One Billion Lions

A recent conversation in a discord group reminded me of something important. If you're on the younger side (under 25 or 30) and you haven't seen all the incredible, dark and disturbing fantasy films that came out in the 1980s and late 1970s, then I would strongly encourage you to do so. There was something so dark about that genre during that time that I absolutely adore and that isn't really around in modern films for children and young adults (once they learned that it traumatized a whole generation of us).

My faves in case you need any recommendations. (Some of these are really not appropriate for children, so keep that in mind lol).

The Dark Crystal - 1982 - the Skeksis will give you nightmares. I am honestly very proud of the remake for being just as disturbing if not more so than the original.

Watership Down - 1978- NOT FOR CHILDREN - Jesus Christ why did so many of our parents show us this film at a formative age? It's all about trauma and death and displacement and there's literal blood and murder. Not a G Rated Film. Still, it's very good. Loads better than that CGI remake from a decade ago.

The Secret Of NIMH - 1982 - Incredible movie. Minor disturbing elements. Probably my favorite on the list. It's just a great adventure story with real world issues (animal experimentation, mental health problems, disabilities) and there's even a lovely romance. Highly recommend.

Legend - 1985- This film is just straight up disturbing. Yes, there's a lot of beautiful shots of unicorns and sexy, 20-something year old (insane Scientology wack job) Tom Cruise and gorgeous Mia Sara, but there's also torture, madness and literally the Devil (Tim Curry is the entire reason you should watch this film)

Labyrinth - 1986 - I only really have two words. David. Bowie. My 10 year old self found out about a lot of burgeoning kinks while watching that man prance around in eyeliner and a codpiece. It's a wonderful adventure as well - if you ignore the blatant romantic and sexual tension between Bowie and an underage Jennifer Connelly (none of us could)

The NeverEnding Story - 1984 - Lots of disturbing imagery in this one! The Nothing was fucking terrifying, and the creatures in this world seemed uniformly creepy, but still incredibly well done. Love the adventure of it.

The Princess Bride - 1987 - Not technically a kids film maybe? Lots of adult themes and adult jokes, but safe for kids imo. I adored it and still do. Incredible performances by Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin. R.O.U.S, Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! (need I say more?)

The Last Unicorn - 1982 - A beautiful film with stunning representations of innocence, good and evil. Just gorgeous really. I should rewatch it as it's been 20 years or so.

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Adding a couple...

LadyHawk.

A romance / Action film about a knight and a maiden who are cursed. Her to transform into a hawk during the day & him into a wolf at night. Forever keeping them apart.

DragonSlayer

A coming of age tale about a wizard apprentice who must save a village from a dragon & the sacrifice lottery the village has established around it.

(Rare example of 1980s genderfuckery)

Willow

LOTR before we ever thought a LOTR film would ever be possible. You've probably seen this one, but just in case.

The Flight of Dragons

Transplanted into the body of a dragon a scientist must come to terms with magic, even while explaining it.

Krull

Classic adventure story severely undervalued in its time.

Some of the creepiest spider stop motion to ever exist.

These are all on my favorite movies list. I find myself humming the Flight Of Dragons song randomly to this day.

As an autistic child with ADHD and a burgeoning case of OCPD, I was deeply upset by many moments in many of these movies (particularly The Dark Crystal and The Never Ending Story, which are dark, so you have every right to feel grossed/creeped out by those muppets. They were hella extremely creepy.

I've seen and loved most of them. Yes, Skeksis were rather horrible

So turns out the US are setting babies up for a lifetime of illness and increased likelihood of liver cancer in Guinea Bissau in the name of “research”

7000 newborns will be denied the neoneatal HepB vaccine until 6 weeks to ‘prove’ that the HepB vaccine is linked to neurodevelopmental disability on the directions of the Department of Health vis RFK Jr and in collaboration with researchers in Denmark, despite the fact that the vaccine’s efficacy rate and best protection is when administered to newborns, and the total lack of correlation between vaccination and neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Guinea Bissau has some of the highest rates of HepB on the continent, and infants are the group at the highest risk of contracting HepB, leading to chronic hepatitis & long term hepatic diseases like cirrhosis and liver failure as well as increased chance of liver cancer.

The study can’t be carried out in the US or Denmark because it fails almost every benchmark for medical ethics — surprising absolutely nobody, it is in fact heinously unethical to expose babies to preventable disease that causes liver failure and liver cancer, but the “study” has been green lit in Guinea.

Fuck the US imperial project in Africa, fuck RFK Jr and the US Department of Health, and fuck every single collaborative researcher in Denmark. This is some nightmare Tuskegee Study shit and every single individual involved deserves to be in The Hague.

"if you convince people that there's no difference between a blood thirsty dictator and a dedicated leader who is human and thus unable to solve every problem, the dictator wins."

I find it useful to treat political parties as vessels rather than static organizations.

"The Democratic Party is useless." <- Certainly sometimes true but it doesn't give people a path to accomplish anything and just leads to "The Dictator wins."

"[Specific Democratic Elected Official] is useless. Vote for [Primary Opponent Who is Promising to Not Be Useless] in the primaries." <- This is how you get a better opposition party. (This is how Mamdani ended up as Mayor of New York rather than Cuomo.)

If you want to improve things, you shouldn't be driving people towards "do nothing."

Reminder that the term Zio is a slur against Jews coined by former klan grand wizard David Duke. Imagine saying you're just anti-Zionist and calling people antisemitic slurs

It's another game of spot the bad actor, apparently Zionists don't realize terms can be reclaimed and recontextualized

It's a slur against Jews. COINED BY THE KU KLUX KLAN! ARE YOU STUPID??

imagine saying this about literally any other slur lmao.

neurotypical ableds “reclaiming and recontextualizing” the R-word by calling “bad” disabled/neurodivergent people the R-word. white people “reclaiming and recontextualizing” the N-word by calling “bad” black people the N-word. straight people “reclaiming and recontextualizing” anti-queer slurs by calling the “bad” gays and trans people f****ts and tr*****s.

y’all’re using an anti-Jew slur against Jewish individuals for supposedly conspiring to do the same things people have always accused Jews of conspiring to do. y’all ain’t recontextualized shit. you’re just parroting the KKK.

This.

Outsiders do not get to reclaim slurs.

Who gets to reclaim tranny? Us TRANNIES do. Not cis people! And definitely not as a way to insult trans people!!! When a marginalized group reclaims a slur they turn it into an in-group word of love and affection!! It no longer has a negative connotation in OUR mouths.

But most importantly, when the oppressors use that word, it is still a slur in their mouths. Because they don’t get to reclaim it.

So no, non-Jews. You do not get to “reclaim” Zio. You’re not fucking Jewish. When you say Zio, you are saying a slur. Period.

if the Black Panthers were reading theory with people who the white supremacist state attempted to keep illiterate, I think theory is a lot more accessible than some folks would have you believe

libs will get online and say “leftists are classist for expecting people to read theory. obviously poor people are too stupid to read it” and sincerely think theyre woke

This post keeps coming across my dash and idk how to tell u guys but if you’re looking up literally anything on Wikipedia where reality contradicts the imperialist narrative, you’ll find that the power of CIA-affiliated NGO Hitlerism to create easily disprovable disinformation far outweighs the capacity of fully-weaponized autistic pedantry to keep the information on that site reliable.

also can people stop painting autism as the genius disability like not everyone who learns a shit load about a topic is autistic not every autistic person is smart stop bringing this starchild rainman shit back

"Scientific studies can be biased" Yes, and the solution is More People Doing Science, not less science!

Underneath the ubermensch tones, this feels like a precursor to food safety standards being lowered for meat. They're just tapping into toxic masculinity as a way to repackage what they want.

Americans, if you're able to shop from local processing butchers, especially halal/kosher ones, I'd suggest preparing to make the switch.

I see in the notes people engaging with the White House's announcement at face value and pointing out this is hypocritical/nonsensical.

Of course it's both.

"The War on Protein" is just a slogan to make it look like the previous administration and the Left in general were/are deliberately trying to keep the nation weak. (This slots in well with white supremacist fears about the Great Replacement, etc.)

This is deliberately to rile up folks and further draw Us vs Them lines. In addition, their current base that actually knows science will be forced to parrot this nonsense as a loyalty test.

It doesn't matter that we see protein added in all sorts of things these days, even bottled water. It doesn't matter that America is the land of burgers, hotdogs, and steaks.

Treat this as an example of how this regime tries to sell its bullshit as "beneficial". See how everything is now a "war", and how America needs to be "strong".

This is most likely propaganda to disguise a campaign to lower food safety standards. Probably also to change requirements for food lunches to favor corporate donors whose food is unhealthy/unsafe.

The formula that worked so well to cast public doubt upon COVID and vaccines is being used here to do the same food safety. Expect to hear that regulations are "unreasonable" and actively hurting America.

Again, do not engage this regime with the surface content of their messaging - treat everything as propaganda and look for who stands to benefit.

tgis is so fucking funny to me. they accidentally Rock Lee'd a retired racehorse

imagine youre a fat horse and your new neighbour is a personal trainer

horse that reads Marcus Aurelius

I was wrong. they didnt rock lee him. this horse is literally Gai. and i wish he was my dad

if the idea of forcefem is dysphoria inducing, then stop searching the forcefem tag and looking at the forcefem blogs. just block and move on. sending hate mobs because you have a personal ick against something is absolutely clown behavior. and also a strategy straight from the lolcow/kiwifarm playbook

the entire idea of forcefem, which is a reclaiming of sissification under a transfem lense, has always been about taking depressed 'cis men' and helping them through the terrifying and difficult process of becoming a cis woman.

despite the name 'force', it has always been about giving the person being forcefemmed exactly what they want.

never has that ever been about forcibly detransitioning transmascs or trans men. why on earth would a kink about celebrating transness be something that upholds transphobia?

burn it 🔥

(he/him) 🐇

said this on bluesky but:

i genuinely encourage non black people to engage with this, who might be worried they can't because of the word "nigga" because they feel like it's overstepping. the only way it would be overstepping is saying it to me when ur not black, but please don't be afraid to engage with black art.

i kinda get annoyed when non black people police other non blacks on how to engage with black culture because it creates a problem where non black people avoid us all together which can be extremely isolating and create even MORE tension and overall being uneducated.

Certified Anti-Microsoft post

come on in, the water's fine (threatening)

come on in, the water's fine (threatening)