#chasm connected

i DID love the movie a lot (is for me. i'll take it) and i not only saw accidental kin themes in it to a really heavy extent, i related to it really heavily as a disabled person who was getting much sicker at the time

while it's been stated from the creator that it's queer, especially trans, themeing iirc, i think it's kinda fair to take it as a sympathetic tone for other groups like that? like. I Dont See Why Not. even if accidental. it reads as heavily sympathetic.

it HAS been stated from the creator that the ending scene is owen looking inside themself and seeing the real world still there so like maybe VERY sympathetic. like. its a trans reading intentionally. but its pretty fucking sympathetic to other lives holy shit

i like seeing it as all 3 and beyond (:

(ok to publish btw i know im being a little personal here but i dont mind. but please tag this as spoilers lol)

Oh, that's a take I haven't seen before! (re: disability.) I may have to take your word for it, because... well. Frankly I wasn't engaged enough in the movie to remember much. (I watched it, then when it finished I wondered how much time I'd spent watching it, and immediately put on Interstellar, which I wound up LOVING, so it kinda knocked the first one right out of my brain.)

Maybe it's because the fictionkin reading eclipsed whatever trans allegory there was for me, but I think the only moment I saw "trans :)" was when he was wearing the dress and seemed to like it. But I'm not often good with subtlety, so it's entirely possible I just missed it?

But YEAH, the thing about art is that the audience is an active participant in consuming and interpreting it! "Eye of the beholder" and all that. Movies will speak to each of us in a way that's also reflective of our own experiences, and that's just the nature of Creative Endeavors The World Over.

Oh man, I'm really more of a specialist in comics than a General Knowledge-Haver, but I'll share what I know!

Just about any character and potentially any series has trade paperbacks (TPB)! Those are great for having complete storylines, getting a taste of a character or creative team before deciding if you want to invest in Nicer Versions, and getting several issues at once instead of trying to build a collection of individual issues. (Plus, a lot of them have Bonus Content!)

DC also has the Archive Editions, which are basically much nicer trade paperbacks. Hardbound, touched up pages, and I believe they don't exclude issues like trades sometimes will? (Could be wrong.) There are also the actual Omnibuses (Omnibus Editions), which are freaking HUGE and Very Expensive, but they're a TON of issues compiled into one hardbound book!

Archives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Archive_Editions

Omnibuses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Omnibus

So the thing is, a lot of these are a compilations of a specific series, I can't think off the top of my head if there are any things like this but for All General DC Stuff, aside from maybe the DC Comics Encyclopedia. Which is a real physical thing and while I wouldn't say it delves into the MOST obscure stuff, it does cover a good amount of history and some lesser-known characters/stories!

Oh, whoof. Thanks for letting me know! I don't have Prime so I can't contribute to watching it (and affecting the ratings), but that's good information to have if I ever Jolly Roger it or watch on someone else's account!

genuinely i haven't studied this so i'm just sending sources over

...Hhhhuh.

…squints. I keep seeing different conflicting claims on this one. They're All sourced, is the thing…

i've been steeping over what to do about chicken because it's in like all the soup i eat.

Oh geez. >.o I knew that's why the lettuce contamination happened during his presidency, but I didn't know that... nobody fixed those regulations. C'mon, legislative guys, food's Important.

I wish I had Suggestions, but I am. Frankly too nervous about The Thought of Food Poisoning to put a lot of thought into it right now.

(I know listeria doesn't cause Food Poisoning the way salmonella and e. coli do, but my Phobia brain is like. "If there's listeria, what if there is also Bad^tm Kind of Food Poisoning contamination?")

((Also, I'm sure the fact that everything is produced in the same facilities owned by like 5 big companies has to do with the SWATH of the contamination and how many products it affects, but again. Don't know how to put A Lot of Thought Into That without triggering myself...))

and lately it feels like people have been giving up on going _in either direction_ or just pivoting to going BIG PLANT GOOD PUT AI IN IT (hate! hate! hate!) so like

on one hand i agree with you but i think just going fully black and white on it is the problem because we're kind of at the point where we're in the middle and we actually need to continue moving but people don't really do gray areas.

so i guess this is me going

extends hand. come with me to grey area. maybe science can find something if we don't just sit on our asses and pretend everything is ok on one extreme or the other. not that i'm a nuclear physicist but i think the point of being a nuclear physicist is to continue learning and i want to support them finding safety measures.

I see what you're saying, I really do. And I wish I could say that you're right and the gray area offers safety.

But you know that OSHA saying? "Labor regulations are written in blood"? How many more people is it okay to sacrifice to find these solutions? How many more people have to die before we actually make it safe enough that nobody has to die to run these things? How many more people have to get cancer, and chemical burns, and COPD, and all the myriad diseases I've seen on the forms that are accepted for Workers' Comp because they're already known and accepted dangers of these things, before it's "safe enough"?

Making the actual towers safer for workers doesn't mitigate the environmental cost on the front end, either. How many more miles of earth have to be mined before we find a way to get the uranium out of there without digging for it? How many invertebrates and fish and microorganisms are going to be sacrificed before we find a way to run the towers without pumping intense amounts of radiation and chemical waste into the environment?

What you're asking for is sacrifice for the sake of science, in my eyes, and that is not something I can condone.

I hope I'm not coming across too harshly, I appreciate you wanting to have a balanced take. But I personally don't think that's balance, that's pouring more human blood and living creatures into the machine to make it work better.

cHOKES ON MY SOUP

Chloe NO

Ahh, okay, good to know! Thank you!

Sarah is a trans woman and that counts as queer, right? I know there are going to be Some People who think I'm doing something Wrong by letting her be a Trans Woman with Masculine Traits, but like. Trans folks don't have to perform gender for anyone. I'm Very Trans Agender with a presentation that very closely aligns with my agab, and I'm still agender, so if people want to complain about that, I will simply absorb their complaints and store it away for use in my next hex. lD