more people need to consume media how dedicated comics fans consume their media of choice
go up to any comics fan and ask them which writers house they would mail pipe bombs to and they’ll list of at the bare minimum 5 different people. ask them their favorite character and you’ll be greeted with an answer followed by why every comic ever featuring that character has been literally the worst and they refuse to read it again. truly i don’t think there’s another group of people so invested in something that they truly despise to such a great degree.
to people who keep saying that this applies to their respective fandom: you will never experience this
sorry i'm not letting these tags stay hidden via @feyburner
i know you guys haven't watched star wars despite purporting to have many opinions about it on the internet, because everyone and their grandma insists no star wars movie ever had meaningful negative consequences for the heroes until rogue one. like that's how i know you guys simply did not watch the original movies. empire strikes back popularized the format of epic high-crushing low-incredible victory in stories told in a trilogy format specifically because of its meaningful negative consequences for its heroes. chewbacca screams in agonizing grief as han is lowered into the carbon freezing chamber, leia screams LUKE IT'S A TRAP so loudly her voice breaks, luke literally - very visibly and onscreen and in front of us all - throws himself in the abyss because he doesn't care if he dies at that point. the film is - and i cannot stress this enough - literally titled "the empire strikes back." the movie is quite literally called "consequences." you guys are just convinced that the only real consequences in a narrative has to be "killing off the entire cast" which i will proceed to fairly call "unimaginative, i guess"
I see Hollywood is now very into the idea of buying something once and then owning it forever and being able to make infinite copies. Which. Isn’t quite the message they imparted upon me in my childhood. In the spirit of their own long-held stance:
ALTim having a moment
STAR WARS APPRECIATION WEEK
↳ day three: colors | scenery
ALTyes that's how bourgeois media tries to trick workers into being against strikes. Any delays are solely due to United Parcels Service incorporated not properly paying their workers.
By not negotiating, the company - hand-in-hand with the bourgeois media trying to make that the sob story - are actually holding medical equipment for ransom.
If you're concerned about medical equipment maybe UPS should stop forcing its preload to go faster than it is safe, leaving open packages all over the place because they say that slows us down, loading tractor trailers not only to the ceiling but to the point where you can't even open them because they're that packed in. UPS is causing this shit, not Teamsters, not the employees.
UPS has never respected things like medical equipment and your packages. They don't care, it's all the bottom line.
This is what the company thinks of everyone’s packages, these are all from average days. This is what the Teamsters want to prevent by making kig conditions materially better for us.
I was quite literally told to stop repairing and taping open boxes by a manager because when you stop unloading a trailer for even ten seconds it “hurts production”.
Anyway, fuck the CEOs and other execs. Support the strikers.
Excellent Point
[ID: an unsourced paragraph of text that reads: Reflecting on it, the reason I think the OceanGate situation has become such a flashpoint for anger is because it's such a perfect microcosm of the problem with everything right now. Decisions are not made based on safety, reasonable caution, or concern for human life. Every decision is instead made from a default assumption of what if the bad thing just DIDN'T happen? We are given pie-in-the-sky promises and sizzle reels and an endless PR hype-cycle for every new innovation and inevitably fails to work, harms people, and them is maybe barely apologized for before the next bad idea comes down the pike. OceanGate's underengineered, undercooked, doomed submarine isn't merely a metaphor for the hubris of the wealthy, it is a scale model of the way the wealthy dictate our reality. All consequences can be ignored, all blowback can be forestalled, let the end-user eat the cost. I am not angry because the submarine was badly made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people. /end ID]
my poison ivy hot take is i actually think she would be some kind of weird carnivore rather than a vegetarian because she only really has empathy for plants and sees most people as meat sacks i think she would eat people is what i'm saying. what i'm saying is they should let her do sexy lesbian cannibalism
op i have some excellent news for you
