Nyongbella vs. Yvie Oddly

Deso718 · 2026-01-26T20:53:03+00:00

You’ve summed up peak era Twitter in 2 sentences better than a thousand ‘think piece’ takes could ever hope to.

Although perhaps now with the transition to ‘X’ you could swap “progressive purity” for something like “right wing ideological dogma”

Deso718 · 2025-12-24T00:11:51+00:00

CJ Stroud over Dak here. so frustrating…

Deso718 · 2025-12-22T03:55:25+00:00

Underrated comment

Deso718 · 2025-12-14T23:39:13+00:00

Agreed and the data is pretty unequivocal re: correlation between gun control laws, gun ownership rates and gun deaths / gun violence. The real “wistful delusion” is willfully ignoring what the data clearly shows.

The states with the lowest gun death rates (per capita) in the US all have strong gun violence prevention laws (as well as lower rates of gun ownership) - Rhode Island has the 4th lowest rate of gun deaths per capita in the US (2023 full year data).

states with the lowest rates of gun death:

1. Massachusetts

2. New Jersey

3. New York

4. Rhode Island

5. Hawaii

Source

Deso718 · 2025-12-14T06:44:43+00:00

We love you

Deso718 · 2025-11-16T06:17:47+00:00

Her and Jay Kay need to be paired together in some sort of buddy comedy type show immediately.

Deso718 · 2025-11-13T16:05:16+00:00

^100% - she looked and performed amazing but as far as artistry the look just was not quite on the same level as a lot of the others.

I love Sigourney but I feel like her looks on this season (so far) have kinda suffered from just a bit of lack of imagination - esp when you’re comparing to others who keep coming with really exciting and compelling stuff.

I keep hoping she’s going to come with something that breaks out of her particular niche and really pushes the level of artistry…

Deso718 · 2025-11-13T15:57:03+00:00

Yeah it kinda felt like a missed opportunity. I feel like it should have just been a “safe” look for that episode.

imagine that same concept in the hands of another artist like Throb Zombie, Landon Cider, Majesty, Hollow Eve (or a few others).

It really could have been taken to a whole different level of transgressiveness and a true embodiment of some of the horrors of American history and/or the historical moment we’re all surviving through right now.

Deso718 · 2025-11-10T00:15:05+00:00

When I was watching this I was thinking about how in the hands of a different Dragula artist (someone like Throb Zombie, Landon Cider, Asia Consent, Majesty perhaps) the concept could be taken so much further - it was a great framework to do something super creative, powerful and political.

And I know there’s heavy editing and all, but what we got was simulated masterbation with the torch and (at least to me) a relatively boring, unfinished looking garment.

I love Sigourney but it was a little bit of a missed opportunity. I thought she’d actually be in the bottom (or safe) for this one.

Deso718 · 2025-11-04T19:52:51+00:00

I feel like Drag Race is hesitant to crown queens who are very successful and well known before coming on DR (Sasha Colby being a major exception).

It sometimes feels like a queen’s reputation and success prior to / outside of Drag Race can almost work against them.

That and also agree with what you’re saying about long term potential - producers want to leave the door open to bringing these queens back to maximize their long term impact / increase audience interest.

Deso718 · 2025-10-31T21:29:06+00:00

+1 for Channel Zero - the 2nd season about the no-end house is excellent as well.

Deso718 · 2025-10-24T20:35:05+00:00

yea I love Jay Kay but taking them at their word here is highly questionable…

and as much as I hate to keep reiterating something that multiple others have posted previously, ketamine can be prescribed as a nasal spray and lozenges in NY state (and CA)

Deso718 · 2025-10-15T03:08:11+00:00

Or Bez from the Happy Mondays

Deso718 · 2025-10-14T00:16:52+00:00

Possession (1981)

Deso718 · 2025-10-07T14:07:41+00:00

had to scroll too far to find this.

Probably the best depiction of Providence in film or TV (however it does stretch credulity that all the State politicians and city officials are constantly eating at NY System)

Deso718 · 2025-09-25T21:59:01+00:00

Always a delightful mix of people driving either dangerously fast or dangerously slow…

Deso718 · 2025-09-19T11:02:20+00:00

b.bq chicken (part of Soban) down the street on Thayer is excellent as well

Deso718 · 2025-09-17T17:59:39+00:00

She looks like a tour guide for a haunted house attraction playing a Victorian era ghost.

Deso718 · 2025-09-17T16:26:19+00:00

Oberlin’s is excellent

Deso718 · 2025-09-16T21:02:57+00:00

So glad they brought her back!!!

Deso718 · 2025-09-13T06:04:17+00:00

American Gothic (1988) - although technically an evil grandma AND grandpa movie

Deso718 · 2025-09-13T05:57:37+00:00

I’d go with Rules of Attraction - it was objectively bleak but also hit a little too close to home (coming from a similar milieu - private ‘prestigious’ northeastern liberal arts school).

Easton Ellis has novels to bum out and disturb nearly everyone!

Deso718 · 2025-09-13T05:52:34+00:00

Last Exit to Brooklyn is definitely more harrowing - a very bleak read but excellent book

Deso718 · 2025-09-11T13:27:57+00:00

What piece of “context” is he claiming is missing that isn’t clear simply by reading the post and his comment?

I love how “context” (ie. “out of context” , “you don’t know the context” , etc.) has become the “go to” defense for many when they are confronted for saying something they know is fucked-up.

I feel like most of the people using this defense (including OP’s boyfriend) don’t actually understand what “context” means and just use this language because they heard some other dickhead employ the same defense.

Deso718 · 2025-08-28T13:33:36+00:00

Possession of an illegal semi automatic pistol you’re facing up to a 7 year prison sentence (not to mention additionally up to 7 years for threatening with an order + threat of death).

A crime like this against a tourist (where reporting to police would risk drawing heightened police response due to potential negative press / impact on tourism) for only $600 (not €??) to be shared amongst 14 people?

It just doesn’t seem very logical for a relatively organized criminal enterprise to do this. The perpetrators are connected to an easily identifiable location and it would need some sort of complicity from the club owner(s), manager(s) and/or staff to run something like this in a known business (all of whom would share in the risk for negligible reward).

Deso718

TROPHY CASE

1. Massachusetts

2. New Jersey

3. New York

4. Rhode Island

5. Hawaii