✨Sammy Aurora✨ @essaym22 Twitter profile

Last Seen Profiles

@roemcdermott

@MARS_HEU

@Cpazosp

@eRestUK

@Artemis_Optical

@moneyplz69

@JenCarfagno

@LCMHSCHEER

@GWhabi

@WrestlingMcd

@OutdareEnt954

@CandiDelor61660

@realprissygrl

@coachJackson619

@tab_ny33060

@SkyAboveMe_Art

@Videos_da_Nacao

@nacejisbon

@CharmCallaway

@JonnyRocketsOTC

@wghudl

@Ihadtosayitpod

@vandy_46

@I_Occultist

@AlNyzy

@SewFabulousSE

@QaO___12

@stw_pdg

@Unfaithfulbaby

@xavichopchop

@harrybogosian

@ALDASESTUAMIGO

@RICHARDJAMESHO4

@shatipan

@LFRM067374

@DudeScrawny

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

Hallelujah isn't just a sex song, it's a song by a very Jewish man that references his very Jewish (and very negative) perspective on God and religion. Please stop trying to make it a church song, thank you.

196

3K

26K

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@DanaSchwartzzz Nah, Oscar is far superior to most straight men.

36

31

1K

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

Words cannot express how relieved I am that Jason Mantzoukas is trending because of some AITA post and not because he did something horrible or died.

22

96

1K

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

15 days

@GunnerDobbins God the dialogue in this is so aggressively unnatural. Who talks like this??

3

1K

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

@ScotchSeptine @lilririah Tbh that would be even worse. The best sendoff they can think of for one of the worst presidencies we've ever had is a callback to a hacky SNL bit mythologizing a mediocre candidate? What the fuck??

5

2

794

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

Also to clarify, "negative" is the wrong word for the portrayal of God and religion in Cohen's work, but what I meant was that it's something other than uncomplicated praise and worship and often has a dark undertone. Which makes it weird to use as a Christian hymn.

7

32

797

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

This seems to be getting some traffic so uh, I have a blog where I talk about Jewish media stuff that's hopefully returning from hiatus soon, and also has a Ko-Fi if you want to give me money.

Yidwise

A blog about Jewish art, media, and culture

yidwiseblog.wordpress.com

3

42

723

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

To ever one saying "wait, it's a sex song?":

How Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ Brilliantly Mingled Sex, Religion

Read the inside story of the writing and recording of Leonard Cohen's oft-covered masterpiece "Hallelujah."

www.rollingstone.com

10

61

720

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

@rileyjsilverman I would say no only because the character ScarJo wanted to play was a fat trans guy and I'd rather a fat actor get the role. But if Elliot wants to produce it and get a transmasc actor friend involved, hell yeah!

4

8

724

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@AllisonPregler I bet you they only did this for the lady butts. I bet you plenty of male butts are on there completely uncensored.

12

8

552

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

@VaporwavNashira Yeah, like if anything it's an anti-love song. The biblical stories it references are about men who ruined their lives by falling in love with the wrong people.

9

6

554

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@ramenfanclub Man, brand Twitter is getting awfully troll-y lately.

6

1

503

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@Nash076 "Millennial" is quickly becoming the corporate version of "The dog ate my homework".

3

122

496

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 months

What's wild is, those ATLA showrunners are all like "These things worked fine for a cartoon but this is a serious adult show so we have to do it differently" when on the same streaming service right now you have One Piece showing that no you actually don't.

1

92

472

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

2 months

@Diamandahagan Alec Baldwin also conspicuously absent (which unfortunately means Geena Davis is too).

4

0

451

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

@ScotchSeptine @lilririah Also I'll just say it: The SNL version is also bullshit. It's a song about a specific thing, not an all-purpose mourning ballad to be used when your neoliberal political candidate doesn't win.

4

1

430

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

Pro-tip: If you're hearing about something objectively sad - say, a disabled child in distress - and your first instinct is to respond with dismissive sarcasm, consider that you may be a terrible human being. #WompWomp

16

81

374

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

11 days

@ChrystalWRox Imo it probably is a trauma response but also I get the sense that she's in control of it? Like maybe I'm wrong but this feels like someone who knows what their triggers are and how to safely experience them and is playing around within that.

1

426

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

@peeanofreek @skateordie002 Honestly my gay ass can listen to that woman talk for hours in any accent she wants.

1

2

378

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

1 year

@AdequateEmily Not only is the accent bad but that is the weakest sensory overload I've ever seen. I'm not getting panicked meltdown so much as "annoyed that someone put on Meghan Trainor"

2

353

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@alwrightthen @ParkerMolloy "More accurately depicted Africa"....because a comic book movie about a man in a hi-tech armored catsuit should totally be held to the same standards of accuracy as historical dramas and political thrillers.

4

323

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

A point that Abigail Thorn made in a recent livestream, and one that I think a lot of trans folks watching her need to hear, is that she didn't automatically look and sound that good. It took time and probably a lot of struggle to get to that point.

5

20

320

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@wilgriaus @stillcham @WesthaverEmily @DannyG559_ @astrarchi @AlyssaNakayla "Innocent until proven guilty" only applies to juries, who actually have the power to condemn someone. The general public can think whatever they want based on the available evidence. Sincerely, a law student.

3

19

300

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

11 months

@Schaffrillas @rlisakowitz Even with the first Cars, an animator named Jorgen Klubien pitched the first version of that to Pixar in the late '90s, and he's talked about being frustrated at Lassetter writing him out of the story of the film's creation.

1

3

319

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

@CaseyExplosion The true sign of Zagreus's strength is that he manages not to throttle Hypnos every time he comes out of the Styx.

3

12

314

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

5 years

@AlmondMilkHotel @b0undarybreaker I'd kill for an outtake where Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz act this scene out.

0

1

313

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 months

@CaelanConrad "Why does my kid need to talk to the doctor without me knowing?" Probably has something to do with you going through his mail and posting it on the internet (and I guarantee he didn't consent to that).

1

9

319

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

@mattmang23 @Brookfiles @7im There's also Thomas Paine who was a straight up left-wing radical.

1

303

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

@Charlot42009980 It's a song about sex and self-loathing.

10

0

282

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

Weird how Hamas is conveniently hiding under every building the IDF bombs and only the IDF knows about it and they only ever see fit to mention it after the building has been bombed and it's impossible to corroborate.

5

141

268

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@michael_asmus @DanaSchwartzzz You say that like there's a single responsible adult in the books.

9

3

273

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@jayne_pea "Watch out for those drama queens, always listing basic facts about themselves that are necessary for others to communicate with them!"

3

6

247

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

And with that I think I'm gonna mute this thread bc it's blowing up my mentions, have a great day y'all!

0

1

242

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

I guess my point is, if you're a trans person who saw that video and are frustrated you don't look like that, remember that that didn't happen without tons of prep behind the scenes. All transitions are different, and however yours is going, you are valid and you are enough.

4

15

244

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@khaleesi_britt @ashleylynch @mvbrat91 This kind of reminds me of that tweet about a female Joker who snapped because men kept telling her to smile more.

3

2

219

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@DanaSchwartzzz New Tony just wants to be your friend and maybe show you some cute fan art. Old Tony wants to smugly tell you how your favorite band is for sheep and how Ayn Rand "opened his eyes".

0

16

228

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@AlanBixter @dooklala @BrilliantDay1 @sarahkendzior @DeanBShaffer @FLOTUS Normally he would brag about it, but he's a Republican now so he has to pretend to care about family values.

9

12

220

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@OhNoSheTwitnt @ManInTheHoody "Because men" is the answer to just so many American malfunctions.

1

12

212

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

29 days

@GunnerDobbins Okay but Bruce's response is actually correct? Like he didn't do it to make Dick like him, he did it so Dick could have the guidance and support he didn't have and not become isolated and tortured like him.

1

2

226

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@AdamSerwer There are so many Kanye quotes that are brutally ironic now.

1

5

200

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

@iamTannenbaum Plus they live in a giant ass house and take massive family trips to Paris and booked multiple rooms at a luxury hotel, so there's no way they can't afford it.

0

3

212

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@ensignlesbian Me: I'd like to watch a thing on Netflix XD: Sorry, can't Me: But it fun thing XD: Function machine broke

1

10

213

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@laurenduca Pandas are "aggressive and sex-crazed", says the network of Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly.

4

13

195

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

5 years

@KyleKallgren 10 to 1 this writer has never watched Powerpuff girls and all he knows about it is "show for girls with lots of pastel colors".

2

8

200

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@bleuvaIentine @ItsRamiMalek "Okay parking meter, you don't like me and I don't like you...."

0

3

190

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@chiefelcazique @LucyRob49665600 @nachomamarn @McMing333 @lxzdanelly He's also not black. That word is very specific to black people, and someone who isn't black really shouldn't say it.

3

184

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

I find it eternally hilarious how certain takes are rightly mocked when a conservative tweets them, but when a nominally leftist YouTuber tweets basically the same take with some buzzwords added, suddenly we have to have a serious conversation about it.

1

39

192

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

5 years

@KyleKallgren "This makes the Marvel movies look like a fun and entertaining series that is well-regarded by a diverse fanbase! Wait...."

0

10

180

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@TrixTunes @MonopolyPhonic @jakejunkk I mean it kinda works on him though?

5

2

172

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@rosyxblossom @nicolecieux The manbabies are trying to crowdfund a fan-made "remake" of The Last Jedi even though they apparently have no idea how films are made.

0

12

177

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@TheCrazySaguaro @rob_schrader @ToddHartmann @Fizzhogg @JuddApatow Why do you think they go nuts over every D-list celebrity willing to endorse them? Why do you think they make crap like An American Carol and God's Not Dead?

1

155

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

Guarantee his only experience with Africa was some themed tourist resort and he's confused because no one in the movie was wearing a loincloth and serving drinks.

Complex

@Complex

4 years

Terry Gilliam: 'I Think the People Who Made ['Black Panther'] Have Never Been to Africa'

226

66

432

6

51

171

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

5 years

@SamSykesSwears Also like, changing a significant aspect of a movie within months of release bc you needed casual viewers to tell you it was a bad idea has historically not been a great sign of a film's overall quality? *coughsuicidesquadjusticeleaguecough*

1

3

176

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

Not only that but (and I think she mentioned this too) being white, financially okay, and having supportive friends willing to support her and keep her privacy undoubtedly made her transition and coming out a lot smoother than it could've been for someone without all that.

1

0

174

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

7 years

@lilnativeboy I'm pretty sure her entire knowledge of Native culture came from watching Blazing Saddles and The Lone Ranger.

2

3

156

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@MaraWilson It bums me out that people keep trying to uplift one by diminishing the accomplishments of the other, in part because I'm confident it's the last thing either filmmaker would want.

3

1

169

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

Like she said in the video, this has been brewing for years if not longer and she had to go through multiple waiting lists and legal stuff in order for her reveal to go that smoothly. As she said on livestream, it was "clever editing" that made it look that smooth.

1

0

161

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 months

I do love Hbomb referring to Matt Baume as "What if James Somerton was good?" because honestly that's correct.

4

13

160

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@GayestHaunter This is just the standard conservative bs of linking gayness and transness to things like incest and pedophilia to paint them as deviant sexual behavior. But also, that's an awfully detailed example that Ben is assuming is universal...

11

2

138

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@notCursedE Dude literally used the gender-neutral they twice in this very tweet.

0

1

146

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@peterquillsI Avengers: Funky Hoedown

0

16

143

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@MJStarLover This threesome deserves its own two-hour Netflix documentary, complete with reenactment. People would subscribe just to watch that.

1

6

139

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

Apparently being "cancelled" really means "being invited on multiple podcasts to talk about being cancelled while your YouTube friends relentlessly defend you at every opportunity".

3

42

138

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

I feel like Cyberpunk 2077 is already joining Joker and The Boys in the category of "Media that makes marginalized people vaguely uncomfortable but that white dude leftists will aggressively defend as a woke masterpiece because there's some anti-capitalist commentary in there"

4

51

148

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 months

@staticbluebat Like on one level I can get it as wanting to prepare her for what she's getting into....but also you can do that in a way that doesn't give an actor stomach destroying anxiety JJ.

2

0

151

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

5 years

@SamSykesSwears Like, "We, a major movie studio run by adults, had to be told by people on Twitter that the title character of our $90 mil movie has a wonky design" is not exactly a confidence-inspiring sentiment.

1

7

145

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@terrinh73 @NoXBOX_OvaHere @DanTheLulzmaker @neil_mccormick @JamesGunn Batman takes on multiple guys with guns every night while barely breaking a sweat. I doubt one well-dressed Englishman filled with martinis and STDs is gonna give him much trouble.

2

1

139

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

1 month

@ShadowTodd The thing is, unlike Drake who very much wants to be seen as cool and tough, I don't think Kendrick is ashamed of his pop features. Like if Drake was like "You were on Taylor Swift and Lonely Island songs" he'd just be like "Yep, had a good time and got paid, your point?"

5

3

141

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

11 days

@ChrystalWRox Like I don't get "I genuinely don't want to do this and am being pressured into it/am forcing myself to do this", I get "I know what's going to happen and am nervous but also feel comfortable doing this and am even having fun with it"

1

2

159

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

5 years

@jsigj @kriosphone @vibinggecko How bad a Christian do you have to be to fail a real-life version of the "God will save me!" parable?

1

4

127

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

14 days

@ShadowTodd OMG I just realized - this isn't even Matisyahu! This is a different much smaller Jewish rapper named Ari Lesser and I guess Matisyahu just decided to post his clip without credit??

2

1

145

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@maxwelltani @nicolesjchung *Hans Moleman voice* I like subtitles.

2

1

135

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@CiaranMcNulty @ItStartsAtDusK @officiallegacyx @ZeIIet Not to mention women totally did fight in WW2.

3

0

122

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 months

@martyG1214 @lizzylemondrop Which kinda makes sense on her end, teenagers are messy and impulsive like that. Also doesn't it end with them realizing it's too late to have a relationship as adults and her starting over with them both as kids?

1

0

124

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@KeithMcLean3 @nahhhhhhhhhhhh_ @KivanBay Not to mention a lot of them get horribly abused during training.

0

1

118

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@Q_Review Doug Walker thinks that having any blatant political message that isn't weaksauce "both sides" centrism is bad.

0

118

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

Autism Speaks is a hate group, pass it on and fuck them.

0

52

114

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@suchnerve Not to mention he probably had to do tons of prep just for that photoshoot. Really proud of Kumail for bringing attention to this issue.

1

120

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@LindsayPB That poem sounds like the lyrics to an angry punk protest song ironically commenting on American gun culture.

1

0

109

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@TrixTunes @MonopolyPhonic @jakejunkk Not necessarily a bad thing lol

1

0

113

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

It has been pretty entertaining watching the entire HP cast find subtle and graceful ways to tell JK Rowling to eat a dick.

5

21

112

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

5 years

@rhinavauht @TheBat_Family Ok boomer

1

102

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

Couple things: 1) Jim Carrey is a terrible choice to play Joe Biden, he has completely the wrong vibe and looks way more like Mike Pence. 2) Maybe the anti-vaxxer who barely apologized for propagating transphobia in the mainstream shouldn't be having a comeback.

8

32

106

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

@LindsayPB @Coelasquid 1000% this. I'm convinced at this point that a lot of studios are intentionally provoking that reaction to get more buzz, and don't care if marginalized people have to deal with the fallout from it so long as they can make a profit and look like the good guys.

0

5

112

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@Hbomberguy This just screams "Greg took a drama class once and really wanted to do the monologue and we were too nice to tell him no". Like this is straight out of someone's bad student film.

1

2

106

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

11 days

@ChrystalWRox (Also possibly overreading but I get the sense she also wants to normalize these kinds of mental health issues, show ppl that you can experience trauma responses like this and still being a regular person with a happy successful life.)

0

126

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@Shmarya @coffeespoonie America knew what Hitler was doing for years but didn't get into the war until after Britain did and after Pearl Harbor. Moreover, Jews trying to escape Europe were regularly denied entry to America. Just because the U.S. opposed Nazis doesn't mean they gave a shit about the Jews

3

14

104

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

God this is exhausting. On the plus side, her going to bat for Buck Angel keeps making more and more sense.

9

18

105

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

@ErinInTheMorn I legit want the next season to just open with Vanya being a trans man with no explanation and all the other characters just roll with it. No buildup, no explanation.

4

8

109

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

2 months

@Diamandahagan Like not to be rude but Baldwin would need an entire effects budget to look like he did in 1988 again, but Geena Davis you could probably pull off with good styling and minimal CGI. But I guess they just thought it'd be weird to have only one.

2

0

105

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

Hill staffer sent me this pic of Ocasio-Cortez they took just now. I’ll tell you something: that jacket and coat don’t look like a girl who struggles.

5

29

104

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@ContraPoints

0

96

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

@OffColourInc @_imperialpurple Oh god. I could've sworn the director was Chinese or at least a poc but nope!

2

0

102

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

I really wish more LeftTubers, when responding to personal drama or being called out, would just do a straightforward video response and not an elaborate hour-long essay on "What My Twitter Shenanigans Can Teach Us About The Larger Cultural Landscape".

11

32

101

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

@RosemanSashinka @kdominus @mattmang23 @Brookfiles @7im Not only that but he was friends with both early radical feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and French trans woman diplomat the Chevalier d'Eon. So he also said trans rights.

1

0

102

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

5 years

@ThatChrys @SarMer42 The article just says a studio exec wanted to cast her, not that they actually contacted her, so for all we know she might've had no idea about it until a few days ago.

0

1

97

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

2 months

@punt_rd Glaring omission

4

0

102

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

3 years

Can we talk about how the image accompanying Elliot Page's coming out is him in a hat with a pro-Native and pro-environment message? What an absolute king!

1

19

102

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

6 years

@kateleth While I agree with all of this, the Amanda Conner/Jimmy Palmiotti run is still awesome as hell.

2

1

99

✨Sammy Aurora✨

@essaym22

4 years

Like, if Ben Shapiro or Glinner tweeted that being mean to transphobes makes them more transphobic, we would rightly laugh in their faces. But when someone who makes a living talking to a camera in silly costumes says it and adds some freshman-level class analysis to it...

1

10

91