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Pitching Leverage to a socialist friend: "The heist team gets hired by people who have been victimized by these corporate baddies, so there is always a scene at the beginning where some lady is telling the team 'my dad died because he couldn't afford his diabetes medication after the new factory owner Joshua Dirtbag the Third cut his hours' and the team is like 'say no more. we will put on elaborate disguises and convince him to bet on a fake racehorse, and somehow at the end of it you will have all his money and he will go to jail'."

2021's Beyond Evil (괴물) is truly a show of all time. It's about both the necessity and the limitations of law, and what happens when people are inevitably forced to make their own justice. It's about hypocrisy and the terrible things we do for love, including love of self. It's about neurodivergence, ableism, PTSD, and how we both see and unsee those things; how we infantilize some disabilities while dismissing others; how readily we read guilt into behaviours that stem from trauma. It's about how grief can tear a hole twenty years deep and seven families wide through a community, and the impossibility of ever stitching such a wound closed. It's about assumptions, subversion, consequences: how thinking you're right is not the same as being right. It's about the violence of misogyny, the pressure of conformity, and the question whose voice deserves to be heard. It's about what it costs to know the truth. But most of all, it's about Han Juwon wanting to fuck that old man so bad it makes him look stupid. And I think that's beautiful.

@allthefoolmine - if this is still on Netflix it is Thee Show of All Time and you should watch it if you want to enrich your brain weasels for months.

i’m just saying aragorn son of arathorn oh im sorry STRIDER (one of them rangers what his right name is i never heard etc etc) didn’t need to be that sexy at the prancing pony. like ostensibly he’s trying to lay low but even dipshit little [relatively] eighteen y/o frodo is like hey what’s the deal with that extremely ostentatiously sexy man in the corner

“you draw far too much attention to yourself ‘mister underhill’” if i were frodo i wouldve snapped. jesus christ. i can’t help that i’m two feet shorter than everyone else in this definitely definitely 100% a gay bar but at least i didn’t lurk in a sexy corner making eyes at everybody from under my cloak at least im TRYING to pretend i’m not a protagonist you fine ass idiot. i KNOW i’m being pursued by the black riders which is why i didn’t SERVE CUNT from the SHADOWS. the fellowship of the nerve of this bitch

can't believe the plot of leverage is literally 'man gets hired to be a project manager for Crime and then is forcefully adopted by the employees he doesn't want'