[ SECRET POST #4051 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4051 ⌋

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Comments

[morieris]

The reason I'm okay with him being on the back burner is so these rabid fans cool off.

Though i guess we could have used their support when Skull Island came out...that fell a little short Domestically.

Re: Really?

[(Anonymous)]

Obviously, you can never say for sure, but I think the problem was that it seemed like it was staged for publicity - and not only that, but really flagrantly and obviously and poorly staged for publicity. It made it annoying to see news about and it made it impossible to take it seriously and the whole thing felt really, really awkward and embarrassing.

And I think there's also an element of like... Taylor Swift had a playbook of publicity tricks that she'd been using for a long time, and it had worked pretty successfully, and then to see those exact same tricks used in a context where it was so totally unsuccessful and awkward, it makes it much more dissonant. So there's that context as well. And I think it was when people were generally starting to feel that she was too overexposed.

But mostly, it was really badly done for publicity.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember the strong, intense feelings of childhood towards her family members, how she felt much closer to her father and that her mom was harsh or didn't like her, and that her mother preferred her sister. I remember much feeling the same about my mom, and the uneasy guilt of preferring the fun, sympathetic parent to the harsh, unreasonable one as a child.

The mother seems often portrayed as saintly and grim, but harsh as well IMO...with the puritan strictures around fun things and pretty intense Sabbath rules.

Another book I remember strong, troubled feelings about, Caddie Woodlawn and being able to do outdoors things, before having to "grow up and be a woman." It really troubled me, the harsh strictures of womanhood she was supposed to grow into. No more nature or freedom...

[(Anonymous)]

What would be the evidence for this interpretation? Or is it just for fun?

Re: Media with "good guy" reptiles?

[morieris]

Uhhh Sonic Heroes has Team Chaotix and Vector the Crocodile.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Apparently so. Some people on this website need a reality check if they can’t figure out why others would find such a relationship gross...

Re: Tide's commercials

[(Anonymous)]

The tennis one is the best one!

Re: Mission Impossible Trailer

[(Anonymous)]

This is the one I want to see the most.

Re: Avengers 3 Teaser

[(Anonymous)]

I don't even feel teased. That wasn't all that much.

Mmhmm!

[(Anonymous)]

I see it. Yep.

Autism is more than a set of sensory issues and social deficits. People who know what to look for in autistic people can sometimes spot it in the way someone moves through their environment and interacts with it. Autistic people have this awkward yet conscious deliberateness about the motions/gestures that neurotypicals make without having to think about it. Blending in and not looking weird takes conscious effort a lot of the time.

For the record, I am autistic myself.

Re: Media with "good guy" reptiles?

[(Anonymous)]

Clyde the tortoise on Elementary is totally a hero. He puts up with Sherlock using him as a model ambulance.

Re: What has sucked for you recently?

[kaijinscendre]

Hopefully tomorrow is better!

Re: Media with "good guy" reptiles?

[greghousesgf]

Snakes are wise good guys in some Native American mythologies.

Re: Media with "good guy" reptiles?

[raspberryrain]

I'm sure I'm forgetting something obvious....

Louis the alligator in Disney's The Princess and the Frog? Sort of?

The 'hydras,' or snake-girls, in the webcomic Modest Medusa are creepy, but not generally evil. The biggest 'heroic' characters so far seem to be some humans and some renegade vampires. Most of the hydras we see are little kids. But apparently there have been significant heroic hydras in the past.

Sensor in 'reboot'-era Legion of Superheroes comics was an alien snake.

[silverr]

This, absolutely.

I have to wonder how people think "seeing more of these characters" automatically gets translated into "Oh yeah, they're totally going to bone!"

[(Anonymous)]

They can be exploitative, sure. But I'm not convinced they "often" or "usually" are.

Also, context matters.

[(Anonymous)]

lol guess I'm going to hell oops

[(Anonymous)]

Japan has Xmas markets? I thought that was a German thing.

What food did you used to love but now hate?

[(Anonymous)]

Why?

Re: 16 is the age of consent in Indiana

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

No, I meant 16 and under. It's 12 in Angola and some states in Mexico, 13 in Japan (along with a few other countries), 14 in Italy (along with quite a few other countries), 15 in France (along with quite a few other countries), and 16 in so many countries

Re: 16 is the age of consent in Indiana

[(Anonymous)]

The minimum marriageable age is probably a old law that no one ever bothered to change (but should), whereas deciding it's okay for minors over a certain age to consent to sex outside of marriage is probably relatively new.

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT

I don't have any data on this (and I'm not sure how you could even gather such data) so it feels a little pointless to be arguing about what percentage of such relationships are bad or exploitative. I don't think it's really empirically measurable.

That said, I think the fundamental power imbalance is so pronounced that it's intrinsically risky and at the very least in danger of being exploitative, even if we can't quantify the specifics.

[(Anonymous)]

what do you mean. why.

[(Anonymous)]

Every relationship imaginable is in danger of being exploitative.

Re: Media with "good guy" reptiles?

[junee]

Kaa in the actual book version of the Jungle Book is a good guy.