#sourced: vox.com

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Full review from vox.com:

Hidden Blade / Wuming

Wang Yibo’s performance as Mr. Ye and the art created by the film’s director, Cheng Er

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The shadowy puzzle-box pleasures of Chinese spy thriller Hidden Blade

Satisfyingly cerebral, Hidden Blade features a masterful Tony Leung and a breakout performance from Wang Yibo.

By: Aja Romano on February 28, 2023 7:30 am

Wang Yibo and Eric Wang in Cheng Er’s moody, shadowy spy thriller Hidden Blade, now in cinemas. Well Go USA

Toward the end of Hidden Blade (无名), the arty Chinese World War II spy thriller that has now reached US cinemas, everything comes to a halt.

“Matte kudasai,” Wang Yibo, playing the canny, careful Secretary Ye, says in silky Japanese. Wait, please.

And then we all — the character he’s talking to, the camera, the film score, the audience, the movie — slow down and wait. We wait for him to light a cigarette, take a drag, then another. We wait for him to look at his reflection. We watch him, wreathed in smoke, take his time.

With a lesser actor, this would feel excessive, showy; it would flatten the moment. But this is Wang Yibo, star of The Untamed and Street Dance of China, former K-pop idol, sometime motorcycle racer, multitalented polymath, and multinational heartthrob. In the pause, tension and dark purpose coil in his jawline, his shoulders, in every flick of his wrist. I have never wanted to look at anything more in my life.

Hidden Blade has gone largely unnoticed in mainstream US media, usually getting name-checked as the legendary Tony Leung’s latest film. The New York Times gave it a kind but mixed capsule review. Other outlets that bothered to review it did so poorly, with multiple reviewers unable to tell cast members apart from one another (!), a handful misunderstanding and misstating the plot, one reviewer dismissing the entire cast apart from Leung. Several wrote it off as a propaganda film.

But Hidden Blade, from writer-director Cheng Er, deserves a much better critical assessment than this. It serves propaganda only in the way that the average war movie might glorify the homeland — think Top Gun: Maverick. In this case, that means a homeland battered by a brutal Japanese occupation. Our timeline centers around Republic-era China, several years after the Nanjing Massacre. The country’s combative factions — the Japanese occupants, the Kuomintang leadership, the current puppet government, and the underground communist resistance — all vie to control China’s future as the war wages around them. Our main characters, Director He (Leung) and his subordinate Secretary Ye (Wang), both work for the Japanese regime in Shanghai, rooting out members of each of the opposing factions and doing the governor’s bidding. But spies are everywhere, and their allegiances aren’t always obvious — sometimes not even to themselves.

Hidden Blade’s production house, Bona Film Group, loosely placed this film into a “trilogy” called the China Victory Trilogy. (The prior film, The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021), was a mega-blockbuster; this film had a far more lowkey release, though it’s been such a success — closing on $1 billion RMB, it’s reportedly the top-grossing art film in Chinese history — that there’s talk of a sequel.) Each film, linked thematically but not materially, highlights a different group of ordinary people battling a war. This outing explores the pressures placed on WWII spies who often had to work in complete isolation for months and even years; the film’s Chinese title translates to Anonymous. Cheng takes the smoke-and-mirrors obfuscation of the spy genre literally: Ye spends much of the time he’s onscreen symbolically mirroring He, while studying himself in mirrors, being looked at through mirrors, and functioning as a looking-glass for the film itself.

This could all easily feel like shallow gloss with little substance, and the plot seems relatively thin; but over the course of the film, that plot reveals itself to be a tightly edited jigsaw awaiting your assembly.

This is a big part of why repeated viewings of Hidden Blade are such a pleasure (I saw it six times in four days). The film is a metaphorical escape room you find your way through, muddling at first, then quicker and quicker until you arrive at an open door. Cheng’s aesthetic style flickers through the muted action of the first half, from Godard-like formalism to von Trier-esque visual war poetry to outright Tarkovsky homages. But steadily the stylistic flourishes give way to a riveting, sparse thriller with phenomenal fight scenes, staged with excellent attention to setting and detail by fight choreographer Chao Chen. Cai Tao’s cinematography has lingered with me for days, with some shots cracking the whole film wide open for me on third or fourth watch.

This film basks in tiny thematic details — the timing of a musical cue, the symbolism of a tableau, the way a character’s face is lit between light and shadow. Then there’s the symbology; my friends have been discussing the thematic element of food in this movie for days: The symbolism of an intimidating bowl of drunken shrimp, the political nuances of debates over French cuisine, the secrets of an unassuming box of pastry.

In other words, Hidden Blade’s cerebral challenges invite you to play the games its characters are playing. It opens itself to the audience more and more with every repeat viewing. The supporting cast makes the most of limited emotional real estate; Eric Wang and Zhou Xun sink their teeth into their very different roles in the spy game. Tony Leung’s performance in particular grows craftier and more intelligent on every viewing as you begin to understand the veneer of polite soullessness around which he layers his real, veiled emotions. The moments he lets them peek through are masterful to behold.

But as much as Tony Leung was made for subtle but heady roles like this, Hidden Blade belongs to Wang Yibo, and so does this review.

A production still of Hidden Blade featuring Wang Yibo, released for the film’s ¥500m box office. The film has since grossed nearly ¥1 billion. Bona Film Group

This is Yibo, after all, a 25-year-old wunderkind who spent his childhood training in Korea to become a K-pop idol but who returned to China and became a Chinese entertainer slash dance star slash actor instead. I first wrote about Yibo here in 2020 in my review of the historical fantasy series The Untamed. I described him then as “conveying Grand Canyons of emotional depth” through “mesmerizing infinitesimal facial adjustments.”

A screen cap of Wang Yibo as Lan Wangji from the global phenomenon, Chinese tv series, Chén Qíng Lìng / The Untamed (2019) Tencent (New Style Media Group)

Since then, I have watched Yibo disappear into one strikingly different character after another, embodying them all with talent and skill beyond his years; I have watched him deliver performance after performance, transforming himself onstage and off. He has a star quality that’s hard to describe until you truly get acquainted with his performances and his persona. On first impression, he’s rarely the hottest or the strongest or the glitziest entertainer in a room — but he’s the one who unfailingly blows you away in the end, the one you can’t stop talking about.

As Secretary Ye, Yibo packs the same intensity: He smolders and throbs and pulses his way through Hidden Blade, talking only rarely but speaking volumes with the soulful eyes that first captivated me and a jillion other fans three years ago.

Since The Untamed, Yibo has become a massive star in his home country. He was originally scheduled to make his film debut in the much more high-profile Born to Fly (now scheduled for a spring release), in which he stars as the equivalent to Tom Cruise in Top Gun. As much pressure as a role like that must be to play, the weight Yibo carries in Hidden Blade feels almost heavier. Cheng has talked at length about how the more he saw Yibo act, the bigger his part became; he rewrote the film around Yibo as production progressed, eventually transforming Ye from a smaller part into the soul of the movie.

That’s a huge responsibility, but Yibo shoulders it effortlessly. He immerses himself in Ye’s tortured psyche; he trembles and seethes and changes the mood of an entire scene with a single sharp glance. A debut like this, from an actor this young, in a part this intense, carrying the entire film beside one of China’s greatest living actors, all while juggling four different languages (Japanese, Mandarin, and Cantonese and Shanghainese dialects) feels remarkable. Yibo’s performance seals Hidden Blade’s status as an unexpected pleasure. Once finally assembled, its cinematic intricacies yield infinite rewards.

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[image id: a screenshot of 2 news articles that were found on the splash page for new tabs in firefox. the first article is from a source called thecut.com and features a screencap of margot robbie as barbie from the 2023 film "barbie" as she sits at a table and looks through a mirror that has no glass. the text underneath reads:

"Send Me to Barbie Land Immediately: The Barbie movie is a welcome salve for our weary bimbo souls."

To the right is another article from vox.com that features art of a figure at a laptop with the tumblr logo at the back of it in clothing reminiscent of a puritan from the 17th century, they also wear sunglasses. the text underneath reads:

"Puritanism Took Over Online Fandom - and Then Came for the Rest of the Internet: Puriteens, anti-fans, and the culture war's most bonkers battleground" /END ID]

what the fuck am i seeing on this humid evening? why are people still associating barbie with being a bimbo and why am i being subject to a article about the supposed puritanism fandom freaks claim to be fighting against

[utilitycaster]

In the Locked Tomb series, the villain of the first book ends up being Cytherea, Lyctor of the Seventh House. She, like most lyctors, epitomizes her house. The Seventh House serves to celebrate the beauty found in death and decay: "They draw out moments of beauty, preserving people, places, and times in amber for later dissection and delectation."[1] Cytherea is herself nigh-immortal, as a lyctor, and also eternally dying of a terminal illness. Her plan is to eliminate the heirs of the houses to prevent there ever being other lyctors, destroy the Emperor (and Empire), and in doing so, be destroyed herself.

She succeeds only in her final goal. The Seventh House's predilection for those preserved-amber moments is its undoing, as its heir is slaughtered by its lyctor, and its lyctor driven to seek death because of her unending pain, but unable to do even that with peace and dignity, as ending her life means ending what remains of her cavalier, who, by the nature of the lyctor process, must be an eternal sacrifice.

Given the author's background in fandom (particularly fanfiction) and internet culture[2][3] and the many references to that both textually and metatextually within the series, it is not out of line to assume that the Empire, constructed in-universe in our near future and stagnated for ten thousand years at the start of the series contains commentary for, among many other things, fandom itself. The plight of Cytherea explores the fallacies inherent in a number of common trends in fanon.

Cytherea explores, as do all the original lyctors, the trope of lifespan angst. In Harrow the Ninth, we learn that the requirement of cavalier sacrifice is a profound source of guilt for the necromancers who experience it, even millennia later. It is then revealed that the sacrifice was always avoidable. By the end of Nona the Ninth, only one "imperfect" lyctor remains of the seven there have been, and she is newly ascended within the past few months, underscoring the unsustainable nature of this trope.

Cytherea, and the Seventh House's philosophy, can also be interpreted as a critique of "woobification", of angst for the sake of angst, and of the prioritization of the aesthetic with no consideration of consequence. It is precisely Cytherea's combination of incredible power and endless pain without respite that destabilizes her utterly. The preservation of that which is by its nature ephemeral is itself her destruction - and deconstruction. The attempt to create something from a mortal being that must simultaneously embody fleeting beauty, saintly tragedy, and near godlike power, and which must exist in this state, as a public figure, for eternity, ultimately becomes, not once, but twice, a vehicle through which corruption, failure, and ruin enters what was meant to be a sanctuary.

In the Critical Role fandom, the ultimately impossible ideals imposed upon Cytherea which lead to her downfall are reflected in the similarly impossible expectations some fans have regarding the characters played by the women of the cast (and, in extreme cases, those women themselves), most notably those of Marisha Ray. In this essay I will

Rocket, Stubby the. "Find Your Necromancy Family Among the Houses of Gideon The Ninth". Tor.com. Written Sep 20 2019, Accessed Dec 9 2022.

Grady, Constance. "How Gideon the Ninth author Tamsyn Muir queers the space opera". Vox.com. Written Feb 5 2021, Accessed Dec 9 2022.

Clements, Mikaela. "The Butch Lesbian Sci-Fi Aesthetic: A Conversation With Tamsyn Muir". Los Angeles Review of Books. Written Oct 1 2020, Accessed Dec 9 2022.

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The Fight To Make Bad Jobs Better It's easy to find a job, just not a good one. Sources: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/04_jobs_autor.pdf https://cew-7632.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Americas-Divided-Recovery-web.pdf http://www.epi.org/publication/still-falling-short-on-hours-and-pay-part-time-work-becoming-new-normal/ https://krueger.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/akrueger/files/katz_krueger_cws_-_march_29_20165.pdf https://cornerstonecapinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Retail-Automation_Stranded-Workers-Final-May-2017_corrected.pdf https://newrepublic.com/political-ad-database https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/04/art2full.pdf http://www.unionstats.com/ https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag44-45.htm https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag722.htm https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2942/text http://sfgov.org/olse/formula-retail-employee-rights-ordinances https://www.seattle.gov/laborstandards/ordinances/secure-scheduling https://www.ci.emeryville.ca.us/1136/Fair-Workweek-Ordinance http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/372-17/mayor-de-blasio-speaker-mark-viverito-that-new-york-city-the-largest-city-end#/0 https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2017R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/SB828/Enrolled http://news.gallup.com/poll/218432/work-varying-hours-schedules.aspx https://ssascholars.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/work-scheduling-study/files/lambert.fugiel.henly_.precarious_work_schedules.august2014_0.pdf https://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/income-volatility-service-sector-contours-causes-consequences/ https://www.amazon.com/Good-Jobs-Strategy-Companies-Employees-ebook/dp/B00DZQE31I/ref=sr_1_1 /// Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

[the-emerald-standard]

<h2>Incumbent Re-Elected and Two Newcomers Claim Victories in 2023 Election: Mayor Joe Brown Loses</h2>

Election Day 2023: 3 Winners, 1 Loser

The results of the 2023 election are in, and the winners are: Bezaire Cameron, the incumbent, and two newcomers, John Smith and Jane Doe. The loser was incumbent Mayor Joe Brown.

Bezaire Cameron, the incumbent, was re-elected with a comfortable margin. He ran on a platform of fiscal responsibility and economic growth, and his victory is a testament to the success of his policies. John Smith and Jane Doe, the two newcomers, ran on a platform of social justice and environmental protection. Their victories show that the people of the city are ready for change and are willing to embrace new ideas.

Mayor Joe Brown, the incumbent, was defeated in a close race. His policies of fiscal austerity and public safety had become unpopular in recent years, and his defeat shows that the people of the city are ready for a new direction.

The election results show that the people of the city are ready for change and are willing to embrace new ideas. This is a positive sign for the future of the city and its citizens.

Source: Vox.com

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"Social media writ large has eradicated basically any sense of a digital monoculture. You have so many taste communities, but they don’t exist in opposition to anything. Culture has decentralized. The center, the mainstream, has disappeared."

Trends Are Dead (source: vox.com)

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How Smart is Today's Artificial Intelligence? Current AI is impressive, but it's not intelligent. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Sources: https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-artificial-intelligence-can-and-cant-do-right-now https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/digital-disruption/harnessing-automation-for-a-future-that-works https://www.amazon.com/Master-Algorithm-Ultimate-Learning-Machine/dp/0465065708 https://ai100.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/ai_100_report_0831fnl.pdf https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/business-focus-artificial-intelligence-rising-2/ http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.368.2254&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/jackel-95.pdf https://www.recode.net/2016/5/4/11634228/learning-about-deep-learning https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/12/12158238/first-click-deep-learning-algorithmic-black-boxes https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/30/15124466/ai-photo-style-transfer-deep-neural-nets-adobe https://www.techspot.com/news/71935-convolutional-neural-networks-used-fight-lung-cancer.html https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BkjLkSqxg https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2016/08/computers-trounce-pathologists-in-predicting-lung-cancer-severity.html https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.06647.pdf https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/12/15271874/ai-adversarial-images-fooling-attacks-artificial-intelligence https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/06/an-ai-wrote-this-movie-and-its-strangely-moving/ https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2017/12/ai-video-understanding/ https://hbr.org/cover-story/2017/07/the-business-of-artificial-intelligence https://rodneybrooks.com/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-predicting-the-future-of-ai/ Something incredible has taken place in the past 5 years: a revolution in artificial intelligence. After decades of little progress, the combination of big data and advances in computer hardware have brought AI applications to life: from self-driving cars to home assistants to augmented reality and instant language translation. If some of these applications feel like science fiction it's because deep learning algorithms are powering a true breakthrough in machine intelligence. But with these truly impressive advances comes a great deal of hype: fears of terminator-type bots turning on humans and stealing all our jobs. In this video we sort out the fact from fiction in this very exciting field. /// Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Twitter: http://goo.gl/XFrZ5H Or on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o

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HEMP.gg : The FDA just refused to regulate CBD - Vox.com

The FDA just refused to regulate CBD  Vox.com source https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiR2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnZveC5jb20vMjAyMy8yLzYvMjM1ODQ5MDkvY2JkLWxlZ2FsLWZkYS1yZWd1bGF0aW9uLWNhbm5hYmlz0gFUaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudm94LmNvbS9wbGF0Zm9ybS9hbXAvMjAyMy8yLzYvMjM1ODQ5MDkvY2JkLWxlZ2FsLWZkYS1yZWd1bGF0aW9uLWNhbm5hYmlz?oc=5

[not-safe-for-democracy]

Donald Trump has access to the best intelligence in the world and he spends much of his time as president retweeting foolish conspiracy theories and satire to the American people, you know, like a crazy uncle would do.

Source vox.com

[fanstofamily]

Saving People. Hunting things. The Family Business.

Hello! In this blog, I will be exploring the ins and outs of the Supernatural Fandom. Supernatural is a show that follows Sam and Dean Winchester, two brothers who follow in their father's footsteps as hunters, fighting evil supernatural beings of many kinds, including monsters, demons, and gods that roam the earth. Summary provided by IMDB.

Starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester. Another major character in the show is Castiel, an angel, played by Misha Collins. Airing on September 13, 2005, and producing a monumental 15 seasons and over 300 episodes. Making it the longest-running Sci-Fi show in America.

Supernatural has a reputation for its large fan base. Known as the Supernatural Fandom or even SPN Family. The question I want to answer is: What is it? 

Now you may have heard of ‘Comic Cons’. According to Alex Abad-Santos  on Vox.com, Comic Cons are “usually an event where comics fans, creators, and experts congregate to attend panels, go to parties, and participate in discussions that are all centered on some aspect of comics.” They are attended by an impressive amount of people and a mix of different actors, voice actors, comic/show creators/writers, etc.

Conventions are one of the many ways the actors from the show interact with their fans. And unlike Comic Cons, these conventions only host the actors and others who have a connection to the show. Including, series-long main actors, actors who have only been in a few episodes, show writers/runners, and even people who have had their music featured on the show. I will start by taking a deep dive into these fan conventions.

Later in my blog, I want to talk about my own experience in the fandom, my own convention experience, and even the bad side of the fandom. I also want to go over GISH, Random Acts, SPN Love Campaign, the Stands Shop, AKF, SPN Twitter, and more. All those words will make sense to you eventually.

This show and these actors and the things they do for their fans have brought many people a lot of joy and happiness. Just to give you a little taste of what good they do, here is a picture of Misha Collins, AKA Castiel the angel, handing out pizza to hungry fans at a convention, funded by this non-profit organization Random Acts.

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[otonymous]

We all know all the MLQC guys radiate BDE (big dick energy lmao). Ranked from the otome games you played, top 5 BIGGEST BDE? LOL

First of all, a giant thank you to @lin-ful​! 💖 I know I can always count on you to ask the really important questions in life 🙌🏼🤣This somehow turned out to be a lot longer than I intended, but I guess that’s what happens when the thirst is real LOL.

To start, let’s delve into an exploration of what Big Dick Energy (BDE) actually is.  According to an article in Vox*, BDE is “the self-confidence to know that a colossal endowment isn’t a measurement of one’s value…(it may) stem from having a literal BD, but it’s not dependent upon any sort of genitalia.  And in fact, perhaps the epitome of BDE is the complete security of not needing other people’s benchmarks — wealth, intelligence, beauty, or a BD — to know one’s own worth.  Any suspicion of try hard vibes kills BDE, as does the kind of cockiness that speaks of insecurity: the true BDE-haver is respectful to those around them, but with swagger….”

That being said, here are my top 5 picks for the biggest radiators of BDE, in no particular order (please take this with a grain of salt, seeing as I’m really only playing four otome games at the moment LOL):

n.b. SPOILERS - SO PLEASE READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

[* “How Big Dick Energy explains modern masculinity” by Alex Abad-Santos and Constance Grady (Jun 27, 2018 @ vox.com)]

OTONYMOUS’ BIG DICK ENERGY LIST 🍆

1. Oda Nobunaga (Ikemen Sengoku)

It doesn’t matter whose route I'm playing, as soon as Nobubu hits the screen, a bitch is weak, and as unscientific as it is, that physical reaction is one of the ways by which I assess BDE.  I mean, just look at this face:

This is the face of one who exudes confidence, a man who finds himself in life-threatening situations and has the gall to laugh because he sees them as opportunities to dispose of yet another obstacle in the way of realizing Tenka Fubu — unification by force of arms.  Call him the “Fool of Owari” all you want, he truly believes he will have the last laugh.

Strong with a sword but stronger in mind, Nobunaga is actually the smartest character in the game, outranking even Mitsuhide imho in being able to keep two steps ahead of everyone else.  That’s why this guy remains cool as a cucumber even when Hideyoshi is losing his shit and everyone is weary of his left-hand man plotting some nefarious scheme.  Nobu is an impeccable judge of character.  He has confidence in his ability to find the diamonds in the rough and this, in turn, earns him the loyalty of others.

Plus, y’all can’t tell me you weren’t biting your lips when he basically worked out the mechanics of wormholes in his head when MC told him she came from the future.

2. Akechi Mitsuhide (Ikemen Sengoku) - *SPOILERS*

This bad boy of Azuchi has BDE for days in that he gives zero fucks about what anyone thinks of him, friend or foe — be it about his intentions or his humble origins, both of which others have tried to use against him.  But the sexiest thing about Mitsuhide is the fact that he isn’t a blind follower.  This man thinks for himself and is loyal to his own ideals, not any given head of a clan, per se.

BDE also abounds in the way he carries himself: this guy is the ultimate Slick Rick in how he can mess you up in the worst of ways without even drawing his sword (or loading his rifle).  This kitsune is adept at verbal runarounds and capable of snuffing out uprisings with humiliation alone.

3. Lucien (MLQC) - *SPOILERS*

Now I know you're gonna think I’m biased here, but I’m being completely real when I tell you that Lucien exudes not just BDE, but GARGANTUAN DICK ENERGY.  I’ve been a hot mess for this man ever since he kabedoned me in his office and whispered “trust your instincts” in my ear.  But don’t take my word for it, just ask Hades.  This man is so desperate to align himself with Ares that one couldn’t help but feel secondhand embarrassment on his behalf during this little exchange:

Lucien is brilliant and he knows it.  Highly intelligent, self-aware and powerful, he likely has faith in his self-sufficiency when it comes to carrying out his plans.  At the same time, he is very subtle about his abilities except when that confidence comes out like the crack of a whip to exert his will on those who would deter him, whether they’re the Black Swan minions sent to capture MC or the mysterious head honcho who injures his eye as punishment:

This comes after Ares has the chutzpah to chastise the man for being hasty.  And he even smiles while being blinded.  Clearly, this is a man for whom the usual fear tactics fail.  The only thing he fears is losing his girl.  And if that isn’t an example of colossal dick energy, I don’t know what is. 🤷🏻‍♀️

4. Luke Foster (Kissed By The Baddest Bidder)

Ok, ok, just hear me out on this one.  The source of Luke Foster’s BDE stems from the fact that he literally doesn’t give a fuck about what people think about him aside from his MC.  Others could call him every name under the sun, poke fun at his unusual ways, and it would just be in one ear and out the other for the good doctor.  There have been several instances where he’s walked away from Eisuke mid-lecture, and he is the only bidder that I know of who can get Eisuke to do his bidding (haha!).  Case in point:

5. Le Comte de Saint-Germaine (Ikemen Vampire)

Am I still stuck on my second route in IkeVamp?  Yes. Do I know much about le Comte as a character?  No. Do I still have an intense need for this beautiful, classy man to radiate that BDE?  HELL YES. So please…please…just let me have this one. 🙏🏻😆

[sgtpaine]

The Left’s Revolution Dominates Every American Height, And They Don’t Know Why We Aren’t Cheering

Herein lies a glimpse into just what kind of knuckle-draggers the left thinks we are. They think patriotism means we’ll do whatever they say whenever they say it.

By

Christopher Bedford

AUGUST 10, 2021

“Rooting against Olympians, scoffing at Capitol police, broaching civil war — meet today’s conservative movement.”

That’s the opening of an article last week at Vox.com. You’ve probably heard of Vox. Their self-proclaimed, self-aggrandizing purpose is to “explain the news.” But when Vox’s condescending reporters start talking about conservatives, Christians, guns, or really anyone outside of a few coastal cities, they have a habit of sounding like Jane Goodall observing apes.

So, what’s their qualm now? Let’s let them explain it in their own words:

[There is a] rising tendency in the conservative movement to reject America itself. In this thinking, the country is so corrupted that it is no longer a source of pride or even worthy of respect. … Queer female soccer stars demanding equal pay, Black basketball players kneeling to protest police brutality, the world’s best gymnast prioritizing her mental health over upholding the traditional ideal of the “tough” athlete — this is all a manifestation of the ascendancy of liberal cultural values in public life. And an America where these values permeate national symbols, like the Olympic team, is an America where those symbols are worthy of scorn.

Worthy of scorn; imagine that. Underperforming and overpaid people who for a living play a game no one watches want to be paid the same as people who are better players and earn more viewers.

Rich athletes publicly spitting on their country, their flag, and the men and women who have died for it, so they can push left-wing lies.

An enormously talented athlete quitting on the brink of competition, and saying the problem was she wanted to compete only for herself, not for her coaches, her teammates, or her country.

These are indeed “all a manifestation of the ascendancy of liberal cultural values in public life.” They’re the fruits of a spoiled, privileged, narcissistic, and self-obsessed revolution that began in the late 1950s and has been fighting its way to power ever since. They have it now, and it isn’t simply confined to our sacred soccer ball kickers.

Sports is just the latest, but look at its sponsors: You can be a subpar professional athlete, but if you spit on the flag you get a lucrative Nike contract.

Remember that Nike ad, “Believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything”? It featured Colin Kaepernick. The only problem is, he didn’t sacrifice anything — he discovered he could be paid a lot more playing the American public than he could playing football as a backup quarterback.

Now, thanks to his fake bravery, he gets to decide if the first flag of the United States is permissible. He says it isn’t, because America wasn’t perfect 245 years ago — and Nike sanctifies that decision with a lucrative payout.

They don’t mind; Nike may still be headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, but at heart they’re a Chinese company. That’s the People’s Republic of China: a godless slave state that uses forced labor to manufacture products and criminalizes dissent. That’s a country Nike respects, or at least one it cares about offending. Guess what: We don’t like that.

They’re far from alone. Silicon Valley was once a symbol of American enterprise: Young men working in their garages to harness technology and revolutionize our lives. Now Silicon Valley symbolizes the most powerful private companies the world has ever known — and they use that power to crush dissent, censor presidents and critics, and push left-wing propaganda. Turns out, when they do that we don’t like them.

We can go on. Blackrock sends its urchins to buy up affordable homes in growing cities to transform a society of homeowners into a society of servile tenants.

Mastercard and IBM build international databases for tracking humans so they can bar them from travel and commercial activity if they don’t take an experimental vaccine. Or, in MasterCard’s case, maybe they’ll ban you if they just dislike your politics.

Bank of America refuses to make loans to American gun manufacturers out of principle while making a $1 billion gift to Black Lives Matter, a racist, anti-American, anti-family, grifty riot squad responsible for dead police, murdered innocents, and burned-out cities. Huh — turns out we don’t like any of that either.

How about the Pentagon? Conservatives used to respect it because it won wars and embodied the finest of American values while doing so. But now the Pentagon loses wars, throws away lives, and wastes trillions of dollars while trashing those fine American values.

The military used to be a strict meritocracy. Now, they cut standards in the name of diversity. They used to demand that every soldier be fit and ready for war. Now, they slash the requirements for our troops’ physical performance and brag about maternity flight suits.

They teach weak and disgusting left-wing racism in their academies, they target Christians, they insult the middle-America conservatives who do most of the fighting and an overwhelming share of the dying in our armed forces. While our enemies run ads touting the manly virtues necessary to a warrior life, our generals run ads about having two moms. It’s not very intimidating. And hey, we don’t like it.

Ladies and gentlemen, we could all go on with example after example, but the point is this: The left got their revolution, the one they spent decades screaming and agitating for. They got their ideologues into the halls of power — not just the university halls, not just the halls of Congress, but all of them: Business, media, military, sports.

If there is an institution in your life and it’s not a good church, chances are that institution has implemented one policy after another pledging itself to the dogmas of the left. Now, the left is shocked — shocked — that we don’t like it one bit.

There was an America that we loved. It was an America of religious liberty and freedom of speech, and equality before the law. An America that loved what is beautiful rather than what is warped and ugly. An America that loved its founders and loved its children. An America that knew that whatever prosperity it possessed, it owed it all to the Almighty, and that it had a solemn duty to Him in return.

That was the America we loved. An America that hundreds of thousands of young men proved they loved more than life itself. We still love that America, and we’re not just going to cheer and applaud their active desecration of it.

Herein lies a great little glimpse into just what kind of knuckle-draggers the left thinks we are. They think patriotism means we’ll do whatever they say whenever they say it. “Drink your can of beer, sit on the couch, and cheer for sports. You like sports, don’t you, you ape? Come on, watch them on your 60-inch Chinese TV you bought at Walmart.”

“Buy our cheap, foreign products, do it now. You like free enterprise, don’t you? What’s more free than your boys and girls in the Navy guarding Chinese ships shipping Chinese products from Chinese companies to run-down American towns that were once industrial hubs?”

“You like cheap things, don’t you? I thought Republicans loved sports and business!”

“When Gen. Mark Milley says jump, you say how high. When he says you’re racist and you are showing white rage, nod along. When he says standards are overblown, and that diversity is our new strength, salute. Come on, don’t you support our troops?”

They don’t get it. They don’t get that we don’t honor and salute empty institutions and buildings! We don’t just bow down before the local magistrate’s hat on a stick.

They don’t get that a church is not just some building that can be made into a nightclub, it’s where we worship God — and it’s from his presence that it derives its meaning.

They don’t get that people watch sports for athletic excellence, good old American entertainment, and the thrill of cheering for the guys fighting for your team. No one watches sports to be condescended to, regardless of what uniform the athlete has on.

They don’t get that we respect the flag and the Americans who’ve fought and died for it and will again, but that doesn’t mean we stand and salute the Pentagon and all the foolish politicians in the brass.

They also don’t get that we’re not all 100 percent serious and miserable all of the time, like a couple of CNN anchors we could name; we still have a sense of humor. So yes, when a woman with an ugly heart says ugly things about America and then flops in a big soccer tournament, we’re going to chuckle about it. Maybe even laugh out loud. Maybe we will have that cold beer.

We’re Americans; we don’t resent success in sports, business, or military service. But as Helen Andrews of The American Conservative recently wrote, conservatives don’t resent the left’s success — we resent the ways they actively harm us. And we’ll never accept the rotten version of America they tell us we’re supposed to love.

America is worth saving. If you live in a major coastal city, leave it whenever you can and see that America. It can sometimes be hard to find — the left has warped it viciously. Today this country kills its children in the womb, celebrates decadence, and glorifies decay, but if Vox is onto anything it’s this: We are onto them. And we’re not buying it. And America lives on in our hearts.

There are a lot of problems in this country. We’re experiencing a secular elite trying to justify their existence in any way they can. Things are going to get worse before they get better, because they want things to and it makes them feel good.

But there’s no God at the end of this tunnel. Just as with drugs or money or sex, no amount of Black Lives Matter,  climate change activism, and yard signs can fill the hole they’re feeling. The good news is, it won’t work; the bad news is, our experiment is delicate and badly damaged.

The work — going to school board meetings, running for local office, speaking up in our towns and our cities and our states — is hard work. We’re going to lose friends along the way, but we will lose this country forever if we don’t, so there’s really no choice at all, is there.

Christopher Bedford is a senior editor at The Federalist, the vice chairman of Young Americans for Freedom, a board member at the National Journalism Center, and the author of The Art of the Donald. Follow him on

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As someone who studies political media and Congress, Bernie Sanders getting all the credit by some folks for unemployment insurance in the bill because he gave a flashy speech on the floor is a prime example of “floor speeches aren’t actually for policy negotiations but political messaging.”

Like, guys, Bernie wasn’t the only one pushing it. Give some credit to the quieter people. For example, let’s take Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois who was part of the committee negotiating the actual language of the bill, including the unemployment part:

Earlier, Durbin also said the plan calls for increased funding for unemployment insurance along with $150 billion “for state and local governments which have been spending money right and left to try to keep up with this public health crisis.”

And was part of a broader coalition of Democrats who were lobbying Schumer about policy inclusions and was part of a Tim Kaine bill for unemployment insurance that probably set up the base for the language that got included in the bill.

Bernie might have highlighted the absurdity of some Republican objections to the bill, but he isn’t a savior of humanity who single-handedly inserted this language and got it passed. Please remember that politics is a coalition game and that all policy gets passed thanks to a group of people, not a single individual.

Edit: Ironically, I also had some misattribution here as Michael Bennet (Senator from Colorado and former primary candidate) had been the one taking lead on negotiations as he had already been working on unemployment reform: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6818270-Michael-Bennet-s-UI-reform-plan.html

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John Lasseter: Hannah Chestnut’s Wiki Redo! Assignment

TW: SEXUAL ASSUALT, SEXISM

Hannah Chestnut

Wiki! Redo Revisions: Sexual Assault Allegations against John Lasseter

In January of 2019, John Lasseter stepped down from his position as Chief Creative Officer over both Pixar and Disney’s animation studios. As I read through the article at that time, I found Lasseter’s statements extremely underwhelming. He claimed he had taken “missteps” and that he was sorry “to anyone who has ever been on the receiving end of an unwanted hug or any other gesture they felt crossed the line in any way, shape, or form,” and I found my eyes stuck on that phrase, “unwanted hug or any other gesture.” I was thinking to myself that there must be more to the story for a man, who had a net worth of $100 million dollars and was in charge of two of the most successful and prominent animation studios in the world, to voluntarily step down from a company he played a pivotal role in creating. As someone who had extensive knowledge of animation history and the history of both studios, I was extremely confused as to why John Lasseter, one of the most influential advocates for computer animation, would step down from the company and technology he pioneered, to go and work for another studio because of a few “unwanted hugs.” 

John Lasseter had been one of the most influential individuals in animation history. He had pioneered computer animation and was a driving force behind bringing that technology to Disney. His influence was not inconsequential, he was one of the most powerful people in animation. So, when I read through all of this, it just didn’t add up to me. It didn’t add up, I was so sure there had to be more to the story. I had forgotten about it until now, and once I found the Wikipedia article for this assignment, I read through it. When I found the section about the allegations, I found one quote detailing the unwanted “grabbing, kissing, making comments about physical attributes.” While this was more than what Lasseter himself had described, it still felt like it must be an understatement. So I decided to do some more investigation into the matter, and thanks to the bravery of a former Pixar employee, I found a full account of the sexist workplace environment Lasseter had created and more details of the allegations against him. Most of the statements and quotes from victims were anonymous, in order to protect their careers within the tightly knit animation community, however Cassandra Smolcic came forward after working at Pixar for 7 years. Her detailed account of how difficult it was to speak out against these microaggressions shed more light onto Lasseter’s discreet departure. 

The first revision I made was fixing the language of the first sentence. The original statement was as follows: “In November 2017, Lasseter took a six-month leave of absence after acknowledging allegations of workplace sexual misconduct that he described as "missteps" with employees in a memo to staff.” I changed it to “In November 2017, Lasseter took a six-month leave of absence after allegations of workplace sexual misconduct.” I made this revision in order to take out Lasseter’s underwhelming characterization of his behavior from the first sentence regarding these allegations. I find the inclusion of said quotation to undermine the reality of his harmful actions and to also exclude the voices of women from the account of this problem. This is an example of implicit bias in favor of a powerful man who had abused his power to objectify women in the workplace. The next revision I made was to write an additional paragraph, citing Smolcic’s account of his behaviors at work. Originally there had been no additional information regarding what exactly he had been accused of, and it included no quotations or citations of the women Lasseter assaulted. I felt the exclusion of these quotations failed to give voice to the victims, another example of how the exclusion of information is a form of implicit bias.  

Lastly I added more information in the second section about Lasseter’s departure from Pixar and his new position at Skydance Studios. This section only quoted Lasseter, painting himself as someone who “deeply” regretted his actions, and felt acknowledging this behavior would “make him a better leader,” further undermining the unsafe environment Lasseter created at Pixar Studios. In order to remain as neutral as possible, I left this quotation in this section in order to allow Lasseter to speak for himself and to keep record of Lasseter’s statement. But in order to challenge the implicit bias of only quoting Lasseter and Skydance, I added an additional paragraph about how Skydance’s decision to hire Lasseter was not unanimously supported by Skydance employees. In fact, both the actress Emma Thompson and director Alessandro Carloni left the production of the 2021 film “Luck,” after Lasseter’s hiring. Since Emma Thompson made a public statement claiming the reason she left was because of Lasseter joining the production team, I felt giving her a voice as a woman in the entertainment industry would be much better than silence. This was another example of how omitting a certain perspective is indicative of implicit bias. 

Sources

Amidi, Amid. “Is Skydance Endangering Its Female Employees? Here Is A List Of Accusations Against John Lasseter.” Cartoon Brew, Toggle Navigation       Sign in Membership Film TV Shorts Awards Tech VFX CG Animation VR Tools Biz Business Box Office Report Artist Rights Studios Cities Bay Area London Los Angeles Montreal New York City Vancouver Paris Toronto Charts & Data 2021 Animated Features 2021 New Animated TV Series For Broadcast, Streaming & Cable Most-Viewed Indie Youtube Shorts Streaming Animation Guide Search: Film TV Shorts Interviews Business VFX/Tech Artist Rights Box Office Festivals, 10 Jan. 2019, www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/is-skydance-endangering-its-female-employees-here-is-a-list-of-accusations-against-john-lasseter-168942.html.

Masters, Kim. “John Lasseter Taking Leave of Absence From Pixar Amid ‘Missteps.’” The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Nov. 2017, www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-lasseter-taking-leave-absence-pixar-missteps-1057113?utm_source=twitter.

Masters, Kim. “John Lasseter's Pattern of Alleged Misconduct Detailed by Disney/Pixar Insiders.” The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Nov. 2017, www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-lasseters-pattern-alleged-misconduct-detailed-by-disney-pixar-insiders-1059594.

North, Anna. “John Lasseter, CEO of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, Sexual Misconduct Allegations.” Vox.com, Vox, 9 Jan. 2019, www.vox.com/a/sexual-harassment-assault-allegations-list/john-lasseter.

Smolcic, Cassandra. “Pixar's Sexist Boys Club.” Medium, Be Yourself, 24 Sept. 2019, byrslf.co/pixars-sexist-boys-club-9d621567fdc9 

Statt, Nick. “Pixar's John Lasseter to Leave Disney Following Sexual Harassment Complaints.” The Verge, The Verge, 8 June 2018, www.theverge.com/2018/6/8/17443370/pixar-walt-disney-animation-john-lasseter-leaving-company-sexual-harassment.

Wit, Alex Dudok de. “Skydance Animation's 'Luck' Loses Director Alessandro Carloni Over 'Creative Differences'.” Cartoon Brew, Toggle Navigation       Sign in Membership Film TV Shorts Awards Tech VFX CG Animation VR Tools Biz Business Box Office Report Artist Rights Studios Cities Bay Area London Los Angeles Montreal New York City Vancouver Paris Toronto Charts & Data 2021 Animated Features 2021 New Animated TV Series For Broadcast, Streaming & Cable Most-Viewed Indie Youtube Shorts Streaming Animation Guide Search: Film TV Shorts Interviews Business VFX/Tech Artist Rights Box Office Festivals, 16 Jan. 2020, www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/skydance-animations-luck-loses-director-alessandro-carloni-over-creative-differences-184832.html. 

Aguilar, Carlos. “Read Emma Thompson's Scorching Resignation Letter To Skydance Over John Lasseter Hiring.” Cartoon Brew, Toggle Navigation       Sign in Membership Film TV Shorts Awards Tech VFX CG Animation VR Tools Biz Business Box Office Report Artist Rights Studios Cities Bay Area London Los Angeles Montreal New York City Vancouver Paris Toronto Charts & Data 2021 Animated Features 2021 New Animated TV Series For Broadcast, Streaming & Cable Most-Viewed Indie Youtube Shorts Streaming Animation Guide Search: Film TV Shorts Interviews Business VFX/Tech Artist Rights Box Office Festivals, 26 Feb. 2019, www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/read-emma-thompsons-scorching-resignation-letter-to-skydance-over-john-lasseter-hiring-170742.html. 

Allegations of sexual misconduct and exit from Disney/Pixar 

See also: Weinstein effect

In November 2017, Lasseter took a six-month leave of absence after allegations of workplace sexual misconduct.[45] The alleged misconduct towards employees included "grabbing, kissing, [and] making comments about physical attributes".[8][9] The alleged conduct became so well known that, according to Variety, at various times, Pixar had "minders who were tasked with reining in his impulses.” 

Additionally, former Pixar employee, Cassandra Smolcic, wrote an essay in order to share her experiences of sexism and harassment while working at Pixar. She was told that it had been decided that was “best if you don’t attend art reviews on this production. John has a hard time controlling himself around young pretty girls, so it will be better if we just keep you out of sight.” She also provided details about how John Lasseter behaved at social events outside of work, claiming that “Quite a few of my female friends refused, year after year, to enter the costume contest — even if they’d worked for hours on a prize-worthy outfit — because of how infamously uncomfortable the costume parade became.” All other sources on John Lasseter’s behavior remain anonymous, with one anonymous source asserting that he witnessed Lasseter place “his hand on her knee, though, moving around." This male Pixar employee later asked the woman about this occurrence and reported that, "She said it was unfortunate for her to wear a skirt that day and if she didn't have her hand on her own right leg, his hand would have traveled."  

In June 2018, Disney announced that Lasseter was leaving the company at the end of the year, taking a consulting role until then. 

Skydance Animation

On January 9, 2019, Lasseter was hired to head Skydance Animation, which will produce animated films with Paramount Animation and Ilion Animation Studios.[1] In a statement, Lasseter expressed his gratitude for the opportunity, adding "I have spent the last year away from the industry in deep reflection, learning how my actions unintentionally made colleagues uncomfortable, which I deeply regret and apologize for. It has been humbling, but I believe it will make me a better leader."[1]

During a meeting at Skydance that same month, Lasseter expressed regret over his actions at Disney and Pixar. Lasseter said that ,"[he] will continue to work every day for the rest of [his] life to prove [...] that [he has] grown and learned".[47] An investigation conducted prior to his hiring found that no previous claims of sexual assault, propositioning or harassment had been filed against Lasseter,[47] and "[...] there were no findings of secret settlements by Disney or Lasseter to any parties asking for a settlement.” 

However, Skydance’s decision to hire Lasseter was met with internal controversies. Both Emma Thompson and director Alessandro Carloni  left the production of the upcoming 2021 film, “Luck,” Thompson, leaving with a publicly published letter to the studio, questioned why the studio “would consider hiring someone with Mr. Lasseter’s pattern of misconduct given the present climate in which people with the kind of power that you have can reasonably be expected to step up to the plate.” She also asked the studio if the women working at Skydance were “supposed to feel comforted that women who feel that their careers were derailed by working for Lasseter DIDN’T receive money?” 

According to The Hollywood Reporter, inside sources have said that Alessandro Carloni left the project after this letter was published, citing “creative differences” as the explanation behind Carloni’s departure. (387 words)

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Chapter 5 Fieldwork

Instructions:

After reading chapter 5, select six key concepts regarding race or racism. Find relevant examples from the media (pictures, videos, articles, music, etc.) for each. Include a brief explanation of how your media example illustrates the concept of race in a particular culture.

Nativism: Nativism is basically showing favoritism to people who are already citizens of a region while the non citizens also known as immigrants come in to the region and are feared and disliked. In this cartoon, the Irish are represented as Whiskey while the Germans are labeled as Beer. The Germans are stealing the ballot box from the Irish natives which could be influenced by what the Irish do not want the Germans to do which is why it is possible to limit immigrant rights out of fear and distrust.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs2qZMccDB0

Individual Racism: During the Ebola crisis, Africans were being stigmatized because they were the epicenter for the virus. Individual racism kicks in because non black people assumed that most black people are straight from Africa and are more susceptible to the virus and are also contagious regardless if they have been to an African country like Liberia.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/22/ebola-liberia-not-virus-stigma

microaggression: Microaggressions are rude and passive aggressive comments or remarks made to someone of a different race than you. Things said to black women for example: “You’re pretty for a black girl” is an example of an inappropriate microaggression. Below are just a few more commonly heard in our communities.

MDW 19_Day 2_Track 2_Session 3_Didwania_Microagressions.pdf

colonialism: A lot of Caribbean and African countries have European influence especially because the Western world traveled to those areas and conquered those areas by making the indigenous people their slaves and breeding with them as well to make babies with exotic desired features as well as changing names to European names.

Source: https://sites.google.com/site/theoriesofdevelopment/stages-and-theories/colonialism

white supremacy: The image below shows numerous Confederate flags that are infamous hate symbols emphasizing white supremacy over all other races living in America. According to Vox.com, “In 1863, the editor of the Southern Literary Messenger wrote that the flag's Southern cross pointed to "the destiny of the Southern master and his African slave" — the Confederacy's hoped-for expansion of slavery into Latin America.”

Source: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/01/13/what-confederate-flag-means-america-today

https://www.vox.com/2015/6/20/8818093/confederate-flag-south-carolina-charleston-shooting

Jim Crow: Jim Crow laws are laws that promoted the disrespect and dehumanization of black people. These laws were the main sources of racism in communities and made white people seem superior and civilized rather than black people. Below is a blackface cartoon from the segregation era depicting the black race as non human. 

https://www.history.com/news/blackface-history-racism-origins