you cant fuck anything from will vinton’s claymation comedy of horrors. its not usual for me to link videos here but i feel that, while my audience may consist largely of shitsaying webfools deprived of the common sense not to try and fuck that which should not be fucked, one more thing i would not wish anyone to be deprived of is this little known masterpiece. a 1991 animated tv special featuring not only an array of unfuckable creatures, but some of the most fluid and yet most revolting stop motion i have ever seen. it was intended to be the first in a series of shorts about despicable con artist furries wilshire pig and sheldon the snail, who for some unknowable reason never caught on. happy halloween to all the pals, buddys, friendos, buckos and chums what follow this blog. dont fuck anything i wouldnt fuck.
ive got something very special to share with you my dear, wretched acolytes, on this day of festivity where gods can be murdered, oviposition is rampant and anything (except fucking osmosis jones) is possible. i was informed by several of you after making this post that our pal wilshire pig does in fact feature in will vinton’s A Claymation Easter, which i cant actually find online, but what i did find by searching for it is a deviantart account with a level of noble dedication and commitment to an idea to rival the sistine chapel
i think we can all agree that eggs are played-out shit and batmaiden.deviantart.com is the true gift of this holiday
I’m watching British Antiques Roadshow and the expert is explaining about how to tell high quality monkey orchestra figurines from lower-quality knockoffs
monkey orchestra being a style of hugely popular porcelain figures from the 1750s. they started making them after someone said the king’s orchestra sounded like trained monkeys during a banquet and the king thought that was so funny that someone went home and started sculpting porcelain monkeys in formal dress with musical instruments to give to the king and then suddenly everyone wanted a porcelain monkey orchestra to display at parties.
it’s a stupid in-joke that suddenly everyone needed. it’s a popular meme from the 1750s. this is like 18th century rare pepes. this is amazing.
You know what my favorite piece of reactionary media is?
Ghostbusters.
Hear me out, I’ve mentioned this before, but forever ago. It’s a movie about a bunch of guys who, in the go-go ’80s, give up on academia to found a startup based on cutting edge technology. They settle in gritty New York City, specifically rehabilitating decaying public safetyinfrastructure, and their job description is literally “drive around town with the siren on, rehabilitating once-glorious locations by imprisoning vandalous spooks”.
They clean the city up, create jobs for the black and white ethnic working class, but face resistance from pointy-headed bureaucrats. (The dickless EPA guy manages to represent both “overregulation” and “safety-threatening prisoner releases” with admirable efficiency.) Ultimately though, the meddlers have to relent in the face of their success at making the city safe for innocents, as represented by yuppie singles in their 30s.
(Ghostbusters II is about the guys making the city a safe place for those yuppies to raise kids by cleansing cultural institutions of evil influence using the power of American patriotism, while the judiciary and mayor come to accept that whatever the law or political elites might say, busting is both necessary and popular.)
Meanwhile, it’s fucking Ghostbusters.
What I love about Ghostbusters is you can write something similarly convincing about how progressive Ghostbusters is. Try watching this video (here’s an excerpt):
When Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler and Winston Zeddemore stand before Gozer the Gozarian; they are scientists of no discernibly notable religious disposition (except for Winston, sort of) standing against a god - and they’ve come to defeat that god *with science.*GHOSTBUSTERS, fundamentally, stripped to its core, is a movie about science versus superstition - the ascendant technological ingenuity of man (and, as mentioned, not even “special” ingenuity that only certain benighted scientists can use, since the Ghostbusters have already refined their tech into a democratized user-friendly form that a newbie like Winston can evidently learn to wield in the course of a day or two) versus (literally!) the ancient powers of the gods. And since nearly all modern stories about humanity’s relation to ancient or fictional gods are subtextually “about” the relation of said story’s society of origin to its own currently-dominant spiritual belief systems… yeah, you see where this going: GHOSTBUSTERS is a science vs religion story where religion gets its ass handed to it.
Yeah that vision of intellectual progress and that vision of reactionary restoration ARE perfectly compatible, aren’t they?
come to think of it, someone could hack Undertale and fill it with over the top Christian references, so when you face an adversary you can either choose to turn the other cheek or to bring not peace but the sword
Kinda weird no one brings up the obvious, lamp-hung precedent of Paula’s “Pray” action in Earthbound tbh.
have you ever thought how weird it is that people get to have one best friend, for life?
felt like maybe there’s another way to do it… after all, what’s the problem with having more than one? right? what’s the big deal?
you’re not alone! you might be bfply (pronounced like “fly”, and very fast). come join the bfplyamorous community! we’re a welcoming bfunch! best of luck!
marxism has become a historical pile of nonsensical answers instead of a critical method so i dont have much interest in it. the only place you really see the critical method anymore is in the economics stuff so here i am
marxism in academic fields, ordered by sanity
history (social) history (political) history (economic) economics history (intellectual) political science sociology history (cultural) anthropology there are no marxist psychologists because psychology is a bourgeois pseudoscience but if they were they’d probably be here some made up pomo thing studies philosophy
