You can call me Dapp.

Felt bad for just flat out rebloging this earlier without looking it up, Article is legit and the website is rated honest.

Article also references healthdata dot org for a lot of their conclusions so decided to see if they’re on the level or not and it does not look like there’s any issued with the place the data came from’

health risk. New study slams years

of shoddy research

I am absolutely seething about what Disney just did to Bobby Driscoll again 54 years after he was buried a John Doe (his corpse was found by two children playing an abandoned tenement building–his death date is actually unknown and the date given is the day he was instead found) in an unmarked mass grave in Hart Island’s potters field (not identified for a year until his mother pressured Roy O. Disney to make the NYPD care enough to match his fingerprints) where he still is surrounded by prisoners and unidentified vagrants (literally referred to as the “poor, unable and unwanted” on a sign)…

And 69 years after they fired him by letting him read it in a gossip column. Walt had his secretary call security on him and he was thrown out of the building crying at 16 years old (near his birthday–he was 14-15 during Peter Pan’s production). The film was #1 at the box office and in release for two weeks when he was fired. There’s also a rumor that Howard Hughes was also pressuring the firing, as he absolutely loathed child actors in general, and was in charge of RKO.

Bobby was the voice and rotoscoped character model for the titular Peter Pan. He was also in Song of the South, Melody Time, So Dear to My Heart and Treasure Island. His live-action movies literally saved the Disney company from total bankruptcy in the ‘40s. He was the very first actor ever signed to the company. He was only one of twelve child actors to ever receive a Juvenile Oscar (with such company as Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Temple, Margaret O'Brien and Hayley Mills) for his performances in 1948/9’s The Window and So Dear to My Heart. And for the record, Walt didn’t treat Adriana Caselotti (Snow White) much better, to the point where he denied her the ability to ever get work with her voice ever again. It’s just that Bobby is possibly the most horrific ending of a child actor ever in Disney’s history (there are many).

Disney just made Peter Pan the villain in the new Chip ‘n Dale abortion that gives the animated character Bobby’s actual backstory (this is not an evil Peter Pan take based on the book and not in any way comparable to Once Upon a Time!) of being an actor fired for hitting puberty and having acne. That’s not Peter’s backstory; that’s Bobby’s. And it’s too specific to be a coincidence. They drew a character, who was drawn unmistakably with the actor’s real features and acting performance, as a middle-aged, fat man, despite the fact that he died at 31 and Peter’s voice basically was his post-pubescent adult voice. They made him a hideous monster aged far past an age he ever reached.

The film also ends with the character incarcerated, which happens to be yet another thing from the man’s real life. By his own words, he was raped in prison. His spiral on drugs sent him to Chino, which didn’t happen until he was bullied mercilessly in public school after being pulled from the actor kids’ school (he also had stage parents who beat him and locked him in a closet to the point that Disney had earlier stepped in to send him to live with costar Luana Patten’s family as a child–there are also allegations he was molested while working at Disney) when Disney basically ended any chance of steady work. He was a straight-A student prior.

I’ve been telling this story every chance I’ve gotten for nearly two decades. Few today know who he is, because Disney does everything to keep the story hidden and him forgotten. Bobby is not a Disney Legend, despite fans lobbying for decades. The Peter Pan DVD/Blu-ray avoids mentioning him as much as they can. Another one of his films is de facto banned.

That Disney just pulled this with a disgusting, sick joke that laughs at his backstory and misfortune, then turns him into an irredeemable villain in a plot that essentially turns themselves into the victims of copyright theft (they’re responsible for lobbying to get copyright law extended indefinitely). So, in other words, Disney has framed themselves as the victim of a heartlessly-fired child actor who died tragically instead of the villain and framed themselves as the victim yet again.

If there’s any silver lining, it’s that Twitter and social media just learned about him for the first time because of outrage over Disney spitting on this dead man’s unmarked grave yet again. I knew this story decades ago (I had a Peter Pan obsession). Undoubtedly, nobody working on this stupid film was with the company 70 years ago and most were likely not even alive when he died, but somebody there had the bright idea to put the biographical data of a person Disney has spent decades trying to make everyone forget as a villain origin story.

“I have found that memories are not very useful. I was carried on a silver platter and then dumped into the garbage can.” -Bobby Driscoll

-Major Monogram understands hash house lingo

it’s 20th century american diner lingo, i don’t think many people use it anymore, but i happen to have on-hand a guide from a book-set by julia rothman if you’d like some more examples

couldn’t agree more

Source

Also: Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko

The Moon landing was faked

Superman: Red & Blue #5 - “De-Escalation” (2021)

But given that it’s a pain to seek out each one one by one, I’ve got a list of links in order a smidge further down! Please try to support Dark Horse Comics if you can, but if you’re broke like me and still want to read, the Internet is a beautiful place. According to the wiki page, there are at least two more installments to come, scheduled for May 1st and June 5th, but there’s no real update schedule for the series as a whole.

Do note: they are graphic, gory, and sad, with a lot of body horror. But they’re really fantastic.

Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites contains: 1. Stray 2. The Unfamiliar 3. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie 4. A Dog and His Boy 5. The Gathering Storm 6. Lost 7. Something Whiskered This Way Comes 8. Grave Happenings

9. Sacrifice (Hellboy Crossover)

Beasts of Burden: Neighborhood Watch contains: 10. Food Run 11. Story Time 12. The View From The Hill (the one in this post!)

I said that Wanda was legitimately worse then either of the two designated villains (Agatha and Not-Shield agent leader man) and was told I “needed to have reality violently beaten into me”.

I think it's just the fact that they accept what they're implicitly being told.

"This character is the hero, ergo what they do is right"

We saw this with Sam and John Walker. They were told John was a bad man through music and low angles. They were told that Sam is the hero.

So when Sam stands back, grinning and laughing, as he watches John nearly be killed by the Dora Milaje, they go "Yeah! Fuck John" because they just accept what Sam is doing is okay.

Or when they see Sam walk up to Walker and go "We need the shield" and then Walker refuses and they beat him, break his arm and take the shield, people see Sam as the hero.

They're told Sam is the good guy, so it doesn't register to them that Sam literally just mugged a man who did him no wrong, who was offering him no violence, for a shield he himself gave up.

We know Sam is mad that someone is using the shield. Walker isn't to blame for that. But because the audience knows Sam, the hero, is mad, then beating the shit out of Walker must be correct and right.

I don't think they step back and look at the scenes objectively, what is going on in those scenes for what they are, the actions being taken. Because if they did they'd realize that what was going on is morally abhorrent and they couldn't square that with Sam being a hero.

I’m watching Loki and everyone is either complaining about people who ship him with his variant or shooting down any theory that doesn’t revolve around Klang the Conquerer or complaining it isn’t like the comics.

Marvel movies have basically become theory bait.  Everyone is excited about ‘potential’ and not ‘what is’.

People love coming up with theories, which I get because pattern recognition is a thing.  But it plays into the mentality the MCU has been banking on.

People see Abomination and Mandarin in Shang Chi and they get excited. They theorize that Doom is going to be in the FF movie and get excited. Why?  What’s Marvel’s over/under on good, well written villains right now?  Especially in light of Taskmaster, you shouldn’t be hyped for a character suddenly being teased, you should be worried they’re going to wreck them.