Hello, Tailor

i love seeing posts like "SELL ALL YOUR TESLA STOCK NOW!!" on tumblr dot com like they do not let you buy stocks if you know what a karkat is

the year was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it....... probably another Electronic-Mail

love that in the wellness session Ms. Casey tells Irving his outie is "a skilled lover" or whatever and you're like, okay but how would they know any of this, they could be making it all up. and then you meet outie Irving and you're like. no actually I buy that, that checks out

some of the tables i’ve encountered this summer

an additon, since you seem to love it

here you go, have some more <3

I think maybe the most ironic part of the white supremacist “Muslims are taking over Europe, save European culture and its people!” rhetoric is that they’ve been saying it for the past 1,300 years. No exaggeration. This is something they’ve been fearmongering about since the 8th century.

I remember meeting a guy at a bar a year or so ago who told me he worked at the international consortium that does the porn parodies of all the top-grossing film releases. He said that the whole Barbenheimer situation presented his combine with some spectacular highs and lows. Because he said that with Barbie, right, the thing about Barbie is that there's already kind of a three-way ideatic, structural parallel between the curated artificiality of Barbie as a children's toy, the curated artificiality of Barbie as a mass market film, and the curated artificiality of pornography as a genre. Add on top of that that Barbie as a film is already feeling this tension, right where it's trying to be about a character graduating from the platonic sexlessness of a children's franchise to the functional-and-frank sexuality of being a living human woman, but it's also being bogged down in the "Everyone-is-beautiful-no-one-is-horny" aesthetic restrictions of any contemporary big-budget mass-market film so the two states end up looking pretty similar, he said. I mean the film itself is very aware of that tension, right, with that joke about how "casting Margot Robbie is the wrong move if you want to make that point," all that jazz. So, all that in mind, Barbie-themed pornography, he said, is in a weird way actually kind of complementary to the extant project, gesturing at unaddressed tensions and ideas, a dark mirror, the shadow self it wants to deny but can't, there's a lot of room to play in the space. He used the adjective "Lynchian" a couple of times, he seemed super stoked, he was talking with his hands. Oppenheimer, on the other hand. Oppenheimer he said presented a problem. Because obviously you can eroticize the detonation of an atomic bomb, we're all probably three mutuals removed from someone on this site who does exactly that, but obviously that's a niche market, and moreover it's a market that has a ton of overlap with high-minded thinkers who treat the historical use of atomic weapons against Japan with the level of gravity that atrocity demands. So they were stuck. They were really stuck. He told me that they'd been pulling their hair out for months trying to square the circle and all they had to show for it was a big whiteboard with the phrase "Grope-nheimer" written on it

Crazy how many people want characters in fiction to speak and act like they’ve had 20 hours of intensive therapy. Could NOT be me I want these bitches fucked up insane

my friend briar and i lovingly call this one ‘therapy speak joker’ and it almost caused her to drop biological samples one time

always struck when the uk government says "there is no place for knife crime in our society" because then I start trying to think of a society fully oriented around knife crime

Colman Domingo attends the 97th Annual Academy Awards

A quite insightful quote from Stormy Daniels.

[Text ID: We are thought of as less than people. When every story about me broke, it was “porn star Stormy Daniels, real name X,” and they printed my real name everywhere. Every time you see Whoopi Goldberg’s name, or Nicolas Cage or Bruno Mars, they don’t put their real name in parentheses behind it. I had so many female journalists do it to me. And when I said something to them, [they’d say,] “Say her name. Say her name. Her name is Stephanie Clifford, say it! She’s not just porn star Stormy Daniels!” But they never paused to think that maybe that’s the name I wanted. And you just outed my family. I guarantee you wouldn’t misgender me, so why would you use a dead name? And they thought they were doing the right thing because they’re on their big high feminist fucking #MeToo horse and they never even stopped to do the most basic feminist thing, which is ask the woman in the center of the storm what she wants to be called. And nobody did it. /End ID]

Fun fact! When I was googling to find this citation to make it easier to add the text id, google auto-completed "Stormy Daniels" to "Stormy Daniels real name" with her full legal name in giant letters right below the question!

There's also this very insightful bit from her right before the above passage:

"One of the things I want to do, because of what happened to me in court, is to use [my] platform to lobby to change the rule about being able to discriminate against sex workers. Because as a director, all these years in the business, I saw so many girls come in and not want to be stars. They just wanted to make money to go to school, and they didn’t buy purses, they didn’t do drugs, they didn’t party, they didn’t do anything fucking stupid, right? I really got to know these women on a personal level because I was directing at least once a month for 10 years. And so I saw these girls come in, do everything right, get a degree in nursing, leave the business—but then a year or two years later, they’d come back because they got fired over and over and over because they got recognized at work.

And when they came back, that’s when they were broken. That’s when they did drugs. That’s when they died. That’s when I saw them commit suicide, not the first time around. I can name 50 girls right now who have gotten fired because they used to do porn. And that’s got to change and [the rape shield carve-out] has to change. And what they did to me has to change. Because it’s bullshit. You don’t want us to do porn, but you won’t let us do anything else."

Ep. 314: Anora, Wicked and Emilia Pérez

Just in time for the Oscars, Claire and Gavia discuss three of this year's Best Picture nominees: The romantic dramedy Anora, the blockbuster musical Wicked, and the controversial trans drama Emilia Pérez, a film whose 13 Oscar nominations arrived alongside a wave of (justified!) criticism.

Previous eps covering 2025 Oscar nominees: The Brutalist, Nosferatu, The Substance, Dune: Part Two our Best Movies of 2024 podcast, and our Patreon-exclusive Oscars episode where Morgan and Gavia offer a full overview of this year's contenders.

Show notes are here. Overinvested is available on all major podcast platforms!

Two things here. First: Emilia Pérez is so incompetent and so offensive, in such bizarre and innovative ways, that I'm still baffled by the idea that many, many people think it is... "good"?? Like, I'm used to the Academy nominating films with shitty politics, but this feels like a next-level fiasco.

Second: If you've been wondering whether to check out Overinvested's Patreon content, our Oscars preview ep offers a great intro for Sunday's ceremony IMO. Between us we've watched a lot of the nominated films and followed important storylines throughout awards season - and Morgan is a genuine expert on how the Oscars function, sharing insight on topics like category fraud and international censorship.

John Turturro on working with Christopher Walken in Severance.

A picture a friend sent me from Erewhon

it was a stroke of genius to give James T Kirk a bitchy flip phone in the 60's, truly amazing to watch him slam it shut like a pissed off socialite girl in 2000's teen shows

Ep. 314: Anora, Wicked and Emilia Pérez

Just in time for the Oscars, Claire and Gavia discuss three of this year's Best Picture nominees: The romantic dramedy Anora, the blockbuster musical Wicked, and the controversial trans drama Emilia Pérez, a film whose 13 Oscar nominations arrived alongside a wave of (justified!) criticism.

Previous eps covering 2025 Oscar nominees: The Brutalist, Nosferatu, The Substance, Dune: Part Two our Best Movies of 2024 podcast, and our Patreon-exclusive Oscars episode where Morgan and Gavia offer a full overview of this year's contenders.

Show notes are here. Overinvested is available on all major podcast platforms!

Two things here. First: Emilia Pérez is so incompetent and so offensive, in such bizarre and innovative ways, that I'm still baffled by the idea that many, many people think it is... "good"?? Like, I'm used to the Academy nominating films with shitty politics, but this feels like a next-level fiasco.

Second: If you've been wondering whether to check out Overinvested's Patreon content, our Oscars preview ep offers a great intro for Sunday's ceremony IMO. Between us we've watched a lot of the nominated films and followed important storylines throughout awards season - and Morgan is a genuine expert on how the Oscars function, sharing insight on topics like category fraud and international censorship.

Death and the Maiden (Marianne Stokes, 1908)

2.06 “Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light”