Catoblepas

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[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 31 points 2 weeks ago

And this is why any queer person who knows half a lick of history is, at minimum, suspicious of assimilationist sentiments if not outright hostile to them.

🖕 Fuck you too, Pete. You don’t give a shit about fairness, pandering asswipe.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who do you think is in charge of the DoJ? They’re not going to investigate their boss.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Right now nobody is on the ballot because the primaries don’t happen until 2027.

People are talking about Newsom making a presidential run because it’s extremely obvious he’s gearing up for a run, and part of the way he’s doing that is by dumping ‘controversial’ trans rights in order to court centrists and Republicans. Another is by signaling to big businesses (like electrical companies) that he’s going to work for them, and not citizens.

You can help keep him off the ballot by telling everyone who talks about him what a shithead he is, and how he will trample over anyone to chase lobbyist money.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why did you take this as an invitation to start 2 years early?

Why do you think this isn’t something any given trans person has already thought about?

Are you volunteering to help keep him off the ballot, or do you just want to yell at me for pointing out the ways he fucks over my community specifically?

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I can already hear the vote blue no matter who people in 2027/8 calling me a Russian shill for pointing out he abandoned trans people the second it became politically expedient 🫠 Or if I’m really lucky, arguing with me over how abandoning trans people is actually necessary or not happening or whatever else.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I can’t believe it’s timed to coincide with infrastructure week!

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://freesewing.org/designs/hi/

The kind souls on this site sacrificed a Blahaj to a worthy cause: getting the pattern for it so anyone can make their own. They also have sliders to let you decide some minor customization features for your shark.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But the city said they never received a request for crosswalks in that area

Assuming this is truthful, at least submit the request first. Maybe save yourself a little work.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 45 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not just taxes on what he makes in hell, but also the taxes he was supposed to pay while alive.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Out of curiosity, did you copy the link from someone else’s comment on another instance? I’ve literally never seen a Blahaj comment get caught by a censor filter for anything, much less a .com

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 37 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Just apply anyway if it otherwise seems like a good fit. The requirements listed, except those required by law, are a wish list and not a minimum for consideration.

[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://time.com/6282514/little-mermaid-ursula-drag-queen-divine/

Ursula is pretty easy to understand, because that’s so 1:1 with Divine and there are direct confirmations.

With Scar one of the supervising animators, Andreas Deja, is openly gay (now, not at the time because it was the 90s) and has spoken about adding campiness and other gay influence to his work.

With other examples it’s a bit more difficult, because to understand it you need to understand how the Hays Code affected the portrayal of queer people on screen. The short version is that queer people weren’t allowed to be overtly portrayed at all, so any characters with queer coded behavior (by 30s to 60s standards) wound up as villains. As this becomes more entrenched in media, these mannerisms became shorthand for villain, so by the time the 90s rolls around the people referencing these tropes might not be familiar with their origin.

For the long version, see the documentary The Celluloid Closet.

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