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I bet standing in a smug little line with your vigilante grifter squad gloating down the billionaire you just fleeced while he yells “it was them! they’re con artists! they’re right over there!” must feel soooooo good

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“The making of the perfect frontman”

based on the guy buffet painting

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I was so into mcr when I was in middle school to the point that I didn't listen to their music for like two years in high school and a year in college and then college sophomore year rolled around, and I got back into it and i didn't have to relearn a thing. the lyrics were already engraved on every inch of my body. And now my socials are just all mcr bc of them touring and im seeing ancient vids/photos i had never seen before and THE ebony dark'ness dementia raven way was on my feed and maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel.

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You want more minority representation in media but if they have flaws its problematic and if theyre perfect theyre a patronizing mary sue. If they crack under the pressure of the conflict the author thinks that minority is weak and if they overcome the adversity they must be a neoliberal bootlicker who thinks real world bigotry is a matter of personal attitude. You want minority characters but if theyre a villain its violently problematic and if theyre the protagonist then we circle back to the very first sentence. If theyre a side character theyre being sidelined and the author is once again bigoted, and don't you know that every single minority character death is unilaterally bigoted, without exception? You want more minority characters but if their identity is a big part of their personality or struggles then they're problematic and if their identity has nothing to do with their personality or struggles then the author is tokenizing that identity for clout. You want more minority characters but every time theres a minority character who doesnt have every single experience that you have then you tell the author to kill themselves on twitter. You wonder why not even minority authors will write minority characters.

I would ask you to read Catch-22, but you'd just call the military base problematic.

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I Hate the Dukes of Hazzard

TLDR; I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at bad storytelling

(No not actually. Racism = bad, and I am horrified by the things happing the US and around the world rn. I'm using this as escapism).

Maybe a series where I rant about something without doing research and not remembering half of my issues.

A long, long time ago a wrote an essay about this, but it's lost to the wind, and I haven't read it nor watched the dukes in a while, so give me a break.

Let's, for the sake of my argument, forget about the Confederate flag on the hood of the car, okay? Yes, I know it's bad, trust me it made my skin crawl, but as a woman of color (the color is black. I'm mixed #lovingv.virgina) who loves -and listen to me here LOVES- older media I am so used to watching racism, homophobia, sexism, etc. etc. all over my screen. I acknowledge it, analysis whether I really want to keep watching, and often I still do. Older media is rife with things that make me uncomfortable or are straight up harmful, but I look at it as a time capsule, as a window into history, and I am thankful for it in a way. Hard to say something didn't happen when we caught it on camera, yknow?

Anyway, the car. That and whatever else happens in the show (watched like the first three episodes and only remember the first) is not going to be my focus, but that is a good piece that someone should write. That won't be me. Okay title card:

TLDR; I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at bad storytelling

The first episode is bad y'all. The confederate flag is everywhere, incest jokes that aren't really that funny i fear, and I ton of sexism but hey whatever. Let's talk about how the dukes are marketed to us

They are meant to be modern day Robin-hoods stealing from the rich (Boss Hog or whatever his name was) and give to the poor (everyone else in town).

In the pilot episode, we meet this girl. Idk her name so we will call her Annie (as in the little orphan). She grew up in the orphanage in town and now that Boss Hog wants to tear it down she is trying to collect money to save it.

Here's the thing. She's a city girl now. She left the town and got her formal education and lives in the city. But she came home to help her people.

The Dukes see her as a traitor for this and dont give a damn about her orphanage thing. And she is SO NICE to everyone, but they literally are like UGH you left you should have stayed. And maybe its because one of the dukes has a thing for her but whatever its super annoying.

Boss Hog, meanwhile, has another money-making scheme in which he buys a ton of those gambling slot machines casinos have to make money.

The Duke brothers steal the machines and hide it in like their barn or something. They are just too happy with themselves, giggling and whatever when their grandpa is like "y'all stole this??!! As a man of God who hates gambling and theft what the Hell is wrong with y'all?!"

Only once there are threatened with having to return the slot machines do the duke brothers come up with a plan to use the slot machines to raise money for the orphanage. Only to appease their grandpa and stick it to Boss do they make this decision.

ROBIN HOOD WHERE??? I love Robin Hood okay, I read that penguin classic vers. like to was a direct line to God, and I was on my death bed. And this is not the legacy he should be leaving behind.

Also, just for refreence they had no interest in helping the orphanage until one of the Duke's starts getting with little orphan Annie. And before this hot passion is revealed after he berates Annie for leaving their town in the south and getting a job in the city.

Bullying her because she moved on and he's stealing slot machines for gigz.

OH MY LORD.

Anyway. This first episode does everything wrong. They keep telling and telling and not showing. Don't tell me baby, show me. Show me how they are like Robin Hood (beyond shooting a bow and arrow. They aren't allowed guns I forget why). Don't just yell it at me while I kneel in a puddle of my own tears over your poor writing and annoying characters.

I can always say "oh it was a different time" and "oh they really are trying, like this is progressive for the time" so many damn times. At some point one must realize that, these excuses can never and will never apply to good storytelling. No excuse.

Okay, y'all, whoever told the nurses I escaped, screw you because this is where this post has to end.

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IMNOT GONAN WRITE U A LOVE SONG CAUSE YOU ASKED FOR IT CAUSE YOU NEED ONE

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do you see it

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actually pretty refreshing to see a superhero movie that's not afraid to take sides. none of that "we're all great people we're just misunderstood" bullshit AND clark explicitly saying "hey just because their nation isn't perfect to you or an ally to our country doesn't mean it deserves to be invaded and also, it's people don't deserve to die" was actually pretty fucking cool. the main villain wasn't some poor guy who was wronged as a child but a greedy evil billionaire that was taking advantage of a system that was already so ready to kill. personally, my favourite part was when hawgirl straight up just dropped netanyahu mid flight and immediately went back to serving cunt

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Jayme Lawson as Pearline.

“She is a performer. She is a sharecropper who was married off young to an older gentleman and seeks to find her life in these kinds of juke joints. That’s where she seems to come alive. That’s where she tends to have some level of freedom.”-Jayme Lawson.

Sinners (2025) │ Directed by Ryan Coogler.

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Clark: Wake up! The sun is shining!

Bruce: What do you want me to do, photosynthesis?

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I ship them but specifically the fandom concept of the Bat falling for Clark and Superman fallin for the Drifter and/or Bruce

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DEXTER (2006 - 2013) 1.10 "Seeing Red"

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my aesthetic is gillian anderson completely forgetting all her lines in the first season of the x files

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Missing Sergeant James Doakes a little more tonight.

I know something is wrong with me mentally rn because I've been thinking about watching the rest of Dexter.

Ugh, I love Debra.

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Girlhood is a Spectrum

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Leverage (2008) // eliot entrances