Freiheit

to be you

[depsidase]

[mreullogy]

[whisperingsoup]

it exists to divide the working class. All labour is skilled labour. Yes including that one. Yes, including that one too.

Do you know what's unskilled labour? Owning capital. There's no labour involved, thus requires no skill. And you can tell because people can be born into owning capital.

[olderthannetfic]

A New History of Fandom Purges

On November 24th, 2018, I posted a list of major deletions of sites or of content on sites that stripped fandom of its history. A bunch of pro-shipper blogs had just been deleted, and people were nervous. I suppose I was thinking “All this has happened before…”

On December 3rd, 2018, Tumblr’s Department of Irony announced the NSFW ban. Thanks for providing this salutary lesson to The Youth and a billion reblogs to me, I guess.

Today, we have AO3 for writing. Audio, images, and video are in as much danger as ever, yet fans attack AO3 every donation drive. For those of you who forget our past…

HERE IS WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT US!

1992 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro forces a zine to be destroyed

1995 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites

1995 - Anne Rice gets IWTV fic deleted everywhere

1997 - Fox and Lucasfilm go after fansites

1998 - AOL goes after X-Files fansites

2000 - Warner Brothers goes after Harry Potter fansites

2000 - Anne Rice anne rices again

2001 - Tripod Massacre

2001 - Anne Rice goes after IWTV fic on FFN

2001 - The Bronze shut down as Buffy changes networks

2002 - FFN bans porn

2002 - FFN bans RPF

2003 - Gryffindor Tower implodes

2004 - FFN bans script format

2005 - FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic

2005 - Sheezyart bans adult content; y!gallery founded

2005 - Viacom/Paramount goes after fansites again

2006 - Sakura Lemon Archive suddenly closes

2007 - Strikethrough, Boldthrough on Livejournal

2007 - Youtube institutes Content ID, deleting many fanvids

2008 - Slash Cotillion closes, taking much historical m/m with it

2009 - GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites

2009 - Greatestjournal shuts down; RPGs deleted

2009 - Marvel gets scans_daily deleted

2009 - imeem, major vidding hub, closes suddenly

2010 - FFN forums purged for inactivity

2010 - DeviantArt purges adult fanfic

2010 - Literate Union goes after Twilight fandom on FFN

2011 - Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence

2011 - China arrests women for writing m/m; destroys danmei.org

2012 - major FFN crackdown on porn

2012 - Megaupload deleted for piracy; also destroys vids, podfic

2013 - Max-Dan-Wiz.com purged of fan-generated content

2014 - Quizilla shuts down

2014 - China purges m/m story websites; arrests female authors

2014 - Blip.tv deletes vids

2014 - Viddler deletes vids

2015 - Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank

2016 - y!Gallery deleted

2016 - Elfwood goes offline

2016 - Audiofic Archive corrupted; major blow to podfic

2017 - Chinese author jailed after being ratted out over fandom drama

2017 - Parents get queer Warrior Cats fic purged from Wattpad

2018 - Tumblr deletes pro-shipper blogs

2018 - Tumblr announces NSFW ban

2018 - Wattpad deletes accounts/fics without warning

2019 - China purges weibo of m/m; more women jailed

This is only a small taste of the many times that:

Fannish moderators got bored, ran out of money, or had a falling out, deleting a site/list/forum along the way.

Sites got bought out and closed for being unprofitable.

Fandom got hit as governments targeted piracy or political dissidents.

Fans grudge reported each other.

Official forums got deleted when the canon finished.

It’s not always malicious. It’s not always about us. But we lose every time.

Some of these purges hit everyone. Many of them hit m/m content specifically or female gaze-y material in general. This is why antis are dead wrong. This is why anti-fujoshi policies end up being anti-m/m policies. This is why we need clear labeling, not content restrictions.

This is why we need AO3.

And it’s why we need a solution for audio, visuals, and video too.

[totallysilvergirl]

So grateful for the historical memory and the long view on a phenomenon many of us have come to late, and/or take for granted.

And this is why AO3 generates twice its goal amount in just a few days: they are irreplaceable.

[findingfeather]

Also: they don’t have to be perfect to be irreplaceable, and they also don’t have to be perfect to be better than our other options.

(If you think you can make a better option, have at! Allez-y! Gods-speed! AO3 came out of people Just Doing It, so can your perfect ideal! But Also.)

[maeamian]

If you're in the US military or National Guard, and are given an illegal or unconstitutional order, the GI Rights hotline [phone]) is there to help give you the support you need to do the right thing by refusing it. It would be good to think about this now before it becomes a live issue for you and it would be smart of you to memorize that number.

[maeamian]

You can reblog this without your thoughts about the US Military, btw, that's allowed.

[helltothenaw]

In fact: you SHOULD share it without your thoughts on the US Military. If someone in the military sees this number and is considering it, they already know. Just let them see the resource.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

"the world isn't kind" ok??? Much more importantly are you?????

[whatsupwalnut]

"the world isnt kind" skill issue. I am

[inkieswirlsgaming]

This is a threat

[16tinyfrogs]

on watching a parent age

i saw somebody say “what if you’re gone and i haven’t become anything yet” and basically that broke me on a random thursday evening

[theriu]

OP, this is genuinely a masterpiece, three poems in one, moving and well craft. Please tell me you have submitted it to at least some poetry contests, and if not, please do so.

[eroticcannibal]

STOP CENSORING SUBTITLES/TRANSCRIPTS/CLOSED CAPTIONS

LET DEAF AND NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE READ “FUCK”

[eroticcannibal]

I know this sounds jokey and funney but I am serious and it is ableist and infantilising and inaccessible so stop

[fandomsandfeminism]

Is there anything sadder than the little chunk of Kikis Delivery Service when Kiki says "I used to really like flying before it was my job" and then gets so burned out that her magic stops working and she cant talk to Jiji anymore and she tries so hard to FORCE the magic that she breaks her mothers broom and stays up all night, alone, trying to make a new one and crying?

And I know it is all ok in the end- Kiki has friends who look out for her and she takes care of herself and finds her place.

But fuck, those 20 minutes just hurt my heart so much.

[shybi-n-ready2cry]

[anartchism]

[nirruti]

We didn’t watch the same movie

[fandomsandfeminism]

I'm sorry for the long reply that is coming. I really like this movie, and explaining how to analyze media to others is like...literally my job.

Kiki...does make friends. Before the "I used to really like flying before it was my job" and the subsequent burn out, she is friends with Tombo and Ursula, and has a good relationship with Osono and the old lady. Really the only 2 people we see Kiki fail to connect with are the older witch at the beginning and the old lady's grand daughter.

What we see a lot of is Kiki turning her passion, and only talent as a witch, into her job. We see her try *really hard* at this job, including letting it interfere with her new friendships and making herself sick (She misses Tombos party because she gets caught in the rain delivering the Herring Pie.)

Kiki is able to use her magic again after 1. Resting and hanging out with someone who is already her friend, Ursula, and 2. Having a reason to use her magic that ISNT for work (to save Tombo, who is also already her friend)

In the epilogue montage, we see Kiki using her magic more casually, not just for work (hanging out with Tombo and his other friends)

So the movie really isnt about "making friends." She made friends easily, and the resolution wasnt connected to making additional friends or befriending the characters who werent kind to her. The movie is about entering adulthood and striking a balance between using your talents for work and for pleasure. If it relates to friendship at all, its that Kikis over-dedication to her job made her miss Tombos party. (Which he wasnt angry about, but Kiki was very upset at missing)

It's also worth noting that the entire plot of Kiki losing her magic wasnt in the book- it is Miyazakis invention, and it tells us a lot about what themes he felt were important.

A lot of Miyazakis movies are blatantly about capitalism, greed and profit, and the relationship that people have with labor. (Also industrialization and environmentalism) Before the fall of the USSR (1991), Miyazaki was a pretty vocal Marxist (Kikis came out in 1989.) After this, while Miyazaki moved away from Marxism specifically, his movies still focus heavily on the dangers of industrialization and profit seeking. (Spirited Away springs to mind for this.)

So, is it a jokey exaggeration to suggest that Kikis Delivery Servive is itself a Marxist Text? Yes, ofcourse. They are funny memes. Is the movie still very much about burn out and the dangers of committing too much of yourself to your job at the expense of your own happiness and sense of self (hence the joking comparison to the idea of Labor Alienation as described by Marx) ? Also yes. Is it about "making friends" ....no. The book is. But the book and the movie are pretty different in that regard.

[imawitchywitch]

Just in case!

[stoic-rose]

Here is a link to Pride Plans where you can get this stuff started.

[captain-acab]

#fortunately the Biden admin did pass a law essentially forcing states to recognize marriages that might be outlawed #IF they were performed legally at the time #but I don't know how likely that is to be reversed

(via @nothorses )

Sending this one out for the "Biden never did anything!!" crowd

[titsay]

noble steed

[byjove]

So many cheaters refuse to acknowledge that cheating on their partner will irrevocably change and possibly destroy their relationship with their kid. “Yeah, I cheated on you but that is no reason to keep my daughter away from me.” Your daughter probably does not want to see you because she now feels you are no longer a trustworthy and safe adult. If you’re willing to destroy her life, her mother’s self esteem and 20+ years of marriage for the joy and ego boost of fucking someone 10 years older than her, there is no guarantee you will choose her over your own pleasure in other serious situations.

They love to start playing the ‘parental alienation’ card when their adolescent and teenage children want nothing to do with them and/or their new partner after infidelity. A parent does not need to maliciously manipulate their child for that child to hold a grudge against the other parent for harming them. Even if the partner you cheated on isn’t the other parent of your child, it will still damage the way your child sees you and the respect and bond associated with that. When you cheat you damage your relationships with so many people in your life, not just the person you cheated on. Your children will also often see it as a betrayal.

[dogpuppy]

[my-random--thoughts-deactivated]

[evaconly]

every time this post comes across my page on a new platform i smile because we’re all just enjoying her adorable joy

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

“She matches her new blankie” is an official joy and whimsy post

[fursonas]

an erotic poem:

leg so hot

hot hot leg

leg so hot u fry an eg

[mothgirlballs]

A relic…

*touches ground*

I haven’t seen you in years,,,

[theygender]

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I wish to purchase goods and services without entering a blood covenant that entitles the provider to email and text me forever and also store a bunch of my personal data that they’re going to apologize for exposing in a breach in the next five to ten years

[rudjedet]

downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

followed by

is such a funny sequence

[wine-dark-sea]

i find most people who haven't seen it in person don't know that cairo is RIGHT THERE

[teaboot]

I loved these perspectives so I took some of my own when I was in Cairo and yeah, they're literally just. Right there. Pass em on your way to work, nbd

[ophilosoraptoro]

No, y'all don't even understand.

There is literally a Pizza Hut across the street from the pyramids.

[rudjedet]

That Pizza Hut among other things is why Egyptologists laugh their asses off when we see another piece of media where the protagonists get "lost in the desert near the pyramids", because it's like... just turn around my dudes you're only a seven min walk away from the nearest fastfood shop

[interstellar-lamb-deactivated20]

Yall don't know how much I adore all of this

[orangejulii]

Don't leave this in the tags

[moral-autism]

You can get lost in a city! Have your protagonists get “lost in the desert near the pyramids” and then cut to them at Pizza Hut arguing about where to find their hotel.

[guerrillatech]

[teaboot]

please god above can someone explain to me why we're still working on self driving cars when trains exist

[teaboot]

"we're training them to interpret road signs!" Train goes same place every day. No road signs.

"when forced to choose between old lady and child, which is more ethical for the car to hit?" Fence around train track. Nobody on the road.

"people with disabilities preventing them from driving themselves can be independent" Yes but also. Train.

"reduces the dangers of fatigue with long distance trucking" Train.

"the technology is not yet price effective for the average driver" Train.

Seriously come on choo choo bitches let's goooooooooo

[gender-evil-rose]

Invest in public transportation