Youjo's Crits and Reviews

A lot of people have forgotten about this, but a years ago, Tim Burton said that he doesn't cast black people because race has nothing to do with the context of any of his movies.  I think this happened after Beetlejuice 1988. Black people were casted as football players in the afterlife. That makes sense. Most football players are black. We figured out decades later why that's problematic with the Kaepernick situation. Entertainment is all black people are allowed to have so when an entertainer has a political opinion it's easy to tell them to shut up. "Dance, monkey! Dance!" narrative. But with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice having that soul train scene after he said it, the context tells me that black people are allowed to exist in Tim Burton's aesthetic if they are not stereotypical singing dancing caricatures.  A lot of (white) people will argue that Tim Burton isn't racist because he casted a Latina to play Astrid. The problem with that is a lot of Mexicans...

Things I would really fuck up a Beetlejuice cartoon continuation:  Have Dolores in the cartoon, at any capacity.  I know some people want that, but the Dolores didn't do anything except being a looming threat in the background of the movie. Totally remove Beetlejuice and have the story be solely about Lydia.  However, I would be happy if the first few episodes being about Lydia and how they met and Lydia's backstory and then jumping to where they are now.  Crossing the continuities.  Like a 30-year time skip where Lydia has a child and is getting divorced. Leave the continuities separate.  What I would really like in a Beetlejuice cartoon continuation: 5 or 10 year time skip where Lydia follows in beetlejuices footsteps and learns magic.  They make the cartoon for teens and young adults instead of children, so they can lean more into Lydia/ Beetlejuice. LESS 4TH WALL BREAKING Move away from the gross out humor and fully embrace the body horror aspects ...

Let's talk about Judge Sean Holden, only for the sake of his resurgence and popularity and how blood meridian is becoming retrospectively overrated. Also going to be talking about traditional era ritualistic murders. Also going to talk about folklore, in general, with Mac and Candyman as examples. SUPER LONG POST! BUCKLE UP! People are having such a hard time coping with the present they got to reach back to shit like blood meridian, which is a huge commentary in it of itself.  Judge Holden is actually something of a person or a folklore that exists in a few stories. I don't know about any of those other depictions, but I will say blood meridian wasn't good for him or anyone.  So, if the folklore thing is true that means that Holden's character was developed in a time where it was socially acceptable to demonize albino people. It doesn't take looking that far back to see the demonization of albino people in a lot of literature. It was a thing they did on the regular...

Super disappointed with the 420 event at Marigold/ Honeycomb. Super crowded for not much going on and only three people wearing a mask.  There were a few things on sale, but they were by three get one free. Someone was selling walking tacos for $15. We paid $10 to get in but nothing was free, so I guess we were paying for the DJ?  It would have been great if they had a heated seating area with speakers for the DJ outside for folks who are covid conscious. We left a few minutes after arriving, because $10 is not something to behold someone to. We can go get some real food for $15. The day wasn't a total bust, because we went to a different event earlier and had a great time!

If you're black, brown, disabled/ disfigured, trans, or talk about any form of progressive politics or human rights you probably have a lot of issues with TikTok. A lot of us have five accounts to try to get around tiktok banning us, but what if we didn't have to live like that? What if we embraced the apps that tiktok paid all those millions of billions and advertising to make sure we never know about?  BIGO (little blue dinosaur logo) and Live. Me+ is where TikTok ripped a lot of its framework for their livestreaming setup from - and then paid billions of dollars in advertising to make sure you never hear about those apps.  And since these apps aren't popular, there are less white people. Not to say that these are designated black and brown spaces, but there are marginally less white people. And in my experience, when I first went on to bigo and live.me - for the few North American white people there were on the suggestions page, most of them were sex workers.  In my o...

I'm not being paid for this at all. I got this off of tick tock shop and I'm very grateful for myself for having the insight for myself and wanting to challenge myself and I'm glad that this brought out so many limiting beliefs about myself and how I can make money. I'm happy with what I have now, and I'll be happy with how I'm building towards what I will have in the future. A part of manifesting is truly believing what you're saying. Not limiting your beliefs. Not being afraid to be as vague or as specific as possible. Put what you want out into the universe and make the actions to lay the path for those goals to be achieved. I am no longer afraid of where I've been, where I am, and the bridge I'm building to where I'm going.