[2percentsugar]

eng + fra

im zeke im in my twenties and i am offline on shabbat. good week everybody

writing @deadhorsepress

[cparti-mkiki]

this deleted scene from the remains of the day seems to be one of the few which people agree the movie's probably better off without, mostly because it's redundant (we already have several, more plot-relevant scenes to illustrate miss kenton and mr steven's strained working relationship) but also, for some, because of stevens being "out of character" - which is interesting to me...

personally i think it's a adaptation characterization leftover: book!stevens, among other changes, is much more of a prick towards miss kenton than movie!stevens, whether he realizes it or not, and has a tendency to react to awkward situations with laughter. i find it curious that this characterization would make it as far as a filmed scene (yay!)

[zoesupreme]

we're for real gonna be telling stories about this man for centuries

[zoesupreme]

yall I feel like I'm floating right now

[2percentsugar]

they should make a me that can respond to text messages

[daftpatience]

I LOVE CSS FLEXBOX FOR EVER

[ellielol]

super honored that i got to eat pasta with such an up and coming star. i hadn't heard of this Pope guy until now but i think he can really make a difference. i just hope my platform can give smaller stars like him a boost. and he makes a mean tortellini haha! it's tough out there for fledgling social justice influencers and i want to give back when I've been lucky and blessed with such a wonderful audience ❤️🤗

[ellielol]

Hi everyone.

I'd like to apologize. During my meeting with the Pope, I discussed the issue facing IRL Boymoders, Theyfabs, and Gigahon Passoid-pilled Womanmaxxers. At the time I thought I was working with a like-minded queer creative. I can see now I was misled, and he has been misusing the terminology I evidently taught him.

As recompense I am going to go into a deep dark cave. The water level is rising and I am afraid I will drown so you probably won't hear from me for a very long time.

Thank you and I'm sorry I taught the pope slurs

[ellielol]

While the Pope was a complicated figure amongst queer makers and creators like myself, it's undeniably tragic to lose such a beautiful soul so young.

No matter your feelings on slur reclamation, we owe it to him to honor his memory. Even if he was kind of faggy in real life.

Please join me in celebrating the life of this stupid pig!

[dogpuppy]

[holedyke]

obsessed with this pic from the wiki for kneading (cats)...eternal sweetness....

[geniusbee]

these are getting weird

[memorycycle]

dino saurs were not scary monsters they were mamas with eggs and when they drank water they were like fuckk yessss waterrrr

[fox-info]

New Post has been published on https://fox-info.net/fox-photo/archives/28918

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[creamycuppy]

when i checked in to the hotel they gave me a free cookie, as is customary at this chain, and she let me know “you can ask for as many as you want” (didn’t tell me this last time) — “but, ehh, we wouldn’t want you to have a tummy full of cookies, would we? tsk tsk”

???!!!

[creamycuppy]

like first of all… yes we do!!!!

[2percentsugar]

does anyone have screenshots/the url of the heart attack fetish blog

[2percentsugar]

i have to do everything around here

[deadhorsepress]

Why was Space Raptor Butt Invasion by Chuck Tingle — until then best known for being a meme, or perhaps performance art, about Amazon self-published erotica — nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novel?

In general, histories of a genre can’t be written by looking at a list of award winners. Most awards are decided by committee, and consequently, they represent nothing so much as the taste of a few people. By contrast, the Hugos are awarded by a much larger group of people that anybody can join: WorldCon.

Sadly, Space Raptor Butt Invasion wasn’t nominated based on its literary merit. Its inclusion on the Hugo slate was a joke, one meant to protest the failure of the previous year’s Sad Puppies nominees. Beginning as a blog post in 2013 where Larry Correia suggested bloc voting as a way to get his own works nominated, the Puppies quickly ballooned into full-on fandom warfare, with hotly contested battle lines and objectives. For Correia and like-minded Sad Puppies, the Hugos were unjustly favoring “literature” over “pulp,” the latter of which is the true sci-fi.

Other political actors were perfectly willing to use the Sad Puppies movement as a pulpit for unabashedly right-wing politics. I am referring, of course, to Theodore Beale a.k.a. Vox Day. Like Correia, he benefitted personally from voting slates, ones he promulgated under the moniker Rabid Puppies. Unlike the more moderate Sads, Beale was and is quite forthright about his alt-right political views. He embodies the ironic racist channer routine we’ve all come to detest encountering online. Perhaps the most notable quote from the previous link is his defense of Anders Breivik:

Five years later on one of his blogs, Beale praised Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik’s “highly effective blow against the political machine,” and wrote that he could be considered a “hero.” Conceding that Breivik “did a terrible thing” by murdering 77 people, mostly children, Beale then argued that the children weren’t innocent, but “larval” politicians akin to Young Republicans or Hitler Youth. “In any event, my expectation is that if the West, and Norway, survive the ongoing clash of civilizations, Breivik will be considered its first hero,” he writes.

This is one of the few moments in the profile where Beale expresses any genuinely-held beliefs without the defense of irony. He began the piece by saying he identifies as Native American and therefore a description as “white supremacist” would be culturally insensitive, but that’s only the foot in the door.

He has to boil the frog. Even a clicks-driven business like The Daily Dot wouldn’t continue profiling a proud racist after he admitted it in 2020. He has to play coy, to act like he totally doesn’t want the attention a profile in a respectable publication will bring him, so that he can give the real pitch to as many listeners as possible. The pitch: you can be a hero. If you help me push non-white degenerates out of the public sphere, then, when we win, everybody will know your name.

This is the sort of future-forward thinking we should expect from any sci-fi author who wants their work to age well. At present, that calculus is deeply political, and perhaps it always was.

Read more in The Real Political Bias of Sci Fi

[puddox]

saw someone including "Mandate of Heaven" as one of those christian terms tumblr likes to use to sound profound. which i get where you're coming from but t☝️hat one is chinese

[yuriinullification]

holdon

what the fuck is going on in this site's backend

[mrsandman42069]

[romanceyourdemons]

in the tradition of outcast (2014), dragon blade (2015), and the great wall (2016), we need a movie set in the 1630s where a disillusioned member of the embroidered uniform guard and a profit-driven jianghu mercenary flee the corrupt and crumbling ming dynasty and somehow end up in the equally corrupt city of cologne, where they become key players in the fight against the sinister forces of cardinal richelieu and eventually secure the peace of westphalia and the end of the thirty years’ war. this is a million dollar idea i’m telling you

[romanceyourdemons]

i really do love this concept. the protagonist is like i’m sick of dealing with wei zhongxian’s shit, i’m gonna go someplace where people are holy and don’t even know how to act like this (the impression of europe he got from the jesuit missionary he had a tactical lunch with once), and so he travels 5000 miles and as soon as he stops to catch his breath he runs into cardinal fucking richelieu, the european wei zhongxian

[sioltach]

I hate how everyone makes a big deal about how long ago 2016 was and how we're half way through the year......THE RIVER OF TIME SIMPLY FLOWS, STOP POINTING & SHOUTING AT HER

[sioltach]

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