What if there was an apocalypse but some people were really really in denial and optimistic and thinking everything will be back to normal soon?
Like they’d be foraging through the ruins of New York for supplies, shooting raiders in the face and saying “Man, this recession is really bad, huh?”
Umm….
ARE YOU KIDDING ME
this post, plus that satire one about the increasingly ridiculous callout culture that slowly became more and more accurate
this one
was anything going on in 2017??? did everyone randomly have prophetic visions????????
Another one from 2017 by @nullsynth
the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
turns out we had the 2020 vision after all
“the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls” is actually a really fucking metal quote and i will be using it in the future
@handoverthehands it’s from Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel. Referenced as well in Spirit of the Radio by Rush and again in Disturbed’s cover of the original.
And that in itself was a reference to the Book of Daniel from the bible, when the words of the prophet were written on the Babylonian palace walls.
In the real world, it’s not the kings and people in power who see the signs of doom, but the poor people in the subway, helpless to stop it.
I recently stumbled on a gif from Her Private Life and remembered how good this drama made me feel!
The butterflies, the sexual tension, the amazing chemistry, the well written comedy and Park Min-Young’s adorable female lead who gets so much joy from fangirling! So I naturally decided to rewatch it one more time.
Before we get into it:
Sung Deok-mi (Park Min-Young) works as a curator at an art gallery. She is a huge fan of idol group member Shi-an (One) and secretly runs a fan website about him. Because of her affection for Shi-an, she has experienced several personal break-ups and so now Deok-mi now focuses on keeping her identity as a fan a secret.
Ryan Gold (Kim Jae-Wook) was a famous painter who is now taking a break. He gets a job offer at Deok-mi’s museum and an adventure unravels!
———Warning: spoilers ahead :)——–
I’m 100% sure Ryan Gold was written by a woman because this man is too good to be true and the OTP’s entire relationship is so mature - I’ve never seen a healthier relationship dynamic in a K-Drama before. The couple isn’t afraid to actually talk and solve their problems instead of just ignoring a misunderstanding and walking away from it and are also so open with one another (they both have secrets which they eventually open up about).
I also absolutely loved seeing Ryan watch Deok-mi fangirl - it was one of the purest things ever and honestly I feel like any fangirl would kill for a boyfriend like that 😅. He was also so supportive of Deok-mi’s hobby and I loved how he made all these little surprises for her where she could fangirl but didn’t reveal her identity- although I would have loved to see Shi-an’s reaction to that. I think it would have been so pure and I hate how we missed out on it.
Also, can we talk about how dedicated Ryan was when he was trying to join Deok-mi’s special access fan page? The 50 stages of grief he went through when he had to watch hundreds of Shi-an’s stages was hilarious!
Overall I just really love this drama. I think it’s got a great plot - it’s nothing too serious and really enjoyable. I did think the whole we-used-to-know-each-other-when-we-were-kids and amnesia storyline were a little unnecessary and ruined the show from what it was but I did love the contrast between Ryan and Eungi’s adoption storylines. I also liked the mention that Ryan grew up in a loving home and the opportunity he got to build a better relationship with his younger brother and birth mother.
I thought the secondary characters were also quite memorable. I enjoyed watching Lee Seon-Joon battle a family life while also being a fangirl and truly adored the relationship the three best friends shared! I also though Cindy and Eungi would make an adorable friendship and was happy I got to see that workout. I always love seeing the heartbroken second lead find happiness at the end of a drama :)
And never forget that one of the reasons so many Jewish-Americans contributed to comics is because of the antisemitism in much of the creative sector in 20th century America. Many of these highly skilled and creative people ended up in comics because they couldn’t find work in more prestigious and lucrative fields.
also the same reason so many of them worked in the motion picture industry when it first began; working in film wasnt a respected line of work, so it kinda became a jewish culture, and when film unexpectedly caught on, upper-middle class white christians were quick to erase the jewish influence that the film industry had. also similar to the reason why so many jews in the past millennium worked in finance- in the 1100s it was considered sinful in the christian church to handle large amounts of money, so banking in western Europe was kind of the only profession in which Jews were guaranteed a secure income. because banking was a Jewish thing because it was sinful, when it became a respected profession, the upper-middle class and elites were quick to smear the Jewish involvement in banking as an evil conspiracy to control the world
nice addition thank u^👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼✡️
gonna add real quick that two Jewish men actually created Batman. Bill Finger was uncredited for years, but he is responsible for Batman’s look, backstory, personality,, setting etc. Bob Kane is responsible for the name and that’s pretty much it.
“In fact, nearly all the great superheroes were created by Jews: Jerry Siegel and Joe (Joseph) Shuster created Superman, Joe Simon and Jack Kirby (Jacob Kurtzberg) created Captain America, Bob Kane (Robert Kahn) and Bill Finger invented Batman, while Kirby, together with Stan Lee (Stanley Martin Lieber) produced a particularly impressive line of heroes such as Spider-Man, The Hulk, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, the X-Men, Thor and the Avengers.
“ –Supermensches.
And more superheroes than those had at least one Jewish creator. For example…
Aquaman? Created by Paul Norris (not Jewish) and Mort Weisinger (the son of Austrian Jewish parents) in November 1941.
The original Batgirl (spelled Bat-Girl), Betty Kane? Created by Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff in 1961.
Dick Grayson, a.k.a. the original Robin? Created by Bob Kane, Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson in 1940. And yes, Robinson was also Jewish.
Green Arrow? Co-created by artist George Papp (not Jewish) and writer Mort Weisinger.
Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern? Bill Finger and artist Martin Nodell (the son of Jewish immigrants).
Wolverine? Created by artist John Romita Sr. (who’s Italian) and writer Len Wein (who’s Jewish).
Jubilee of the X-Men? Created by artist Marc Silvestri and writer Chris Claremont. Claremont is Jewish on his mother’s side.
Black Canary? Created by artist Carmine Infantino and writer Robert Kanigher (son of Romanian Jewish parents) in 1947.
T’Challa, the Black Panther? Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
It’s surprising how many superheroes have Jewish roots.
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned this already but a jewish man also invented what we now call graphic novels. His name is Will Eisner and the most prestigious comic book awards were named after him. He drew the Spirit comics as well as many graphic novels like A Contract with God, New York: The Big City and many many more.
He also wrote and illustrated two books about making comics and sequential art. He was a fucking genius of visual narrative, character design and ripping your heart out with his stories.
hate how all these apocalyptic films show society breaking down the hot minute the grid goes down, with all the survivors banding off into tiny violent gangs that prey on each other.
bitch you are a member of one of the most social species in existence! it is actually insane the extent to which humans have evolved to use cooperation as our main survival tool. humans have been building and then rebuilding societies for as long as disasters have been bringing them down. an apocalypse would be fucking awful, but the survivors would end upbuilding communities and networks and pooling resources and knowledge, because that’s what humans do. that’s what they DO!!!
@coffee-shop-gayyour tags are a love letter to humanity, oh my stars (reformated for readability):
#most macho bitch boys clearly have never been in a real survival scenerio #bc i used to bus around the USA a lot, and one time the snow was coming in SUPER hard and our driver was swerving on the ice and we went off road, and we ended up stuck there. and using the radio the driver communicated with the bus stations and they said they’d send another bus - but it may be a while. but MAN it was SO fast that people were divvying things up, ppl were unpacking their bags for blankets and passing out extra sweaters that would fit other, pulling out blankets and using our duffles as pillows.
a good group of ppl knew no english at all - mostly being mexican immigrants - but we quickly developed a lingo of pointing and charades-and it turned out they had LOADS of snacks so we all passed those around for a while.
there was a woman with a small child and we all took turns watching the kid so she could sleep as we went into hour 10+ of being on this bus. keeping the baby warm and fed from her bottle etc etc.
by the time the second bus came in to pick us all up we were a full community. it was beautiful. scary and cold as hell. but beautiful
A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit explicitly discusses this. She looks at the communities that arise after disasters, which include a lot of compassion and mutual aid. One of my big takeaways was that when these communities failed or there was violence, it often came from the more affluent survivors who felt their personal property was threatened and were more willing to call for law enforcement or other agents of the state to “maintain order.”
Essentially: the fear of societal breakdown (from those most invested in maintaining the disparities of that original society) was often what led to any actual breakdown.
well that’s mathematically incorrect becuase you can still simplify the fraction since both sides have “he”
making your pronouns technically 1/ty
>:)
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I’m still in awe that not even a decade ago (2014, a year before same-sex marriage was legalized in the US), queer representation in children’s animation was at the point where The Legend of Korra ended with Korra and Asami holding hands in the very last seconds and the creator having to come onto tumblr to plead with us all to understand that these two characters are canonically queer, the crew just couldn’t show anything more (and were heavily implied to face restrictions) and now, in April 2023, The Owl House ended with multiple episodes highlighting how the main character is openly bi, her love interest is a lesbian with whom multiple on-screen kisses were shared, her mother proudly wears a rainbow pin and has read multiple books on sexuality and gender, her mentor is openly bi, the mentor’s love interest is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, the mentor’s adopted son has a genderqueer ‘dad’, the mentor’s sister is confirmed to be aro/ace, the main character’s best friend has two dads who share an on-screen kiss, the main character’s pseudo-sister blushes around a nonbinary teenager who also uses they/them pronouns, minor characters blush and react to others in ways that suggest that they are also queer, there are different flags everywhere, and the child-god of the cosmos who comes to visit them all from time to time uses he/they pronouns. That’s on top of the Afro-Latina representation, the neurodivergence and disability representation, and so much more. Let’s see how far we’ve come, indeed!
So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history.
Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service.
Let me explain what is happening here, because I don’t think that this post is very representative of why this matters.
The purpose of the theme studies, this one included, is to locate the physical remnants of the past, so that they can be properly preserved by governmental and nonprofit entities. They are not just descriptions of history, they are documents that can be used for grant work, for preventing places from being destroyed, or for promoting the restoration of those places. This theme study is a statement from the federal government that the preservation of these places is important, and that can be translated by the states into these places being legally required to be protected.
The theme studies are also really important because they recontextualized what it means to locate history in a place. This started before the LGBT theme study, there’s a lot of this in the Latino theme study, but they present a reconsideration of what you can call historic when the actions of a group left no physical traces on the spaces that they used. We are now seeing the possibility of considering places like cruising areas as historic properties because they represent the patterns of a culture.
This is the Park Service’s job. This is what you should be expecting from them. There are theme studies and special resource studies on dozens of things. A really important Civil Rights one dropped like last week. The Park Service is charged with running our national parks, sure, but the bulk of their work is like this. This is the type of shit that you can and should expect out of your National Park Service. Nobody else is gonna do it.
