#james todd

[enchantedbook]

Owl Man by James Todd

#james todd #owl man #Illustration #owls illustration

[letterboxd-loggd]

Trapped (1949) Richard Fleischer

July 23rd 2022

#trapped #1949 #richard fleischer #lloyd bridges #barbara payton #john hoyt #james todd #russ conway

[bonerey]

characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that

#tim drake #bruce wayne #can i just tag the entire batfam.... this applies to all of them i think #all of them deal with their issues by putting on spandex and beating up criminals. none of them are exempt from this post #let them make bad stupid inconsiderate decisions... its funny entertaining and free #batfamily #batfam #jason todd #dick grayson #batman #dc batman #dc comics #additionally: #arthur lester #john doe #malevolent john doe #martin blackwood #jonathan sims #tim stoker #sasha james #elias bouchard #peter lukas #tma #every tma character ever actually. they all suck soso bad ❤️️❤️️ #melanie king #daisy tonner #basira hussain #georgie barker #can i tag bruce again. because like

[sylviii]

a second video essay has hit the james somerton

#hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #hbomb #james somerton #sylvi hall of fame post

[castellankurze]

Okay.

You fucked up.

But look on the bright side.

At least you didn't "youtube essayist releases a 4-hour video on plagiarism and half of it is dedicated to exposing your channel, followed a day later by another youtuber releasing a 1-hour-40 minute video about the lies you just made up, and there's almost no overlap between the two" level fuck up.

#James Somerton #Hbomberguy #Todd in the Shadows

[oocsydney]

hbomberguy highlighting all of the parts where james somerton plagiarized from other queer creators:

#hbomberguy #james somerton #literally the only parts james somerton wrote on his own were the misogynist ones #and it's disgusting to think that james was likely setting up for his script writer to take the fall for all of the plagiarism #UPDATE: apparently the script writer ALSO didn't do any research into what James wrote in his scripts. man. (source: Todd in the Shadows) #todd in the shadows

[sonyachristian]

Moments that take our breath away - May 2024

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#CACCsOurTimeisNow #NuestroTiempoEsAhora #OurTimeisNow #Adrienne Brown #Bakersfield College #Bill Rawlings #Butte College #Calbright College #Casey Chang #Cirian Villavicencio #College of San Mateo #College of the Canyons #College of the Siskiyous #Feather River College #Felicia Escobar Carillo #Geoff Baum #Harry Le Grand #Hildy Aguinaldo #James Todd #Joseph Williams #Lassen Community College #Michelle Pillati #Michelson Foundation #Moorpark College #Nan Gomez-Heitzeberg #Nuestro Tiempo Es Ahora #Our time is now #Pam Haynes #Paul Medina #President KAthryn Jeffrey

[talaricula]

Things I've seen tumblr memeing about James Somerton doing à la "How did no one see how bigoted he was!" as if those things haven't been a significant part of tumblr culture for over a decade :

Presenting untrue and bordering on conspiratorial versions of (queer or otherwise marginalised) history without any sources

Completely disregarding and disrespecting any expertise on socio-cultural topics/humanities and distrusting academics and historians (incl. acting as if no academics or historians could be queer or marginalised)

Downplaying the role misogyny played in the historical oppression of queer women and concluding that queer men must have been more oppressed than queer women

Bi women are, at best, not as queer as "real" queer ppl, and at worst, simply equivalent to straight women

Despite nominal trans inclusivity, transmasculine ppl are functionally women when convenient (combined with the above, bi transmascs are functionally straight women)

Despite nominal trans inclusivity (bis), shamelessly attacking, threatening and actively endangering any trans woman who questions them or smth they find important (often by unfairly presenting her as violent or as a threat)

Having absolutely fucking wild and reductive takes about ace ppl, the oppression they face and their place in the queer community

Stating that marriage equality is an assimilationist fight while completely ignoring its direct roots in the horrifying consequences of the AIDS crisis for partners of ppl who died of AIDS

Praising western media creators from the past for queer coding even under censure and in the same breath condemning current non western media creators for being homophobic bc their representation isn't explicit enough

Blaming China for all existing homophobic censoring in western media

Assuming all queer media would be better told by western creators and by western standards

Only out queer ppl get to tell queer stories

Heavily criticising almost all queer media created by women or ppl they see as such (see above points about trans ppl) or involving/starring a significant amount of women for any perceived or real amount of "problematicness", but fawning over and praising and negating criticism of queer media created by and starring mostly or even functionally exclusively men (even when it could be argued that, you know, not involving/seriously sidelining women is a pretty clear example of misogyny which should probably be considered "problematic")

And I'm probably forgetting stuff or there's stuff I have internalised myself and don't recognise as an issue

Like idk but I feel like the takeaway from Hbomberguy and Toddintheshadow's videos should maybe be "be aware of such patterns in your communities bc they definitely exist" and not "this guy is uniquely awful" and I feel like a lot of the discussion I've seen surrounding this has been severely failing at that. Most ppl who've spent any significant amount of time on tumblr prob either have internalised at least one of those thought patterns, have had to de-internalise them, or have had to be extremely vigilant to not internalise them (which is done by, you know, seeking out other sources, which also seemed like an important takeaway from the videos)

#Also I'm saying this as someone who actually watched quite a few of Somerton's videos #And noticed those patterns and stopped watching bc I recognised them from here #and had already learned to unlearn them after being so exposed to them here #And tbh I think anyone who hasn't had the luck or made the conscious choice to seek out ppl who pushed against those narratives #Would absolutely have fallen for this man's bullshit. Like let's not kid ourselves we see takes like this every day on this hellsite #2014 me would have. For sure. #This is next to the plagiarism issue which as Harris points out is an Internet wide issue and this includes tumblr #James Somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #This brought to you by a conversation with my wife yesterday #So many ppl on here don't deserve to meme or be this self absolvingly critical of this man #The call is coming from inside the house #The man has a tumblr it would legit not surprise me if some of the things he supposedly made up himself he did actually get from somewhere #And that somewhere was a tumblr post

[sapphia]

we joke about hbomberguy dropping in bisexual jokes all through his vid so somerton couldn’t hit back at him with the old homophobia defence. but can we talk about how todd in the shadows didn’t? like hbomberguy is a big channel; bigger than somerton. todd isn’t. he’s just some straight dude who got so offended at what this guy was doing to his own community that he was said, nah fuck that, and made a two hour video disputing every single incorrect fact he could find on a topic that isn’t even his niche.

the man is a hero. we respect our troops in this house.

#todd in the shadows #james somerton #hbomberguy

[g0blinwitch]

so the new Hbomberguy video huh

#hbomberguy #james somerton #lmk if Todd in the Shadows is bisexual because if so I will add him so help me #g0blinposting

[superkitten-poison]

james somerton's cowriter nick is going on discord to defend the channel against plagiarism accusations by saying he doesn't even do any research i'm crying x

OF COURSE I DONT PLAGIARIZE. I DON'T EVEN READ

#james somerton #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #GIRL. THAT IS NOT THE BRAG YOU THINK IT IS

[coffinwoodx]

like witnessing the french revolution beheadings firsthand in the 1800s

#LET THEM EAT CAKE #and the cake is original ideas #hbomberguy #james somerton #todd in the shadows #plagiarism #twitter #youtube #youtube drama #lgbtq #internet historian #illuminaughtii

[alanofalltrades]

No, you don't understand.

Todd in the Shadows has shit to do. Hbomberguy's whole deal is that he dissappears for months on end and emerges with a long, very well researched video. That's what we expect from him. Meanwhile, Todd does song reviews, album analysis, all that music critics stuff. And he releases them pretty regularly, and does a ton of good research himself. That has to take a lot of his time and energy.

So how badly did Somerton had to screw up for this guy to say "actually, I'll make time for this project".

#hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #james somerton

[box-dwelling]

The James somerton stuff is so wild. It feels like an old tale of internet drama from the live journal days or something. I feel like I should be listening to strange aeons talk about it in the past tense not like a thing I should be living through with all the names being recognisable YouTubers I watch instead of some obscure harry potter reference.

#james somerton #strange aeons #hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #lady emily

[immoralfag]

is this something

#hbomberguy #james somerton #todd in the shadows

[thatrandomblogsays]

The best part of Todd in the shadows video is it unintentionally proves Hbomber’s point. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with being inspired and cites YouTubers who openly give credit and the wonderful content that comes from it.

Todd had the video idea, reached out to hbomber even though he wasn’t even stealing the idea, he just wanted to be courteous and respectful. Hbomber blessed off and asked Todd to wait to post and we got two wonderful videos. Art is better when we work together and respect each other.

#hbomberguy #todd in the shadows #plagarism #james somerton