ok but polygon is just outright criticizing capitalism at this point. they’re not even trying to hide it.
adhd student: i love learning and i actually hunger for knowledge, but the way the school system currently operates doesn’t work well for people with brains like mine. i am capable of maintaining acceptable and even good grades, but it takes about 3x the time and effort of the average student. all my life i have been receiving messages, overt and subtle, that i am deficient, lazy, and/or weird for my inability to perform well in that environment, and my self-worth has been utterly decimated as a result.
what ppl hear:
back at it again. gill & gilbert gays reblog with your favorite segment(s). mine are piss constable: miami and my two dereks
Hey I hit 1500 followers so here’s a bunch of cyberpunk gifs (Part 1 of 4)
i cannot express the very specific feeling of finishing the finale of dances moving, the most beautifully crafted and heartbreaking story brian david gilbert has ever produced, reaching the last few seconds of the video, reflecting on the raw emotion behind a simpleness of it, thinking about life,
and then
H U G H B R A N D I T Y
I don’t even go here but I’m still so angry about what happened to Hunger Games. The CLEAR allegories and political messages that were swept to the side and/or completely ignored in favor of a cool sci-fi dystopia story and a love triangle. The casting of a white adult Katniss. The REMOVAL of all (or nearly all) disabilities from the movies. How every fucking YA book jumped on the hot new trend of Rebel Girl Against Evil Society yet NONE of them managed to grasp that the Hunger Games dystopia wasn’t MADE UP based on some bullshit Hogwarts House sorting type system. And it wasn’t some bullshit teenage wish fulfillment fantasy about being Special and teenagers being The Only Smart Ones but rather Katniss is caught up in a groundswell movement that is so much BIGGER THAN HER. How when the movies came out corporate America started making fashion & beauty “Capitol” lines in a hilariously devastating display of irony. How nobody liked Mockingjay because it was “too dark” as though that wasn’t PRECISELY the point. How Katniss Herself was written off as though she’s just a Mary Sue action hero and she was “annoying” and not uniquely gifted because she had STRUGGLED and STARVED and learned how to survive the hard way and she was ANGRY. It basically inspired a new genre and yet all of these books were so pale and uninspired in comparison and the movies though they largely follow the plot somehow STILL managed to miss the point and the whole message was lost because of both these things.
FIRST PODFIC BABEY i talk waaaay too fast but it’s like 5 minutes long and it’s of @thebutterflymafia‘s incredible fic so check it out? (also first podfic in the fandom ????)
it took me like a full minute to realise that this was a post that was blocked with my own tumblr filters and not that “this post may contain reddit and american” was the funny post I was like wtf why can’t I reblog this