divascreech:

“not every show needs queer characters”

well not every show needs 25 straight white carbon copies of the same characters from every other show ever aired in the history of television yet here we are with ten thousand of you on tv and one of me if I’m lucky

how dare you eat a feast, throw me a bone while I’m starving, and then tell me to be happy that I’m finally equal to you you spoiled entitled brat

If this doesn’t spell it out, what will?

queeranarchism:

afloweroutofstone:

Matt Stone and Trey Parker have done more to make our generation crueler than nearly anyone else, because they can get away with it under the guise of “this is satire, duh”, not realizing that poorly-done satire only reinforces the cultural forces it is meant to mock. When 13 year-old-kids are watching South Park, they aren’t tuning in to the little infinitesimally small lessons supposedly being taught, they’re laughing at Timmy being severely disabled, they’re laughing at sexual harassment, they’re laughing at child abuse, they’re laughing at anti-semitism, they’re laughing at people who have had sex reassignment surgery.

And the “satire” is so often pathetically weak. There isn’t a single nativist in this entire country who can’t laugh at a “der takin er jerbs” joke, because those jokes don’t actually rebut or mock the arguments made by people opposed to immigration. It’s just saying a common political phrase in a funny voice. Is that how low the bar for “satire” has been set? There’s occasionally more effective satire on the show, but not nearly enough for it to be defended on the basis of its value as satire.

But if you try to explain any of this to die-hard South Park fans, they’ll completely blow it off. They think that the fact the show upsets me simply means that the show has accomplished its purpose, never actually questioning whether or not that purpose is a worthy one. That’s why the show is so insidious: it wraps itself in this cynical layer of self-containment that prevents it from ever being pointed out for what it is: a detriment to the type of society that any decent person wants to see. South Park is far more dangerous than the Westboro Baptist Church, because South Park is something that people accept and defend.

Yes. And there’s a whole genre of shows, news websites and media out there now whose ‘satire’ amount to LOL IT’S FUNNY BECAUSE ITS OFFENSIVE. That is not harmless, that is actively creating (and has created over the last decades) a culture in which bigots can thrive and feel like they never have to defend themselves.

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commanderoswald:

“Great pedigree…” Lol.

Y’all better tell The CW to Not. One of four things will happen here. 1) He gets two full season shows which means he’ll be rewarded for shitty behavior. 2) He gets two short orders on shows which means he’s still being rewarded for shitty behavior. 3) He gets a full season order for one show and a shortened season order for another show but that’s still money in his pocket and two shows as showrunner which again…he’s getting rewarded 4) He gets a final season for a show everyone pans and that is flopping in ratings while his pilot may be the only one of six that doesn’t get picked up. Which one sounds the most reasonable?

Y’all can be loud for what you want…be loud for this. He doesn’t deserve two shows in any way, shape, or form. The network should know the audience doesn’t want baiters to be encouraged by being gifted another TV show.

This article on Greg Berlanti says it hasn’t been picked up due to its ‘price tag.’

Not much confirmation, but with so many sources saying no, it doesn’t look like it is happening (and Berlanti seems busy with too many other projects). 

captainlitebrite:

is there anything on earth more anxiety inducing than being given unclear instructions and then put under time pressure

I read this as ‘being given nuclear instructions’ – and no, I can’t think of anything more anxiety inducing, under pressure.  

‘You’ve got 30 seconds, Myrtle, or we’re all dead.’

aniseandspearmint:

vyrenrolar:

obstinatecondolement:

Are there any works in the post-apocalyptic genre with post-apocalyptic librarians? People who worked in the public library and after the Bad Thing decide to stay and keep the library clean, safe and available for anyone who needs it. People can’t remove books from the premises anymore, because they’re too precious, but you can stay as long as you want and read them or copy them out–the librarians encourage making copies, so that the information can circulate beyond the physical boundaries of the library. 

After a while it becomes an unspoken reality of the post apocalyptic society that you Just Don’t fuck with the library. You don’t fight there, you don’t steal from it, you don’t allow harm to come to librarians when they have to leave the building for supplies. 

People donate food and books and paper with no expectation of reciprocity, because the librarians don’t ask for anything when you need a place to hide or information or, fuck, to read a schlocky crime novel because you need to escape reality in some purple prose. 

i need this like water and also air

This would be so epic though.

Like, years down the line, the Librarian is part of the town council (or whatever government a particular group goes with) everywhere, with few exceptions.

In some places the area leader is a former Librarian, even.

The Librarians that guard and keep the Libraries are honored. They dwell within the new city walls and care for the knowledge held within like fierce dragons caring for a hoard worth far more than mere gold or jewels.

The send out the journeyman Librarians, the Seekers, and the Guardians that go with them, to take their lives in their hands and travel beyond the safety of the walls. To go deep within the wilds and crumbling towers of the old world to find and return any scrap of knowledge and learning. 

Many go, not all return. 

But what those that return bring with them is considered worth the lives spent, for it means that something lost, a shining gem of what humanity was, is returned to it.

(Seeker Molly Meggs, and her Guardians Jaimes Woer and Ginny Zhen are still lauded and spoken widely of, though it has been nearly three decades since their daring journey to the crumbled once capitol city of DeeCee and their rediscovery of the lost Library of Congress.)

Some books are more sought than others. Technical manuals, books of flora and fauna and behavior, medical and scientific tomes. Things that make survival in the world that much more possible. But nothing is left behind, from the tattered magazines and torn but intact manga, to the faded dictionaries, thesauruses. Seekers cache what they cannot carry in their armored wagons like a squirrel caches nuts for winter, albeit with a better memory for their stashes than the rodents.

The Printers and Scribes are just as honored. What new knowledge is brought to them is multiplied and distributed to all Libraries, carried back out with the Seekers wagons so no recovered knowledge is ever lost again. 

(History has taught the Librarians that knowledge must never be hoarded jealously, only protected and propagated. Alexandria is the name most whispered among them, but Serapeum, Rayy, Banu Ammar, Glasney, Hanlin, Zaluski, Ahmed Baba, Saeh,

Ninawa, and many others are repeated as a mantra. Never again.)

(Note: all the names mentioned in the last paragraph are libraries that have been destroyed in RL due to human action. I just cherry picked a handful that seemed to flow well together, but there are so many more HERE.)

If you don’t feel something reading this, I don’t know what you are.  

aquaxlad:

Please everyone, y’all need to go see Wonder Woman on June 2nd! It’s so unbelievably important for this movie to have a big opening weekend, it will effect almost every female led action movie coming forward. Take you friends, take your families, tell other people with kids. Female action movies outside of Star Wars and Hunger Games historically haven’t done very well, we need to make sure that Wonder Woman is huge so more female led superhero movies get green lit.