Working my way through the second season of Glee now, after which this rewatch will become a regular watch. I know that this show is best enjoyed if you shut off your brain and just enjoy the songs and the stupid, but episodes like the one where Kurt is a militant atheist gay (which is indeed a real life Thing, though not so much in my social sphere because New Orleans has ample other options if you’ve become disillusioned with organized religion) make that quite a challenge.

agoddamn said

I think the biggest objections truly come from people not liking what the movie is, from the ground up. It jettisons a lot of subplots from the first movie and a lot of people feel burned about that, as well as certain characters coming to obvious prominence or obscurity.

Though personally I thought the casino subplot was absolutely awful and completely murdered all tension for the ship standoff, and Poe’s subplot relies on idiot balls an unfortunate amount

In its defense I thought the casino segment was thematically important, in that it establishes a hyper-capitalistic and mostly amoral perspective that’s individually embodied by the code breaker character (and that foreshadows his actions near the end of the movie) and that I greatly appreciate as a break from SW’s usual sharp light/dark dichotomy. It’s distinct from the balanced approach they seem to be heading toward with Rey being a Jedi who accepts that she’s being pulled toward the dark while also being (to me) more relateable than her philosophical/pseudo-religious journey. Plus, it shows how regimes like the First Order and the Empire got their support without everyone apart from the good guys needing to be mustache-twirling space Nazis – war profiteering is extremely lucrative.

The Last Jedi was pretty good, though I’m having trouble finding most of the internet’s biggest criticisms it, whether it’s with the casino planet segment being meaningless filler or Luke’s characterization being off or all the non-twists or the whole thing being so offensively terrible to…something that it needs to be stripped from the canon. I’ve never been really invested in the SW fandom, but I just have a hard time seeing where all the backlash is coming from.

In my growing inebriation I decided that I’m going to actually watch Glee, partially so that I can get my money’s worth of my Netflix subscription and partially because I only ever watched the first two seasons and I barely remember even those. I do recall that Kurt -> Finn was one of the only elements of the former’s character that I found relatable despite the obvious twink connection, even though it was much criticized in the fandom. What an odd thing to remember.

sydneykrukowski:

survivablyso:

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rubyfruitgirl:

Lets get real about the plethora of articles abt whether straight women belong in gay bars. First of all, there’s not like..a bouncer outside of every gay bar checking your ID to see if you’re straight or cis and then throwing you to the curb lmao. So if you feel the need to write an article arguing that you belong in a gay bar then you are not arguing for the right to enter a gay bar, to buy drinks there, to go dancing, to watch a drag show. You can do those things without anyone paying you any mind. What you are criticizing isn’t that you face any actual discrimination in LGBT spaces but that these spaces were never built to cater you. The cishet experience is being so used to a world built around you that people who experience homophobia & transphobia building their own spaces feels like a slight. You aren’t entitled to feeling like you belong in a space that was built for us to hide from people like you. Write a new think piece. 

another thing is that when you, as a straight woman, walk into a gay bar? you can’t start bitching and whining about the gross ugly dykes who ask you to dance or try to buy you drinks. it’s a gay bar. it’s for us. it’s not for you to gawk at us like it’s a fucking petting zoo, and in a space for men to meet men and women to meet women, don’t be surprised if a woman tries to interact with you romantically. that’s the whole fucking point of a gay bar.

the op is an aphobe. they’re not talking about straight girls, they’re saying aces and aros have no place in a gay bar, in lgbt+/queer spaces.

What would any of you geeks even want to do in a gay bar you’re the ones who are always fucking whining about how they’re oversexed dens of sin like you’re Baptist pastors in 1954

Under a cut.

I just found out on Facebook that the Anglo ex is engaged, and has been for over a month. Moreover, he’s moved even further north to one of those interchangeable states between here and Québec, Kentucky or Pennsylvania or somewhere around there.

Still haven’t settled on where I’m going next in terms of gaming (because even if I go ahead and get a Switch I’d still have to decided if I want to start with Skyrim or Mario Odyssey or Fire Emblem Warriors not that one). I am though going to be catching The Last Jedi tomorrow morning and I’m free and want to see all the supposed deconstruction of series conventions, being one of those people who is aware of but not exactly a fan of SW. As for upcoming blog content – Zelda water dungeons, maybe? No one’s asked for that, exactly, but it’s been something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now as I can’t for the life of me find any positive rankings of those things anywhere online since everyone seems to hate most of them with a passion.

By coincidence, 2018 will be both the year that New Orleans turns 300 and that I turn 30. We’re both aging poorly, but I will defend to the absurd utmost my claim to being in my 20s until 14h15 on 31 October, thank you very much. The city on the other hand is set for festivities the whole year, not least because the actual anniversary lands in early May which is an awkward time to be celebrating much of anything.

Thought about replaying Breath of the Wild since I’m still not quite there for a Switch, but reconsidered after I starting approaching it like I normally approach Zelda and tidily structuring everything into my own homemade walkthrough. It’s…not a good game for that, even if it is theoretically possible. I wonder if I ought to distract myself from the disappointment by gushing about water dungeons like I’ve been planning to for half a year.

O overused formulaic Zelda game design, how I miss you for catering to my various undiagnosed neuroses!