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month starting on a monday we have no excuse guys lets get to work and lock the fuck in
yk its actually very chic and avant garde to start on tuesday the second
many claim theres nothing more subversive and revolutionary than starting on wednesday the third
Rocky + Movement Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller
Went to rock climbing for the first time in 4 years tonight, tried to join the weekly climbing club. Could I find them? Could I fuck. I was wandering around the rock climbing gym for like 15 minutes before I gave up and decided to commit to climbing alone.
The problem with getting all my media info from this site is that I don't know what anything with gay characters is actually about because any plot discussion I see is constantly drowned out by posts talking about how gay they are.
I bet The Black Flag has a fascinating story, but all I know is that they're pirates and gay.
I've seen hints that The Locked Tomb is intricate and fascinating, but all I really know is that they're space necromancers and gay.
I assume this new hockey show is like, a sports story? Or a romance? Maybe interesting plot happens? All I actually know is that they play hockey and are gay.
Yes I could look this stuff up if I was actually interested in consuming the media, I'm not saying this is some kind of major problem with media or anything. Just a random observation that I, someone who doesn't actively go looking for new media, have noticed that I get less fun hooks to motivate me to look for queer media, because the random stuff I see about something like Severance or The Good Place (both of which I did watch and loved) is about fascinating plots and mysteries and interesting philosophical conundrums, whereas all I see about anything with queer main characters is Look How Queer It Is. Which is great for the media landscape in general, it's wonderful that queer media is more and more mainstream, but an entirely neutral factor of any specific individual show and not much of a hook.
to be fair, all you really need to know about The Locked Tomb is that they're necromancers and they're gay
That doesn't sound right because people have told me that tlt is fantastic and "all you need to know is that they're necromancers and they're gay" is a description of the most bland, pointless tokenistic bullshit it's possible to write. So unless the tlt fans are lying about the quality (which I very much doubt), that can't possibly be all you need to know. If somebody advertised The Good Place as "all you need to know is that she's bi and she's dead!" or The Murderbot Diaries as "all you need to know is that it's genderless and a security consultant!" then I would track them down, break into their houses and punch them in the face for their disservices to good media.
#i remember trying to hunt for more stories like murderbot once#stumbled across a list that was like#heres a bunch of books with canon asexuals#turns out it only mentioned murderbot as one that “doesnt count” since mb never like explicitly uses the word#its as if perfectly defined queerness is meant to be its own measure of quality
That's the most exhausting thing I've ever heard.
Genuinely, I understand why we've ended up in this place when it comes to describing/recommending queer media - for so long, there was so little of it that, when it came to word of mouth, the presence of queerness was itself the primary basis of recommendation. If the work also happened to be good, then so much the better, but the baseline, redacted-for-ease-of-transmission signal boost was simply This Is Gay. And when there wasn't much on offer, that worked! We were desperately trying, not just to see ourselves in stories, but to prove that there was a market for more - that queer audiences would show up for queer content, even if the genre was outside our usual bailiwick. But the more queer works are published, the less useful this rubric becomes - and to further complicate matters, the rise of trope-centered marketing for romance in general and queer romance in particular, which often borrows terminology common to tags on AO3, has trained readers and creatives alike to frame stories predominantly through the lens of character dynamics. Which, to be clear: there's nothing wrong with this in and of itself! If you want to either give or solicit recommendations based on, say, grumpy x sunshine but make it gay, I'm not about to harsh your vibe. And particularly when it comes to romance, where the character dynamics necessarily constitute the backbone of the story, it often makes sense to do so. But there's a very salient difference between romance as genre (where the romance is the story) and romance as device (where the story contains romance) which, particularly when it comes to queer books, is frequently erased by these conventions - which results, as OP rightly points out, in queer stories with other loadbearing themes, philosophies and plots being, if not technically misrepresented, then certainly undersold in terms of all that they're doing. The Locked Tomb series, for instance, is, indeed, about gay necromancers. It's also a purposefully anachronistic science fantasy mindfuck that plays explosively with humour, voice and genre from book to book while still remaining, in essence, a sequence of locked room mysteries. By which I mean: Gideon the Ninth is a locked room mystery where the room is God's laboratory and the mystery is what the fuck he was doing down there; Harrow the Ninth is a locked room mystery where the room is the narrator's body (and also, at times, the space station she's inhabiting) and the mystery is how she ended up that way; and Alecto the Ninth is a locked room mystery where the room is the personality that forms in the absence of memory and the mystery is God's secret past, with the necessary caveat that God here is not meant figuratively, but in fact refers to a literal, actual, walking, talking character who is also just Some Guy. It's about the intransigent nature of bodies, the fuckiness of personhood, the eternally compounding sin of pride, niche millennial humour and the gothic, philosophical splendour of toxic lesbianism (in space). It's got a lot going on! And, sure: it's shorter and simpler to sell it as just gay necromancers, to say nothing of the fact that this description will still hook a lot of people. It's not inaccurate; it just presumes that this is the most important thing anyone could want to know about the book, and that won't always be so! Look at it this way: if you're already shopping in the LGBTQ section of the bookstore and ask an employee for a recommendation, and they pick something off the shelf and tell you, "Buy this, it has two boys kissing!", that's vastly less helpful in context than if you'd walked into a store without an LGBTQ section and asked for a gay book rec. You see what I'm saying? It's a scarcity mindset that we've carried over into (comparative) abundance, and it's no longer serving us well. Gay is not a plot or a genre by itself; it's a component to be explored through the lens of plot and genre - which means that, in order to talk about one, it's also worth discussing the others.
The problem with getting all my media info from this site is that I don't know what anything with gay characters is actually about because any plot discussion I see is constantly drowned out by posts talking about how gay they are.
I bet The Black Flag has a fascinating story, but all I know is that they're pirates and gay.
I've seen hints that The Locked Tomb is intricate and fascinating, but all I really know is that they're space necromancers and gay.
I assume this new hockey show is like, a sports story? Or a romance? Maybe interesting plot happens? All I actually know is that they play hockey and are gay.
Yes I could look this stuff up if I was actually interested in consuming the media, I'm not saying this is some kind of major problem with media or anything. Just a random observation that I, someone who doesn't actively go looking for new media, have noticed that I get less fun hooks to motivate me to look for queer media, because the random stuff I see about something like Severance or The Good Place (both of which I did watch and loved) is about fascinating plots and mysteries and interesting philosophical conundrums, whereas all I see about anything with queer main characters is Look How Queer It Is. Which is great for the media landscape in general, it's wonderful that queer media is more and more mainstream, but an entirely neutral factor of any specific individual show and not much of a hook.
The thing is nobody at pride is evaluating you to determine if you’re queer enough to be there because they’re too busy thinking “it’s so hot out” and “why is this lemonade 12 dollars?”
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The Patrician's stare had him pinned. It was a good stare, and one of the things it was good at was making people go on talking when they thought they had finished.
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I'm Juan Santapau (he/him), and I make THE SECRET KNOTS, which is a series of short stories in comic form. I live in Chile. Hola.
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I humbly suggest that true crime freaks should get into learning about scammers instead of serial killers. I LOVE reading about fraud and grifts and pyramid schemes. true crime ppl have all this paranoid energy about murder, which is rare in the grand scheme of things.....maybe instead that could be channeled into some productive rage toward capitalism.
And u know a side effect of learning about scam artists is that you start to understand certain things about economics, and just how STUPID these systems are and how easily they are taken advantage of....and I'd much rather people gained a passing familiarity with economics than whatever armchair psychologist shit these true crimers get on. We need fewer people who think they're experts on "sociopaths" and more people who understand how people like Elizabeth Holmes and the WeWork guy were able to do what they did
Here are some of my favorite books about financial scams:
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust by Diana B. Henriques.
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (about the 2008 stock market collapse).
The Caesar's Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Corruption of the Private Equity Industry by Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap. (I admit I've never finished this one; the writing is hard to read.)
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute, by Zac Bissonette. I bought this book because of the subtitle and I have never regretted it. You must read it.
Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale. They turned this one into a movie! The book was very different and is worth reading.
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion, by Elliot Brown and Maureen Farrell. I haven't read this one yet, but it's on my tbr pile!
Opus: The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy Inside the Catholic Church, by Gareth Gore. I'm reading this one right now. The author is a financial journalist who stumbled onto this story by unraveling a bank failure in Spain.
And here's a list of more non-fiction books about fraud and financial scams. The first book on this list is about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, which I also haven't read yet.
Enjoy!
I think that media literacy step one for any video is "why is a camera pointed at this?" If there's no obvious reason for a camera to be pointing that way all the time, someone filmed the video on purpose. We aren't a fly on the wall, we're a deliberate audience.
I've got 2 weeks until I'm attending a family wedding and I'm on a stupid "no snacks" diet so that I can fit into my summer dresses. I've got like 4 nice dresses to choose from and it would be so much easier to plan my outfiy if they all fit me 😑
I don't think I realised how active my old job was. In my new job I'm literally sat at a desk all day, it's so weird. But I guess my old job was keeping me fit, as I had to run up and down the stairs like 20 times a day lol
Here's a useless thought my head just supplied me with that I absolutely can't use.
Co-op game where if one player sees another, they die.
Both die? Just the one who does the seeing? Just the one who is seen? All players or just one crucial character? Do reflections count?
"Don't turn around. I'm right behind you. I'm going to put the mcguffin down behind you and go around the corner, I'll tell you when it's safe to turn around; let me know when you're looking away again."
i would rather see the information for an event handwritten in sharpie on a paper towel than see another AI generated flyer
Saving this post to show my boss who I told the AI flier makes us look lazy and ignorant, and offered to hand draw one. She still printed tons of ai fliers and I'm tempted to make a better one just because it annoys me so much.
Fun update: event was canceled because literally nobody rsvp'd to the AI flier.
It seems like the fliers only look good in isolation, or if you've never seen one before.
My local village is putting on a fete and they've used an ai flier; warm yellow colours, round faced families, food and a big wheel in the back. Looked fine, the person who made it was probably very happy with it.
Today I visited my friend in another county. Their town is also doing a summer fair, and hey they've used almost the exact same design. Same yellow colours, same round faces, it's as if it was made by the same artist. Because it was.
It's a tool you can use if you're not able to use any other tool. I don't blame the old people in my village for using it. But it makes me very dispirited.
