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emilnikos · 3 months
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I need non autistic people to realise meltdowns are a real debilitating thing that has a serious effect on your mental and physical health NOWWWWW!!! The way its been trivialized and lessened pisses me the fuck off. It's not a tantrum and it doesn't come from "being too weak-willed" it's painful and it's embarrassing AND MOST OF ALL IT'S INVOLUNTARY!! Don't claim to be an ally to autistic or disabled people and then make fun of people who have meltdowns. Literally get the hell out of my sight
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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 7 days
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The math just adds up!
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stil-lindigo · 2 months
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Bisan is calling for another global strike!
I saw some posts just outlining Jan 21st, and wanted to clarify that Bisan has called for a full seven days of action.
What a global strike would look like is:
calling in sick to work
purchasing bare essentials ahead of the week so you can observe the general boycott of goods / buying as little as you genuinely can
putting in a concerted effort to elevate Palestinian voices and make it clear that this strike is in support of a permanent ceasefire!
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For those who will have to purchase necessary goods during this time, please observe the brands that the BDS movement is asking us to boycott!
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Right now is also a good time to mention some better uses for your money during this week.
Available e-sims in Gaza are running low!!
Mirna El Helbawi and her team are working round the clock to continue to connect Palestinians as Israel does its best to cut them off from the rest of the world.
You can learn how to purchase and send e-sims here, and below you’ll find a list of what is currently needed (the areas in brackets indicate what region you should select to buy e-sims in).
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CareforGaza is an organisation that does verifiably good work, distributing supplies directly to Palestinian families.
They have a Gofundme set up at the moment, but because of Gofundme’s poor track record regarding refusing to transfer funds to Palestinians, I’d recommend continuing to donate directly to their PayPal here.
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Good luck to all of you. Don't turn away from Palestine!
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theshadowrealmitself · 5 months
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I like to think that Vulcans who come to understand that Humans just can’t try to process emotions the same way as them, it’s just healthiest to let it out in harmless ways, decide that venting and stuff should be taken just as seriously as Vulcan’s meditation time, and will encourage the Humans around them to complain about what’s upsetting them
People who are used to aloof Vulcans who avoid Humans at all cost running into one comforting a Human
“-and then they said my cheesecake was subpar, and they didn’t even bring a dish!!!”
“The purpose of this event was that every participant brings a food item of sorts, correct?”
“Yeah!!”
“And they did not follow this rule while insulting dishes that were brought?”
“Mostly just my dish but yeah >:(“
“How illogical”
“That’s what I’m saying!!!”
#star trek#Vulcans#Humans#not based on a specific thing#but I used to know this annoying couple that were ‘family friends’#who would show up to potluck dinners and the like and would either bring nothing or bring something really just. out of left field?#like a bag of frozen chicken to a bbq#and then proceed to make sure they are first even if it was stated to let kids go first#would take HUGE amounts before anyone else got a chance to get a plate#and then make off with the leftovers again even if they were already claimed for#and it wasn’t a food insecurity thing trust me I would never speak bad about a person getting food if that was even a remote chance#the adults who raised us knew them really well and we’d been to their house a ton of times#they were just dicks#and yeah. they’d occasionally insult the food. while eating the MAJORITY of it.#it was so weird at their home they would go out of their way to get the healthiest options possible#you know the really bland tasteless expensive stuff that apparently was healthier#but then if they were visiting our house they would. eat all our unhealthy snacks.#that always pissed me off so much as a kid because we actually had a food insecurity thing going on#and also a variety of other reasons that are a bit too depressing to bring up on this post#but anyways we’d hardly ever get to have nice snacks#and this couple would just take them all??? even after we’d tell them repeatedly that it was ours and those snacks weren’t gonna be#replaced#hated that couple#if you’re wondering why they were ‘family friends’ it’s because the couple who raised us#(it feels weird to type it out like that but apparently legal guardians doesn’t fit since they never finished petitioning 💀)#liked having them around because it made them look like ‘such great Christian’s’ being nice to the people#that no one else wanted to be friends with#I always thought that was a really weird and fucked up reason to be friends with someone#this got long sorry 😭
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elodieunderglass · 6 months
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changes and trends in horror-genre films are linked to the anxieties of the culture in its time and place. Vampires are the manifestation of grappling with sexuality; aliens, of foreign influence. Horror from the Cold War is about apathy and annihilation; classic Japanese horror is characterised by “nature’s revenge”; psychological horror plays with anxieties that absorbed its audience, like pregnancy/abortion, mental illness, femininity. Some horror presses on the bruise of being trapped in a situation with upsetting tasks to complete, especially ones that compromise you as a person - reflecting the horrors and anxieties of capitalism etc etc etc. Cosmic horror is slightly out of fashion because our culture is more comfortable with, even wistful for, “the unknown.” Monster horror now has to be aware of itself, as a contingent of people now live in the freedom and comfort of saying “I would willingly, gladly, even preferentially fuck that monster.” But I don’t know much about films or genres: that ground has been covered by cleverer people.
I don’t actually like horror or movies. What interests me at the moment is how horror of the 2020s has an element of perception and paying attention.
Multiple movies in one year discussed monsters that killed you if you perceived them. There are monsters you can’t look at; monsters that kill you instantly if you get their attention. Monsters where you have to be silent, look down, hold still: pray that they pass over you. M Zombies have changed from a hand-waved virus that covers extras in splashy gore, to insidious spores. A disaster film is called Don’t Look Up, a horror film is called Nope. Even trashy nun horror sets up strange premises of keeping your eyes fixed on something as the devil GETS you.
No idea if this is anything. (I haven’t seen any of these things because, unfortunately, I hate them.) Someone who understands better than me could say something clever here, and I hope they do.
But the thing I’m thinking about is what this will look like to the future, as the Victorian sex vampires and Cold War anxieties look to us. I think they’ll have a little sympathy, but they probably won’t. You poor little prey animals, the kids will say, you were awfully afraid of facing up to things, weren’t you?
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thejacksmit · 24 days
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First Take: Dune: Part 2 - he who controls the spice, controls the box office
SYNOPSIS: Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
Well, the impossible has happened. The book many thought was unadaptable for cinema, has been conquered for modern audiences - three years ago Denis Villenueve helped restart the industry with a star-studded telling of the first half of Frank Herbert’s 1965 book, and now, after another lengthy delay like its predecessor, Part 2 is here. And having now seen it, I can understand why they held it back until March, because this cast on its own is enough to do it justice.
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Villenueve once again commands a true big screen epic, and on every film he’s made he just gets better and better - sure, this is a long film at 2 hour 45 minutes, but it is a length that is justified with just how complex the plot gets. This certainly isn’t cookie cutter storytelling, this is proper arthouse cinema that just happens to have a $190million budget, and a key part of that is a script he has co-written with Jon Spaihts, one that is more action heavy by design following the journey that was central to the first part - and it works so well, especially as most of the major setpieces are predominantly practical and in-camera. Pretty much all the technical crew from part 1 are back, with Greig Fraser once again returning as DOP, and Hans Zimmer following up his Oscar-winning score (with Loire Cotler, Guthrie Govan and the musicians who made it such a unique experience) in very similar fashion.
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Where this adaptation comes alive is in the cast, and, well, I just need to say their names really - Timothee Chalamet continues evolving his craft, Zendaya once again proves herself as an incredible talent, Rebecca Ferguson drives the film’s emotional elements and Javier Bardem also helping to set up what will hopefully play out in the third film, with Charlotte Rampling, Dave Bautista, Josh Brolin and Stellan Skarsgard all coming back too. Of course there are also new additions Florence Pugh, Austin Butler, Christopher Walken and Lea Seydoux - if there’s one cast list which screams ‘nominate this, Academy’, this is it, and it probably will get that attention this time next year. It's big, bold, and a film best experienced loud.
THE VERDICT
If Denis gets his way, the final part of this trilogy will be Dune Messiah. I hope to god this comes to fruition because that will be the film that seals his legacy as a Hollywood legend- but only if he does what he’s done here: stay true to source material, and make it on HIS terms.
RATING: 5/5
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noah-price · 4 months
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KNIVES CHAU in SCOTT PILGRIM TAKES OFF
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followthebluebell · 1 year
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i’m spending today thinking about how saber toothed cats ALSO probably had a potato form.  how they also had a stage where they were fat little babies with very triangle tails and tiny squeaky voices.  how they also probably play wrestled and failed badly at calculating jumps.
i’m going to fistfight god for killing them off before i could personally see fat potato saber kittens
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inkskinned · 8 months
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you're in the habit of denying yourself things.
if someone asked you directly, you would say that you love a little treat. you like iced coffee and getting the cookie. you drink juice out of a fancy cup sometimes, and often do use your candles until they gutter out helplessly.
but you hesitate about buying the 20 dollar hand mixer because, like. you could just use your arms. you weren't raised rich. you don't get to just spend the 20 dollars (remember when that could cover lunch?), at least - you don't spend that without agonizing over it first, trying to figure out the cost-benefits like you are defending yourself in front of a jury. yes, this rice cooker could seriously help you. but you do know how to make stovetop rice and it really isn't that hard. how many pies or brownies would you actually make, in order to make that hand mixer worthwhile?
what's wild is that if the money was for a friend, it would already be spent. you'd fork over 40 without blinking an eye, just to make them happy. the difference is that it's for you, so you need to justify it.
and it sneaks in. you ration yourself without meaning to - you don't finish the pint of ice cream, even though you want to. the next time you go to the store, you say ah, i really shouldn't, and then you walk away. you save little bits of your precious things - just in case. sometimes you even go so far as putting that one thing in your shopping cart. and then just leaving it there, because maybe-one-day, but not right now, there's other stuff going on.
you do self-care, of course. but you don't do it more than like, 3 days in a row. after that it just feels a little bit over-the-edge. like. you can't live in decadence, the economy is so bad right now, kid.
so you don't buy the rice cooker. you can-and-will spend the time over the stove. you can withstand the little sorrows. denial and discipline are practically synonyms. and you're not spoiled.
it's just - it's not always a rice cooker. sometimes it is a person or a job or a hug. sometimes it is asking for help. sometimes it is the summer and your college degree. sometimes it is looking down at scabbed knees and feeling a strange kind of falling, like you can't even recognize the girl you used to be. sometimes it is your handprint looking unsteady.
sometimes it is tuesday, and you didn't get fired, and you want to celebrate. but what is it you like, even? you search around your little heart and come up empty. you're so used to denying that all your desires draw a blank.
oh fuck. see, this is the perfect opportunity. if you had a mixer, you'd make a cake.
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machinerot · 2 months
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alright i couldn't find any posts showing this idle animation and needed it on my blog
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dancefloors · 2 months
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Right now Israel's bombing Rafah, the last refuge for a million Palestinians, where they were previously ORDERED to evacuate to and are now trapped in while the US news cycle is dominated by Big Football Game And Celebrities In Attendance (at which Israel also aired a million dollar propaganda video). I wish I could say this is unbelievable.
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happyheidi · 2 months
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𝖦𝗅𝖾𝗇 𝖢𝗈𝖾, 𝖡𝗅𝖺𝖼𝗄 𝖱𝗈𝖼𝗄 𝖢𝗈𝗍𝗍𝖺𝗀𝖾, 𝖲𝖼𝗈𝗍𝗅𝖺𝗇𝖽
𝖡𝗒 𝖦𝖺𝗋𝗒 𝖧𝗈𝗈𝗄
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stil-lindigo · 26 days
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ARTISTS FOR PALESTINE 🇵🇸 - On the 6th and 9th of March, I'll be doing art requests on stream with other notable artists to raise money for Operation Olive Branch and the PCRF.
I'm incredibly lucky to be counting quite a few big names in the roster, including known Jesus and Odysseus enthusiast @wolfythewitch, the extraordinary fanartist @denimcatfish, and the incredibly talented @troubledminnesotan, as well as Lilypichu from OfflineTV.
You'll be able to watch the streams on the day of the event either on my twitch channel here, or via the links provided by the artists below.
Lilypichu
Cuptoast
Akairosu_
Sevvanto
Wolfythewitch
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innalheid · 5 days
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thepehbat · 7 months
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thejacksmit · 28 days
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First Take: Wicked Little Letters - Colman + Buckley + swearing = madness
SYNOPSIS: When people in Littlehampton--including conservative local Edith--begin to receive letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town's women investigate.
When the first promotions for this film rolled out at the end of last year, a lot of audiences were taken back by the bonkers nature of this TRUE story. But when you add two fine comedic actresses in their own right, as well as a swear count so large it would outnumber the Glaswegian reaction to the Wonka experience which was in the news this week, you end up getting this: a decent enough film for what it needs to be.
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Thea Sharrock is in the director's seat for this 1 hour 40 minute ‘experience’, and while it is paced well, there are a few minutes that could’ve been tightened up to hone it all in and keep the story going, but it is passable enough for what it needs to be (especially with Film4 putting money into it). My main bugbear lies with Jonny Sweet’s script - yes, it passes the 6 laugh test, but if this was a 12 certificate film though, without as much of the spicy language, then the film just wouldn’t land- as unlike the trailer above, it's all uncensored in the film itself. The whole mystery of who’s sending the letters relies on the choice words in them, making the BBFC’s decision to pass it at 15 for very strong language totally justified. The legendary Ben Davis is behind the camera, and in true British indie film style, a familiar last name to TV viewers provides the score, as it is Isobel Waller-Bridge (yes, Phoebe’s sister) in charge of the music.
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On to the cast then, and what do you say about the combined power of Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley? They have worked together before on a more serious film (2021’s The Lost Daughter), so to see them flex their skills in a black comedy, something Colman especially is rather good at, is ultimately this film’s USP. Plus this is a good supporting cast too- Timothy Spall, Dame Eileen Atkins, Anjana Vasan, Malachi Kirby, Joanna Scanlan, Gemma Jones, Lolly Adefope and Hugh Skinner all round out this group relatively nicely. But I have to take a moment to mention, once again, young Alisha Weir - the last time she was seen on cinema screens she was singing about being a little bit naughty, and on her second film, with Buckley by her side, she’s a scene stealer. For what it’s worth, this film isn’t one to be taken seriously, but one designed for those wanting a good, fun film to watch with mates.
THE VERDICT
For a comedy film inspired by true events, Wicked Little Letters just about delivers on the high expectations that the now-viral trailer set out, and while it could do with a few trims to tighten it here and there and a script that works without the swearing, the nuance of Colman and Buckley just about keep this film on the right track.
RATING: 4/5
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