Glitter In My Eyes

You know what really pisses me off about Chapstick Roan? She’s a shitty drag queen. There’s no performance of femininity, no heightened femininity, no political statement, just clown make-up and an attitude. If you’re going to steal drag culture at least do it fucking well. 🙄

Because I'm old and was of an age to be sentient when the Prequels were released, I can tell you that, until The Clone Wars was released and redeemed the series, the hatred for the Prequels was incandescent and pervasive and much worse than the hatred for the Sequels, although the Sequels (IMO) are much worse. You have to understand, the Prequels were not "nerdy" when they began releasing in 1999. They were as mainstream as Jurassic Park or Titanic. Everyone watched them. You would be made fun of if you didn't, actually. Back then, we had a distinct monoculture, where everyone was expected to know of certain things. We did not have the fragmentation of the market into niches or gatekept streaming services. The Prequels were absolutely one of those things. Picture the cultural event of the Barbie movie, except ten-fold. The Phantom Menace was released in 1999. The hype was absolutely massive. However, this was then met with almost uniform backlash. Most people, even famous standups or talk show hosts, were making fun of how incredibly annoying Jar Jar Binks and young Anakin were. This was extremely mainstream, it was not consigned to just fans. While the podracing and Obi-Wan's duel with Darth Maul were praised, the rest of the movie was considered childish, with stupid dialogue, and bad CGI. While Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, and Natalie Portman were sparred, the voice actor for Jar Jar, Ahmed Best, and the child who played Anakin, Jake Lloyd, faced such severe harassment that they later admitted in a documentary to suffering severe, long-landing mental health issues. Attack of the Clones came out in 2002, and this was was considered not as childish as the Phantom Menace, but still very stupid. Everyone harassed Hayden Christensen for his wooden dialogue. The cultural consensus was that he was a pretty boy that lacked talent. This took its toll, as after the Prequel series, Christensen left mainstream Hollywood entirely. People really started concluding, around this time, that Lucas himself was to blame for how bad the Prequels were, citing the incredibly unconvincing romance between Padme and Anakin, and the ridiculousness of the dialogue in those scenes. However, Ewan McGregor remained very popular, Natalie Portman grew in popularity, and the key action scenes (e.g., Kenobi versus Fett, Yoda versus Dooku, and the Battle Of Geonosis sequence) were praised. Outside of the action scenes, people still criticized the CGI. Revenge of the Sith is what this sequence was from, and it came out in 2005. This was, far and beyond, the most well-received of the Prequels. People liked the dark tone, increased action, and how it finally linked the Prequels to the Original trilogy. However, Padme's death sequence was the subject of mainstream and late night talk show ridicule, and people still noted Christensen's poor performance, melodrama, and stilted dialogue. There were some slap fights among fans whether this was on par with any installment of the Original trilogy, with people who had spent the last six years despising the Prequels extremely loud and insistent that it was still unredeemable garbage. None of these movies were at all safe to admit that you liked until The Clone Wars, nostalgia, and the poor quality of the Sequels redeemed them in retrospect. However, what is interesting is that the action sequences in the Prequels were always its strongest point, and most reasonable haters could admit that they were quite good. In contrast, the action sequences in the Sequels were always noted to be lackluster in comparison, and were criticized at release. However, the Sequel hate did not reach anything like the volume of the Prequel hate. Even The Last Jedi, the most controversial installment, was criticized only in niche circles. It wasn't the topic of mainstream jokes. When The Rise of Skywalker bombed, we all collectively winced and agreed it was bad, and moved on. There was little of the overwhelming monoculture discourse that accompanied the Prequels. Remember, the Prequels were released at a time when the monoculture was relentless in immiserating pop stars it deemed fair game. That dynamic of the culture no longer existed by 2015.

@KarlM29171 @cherrycomplains @wsqkrovickie TBF, Zosia's body is hot

@cherrycomplains @wsqkrovickie Imagine falling for an alien hivemind flesh bot

can you guys name a loser lesbian

“what if we did blackface?” YOU GUYS ALREADY DOOOOOO YOU NEVER STOPPEDDD LMAO

She lowkey saved the world. An architect that’s bad at math is risky asf.

Kamala literally was right about everything

@agraybee Of course, Ron’s fixation on money is portrayed as a character flaw (he should be happy to have family). Whereas Harry is noble BECAUSE he’s always been denied things, and throughout the story he doesn’t even seem to care about money (gives away Triwizard prize, Sirius’s house).

@agraybee I think Rowling dislikes money in an abstract way but also admires the monied’s ability to buy advantages. In the text you don’t really fault Harry for it because he’s never had anything at all, let him have a nice thing, but it’s still like “nice expensive things are rewards”.

Welcome to the new Right. We got: >The retarded ''Muslim'' streamer >The Mexican incel Nazi >The Sudanese Nazi podcaster for toxic dating advice >The mentally ill black rapper who loves Hitler >The conspiracy theorist Chinese teacher who abused his kids >The Armenian Nazi

The REAL American flag… 😂😂😂

Because cute little animals need petting

The leader of the free world No exaggeration

What mechanism are they not using that would 100% end the war right now?

Not British, not a tv actor anymore and they can’t afford him anyway, doesn’t want to commit 8-12 years of his life at 42 when he could be working with legendary directors, has no interest in the role or the controversy; pick your poison. What would he gain from doing it?

Again, there is just zero face value explanation for the media behavior wrt to this shit. They destroyed a completely competent presidency based on much, much less...and are just completely ignoring blatant, in your face data points that this guy's brain is completely cooked.

This MAGA man lured a child to his house to rape her. Her mother tracked her phone and went to rescue her daughter. She found her drugged and pleading to leave. Mama bear punched the pedophile in the face & took off with her child. May he rot in jail forever.

You can imprison/execute communists, refuse women any kind of rights, take advantage of impoverished kids by forcing them into the military or marrying them and tankies will still find the time to defend you because you don't like the west.