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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · Feb 15

I feel like Catch 22 is one of the most obviously leftist books just bc the protagonist is a smart guy who understands the insanity around him in perfect clarity, but nobody takes him seriously because it's also turned him into a miserable, high-strung neurotic

And what's more leftist than that

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 57m

Which, firstly, wild to not pick up on subtext so obvious it barely counts as subtext

but secondly: even more wild to be that emotionally invested in the idea Village People made hetero music

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1h

Just remembered when someone had to tell Human Pet Guy that the Village People were singing about gay topics and he reacted like Luke Skywalker finding out Darth Vader's his father

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 13h

Exactly. It's also why I don't let the men I date pay for me; it's so often framed as a nice gentlemanly gesture until you have a fight and it's immediately weaponized

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 13h

That shit especially irks--or triggers, even--me because they WILL start trying to do it with you, like make you rely on them for their own weird ego shit

And I haaaaate feeling reliant on and indebted to people. I hate handing over leverage like that. Prob bc of people like this!

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 14h

Yup, it's a textbook vulnerable narcissist move

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 14h

Like the type of person who literally no one has asked to take on 1000 responsibilities, but does so bc they NEED to feel like everyone relies on them

And then turns around like "Can you believe they do this to me, the most selfless person in the world?"

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 14h

One of my least favorite type of people is the person who "complains" constantly about having to do everything for everyone

But the second you're like "Ok well then stop doing your grown sons laundry", they look pissed & you realize they JUST want you to confirm they're a martyr

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

Is acting like a goblin in the privacy of your own home a universal thing. Like is everyone manically pacing, muttering along to the pretend argument you're having in your head, occasionally shouting "Laissez les bon temps rouler" in a Cajun accent, etc? We all go goblin mode at home, right?

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

Right, but *I'm* not struggling with that aspect. It seems like a lot of the fans are, however.

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

Also, as a person who happily slurps down lore like a dumb pig, I gotta say: I have never encountered a sci-fi/fantasy universe before that made me say "...this is too much lore" until wh40k

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

I mean I'm on board for a no good guys story, but it really seems like a lot of people can't process that and settle for deciding the fashy techno-priest war machine empire are the heroes

...OR they're just dumb guys with bad politics

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

Like call me crazy guys but I don't think the Imperium of Man is good

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

Dunno how but I got sucked into learning Warhammer 40k lore and I gotta say the amount of fans I'm seeing who seem to unironically lionize a feudal theological autocracy with a pretty blatantly fascist eternal war ethos is...weird

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

its extremely fucked, some states are passing child labor laws re: this bc the first generation of family channel kids are college aged & going before congress like "My parents used me as a meal ticket, never put money aside for me & invited pedos to stalk me by posting me in the bathtub at 6 y/o"

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

Actually its a good thing when I can reproduce my own unpaid household staff who are dependent on me in every way, those court mandated parenting classes don't know shit

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

It was filmed with indoor Ring security cameras & the parents weren't around. I did get the sense this was his routine

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

And ngl I can at least understand why someone pushes their eldest kid into a co-parent role when they're a stressed single parent. It's still not good, but I get WHY.

This family is like an upper middle class two parent household. What are you DOING.

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 1d

God just saw a video some content creator posted of their, like, 8 year old kid getting his younger siblings up, dressed, fed & onto the bus before waking up his parents, and it was framed as "raising a responsible young gentleman!"

Bro thats textbook parentification, that's not a good thing lol

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 2d

She really is. She has the facial proportions of a Times Square tourist trap caricature portrait.

And like I know that's unfair, she can't help if her face looks like that, but also: she can go fuck herself

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 2d

I'm honestly transfixed by it. Just a thick ass v-line that stops abruptly in the middle of the top & bottom lids.

You start to realize she wouldn't have such Beady Little Pig Eyes if she just learned how to do it correctly

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yeah, I played alto+tenor sax in middle & high school band and that feeling of everything coming together, like all the individual moving parts of the band working in tandem, creates such a weird high

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 2d

The worst part is, the screenshot actually makes it look better than it is

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 2d

Right?? And it's wild because a LOT of John Williams stuff is pretty much just ripping off guys like Holst, Dvorak, etc. Whenever I hear the 1:13 mark in Tchaikovskys Marche Slave, I'm like "Oh John Williams practically copy+pasted this shit"

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 3d

It definitely is, which is weird because it used to be considered this wildly rebellious counter-culture genre & every gatekeeping snob at the time talked about it the same way assholes talk about hip hop today

Then I guess some snobs went "This is our thing now, actually, youre too dumb to get it"

r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 3d

And I think it's, ironically, it's own weird sort of classist gatekeeping to dismiss ~high brow culture~ shit as "not for people like me"

It's for everyone, you should be democratizing art