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[briannyssey]

Oh easy mistake. Yearning actually rises from the floor and longing hangs from the ceiling

[briannyssey]

🥺🥺

[stupidfuckingquestions]

[zebablah-deactivated20160105]

television history

[virginmarx]

i’ve been trying to explain this sketch to people for years

[real-faker]

there is literally no way to explain this sketch it’s just a thing you have to see and even then I’m not sure why it’s so funny

[traycakes]

“Dear Sister” is the rare SNL sketch making fun of a specific pop culture moment that transcended the thing it is a satire of. No one remembers the OC but the sketch is still wonderful regardless.

[cinemaocd]

So I’m sure the lore is in the notes but here it is reconstructing from the rusty leaking trap of my memory: the Canadian show Degrassi used this music cue when the character Drake got shot. The OC used it in the exact same way the following year in an episode when Marissa shoots Trey. They also used different parts of this same song earlier in the episode at Caleb’s funeral. Actually connecting it to the the running theme of death/endings through the episode.

and SNL finally was just like enough already with the “Hide and Seek”

[asymbina]

it’s the overlapping music cues that kill me

[kittenboom]

^^^^^ these people get it

[liberalsarecool]

Data centers have a very limited lifespan but their consequences will be felt for generations.

[nerdicornthetrekkie]

[gamechangershow]

Sorry but it's not complete without...

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

the great thing about #ownvoices is you don’t have to know jack shit about the history or experiences of people like you and you can write the worst most thoughtless drivel but it’s fine because it’s #ownvoices and your perspective is exactly as expert and valuable as that of anyone who has spent years as an advocate for your community

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

from @jewblog

[creekfiend]

EXACTLY

[kuttithevangu]

Adding some context of where Own Voices came from, since it was brought up in these very astute tags…

Own Voices was coined by author Corinne Duyvis in the 2010s to describe autistic representation by autistic people, in a time when the bulk of fiction about autism was by Autism Mom types. I’m pretty sure she was riffing on the slogan Nothing About Us Without Us, which is best known in disability rights circles in English.

Because it was a twitter hashtag it VERY quickly took off in the midst of (extremely necessary!) discussions by members of groups like We Need Diverse Books, who were advocating for the inclusion of marginalized authors in publishing, particularly publishing of children’s literature.

HOWEVER. The problem with hashtaggable slogans is that they are just. Not very nuanced! Even Duyvis herself has expressed frustration with some of the directions the hashtag ended up taking, eg publishers wanting work by marginalized authors ONLY as OwnVoices, which is to say, ONLY if they were Dealing With Their Marginalization. Black author but the book is just a fun romp and it isn’t about Black Issues? No thanks. Queer author doesn’t want to come out of the closet? Well then it isn’t OwnVoices is it? Better harass them out of the closet to make sure we are doing Rep correctly.

And as this thread calls out, the trend did not take into account that having an identity may not equal being knowledgeable about that identity (of course also because Identity Categories are not monolithic!).

Essentially, it was a phrase coined with good intentions, co-opted by marketing, and ultimately, arguably, a phrase that has outlived its usefulness. Twitter is dead OwnVoices is dead and me I feel also not so good

[robo271]

will who willingly recreated the judi jupiter video with bauer (and allegedly was the one who proposed the idea) vs mack who looked like he was desperately waiting for the ground to open up and swallow him whole

[robo271]

[sofusenpai]

vignir mahariel & alistair theirin

[coughloop]

If the government really wanted to actually cut down on vape usage they would force manufacturers to add an unmutable slide whistle sound effect that played every time you take a hit

[dawg4aday]

7.23.2026

[lesvegas]

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

[lesvegas]

literally how it feels

[welpnotagain]

[parkchanwoohoo]

[normystical]

wedding dresses are white specifically so that if the bride goes axe-crazy you can rest assured you will see the blood stains all over her and it'll be sick as fuck

[fantasmadebarovia]

there is nothing more important than a dear friend you can be a huge fucking asshole hater with

[fantasmadebarovia]

[urie]

i love to have a hobby

[urie]

my hobby is looking at two guys and saying Now whats all this then

[fugatos]

do you think it states in mack’s contract that he has to film three (3) tiktok videos to promote the game or w/e and that’s why he’s agreeing to these humiliation rituals where it looks like he wants to blow up the camera with his mind. ofc funniest explanation is that he’s actually happy to do it he just completely forgets how to talk or move his face and body when on camera

[fugatos]

chel tiktok admin said don't ask stupid questions

[soupyawn]

bloody geno

[pansyfemme]

cd has a hole. record has a hole. casette has 2 holes. streaming? zero holes. i think i’ve made my point