All art is at once surface and symbol

(TW: CSA) ...Welp. I take back everything nice I said about Brad Jones in my NC The Wall MST. Hell, anything nice I said about him in general.

This hurts me more than when I learned Doug Walker was a clueless hypocritical jerk, tbh. Whereas I had already stopped watching the Nostalgia Critic before #ChangeTheChannel happened, I loved the Cinema Snob for years (along with DVD-R Hell, Midnight Screenings, and most 80s Dan) and he introduced me to a whole lot of obscure weird shit I would've otherwise never heard of. I got to lol at porno spoofs I wouldn't have dared check out on my own and learn about disturbing/controversial films from the safety of my room, and he was one of the few people I knew who mocked bad religious films without bashing religion itself. To know that the same guy who chewed out the main lead of "Rock: It's Your Decision" for his homophobia and exposed the creepiness of Clay Walsh from "Old Fashioned" turned out to be a creep himself is so... heartbreaking.

Knowing Brad stayed with Doug and Rob on CA should've been the first warning sign, but I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt. Then the more I learned about him (his broken friendships, the Logan Paul comment), the more my faith in him decreased. I unsubscribed from his channel beforehand, but this... this is officially the nail that breaks the coffin.

Never meet your heroes, kids. They'll only betray you in the end.

I gotta start sharing all those pet goodies I store. Let's start with cute silly doggies from Youtube!

C'mon Husky. You're a grown man.
What are those wrinkled potatoes doing here?
Pugs in the tub! My favorite part involves one puppy's reaction to the blowdrier.
Huskies fear and loathe Furbies...
...Even eight months later.
I love English Bulldog puppies. They think they're so tough.
I'm shaking in my boots!
A hairless doggie partied a little too much on New Year's Eve.
Hairless Dancing Nathan is amazing and everybody should follow him.
This is why.
I can't listen to Geronimo without thinking of Nathan and Gilligan.
Huskies love autumn!
'I want my ball, but I dunwanna get wet! DDD: ...Wait, I know!'
This pom puppy displays an unusual way of sneezing.
People meet pit bulls for the first time. Pitties are our friends!
Golden Retrievers are secretly dolphins.
'Stairs are scaaaaaaaaaaaaaryyyyyyyy!'
A bby Markiplier sings with his doxie.
Milo the Maltese versus Sharks! I wonder how Samekichi would fare.
Doggie & Cow in love~ ♥
Best Dog Breeds to watch sports (or watching movies or playing video games) with. Features a lab getting a beer and Bichon Frise representation!

I got my laughs from seeing the Budgett's Frog on Conan O' Brien, so I went to Youtube to look for more frog hissage.

I had no idea they sounded so ear-screechingly horrible. D:

Scientists weren't kidding when they called this guy the Freddy Krueger Frog.

I like how the Cinema Snob does episodes of movies involving cannibalism, necrophilia, talking vaginas, coprophagia, pedophilia, bestiality, Nazisploitation, and E.T. porn without anyone batting an eye, but the second he does m/m gay porn like "Gayracula" or "Drive," the commentors immediately start questioning his sexuality. Lesbians are okay, and aliens are fine (as long as they're female), but gay men? "You can be a cannibalistic serial killer who fucks dogs and children, but if you're gay, god that makes me so uncomfortable!" It'd be just like the Snob to post another gay porn episode just to spite them. :D

Speaking of which, I got to thinking after watching his review of "Mommie Dearest." You ever been recommended a movie or book for its camp value and over-the-top hilarity, only to see it for yourself and be genuinely terrified and uncomfortable? I felt the same thing about V.C. Andrews' "Flowers in the Attic" and "My Sweet Audrina" that Brad did for "Mommie Dearest"; I expected something corny, trashy, and silly, but I ended up being creeped out and not finding any laughs at all. Albeit, FitA and MSA aren't great to begin with, but still. I had to stop reading both books because they were disturbing in ways I didn't like at all.

I guess I had a similar reaction to "Twilight" and "50 Shades" too. To this day, I never got past the first chapter of "Twilight" because I'd immediately get bored and pissed off at Bella whining that she got a fucking car from her dad. Though with "Twilight," I did manage to get a little bit of hilarity from the movie; I just needed a better audience (and Rifftrax) to watch it with. (I saw "Twilight" with my Mom and I wasn't allowed to make snarky commentary, which led to a dull, dull watch. I still laughed out loud at the SKIN OF A KILLER!!!1!1 scene though) But "50 Shades"... when it wasn't boring me to death, it frightened me and made me angrier than a bull at a firetruck. The only other book I can think of that incites this much rage from me is "Wuthering Heights." Just... ugh.

What do you think, guys? Have you ever been recommended something that's supposed to be trashy and So-Bad-It's-Funny, only to make you legitimately uncomfortable?

Why referring to the Romani people as 'gypsies' is a bad idea, and why you should listen if someone tells you you used a racial slur.

I have to commend this chick for keeping her cool as long as she did while dealing with those bigots. Especially when one of them spouts something like this:

( Get ready to be amazed. )

I knew the Romani were hated, but I had no idea it was THIS bad in the present-day.

Burned girl a symbol of Roma hate and hope. Whatever the hell you do, don't read the comments.

A few of them are basically, "WAAAAAAH WHAT ABOUT THE 13-YEAR-OLD WHITE BOY WHO GOT BEATEN UP AND MUGGED BY ROMA KIDS? I DON'T SEE YOU BRINGING THAT UP!!!!11!1" Shut the fuck up. Nobody deserves to be beaten or set on fire. And way to miss the point of the article; trying to burn a child to death, no matter what her race, is immoral. But I guess you don't care, since she would've totally grown up to beat up poor innocent white children for their money if the far-right extremists hadn't intervened. ghjkaghkjdsghkjdshge

I also like how bigots stereotype certain races as "lazy" when they don't even allow jobs for those races in the first place. Or how people see the Roma as "happy nomads" when in reality, they had to keep moving around because they kept being kicked out of their homes by bigots who don't welcome them. GEE I WONDER WHOSE FAULT THAT REALLY IS.

gkjdsghdsakjghkfjdghkfjdb fuck humanity.

Why the Feminist Controversy Over Frozen Misses the Point

I wasn't worried about Disney taking enormous liberties with the storyline; that's pretty much expected. I knew that Frozen wasn't going to have much in common with The Snow Queen anyway. But what really grinded my gears with the unfortunate implications of DiSalvo's quote about animating Anna and Elsa.

If this article is true, it puts my fears about the movie to rest. Trying to keep two siblings look related while still having individual characteristics is a HUGE world of difference from "WAAAAH ANIMATING FEMALE CHARACTERS IS TOO HAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD!"

In other news, the family and I just got back from watching Catching Fire. Nomnomnom.

Puri joins Anime Planet, nomnomnom.

In which I keep track of everything I watch and read, and weep at how enormously behind I am, haha. XD I haven't seen some of those shows in years!

Review of FATAL, the world's worst RPG.

I can't believe I hadn't read this earlier. The review is hilarious. The game, on the other hand... The sheer badness of this game is... legendary. :o

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

On an unrelated note, my current music is totally Homura's theme.