he's embarrassing
give up the control
“100 companies carbon blah blah I’m gonna do whatever I want” is the new climate change denial.
In her book Fixation, Sandra Goldmark has a quote that I really admire. She talks about how the ultra wealthy and oil corps are primarily responsible for destroying the planet, so why bother doing anything for the environment?
“because not taking these actions -individually- is even more ludicrous; it denies each of us a place in the world. If our actions are part of the problem, then they must be part of the solution.”
She then quotes Jonathan Safran Foer:
“the ways we live our lives, the actions we take and don’t take, can feed the systemic problems, and they can also change them. Both macro and micro actions have power, and when it comes to mitigating our planetary destruction, it is unethical to dismiss either, or to proclaim that because the large cannot be achieved, the small should not be attempted.”
CASTIEL aka AGENT BEYONCE in 12.7 ROCK NEVER DIES
tbh the funniest part in the fellowship of the rings is when pippin drops the helmet down the well in balin’s tomb and we’re just listening to it drop while everyone stares at him and he flinches at every clang and then when it’s over gandalf goes after his whole life i die every time
CASTIEL in 14.15 PEACE OF MIND
I’m looking for my partner. The tall man. Hair? He has beautiful hair?
a slight canon divergence
queer by frank bidart, stanza two
very cool how the gender binary in the emerging trad terf synthesis is like, there are two genders, the one that does bad things and the one that bad things are done to. the only thing in the world is immorality and it flows from unexperiencing agents to unacting experiencers.
which naturally appeals to people who would like to be perceived as inherently lacking the capacity for immorality. for whatever reason
anyway remember bell hooks’s very cogent critique of second-wave feminist organizing in ‘sisterhood: solidarity between women’ where she argues that by “bonding as ‘victims’, white women’s liberationists were not required to assume responsibility for confronting the complexity of their own experience … Identifying as ‘victims’, they could abdicate responsibility for their role in the maintenance and perpetuation of sexism, racism, and classism.” it’s not by accident that terf gender essentialism dovetails so much with other biological-determinist & essentialist assumptions including Extremely Racist Ones
*says ‘I’m so fucking sick of this pandemic shit’ in a distinctly vaccinated, pro mask, pro lockdown, pro taking all the necessary safety measures way*
The costumes for the film are definitely fantasy. There’s no historical accuracy to them, really […] Because there are so many films and TV shows such as ‘Game of Thrones’ that were done so beautifully, I very consciously from the beginning thought of going the opposite way.
I did not want to use any fur or any leather because I felt that would be just terrible [because director David Lowery is a lifelong vegan.] So most of the costumes are completely vegan. We used pineapple leather and we used bark cloth from trees that resembles leather. We just stayed away from anything else. I’ve never used those materials before and I wouldn’t have searched for them if it weren’t for David being a vegan and me trying to find a way around it. That was a good challenge that made me re-imagine the clothes and not, you know, try to outdo ‘Game of Thrones,’ which was perfect.
- ‘The Green Knight’ costume designer Malgosia Turzanska for Insider
If you’re into literally any fandom, I have your latest obsession right here: D&D.