Ramblings Of a Time Traveler

-ancient roman posca: water, red or white wine vinegar, honey, salt, herbs (coriander, mint, thyme)

-switchel: water, ginger, vinegar, sweetener, lemon, salt

-ayran: yogurt, water, salt, mint

-sees the reports of the heatwave in Europe-

Many neonazis and their ilk are okay with their icons being portrayed negatively as long as that negativity takes the form of a powerful and threatening figure. They like identifying themselves with Big Scary Destroyer. It's a power fantasy for them.

That's why, for instance, Trump's incoherence when speaking doesn't bother them. His incoherence is taken, by and large, very seriously. The man opens his mouth and drops a bunch of verbal turds - and the world panics, or at the least gets very, very nervous. Not unjustifiedly, it's true, but the power fantasy of being able to say whatever they want and get taken seriously is still vicariously fulfilled.

But the Reflecting Pool? The Reflecting Pool wasn't supposed to be broken. It's not something Trump destroyed for the sheer pleasure of destruction, which is how Trump's base experienced his gutting of the government via Musk. The Reflecting Pool is something that was supposed to be improved, which he boasted about improving, and instead it's clearly turned to muck. There's no power fantasy there. There's nothing to gloat over; it's just a damp gross failure. It isn't even a catastrophic failure! Tearing down the East Wing of the White House was dramatic, and had the value of making a big, indelible change to a national icon. No matter what happens, the East Wing as we knew it is gone. Power fantasy. By contrast, the Reflecting Pool? It's just fuckin dirty. It's gross. It's your neighbor's neglected cheap pool that's full of dead leaves and slime. An entirely pedestrian, grody, pathetic failure. It would literally be more salvageable as a PR thing for Trump if it got hit by a meteor and turned into a smoking crater.

same mfs who scream about “we need more cringe and or neurodivergent coded female MCs” and then complain about her “quirkiness”. i think there’s a lot of internalized stuff that a lot of yall may need to unpack there.

and i understand being upset about the owl house but u guys also need to remember that there are REAL PPL who create these projects. Disney is just the one that OWNS them. imagine being the creator of hexed who worked extremely hard on their creation and finally ready to release it out into the world, only for ppl online to tear apart the female mc for being “quirky” or “cringe” and not giving it a chance before ur full creation is even out yet.

what happened to supporting real artists over ai??? plus the only resemblance to the owl house that is shown so far is that the female mc is an outcast at school due to being the weird kid, is a poc, discovers she has magical powers, and goes to another magical world.

the owl house doesn’t own that concept and there are plenty of stories that have done this exact thing long before hexed and the owl house and there will continue to be more in the future.

luz never had any magical powers while she was in the human world unlike Billie who discovered that she had them in the school bathroom. also are we gonna ignore/forget the way ppl treated Luz when the owl house first came out?

ppl talked about her the same way ya’ll are talking about Billie, slapping on the “quirky Disney female character” label on her and calling her “annoying” and “cringe”.

Disney sucks for how they treated the owl house,but don’t take ur rage out on this movie and the creator of hexed who most definitely had nothing to do with it.

also..u do realize that Dana Terrence is not the sole creator of Knights of Guinevere right? not only that but it was already confirmed that the message of KoG was not to poke fun at ppl who still like Disney nor to poke fun at the human creators behind Disney projects.

it’s about still having love for all these different characters from these different IPs from since u were a child and still continuing to love them, while ALSO recognizing and being sad about the monster the company behind these IPs have become thanks to corporate greed.

i was genuinely sitting there thinking “holy shit this is such a unique creative decision i think it’s so awesome that the director prioritised cinema goers by referencing the theatre itself in the movie in order to confuse people and emphasise the weirdness of liminal spaces” until it dawned on me that having a watermark across the screen the entire time probably wasn’t a conscious choice by kane parsons.

i do still believe i’m watching the ideal version though because there’s something about watching found footage of the backrooms and a random shadow of a man appears on screen only to disappear a moment later and quiet nonsensical voices coming from somewhere inside your headphones and camera work that always looks like it was filmed on a camcorder that really works for this movie and I’m devastated to find out that this isn’t Normal.

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

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He didn't do it.

The cops very clearly planted evidence on him because they had to make an arrest because all eyes were on them and whoever actually did the deed was making them look stupid.

Why would the real killer hero have kept the weapon on his person and traveled two states over while carrying it and a manifesto in his bag, conveniently turning the crime into a federal matter? The same guy whose bag they found in a park, filled with monopoly money? Why did the police turn off their bodycams, take Luigi's stuff, drive a block away, turn their bodycams back on, go back into the restaurant, and then arrest him?