i'm a *villainfucker* through and through but straightforward stories about people being good people even when it's hard and finding strength where they thought they would find weakness are fucking catnip for me these days
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but the "clearly we got here because people liked Breaking Bad too much or whatever" shit just makes me want to throw myself into a fucking volcano
aug 26, 2025, 1:30 am • 13 1 • view
i don't blame the shows themselves for it and would tell anyone proposing censorship about it to fuck off into the sun, but there's a massive fuckin' problem with media literacy in this particular point in time
aug 26, 2025, 1:39 am • 7 0 • view
like, the absolute basics, not even the nuances of the morality tale of Breaking Bad and how Walter White isn't supposed to be a role model or whatever, i mean absolute square one "this isn't real life and these people aren't actually being killed by the bye bye man" shit
aug 26, 2025, 1:39 am • 8 2 • view
we're so fucking bad at this shit that the QAnon lore is some fucked up amalgamate of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and.... the thing in Monsters Inc. where fear is a fuel source? like the cartoon movie???? i don't even know how the fuck we-
aug 26, 2025, 1:41 am • 10 1 • view
yeah it's McFucking DIRE :/
aug 26, 2025, 1:49 am • 5 0 • view
real bad time for deepfakes to suddenly get incredibly fucking good, lol
aug 26, 2025, 1:49 am • 5 0 • view
The serious problem I have is with the fact that people are telling themselves that people consider themselves antiheroes to avoid confronting that Republicans are fundamentally from a different culture and value set, they don’t think they’re evil, they just aren’t even part of modern society
aug 26, 2025, 1:51 am • 13 1 • view
Some of this does just kind of feel like inevitable cultural backlash to what feels like an overwhelmingly dominant cultural norm, even leaving aside the everything political rn. for as long as I can remember people have been infinitely more fascinated with antiheroes and villains than anyone else
aug 26, 2025, 1:53 am • 1 0 • view
but that's not really a political concern or cause for our present woes, it's bone-deep visceral cultural alienation
aug 26, 2025, 1:53 am • 1 0 • view