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THE PENGUIN 2024 ↳ Season 1 ↳ Episode 8

THE PENGUIN 2024 ↳ Season 1 ↳ Episode 8

Oz, it's been a minute.

okay, but, like, THAT'S how you do a villain story. in the FIRST scene, you watch him shoot a man in cold blood. the show tells you right away "this man is not a good man".

but then it gets you to sympathize - look at how much the world has stepped on him. look at how terrible the whole of gotham is. and even when he kills more people, does more terrible things, you still root for him. because it's fun to watch someone be terrible to terrible people. you root for sofia too, because if anyone deserves revenge its her, but you're rooting for both of them somehow.

and then the show tells you "when he was a boy he killed his brothers". but even still, you want to see what he'll do. the show is called the penguin, you want to see the penguin rise. when he lets his mother's finger almost get cut off, you pity him. he's a sad, broken thing. how could he be anything but bad? but he loves, so there must be something else there.

but then. but THEN

the show always told you: "this is the devil". but you thought, maybe the devil can make hell a little more bearable for some people. the devil is so often nuanced, sympathetic, complex. maybe he's like that.

you're wrong. there's nothing good within him and YOU rooted for him to succeed. you wanted to watch the destruction. and now you have to live with the consequences of thinking, even for a second, that he could be redeemed.

Unfollow me immediately if you support this bad body built orange dildo.

hey if you're trans in the us i love you. hey if you're queer in the us i love you. hey if you're a person of color in the us i love you. hey if you're a woman in the us i love you. hey if you're disabled in the us i love you. i love you i love you i love you

here's the Justin McElroy quote for those who need it.

Wow, that was powerful.

Lots of love to my Ukrainian mutuals today

"This is what Kamala did wrong and how she should gave run a better campaign" she did everything the exact opposite of what Hillary Clinton did and in the end it didn't fucking matter because our country hates women, you pretentious fuck.

Kamala and Biden and Hillary all had roughly the same goals. Two of them are women. Let's see how this goes.

You can smarmy yourself into righteousness all you want, but in the end, men just hate women, and lots of women also hate women, and here we are.

To all the trans people who see this tonight, no matter what happens, we will survive. Trans people will still be here 4 years from now and 10 years from now and 100 years from now and tomorrow. We have always existed and we always will. The world cannot unlearn about us; we are too public, too loud, too beloved, too present. Ill be here tomorrow. Please stay here with me.