from netflix, hbomax, and hulu!!

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BAD SISTERS + trios

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Whenever I’m feeling particularly down these days, I always try to remind myself of Mr. Rogers and his quote about looking for the helpers. More than that, I try to think of ways I can be a helper, even if it’s just offering emotional support to someone I care about. Throughout dark times in history, there have always been people resisting and trying to do the right thing. I’m tired, but I’m still here, and that matters. For these next few years, I think it’s more important than ever to find those pieces of good news that show people are still making a positive impact in the world.

The final bit of hope I keep close to me is something my father said. After the election, he told me that tomorrow the sun will still rise and tomorrow will still come. It’s up to each of us to help make that tomorrow a better one.

I think we all of us shouldn't just look for others to do the helping, after all Mr. Rogers advice was for children and about watching big events on the news.

but even with big events on the news, Fred Rogers said that "look for the helpers" line in his 9/11 special when he returned from retirement, and as an aside remember when children's entertainment tried to challenge kids and give them real subjects? He did an episode on assassinations once too. Any ways, on 9/11 and in the days after average every day people dropped what they were doing to help how they could, the actor Steve Buscemi was a firefighter in the 1980s and returned during 9/11 spending long long days digging through rubble in the week after 9/11. Kevin Conroy the voice of Batman worked in a kitchen feeding volunteers and search and rescue crews.

To briefly become a reform Jewish stereotype, in my faith we are called on to repair the world, tikkun olam, in Hebrew. I don't think any of us have the power to alone repair the whole of the world, but I think we should set before ourselves a way to repair our small corner of the earth.

I think thats what I'm taking for the next 4 years, what real substantive thing in my local space can I do that helps make the world better. Look for local elections, school board, local resource board, county office, that you can get involved it to elect someone good and cool who inspires you. Is there a ballot measure a local or state one you can be involved with that makes you feel good. Can you volunteer at a soup kitchen? or start a local green project or start a LGBT support group, or join one? start a club or safe space for Queer kids at the local library or school (if you work in such a place) etc

if everyone puts a little effort into their corner of the world it'll all add up it really will.

and yes don't let the bastards get you down, and I really think having a little flower that you're growing is the best way to not let the big picture get you down, find people around you that you believe in that inspire you and connect and grow.

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The Chronicles of Narnia: Children from another world depose a tyrannous witch-queen at the behest of a talking lion, and are declared the realm’s rightful rulers. The realm’s citizens accepts this without major protest because the lion said so.

The Wizard of Oz: Child from another world deposes a variety of tyrannous witches with the aid of a talking lion, reinstates the realm’s rightful ruler, then just sort of shacks up with her indefinitely. A lot of the realm’s citizens are honestly a bit weirded out by this, but go along with it because it beats the alternative.

Alice in Wonderland: Child from another world variously aids and antagonises a series of tyrannous queens (some of whom may be witches) with the aid(?) of a talking housecat, and is subsequently crowned queen herself for no real reason. The realm’s citizens mostly don’t notice because this sort of thing happens all the time.

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it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.