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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
4hr ago
I bet a lot of them were just disappointed that, whatever the creators of Sherlock would have their audience believe (or not wink wink), Cumberbatch is not, in fact, a homosexual, and nor is Martin Freeman.
Apparently a bunch of art hoes felt "betrayed" by Chalamet's decision to start a relationship with a vapid airheaded bimbo* like Kylie Jenner.
What this "betrayal" amounts to is that said art hoes constructed a parasocial delusion of what Chalamet was "really" like based on the roles he'd played, then felt disappointed when the real thing didn't love up to the fantasy they'd constructed in their heads.
Newsflash: actors not same people as characters they portray. Like most heterosexual men, even soulful actors who can convincingly portray gay characters want to date hot rich girls with big tits, not annoying they/them quirk chunguses with green hair.
I just realised that the Gen X/Millennial equivalent was feminist writers feeling disappointed by Johnny Depp marrying archetypal grippy-socks-grippy-box BPD art hoe Amber Heard, twenty years his junior. Re-reading this piece is a cringe-inducing insight into Millennial feminism and this author's warped, pathetic worldview, no matter how much she might claim that its overwroughtness is intentional and tongue-in-cheek:
Never meet your heroes, they’ll only disappoint you. All I know is this: Johnny, I have loved you for so long. Decades. But it’s like I don’t even know who you are anymore. [It's not "like" you don't know who he is. You don't know who he is, and you never did. You've never even met him. You "knew" his screen persona.]
The first time I saw you, as Detective Tom Hanson, you were wearing glasses, as part of your “undercover” uniform. I thought to myself, That nerd has good cheekbones... Also, when Hoffs gave you a makeover and then you guys went to go play video games and buy records, my heart skipped a beat: You were down with brown?** That curly-haired black chick you’re hanging out with could be me. [Jesus Christ.] Honestly? The fact that we’re both Geminis was part of it. [Jesus Christ.]
[Edward Scissorhands] made it clear that not only were you a True Talent, but you were attracted to the odd, the off, the slightly damaged, the possibly broken inside. Yes. Exactly. Me too. [The film "made clear" none of these things. Johnny Depp is an ACTOR portraying a FICTIONAL CHARACTER who has BLADES FOR HANDS.]
Why would you, the anti-establishment, anti-celebrity celebrity slash wannabe-rebel, be making these choices, the kind of choices that make you seem like every other mediocre-talent middle-aged constant mid-life crisis man in Hollywood? [Because he was experiencing a midlife crisis upon entering middle age.] Your effortlessly managed, meticulously curated persona as mysterious eccentric creative hot thoughtful intriguing super cool guy? You’re shattering it. Decades-long crushes are being soured, longtime fans are confuzzled***, and I don’t even know what to say to people anymore. [Finally you're groping towards the truth. "Effortlessly managed" and "meticulously curated" is exactly what Depp's persona was. By definition, no one needs to "manage" or "curate" their "true selves".]
I love it when you come and make an appearance, mingle with the plebes and the riff-raff, but to be honest, it was even more appealing when you holed up in France, avoiding tabloid drama and paparazzi lenses. It’s kind of like in Scissorhands, when Edward’s living in a gothic castle on a hill, but Kim knows he’s still there — and that he still loves her — because it snows. [JESUS CHRIST.]
Probably the feminist Ryan Gosling meme contains a hefty dose of this fantasy too. Sorry ladies: the Goose can have any girl he wants, and he, too, wants to date a hot Latina. See also the absurd attempts to portray Harry Styles as "queer", which he obviously isn't under even the most expansive definitions of that famously ill-defined term.
Nerdy, socially awkward male screenwriters get a lot of stick for indulging their Manic Pixie Dream Girl fantasy, but in their defense, at least they're usually content to invent fictional characters to fulfil this fantasy for them, rather than conscripting real-life women into doing so and berating them when they can't perform a job they never agreed to carry out. If there's an instance of a professional male journalist getting paid to describe the anguish he felt upon learning that his favourite shy nerdy Twitch e-girl was in fact a fake gamer girl getting railed by Chad Thundercock™ every night, I'm not aware of it.
*Their words, not mine.
**The author's inference that Depp himself was "down with brown" because he portrayed a character who dated a black woman is, obviously, nonsense: as far as I can tell, Depp has never been romantically involved with a non-white woman.
**Oh no, we wouldn't want people getting confuzzled, would we? That would be totes not amazeballs, fo' shizzle.
I loved it, and would happily go to see it in the cinema a second time, something I hardly ever do. I have facetiously described it as a film about the horror of ending up in a relationship with an abusive BPD art hoe.
Lmao fair. Maybe if I re-read The Road today I'd find this stylistic device more annoying than I did on my first read. As I recall it's not a particularly dialogue-heavy book which might also make it more forgiveable.
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16hr ago
Funny, I don't remember noticing the lack of quotes in The Road. But when I heard Sally Rooney omits them that was all the reason I needed not to check her out.
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18hr ago
About two-thirds of the way through Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay.
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23hr ago
It's an inherent limitation. Some people gave ambiguous answers like "I don't know" or "I think so, but I have no proof and never got a confession". In the latter case I counted that as a yes.
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1d ago
To be clear, my description of Nikki as an abusive BPD art hoe was facetious. The film hammers home that Bear is a selfish coward who brings his fate upon himself, and for all his so-called "love" of Nikki, he's more than willing to sacrifice her well-being on the altar of his own sexual and romantic gratification.
That being said, I don't think it's an accident that the possessed Nikki's obsessive love of Bear manifests in a way that pattern-matches to so much stereotypically borderline behaviour: violent mood swings, abrupt temper tantrums, empty apologies (and promises to change one's behaviour) and manipulative suicide threats. I find it interesting that, when the director began writing the screenplay, it was just a story about an abusive romantic relationship with no supernatural elements at all: it was only a chance viewing of an episode of The Simpsons that inspired him to incorporate the "monkey's paw"/possession element into the story.
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1d ago
Well, if you consider school shootings terror attacks...
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2d ago
Hmm. If I was single, I think I would rather receive nudes intended just for me than watch porn.
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Gheobhaidh mé bás ar an gcnoc seo.
2d ago
Is it a thing Newfies do? They might as well be Irish.
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2d ago
Normally my fiancée scares much easier than me, but in this case I was more scared than her. I explained to her that it's a very male-coded style of horror: the horror of getting trapped in a relationship with an abusive BPD art hoe.
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2d ago
My fiancée. As I explained below, Irish people often use "himself" or "herself" to refer to their significant other. Occasionally I forget that this is a phrasing peculiar to the Irish.
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2d ago
The Pew Research Centre has a new political typology quiz.
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3d ago
Absolutely. The sound design is a big part of what made it so effective.
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3d ago
This is just how Hiberno-English works, I'm afraid.
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3d ago
I don't consider myself someone who scares easily. Even horror films I enjoy don't necessarily scare me that much.
Yesterday evening I went to see Obsession in the cinema.
It scared the BEJESUS out of me. As soon as I got out of the cinema, I said to herself "I need a drink".
It took me a few hours before I felt normal again.
If you get a chance to watch it in the cinema, take it. The hype is warranted.
A few weeks ago, Scott had a post where he described, as a child, how he thought food critics did their jobs. He was already familiar with the concept of double-blinding in medicine, and assumed that being a food critic was similar, with a restaurant's dishes being delivered to the critic's house in unmarked packages, perhaps literally spoon-fed to the blindfolded critic to ensure that he won't be biased by things like the restaurant's "ambiance", interior design or how the food is presented (as opposed to its taste, texture etc.). When he found out how food critics actually do their jobs, he was disgusted.
I had a bit of a shock of recognition, because when I was a child, I assumed that the footballers playing for Manchester United had to be from that city, or at the very least had to have lived within its borders for a significant period of time, so that the players are in some way representative of the sporting talent of that city. Otherwise, in what sense is it meaningful to say "we" beat Arsenal last night?
But no: it turns out the players are just the best people that team could afford, with absolutely no familial connection to the city of any kind. Even in the Olympics, my understanding is that you only have to be a citizen to represent "your" country.
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3d ago
Yeah, I think @100ProofTollBooth's interpretation was warranted.
Absolutely, or (as I pointed out in the OP), men who follow e-girls on Twitch who cancel their subscriptions when they discover their waifu has a boyfriend.
The difference being that any man who behaves this way is rightfully considered a laughingstock, whereas straight women who do the equivalent can earn money by doing so.
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