#a seminal moment

[blamemma]

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#daniel ricciardo #max verstappen #maxiel #dr #mv #a sEMINAL moment #so much to unpack #not tonight red bull.......

[quality-on-a-patch-of-awesome]

On my mind again, folks

#seal team #brock reynolds #jason hayes #a seminal moment #this will always be important #Thoughts and Feelings #broson

[normalbrothers]

"it's not arthur. it's who i am when he's there. god hears every filthy word in my head, knows every dirty thing. [...] if i fall this time, i'll fall all the way."

not much love for linda as the great female matyr/masochist of the show in this fandom, as if there's nothing more controversially compelling and erotic than a devout woman made complicit in her own desecration 😮‍💨

#arthur what did you do to that poor woman ! ! ! #that brief moment in s4 when they were the seminal freak couple before the whole thing tipped over into abuse #but does it have to be either/or #and she runs! and then she comes back half-willingly! #and she's brilliant at this because she's such a caustic little bitch; it's not like she's nice and suffers prettily #and all that with arthur's ambivalent jesus coding #it's strikingly oppositional to tommy/lizzie's almost ascetic noli me tangere stuff going on in s6 #&& lizzie brings up 'redemption' throughout her conversation with linda and it's the only time this specific concept comes up that doesn't #involve arthur/is directly about arthur #peaky blinders uncensored version is one singular linda/arthur sex scene with closer by nine inch nails as a needle drop

[aquarian-airhead]

what with how many pee jokes I make regularly I sincerely hope the local piss freaks don't feel disparaged by me doing so because I mean it all with reverence and affection

#piss freaks I love you I love you piss freaks I would save you if I could. fortnite mercy style I would #I may not be into pee myself but if you are I love you and appreciate you #piss freaks are a genuine joy if I could write songs I would write one about piss freaks exclusively #just to make up for the sheer amount of pee culture I appropriate just by having the sense of humor I do #freak to freak moment #major peelicking mood #seminal fluids discourse #pro freak #piss freak

[comraderoscoes]

i find it so cute when people give bono attention haha

me too!! like this introverted guy probably from a small village in the middle of england just wanted to be an engineer and now he’s being treated like a rockstar ahdkdidb

#little did he know that coming up with the phrase hammer time would be a seminal moment in his life #ask #anon

[lesbiancosimaniehaus]

“What did it feel like when you kissed her? Did you see fireworks when you kissed me?”

Rachel Barbra Berry……….

#a seminal moment for faberry shippers

[amarriageoftrueminds]

just me that gets annoyed when fic/novels describe a love interest as being great because they're [list of specific traits] but they haven't.... done anything that exhibits any of those traits in the story??

eg. they’re described as smart when they haven't said or done anything smart, as funny when they haven't cracked a joke / or have only been laughed at, not with, as brave when they haven't done anything brave in the story etc. etc.

I’m always like how does the POV character know they are?? where are they getting this from??

#feels like a missed opportunity for the character to ~actually do sth which exhibits X trait #and the love-interest/POV character to notice them doing it #and that to be a seminal moment in their appreciation of the character like isn't this just basic writing stuff?? #have I just been ruined by jane austen #where you can point to the exact traits a love-interest has #and why those traits would attract their opposite number #AND point out the specific moments in which they demonstrated each separate trait #😩

[fans4wga]

SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher's strike announcement speech

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

Thank you. Thank you everyone for coming to this press conference today. It's really important that this negotiation be covered because the eyes of the world and particularly the eyes of labor are upon us. What happens here is important, because what's happening to us is happening across all fields of labor. By means of when employers make Wall Street and greed their priority and they forget about the essential contributors that make the machine run. We have a problem. And we are experiencing that right at this moment. This is a very seminal hour for us.

I went in, in earnest, thinking that we would be able to avert a strike. The gravity of this move is not lost on me, or our negotiating committee, or our board members, who have voted unanimously to proceed with a strike.

It's a very serious thing that impacts thousands if not millions of people, all across this country and around the world. Not only members of this union, but people who work in other industries that service the people that work in this industry. And so it came with great sadness that we came to this crossroads, but we had no choice. We are the victims here; we are being victimized by a very greedy entity.

I am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with, are treating us. I cannot believe it, quite frankly. How far apart we are on so many things. How they plead poverty, that they are losing money left and right while giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting. Shame on them. They stand on the wrong side of history at this very moment.

We stand in solidarity, in unprecedented unity. Our union and our sister unions and the unions around the world are standing by us, as well as other labor unions. Because at some point the jig is up. You cannot keep being dwindled and marginalized and disrespected and dishonored. The entire business model has been changed. By streaming, digital, AI. This is a moment of history that is a moment of truth. If we don't stand tall right now, we are all going to be in trouble. We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines and big business who cares more about Wall Street than you and your family.

Most of Americans don't have more than $500 in an emergency. This is a very big deal, and it weighed heavy on us. But at some point, you have to say no. We’re not going to take this anymore. You people are crazy. What are you doing? Why are you doing this? Privately they all say we’re the center of the wheel. Everybody else tinkers around our artistry, but actions speak louder than words. And there was nothing there. It was insulting.

So we came together in strength and solidarity and unity with the largest strike authorization vote in our union's history. And we made the hard decision that we tell you, as we stand before you today. This is major. It's really serious and it is going to impact every single person that is in labor. We are fortunate enough to be in a country right now that happens to be labor friendly. And yet, we are facing opposition that was so labor unfriendly. So tone deaf to what we are saying. You cannot change the business model as much as it has changed and not expect the contract to change too.

We are not going to keep doing incremental changes on a contract that no longer honors what is happening right now with this business model that was foisted upon us. What are we doing? Moving around furniture on the titanic? It's crazy.

So the jig is up, AMPTP. We stand tall. You have to wake up and smell the coffee. We are labor and we stand tall and we demand respect. And to be honored for our contribution. You share the wealth because you cannot exist without us. Thank you.

#sag-aftra #actors guild strike #fran drescher #sag-aftra strike #current events #writers guild strike #i stand with the wga #wga solidarity #Youtube #wga strike #writers strike

[heritageposts]

In his seminal The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon could be writing about Gaza when he said: “In all armed struggles, there exists what we might call the point of no return. Almost always it is marked off by a huge and all-inclusive repression which engulfs all sectors of the colonial people.” In Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, that point has arrived. From Gaza to the Red Sea, on all fronts the West is now unmasked as a lawless killing machine in terror of losing control. Genocide, starvation and war, defended with Olympic-level diplomatic double-speak, are its only answers to the fact that the Global South, and the nations of the Middle East (if not their leaders) no longer wish to live under US hegemony. Jean-Paul Sartre, in his preface to Fanon's work, wrote of western colonialism: “Our Machiavellianism has little purchase on this wide-awake world that has run our falsehoods to earth one after the other. The settler has only recourse to one thing: brute force… the native has only one choice, between servitude and supremacy.” Fanon was a revolutionary thinker and a practising psychiatrist of colonial racism and its psychic impact on the colonised, and the coloniser. He and Sartre were writing about France’s imminent defeat in Algeria after seven years of brutal war. [...] Western powers are involved in conflicts thousands of miles from home, as they were in Fanon's time in Algeria, Congo and Indochina. Today the western political class has united behind Ukraine and Israel, but for millions of people it is no longer clear that the wars are worth fighting.  As Yemen’s spokesman, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, put it: “The war today is between Yemen which is struggling to stop the crimes of genocide, and the American and British coalition [who] support its perpetrators. Every party or individual in this world has two choices that have no thirds… who do you stand with as you watch these crimes?” Fanon, writing 63 years ago, agrees: “The colonial world is a Manichaean world… at times this Manichaeism goes to its logical conclusion and dehumanises the native, or to speak plainly, it turns him into an animal. The native is declared insensible to ethics; he represents not only the absence of values, but the negation of values… he is the enemy of values, and in this sense he is the absolute evil. “The native knows all this, and laughs to himself every time he spots an allusion to the animal world in the other’s words. For he knows he is not an animal, and it is precisely at the moment he realises his humanity that he begins to sharpen the weapons with which he will secure victory.”

. . . full article on MEE (1 Feb 2024)

You can also find a free copy of Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth on the Internet Archive (available as a PDF, EPUB etc.)

#palestine #israel #gaza #frantz fanon

[dateamonster]

realizing there are whole adults who can vote and drink and stuff that were born in the 2000s. do kids these days even know about hellboy? hellboy (2004) my good friend hellboy??? we need to be keeping these seminal moments in monsterfucker history alive at all costs.

#ungodly screeching #hellboy

[ppeonppeonhan]

I bet Yuan has wanted to randomly kiss this man for years.

Seminal moment captured by headstro

#bl drama #bl series #taiwanese drama #taiwanese bl #unknown the series #unknown spoilers #qian x yuan

[cryptotheism]

asking genuinely, could you explain the post about Faulkner being like Octavia Butler but wanting to be like Toni Morrison?

I assume that part of the joke is about how Butler is a truly fantastic writer but also had like, very obvious, uh, fetishes, which recur in her work, but I've never read Faulkner so maybe that's not the right inference?

People get too caught up on Butler and bug sex imo. She is a master at using the strange and fantastic to reflect upon the ordinary and intimate.

Faulkner wanted to be Shakespeare but he ended up with something a closer to Samuel Clements. His writing absolutely fucking nails this perfect balance between the folksy and the gothic, he understands The American South as a character like no other author. His work, -like Octavia Butler's work- is simultaneously larger-than-life, and grounded in the intimacies of reality.

Love her or hate her, when it comes to the craft of writing a mother fucking novel, Toni Morrison is a Shakespeare-level writer. Her sheer control of the English language borders on the tyrannical. She understands the American South as both moment in history and an experience. Her work is impeccable and uncompromising, built on seething disillusionment, and genuine-if-complicated love, and a frankly inhuman level of practice with the written word.

Thing is, Faulkner is the exact sort of person who would look down on Butler as a "genre writer." The man accepted an award for The Sound and the Fury, and called it his "greatest failure." Like oh no you wrote a seminal piece of American literature, but its only top 30 when you wanted it to be top 5. What a fucking tragedy. You're in the same literary tier as Niel Stephenson, Octavia Butler, and Terry Pratchett, how fucking sad for you.

[celluloidbroomcloset]

I saw a few folks talking about how they can’t write meta/analyze media and I have a suggestion—read some film theory. Not criticism—theory. Consider angles, philosophies, contexts, ways of analyzing media that's not about whether the media is Good or Bad, but how it works.

(Please note: I'm not saying you have to do this in order to write meta or analysis, but theory is an excellent starting point for close reading texts and a lot of the writing within film and TV especially is very accessible.)

A few recs:

Film Theory and Criticism, eds. Leo Braudy and Marshall Cohen. This collects a massive amount of work, important essays, and important perspectives on various aspects of theory and critique. Really a foundational text that keeps on being updated.

From Caligari to Hitler. I believe literally everyone should read this book (or even just the introduction) to understand how film reflects and affects national character. This is specifically about Germany between the wars, but it is frightening how applicable a lot of it is to our current moment.

The Celluloid Closet. One of the seminal texts in studying queerness in film. There's also an accompanying documentary that is excellent.

Monsters in the Closet. This is specifically about horror film, but is one of the first to explore how queerness in particular is typed and exploited in horror.

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. Laura Mulvey defined the male gaze for an entire generation of feminist film scholars and critics. Her essay is slightly dated but still essential and applicable.

The Dread of Difference. Collects a group of important feminist essays specifically about horror films. Again, a lot of the work is quite applicable overall.

The Monstrous Feminine. Barbara Creed's work is essential feminist film theory.

The Women Who Knew Too Much. Modleski is a Hitchcock scholar and her work is expansive and entertaining.

From Reverence to Rape. Very much a companion to Mulvey, addressing the way that Hollywood itself distorts female roles. Again, some datedness, but important and easy to read.

Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies. bell hooks. Don't need to say more.

Any other film folks can add more, but these are the ones that I think are the most interesting and accessible as starting points.

#ofmd #the avengers #film theory #film criticism #meta #book recommendations #media literacy #critical thinking

[cranberrymoons]

i can take you higher

prompt: charm ✨ (@steddiemicrofic) word count: 548 rating: t tags: smoking, post S2, mild h/c, touch-starved steve title from seminal steve harrington identification song: "i'm on fire" by bruce springsteen

Behind Steve’s house is the woods, and behind that is a river, and on the other side of that there’s a quarry. 

When he was sixteen years old, they pulled a body out of the lake that sits at the bottom of it. It’s not really a lake, and the body wasn’t really a body after all, but he thinks sometimes that everything in his life hinged on that moment. A boy he didn’t know, and a body that wasn’t a body, and the river behind his house emptying into a lake that wasn’t a lake.

“I just wish there was a way to go back to before,” he’s saying, laying on the shore of the lake that isn’t a lake, passing a joint back and forth with the town drug dealer because– why not. “Like some sort of spell, or– or charm that could zap me back to when everything was normal.”

Eddie Munson. What Eddie Munson says, squinting at him through the dark as he exhales a hazy cloud of smoke, is:

“You’re a weird dude, Harrington. Anyone ever tell you that?”

Steve sighs, sitting up on his elbows to accept the joint. “Yeah. A few times.”

“And you’re high as hell right now, and you’re not making any sense.”

Again, “Yeah.” He inhales, holds it in for a beat, blows smoke up toward the stars. “Sorry.”

He wonders if he’ll ever stop apologizing, and then he wonders why he seems to do it so often. To Nancy, to Dustin, to Jonathan, and now, of all people, to–

Eddie snorts. “Don’t be,” he says. “I’m the one who got you high, remember?”

Steve feels something run through him, but his brain is too foggy to figure it out. He drops back to lay down again, and when he does, his head lands on Eddie’s stomach. Eddie makes a quiet sound, breath sucking in sharp, but then his hand settles on Steve’s head, threading through his hair, and it’s been… days? weeks? since anyone has touched him without their hand curled into a fist.

The air is cool, and Eddie’s hands are warm, and Steve lets his eyes fall shut; if he were less high than he is, he’d probably be embarrassed by the fact that his throat goes a little tight. 

“Anyway, I don’t think you need some sort of magic time travel spell,” Eddie says after a long moment, quiet voice cresting through the buzz in Steve’s brain. “Or– if you do, then so do I. But life doesn’t really work that way.”

Steve turns his head to stare up at him, and Eddie’s hand shifts with him, moving around to cradle the back of his skull. He smells good, too, like laundry and cigarettes and an underlying third thing that starts up an itch in the back of Steve’s skull and makes him want to reach out and taste, to see if his tongue can follow it over his skin and into his mouth.

“What do I need, then?” he asks, because the only other thing in his brain is hands and fingers and the warmth of another person’s body under his cheek. 

Eddie blinks at him, frowning slightly. “Time?” he suggests. “Maybe you just need time, and someone who will get you high.”

[also on ao3]

#farah i consulted your map to make sure the quarry placement made sense; love u #steddie #stranger things #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddiemicroficseptember #my fic #steddie fic #steddiemicrofic

[patrice-bergerons]

Kiss kiss bang bang is also insane in how seminal and unequivocal a moment of commitment it is for Jack, but because he is so bad at communicating only very little of it filters to the team.

Like, up until the end of s1 he was in Cardiff because he was waiting for the doctor whom he knew would show up to refuel eventually, and hey - might as well make himself useful in the meanwhile. (And if that slowly turned into real commitment over the years, I don't think he himself had come to terms with it.)

But then he goes along with the Doctor and they make up and he then spends a year in captivity being tortured. And in that aweful year, it is the thought of his team that keeps him fighting.

When it's over he has the whole of time and space in front of him, like he dreamed of for 150+ years, but where he wants to go is home to his people, to Cardiff. He misses Ianto. He spends a year being tortured, not knowing if they will make it out alive, and he wishes he'd taken Ianto out on a proper date.

AND then in the episode, John shows up and offers him another vision of a life -- carefree and hedonistic and with zero responsibility. And Jack isn't even remotely tempted -- if anything he is so thoroughly ashamed of who he used to be back then.

But as far as the team is concerned? He swoops in after months of being away to play the hero, with ZERO real explanation as to why he left and where he had been - nor an apology - then they meet his unpleasant and dangerous friend and it's a reminder of how little they know about Jack -- or how little he cares to share himself with them. AUGH you know what I mean?

#torchwood #jack harkness

[ciematis]

that monsterfucker post is very sukuna coded, but let’s ponder on this for a moment. If sukuna has 2 dicks…does he come out of both at the same time, or does each one need its own special attention? I await your response

content warnings! mean ol' king of curses sukuna, double penis, weird demon genital logic/speculation. implied rough sex, implied servitude of the reader (?)

In my professional opinion 🤓 *pushes glasses up anime style*, I think Sukuna always needs to cum twice - his cocks seem to get stimulated at different rates, especially if one doesn't have a warm, wet hole to burrow in. He's very particular about sex for this reason, prefers to have a pretty servile slut who can keep up their attentions and ministrations without stopping - though I'm sure he possesses level of cruel enjoyment for shyer, more 'virginial' whores. Ones who scurry and whimper, beg him to take it slow, to coddle them. To even SUGGEST he should reward your lack of expertise makes him laugh in your face.

When one cock finishes before the other (rarely, he makes sure of it), the under stimulated dick tenses up and jerks as though it's also going to cum, but merely twitches and stiffens, leaking more pre-seminal fluid. Getting one of them to cum isn't an optimal situation to put yourself in though. It feels like he never came at all, the relief is stoppered by the feeling of his other, still needy dick, and the frustration has nowhere to go but to whoever ruined his little moment.

On a different note, another interesting question that was raised during this observation is, how are his dicks positioned? Are they more reminiscent of a hemi-penis? Split left and right, or directly atop one another for easy access to a pussy (if available) and ass?

Does he have four sets of balls? Internal genitals? Extra sperm - maybe especially potent or virile cum? Is it cursed 😲 can he give you a cursed womb? Perhaps he possesses the power to give himself extraneous limbs like tentacles, or change the size of his cock? I think it's cruel of him to change sizes when he's fucking you, but who am I to the king of curses 🤷 I'm a Sukuna scientist y'all I'm kind of obsessed with him now - like i thought he was fine before but I kind of...forgot about him <3 I'm so sorry pookie.

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