Benny_Not_Benjamin

‘capitalism works’ factoid actually untrue. the 62 people who own half the world’s wealth are outliers and should be eaten.

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Absolutely nuts how they made up a number for this satire post and the correction is that reality is *more absurd* than the number they chose

no i’m afraid it’s even worse than that. 62 was correct in 2016 when the original post was made.

I never understand why people who make these like re-grade everything. Is it supposed to make it look better? Like movies are already color graded so they look a certain way. You’re literally changing the shot from what the director and colorist decided the best possible look is based on THEIR creative vision for THEIR movie.

Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a vampire but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I’m also a witch, and I go to a magic school called Hogwarts in England where I’m in the seventh year (I’m seventeen). I’m a goth (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them. -The opening paragraph to My Immortal, posted 20 years ago today

...Somehow I missed this anniversary. I feel vaguely negligent.

PERSONALLY I like that the strawhats are preoccupied with their dreams ambitions and sailing the seas w their friends and don’t think romance is narratively necessary, but it’s legitimately so funny how oda was like “the old generation of pirates? biggest fucking sluts you’ve ever seen”

I wanted to make a post about how "desire is the root of all suffering" is bullshit because I never suffer as much as I do when I don't want to do or have anything, and I'm so bored that I'll start chewing my limbs off, but them I understood that wait, that's the state where I want to want something, and that's twice the suffering. Damn, you got me.

This would work on me. If I was in NYC rn I would be getting on the ferry as we speak.

unlearn shame. then with all the new space in your brain you can learn something cool. like you can learn how to read braille. or you can learn how to make chocolate mousse. you can do anything really

i dont see anyone talk about this and i think its a shame. the opening sequence where we learn about the flock is so nicely done and so so fucking important to me. in knives out, the cast is introduced in the interviews. a fairly simple, classic way of introducing the suspects. in glass onion, we're introduced to them through the puzzle miles sends them aka they're introduced through miles. their story begins and ends with miles. (the only exception is andi, who we get to know through helen, the only person in the world who loves her. im fine) but in wake up dead man we've come to know the flock through jud's conversations with them. jud's first thought upon arrival is to sit down with them and get to know their life story. yeah obviously he's a priest, he should know about the people he's supposed to guide spiritually but the WAY he does it is so unique. and its because he cares. he cares so fucking much he wants to build a new cross on his probably second day there. when he hears about the harlot whore his first thought is to ask martha about it. even after hearing the name "harlot whore" he doesn't go in with any judgement. martha reasons she was a whore bc she dressed in an outgoing way and knew 'her brands'. the way jud reacts to this is extremely telling. plainly, he finds it ridiculous. you can see the disbelief on his face. and even after hearing grace's story there's no actual judgement from him. he's shocked, absolutely, but he never ever participates in the name calling and shaming the other's do. and then we learn about the flock. he's so gentle throughout these conversations, you can tell he cares so fucking much, that he wants to make this work, that he wants to be good priest for them. what he doesn't realize, is that he already is, simply by hearing their story, by trying to form that prayer group. i also can't help but think of the places these conversations take in. they're in the refectory with martha, the only place martha ever called home, the place she can't escape from. he's in sam's place, drinking coke exactly like he is. that simple detail catches my eye every time i watch that scene. jud is just so inherently thoughtful. he's in vera's home, the house she's been trapped in since cy showed up, accepting tea but ultimately focusing on vera and how she feels about all of it. when she says she hopes her father is looking down at her and is pleased, he doesn't believe her, or well, i would say he's able to emphatize with people so much he knows it's not the whole truth. with cy, they're outside, showing how cy never saw vera's house the home she tried to make it for him. jud's still emphatic, still not turning away from cy even after seeing how unchristian he's being. he tries to help him and cy misunderstands him completely. he's in the bar with nat, with a water in front of him bc he doesn't drink, but he's still THERE bc he WANTS to connect with nat. he's in lee's house, his fortress, bc that's where lee feels safe. he reads his BOOK. that's so important to me, why does no one talk about it, THAT'S how dedicated he is to these people, he's willing to sit through a book he finds hard to swallow just so he could understand lee more. he's in simon's house, the house which wicks trapped her in with his manipulation, surrounded by smoke, gentle and kind, not commenting about the smoke in his face even once, there only to be a listener. they all trust him enough immediately to tell their story and they're met with absolute acceptance and kindness and they don't CARE. they never notice how much jud gives them bc they're so caught up in wicks's manipulation. and still, jud doesn't resent them for this, the only person he's angry with is wicks. that should tell you everything you need to know about him and i'm sure it told benoit absolutely everything HE needed to know.