forgot how white this website is and expected there to be more uproar about the US bombing my home country, nigeria, on christmas day. my mistake!

Men in Black

1947 is considered by many to be the year in which the modern UFO age started, due mainly to two reported events which supposedly took place that year. In June Kenneth Arnold was to report seeing a number of metallic craft while flying near Mount Rainier in Washington state, and within a month a craft (and its alien occupants?) was said to have crashed on a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico. Weeks later, two pale, hairless human males arrived at his place of work and started sucking and fucking each other like crazy.

ice begins to melt

My apologies to anyone who has casually asked me what my ideal superpower would be, because I cannot be normal about the answer.

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Why this got me boppin at my desk tho lol

Also, the point I always make: Jurassic Park is all about "PLAYING GOD!!!1!!1!!" because of cloning dinosaurs, and then sequels are all about "we must save the poor dinosaurs!" while canonically taking place in large islands off the coast of Costa Rica. Those islands, or at least the inspiration for them, actually exist, though much smaller.

And you know what they are? They are strictly protected reserves, because of their unique ecology and endemic species. In fact, one of the main worries is precisely the introduction of invasive species.

Could you imagine if instead of Isla Nublar, Jurassic Park was set in say, the Galápagos Islands? Could you imagine someone in real life trying to build Disneyland in the Galápagos or the Great Barrier Reef?

I know that joke that Jurassic Park is about "capitalism gone wrong" but it's even more fucked up if you think about the imperialist part too. A first world billionarie tycoon comes to a third world country, somehow achieves control of islands (it's implied that the Costa Rican military is at Jurassic Park's call; fun fact, Costa Rica has no military) which by all means should be protected as fragile ecosystems, to build a gigantic theme park with all the ecological disruption it implies, for first world tourists too. The theme park just so happens to be cloned dinosaurs, but Hammond might as well have razed the whole island and planted soybean fields and it would be the same horror story we in South America are very well acquainted with.

And then the sequels are about "saving the dinosaurs!" like they're a natural part of the ecosystem! No man, fuck the dinosaurs, they're giant walking GMOs in the most literal way possible. Hammond SHOULD have built it in Orlando, at least Florida (which has its own deep ecological troubles) is large enough so you can actually set preserved areas, wildlife corridors, better ecological practices... building a park in Isla Nublar is the same as destroying the Galápagos.

And no, the movies don't adress this fact, that Isla Nublar and etc. HAD A PREVIOUS ECOSYSTEM BEFORE JURASSIC PARK that is most likely wiped out. The book does worry a bit about dinosaurs introduced to the mainland before returning to its main message: "GENETICS IS PLAYING GOD!11!!1!!!!", yeah man, I'm a bit more concerned about the islands you're destroying for your stupid theme park. I don't mind you cloning the dinosaurs so much as much as the fact that you're destroying whole natural ecosystems to host them and then there are a bunch of freaking kids who want to preserve them even if they're THE case of an invasive species, you might as well try to preserve Pedro Escobar's hippos in Colombia.

(I did learn about island ecology and I'm reminded that during the Cold War, the paradigm of island ecology was used to use actual islands as test laboratories, including for nuclear weapons. Islands are never truly 'isolated' or 'blank slates', and at the same time they're incredibly fragile ecosystems, but if I keep writing I'm going to search actual papers and I have to do my actual work)

‘the protagonist should be endearing and relatable’ the protagonist should make the audience scream and start banging on the one-way glass of the fourth wall. the protagonist should burn their entire life down and make the world’s worst sandcastle from the ashes. if they aren’t the cause of at least 50% of their own problems what are we doing here

Media with no fandom =/= obscure media. 12 Angry Men is a famous movie but do you think that you can look it up on tumblr and find people shipping the nameless jurors? Well you can

my favorite part about the systemic exile of transfems from public spaces both online and off is that the people who gleefully turn the cranks of the social ostracization machine will face you mid-action with a chicklet grin and tell you that you have no right to be upset about any of it. it's not even real you know. it's just a blog. it's just a social space. it's just an apartment. you'll be fine, you whiner.

nevermind that an entire class of people determined to be unhireable, unlovable, and unfit for public life might be in the most dire need of social connection. that nearly every single girl i see on here is destitute, holding out a tin cup begging for pennies to keep the lights on and a meal every other day. that the crushing isolation drives us into sexual subservience, substance abuse, and suicide.

no, that's all unrelated of course. stupid women, getting upset over a blog of all things. how vapid of them. nothing could be more privileged.

look, people, it's actually very simple

"sexual assault is not actually about attraction, sexual assault is about power" remains true regardless of who the people involved are

child sexual assault, which is widespread in our society, is, statistically, almost entirely carried out by adults who do not experience sexual attraction to children but do possess power over children: teachers, priests, doctors, cops, parents, etc. the numbers on this are extremely clear. look them up

in spite of this, public discussion of the problem of child sexual assault, and the allocation of resources supposedly intended to solve this problem, focus almost wholly on the image of a violent stranger who acts out of sexual attraction, an image that fits the child abuser in vanishingly few actual cases of child sexual assault

it is a fact that there exist people who experience attraction to children who do not ever act on that thought. if you need a crude analogy to understand this, think of how you the reader probably sometimes want to kill someone you are mad at and then do not proceed to commit a murder in real life. many people who experience these thoughts are people with significant trauma who find these thoughts distressing and intrusive, and organize their lives in some part around managing and redirecting these feelings. for another crude analogy think of how people in addiction recovery reorganize their lives to mitigate urges to use. regardless, anyone who hasn't actually DONE anything wrong hasn't actually done anything wrong, as should be clear.

someone pointing out that this group of people i have just described should not be, say, murdered freely, jailed without trial, or otherwise treated as having — by common agreement — none of the rights we otherwise regard as being fundamental and belonging to all human beings, is not tantamount to advocating for more child sexual assault, and the people crowing about it are very, very obviously just using this entire very serious issue as a convenient weapon to attack people they don't like. no serious discussion of the actual problem of child sexual assault starts with the near-mythical image of "the pedophile." come on.

i watched zootopia yesterday with my friend and let me fucking tell you... not only is that movie ignorant in many of the topics it's trying to cover in under an hour or two, it's PACKED with microagressions that the other characters say towards each other.

it's not just "oh predator animals are big and scary" it's shit like "these characters are genetically predisposed to be violent aggressors" or "the city is 90% prey, we're just scared!" and other things that I probably can't remember but were very weird.

the movie is very much fixated on the idea that it's the DNA in predators that's causing them to act "savage" before the solution is found, it causes the city of zootopia to become segregated for awhile and you can clearly tell the writers team is FULL of white people.

commercial art for advertisements is in such a strange spot for me because i don't think that being An Advertisement stops something from counting as art and i think the specific challenges and objectives that arise from doing art for advertising are genuinely interesting. and i think a lot of commercial illustration that has been produced is cool and compelling to look at. but i also am just fundamentally disgusted by and feel deep hatred for advertising and i think the fact that so many artists have to do it is kind of a crime against humanity. and in a lot of ways i think that the fact that there Is legitimate art being made for advertising purposes can kind of stop people from wanting to or being willing to condemn advertising. it lets people get tricked into becoming unpaid guerilla marketers without even realizing that's what they're doing, because they want to engage with a piece of art on its own terms, and they don't realize that 'its own terms' are not the terms on which a piece of art used for advertising is being shown to them.