Quick reminder of context
Our home, our planet, is NOT dying. No, it will endure. The biosphere that supports *hominid life* is being burned out. Our dear Mother’s immune system will shed us all, and life will take a new shape.
There is NO Deus Ex Machina to ‘save’ us. No god or gods, no alien rescuers. No angels. No 'magic’. We are all we have (i say that alot), and we have failed each other. It will suck, it will be slow, like the last 30 years was. Then, it will seem sudden again, like the last month. The other sentients we share this home with have tried to warn, in what way they could, but in our arrogance we assume we are correct. It will hurt. We have the knowledge of our world thus far at our literal fingertips….and we still fucked it up.
jron:
marblesarelost:
astralbondpro:
The Blues Brothers (1980) // Dir. John Landis
Always reblog Jake and Elwood taking care of business.
Great scene, classic, but here me out here.
A ton of stuff in the Blues Brothers was based on current events in and around Chicago at the time (it was filmed in 1980). These included the perpetually unfinished expressway that looked infinitely high in the air, and definitely those Illinois Nazis.
They aren’t just comic relief or generic bad guys, they were an active group. Illinois Nazis were marching on & off in Chicago throughout the 70s, often in Marquette Park on the south side. In 1978 they planned a controversial March in Skokie, home to a lot of Holocaust survivors, but were denied a permit so they went back to Marquette Park again. These were based on real people in the news, and they were rightfully targeted for ridicule.
(Things got worse before they got better, with the KKK & the America First Committee joining the neo-Nazis at Marquette Park a few years later. INCAR (Intl Cmte Against Racism) disguised themselves as softball players at one rally & attacked the racists with bats, but spectators & police chased them away. Similar events occurred throughout the 80s.)
I hate Illinois Nazis.
jron:
cardassiangoodreads:
Seeing some nerdrage about the fact that if SAG-AFTRA strikes, actors won’t be able to do promotional stuff for their projects including at SDCC and, anyway I am once again asking online fandom to recognize that there are real human beings behind your entertainment products. Their welfare and their ability to just like, have a career at all doing the things they and you love (because most people who act for a living are not celebrity superstar multi-millionaires) is in fact more important than whether you get to stand in line for hours just to pay too much money for a handshake and a scribble on a photo. And I say this as someone who has paid too much money for those scribbles myself. Also the future that studios want to create where acting and writing is replaced by AI is bad for consumers, too, bad for anyone who cares about art! And also just, more basically: artistic labor is labor and if you enjoy the products of that labor, you should want the people who make that for you to be fairly compensated and treated well.
As my friend Cully said, SDCC may actually be a comic con this year.
SDCC actually being about ……COMIC BOOKS AGAIN!? GASP
Totally here for it.
