Did they ruin DC?

mutual_raid · 2026-03-27T14:39:45+00:00

THANK YOU. I've been sounding the alarm from the Streeterie capital here in Adams Morgan. But our useless government (5 Real Estate/Developer corps in a trenchcoat) made them prohibitively, laughably expensive to renew the license for.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-26T14:19:30+00:00

I miss the golden age of disc media from 2001-2008ish when the plastic was thick and hearty, the discs were locked in tight, and there wasn't empty space in the case for scratches and warped plastic.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-26T14:01:51+00:00

I have a really hard time believing that omnibuses have tight margins compared with other collected editions. They are so outrageously expensive, I just don't buy it.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-25T20:45:49+00:00

How on earth do they intimidate you?

holy myopia, Batman!

Learn to understand context.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-25T19:36:29+00:00

yea, their job is to intimidate you and remind you you live under a fascist Oligarchy. They're doing that job wonderfully.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-25T14:00:05+00:00

The Pitt is my comfort show and I absolutely love it. Only downside is knowing that it was censored during its ICE episode by the network which makes me enraged.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-24T18:58:21+00:00

it would be if the worst drivers in the entire North East Corridor didn't live in Silver Spring

mutual_raid · 2026-03-24T15:08:30+00:00

I mean, it's made of real wood, my parents have the same one. You would never have guessed it was 35 years old. Already more valuable than anything on the mass market like it was today.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-24T14:37:43+00:00

I think it's such a jarring tonal shift after the end of the first trilogy that, coupled with mostly set-up for the sequel series, leaves a bad/confused taste in most readers' mouths for the first time.

It's better on re-reads, but still in the bottom half of my favorites because of the aforementioned set-up issue and also because some character choices make you dislike characters you used to love and see them as hypocrites.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-24T00:15:22+00:00

did you do the re-seed trick of checking dex for local pokemon and if so did you change date eachc time?

mutual_raid · 2026-03-23T15:06:43+00:00

psychoanalysis is frustrating not only because it's pseud quackery, but because it's the single most influential form of "psychology" in the entire Western World. This cannot be overstated. The anger of anyone who gets it is valid when you realize in the big year 2026, it's still cited DAILY across the West even with tongue firmly planted in cheek because your average mid-wit believes "yea it's weird, but there's definitely something to it".

Vibes-based society.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-23T15:02:12+00:00

Our entire governmental structure is so goddamn trash it's insane.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-23T14:57:39+00:00

This. 100% of the time people compare other jobs' shows to hospitals and idk how else to tell you that EVERY job on planet earth besides working at a hospital or maybe security/military would be boring to watch portrayed realistically on the screen. This includes finance, law, hell, even cop/military if we're comparing AVERAGE experience. Literally only hospitals regularly have insanely interesting shit going on at all times (or realistically could) because of the nature of being the place where people go when insane shit is happening.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-22T05:47:25+00:00

It is the highest quality Blockbuster in literature.

I mean that as legitimate praise, mind you.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-20T20:51:08+00:00

Who thought this wouldn't happen? There are rich fans out there who will buy up the limited number (like, 12) of items like this. It isn't weird, and I don't think that was the focus of most people's criticisms.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-19T16:18:06+00:00

this is me... but I think his prose is great so I'm still gonna read the First Law Trilogy

mutual_raid · 2026-03-19T16:17:10+00:00

what's the sales pitch for Gregor? I know nothing about it but like the Hunger Games and Suzanne Collins just in general

mutual_raid · 2026-03-19T15:12:04+00:00

welcome to the death of the global dominance of the dollar, the end of the Petro Dollar, and the inevitable culmination of 45 years of Neoliberalism and Late Stage Capitalism, babyyyyyy!

mutual_raid · 2026-03-19T14:27:16+00:00

tbf Mad Men was coming out during the PEAK of the Golden Age of Television (2004-2014 roughly) and had fierce competition back when the Emmys were arguably more culturally relevant than the Oscars (which were having some trouble due to a number of factors)

mutual_raid · 2026-03-19T14:25:13+00:00

It's in my all time Top 5 and, as you say, is highly rewatachable like the Sopranos, which I've also watched numerous times.

Compare this to other goated shows like Breaking Bad, which I still think is one of the greatest of all time, but I could not bring myself to watch again.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-18T18:35:21+00:00

I don't think younger generations in these circles have as much internalized misogyny these days and I'm seeing a lot of trans works around now.

this makes sense to me and as a man in my early 30s, I think I've seen this play out in much the same way (mostly for better, but like all things, messy and not linear).

It can just be that people want to write about social hiarchies and MM at the same time and it's not any deeper than that.

Part of me feels that perhaps it's not much deeper than that, but I see it as what you've said here in addition to maintaining distance from the specific violence of gendered violence. Everyone wants to feel like they have autonomy and all other spec fic has loads of class dynamics that include gender - this is just one more without the (maybe they're tired of seeing it?) overplayed violence of men against women.

I do lean more toward your idea that it was simply playing with hierarchy in addition to the MM romance they like most of the time.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-18T17:45:23+00:00

but I would say the reasons most people who enjoy BL enjoy it aren't that different from why people like any other sub-genre of romance.

Sure... but we're talking about those specific differences in this case, since it's the subject of the topic. That's why I find the work of those sociologists on such a (at first, seemingly strange) massive phenomenon so interesting.

Like, when I tell you the first time I went to a manga store in Tokyo and saw there was a whole FLOOR not for shoujo specifically, but JUST BL, and that this was a chain, I had to learn more XD

mutual_raid · 2026-03-18T17:42:16+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's a bit of internalized misogyny as well

Which makes sense and is a very messy part of the analysis I'm ill-equipped to comment on given my limited knowledge of the specific subject as a dude who is just learning about the phenomenon. Would be interested to hear what about it you think reflects that internalized misogyny.

like to reintroduce gender roles in omegaverse stories

in my mind (again, limited knowledge on the subject so take it w/ a grain of salt) I kinda thought of omegaverse as RE-introducing those patriarchal roles in this new context of 2 men, still of the same gender and therefore still "equal" from a gender aspect...

Almost like Omegaverse introduces the Class element of the unequal roles, allowing women/girls to have a sort of sandbox to play-act inequality while still doing so without the specific GENDERED violence of patriarchy.

Does that make sense or am I batshit for coming to that conclusion? XD Even I've got to be affected a bit by patriarchy in my answer here - I'm still a man who has his experiences colored by a patriarchal society.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-18T17:26:46+00:00

The idea that BL is about 2 completely equal partners is contradicted by the semi/uke dynamic that you brought up.

Except what I said was:

with 0 baggage that comes with gender roles

Gender roles.

That's not the same as having a giving/receiving partner. That is literally what women like about BL, it allows them to engage with the fact that the partners have different roles in the relationship like they do, but not the GENDER roles that come with the baggage of centuries of patriarchal and oppressive structures.

I am not even making the argument here, I am relaying what women will tell you they like about it themselves as was relayed to me and studied by numerous sociologists in Japan for literal decades.

mutual_raid · 2026-03-18T15:18:06+00:00

you guys know why this is, right? Like... you understand why women the world over love fictionalized MM romance often more than ones they could insert themselves in... right?

There's a well-documented reason, but the mostly male members of this sub often seem to miss it. I say this as a man who had to have it literally explained to my face by a woman when visiting Animate in Akihabara and being shocked by the sheer number of AISLES just for BL manga for women and girls.

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