realisations that have grown on me in the last week

[tielan]

More Infinity War thoughts:

This was not a story we needed now.

THIS WAS NOT A STORY WE NEEDED NOW.

Maybe it seemed a fine idea back when American democracy still had the semblance of law and freedom, when HRC was on the road to winning the American election, when the idea was conceived in the heads of rich, famous, white men with nothing to lose. But when our society is rapidly heading down the darkest timeline, the thing most of us certainly did not need was a movie...about the darkest timeline.

There are stories of kids going to see the movie and coming out crying, not knowing that it's going to be okay. Frankly, I don't know if it's going to be okay. and I know that Carol is coming.

The whole matter of "will A4 introduce ideas that make my stomach churn" is kind of a given, tbh. *sigh*

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[kore]

OH GOD
SO MUCH WORD

SO
MUCH
WORD

I keep saying if I want a giant man with power fucking everything up, I can just look out the window! or turn on the TV. If we're going to have stories about resistance to how it's all fucked, I want stories about the RESISTANCE, thanks, not ones that make me try to feel bad about a psychopathic abuser.

//watches Rogue One again

[tielan]

Rogue One was a movie with a story we needed to hear. Infinity War...was not. Particularly not for people who are feeling increasingly helpless when previously they did not. (Although, as ladyjax has pointed out below, this is certainly a privilege that some people have and others do not.

[lynnenne]

I keep saying if I want a giant man with power fucking everything up, I can just look out the window!

I've been avoiding windows for more than a year, now. I used to report the news, once. Now I can't go near it without breaking into a cold sweat.

[kore]

Yeah, my dad was a newswriter all his life and I grew up a news and politics junkie. Now I avoid newspapers completely and pretty much just watch Maddow, because at least she doesn't leave me feeling hopeless.