You know the biggest loss of the decline of physical media and the rise of streaming? DVD special features.
I love you DVD commentaries I love you making-of documentaries I love you behind the scenes footage I love you bloopers I love you deleted scenes I love you silly little videos of the cast dicking around 💖
[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled “do not stand at my grave and weep” after the poem by mary elizabeth frye. the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]
a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”
I find the whole “Magneto is just right about everything” stance you see now and then on tumblr kind of baffling given how poorly zionism does on here. It’s like oh, you like it when members of brutally oppressed minority groups fight back against the world at large, take power for themselves, found the occasional ethnostate, and hey, what’s a war crime or two between friends? Have you heard of this new superhero team they’re putting together called “the IDF?” You’d love them.
Sarcasm aside, it’s not like this is some wacky far-out reading of the character.
Chris Claremont, the writer responsible for most of what we consider the
definitive X-Men stories (including Magneto’s characterization) is a Jewish American who lived in Israel during his childhood, and clearly
had a lot of these issues in mind as he wrote.
It’s pretty widely acknowledged that Israeli nationalist figures like Menachem Begin and Meir Kahane furnished a substantial part of the inspiration for Magneto. In many versions of his origin story he’s a concentration camp survivor with a hard-line “never again” outlook that motivates many of his more extreme actions. None of this is exactly what I’d call subtle. He’s not necessarily exclusively a commentary on zionism, but he sure as hell is a commentary on zionism.
I think the basic contradiction here is that a lot of people just don’t think any farther than “oppressed people should be willing to seize power,” but the thing is, if you do a good enough job of seizing power, you wind up having power, with all the potential for harm, overreach, and oppression that entails. And in fact this does come up at times with the comics version of the character, but since the version of him in the movies doesn’t win enough for it to be an issue it’s easy enough to just yass at him and not bother to consider the likely ramifications if he did wind up in charge.
Encountered an example in the wild today, lads.
Like sure, if every single thing you know about the character is just vague pop culture osmosis about how oppressed people should fight back against their oppressors (though frankly even Charles Xavier and the X-Men do a fair amount of that), then I guess I could see thinking that. But actually “oppressed people should found apartheid ethnostates where they’re on top and/or just straight-up commit genocide against their oppressors” is not the sick leftist dunk you think it is, sorry.
i’m such a weak bitch for the fantasy of “This Protagonist Is So Nice And Empathetic That It Saves The Fucking World” that shit’s so metal, kindness in media is punk as hell
hard same
Thinking about this, wouldn’t it be wild to have a story where the protagonist is very kind but makes a lot of mistakes, and they always worry that “as the chosen one” they won’t live up to saving the world… But they befriend an even bigger mess of a person along the way, who is hardened and mean. And as they journey together, the protagonist brings out their buried kind heart little by little.
The twist being that, in the end, the protagonist does fail to save the world, and is injured in a way that leaves them unable to complete their “chosen one” task. But their companion, who has grown kind, takes up the mantle to finish the job. And the lesson would be that it’s no one person’s job to save the world - that people with a mind and heart to enact change can do it together.
It’s so fucked up how tiktok culture has made clout-poisoned people turn the public into content, every day I see people minding their business have their entire faces put online for thousands of likes, a couple kissing on the train, a lady dancing across a cross walk, a guy nodding his head to the music at a club, a lady buying a banana at the store, ring camera footage of the neighbors kids being stupid. Just let people live jfc
I think I may have made it seem like this is about wholesome content (which my sentiment towards that is the same) but most of the time when I see this stuff people are being ridiculed for being completely normal. And I didn’t make up any of these examples btw, I couldn’t find the dance one but only because there are too many videos of people being recorded at cross walks
(Faces censored and additional text added by me)
Im gonna add this to every post about this i see im never gonna shut up about it. This will get people killed. This will ruin lives. More people live in hiding than you think. So many people are one post away from having to abandon their whole lives. Dont ever post anything of anyone without their consent, stranger or not.
I am a photographer. It is my job to go into schools and take candid photos for the yearbook.
The number of kids that are on a ‘do not photograph’ list isn’t large, but it is a non-zero number. If that kid is even out of focus in the background, we do not use that photo.
If a child shows even the tiniest bit upset that there’s a person in the room with a camera, I do not take their photo.
At pop culture conventions, I ask people if I can take their photo. Or if I take a candid of them, I track them down and give them my info and get th3ir consent before posting.
At events like parties, concerts, performances, consent is generally implied because these are photographed events, but if an attendee approaches me and tells me to crop them out then I crop them out.
This makes street photography tedious, but I learned in my very first job as a camp counselor that people have very good reasons for not wanting their photo publicized. There are kids in the foster system with abusive parents. There are adults with stalkers. There are people who might be a witness to a crime.
Even outside of this- I’ve seen how private persons become memes against their will just by going out in public. Some people are super not normal about meme fame.
Leave people alone. The world is complicated. Make your own content.
Also it’s illegal. You may not publish people’s likeness without their consent, at least in germany. The situations where you are allowed are covered in press laws, but most of the time you are not allowed to publish any recording of anyone that has their original face or voice or distinguishing features showing without consent. If there will be photographs or video taken for publishing at an event you have to be notified as you enter so you can notify people that you don’t consent to be shown or choose not to attend.
Someone sued facebook iirc because their photo was used in a viral post that was made up and defamatory.
