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TA-DAH!

My Joker design! (Featuring an overcoat that won't show up much.)

You may remember this guy from the end of my Divine Comedy post. This one is mine and I'll write and draw him however I please. He's queer, intersex, mentally ill, which he's taking (unpaid) meds for and his pronouns are he/him.

Based on all my favorites from my first Joker post. This one has been a long time coming. Hope you like him!

🎪🃏🎭

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Send this to a Republican you know!

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As good as it feels, it's probably better for the long term if we foster a sense of solidarity and self betterment with these people. Understanding the psychology of it can help the situation going forward. The more we know about the kind of mindset that led someone through that pipeline, the more we can do to help prevent it in the future. For these people, I am against the idea that you can personally "fix" someone so they won't be an idiotic bootlicker anymore, but that's not what's happening here. They are learning to hold themselves accountable and admit that they made the wrong decision. That's not an easy thing for someone to do, regardless of political leaning, and it's more than I ever expected from people who started in a place like that. It shouldn't go unnoticed. Are they going to keep getting better?

I hope so.

This is an interesting thing. Looks like testimonies of people who left the MAGA movement- how they got into it and why.

Leaving a cult is really hard, so I really respect the people who are speaking from this place.

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HOLY FUDGE-MOUNTAIN-FUCK THANK YOU!

This is what I've been saying the whole time. 🙃

Willy Wonka misconceptions

As Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Willy Wonka has become weirdly popular lately because of the successful prequel film and most recently that really botched / rip-off Wonka event in Glasgow Scotland, it felt like a good time for this post.

Here are a list of popular misconceptions about the book and films.

1. Much of the Internet thinks of Wonka as a "Serial killer of children." I pointed out that at the end of the 2006 film and novel you see the children alive, though altered. And in the 1971 film that version of Wonka says that they will all be fine, but a little wiser. Someone tried to argue with me that he was just trying to placate Charlie. Really!? Since when did that Wonka ever lie to make people feel better?

Based on his previous behavior we have no reason to believe Wonka would lie just to make Charlie feel better. It's just a dark, edgy, annoying headcanon to pretend Wonka killed those other kids when every version tells you they survived.

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2. Grandpa Joe was not "Faking it" or "being lazy." It seems ironic to me that so many rant and even get genuinely angry about the character Grandpa Joe. It is especially odd to me when the rage is in regard to the depiction in the 1971 film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory.

The reason it is odd to me is because in the 1971 film Grandpa Joe very clearly was suffering through severe depression, possibly a long bipolar depression phase.

The depression is clear in his "I've got a golden Ticket" song.

"I never thought my life could be Anything but catastrophe"

"I never had a chance to shine Never a happy song to sing"

It seems weird to me that today people shame characters like Cinderella for not being assertive and empowered when she's a live-long abuse victim. And then you have the people against Disney's The Little Mermaid who say she gave up who and what she is for a man but ignore that she had a song number from before she ever saw Eric, where she expressed body dysphoria and made clear she wanted to be human even then.

And you have a large part of the Internet shaming Grampa Joe for being "lazy" and "faking being sick' while he's literally telling us that he he's been in a severe depression.

It's almost like watching a generation that supposedly respects mental illness and understands depression in ways previous generations didn't... suddenly having a justification to shame someone for having all the symptoms of clinical depression.

Hell, even the song "I've got a Golden Ticket" kind of indicates Grandpa Joe is entering a manic phase. If Grandpa Joe's illness is psychological why do we treat it as not-real? I get so annoyed at how many people mock the character or act like he's a con artist exploiting Charlie.

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3. The Oompa Loompas were not slaves.

It's true that the earliest depictions of the Oompa Loompas were little African people (before the novel was revised) but in all versions he tells the kids that he pays them in coca-beans. That might sound like he pays them in fallen acorns he found in his garden but it's made clear that to Oompa Loompas, in their society, coca-beans are worth more than gold.

Try to imagine you got a job working for aliens who offer to pay you in large bars of gold if you just help him make some gold jewelry. But because gold isn't worth THAT much to these aliens they think you're a pathetic slave, even though Lofty (the Oompa Loompa from the new Wonka movie) probably now has a palace on Loompa Land that he uses as a summer house.

Interesting bit of trivia: Charlie was originally going to be black.

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4. Wonka (2023) is NOT a remake. A lot of people mistakenly think this is yet another remake. No. It's a musical prequel to the Gene Wilder Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie from 1971. ________________________

5. Lots of fans have "figured out" that the shoe shine boy Wonka sees early in Wonka is Charlie. One small problem with that. This is twenty-something Willy Wonka. Wonka was supposed to be pushing fifty or sixty when he went looking for an heir. The timeline wouldn't work. The director has confirmed that for this reason the shoe shine boy is NOT Charlie Bucket.

And there you go. A list of popular Wonka misconceptions debunked.

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Big Nibbles serving Gordon Ramsay realness aside, it does not surprise me in the least that Elongated Muskrat is fueled entirely by Simpsons donuts, ketamine, and an unbridled level of sociopathic xenophobic rage.

Sigh. 😑

Those things look good though. 😋

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You know what to do.

EVERYONE(!) I’m blazing this post because at this pace we might barely hit 1,000,000 signatures—or just fall short. PLEASE reblog this post, no matter where you are from, so we can reach as many EU citizens as possible and end this horrible practice!

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MY CHILDHOOD! 😁

✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨

⚠️➡️➡️ Yes, spoilers includes posting the lyrics. Please don't.

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I know I've said this before but

EVERY.

DAMN.

TIME.

Proud MAGA child molesters and rapists were all assholes on social media. I see a trend.

Birds of a feather. #abusers #projection

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The batjokes agenda stays strong even in theme parks lmao [Video from Melissa__Toms [IG] 🦇

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Been a while since we've had something uplifting, so here ya go! ｡^‿^｡

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Missed one! 🃏

Does the Joker know he can disguise himself as a man?

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Ok this is genuinely the funniest shit I've seen all day. Even if it's also depressing, it's still funny.

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*exasperated sigh* (￣Δ￣)

The fact that these people are so desperate to normalize their fascistic garbage philosophy that they will falsely label anyone who is vocal about their disagreement as mentally ill. I couldn't make this shit up if I tried!

Never stop calling out bullshit when you see it.

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...this is terrifying.

Nope, I ain't got nothing else. Be very afraid.

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IN MY HOUSEHOLD!?

crazy question but have u ever drawn yaoi where one is a girl? i forget what's it called tho

HETEROSEXUALITY?