Our beloved Bisan was nominated for an Emmy, which has me feeling ALL sorts of ways. But if you haven't yet seen Palestine through the eyes of its Hakawatya (storyteller), then please watch my documentaries of Bisan's social media coverage of the g3n0c!de:
My favorite piece of House trivia is that Obayashi deliberately gave it the ENGLISH title to make it sound more weird/foreign to its mainstream Japanese audience.
It would almost be funny that English speakers follows the same logic by calling it Hausu, if it wasn’t so annoying
The reason EEAAO is revolutionary is that it looks better than ANY Marvel movie over the last five years, IN SPITE OF all the VFX being done by SEVEN of the directors’ YOUTUBE EDUCATED FRIENDS. On a budget that’s a fraction of what Disney hemorrhages annually on their trash.
Honestly, I think this is the best non-horror film of 2022 thusfar, but a little perspective has shown me that much of its loudest fans don’t understand WHY it’s amazing.
My last word on the Disney adult discourse (for now), is that Disney is not only on the BDS’s boycott list, but is and has been actively participating in the US’s genocidal occupation of Hawaii. This is what y’alls precious expensive theme parks and resorts actually cost
As a Native Hawaiian, I'd like Disney to stop displacing us homeless Hawaiians with a $144 mil resort for rich foreigners in collaboration with the illegal US occupation that overthrew us & stole our land. Dwayne Johnson also profited off our suffering in Lahaina.
#Moana2
@EclairDawnlight
Exactly! Being kind to the people around you exponentially increases your likelihood of being surrounded by kind people. Even if we were to frame this as a selfishness/self-interest kinda thing, it still makes rational sense to try and be a good person
@lily_lxndr
TERF ideology is just a form of fascism, and transphobia needlessly divides workers. It's false consciousness that must be opposed and dismantled! Solidarity! 🥰
A majority of late capitalist mainstream film looks like dogshit because of dozens of heavily exploited and overworked artists being ground into dust by studios solely concerned with profits.
EEAAO proves that you don’t need bazillions of bucks to make a geeat movie.
@AdequateEmily
Is it bad I get this weird pleasure from seeing a movie like this disliked by “the masses” while I know it’s probably one of the best movies of the year? 😂 either way, I get more excited to see it by the day
“Conservatively”? Dude, have y’all SEEN his films?? The longing and sensuality is SO PALPABLE AND SO HORNY. Like, don’t get me wrong, I want more explicit queer sex in movies, even what would be called pornographic by some, but that’s not the only way to depict it.
I just read someone say Guadagnino hate is justified because he handles queerness in his films conservatively. I get the energy, but this thought is so backwards to me. I think Luca is allowed to depict queerness however he wants because, you know, he’s queer.
@LolaSebastian_
The Wolf House. It is a suuuuuper creepy experimental animated film, a surreal “dark fairy tale” that takes place all in the confines of a mysterious house in a woods where a woman on the run from a cult takes refuge. If you like horror-through-subtext at all, THIS is your thing
It’s absurd how many bad media takes I see that can be chalked up to emotional illiteracy on the part of the viewer, and we don’t talk enough about that
Hey my friend is a stone-cold badass professional MMA fighter but she’s also the cutest softest & femme-iest kitty I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing & scratching behind the ears 🥰😻
seriously, Boomers and Elder Xers are so unbelievably fucked up. And the reason any of them think they aren’t is because they’ve been gaslit their entire lives about their mental illnesses and emotional health. Tbh we’re lucky to have as nuanced a language for trauma as we do now
Just so y’all know, all your favorite YouTubers are just people. They’re as messed up as any celebrity is, and as boring as most regular people are. Sometimes they date, sometimes they influence and take inspiration from each other. They aren’t conspiracy theories to be unraveled
NEW VIDEO: The Ideology of Apocalypse
talking about takes a deep breath fallout, mad max, gurren lagann, stephen king, the matrix, the red pill, dirty harry, snowpiercer, marx, hegel, hobbes, baudrillard and dave rubin. also why the state is bad. enjoy!
please pay attention and take this seriously folks. this, along with the "anti-Zionism=antisemitism" thing they passed, is an effort to purge social media of Palestine support and to persecute those speaking out on the genocide.
A lot of people are clowning on this bill bcause they don't know how it could be implemented. 1. It'll look like BDS being declared a terrorist org. Therefore being banned from social media platforms which is one of the mains ways the org does outreach.
Always remember, the “Shakespeare didn’t write his plays” conspiracy farce boils down to “working class can’t make great art.”
Shakespeare was just your regular everyday theater twink, taking the piss out of power, poetry, and history with clever wordplay & dick jokes.
Im always deeply distrustful of anyone who doesn’t think rape should ever be portrayed on film. Omitting sexual violence from cinema is to insist it isn’t worthy of our concern & consideration.
Also, as far as genre goes, where tf else do you expect us to portray rape? Comedy?
opposing israel is now codified as antisemitism, which is actually much more antisemitic if you consider that lumping every jew into a monolith that stands for the same thing is a bad idea that has already led to jewish day schools and daycares getting vandalized and SHOT AT
@iGolle
@cjthex
Take it on radical good faith that people believe the things they do for sincere reasons, and keep in mind that your critique should come from a place of communication, not to feel smarter. Ideas don't give a shit what you say about them, but people do. And its people that matter
Yes, the world is so fucked up and people are doing horrific evil shit to each other — because we’re living in a system that brings out the worst in us, like feral animals trapped in cages, hungry, stressed, & belligerent. But that system’s not an inevitability. We can change it!
The correct way to be rich is the Quentin Tarantino way: Rescuing movie theaters, collecting vintage cereal boxes, directing an episode of ER for fun, sometimes doing nothing for 6 years, no interest in politics or colonizing Mars. A life devoted to VHS tapes and feet. Beautiful.
@LolaSebastian_
It’s BAFFLING to me how little so many of us know about our own history. Even the parts that aren’t meticulously documented or well-known — we’ve ALWAYS been around, and queer history covers soooo much more than we’ve been taught to expect.
I think people who hate Bottoms and Drive-Away Dolls just hate it when lesbians are gross and horny.
Sorry y’all, not all of us are satisfied with Portrait of a Lady on Fire type tense never-fulfilled sapphic longing. It’s the 21st century, ladies. Lesbians can fuck now.
@Tranarchic
In my upcoming Saw video I say something like, “the people who can say Jigsaw isn’t a killer with a straight face are the same people who believed the US gov’t when they said they aren’t ‘torturing people,’ they’re doing ‘enhanced interrogation.’”
To answer with my own wildly unpopular opinion that the sole purpose of “therapy” under capitalism is to help you cope juuuuust enough for you to choose to go to work instead of offing yourself 🤷♀️
possibly unpopular opinion but we have way too many therapists who are not trained to work with people with complex mental illnesses which is WEIRD. Why are you not educated enough to work with a large part of the mentally ill community if you’re a THERAPIST
It’s literally a war on literacy. Thinking laborers just aren’t as compliant and profitable as ones who CANT LEARN HOW TO READ.
Folks, this is how oppressive power has been maintained throughout most recorded history: preventing people from being able to READ.
Get ready everyone! We're gonna need to be responsible about how we frame her place in history. i.e., her legacy is drenched in blood, and the institution she figureheads is one of the most genocidal in human history. May her name be cursed, her memory reviled!
Please be respectful when talking about the Queen. She was a head of state, a monarch, a mother to multiple pedophiles and most importantly a devoted cousin to her husband
@Douggernaut_2
People like to gaslight themselves into thinking that Ledger’s Joker wasnt literally the best possible 21st century adaptation of the character to justify all the subsequent pathetic attempts to do the character half as well as Ledger and the Nolans did
@StopTweetingMia
I’ve been saying this for aaaages! Kurt was so queer you coulda whisked, scrambled, & served him with bacon & a dill-parsley-&-chives garnish
We've just launched our fundraising campaign for AGAIN AGAIN: a queer sci fi love story built from the ground up by queer and trans women ✨
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Nia Dacosta directed a fucking Marvel movie, a movie that studios expect to make MILLIONS, and she still has not been able to pay off a relatively measly $100k in student loans. Wow. Fuuuuck that.
sincere and gentle reminder: please don't characterize this as a "women's issue." This affects anyone in this country with a uterus, which includes countless trans men and nonbinary folk. Remember, trans people exist, plenty of men have uteruses, and this is all connected.
it's totally normal to be up at midnight changing the title and thumbnail from a video you made 10 months ago right?
anyway go watch my video essay about black sails and how it has the perfect tv show ending:
A reminder that a vast majority of trans murders are of Black trans women, & they’ve been happening with alarming frequency for YEARS now, but the only cases that get actual media coverage are when white trans people are killed. It’s on US to pay attention, cause the news won’t!
This is side of the trans community that yt trans folks mostly ignore. The fact that I’ve seen black trans death since my freshman year of high school only to hear yt trans ppl in 2023 state having no idea that it was this bad until anti trans bills is your yt privilege speaking
If you’re having a hard time, watch this beautiful video!
@MaggieMaeFish
is one of the best essayists of our generation, and this is her most emotionally powerful writing yet. She will make you feel better about how shitty your life is right now.
I made a little ditty about how it feels to be alive right now, spoilers NOT GREAT !!!
Good thing we're all robots and don't have feelings or bodies 🤖❤️
“Let’s draw some more red lines among our society’s most exploited class to create even more political identities and taxonomies so we can more effectively maintain control over young people and strip them of their autonomy.” — this fucking clown
My hottake is we need to reconsider seeing 18-19 year olds as “adults” and I’m so serious. They not minors but they’re still teens, we gotta come up with an in between phase
@LolaSebastian_
For me, these past two years for me have been basically a constant process of learning about this stuff. If people understood just how many forgotten & erased queer stories permeate our entire species’ history — oo boy, that’s the key to society-wide gender liberation right there
Hi y'all! My partner and I (two disabled queer trans women) and our kitties are moving to a cheaper place this summer, and we need some help 🥺
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Watching Vampires Kiss for the first time, and I am being dead serious when I say that this movie is genuinely great, and Cage’s performance is sincerely brilliant. Also this movie is so unbelievably disturbing, and Nicolas Cage is the only actor who could pull this off.
Few ppl know that Rikers is a PRE-TRIAL detention center. The ppl there have not been convicted of a crime, they’re awaiting trial, and they’re DYING waiting. Our mayor Eric Adams doesn’t care about them but I’d like you to hear from a mother mourning her son at a rally we held
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I came out as trans when I was working on Michael Rosenbaum's podcast and every time he saw me he would sing "Mamma Mia Mamma Mia!" because he wanted to remember not to use my deadname and that was dope as hell
Don’t think y’all know what constitutes populist film today. Cause it ain’t Spielberg, definitely ain’t Wright. Spielberg was the People’s Filmmaker back in the 20th century when the MouseHaus Monopoly wasn’t a thing.
We’re all sick of the discourse but it’s truly broken my brain these last few months to discover that people genuinely think overtly populist filmmakers like Spielberg or Ridley or Wright are making elitist fare for select audiences or some shit. What the fuck happened
dontcha hate it when a friend sees and loves one of the worst films of the year that you vehemently despise in almost every way but you can't say anything because you love and respect them so much </3 heartache 😭
THIS! 100% THIS! before you scroll by and not take the moment to read, the first sentence is “I don’t care about the people who died on 9/11,” and it just gets realer from there
Because abuse is the norm, and society is run by the abusers. The “abuse” part of child sexual abuse must not be interrogated or challenged, because that would mean accepting that sexual abuse is as common and accepted as any other kind of abuse.
It seems bad that once our society started to take child sexual abuse more seriously, people became increasingly fixated on the “sexual” part and not the “abuse” part.
Honestly, I think this is the best non-horror film of 2022 thusfar, but a little perspective has shown me that much of its loudest fans don’t understand WHY it’s amazing.
Fuck Eli Roth. Your most significant contribution to culture was a role in a movie too good for you that was originally supposed to be played by Adam Goddamn Sandler
Different queer filmmakers have different styles and treatment of such things in their films. Would you call Celine Sciamma’s exploration of lesbian longing in Portrait of a Lady on Fire “conservative”? C’mon.
Only thing I’mma say about RRR is that…oh, wait! I’m an American who knows virtually nothing about the context of Indian history, culture, or politics. Maybe I shouldn’t really weigh in on this one.
Whoa, that was pretty easy.
Many of these same names signed the letter thanking Joe Biden for his actions in Palestine, too.
They’re talking out of both sides of their mouth and seeing the way the wind blows on public sentiment.
This is why I was wondering why y’all were celebrating his conviction the other day. Do y’all not understand that his persecution complex is one of the foundations of his cult-like appeal.
He’s gonna win just like he did before: by trending better on social media
My hot take on parenting is that children (and the adults they grow into) are allowed to feel WHATEVER THEY WANT about their parents. Bad parents are the norm, not the exception, and it’s 100% okay for kids to hate the people who own them as property for their first 18 years.
thing is people will know what happened and still think you’re a bad person for hating your mom 💀 your mom could literally try to k*ll you and there will still be ppl saying “ok that wasn’t nice but she still ur mom….”
Can’t wait until we’re far enough away from the MCU for the average person to come to terms with the fact that Marvel is an inextricable piece of the western imperialist propaganda machine.
I know a bunch of people are going to go ballistic when I bring this up, and Roman Polanski is an unrepentant monster, but the "Polanski Petition" was not a petiton to exonerate him. It was a petition to prevent film festivals being used as subterfuge to imprison filmmakers.
@LolaSebastian_
I practically dive into all new art with the intention of letting it emotionally impact me. How does one approach art if not open & vulnerably? That’s just so sad 😢