Vaughanography

No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong,

it is right.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness,

it is a strength.

No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited,

it is unlimited.

The War Game (1966)

La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)

Privilege (1967)

Punishment Park (1971)

Images from the films of the remarkable director Peter Watkins - RIP

The War Game (1966)
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
Privilege (1967)
Punishment Park (1971)

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.

i think this might be the actual worst tv theme song ive ever heard

Edward Colston's statue getting thrown into bristol harbour by a joyful crowd

Happy 5 year anniversary to Edward Colston's statue getting thrown into Bristol Harbour :D

The Flanderization of ghibli in the public mind is just so insane to me. Acting like it’s entirely wholesome and cutesy but is really overtly anti capitalist, depict the horrors of war and environmental decline, and have TONS of body horror and depictions of death and disease. it legit annoys me

#TodayInQueerHistory
May 23 (1988)
BREAKING NEWS!
Lesbian activists interrupt the live broadcast of the 6 o'clock news.

They were protesting Section 28, a law that forbade the "promotion of homosexuality".

“We could not get the news to report on it so we thought, ‘Well, we’ll just be the news."

Never thought they'd write a song about ICP

Ultimately, Freeman’s column isn’t pitiful because it rubs salt in the wound—it’s pitiful because it lays bare the true aim of the anti-trans movement. This was never about policy or bathrooms or youth sports. It’s about a cohort of people who feel culture shifting beneath their feet, who were raised in a world where casual cruelty toward transgender people was normalized, and who now find themselves resentful that society has moved on. Rather than reflect or grow, they double down, demanding that their revulsion be seen as virtue—that their discomfort be not only accepted but celebrated. Freeman’s yearning for social validation, cloaked in the language of righteous indignation, reveals the movement’s hollow core. The title of her piece says it all: this isn’t about the law, it’s about the isolation that comes from being wrong. And no court decision—no matter how cruel—will win back the friendships lost to hate, or rescue those who chose the wrong side of history from the consequences of that choice.

From my latest piece.

The true motivating energy behind the anti-trans activists of today.

Show us the last four albums you listened to. #last4albums

I need to give that a listen, it's got two tracks featuring Alison Goldfrapp so I'm already sold on it

According to Last FM it's Bjork with Charli in a close second place

You still could after you've finished with Suede...

What perfect albums came out when you were 16?

Network (1976)
Dir. Sidney Lumet

Paddington as 007

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1459

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

YES SIR!!!

You're going to be ranking vegetables?

Looks like Elon Musk needs that yearly reminder that The Matrix is a trans allegory written by two closeted trans women.

“You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.”

I remember the first time I traded in a game and feeling the crushing disappointment of that 10%. Never did it again.

(that game being Colin McRae Rally 2.0 on GBA, not a good handheld port, first one was good though)

more recently, probably this dumb comic from 2023 that I threw together in less than an hour thinking "haha everybody agrees that a lot of superhero movies are propaganda right" and it turned out many people are VERY defensive about the most popular and highest grossing franchise in the world