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metalheadsforblacklivesmatter · 2 years

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Another trend I'm seeing that we're not going to be doing in response to the Roe v Wade decision. And since I'm sick of people referencing media they don't understand, can we agree to not reference white-washed media to make a point in political ideas anymore? Please and thank you.

We WILL NOT be referencing Death Note or begging for Kira in response to Roe v Wade.

Listen, I love Death Note as much as anyone. I've seen the anime several times, watched both the Japanese and English live action versions, watched the musical in its entirety. The only thing I haven't consumed in terms of Death Note was the manga.

Death Note is just pro-cop propaganda. You do realize that, right? Like I realize in the beginning he was angry about rapists getting off and getting out of jail. But there's an entire episode (that's in the anime and both live action versions) where he's trying to sneakily get new names into the Death Note so he writes any names committed of crimes seen on a TV screen, and he ends to killing a bunch of people who committed minor crimes like petty theft.

He takes no consideration for the people falsely accused. He teams up with a billionaire that uses the Death Note to off his competition. He uses a woman's trauma bond (because Kira killed the guy that murdered her parents) to make her give away half of her life TWICE.

Light ie Kira is a teenage psychopath with a god complex that has no consideration for society's inequities that literally goes crazy by the end of every major media made about him.

For the love of the gods DO NOT ROMANTICIZE KIRA IN DEATH NOTE.

You do realize he wasn't the good guy, right? People praising him like a deity is the equivalent in the white incel men that were all edgy like "I am the joker. I am dark and crazy!"

Stop using white media for your feminist activism for the love of the gods. We're not in Death Note. We're not in Handmaid's Tale. We're not in Hunger Games. We're not in Harry Potter. We're in America in 2022.

Especially cishet abled white women that didn't give a shit about the loss of rights of queer people, disabled people, and BIPOC, but suddenly get all butthurt when it's your rights that are being taken away.

You'd be district 1 or 2 in hunger games.

You'd be Draco in Harry Potter.

You'd be the Aunts and the Wives of handmaid's tale.

You're compliant in the status quo as long as you get a little comfort and you're not as oppressed as other minorities. But the moment it's you that's affected, you're suddenly out there calling yourself the most oppressed minority.

-fae

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andreablog2 · 2 years

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I have so much respect and reverence for China actually like it’s truly the greatest empire of all time let’s be real….and the weird jealously america has for China rn is so incel vibed and boring I’m sorry. Like why is the west always trying to export all these movies to China and then do some patronizing movie abt Chinese immigrants in the west or some weird westernized fantasy of the Chinese empire. Even crazy rich Asians didn’t serve like the true Chinese billionaire cunt that has existed in the world the past couple of years. I know China has its own attitude toward entertainment that’s very opposite of most of the world but I’m sick of being left in the dark abt what slayage is happening in in China rn. Like bring some Chinese cultural diplomats and give them talkshows. I’m over it….America grow up and respect the country

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processthings · 4 years

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spring 20/20 infection

the world is sick with virus and vitriol the world needs healing the world needs recovery the world needs relief the world needs restructuring

tweets going viral kill all the landlords, they’ll be just fine people in charge are incompetent or malevolent or both spreading misinformation, to what end? are they trying to kill us?

up is down the virus will be gone before we know it! bad is good we’re doing such a great job!

all they care about is looking good when things are bad so used to stonewalling that they forgot how to accomplish bitch ass motherfucker cuomo lockdown the city already billionaire aristocrats bickering while thousands suffer and die

amidst all the panic and chaos, more power-grabbing than we’ve seen before another attempted us coup in venezuela if we can’t see each other in person, all communication is digital and under surveillance primary elections are postponed, or worse, not postponed did putin, xi, trump, et al conspire to make this happen?

restaurants are take-out only cars and pedestrians have abandoned the streets of once bustling city centers those who dare to venture out only do so with a mask or a respirator

hello, good evening, and remain indoors! essential workers must keep working stay away from each other if you can, work from home

failing to provide respirators failing to provide ventilators failing to provide testing failing to contact-trace failing to quarantine failing to do their jobs

remember when we could have other thoughts? the days are blurring together my belly is becoming bloated from fear

relics from before the ‘demic:

keys

metrocard

shoes

do i still even need them? do they spark joy?

spread knowledge throughout your team don’t let the knowledge gather in silos of one or a few people what if someone gets hit by a bus owned by the virus?

coronavirus the cockblocker i remember touch i remember swiping right i remember kissing i remember fucking i remember spooning we are all incels now

six degrees of coronavirus shocked at 1000 cases total shocked at 1000 cases in a day shocked at 1000 deaths total shocked at 1000 deaths in a day shocked at 3.3 million unemployment claims in a week shocked at 6.6 million unemployment claims in a week shocked at a 36% stock market plunge in a month shocked when these numbers seem small in another few weeks

afraid to walk outside afraid to take the subway afraid to go to the grocery store afraid to order dinner afraid to die afraid to kill

this was all a big misunderstanding

Recognize trance - notice and turn Allow trance - pause Investigate trance - roygbiv scan Nourish yourself - roygbiv scan

remember who you are come back to me we are the one who knows take the exquisite risk

biking with a mask at a 6 foot distance from others is safe getting to the park is easy with so few cars on the road the weather’s getting warmer the days are getting longer the sun is shining the birds are singing the breeze is blowing open the windows clean the house a relaxed clear centered home is pleasant to stay inside

#poetry

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papercutsunset · 3 years

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Masterlist (under cut)

They're not all winners, but I had fun with them! This is subject to change and will update with links as I find and publish more of my stuff.

Non-Fiction Essays

Poetry

A House Full of Snow

semi-charmed (collection)

Not Exactly Cursed (collection)

Flash Fiction (up to 1200 words)

Flash Fiction Masterlist

Short Stories (1200+)

What Remains of Hal Skalicky (also found here): Luanne Skalicky kills her husband. When he comes back to life, she has to kill him again.

If You Find My Son, Please Kill Him (also found here)

The Starflower Saga: Three installments of weird scifi flash fiction where a woman is dying and it's also the Wild West, but in space.

GOD ANSWERS KNEE-MAIL (also found here):

Guava and Gears: I don't know, it's like dark retrofuturism or something, don't ask me. There's robots. I don't remember most of it.

How Veronica Vanquished The Wolf (also found here): A fractured-fairytale version of Little Red Riding Hood that involves war and werewolves?

Stopwatches and Clocks

To Love Oneself

Found In The Stars

The Morning After

Blood Stains!

Facts About You, Me, and Walruses: A note from a secret admirer sends Woodrow on a quest to find the guy behind the words.

Happy Campers

Plight

The Queen of Wreckage

That Girl

Cacophonous

Drinking Ink

Coming Back Home for April Fool's Day

Lavenza: When Lizzie Vasquez is transported into the story of Frankenstein, she gets the chance to save Elizabeth Lavenza and change the course of the story.

Sold His Soul

Mistletoe Bagman and the Hydra

Novelettes and Novellas

Junebug!: By day, she's Julie Myers, a chemistry major and fast food pizza maker. When danger calls, she's Junebug! At least, that was the plan. Plans change, though. When The Patriot (the leader of a team of superheroes Julie has just joined) kills a man for seemingly no reason while the two of them are on patrol, everything she thought she knew is thrown into the air as she grapples with morality in the face of threats to her life. Then she meets The Leviathan Legion and works with them to take down The Titans-- at least, that's the plan. Hopefully, this one will stay on track.

College Road Trip: Kurtis Hill and three of his friends (Lynette Mack, Lewis Holloway, and Peter Cunningham) are on their way to visit a Renaissance Faire across the country to watch Peter's girlfriend participate in a jousting competition. With no reception and no way to get news, the four of them make their way to a small desert town where they are promptly attacked by the zombified townsfolk. Now the four of them are fighting for their lives and, more importantly, to make it to the Ren Faire in time.

Lover's Lane: After a local serial killer targets Dot and a boy she went up to Lover's Lane with, she decides to track down the killer and give him a taste of his own medicine.

Sunless Cinema: Teddy expected this kidnapping to go off without a hitch. When he and his partner, Ralph, kidnapped a billionaire's daughter at the beach and took her to an editing room in the local Sunless Cinema Production Studios, the two of them unknowingly unleashed something incomprehensible, lethal, and hungry.

Slip Your Hand Into Mine: Luke Tomua didn't expect his brother to show up at his art exhibition; Caleb Tomua didn't expect to actually show up. When he does, the two of them are set down a path that makes them remember a part of their childhood that Caleb had all but forgotten.

Novels

Impish: When Mikey suddenly grows horns about a month after graduation, she embarks on a quest to find her sleazebag demon father.

Jackrabbit: When the Spring Maiden goes missing, it is up to Jackie to find her. (Unfinished)

Small Town Gods: Rory Skiff's life kind of sucks. Between her mother's constant yelling and the weird monsters she sees everywhere, it's hard being her. Luckily, she and her brother Christian have a trip scheduled to Beaverboard Bridge, the town in Tennessee where their father lives. The thing is, there's something weird going on in Beaverboard Bridge... Christian gets sick almost as soon as they arrive, and Rory quickly meets the intelligent and attractive Sloane Blackthorn, who explains what's happening: Rory's arrival has triggered the awakening of some eldritch horror living under the town. Together, the two of them begin to uncover the truth of why Christian and the rest of the townsfolk are getting sick and what happens when you piss off primordial forces.

Unfinished Business: Eve didn't mean to die. She was just trying to stay away from her brother and his girlfriend while absolutely despising herself and then-- After waking up in what looks like a DMV, Eve is given the choice of doing pubic service, going to Hell for a while, or killing the monster that killed her. (Guess which one she chose!) With the help of Willa (her brother's girlfriend and, incidentally, the only living person who has been able to see her so far) and Ethan (a real incel-type that Eve can't stand), Eve races against the clock to kill the monster before it kills her and everyone else in the school. In this novel inspired by works like Beetlejuice and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, an undead teen comes to terms with the world around her, the afterlife, and the reality of herself-- all while trying to stay alive. (Unfinished)

Catfish & Corpses: Benny Ray Posner is a young man working for his father at the family's investigation agency-- and he's not coping well with the recent death of his older brother. When his brother comes back to life, he is thrust into a world of zombies, mystery, and conspiracy. Will he find the cause of his brother's resurrection before it's too late? Or will the zombies be allowed to take over Central Florida and the world? (Unfinished)

Other Side Cola: Dylan Tranter is dealing with the grief following his grandfather's passing. When he dedicates himself to finding (and drinking) a bottle of his grandfather's favorite soda, he finds himself in a world of shadows, spirits, temptations, and the dead. Will he make it out in time? Or will he lose himself in the carbonation? (Unfinished)

#masterlist #writeblr

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thetruthseekerway · 5 years

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Neoliberalism Is the True Villain of ‘Joker’

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Neoliberalism Is the True Villain of ‘Joker’

By Leslie Lee

Neoliberalism Is the True Villain of ‘Joker’

After 11 years of inundating cineplexes with status-quo defending super cops and soldiers, Hollywood has finally given us a blockbuster movie with a protagonist willing to fight for common people against the economic system oppressing them. He just happens to be a comic book villain.

“Joker” has, at best, a tenuous relationship to its DC Comics source material. In an homage to Martin Scorsese’s early work, Todd Phillips’ film serves as a dark character study of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a professional clown living with his ailing mother in a tumultuous early 1980s Gotham City.

The film follows Arthur as he tries and fails to smile through his fight against mental illness, poverty, loneliness and severe depression. He is utterly powerless to slow down the decay of his mental state and at one point even considers committing a crime in hopes of being recommitted to Arkham State Hospital.

Arthur’s only moments of happiness come from entertaining children and watching television with his mother—specifically a late-night show hosted by Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro), a nod to Rupert Pupkin’s idol Jerry Langford in “The King of Comedy” (1982). When the machinery of capitalism strips Arthur of even those modest pleasures (along with his access to therapy and medication), the movie reveals its true nature—not as a prestige drama but a pulpy revenge thriller.

Much has been written about the politics of “Joker,” and almost all of it wrong. It is certainly not a “toxic rallying cry for self-pitying incels,” as IndieWire’s David Ehrlich described it. Fleck’s anger is not aimed at women or people of color but specifically at those who have wronged him: the billionaire his mother used to work for, a trio of Wall Street goons on the subway and finally the celebrity who mocks his disability on national television.

The violence of “Joker” has been similarly pilloried. It is truly shocking, but that is because the film takes human life seriously. Only a handful of people are killed during the film—far less than you’d see Iron Man or Captain America kill in an opening fight scene—and each is genuinely disturbing. But Fleck does not commit murder because he’s mentally ill. Instead, his violence is a response to that which he experiences as a result of his mental illness. Beatrice Adler-Bolton of the podcast Death Panel called the film the “‘I Spit on Your Grave’ of medicalization.” It’s a revenge flick for those pulverized by a system that renders them invisible.

The true political implications of “Joker” center on Bruce Wayne’s father and the film’s antagonist, Thomas Wayne. Whereas the comic book character is a generous philanthropist, the Wayne of “Joker” is recast as a Mitt Romney-like figure who uses his immense and unearned riches to push his way into politics. His sneering disdain for those who haven’t “made something of themselves,” with its faint echoes of the then-Republican candidate for president’s 47% remarks, severs the film from the Batman lore. No longer is wealth a tool for Gotham’s benefactors to help the less fortunate but a means to a sinister, real-world end—the power to control, dominate, mock, abuse and scorn those who don’t have it.

“Joker” subverts the Batman mythos by suggesting the Waynes were not the innocent victims of a robbery gone wrong. Rather they are killed in a deliberate act to stop billionaire Thomas Wayne from becoming mayor and exerting still more power over the proletariat. The Bruce Wayne in this universe does not need to hunt criminals in hopes of finding the person responsible for his parents’ death because in “Joker” that person is his father.

For much of the film, Fleck is bemused by but disconnected from the anti-wealth demonstrations that his killing of three Wall Street brokers (and Wayne employees) inadvertently inspire. “KILL THE RICH: A New Movement?” one newspaper headline asks as masked “clowns” riot against the wealthy and hold signs demanding an end to their predations.

Fleck doesn’t quite see his part in all this, even as the funding for his treatment is cut by austerity measures and a billionaire ignores pleading from Fleck’s mother for financial assistance. But as the film reaches its climax, Arthur is literally and metaphorically embraced by this mass movement. No longer is his alienation atomized; Fleck and the audience understand that he is channeling the righteous anger of the sick, the poor and the downtrodden.

In a dream-like sequence—that may or me not be one of Arthur’s many fantasies—a crowd of clown-faced protesters wills the injured Arthur to his feet and he begins to dance, blood streaming out of the corners of his mouth as he smiles in classic Joker fashion. Arthur looks in wonder at a new world he has created in which people are no longer invisible because they’re ill, no longer crushed because they are poor, no longer forced to smile through the violence they suffer. They are no longer powerless.

Setting the film in 1981 serves the dual purpose of grounding it in the gritty New York of “Taxi Driver” and placing the film in the early days of our current global neoliberal order. Although Arthur Fleck declares he is not political, it’s impossible to view the film as anything other than a condemnation of the austerity and immiseration ushered in by corporations like Wayne Enterprises with the aid of politicians like Ronald Reagan. The film makes clear that when people are only as valued as their ability to produce profit, they will invariably fight back. “The greater danger to society maybe if you DON’T go see this movie,” wrote documentarian Michael Moore in a recent Facebook post. “Because the story it tells and the issues it raises are so profound, so necessary, that if you look away from the genius of this work of art, you will miss the gift of the mirror it is offering us.”

That Todd Phillips has smuggled this deeply scornful view of the established order into a comic book movie underwritten by a major corporation is what makes “Joker” so subversive. It is increasingly uncommon for blockbuster fare to challenge audiences on a moral or political scale, but by conceiving the film as a throwback to rebellious New Hollywood cinema, Phillips has made perhaps the most left-leaning major release of 2019.

With a recession on the horizon, unchecked climate change propelling us toward global catastrophe and a political system unwilling or incapable of addressing the widening gap between the haves and the have nots, we will likely look back on the controversy surrounding “Joker” as quaint. While the film is set in the past, the class-based uprising it depicts is an optimistic glimpse into a future in which the invisible and marginalized rise up and take to the streets.

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Leslie Lee III is a writer and the host of Struggle Session, a podcast that covers pop culture from a leftist perspective.

Adapted with necessary editorial adjustments from https://www.truthdig.com.

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