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Adult Swim making an unholy amount of sense.

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“That’s why high school, or a crappy job, or any other restrictive circumstance can be dangerous: They make dreams too painful to bear. To avoid longing, we hunker down, wait, and resolve to just survive. Great art becomes a reminder of the art you want to be making, and of the gigantic world outside of your small, seemingly inescapable one. We hide from great things because they inspire us, and in this state, inspiration hurts.”

— One of the best articles I’ve ever read. Rookie Mag. By Spencer Tweedy. (via wildyork)

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Deathstroke is about to lose his "Most Divorced DC Villain of All Time" title

Although I've been buying the current main Batman comics for a while, I'll admit I have not read them in a bit, but what?

"Alexis Kaye, a disillusioned college student, embraced The Joker’s nihilism. Creating her own Joker toxin, she murdered her college dean, earning The Joker's approval as "Punchline," his new partner against Batman."

Fucking what?

And these clowns (derogatory) have the audacity to claim queer and/or female fans create Mary Sue self-inserts?

What the fuck is she then???

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No doubt, most of you have heard the recent news of Quentin Tarantino deciding to shelve his planned-for-years movie, The Movie Critic, because he didn't think it was "worthy" of being his final film.

I can't say I was looking forward to it — absolutely nothing about the phrase "1970s period piece" is in any way appealing to me — but I find it to be just the latest example of something that's bugged me about QT for years: his tendency not to commit to ideas he has. I recall numerous occasions when Tarantino would bring up an ideas for movies he wants to make, and then never do anything with those ideas. Just a few examples of projects he's suggested but never followed through on:

A mob movie taking place in 1930s Australia

An "earth-bound" science fiction movie that "wouldn’t involve spaceships"

A biopic on abolitionist John Brown

A film adaptation of the novel Less Than Zero

A sequel to Kill Bill focusing on Elle Driver training Vernita Green's daughter to get revenge on The Bride

Before Casino Royale came out, he wanted to direct the next James Bond movie as a 1960s period piece but with Pierce Brosnan in the role one last time; no less a person than Sean Connery said it sounded like a cool idea

He also wanted to co-create a Star Trek movie with JJ Abrams

He also teased Killer Crow, a World War II-era Blaxploitation film about Black soldiers who make "a warpath to Switzerland" after being "fucked over by the American military

These all sound like amazing ideas for movies, and Tarantino is such a talented director that I have no doubt he could pull them off. Unfortunately, they'll never come to fruition because he's going to retire after his tenth movie to "preserve his artistic legacy" or whatever. I don't know why he feels like he has to do that; other directors like Spielberg and Scorsese are still cranking out hits well into their twilight years, so why does QT feel the need to limit himself?

And here's another question: if QT isn't going to direct those movies, can't he at least write the scripts and hand off directing duties to someone like Robert Rodriguez? From Dusk Till Dawn proved Rodriguez has what it takes to bring Tarantino's scripts to life; it could work with those other movies, too!

#quentin tarantino #movies

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Purity Politics

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why are yt to mp3 websites always the shadiest fuckin sites I feel like I’m going down a dark alleyway risking the chance of getting drugged and/or stabbed just bc its the only place where I can find a guy to deal me some decent fart with extra reverb dot mp3s

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everybody shut up about clubs i dont care

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All right y'all. Here's another tidbit:

"POC" means Person of Color.

If you're referring to a specific noun- person, artist, writer, actor, teacher, etc.-

It is _NOUN_ of color! Artist of color, writer of color, teacher of color.

Please stop saying "poc character, poc artist" (person of color character person of color artist). While I recognize that if you chose to follow me, you likely had no mal-intent, it comes off in a very... Distancing way. "How can you claim to care about me and you don't even know what you're saying" way. If you know someone's race or ethnicity, feel free to say that! Black artist, Filipino writer, Indian character, etc. It's okay to be specific! Our goal is intent, and part of being intentional is knowing what we're saying when we're saying it. 👍🏾

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It is nihilistically hilarious that Ben Shapiro was confronted with evidence that his main argument is factually incorrect and, instead of rethinking his prejudices, doubled down on them with a story he knew would never happen IRL

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Fortnite, are you sure about this? Did you think it through?

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JK Rowling has used her billionaire legal team to silence a Jewish woman for telling the truth about her contempt for trans victims of the Holocaust.

Scotland’s network of “freedom of speech” organisations, as per usual, have nothing to say about the use of wealth to gag critics of the wealthy.

However fast they race to condemn the LGBT+ community for saying the names of those who harm us. Statements at the ready to insist that transphobes no one wants to work with anymore must be given every possible opportunity to gain from their bigotry.

But it's not the billionaires who are being silenced, as our media breathlessly echo their every hateful proclamation.

It's journalists and activists forced to publicly humiliate themselves under the weight and the threat of billionaire legal teams or be driven into destitution.

We deserve better. Freedom of speech needs to mean something

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OK KO FANDOM WAKE UP

NEW IAN JQ OK KO ART

Source: https://x.com/sololinneaa/status/1779546246870688077

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The thing that pisses me off the most about people like Musk or JKR is that they have all this money, all this power, and milllions of sycophantic followers who hang onto every word they say, and instead of using this to push the world into being better they’re just constantly pushing the most evil and morally bankrupt takes imaginable out onto their social media. They could literally make the world better without even trying but they choose to be supervillains. I can’t comprehend it.

And while she’s not evil to the extent of those two, this is one of the reasons I can’t stand Taylor Swift. She has a rabid fanbase that would literally do anything she tells them. She has the power and influence the likes of which every cult leader dreams of having, and what does she do with it? Nothing! If she said “Vote Biden” we wouldn’t even have to consider Trump again because there would be no fucking way he could win against an onslaught of Swifties voting but she’s so safe, bland, and apolitical.

Does having so much influence over literal hordes of people just inherently make you spineless or stupid?