Hey, everyone, I know it sounds hard, but I promise that if you are willing to put in a few minutes of your time, you will be able to hold both "Brendan Fraser deserves the world" and "The Whale is unapologetically fatphobic and deserves to be critiqued for that" in your heart.
I still do not want to know anything about the ocean, but I find James Cameron's energy of realizing everyone is suddenly caring about your pet interest but they're getting it WRONG and you just want to explain to them why they're wrong so relatable.
JKR can manipulate British libel laws to make a Jewish reporter tweet this retraction, but she can't stop "JK Rowling is a Holocaust denier" from trending because so many people find the way she's hellbent on Streisand effecting the fuck out of her own transphobia ludicrous.
Just out of curiosity, what is your longest-standing fannish grudge? (To be clear, I don't mean against a person in fandom. I mean something the source text has done that you have STILL NOT FORGIVEN.)
I'm sorry but the internet figuring out that Chris Evans must be getting married because why else would celebrities be in Boston is objectively hilarious.
Comparing Jagged Little Pill to Baby Shark is perfect, because both are designed to appeal to an audience that is Not You and this it's totally fair to claim they're a failure at appealing to You Personally, adult who is ashamed she ever had feelings as a child or teen.
(For anyone new here: I am survived several eating disorders. They destroyed my metabolism and almost killed me. Fatpol literally helped save my life. The amount of tolerance I have for people who think fat is always bad/unhealthy is nonexistent. Thanks for your time.)
I didn't think I needed to mention this, but fatmisia in the comments will be reported and blocked. I totally understand that body positivity is a journey for everyone, but you can work through your issues without including me or anyone else who happens to read this tweet. Thanks
I promise I can normally grammar, but enough people have seen this that I feel weird deleting, and I am not giving Twitter $5 so I can remove an "am" so we're all just going to have to collectively pretend it's not there, okay? Cool.
[Once again
#Wandavision
but not spoilery]
I'm sorry, but none of the complicated
#Wandavision
speculation that brings in aspects from all over the MCU and the 616 is anywhere near as interesting to me as "grief is so big it becomes your whole world," manifested literally.
Matt Smith says Karen Gillan convinced him to do
#Morbius
: “I phoned Karen and said, 'What's it like [doing a comic book movie?] Have you had a nice time?' She’s like, 'Yeah, do it'. So I did. Good old Kaz. She’s a seasoned pro, she's made 9 of them.”
()
I wish some of the people in the Jonathan Majors trending topic could understand that while yes, there is definitely a double standard between him and Ezra Miller and that is wrong and racist, it is possible to want them both to face consequences rather than neither.
If anyone's been following the Antisemitic Microwave Story, I had the OP's profile open in a tab to see if they acknowledged their fuck-up. Firefox restarted today! Turns out they deleted all traces of this post and are now posting only in Extremely Christian subreddits.
i need to stop reading AITA cuz this antisemitic bitch who ruined a kosher kitchen while calling kashrut "OCD" is gonna make me blow a gasket. oh you think judaism is "legalistic"? congrats on being yet another basic ass christian antisemite.
Seeing the "they feel like you did 4 yrs ago," makes me think even less of them. This moment can't be compared to when Trump won because his supporters aren't losing any rights. They're losing the ability to steal others' rights. But they think that's the same thing.
If people come away from this movie saying "Wow, Brendan Fraser managed to be convincingly sympathetic despite playing someone so fat," this is not a movie that is helpful for fat people. We don't take it off at night.
#GlassOnion
So
@rianjohnson
really looked at subtlety and said "that's great but have you considered a two-hour treatise against a really blatant Elon Musk stand-in" and before anyone could answer he said "No, I mean REALLY blatant" and I think that's beautiful.
Between WONDER WOMAN and A WRINKLE IN TIME, Chris Pine's new acting gig seems to be Damsel in Distress While Women Save the Day, and I am SO HERE FOR IT.
Please do not let anyone who considers this a negotiation ever negotiate for you.
King is saying "fuck you I'm not interested" while Musk is negotiating against himself and the rest of us are expected to roleplay along with him to make it seem like he's in an actual discussion.
Cameron wants to talk about water pressure and materials' buoyancy and what he's learned from his trips to the bottom of the ocean and the rest of us are like "i'm sorry the water is how deep" (I DO NOT WANT THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER IT)
Sometimes I wonder if the reason people think ~cancel culture~ is this giant big scary thing is that often, when someone calls someone out, they're like "Oh, shit, I'm sorry, you're right, let me fix that" and then people move on.
@saladinahmed
"Mean girl" isn't a static characteristic. Nearly every girl is both bully and bullied, and nearly every girl recognizes when they're the latter but not when they're the former.
Stan Lee, who began in the business in 1939 and created or co-created Black Panther, Spider-Man, X-Men, The Mighty Thor, Iron Man, The Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, Daredevil, Ant-Man and others, died Monday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Threading this separately: yes, I'm blocking everyone saying "You haven't seen it, so this is invalid." I love the cast. I've read so many reviews hoping to hear it's better than the play. How many dehumanizing comments about fat people do I have to read before I can judge?
@nrobby86
I feel like a hypocrite saying he can't choose how his own body is used. But it does feel like exploitation, for him AND for the community, like a continuation of Aronofsky looking at extremes of bodies as freak shows rather than as people.
@Marvel
@TomHolland1996
@MarkRuffalo
@Avengers
I already said this on Tumblr, but please give whoever came up with this a raise, because this was the PERFECT viral marketing for hardcore fans. Thanks for making us happy.
I don't want to know WHY I'm wrong because it will involve knowing what is right, which is horrifying. But he's ready analyze and the rest of the world can't even figure out how to start. Everyone with niche interests can empathize, and we're not trying to understand a tragedy.
[cw: eating disorders]
The NEDA AI chatbot story is horrible, but people should probably know that "have you tried eating healthier? Have you tried just cutting a few hundred calories?" is exactly what medical professionals have said to me as a fat person in ED recovery.
I am DEFINITELY missing comments because so many of you have such deeply-held and long-felt grudges, I hope you all take some solace in how much joy your rage is bringing me.
Oh, and the end of the Wicked musical is terrible and it aligns Elphaba morally and ethically with the Wizard as someone who chooses trickery and deceit, thus making her a villain of Wicked AS WELL AS Wizard of Oz, undoing the fairy tale's fracturing.
@maddycunningham
@sesamestreet
Thank you so much for sharing this. I cried watching the videos, and I feel like your mom embodied my soul if I ever got to meet them.
#CaptainMarvel
trailer re-emphasized two things for me:
(1) Carol is not MY hero, this is not the kind of story I automatically gravitate towards.
(2) I don't fucking care because this looks amazing and I feel pandered to in the best ways and hell yes I'll be there opening night.
Call-outs become big and disastrous when people refuse to listen to good-faith criticism. When people DO listen, it's resolved quickly and thus less memorable.
Aaron Coleman is a fucking horror show (if you have any abuse triggers, DO NOT LOOK INTO THIS), but people need to stop being like "Sounds like he's really a Republican."
He's a leftist, who is also a serial abuser. Pretending they don't overlap doesn't help.
AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD DOESN'T CLICK WITH A PRETENTIOUS R-RATED FILM MADE BY A WHITE MAN: "Well, yeah, what did you expect?"
AN ADULT WHITE MALE CRITIC DOESN'T CLICK WITH
#WRINKLEINTIME
: "Clearly the problem is the movie itself."
Also it undoes the concept of baptism by fire, AND the whole musical relies on Elphaba being naive and trusting when the novel relies on her being an asshole, which is what makes her interesting.
@lizweil
You say explicitly in this article that "Fiona" felt that his apology was more lovesick and less apology. It's outrageous that nothing in this entire article has given me any sense that "Diego" understands even now the severity of what he did to her- or, frankly, that you do.
A lot of very shallow people have very big feelings every time Sesame Street reminds them that they have ALWAYS stood for representation, inclusion, and love.
LRT I think it's important to clarify: it's not that zoomers and kpop stans didn't do anything. It's that what they accomplished is different from how the media is talking about it, and if we want to build on the momentum, we have to know what's working.
Cutting ties with Hillel is the perfect example of an objective that doesn't help Palestinians and doesn't matter to Israel but does material harm to students figuring out how to be Jewish in their own terms rather than their families'.
Calling for a “complete boycott” of and to “cut ties” with Hillel — the center of Jewish life on most campuses, where students attend Shabbat & holidays, do social justice & interfaith work, and come together as a Jewish community — is antisemitic. And ridiculous.
I feel like we're so focused on the "our lawyer's a Jew!" offense that we're not talking enough about Kayla Moore talking about Jews "while they're here" and gesturing at reporters. See, the media is run by Jews. That's the joke.
In case anyone for ten seconds wanted to give this person the benefit of the doubt, I just want to make sure you know that it was unfounded and the Jews, once again, were right in identifying that this lady is just not cool with Judaism.
Visiting Sesame Street isn’t a partisan issue, every First Lady since Barbara Bush has made an appearance on the series at some point during their stay at The White House.
Except for one...
(Cw: antisemitism)
If Anne Frank were to grow up to be a revolutionary leftist, she'd still deserve to have lived. If Anne Frank were to grow up to be a hardline right-winger, SHE'D STILL DESERVE TO HAVE LIVED. Because she's not a rhetorical device or a martyr. She was a person.
@Wr0ught_
@BigBird
@EricaRHill
Honestly it's really impressive that the vaccine was approved like a week ago for six-year-olds and they already figured out the proportionate dose for a giant bird.
So called liberals and leftists who don't want to help Iowa because red states wouldn't help them are, just to be clear, fucking monsters.
Saving lives isn't a quid pro quo. We do it because it's right.
(Cw: antisemitism)
I'm deeply uncomfortable with how people see Anne Frank. Because the whole point is- she's not special. She was one of millions of people with complex inner lives. Jews don't have saints. She's not one.
@sesamestreet
Question. Can Grover transform into SuperGrover? Related question. Can SuperGrover fly far enough to get us rescue or just far enough to crash into a tree and knock himself out?
Every shit fit people throw about ~the government canceling Christmas~ makes me go check if they cared when we had seders by zoom and watched Yom Kippur on streaming.
Hey, congratulations to the owners of McDonald's and Wendy's, who i'm sure will pass the money gain from their free advertising on to the minimum wage workers who prepare the delicacies fit for the White House.
If your review of VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE considers the Venom/Eddie romcom aspect to be a negative, I am legally required to ignore all of your thoughts on the movie.
Piggy is no more flawed than Gonzo, Fozzie, Pepe, or yeah, even Kermit. But no one is talking about that. Because they love them all the more FOR their flaws. They just can't extend the same grace to the only female character.
If fanfic could be accurate on one thing in the whole MCU I'm so glad it's that Bucky's a fucking nerd. Tiny Steve walking around like six chronic conditions in a trenchcoat picking fights while Bucky's like "hold on, don't die until i finish this chapter of the Hobbit" is CANON.
The post-MRS DAVIS interviews where Damon Lindelof talks about how he opted to not be a showrunner because of the climate he fostered on Lost get a lot darker when you realize it was because he knew this was going to come out. Fuck. This is brutal.
‘Lost’ was a gripping, groundbreaking smash, but the show evolved into such a toxic production that even co-showrunner Damon Lindelof now says of his leadership: “I failed.”
In a powerful excerpt from her new book,
@moryan
opens the hatch.
It took a long time lost in the postal system, and a very bizarre phone call with homeland security (who apparently flagged it), but I have a copy of Wrinkle in Time signed by
@ava
and it's perfect and I maybe cried. A lot.
(Cw: antisemitism)
So this asshole doesn't deserve the engagement he clearly wants, but I want to discuss this in particular because it's an insidious thing I see a lot.
(Cw: antisemitism, anti-immigrant bias)
I'm not opposed to the camps because the undocumented immigrants they're capturing there are good people. I'm opposed because whether or not they're "good" by an arbitrary metric, they're PEOPLE and people deserve humanity.
Not to cast aspersions on large swaths of insecure dudes, but the idea that Tom Holland should feel offended or emasculated because his hot girlfriend is in a movie pretending to have relationships with other people when she still comes home to him is so much misogyny embodied.
Gonna be honest here: As someone who spent hours standing in line for
#SDCC
exclusives? Nothing makes me happier than seeing creators beat resellers by putting stock online after the con. Everyone go buy
@100soft
and
@PatrickBallest
stuff, help artists, and make flippers sad.
If Black Widow has to go to VOD it is ABSOLUTELY bullshit and we're should ABSOLUTELY blame Disney. Not because they should open theaters mid pandemic, but because THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE THIS MOVIE IN 2014.
"Yeah, you should definitely take a role in the Marvel vampire movie that's not Blade, made by Sony, and starring Jared Leto" is not the kind of thing I would say to my worst enemy.
Just going to remind everyone to be kind to your Jewish friends, because the Israel news is going to cause a terrifying spike antisemitism across the world.
@tommyinboots
With the context of the abuse he's suffered, I'm willing to grant the hyperbole of fan enthusiasm a lot more leeway than I would otherwise. But I absolutely understand and respect why that's a line that you wouldn't cross.
Hey can someone with power at
@Marvel
and
@MarvelStudios
make sure that they're going to be giving out the 10 Year Anniversary posters at
#SDCC
and
#NYCC
this year? Like it's the obvious choice and I'm sure it's their plan already but i NEED them.
Yes please this. My apartment is in awful condition bc mental health, and if well meaning friends came in to help like that I would be publicly appreciative and privately have a meltdown I'd feel I couldn't share because I'd be seen as ungrateful.
There's a nuance that I think is missing (though alluded to, in the middle) in that thread by the person whose apartment was unpacked by friends during a depressive streak.
I just want to note that "Bucky spent what little money he had to import a copy of The Hobbit from Europe in 1937" and "Bucky actually read The Hobbit two weeks ago and checked the copyright date to fuck with Sam" are both EXCELLENT OPTIONS and we shouldn't ignore either one.
Sorry, y'all. I spent an hour attempting to clean my kitchen and came back to a LOT of sealioning and attempts to prove me wrong. I know how I intended to handle this, but instead, I'm muting the thread and catching up on Don't Worry Darling drama while I clean the living room.