…gets turned into a femboy…

…gets a turn with a femboy…

The Golgafrincham jokes in the comments restore a little of my hope for humanity.

I personally know a Liz for which this is true. 🦎

I’ve sooooo been thinking about this specific comic a lot lately.

This also works with racist / cultural jokes.

ETA The problem jokes that capitalize on racist stereotypes tend to be cringe, and not good cringe (like puns).

Oh wow, and I thought we were being all civil and stuff. Have a block.

I write paragraphs about everything, though. It’s how I communicate in internet forums. It’s a consequence of doing a lot of compulsive research and being ASD. I also have weird takes, and am expected to explain them. It’s a phenomenon not particular to movies.

Yes. Sometimes it’s tl;dr for some folk but others seem to appreciate it.

Sorry if it bothers you enough that you have to shut me out of your circles.

My experience in becoming a gamer is to graduate from Parker Brothers family tabletop games to Steve Jackson wargames to Dungeons and Dragons which was declared Satanic by the moral guardians.

So yep.

Behind the Bastards recent two-parter on The Masculinity Crisis pointed out that the Gamergate controversy really was about gamers who found their only man space was gaming getting upset as the market opened up to women and other non-dude-bros. (I was quietly playing Gone Home at the time not understanding what the big deal was.) Then Steve Bannon whipped them into a voting bloc and got Trump elected (with a popular minority but the EC) and now we’re all sorry.

I have to admit the Ferguson Unrest of 2014 and the rhetoric about Michael Brown being a thug really changed my mind about Batman, for whom even his games highlight mobs ( mobiles or game artifacts that move) as thugs. And this led to Garth Ennis’ observation that Batman is a billionaire aristocrat who beats up poor people

Then again Supergenius Reed Richards could never cure HIV and T’Challa / Black Panther, King of Wakanda and captain of the vibranium industry can’t ever do enough to elevate non-whites in the US and in industrialized nations. I digress.

Getting back to Batman, I wonder if the white thugs Batman usually preyed on were Italians and Irish, who had to spend a century in the barrel before they were given white privilege.

I do. Wait…are you gatekeeping enjoying movies?

We Fight For Rock And Stone! 🪨⛏️💎

Malaria…

The screwfly…

Parasitoids like wasps…

Quasistable intermittent ecosystems resulting in frequent binges by predators resulting in massive die-offs of prey species and then famine resulting in massive die-offs of the predator species.

These are parts of nature. No heros. No soldiers. Just mass suffering without purpose. In fact, we flockers and banders who will help a fellow out, right a turtle or rescue a cub are new to the game.

i love the game. Then the devs decided I wasn’t playing it right and changed it.

Once again the ownership class pirates freely while disparaging the common folk for violating copyright.

It’s almost if it’s not a real law, rather something by which to disparage the proletariat.

Firstly, some of us media nerds are way into analyzing the fuck out of movies (and books and games and whatever), sorting out what was accidental, what was unconscious and what was willful and intentional, and the differences between fiction that’s meant to reflect IRL, fiction that features codes or conventions for sake of the audience (e.g. sound in space) or fiction that reflects author bias (e.g. Christians as represented in Pure Flix Entertainment cinema).

But yeah, speaking of Pure Flix, some movies are out there to send specific messages or to reflect certain dangerous worldviews, and I’ve seen enough of those to understand that one can’t safely just enjoy movies. A big example is the implication in the MCU (Disney) that the status quo (roughly IRL + superheroes, with civilization carrying on) is good, even though that’s not the case for most of us normies. In fact, Spiderman’s poverty trope was pretty much erased when Iron Man / Tony Stark takes Parker in and makes sure he and relevant family are cared for, and thus out of common precarity. Fucking Disney, man.

Then there’s also the problem with media in general, that a lot of it is subject to Hollywood accounting (the studios and labels cheat the artists and developers) and Hollywood management (infamously crunch in the video game industry, but mistreatment and undercompensation prevails throughout.) So a lot of what we consume comes with some gross baggage.

That said, I do enjoy movies quite a lot.

Dr. Manhattan: Thermodynamic miracles…events with odds against so astronomical they’re effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive, meeting, siring this precise son, that exact daughter…

…Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged.

To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold…

That is the crowning unlikelihood.

The thermodynamic miracle.

Laurie: But…if me, my birth, if that’s a thermodynamic miracle…I mean, you could say that about anybody in the world!

Dr. Manhattan: Yes.

Anybody in the world.

ETA: Because I’m a pedant, typical sperm count range from 15 million to 200 million, but Dr. Osterman was a physicist, not an endocrinologist.

Sadly much like many Disney movies, Barbie was a vehicle for corporate-approved feminism, but isn’t willing to actually confront the class war.

But no movie studio wants to admit to the class war, even when they overshadow the principal antagonist with capitalism (such as the PoTC example, an undead octopus-faced monster with his heart locked away in a box, overshadowed by the British East India Company).

Taking another page from Monsters Inc. no studio today would include the Scream Extractor in their kids movie.

Could use more elephants and turtles

Irish bainsidhes are old (dead? dying? crazy? reclusive?) members of the family who got the news early that someone is dead and are grieving about it loudly. (In this case, early means before the poor sod has actually died ) Sometimes they can come up from their sobs long enough to give a clue who the recently departed might be.

Mermaiding is the opposite of adulting, which is doing modern survival chores (paying bills, grocery shopping, clocking into work, filing taxes, etc.) It’s always tempting to mermaid irresponsibly.

Bansheeing sounds like it’s going to be the next big pastime, and I suspect it’ll be tempting to Banshee without covering your tracks from law enforcement.