every word out of guillermo del toro’s mouth is the most hardcore thing i’ve ever heard and he says it all so casually like he doesn’t even realize how much of a gothic visionary he is
“Since childhood, I’ve been faithful to monsters. I have been saved and absolved by them, because monsters, I believe, are patron saints of our blissful imperfection, and they allow and embody the possibility of failing”
I’m working on an audio transcript using voice recognition technology, and this gentleman has a very nice accent, but when he says “got” the word is often noted down as “God”.
We don’t know what God tested and what God registered as true or untrue.
We don’t know what God entered into the code since the last time we tested.
We don’t know what God ticketed as an issue and what just God ignored.
Now we know what God changed, but we don’t have a record of what God approved.
“We don’t know what God ticketed as an issue and what just God ignored.“
I’ve actually read the 1st one all 40 ish pages of it. And I encourage Gentiles to read it very carefully. It literally answers every question you want answers to about antisemitism.
About:
“What is antisemitism?”
“Why should we care?”
“Does it matter in the context of other oppressions in America?”
“Is it getting worse?”
“What’s the religious and ethnic aspect of it?”
And through answering these questions (and more) it touches on the ethnic/racial diversity of the Jewish people.
This is a GREAT gifset. And it drives home the point perfectly. The point Dean made by mentioning Thelma and Luise and saying “We just put it in Drive and go”. And that Sam perfectly understood what Dean meant. Your gifset brings this out very clear. Tank you!
You gave me an excuse to go off, sorry-
I’ve seen other gifsets and screenshots of this scene, of course, and as soon as Dean started talking about “matching outfits” I knew, I knew, that this would cause shipping drama. There have been various, very different takes on this, and most of them were concerned with a) what ship this could possibly be about and, of course, b) what Sam’s reactions meant. Frankly, I’m not concerned with a), because what we can extrapolate from b) makes pretty clear that this isn’t what the scene was concerned with.
Davy Perez wrote this episode, and I would argue, based on this other episodes, that he’s a writer often concerned with the subtleness of grief and mental health. It’s a bit of a subjective interpretation, of course, but it’s similarly clear in last season’s Breakdown, where he was dealing with Sam’s, in that season almost entirely not addressed previously, depression and grieving process. (And, of course, setting the scene for Various & Sundry Villains very well.)
Of course, Mint Condition was very clearly about Dean’s mental health. A lot of the structure was very similar to Advanced Thanatology just a season ago – Dean is seen in his room, struggling with is mental health, Sam suggests a ghost hunt, only the two of them go; but then it appears that Dean is dealing better than he did the previous season, because, y’know, Dean literally killed himself in 13.05, but, oh! Oh! There’s still hints all over 14.04 that Dean really isn’t as okay as it seems at first glance, and it comes to head at the end of the episode, when he subtly, inadvertently expresses that he’s Not Actually Okay. That’s not only obvious by the way Dean looks when he says it (although I’m autistic and Very Bad With Expressions, so I won’t fight anyone on the interpretation of facial expressions)
but even if we just consider what he says: he suggests another pair, but it’s not about Halloween anymore – “we just put it in drive and go” is clearly removed from dressing up for Halloween, even if we don’t consider the implications of that statement within the context of the movie.
The following shot of Sam, of course, reinforces that it’s not about matching costumes anymore, but that it is about the ending of the movie and what Dean is implying with it. All the other shots of Sam are annoyed, but fond – the last one is sombre, and followed by a shot of the Impala driving on into the night.
And, someway, somehow, just like Advanced Thanatology, people have made this obvious theme of Dean being depressed and suicidal about shipping instead.
Nef goes on to explain the difference between her photoshoot with Velencoso, versus how transgender women are typically photographed in fashion editorials. “images of trans femmes being loved rarely exist outside of pornography,” Nef wore. “We tend to be hyper-sexualized and objectified within the cisgender gaze. Either that or we’re dehumanized as scum or (just as bad) untouchable goddesses.”
How to hack any hospital computer (L337 version for advanced security systems)
-Use the password taped to the back of the monitor
As a computer guy: This is what happens when you have too much security. It reaches a tipping point and then suddenly you have none.
Security at the cost of convenience comes at the cost of security.
This is true of so many things in healthcare. Example: our software is designed to automatically alert the doctor if a patient’s vital signs are critically out of range. If someone has a blood pressure of 200/130, the doc gets a pop-up box that they have to acknowledge before doing anything else. It makes sense, in our setting.
But then some mega-genius upstairs realized something: the system was only alerting for critical vital signs, but not for all vital signs that could possibly be bad. Like, yeah, 200/130 is potentially life-threatening, but 130/90 is above ideal and can have negative effects on health. Should the doctors be allowed to just ignore something that could negatively affect a patient’s health? Heavens no!
So now the system generates a pop-up for any vital signs that are even slightly abnormal. A pressure of 120/80 (once considered textbook normal, now considered slightly high) will create the pop-up. We have increased our vigilance!
Well, no, what we’ve actually done is train doctors to click through a constant bombardment of pop-ups without looking. We’ve destroyed their vigilance and made it much easier for them to accidentally skim past life-threatening vital signs.
But you can’t tell that to management, because you’d have to confess that you are a flawed human with limited attention resources. They’d tell you “well, all the other doctors take every abnormal vital sign seriously, it sounds like you’re being negligent.” And if you’re smart, you back down before you start telling the big boss all about your habit of ignoring critical safety alerts.
The end result is exactly the same as if we had no alerts at all, except with more annoying clicking.
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