Lavender [they/them]

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Cake day: May 8th, 2025

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  • I’m not a fan of the show but I love cape shit. It’s funny with this show because it really leans into the ridiculous scenarios - alien worlds where one minute outside is a century inside, parallel worlds with other versions of characters that force introspection on how someone can turn out to be.

    The dad is an interesting character, but the main characters handle it in a way that feels lacking. He’s complicated, yes, but the narrative paint him in a more sympathetic light. Especially when the heroes try to maintain no-kill policies.

    Also it slips into an annoying trope where the character need to pay rent and their solution is to work part time as prison guards. I dunno. It’s just a larger gripe I have where saving the world isn’t treated like paying work.

    I know failing to address bullshit capitalism keeps the narrative relatable, but its symptoms aren’t acknowledged outside of a motivation for a character to rob banks.






  • I would say yes. Their continual sabotage of popular policies and candidates while propping up the right has done immeasurable damage to the credibility of the Democratic party.

    Having given ground to the Republican party and still treating them as civilized but misguided allies (Trotting out the Cheneys and politicians like Pelosi saying the US needs a strong Republican party), has left a lot of would-be voters unmotivated and rightfully mistrusting.

    When you don’t even pretend to give something to your constituents, it makes sense that someone like Trump would succeed. And the Democratic party continues to play ball with him, further legitimizing the notion that this is any way acceptable.