they kicked neil gaiman off good omens production and rewrote it entirely so he wouldnt get paid, then cast a queer Palestinian-Pakistani actor to play Jesus. whoever all is cooking up the Good Omens finale is doing amazing things so far...
We NEED to start emphasizing to young people that conforming will feel easy and grant you privileges.
When their lives improve because of it they think they revealed their true selves and everyone else can see, when really they just discovered the rules to the oldest game ever
Probably one of the sadder things to watch in the Australian casual culinary sphere is the slow disappearance of genuine cultural icons such as milk bars, fish and chips shops, Vietnamese bakeries, (real) Mediterranean delicatessens, and other tuck shop varieties, and in their place we get soulless knock-off Americana, particularly in the western suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne.
This has reached what I think is an apex with the opening of 'Paddy Chans' in Newtown, where punters are paying $75 for an 'Irish spice box', which is similar in nature to a munchies box, available in the UK for maybe £10-20. It's an assortment of fried shit and genuinely terrible Chinese, in a pizza box. Australia for the mostpart always had a decent standard of Chinese food due to early migration dating back to gold rush eras, so the desire for this is nothing short of surprising.
The loss of this cultural identity is sadly driven by the taste of the consumer more than anything, and the desire to line up for the most glib garbage of the day is probably the saddest indictment on the people of our major cities.
Pop-ups were a mistake. We have to go back.
Australian healthcare is NOT universal, it is a hybrid model. You won't go medically bankrupt for breaking your leg or having a baby, but you very well might end up homeless if you have any chronic condition. Even with cancer you don't get fully rebated and probably won't get DSP
1. she didn’t translate the English phrase, she translated the Greek
2. “cannibal king” preserves the simpler adjective-noun phrasing of the original δημοβόρος βασιλεὺς, as well as the alliteration, which is important in a spoken poem
3. this quote is from the Iliad anyway?
It’s so funny how inadvertently Veilguard made Tevinter, where slavery is legal and blood magic is rampant, seem more progressive than all of Southern Thedas bc they refused to depict slavery or oppression or really anything that wasn’t fucking DOCKTOWN and the SHADOW DRAGONS*
Between The Odyssey and Dracula/Nosferatu I am actively fearful for how little culture the kids are picking up now. If it's not on a conveyor belt delivered to them they just won't seek it out. That's how art dies.
Remember when the Turning Red trailers showed Mei and her friends being environmental advocates at school but in the film, it was cut and Mei's activism is watered down to the kitten box test?
"In a strange way, the wicked witch is irrevocably dead, usurped by positive, girlboss-y representations of womanhood."
@alishamgl on WICKED, CRUELLA, MALEFICENT and the Double-Bind of the Villainess’s Backstory
Read: https://t.co/ODFH9L34XB
I've always always found the desire to ~see a story from a villainous woman's perspective~ so fucking boring, because it's never FROM a villainous woman's perspective. it's from that of a maligned, slandered Good Woman who never actually did anything wrong. dull! bad!
My hot Disco Elysium take is that the communism political vision quest is so essential to understanding the game that you shouldn't be allowed to discuss the game online unless you've done it
playing inquisition… man i missed when companions disapproved of you literally just breathing. i love animosity. yes. make me work for your acceptance. Yes! YES!!
Last night I watched The Empire Strikes Back with a friend who’d never seen it before and during the scene where Yoda lifts the x-wing out of the swamp she was chuckling, turned to see me absolutely riveted, borderline misty, and laughed so hard she started crying.