Darreck's Soap Box

honestly v for vendetta was a left anarchist comic (and movie) with harsh critique on homophobia, islamophobia, torture, govt suppression of dissidents, and fascism/totalitarian govts and neckbeards fucking ruined it. also while im at it v was fuckeing sexy

Reclaim Alan Moore’s works from neck beards towards the glorious cause of communist anarchism

its weird how v for vendetta and watchmen are neckbeard things since theyre both leftist and criticize pretty much everything neckbeards like we have to make alan moores work leftist again

hetalia was so obviously fucked up how did we as a society allow that fandom to reach the magnitude it did

it’s…quite literally called “Axis Powers Hetalia” and like. no one batted an eye. axis powers is right there in the name

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Lots of people batted an eye at the time.  Anti-hetalia backlash, especially from Jewish anime fans, was fucking huge.  And it didn’t stop them from invading convention spaces, showing up dressed as nazis, etc.  I heard a story from a friend that while they were at a convention a Jewish kid had a panic attack over a group of Hetalia fans that were dressed as nazis and heiling and shit and the Jewish kid got kicked out of the con for “making a scene.”  I don’t remember the con, but it was in Minnesota.  Hetalia has a large part of the blame for the modern “anime right.”  It certainly didn’t directly cause them, hell, most of them probably aren’t Hetalia fans, but it’s because of Hetalia that they learned they could be openly and brazenly fascist and the American anime community would protect them for it instead of shunning them.

hey the Jewish person was actually one of my friends, this happened at Anime Detour in Minneapolis, MN. this is all true and it was terrible.

I don’t know what it is about Star Wars but even if it’s not your biggest fandom, it still has the funniest memes by a long shot I mean “look at all the fucks i give anakin” and “your poncho is a piece of junk” and anakin hates sand it’s all just 1000% pure class

rocky horror is the worst and is also transmisogynistic can we please finally get over this shit movie

ok but like the writer is transgender nonbinary and the language used in the play was the preferred language by trans people of that time can we not deny parts of our history because we’ve evolved since then thanks

i went to a very open and sexually liberal performing arts highschool in the aughts like twenty years later, and RHPS was still a wonderful thing to experience as a teenager sorting out gender and sexuality issues. i was surrounded by girls trading yaoi comics and boys trading yuri comics and theater kids that had every line of RENT memorized. and i saw RHPS in ninth grade, i think, and made sure to go to showings nearly every year thereafter, at older friend’s parties and at college media screenings and outdoor park showings and in independent theaters. i still go when i can. i think everyone over fourteen or fifteen should. it’s a piece of history and it’s a very vibrantly alive and relevant cultural tradition, and the atmosphere is so weird and so welcoming, and the movie is so profoundly silly. it’s absurd to me that anyone could say we’re done with it. 

Always reblog this. Especially now at the 40th anniversary. Reminder: I grew up in *Manhattan.* My parents, in the grand scheme of things, were pretty liberal and open and accepting. I still desperately needed RHPS as my place to be weird and discover myself. It was important, and that importance should not be discounted.

it’s not a movie that can be detached from it’s time. It’s literally about mocking homophobic, heterocentric tropes left and right. Horror, specifically, was a place where culture and counter-culture were fighting over whose space it was. Frankenfurter feels awkward to us now because he’s unecessary and that’s awesome but it doesn’t change that the movie was a response to real things.

No official piece of Overwatch media has come even close to touching the perfection of TF2′s “Meet The” videos.

The single line “And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it’s CALLED A ZOO” is better than the entirety of Soldier 76′s cinematic

“It costs 400,000 dollars to fire this weapon for twelve seconds” has more character and charm than all of the Overwatch comics combined.