rubysapphrald : was robert redford the only blonde man to be both beautiful and ensouled? maybe just rewatched all the president’s men and there are a bunch of scenes in this movie of woodward driving the two of them around because bernstein doesn’t have a car and i have to be honest, i didn’t catch this the first time i watched it, but he genuinely drives really, really fucking badly. like it was…
we all say this is the worst timeline but that’s not actually true. the worst timeline is the one where watergate never comes out because nixon has woodward and bernstein assassinated and he ends up leveraging the cold and vietnam wars to pull an FDR and stay president for 20 years and america becomes a slavering cesspool of right-wing hatred like a decade early. alan moore knew this which is why…
rubysapphrald : [nostalgically, longing for an unreachable past] in 1973 lying about egregious mishandling of government funds was an impeachable offense in 1973 republicans were capable of working against the interests of their preferred party and candidate in the name of personal morals and journalistic integrity superseding political affiliation
rubysapphrald : it’s so crazy how nixon had to resign after watergate and now every single month 1 million watergates happen and no one cares they were threatening to KILL two random assholes from the newspaper for asking questions about like, mishandled money. light wiretapping. a burgled hotel. and this is in the middle of the cold war when spy shit was actually common. in big 2026 you can be…
meow-moment : i do not minmax i do not play competitively i do not optimize my build i do not grind i do not topscore i do not give a shit about leaderboards. i play to have fun and if im not having fun i go do something else
rubysapphrald : watching ZSJL: zack snyder has reached an enlightened level of understanding the grandiose mythology of superheroes watching watchmen 2009: zack snyder has never understood a comic book in his life and should be sealed away in a mausoleum for eternity
every so often i’ll be out at a restaurant and suddenly be struck with such an absurdly powerful sense of paranoid anxiety i start wanting to get up on the table and scream and wave a gun around like amanda plummer in pulp fiction and then two minutes pass and i’m fine again and i eat my food normally
pretty obvious that rorschach theorizing ozymandias is a gay communist or whatever is intended less as an actual character note for veidt and more as an illustration of the fact that rorschach is a bigoted crank but the thing is, completely independent of that, veidt is also actually gay