#kind of unbelievable

[emthimofnight]

May we hear more of this "dark" version of Stellar👀?

have some angst I drew surrounding this exact subject :)

[radiofreederry]

Pixar taking a deep long look at themselves and deciding that they need to pivot to slop

[doortotomorrow]

cooper howard - a mighty good man

[cordiallyfuturedwight]

🔥🔥🔥 for @jkvjimin (cr. namuspromised)

[hellenhighwater]

My car has needed to be replaced for a while and it sounds like that's gonna happen this weekend. Which is good in the long term but an ooof for my wallet, but also

there are so many projects that I have not done because there is no way to fit 4x8 foot sheet stock into my car

but that is about to change! because I'm gonna get

a Van

[inkskinned]

maybe i'm a bitch but if i hear you go out of your way to judge someone's weight, i immediately lose trust in you & will probably forever find you a little unbearable . yes also the little floating bar over my head will start reading [hostile]. this is natural and u caused it.

[subtle-as-an-earthquake]

i'll never be over this, just fyi. miles saw that booty and he just had to grab it goooood, nevermind that they were on stage in front of hundreds of people 💀 (via turnered_on on ig)

[macbethz]

I hate that media criticism has been reduced in online spaces to solely discussions of representation, where Good Media has the ever elusive and impossible to define “representation” and an absence of bigotry (and yes, it’s about the ABSENCE of bigotry rather than the presence of some other subversive quality), to the point where genuine critique of the formal qualities of something that happens to Have Woman In It is seen as indicative of some secret sexist agenda. Sometimes things can be completely inoffensively bad and sometimes people want to talk about it that. Sometimes the mere presence of a minority group does not make something good and it especially does not make it groundbreaking.

[littlefankingdom]

Everytime something happens in France in a comic, I realize how little researches comics writers do. And like, if they are this bad with my western country, how bad it is with third-world countries they talk about???

In Nightwing (2016), Raptor is from a circus that was near Paris during Mary Grayson's childhood, so more than 40 years ago at least.

In this flashback, they accuse the mayor of Paris of having given leprosy to the romani and of keeping away the meds they need. Already, with our healthcare's system, it's hardly possible, as they would be able to go to a hospital to get the help they need. Do they think "public healthcare" means the state has a direct control on medication, because that's not the case at all. The French gov control the money put into medication, how much is bought, but a mayor has no power over this. I just don't understand how something like this could happen. You can totally write a racist medical scandal in France, but makes it make sense with our system.

But also, Paris didn't have a mayor until 1977, so if it's before 1977, impossible. And, Paris' mayor from 1977 to 1995 is JACQUES CHIRAC, who was the PRESIDENT after. They wrote a story implying that a French President kept medications away from sick people, was discovered and was still elected President. And, yes, the French government is far from good and they have deeply harmed the romani, but like, maybe don't write shit like that. (Also, Chirac was really against the war of Iraq, and stood up against the US, which France is still paying the price for to this day. So I don't really like an USAmerican to criticize Chirac. Like, we can do it, others can do it, but not USAmericans, y'all have done enough) I'm pretty sure that wasn't the goal of the writers. No, what happen is that they didn't do researches about Paris' mayor and so, wrote that shit.

This may be inspired by the contaminated blood's scandal in the 80s-90s, which was worst in France, but no mayor was found guilty, it was doctors who knowingly contaminated patients with a deadly illness. And the French government was held accountable, even if they had no hand in it, as a matter of principle.

I understand it's a fiction, and they didn't literally wrote "Chirac did this", but it's kind of clumsy. (Especially because of everything I wrote earlier about Chirac's politics and how the US is still punishing France for being against killing civilians and destroying Iraq. France was doing the right thing, and the US worked so France would go back in line and treat Arabs like shit. Do not think western countries are free from the US' imperialism)

And in no way I'm saying that you cannot write France being awful, I know my gov's crimes (rn, they have deported homeless out of Paris for the Olympics, the President is refusing to acknowledge the left won the elections and to take a leftist prime minister so we have no prime minister since mid July and fuck democracy I guess, they support Israel's crimes against humanity, and are behaving like the colonizers that they are in New-Caledonia, sending the armies against the Kanaks that have not enough power on their own land), I'm just saying it should at least be believable enough to work. (Easiest way: make the cops racist. Boom. Also, French cops talk like vilains, it's insane.) And also, not about someone touchy like clumsily painting badly a president that was punished by the US for doing the right thing.

[quatregats]

Something I've been thinking about is how Patrick O'Brian manages so skillfully to write characters whose actions contradict their beliefs, which I think is honestly a big part of why his characters feel so real. Mostly with Stephen and Jack—e.g., and perhaps most notably, Stephen has notably leftist sympathies (honestly I have no idea how to characterize his politics in period terms) who nonetheless becomes very comfortable with his rise to the landed gentry, while Jack is a card-carrying Tory who much of the time sympathizes far more with working class sailors and farmers than with the upper classes—but I'm sure he does it to a lesser degree with some of his minor characters (James Dillon, while perhaps not precisely minor, comes to mind), and I love that he's able to do that, especially the way in which he embeds it in the narrative. We see how they're all unreliable narrators of themselves; we understand how they want to be seen and how that does and doesn't coincide with the reality, but most importantly, this isn't presented as something reprehensible, just as a part of their own humanity. They are not their expectations for themselves, but they don't need to be those expectations to be beloved.

[thirddoctor]

I say this with love but sometimes I think Master fans could benefit from remembering that the Master is not the main character of Doctor Who. They've never even been a main character on the show.

[youling-the-ghost]

Y'all, we have a canon trans sfth character!

This is not a drill, we have a canon sfth trans character!!!!!

[moviesbabe]

Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina (1954)

[cure-stars]

"but i think i kinda hate summer", while caressing a cat you muttered brazenly.

ah, chasing after your runaway cat, you found yourself plunged before a red traffic light. ☀️

[isaidquirky]

lottie "having women here makes me feel deep primal things in my body" matthews and natalie "it's time to stop repressing" scatorccio fucked in those woods send tweet.

[chloecherrysip]

I'm telling you, everything's gonna be all right as long as we're together!