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And if I said Megamind is one of the few movies that understands Superman.

And if I said Megamind through its three subversions of Superman shows a deeper understanding that the point of Superman is that he was loved and taught to love by good, present parents, and because of that he is able to return that love to a world even if it doesn’t always accept it, and he is not corrupted by his power, than many other films either subverting or playing the superman story straight.

Megamind has three Superman subversions. One is obviously Megamind himself. He was not raised loved by the world, but rather was loved by those hated by the world. Because he was still raised with love, he does care about other people, hence his character development. But because he didn’t receive wider love growing up, his own is misplaced at first.

Metro Man was not loved growing up in a way that mattered. His adopted father was clearly very absent, and while we don’t know much about his family, their relationship seems superficial. Because of this, his sense of duty to the world is also superficial, hence his boredom.

Hal wasn’t raised with power. He gained it and was shown how to use it by a ‘space dad’ who only taught him power and not love. Hence, he sees it only as a grasping means to an end.

All three of these subversions, in their negative space, create the silhouette of the superhero that they are parodying. That silhouette is of a space child that came to earth and was cared for very deeply by the world, and taught love through his experience of love, and because of that holds fast to his duty to the world. Which is Superman.

I want this person and this person only writing and directing Superman movies for the rest of my life

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Oct 14, 2025

artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet:

i just started listening to hozier (ik, like over a decade late, whatever), but bruh. some of y'all did this dude so dirty. everything i’ve ever seen of him on here has been like “uwu magical forest man” and so my black ass goes into it expecting white boy indie music, but instead i get this radical leftist irish guy straight up singing the blues, like?? (singing the blues/having a lot of blatantly black musical influences, BUT crediting his influences in the process, which is a an important distinction)

like y'all. has anyone told tiktok what kind of music this man actually makes? bc some of them might be shooketh to find out their precious forest man is actually telling them to dismantle the oppressive institution of colonialism while actively paying homage to artists of color

well, that and also to eat pussy, but same thing tbh

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Oct 14, 2025

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once again acting against my better judgment I’ve been making an effort to check out more booktubers lately. clicked on a video of sapphic book recs for very specific prompts. first prompt is requesting older lesbians going through a midlife crisis. recommendation is about characters who are in their early thirties. this is dire.

discovering that there’s a sincere argument about whether or not there’s any point in owning physical books. normal stuff out here.

I don’t want to sound harsh but I think if this is the title of a video that is 43 minutes long maybe you should spend more than the first ten minutes talking about this alleged discourse

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and perhaps you should have something more interesting to say about it than playing someone else’s tiktok about minding your own business

numerous people responding to this wondering if they should start a booktube channel, and besties having done some cursory research I can promise: there are dumber people than you already doing it. chase your dreams.

surely not all of them

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you guys are not gonna believe it but the thesis of the above video was that romantasy books shouldn’t be called escapist because the world building is bad and male protagonists are mean sometimes and therefore it doesn’t make sense that anyone would enjoy reading them

guys I don’t want to overstate this but I’ve struck literal and actual gold

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the central idea here is that “books are bad now” because poor employment practices in publishing have lead to a dearth of editors, which sounds promising, but then our intrepid booktuber goes on to make claims as drastic as “even the good books I’ve read recently are worse than good books five years ago” (slight paraphrase) without naming a single actual book to support her argument. this is so peak.

I’ll freely admit I clicked on this video purely for the clickbait ass title, but imagine my delight when our friend Shelley unintentionally provided me with this image encapsulating like half of my gripes with booktube content

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I’ve watched some pretty mid videos til the bitter end just to make sure I can judge them fairly but I did have to drop this one like a hot potato when I realized that one of their tier rankings is “good except it had sex in it”

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love and light but there does come a point where our literary preferences are clearly different enough that I don’t think I’ll be gaining much from your ranking

I will admit I haven’t watched this one yet but god I love a needlessly inflammatory title

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for the record, as an avowed library user, I just want to say that I don’t think I’m better than anyone

it’s briefly mentioned in the above video that some nebulous number of people on tiktok are “shaming” others for buying books instead of checking them out from libraries, which is such a nothingburger argument that it really doesn’t seem to warrant serious consideration, at least in my opinion. to her credit, Lady of the Library does in fact spend very little time actually talking about that; this video is mostly about how public libraries are cool and you should use them (but also if you can’t or don’t that’s fine and buying books from indie sellers is also great).

cannot believe the clickbait betrayed me; I’ve got bad discourse blue balls now.

thank you to my beloved @dykerory for pointing me to some of the worst book takes I’ve ever encountered

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the “degeneracy” in the title is a red flag right away, but truly nothing could have prepared me for how bad this got.

the creator begins by claiming to only be relaying objective facts, not opinion, before proceeding to claim that women simply don’t like watching porn because they can’t get off without knowing the full backstory of the characters having sex. there are wild levels of gender essentialism at work here, to the point of almost explicitly arguing that erotic novels are dangerous to women because women are more empathetic than men and therefore are too sensitive to read stuff like that without getting dangerously overwhelmed and addicted. the creator describes romance novels as “emotional roller coasters designed to ensnare women,” and claims that reading books like Rebecca Yarros’ Fourth Wing and Ali Hazelwood’s Deep End caused her to enter a depressive episode in which she lost sleep and her appetite. I fear that listening to a song like Nissan Altima would kill her instantly.

near the end of the video Miss Facts Only makes one of my favorite bad books arguments, which is that western literature is objectively in decline and that this should be apparent to any reader. curiously she’s unable to provide any citation on this, although I would say that some illumination can be found in her own recommended reading list, revealing that the authors she recommends “without reservation” include the likes of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and H.P. Lovecraft.

inspiring.

oh fuck, Miss Degeneracy is at it again… do I dare?

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Genuinely, you don’t, she will give you an aneurysm.


The more you learn about Hillary Layne the more you begin to detest her in an uncomfortably eldritch way.


The way this woman is specifically engineering herself to be this dreamy 1990s british novelist following in Tolkien’s footsteps. The Lois and Clark Lois Lane look with the Color palette of J.K. Rowling. The Faux intelligentsia of her socials, the false skulls, strewn unused scrolls and papers she doesn’t use (writes on a pc), the live-journaling of her writing journey with an aesthetic shot of said desk.

The pretentiousness of having a refined taste of media, she doesn’t check the Horoscope, she checks Kafka; she posts technology bad, book good pictures; she is excited beyond belief at being bought a 12 volume of the 1933 English Dictionary; opinion piece on Umberto Eco.


And like, not in a way where you can tell it’s an actual nerd nerding out about their interests, you look through her reading lists, and it’s either pretentious, books she clearly hasn’t read when you watch her videos, or a very small selection of books about a period of Chinese and Japanese history (one book each, this will become important later.)

You do not believe her supposed passion, because she’s so airbrushed about being a bookworm that it’s clearer and clearer when you look into her that she’s actually obsessed with looking like a well read mature intellectual than the nerdy author she claims to be.


Speaking of her as an Author, she wrote one book.


A novel, where she apes and just does Asian Orientalism like it’s a sport. She copies the names, aesthetics and cultures in a way you can tell it’s all solely from that one chinese history book she recommended on her reading list.


It’s specifically funny because through her YouTube opinions you learn this woman firmly believes that you should write only about what you know, but similarly to her other opinions it’s unsubstantiated and only there to make her look smart without more thought. (I still can’t from having watched the degeneracy video with her “Miltipiple studies claim…” Shite where she shows and cites no studies for her gender essentialism.)

now the thing is that you’re right on all counts and I should have listened, but I didn’t and so now it’s my profound displeasure to inform everyone that as proof that schools are producing deliberately bad writers in the 2020s, Hilary cites a paper from 1989 accusing schools of being overrun by Soviets who are making children dumber so that they’ll be more compliant for a future of socialism. super normal!

Oct 14, 2025

dancinbutterfly:

writterings:

it’s really funny teaching rhetoric to college freshmen because i explained ad hominem to them via example by arguing with a student over something silly (i kept insisting 25 minutes was a quarter of an hour, not 15) and then “insulted” her instead of addressing her argument (i said she doesn’t have a college degree whereas i have two, so of course she’d be wrong - which the whole point is that it’s a stupid insult but not something that’s actually mean) but she got soooooo mad so even when i stopped the exercise and explained that she was indeed correct (15 minutes is a quarter of an hour). like she was still fuming. so i validated her feelings on that, complimented her, and even reminded the class that a college degree doesn’t mean that a person is smart/right. and then i went on to explain that, yeah, dirty arguing techniques like that are meant to make you so unreasonably angry that you can’t respond or that you lose your cool, so your opponent looks like they win by default. the student i was arguing with then just said that it seemed like professional ragebaiting and i was like. well yeah that’s correct.

and then this kid, this one kid who is always very eager to answer questions and is always kind to his classmates, raised his hand looking a little bothered. now for context, i emphasize thinking for yourself in my classroom, even if that means disagreeing with something i say and he has echoed some stuff that his parents clearly have told him before. he’s not a bad kid or an asshole, he’s just an 18 year old with conservative parents who otherwise knows nothing about politics. but he just looks so bothered after i explain this about dirty arguing techniques. big frown on his face. looking unsure. when i nod at him to speak, he says, in a very quiet voice, “didn’t – didn’t charlie kirk used to do that?”

and i was like. well yes. yes he was famous for stuff like this.

and then the kid looked down and was just like, “oh. i thought he was just really good at debating. i never watched his videos though, only clips. why would he do that?”

and that coincidentally lined up perfectly with the rest of the lesson, which was on propaganda

this? is why conservatives hate liberal arts education

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Oct 01, 2025

bongjoonheaux:

bongjoonheaux:

I hate European companies every time I email them and they’re like “Sorry the entire company is going on vacation for a month” I’m like “Oh that’s cool let me just” and then I go to the bathroom and start crying so hard I start vomiting and then I come back and finish my email “Np! Have fun :)”

Getting all these emails from people who are going on these longass vacations is already stark but then my coworkers will inevitably pull some “Ha unlike us HARDWORKING AMERICANS! GRINDSET” shit I have to fight not to attack them with whatever heavy object I can find

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Sep 27, 2025

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