A subtle way you can tell lestat is very selfish and ignorant about race, especially in ep 6 is that he said that they'd go to Argentina, a country which at the time was explicitly looking for white Europeans (including n*zis) to move there after spending decades pushing their black and Indigenous populations to the fringes of society to whiten up the country

I don't WANT to blame Obama for this, but... why does it feel like NeoNazi groups have been on the rise since his presidency?

Please... please tell me that you're not actually blaming Obama for being the world's most powerful man while black, leading to a ferocious and institutional/populist white fragility backlash in a country that has been systematically racist since its founding?

To be honest, I feel like if you ask yourself "hey why was there a rise in white supremacist hate groups after the first black president?" you have kinda, uh. Answered your own question.

idk I kind of live in a bubble but to have a pretty antizionist gentile relative who grew up in a military dictatorship, took place in mass protesting, and also was at the receiving end of anti Asian discrimination from Ashkenazi Jews in her program - something we’ve talked about and had some complex discussions on - just outright say she doesn’t know how safe America is for Jews. It rocked me socked me knocked me over

OH MY GOSH RHEA WORE WHITE

MIKE BLOCKED ME ON TWITTER FOR ROASTING HIS DUMBASS RESPONSE TO THE GRAPHIC NOVEL STUFF!!

grown ass man scared of the 19-year-old queer being mean to him over his public meltdown more at 8.

just an fyi if your *feminism* is at the expense of women who’s ideologies do not exactly align with yours in terms of what she wants for herself in the 21st century and you resort to calling her a housewife or dishwasher.. maybe its time we close that laptop and open the dial pad to see someone about this

the idiocy is killing kieran lmaooo

Socmed discussions about Saltburn, to me —

1) reveal that people are even more squeamish about explicit gay sexuality than they think they are

(And if this is what passes for shocking erotic excess, then we, in the anglosphere, are in a more — not making a comment about individuals here — restrained moment with mainstream American/British adult cinema than we were with mainstream adult heterosexual cinema in the 90s, eg the erotic thriller)

And

2) suggest people are increasingly making art that is in conversation with, if not explicitly nostalgic for, the 2010-16 Tumblr-era.

(I really truly suspect Saltburn is, in part, an adaptation of the tropes and aesthetics that were in certain “The Social Network” fan spaces.)

This whole "people shouldn't come for jamie lee curtis, she deserves an oscar too and she's a great person" shtick is soo tired to me bc I have no interest in attacking her as a person for the simple reason that I don't even know her like that.

But based on this awards season alone, here's what pisses me tf off and what people are absolutely allowed to be annoyed over. The whole "It's not her fault she's a nepo baby" doesn't cut it when you have the epitome of white privilege going on stage to accept an award (SAG in this case) for an Asian American movie and cry about how she's 64 and a nepo baby (because she was butthurt over internet jokes pointing out her privilege) RIGHT IN FRONT OF a 64-year-old Black woman who was raised in the projects by a single mother, hell who was part of school integration because segregation was still a thing when she was little, with absolutely no shame. Boasting about your privilege in front of a woman who is the same age as you and has definitely been set back by that age way way more than you and had to work miles harder to even get her career started is not cute. It's disrespectful.

But who is getting attacked for not being humble enough? Of course, the Black woman who dared to look sad as she watched her life-long dream get crushed right in front of her. Whose hard work was ignored yet again.

Did you see Jamie's face when Angela accepted her Golden Globe, by the way?

So yes, I absolutely am annoyed by Jamie right now and not for things outside of her control. White women get to turn their privilege into a joke because they got butthurt by it being pointed out once while Black women aren't even allowed to express their emotions without facing vile misogynoir.

If you, and I absolutely hold white people to a higher standard here, but if you want to acknowledge the hurdles women and specifically older women have in the industry on the platform that stage gives you, you do not get to leave out the woman in that same category who is affected by this even more than you. Especially while you're holding an award that an Asian American movie enabled you to win.

apropos of another weird anti-grass post is that one thing i feel like should be common knowledge, but know very well isn't, is that mowing your lawn is an act simulating the symbiotic relationship grass has with grazing animals.

like. grass is eaten by grazing animals; it's one of the primary foodstuffs of creatures with teeth and stomachs that are up to the job, because it's so plentiful. a cow is a grass-predator. you'd think that would make cow the enemy of grass.

but grass is optimized to be browsed and walked on. it absorbs that shit like it's nothing, up to the point that these activities start either damaging the root-mat or cutting back the new growth so early that the plant doesn't have enough leaves to eat with.

but the rivals of grass are not so much so optimized. most non-grass meadow plants that don't pretty much lie flat (i'm generalizing wildly here obvs) have stems they depend on, that can be snapped much more easily than the vascular systems of most grasses, especially short ones, and have to start all over again if you compromise the stem an inch off the ground.

and trees, whew. a tree sprout that gets bitten off is just done. it shot its shot.

which means that grass benefits from grazing animals about as much as those animals benefit from grass. they maintain each other.

grass doesn't grow because it inherently wants to be tall. it is, fundamentally, indifferent to tall. it wants sun access, so it can eat, and if it stops growing it'll be in the shade of everybody else, so it goes for it. if everyone is getting sheared off a little above the ground, grass is winning. because grass copes with that like a champion.

and grass-dominated meadow is absolutely a valid biome, and one of the most natural environments for humans.

so mowing a lawn in order to keep it conveniently walkable and mostly-grass is like. technically inferior to hiring some goats like the Mortifying Ordeal guy, if only that could be made a convenient routine transaction and if you were willing to endure the botanically desirable side effect of goat shit. but a perfectly reasonable maintenance method for a small patch of earth you aren't actively cultivating to any other purpose. and cultivating all land all the time is a dumb unsustainable goal and i don't like it.

mowing is fine. grass, ideally local grass, basically anywhere not a desert is splendid.

it's the poisons that are literally just an offense against man and nature.

Tom Holland needs to explode and die btw. The second I saw he was going to play Romeo in a new Romeo and Juliet adaptation I already was pissed but now it's even worse with the way he is silent while his co-star Francesca Amewudah-Rivers is being constantly harassed by racists and white supremacists literally just for existing as a Black woman

one of these days we're gonna have to have a conversation about the racism in some of the ways people talk about Lin Manuel Miranda but idk if Tumblr is ready for that

Leftists turn into conservatives sooo fast over religion and drug use. Atheist? Sick, good for you. Straight edge? Right on, a valid journey. “Religion needs to be banned”? “Drug users need to be purged”? Hello???

“You are delusional and morally incorrect for believing in hokey superstitions, you need to be brought to reality” is this FoxNews talking about religious POC or leftists talking about their beef with christianity “religion”

i try to be normal about loan words because they exist in every language but i can't help but be filled with rage every time i see or hear the term "dirty chai"

I think it's very human to associate aesthetics with morality and assume that the two are intrinsically linked, and to counteract that instinct I think it's important to be able to understand the context of artwork and acknowledge the importance of it while also thinking that it is ugly as sin. Really makes you grasp the concept that the two are firmly seperate.

Very disappointing that people will be boycotting the new Snow White movies because they're being misogynistic towards Rachel Zeglar and not because Gal Gadot is a disgusting Zionist who supports genocide