Circra [he/him]

Huh. Maybe it was a spy balloon then. The americans don’t usually miss civilian targets.

Well there ya go. They were just dropping off some stuff some of their agents left behind at the top secret meeting in the hollowed out volcano base.

It may have contained a first edition copy of A Tale of Two Cities, three rubber ducks, a slightly concussed mongoose, six expired condoms still in their packaging, a sachet of ketchup, a broken strimmer blade and the holy grail.

It didn’t of course. But it may have.

‘I bought two plants from the garden centre. When I got home I repotted one in the right compost, put it on the windowsill and watered it. The other I bunged in the airing cupbord and it died. Guess the first one just had stronger genes.’

Yeah 90% of adult media seems to be ‘streamline the plot and themes till it’s as subtle as a lead brick and whack in some tits and people getting mutilated.’ Coupled with the whole ‘yeah things are bad but don’t try to change them’ which weirdly I think might just come from damn near every writer and director coming from an affluent background. Funny how they wouldn’t want stuff to change even if loads of people are suffering.

It’s a very low bar indeed but watching Frozen 2 with my kid made me realise that it gives a much better answer to colonisation and exploitation of native peoples than almost all adult media that approaches the same subject matter.

This is gonna be one of those threads where people are dimly half aware that something is atomising and alienating everyone around them and forcing them into increasingly isolated, miserable and narrow existences and then they blame it on some semi real group of people instead of the dominant economic system, right?

Why the hell would superman wear armour? Honestly if I was superman and impervious to everything except kryptonite I wouldn’t even bother getting changed. I’d just fly in wearing jeans and a tshirt or whatever.

Watched rick and morty a bit. Struck me as the kinda show that relied far too much on the opening premise and kinda had nowhere much to go from there if it makes sense? Basically you could watch the first half of season 1 and be pretty certain the rest of the seasons would just be a rehash of it.

Not saying that’s a significant issue mind. It’s a cartoon parodying sci fi shows and films which themselves aren’t well known for stuff like character development. People esp early on though kept banging on about it as if it was way deeper and cleaverer than it was. All it was really doing from what I could see was taking a late 2000’s centrist lib viewpoint to shit over the philosophical and moral questions posed by the sci fi it was parodying with a sorta ‘baby’s first nihilism’ everyone is shitty message.

I guess when that’s your fundamental worldview it probably doesn’t matter to you too much if you know or strongly suspect a co worker is a monster maybe.

Yeah that’s the thing. You can do your best to atomize people, suppress unions and all the tricks capitalism uses to stop people engaging with politics but when you get something like a pandemic followed by a recession people notice that their standard of living has plummeted and they start looking at the greedy bastards raking it in.