littlepopatochisp

@elliespectacular These cuts cracked me up. Phenomenal work as always

• Band Wagon: Urging people to follow the crowd with the idea that “everyone else is doing it.”

Sex workers are thrown under the bus, shown only as thieves who fleece men in the woods at night, while queer sexuality is relegated to a few scenes with Allie’s roommate (a woefully underused Quintessa Swindell) and a handful of pans past blurry same-sex extras making out in the background. “This night is for the straights,” Swindell’s character says to Allie, before saying that queer people have worked around straight laws for centuries.  This is supposed to be a nod to queer resilience, but largely comes off as straightwashing the history of anti-LGBTQ legislation in this country that led towards raids of queer clubs and incarceration of queer people in the not-too-distant past (let alone the current barrage of anti-Trans and LGBTQ legislation currently in the works and on the books). It’s also ignorant of the long and fraught fight for the normalization of age-of-consent laws, which, by the way, did not happen in all states in this very country until 2003. Yes, that’s not even thirty years ago.  By the end, our intrepid protagonists have not had sex with anyone, because this is a film about Romance with a Capital R (and I guess sex is not part of romance!) and for that very same reason they ultimately embrace the fascist state of things. They aren’t the only ones who refuse to fight back. No one in this cursed film is protesting this mandate beyond “repeal” signs in various windows and some creative graffiti (...) (...) If we are supposed to believe that the film is making some subversive statement about the state of sex and bodily autonomy in this country, it cannot end with its leads embracing their chains. That’s just warmed-over conservatism running around in sheep’s clothing.

the premise could have been interesting as a serious dystopian story, especially taking that history into account, but it wasn't written that way at all. this movie should never have been a fucking romcom making light of the violence the united states (and many other countries) has enacted on any kinds of sexual relationships it deems undesirable.

remember that you can practice and improve pretty much any skill, and there's no such thing as unskilled labour

Please build it for the funny please please please

(Also to note: this isn’t meant to be a critique of pykerett shipping in any way, sorry if this came off like that! Please know I am a D1 Pykerett shipper🙏 I just wanted to talk about how they are in canon blehhh)

Pyke should be more bird

But with the EOM yuri it’s always some bullshit like the only person you could have a relationship with in your very isolated upbringing dies and you try to bring her back but she just comes back wrong, so now you have to live with the fact that you broke the rules of your community and can never come back home. Sometimes it’s even the devotion part from the yaoi but it’s for your goddess and you decide that it’s best to kill non-believers than let them do something you deem evil. What the fuck.