Rage Against the Dying of the Light

people are getting high as fuck on new stupid drug called "night drawing" its making them stay iup all the goddamn night drawing. and brother let me tell you. the drawings. not even good

Rumi has a habit of breaking into places by accident because she wanders a lot and it doesn’t occur to her that there are places she isn’t supposed to be

She’ll be in the high security wing of the hospital and nobody will stop her because she’s acting like she’s supposed to be there, because she doesn’t realize she isn’t

Where is Rumi? She’s in the Samsung server room. How did she get into the Samsung server room? A Samsung worker let her in

Zoey starts putting a button cam on Rumi and then uploading her infiltrations on YouTube and TikTok and now Celine needs to have the lawsuit talk with her again

Sunlight Entertainment has a fund specifically for Zoey Lawsuits

Real world application: my sister is gorgeous, and people automatically respond to her as if she is a good person. Altruistic, loving, empathetic, all that - and to be fair she does try to be what people want her to be, at first - but she is not any of those things and never has been, so she winds up blowing up every relationship once she gets sick of pretending to be nice. (With me she’s just consistently awful, but at least it’s somewhat honest, but we grew up together so she can’t get away with faking anything and it drives her nuts.) So yes, people treat attractive people as if they are inherently good, and they aren’t. They’re just people. People who may or may not use that trust to absolutely destroy you bc you want to believe that they care about you. Rambling now but I see it happen constantly and it’s absolutely reinforced by media. Even with the “hot villain” trope, the bad guy is always distinguished visually from the good guys in some way, as if we can simply know someone’s character in sight, and we can’t. I don’t think we should be able to, either.

This is also why I take issue with attacking someone’s appearance as a reaction to them saying or doing something awful or problematic, instead of actually targeting the problematic or awful behavior itself. When you attack the appearance as a reaction to the behavior instead of just addressing the behavior, you’re reinforcing that appearance and beauty is somehow tied to character or morality, which it’s obviously not, but reinforcing that beauty and attractiveness is tied to morality and character is going to hurt people who don’t meet conventional patriarchal eurocentric cisheteronormative beauty standards.

It’s important to unpack how their “ugliness” is built too. It’s not (just) ugliness it’s otherness. It’s being fat, queer coded, visibly non-white, failing at femininity, OLD… Jafar is not just neutrally designed to be uglier than Aladdin, Jafar wears eyeliner, Jafar is designed with stereotypical Arab features, his nose, his beard, his turban/hat whatever it was. Gothel isn’t ugly but she’s too confident, she believes she’s hot, she flaunts it, she’s threatening, and we want women who are hot but without trying, gorgeous but unaware of it (till the dude tells her), she’s a bitch, and thus the reveal that’s she’s actually an old decrepit woman is meant to be a satisfying punishment (very similar pattern with the Evil Queen in Snow White). Ursula, the matchmaker or the Queen of Hearts are portrayed as masculine fat women, sometimes with drag queen-esque makeup, not in a way which is empowering where they’re deliberately defying norms, but in a way in which they’d WISH to be like the thin, delicate, normative protagonist but they fail. I could go on but my point is that the danger of these ideology charged works aimed at children is not so much that kids will assume someone pretty (according to the norm) is good by default, but much more that they’re actively teaching kids to dehumanise fat and gender non conforming people, and people of color who don’t present and don’t strive to achieve european beauty, and women who don’t align (physically or in their behaviour) with patriarchal values, and that all of these are doubly icky if they look *gasps* OLD (because in general, but particularly for women, looking old must be a tragedy, and everyone knows if you’re ✨ unproblematic ✨ you do not age, so aging must be it’s own proof of moral failure. right?)

if you love someone enough you should be able to hug them really tight and pop into the same body as them and never have to leave like its aristophanes's myth of the spherical human

post cancelled i just reinvented steven universe