Dude I Forgot To Shoutout The Goldbergs They’re Another Chaotic Family I Love!

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whatever else you have to say about katy perry i do have to say "do you ever feel like a plastic bag" is maybe one of the all time funniest ways to start a song

Just watched the new Futurama ep that came out today, Quids Game and my god it was a lot better than last weeks crypto turd.

The plot was another episode that focused on Fry’s past which is a concept of the show that always intrigues me, it gave me vibes of two episodes I love from the Comedy Central era those being Game Of Tones & Murder On The Planet Express.

It was nice that the episode didn’t have those irritating “Fry is dumb laugh” flanderizion moments from the last few seasons when ever he spoke (which is a problem that happens way too often with HD era Futurama) and it had those sweet and sc-fi moments that made me love the show growing up. Anyways fantastic ep I give it a strong 9/10

This is just going to be more thinking out loud for me, so feel free to yell at me if I’m getting anything wrong here. But I think that it is at least somewhat important to point out how terrible Lily’s media criticism/literacy skills and takes are for two main reasons.

One reason is that this is the main way she draws in extremely vulnerable people into her audience and grows support, financial/otherwise. Which allows her to continue abusing, grooming, and being a predator towards an ever increasing fucking number of people, while also having many toxic stans that will enable/increase her ability to do so.

Another main reason that I’ve believed this is because LO ties SO. FUCKING. MUCH. Of her abusive behaviors/beliefs into her media criticism. Whether it’s absuing Cypher for not dogmatically agreeing with her own crappy Sylvanas headcannons, hurling xenophobic abuse at people for enjoying Japanese culture and anime, or slandering queer artists that she hates as being pedos, sex pests, or somehow creepy/fetishistic in the children’s cartoons that they create.

There’s just so much of Lily’s absuive behaviors, actions, and ideas that she puts into her media rants themselves, that I think they’re very worthwhile in really dissecting and picking apart. DEFINITELY not as much as her abusive and predatory actions/behaviors outside of her videos are obviously, but still pretty important nonetheless. At least to me at this moment.

You've hit the nail on the head, which is why some people still talk about her media takes. She's one of those people who actually does wrap up her real-world beliefs and manipulative tendencies into the fiction she creates and consumes, along with projecting her fetishes into it and claiming the work itself was fetishistic.

Her channel is pure bait.

Homophobic bigots get shit thrown at the stimboard

"I know JK Rowing is a terrible person but her books are so good-"

You sure about that?

I mean, just for a start, have you taken a good look at her fantasy creatures lately? A whole bunch of them are straight-up based on malicious and dehumanizing stereotypes about actual people.

Remember the werewolves? And being a werewolf was made into a kind of metaphor for having AIDS?

And you know how AIDS was first associated with gay men? And how conservatives back in the day were claiming gay men were preying on children in order to convert them to gayness?

Remember how Fenrir Greyback preyed on children in particular? Yeah, she put that subtext in there. She was an adult in the 90's. She knew damn well what she was doing.

Remember the house elves? Remember how most of them loved to serve and needed to have a home and a master or else they just wouldn't know what to do with themselves?

Did you know that's literally what slavers in the American South said about the Black people they kept enslaved? Go look up the happy slave myth.

Do I even need to get into the goblins and the antisemitic tropes they're based on? No, folkloric goblins were not gold-hoarding bankers waiting for their chance to stab humanity in the back.

"But the characters are so good!"

Are you kidding me?

Most of her characters are pretty one-dimensional, including Harry. Her idea of making a morally complicated character is giving a tragic past to a bully. Numerous characters are little more than stereotypes. (Looking at Fleur right now.) Literally anybody, including you, can easily make dozens of characters just as good, if not better. (It doesn't exactly take a lot of character designing skill to go, "hey, actually, having a sad backstory doesn't make it okay to bully children" or "hey, maybe I should not base a character on the first stereotype that pops into my head.")

"But the rest of the worldbuilding!"

Sorry, but her worldbuilding is just as basic as her characters. Magical castles and secret passages are stock tropes. Magical people who keep their true nature secret from humanity is the premise of pretty much every White Wolf TTRPG. Most of her fantasy creatures are just common European fairy tale and folklore creatures with shitty stereotypes projected onto them.

I'm not saying "basic worldbuilding bad." I'm saying, you could do just as good, if not better, with minimal effort.

Also there's her magical bioessentialism, where only Harry's abusive blood relatives could provide him with supernatural protection from Voldemort. Rowling thus effectively declared that non-biological family isn't quite real family, and that abusive biofamily can give you some essential thing that a loving, supportive family that isn't related to you just can't.

The Hogwarts houses are one of the most insidious elements of her worldbuilding. The idea of being sorted gives you a little dopamine hit because wow now you have a li'l niche where you belong!

But the actual function of the houses and sorting system and the House Cup is teaching children to see each other as rivals, and ensure that the most toxic views of the upper class get passed on to every new batch of kids sorted into Slytherin.

Hogwarts effectively prepares children for a dystopia where magic serves to distract its citizens from how nightmarishly awful it is. Economic inequality is so bad that people like Arthur and Molly Weasley can barely afford to put their kids through school, casual sadism is just an accepted norm in everyday society, and non-humans are second class citizens. Rowling sorta acts like she thinks this is a bad thing with certain lines she gave to Dumbledore, but in the end, her special boy protagonist becomes an auror; IE, a defender of the status quo. So.

If you've never seen it, Lily Simpson's video goes into even more detail on how the worldbuilding of Harry Potter is actually incredibly fucked up, and how it betrays small-minded attitudes on Rowling's part. There's no separating the art from this artist, because Rowling's rotten values pour out of nearly every page.

Yes, there are many things in Harry Potter that evoke feelings and inspire people, but there's absolutely nothing in it that this series has a monopoly on. You can find those same experiences in much, much better media.

I had a nightmare last night that the muskrat guest starred in Futurama for a couple of episodes as some random character and it was horrifying, I still remember the dread and depression I felt:(

*watching the news* TV: For reasons unknown, a man jumped into the tank at the aquarium to fight a giant squid. Shego: What kind of idiot would do that? *door opens* Drakken: *walks in dripping wet and covered with ink* Shego: ...Never mind, I don't wanna know.