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[dietcokeangel2004]

Derek Hale

Teen Wolf

[thevulturesquadron]

text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]

[rudjedet]

And they're absolutely specifically pushing it, make no mistake. It's not just a matter of "it's there, it's convenient, so people are going to take the path of the least resistance", it is a legitimate and concerted effort on the part of these companies to get people to outsource all these things to their models.

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

AI companies are heavily invested in making themselves relevant. They want people to believe they can't do the things they have done unaided before and to make them become reliant on the AI models, so the AI models' existence is artificially justified.

[animentality]

[samsweetooth]

“What’s your favorite Dean Winchester era?”

“Wendigo Dean duh”

“That’s such a basic bitch answer—”

“Alright you want a real answer? ITS DEAN WHE HES FRESHLY CURED OF BEING A DEMON. He’s all emo and guilty and those glaring eyes—”

LIKE COME ON PEOPLE

[nooscars]

in a world of mercedes and mclaren sponsored by generative ai, be racing bulls💛💙

[haughtyraban]

“there’s an ai tool for that” okay ?? there’s probably an ed sheeran song for it too who gives a fuck

[kutie106]

I HATE NONCHALANT CULTURE!!! BE CHALANT!!! BE ANIMATED!! MOVE LIKE A CARTOON CHARACTER FOR ALL I CARE! LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO WASTE ON BEING BORING FOR THE SAKE OF NORMALCY!!! CRINGE IS NOT REAL IT CANT HURT YOU!! BE EXPRESSIVE PLEASE!!!

[exciting]

fights I would pay to see: sigmund “everyone is attracted to someone” freud vs John “sexual desire is evil and cereal can and will fix it” Kellogg

[moonlitdremr]

Asked my mom who both has a MA in psychology and currently works for Kellogg’s to weigh in for the hell of it

[dwagom]

enemies to lovers 500K slowburn

[largishcat]

you may have noticed that my blog is disorganized and thematically incoherent and my tag game is weaker by the day. this is commentary on the chaos of modern existence

[lavenderpanic]

all of my writing is actually just thinly-veiled fantasy about being seen at your worst and still being loved

[superhoeva]

whoever comments on this post with an excuse or an explanation like i'm five years old really doesn't need to. because i'm not saying i don't understand that emergency rooms rotate staff all the time or how actors leave shows because of casting and shit (this one in particular always gets me. i've been studying tv and film for like six years. pls stop playing in my face.)

when i say "written out," i'm talking about the way that heather collins' character was always written to leave when she did.

heather was the disposable black (ex)girlfriend–written to be a vehicle for robby' emotional development. to learn more about how robby deals with grief. how his day was affected by his feelings concerning heather and the news she told him. i'm talking about how the writers squashed samira mohan's character (another woc) into a (figurative) punching bag for robby to show the audience how deeply his suicidal tendencies were causing him to spiral. how they reduced her to make her growth the season before completely irrelevant and are now going to just remove her character for "story-driven purposes". i'm talking about how kiara alfaro (who was in 10!! episodes last season) and gloria underwood, both of whom are now nowhere to be seen. we get one or a handful of sentences about why three of these four women aren't there. and that's that.

my criticism is not me misunderstanding general turnover (in the cast, characters, or otherwise). it's about the patterns of using woc (and other black and characters of color) to further the development of the white people around them, then essentially throwing them when it's deemed they've been used enough. i think it's GREAT that ayesha harris is getting promoted to series regular. i LOVE dr. ellis. and i'm also devastated that they shared her news as "damage control" to soften the blow about supriya's exit because it's not damage control and shouldn't have to be, but that's how they're using it. "yeah, supriya's leaving. but ayesha's getting promoted! see! and she's a woc, so what's your problem?" my problem is that women of color are not interchangeable or disposable. but still, this creative team and many viewers are treating them as such, which you wouldn't have a problem with people calling out if you actually gave a shit.

[samirasystole]

Let's play a game. In front of you are three characters, all whom have overlapping and comperable levels of trauma. All of these people are currently experiencing a very hard day, and their mental health is suffering. Read the charts below on how what their trauma is, and how they react to it.

One character(Robby) is taking out his trauma on the other two people who have similar trauma, unable to empathize with their experiences. He specifically directs his traumatic experiences towards them, women of colour who have been treated like this all their life, adding to their existing racial trauma. Whenever they react to their own trauma, they get yelled at, disrespected, undermined, and the behavior is used by Robby to prove that they don't belong in this workplace.

You, the viewer. Get to decide who's mental health you prioritise. Is it the women who are continuously mistreated and don't get to react to their trauma, always having to behave well because they -as women of colour- have internalised that they can never react to trauma in a substantial way. Or is it the white man, with a lot of power in this workplace, who reacts to his trauma by disrespecting the marginalised women around him?

Now that you have made your decision. What is you reaction when people, mostly made up of women(of colour)who can see themselves in these two female characters, empathise with Samira and Al Hashimi more than Robby. That they are angry at him for being able to direct his trauma in such a racist and misogynistic way, while their mental health is ignored? Do you support them, and try to understand their experiences? Or do you tell those viewers that they have no empathy for mental illness, simply because they hate the man who actively harms people that look just like them.

Last question. If you specifically relate to Robby for displaying mental health in an unpleasant manner, because you have displayed that behavior before and have received scrutiny for it. Do you agree that overexplaining and justifying this behavior to make it look more acceptable is not at all productive to the recovery of a severely mentally ill person? Do you agree that allowing and justifying it just furthers it? Do you agree that the mental health of the people around him, especially those with comperable trauma, should be held in the same regard as his?

If you agree, can you accept that the marginalised women who have been disrespected by white men all their lives, who are watching this show and get reminded of that trauma, get to be angry and hate Robby? Can you accept that mental illness in women (of colour) gets ignored and scrutinized, while white men get to react however they want to their trauma? And that it hurts to see the fandom adopt these same patterns; furthering these viewers' hate towards Robby and the people who overexplain and try to justify his actions? Can you accept that Robby is fictional, but your polarising treatment of mental illness in white men/brown women is glaringly real?

[canidykes]

okay because its apparently necessary, here's a noah wyle racism compilation, for context as to why supriya was written off for wanting her character treated better. first of all, he doesnt even know shabana's name, which is already gross. how you can work with someone for years and not know their name is inexcusable. not to mention his ER days, where he apparently hurled racial slurs "daily" at one of his colleagues, as well as the additionally alleged sexual harassment. oh, here's a clip of him referring to resistance against israel's colonization efforts "terrorist attacks," and here's several clips as well as a quote of him being proud of his ancestors who served in the confederacy, and here is his signature on an open letter called "israel under attack."

theres probably even more that we just dont know about. but to act like the racism and misogyny that run through the veins of this show are "intentional writing choices" is laughable. and to act like supriya might even be allowed to have some kind of resolution in these next few episodes is even funnier. noah wyle isnt just some clueless liberal doing his best, he is a genuinely abhorrent and careless racist who should not be allowed to head this show in any capacity.

[superhoeva]

a THIRD woc is being written off the pitt

[bluebellsandbows]

I’m trying so hard to not be absolutely devastated about this.

[directioner5life]

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE lets never stop talking about this; and maybe just maybe people will notice!!

[goldenshores0]

This beyond infuriates me. It’s very clear that this wasn’t a creative decision, but I’m not getting into that.

The claim that Mohan “does not seem particularly suited to the pace (and heartbreak) of being an emergency doc” is so incorrect. You’d have to have the memory of a goldfish to think that because nothing in the narrative supports the idea that Samira Mohan is incapable of thriving in emergency medicine. In fact, the opposite is true.

Let’s talk about the MCI.

Robby emotionally imploded under the stress. Samira didn’t. She excelled because she had support for once. Particularly from Abbot. He treated her with respect rather than hostility. Good mentorship matters. And when a resident receives actual support instead of being torn down, they thrive.

Samira did a procedure with the pigtail catheter that has only been done once. And she did it successfully. If she wasn’t “suited” for EM, then she wouldn’t have pulled that off.

This season, Robby has done nothing but lash out at his colleagues, especially the women. If a resident is constantly undermined by an attending who’s unstable and emotionally abusive, that’s a reflection of leadership failure.

She has the highest patient satisfaction scores. She communicates. She listens. She sees people. She makes them feel safe during the worst moments of their lives. The fact that this article frames empathy as something incompatible with the “pace and heartbreak” of EM is laughable. Samira is the type of doctor I want to treat me and my family members.

[vampiricalxdata]

if I had a dollar for every time some egomaniac executive or showrunner ruined a series I’d have enough money to start my own production company where we don’t make a habit of giving woc characters “worst day of their lives” plots only to write them off the following season

[samirasystole]

i just found out that supriya said LAST MONTH that she was expecting to be in s3. and they have been writing season 3 for a WHILE. supriya oh supriya. this is fucking heinous HOW are they treating her this badly. how did they not tell her. WHY? it's not even disrespect of her character but her as a person at this point