Anonymous asked: it feels like you've left good material on the table and should leave it in the text, or give yourself the space to build it out -- your posts are trifles but they could be meals
from this end it feels like I resort to allusions (left clear enough for anyone with Google to follow through on if they want) as a way to acknowledge all the connections and adventure hooks I see without any/every given post becoming the billion-link hairball
*team talon comic where Reaper is randomly like “arriba!” and “andale!” cuz he’s just a big Speedy Gonzalez fan and when Sombra tries to call him on it he gives her shit for her Tweety + Sylvester seat covers*
Well, this is thematically coherent and strategically batshit
Like, “a social license to operate from Vox-reading types” is antifa’s biggest asset right now, “a unified high-low, streets-suites coalition based in gentrifying major cities” is the only thing checking the right at all right now
This is going on now; the antifa are outside chanting against the evil of “white babies” while inside, the YIMBYs smugly comfort themselves that as good liberals they share the same goals and values, just unlike the protestors (or anyone else, at all, who doesn’t play with GIS and R for fun) THEY are qualified to realize them
So the thing about Jonathan Larson’s work – and this is most visible and central in tick, tick…BOOM!, but also very important to Rent – is that it is 100% about the zeitgeist of the ‘90s.
Which means something more than “a lot of people are dying of AIDS.”
Anonymous asked: hey, have you seen the new spiderman? feel like you'd have some thoughtful shit to say about the precise mix of frumpy and sexy (and "sexy") they have going on with Aunt May. imo she's too sexualized to be relatable for the young cat lady demo, not cool/sassy enough for the #getitgirl demo. Maybe the opposite, an appeal to older nerd dudes who'd feel weird getting eye candy from high schooler characters?
Is “fuckable 40something” more of a thing now, is the question? I dunno, I could see it, if only like dadbod and polyamory a way to put a shine on lowered expectations
