#ok actually one addendum: if you have ever had to be corrected about your art i hope this makes you realize how you made us feel.

[jewishtommycoolatta]

i will try to make this my last post in a while abt antisemitism in the hlvrai fandom bc even i get tired of it but i do think its so funny when goyim are like “oh if i make a shit design please tell me 🥺🥺🥺 i dont want to make someone uncomfortable 😔😔😔” like if someone needs to tell you that your design is a caricature then guess what! you’ve already made someone uncomfortable. you’ve already made someone nauseous and upset. you’ve already made someone feel unsafe. and fun fact: usually that ‘someone’ is actually multiple people! 

and if multiple people already feel unsafe, nauseous and upset at your art, what the fuck makes you think they would ever feel comfortable talking to you about it? this is why we spread posts educating about antisemitic caricatures-- not so you can be like ‘please tell me if i do this!’ but so YOU can look at YOUR art BEFORE you draw or post it and realize that you’re making something harmful.

it shouldn’t be jews jobs to clean up after you shit on us.

#kosher soda #hlvrai #tw antisemitism m #yes im putting this in the tag lol. u can rb it if u want #i am just so tired. #there is another post brewing in my angry mind about how goyim react way too lightly when they draw a caricature even by mistake #as if it isnt harmful anyways #but. i digress i said i was gonna stop posting abt this i am done having to complain and hope some of you listen #anywho this post is for the people in the notes of wayne's 'correct way to draw bubby' post who do not get the fucking point apparently #that its specifically for YOU to stop drawing this shit not ask others to do the heavy lifting for you #bc when you do that guess what! other goyim will mostly not notice. they either arent educated or do not care #so you are essentially asking jews to look at your harmful art (directly harmful to US) and explain to you like a third grader why it hurts #and we dont want to do that anymore!!! you have eyes and SEVERAL resources! #do it yourself! thats what these posts are for!! #ok rant over #ok actually one addendum: if you have ever had to be corrected about your art i hope this makes you realize how you made us feel. #ok bye for real now

[gingervsblondie]

Blondie on a Budget (1940)

11:31 PM, Wednesday, 2 October 2019

Here we go again. What are we watching this time? Let’s see…

Blondie on a Budget.

LET’S GET HYPED Y’ALL READY FOR-

Nah I can’t get into that wedding MC vibe. “ARE YOU EXCITED? I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!” That’s because I’m at a wedding.

So! Let’s watch Blondie on a Budget like civilized people. No hooping and hollering, just a quaint suburban american family and some comedic misunderstandings. 

11:42

Alright, I just bought my ticket to go see Joker tomorrow NOW LET’S WATCH THE REAL JOKER, DAGWOOD BUMSTEAD

And we’re going to be VERY careful this time not to let Mr. Amazon spoil the movie for us.

...Never mind this one isn’t on Amazon.

11:45

Hey hey! Dick Flournoy’s back in the writer’s chair! Is that a saying? Probably not. I mean everyone has a chair if you think about it.

First shot of the movie and Willie Best is back. (For real this time.) Now instead of working at a hotel, he’s delivering newspapers. Not to be confused with the young guy who said he was gonna look for Daisy on his bike last time. Come to think of it, did anyone tell him they found Daisy? Maybe Willie Best got his job because he didn’t come to work the next day. Maybe he’s still looking for Daisy. Maybe he’s gone all noir detective, questioning dames and drinking from a flask, sitting under a window so the shades throw stripey shadows over him.

“Someday I’ll find Daisy. Or I’ll find the hoodlums that put her out of the picture. Then I’ll make ‘em pay. Until then, I just gotta keep looking. On my bike.”

11:54

Alexander wants Blondie to read the funnies to him from the newspaper. I absolutely won’t be able to tell from the picture quality, but how much do you wanna bet that there’s a Blondie strip in there? I think superhero movies can get away with comic books existing within their universe, but I can’t think of a way that Blondie the comic strip can coexist with a real Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead.

Although Dagwood’s reaction to finding his life in the funnies could lead to some interesting The Truman Show/The Matrix shenanigans.

11:58

When Blondie ignores Alexander’s plea to read him the comics, (she’s busy doing some kind of accounting) he walks away, and then she says “Get daddy to read it to you.” And Alexander says:

“Hm. Heard every word I said. That’s a woman for ya.”

Just a reminder that Gladys Lehman isn’t writing this anymore.

12:02

Dagwood just did a pretty impressive somersault pratfall. I mean, it wasn’t funny, but it was mildly impressive, so good job Arthur Lake.

12:03

HEY OKAY I LIKED A THING! Again, wasn’t laugh-out-loud funny, but:

Dagwood came in, inhaled deeply through his nose, and sincerely delivered the line “Blondie, would you believe it? I could smell that good old coffee all the way in the backyard.” And Blondie replies solemnly: “I’m sorry, dear, I forgot to make it.” And Dagwood does his “Ye-huh?” but the one where he doesn’t make any noise so I don’t mind it. The facial “Ye-huh?” we’ll call it.

Now, Dagwood being his lovably oblivious but well-meaning self, just tried to say something nice, and Blondie interpreted it as sarcasm. Which as a misunderstanding doesn’t put Blondie into any awkwardness, but puts Dagwood in the position of having tried to open the conversation with a compliment and it instead being taken as a snide jab at Blondie for not making his coffee. But Dagwood isn’t about to correct Blondie, so this goes completely unremarked.

THAT’S ACTUALLY A PRETTY NICE PIECE OF WRITING.

12:13

I think they’re trying harder this time to give Dagwood those little hair points he has in the comics. I’d probably appreciate that if I were a Blondie comic aficionado. But as I hope I’ve made clear by now, my only goal is to be a Blondie movie aficionado.

12:18

Blondie: “I was awake half the night, dreaming. I dreamed that you asked me for 200 dollars. We had a violent argument, and I killed you. Wasn’t it silly? Why would you want 200 dollars?”

I’m a little worried about Blondie. And a lot worried about Dagwood.

12:24

Haha, Alexander just did what I’m assuming is meant to be Dagwood’s double-take. It doesn’t look like his, because he’s a small small child, but what it does look like is what would happen if the makers of a Blondie movie tried to explain how to do Dagwood’s double-take to a small small child.

12:28

Um. Okay. What the fuck.

I don’t know if I really want to describe what just happened? But it’s more of “hey look a woman didn’t write this one.”

A woman showed up at the Bumsteads’ door. As Alexander answers it, he looks up at her, and catcalls, he whistles at her. He’s 6 years old in this according to math. She says “I’m an old old friend of your father’s.” He says “You’re not so old.” She says “What a lovely thing to say! I could kiss you for that. Would you mind if I kiss you?” And then she does.

I nEeD aN ADuLT

12:35

Addendum: It wasn’t Alexander, it was Alvin, who pretended to be Alexander so as to talk to this woman. That makes nothing better. Also while we’re at it, Alexander doesn’t actually look like he could be 6 in this?

Man I just had do Google “What does a 6 year old look like.” For one thing I’m absolutely terrible at telling what age any child is, and for another I’m definitely on some kind of list now.

12:36

OK BUT THE SECOND I FINISHED WRITING THAT AND HIT PLAY, it became a plot-point that Alvin is 6, but once he tells the woman that, that’s how she finds out that he isn’t Alexander, because Alexander “couldn’t possibly be 6.”

I’M VALIDATED! I WASN’T CRAZY!

12:41

Alvin just said “Baby Dumpling, meet the woman who was almost your mother,” a line which is absolutely 3000% too real for a Blondie movie, back-to-back with Daisy’s ears going up, and her running over and pushing the door shut so Dagwood and Blondie can’t hear.

Which is maybe the most anthropomorphized and funniest thing Daisy has done so far. I mean, that time she closed a cupboard door after herself was good, but that was self-preservation and fear. This is Daisy actually getting wrapped up in the drama of what’s going on and trying to prevent it from developing.

12:50

My dad just told me when he was in university, he had a picture of Dagwood in a straightjacket, screaming, on his wall.

This is just a reminder that all fan-art is appreciated.

12:55

OH MY GOD.

I just found out Alexander’s full name was revealed in the comic in 1934. It is Alexander Hamilton Bumstead.

I promise you I didn’t know that when I opened the last review with a Hamilton parody.

(I was trying to figure out at what point in the strip he stopped being a baby and started being a teenager. I couldn’t find that on the Wikipedia article.)

1:43

Took a break. Back now.

1:55

Y’know, I guess Blondie is, from a certain point of view, equally demeaning a thing to call a human being as Baby Dumpling is. I decided to check if that was her real name, and found out that it is, and also her maiden name is “Boopadoop.”

2:00

Somebody is doing an impression of Dagwood to try and fool Blondie over the phone. And it’s amazing.

...awwww, he’s just dubbed. Man, I thought he was actually doing a great impression.

2:05

The return of Snort Watch 2019:

Daisy put her hand in her mouth, in the “that’s bad” kinda way.

2:09

Decent joke: A car won’t start. Dagwood, giggling, says “Where’s the tools? I’ll have it fixed in a jiffy.” Hard cut to the car being towed.

2:11

Dagwood just did the “I’m ready to punch someone in the face at the drop of a hat” thing again, and threw his hat on the ground just to emphasize it.

2:13

Dagwood’s a little infuriating. He realizes when the situation he’s in is going to end with Blondie threatening to divorce him again, but he’s such a pushover that he’ll only ever whine about it a little, and then continue on. It somehow makes it feel even more crushing to know exactly how this is going to go when Dagwood also knows how it’s going to go, but isn’t going to stop it.

2:22

It’s also frustrating that Dagwood never learns anything. He lies to Blondie about whatever misunderstanding there is so he doesn’t get in trouble with her, and then the lying just makes it worse and prolongs the drama, and then she finds out the truth and everything’s resolved. And then there’s a new misunderstanding and he starts lying to her again like he’s a goddamn 6 foot goldfish.

2:25

Blondie just said she went to Church off-screen. I think this might be the first allusion to religion in the Blondieverse? Presumably they worship their lord and saviour Richard Flournoy.

2:29

Weird race joke just happened. Earlier Blondie I mean Dagwood (I’m still doing that) was in a movie theater, and he was looking around at people, and then they’d morph into Blondie, glaring at him and making him feel guilty. The last time this happened, it was an Asian mother with a baby that morphed into Blondie holding Alexander. I didn’t notice that they also did it that time, but this time, now that he’s home, he looks at Blondie and Alexander, and they have black hair and what looks like eye makeup to make them look Asian. And then he looks down at Daisy and she’s turned into a Pekingese (which I had to Google dog breeds to figure out was the joke.)

And now I’m concerned what post-Pearl Harbour Blondie is going to look like. (I’m looking at you, 1942’s Blondie for Victory.)

2:43

“That scheming hussy.” -Blondie Bumstead, formerly Blondie Boopadoop, 1940.

2:47

Uggghghhghghg. They just had a scene where Dagwood confessed the truth about everything to Blondie, most of which were things she’d figured out for herself. That might’ve fixed what I’ve been complaining about. Then Dagwood gets a phone call, which is telling him he won 200 dollars in a raffle that we’ve seen him tear up the ticket for, and now he’s decided he’s going to spend the money we know he won’t get on a fur coat Blondie wants. So when he goes back up, he wants to keep who he was on the phone with a secret from Blondie, and starts lying again. And Blondie knows he’s lying, and punches her pillow in frustration.

But then she goes to sleep.

AGAIN she sees where this is going and DOESN’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT WHICH MAKES ME FEEL LIKE I’M GOING INSANE. EVERYTHING IS FUTILE, THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN EVERY BLONDIE MOVIE AND EVEN WHEN THE CHARACTERS INSIDE THE MOVIE HAVE BEEN READING BLONDIE COMICS IN THEIR MORNING NEWSPAPER, EVEN WHEN THEY CAN SEE THE CODE OF THE MATRIX, THEY DON’T DO ANYTHING TO DISRUPT THE LOOP. THEY KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENING AND THEY KNOW THEY CAN’T STOP IT. THIS ISN’T JUST FATALISM, THIS IS OPENING A GUN, SEEING THAT IT’S LOADED, CLOSING IT AGAIN, AND LOOKING DOWN THE BARREL TO SEE IF IT’S ACTUALLY LOADED. AND THEN SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE FUCKING FACE AND TELLING ST. PETER “yeah it was loaded.”

I’m going to bed.

10:56 PM, Friday, 4 October 2019

It’s been 2 days. Whoops! Let’s get back to it.

11:03

There’s a featured extra that just delivered a line in a way that’s funny, but the line itself isn’t actually funny. Blondie’s buying a bus ticket, I think to leave town because she thinks Dagwood’s cheating on her again. Blondie’s on the brink of tears, and the cashier selling her the bus ticket starts tearing up, and says “I know just how you feel. I wish I could sell a ticket to Niagara Falls…”

I don’t get it. Was there something going on at Niagara Falls in 1940 or is it just a total non-sequitur? 

11:09

I think… Blondie might’ve skipped town, but left Daisy.

11:13

And now Daisy is drunk, through a chain of events that left booze on the floor. I don’t know how to feel about this development.

11:19

There’s something different about the way Flournoy shows Dagwood’s loneliness in this one. I think this is the first time where Dagwood hasn’t had anything to do while Blondie thinks he’s cheated on him. He’s not in jail, he’s not off trying to get a good deal done selling property to some mogul, he’s just at home, alone, and completely defeated. A lot of it has been silent, like right now he’s stacking pillows in Blondie’s twin bed, because he can’t get to sleep without her there. The pathos is through the roof compared to the other movies.

11:30

Blondie: “Oh, I’ve been such a fool.”

Dagwood, hugging her: “Oh, that’s alright. Everybody’s a fool.”

Is that a sweet moment? I think that’s a sweet moment. Something about that is sweet to me.

11:33

A minor twist at the end involved a trout club burning down. I suspect pyromaniac uncle.

11:36

And that was Blondie on a Budget! Took me longer than usual to get through it, I’ll try not to do that again too often. Got real mad at it in the middle, but it was inoffensive and of typical quality for the second half. Maybe a little above average, because Dagwood sad and alone at home was something new.

My Dagwood sandwich rating is: one sandwich that is practically identical to a sandwich you just ate a minute ago, which annoys you, but then once you’ve finished eating it, you can appreciate the minute details that distinguished it from the previous sandwich.

#gingervsblondie