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Claire Keane
Cosmic Funnies
Love Begins
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
trying on a metaphor
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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Keni
we're not kids anymore.
Kaledo Art
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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@authenticyuri
given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.
Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.
#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain
Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"
I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.
my hated of rpf is really two pronged. half of it is because i just see it as an extension of celebrity obsession that i think is soulrotting culture poison. and the other half of it is that i consider publicly sharing erotica you've written about a complete stranger without their consent to be a form of sexual harassment, and i don't think being famous means you opt out of warranting any and all consideration in how people treat you. so basically there's degrees of rpf here. if you're out here posting on ao3 about kpop stars omega slick or youtubers cheating on their wives with each other or whatever i think you're a complete creep who needs to get a grip. but if you're like i neeeeed to see those old guys from the real life polar expedition the terror is based on tenderly finger each others scurvy wounds while they waste away. thats of no interest to me but of no concern either. they're dead as fuck which means their capacity to either be sexually harassed or curate a rabid chernobyl-disaster-strength toxic parasocial fan following has been significantly neutered.
I think all of it feels to weird to me. Like yeah even if they are dead it still feels like sexual harassment to me. It says something about you as an individual that you are willing to partake in that.
Weird is not unethical. Feel free to make horny rpf of dead people, it's not hurting anyone
My bad, you right I did mean unethical, I think that's unethical. You are unethical for writing that.
I guess we'll have to cancel the whole genre of historical fiction then
i mean most historical fiction isn't erotica, so i feel like you can at least conceptually understand why someone would choose to draw the line there even if that's not where you'd draw it. but y'know sometimes between the way hamilton had people running damage control for founding fathers mythmaking, and the way fans of OFMD reacted to black people pointing out the characters were slave owners in real life, and shit like this, i do almost wish historical fiction was being #cancelled
people who are obsessed with IQ would buckle if there was a number associated with how pleasant you are to interact with
plato's cave: the video game
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”
Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.
Someone wanna provide context for the non-SDV people?
Saw this in the notes and figured I'd step in!
So, for non-SDV players, in most farming sims you can get married to certain characters and have children with them, however this is typically a permanent choice that can't be undone, so if you want to marry someone else or not have kids you would have to start over with a fresh save.
But SDV is different. The game has a witch's hut you can eventually unlock that lets you use...black magic, basically, to soft-reset marriage/children choices without starting over. There's a divorce option so you can ditch your spouse, but that's the only normal one. It also adds an option to turn your children into doves to get rid of them, hence OP saying they "birded" their kids. You're not...technically killing them...but only barely.
(It also adds an option to mind-wipe your previous spouse so they don't remember being married to you and thus don't hate you, and you can even remarry them then if you want, but I don't think that was needed for this, just figured it was sinister enough to warrant a mention.)
All that to say, the reddit OP married a character, progressed to the point that they had a child with them, and then used black magic to "kill" the child and divorce their spouse before moving on to the next marriage candidate and doing the same, over and over until they had gone through all twelve marriage candidates, resulting in a collection of twelve "dead" children.
Which, I must agree, is some uniquely unhinged behavior indeed.
Which, I must agree,
is some uniquely unhinged
behavior indeed.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Okay, but who is joja
Joja is essentially Walmart. You can either try to revitalize the town by going the community route and help local businesses and people thrive or you can sell the town to Jojacorp who will put the locals out of business and sell you way cheaper and shittier stuff
“I may use black magic to be a serial child murderer, but at least I’m not a capitalist”
$499,900/4 br/3 ba/1529 sq ft
Built in 1948
Atlanta, GA
This is the most comprehensive and impressive resource I've ever watched on transphobia. I think this is an especially important video for cis people to watch. The video is accessible and meant to be an educational tool for people who are confused by what the hell is going on right now. Every possible question you could have on trans issues is addressed in this video.
This pride month, if you want to help combat transphobia from your coworkers, friends, family, and so on, this is a very good educational resource to help you understand every aspect of transphobic rhetoric, policies, legislation, history - everything. It was made by a cis guy who drove himself crazy trying to figure out why everyone hates trans people, to the point that he dropped out of university to make this video. Given the global state of increasing anti-trans violence, I really strongly urge cis people to watch this video in full. It is an incredibly valuable resource and I cannot recommend watching it strongly enough.
Life for trans people is only becoming more horrifying, and I genuinely appreciate and respect every cis person who takes the time to watch this video, educate themselves, and understand the many fights ahead.
anyway i think pride month is a good time to think about how lesbophobia and biphobia faced by women are not actually different types of bigotry in any concrete way, it's all just slightly different manifestations of the overlap between misogyny and homophobia that causes people to treat women like they are not a reliable authority on their own sexuality. its not that one type of queer sexuality is meaningfully more accepted its that asserting your own sexual identity as a woman is pretty much just seen as a threat to general society and will receive whatever pushback is easiest to reach for. unfortunately sometimes as a reaction to this we have a tendency to place the blame on each other for this treatment instead of realizing we're all crabs in the same bucket.
there are essentially zero experiences that a bi woman has had that a lesbian hasn't also, and vice versa. we don't gain anything from acting like we're two distinct groups with any real power imbalance or competing interests between them.
janicemascarenhass via IG
no hate to op at all im screenshotting this for the sake of Making My Own Post instead of adding a subjective contradictory opinion to theirs. but i just can not relate to this way of thinking at all. when something everyone has told me is really good turns out to be really good im overjoyed. i think its awesome when things are good and they get attention for being good. the other option is that only bad shit ever gets popular and that would be a dark reality to live in indeed... the joy i get from being a contrarian hater is always a consolation prize for not getting to actually experience something good, which is always my main goal. i consider this an important part of the hater's ethos
haterism is basic game theory
More of you need to learn about these ☝️
you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid
true allyship
"I miss Odysseus; my heart is melting. / The suitors want to push me into marriage, but I spin schemes... By day I wove the web, / and in the night by torchlight, I unwove it."
I made this feverish, unwinding loom for @youremysunshine8 's bday, since she is reading Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey.
It's made from an old painting frame with the canvas removed. I painted the wood a darker color and hammered in a couple hundred tacks, which I strung with white yarn.
The weaving itself took a long time, since I've never done that before and wasn't using a real loom, though I did make a make-shift heddle from a ruler. The meander is woven in soumak, which means you wrap the weft around each warp instead of just going over-under; this takes a long time but gives it a really cool dimension.
I carved Penelope's hands from chipboard, and painted them the same color as the loom. I wanted to convey the "muscular, firm hand" from Wilson's translation.
