thanks, I will

the hunger games was genuinely one of the most powerful and compelling commentaries on mass media, the glorification of violence, war culture, imperialism, and capitalism that western culture has ever produced and i will never forgive hollywood for turning it into exactly what the Games were supposed to represent in the first place

#the hunger games #like the games werent the focal point!! the focal point was the huge fucking trauma and horrors that the imperialist state enacted #and the manipulation of perspective and spectacle to weaponize consumerism #i mean katniss’ survival LITERALLY depended on her ‘selling herself’ to rich consumers in order to get basic necessities #and using the poor as entertainment for the rich to feel good about pitying them while also not rectifying the basic issues#responsible for their poverty in the first place? remind you of anyting??#but the hollywood movies take one look at it and point blank refuse to actually internalize any of it #you wanna guess what the marketing for THG was? take a guess. #violence! love!! sex!!! fORbidden ROmANCE!! #not a SINGLE fucking thing about idk. social commentary! criticism of the hollywood industry as the SOURCE of the fucked-up ideology #that people in the capitol have! #the hunger games is explicitly about the relationship between public perceptions of atrocities and how the media frames those atrocities #and hollywood shamelessly and without an ounce of self-awareness proved it to be absolutely fucking accurate

ultimate personality test: are you a soundcloud person, a youtube person, a spotify person, or a pandora person?

Oh, no way. No, no, no. Absolutely not. No one’s going easy on anybody. Nope.

The first time I heard an adult say the f word was when I was in fourth grade and we were doing some project that involved us baking cookies together as a class. My teacher Ms. Lindsey, who was real sweet, was demonstrating for everybody and she asked if anyone knew how to crack an egg, and I really didn’t know how to crack an egg, but I’m a go-getter, so I raised my hand and she called on me. I instantly knew I was in trouble at that point but I’d seen my dad crack eggs hundreds of times so I figured, ya know, it can’t be thaaaat hard. So I grab the egg but I have no sense of how softly you’re supposed to tap an egg to crack it, so I just slam it against the desk and splatter raw egg ten feet in every direction and my teacher said “what the fuck, Dion?”

the chaos

it’s wild to think that like.. all the raw materials to make like an iphone.. or a laptop.. or the internet.. have all existed for literally the entire history of humanity.. all the stuff.. has been here.. on earth.. and all the natural forces.. electricity… magnetism.. have all existed.. but.. we just didn’t know how to put it all together.. like… i wonder what miracles exist around us.. right now.. at this very moment.. that we can’t even imagine