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[nullwindd]

saw this twitter post and I had to. enjoy the text post off I go back into the void

[crabussy]

when a man and a woman in a piece of fiction get to keep having a delightful friendship dynamic instead of losing all their interesting traits to become the 580000th het couple ever

[sawed-on-shotgun]

hello my name is indie horror story author and basically my job is to lure you in with a really creative idea and hook that gets you super excited and then right when things start to get good im gonna throw the atmosphere and my writing style out the window and start introducing liiikeee cults and government organizations and all the characters are gonna turn into like one-liner blurting action heroes who get into likeeee gunfights and car chases and stufffff and then its gonna like keep escalating until you feel like youre reading a marvel movie script plz buy my novel i started out on nosleep

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

"Dogwhistles" are called that based on real "dog whistles", many of which are pitched too high to be audible to most humans, but are still perfectly audible to dogs.

Rhetorical dogwhistles are things that most people would not be able to identify as bigoted because they're INTENDED to have plausible deniability.

The wording changes are meant to be subtle enough that people really can mix them up accidentally when they don't have much information!

So when the gender critical movement calls trans women "transwomen", they're hoping for 2 things.

this usage will spread enough among people who don't know any better, to give transphobes the plausible deniability of not LOOKING like a frothing bigot constantly.

the usage grammatically places trans women in a different category than other women; it's changing "trans" from an adjective to part of a noun to make this distinction.

The more we can avoid this usage, the less deniability have transmisogynists have when using it, and the less rhetorical ground we cede to the degendering and misgendering of trans women.

I don't actually think ceding this ground is LESS divisive than pointing it out politely.

[tadc-crit]

I hate that door scene so much it makes me want to strangle Jax and re-write the show myself

We’re seeing a man’s fantasy on how he would abuse non-male characters after their (supposedly) closest ‘friend’ died and the tone is so weird

Pomni barely has any reaction to seeing herself getting strangled, this could have been changed to anything else and nothing would change, she still just moves on like nothing happened. Also looking back on the scene it felt like it was trying to get across “Jax is scary” rather than focus on the pain pomni is going through because of him. Pomni just feels like’s a spectator to help drag the viewer around until she gets to the room full of different parts of Jax’s subconscious(?)

Gangle’s scene has this weird comedic under-tone throughout it. It feels like it’s just there to have Jax harass Gangle as a punchline. I’m convinced they only put in that “I hate you” from gangle to have something for the trailer and to make it so the scene actually could pretend it’s not treating the situation like a joke

Also why does everyone look at Gangle like that? She is clearly emotional from the person closest to them dying, getting harassed by the known asshole who targets her, and yet they’re the one everyone stare at? Great way to show they’re really all in this together!

I might be reading into it too much but it feels weird to me that during Zooble’s scene, the non-binary character is dumbed down to a joke. Everyone else got to have realistic depictions and they’re just a looney toons character who’s over-exaggerated. I guess it’s because they would fight back against Jax and we can’t have that in our Jax torturing people montage.

Tbh I think the weird tone and mischaracterization could have worked, it’s Jax’s mind so of course their perceptions of them would bend to his view of them life. As I write this I think that’s what goose was trying to do. But because nobody but Jax has a strong characterization to actually contrast this false reality,

Also it’s played as if that was the intended takeaway rather than his own delusional view of himself. You’re supposed to be scared of Jax, and you’re supposed to laugh at Zooble and gangle.

But if you don’t feel what the show wants you to, your just left with the most pointless scene that just repeats what we already knew, somehow manages to make the character worse while also chickening out because “he technically didn’t actually do these things, he only fantasized about in great detail”

I’m open to criticism and feedback if I got details wrong about the show ^^

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[eternalgaylord]

collecting tweets

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

Sometimes the old Turkish lady making your sushi at the grocery store is actually a chemical engineer who left her prestigious job behind for her daughter who got a full ride scholarship to an American university and so moved here and couldn't get an engineering job in the new country. Some people just have a deep backstory and you never know

[hagiomoto]

Daily reminder to Americans on this website that American war on Iran is bad because Iranians are getting killed not because you can no longer afford going to the movies in the weekends or refill your car 😒

[ordinarytalk]

Recovering from autistic burnout as a high-masking adult:

To recover, you literally need to manually learn skills that most people learn as a toddler

You need to learn what makes your body uncomfortable, and what to do to fix it

If you are high-masking, that usually means that you have learned to ignore every distress signal your body sends unless it is a distress signal that a neurotypical person would recognize. People have likely been unintentionally gaslighting you about your lived experience your entire life

If you feel bad or panicked for no reason, stop and try to pay attention to your body. Are you tense? You are likely feeling physical pain somewhere. If you've been gaslit about your pain your entire life, you might not be able to identify it.

Go through a sensory checklist.

SIGHT: Try closing and covering your eyes. If this gives you relief, the lights are probably too bright. You may also need differently-colored lights

SOUND: Cover your ears. Does this give you relief? If so, you may need earplugs or noise canceling headphones. You may also benefit from a neutral or pleasant background noise, like soft music or brown noise.

TOUCH: Are your clothes uncomfortable? Your chair? Your body? Do you feel greasy, like you need a shower? Do you need softer, sensory-friendly clothing?

TASTE: Do you need to brush your teeth or tongue? Would chewing on something help?

SMELL: Is there a strong or unpleasant smell in the room? Do you need to clean or empty a trash can? Would an air purifier help? Would a pleasant smell like a candle help?

INTEROCEPTION: Are you hungry? Thirsty? Tired? How is your posture? Are any of your muscles tight or sore? Scan your body slowly from head to feet, tensing and loosening each group of muscles. Going for a walk or doing a series of quick stretches may help a lot.

Learning how to do this stuff is not intuitive, if you've had an entire lifetime of gaslighting telling you that everything hurting you isn't a big deal and you're being dramatic over nothing.

This takes time, it takes work, it's not intuitive, and it's hard. Most people forget how hard it is, because they learned this as toddlers.

If you want to recover, you need to relearn your whole body. And get over your idea of "normal" and just wear the damn sunglasses and put on the headphones. If people stare, fuck em. You're disabled and they can deal with that.

[nerdery-and-shenanigans]

THIS! THIS! THIS!

[akajustmerry]

anyways, I'm still so angry over that Deadline article about Disney nuking Ncuti Gatwa's era of Doctor Who because of "woke" (not even kidding), because they received "overwhelming" feedback that the show was "too woke" for international audiences. It will never not piss me the fuck off how woke was/is literally aave for being politically aware that's been so co-opted by white establishment conservatives that this bastardised co-opted colonised concept of "woke" is now weaponised against Black people, people of colour and other marginalised people to justify casting us down and out. A literal fuckinf alien was played by a Black gay actor and old white people lost their shit and now a 60 yr old show is basically dead because some white people hated they weren't being directly pandered to. I'm never not gonna be pissed the fuck OFF

[akajustmerry]

Hey, people in the comments who said I was wrong about the show being dead because I could see the writing on the wall months ago....well, now there's the official announcement. I really hope that no one ever forgets that Doctor Who was cancelled because of anti-Blackness, racism, and corporate greed.

[blumineck]

If you can correctly identify what type of dog Zorro is, you get a prize*

Also go watch Min-Maxed!

[claudiadpdl]

so you can shoot a black child in the back as he's running away and get away with it with zero consequences, but god forbid a black child defend himself, because that'll land him thirty-five fucking years in jail—which is basically a life sentence. half of his life will be over when his sentence is up. all the fake talk of progress in this country has just been a way to silence black people for speaking out against the countless horrific injustices we're forced to experience, from microagressions to outright murder. you literally cannot go a day without hearing about another black person falling victim to systemic racism and then having to listen to people justify why they deserved it. and we're supposed to hold no animosity whatsoever as we grin and bear it.

[prokopetz]

It's actually kind of impressive how the Nintendo Direct voiceovers manage to communicate via inflection alone which specific words in the script have a ™ after them.

[hell-on-sticks]

disabilities aren't divided between "physical and mental". that system doesn't work.

Disability isn't actually explained well by playing "body vs brain". So many different types of disability and so many types of impacts, the binary doesn't really make sense.

instead of saying "body vs brain", try:

♥️ Physical/mobility - disabilities that impact function of limb, body, organs or mobility.

Examples being SCI, cerebral palsy, limb difference, arthritis

💚 Sensory - disabilities that impact the senses.

Examples being d/Deafness, being Hard of Hearing, being blind, having low vision, auditory processing disorder

💛 Intellectual & Developmental - disabilities that impact cognitive ability, development, learning, etc.

Examples being intellectual disability, specific learning and language disorders, developmental delay, autism spectrum disorder

💜 Neurological - disabilities that impact the nervous system or brain.

Examples being epilepsy, motor neurone disease, migraine, fibromyalgia

💙 Psychosocial - disability due to mental health conditions.

Examples being OCD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, etc - any mental health condition may potentially be disabling

🤍 Other - no classing system is ever infallible and some disabilities and chronic illnesses may not necessarily slot into one of the above categories.

Many disabilities may fall into multiple categories - like cerebral palsy being a neurological and physical disability, or auditory processing disorder impairing hearing but having a neurological root cause.

All categories have both visible and invisible disabilities in them. All categories have different levels of functional impact. Both of these are often even true across many people with one diagnosis.

But more than anything: this isn't about "physical vs mental". It's not a binary. It's many ways people experience life under one umbrella term, and it's important to be considerate and learn from each other.

❤️💚💛💜💙🤍

[hagiomoto]

[creatingblackcharacters]

Y'all wanna know a trick? A trick as to how you can better understand the mentality of someone who is antiblack (particularly white, but tbh it works on anyone who really buys into antiblackness), if not make them do an Ace Attorney Blow Up? 👀

[creatingblackcharacters]

(Tl:Dr- have a spine and hold the line 👍🏾)

I was being facetious with the trick part lol but you know the joke "I might be racist, but you're mean and that's worse?" It's the root of that. We discussed it back when we read White Fragility. You can see it in Trump, Elon Musk, and your average Tumblr racist:

They really, REALLY want to be liked. Not just liked, no that's not the right word, but validated.

Think about it this way. Racism is the status quo; the default, right? Part of maintaining that default is through normalization, and that includes the solidarity necessary to reinforce that (DiAngelo called it white solidarity).

So, if being covertly racist is the status quo, then that means you will be socially rewarded for being so. When you get rewarded, people are nice, friendly, relatable, they keke and haha right alongside you. But when you confront someone's racism, you're not socially rewarding them anymore- the spigot of validation has been paused! Instead of taking it as a valid critique, you are seen as socially punishing a person. You're being MEAN, because the validation I got from everyone else's also-racism was NICE!

That's why when you confront racism, you HAVE to stand firm on it. You cannot feed into the desire for the validation of their behavior. That's what makes a lot of people snap. The blowup is meant to stop you, to force you back into compliance! The only one being punished really is you for bringing it up.

And hell, if not socially validating a bigot is punishment... 😐 Why would that be... A bad thing? We're not hitting you with rocks, we're just saying we don't fuck with you and your behavior. (But that's also a part of really all of the books we've read in #cbc book club so far; that antiracism is seen as violence.)

Personally, I wanna live in the world where it's normal to boo racists, not coddle them. But that starts with being willing to push back against the normal we're in.