She’s already fabulously wealthy so it’s hardly as if she gives a shit anymore anyways.

I brought this up here with House of the Dragon and the discourse around, anyone who thinks gay characters dying = the “bury your gays” trope needs to read The Celluloid Closet or watch the equaling good documentary based on it.

While “bury your gays” exists as far back as works of 18th Century literature, it was coined…

The system doesn’t care; it has Black people to harass.

People aren’t “looking for reasons” to be angry. People are rightfully angry over transphobia, and this game is based on the franchise created by one of the world’s most visible transphobes. And fuuuuuuuuuck you and your stance of “ignore it and it’ll go away”. That’s not how social change works. The trans community…

Do they have Autopilot? If so, that’s not all that they’re going to hit . . . .

Ugh. Why couldn’t they have made it a customizable player character? Why are we once again forced to play as Blando McDorkface? After over 30 years of playing video games, I’m soooooo tired of boring white male protagonists.

It’s always projection with these pieces of shit. Every fucking time. 

It’s nice you can so fully see her side and how she was thinking in those tremendous moments of despair. Thanks for letting us all know.

Sadly, the link to the tiktok was LibsofTikTok, a literal stochastic terrorist account, who are responsible for getting nutters to call in bomb threats to hospitals who do gender surgeries. They’re cancer. TheRoot should know better than linking to that account.

This has always been my read as well.  A crushingly sad admission.  So powerful.

Just posted something similar before seeing your comment - I take “and then I wake up,” coming after the description of the comforting dream about his dad, to mean there is no comfort coming (and I don’t mean in an afterlife way, just that the world is getting harder and meaner in his eyes).

The Tommy Lee Jones bookends have always stuck with me. I’ve tried to be an optimist and lean toward there always being hope but there is this nagging feeling that the only hope we have is while dreaming.

No Country for Old Men is a masterpiece, and the gas station scene in the clip above may be my favorite from the movie. But I do want to ask a question about the ending, and hopefully get some responses from the commentariat here:

A message to the public: If you see this fugitive, no you didn’t.

Found it!

I don’t give a shit about his self-loathing. He can loathe himself all day and night. It’s his loathing for other Black people (and Jews, and, and and...) that’s the problem.

What struck me is that their plan was to steal all of the Imperial stash of credits, and in the end they barely made a dent just because there was too much money to steal. It’s an enormous victory for the Rebellion because it’s a huge sum of cash that will fund Rebel cells across the galaxy. To the Empire it amounts to…

That character was more or less a stand in for real life Portland mayor Sam Adams, who very much wanted to be seen that way.  He was also in the show. 

I was hoping that would get brought up too.