ok i might need to elaborate on why this is such a big deal.
So, Brazil had a dictatorship, military coup, that lasted from 64 to 85. On this time period (and i’ll be really short) we had like 5 dictators and oh god, so, SO MUCH torturing, censorship and repression.
People that were killed are still missing. And none of the military heads that did it were ever arrested. Much less judged. Much less sentenced.
There was this air of impunity, that Brazil would not move forward because when push came to shove, no one arrested the big guys, the masterminds, the people that caused all of that.
UNTIL NOW
Bolsonaro is a fucked up right winger, backed by Trump. When this spineless coward lost it’s election, he, just like Trump, incited a riot (ours was January’s 8, 2023) that tried to silence the opposition and change the election results.
The people on the said riot went through trial and many paid fines or got arrested.
But the military core and Bolsonaro still walked free. We we fought for this not to repeat.
So for the VERY FIRST TIME IN THE STORY OF THIS COUNTRY, we finally, FINALLY, got justice against those who attempted against the democracy. And for that he was found guilty of:
Armed militia.
Attempt of violent dissolution of the democratic state.
Coup d'etat
Qualified damages for violence and serious threat (they had a plan to kill the actual president, Luís Inácio, and the supreme court head, Alexandre.)
Deterioration of historic heritage
And for those crimes, he’s sentenced for 27 seven years and 3 months of jail time.
Not only this, the rest of the heads went with him. 26 years for the ex-minister of defense Walter Braga Netto, 24 years for the ex-minister of justice and secretary of defense Anderson Torres, ex-commander of the marine Almir Garnier got 24 years. Augusto Heleno, ex-minister of security affairs got 21, another ex-minister of defense got 19, and lastly, Alexandre Ramagem, who was the director of Brazil’s intelligence agency got 16 years.
I can’t explain, without telling the whole story of the last 100 years of this country how big this is.
This is a landmark. This change tides. This gave us hope.
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Harrison Ford hating playing Han Solo made him better at playing Han Solo because Han Solo did not want to be there doing those things either.
I can’t remember what talk show it was after TFA but the interviewer was like “Did it make you emotional putting on the [Han Solo] costume?” and Harrison Ford was like “No. It made me money.” which was like the most Han Solo thing a person could say.
I have a Harrison Ford autograph from the early 80s. Mark Hamill used to sign May the Force Be With You. Harrison Ford signed “Force Yourself.”
“Jesus Christ it’s a lion get in the car!” still pops into my head on a regular basis. Same with “eh meh gherd” (“oh my god”).
Also long cat. I’m sad no one posted long cat.
Also- I can’t find it right now, for some reason- but the “happycat has run out of happy” was referencing not just the format of “[thing]cat is [thing]” but specifically another meme with an identical cat smiling (“happycat is happy”). Possibly it’s the same cat.
I think about this one literally any time I start a sentence with ‘do you want’
The Steven Universe fandom might be “cringe” and “bad” but imagine a fandom so bad that a bunch of fandom members had ran a scheme to say “if you pay us money, your blorbo will know you’re valid” and the fandom permanently split over a 95 paragraph callout post of these people.
I cant do the story justice myself. Google “The Protestant Reformation” for more details, I hear a few people have done deep dives
At the Anne Rice Ball, Halloween 1995. I attended as the guest of some musicians I knew. Anne Rice asked me which character of hers I was dressed as, and when I told her “No, I’m dressed as myself”, she patted my hand and smiled benevolently at me.
I think a lot lately about a line John Steinbeck wrote in East of Eden, an imperfect but deeply passionate novel he wrote for his sons; it’s one of my favorite books, though I don’t re-read it now as often as I used to. Still, parts stay with me.
He wrote,
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love. When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
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