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When someone says "the world sucks right now so I'm retreating into some comfort media," I think it's in poor taste to um akshually them about how their comfort media sucks too. It's like telling someone their comfort blanket is laced with microplastics; you can be right and still wrong for it.
Hell yeah!
The reality is that there are people who are going to be abused once and have it leave visible, lifelong marks upon their psyche while others will go through years of extreme abuse and appear to come out well-adjusted with minimal intervention after it stops. We don't know why each group exists.
Wake up babe, a new "my parents spanked me and I turned out fine" just dropped.
Folks need to learn that assault doesn't become less assault just because you dodged (or maybe didn't) developing trauma from it. Assault is about the violation of your person and your consent, separate from the impact.
What can I say? I have this terrible habit of celebrating the failures of unrepentant sexual abusers. It's a vice (though not one that gives people "crippling social anxiety, self-loathing, body dysmorphia, and an eating disorder").🤷🏿♂️
Oh yes, there are fans who love it like they love their confederate flags.
I hope it's someone who knew one of his victims. What can I say? I have a poetic, petty soul.
For people not in the biz, having your pitch rejected for 'creative differences' means they thought it was so bad they didn't think *anyone* could make it work. Bonus points that he calls getting the chance to pitch at all "serendipitous" as that implies his rejection was destiny in action.🤣
If you can understand why a state would benefit from such a director, you should then consider that New York City, if it were a state, would be the 13th largest state in the US. It often has to tackle policy issues bigger than most states.
I have my eye on you! But only one of them. The other is watching the roux right now.🤣
I exist in a state between "I should get some sleep" and "I should prepare a demi glaze since we're getting low..."
Sometimes I consider getting a silly tattoo like GAME -- OVER on my knuckles but then I remember I'm not that into tattoos and the joke would tire fast.
It's wild to think that if a missile had accidentally hit Epstein Island at the right moment in the mid 2000's, so much of our modern history would have been better.
I love Salma Hayek but this trend is NAWT for her. You gotta AGE lil mama! The picture on the left was her THREE MONTHS AGO. The one on the right is *20* years ago.
Lemme get this straight... Netanyahu is calling Ukraine to discuss interceptor drones and Russia is helping Iran with supplies, meanwhile each of the superpowers has either picked a side or is trying to ride the fence between Ukraine and Russia's ongoing war.
It's starting to feel like War-ception.
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I just read through some of the reddit posts of people discussing this and there's an argument about if she might have left to pursue more lucrative opportunities. Someone said "I mean, she was the creative driving force so I'd be amazed if she made less."
I. Guffawed.
I wish her the best.
I did enjoy Outlaw Star. I think it hit some beats beautifully but definitely ran into a few anime-shaped walls.
Every so often I'll remember a Piers Anthony plotline and think "Today we would check that man's hard drive." Did you know he's still alive? 91 years old.
It's just weird (derogatory) that Whedon is so damn good at picking interesting ideas to explore and then somehow finding the shittiest way to explore them.
I'd love to watch a deuteragonist Percy Jackson style story. What I mean is: Percy thinks he's a normal kid but everyone else sees him for the horrifying threat he is. Gimme me two shows, perspectives overlapping some major conflict, and make one a Percy Jackson and the other people observing them.
Idea: How do people solve problems in a future where lightyear distances and corporate apathy leaves too many with too little?
Reality: Libertarian circlejerk. Zero time spent developing a real economic system but a lot of time spent insisting it works because people self regulate.🙄
Idea: What does a society that embraced the growing prominence of China look like in the distant future?
Reality: Everyone uses Chinese to curse. Occasionally aesthetic elements. Zero philosophical concepts brought in. It's a gimmick.
Idea: How does human connection and sex work work in a complex, post-Christian scifi setting?
Reality: She's the maiden, mother, and whore of this ship and the lead man never lets her forget it because somehow he's managed to bring Puritanical ideas into this setting anyways.
Idea: Exploring the deeper thoughts of how you live in resistance when a fascist government won the war.
Reality: Used for Confederate Lost Cause apologia.
Firefly is one of those quintessential Whedon shows: It's full of stuff that individually are such brilliant ideas and thought provoking plotlines to explore... and then you take a step back and realize how all of it serves to deliver the most rancid, bigoted messages. He's the Lovecraft of pop TV.
I saw what that dude said about being willing to do it again and I meant what I said: Sometimes I think societal mutual aid gets in the way of natural selecting out people who will abuse mutual aid to keep doing things that are bad for all of us.
You mean we can't just rent a few uhauls per ship and drive the goods around on land? 🤣
"Everybody makes mistakes" is both a true statement but also a shitty excuse. Yes, everyone makes mistakes... but those mistakes are not all equal, and other people making smaller mistakes isn't an excuse for you to get away with low down shit.
There's a list of White actresses that, if I never heard from or of them again, I'd be so okay with that. Drew Barrymore and Alyssa Milano have locked their slots on that list in.