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Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later
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Someone asked me why Buffy is my favorite show and I had to stop myself from writing more than this but this is what I said…
1. Despite its complicated history (the creator turned out to be an abusive asshole) it’s one of the first mainstream successful examples of smart feminist genre tv and it laid the groundwork for everything that has happened since.
2. The show is brilliantly written and uses metaphor so successfully they teach college classes on it. Every episode / monster / dilemma Buffy and her friends face are a parallel for the real life struggles of teenagers.
3. Sarah Michelle Gellars performance across the 7 seasons of the show is a masterclass in acting.
4. It featured one of the first truly fleshed out lesbian relationships on network tv in the US and THE first wlw kiss between committed partners on prime time network TV. I remember the news covering it right after it aired.
5. Season 6 is to date the best depiction of depression I’ve ever seen in any media ever. It’s unflinching, raw, uncomfortable and hard to watch. And having that to watch when I was 13 was really crucial.
6. The way the show built pop culture references into its DNA had such a cultural impact that it’s responsible for turning “google” into a verb.
7. The makeup, fashion, and hair was simultaneously trend setting and a deliberate part of the story telling. You know what’s happening with certain characters based on the colors they are wearing for example.
8. The musical episode was one of the most successful musical episodes of a tv show at the time and it started a trend that tv shows still follow today.
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This always bothered me, and it made no sense, which led me to conclude that this was simply done so that they could continually have Buffy in extremely difficult situations.
It made no internal sense to the story that this is how things worked: that Buffy didn’t get any money, even though they were paying Giles, that they would allow their ONLY Slayer who needed to focus on her calling to need to have to support herself - it makes no sense at all.
It makes a *little bit* of sense in the misogyny of it all, but having financial control over the Slayer as a form of control makes way more sense so…
The ONLY reason this was done within the world of Buffy is because the writers wanted her to go through these difficulties from a story perspective - her world would not have worked that way from an actual, this-makes-sense-within-this-universe way. 
still blows my mind that everyone buffy loved and cared for saw her struggling to keep custody of dawn, keep her house, keep her sanity, and, ya kno, try and overcome her crippling depression and never once thought maybe they should help her out financially??? sure giles gave her a check once but thats gonna run out fast with all her bills?? willow lives in her house and never thought to pay rent? they let all those bills go by when she was dead?? realistically buffy cannot work, slay, and be a mother all at the same time. the least everyone could do would be to buy her fucking groceries. i kno giles has gotta be loaded ok give ur daughter some of that income that u get by being in charge of her. and dont get me started on the council not paying her
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new states just dropped and white supremacist sharks live there
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America is best understood as a Ponzi or Pyramid scheme. Pretty much always has been and it’s one of the reasons why we are so vulnerable to them and to cults as a society!
Which is a long way to say no they are not able to see past their quarterly profits.
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Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.
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It’s actually hilarious that this child was so poorly indoctrinated by his apparently quite religious or at least evangelical family members that he didn’t get the gag. At eight years old? I would’ve cried and screamed and probably thrown up. I don’t think it would’ve been what his family was going for or maybe it would’ve been… Like that was a primal fear for me at that age was being left behind. This is before the left behind books too. This was like the 70s, but we had other books about the rapture.
So yeah, that would’ve really scarred me but good job to his family for only being weird and not apparently evangelical monsters who indoctrinate their tiny children with threats of being abandoned by God at the age of eight years old that you don’t recognize because you’re religious and you think everything You believe is OK.
Cool, huh! 
When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.
I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.
One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.
The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?
The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”
I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.
It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.
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“I’m enjoying the aging process and the gray hair and the wrinkles. I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it’s pretty irritating on my skin, so I like having the definition a beard gives.” — CHRIS PINE
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Uh…
Most beautiful English words: "cromulent" - appearing legitimate but actually being spurious #language http://dlvr.it/T66r8N
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That the ending where Zuck is just sitting there refreshing the screen over and over again is extremely cutting so… There’s that
Absolute hatchet job on Sean Parker though —I’m surprised he didn’t sue 
Watching the social network is both uncomfortable because of the story and also because the frequent jump scares due to the appearances of either a name or in person of famous sex pests
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That was good. May be a little boring. I think what surprised me the most is how big of a role. Andrew Garfield had in it. It almost felt like it was his movie. I also think historically the movie is probably too sympathetic to Mark Zuckerberg, but you know self satisfied white men who think that they’re smarter than everybody will see the best in other powerful white men. I think if the script had been by someone else. It might’ve been a bit more cutting. 
Looked up Saverin and he seems to be doing great. I have a feeling that since his settlement was undisclosed, it was a lot more than what the Winklevosses got — and deservedly so if anyone deserves bazillions of dollars which they don’t, but that’s not the world we live in. 
Watching the social network is both uncomfortable because of the story and also because the frequent jump scares due to the appearances of either a name or in person of famous sex pests
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