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neat how the “cults are dangerous!” posts are so often coming from the charismatic leaders of groups organized around a shared belief, seeking to build their audience…
and as ever, I wonder what these folks imagine it’s going to look like? who’s going to suffer and who’s going to profit by continuing to blame alternative religions & lifestyles for abusiveness? exploitation & mind control? lies being presented as the truth?
nothing - nothing good comes from these righteous crusades.
no amount of Dealing With the Enemy is going to do a single fucking worthwhile thing for Your Loved Ones if you’re not going to take the basic step of assessing reality, and really understanding: who is your enemy? who is causing you harm? Kali devotees? Hare Krishna? Satanists? Metalheads?
it’s a trip that 100% of people who’ve yelled at me for being pro-cult angrily explain to me how they escaped a church when they were young. Like…
do you really not see it? how your understanding of the world of human life was warped? the racist bullshit you’re spewing every time this nasty old moral majority diarrhea leaves your mouth?
if you spend a lot of time arguing for the safety of the natural biome, the end of persecution (for any group at all), the cessation of destructive patterns of civilization, you really need to examine the concepts you are responding to. If you are reactionary versus cults, you are one of the Enemies. Not just of the human communities (cults), but an Enemy of Life.
I honestly do not give a single shit about how hard that is for you to face. You had plenty of opportunities to just not be a vile fucking volunteer stormtrooper of hate. Fuck off from all the activities involving groups until you get your evil bullshit under control.
Learn to control your weapons, or stfu and gtfo.
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Before the internet, librarians were the gatekeeper of knowledge. For your reading pleasure, the New York Public Library released a cache of queries and conundrums called in from the 1940s to the 1980s.
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everyones got that homie who, within the depths of the dungeon, found a cruel facsimile of that which he desired most, and was corrupted absolutely
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As someone who has operated live CCTV cameras:
- It’s adorable when you make faces and wave at the camera
- I always say hello and wave back
3. Please keep your shirt and pants on
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I want to be clear that the reason I’m haunted by black sails is not its queer characters. It is because the show itself is in dialogue with the audience to ask you if you’re thinking critically about the systems, institutions, and messages you’re surrounded with every day, and if your own actions actually match up to your values.
Everyone else has already said it better than I have but this show says, “Everything is propaganda and if you aren’t aware of that you will not be able to exert your free will.”
I admit I don’t watch much television but this is so anarchist I’m dumbfounded that it was allowed to be produced.
I don’t think I’m expressing myself well here. I mean, like… The show goes out of its way to make sure all the characters are flawed in meaningful, coherent ways. The overwhelming majority of television (that I’ve seen) has either a POV character/group that it presents as “correct” that you’re supposed to agree with, or it presents everyone/humanity as bad.
The show has a lot of protagonists, or at least people we follow over a long period and hope can find something positive - Madi, Silver, Flint, Anne, Max, Jack, Eleanor, Billy, etc. All these protagonists come to very different ends through very different choices and priorities, and I don’t feel like the meta narrative is trying to suggest you ought to disagree with or condemn any of those choices. It is also not asking you to agree with any of them! It is asking you to think about them and understand or have compassion.
The meta narrative feels like a call to solidarity! Like, everyone is out there trying their best to live a life that is fulfilling within the constraints of what freedom they can eke out of the systems they live in.
Max just wants some stability and some love, and given what we learn about her that’s incredibly understandable, even if I personally find it frustrating that she wasn’t interested in revolution.
Eleanor loses all her hope, gets burnt by her attempts to gain control of Nassau, decides that she can’t do it anymore and is going to assimilate with England, and then ends up chafing at those bonds to her personal detriment, and it’s completely understandable why she does this.
Flint makes terrible, dramatic, tragic decisions from day one and keeps doubling down (maybe) forever and we absolutely understand why, and I can also see why someone would find his behavior infuriating.
They all make sense! Even Silver makes sense for as much as we can understand of his inner state.
I feel like black sails said actually people are mostly good but they don’t all agree on the best way to deal with the world we live in, and also that everyone makes mistakes, and you should really think for yourself about who you’re listening to and why.
AND I’ll just go ahead and undermine what I said about not having a meta POV about who you should agree with by saying that I also think black sails manages to be pretty unequivocal in declaring that you are being lied to by dominant narratives about the supposed value of nation-states, but uhhhh I am biased here so I guess there might be some way you could watch the show and come to a different conclusion lol
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they really brought david tenant’s son in and said hey do you want to play a gay little boy in good omens 2. just a little camp mf. nepotism done right.
#bro was in it for 3 minutes and was somehow the gayest character in the show #in the very gay show
#also pete davidson ie. david’s father in law was job??? #had me cracking up
#they brought this kid in and said hey flirt with your dad’s co-star #and he said ok bet
#that finger brush to aziraphale’s chest. quite literally he came he served cunt and committed to the bit #WAIT it’s even funnier bc apparently david didn’t know he auditioned for good omens in this role. #he auditioned and went on the set and said. im about to be hilarious
#making hearteyes at michael sheen is apparently a dominant genetic trait
#all nepo baby actors should be required to hit on their parent’s work bf in front of their parent #to prove themselves
Ok, I need to respond to that “dominant genetic trait” tag specifically, because the reality is significantly funnier- that’s Ty Tennant, Georgia (Moffett) Tennant’s son from before she married David Tennant. David adopted him, IIRC, and he’s raised him from a very young age, so he IS David Tennant’s son, but it’s not genetic, and if you know the hilarious irony of David and Georgia’s relationship (Peter Davidson played David Tennant’s favorite Doctor, David met Georgia while he was playing the Doctor and she was playing the Doctor’s daughter, every Doctor who fan at the time was vaguely amused by this because the Doctor married the Doctor’s daughter making the Doctor become the Doctor’s father-in-law), it becomes even funnier that Ty gets to flirt with his father’s coworker. Just a recursive mess of family business hilarity. Ty deserves this opportunity.
@silvain-shadows why would you leave this in the tags??
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People who have NOT READ Discworld: Which one of these does NOT happen? Round 2:
I have read Discworld, show results. (PLEASE DON’T SPOIL IT in tags/replies.)
Three witches compete in the running of the bulls and win single-handedly
Tiny blue scottish people have swords that glow blue when a lawyer is near.
Molasses and animal fat (believed to be elephant fat) are mined out of caves.
There is a murder mystery involving clowns, dragons, and a gun
A vampire, a werewolf, a dwarf, and a stripper have a girls’ night out
Monks take time from the ocean to make greek philosophers live for centuries
A charlatan cat helps a bunch of rats create rat-themed disney land.
A monkey goes back in time to save scrolls from the library of Alexandria
“Moist” and “Of The Twilight The Darkness” take a train to “Bonk”
A 90-something barbarian hero tries to fight the gods for letting him age
the city of Ankh-Morpork’s ruler keeps Leonard Da Vinci in his dungeon
Since this was so fun last time (and since they added more poll options!) I wanted to do it just one more time. PLEASE DON’T SPOIL IT IN THE TAGS/REPLIES until AFTER THE POLL ENDS. And this time you long-time Discworld fans get your ’see results’ option, even if it means one less fun fact about Discworld.
The answer will be posted at the end of the week when the poll is over.
