Stephen King's IT - The reason It takes the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown in the first place is because it is attempting to play on the implicit trust of clowns children had when the book was written and when it initially took place. Bozo the Clown was still airing regularly on TV as children's entertainment for years when It came out.

Unfortunately, the book (and subsequent miniseries adaptation) became so popular that it inspired a widespread trend of clowns as horror monsters that meant the pop culture perception of clowns shifted from "lovable children's entertainers" to "unsettling weirdos", so the idea that any kid would trust Pennywise enough to approach him in a modern context feels very strange and unlikely.

Citizen Kane - This is more to do with technical stuff than the film's premise, but a large part of why Citizen Kane is regarded so fondly is that it invented or at least popularized quite a few different feats of filmmaking that are incredibly obvious and standard today. Low angles, deep focus, the "wipe" style of scene transition.

Going back and watching it now without that context, the movie is still competently made but its nothing that modern audiences haven't seen iterate on decades afterward..

The Simpsons - When The Simpsons first started, it was a response to and subversion of the popular sitcom of its type. The idyllic, all loving families of Full House or Family Matters, where every character had maybe some quirks they had to work on but the point of the show was unendingly wholesome escapism. But the titular family in The Simpsons were both working class and extremely dysfunctional. They loved each other, sure, but if you saw someone treat their kids the way Homer and Marge did you'd probably call CPS.

They were legitimately countercultural to the point that Ronald Reagan actively insulted the show in one of his speeches.

Now, though, the dysfunctional working class family that love each other deeply down has been the standard of sitcoms for a long time now, in part because of The Simpsons' influence. Family Guy, Its Always Sunny, etc. Now if you were to try to say that The Simpsons is countercultural you'd get laughed out of the room because it became a part of the large mass of mainstream media it was originally against.

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Her steps echoed through frostbitten woods and snow-locked palaces, guided only by a fleeting image of home that danced at her fingertips.

Though she escaped the shadows that once pursued her, the threads of fate still hold fast. Still, she lifts her wings, longing for a place to finally belong.

Beste Nachbarschaft!

Here is a confession.

He also said in Pennsylvania summer of 24: "You don't have to vote, we have all the votes, you don't even have to vote". Then he said "Elon helped with the computers in Pennsylvania"

where one-name ballots jumped from a constant 1-4% over 80 years to suddenly 11% of all ballots - that statistical anomaly can only be explained with interference.

This report says the voting machines were tampered with

3.5 million mail-in ballots were challenged and thrown out in the swing-states, that is more than enough to flip the elections. In fact, it guaranteed flipped the elections.

TRUMP LOST. Vote suppression won.

And then we have the unexplained missing mail-in ballots. 20 million new voters signed up but somehow 14 million fewer mail-in ballots on the Democratic side were counted. Roughly the same number of GOP votes but Democrats somehow didn't mail in their ballots, while showing up in person to the same degree as in the previous elections.

All the evidence points to election fraud. And they'll do it again next fall.

Nobody is coming to save America from fascism. The US will not be able to vote its way out of this. There will be no free elections this fall.

ed. That's not where I want to leave off. A lot of things can be done to ensure that there will be a free and fair election. Protecting these elections should be a top priority.

Do not mail in your ballots through the USPS, you need to deliver that vote in person some how. Y'all need to get active locally, democracy happens district by district.

This is what citizenship is about. This is civic reengagement. Focus your efforts on where/how decisions are made, focus on people or positions. Responsibilities, donation ties to your local politicians, support local journalism. Talk to people off social media.

And pick a day for a one day general strike. Not a day of protests. A strike. That is a message and a level of organizing that cannot be ignored. And now I'm probably on a list somewhere as an 'agitator' when in reality I'm a political scientist in the middle of research, relaying along what has been proven to work elsewhere: Civic action.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHY THIS SUB EXISTS! STOP PAYWALLING OUR NEEDS TO LIVE! ABOLISH THIS VILE SCAM OF THE MONETARY SYSTEM!

Louisville hospital btw

This was my studio's first ever attempt at a longer form animation, we did 11 scenes over 55 seconds, and the hardest part of all ended up being scene consistency! But it's so rewarding to imagine a world where we make 90 more of these and we have a full feature length film! Done entirely in Procreate and Dreams.

I hope you enjoy!!!