Why do people need to watch videos of Black death to believe what happens to us?
I’ve been wondering about this for several years now.
Why is it that when a Black person is murdered – whether that is as a result of a cop’s itchy trigger finger or due to a wannabe cop shooting first and asking questions never – one of the first things people do is watch and share the video?
Read More »Rather than writing another Sad Dad ™ Essay since it’s Missing My Dad Day and I have time before I do errands, I wanted to write about a Bad Dad ™.
I think Endeavor fans – fans of Enji Todoroki from My Hero Academia – are probably in my top five “most embarrassing subclass of internet weenie”.
Read More »I use my YouTube channel approximately once a year to talk about the previous year. So, here we are. Here’s what I was up to in 2023 and what I hope to do in 2024!
Love to my loves, curses to my haters~
I plan to be my best-worst self this year!
For all our sakes, I’m trying to wring myself dry of free-pouring fandom thoughts by the 31st so here’s another rousing rendition of “No you don’t actually like villains if you get mad and weird when the bad guy in a battle shonen/star wars film you like actually has haters” featuring the jujutsu kaisen fandom.
Season 2 will be done soon and then I will be free from a really unexpected hell… the small circle of Mahito fans who think he’s actually a little meow meow baby boy who should “win” and that is being hated For No Reason. (I love Mahito an unreasonable amount. I enjoy the pain he causes. He’s good because he’s so dang bad. A widdle soft baby he is not and it is weird to see people act like he is/that should be the dominant fandom reading of him.)
Anyway, check the Villain Woobification article from last year that got me called homophobic, racist, and sexist! Think Your Fave Fictional Villain Is the Real Hero? Think Again.
I don’t know why I’m so surprised to learn about this… but Tillie Cole is now the latest white indie romance author to get roasted on booktok and beyond for a white supremacist romance series… Eight books into a series where at least one character is a white supremacist.
I mean, that he’s actually in the klan.
Read More »I know everyone mourns when I don’t provide them with new webtoons to be irresponsibly invested in (like Lout of Count’s Family now on Tapas as well) but uh…
This time it’s because I am undergoing immense financial stress and I’m trying to speed run through hustle culture, figure out if floribamageorgia has loan sharks I can link up with, and eat/drink my feelings.
If you’re on Patreon, you may have seen where I finally had an update about my current housing situation. I mentioned it in the GFM I’m doing for my sister and the niecelings, that my apartment was giving me trouble. The trouble is… mold everywhere in my apartment at super high levels that have been impacting my health and quality of life beyond that.
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I don’t know how to tell the most absurd fandom brained fools that lesbians – especially trans lesbians – talking about how they feel alienated in fandoms dominated by cis male M/M content or are upset about the way media about lesbians and other queer women get treated by the professionals running studios… are not inherently terfy.
It’s the second time since February that I’m watching people in fandom – who aren’t trans femmes themselves for the most part – call trans lesbians TERFs or accuse them of having/utilizing “TERF rhetoric” for pointing out discrepancies in content volume or criticizing cis women or trans masc co-opting of “TERF” and “TERF rhetoric” to divorce them from trans women/misogyny in particular and claim that any slight criticism of fandom (of misogyny, of a lack of F/F, of racism) is in and of itself TERFy.
And it’s the same people doing this.
Read More »Right around the time that my dad got sick (like when he moved in with us and we realized how sick he was), I’d restarted one of my regular rewatches of Adventure Time.
One of the things that will never leave me is the way that the episode with the song “remember you” (I think it’s also called that) captured what it felt like to lose your dad when he’s right in front of you.
As I watched this episode, even playing the song for him at one point, I realized that my dad was Simon and I was Marceline. He lost himself despite his best efforts and there was nothing I could do to help him remember himself. All I could do was remember him.
I really love this song and I always will, but I ugly cry every time at Marceline’s helplessness and the realization that Ice King will never be the Simon she loved again and that there’s nothing she can do to change it because the thing that has changed him so very terribly… Is the only thing keeping him in her life even in this diminished state.
I probably shouldn’t be re-watching the songs when I’m in an emotionally fragile state (aka always), but watching some of Adventure Time with my dad is some of the last memories I have of him before he ended up in the hospital and then in the care facility he was at before he died. Remembering him is all I can do.
And it’s really weird to miss someone who was a little bit distant from me because of how he was raised, but so much is happening and I keep thinking about how he’s the parent I could have told us all too he would have listened, and he would have supported me.
And I don’t have that anymore and I never will again.
There’s not a lot of omegaverse content for the Fast and Furious franchise.
Is that a blessing or a curse?
Read More »Fandom really is a place where media literacy, critical thinking. and empathy go to die… especially when characters or people of color that fandom doesn’t like are concerned
Because tell me why this moomoo (the OP of the post) is calling Scott McCall “an antagonist (who’s actually a protagonist bc of the unreliable narrator and the moral greyness of the plot)”.
Read More »Centrumlumina dropped her 2023 AO3 stats post and I of course have thoughts.
Read More »I have to say that the most annoying one I’ve dealt with is the dude who is still at it inserting himself in every single conversation about Lovecraft that speaks on his period atypical racism (as a person and in his work) and getting increasingly rude and angry about it.
(Last year, I think, he insulted my intelligence over a sentence about Lovecraft’s impact… A single sentence in an article about JK Rowling. And this was while he was following me. He didn’t term search, he wasn’t a new follower. He’s just an ass.)
And he’s still at it, I believe? Still rushing to defend Lovecraft from being called a racist – which includes making excuses for his cat’s name, racism in correspondence, racism in his work, and anecdotes told about him.
I still wonder if he thinks like… If he defends Lovecraft hard enough, that he’ll get something out of it? Because I can’t imagine riding that hard for such a mediocre dead writer?
Over the past few days, I’ve been rewatching Castlevania on Netflix as I work and… Hector and Isaac really are something.
From Isaac’s “is this where we kiss like Benedictine monks” not-joke in season two to the camaraderie and intimacy they share in Carmilla’s castle a third of the way through season four, episode six “You Don’t Deserve My Blood”, there’s something about them that just… works.
Read More »A little guilty pleasure I must admit to… I love seeing other people’s apologies.
Especially when they’re celebrities. You may have guessed this because I have a whole article about celebrity apologies for antiblackness and other racisms and how fans should respond especially when they aren’t of the offended/harmed party.
One of the things that I find fascinating, but unsurprising when it comes to apologies? How few apologies I’ve gotten over the years.
Read More »John Boyega and Jamie Foxx’s They Cloned Tyrone is coming out this week on Netflix and so the promo has been dropping. While I do not know where this stands as far as “what to (not) support with all the strikes” — and please give me the deets so I can learn and also repost them — I am weak in the face of my parasocial boyfie (John Boyega) and my favorite internet semi-chef (Josh).
I am a huge Mythical Kitchen fan and I got into it because my friend Meeya was like “I know you like cooking and chaos and this is a show for you” and I really have loved watching Josh, the main chef and “character” on the webseries, expand his horizons and do more things with cooler and cooler people.
And then, of course, it has always been my dream to REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED John Boyega in some capacity. I love that handsome ass man. He will never notice me and again is a man so I do nothing for him in particular, but god… I just wanna… bark bark woof woof howl
Anyway watch this video… unless actually doing so is not something we should do as fans trying to support the various media strikes.
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