#it’s propaganda I’m telling you

[jujusjunk]

[hindingfromtheworld]

Fucked up ghost drawing. Bc why not.

Visually you can just do a lot with his character and I appreciate it

[soullessjack]

conservative X-men fans will see a franchise about an oppressed group of people who fight for their civil rights and freedom in a world that sees them as freaks and monsters and imagine themselves being on the mutants’ side but then can’t even handle masculine cis women in sports or a man with painted nails or cisgender teens on puberty blockers for health issues.

conservative X-men fans will see that oppressed group of freaks and monsters constantly facing the threat of an apocalyptic future specifically caused by hate mongers in powerful positions who very blatantly will and do destroy the same humanity they claim to be protecting if it means destroying Those Freaks and think “wow cool robot.”

conservative X-men fans will agree with the villain who was based on Malcom X and specifically came to hold his beliefs through surviving the Holocaust and claim that he can’t even be considered a villain anymore because his ideology makes sense and is consistently proven right by the humans’ unwavering intolerance, but go into hysterics the minute a real life minority holds any sort of hatred or resentment toward their oppressor.

conservatives in general will always pretend that the media they consume doesn’t have any deeper meaning or purpose other than being entertainment slop because they almost always retreat into media for some type of “comfort” or escape from having to acknowledge reality and their own bigotry. they want the freedom to be bigots without any pushback or consequences so they surround themselves in an echo chamber of fictional characters and universes who can’t argue with them or tell them they’re wrong and bad.

conservatives have to constantly and deliberately turn their brains off to consume a specific piece of media because they know that they would be the villain in it if they gave it an ounce of deeper thought and that’s exactly why they push back so hard against anything that drags them out of their comfy echo chamber, anything that threatens their blissful ignorance.

they thrive on the idea that their media isn’t “that deep” or based in/affected by reality; that there’s no such thing as representation or allegories or coding in media (and alternatively, that representation doesn’t matter or is just propahanda). they thrive on willful ignorance and they want to convince everyone else to be just as ignorant and the death of media literacy is exactly how they’ll achieve it

[getosugurusbangs]

hiii I'm bored and in need of song recommendations, may I have some?

hi i meant to answer this sooner but i had stuff to do 😭 but of course!

right off the bat i’m just gonna say, if you want a full album to listen to: go listen to the rise and the fall of a midwest princess by chappell roan. lately i’ve had like half of the album on repeat and i’ve danced to it so much 💀 it’s quickly become one of my favorite albums and i’d totally recommend it.

but! if you don’t want to listen to the full album but want the highlights, listen to:

femininomenon

hot to go!

pink pony club

naked in manhattan

enough about chappell roan though. i don’t really know what music you’re into, so i’m just gonna throw out some of my favorite songs, and see if anything sticks lol

scheibe - lady gaga

g.u.y. - lady gaga

government hooker - lady gaga

anschluss - the cabs

chu, tayousei. - ano

flyers - bradio

power & control - marina

camn aven - the cabs

saturday - fall out boy

where is your boy / grand theft autumn - fall out boy

smile like you mean it - the killers

jenny was a friend of mine - the killers

[desperatecheesecubes]

Thinking about how in The Hunger Games the management team was dressing and presenting Katniss and Peeta as a set from the start, even before Peeta told anyone he was in love with Katniss and that became then going strategy. It becomes clear throughout the series that all of them were or become active in the rebellion so it seems clear to me that the intention was just to be subversive. ‘Just the perfect touch of rebellion’ as Haymitch says.

And then of course it all helps them sell the love story.The prep teams would have probably mentioned how Katniss and Peeta reassured each other after the opening ceremonies, how Katniss kissed Peeta on the cheek. Any of the trainers could have spoken about how they were always together for all three days of instruction. There were almost certainly guards watching the two of them on the roof, talking to each other, Peeta giving Katniss his jacket when she’s cold. And there’s no way none of their classmates noticed the two of them watching each other in school through the years. Hell Peetas whole family probably knew about his crush, we know they all knew Katniss.

‘Peeta must have been playing that angle all along’ ‘mostly Peeta really, there’s no question he’s carrying this romance thing on his shoulders.’ Katniss just didn’t get to see all the interviews they did that were telling her side of the love story.

[blueberryspyder]

I know my blog doesn’t have like, any followers, but I wanna make it clear that transmisogynists are not welcome here. I also know for a fact I have some people I need to unfollow for being transmisogynists. The last few months I’ve been very, very confused by wtf “transandrophobia” was, and I had only ever seen the “good” side of it, and never the side of it being used to actively hurt trans women. I’ll admit I’m still confused on certain things, but I’m not above admitting that I might be wrong and I’m willing to learn, so thank you for your patience.

To any trans women/trans fems who follow me: I support you, and I want you to feel safe here.

Edit: I’m retracting the bit about transandrophobia, since some of y’all have been really kind (genuinely) and helped explain the theory to me (as well as the antisemitism behind the “truther” term, which I apologize for).

To any fellow trans men/trans mascs that follow me: I want you to ALSO feel safe here. Even if my original message came from a good place, it was still worded poorly and painted us in a bad light. I won’t delete this post cause I don’t want to hide from my misconceptions and help others like me who are confused, and because I want to stand behind the message that transphobia of any kind is NOT welcome here. Thank you 😊

[age-of-moonknight]

Night Moves. Marvel Superheroes: Official Game Adventure (Vol. 1/1990), pg. 19.

Designer: Anthony Herring; Editor: Karen S. Boomgarden; Illustrator: John Statema

[leninisms]

real-life activism is so much more enjoyable than internet activism btw. if you’ve only ever engaged in political/social activism online, i really recommend trying to find a real organization and getting involved in-person if you can

[booplesnotts-art]

“My lady is a very generous person…”

I mean, until she literally eats you but sure Lucille whatever you say👍

[azumetapraline]

Local Metalor W

[clownsnake]

I don’t think hyeonseong needed to remember dokja’s order to think about him if something goes wrong. I think he’s just always thinking abt dokja

and I love him for that

[soullessjack]

alan grant frank wallace and norm breyfogle sweeties I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry that the character you based on your own anti-authoritarian philosophy and used to criticize capitalism along with a myriad of other political issues and later developed to be a libertarian socialist anarchist and wrote to be a misunderstood morally neutral philosophical character got turned into a sweaty discord moderator who keeps calling some poor woman his mommy and committing terrorism because of society like da joka baby. I’m so so sorry.

[getosugurusbangs]

meme with a target audience of one (1) person. that is myself

[opje]

For the love of all that is holy, please stop saying that Robert was a Communist. You are completely misunderstanding who he was as a person if you honestly believe that that was the only political ideology that he subscribed to. He believed in aspects of Communism, and he realized after two of his friends returned from Russia that true Communism could never be achieved. He believed in giving to the people who were going to get shit done, but he himself was a New Deal Democrat (aka a Socialist). I am so heartbroken that people to this day continue to call the man a Communist when he made it clear to Chevalier that he had never been one. This was long after his security clearance was removed that he said this after Chevalier wrote a shit book that was so clearly based off of Robert. No doubt to sell more copies, but thankfully most of the scientific community and historians knew that that was bullshit.

[queer-book-character-tournament]

I voted for Gideon because I love what I've read of her and sapphics deserve this but more importantly I voted against Bittle his irrelevant ass never should've gotten this far

Hey so this is the only ask like this that I’m going to answer and it’s to say do not send me things like this. We’re all here to have fun so let’s not insult characters that people clearly care about

[captainswan618]

current status: unsure if I have a crush on david tennant