❝ My name is John Richard Deacon, I was born on August the 19th, 1951. ❞
Happy birthday John Deacon!
the epic highs and tragic lows of literally just being in my head on a perfectly my normal day
Every DS9 plot, sorted by which character is the focus:
-O'Brien believes there is something which cannot be taken away from him. It is taken away from him.
-Dr. Bashir believes he won't fuck something up. He deals with the consequences of fucking it up.
-Odo believes he has no feelings about something. Everyone around him deals with the consequences of how strong his feelings are.
-Dax believes that the bad decisions she made in the past won't blow up in her face. They blow up in her face.
-Kira believes that she can no longer be disappointed by the people around her. She is.
-Sisko believes that he can solve something in the normal, intended way and not a horrible, fucked up way. He solves it in a horrible, fucked up way.
-Worf believes that he has finally found a problem which can be solved with force rather than feelings. He solves it using his feelings.
-Quark believes that he has a remaining shred of dignity. He loses it.
Remember how we were little and we loved pink and Barbie and dolls and princesses?
Remember how we got old enough to realize that people were making fun of us and not enough people told us to ignore them so we got embarrassed and we hated ourselves. Pink was our least favorite color until perhaps recently when we were neutral towards it at best.
But something in us changed when we decided we needed to see Barbie (2023). The women and girls I saw wearing their best pinks today. I purposely bought MYSELF something pink for the first time I can remember.
We’re giving ourselves the freedom we took away.
Just got home from the Barbie movie and wow.
I can't stop thinking about how beautifully the Barbie movie portrays that often times when men (speaking in very binary terms, apologies) are hurt and feel wronged they'll act out in ways that hurt people, may that be purposefully or inadvertently. And society enforces this. Meanwhile women, who are used to living in a hostile world, will often express and process their pains in ways that don't harm others.
But Ken never wanted to hurt anyone. He just was hurt and didn't know how to deal with it. He found the first thing that gave him an outlet and some inkling of comfort and latched onto it. And after Ken has had his supposed "villain arc", Barbie isn't mad at him. She lets him know it's okay to cry.
The villain was never Ken himself, it was the fact that society is built in a way that prevents men from having ways to safely process and regulate their emotions. A society that punishes men for crying and confiding in friends and wanting to be comforted.
The Barbie movie isn't anti men. It's a big fuck you to our society that is hellbent on keeping everyone in an eternal cycle of hurt.
samcentral asked:
I watched “Past Tense” for the first time earlier this year and it was brutal (fantastic).
How does it feel to have almost completely accurately predicted the state of the U.S. in the mid 2020’s?
(And if you’d rather answer a less existential question, how does it feel to have nearly predicted 2024’s middle-class fashion?)
writergeekrhw answered:
“Past Tense” wasn’t really an attempt to predict the future as much as it was a reflection on things that were already happening at the time it was written. Things like homelessness, lack of proper care for the mentally ill, and the increasing gap between rich and poor.
Seeing how none of the problems we were writing about have gone away and how much worse many of them have gotten makes me sad, to be honest.
As for the fashion, all credit to Robert Blackman!
