Be Careful Pretending

james somerton's cowriter nick is going on discord to defend the channel against plagiarism accusations by saying he doesn't even do any research i'm crying x

OF COURSE I DONT PLAGIARIZE. I DON'T EVEN READ

Nick just out here pulling a DW

When Laura Bailey said "Can I kiss you?" I got blasted back from my desk like I got hit by a fucking hadouken

suicide squad 3 scene where someone asks why harley is in jail this time and it’s just a cut to bruce the hyena at a tea party with rpatz bruce wayne duck taped to a chair opposite of him. harley; I figured kidnapping a big wig like bruce wayne would a caught bats attention but I got dropkicked by a butler instead

rick flag (back from the dead bc I say so): didn’t your ex hold up a bank for like twelve hours once and threaten to kill bruce wayne but the bat never showed?

bloodsport: actually, I don’t think batman’s ever saved wayne and the man’s been in at least six hostage situations. tad strange honestly

harley: omg I can’t believe we never noticed before

harley: batman HATES bruce wayne

landlords arent bad because theyre “lazy” or “parasites”, theyre bad because they take advantage of poverty and manipulate housing availability for financial gain. you people have GOT to stop framing your critiques of the bourgeoise the same way eugenicists talk about the disabled

I was going to sneakily reply to this with “but they’re also parasites” but

I did some introspection and you’re right. While landlords do suck up value without giving any back, the idea that every individual needs to “contribute something” to capital is an inherently manufactured take.

What should be criticized is the coercive nature of the transaction between rentiers and their tenants; the artificial scarcity employed to maintain the power imbalance between the landed and those without; an ideal world is not one where we retributively attack the gentry but find a way to make them irrelevant.

Framing landlords as “they’re bad bc they’re lazy parasites” actually opens you up to further attacks! Several are in fact not lazy, they sometimes do stuff like act as professional middlepeople (“something is broken, it is their job to find someone else who will fix it”). And so they might say “actually, managing property is quite a bit of work therefore landlords aren’t all useless, just the bad ones, therefore we deserve to exist, ha!”

But that’s not the point! The point is that they manipulate a massively necessary need (housing) for their own gain, raising prices while threatening people with homelessness! That’s what’s bad, not the fact that they’re “lazy”. You could have the most hardworking landlord in the world, and it would still contribute to harm.

I think the message of Howl’s Moving Castle is that in order to maintain a successful relationship with some kind of fucked up wizard, you must find it in yourself to also be some kind of fucked up wizard.

See, I don’t think that’s the case. Certainly, Sophie’s magic is often more practical than Howl’s, but if you think that the practicality of one’s magic is a reasonable measure of how good a fucked up wizard is at being a fucked up wizard, you don’t understand fucked up wizards.

By some metrics, Sophie is a more fucked up wizard - Howl would never mess something up by accident! But here’s the thing, they complement each-other. Sophie is practically-oriented, but she’s not always competent to do what she intends, nor does she know what she’s doing. Howl always knows what he’s doing and why, and it’s usually useless bullshit for terrible reasons. Howl knows what he is intimately. He knows his strengths and his weaknesses and he knows that he’s got a spine like wet, single ply tissue paper. Sophie complements this by doing whatever it is she sets her mind to, but having exactly zero capacity for self-reflection (or if she does it’s through a funhouse mirror)

Your honor, they’re both a better fucked up wizard than the other, just how they’re supposed to be. 

Where I come from, we don’t worry about these fruity-tuity California style buds. Okay? I’m from Scranton. What i’m smoking is dirt. So lets get that straight jack. Pure brick. Ass. Okay? America- Americans are wanting to smoke that dirt, okay? You go up to someone and say, hey, I’m gonna give you a big bag of this heady bud, but I’m taking your stash of mids, they’re gonna say C’mon man! get out of here! *audience cheers* that’s right. that’s right. Get the hell out of here! We like stems! We like seeds! Where I come from.

if you guys did this much in depth film analysis about actual movies maybe the collective media literacy around here would be better

I might have to write about goncharov sorry

If you want to talk to me about the greatest mafia movie of all time for a blog, gita.sonti.jackson at gmail

Time to remind everyone that Tenoch is an activist! And has been for a long while!

scrolling twitter today and then coming over here is like walking out of a burning building and then walking into the calm remains of a building that burnt down 5 years ago and has been reclaimed by nature.

how the fuck did this site outlast twitter

ive never held hands with a boy before what if i get pregnant

What if he gets pregnant?

oh my god I didn’t even think about that

American Psycho Directed by Mary Harron (2000)

lmao so Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of that giant crypto exchange that just collapsed was apparently famous for playing League of Legends during business calls which was impressive to venture capitalists for some??? reason so in an effort to add insult to injury someone dug up his ranking in League and found out that he's actually really bad at it and, just to rub salt in the would, that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of all people is *significantly* better than him

this all made even better by AOC's contribution to the thread

:)