we'll h*ck it all back down

i don't think we need to be "meaner" about marvel films i think we need to just stop fucking talking about marvel films altogether. frankly.

like this idea that pushback against toothless insufferable mass media is met with a let people enjoy things-esque hostility has created a class of people who are convinced that their being able to notice that marvel at al. is a bland unimaginative incurious tool of social placation is tantamount to, like, serious countercultural work. serious countercultural work is divesting from hegemony and pouring our energy into alternative sites of creation and criticism. spending every iota of your mental energy dissecting why xyz mass media du jour leaves you unsatisfied retains a cultural discourse arena wherein xyz mass media du jour is all we have to talk about, all we're allowed to engage with.

the best thing you can do to end the tyranny of marvel is to watch other films and never ever talk about a marvel film again

for star trek day, i think we should start talking and raising noise about how avery brooks has been, according to cirroc lofton, blacklisted for discriminatory racist reasons from being on the screen despite wanting to return to acting, and star trek corpo keeps absolutely silent about it despite still using his name/captain sisko/ds9 as a cute little cameo for all their new shows, including name dropping his character in the episode he directed which he is most proud of and according to everyone involved put his whole heart into, far beyond the stars, of course ignoring all context surrounding the episode.

i know that it's seen as, like, a fedora reddit atheist thing to say 'the christian practice of teaching children about hell is child abuse' but the christian practice of teaching children about hell is child abuse and the more time i spend with people who were raised very christian the more confident i am about saying this.

the thing about william shatner being pissed about the concept of bi!kirk is so funny to me because like. bill this is your fault. you were the one who looked at leonard nimoy like you wanted to eat him. you did that

my brother in space, you played him that way

marvel fans: hey before you watch the worst movie of your life make sure you also watch these other 8 awful marvel movies to fully understand it

I mean on the one hand, yes, shipping spongebob characters is certifiably absurd and people who do it do not deserve rights but on the OTHER hand if you took Spongebob and Squidward's personalities and dropped them into, say, a pair of anime girls from a gacha game or two white guys from a teen drama everyone would be like "oh of COURSE this is a big ship"

glad to see everyone reading this post is just as upset as I was when I thought of it

#a reminder that worf was raised on earth… this is not because he is klingon. it is because he is russian (via princessnijireiki)