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The Dr Dolittle incident as a meme (Dimension 20's Unsleeping City)
In Dimension 20's Unsleeping City season 1, Zac Oyama and Ally Beardsley famously got derailed during a scene by a minor reference to the Eddie Murphy movie remix of Dr Dolittle, and it triggers them thinking about an entirely different Eddie Murphy movie remix, and the two of them absolutely crack up and it's hilarious. This incident has since been discussed by the cast in Dimension 20's Adventuring Party, in an episode of the A Crown of Candy season of Adventuring Party.
I have simply put these screenshots together in one place because I couldn't find them as images or put together as a meme anywhere on the internet, and that tickled my brain painfully until I made this post. Full credit to cutting these clips together for us to the Dimemesion 20 Critposting account on YouTube. Simply amazing - thank you for your service. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iECKMUxQgqo for the full video.
In order, here's how the hilarity went down:
And now I'm crying with laughter, too.
Thank you, Dimension 20, for creating a fandom I love and enjoy so much.
Thank you, Ally and Zac. I love your wild and beautiful brains.
And thank you again, Dimemesion 20 Critposting, for helping me to relive this moment in its full glory.
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AITA for accidentally making my nephew an indentured servant?
okay so a few months ago a random kid (19M???) shows up to my brother’s (30M) house to crash for unspecified reasons. he tells my brother he’ll explain in a couple of months but just needs a place to stay until then. my brother is a little overly chill about this kind of stuff and was just like sure, whatever, he can stay he seems cool. but i (31M) was immediately skeptical of him being here at all, and also living in our house for free. it’s especially annoying because even though my brother owns the house I take care of everything. he has crazy hours trying to get his startup off the ground and I do all his financials so I’m busy enough without having to babysit some random stranger in our house.
obviously i put this guy to work. i made him do all the dishes and cooking etc because he wasn’t just going to freeload off us. basically if there was a chore i gave it to him. it always felt like he was trying to act better than us by saying things like “hey do you need anything else done? just let me know” and “I hope you have a good day at work today” and “I’m just happy to be here! thanks so much, I promise I’ll explain soon” and annoying stuff like that. i did call him some stuff i shouldn’t have and gave him a mean nickname because his vibe was just rancid idk. he had like weirdly elegant hands that i thought looked gross. my friend gavin (25M) who comes over a lot told me to chill out but it’s not like the guy was living in HIS house so I told him to shut up.
anyway one day when we had a few of our coworkers over for a beer some girl (20F???) shows up at our house crying and said she needs help but wouldn’t really say with what, just that she needed someone to go with her, which seemed sketchy. but this guy volunteers to go check it out and just disappears. they are gone for a week. he finally shows up back at our house, idk what hero’s quest he embarked on, but he rolls up in his car with the same girl from before, a different girl that he helped out of her toxic situationship and now is definitely hooking up with, and promptly reveals that he is my brother’s NEPHEW (???).
my brother is adopted and it’s his sister (44F) who is the guy’s mom. she is super mad at all of us and drove like four hours to our house to yell at us, accusing us of basically making her son into an indentured servant when she trusted us to take care of him as he was getting used to living in the area. obviously we had no idea. she never told us. long story short there’s been a lot of family drama over the years and neither me nor my brother knows his side of the family very well and the guy never TOLD us we were related so it’s not like we had anyway of knowing he was her kid. gavin didn’t even realize it was his brother!!!! (forgot to mention gavin is also my brother’s nephew). but now of course he’s pissed too. in my defense this guy didn’t even give us his real name and just showed up unannounced at our house, so I don’t know what he expected. he said he wanted to work for my brother but not be hired just because he was related, so he wanted to “earn his place” first. which I think frankly is a horrible reason to do all of this. but everyone is mad at me and I’m starting to wonder if this is all my fault.
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i don't know how you can "the curtains are just blue! ACAB lol" fucking Death Note of all pieces of media
this is a show for thirteen-year-old boys. the only writers I've seen who are less subtle about what they're going for were fucking Victorians.
@rawr-monster and @eyestumblin asked me to elaborate so here goes:
Death Note is a show with a very clear central premise: no one should have the power to kill others without consequence. Not the cops, not corporations, not the Mob, not civilians, no one.
Even outside of the 2000s-era criticisms of the Japanese justice system, even if you're looking at it in a vacuum, Death Note makes it incredibly obvious what it's trying to say. It starts this off by making it very clear, right out of the gate, that the audience identification character really, really should not have this power.
For Death Note's original target audience, Light is everything you're supposed to be. He's smart, diligent, good-looking, athletic, popular but not too popular. He's The Perfect Middle-Class Japanese Teenage Boy. If you're the kind of edgy, smart Japanese teenage boy who would want to watch an anime supernatural crime drama in the mid-00s? Light is built for you to imprint on like a baby duckling.
...And then the show goes out of its way to point out, in the first proper story arc, that Light is the villain of this piece. From the introduction of L to the end of the Raye Penber/Naomi Misora arc, the show makes it very, very clear that Light is a hypocrite with a massive ego. Sure, he says that he's only killing criminals to make a better world. Sure, maybe he panicked and killed fake-L in self-defense. Sure, maybe the life of Reye Penber and any law enforcement chasing Kira were worth the clear drop in the crime rate. Maybe.
But then Light kills one of the very few unambiguously Good members of the Death Note cast, does so in a smug and cruel way, and the entire scene is framed as tragic in a way that none of the criminal deaths really were. The whole world goes quiet. And Naomi Misora stumbles off to commit suicide. By the end of that arc, even if you'd otherwise be sympathetic to Light- even if you're still rooting for him to get away with it- it's a lot harder to justify what he's doing. He's not just breaking a few eggs to make an omelet- at this point, he's actively happy to kill anyone who gets in his way.
So. Okay. The Perfect Japanese Teenage Boy (TM) can't be trusted with the power to kill indiscriminately. Maybe the problem is just that Light, as a person, is an asshole with impure motives, and if you gave the Death Note to someone who's a better person, you'd be better off. Maybe you could find someone who's motivated by love, and they'd do a better job with that power.
Everyone, say hello to Misa Amane, who is utterly driven by love and devotion, and probably one of the crazier/more evil characters on the show! She'd do anything, no matter how terrible, just because Light told her to do it. She is utterly without remorse, utterly without fear, and utterly driven by a darkly Romantic fanaticism.
Light gets to dodge what's coming to him twice because of Misa and love- once because Misa's love for Light lets him start the Yotsuba arc, and once because Rem's love for Misa becomes a diabola ex machina. In the world of Death Note, love is not a pure enough motive to let you kill indiscriminately - in fact, it makes you worse.
Okay, well, (our hypothetical edgy teenage viewer might say), cLEARLY the problem is that everyone here is too emotional, and you need to be able to detach from the situation to use the power of life and death. Of course you'd kill indiscriminately if you've got feeeeelings about it, but someone who is driven by Logic and Reason? Surely they'd never do anything wrong.
...And then L gets his hands on the Death Note, and immediately starts trying to figure out how to use it to prove that some of the rules in the Death Note are fake and Light is guilty. L's plan is to have a criminal on death row write in the Death Note and wait the 13 days to see if he dies. It's simple. Logical. Effective. It's also extremely reminiscent of the stuff Kira's been doing this entire time, and the implication is that, had L lived longer and used the Note more, he might become No Different.
(I think it's significant that in The Movie, L uses the Death Note exactly once, with himself as the victim, and he turns down the Death Note when it's offered to him. TheMovie!L is an unambiguously heroic character, and therefore, he will not kill without consequences.)
The power to kill without any consequence to yourself corrupts you. It makes you want to use it to solve more and more of your problems. It turns you into a fucking monster, one name at a time. And nothing can stop that process except refusing to use that power. Love cannot shield you. Rationality cannot shield you. Justice cannot shield you.
And every other character who gets the Death Note reinforces that theme. The Yotsuba Group? Big corporations should not get to kill without consequences. Mello? Criminals/genius detectives should not get to kill without consequence. Mikami? The Perfect Japanese Adult is outright sadistic about how he uses the Death Note. And on, and on, and on.
Near outright tells Light, in their final confrontation: "You are a murderer, and this notebook is the worst weapon of mass murder in the world." Using the Death Note is not justice; it's not going to bring about a perfect new world. It's murder, full stop. Light has become a mass murderer, a monster, by killing over and over again.
Death Note has a theme: no one should be allowed to kill without consequences, because it makes you a monster. It is not subtle about that theme. It is very, very blatant, and the only way it could be more blatant is if Near stopped to deliver an Atlas-Shrugged-style monologue about it.
and so seeing people reduce that to 'haha ACAB' gets my goat, because no. No, it's not just ACAB. anyone with the power to kill indiscriminately and without consequence- whether it's a cop, a megacorp, an autistic supergenius, a mob boss, or a perfect audience-insert- would become A Bastard.
this is a show that makes it abundantly clear that there is Symbolism and it has a Point, in the way that only stuff aimed at teenagers that's trying to be Deep can do. how you get through the entirety of Death Note and walk away with "there's no point! a cop's son decides to be the worst person ever! Light is Uniquely Terrible and that's all there is to it!" is fucking beyond me.
I was just going to blithely reblog this, and then I thought of something.
There is a category unmentioned here in the 'people who use the death note' and that category is the Shinigami. Yes, Rem's mentioned in the 'things you do for love' situation, tho she's not the only one who uses the Death Note in a selfless way (even under manipulation).
Because Rem and Gelus both use the Death Note to save Misa, and they both DIE for doing so. And that's an important context here, the Shinigami, the people who are MEANT to use the Death Note, are near-immortal immoral monsters. And the one way for them to be killed? Is to use the Death Note to benefit someone else.
Not only is there no 'good' way to use a Death Note, it was never INTENDED to be used for 'good', just as a way to elongate the lifespans of actual literal monster people in another dimension.
Death Note goes out of it’s way to have characters just straight-up monologue several times about how it’s the power to kill that’s evil and that corrupts anyone who accepts it, that there’s no good way or good person to have power over life and death. They even put the Death Note in the hands of someone who refuses to use it either directly or by proxy (Light’s father) and he gets to die peacefully with the belief that his son was innocent and Ryuk straightup explains this to the audience just to make sure everyone gets it.
Please, normalize carrying tiny leather bats now. (Available HERE)
I have one clipped to my purse/wallet and it is the best ever!!!!

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I think one of the funniest abortion stances I've heard was from my parents neighbor. He's a like, hard-core libertarian viking larper guy who is very tall and very fat and very bald.
He believes a fetus is human with a soul, but also its "basically attacking the woman's body" so if she wants to get rid of it, that's "basically self-defense". He compared it to shooting a home invader. So he supports abortion not as healthcare, but as killing a baby in self-defense
Y'know I'm so glad someone reminded me of this. Because this was also discussed.
My stepmother did NOT like the way her Libertarian Viking Neighbor framed pregnancy as the fetus "attacking the woman". She incredulously told him this was extremely disrespectful to expectant mothers to portray pregnancy as so violent and negative.
Libertarian Viking Neighbor's response was that people consensually hurt each other all the time, and "there's like a whole community about that, with the acronym the one that starts with a B" And his reasoning was that if the mother was consenting to bring attacked by the baby, it in fact wasn't violent and negative because there was consent.
He brought up people consensually hurting each other, didn't go for one of the obvious answers like boxing or body mods or something, no he went STRAIGHT TO BDSM and he DIDN'T EVEN REMEMBER THE ACRONYM
More xenomorph morphs. Bubble and chrome aesthetic this time.

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batman but with anatomically correct bat ears
if i may humbly elucidate:
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Hope no one screams in those ears 😬
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I took a screenshot of your tags before you fixed them >:D
Can you imagine a bat dressed, crazed man driving by just yelling “ECHOLOCATION!”
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