A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.
Whatever you do,
But I think it's just putting on an act really. I think actually it's a big old sentimental soppy bleeding heart and it's just pretending to be an antisocial grouch to hide what a big softy it really is.
After all, one must imagine hissy puss sappy.
There's a cat that lives around here and sits out by the street all the time, and just hisses constantly at every single person passing by. It doesn't run off or get scared, it just sits there perfectly content until a person passes, then suddenly, HISS!
@jonnelledge.bsky.social Dunno what it says about either you or I, but my immediate reaction to this headline was 'this feels like something I'd have heard about in Jonn's newsletter'.
look, sometimes you witness the glorious awe of traveling to the Moon and back, sometimes you get transfixed by a guy muttering “oooh, toilet,” humanity contains multitudes I guess
This is why the Metroid games are noted for their sense of isolation. Samus just hates being around people.
I think the one aspect that dates it is the student flat experience. But I think even though it would not read as directly observational now, any viewer in a shared student let would still recognise that they are just iterations of the types on display.
To me that frustration was part of the point, and so my kneejerk 'this is absurd' irritation turned into enjoyment because that absurdity became the comedy to me. But like I say, I could definitely see how one might bounce off it entirely.
Also I just love rPatz you know
The middle-class hide it behind a picket fence because they CAN, and doing so allows them to construct an existence superficially without that darkness, and it's therefore verboten to be the one who exposes it. Lynchian aspect there.
People living in a more precarious class do not maintain the same omerta on the dark side of life because they need to discuss it in order to confront it and support each other through it.
There's also a class element here which I don't think is neccesarily authorial but is definitely present, which is that these dynamics are rooted in the comfortable upper middle-class lives these characters inhabit.
He's the only one who is 'normal' because he has no terrible story, but he's the minority. The rest have stories and that's more true. Also he's blind to the fucked-up things he does now (the book thing), whereas the others are 'fucked up' because of baggage from a past they've left behind.
Interesting that a few times they show Charlie can't think of a bad thing he's done. That doesn't make him the 'good one' because I think it directly leads into his ability to empathise with Emma and how he ties himself in knots trying to create a rationalisation for her story.
But Emma didn't become that kid! She isn't any different to the rest of them. Like the friend with the story about the neighbour's boy, could easily have been a news story kid.
The truth is as kids and teens few of us really grasp the true external reality of things. We all come a lot closer than society accepts to being the kid who makes the news for some horrorshow.
Also about societal denial of how fucked up childhoods are even in 'well adjusted' adults, and modern inability to disconnect people now from who they were in the past when they were still emerging from their fucked uppedness.
I thought it was quite cleverly two movies at once. Simultaneously a film about one issue specifically and its legacy in a specific social context, and a relationship drama in which the specific issue stands in for any 'Issue'. Much better at this than Weapons. (Weirdly GLHFDD also did this.)
The Drama: Really, really liked this. I can imagine it might ultimately be quite divisive and if you don't like it it'll leave you cold throughout, but I was cackling the whole way through and thinking about it a ton after.
Like this feels like an aggressive and racist attempt to... Try and convey that you should be on his side? Which is... Against global warming? Which he's assuming you're not because you have at some point said something positive about Canary Wharf? I can't work out what this message even means!
Is this... So this guy is worried about rising water levels, and is linking this to Canary Wharf because... It will flood? And you like Canary Wharf so... You like rising water levels? But because of your skin colour, am I following this, he believes you will suffer displacement by flooding first?
"Film that will technically be 'Oscar winning' because the makeup was great."
(aka. The /Suicide Squad/ Award)
painting of a giant capybara swimming in a sea of galaxies with several planets
everything is capybara
The other 1% is probably people who went 'Nothing can be absolutely guaranteed so this is a fundamentally flawed scenario of no merit.'
It says answers were counted in multiple categories, so I would expect that the 7% too anxious are also 7/8ths of the reject premise.
Well obviously, because they're all just grifters under the veneer
This hedgehog arrives to find our resident mighty hunter intent on a mouse that's scurried out of her reach. Initially cautious, the hedgehog decides to have a quick snack while it can. The cat clearly has no idea that it's there. #TinyJoys
Was it the one I hate?
Oh well, if you see me again feel free to say hi!
