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[RS1195 🍪🐾 @rarinstraw1]

@lunyatics but reading is hard ;((((

[RS1195 🍪🐾 @rarinstraw1]

@Its_Kiyoomi BAU BAU!!

[berd @berdyaboi]

this fuckass video shows up in my feed 8 times a day and it's a genuine stunlock i have to watch it at least twice before im able to scroll past it

[Storyteller Lemmy @LemmySmackett]

"Grandpa, what were movies like before the Collapse?"

“Before the Collapse?”

“Yeah. Grandma says you guys were always watching films and stuff on your handheld computers.”

“Actually, we mostly let our AR Smart Glasses sear AI-generated futa-furry gangbangs directly onto our retinas while cute animal-girl Vtubers fatally injected untested grey market peptides in a desperate bid for hundreds of views.

“Uh.”

“But there were movies too, yeah.”

“What were they like?”

“Pure magic. Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”

“Wow.”

“Ingmar Bergman.”

“Gesundheit.”

“No that’s—”

“It does sound magical, Grandpa.”

“It was. And we spent all our time arguing about it online.”

“Arguing? Why?”

“Because all art is political, Billy.”

“All art, Grandpa?”

“Mhm.”

“Even the AI-generated futa-furry gangbangs?”

“Sure. Take the Lion King.”

“Was that an AI-generated futa-furry gangbang?”

“No, it was a film.”

“Oh.

“I mean, there was fan art.”

“Okay.”

“Not all of it was AI though.”

“Um.”

“Anyway, the naive viewer could interpret the film as a bildungsroman about a guilt-ridden youth who flees his homeland and carelessly squanders his virile prime while singing Hakuna Matata with grotesque but affable social outcasts, until the re-appearance of the Feminine forces him to reckon with the demands of Manhood and mature, assuming the Mantle of Duty and re-taking his proper place in the great Circle of Life.”

“Uh, sure. I haven’t seen it. The Collapse, remember?”

“But actually the film is an anti-democratic Moldbugian ethno-revanchist screed extolling the virtues of hereditarian monarchy, starring a race of square-jawed, long-haired, pure-bloods who gleefully hunt and consume the rightfully subjugated citizenry.”

“Uh.”

“The Divine Order is only undermined when a weak, effete degenerate in the royal family commits regicide and sells out the country in an act of venal prebendalism to his insurrectionist coalition, a dysgenic lower race—delightfully played by Whoopi Goldberg and Cheech Marin—whose churlish stupidity and insatiable appetites plunge the land into perpetual disorder and famine-ridden kleptocracy.”

“Wow.”

“In the end, the vile usurper is overthrown by the divine heir and consumed by the perfidious barbarian immigrants he once foolishly thought he could control.”

“Man. It sounds like movies were really heavy.”

“They were. Mr. Bean played a cartoon bird.”

“I don’t know who that is. Again, the Collapse…”

“Or take Cars. On first blush, it seems like the straightforward tale of a young hotshot racer who learns that while it’s important to be competitive, people matter and winning isn’t everything.”

“…and it wasn’t.”

“Of course not! It’s a nationalist-nostalgia-cum-anti-globalist manifesto about the hideous and pernicious ways neo-liberal ‘‘‘progress’’’ ravages our small communities, crushing the common man’s wages and spirit.”

“That sounds miserable.”

“Or take Frozen, a paean to radical self-sovereignty, featuring the libertarian Power Ballad ‘Let It Go’.”

“Grandpa.”

“And don’t even get me started on Zootopia and how it exposes the insidious Eweish conspiracy to incite a race war and sow chaos in our beleaguered inner cities.”

“GRANDPA!”

“Eh?”

“This all sounds unbearable. There must have been at least 𝘰𝘯𝘦 movie that wasn’t political.”

“Well…there was Minions.”

“Okay.”

“A story of a bunch of funny little yellow guys who are always looking for a bad guy boss and unwittingly become heroes in 1960s Great Britain.”

“Okay, see, that sounds like something I might actually watch—”

“But in reality, the minion represents the eternal brownshirt: the herd of homogenous conformists, spiritual serfs who seek to be ruled by a strong man, forever indifferent to ideology.”

“Oh for God’s sake.”

“The sequel, Rise of Gru, lacked this clarity of vision. A big step down.”

“Grandpa, I’m sorry, but I just—I don’t buy it.”

“Don’t buy what, Billy?”

“You’re telling me that not only was every movie political, but they all validated and reinforced your idiosyncratic political ideology?”

“Careful, Billy. You’re starting to sound Media Literate.”

“Media Literate?”

“People who were Media Literate believed they could understand the intentions of the creator and what any film meant, given its themes and context.”

“Okay.”

“Which is stupid, because I always knew what these films meant and these morons always disagreed with me.”

“Grandpa.”

“If you saw the kind of bug-loving bullshit I had to deal with every time Starship Troopers showed up on the timeline.”

“Grandpa!”

“Eh?”

“I’m not saying Art can’t have politics in it or anything, but like, I think that Bergman guy was saying films are something more, you know?”

“Well—”

“That art speaks in an ineffable language and every time we try to compress it into meager words, something, like, truly vital is lost.”

“Maybe.”

“Something that touches our souls.”

“I get what you’re saying, Billy. But the next time you watch Starship Troopers, you should think about how much these morons wish they were bugs.”

[sigh]“I can’t watch Starship Troopers Grandpa.”

“Ah right because of the—”

“Collapse.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

“…”

“I keep forgetting.”

“…”

“…you ever see Point Break?”
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[RS1195 🍪🐾 @rarinstraw1]

@demenishki You got this!! Wishing the best! 🧡

[RS1195 🍪🐾 @rarinstraw1]

@ZazzyVT always found that behavior so weird. like do u get that way when an actress u like does a movie with a male actor??

[officer cringe @pioneer_ten]

If you want to honour Dolly Parton after her passing consider donating to the imagination library. It’s a really lovely program she created and championed that provides books to children ages 0-5 completely free!! https://t.co/5AFE83vRUk

[moonreeds 🌙 @verydrearydays]

being put into someone's friend group feels like this. you are the fish

[turbomander (TWITCH AFFILIATE ERA) @turbomander]

your honor, the defense calls for another recess on the grounds of the prosecution was hogging the swingset the whole time

[phoebe @leanmaster2016]

i tried to buy orange chicken but they only had purple chicken so like whatever i like pirple

[RS1195 🍪🐾 @rarinstraw1]

@VTuberFeetFan bless you for putting this on my tl 🙏🙏🙏

[RS1195 🍪🐾 @rarinstraw1]

@ZazzyVT pondering…

[RS1195 🍪🐾 @rarinstraw1]

@Kotazumaa work, “play games” (stare at my steam library), sleep 🙂‍↕️

[RS1195 🍪🐾 @rarinstraw1]

@VTuberASMRFan thanks for getting my copy too 🙏🙌

[RS1195 🍪🐾 @rarinstraw1]

@ZazzyVT when they changed it to be related to your interests it became completely useless 🫠

[RS1195 🍪🐾 @rarinstraw1]

me as a #boy

[Toad @ToadallyRadikel]

Me every morning as a #boy…

[RS1195 🍪🐾 @rarinstraw1]

@ZazzyVT honestly I've been watching some of the classes because they have good genuine advice to apply, I think it's pretty worthwhile